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The prince walked up to her, got down on one knee, and laid the flowers on the woollen carpet first. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he held the black gift box in one hand, and gently opened the lid with the other, and inside was a diamond ring of more than five carats, glittering.

Zhou Jia sat stiffly in his chair, did not look at the pigeon-like diamond ring, and his lips almost did not move.

A moment later, Hatti opened the mezzanine layer below the gift box again, and an otherworldly light flashed inside, Zhou Jia immediately sat up straight, she had seen this light, as bright and dazzling as the aurora, and the color on it would change unpredictably with the light. Even diamonds look much inferior to it.

She stared at the black stone for a moment, then at Hatti, "Why? Why do you have 'black kryptonite'?"

Wrong. After Chris disappeared, the white kryptonite and black kryptonite in Lancer's headquarters were all gone, and then Eddie and the others went to the Alaskan mines, which were also like an empty city emptied by ants, and there was nothing.

Why didn't the black kryptonite in his hand disappear?

Hatti's words kept echoing in his ears: "Actually, I have known about the 'black kryptonite' for a long time. ”

The silence in the room made Zhou Jia feel depressed, she was being proposed, but there was no romantic element.

The Arabic speakers spoke very quickly, and the words were like cheerful raindrops falling on the strings, and Hatti whispered, "What you want to hear involves the secrets of the royal family, with which only my wife can share." ”

It's a deal.

Hatti made it clear that if you want to continue talking, you have to make a choice.

"Please marry me!" Hatty's soft voice echoed in his ears.

Time seemed to freeze, the scene was at an impasse, she really couldn't think of a better way, and she had no other chips to exchange. Zhou Jia turned her eyes away and looked at the opposite wall, on which hung a black and white photographic decorative painting, and the characters in the painting were also looking at her, but they did not offer any help at this time.

Hatti didn't speak, just kept that posture and waited patiently, and just when he almost thought that Zhou Jia was completely distracted, the other party finally opened his mouth, and his voice was almost inaudible.

"Okay!" couldn't believe it, the voice came out of his mouth, but Zhou Jia had no choice.

This sentence is like a stamp, stamped on a piece of paper.

Hattie smiled, as if he was really a man who had successfully proposed and immersed himself in happiness, using the most traditional, but also the most longed-for marriage proposal ceremony of almost all girls.

He took the diamond ring out of the box, took Zhou Jia's hand, and put it on her ring finger.

The size of the ring is very suitable, which shows that the other party knows the size of his finger and all the details have been taken into account. Step by step, he attacked the city and plundered the land.

Hattie stood up and reached out to gently pull Zhou Jia up.

Then, he sent the box containing the black stone and the white rose to Zhou Jia. He said in a mocking tone: "It doesn't matter if the ring is ring, you must put away the stone, that is the real token of love." ”

A deep voice reached his ears, and Hattie stood so close that it was as if the petite body standing in front of him was like a poor fawn. Zhou Jia subconsciously took a step back.

Hattie took another step closer.

Zhou Jia always felt that his eyes were like looking at a piece of Chinese porcelain that he had just bought. She suppressed the anger in her heart, thinking to herself: it is expedient to agree first, and she must ask for something useful as soon as possible. She took a small step back again, keeping her distance from him. Although Hattie was not very happy with the move, Zhou Jia was unimpressed, she had met such suitors who were more than a decade younger than herself, and their enthusiasm was excessive. And now her attention is all on the stone in her hand. How she wished that the once-vanished black kryptonite in the lab would reappear, so that she could delve deeper into its properties and perhaps find Chris's whereabouts. Looking at the stones in the box, she always felt a little unreal, she looked up and asked, "What is your secret?"

Hatti nodded and asked, "How much do you know about the Islan world?"

Zhou Jia pondered this question: Is, Lanmu, and Slin always gave ordinary people a sense of extreme, backward and advocating violence. And I don't know much more about it than ordinary people.

