Chapter 40 Chapter Fifteen

The light in the well was abnormal, which saved us a lot of effort, but the light from the well did not penetrate the well water, presumably the water in the well was not as deep as usual.We were going down to the bottom of the well, so of course we couldn't go down with our bags on our backs, but I still told Xinhong to take his flashlight down, in case the well really led to another place, there would be something to illuminate it. With complicated emotions, I grabbed the climbing rope and began to slide slowly down the well. When I reached the middle of the well, I found a mural that was still very bright on the wall of the well. There are two men and women with the heads of snakes. The man is holding the sun wheel, and the woman is holding the moon wheel.

The paintings on the wall of the well are so bright, it is estimated that mineral pigments are used, so they can last for a long time.Just like the murals of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, they are painted with lapis lazuli, verdigris, amitabha, crimson alum, and mica powder as pigments. This mural in the well can be so bright in a humid place for so long. of pigments. "Jin Wei, what are you doing in the middle, why are you in a daze, get down!" Seeing me standing blankly in the middle of the well, Xinhong urged. "What are you talking about? If I'm really fine, would I be in a daze here?" I raised my head and shouted upwards, "There's a mural here!"

"Painting? What is it painting? Just wait, I'll go down and have a look too." After saying that, Xinhong was about to come down from above. When I saw that Xinhong was really about to come down, I hurriedly said, "Don't come down first, you will come down later when I go down. If you come down now, aren't you afraid that the rope will break?" Just as Xinhong was about to answer me on the top of the well, there was a loud and shrill bird cry from above the well, and then a bird several times bigger than an eagle flew over and landed on the well mouth.I have never seen this kind of bird before. Its whole body is jet red, its claws are sharper than those of an eagle, and its feathers are particularly shiny.

When Xinhong saw the strange big bird, he immediately drove it away in fear. The bird flew away quickly after being frightened, but when it flapped its wings, a piece of the bird's feather fell from its body.The feather fell into the well, Xinhong saw that the feather was about to fall into the well, so he stretched out his hand hastily, grabbed the feather, and threw the feather aside in disgust. I was very surprised by Xinhong's reaction, so I shouted up: "What's the matter, I've never seen that big bird, but you can't be scared like this, why did you throw the feather outside?"

"If that feather really falls into the well, you will die! Don't talk nonsense, go down quickly!" Xinhong grabbed the climbing rope and jumped into the well after speaking. I saw Xinhong was about to climb down from below, so I quickly slid into the well water. The well water seemed unfathomable. I held onto the climbing rope tightly, but my feet couldn't reach the bottom.A person jumped into the well earlier, the well should not be too shallow, otherwise that person would have been killed at the bottom of the well.It’s the sprites appearing in the well, which makes me feel up and down, but we are full of vigilance now, if the sprites try to confuse us with the baby’s voice, it’s already impossible for them to do so, so they’re fine scary.When I finished comforting myself, Xinhong had already slipped from above to the bottom of the well.We are all soaked in the cold well water, but the well water is not penetrated by the light, and there is still bottomless darkness inside, as if it is tens of thousands of meters deep.

"We don't have any diving equipment. If we can't hold back later, we will come up immediately, don't be brave!" Xinhong urged. "Don't worry, just such a little water can suffocate me?" I said with a smile. "Everyone who is drowned can swim! You'd better not be brave, if there is danger in the water, come up quickly. Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with you, you should wait for me up there." Xinhong said here Just stopped. After hearing what Xinhong said, I couldn't help but feel extremely angry. After all, Uncle Zou has raised me for more than ten years, and he can be regarded as half a father. How can he say that it has nothing to do with me?I replied angrily: "Uncle is also my father, so why has it become your own business, can you still hang a sun in the dark night?"

Xinhong smiled and replied with some embarrassment: "Okay, okay, let's go down together." Then Xinhong seemed to think of something, he paused, and said: "By the way, why do Fuxi and Nuwa here only have the sun wheel in their hands? Shouldn't you hold the rules and the moon wheel?" What Xinhong said shocked me, he was right, what the ancient Fuxi and Nuwa held was not the sun and the moon, but the rules!The “Pictures of Fuxi and Nuwa” discovered by archeology in recent years are all hand-held rules. Tomb No. 1 in Zhanggongqiao, Leshan, Sichuan, Fuxi and Nuwa stand on both sides of the tomb door, both with human bodies and snake heads, standing facing each other.Fuxi is on the left side of the door, wearing a three-mountain crown, holding the sun in one hand and holding the rules in the other; Nuwa is on the right side of the door, wearing a high ring bun on her head, holding the moon in one hand and holding the rules in the other.On the portraits in the stone chamber of Wuliang Temple in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fuxi and Nuwa are mating in the body of a dragon. Fuxi also follows the rules and Nuwa follows the rules.However, the two people on the wall of the well only have the sun and the moon in their hands. Could it be that they are not Fuxi and Nuwa?

