Chapter 195 Bronze
"First of all, let's start with Zhuo Wenbai's family."
Looking at Guan Anyan, Li Ang smiled and said, "Do you remember when we were at Zhuo Wenbai's house, and the couple specially cooked black fish to entertain us?"
"Um."
Guan Anyan naturally remembered how Li Ang ate a whole pot of fish in one go.
"Not long after eating the pot of black fish, I saw the vague appearance of the woman in the painting."
Li Ang took out the drawing paper from his pocket, and deliberately concealed the fact that Mosi's avatar had the ability to ruminate, and the fact that he saw the appearance was actually after ruminating and chewing.
"At that time, I was a little strange. According to Zhuo Wenbai and his wife, the Qishui God is the source of the black fish. After eating the black fish, the image I saw should be the young Qishui God in the Qishui Temple. Why is it a woman?
Could it be that the Qihuai Empress was transformed into the water god? "
Li Ang said: "In the field of folklore, there are not many cases where gods change from male to female, or from female to male.
For example, before the Yu Dynasty, Guanyin Bodhisattva was mostly male,
"Avatamsaka Sutra" says: Avalokitesvara, the brave husband.
After the Yu Kingdom was established, the legend of Princess Miaoshan spread, and Guanshi gradually became a female figure.
But in the legend of Empress Qihuai, there is no such description at all.
Empress Qihuai is a **** that appeared out of thin air, and has no inheritance or evolution relationship with the water **** from the perspective of folk belief.
Therefore, the Qishui God and Empress Qihuai exist independently. "
Li Ang put away the drawing paper, and said calmly: "This is the first doubt.
The second doubtful point is the genealogy book with suspicious records in the ancestral hall of Qishui Village, and the coffins in different conditions on the cemetery.
In the genealogy of Qishui Village, in the first 80 years after the establishment of the village, no villager was over 75 years old.
And on the cemetery, the coffins in the 80 years since the establishment of the village are all empty, without any corpse.
Strange, isn't it? Although the villagers of Qishui Village come from different places in Hedong Road, and their hometowns are different, they all have the concept of going to the soil to be safe.
Even if the conditions are difficult, the ancestors will not be buried in the wilderness, and they will set up a clothes tomb when they have money.
So, where are all the dead bodies? "
He glanced at the other people who were frowning, and continued: "And the third doubt is this."
He took out another piece of paper from his pocket, on which were drawn many words with winding lines.
"Deed?"
Ji Xing recognized the type of text at a glance. The text on the note in Li Ang's hand was Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and the content was the same as what he saw on the stone tablet, even more detailed.
"Jiawu divination is good for today's use"
Ji Xingwang interpreted the above content word by word, and suddenly stopped, looking at the word after "Yong" in shock, ". Qiang."
"Qiang?"
Yu Shusheng frowned, of course he knew what Qiang meant. There are tribes and countries formed by other ethnic groups in all directions of the Shang Kingdom.
There is a ghost side in the north, a tiger side in the south, a barbarian side in the east, and a Qiang side in the west. War never stops.
But "using Qiang"?
What does it mean.
“Qiang has many writing styles and variant characters in the Qiwen. For example, in the neck part of the human-shaped “Qiang” character, a hand-shaped character is added to indicate the capture of the Qiang people.
Bound the neck with ropes and stone locks, which means that the Qiang people were imprisoned with ropes and stone locks.
There is also a rope and a fire font, which means "
"Liao Ji."
Ji Xingwang took a deep breath, and said slowly: "The "Book of Rites·Biaoji" says that Yin people respect gods and lead the people to do things with gods, ghosts first and rituals later.
In the same line of Yin and Shang, merchants paid special attention to wars and sacrifices, and they needed to divination from heaven and earth, ancestors, and ghosts and gods for every major event.
In order to satisfy the number of ghosts and gods like the stars in the sky, they consumed a lot of materials in divination, including livestock, bronzes, jade, pottery, slaves, prisoners of war and barbarians. "
"Exactly."
Li Ang nodded and said: "The sacrifices in the Shang Dynasty were extremely cruel and tyrannical. They regarded slaves and barbarians as pigs and dogs, and even inferior to domestic animals,
Killing slaves and barbarians is like breathing and sleeping. It is a very common and normal thing.
