Chapter 49 Chapter 20 The Golden Rod

When Ao Yin saw the things that fell on the ground, he stayed where he was respectfully, and did not show any more ferocious expressions.We turned our heads in confusion and looked at the thing that fell on the ground. It was a gold rod wrapped in pure gold, about one meter long, and it was carved with patterns of human heads wearing crowns, birds, and fish .After thousands of years of dust, this golden rod is still shining and shining, and the pattern on the rod is clearly identifiable.I don't know why, but Ao Yin seems to respect this golden staff very much, so I hurried over to pick up the golden staff on the ground. When Ao Yin saw that I was holding the golden staff, they all backed away a few steps in awe. He kept a distance of three or four meters from us, and was completely different from Ao Yin who was about to fight and kill earlier.

"You are holding a golden staff! This is indeed the ancient culture brought by Chang'e from Sichuan. There must be colorful stones here!" Teacher Ye said excitedly. "Why do you say that this is a culture brought from Sichuan as soon as you see the golden stick?" Xinhong asked in confusion. After holding the golden rod in my hand, Ao Yin never invaded us again, and then I listened carefully to Mr. Ye's explanation. It turned out that in the history of Chinese archaeology, the place where the golden rod first appeared was Pit No. 1 in Sanxingdui, Sichuan. The age of that pit was at the end of Xia Dynasty and the beginning of Yin Dynasty, 3500 years ago.The Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties of China used "Nine Dings" to symbolize political power, and they were called "Bao Ding" or "Shen Ding".The record of the staff used in the Central Plains Dynasty began with Zhou Dao, and it was called "king stick" or "a few sticks". However, Teacher Ye believed that this golden stick should have been left over from ancient times, and it was something like a scepter, so he was proud of it. That's why they are so respectful.

"You mean this golden rod is left over from the ancient times, so it has a long history?" I asked while holding the golden rod tightly, but I didn't believe what Teacher Ye said. "That's right, this is the golden rod passed down from generation to generation in the Nuwa clan. I didn't expect it to be brought to this place by Chang'e!" Teacher Ye said, staring at the golden rod in my hand. "However, the legend of Nuwa seems to have been spread in the Central Plains. How could it be in Sichuan... well, I don't understand." Xinhong said puzzled.

"Don't talk about that, let's go to the last peak to have a look, I have a headache after staying here for a long time!" I said, rubbing my temples gently.Ever since I entered this place, there has been a very strange smell floating around. After smelling it for a long time, I actually felt a little uncomfortable, so I thought I had to leave here quickly, maybe this smell is harmful to the human body. I was worried that Ao Yin would sneak attack when we were not paying attention, so I wanted to use the golden stick to force Ao Yin to retreat to the bottom of the mountain, but Ao Yin refused to go down the mountain desperately, just knelt on the ground in shock and fear.Xinhong urged me to move forward quickly. He said that as long as the jackets and 3rds don’t hurt us anymore, we shouldn’t waste any more time on them.We hurried up the stone bridge, and the pungent smell rushed up from under the stone bridge again, and it was stronger than before, and there were several yellow and red lights flying out from the bottom of the mountain.I looked under the stone bridge and felt a little dizzy, so I lowered my head and pressed my temples vigorously.Suddenly, I saw a few little toads squatting on the stone bridge, and they jumped up to my feet.I didn't expect the toad to jump on my feet, so I shook my feet vigorously when I was nervous, but I didn't step on a slippery mold, and then I fell and rolled down the stone bridge!In a hurry, I quickly grabbed the stone bridge with one hand, and threw the golden rod up with the other hand, trying to tell them that I fell.

"Pull me up quickly!" I shouted to Teacher Ye and the others who were walking in front with difficulty. Xinhong and the others turned their heads when they heard my words, they were all taken aback.They ran back in a hurry and stretched out their hands to pull me up, but the toads lying on my feet had already jumped onto my shoulders, and they wanted to jump up the stone bridge along my body.At this time, a toad had already jumped onto my hand, and there was a strange and disgusting feeling immediately, which made my whole body go weak, and my hand unconsciously let go.My heart immediately rose to my throat, and Xinhong and Teacher Ye grabbed my hands in time.However, the weight of the three of us concentrated on the same place on the stone bridge at the same time, and the thousand-year-old stone bridge actually made a clicking sound.I was thinking in my heart: Is this stone bridge going to be disconnected?

As soon as Xinhong and Teacher Ye heard Shiqiao's voice, their expressions changed immediately.They pulled me up in a hurry.Before I had time to get the toad off my body, they hurriedly led me forward.I knew that the stone bridge was about to collapse. After all, it was only a very thin stone bridge, and it had been in a humid and hot place for a thousand years. Now it was time for it to retire.We just ran to the third peak, and before we turned our heads around, we heard a loud noise, the stone bridge collapsed! "Oops, how do we go back when the stone bridge collapses?" Xinhong said, "Do we have to walk back from the bottom, but it will take too much time!"

