Chapter 67 Chapter 9 The Floating Stone

There are no snakes, rats, insects, ants, or ferocious beasts in the cabin. There are only a lot of spiritual seats and a few masks for Nuo opera. I roughly calculated that there are at least a few hundred spiritual seats.Chinese people have always had a strange feeling about this thing. If it's their own spiritual bit, it's fine, but if it's from another family, they always feel very flustered. Many of these spiritual seats are covered with mud, but none of them are damaged, and all of them are intact.The spiritual seat is made of golden wood without any painting process. Everyone can see that the golden wood is bamboo.I have never seen golden bamboo, but I heard that Gu Yelang worshiped bamboo, and it is said that their king jumped out of bamboo.

The characters on it are very strange, some are like sun and moon patterns, composed of curves and circles, the strokes are all inflected like seal cutting, the strokes are of different thickness, and they are scattered and arranged.I saw it at the time, it should be Yelang Tianshu without a doubt.In the Guanling archives, that Chen Lin came to study the Red Cliff Book of Heaven, and the "People's Daily" once published an article saying that a total of 8 kinds of mysterious original characters or symbols have been discovered in our country, and they are "Cangzhe Book", "Xia Yu Book", "Hongyayan Book of Heaven" and "Yelang Book of Heaven" in Guizhou, "Bashu Symbols" unearthed in Sichuan, "Dongba Characters" discovered in Yunnan, "Xunlou Stele" in Shaoxing Yu Temple "Writing and tadpole writing in Xianju County, Zhejiang.

I won’t go into details about the other scripts here, but simply mention Yelang Tianshu, which is the name Chinese archaeologists gave to an ancient book discovered in the Yi area of ​​Hezhang County, Guizhou Province.Because the local location is the border of Yelang Kingdom in the past, this ancient book is called "Yelang Tianshu".Yelang Tianshu has a total of 4,480 characters, written with a brush and smoked ink. The new discovery of the Yelang Tianshu makes archaeologists believe that the peoples around the Zhou Dynasty, especially the ancient Yelang, were not barbarians, but had the same high level of culture as the Zhou Dynasty.

"Wow, a lot of people died here!" Xu Shaode sighed, "I don't want to go in and rest!" Albert couldn't figure it out, he still wanted to go in and rest, I quickly grabbed him so as not to disturb the soul of the deceased.This kind of place, as long as you are a Chinese, you will not want to go in, maybe you will be struck by lightning someday, but there are many thunderbolts here.We sighed and sighed sadly that a place of rest should be taken by the dead, which is really awkward to think about.Old man Liu's face turned green with fright. I also saw this reaction once when I was in Yunnan.At that time, I mentioned Longyi Village, and he became like this.

"Let's go, let's go, what's there to see." Xu Shaode urged from a distance, and he had already rushed to the distance in a few seconds. They were already walking towards the river again, and I turned my head three times at a step, always feeling that the appearance of these spiritual positions was a bit abrupt.How could such an ancient spiritual place appear here together? It seems to have been dug out from somewhere.Do these spirit tablets really represent the dead, and where are the corpses or graves of these people?And, is there really golden bamboo in the world? Seeing that I would not leave, Xiao Guang walked back and said, "Hurry up, don't you just have a few spiritual seats, if you want, I'll give you one!"

"I don't want it. I just thought, how could these spiritual places appear in the cabin? This room is only twenty or thirty years old at most, and those spiritual places should be thousands of years old." I replied. "It doesn't matter how old he is, walk quickly, and it won't get dark anymore." Xiaoguang pulled me and walked towards the river. The moment she held my hand, my heart suddenly beat violently. I didn't know what it felt like, as if I had done something wrong.Everyone didn't talk much along the way, but there were thunderstorms a few times, and the rain was still falling continuously, with no intention of ending.Walking out of the col, the river gradually widened and the speed of the water became slow, and a lake appeared in front of our eyes.This should be the lake formed after the Jinzhu Canyon collapsed and the river was blocked.

Jinzhu Canyon is about 1,000 kilometers deep at its deepest point, about 80 kilometers long, and 3 kilometers wide at its widest point, with a total area of ​​about 300 square kilometers.The peaks and ridges on both sides of the canyon are winding, and the cliffs are towering like canine teeth. On the cliffs, vines are climbing and ancient trees are overgrown.There should have been a rushing nameless river at the bottom of the valley, the water was turbulent, the waves were rolling, and the sound was like thunder, but because the canyon collapsed and blocked up, the big river became a small stream.

After we saw Jinzhu Canyon, we didn't feel happy at all.Although the entrance of the canyon is several hundred meters wide, it is all blocked by rocks. This is the first time I have seen such a large-scale mountain collapse.Debris flows are more likely to occur in the southwest, and it shouldn't be surprising that the mountain is destroyed, but the entrance of the canyon is mainly made of stone, so how could it collapse, unless... it is man-made! "Why are they blowing up the canyon?" Xu Shaode asked after listening to my analysis. "There are treasures inside, of course you have to blow them up, lest someone go in and steal them, your brain is like a pig's!" Xiao Guang said.

