Chapter 132: Giant Fish 3
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I was taken aback, because in the order of those who knelt on the ground, it would not be my turn until at least twenty.
Two soldiers came up, grabbed my arms, and dragged me to the throne.
Instead of kneeling, I stood with my chest held high and faced the arrogant executioner.
"I can't die, and there's so much to do before I die...... There's no point in dying here...... "My mind was running at high speed, looking for a solution.
"What is the secret of this fish?" the officer was tired of killing, and the point of his knife was on the ground, and his hands pressed the hilt of the knife for a moment's rest.
Of course, I don't know the secret of the giant fish, but in my memory, there is no such "fish temple" in all parts of the country, and the three-zhang long fish statue is even more unheard of.
"Don't you know?" he asked, "then, what about the secret of the Great Khan? Do you know it? The Great Khan was a great hero of the steppe, and his iron horse swept across the north, so that your ancestors lived a happy and united life. Don't you, as his people, know where he went when he died?"
When I put all the key words together, I immediately understood that he was referring to the great hero of the Mongolian steppe, Temujin.
After Temujin unified the steppe, he was called "Genghis Khan" by the Mongolian people, creating an unprecedented imperial hegemony, and his army once swept half of Europe, expanding China's territory to an unprecedented extent.
The place where such a great man was buried has become an unsolvable mystery, that is, the "mystery of Genghis Khan's underwater tomb" published in all sources. According to the rumors of the masters of the tomb robbery world, Genghis Khan's Mausoleum is the most difficult "tomb in the water" in architecture, and its construction principle comes from the "sunken city" Atlantis, which is completed with the help of the internal pressure structure of the water body itself, and once it is built, it is difficult to open again, and it is called "eternal tomb".
My silence for too long infuriated the officer, and his eyes once again shone with an animalistic light: "You dare to resist the authority of the Empire like they do?"
"I know. "I only said three words, and I defused the officer's murderous aura.
All the monks who sat with their heads bowed looked up at the same time, their eyes focused on me with both shock and disdain.
I walked over to the shrine and found a line of inscription in the lower right corner of it.
At the beginning of the founding of Mongolia, it advocated learning the culture of the Han people, so the inscription was written in Han and Mongolian characters - "The water is poor and the dragon rises, the water is full of dragons, and the fish leaps into the dragon gate, and it is not expected." ”
I looked up at the giant fish, chewed on the sentence "the fish leaped over the dragon gate", and suddenly felt my heart open.
Isn't the change between the fish and the dragon an example of the instantaneous fusion of the boundaries between animals? The fish wants to jump over the dragon gate all its life, because that leap will change its life form, from a lowly creature that can only dive in the water to a dragon that can fly, swim across, change, and soar into the sky.
For this jump, countless fish rush to Longmen every year to make the most important jump of their lives.
Isn't the person who built the temple leaving such a giant fish to warn the world that they must never give up on themselves, and that they must always have the ideal and hope of "leaping through the dragon gate"?
The scriptures and ideas left by the Buddha are radical and positive, but it is a pity that later generations of monks only know how to study the scriptures in the morning bell and dusk drums, completely ignoring the brilliant thoughts in the scriptures, and only read the scriptures of the dead, reading the scriptures of death, distorting the meaning of the scriptures from generation to generation, making themselves sad, and passing on this pathos to the next generation.
"Tell me, where is it?" the officer followed, carrying a bloody sword.
"It's right there. "I pointed to the giant fish.
"What's there?" the officer wondered.
Indeed, I felt that the builders of the temple put the giant fish on the throne precisely so that one day people could break the throne, overturn the temple, free the kneeling knees, and return to the human standpoint to think about life.
"If you don't break it, you can't stand it, and you can't break it" is exactly such a wise thought.
The officer looked at me, then at the throne, and smiled in disbelief: "Explain, why are you here?"
I shook my head slightly, "Just open it and you'll get what you want." ”
The officer immediately waved, and two soldiers ran up.
"Go, blow it up. The officer commanded.