"Aren't they Nuwa and Fuxi? They only have the sun and the moon in their hands." "Fuxi and Nuwa in Zhanggongqiao Tomb No. 1 in Leshan, Sichuan also hold the sun and the moon in their hands, but there are no rules here. It is really weird to say that the things here are different from those outside. The bronze statue of Erlang God is like this. Fuxi and Nuwa It's the same." Xinhong said while looking at the above. "Among the ancient relics found in various parts of the whole country, Fuxi and Nuwa are different, but apart from the characteristics of the snake body, they all have the rules in their hands." Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered what was said in the ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty. At the entrance of Xishui Village, I saw people in the village sculpting a stone statue, but only saw part of the snake tail sitting up, so I said to Xinhong, "Do you still remember what was said in the ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty? The stone statue built in the village at that time, Could it be the human body that the author didn't see?"

After hearing my guess, Xinhong was slightly taken aback, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Don't worry about this, just go to the water and see, I feel that the well water seems to be flowing, and it may really lead to other places. " "Do you really want to dive down? I let go of the rope, it's not the same as the iron weight going into the water." As I spoke, I loosened my hand, but quickly grabbed the rope again. "What time are you still joking, the well water is so cold, it's no wonder that you don't get sick after soaking for a long time! Let's dive in!" Xinhong let go of the climbing rope after speaking, and plunged into the cold well water.

I raised my head to look at the murals of the well again, wondering if it might be something from ancient times that we have forgotten. Maybe the people above are not the Fuxi and Nuwa we are familiar with, but who could it be?I shook my head to get these things out of my head, then took a quick, deep breath and dived into the dark well water. We dived down two or three meters in the well water, and the wall of the well disappeared completely, replaced by a wide area of ​​water, as if suddenly swimming into the bottomless sea.I opened my eyes and looked at everything in the water, only to find that there were a lot of light shooting down from above in the water.It seems that the wells here are all above this water area, and the wells are indeed connected. No wonder the person who jumped into the well at that time never came up again.

I felt that the water was flowing, so I continued to dive down along the current. After leaving the well for a certain distance, the light was gradually swallowed by darkness.I'm worried about losing the light, if I swim somewhere else, or get lost in the water.Unexpectedly, at this time, a group of black shadows suddenly jumped up to us. If we were in the swimming pool, I would feel nothing, but a person suddenly jumped out of the dark water, and I was so scared that I choked on a few mouthfuls of cold water.The outline of the black shadow should be a person. After he found us, he turned around in the water and swam back.We thought that this person must know the way, so we also speeded up to swim with this person. The deeper we swam, the colder the water became, and the light disappeared altogether.We all follow this person based on our feelings, not knowing who he is or why he suddenly appeared in the water. Fortunately, looking at his figure, he is definitely not a sprite like a baby, at least he should be a human being.Thinking of this, I feel a lot more relieved. Dealing with humans is better than dealing with monsters.In the darkness, I felt a few slippery things brushing past me. I wondered in my heart, could it be a fish? Did it really swim into the sea? The water pressure suddenly dropped a lot, and the man went upstream, so I guess the water is above.So, Xinhong and I hurriedly floated up, just when we couldn't hold back anymore.After floating up, there was a wide space here, and I greedily breathed the air!After the man emerged from the water, he slowly swam towards the shore. Xinhong and I didn't have time to marvel. We hurriedly followed the man and swam over. After reaching the wet shore, Xinhong opened the waterproof paper in his arms. , took out the flashlight inside.When he turned on the flashlight, he immediately shone a light on that person's face, and I immediately jumped up in surprise, because the person in front of me turned out to be Teacher Ye whom I had been looking for for many days! "Ms. Ye, is it really you? I've been looking for you these days!" I shouted excitedly. "Shh, keep your voice down, don't yell or shout." Teacher Ye sat on the ground, panting. As soon as Xinhong heard me say that the person in front of him was Yelaoshr, he moved the light away in embarrassment.He took a picture of the surrounding area, and then said unhurriedly: "This place is like an underground palace, it's so big!" When I saw Teacher Ye whom I hadn't seen for many years, I was so excited that I felt like I was flying into the sky, and I was not in the mood to listen to Xinhong's exclamation.I asked anxiously: "Mr. Ye, why are you here? I saw you in the woods yesterday!" "I'm here..." Teacher Ye hesitated to speak, then he changed the subject and asked, "Why are you here?" Teacher Ye's question made me speechless. How should I explain everything about the Tianshan Temple to him? I can't tell him directly.Seeing my perplexed look, Xinhong answered for me: "The museum sent us here to investigate the real clay sculpture, and we discovered this place later." I remembered the footprints in the woods, so I asked Teacher Ye: "Teacher, is this your first visit to this place?" Just as Mr. Ye was about to answer me, a strange sound came from the darkness. Xinhong vigilantly shone his flashlight on the place where the sound was coming from, which startled me.Not far from us, a shabby-looking man was sitting on a rock, his clothes were terribly torn.He stared at us blankly, but this person is already an adult, and he is too different from a sprite in the shape of a baby, so he should not be a sprite that eats people.I didn't feel so frightened when I thought about it, but I found it very strange, how could there be beggars in the cave under the well? When Teacher Ye saw this person, he pulled us in fear and shouted, "Run, let's get out of here!"