Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Tomb of the Ancient Witch
With Mr. Shi's best efforts, the Cultural Relics Bureau agreed to give me expert treatment. During the period of participating in archaeological activities, you can get a large amount of labor fees. You can also enjoy better benefits.
However, Mr. Lin, as a graduate student of Mr. Shi, does not have such a good treatment, and enjoys extremely meager subsidies like ordinary graduate students.
"After we found the clues, we searched for a long time in Jincheng, and finally found the location of the ancient tomb in an ancient town on the outskirts of Jincheng. Because the tomb is extremely hidden, it has been very well preserved. Since this is a very old tomb, it may hide some historical culture that we still don't know about. Therefore, our Southwest Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau immediately applied to the higher authorities to excavate this ancient tomb. After all, the process of searching for the ancient tomb involves too many people, and it is difficult to ensure that the ancient tomb is not ready to be leaked out. Excavating the tomb is the best way to protect it. Because if this tomb is stolen, we will lose a great opportunity to study the culture of ancient tribes. Teacher Shi explained the situation.
"I don't understand. In such an ancient era, could there have been tombs of a particularly large scale?" asked Teacher Shi.
Teacher Wang nodded: "I don't understand this question either. But judging by the tombs we found, the scale is very large. I suspect that the figures in this tomb must be the great witches of that era. Wu were the most mysterious and powerful figures of the era, and their status was transcendent, even higher than that of the tribal leaders. Some great witches who can influence all tribes in an area. If this tomb is real, it is very likely that it is the tomb of a great witch. ”
Teacher Shi nodded.
Naturally, I don't understand what they say. After all, I don't know much about the cultural background of ancient times.
When Teacher Lin heard this, he asked suspiciously, "Teacher Wang, Huang Jingyang doesn't know anything about these things at all, what's the use of you letting him come over?"
"How could it be useless? He didn't understand the era, but he was able to crack that strange 'compass' and it was enough to have this. Although we found the tomb, we found that the tomb turned out to be a complete stone mountain. We couldn't find the entrance. You can't blow up that rock mountain, that would cause very serious damage to the cultural relics. We hope that Xiao Huang can find the clue. There is a time when intuition is more important than knowledge. Xiao Huang can understand so many oracle bone documents with his intuition, which is even more powerful than those of us who have studied oracle bones for decades. How could it be useless for him to come here?" said Teacher Wang.
"Since it's an ancient tomb, how can it be a whole stone mountain? Under the conditions of technology like in ancient times, they lacked the tools to dig a tomb in the stone mountain. Teacher Lin then asked.
"Logically speaking, it should be. But there are many things in ancient times, which are still difficult for us to explain in modern times. The wisdom of the ancients, at one time, was able to overcome these problems. Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. Teacher Wang said.
"Don't be verbose, Old Man Shi, hurry up and take out all the information in your hand and let Xiao Huang take a look. Maybe during your long-winded time, Xiao Huang has cracked all these secrets. Teacher Shi said.
"Okay, I've already sorted out all this information. Look at the materials first, then go to the site. Teacher Wang ran over and brought a lot of materials over, "Xiao Huang, the materials are all here." You look at it as you like. ”
Many of these materials are textual materials, and I am not very interested in them, so I will focus on those oracle bone documents. With the accumulation of the last time, I read the oracle a lot faster, and it only took me an hour to read all the materials. Everything from that era seemed to repeat itself before my eyes.
I seemed to see a crowd of strangely dressed people beating around a fire, and a witch with a cloak and a long robe of flowers singing a very simple ritual song in front of the fire. All the people were extremely religious, and the vitality of heaven and earth gathered above the heads of the crowd. They were able to communicate with the Heaven and Earth Elemental Qi.
"Huang Jingyang, Huang Jingyang......" I dimly heard someone calling me, but I seemed to be immersed in what I saw.
I don't know how long it took, but I woke up and opened my eyes to see Mr. Lin sitting next to me with tears in his eyes.
"Teacher Lin. "I thought someone was bullying Mr. Lin.
"Stinky boy. You, you're in a hurry to kill me!" Mr. Lin picked me up, just hugged me, laughing and crying. I also wept.
"I thought I heard you call me, but I just couldn't wake up. It's too much trouble to look at those oracles. I said.
"It's too much of a drain, so I won't watch it in the future. Let's go back. If something happens to you, how can you tell my grandfather? "Mr. Lin was scared by me.
"It's okay, it's just that I've seen too many things at once, and I'm a little tired. I said.
"What did you see?" asked Teacher Lin a little strangely.
I told Mr. Lin what I saw, and Mr. Lin was surprised: "You can really see so many things through the oracle?"
"I think those oracles are records of what happened in the past. The sound I roared out in your dormitory that day was seen from Teacher Shi's rubbing oracle bone inscription. "I thought back for a moment and gave an example.
"But how can you hear through the words? Some of those oracles you haven't seen before. You don't know them at all, how do you know how to pronounce them? Even old experts like Mr. Shi and Mr. Wang don't know. Teacher Lin was even more misty, these things were really difficult for her to understand.
My lethargy also startled Teacher Shi and Teacher Wang. They have been studying oracles for many years, and for some strange things, it is not that they have never encountered them. But this is the first time I've encountered something as strange as this one.
"Yellow, you're scaring us to death. Are you alright?" asked Teacher Shi.
"It's okay. "I scratched my head.
"It's okay. Did you see anything?" asked Mr. Wang.
"Old man Wang, you don't ask others if they have anything, you know how to call people like animals. "Mr. Shi was very dissatisfied with Mr. Wang's approach.
"Didn't I also see that Xiao Huang was fine. Teacher Wang was a little embarrassed, "I, I'll come back tomorrow, Xiao Huang, you can rest well." ”
"Actually, I asked Huang Jingyang just now, and he said that he couldn't see anything from those materials. The reason he fell asleep was because I had him revise too late late. I was worried that he would not do well on the entrance exam. So recently, he asked him to systematically review the content of the entire elementary school. Time is tight, so I learn a little late. Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Teacher Lin hurriedly said.
"I see. Teacher Shi believed it and finally put his mind at ease.
Mr. Wang took the opportunity to say goodbye and left.
"This person is this character. I take my work too seriously, and I don't have any human touch at all. Unexpectedly, after Mr. Wang left, Mr. Shi helped Mr. Wang speak.