When the giant fish was first cast, it must have taken a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and gathered the wisdom of tens of thousands of people and generations to shape it so brilliantly and magnificently. It's a pity to destroy it now. However, in my sixth sense, it is reminding me that destroying it will put an end to today's calamities.
Two soldiers ran out to get **, and only me and the officer of the invading army were left in front of the throne.
"Why don't they say it, only you are willing to say it? Is there some secret hidden in this? I must warn you, if an accident happens, you will definitely be the first to be decapitated. "The cunning of the civet cat and mouse in his eyes made me extremely unwilling, but at this moment, people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, and it is useless to say anything.
I can now understand why the Chinese people hate the war of aggression so much, the big countries lost power, the small countries were rampant, and the islanders of the land of the projectiles came with strong ships and guns, long guns and quick knives, and the good people of the Central Plains. On the 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains, not only did no one rise up to resist, but there were countless traitors and villains who were willing to act for the tiger, becoming traitors, traitors, puppet soldiers, and dogs, helping the invaders to oppress the people. This war has dealt a heavy blow to the morality, humanity, faith, and spirit of the Chinese, and has set China's national strength back by 100 years.
"What exactly are you looking for?" I asked calmly.
"Baby, you Chinese regard the treasure of life, that magical treasure mirror - it is said that it is the funeral object that the Great Khan will never forget when he is dying. He replied.
Outside, there are constantly people running and shouting, collecting **, and preparing to blow up the giant fish.
I suddenly felt endless sorrow that the occupation forces were wantonly destroying the antiquities of the Chinese, and that the giant fish that had been worshiped by countless believers was about to be torn apart by the explosion, just like our country, which was also wounded in the smoke of gunfire.
"You traitor, you scum!" a monk with his hands tied jumped up and stumbled towards me.
Before I could react, the rest of the monks jumped up and rushed at me with a rage.
They also called a name in their mouths, and the sound should be "Geshu Baoleng".
It wasn't my name, of course, but everyone was screaming as they broke free from the ropes, and dozens of fists, dozens of feet angrily beckoned at me.
When the officer saw that the monks were fighting among themselves, he was so happy that he stepped back and crossed his arms to watch the play.
"Wait for them to come in and then detonate. In the confusion, someone whispered in my ear, "The lead is just under the gills of the fish against the wall, and the red rope is pulled and exploded." ”
I was pushed to the ground, holding my head in my hands and protecting my face.
After the chaos, a dozen more soldiers rushed in from outside, all with spears, and forced the monks back.
I don't know who told me that, but I know that all the kneeling people died peacefully because they were sure that someone would come forward and cause a big explosion and die with the invaders. They used their own death to paralyze the vigilance of the invaders, until the officer was tired of killing and killing, and then they had a chance to do so.
"They hate you. The officer smiled wickedly and motioned for the soldier to pull me up.
"Yes, they should hate me, because this fish is our god of worship. "I shook my arms, the ropes I was holding had been untied in the confusion.
"Will your Chinese gods bless you? It had just killed dozens of people in front of it, and it was just sitting upright on the throne without any indication, hahahaha......" The officer laughed triumphantly.
I took a step forward and raised my hand to caress the throne.
Those four non-poetic verses gave me some kind of inspiration, and I kept them firmly in my heart.
As I paced slowly around the throne, my eyes shifted from the belly of the giant fish to the gill of the fish.
The red rope was hidden under the gills, about two meters above the ground, and I could reach it on tiptoe.
I looked up over the red rope to the top of the columns of the main hall, and was shocked to find a child hiding there in terror.
The top of the column is recessed inward, and those who enter through the main entrance rarely notice the backlit corner. The child is small and constricted, and he is indeed able to avoid the search of the invading army. Of course, if they find out, the only end for this child is to be a ghost.
"What are you looking at?" the officer burrowed from under the belly of the fish, facing me, his back to the frightened child.
"One last time I worship it. I withdrew my gaze and stared at the officer.
