Chapter 44 Chapter Fifteen

The light in the well is abnormal, which saves us a lot of effort, but the light from the well does not penetrate the well water, presumably the water in the well is not as deep as it should be.We were going down to the bottom of the well, so we couldn't go down with our bags on our backs, but I still told Xinhong to take off his flashlight, in case the well really led to another place, there would be something to illuminate it. With complicated emotions, I grabbed the climbing rope and began to slide down the well. When I reached the middle of the well, I found a mural that was still very bright on the wall of the well. It is a man and a woman with a human head and a snake body. The man is holding the sun wheel, and the woman is holding the moon wheel.The painting is so bright, it is estimated that mineral pigments are used, so it can last for a long time.Just like the murals of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, they are painted with lapis lazuli, verdigris, amitabha, crimson alum, and mica powder as pigments. This mural in the well can remain so bright in a humid place for so long. Similar paints.

"Hey, Jinwei, what are you doing in the middle, why are you in a daze, get down!" Xinhong urged when he saw me standing blankly in the middle of the well. "What are you talking about? If I'm really fine, would I be in a daze here?" I raised my head and shouted upwards, "There's a mural here!" "Drawing, what is the painting? Just wait, I'll go down and have a look too." After saying that, Xinhong was about to come down from above. When I saw that Xinhong was really about to come down, I hurriedly said, "Don't come down first, you will come down later when I go down. Aren't you afraid that the rope will break if you come down now?"

Just as Xinhong was about to answer me on the top, there was a loud and shrill bird cry from above the well, and then a bird several times bigger than an eagle flew over and landed on the mouth of the well .I've never seen this kind of bird before. Its whole body is dark red, its talons are sharper than those of an eagle, and its feathers are particularly shiny.When Xinhong saw the strange big bird, he immediately drove it away in fear.The bird was frightened by Xinhong and flew away quickly, but when it flapped its wings, a piece of the bird's feather fell from it.The feather fell gently into the well, and Xinhong saw that the feather was about to fall into the well, so he hurriedly reached out and grabbed the feather, and then threw it aside as if disgusted.

I was very surprised by Xinhong's reaction, so I yelled up: "What's the matter, I've never seen that big bird before, but you can't be scared like this, why are you throwing his feathers outside?" "If that feather really falls into the well, you will die! Don't talk nonsense, go down quickly!" Xinhong grabbed the climbing rope and jumped into the well after speaking. I saw that Xinhong was about to climb down from below, so I also quickly slid into the well water.The well water seemed unfathomable, and I clung tightly to the climbing rope because my whole body was so weak that the well water didn't even reach the bottom.Before, a person jumped into the well. Thinking about it, the well should not be too shallow, otherwise that person would have been killed at the bottom of the well.The Tao is that sprites appeared in the well, which made me feel up and down, but we are full of vigilance now, it is impossible for sprites to confuse us with baby voices, so they are nothing to be afraid of .When I finished comforting myself, Xinhong had already slipped from above to the bottom of the well.We are all soaked in the cold well water, but the well water has not been penetrated by the light, and it is still bottomless darkness, as if it is as deep as tens of thousands of fans.

"We don't have any diving equipment. If we can't hold back later, we will come up immediately, don't be brave!" Xinhong urged. "Don't worry, just such a little water can suffocate me to death, you still don't know that I am a swimming champion?" I said with a smile. "Everyone who is drowned can swim! You'd better not be brave, if there is danger in the water, come up quickly. Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with you, you should wait for me up there." Xinhong said Here it stops. After hearing what Xinhong said, I couldn't help feeling extremely angry. Anyway, Uncle Zou has raised me for more than ten years, and he can be regarded as half a father. How can he say that it has nothing to do with me?I yelled angrily: "Uncle is also my father, why is it your own business? Can you still hang a sun in this dark night?"

Xinhong smiled and replied with some embarrassment: "Okay, okay, let's go down together." Then Xinhong seemed to think of something, he paused, and said: "By the way, Fuxi and Nuwa here only have the sun wheel in their hands. Shouldn't you hold the rules and the moon wheel?" Xinhong's words shocked me.By the way, what the ancient Fuxi and Nuwa held was not the sun and the moon, but the rules!The "Fuxi and Nuwa pictures" discovered by archaeologists in recent years are all hand-held rules.In Tomb No. 1 of Zhanggongqiao, Leshan, Sichuan, Fuxi and Nuwa stand on both sides of the tomb door, both with human bodies and snake heads, standing facing each other.Fuxi is on the left side of the door, wearing a three-mountain crown, holding the sun in one hand and holding the rules in the other; Nuwa is on the right side of the door, wearing a high ring bun on her head, holding the moon in one hand and holding the rules in the other.On the portraits in the stone chamber of Wuliang Temple in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fuxi and Nuwa are mating in the body of a dragon. Fuxi also follows the rules and Nuwa follows the rules.However, the two people on the wall of the well only have the sun and the moon in their hands. Could it be that they are not Fuxi and Nuwa?

