Chapter 136 Chapter 20 Yue People

Seeing so many people underground, we were really surprised, but the bottom of the well was too far away, we couldn't see clearly, and when we were about to call for something, the old man passed out, and the children next to him fell into trees and scattered, and no one paid any attention. The fainted old man.I saw that the group of children were very similar to the children I saw at the mouth of the well, so I opened my eyes wide and wanted to take a closer look, but the children had long since disappeared, only the old man was lying on the ground, and a Kongming lantern was just lit beside him. Well, it's slowly rising right now.

"My mother, there were so many children just now, probably hundreds of them, which woman can give birth so well?" Xu Shaode marveled at the bottom of the salt well. "How can a woman give birth to so many children? If this is the case, this woman will be worshiped as a great god in the ancient matrilineal clan." After I finished speaking, I looked around and found that there was already a rope extending to the bottom of the well. Fan Li was one step ahead of me. As soon as I saw him, I grabbed the hemp rope and weighed it, as if I was about to go down the well to see what happened.The color of the hemp rope is as light gray as dust, one can tell at a glance that this hemp rope has not been in the coal well for a long time, otherwise it would have been as black as coal, presumably it must have been brought in by outsiders.After a brief guess, the twine probably belonged to the search and rescue team, but I don't think it is very likely.If the search and rescue team really came in to save people, I don't think they could have brought hemp rope in so foreseeably, not to mention that the gas explosion couldn't blow people into the salt well.I think this hemp rope probably belonged to Yuan Yuanyuan's husband and his gang, but they all said they didn't remember Yuan Yuanyuan's visit, so I had no choice but to give up and stop insisting on my point of view.

Xiaoguang wanted to go down to find out what happened, and of course I wanted to go down, the old man was so strange, why did he put a Kongming lantern down there by himself, and why there were so many children, all of this was extremely weird.Fan Li also said he wanted to go down, but Wei Long refused to go down no matter what, Xu Shaode shouted that he should be the first to go down.I know that Xu Shaode is afraid of heights, and his feet would tremble at such a height. He probably wanted to play against Wei Long by doing so.Seeing that everyone else had gone down except him, Wei Long also panicked. This place is several kilometers away from the exit, and it was too late to go out, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow us down the salt well.

Xu Shaode took the lead, but he didn't want to move when he was halfway through. He grabbed the hemp rope and dangled there, like swinging on a swing.Xiaoguang's urging several times didn't work, so he simply grabbed the hemp rope and pulled it a few times. Xu Shaode's hands and feet were stiff, and the rope slipped to the bottom without grasping it firmly.I thought Xiaoguang wouldn't move too much, but now I was taken aback when I saw it, I was afraid that Xu Shaode would fall into a disability, then I would feel sorry for his father.Before I called Xu Shaode's name, he began to curse, swearing every word, forcing the words I wanted to shout back into my stomach.

Suddenly, Xu Shaode's cursing stopped, I thought he was vomiting blood and couldn't make a sound, but he screamed again: "Brother Wanzang, come down quickly, look at the bottom of this pit...it's so fucking weird! " We looked at each other, and no one questioned Xu Shaode's words at this time, because the scene we saw before was weird enough, so we all shouted from above to below, asking Xu Shaode what he saw.When Xu Shaode went down, he opened the cap of the miner's lamp. His original cap of the miner's lamp was broken, so he picked up another one from nowhere.At this time, he was staring blankly at the place where the light reached, completely ignoring the fainted old man. We couldn't see what was at the bottom of the well from above, so we were all in a hurry to go down, and even Wei Long was no longer afraid.

Climbing down one after another, our bodies were covered with wet salt flowers. The black coal powder on our bodies was mixed with dark green salt flowers, which looked a bit like the skin of a frog.All the salt flowers on the wall of the well have been liquefied, and are now slowly flowing down the stone wall. The wall of the well has also been blown to a large crack. It is estimated that the gas exploded from here.Including me, everyone has no conscience to see if the old man is safe, and now they all follow Xu Shaode to look at the bottom of the well. The bottom of the well is completely beyond my imagination. The wall of the well here does not touch the bottom of the well. They are still five or six meters away from the bottom of the well. It's open.The bottom of the well is full of all kinds of small ore, and it makes a rattling sound when stepped on, just like stepping on eggs.There is a large space under the broken part, which is dotted with afterglow, and the vast area is like countless fireflies resting on the ground.After we turned on the searchlights, we discovered a large city wall, and the light couldn't even reach the edge opposite the city wall.The location of the bottom of the well is a small hill, which happens to be at a high place outside the city wall. We are overlooking this ancient underground city at this moment.