"You think I take your word for it?" he smirked, and the tip of his knife lifted against my left chest.
"Believe it or not. "I had a sense of foreboding.
"I've gotten the big secret, just when those monks were eager to eat your flesh raw, I understood, the big secret is really hidden in the big fish. In that case, why should I keep you any longer?" he laughed wickedly.
"Before you cross the river, you have to tear down the bridge?" I asked.
At the same time, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the boy above curling and raising his arms, slowly drawing his bow and arrows at the officer's head.
"All I need is secrets, it's as simple as that. As for you, it's worth no more than a weed on the savannah. The smile on the officer's face grew more and more hideous, and the long knife had pierced me in the chest.
Children who are good at archery, and children who have just learned to walk have to learn to ride horses and shoot arrows. Therefore, I believe that if the boy draws his bow and shoots, the officer will be killed on the spot.
In fact, it is a joke that the Mongolian people were enslaved by the invaders, and the descendants of Temujin are the eagles of the steppe, all of them are brave and fierce, how can they be trampled by the iron hooves of the invaders?
I waited for the moment when the officer was pierced with a feathered arrow, and that was the best way to end the massacre, and the descendants of Temujin put an end to the atrocities of the invaders with their own hands. Only in this way can Mongolia have a future and hope. Unfortunately, the arrow never came, and I fell to the ground under the stab of the long knife in the chest, and the strange laugh of the officer's night owl sounded in my ears.
"The fate of the giant fish, the fate of the Mongolian people, the fate of the grassland...... Including the fate of the cowardly boy, probably...... It's not much like me, isn't it?"
When I regained my senses, the two giant fish on the wall were still swimming silently, silently patrolling their world.
"What do you want me to see?" my gaze fell on the pensive shadow.
"Look at my cowardice that day, watching all my loved ones die under the butcher's knife of the enemy, but I have never been able to overcome the fear in my heart and shoot that crucial arrow. That scene tormented me day and night, and I couldn't let go. I vowed that as long as I had a breath left, I would find a way to go back to the past and correct that mistake. He replied.
The image of the giant fish enshrined on the throne is still in my mind, and I can't piece together the ending, but I probably know that when the invading army burned the flames of war all over the land of China, the same killing and plundering, the same death and ending were staged thousands and tens of thousands of times every day. As a result, all the gold and silver treasures were loaded onto planes and ships heading east, and they were continuously sent to Kyoto.
I had a vague idea that the giant fish had become a special marker for the research that Shadow was doing. He must use this special symbol to connect the past with the present.
"Who's Geshu Baolen?" I remembered the name.
The shadow smiled miserably, and his facial features were sharply distorted: "That name...... That's my father. ”
I immediately asked, "Well, you shouldn't be in that place, are you?"
According to the time calculation, that tragedy should have happened at least seventy years ago, and the age of the shadow was only forty years old at most, and it was impossible to explain it at all.
Shadow shook his head, "Of course I'm in that place, because since that incident, my memory has been disconnected. I was alive, but I was dead, and as soon as I closed my eyes, I saw the long knife of the invading army piercing my father's heart. If I had been brave, that arrow would have killed the enemy, and like the bravest ancestors of the Mongols, the eagle would fly and leave all the invaders dead on the savannah, becoming fertilizer for the water and plants. ”
I was speechless, because this memory is devastating, and it is the greatest shame for men to choose cowardice to live while their father was killed.
"Father's hatred is not shared. The shadow said.
My mouth became extremely bitter, and even the words I uttered were bitter: "Yes, my father has no revenge, but the war is already over, and even if you want to take revenge, you can't find the officer." ”
This is even more sad, when the shadow has the ability and willingness to take revenge, the enemy has long been a ghost in the dust of history. He couldn't find a place to vent his anger, so he could only roar at the air, hating himself for being a coward who escaped from the battle.
"No, I can. Shadow chuckled gloomily, "That's the key to everything, the 'Divine Mirror' can help me find him, help me put an end to it." ”
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