Chapter 70 Chapter 16 The Distant Loess

I collected myself and asked Chen Jing to help me to the open space where not a single blade of grass grew.When I walked to this open space, there was a soft feeling under my feet, not as hard as I imagined.I squatted down, and there was a vibration under my feet, as if something was moving underground.I grabbed a pile of soil with my hands, and then put it next to my nose to smell it. This pile of soil did not have a muddy smell, but a sour and sweet taste.I wanted to smell it more carefully, so I dug my hand deeper into the soil.The soil here is not compact, and the strange thing is that the upper few centimeters of the soil are rough, but the bottom is very smooth.I was curiously using my hands to distinguish the difference, when Xinhong yelled.

"The color of the soil here is not right, come and take a look." Xinhong was very surprised. Chen Jing quickly helped me up, and before we reached Xinhong's place, he said to himself: "The soil here is brick red on the top, why is it yellow below?" "Yellow? Are you reading that right?" I asked in confusion. China's brick-red soil is distributed in the area of ​​Hainan, and the yellow one depends on the specific situation. I think the most important one is distributed in the Loess Plateau.No wonder just now I felt that the upper layer of soil was rough, but the lower layer was fine. It turned out that the lower layer was yellow soil.Loess is widely distributed, and such fine loess should be the soil in the Loess Plateau.The question is why the loess from such a distant place appears in the South China Sea thousands of miles away.

"I haven't heard of such loess on an island in the South China Sea." Lin Yue also expressed surprise. "Could this soil be here in the first place?" Chen Jing speculated. "How is it possible, this should be from the area of ​​the Loess Plateau!" I said, pulling out my hand that was stuck in the soil. "Why?" Chen Jing and Lin Yue asked in unison. "The loess on the Loess Plateau is very consistent with the loess here. Their upper layer is loose, but the lower layer is dense. Although I only penetrated into the shallow place of the soil, I can still feel this subtly. Features." After I finished speaking, I curled up involuntarily.

"You seem to know a lot about this, you can't just make it up, you sound like a geologist." Chen Jing laughed at me. "How come, what nonsense do I have!" I said seriously, "I have been to Penglai..." I got stuck at this point.Penglai? !East China Sea? !Didn't Qin Shihuang send people to the East China Sea to look for immortal medicine?Penglai is in the East China Sea. Didn't Xu Fu and his party have been to Penglai? "Why don't you stop talking halfway through the conversation, why don't you just keep it to yourself?" Chen Jing said and pushed me.

I let out a long sigh of relief and went on to explain to them.Everything in the world is full of wonders.In one job, I once went to Penglai and Miaodao Islands on the south coast of the Bohai Strait, where the loess was several to tens of meters thick.Walking through the valleys is like entering the Loess Plateau.At that time, I wondered why these "specialties" of the Loess Plateau migrated there.Although the professor who took me always explained that the wind brought the soil from the Loess Plateau here, I always felt that this explanation was not completely correct.Of course, the scientific experiments at that time also proved that these distant loess indeed came from the area of ​​the Loess Plateau.I think that most of the loess on this island comes from Shaanxi, because the feeling I touched was exactly the same as last time.

"So you've been to Penglai? I've been there too!" Lin Yue replied strangely, which made me curl up even more. Anyway, it's very cold here, not like the tropics at all. "Could this loess be brought by Xu Fu?" Lin Yue said to herself, but this surprised me a bit.Lin Yue knew that Xu Fu's people went to the East China Sea and then to the South China Sea! ?So she has also entered the Tianshan Temple, and she has also seen the scroll of bamboo slips! ?Who the hell is she! "How do you know that Xu Fu has been to the South China Sea?" I asked Lin Yue in surprise.

"What do you think? Have you forgotten what happened so quickly?" Lin Yue's words became colder, not at all the same sweet as before. "You..." I wanted to ask Lin Yue directly what she knew, but an animal jumped onto my arm, and I was startled and wanted to shake it off immediately.I didn't know that this damn thing scratched my arm, and the pain caused me to scream: "What bit me, what is it?" "We didn't see clearly, we only saw a blue thing flashing past!" After finishing speaking, Xinhong grabbed my hand and said, "Let me see your hand..."

As soon as Xinhong stopped talking, there was a scorching pain on my arm, which was still unbearable even though I clenched my teeth.Xinhong's silence made me feel that my injury might not be serious. I didn't expect this trip to be so unlucky. I knew that I should pay respects to the Dragon King before going to sea. At this time, Chen Jing's voice rang in my ears: "Why did you lose a piece of skin?" "Ah? My skin..." I already felt very painful, but after hearing what Chen Jing said, I felt even more painful, wishing I could pass out immediately. "That thing is still there, look!" Lin Yue seemed to be pointing at the thing that bit me just now, at this moment Lin Yue's tone changed back to the original one.

