Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty

After everyone jumped off the stone wall, Huang Qianshan and Hao Dali threw the five sleeping jackals far away, while the others hurried down the mountain, lest the jackals wake up and catch up to make trouble.The hillside on the other side was surrounded by three peaks of different heights, and everything looked gloomy and spooky, not as positive as the other side.Under the tall trees, the mountain road is quiet, and the rustling sound of the leaves blown by the breeze makes the desolation and desolation of the silent mountains and rivers even more apparent. The surface of the grass and trees was covered with white dew. Huang Qianshan only took a few steps, and a large lump of clay was dragged up by the heel of his shoes, and the water was poured into the shoes, and the ground thumped. Everyone felt very uncomfortable and wished to cut off his legs .When going down the mountain, Huang Qianshan also found that there are many rare herbs growing on the shady side of the mountain, which are rare to see, so he conveniently put them in his bag for emergencies.

After walking down the mountain, Gu Changtian asked where to go next, and Lao Yue replied: "The villagers in the mountain said that to find the mysterious village and the pile of black stones, after turning over Shiwu Mountain, you have to go around into a cave and go through the cave. You can reach it by walking one more forest." Cai Minmin looked around and asked suspiciously: "But there are no caves here, not even a mouse hole." Hao Dali said proudly: "We have already inquired. When the villagers came in, they didn't find the cave, but it rained suddenly that day, and a river turned dark green. When the green river water was about to overflow the river..."

Hao Dali stopped at this point, Huang Qianshan didn't like other people's tricks, so he urged: "What's wrong with overflowing the river, isn't there a big peach floating in the river, and Momotaro drilled out of it?" Liang Xiaoyu continued, and she said: "At that time, the rain was so heavy that the river overflowed, and the villagers ran to the hillside by the river to avoid the flood. When they ran up the hillside, they found an ancient temple at the foot of the hill. It didn’t rise again when it reached the ancient temple, because there would be a cave at that time, and the river water would pour into it.”

Huang Qianshan was very disappointed, he said dejectedly: "That's over, now the sun is scorching, and it only rained last night, don't expect God to send mountain torrents today and tomorrow." Lao Yue was full of confidence. She said: "Maybe the flash flood triggered some kind of mechanism, and the cave appeared. We should be able to find it if we look for it." Liang Xiaoyu was not discouraged either. She took out a map from her bag and said, "What the villagers are talking about is just how the cave was discovered. Maybe there are other ways to open the cave. The ancient temple is that one. They drew us a map." a map."

Huang Qianshan snorted secretly, thinking that he saved the lives of these people, but he didn't expect them to be wary of him, and he didn't tell him if he had a map, which made him worried that he couldn't find the location of the cave.The map was drawn by the villagers who went to the mountain from memory. Because the villagers have never drawn a map, this map is very esoteric, and accidentally led everyone back.The mountain marked with the ancient temple on the map is the lowest of the three peaks. Huang Qianshan glanced at it contemptuously, and felt that the mountain was not a mountain, and at best it could only be a small hill in Guangxi.

"His uncle, looking at the three mountains not far away, his legs are limping and he hasn't reached yet." Hao Dali complained. Huang Qianshan looked at the sky and said: "Because there are too many detours on the mountain road, it would take so much effort to go straight, but if you go straight, there are too many wild thorns, and it will take more time to open the road again." "Look, is this the river that the villagers said will turn green?" Lao Yue said, pointing to a small river passing through the weeds. "No way, this river is so small, how can it cause mountain torrents and flood the green river to the ancient temple at the foot of the mountain?" Cai Minmin said incredulously.

"This is the only river that goes around the ancient temple, so it should be." Gu Changtian supported Lao Yue. This mountain river is indeed not wide, and people can jump directly from one side to the other. It can hardly be called a river, but a ravine.The stems and leaves of the plants on both sides of the bank were covered with yellow dry cracked mud. Lao Yue said that the mountains and rivers may often erupt, so the plants next to them are like this.It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, forming a special basin. Whenever it rains, the mountains and rivers will accumulate floods that are difficult to release.The weeds on both sides of the creek are almost covered with dry mud. At first glance, they look no different from withered grass. The vegetation near both sides of the river is covered with such a yellow dress. Looking at these vegetation, one can imagine the scene of a flash flood.The strange thing is that the bottom of the river is clear, and there are no wooden figurines or a lot of green aquatic plants at the bottom of the water.

Cai Minmin questioned: "Those villagers must not be lying. The river is so clear, even if there is a flood, it should be yellow. How could it turn into a green river?" When Huang Qianshan heard Cai Minmin say this, he suddenly became suspicious, as if he wanted to think of something, but they had already reached the foot of another mountain, and an ancient bluestone temple surrounded by vines made Huang Qianshan stop thinking.This ancient temple has been fragmented, and the original appearance can hardly be seen, but the scale of the ancient temple at that time can be guessed from the area of ​​the ruins.Everyone walked down the mountain one after the other, but before reaching the ruins of the ancient temple, they first saw a strange stone sculpture half lying in the haystack.

This stone sculpture has no edges and corners. It can only be seen that it is a person, but it cannot be seen whether it is a man or a woman.It holds a bow in its hand, and the arrow is on the string, but unfortunately the bow and arrow have been broken.The stone carving is covered with green moss, and its legs are broken in the chaotic rocks, but there is a smooth stone ball in the chaotic rocks, which does not seem to be natural, it should be carved out artificially.Huang Qianshan didn't look at the stone sculpture for too long, but stared at the ball in the pile of rocks in a daze. He didn't wake up until Hao Dali pushed him forward.