"Xinhong, I remembered when you said that. Although the paintings on the wall of the well are also two people with snake bodies and human heads. The characteristics of this Fuxi and Nuwa are the same, but they lack rules and regulations. Don't they Fuxi Nuwa?" "Fuxi and Nuwa in Zhanggongqiao Tomb No. 1 in Leshan, Sichuan also hold the sun and the moon, but there are no rules here. Why are things here different from those outside? The bronze statue of Erlang God is like this, and so is Fuxi and Nuwa." Xin Hongwang Said above. "Among the ancient relics found in various parts of the whole country, Fuxi and Nuwa are different, but apart from the characteristics of the snake body, they all have the rules in their hands." Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered what was said in the ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty. At the entrance of Xishui Village, I saw people in the village sculpting a stone statue, but only saw part of the snake tail sitting up, so I said to Xinhong, "Do you still remember what was said in the ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty? The stone statue built in the village at that time, Could it be the human body that the author didn't see?"

After hearing my guess, Xinhong was slightly taken aback.He pondered for a moment, and said, "Don't worry about it, just go to the water and have a look. I feel that the well water seems to be flowing, and it may really lead to other places." "Do you really want to dive down? I let go of the rope, it's not the same as diving into the water with a weight." As I spoke, I loosened my hand and quickly grabbed it again. "What time are you kidding, this well water is so cold, it's no wonder that you don't get sick after soaking for a long time! Let's dive in!" Xinhong let go of the climbing rope after speaking, and plunged into the cold well water.

I raised my head to look at the murals of the well again, wondering if something from ancient times has been forgotten by us. Perhaps the people above might not be the Fuxi and Nuwa we are familiar with, but who could it be?I also quickly took a deep breath and dived into the dark well water.We dived two or three meters into the well water, and the wall of the well disappeared completely, replaced by a wide area of ​​water, as if suddenly swimming into the bottomless sea.I opened my eyes and looked at everything in the water, only to find that there were a lot of light shooting down from above in the water.It seems that the wells here are all above this water area, and the wells are indeed connected!No wonder the man who jumped into the well never came up again.

I felt that the water was flowing, so we continued to dive with the current.At some distance from the well, the light is gradually swallowed up by darkness.I'm worried about losing the light, if I swim somewhere else or get lost in the water.At this time, a group of black shadows suddenly jumped up to us. If we were in the swimming pool, we wouldn’t feel anything, but a person suddenly jumped out of the dark water, scaring me into choking on a few mouthfuls of cold water. .The outline of the black shadow should be a person. After he found us, he turned around in the water and swam back.We thought that this person must know the way, so we also speeded up to swim with this person.

The deeper we swam, the colder the well water became and the lesser the light.We all follow this person based on our feelings. We don't know who this person is and why he suddenly appeared in the water. Fortunately, his figure is definitely not a baby-like sprite, at least he should be a human being.I'm also relieved a lot, it's better to deal with humans than with monsters.In the darkness, I felt a few slippery things brushing past me, and I thought to myself, could it be a fish?Are we really going to swim into the sea? I found that the water pressure suddenly decreased a lot, and the man also went upstream, so I guessed that the water was above.So, Xinhong and I hurriedly floated up, and it happened that I couldn't hold back anymore.It really is a wide space, and I can breathe air again!After the man surfaced, he slowly swam towards the shore.Xinhong and I didn't even have time to marvel, so we hurriedly followed this man and swam over. After reaching the wet shore, Xinhong opened the waterproof paper in his arms and took out the flashlight inside.After he turned on the flashlight, he shone it on that person's face, and I immediately jumped up in surprise.The person in front of me turned out to be Teacher Ye whom I had been looking for for many days! "Ms. Ye, is it really you? I've been looking for you these days!" I shouted excitedly. "Shh, keep your voice down, don't yell." Teacher Ye sat on the ground, panting. When Xinhong heard me say that the person in front of him was Teacher Ye, he also moved his flashlight away in embarrassment.He took a picture of the surrounding area, and then said unhurriedly: "This place is like an underground palace, it's so big!" When I saw Teacher Ye whom I hadn't seen for many years, I was so excited that I felt like I was flying into the sky, and I was not in the mood to listen to Xinhong's exclamation.I asked anxiously: "Mr. Ye, why are you here? I saw you in the woods yesterday!" Teacher Ye wiped the water off his face, glanced at Xinhong, and asked hesitantly, "He is..." "He's Zou Xinhong, the person I've been talking to you about," I asked curiously, "Ms. Ye, why are you here?" "I'm here..." Teacher Ye hesitated to speak, then he changed the subject and asked, "Then why are you here?" Teacher Ye's question left me speechless.How do we explain everything about the Tianshan Temple to him? We can’t tell him directly. The ghost told us that Uncle Zou died here.Seeing my perplexed look, Xinhong answered for me: "The museum sent us here to investigate the real clay sculpture, and we discovered this place later." I remembered the footprints in the woods, so I asked Teacher Ye: "Teacher, is this your first visit to this place?" Just as Teacher Ye was about to answer me, a strange voice came from the darkness.Xinhong vigilantly shone his flashlight towards the place where the sound was coming from, which startled me.Not far from us, a shabby-looking man was sitting on a rock, his clothes were terribly torn.He stared at us blankly there, but this person is already an adult, which is too different from the baby sprite, so it should not be the man-eating sprite.I don't feel so scared when I think about it here.I wonder why there are beggars in the cave under the well? When Teacher Ye saw this person, he pulled us in fear and said, "Run, hurry, let's get out of here!"