Chapter 68: The Origin of the Forest of Steles

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"Xiao Yazi said that you are from the town, but I know everyone in the town, although the old man is old, he is not confused, not to mention that those in the town are all grown up by me,"

On a stone bench on the edge of the stele forest, Zhao Qianfeng and the old woman sat opposite each other, and the little girl in the distance was playing alone outside the stele forest.

"I'm actually from the other side of the mountains. ”

Listening to Zhao Qianfeng's words, the old woman was a little moved.

It's been two thousand years, and the demons have never seen the people on the other side of the mountain range again, except for the demons who fought with the human race in the canyon passage, many of them can't describe what the people on the other side of the mountain range looked like, and now a person who is shorter than the demons actually appears here, which can only show that he is too capable, otherwise how to avoid the vision of so many demons.

Although the demons and the human race swear not to be opposed, for the old woman, these antagonisms are the affairs of the two races, and they have little to do with her own people.

Now the old woman's eyes have changed suddenly, and she looks at Zhao Qianfeng like a strange animal.

If it is a young beauty, that kind of vision will definitely make a man complacent, but an old woman's vision is so bad that Zhao Qianfeng is sitting on pins and needles.

Fortunately, that kind of vision didn't last long, and the old woman spoke: "The old man is actually a little curious, the guest from afar, when I came over just now, I saw you looking at the inscription intently, and from the sound you read, you seem to be able to read the inscription, can it be that the people on the other side of the mountain range will do it?"

"Actually, I didn't understand the symbols of this inscription at first, but I know how to pronounce this inscription, and the people over there probably don't know it.

Pointing to an inscription nearby, Zhao Qianfeng said the content of the inscription, there was a poem in the middle of the inscription, pointing to the symbol Zhao Qianfeng read out: "On the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops are in the soil, who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard." ”

When the old woman heard this, her face was full of smiles: "Young man, since you have come here, no matter what the reason, can you stay here for a few more days?" ”

"I can't ask for it, but I don't know if my identity will hinder you. ”

The old woman patted her thigh when she heard this: "Those Li people will not come here, you don't have to worry, not to mention that the young man is not a wicked person, and he will not attack us who are unarmed, you can read the inscription and it is also fate with us, the old body still has many questions to ask." ”

Looking at the light of the old woman's eyes, Zhao Qianfeng completely read the strong use of color.

However, Zhao Qianfeng completely felt that this was called mutual use, and it was estimated that the meaning of this inscription was mostly lost due to the age, and his arrival made the old woman see hope, Zhao Qianfeng admired this old woman a little, just for the sake of this stele forest, she completely ignored herself may be a dangerous factor.

The old woman beckoned Maya to come over and asked her to go back and inform the village to prepare a banquet to entertain the guests, but she took Zhao Qianfeng to wander around the stele forest, and from time to time pointed to some steles to ask Zhao Qianfeng about the content of the stele forest.

Zhao Qianfeng is a thief, looking at the old woman pointing to some passages in the stele forest, it is estimated that the old woman knows these contents, but it is just to verify whether she really understands the content of the stele forest.

Truthfully explained the content of the stele forest to the old woman, and the wrinkles on the old woman's face were happy to bloom, so she asked more, originally these steles made Zhao Qianfeng tired of looking at them, but now they are even more uncomfortable.

"Mother-in-law, let's be honest, the actual order of these inscriptions is not right, and there is no interval between the contents of the inscriptions, so there will be a lot of ambiguity in the content of such a sentence. I took my mother-in-law to an inscription and pointed to a passage: "The text of this sentence is to stay on a rainy day and leave me on a rainy day." ”

Pointing to these symbols, Zhao Qianfeng said two words with opposite meanings, and the opposite meanings made the old woman stunned.

Finally able to popularize Chinese knowledge to his mother-in-law, Zhao Qianfeng was very complacent.

And the old woman kept repeating the sentence just now, and at this time Zhao Qianfeng added fire again.

"To know the correct meaning of the content, you have to understand the habits of the people who say it. ”

This sentence made the old woman stop muttering that sentence, just stopped and thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "The guests are here, we haven't entertained us yet, so please go to the cold village to gather first." ”

It seems that everyone has become a good person, and Zhao Qianfeng didn't say much, and followed the old woman slowly towards the village by the lake.

When I entered the village, I saw that some people were gathered around the old woman's house.

The little girl had already gone back to greet her sister, and when Zhao Qianfeng followed her into the old woman's house, Mo Wei and Maya cleaned up the house.

Heads poked out of the wall, and they all stared at Zhao Qianfeng in the room with wide eyes, and Zhao Qianfeng once again felt being watched.

The old woman didn't care about the people outside the wall, and chatted with Zhao Qianfeng, the content was nothing more than the customs and customs of the two worlds, and it could be seen that the old woman was also curious about the mountains.

However, Zhao Qianfeng is not a local person over there, and he can't say the details, and the old woman can't say anything because she is closed in a remote area, and the topic turns to the inscription after a while.

Zhao Qianfeng took the initiative to ask when the stele forest was built, which got to the topic, and the old woman began to elaborate on the origin of the stele forest.

This stele forest was built by the demon ruler for his lover, when the demon ruler was in his twilight years, during the time when he was about to die, he missed the lover he loved more and more, so he collected the content of the text that the lover usually wrote, handed over to the elf who knew the demon language to translate into the demon language, and then specially found a stonemason to engrave the text on the stone tablet.

It is said that it was also a huge project, and hundreds of the Queen's students were involved in collating and translating the manuscripts left by the Queen.

As he lay dying, his last order was to build a temple for her where they first met, and to place all the carved steles in front of the temple in memory of his beloved.

The only thing that was not translated was the dozen or so thick records left in the old king's hands, which were the elven queen's usual diary, which her lover was not allowed to view while she was alive, and the king of twilight only ordered the elf to copy a new copy in the queen's handwriting and put it in the temple, while the original accompanied him into the mausoleum.

The first king was buried, the new king ascended the throne, and then there was chaos within the demon clan, at this time, around the new king, those queen's students had begun to emerge, with their help, the civil strife quickly subsided, and the new king faithfully fulfilled the last wish of the previous king, and a temple and a stele forest rose from the ground.

However, it has been decades since then, and the first batch of students have been sent by the Demon Emperor to various places to serve in important positions, and this stele forest is the people of the demon clan to be responsible for placing it, after all, this stele is too heavy, and those elves can't do this work, at most they should be a commander, but at that time, the demons below the middle level did not obey these weak elves, and many times they just took care of themselves to set up the stele on their own.

The years passed slowly, after the elves participated in the rule of the demons, more and more elves began to learn only the language and writing of the demons, and many of the unique words that the queen taught them in the past have been forgotten, but the original basic education still continues to be retained, and it is these basic education that teaches them to keep learning in order to ensure their status.

It's a pity that many elves can't read the content on the stele forest anymore.