None of us made a sound, we were all suppressed by the aura of the ancient underground city, and we all marveled at its magnificence.There are pavilions and pavilions in the ancient city, and the lights are flickering, but it still cannot illuminate the entire ancient city.The nearby ancient city is extremely luxurious. The foundations of the buildings are nearly one meter high. Everywhere in the ancient city is decorated with painted pillars and carved beams. Almost all of them are mysterious bird totems, which look solemn and majestic.There is a large underground river outside the city. The black water flows quietly without the slightest sound. The river flows into the ancient city, and there are several stone bridges on the water.There are two huge stone birds standing on both sides of the ancient city. They are all extremely weird, with big protruding eyes, extremely thick feet, beaks longer than their bodies, and wings spread out like living creatures.

Although none of the lights could reach the opposite end, we could see a thick fog at the end of the city wall. The lights of the city mansion dyed the fog a little yellow, and it was so hazy there that we couldn't see what was at the end.Suddenly a black figure rose from the thick fog, dancing wildly in the fog, but it disappeared all of a sudden, and reappeared after a while.The end of the ancient city is probably not less than a few kilometers away from where we are, and the thing in the fog must be very big. Thinking of this, I suddenly shivered and felt a trace of fear for no reason.

"What kind of place is this, there are so many people living here?" Weilong couldn't believe it, he opened his mouth for a long time before he could say this. "I think this ancient city is in the style of Yue State?" I said hesitantly. As soon as I finished speaking, Xu Shaode shook his head and denied it. He said that the buildings in Yueguo were not wooden structures with stilts. There are not many buildings here with stilts.I nodded and shook my head again. Everyone was still unwilling to move and wanted to take another look at this magnificent ancient city.I looked at them and said that people in general architecture and archaeology think that the buildings of Yue State are dry-column wooden buildings. Although this has been confirmed by a large number of historical materials and remains, the dry-column buildings are only the folk buildings of Yue State. It is just a form, not the official architectural form of Yue State.In the history of Yue State, official buildings existed, at least during the period of King Goujian of Yue, there were many official buildings of Yue State inside and outside the small and large cities of Goujian, and they had distinctive shapes and styles. Indisputable objective historical facts.

According to literature records, the historical buildings of the State of Yue during the period of Goujian, the king of Yue, mainly include: Goujian Palace Terrace, Beauty Palace, Kaitai, Litai, Middle Finger Terrace, Weiyou Terrace, Longfeiyi Building and Leimen Gate, etc.Almost all of these historical buildings, which are seen in historical records, are the official buildings of Yue State. At the beginning of 1982, archaeologists excavated an earth pit tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in Potang, Shaoxing, and unearthed a bronze house model.The plane of the copper house model is a rectangular platform, which is covered with black bird patterns and even the bird characters of Yue State.