Xinhong and the others said that it might be a blue animal, but it moved so fast that they couldn't see it clearly, and they didn't know what kind of monster it was.This cyan animal kept jumping around us, unwilling to leave, as if trying to eat us.Enduring the severe pain, I told Chen Jing to quickly go to the side to find a stick, but Chen Jing ran away complaining that she was like a servant.When she came back, she said that she had finally found a dead "seeing blood to seal the throat", otherwise she didn't know where to find the stick. I told her that having a stick is better than not having a weapon in your hand, and that if that thing came to attack again, I would kill it with one stick.Xinhong said that the cyan thing may have left, and he did not see it jumping around again.Lin Yue said that I should stop the bleeding quickly, otherwise I would be prone to infection and excessive blood loss.I was puzzled by Lin Yue's capricious behavior, why she always looks the same from time to time, women are really fickle.

Xinhong tore off his own clothes and bandaged me.I know I've got a piece of skin ripped off my arm by that goddamn thing, so it hurts all the time.Just like when you get an injection, the more you look at the needle of the nurse, the more uncomfortable you will feel.I try my best to make myself think about other things, for example, now Xinhong is bandaging me but there is no anti-inflammatory drug, which is too unscientific.I was surprised, anti-inflammatory drugs?The smell in this soil is... By the way, the smell in this soil is slightly sour and sweet, and there is no vegetation growing here, so the soil here must have been filled with boric acid!

Boric acid is the taste, and ancient Chinese alchemists also used borax, although the chemical composition of boric acid was still a mystery until the early 19th century.In agriculture, boron can be made into fertilizer and also a good herbicide.It is both a herbicide and a material for alchemy. Maybe those so-called fairy medicines were poured here by the ancients, so no grass can grow, or they did it on purpose, because they are going to do some unknown things here?What excites me even more is that the boric acid solution can disinfect the wound, but it cannot be a large area of ​​skin damage, otherwise acute poisoning will occur after absorption.Fortunately, the wound on my arm was not too big, so I asked Xin Hong and the others to pour loess mixed with rainwater on my arm.They stopped in surprise, and I urged them several times before doing so, and first stated that if something happened, it had nothing to do with them.I thought that since there is this ingredient in the soil, although it has been thousands of years, it is better than nothing, and it may save lives. Xinhong was still bandaging me, and Chen Jing probably knew that I was in pain, so she said something to distract me: "You know what? Just now you told me to go to the side to find a stick, what did I see?" "What else can you see, isn't it a pile of poop?" I also joked. "It's Water Sword Grass!" Chen Jing replied flamboyantly. "Water sword grass, that's what Nan'ao says. You, you have been abroad for too long. China calls it calamus!" When I said this, I was confused again. There is such a thing as calamus on this island. , although it is very common in the south of the Yangtze River Basin, it is still difficult to feed in the South China Sea.What was the motivation for the pre-Qin people to work so hard to grow calamus here?And those honeysuckle, licorice, and people from the pre-Qin period came here to verify whether it is possible to grow these plants that are difficult to grow in the South China Sea? "It's wrapped, don't move yet, let's see if there is anything else here." After Xinhong finished speaking, he asked Chen Jing to guard me. Xinhong went away for a long time before returning, and Chen Jing said that he stopped in the center of the open space for a long time and took back a small stone slab from there.As soon as I heard it, I thought to myself, there is indeed something on this island, and I don’t know what ancient monuments were discovered this time.After Xinhong came back, he said that the handwriting on this stone slab was in the style of the Qin Dynasty. I think it should be a good thing done by Xu Fu and his gang.As for the words on it, Xinhong hesitantly said: "It seems to be from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor..." "What? Tell me quickly, when will you become a mother-in-law." I spoke agitatedly, but I didn't expect the wound on my arm to open, which made me grin in pain. "I don't know this word, do you know it?" Xinhong asked, I think why he asked "you", he knew that I couldn't see anything, and he ignored Lin Yue, he should say "you", just ask Chen Jing is ready. "I don't know this word. It's too complicated. It's crossed out." Chen Jing said. Lin Yue didn't speak, she probably knew that Xinhong would not ask her, what a strange couple.I heard that none of them knew this word, but this word is the most critical word on this slate, so it’s okay not to know!So, I asked Xinhong to put the stone slab on the ground, and I touched it with my hand to feel how the word was written. As soon as I touched it, I screamed in my heart. This word is really not simple.I sketched it stroke by stroke in my heart, and after a long time, the word finally took shape.I raised my head to face them and said, "This word is 'xi'." (This word is pronounced xi)