"First of all, let's start with Zhuo Wenbai's family."
Li Ang looked at Guan Anyan and said with a smile: "Do you still remember when we were at Zhuo Wenbai's house and the black fish they cooked specially to entertain us?"
"Yeah."
Guan Anyan naturally remembered how Li Ang ate a whole basin of fish in one sitting.
"Shortly 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 arms, deliberately hiding the fact that Mo Si's clone had the ability to regurgitate the cud, and the appearance he saw was actually regurgitated and then chewed.
"I was a little strange at the time. According to Zhuo Wenbai and his wife, the Qishui God is the source of the black fish. After eating the black fish, the image you see should be the young Qishui God in the Qishui Temple. Why is it a woman?
Could it be said that Qishui God turned into Empress Qihuai?"
Li Ang said: "In the field of folklore, it is not uncommon for gods to change from male to female, or female to male.
For example, before the Yu Dynasty, most of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattvas were male.
"The Avatamsaka Sutra" says: Avalokitesvara, the brave husband.
It was not until the establishment of the Yu Kingdom that the legend of Princess Miaoshan spread, and the view of the world gradually became female.
But in the legend of Qihuai Empress, there is no description of this aspect at all.
The Qihuai Empress is a god who appears out of thin air, and has no inheritance or evolutionary relationship with the Qishui God from the perspective of folk beliefs.
Therefore, Qishui God and Qihuai Empress exist independently."
Li Ang put away the drawing paper and said calmly: "This is the first doubt.
The second doubt is the genealogy with questionable records in the Qishui Village ancestral hall and the coffins in different conditions on the tomb.
According to the genealogy of Qishui Village, in the first eighty years after the village was founded, no villager was over seventy-five years old.
On the tomb hill, all the coffins from the eighty years since the village was founded were empty, without a single corpse.
It's strange, isn't it? Although the villagers of Qishui Village come from all over Hedong Province and have different hometowns, they all have the concept of being buried in peace.
Even if the conditions are difficult, we will not let our ancestors bury their bodies in the wilderness, and then build a tomb or something like that when we have money.
So, where did the bodies go?"
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 arms, on which there were many words with winding lines.
"Deed?"
Ji Xingwang recognized the type of writing at a glance. The writing 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 not good for today..."
Ji Xingwang read the above content word by word, but suddenly stopped and looked at the word after "Yong" in shock, "...Qiang."
"Qiang?"
Scholar Yu frowned. Of course he knew what Qiang meant. There were tribes and countries formed by other ethnic groups in all directions of the Shang Kingdom.
There are ghosts in the north, tigers in the south, barbarians in the east, and Qiang in the west. The war has never stopped.
But "using Qiang"?
What does this mean?
"Qiang has many writing styles and variant characters in the deeds. For example, the hand shape is added to the neck of the human-shaped character "Qiang" to indicate the capture of Qiang people.
Adding ropes and stone locks to the neck to tie them up means using ropes and stone locks to imprison the Qiang people.
There are also glyphs with rope and fire, which means..."
"Burning sacrifice."
Ji Xingwang took a deep breath and said slowly: "The "Book of Rites·Biaoji" says that the people of Yin respected gods and led the people to do divine things, putting ghosts first and then etiquette.
The Yin and Shang Dynasties are of the same line, and merchants pay special attention to war and sacrifice. Whenever major events occur, they need to divination to heaven, earth, ancestors, ghosts and gods.
In order to satisfy the ghosts and gods who were as numerous as the stars in the sky, they consumed a lot of materials for divination, including livestock, bronzes, jade, pottery, as well as slaves, prisoners of war and barbarians."
"That's right."
Li Ang nodded and said: "The sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty were extremely cruel and violent. They regarded slaves and barbarians as pigs and dogs, even worse than domestic animals.
Killing slaves and barbarians is as normal as breathing and sleeping.
Use Qiang, use Qiang,
Killing Qiang people is as common as using a consumable item."
"..."