"Let's talk about it after getting the five-colored stone. There should still be a road, but you must never walk under the mountain." Teacher Ye said panting. I held the golden staff, looked at the broken stone bridge, recalled what I had encountered in the past few days, and always felt that something seemed to be missing.I said to Teacher Ye: "Teacher, this golden rod should only be owned by a leader, but how could it be placed under the iron box so casually? Isn't that justified?" "I've thought about this just now. It's impossible for the golden rod to be hidden in the iron box, and I can't figure out why the golden rod is placed there." Teacher Ye said with a frown.

"I don't think they put the golden rod under the iron box on purpose. They may have encountered some sudden situation, so they hurriedly hid the golden rod under the iron box." Xinhong guessed. "You're right," I said, looking carefully at the golden rod, "something must have happened to this place thousands of years ago!" "By the way, how did you fall just now?" Teacher Ye asked me as he remembered what happened just now. "Toad, I saw toads on the bridge just now! They jumped on me, and I shook my body before slipping." I said excitedly, and then I wanted to point to the toads on my body and let them have a look. Knowing that the toad on my body has disappeared.

"Are you blind again? The light here is not very good. Can you see clearly?" Xinhong shone the flashlight on me, but he couldn't see the toad I was talking about. "Jin Wei may have really seen it! In ancient times, insects were generally referred to. Snakes were called long worms, people were called naked worms, tigers were called big worms, and this toad is a small worm, and worms and snakes are interchangeable. Do you Forgot, according to Chinese legends, there are toads on the moon! It is not surprising that there are toads in Chang'e's place!" Yelaoshi said happily.

I didn't dare to compliment the toad's appearance, so I didn't listen to Mr. Ye's explanation any more. I just wanted to see the statue of Nuwa on the third peak.I approached the stone statue anxiously, and the thing it was holding in its hands was indeed different from the two statues in front of it.This stone statue is holding a copper box, and it is smaller than the second one.I deliberately bent down to see if there was anything under the copper box, but there was nothing.In other words, the golden rod in my hand was probably hidden under the iron box by the people in Xishui Village in a hurry. I just found the golden rod by coincidence.

"Come and take a look, the things on the stone statue are different from the stone statue just now." I signaled Xinhong and the others to come and have a look. "This is a box made of copper. Stone, iron, copper, what does the arrangement of these boxes mean?" Xinhong said. "Then we'll have to read the rest of the stone statues to find out." Teacher Ye said while looking at the front. I recalled that Ao Yin was very respectful to the golden rods. They might have been brought from Sichuan together with Chang'e that Teacher Ye said, and maybe they were raised by Chang'e, so they respected the golden rods that symbolized power so much, but now Thousands of years have passed.After the Zhou Dynasty, the emperor no longer used the scepter, but the emperor's imperial seal to symbolize the imperial power. However, Su Wu in the Han Dynasty had a scepter when he was an envoy to the Huns, which was called a scepter at that time.He has been holding this scepter for eighteen years in the Huns, because the scepter represents China and the Han Dynasty.Until now, we call ambassadors envoys, which follows this meaning.So, who does the golden rod in my hand represent? Does it really represent Nuwa? "Jin Wei, let's stop for a moment. Both you and Teacher Ye are caught with blood. It's better to put some anti-inflammatory drugs first. I just brought some." Xinhong took out the medicine bottle from his pocket , and sprinkled some on us all. I gritted my teeth and said, "Xinhong, take it easy, you want to hurt me to death!" However, Xinhong didn't answer me. He threw the medicine bottle on the ground and just kept looking at the thing in his hand.I felt strange, so I moved my body to his side and stared at his hands.Xinhong is holding a compass in his hand, I really don't know why Xinhong can look so fascinated.I asked inexplicably, "Why are you looking at the compass and not talking?" "Didn't you notice it? When we were in the woods, the compass was severely disturbed by electromagnetic waves, but it has returned to normal now!" Xinhong said holding the compass. "It turns out that your compass has also been interfered by electromagnetic waves. My mobile phone has also been like this for a while. The interference is very serious!" Teacher Ye said. "However, it's so strange why the electromagnetic interference suddenly disappeared again. The electromagnetic interference is only for a period of time. Why can't it continue to be released, and it only appears for a while and then disappears?" I was puzzled. At this time, I vaguely heard a wind chime-like sound floating in the darkness, as if it was far away and very near.I was thinking in my heart, could it be the life-threatening black and white impermanence.However, in a blink of an eye, the unique cry of frogs or toads was clearly heard.Sure enough, there are toads here!Now Teacher Ziye and Xinhong also heard it, and they got up to look for it one after another, but there was no trace of the toad.In addition to the cry of the toad, I still heard the sound of wind chimes in front of me intermittently, which made people feel like I was dreaming. "Let's stop looking for it and go ahead quickly. It doesn't matter if it's a frog or a toad." After saying that, Xinhong put the compass into his pocket. "You're right, time is tight. Let's not waste time." Teacher Ye was about to walk on the stone bridge, but stopped again. "What's the matter, Teacher Ye? Why don't you leave? Could it be that the bridge has also collapsed?" I asked puzzled.However, when I looked at the stone bridge by the light of the flashlight, I was just like Teacher Ye, too surprised to say a word.