Chapter 441: The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Kingdom
As soon as he saw the pendant with this eye pattern, Chen Ziyang's eyes lit up, and it seemed that he had found the right owner. Because of this eye-shaped pattern, he couldn't help but look at this picture a few more times.
However, the hint given in the second picture is only that, except that the people on both sides look at each other a little unpleasantly, there is no other meaning at all. It is not known what this strange woman was talking to with these ragged villagers. Seeing that something he was interested in appeared on the picture, Chen Ziyang hurriedly came to the third picture.
The third drawing is basically the same as the previous scene, except that there are two places on the picture that are very different from the second one. The first place is the movement of this strange woman.
In this picture, the woman holds her hands up in the air, and her hands hold up a shining gem, from which a clear spring flows and gushes to the nearby ground.
The second difference is that the surrounding villagers, all the people are still standing in their original positions, and even Chen Ziyang found that these villagers have not even changed their positions, but the expressions on their faces have all changed. One by one, these people's eyes widened in surprise and their mouths opened wide. The delicate lines on the pattern vividly depict the surprised expressions of this group.
Seeing this, Chen Ziyang had already roughly guessed the content of the first half of the story painted on these stone tablets. As I guessed, it is very likely that this story tells the reason why the ancient country of Mimi was able to become an oasis ancient country and dominate one side should be related to this gem that can conjure water out of thin air.
However, there is a detail on this picture that makes Chen Ziyang feel a little strange, that is, when this woman is holding up this gem, her buttocks become very large, and she looks very awkward.
Originally, this woman's figure was very good, and the lines on the stele were very perfect, and it could be seen that she had a graceful posture, a thin waist of willows, and the proportions of her figure were also very perfect, but when it came to this picture, this woman's buttocks were a little exaggerated.
The woman's upper body is very incongruous with her enlarged buttocks, which looks like an "H" shape, not to mention that putting a glass of water on this woman's ass can stand, even if you put a basin, it can be supported, this big buttocks is really a bit exaggerated.
"Could it be that this woman became like this when she cast a spell with this diamond? Or is it just an exaggerated depiction of one of her movements? This is the thought that popped up when Chen Ziyang just saw this exaggerated buttocks.
With this question in mind, he looked to the next picture. In this picture, the woman is back in her graceful form, but this time, she is holding the diamond with one hand, and there is no more water gushing out of the diamond. And all the villagers were no longer standing there, all of them knelt on the ground and bowed to the woman.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ziyang knew that this woman had become a god in the hearts of these people living on the edge of the desert and suffering from drought. A person who can conjure water out of thin air will undoubtedly be regarded as a god-like existence in the desert and will be enshrined.
Now he figured out that the altars on the ground were sacrificed to the woman in the painting. Thinking of these jars, Chen Ziyang turned around and glanced at Yang Lei, who was sitting in a pile of jars and jars.
Now Yang Lei is like crazy, constantly comparing small jars to and over, trying to make reasonable use of the space in his backpack, and try to put more jars into it.
And before putting a jar in the backpack, Yang Lei would carefully wipe the surface of these jars, wanting to see if there were some patterns on the jars.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ziyang scratched his head and felt a little sorry for Yang Lei. In fact, he is not very sure whether these jars are worth anything. Although the history of clay pots in the Western Han Dynasty is relatively long, there are many that have been handed down. And the most important point is that if these clay pots want to sell for a good price, they must be in good condition.
Only the clay pots in good condition can be called fine products, and can be sold at a good price in the collection market, but these clay pots in front of the stele have been exposed to the air for too long, and these clay pots are very weathered, and it is almost impossible to find a few better ones.
Even if there are a few blankets and jars that are still complete, there are some gaps in the corners, and even some jars are broken into a pile of sand grains because of the severe weathering.
Seeing that Yang Lei was so concerned about these rags, Chen Ziyang felt a little sorry for him, after all, he hoped that Yang Lei could calm down just now, so he cooperated with Xiao Ren's words and said that.
But it doesn't hurt at all, after all, Yang Lei is quiet now, and he no longer slams these jars on the ground hard, which can be regarded as his goal achieved, even if these jars are worthless, they will not cause him any harm. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang held a hint of apology, turned his head and continued to look at his stone tablet carving.
The next picture suddenly changes the style, the old dilapidated village is gone, replaced by neat houses and small saplings covering the whole picture. It seems that after getting this diamond that can conjure water, the whole village has changed dramatically.
The former villagers are no longer in rags. Rows of women are neatly dressed and walking forward with clay pots on their heads, while the men around them are all **** up, building some new houses with some materials, and some are digging a huge pit in front of the village.
The next picture shows a small and prosperous town, the streets of which are crowded with people, and some people with stalls form a small market. Groups of traders with camels are walking through the market.
The number of houses in the picture has also increased considerably, and the small trees that appeared in the previous picture have grown a lot, and the hole in the ground has been dug very large, and many people are building this series of houses in the distance of this pit.
Seeing this, Chen Ziyang carefully recalled the pattern of the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Sumi on the ground, and he felt that the location of this big pit seemed to be the location of the round stone platform and stone pillars where the diamonds were placed, and the houses under construction in the distance should be the imperial palace of the ancient kingdom of Sumi.
