Chapter 21 Chapter 21 Monkey Bone

Huang Qianshan was about to pick the fruit of dogwood, when he heard a strange sound from the ruins, he withdrew his outstretched hand.Huang Qianshan turned to look at the ancient temple. A piece of ruins in the ancient temple had sunk into the ground, and a square cave appeared instead.Others noticed the movement and walked back to the ancient temple.When they saw the secluded cave, some people were surprised, while others were pleasantly surprised.Huang Qianshan thought it was a coincidence, there were so many stones in the ruins, how could Hao Dali move that stone by such a coincidence. There are several piles of ruins surrounding the ancient temple, and the surface of these piles of ruins is also covered with yellow dry soil. Presumably, the flood can only reach the ruins under the ancient temple, and there is no way to rise any further.Hao Dali just wanted to lift a stone ball outside the ancient temple, but he didn't expect the stone ball to be lifted, but pulled out a cave.When Lao Yue heard the situation, she immediately told Hao Dali to let go, lest it would cause a series of traps, but after waiting for a while, the cave was still quiet, not even letting out a fart.

"It turns out that the cave is in an ancient temple, which is really strange." Liang Xiaoyu said in surprise. "The villagers said that when the flood came, they discovered the cave here. Could it be that the water force moved the stone ball below, and the cave appeared?" Gu Changtian guessed. "It must be so, we are quite lucky." Cai Minmin said happily. Hao Dali thought that he had caused trouble just now, but he did not expect to make a contribution, so he immediately claimed the credit and said, "If there is any big discovery below, I will name it after me. I opened a new channel!"

Lao Yue didn't appear very happy, she looked at the ruins of the ancient temple, and then said: "This ancient temple may be ruins, and it is not intact." Gu Changtian asked perplexedly: "How can anyone be so shabby, no matter how small the building is, it won't be a ruin." Huang Qianshan stood by the cave, and he replied: "Brother Hao moved the stone ball just now to trigger the mechanism. Think about it, if this place was not a ruin at the beginning, the stone ball could not be placed all over the ground, or an obvious stone ball could be placed on the ground." Outside the ancient temple, it is obvious that the agency is here, come and open it! If it was set up as a dilapidated ruin early in the morning, who would pay attention to every plant, tree, brick and tile in the ruins? As the saying goes, Da Yinyin Yushi, it can be said to be a psychological trick. There are so many ruins and broken tiles here, they are all mixed together, and few people will turn them over one by one. But the mountains and rivers rise, and the water pressure acts on the ruins outside the ancient temple. At that time, when the villagers saw the cave, they would think that it only appeared when it rained."

Lao Yue agreed, "That's what I meant. I didn't expect Mr. Huang to think that way." Gu Changtian looked at the cave under the ruins, and asked hesitantly, "Should we go down or..." Cai Minmin replied cheerfully: "Of course I went down, I have come here, do I have to turn back halfway?" After hearing Cai Minmin's words, everyone stared at each other with tacit understanding.Huang Qianshan looked down at the cave first. There was a square stone under the cave. It had just sunk, and the grayish-yellow gravel from the ruins was still piled up on it.This kind of mechanism is very simple, similar to the principle of a lever, and can be made of rocks instead of wood, so as not to decay with the passage of time.There was a slight sound of water under the cave, but the air flow in the cave was not obvious, but Huang Qianshan smelled it, but he didn't smell anything.

Lao Yue took out six masks from her luggage. She said that although she couldn't smell the smell, there was no guarantee that there would be no poisonous gas hidden deep in the cave.Huang Qianshan took the mask and glanced at it. Although this kind of mask is simple, it can completely prevent the inhalation of general poisonous gas.None of the six people have ever walked through the cave, so they don't know how deep it is, but they heard from the villagers that they walked for several hours, so the cave is quite long. Huang Qianshan was the first to jump down. He landed on the square stone, and before he jumped down, Huang Qianshan put on the lamp cap.After standing firmly on both feet, Huang Qianshan opened his eyes wide, trying to take a closer look at the cave.Helplessly, the dust fell from the ruins just now, which stirred up a lot of dust, and the air was full of dust. The yellow light of the lamp cap was scattered by the dense dust, and people were in it like falling into the clouds and fog.The people on the ground saw that Huang Qianshan was fine, so they also wanted to jump down, but Huang Qianshan suddenly felt his feet were cold, so he stopped immediately and said, "Don't jump yet!"

