Ning Cheng took a dozen servants borrowed from Fenyin Hou's family and walked along the Sishui River. When encountering a hillside, he would check carefully. If he saw a bend, he would search in the water.
No one knows what they are looking for.
Even Ning Cheng didn't know what he was looking for.
All he knew was that the order he received was to find a bend in the river at all costs. There must be a Houtu Temple that had been abandoned for many years on the river bank.
In addition, the terrain on both sides of the temple must be like a hook.
Ning Cheng searched for three days but could not find a place that met the conditions.
For this reason, he specially invited people to go to Fenyin County Yamen yesterday to read the files and county annals stored in Fenyin County Yamen.
Unfortunately, I still found nothing.
"Your Highness will come to Fenyin in a few days..." Ning Cheng was extremely anxious: "I must find that place before Your Highness comes!"
But Fenyin is too big!
Surabaya is too long!
It would be impossible to complete the investigation one by one without a month or two!
what to do?
Ning Cheng suddenly thought of a stupid idea - he couldn't find it because he was unfamiliar with the place. If he asked the local elders, he might be able to gain something.
So Ning Cheng found a small village on the bank of the river. When he entered the village, he asked everyone he met who was the oldest here.
Someone told him that in the village to the east there was an old man who had survived the war in the late Qin Dynasty.
"The elder is here, let me pay you a visit from the students!" Ning Cheng respectfully prepared gifts and asked to see him as a disciple. With the gifts and respectful attitude, the old man's family finally reluctantly agreed to Ning Cheng's visit. So,
Ning Chengcheng saw the old man in front of him, whose beard and hair were white and already somewhat senile.
"Dear guest, I heard that I have something to ask?" Although this old man is old, his thinking and consciousness are very quick, but his body is old and it is inconvenient to move around. However, in the Han Dynasty, such an old man is the most terrifying!
The Han family governs the world with filial piety. People who are over sixty years old will not bow to the officials. Those who are over eighty years old will be given a few sticks by the emperor, and they do not need to kneel before the emperor!
Not only that, among the people, such old people can beat corrupt officials at the top and unworthy descendants at the bottom. When encountering an old man like this, most people can only accept it obediently and even laugh at it.
Therefore, Ning Cheng did not dare to be presumptuous and bowed politely: "Students come from Chang'an. It is said that there is an old earth temple of the Queen of Wei in Fenyin. I dare to ask the elders. Do you know where this temple is?"
"The Earthen Temple of the Queen of Wei..." The old man thought for a moment and said, "When I was a child, I once heard an elder say that in a river bend thirty miles away from here, there is an ancient temple built by King Huiwen of Wei.
Build a temple to worship Houtu. I wonder if it is the Houtu temple that the distinguished guests are looking for..."
Ning Cheng was overjoyed when he heard this. He knew that he would find the place 10 times out of 10, so he bowed respectfully again: "Thank you, elder, for your advice. The student is grateful..."
Saying goodbye to the old man, Ning Cheng immediately headed towards the place the old man mentioned.
An hour later, Ning Cheng came to the foot of a remote hillside. Beside the mountain, the Si River rushed past, and the ruins of a low temple with bricks and tiles buried in the grass appeared beside it.
In front of Ning Cheng's eyes.
Ning Cheng looked at the surrounding environment carefully.
Hewan is right!
The temple is right!
Looking around the temple, it looks like a hook!
"What exactly do you want me to do when Your Highness wants me to find this place?" Ning Cheng thought suspiciously.
Driven by curiosity, Ning Cheng moved forward, walked into the grass, and came to the front of the temple.
Because it was so long ago, the plaques and statues in the temple have been reduced to ashes, and only some inscriptions can be seen on the incomplete walls and scattered bricks on the ground.
Judging from the inscriptions, the last official sacrificial event here should have been more than a hundred years ago.
Ning Cheng picked up the inscription on a piece of brick and examined it carefully, hoping to find some clues from the incomplete text.
On a piece of brick, Ning Cheng saw four very interesting inscriptions: Wang Yan rushed to me.