"Yue Jue Shu·Ji Di Zhuan" also records a number of buildings in Yue State, among which there is a description of Goujian's palace: "This warehouse is the place where his (case, referring to Goujian) palace is located. On Saturday, one hundred and twenty steps, The column is three feet five feet three inches long, and the height is six feet. The palace has hundreds of households, and the height is two feet and five inches." Goujian Palace is where the royal palace of the Yue Kingdom is located. It is naturally an official building and a masterpiece of the architectural culture of the Yue Kingdom By.Although I have never seen the Goujian palace described in the book, all the official buildings described in the book are platform buildings, and none of them are wooden buildings with stilts.What's more, there are bird totems in the official architectural relics of Yue State, and bird totems are sacred objects worshiped by the Yue people. in the building. After listening to me, Xu Shaode seemed to understand, and Wei Long seemed to be listening to heaven. Only Fan Li and Xiaoguang nodded slightly.The ancient city was not intact upon closer inspection, and the part near us was completely blown up, which seemed to be affected by the gas explosion.We all guessed that this dungeon must be an ancient building. It is estimated that it began in the Yue Kingdom period, and then slowly developed over thousands of years.However, we don't know why the people in the ancient underground city live here. After watching for a long time, I finally shifted my sight from the ancient underground city to the old man behind me, and then coughed softly, reminding everyone's conscience to come back quickly.We helped the old man on the ground. He had disheveled hair and a pattern of beasts tattooed on his body, but the old man's clothes were just a few pieces of linen.The old man couldn't wake up no matter what he did, it could be seen that he was mentally and physically weak, but luckily he still had breath, so he wouldn't die immediately. "Tell me, is this old man from the dungeon?" Xu Shaode asked suddenly. "Nonsense, it's not from the dungeon, could it be from us?" Wei Long immediately replied provocatively. I was worried and had conflicts. I wanted to guess the identity of the old man, but I understand architecture, but I don't know why this old man.Xiaoguang squatted down, looked at the old man carefully, then got up again, she glanced at Fan Li, and seemed to have endless things to say.I saw that the two of them didn't plan to make a sound, so I gave Xiaoguang a look. She has been quite friendly to me recently, and after just a look, she immediately said, "He must be a Yueren, right?" "People from the ancient Yue country?" After hearing this, I felt that Xiaoguang was joking, so I asked again. Xiaoguang nodded solemnly and said briefly: "Yes." When Fan Li saw Xiaoguang open his mouth, he stopped being silent and gave us a general education. Weilong and Xu Shaode did not continue to quarrel.Fan Li said that tattooing in China has a history of at least 3,000 years. The earliest reference to the custom of tattooing in ancient books was the Yue people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. "Mozi Gongmeng Pian" says: "In the past, Goujian, king of Yue, cut his hair and tattooed it." In fact, not only Goujian, the king of Yue, cut his hair short and tattooed on his body, but the whole people of Yue state did the same. "Zhuangzi Xiaoyaoyou" said: "The Yue people cut off their hair and tattoos." "Han Shu Geography" also said: "(The Yue people) have tattoos and cut off their hair to avoid the harm of dragons." It turns out that Yue is close to the sea, and the residents Living by begging the sea, the tattooed and broken hair means that Yue people are also dragon sons, hoping to use this as a talisman, so that when the dragons in the sea meet, they will treat them as the same kind and not persecute them.Yue people's tattoos can be said to be a kind of totem mark, and they use the tattoo pattern to indicate that they belong to a certain tribe.It is not only the Yue people who practice tattoos under this motive. Many frontier ethnic groups in China also have similar customs, such as the Nanqiangli people. "However, what age is it now? Wasn't the Yue Kingdom destroyed by others thousands of years ago?" I couldn't believe Fan Li's words at all. "But who would dress like this in this era?" Xiaoguang said beside me, helping Fan Li. "And the ancient underground city right now, can you say it is a modern thing? Who would build an ancient city here?" Seeing that I didn't believe it, Fan Li pointed to the ancient underground city and said. "I have lived in Qiaotian Prison for so long, and I have never heard of an ancient city underground, let alone such an old man." Wei Long seemed to be moved by Fan Li, and believed everything he said 100%. Xu Shaode and I remained silent, we looked at each other, and wanted to refute them a few words, but we couldn't find words after searching.Could it be that this old man is really from the country of Yue, but the country of Yue has indeed been destroyed for thousands of years, not to mention that the location of the country of Yue is the present Zhejiang area, Guangxi is thousands of miles away, how could the country of Yue build a building so far away? ancient city.I suddenly felt uneasy, and always felt that things would not be that simple, but at this moment, the ancient underground city suddenly screamed and screamed, which made people feel hairy. "Just now the old man released the Kongming lantern to ask for help. There may be danger in the city." Xiaoguang looked nervously at the dungeon, as if he didn't intend to go down immediately. "Since