Chapter 6 The Cave Goes Together

After Zhao Mingding found that he couldn't leave the whirlpool, he gave up the useless struggle, began to relax his whole body, adjusted his breathing, and guarded the dantian, at the moment when he was inhaled into the center of the whirlpool, his eyes were slightly closed, the tip of his tongue lightly touched the palate, his teeth were gently bitten, he held his breath, and carried out the fetal breath gong, allowing his body to rotate rapidly with the flow of water, like a spinning top that rotates at high speed.

Fetal breathing, as the name suggests, is the practice of breathing without mouth and nose, just like in the placenta. People can rely on the baby in the mother's womb, self-adopted internal qi, hold on to one, is the name of the fetus. Zhao Mingding since he remembered, began to follow his grandfather to practice this fetal breath gong, although now it can not be said that it has reached the peak, but it has also entered the house, tends to be a big success, and it is not a problem to hold his breath in the water for half an hour, which is also a reliance for Zhao Mingding to dare to jump into the whirlpool.

Zhao Mingding's whole body relaxed, his eyes were slightly closed, he held on to one, his body was like a high-speed spinning top, with the river constantly rotating, I don't know how long it took, the speed of the river's rotation finally slowed down, and finally stagnated, the body touched, it seemed to be fine sand, and he was busy struggling to sit up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was dark all around, and there was a faint sound of gurgling water.

"Where is this?" Zhao Mingding asked secretly, looking around, it took a while to get used to the darkness, and he saw that he was in a cave, sitting on the beach by the water. There are several small holes on the wall of the waterfront side, and the light enters from the small holes, is cast on the water surface, and after the diffusion of the water surface, it is re-cast on the four walls, and then diffused again through the four walls, so that the cave is visible to the eye, and it will not be pitch black. The shape of the cave is like a dome, like a huge bronze bell that is buckled down upside down, the radius is about 30 meters, the height is about 20 meters, the surrounding wall is smooth and abnormal, it seems to be artificially chiseled. Directly facing the water there is a high platform, about 20 meters wide and about 15 meters high. The high platform is surrounded by carved railings, which seem to be a viewing platform, and there are stone steps on the left and right sides, turning and descending, about 10 meters away from the water's edge. Between the high platform and the river is a white and flat sandy beach.

Zhao Mingding stood up, took off his clothes and pants, wrung out the water, put on his shorts, went naked, spread the rest of his clothes and pants on the beach, and then walked towards the high platform. After adapting to the light in the cave, Zhao Mingding determined that the cave was artificially excavated, and if nothing else, it should be located under the cliff of Wen Tianxiang's Zhang Bang, because the surrounding wall and high platform of the cave are a whole, all composed of Chu-colored rocks, and there is not a single grain of soil in sight.

"Who dug this cave here, and for what?" Zhao Mingding was secretly surprised, and carefully observed the surroundings as he walked, just in case. On the white sand, a line of footprints walked crookedly towards the high platform.

Zhao Mingding thought that the stone steps would become slippery with moss, but who knew that when he stepped on it, it was a cool and dry feeling. Go up to the platform, only to see that the table top is flat, it is square, about 20 meters square, surrounded by the carved railing, the stone wall in the middle of the inside is ground unusually smooth, about five meters high until the top of the cave, the width and the platform are equal, the middle of the stone wall is engraved with gold text from top to bottom with the big characters of the thickness of the four bowls of Wu Yun's mound, there is a rectangular stone platform below, there is a bronze ware in the middle of the table, it seems to be the wine zun of ancient times. Other than that, there is nothing else. The so-called golden text, that is, the text used in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Mingding was forced by his grandfather to practice brush calligraphy since he was a child, and suffered a lot. As for the tomb owner Wu Yun, Zhao Mingding thought for a moment and came to the result: the tomb owner Wu Yun was the second son of Wu Zhouzhang, the fifth monarch of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period.

According to historical records, King Tai of Zhou had three sons, the eldest son Taibo, the second son Zhong Yong and the youngest son Ji Li, Ji Li's son Ji Chang was smart and precocious, and was deeply favored by the prince. King Taiwang of Zhou wanted to pass on to Jichang, but according to the tradition at that time, it should be passed on to the eldest son, so the prince was depressed. After Tai Bo understood his father's meaning, he and his second brother Zhong Yong took the opportunity of collecting medicine for their father to escape to the desolate Jiangnan together, settled in Meili, created their own foundation, and established the ancient kingdom of Gouwu. Tai Bo died childless, and was succeeded by his brother Zhongyong; Zhong Yong died and was succeeded by his son Ji Jian; Ji Jian died, and his son Shuda succeeded him; Shuda died and was succeeded by his son Zhou Zhang. After Zhou Zhang succeeded to the throne, it was when King Wu defeated Yin Xuan and destroyed the Shang Dynasty to establish the Zhou Dynasty, implemented the sub-feudal system, and sealed the Zhou Wang's family, destroyed the Shang heroes, and the descendants of the ancestors of the past dynasties to be princes in various places, so he sent people to find the descendants of Taibo and Zhongyong to prepare to be crowned princes, because Zhou Zhang had been Wu Jun, he officially sealed Zhou Zhang as the king of Gou Wu, and Zhou Zhang's brother Zhong was sealed in Yu near Cheng Zhou. Zhou Zhang has two sons, the eldest son is named Xiong Sui, and the second son is named Yun. After Zhou Zhang's death, the eldest son Xiong Sui succeeded to the throne and became the sixth monarch of Gouwu, while his second son Yun has never been seen and buried here.

