novelraw Chapter 122 Xiling Kingdom
Chapter 122 Xiling Kingdom
"Let's go!" Seeing that the little brother had already entered the gap, Wu Xie urged the fat brother and me to quickly follow.
The fat brother was still looking at the thing in the water reluctantly, with a look of unwillingness.I persuaded: "Brother, don't look at it, I thought you were only interested in its babies, I didn't expect you would dare to eat the mother fish too?"
The fat brother was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that I was teasing him, and he was not angry, but just sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" Then he turned and walked into the gap.
At this time, I saw that thing's huge eyelids were covered with red eyeballs and closed, and some green liquid overflowed from the eyelids. I couldn't help but feel my scalp numb when I saw it. I hurried to catch up with Fat Brother and shouted at him: "Fat Brother, that thing cried, and its tears turned out to be green."
Fat brother was still immersed in the regret of not being able to taste rare species. He came back to his senses after hearing what I said, and couldn't help being angrily said: "Sister, what nonsense are you talking about?"
I said eagerly: "It's true, if you don't believe me, go back and read."
The fat man waved his hand and said, "Steamed is not tasty, I'm afraid of fishy smell, so I have to bake it, sprinkle with cumin, put some chopped green onion, and serve it with beer..."
"Hey...you can stop! My saliva is about to flow from what you said." I couldn't bear it anymore, so I had to interrupt him, and then I passed him and caught up with Zhang Qi who was in the front.
"Sister, I'm serious. After I go out, I'll go find a smaller one. You can bake it for me!" The fat brother didn't give up, and a person in the back made a request.I can only pretend that I didn't hear it, for fear that he would get more and more excited.
The space inside the gap is a little narrow, and only one person can walk. The ground is staggered with rocks. It seems that a relatively large-scale collapse has occurred here. Zhang Qi once said that an earthquake may have occurred here, causing many faults in the ground veins. Looking at the scene in front of him, he The words are also confirmed.
After walking for about ten minutes, the road was blocked by a big rock.Zhang Qi jumped up easily, then squatted down, and stretched out his hand to me.I pulled him up without thinking, and was pulled up easily.
After climbing up the rock, I realized that there was a hole in front of me. In addition to a deep pit, there was also a stone plank road winding upwards.Zhang Qi pulled Wu Xie and Fat Brother up one by one, and I slid down the stone first.I looked at the artificial chisel marks on the stone plank road. It seems that someone built it deliberately, and I was trying to figure it out.
"Look, there are words under this stone!" Fat Brother suddenly muttered.
I walked over, and it was the big stone that blocked the road just now. The bottom was indeed engraved with words, but because it was facing downwards, part of it was still pressed on the ground, and my sight after coming down from the top of the stone was attracted by the plank road. , did not pay attention here.
"Fat Brother is still careful!" I couldn't help but praise Fat Brother.
"Hey, that's right. What's written on it? Is there a treasure map?" After saying a few words, the fat man revealed his nature as a money fan. He squatted down and asked me who was lying on the ground.
"I don't know if I can hide the treasure or not, but there are a few stone carvings and some words on it. I'll talk about it after I dig it out." As I said that, I took out tools from my bag and started working.
Wu Xie saw that I couldn't finish it for a while, so he suggested to take a rest here. After all, when we just crossed the river, everyone was soaked.
"Okay, okay, this bath is not comfortable at all." The fat man took off his coat and actively lit a fire.At this time Zhang Qi came over, took off the flashlight I was biting in his mouth, and took the initiative to light it up for me.I nodded gratefully at him.
After finishing all the above content, there are seven sheets of paper printed in total, and some stone carvings are pressed, and the stone can't be turned, so it can only be done.Zhang Qi and I returned to the fire, and the fat brother had already cooked everything.
I smiled and laughed at him and said, "Brother Fat, are you eating too much?"
He cast a disdainful look at me, then patted his equipment bag and said, "There's enough food, we're going back anyway, so it doesn't matter if we eat a few more meals."
Following his words, I stretched out my hand and said, "It's time to go back anyway, so you can share the beef jerky you have hidden?"
Unexpectedly, he felt as if he had been devastated immediately after hearing this, and hastily denied, "No, no, I'll give it all to you."
I smiled, and stopped talking to him, and focused on Rubbing.The first is the part of the pattern, one of which has a lot of trees on it, and then several women shuttle between the bushes, holding baskets in their hands, which seems to depict the labor scene when picking, while the other two are like It is a scene depicting an army fighting.
I took out the writing part again. These characters were also something I had never seen before. They were neither seal script nor insect and bird script, but rather resembled the earliest oracle bone inscriptions.