Seeing that she could not give an answer to such a simple question for a long time, Hatti smiled and said, "You know the Prophet Muhammad, right?"

Zhou Jia nodded.

"Long before him, the Arabs had the Koran. The Arabs of that era believed in animism and the immortality of the soul, and people worshipped nature, spirits, and sacred relics. In the center of the city of Mecca there is a temple of Kaba (1), or 'Kaaba', which houses 360 Allahs, the highest of whom is Hubal, the father of the gods. There are many other gods under the Lord of the Gods. During the year, the gods rotate for one day each. Arabs from all tribes make pilgrimages to Mecca and worship their gods. The bazaar was crowded with people competing in poetry contests to sing the praises of their gods—the sweet and lovely gods of the oases, the monstrous spirits of the wilderness, the holy trees, springs, caves, and boulders, which could serve as a medium between worshippers and gods. As if he had seen it with his own eyes, Hatti blinked his thick curly eyelashes and smiled, "My ancestors worshipped the crescent moon and the stars, and they worshipped the blazing sun." We worship the 'daughters of Allah' - Lat, Uza and Manat, and the sanctuary of the three goddesses later evolved into the birthplace of Islam. We Arabs worship the goddess first, and then worship the male god. ”

She was a little surprised, because in her mind, the women of the Arabian Peninsula had always been of humble status and low status, and they were not treated with the respect they deserved, and of course it was hard to imagine that the Arabs in the past worshipped the goddess.

Hatti continued: "Don't forget that in addition to the Koran, we also have One Thousand and One Nights. I can't forget the pillow stories my grandmother told me, the elves, the ghouls, the magic lamps and the magic carpet...... The story condenses the wisdom of our entire nation that has been passed down from generation to generation. ”

Zhou Jia thinks about it, the story of Aladdin's magic lamp is a household name, the kind Aladdin, the beautiful princess, the evil wizard and the magical elf, the ancient Arab country that spreads such a story must be thriving and full of vitality.

Khatti continues: "In 630, Muhammad conquered Mecca and then Ta'if. At first, he wanted to keep some of these goddesses, but in the end, he wanted to establish the monotheistic status of "nothing but Allah", and he had the idol of God Hubal and other gods destroyed. There are also three goddesses among them. ”

I wonder why he repeated the mention of Allah's daughter, but does it have anything to do with the 'Black Stone'?

Hatti seemed to immediately read her expression and replied, "The three goddesses are inseparable from the black stone. ”

Next, Hatti introduces Zhou Jia to the fate of the three goddesses and the black stone.

Manat, the goddess of fate, has an altar on the beach between Mecca and Megana, near al-Mushallal in Qudayd, where a statue of the goddess is enshrined in a black stone. All the Arabs worshipped her and offered sacrifices to her. Arabs of the Yashrib Aws and Khazraj tribes and elsewhere make pilgrimages to the holy sites, but do not shave their heads. When they were about to return home at the end of the pilgrimage, they first went to the holy place where Manat was, where they shaved their heads and stayed for a while. It was only when they went to worship Manat that they felt that the pilgrimage was over.

Uza is the goddess of fertility, and the Arabs, known as the "most powerful goddess", pray to her for protection and victory before starting a war. Her worship is prevalent in the Nakhlah in eastern Mecca, where she is mainly worshipped by the Quraish and Banu Kinanah tribes. Her altar consists of three acacia trees, and living sacrifices are characteristic of the ritual.

Rath is known as the "Mother of the Gods". She is the goddess of spring and abundance, and her shrine is in Ta'if, which is very close to Mecca, where people from places like Mecca go to worship and offer sacrifices. In her holy land, it is forbidden to cut down trees, hunt for beasts, and shed blood.