"Uncle Liu, when you heard what Xu Qian said, did he mention that this place collapsed?" I asked looking at the canyon in the distance. "No, they didn't mention it. If it collapses, Xu Qian will tell." Old man Liu said with a frown. I looked up at the canyon. There were too many rocks piled up after the collapse, and many places were extremely rugged. If it's not good, it will smash your head.Moreover, there is a large lake in front of the rock pile, which is so big that it surrounds the entrance of the canyon. You have to cross the lake in a straight line to reach the rock pile, otherwise you have to travel for a few more days.But we don't have much time left. According to my calculation, there will be a heavy rain here in less than three days.

A large area of ​​Jinzhu Canyon is covered by forests and moso bamboo. When the warm and humid air carries a large amount of moisture, it reaches the sky above the forest area and collides with the cold air with low temperature and high relative humidity in the forest area, which can easily cause large local precipitation.The weather in the mountains is different from that in the plains, especially in winter, if there is a drizzle and thick lead clouds are piled up in the sky, it will be light rain at first, and it may turn into a heavy rainstorm after a few days.In the Southwest, heavy rains can trigger many geological disasters, the most terrifying being flash floods.Therefore, we must leave within three days.

Heavy rain is already brewing, which has provided the weather conditions for mountain torrents, and the lake here is a trumpet-shaped estuary terrain. The two major factors that cause mountain torrents already exist. Maybe the rock piles blocking the entrance of the canyon will be destroyed. Disperse. We looked at the lake worriedly. There were some bamboos by the lake. It seemed that we had to build a bamboo raft and drive under the pile of rocks.In addition to hunting, my father is also a good fisherman. Making bamboo rafts is not difficult for me, but it takes some time.However, when we were cutting down bamboo, some stones in the rock pile in the canyon were washed to the surface of the lake by the accumulated water on the mountain.I concentrated on chopping the bamboo without paying too much attention, but Xu Shaode said from the side that the teacher only taught wrong knowledge, and also said that stones cannot float on the water, so the stones now float on the water. "Don't talk nonsense, let Albert understand. He thought we Chinese youths were uneducated." I teased, but the moment I turned my head, I did see a few big rocks floating on the lake. The river rushed in from the east, and the water wave was bounced back in front of the pile of rocks, so the stones floating on the water floated over by the way. Everyone felt strange, so they all gathered by the lake to see what happened. Only Xiaoguang sighed and sat in a relatively dry place, waiting for us to come back.We walked to the lake only to find that the lake water is clear and has a feeling of dizziness, but there are a lot of wood at the bottom of the water. This can't help but remind me of Changbai Mountain, because the situation in Changbai Mountain is somewhat similar to here.A stone sinks to the bottom of water and a log floats to the surface. This is common sense that even children know.But in Changbai Mountain, there is a kind of stone that can float on the water; and there is wood that is so heavy that it can sink to the bottom of the water. The stones that can float on the water are called pumice stones, which are formed by the magma ejected from the eruption of Tianchi volcano in Changbai Mountain hundreds of years ago.It has holes all over its body, and the holes are filled with air, so its body is very light, and no matter how big it is, it can float in water, so it is named "pumice stone". Speaking of which, the name of Changbai Mountain has a lot to do with pumice stones. Since the active volcano Changbai Mountain has erupted at least three times in recent times, a large number of pumice stones have piled up on the top of the mountain.Because the pumice stone is white or gray or light yellow in appearance, the top of the mountain is always white when viewed from a distance, hence the name "Changbai Mountain" or "Baitou Mountain". In Changbai Mountain, there are at least four or five kinds of wood that can sink to the bottom of the water. Its top is about 1,700 meters above sea level, and there grows a kind of mountain birch, which the locals call "iron tree" or "alpine birch".It is not as tall and straight as birch, but curved and graceful.Its wood is hard and has a large specific gravity. It cannot float in water, but sinks to the bottom like a stone.However, the wood under this lake is not the birch tree of Changbai Mountain, but I can't name it either. The stones on the lake haven't floated to the other side after a long time, but I can see its appearance clearly. These stones are the red stone statues on the boiling spring of Meili Snow Mountain.At that time, when I touched it lightly, the statue fell from the stone box to the ground, as light as a feather.Fan Li said that this kind of stone belongs to Guanling, Guizhou, but he didn't expect it to be in Jinzhu Canyon.These red stones are different from those in Changbai Mountain. I don’t know why it works. Anyway, there are no bubbles in the red stone statues in Meili Snow Mountain. After half an hour, the stone hadn't floated to the shore. There was inertia in my bones, so I didn't continue to make the bamboo raft. I just wanted to try my luck and see if I could use the stone as a boat and float to the pile of rocks. Down.Unexpectedly, this idea was confirmed by others. After a few more thunderclaps, there was a rattling sound in the woods behind him, which sounded like a group of wild beasts rushing towards him.After a while, a dozen or so Thunder Gods suddenly rushed out from a place tens of meters away from us, each holding a large piece of red stone in their hands.The Leigongs ignored us, and after throwing the red stone into the water, they jumped on it.This makes us look stupid. Lei Gong actually has such wisdom, far surpassing other primates. No wonder he was called a god by the ancients.What's even more strange is that although those stones are light and thin, they can completely bear Lei Gong's weight.After the Leigongs stepped on the red stone, they used their thick and long arms to paddle continuously, and soon they drifted towards the direction of the pile of rocks.