"Did you find anything?" Wu Xie came over curiously and asked.
I handed him the rubbing paper to see if he could identify one or two.Wu Xie used to come into contact with inscriptions often because of his work, so he has a lot of experience in this area.But he flipped through it for a while, thinking for a long time, but he didn't have a clue, he just pointed to the two words in the middle of the extension and said, this should be a person's name or a place name!It has appeared many times in the text.
Hearing what he said, Zhang Qi took the extension text from Wu Xie's hand, and unexpectedly, he spit out the word "Ling" lightly.
After hearing this, Fat Brother laughed inexplicably, and said while laughing: "What spirit? Is it Zhang Qiling's spirit, or Zhang Zilin's Lin?"
Wu Xie glared at Fat Brother, and cursed, "It's the tomb of a mountain."
"Oh, no wonder my little brother knows each other. Which one has he never been to, Changling, Maoling, and Qianling? You can read this word backwards, so it doesn't matter how he writes it!" The fat man muttered.
I don't know if what Fat Brother said is true or not, which of the tombs he mentioned is not a national key cultural relics protection unit.Qianling Mausoleum is even known as the mausoleum that no one dares to dig.Has Zhang Qi really been there?I looked at Zhang Qi suspiciously.
"If it's related to the Chu tomb in front, was there a place name containing the word mausoleum in Chu at that time?" Wu Xie asked while looking at me.
"There are not many records of the place names of Hanling in Chu State at that time. One of them is called Lanling County, but it is in Linyi, Shandong, and it has nothing to do with our current location. There is a place that is attached to it, but it is not The name of the place, but the name of the country, called Xiling, which was a subsidiary state of Chu at that time." After saying this, I suddenly felt a strange feeling in my heart, as if where had I heard the term Xiling?It sounds familiar.
"I've never heard of this country, Zi Lin, can you introduce it?" Wu Xie asked curiously.
"There are very few records of the Xiling Kingdom in historical documents. The main reason may be that its small territory and weak national power cannot influence the direction of historical development, so it has always played a dispensable role. However, their ancestors had a very The famous person is called Luozu, and it is said that she is the concubine of the Xuanyuan family of the Yellow Emperor, and she invented the cultivation of silkworms and silk reeling, and she is also known as the first silkworm empress."
"If you put it this way, maybe this picture has some clues. Is the tree in the picture a mulberry tree? What is depicted is a picture of picking mulberry and working hard," Wu Xie said, and handed the picture to me.
"It is indeed possible." I pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised my head to look up, and said, "If this stele collapsed due to an earthquake, then tell me, is there anything related to Xiling Kingdom on it?"
Wu Xie nodded, agreed with my words, then shot the flashlight at the winding plank road, sighed and said: "It's a pity that I can't worry about the company's affairs, so I hurried out, otherwise I can go up and have a look. "
"Don't! Naive, we finally came here, do you really have the heart to leave like this?" Fat Brother heard Wu Xie's words, his face was a little ugly, so he tried to persuade him.
"Fatty, I don't want to leave like this, but I've been out for so long, I'm really worried that something will happen to the company, besides, now that I've got the treasure, the place has collapsed in a large area because of an earthquake, why bother to help someone who doesn't know if it has been destroyed?" Looking for trouble because you have nothing to do?" Wu Xie's words were well-founded, but the fat brother who refuted them couldn't say a word.
After a while, Fat Brother laughed sarcastically, and said, "Well, you can do whatever you say, and I'll listen to you."
Wu Xie nodded in satisfaction and praised him.Because my mind was all on this Xiling country at the moment, I didn't pay much attention to what they said, but the fat brother never forgot about the thing in the river outside.Then pestered Zhang Qi to introduce him.
That thing was originally called dragon head fish, also known as toad fish, which is a freshwater animal.But it is rare to grow so big.I don’t know how long it has lived in this river. When we crossed the river, we accidentally touched its eggs on the iron chain, and it would attack us. However, this fish is also fierce by nature. It can still bite people, and the poison it gets addicted to can be fatal.As long as the poisonous glands are removed, it is a rare delicacy.
When I was talking about this, I obviously saw the fat man swallowing his saliva, and when he found that I was looking at him, he smiled awkwardly, and then changed the subject again.
After resting for about an hour, we packed our bags and started to go, walking down the cracks in the mountains.After walking forward for about ten minutes, I realized that something was wrong with our team.
Wu Xie seemed to have noticed this problem at this time, so she shouted: "Fatty, why the hell are you silent?"
But the fat man didn't respond, we hurriedly turned around and cast all the light to the rear, only to find that the back was empty, so how could there be a shadow of the fat man?