"Sacrifice!"
This time it was Lao Jiang who spoke, and he handed us a few pieces of jade he dug out of the black soil.
Only then did we discover that each piece of jade was engraved with strange patterns, which looked a bit like writing, but were different from any writing we had ever seen, not even Oracle bone inscriptions...
Facing our doubts, Lao Jiang explained: "This thing is called a jade Zhang, and it is a magical instrument used by ancient people to worship mountains and rivers. Why can the Shang Dynasty use oracle bones for divination and sacrifice, but the ancient Shu Kingdom cannot use jade Zhang for sacrifice?"
It's just that jade is precious, and it may be too wasteful to use it to record events, so they will only record the most important events of each year on jade, and then burn them in flames, hoping to convey them to heaven.
Pray to God to protect them from bad luck.
I couldn't help but think of the bone pits in the Sanxingdui Altar. Could it be that a grand Burning Sacrifice was held here?
To suppress something that even the Tsing Yi God is afraid of?
My eyes trembled, but I saw Ge Weihan's face was serious, and he slowly said a more thrilling sentence: "Friends, although I don't understand the patterns on the jade, I have studied Sichuan and Sichuan characters for decades. , I still understand a little bit... but the content above is too incredible. "
What, can Ge Weihan understand these jade treasures?
In our surprise and excitement, Ge Weihan had already slowly said: "In the first piece, we defeated the invaders, and the sun will always protect the ancient Shu Kingdom."
"In the second film, the witch whose head was beheaded spoke after seven days."
"The third piece, it cast the most vicious curse on the ancient Shu Kingdom! It also brought endless plagues."
"Dixi film, dead people, people dying of illness everywhere..."
"In the fifth piece, God in Tsing Yi made an important decision and led us to cast a bronze sacred tree and a three-star altar to seal it."
"The sixth piece, the seal failed, the Tsing Yi God decided to go to Wawu Mountain..."
From then on, Ge Weihan stopped reciting words, mostly praying to the Sun God for blessing. But we got a series of important clues. After the ancient Shu Kingdom defeated the Shang Dynasty army, it fell into a curse similar to the plague. In the following many years, Can Congyi tried to use the power of the gods to seal this curse. Curse and protect your people.
When there was really no other way, Cancong sacrificed himself for the sake of the common people.
Wu's head was also completely sealed on Wawu Mountain.
I asked nervously: "Is the thing mentioned in Yuzhang the thing that makes the terrifying scream? Could the Burning Sacrifice here be the same as the small Qingyi temple halfway up the mountain, which suppresses that thing?" The second seal?”
"It's very possible!" Lao Jiang raised his head solemnly and looked at the mountain top in the distance.
At this time, Ge Weihan spoke: "Now that the first seal and the second seal have appeared, and maybe the third west path, in that backward society at that time, how much manpower and material resources were needed? The ancient Shu people were so afraid The severed head?"
Suddenly, Yin Ling'er's head appeared from above: "Are you okay? I'm a little scared up there alone."
At this time, the three of us in the pit felt sad in our hearts. There are so many deep pits and so many seals. How terrifying is that thing?
Perhaps, it is hundreds of times more terrifying than we imagined!
Suddenly, Lao Jiang seemed to have thought of something. He jumped out of the pit with a few moves. Before leaving, he did not forget to snatch away Ge Weihan's telescope.
"Hey, Mr. Jiang, what are you doing? This is robbery!"
After Lao Jiang left, Ge Weihan and I were the only ones left in the pit.
The two of us stared at each other. In order to get revenge on Lao Jiang, Ge Weihan asked me to squat down and use it as a bench for him to get on.
It is well-known as: respecting teachers and respecting Taoism.
I immediately refused: "You are not my teacher. What kind of teacher do I respect? But I am younger than you. According to the traditional Chinese virtue of respecting the old and loving the young, I should step on you."
"I am an American! An American who has contributed to you." Geweihan pointed at his beard.
But in terms of speaking skills, none of us could win against the other. In the end, because he had helped us so much along the way, I reluctantly let him climb up on my shoulders.
Fortunately, Ge Weihan was a kind man. He did not go to Lao Jiang immediately, but stretched out his hand to pull me up.
When we came up, we found that Yin Ling'er was the only one standing by the pit, so we asked in unison: "Where is my master?"
"Where's Mr. Jiang?"
Yin Linger pointed behind her, and we looked in the direction of her finger, only to see a black afterimage flying around, it was Lao Jiang!
He was holding a black knife and seemed to be looking for a high ground for observation.
But I saw him inserting the black knife into the rock wall, using his right foot to push off, and his entire body jumped more than two meters high.
Then he grasped his fingers and climbed up like a strong ape. With just a few whooshes, Old Jiang had already climbed up the highest steep slope of the valley.
"What are you doing, Mr. Jiang?" Ge Weihan didn't care about the telescope anymore, he just wanted to know what kind of medicine Lao Jiang Gourd was selling.
When I saw his appearance, I was shocked. Lao Jiang first grabbed the telescope and then took the high ground. Could it be that he wanted to have a good view of the valley. Are there other codes hidden in these crisscrossing sacrificial pits?
As if to verify my suspicion, Lao Jiang stood on the steep slope, raised his telescope and looked down.
The next moment, his expression changed drastically, he called my name, dropped a rope and asked me to come up!
"Li Jinglan, hurry!"
Lao Jiang pulled Ge Weihan and I up one after another, leaving Yin Linger alone at the bottom, which immediately aroused her dissatisfaction.
She was so angry that she pouted her lips, as cute as a spiny pufferfish. But she didn’t want to join in the fun. After all, whether jumping into a pit or climbing a mountain, both feet had to exert a lot of force, not to mention the big bamboo basket behind her was really too heavy...
Ge Weihan and I quickly came to Lao Jiang's side. Lao Jiang didn't explain, and handed the binoculars over for us to see by ourselves.
Unexpectedly, Ge Weihan remembered the kindness I had given him by letting him step on my shoulder, and this time he actually let me go first.
I raised the telescope and looked at my feet, and I saw that the deep ravines actually formed a strange word!
Yes, those are really words!
Each stroke is extremely twisted, as if worms are entangled with each other.
But I can't recognize what the word is.
Ge Weihan took the telescope and said excitedly: "This is a hieroglyph that represents: Silkworm! It also represents Shu!"
I suddenly became curious: "How can one word have two completely different meanings?"
Ge Weihan smiled slightly, hiding his merits and fame: "How is it different? The ancient Shu Kingdom was established by Silkworm Cong. It was he who brought silkworms and silk to the people of the primitive tribes, so that they had clothes to wear from then on. With dignity, you also have your own kingdom.”
"So in order to express their gratitude to the silkworm bush, the ancient Shu people named their country after the shape of silkworms."
And this is the origin of the ancient Shu Kingdom!