Scholar Yu's face became even paler, and he suddenly thought that after Yongqiang, there was also a character for steaming.
"These words were excerpted from an oracle bone in the rock formations 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 zigzag cavity.
In the cavity, there is a giant bronze vessel, 甗(yǎn).
That should be an ancient alienated object, and it is also the source of everything in Qishui Village."
"Can you dive to the bottom of the lake?"
Wang Linian's tone finally changed, "This is impossible. The water of Qishui Lake is full of resentment and hatred. Even if the Xunyun Realm monks are fully prepared, it is impossible to swim all the way to the bottom of the lake..."
As he was talking, he suddenly got stuck. According to the contact person of the Taiyuan Wang family in Chang'an Ghost Market, Luffy was probably the successor of the former Sui pirate sect, the Nine-Headed Flycatcher.
It’s not particularly strange to have some kind of special water-avoiding technique.
"Haha."
Li Ang would not explain to the other party the special features of Mo Si's clone. He would smile slightly and let the other party figure it out on his own.
Yu Yong couldn't help but ask: "What is a zhen..."
"That's a kind of bronze cooking utensil from the Shang Dynasty, which was passed down as a ritual vessel until the Han Dynasty. If you go to those Zhongming Dingshi houses to look for it, you might still be able to find it."
Ji Xingwang said quietly: "The zhen is composed of two parts. The top is a round bucket used to hold food, which is called a steamer (zèng);
The bottom of the steamer is a perforated board called a grate (bi);
The lower part under the grate is a high foot used to support the container, which is called Li (li).
When using it, place firewood under the steamer and light it. The water in the steamer forms steam, which rises through the grate with holes and heats the parts of the steamer, thus steaming the food."
"That's right."
Li Ang nodded and said: "The entire temple is more than three feet in diameter, and the top is completely sealed with a heavy bronze plate.
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The feet below are stuck deep in the soil and cannot be moved.
Such a huge beast could not be cast casually even in the Shang Kingdom where there were powerful monks.
And its material is quite special. In addition to bronze, it is also mixed with other special materials. It can last for thousands of years underwater and is stainless, non-corrosive and non-corrosive.
In addition, do you still remember the ‘胹’ (ér) in the deed, which means steamed?
The whole zong is a tool used to torture Qiang slaves and make ghosts and gods happy.
Considering that on the way here, I kept using my footsteps to calculate the distance and direction between the tunnel and the ancestral hall,
The place where we are standing at this moment should be under Qishui Lake.
And behind that stone door, it leads to the bottom of the cave."
Bang bang bang.
Applause sounded from behind the stone gate.
From the shadow behind Wang Linian, a figure slowly walked out.
He was a young man of about twenty years old. He was wearing a muddy green shirt and his face was quite dirty, but he could not hide his handsome appearance and elegant temperament.
It is the search and rescue target of Li Ang and his team.
Chu Haoman.
He walked slowly through the stone gate and stood side by side with the expressionless Wang Linian.
Li Ang watched this scene happen with great interest,
Yu Yong and Scholar Yu were shocked and couldn't believe it.
As for Master and Disciple Ji Xingwang and Guan Anyan, in addition to being deeply shocked, they were also angry.
Guan Anyan clenched his fists, looked at Chu Haoman and shouted sternly: "Senior brother!"
"Junior sister."
Chu Haoman smiled bitterly, bowed to Guan Anyan and Ji Xingwang, and said to Ji Xingwang sincerely: "Teacher, I let you down."
"...."
Ji Xingwang was silent for a long time and asked slowly: "Why."
"Why do you come here, why do you make everyone worry, why do you collude with Wang Linian, and why do you put your junior sister in danger."
Ji Xingwang's words were calm as always, but his tone contained a firm will as strong as iron.
"Teacher..."
Chu Haoman took a deep breath, bowed again, and replied calmly: "Disciple, this is a last resort, not for myself.
But for the safety of thousands of people in Bingzhou City, Taiyuan County, and even Hedong Road."
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