Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Witch Scroll
Shao Xuan was startled, his eyes moved away, and when he looked at the animal skin scroll again, it was still those symbols.
It's just that when he stared at the "ink ball" just now, and continued to look at it for a while, the brown fruit was revealed again, very clear, as if a real object was placed in front of him, and even the folds on the peel were not in the slightest detail.
What's going on?!
In the past, Shao Xuan only encountered those phantom images in front of him when he encountered danger or was in a relatively special environment, but now, first, it was not a critical moment, and secondly, he did not encounter a special geographical scene such as the nocturnal walking of the green thief, he just stayed in this medicine house. If it is really because of the special nature of this place that there are illusions, why have they been here for so long, but only now have the image appeared?
This skin roll is extraordinary.
Shao Xuan no longer stared at the ink ball just now, but changed the picture and continued to stare at it.
Soon, Shao Xuan found that the others were similar to the ink group, and after staring at it for a while, a physical picture would gradually emerge from those symbol-like paintings, which was very clear.
Shao Xuan saw a lot of medicinal herbs in this animal skin scroll, including the wind signal and the green thief he found when he went out with the advance team this year, and many strange-looking medicinal herbs.
What surprised Shao Xuan the most was that because of the trap at that time, there would inevitably be some traces of being strangled by the line on the wind signal and the green thief, and the two caught by the trap set by Shao Xuan himself could naturally be recognized at a glance, and the paintings in this animal skin scroll were captured and brought back this year, and the traces on them were exactly the same as those in Shao Xuan's memory!
The exact reproduction of real objects!
If you look at the other diagrams, there are not only plant ones, but also animal ones.
On this animal skin scroll, the first half of the scroll is painted with botanical medicinal materials, and the second half of the scroll is with animal medicinal materials, but no matter which one it is, there is only a simple picture like a symbol, and there is no process of how to get these finished products.
There are many animal medicinal materials, Shao Xuan can only see the shape of the finished products, but he can't know which part of which animal these finished products are. The text annotations next to it are limited, and it is impossible to understand them in more detail.
Shao Xuan looked at the remaining animal skin scrolls on the stone table again, but, except for the one in his hand, the other animal skin scrolls were very ordinary, and it could be seen that the painter wanted to draw the object as clearly as possible, but after all, the painting skills were limited, and Shao Xuan could not see the picture of the real thing from these paintings.
Shao Xuan remembered that when he went to Wu before, he saw the paintings made by Wu, those simple symbol paintings at first glance, every stroke seemed to be extremely difficult, and now, when it came to the animal skin scroll at hand, Shao Xuan already had a guess in his heart.
After Gui Ze finished processing the herbs in a stone plate, Shao Xuan took the special animal skin scroll and asked, "This scroll was written by Wu himself?"
Gui Ze looked sideways, and when he saw the animal skin roll in Shao Xuan's hand, his face, which had been calm, suddenly showed nervousness, and he walked over quickly, and took a closer look at it, making sure that the animal skin roll was not damaged, and breathed a sigh of relief.
She originally wanted to snatch the animal skin roll from Shao Xuan's hand and put it away to avoid damage, but thinking that Wu personally agreed to Shao Xuan's coming to study, she hesitated for a moment and withdrew her hand.
"This is indeed written by Wu himself, a copy written this year, you ...... Be careful when you look at it, don't break it!" Gui Ze stared closely at the animal skin scroll in Shao Xuan's hand, and said with a stern face, "Wu has to look at it every time he comes over, and he will be angry if he breaks it." ”
The people of the tribe regard Wu as heavy, and Shao Xuan naturally knows it.
Nodding, Shao Xuan responded: "I know, I'll be careful." ”
"By the way, you've also seen this?" Shao Xuan raised the animal skin scroll in his hand and asked.
When Gui Ze heard this, he smiled, with irreconcealed reverence in his eyes, and said: "This is written by Wu himself, only he can read it, and others can't understand it." ”
She thought that Shao Xuan, like her, couldn't understand what was written and painted on this animal skin scroll, and when she first entered the medicine house, she had also seen similar animal skin scrolls, but she heard that this kind of witch scroll was completely different from ordinary animal skin scrolls.