Use Qiang, use Qiang,
Killing Qiang people is as common as using a consumable. "
“.”
"These words were excerpted from an oracle bone in the rock formation at the bottom of the lake after I dived into the bottom of the lake."
Li Ang said: "In addition to more black fish at the bottom of the lake, there is also a tortuous concave cavity.
In the concave cavity, there is a huge bronze vessel, 甗 (yǎn).
That should be an ancient alienated object, and it is also the root of everything in Qishui Village. "
"Can you dive to the bottom of the lake?"
Wang Li Nian's tone finally changed a bit, "This is impossible, the water of Qishui Lake is full of resentment and hatred, even if a monk in the Cloud Patrol Realm is fully prepared, it is impossible to dive all the way to the bottom of the lake"
While talking, he suddenly got stuck. According to Taiyuan Wang's contact person in Chang'an Ghost City, Luffy is likely to be the successor of the former Sui pirate sect's nine-headed monster.
It is not particularly strange to have some kind of special water-avoiding technique.
"hehe."
Li Ang would not explain to the other party the special features of Mosi's avatar, he smiled slightly and let the other party make up their own minds.
Yu Yong couldn't help but ask, "What is 甗?"
"It is a kind of bronze cooking utensils from the Shang Dynasty, which was handed down as a ritual vessel until the Han Dynasty. If you go to the houses of Zhongming Dingshi to look for it, you may still find it."
Ji Xingwang said quietly: "Zeng is composed of two parts, the top is a round bucket, which is used to hold food, called zèng;
The bottom of the retort is a perforated board, called grate (bì);
The lower part below the grate is the high foot used to support the container, which is called 鬲 (lì).
When using, put firewood under the 鬲 and light it. The water in the retort forms steam, which passes through the perforated grate and rises all the way, heating the part of the retort, thereby steaming the food. "
"Exactly."
Li Ang nodded and said: "The entire jar is more than three feet in diameter, and the top is completely sealed by a heavy bronze plate.
The tall feet below are deeply buried in the mud and cannot move.
Such a huge zi, even in the country of Shang with powerful monks, cannot be cast casually.
And its material is quite special. In addition to bronze, it is also mixed with other special materials, which can last thousands of years underwater without rust or decay.
In addition, do you still remember the steamed ‘郹’ (ér) in the text?
The whole jar is a tool used to torture Qiang slaves and please ghosts and gods.
Considering that on the way here, I have been using my feet to measure the distance and direction between the location of the tunnel and the ancestral hall.
The place we are standing at this moment should be under the Qishui Lake.
And behind the stone door, leading to the bottom of the jar. "
Papa Papa.
Applause sounded behind the stone gate.
From the shadow behind Wang Li Nian, a figure slowly walked out.
It was a young man in his twenties. He was wearing a muddy green shirt and his face was quite messy, but his handsome appearance and refined temperament could not be concealed.
It is the search and rescue target of Li Ang and his party.
Chu Haoman.
He stepped slowly through the stone gate and stood side by side with the expressionless Wang Li Nian.
Li Ang watched this scene with great interest,
Yu Yong and Yu Shusheng were shocked and astonished, unable to believe it,
Ji Xingwang and Guan Anyan's master and apprentice were not only strongly shocked, but also angry.
Guan Anyan clenched her fists, looked at Chu Haoman and shouted sharply: "Senior brother!"
"Junior Sister."
Chu Haoman smiled wryly, bowed to Guan Anyan and Ji Xingwang, and said sincerely to Ji Xingwang, "Teacher, I have let you down."
“.”
Ji Xingwang was silent for a long time, and asked slowly, "Why?"
"Why did you come here, why did you worry everyone, why did you collude with Wang Li Nian, and why did you put your junior sister in danger."
Ji Xingwang's words were as calm as ever, but there was a firm will in his tone.
"teacher"
Chu Haoman took a deep breath, bowed again, and replied calmly: "Disciple, this is a last resort, not for myself.
It is for the safety of tens of thousands of people in Bingzhou City, Taiyuan County, and even Hedong Road. "
(end of this chapter)