Who is Wang Yan?
Ning Cheng's history was pretty good, and he immediately remembered that there was only one person in history who met this condition.
In the 29th year of King He of Zhou, Qi destroyed Song. King Song fled to Wei and died in Wenyi.
So why does the name of the last monarch of the Song Dynasty appear in the temple where King Wei worshiped Hou Tu?
Ning Cheng immediately started thinking about it.
As the last king, what benefits could King Yan of Song give to King Wei, so much so that King Wei had to write inscriptions on the bricks and stones and report them to Hou Tu, the patron saint of Wei?
"Could it be that thing?" Ning Cheng suddenly remembered a legend. He swallowed his saliva and felt his heart beating very violently, and his whole body suddenly felt inexplicable fear.
If it were that thing...
Then wouldn’t this be...
"The Emperor and the Empress are above me. I kowtow and bow again. I dare not commit any offence. I am sincere and frightened. I pay my respects..." Although Ning Cheng is a bastard and his character is not very good, he regards that legend as a symbol of God's will.
It is the divine right of the emperor and has been passed down from the Yellow Emperor. Emperor Yu is still in awe of this artifact that was further developed.
Immediately he knelt down in the grass and kowtowed respectfully.
His speculation stirred up huge waves in his mind.
His whole body was shaking as if he was shaking.
The Emperor Taiyi makes one unified universe.
The Yellow Emperor made three talents, heaven, earth and man, and ruled the four seas, making the princes from all directions surrender and the barbarians from nine directions paying tribute.
Emperor Yu made nine, suppressed China, divided the world, and was truly ordered by heaven, and he lived forever. Compared with it, the so-called He's Bi is still too young, the so-called Xiangrui is too low-level, and the so-called Hetu Luo
Books are ethereal.
Only that thing has been recorded in history and praised from generation to generation. It has been regarded as a sacred weapon for thousands of years in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and has been used to worship heaven and earth. Even in older times, its shadow is looming in myths.
It is the symbol of China, the source of China, a gift from God, an artifact, authority, a myth among myths, and a legend among legends.
At first, it was called Huangdi Ding, and then it was called Yuhuang Ding.
If what the inscription says is true.
Then, maybe what is buried here is a longer myth, the original legend - one of the three tripods built by the Yellow Emperor from orichalcum, or even one of the nine tripods built by Emperor Yu to suppress China.
Because the clan of the Song Dynasty held one of the nine tripods inherited by the emperor of the Shang Dynasty. This is a fact recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Although it is not clear whether it is the Three Cai of Heaven, Earth and Man or the Emperor Yu’s Kyushu Tripod with the shapes of Kyushu, mountains, rivers, birds and animals.
But no matter which one it is, once it appears, the color of the sky and the earth will immediately change, dragons and snakes will rise from the land, the whole world will surrender to it, all the princes will congratulate the emperor, and all the people will fall for its appearance again.
Because it is the light of China and the lightning of China.
It once lit a torch in ignorance and illuminated the path forward for our ancestors in darkness.
Three emperors and five emperors, Xia Qi, Shang, Tang, Zhou and Wucheng, all worshiped this object respectfully, prayed to God, offered sacrifices to the gods, and prayed for good weather, peace and prosperity for the country and the people.
"If what I guessed is true..." Ning Cheng felt extremely fearful at this time: "Then how did His Highness know?"
At this moment, Ning Cheng thought of many things.
The story of Emperor Gao's uprising by beheading the White Snake is well known among the people.
The imperial edict to consecrate the Black Emperor and build a temple in Weinan was widely seen.
"Is there really a king who is destined by destiny, a holy king who comes out every three hundred years?" At this time, Ning Cheng thought of the providence in the dark and the kings in myths. Could it be that the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in those myths were born just like His Highness today?
Know it?
Some things, if you say them often, will always make people believe them.
If Ning Cheng is a time traveler, then he will definitely know that two thousand years later there is a saying: If a lie is told a thousand times, it becomes the truth. (To be continued...)
