Volume 1 Earth Chapter 8 Treasure Selection
Ning Ke carefully searched the stone chamber with the light emitted by dozens of night pearls.
Obviously, this is a place for Taoist monks to cultivate. This can be seen from the jade bottles and jars in the closet carved out of the stone wall, as well as the two furnace tripods used for alchemy, one large and one small.
Ning Ke looked at the objects on the wall cabinet one by one, and put the ones he thought were beautiful on the stone table. When he was tired of seeing, he leaned against the stone wall and squinted to sleep for a while, and when he woke up, he looked again, and when he was hungry, he found that the sky was already bright.
He emerges from the stone chamber and finds the flashlight that was lost last night. Although it was dawn by this time, the cave was still dark. Shine around with a flashlight, and feel that the cave scenery is very peculiar, and it is a typical lava landform. He had been to Yaolin Cave in Tonglu County, not far from here, and the scene in front of him was similar to there.
The three words "Qiankun Cave" engraved on the door of the stone chamber are also the font of Lishu.
The bats that had disturbed him yesterday evening were now hanging from the entire roof of the cave.
This bat is larger, about the size of a starling bird, with small eyes that are dark and bright...... What made him strange was that there was no trace of bats in the "Qiankun Room", as if these bats had been under some kind of spell and could not enter the cave where the Taoist priest cultivated.
He didn't think much of it, walked out of the cave, stretched out his head and looked down the cliff and became afraid.
What a risk he took yesterday!
I saw that the fog under the cliff was filled, and the bottom was not visible. There are sparse thatch, crooked trees, dark blue moss and black stone ears growing on the cliff faces. A few strands of silky waterfall float down the cliffs, silently washing the rocks.
He thought that if he had seen the cliff in front of him clearly yesterday, he would not have dared to hang down from it!
On the cliff wall outside the cave, there are layers of staggered cracked stones, intermittently, seemingly disconnected, layer upon layer, as if telling the hardships and vicissitudes of the years.
There is a slightly protruding layer of stone obliquely abrupt in the mist.
- Is this a path for cultivators to go up and down the cliff?
He didn't think it was like it, it was very difficult to walk empty-handed, and the Taoist priest had to carry some supplies and food to the cave, right?
He suddenly thought of his mother and decided that he should hurry back. If my mother knew that she had entered Tianmu Mountain alone and climbed such a dangerous cave, wouldn't she be crazy?!
He turned back into the cave and stepped into the stone chamber.
The stone table was full of large and small jade bottles, jade boxes, jade pendants, and miscellaneous items of unknown objects, which made him a little overwhelmed.
He rubbed a handful of thatch and wiped the jade objects, and then shone them with a flashlight.
These devices have their own colors, sizes, and shapes, and they are all beautiful. Although Ning Ke didn't understand jade, he also knew from the warm and greasy texture of the devices that it was some good jade.
He opened a jade box and saw that it contained more than a dozen jade slips, each of which was engraved with traditional Lishu characters in the form of a catalog. The jade slip is engraved with a simple paper-shaped ornament around it, and you can see that it is old at a glance and has a high historical value.
There is also a jade box containing more than a dozen crystal clear and regular octahedral crystals, which is really popular. Ning Ke knew that this crystal was not diamond, and diamond was introduced in junior high school science textbooks.
The refraction and scattering of light by this crystal is not strong, and he faintly feels that there seems to be a faint halo on the crystal. Isn't it the kind of spirit crystal that the legendary Taoist priest cultivates?
If it's really a spirit crystal, it's priceless!
The two stoves are not ordinary at first glance.
He shone a flashlight on the small stove and saw the appearance of the tripod: purple-brown, exquisite, and antique. In the middle of the tripod body, one side is carved with a tiger, and the other side is carved with a dragon, surrounded by cloud and water patterns.
This Xiaoding gave him an inexplicable sense of intimacy, which made him like it very much and couldn't put it down. He played with it for a long time, but he couldn't tell what kind of material the tripod was made of.
"Hmm, this little tripod should be called 'Dragon and Tiger Ding', right?"
Ning Ke's mood was very excited, these devices were sold casually, he and his mother didn't have to worry about their lives, and he didn't have to worry about money to graduate from college.
Of course, he wanted to get an MD degree.
The color of the big furnace is dark and bright, and the ornamentation is full of gossip hexagram patterns, revealing a profound mystery in the simplicity.
It is engraved with the words "Kyushu", and the body is large and heavy, and he can shake but can't move.
In the face of many treasures, he remembered a story about the three brothers who went to Baoshan to make money.
The three brothers went through a lot of hardships to come to Baoshan, which is full of gold and silver. The treasurers of Baoshan warned them that they could take the treasure as they pleased, but they had to leave before the sun set, otherwise they would become fossils.
