Chapter 25 The murals of the Taimiao

It's been two days since I saw Han Bao, and his eyes are a little red and swollen, as if he hadn't slept well. Han Bao suggested going to the hot springs, and Namo and Zag followed with four jars of local wine and some roast lamb, all the way without saying a word.

The two of us stripped naked and entered the large pool of the hot spring, there was no ** Liya, I was much more relaxed than last time, Namo and Zag did not go down to the pool, but just drank on the edge of the pool, and cut the lamb they brought and put it on the stone slab in front of us.

Drinking and eating meat in the warm spring water is a rare pleasure, and it would be nice to have it without these complicated court struggles.

"I had just gone to my mother's shrine with my father, and my father told me what you had told him. Han Bao broke the silence first, no wonder his eyes were red and swollen, it turned out that he had gone to worship his mother, and he may have been severely taught by his father.

"I'm sorry, but it's a very tricky matter, and I can only turn to your father for help, hoping that you will understand the situation in front of you. ”

"Thank you for being so kind to me, but you're not doing this to help me, it's ......" Han Bao didn't finish, but I understood the pain in his heart.

"I also know that you really hope that I can marry Princess Yiga and inherit your father's position as the prime minister's priest, but this matter is not as simple as you think, the first is whether you and Liya can get out of the valley safely, and secondly, after you leave the valley, I may not necessarily inherit the position of the prime minister's priest, and the result may cause civil strife in the valley and make the White Tiger Ba experience another catastrophe. "I told Han Bao all about my conversation with the queen and the four cave masters.

"But I'm still conflicted. ”

"You are afraid of disappointing Liya and me, don't worry, although Yiga is beautiful, I already have a sweetheart outside the valley. As for Leah, I have made a promise to your father that when you have taken the princess as your wife and succeeded to the throne, I will bring her back, and the priest will persuade the king of Ba to grant you two wives. "I'm telling the truth about the first point, I miss Don Jr. very much at this point, and at the latter point, I lied, but I think it's not unrealistic.

"The current situation, it seems that this is the only way, but I really want to understand the world outside the valley, can you tell me the real situation? Is it still Zhou Tianzi's world, is there still a lot of war between the vassal states, and the people outside are wearing strange clothes like you?"

Faced with Han Bao's question, I hesitated and decided to tell him the real world outside the valley.

I told him that the outside of the valley was no longer the world of Zhou Tianzi, and the vassal states had perished for more than 2,000 years, and then experienced more than a dozen dynasties such as Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and the Republic of China.

I also told him that the outside world was the age of science and that all kinds of unimaginable industrial products could be made. People can travel thousands of miles a day, and they can sit at home and watch what happens thousands of miles away.

Finally I told him how I had come to the valley by accident, and that my "invention" was only the most insignificant insect carving skill in modern civilization.

When I recounted this, Hanbao's face was one of surprise, excitement, fear, and more of a frustration.

"Well, the big bird with strange wings is yours too...... products?" Han Bao had a light in his eyes.

I don't know what the big bird is referring to, but it may be an airplane, but this area is not a place where the route passes, or a fighter jet. I knew that after this remark, Han Bao's originally hazy idea of leaving the valley became clearer and firmer.

"You said that you would take me out of the valley to see the outside world, and after this incident, will you still keep your promise?" Hanbao's longing eyes looked at me, and his heart had flown out of the valley.

"When this is over, I'll take you out of the valley, and if possible, maybe a big bird will pick us up. "A great plan came to my mind again, and with the development of modern technology, especially the boom of adventure sports, it was only a matter of time before the valley was discovered, and it was up to me to unravel its mystery and transform this place into a unique tourist attraction in the world.

After learning that I had persuaded Han Bao to marry Yiga and inherit the position of prime minister's priest, the priest quickly fulfilled his promise and personally accompanied me to the temple.

The priest was in a good mood, the haze that had been floating on his face in the past was gone, and he talked and laughed along the way, and now he was like a kind father and elder.

The temple is not big, there are three rooms, the atrium is slightly larger, empty, the middle wall position is a tall clay statue, under the seat is a tiger, I think that is the king, the table is placed densely packed with the spirit seat of the Ba kings of the past dynasties, and there are five big tripods and two small tripods.

The Zhou Dynasty has a Ding system, stipulating that the Son of Heaven uses nine tripods, and the princes use seven tripods, and this case is placed with seven tripods, it stands to reason that the country of Ba of the Ministry of the Emperor enjoys the treatment of the princes, but a closer look is a little wrong, obviously the other two tripods are slightly smaller, and the process is not the same, it is estimated that the Son of Heaven only awarded the Ba Wang five tripods, which can only be regarded as the treatment of the second and third marquis, but the Ba king was not convinced, and secretly cast two tripods, making up the number of seven tripods, which is a very common phenomenon in the tombs of the princes in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Three murals are painted on the walls of the hall. The mural behind the statue is divided into two parts, one of which depicts five naked ** savages holding spears, one of whom wears a tiger skirt around his waist and is tall, just like the one I saw in the deep stream of the moonlit night. In the upper right corner of the painting is a stone cave, and five people are struggling to throw their spears towards the stone cave.