Liang Xiaoyu was startled, and quickly asked: "What's the matter, is there a snake?" Huang Qianshan swept the dust in front of his eyes with his hands, only to find that Fangshi was blocked in an underground river, the river was blocked, and now it had overflowed Fangshi, and was slowly flowing from Huang Qianshan's feet into the dark depths.Huang Qianshan thought to himself mockingly, once bitten by a snake for ten years, he was afraid of the well rope, and even thought he was in danger when his feet were submerged in water.The others saw that there was no major problem in the cave, so they jumped down one by one.

After the dust in the cave settled, Lao Yue turned on the strong searchlight, but the passage in the cave was curved. Even if the searchlight could illuminate a long distance, he had to go back home when he hit a bend.There are many yellow and black bones piled up on the two sides of this passage, none of the bones are formed, and all of them have been broken so that the original skeleton shape cannot be seen.There is an underground river in the middle of the channel, which is much wider than the small river on the ground, at least four meters wide. The light is reflected by the water waves, and it is difficult to see whether there are fish on the bottom of the water.There are many small stone pillars on the stone walls of the cave, and some even rise from the river, like coral in the sea.There are many plant rhizomes on the roof of the cave, some of which fell into the water, and people scratched their necks when they walked over.

Huang Qianshan wanted to see clearly the situation in the cave passage, but found that the coldness of his feet was gradually receding. When he looked down, he found that the square stone was higher than the water surface again, and the water could no longer cover the stone.Huang Qianshan wondered, could it be that the dry season has arrived and the water volume is not enough, so it only rose a little and then fell back?Before Huang Qianshan could figure it out, Lao Yue said to jump to the bank as soon as possible, the rock was about to rise to the ground again. "The door is closed so quickly to chase away people, so how do we climb up from here when we come back?" Huang Qianshan jumped to the shore and looked up at the slowly rising Fangshi.

Liang Xiaoyu patted the dust off her body, and said to Huang Qianshan: "The villagers said, when you come back, knock on the stone below and the exit will appear again." After Gu Changtian came ashore, he exclaimed: "The shore is full of yellow bones. Take a look, are these human bones? It must be, there are many skulls here!" Cai Minmin didn't think it was strange, and she wasn't afraid either. She just heard her say: "There are ancient tombs of the ancient Guo State here, so of course there will be burial pits." There were too many bones facing each other on both sides of the channel, so there were not many places to stand. Hao Dali was relatively tall, so he simply stepped directly into the pile of bones.When Huang Qianshan saw Hao Dali stepping into the bone pile, he hurriedly called Hao Dali out, saying that this was disrespect to the deceased, and it might make the ancestors unhappy, so he shook the cave and buried them.Lao Yue also nodded in agreement. She said that the bones had been left for thousands of years, and there might be germs on them. If they were scratched, the human body would be infected.

Huang Qianshan felt that there was something wrong with the bones in the burial path, so he picked up one and sniffed it vigorously. Liang Xiaoyu's eyes widened when he saw it, thinking that Huang Qianshan had a habit of smelling bones.After Huang Qianshan smelled it, he looked at the texture of the bones, and he said that these were not human bones, but monkey bones.Others were about to ask Huang Qianshan why it must be a monkey bone, so he first said that the monkey bone was originally a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, but unfortunately the smell of the medicine has dissipated after a thousand years, and the water vapor has eroded, so the smell of the monkey bone has disappeared.

