Volume 1 Chapter 58: Blood Jade
Therefore, after the six-fingered clan mastered the snake skin shed by this sky-swallowing python to prolong its life, it also had to suffer from the dragon water formed by this sky-swallowing python every time.
This secret technique of prolonging life does solve the short lifespan of six-fingered people due to natural deformity, but it also makes many six-fingered people die in disasters caused by dragons absorbing water.
In order to avoid the death of their clan members with each disaster, the Six Fingers have been trying to reduce the number of deaths.
They soon discovered that meteorites that had broken into small pieces and merged with the mountain had a unique miracle in that they could devour almost anything, but only lost this property when they touched granite.
Combined with the characteristics of the stone being afraid of granite, the six-fingered people hid in the pre-dug tunnels every time the Sky Swallowing Python was about to turn into a dragon, and the tunnels formed by these meteorites would quickly bond, and even if the outside was flooded, no one of their clansmen would die.
After the disaster, the Six Fingers relied on stone powder made of granite to dig out of the tunnel.
This also explains that the surrounding mountain walls of the earthen building for the six-fingered people are covered with granite.
Relying on this method, the six-fingered people extended the life span of the tribesmen, and avoided disasters that caused a large number of deaths of the tribesmen, which caused the six-fingered tribes to grow stronger and stronger.
Of course, not all people of the Six-Fingered People will give birth to defective babies, these normal babies will only have six fingers, but they will not have the two strange diseases of ugliness and irritable temperament.
Usually such normal babies are born, and the six-fingered people will use the highest standard education in the clan to let them grow up, and then send them down the mountain, so that these normal six-fingered people will collect a lot of money in the palace with the secret art of prolonging life, so as to ensure the continuation of the six-fingered clan.
Over time, because the Sky Swallowing Python brought so much convenience and affluence to the Six-Fingered People, the Six-Fingered Clan worshipped this snake as an object of worship.
The Six-Fingered Clan invited a large number of craftsmen to make the shape of a dragon from the meteorite they surrounded in the center of the tulou.
This is basically the end of the mural, which completely clarifies the process of the six-fingered clan from its establishment to its peak, and explains many doubts in the story that Wang Degui told me and Dawu before.
Of course, it is impossible for Wang Degui to know these anymore, I am afraid that he has been solved by butterflies in the secret room on the top floor of the tulou.
I was silent for a moment, and then said to Yang: "But according to the mural, the six-fingered people have been living deep in the mountains, relying on the clansmen they sent out to collect a lot of wealth to consolidate the foundation of the six-fingered clan, it stands to reason that as long as such a group is not known by the kings of various dynasties, they can completely survive to modern times, but how did the six-fingered clan be exterminated later?" ”
Yu Yang shook his head, saying that he didn't know, after all, the Six Fingers Clan would not record the history of their demise on the murals. Or maybe they didn't think that they would perish, and the change of extinction was overnight.
"It's not necessarily that the clan is exterminated, it's just that we didn't find the surviving six-fingered people here.... Didn't that woman just say that she was a descendant of the Six-Fingered People, which means that there are still Six-Fingered people in the world. The second brother added.
The history of the Six-Fingers is too magical and huge, and they were just three weirdos born with radiation sickness and genetic defects at first. I didn't expect to rely on the secret art of prolonging life from the captive witches, so that such an inconspicuous race like them has survived for hundreds of years and experienced so many dynasties.
But it is undeniable that it all stems from the meteorite that fell from the sky, and it was that meteorite that brought them convenience. Otherwise, every time they encounter the dragon and the water, they will lose half of the clan, and the clan will not continue intact under the heavy blows.
Dawu and I are people who have seen that kind of strange stone, so naturally we were very surprised, he said: "I didn't expect that strange stone to be a meteorite, no wonder it is so weird, after all, it is an alien object...... If we had the opportunity to take this meteorite out a little bit and give it to the scientific research institute for research, wouldn't we be the first person to discover this strange stone? ”
I glanced at Dawu and said with a smile: "What, are you planning to go back to the water again to find that tunnel and get a stone down?" ”
Dawu shuddered: "Forget it, I really don't want to go back to that ghost place!" ”
In fact, many years later, by chance, I came across this meteorite again in the antique market. I thought back to today's past, and I did not hesitate to spend more than 100,000 yuan to buy that small piece back and put it in the most conspicuous position in my antique shop.
I know almost everything about the establishment of the Six-Fingered Clan and the history of the Six-Fingered Clan, and the only thing I don't understand now is how the Six-Fingered Clan disappeared later. Probably those who know this, only people who are truly descendants of the six-fingered tribe like Butterfly will know.
The staircase inside the statue was longer than I had expected, and we had not reached the end of the walk for a long time, and I estimated that the statue was at least 400 meters or more, which was a little higher than I had estimated.
At first, I couldn't imagine how the Six-Fingers had built such a ghostly stone statue, but now that I know their history, I don't feel surprised.
Presumably, this stone statue, like the Song Dynasty tomb we saw before, went through several generations of stonemasons before it finally carved such a ghostly craftsman. But these hundreds or even thousands of stonemasons must have finished their work, and the six-fingered people said that these stonemasons were secretly cut in order not to expose their family sites.
At this time, I remembered to ask the second brother what was under the lotus platform in the secret room on the top floor of the tulou.
The second brother showed a regretful expression, and he said: "The mural mentions that when the Six-Fingered Clan built this huge stone statue, they dug up a lot of jade-like things from the meteorite..... The jade lotus platform we saw in the cave of the burial pit should have been made of jade dug up by them...... The mural also mentions that they found several round stones from the jade, and I think those round stones are jade similar to blood jade. ”
"Blood Jade?"
The second brother nodded and explained how it was blood jade.
On many jades, jade that is completely inconsistent with the jade itself will grow, as if it is a sarcoma growing on the surface of the human body. The ancients would cut off these "tumors" that affected the beauty of jade for the sake of beauty, but it was precisely this "tumor" that would turn into scarlet jade after careful polishing, and this jade was called blood jade.
Blood jade is very rare, and only a small piece can grow on tens of thousands of pieces of jade, but the six-fingered people found several pieces of jade in the meteorite.
The second brother just saw that there were several round stone balls in the groove under the lotus platform, and he guessed that it should be the blood jade dug out by the six-fingered people back then, and it had not been polished.
The second brother of Bai Shanbi was the first to react to this thing, that thing could earn more than us from several oil buckets, and Bai Sha naturally didn't run away with us first.
Speaking of this, the second brother sighed: "That woman probably knew that her ancestors had dug up such a thing, and she mixed in Wang Degui's team and planned to take it back." ”