Shenyin Shanhaijing

Chapter 33
In the dead of night, Lu Cheng was lying on the bed, stroking the jade ring and reciting four-character characters.

Up to now, he knows all four runes on the outer wall of the Jade Ring, and he only knows two of the ten runes on the inner wall. The other eight runes are too complicated, and each rune has hundreds of strokes. None of them are included.

He knows that each rune has multiple drawing methods, which are similar to modern Chinese, but also very different.

For example, the four characters on the outer wall of the jade ring are "Kong, Liao, Shi, and Shi". More than two hundred strokes are considered relatively simple; while some very simple characters in modern Chinese may have three to four hundred strokes written in runes.

In the middle of the night, he lost his mind and was brought to another world by the jade ring again.

When I opened my eyes, it was afternoon here.The location is in the shade of trees on the hillside, at least five or six miles away from the cave where he lives.

Lu Cheng felt a little strange: "Why is the time of each time travel not fixed? The place of this time travel is not in a cave. Could it be that the time and place of logging into this world are random? This is not a good thing! What if God, what if I suddenly appear next to the tiger?"

He got up from the ground, stood on the hillside and looked down, only to see a piece of golden yellow in the fields below the hill.

With a thought in his heart, he walked down the mountain.

When he came closer, he found that the shining golden ears were the ears of rice and millet. The plants were tall and strong, as tall as a person, but unfortunately each ear did not produce many grains.Not far away, there is a piece of sorghum, which looks like a bamboo pole, at least five or six meters long, with grain grains from top to bottom.

Lu Cheng looked up at the nearby trees, and found that the leaves were a little red, it seemed that it was autumn.

He walked through the fields and quietly collected some ears of rice, millet and sorghum.

The Yarrows occupy an area of ​​hundreds of miles. There are several good lands, and some medium and barren lands. They cultivate a lot of land. Unfortunately, the yield of Lingmai and Lingmai is very low, and the yield of Lingdou is even lower.The only one with high yield is sorghum.

Sorghum is revered as the "God of Valley".The people of the tribe can not go hungry, mainly relying on sorghum.

Sorghum has a high yield, and even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a life-saving food in remote areas.

However, in later generations, sorghum, as an ancient cultivated crop, is rarely eaten. It is mainly used to make wine, such as Moutai, Wuliangye, Luzhou Laojiao, Fenjiu, etc., all use red sorghum as the main raw material.

In terms of the content of various nutrients, the protein and sugar content of sorghum is still very high, which is higher than that of corn.But the shortcomings of sorghum are also obvious. It lacks lysine and tryptophan, and there is a strong bond between starch and protein, which makes it difficult for enzymes to break down, that is, it is difficult to digest!In addition, sorghum contains more tannins, which is bitter and poor in palatability!It is precisely because of these reasons that it gradually withdraws from people's dining tables!

Lu Cheng is going to take these crops back to see how they differ from later generations.

Walking out of the field, he wanted to walk back to the cave where he lived. After passing a large village, he saw a simple street market.

According to Lu Cheng's judgment, the Yi people are equivalent to the process of transforming from primitive society to slave society, or it is the early rise of slave society, but it is different from any dynasty in Chinese history. Beast, Lu Cheng would rather believe that the plane he is in is not on the earth.

In this world, there are not only common things of ethnic groups, but also private property. For example, in the cave of Yakuang, there are a few jade coins, hundreds of stone coins and shells, which are all coins that can be circulated.Most of it was left to him by his mother, and some was given to him by his clan.

He is only 12 years old, he is not an adult, and he does not need to spend money on food, but if he wants good things that cannot be obtained from the clan, he has to spend money to buy them.

He passed by the market and saw someone selling bird eggs, which were bigger than ostrich eggs, and he didn't know what kind of bird they came from.

He saw someone selling wolf skins and tiger bones. Tiger bones were just small pieces of bones without marrow in them. Tiger bones with marrow were taken away by the clan and used to refine medicine for strengthening the body.

He also saw that someone was selling a very large wild boar, which was said to be a year-old piglet, which weighed over a thousand catties, and its two tusks were nearly one meter long!

He also saw a giant python, thicker than a foot, and several feet long.

Seeing these things, Lu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, at least he has a way to replenish energy for the jade ring!
He didn't buy it right away, because the giant python was a cold-blooded animal, and the wild boar had died a long time ago, so there might not be enough spiritual energy in the blood. He planned to come back tomorrow to see if he could meet other wild animals.

Lu Cheng returned to the cave where he lived. This mountain was called "Yaoyu Mountain".

He opened the wooden box next to the bed, put the jade coins, stone coins and shells into the jade ring, and then walked out of the cave, walked up the mountain road, and soon came to the Temple of the Witch.

This time he saw young Wu Fan beating a round jade stone with a diameter of three feet with a copper axe.

The green jade is yellowish, mottled in color, close to Xiuyu and Dushan jade, obviously not Burmese jade.

He walked over to look at it for a while, and asked, "Is this dug out of the cave in the northeast corner?"

Wu Fan's attitude was not good, and he said "hmm" expressionlessly.

"What's the use of this thing?"

"Crack it open and see if there is any beautiful jade."

"If you have beautiful jade, what will you use it for?"

"Exchange treasures with the Jiu Clan."

Lu Cheng roughly understood that although Yarrow Mountain produces jade, most of it is not of good quality, and top-quality jade is very rare. Once you have top-quality jade, you can exchange treasures with people from the Jiu tribe, such as body protection artifacts, storage rings, Powerful arrows, bows and crossbows as well as knives, guns, swords and halberds.

He thought to himself: "It seems that the great witches of our tribe are not strong enough to carve runes by themselves, so we can only buy jade rings from the people of the Jiu tribe. If the witch officials can make storage rings, then the level of the Yi tribe may be higher Some."

The piece of jade that Wu Fan struck with a copper ax could not be used to make a storage ring because it had many impurities, but it could be used to make jade coins.

Among the 72 low-level ethnic groups of the Dongyi people, the fact that the Yi people can rank among the top few is not unrelated to the jade produced in the Yarrow Mountain.

Lu Cheng walked into the main hall and saw the shaman playing with a column-shaped jade vessel with exquisite patterns carved on it.

So he stepped forward and asked, "Wu Zu, what is this?"

The sorcerer replied: "This is a magic weapon for communicating with the gods. It is used in sacrifices, and it is called 'Jade Cong'."

"Oh, so this is the jade cong."

"Yan Kuang, you haven't come here for two months, how many runes have you learned?"

"I only remember half of the 2 words of "The Great Witch's Recitation." Lu Cheng himself didn't understand why there was an interval of [-] months.

"It's already pretty good. High-level runes are not easy to master. Do you know how many years it took me? I can't remember exactly! Up to now, there are still many words and spells that I haven't learned...how much I can master is God's will , if the aptitude is limited, and you forget while learning, your brain will be eroded by the way of heaven, and you will never learn in your life..."

"What is Heavenly Dao Erosion?"

"God's will is bleak, if you don't advance, you will retreat."

(End of this chapter)