we have received the Kongming Lantern, it is also a kind of fate. Go down and have a look, maybe it can help you." Seeing the vicissitudes of the old man's face, I blurted out when my heart softened, but I immediately regretted it. "Since we're here, let's go down." Xu Shaode was impassioned, with a fearless look on his face. I knew he was making wishful thinking again, hoping to get some valuables in the ancient city. Usually merchants have them. Talented, able to smell the breath of precious things. "Then go down." When Fan Li said this, no one objected. Although Xiaoguang was reluctant, he took the lead and was the first to find a place to go down. When we thought about going down, we realized that there was no way down. The ground was more than ten meters away from us, and it seemed that we had to climb down again.Fan Li was careful, and soon found another hemp rope next to him, presumably we were not the first batch of outsiders here.I looked at the hemp rope and felt so happy. When I found Yuan Yuanyuan's husband and came to personally testify, seeing this group of people dare to say that I made lies and said that Yuan Yuanyuan hadn't been here?However, I also feel that I have no idea. Why do everyone say that Yuan Yuanyuan has never appeared? What is the reason? After struggling for ten minutes, we all climbed down, Xiaoguang went down first, and then Fan Li and I tied up the old man and put him down slowly.When we walked a few steps, we were all startled when we looked back. There was a giant bird standing behind us, just like the two stone-carved giant birds next to the underground ancient city.It turned out that we had been standing on the giant bird statue just now, but there were one after another light-colored traces on the statue, as if it had been covered with something, and that thing had only recently left the giant bird statue.I thought of the story of the salt well mentioned by Wei Long, and wondered why the golden wall was covered, but why the golden wall disappeared.But after thinking about it, we have encountered coal walls that suddenly appeared several times in the lanes, and gold walls that suddenly moved over. Could it be that these walls can run? I carried the old man on my back and followed everyone to the underground ancient city. The gate of the ancient city had been destroyed by the gas explosion.The river was so dark that light could not penetrate, but I seemed to see a child in the water.I shook my head, thinking that I might have lost my head, but I thought of that scary child again.None of us spoke, the underground ancient city returned to silence after the screams, but since there are so many lights in the ancient city, it means that there are no less than a thousand people in the ancient city, and there is no need to be afraid even if there are so many people in the great danger . After approaching the ancient city, I found that although it was clean, free from dust, and even brightly lit, the ancient city was lifeless and chilling.There are some strange big trees in the ancient city, including the golden bamboos in Guanling, Guizhou. They stood motionless, as if they were all staring at us outsiders.We stopped when we walked to a room, the wooden door was wide open, and the furnishings inside were all in ancient shapes. We seemed to have traveled through time and space, but we knew in our hearts that we were in modern times. After entering the ancient city, we realized that everything is so unreal here, shrouded in twilight.When I got closer to the house, there was no one there, but it was spotless inside, not like a house that had been unoccupied for a long time.We walked a few more houses, but still couldn't find anyone, but the houses were all clean.Could it be that the old man lives alone in the entire ancient city, but he can't clean such a big ancient city by himself, and we saw a lot of children when we climbed down from the salt well just now, which means there must be a lot of people in the city. Xu Shaode ran around excitedly. We saw that the ancient city was full of lights, so we turned off all the lights.I told Xu Shaode not to run too far, but he suddenly yelled, and we all ran over after hearing it. He pointed to a room and didn't dare to go in, looking at us with an ugly face.I ran over with the old man on my back and saw that there was a dead man in the room, but the dead man had already rotted and swelled up. The body was covered with black and blue mold spots, there was no intact skin, and even the facial features were replaced by mold spots. I was so startled that I almost let go of the old man on my back. This dead man had only a human form, as if a moldy spot had been cultivated into a human body. The moldy spot seemed to be able to ooze water when we touched it. We all took several steps back.The rot of this dead person is too unreasonable. How can a dead person not produce maggots after rotting, but it is covered with mold spots that emit water.However, the geographical location of the ancient city is extremely special, and it may not be possible to use the common sense on the ground to infer after death.However, since people have been dead for so long, and have rotted like this, and there are so many people living in the city, why no one comes to dispose of the corpses?Where have all the people in the ancient city gone? Before I could finish thinking, Weilong yelled in horror, and he asked us to look into the back room, as if there were more frightening things there.I looked inside unprepared, and there were a few oil lamps inside, dimly lit, as if the lamp oil was about to run out.However, when I saw what Waylon was pointing at, I was stunned for a while, and then I murmured: "No... no way..."