Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 478
So the three of them separated and explored the small basin in three directions.

The basin is small, but the plants are lush, with bamboo forests and wetlands at the bottom, bushes on the slopes, and arbor forests at the higher places.

The tree species of the arbor turned out to be Phoebe, thick and straight, and the largest one must be at least three or four hundred years old.

The weather is very hot now, and it is the time when snakes and insects are active. Heng Fa prevents Zhou Zhi and the others from going down to the bottom of the basin, where he is in charge, and asks Zhou Zhi and Qiao Lao Er to explore both sides of the basin along the nanmu forest on the edge of the shrub. .

Zhou Zhi secretly rejoices in his heart, so many nanmu trees are unlikely to be a natural forest, and it is very likely that the predecessors came here to plant them.

I don't know the specific reason, but Zhou Zhi deeply hopes that this nanmu forest was used as a landmark by the predecessors.

Before halfway there, Hengfa's whistle rang at the bottom of the basin, accompanied by his shout: "Slow down when you come down! Watch the road! Watch out for the bamboo shoots on the road!"

Then someone added: "There are still bamboo branches on top, be careful of the green bamboo leaves!"

Bamboo leaf green and bamboo shoot shell spot are one of the highly poisonous snakes that can be seen in Jiachuan. The reason why Fawang Temple has good snake medicine is that Erli Township is rich in various poisonous snakes. Monks of successive dynasties have gradually worked out some unique snake medicine formulas. When the nearby villagers encounter bites, they will rush to Fawang Temple in time to let the monks carry out treatment.

Zhuyeqing is a small green snake. The biggest difference from the emerald snake is the red eyes, the side line of the body, and the yellow burnt tail.

This thing is not only highly poisonous, but also lives on trees and bamboos, and it attacks the upper body of a person. The toxin can easily reach the heart and other organs.

The soldering iron head is the original spearhead viper, with blocky patterns on its body, which are very similar in color to the bamboo shoot shell, hence the name.

The annoying thing about this kind of snake is that it is not only highly poisonous, but also lazy and fat.

Generally, snakes will choose to dodge after sensing the movement of humans, but bamboo shoot shells will not.

It will still lazily hide on the side of the road, motionless, and once people enter its attack range, it will quickly take a bite.

According to the teaching of Hengfa, Zhou Zhi held a flexible bamboo stick in his hand and slapped it all the way down to the bottom of the basin.

When they reached the dense bamboo forest below, there was a dilapidated house here!

Master Qiao was faster than Zhou Zhi, and he had joined Heng Fa there.

The appearance of dilapidated houses also confirmed Zhou Zhi's guess, that is, this place is indeed a man-made place. In addition to marking the location with nanmu, the dense bamboo forest also covered up the traces of human habitation, which was very concealed.

The house is designed as a bamboo house on stilts. The nanmu used as the base has rotted, causing half of the bamboo house on one side to sit down, and the remaining half is also crumbling.

Bamboo buildings are side walls made of bamboo, plastered with mud, and topped with grass roofs. This is also the simplest residential style in southern Sichuan.

If the thatched roof is properly maintained and the foundation has a stone or rammed earth platform, such a house can last for decades without any problem.

But the premise is that someone has to live and maintain it. Obviously, the bamboo house in front of you is not one of them.

The bamboo house has been covered with vines, and there are years of fallen leaves, which makes it almost impossible to find the entrance to the bamboo house.

Hengfa took out a machete from the side of his backpack and began to attack the vines hanging outside the bamboo building.

Zhou Zhi didn't pay attention at first, until he inadvertently wiped the cut vine with his hand, and found that there was some blood-like red juice on his hand.

Zhou Zhi was taken aback, only to find that the vine cut off by Hengfa began to flow out strange red juice from the cut.

"Master, what's going on, Master..."

"This is Crossing Mountain Dragon, also known as Spathiphyllum..."

"Spathiphyllum?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel ashamed by his own suspicions. Knowing that it was Millipede vine, he didn't need to be scary: "Chop some up later, and bring them home to boil and soak your feet!"

The bamboo ladder and the entrance were quickly cleared out. Hengfa also cut off the vines on the window, and then poked open the window with a bamboo pole.

"Clatter..." A big brown bird suddenly flew out of the opened window, startling the three of them.

When he regained his composure, he realized that a pheasant had escaped just now.

"Master, be careful." Zhou Zhi looked at a few big inchworms crawling out from under the decayed window sill, casting a psychological shadow on the place that had been scaring him twice.

"Yeah." Master Hengfa took off all the fragments on his body, leaving only the machete for chopping vines: "I'll go in first, and I'll tell you to come in later."

Seeing Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao holding bamboo poles and looking nervous, Master Hengfa smiled instead: "Don't worry so much, think about it, where pheasants can live, how dangerous can it be? "

After Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao thought about this truth, they relaxed.

But even though Hengfa said so, he was very cautious with his feet, step by step carefully walked up the half-decayed wooden ladder to the floor one meter above the ground, and entered the bamboo house through the door opening he had just cut.

After a general inspection, he said to the two of them, "Come in, be careful where you step, and don't stand on a bamboo beam."

The furnishings inside the bamboo house are very simple, a bamboo cabinet, a bamboo bed, a futon, and in front of the futon there is a table with a tea tray, a crude tea set, a wooden fish and a drumstick.

On the wall are coir raincoats, bamboo hats, baskets, and a tool that resembles a medicine hoe made from the branches of Qinggang wood.

"Amitabha." Hengfa put his hands together and proclaimed the Buddha's name.

Obviously, the former owner here was a monk or layman.

Zhou Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and he rushed to the case to examine it.

This case is incompatible with the furnishings here. It is an exquisite wooden work, and the whole body is also painted with lacquer, and it is polished with fine rice flour, which is a relatively exquisite lacquerware.

The level of craftsmanship is completely different from the bamboo bed and bamboo frame. Obviously, this thing can only be brought from outside.

Zhou Zhi pulled a few coir raincoat leaves from the coir raincoat on the wall, rolled them into a brush handle, and leaned down in a low voice, with his face on the floor, and brushed off the cobweb dust at the bottom of the desks: "There are words here."

"Why don't you move the things away and turn over the cases?" Heng Fa didn't understand.

"This is the rule of archaeology. If you can obtain information without destroying the original situation, it is best to obtain it without destroying it, and then judge whether it can be moved and excavated." Master Qiao said, while also imitating Zhou Zhi. He looked down on his stomach and turned his head sideways to look at the text under the table: "Jiachen, October, Bingwu, devoutly believe Li Zhangshi to send the Dharma king to the temple."

After reading this, Master Qiao pouted his buttocks and stood up. He was only a tail short of a dog: "This is from Fawang Temple! How do you know there are words here?!"

"There are a lot of similar furniture in Fawang Temple, and I look a little similar." Zhou Zhi continued to brush the dust on the bottom of several cases: "If it is something from Fawang Temple, they will be used to put the name of the worshiper, and The date of enshrinement is kept out of sight."

"Now we can know that these cases are old objects from Fawang Temple, and the owner here has a relationship with Fawang Temple."

(End of this chapter)