In another painting, the Ba people are fighting with some human-headed beasts and winged birdmen, and the man who looks like a man stands on a large rock, stretching his bow and shooting arrows at a large bird that flies in.

Beside both paintings there is a large seal inscription, presumably a description of the mural, but fortunately there was a priest present, and after his "translation", I rewrote it with a ballpoint pen into the present character and copied it word for word on a piece of linen cloth.

The priest watched me write quickly with this strange pen, and couldn't help but sigh: "Pi Jun is really a genius of the world, and it is a blessing if he can be used by the country of Pakistan, and he has no choice but to ......."

I didn't pay attention to the priest's words, I was already immersed in the incomparable excitement, and the mystery of the White Tiger Ba was being unveiled in front of me layer by layer. After copying the words on the first picture, he asked the priest:

"Di Jun should be the first king of Pakistan, right?"

"No, at first, there were five powerful tribes in the early days of the Ba people, namely the five clans of Ba, Fan, Qin, Xiang, and Zheng, who did not obey anyone, and often fought, and later the eldest son of the Ba tribe was born with divine power and was quite wise, and subdued the other four major tribes and became the common leader - Di Jun, which can also be understood as the first king of Ba. The priest spoke eloquently, and seemed extremely friendly.

"Then what about the Emperor leading his people to fight those strange orcs and birdmen?"

"After the unification of the Ba people, under the leadership of the Emperor of Liao, they went down the river, conquered all kinds of worship insects, fish, birds and beasts along the river, and made Ji shoot the salt god, occupied the vast and rich grain and salt area, and established the first capital in Yanyang, and began the history of Ba. ”

"And what about the White Tiger Sacrifice?" I continued to get to the bottom of it.

"Don't you see it's written here: Di Jun died, and his soul was a white tiger. The tiger eats human blood, so it is a human shrine. The priest took the trouble to tell me what to say.

So that's the case, no wonder when I saw the tall white tiger, it was like seeing the ancient tribal leader Di Jun, is there really such a thing as a soul?

Look at the second one. This is a mural painted on the left wall of the hall, there are many generals and soldiers on horseback and holding various weapons, in the middle of a high-crowned robe, sitting on a chariot, wielding a long sword to command the battle, among which there are Ba people with horns and horns, tattoos and tattoos to help out.

In the lower right corner of the screen is an overturned chariot, under which a king in a dark robe is struggling in flames, and the crown is burning in the flames. There is also a text next to it, but it is a record of King Wu's war. I still transcribed it word for word.

"I really can't believe that the Ba people also participated in the war of King Wu!" I muttered to myself.

"Of course, I, Ba **, am brave and good at fighting, and have made the first contribution to King Wu's war, and for this reason, King Wu also specially married his favorite seven daughters to King Ba. The priest could not hide his pride when he spoke of this history.

"Is the Emperor really particularly brutal?" I remembered that there is a characteristic of Chinese history, a new dynasty that changes dynasties, will always write the last emperor of the previous dynasty very unbearable, and even reverse black and white, to establish a legal basis for his new dynasty.

"The king was fine at the beginning, guarding the land and loving the people. Later, he became more and more mediocre, favored the prostitute concubines and courtiers, and expropriated the princely states. Especially in that year, when there was a great drought and almost no grain was harvested, the grain stored in the treasury had to be used to make wine, and the princes were ordered to double their annual tribute, which provoked the princes of the Quartet to rebel and conspire to fight against the war. "The priest spoke generously and with positive energy.

It seems that the history books really do not distort the king of Zhou.

"Judging from the murals, it seems that the king died on the battlefield?"

"Naturally, at the beginning, King Wu issued an order to capture King Wu alive, and everyone competed for the lead. Unexpectedly, although the king Emperor Xin was old, he was brave and invincible, and killed several generals of the princes, but no one dared to approach him, and then he was shot with arrows. The priest closed his eyes slightly, as if returning to the scene of the terrible war.

"When the king died, he was still standing on his own, and the rebellious slaves piled up the ruined chariots around him, and his bones were gone. The priest's eyes were slightly closed, and his face was desolate.

I had heard Han Bao and the queen say before, telling the story of the battle of Muye, the story of the warrior king, but such a major event in history was actually confirmed in the mural is also a big gain, and now according to the priest's story, the king should have died on the battlefield, not as recorded in the history books** in the palace.