When he saw the next picture, Chen Ziyang verified his guess, and a group of palaces with a peculiar style appeared in the center of the picture, and there were many more other houses on the picture.
All the houses were surrounded by green trees, and the location of the pit had been transformed into the pattern of a fountain, which was exactly the same as the one that Chen Ziyang had seen painted by a little girl on the broken wall of the palace ruins.
There were two gorgeously dressed people, a man and a woman, who were standing at the door of the palace, and from the decorations on the two people, Chen Ziyang guessed that these two people should be the king and queen of the ancient kingdom of Sumi.
It's just that one thing makes him feel very strange, this queen is not the woman who took out the diamond before, the two are completely different people in terms of figure and clothing.
This made Chen Ziyang feel a little incomprehensible, according to common sense, other people worship this foreign woman so much, then this woman's status must not be low here, even if she is not a female king, she should be a queen.
But the woman did not appear again in these three pictures in succession. Chen Ziyang was afraid that he would miss some details and miss some details, so he turned around and looked at these three pictures again. That's right, the woman disappeared and didn't reappear on the screen.
"That's weird, where is this woman?" With this question in mind, Chen looked carefully at the picture in front of him again.
There were even more caravans in the ancient kingdom of Sumimi, the narrow streets were crowded with camel caravans, and the whole picture was full of bargaining merchants, and groups of mighty soldiers patrolling the streets, while several soldiers with spears were guarding the fountain in front of the palace. The diamond is sitting on the top of the pillar, and a large amount of water flows out of the diamond into the fountain pool around the circular stone platform.
Although the scenes depicted on the picture were roughly the same as Chen Ziyang's previous guesses, he always felt as if he had overlooked something, as if there was an important clue missing from the disappeared woman in this picture.
In order to find clues about this woman, Chen Ziyang continued to look down. The next picture is a little strange.
These previous drawings depict the earth-shaking changes that took place in the ancient kingdom of Sumi when the woman appeared in the ancient kingdom of Sumi with a diamond. The ancient kingdom has been transformed from a small dilapidated village into a trading hub in the desert or on the edge of the desert. But this picture is not about the ancient country.
The pattern of a huge eye covers almost the entire picture of this picture, the pattern of this eye Chen Ziyang has seen many times before, it should be the pattern on the pendant on the woman's chest, and it is also the pattern on the sheepskin that records the treasure of the ancient kingdom of Sumi.
Around this huge eye, there were many people lying on the ground. These men and women, old and young, all lay there with their eyes closed, and they didn't know what it meant.
"Why are these people with their eyes closed? Are they all dead? Recalling the more than 3,000 graves before, Chen Ziyang had such a conjecture.
And he noticed that among these people with their eyes closed, there were two people who were the same two people who had stood in front of the palace before, that is, the king and queen of the ancient kingdom of Sumi.
However, when Chen Ziyang saw the crescent-shaped pattern in the upper right corner of the whole picture, he figured it out. The people who appear in this picture are supposed to refer to the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Sumi, and the reason why they all have their eyes closed is not because they are all dead, but because they are sleeping, which is why there is a moon in the upper right corner of the picture.
When he recalled the strange dream he had entered in the ancient tomb before, and saw an identical blood-colored eye, Chen Ziyang understood the meaning of this picture more thoroughly.
All the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Sumi, including the king and queen, dreamed of this blood-colored eye when they slept at night. Thinking about this, Chen Ziyang instantly had a creepy feeling, and he didn't know why this picture gave people such a terrible feeling, this picture rendered a terrifying atmosphere very prominently.
"Could it be because of the diamond?" Recalling several things he had experienced, Chen Ziyang felt that it was very likely that this huge eye was a turning point, a turning point in the ancient kingdom of Jade Silk from prosperity to decline.
So he hurriedly looked at the next picture. Sure enough, this picture is no longer a scene depicting the heyday of the ancient kingdom of Sumi, but a grand sacrificial scene.
Countless people are kneeling down at a huge ancient tree in the middle of the picture, and these people are arranged in a triangle, divided into several levels.
At the very tip of this triangle, and also the closest position to this huge ancient tree, it was the king and queen of the ancient kingdom of Sumi, some of the people behind the two of them were more gorgeously dressed, they should be ministers or something, and the vast majority of the entire triangle crowd were all civilians.
But whether it was the king at the top or the poor at the bottom, all of them bowed to this ancient tree with great reverence. Between the crowd and the ancient trees, there were countless jars and jars, which seemed to be some sacrifices.
"Oh, that's weird, where did this big tree come from?" Chen Ziyang is very sure that although there are many plants in the previous picture, those plants are very ordinary, and none of them are so prominent and tall.
Touching his chin and thinking for a moment, he patted his head, "Why am I so stupid." "Aren't these roots around this underground passage very large, and they must have grown from this huge ancient tree.
Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly looked at the lines around this ancient tree carefully, wanting to judge whether this ancient tree was in this underground palace where everyone was.
However, there was no space around the ancient tree, except for some curved lines at the top of the ancient tree, which looked like clouds or something.
"Where does this ancient tree grow? Probably not in the underpass. Chen Ziyang thought. Judging from the proportions of the picture, this ancient tree is very large, and it should not be able to fit in this low underground passage.
(End of chapter)