Huang Qianshan heard a lot of rare Chinese medicines when he was a child. Monkey bones are made in a unique way. The materials need to be sawed into pieces and soaked in water for about 20 days. 2 times, take it out and expose it to the sun and night until there is no fishy smell.This has not yet been done, and then it has to be fried with sand until it turns yellow, then sieved to remove the sand, put it in rice vinegar to quench it while it is hot, and take it out and dry it to make a traditional Chinese medicine.Monkey bone is a traditional Chinese medicine for treating poliomyelitis. It can also dispel wind and dampness, and suppress malaria.However, due to the increasingly rare monkeys and the complicated production process, monkey bones have gradually faded out of the traditional Chinese medicine market. "Then there are so many monkey bones piled up here, didn't they kill a lot of monkeys?" Hao Dali sighed as he stepped on the pile of bones. "Sacrifice, of course it's a little more, I'm not surprised that many monkeys were killed." Huang Qianshan looked at the monkey bones on both sides of the bank, and said in confusion, "Since it is for burial, just kill it and throw it here. There are a lot of processes involved in making monkey bones, and it seems that the tomb owner's thoughts are beyond ordinary people's guesses." "Could it be that the queen in the ancient tomb suffered from polio since she was a child, so after she died, she took thousands of monkey bones to the underworld to continue using them to cure polio?" Hao Dali said with a smile. Lao Yue is not very familiar with traditional Chinese medicine, and she couldn't figure out why the cave was full of monkey bones, but when she saw Hao Dali still stepping on the monkey bones, she said, "Dali, come out quickly, even if there are no germs on it, there may be something inside the bone pile." There are snakes." Seeing that Hao Dali still refused to come out, Liang Xiaoyu said, "Come out Dali quickly, something is about to fall!" Huang Qianshan originally thought that Liang Xiaoyu was bluffing, but he immediately found that both sides of the cave passage were covered with stone balls, and there was a stone ball hanging on the rock wall, which was crumbling at the moment, and this stone ball happened to be hanging on Hao Dali's head.Hao Dali noticed that a lot of gravel had fallen from his head, and when he looked up, he jumped out of the pile of bones in fright, and the stone ball fell down as soon as he stepped on his back foot.The stone ball was thrown down with great force, and the yellow bones in the bone pile were thrown into the air. The stone ball bounced a few times in the bone pile and rolled into the underground river with a plop. "Do you think your head is not beautiful, and you want to bloom a flower, but you don't listen when you are told not to stand in the bone pile!" Cai Minmin scolded. "It's so narrow here, and you don't give up your position. I don't stand in the bones, but in the river?" Hao Dali argued. "There are many stone balls in the ruins of the ancient temple, there are also stone balls in the caves here, and the mechanism is even more stone balls. I wonder if they have any special meaning?" Lao Yue asked suspiciously. "Don't care what it means, no matter how good the quality of the stone ball is, it won't last a thousand years. If a stone ball with no eyes hits your head, maybe Alzheimer's disease will come early." Huang Qianshan looked at the stone ball and said worriedly. Everyone couldn't figure out why, and was about to move on, but Lao Yue asked everyone to wait.It turned out that she found that the underground river water was very clear, so she planned to fill a few pots first, lest the water on the way ahead would be dirty, and it would be too late to refill it later.Lao Yue also said that the underground river may be connected to the above-ground river, and this underground river may be artificially transformed.Building an ancient tomb requires a lot of materials. The underground river doesn’t have to be too wide, it just needs to be able to carry the weight of the building materials. People don’t need to stand on a boat. This underground river is like a natural conveyor belt. Hao Dali took out several water jugs from his bag at once, and poured water into the jugs without sweeping the dust off the surface of the water after squatting down.Huang Qianshan thought that standing is still standing, why not help fill the pot of water, so that he can be confident when asking Lao Yue for wages in the future.Huang Qianshan had just finished his wishful thinking, when he heard Hao Dali shout in surprise: "Oh my god, why did the river change color!"