Lao Yue didn't pay too much attention to the stone carvings, she went straight up, and then carefully inspected the ruins, and carefully recorded the discovered monuments.Huang Qianshan saw that Lao Yue was so serious, so he also climbed to the ruins of the ancient temple, wanting to see which gods were worshiped in the ancient temple.Lao Yue was squatting cautiously looking at the things in the ruins. Huang Qianshan stepped forward to take a peek, but unexpectedly saw a pair of stone slabs similar to horizontal plaques. Huang Qianshan pointed to the stone slab embedded in the ruins, and asked, "Miss Lao, what is written on the slate that you are so fascinated by?"

After looking left and right, Lao Yue looked up and said, "This should be the temple plaque of the ancient temple, but the words engraved on the plaque...it says Kunqian Temple." Liang Xiaoyu was wandering around the ruins, and when she heard Lao Yue's words, she also felt curious, so she came over and asked, "Shouldn't it be Qian Kun?" Gu Changtian was right behind Lao Yue, and he asked curiously, "The Western Zhou Dynasty is no longer a matrilineal society. Even though the ancient Guo State is mysterious, it has already entered a patrilineal society, right? Why did you put the word Kun first?" Seeing the other people gathered together, Cai Minmin couldn't help but look around lonely, and immediately said disapprovingly, "What's so strange about this? Why can't women take the lead? Haven't you heard of yin and yang, male and female, they are all female?" Standing in front, it can be seen that the ancients still knew how to respect us women, especially beautiful women like me." Hao Dali retched a few times, arguing: "What about Dragon and Phoenix? Why isn't it called Fenglong? It can be seen that we men can stand out in key places. Don't turn things upside down." Huang Qianshan found that the atmosphere became a little tense. Although he also felt that men should be in the front row, but without women, it would be useless for men to be in the front row.So Huang Qianshan stood up and calmly said to everyone: "Brothers and sisters, now is not the time to fight for status. We have to go through the cave before dark, or we will have to stay in the cave overnight." Cai Minmin wanted to express her opinion again, but she glanced at Huang Qianshan, and then swallowed the words in her throat.At that moment, Huang Qianshan found that Cai Minmin laughed sinisterly again, but no one noticed, because it was too difficult to detect at that moment.Huang Qianshan got goose bumps from Cai Minmin, he felt that Cai Minmin had become very strange, it seemed that something was wrong with Cai Minmin since he encountered the anaconda and snake miasma. There are many stone statues in the ruins, but because of the vicissitudes of thousands of years, none of them can see their original appearance.There are many fuzzy totems in the ruined walls of the ancient temple, including monkeys, leopards, birds of prey, and sun, moon, dragon and phoenix, but they all reflect the status of women at that time. significantly.Huang Qianshan wondered, did the ancient Guo State really have a queen? If the queen was really buried inside, it would not turn the world upside down, and the dragon will fall in the next day. No king would feel inferior to this level. Huang Qianshan searched for traces of caves in the ruins while thinking, but not only found nothing, but stepped on several stone beams.Huang Qianshan shivered all over, he thought fortunately, it's a good thing he didn't come with a professional archaeological team, otherwise he would be unable to eat and walk around if he just stepped on a stone beam of an ancient temple.There is a gurgling river under the ruins of the ancient temple. Although the river is small, the sound of the water is loud. Lao Yue did not hear the sound of the stone beam breaking.Huang Qianshan pretended to leave the scene of the crime, intending to wait for others to get there, and then set the blame and transfer the crime. At this time, Hao Dali suddenly shouted: "Come and see, I found a stone sculpture of a woman, look, she has big breasts!" Huang Qianshan stopped talking when he heard it, and didn't know how to answer, and the others were the same, with a helpless expression.Hao Dali didn't know the embarrassment of others, so he said vigorously: "Look at this girl, her breasts are so big that you need to hold them with both hands. I didn't expect people in ancient times to be so open and well-developed." Hao Dali's words became more and more outrageous, Lao Yue quickly coughed, Hao Dali looked at the women around him, and then realized that he had lost his words and lost his composure.Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian stepped over a pile of ruins, anxiously wanting to see if Hao Dali's description was too much.Sure enough, the stone sculpture of a woman buried in the ruins really supported two huge spheres, and the faces of the three men blushed when they saw it. Cai Minmin squeezed forward to take a look, immediately snorted contemptuously, and then said: "What chest? That's a stone ball. It's the same as the one found at the gate of the ancient temple. It's just holding the stone ball, not its chest. If you don't believe me, look at it." .” When Cai Minmin swept away the stone ball, the bystanders saw that the breasts of the female stone carvings were not very obvious, and Hao Dali immediately hid aside when he saw this.Liang Xiaoyu tilted her head, she seemed very interested in staring at the stone ball on the ground, Huang Qianshan even thought she was going to hold the stone ball to her chest.Others searched for caves in the ruins and surroundings, but they still found nothing. Seeing that the sun had passed the sky, they were about to go west, and they were so anxious that they didn't know what to do.The thorns here are too thick, and there is no flat ground. It is almost impossible to camp here. If you want to camp, you must go back, but going back means failure. Huang Qianshan walked out of the ruins gradually. He thought that the cave might be outside the ruins of the ancient temple, but as soon as he walked out, he saw several dogwoods growing beside the ancient temple.Cornus officinalis is a small evergreen tree that can grow to a height of more than ten feet. It blooms small green and white flowers in early summer, and the fruit turns purple when it matures in autumn. It can be used for medicine.It's not yet the end of autumn, but the dogwood has already produced mature fruits. Huang Qianshan was surprised when he saw it, so he wanted to reach out and pick a few for medicinal purposes. Huang Qianshan's hand was about to touch the purple dogwood fruit, when Hao Dali lifted the stone outside the ancient temple, how did he know that a three-meter-wide square cave opened slowly under the ancient temple? .