"Witch scroll, only witch can understand. So, if you don't understand this, let's look at other animal skin rolls. After Gui Ze finished speaking, he continued to return to the big stone table to deal with the medicinal materials, there were still several stone plates of medicinal herbs on the big stone table to deal with, and the hunting team that went out was about to return, and the configuration of the medicine also needed to be exhausted, she didn't have much time to talk to Shao Xuan.
Waiting for Gui Ze to leave, Shao Xuan looked down at the animal skin scroll in his hand and whispered, "Witch scroll?"
Gui Ze misunderstood what he meant, and he didn't defend it, and it was impossible for him to say to Gui Ze directly: Ah, I'm really sorry, I can actually understand this!
Witch scrolls, only witches can read them? Who said that?
Shao Xuan shook his head, moved over a wooden chair, rolled the animal skin on the small stone table and spread it out, and continued to look at the paintings inside, just now he only had a cursory look at a few, and there were many others that he hadn't seen, even if the annotations in it were not clear, but he could leave some impressions after looking at it, maybe he could encounter it when he went out hunting in the future?
Since this is called a witch scroll, it must be the reason for witches.
Unlike what other people paint, Wu may have used other special abilities to draw consciousness into these rune paintings, even if they seem to be simple drawings, they hide a lot of secrets.
If anyone can understand these symbolic paintings, why should they have another painting in their hands? The paintings in the hands of the two big leaders of the hunting party are naturally painted separately, just so that they can understand them.
Towards the end of the afternoon, Shao Xuan left the medicine house, and it was impossible for him to spend the night here.
Shortly after Shao Xuan left, Wu came to the medicine house.
Hearing Gui Ze respectfully report the results of the afternoon treatment of medicinal herbs, Wu smiled and said, "Very good, this time has worked hard for you." ”
One old and one young, the expressions on their faces are almost the same, but because of Wu's praise on Gui Ze's face, it is inevitable to bring joy.
After asking about the herbs, Wu asked again, "How is Ah Xuan's table today?"
"I taught him how to pick and handle the herbs, and then he watched the skin rolls by the side. Gui Ze briefly talked about today's events, pointing to the small stone table next to him, "He also looked at your animal skin scroll, thinking that it was the same as I was at the beginning, and he couldn't understand it, so he was puzzled." ”
The expression on Wu's face changed slightly, but this change was too fast, and Gui Ze didn't notice it.
"How long has he been looking at that leather scroll. Wu asked.
"I watched it for nearly half a day. "I yawned when I saw it. Gui Ze didn't say the second half of the sentence, for fear that Wu would be angry if he said it.
Wu was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Don't worry about him, you are busy with your affairs first, the hunting team is coming back soon, and the herbs you need will be sorted out in three parts first." ”
"Yes. ”
The next day, Shao Xuan came to the medicine house again, Gui Ze was still busy in front of the big stone table, Shao Xuan stood by and watched for a while, helping to remove things, looking at the preliminary treatment methods of several new medicinal plants, and then turned to other places after reading them all. When his eyes swept over the small stone table where the animal skin scroll was placed, he paused, and found that there was another animal skin scroll on the small stone table, and the quality of the animal skin was very similar to yesterday's witch scroll.
Pick up this new extra animal skin scroll, open it, and what comes into your eyes is indeed a minimalist rune diagram similar to yesterday's witch scroll, but now on this animal skin scroll, it is not a single picture like yesterday, but a series of series.
What is recorded on this animal skin scroll is the treatment method of eight commonly used medicinal plants, from selection and cutting, to steaming, drying, and storage, all of which are described, and looking at these pictures, Shao Xuan seems to see a pair of vicissitudes of life, demonstrating this series of processes in front of him.
After a series of rune diagrams, there are annotations to the text.
The image is connected to the text, very clear and deep enough