After Muhammad had conquered Mecca, he began to eradicate the three sacred places one by one. He sent Khalid ibn Walid, known as the "Sword of Allah", who was a polytheistic Quraysh tribesman who converted to Islam in 629. In January, Khalid's army first destroyed the temple of Manat, and then, when attacking the temple of Uza, it encountered difficulties, and under the guidance of the great prophet, three raids and three sacred trees were cut down to distinguish the real and false temples of Uza. And finally Ta'if. The two cities have always been closely linked, and in the Qur'an there is even a comparison between Mecca and Ta'if. Muhammad also knew that the goddess Lat had a large number of followers in Ta'if, and sure enough, the victory in this battle began with internal division and disintegration, and many of the citizens of Taif could not bear the blockade of the Havajin Banu-Hawazin at that time, and first converted to Islam, and then took Taif with the Waiwai. In the end, the temple of Rath was destroyed.

Everything was destroyed, but one thing was preserved, not because of mercy, but because Muhammad was afraid of the true and powerful power. That is the true soul of the Arab world, and it is not something that can be changed by one person. ”

"What?" Zhou Jia was puzzled.

"Have you ever heard of obsidian in the holy city of Mecca (2)?"

Obsidian is a black and reddish stone with a smooth, oval surface, and about thirty centimeters long. To this day, it is placed in the east corner of the temple of Ka'bah in Mecca, and its Arabic word means "stone that fell from heaven to earth", and later Western scholars proved that it was just an ordinary meteorite. Black meteorites are placed on the walls and are considered by the Arabs to be a celestial artifact. In 632, when Muhammad came to the Kaba shrine to pay respects, he entered the Ka'ba and touched and kissed the black stone. He called the black stone Allah's oath on the earth and said, "Allah has allowed us to touch it and kiss it for the benefit of everyone who desires it." And this "holy relic" enshrined by the polytheists has once again become the "sacred stone" of Muslin. Since the Black Stone is never mentioned in the Qur'an, Islam only prefers to touch the Black Stone as part of the Hajj ritual.

Zhou Jia thought about it carefully and asked, "Do you mean that "meteorite"?"

Hatti nodded and said, "It's not a meteorite, because the 'Tian'ba Xuanshi' placed in the Holy City now is a fake, or it was a fake from the beginning. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"What is put into the holy place of Mecca is a fake, and the real 'Kaaba' is the black stone in your hand. He said, "I told you, I have some responsibility in my family - and that responsibility has to do with Blackstone. The ancestors of our tribe were the guardians of the Black Stone, devotees of the goddess Tayifrat. The sacred stone is guarded by a guardian, and each term must be held by a royal man, and I am the ruler of the sacred stone in this era. In fact, there is also a white stone in the temple of Zolhlesai in the south of Mecca, which is guarded by a female ruler of another tribe. Once, the guardians of the White Stone and the Black Stone had another grudge, in fact, that was the truth of the goddess's annihilation on the Arabian Peninsula, and I will tell you slowly when I go back. Although Muhammad conquered Mecca, he had to acquiesce to the power of the Black Stone, which was why he kissed the Black Stone for a scene. ”

"So, they're black kryptonite and white kryptonite?" Zhou Jia asked with some excitement.

He cleared his throat, "Actually, even my ancestors didn't know where the stone came from, but our theory from generation to generation is that the black and white sacred stone was brought by outsiders, just like the origin of Islam, it is a foreign product. The rulers of all my days have searched for the source of the Stone. It wasn't until Ronksuse came along that I didn't know that there was black kryptonite, white kryptonite in Alaska, which is why I definitely invested in this project. ”

Hattie silently recalled his second meeting with Ronquesu. Also present was Lan Shien, and Hattie didn't expect to meet Chris's father. This time, Ranksu no longer pretended to be a ghost, and showed his true identity in front of them - the white guardian, and the white kryptonite originally existed to protect the black kryptonite. Hati realized that the "Tian'ba Xuanshi" handed down from his tribe was only a small part of the "black kryptonite". (To be continued.) )