Zhao Mingding couldn't imagine that his hobby of reading a lot of books when he was a child would bring such great benefits today, and he learned about the origin of the tomb owner in a short period of time, and couldn't help but be proud, dancing with his hands, and then he found that he was naked except for shorts.

"Being naked in front of the ancients is really unseemly." Zhao Mingding thought about it, returned to the beach, put his clothes and pants back on and returned to the platform, and felt that there was a radish in his trouser pocket, so he took it out, put it on the stone platform, knelt down three times in a row, and performed the most solemn nine bows for worshipping the king, and prayed: "Young Master Yun, the junior Zhao Mingding took the liberty to break into your mansion today, and there was a lot of disturbance, it is really helpless, please forgive me!" At the same time, please bless my family with peace and health, and bless my family with a prosperous career, a prosperous business, and a wide range of financial resources! ”

After Zhao Mingding finished praying, he kowtowed three more times, and was about to get up, when he heard the rustling sound, he saw that the floor tile that had kowtowed slowly sank about three centimeters, and retracted into the floor tile in front of him, revealing a rectangular hole, about the size of two palms, and the depth of the hole was about a foot, and there was a jade box inside, which was crystal clear. The top of the box is engraved with four oracle bone inscriptions: Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Sect.

"The seniors are a big gift, but if they are disrespectful, the younger generations will be ashamed!" Zhao Mingding said, kowtowed three more times, and then carefully took the jade box out of the hole with both hands. After a while, with a rustling sound, the shrunken floor tiles returned to their original positions, and the hole was covered again, and there was no trace to be seen.

The jade box is two palms long, one palm wide, about an inch thick, and the hand is heavy, Zhao Mingding carefully inspected it, only to find that it was originally carved from a whole piece of green jade seed material. Cyan is the color of emperors, and it has been since ancient times.

The jade box carved from green jade looks like a green brick, except for the four characters engraved on the top, it is integrated without any gaps.

"It turned out to be a jade brick, I thought it was a jade box." Zhao Mingding fiddled with the sky for a long time, and felt a little disappointed. If it's a jade box, maybe there's some treasure in it, and a jade brick is just a jade brick. However, the jade brick carved from this green jade seed material is really good, and Zhao Mingding stroked it a few times with his hand, and it became smooth and oily. Good jade is not wet, although this green jade brick has been placed in the hole for a long time, but there is no dust on the surface, and it is smooth and oily after a few strokes, which is the characteristic of the seed material. Zhao Mingding stroked a few times, was about to put it into the bag, insincerely, the side of the jade brick from the middle dislocation, divided into two parts, it turned out that Zhao Mingding happened to hold down the jade brick up and down with his hand and rotated, the angle of rotation was very slight, and happened to lift it up again, the jade brick was divided into two parts from the middle, and then gently pulled, the original tightly knit jade brick was divided into two pieces, hollow inside, emitting a shining golden light, it was really a jade box containing treasures.

"What a clever work!" Zhao Mingding sighed. The way the jade box opens the cap is similar to the principle of modern squeeze bottle caps, but instead of pressing and lifting. The use of this screw-up lid ensures the integrity of the jade box and makes it easy to carry, without worrying about the lid detaching and letting the contents of the box fall out.

The jade box is divided into two parts, this half engraved with the four characters of Wanfa Guizong is the cover, the inside is slightly shallow, and there is a jade plate of the same material as the box stuck inside, and a cyan silk rope is tied at the top; The other half was the bottom, and the inside was more than half as deep as the inside of the lid, and it contained a box full of gold flakes from which the glittering gold flakes came from. The gold sheet is the same size as the box, it is as thin as paper, and the first one is engraved with four ancient inscriptions in the center: Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Sect. Zhao Mingding took out the gold pieces and counted them, there were eighty-one in total, and there were words and pictures on the front and back of each gold piece, and I don't know how they were engraved, and the lettering on the front and back did not affect each other. Underneath the gold plate, there was a swarthy dagger with a faint red glow stuck in the groove at the bottom of the box. Zhao Mingding took out the dagger and put the gold piece back in the box.

The dagger is heavy in the hand, black and faintly red light, I don't know what material it is made of, like wood but not wood, like iron but not iron. The handle of the dagger is about three inches long, carved with non-slip animal face pattern, there are round animal head gauntlets at both ends before and after, the handle end is slightly smaller, the front end and the dagger body are slightly larger, the dagger is about six inches long, its shape is like a shuttle, the middle ridge on both sides is triangular, each has a blood groove directly to the mouth of the beast head at the gauntlet, the front end of the dagger is very sharp, the blades on both sides, extremely sharp.

"Good dagger!" Zhao Mingding couldn't help but praise, seeing the dagger red faintly, he couldn't help but stretch out his left index finger and middle finger to brush the dagger, his body shook, only to feel that the two fingers were burned by fire, he couldn't help but scream "ah", his right hand was loosened, the dagger fell to the ground, for fear of damaging the dagger, he hurriedly reached out to fish, and his body lost his center of gravity and leaned forward.

The dagger falls to the ground and inserts it into the tiles until it has no handle, like cutting bean curd.

Zhao Mingding saw that the dagger fell to the ground and inserted into the floor tiles until there was no handle, he couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to take a closer look, and saw that the dagger was intact and did not see a trace of damage, so he put his mind at ease, wiped it with his clothes, put it back in the box, and was about to take the jade plate on the lid, when he suddenly saw the red light in the cave, bright as day, and a voice sounded faintly: "Where is the boy, don't kneel down when you see this immortal?" ”