The three brothers were full of promises, and when they really went to Baoshan, they had long forgotten the warning of the treasure people! Greed was insufficient, and they picked and chosen, and they picked up gold and silver, and picked up small pieces and large pieces, and when the sun set, they were still in the mountains, and finally turned into three stone statues......
Ning Ke carefully chose one jade bottle of three colors of red, white, and green in medium size. He gently poured away the ashes in the jade bottle that might have been medicines, pills, and other things that had rotted down due to too much time. Then, pack these three bottles into your backpack.
He also put the jade box containing more than a dozen pieces of exquisite jade slips and the jade box containing more than a dozen crystals into the backpack.
Then put more than a dozen pieces of jade pendants and the small furnace Ding engraved with the "dragon and tiger" pattern into the backpack. Of course, in order to prevent the vessels from being damaged, he wrapped some thatch around them.
Everything else is put back in the closet on the cave wall, and as for the night pearl on the top of the cave?
As Ning Ke put the contents of the stone table back into the closet, the stone table was empty.
Suddenly, he found that there were red blood stains on the stone table! In fright, a jade bottle in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.
After a moment of shock, he came back to his senses and thought carefully, how could there be so many blood stains?
When he had the audacity to wipe the dust off the table and shine a flashlight on the stone table, the new discovery made him stunned again.
The stone table is made of white jade, which looks like it has been stained with chicken blood, and the five stone benches in the shape of waist drums are also made of this material.
Although he didn't know what kind of famous material it was, it was definitely a precious jade material.
He couldn't help but sigh, how much is this kind of stone table and stone bench worth? What kind of character is this Taoist priest named Fu Han?!......
A pair of Go boards are carved on the stone tabletop, and five different characters are engraved on the faces of the five stone benches: "metal, wood, water, fire, and earth." ββThe font is still in Lishu style.
Judging from the degree of wear and tear of the stone bench surface, he thought that the stone bench often sat on people.
Underneath the stone table are two relatively large jade boxes.
Ning Ke wiped the dust off the surface of the box, pushed open the lid of the box, and saw that one box was filled with white jade chess pieces, and the other box was filled with black jade chess pieces. He grabbed one of the black and white pieces in the box and put them in his backpack.
He carefully kicked the pieces of the jade bottle to the edge of the stone wall with his foot.
"Huh-"
He noticed that there was a fluorescent orb or night pearl on the ground.
He bent down and picked up the ball, which was as round as a ping-pong ball. He rubbed the dust with his hands, and it felt warm and slippery.
The faint light green fluorescence is bright and holy, "This bead is given to Mom, she must like it very much! Thinking about Mom's fifties, but she doesn't have a decent piece of jewelry, this bead is still good for her." When you come back next time, get a few more beads and give them to ......."
He thought of Teacher Lin Lan, Li Yadi, and classmate Shan Aiai.
"They should like it too...... Girls seem to love beautiful jewelry. β
He looked around and found a bead on the ground.
Now, he has two pearls of the night!
Looking at the roof of the cave carefully, I found that the arrangement of beads on the roof of the cave seemed to have some kind of regularity, like the Tiangang Gathering Spirit Array. Two beads are visibly missing from the top, indicating that the two beads on the hand fell from the roof of the cave.
It seems that Tianmu Mountain is called the 34th cave of Taoism, and the number of beads in this cave should have nothing to do with it.
He packed his backpack, and it was noon.
It took a lot of trouble to go down the cliff to the cave yesterday, and it is unlikely that you want to climb back to the cliff from the entrance of the cave today. Whether it's climbing the rope back the way you came, or climbing down the cliff face is extremely difficult.
Hanging from the top of the cliff was dangerous but possible, and if you climbed up the rope again, how much arm strength would it take?! The cliff was not only steep but also very slippery, and he denied this method.
Climbing down the cracks in the stones on one side of the cliff, he felt even more uncertain. The cliff wall is full of weeds and moss, and you can't see the terrain at the bottom of the cliff clearly, and you will fall into the cliff if you are not careful.
At this time, he felt a little helpless, there are a lot of treasures in the backpack now, so he has to be used for his life!
He suddenly remembered his father. Dad never talked about the past in front of him, which is fundamentally different from the habits of other older people, and most old people always like to recall the past......
Looking at the steep and treacherous cliff outside the cave, he now understood his mother's anxious and worried expression when she heard him say that she was coming to hunt for treasure, and stretched out her shrunken and disabled left hand to grasp his purpose.
"My mother was afraid that I would go up the mountain to hunt for treasure, so I had to give me the box left by the fairy girl?......"
Thinking about it, another thought flashed in his heart, the old lady said that his father and mother did not have a disabled leg when they got married, could it be that Dad's crippled leg also has something to do with this hole?
Over the years, he always felt that adults always avoided the reason for his father's leg disability in front of him.
Looking at the bottomless cliff in front of him, Ning Ke couldn't help but panic in his heart, is my life going to be buried here?......
I must go back alive, my mother can't live without me!
After hesitating, he felt the backpack on his back sink even more......