the last priest

Mochizuki laughed and looked at his masterpiece, and when the flames dissipated, he waved his hand and drove into the pool. └@ ┘

When he saw the lid of the largest bronze coffin, he couldn't hide his inner excitement and shouted: "I found it!"

Caressing the huge bronze tree sculpture on the coffin lid, Mochizuki tremblingly opened the thing that had been wrapped in her hand, and slowly shed the brocade cloth cover outside, revealing a thing in the shape of a bronze tree branch.

This tree branch is made of bronze, about half a meter long, and has a very simple shape.Mochizuki excitedly gestured the tree branch back and forth on the tree sculpture above the coffin lid, and finally at the upper left, the tree branch was perfectly integrated with the bronze tree sculpture.

Mochizuki looked at the completed pattern and murmured, "It seems that this legend is true."

Momoi Chiyo clasped her fists together: "Patriarch, is this what we are looking for?"

Mochizuki took Chiyo to take a step forward, pointed to the coffin lid and said: "Look, the bronze tree on this sculpture has a total of nine branches. According to legend, this tree should have ten branches originally, 1000 Many years ago, our ancestors picked up this thing at the seaside, and it is the one in my hand."

Mochizuki looked at the tree branch in his hand and continued: "The ancestors of the royal family thought it was a part of an ancient fetish, so the Mochizuki family has been looking for the main body of this fetish. It took countless ancestors to find out about this thing. After thousands of years of hard work, we finally determined that it is the Fusang sacred tree!"

When the group heard that Mochizuki said it was the Fusang sacred tree, everyone except the old man Zhuo couldn't help being overjoyed. As we all know, Japan has always regarded itself as the Fusang people in ancient times. This is because of an ancient legend.

In our Chinese mythology, the hibiscus tree is one of the spiritual places. It is said that on the eastern sea, the hibiscus tree is composed of two big mulberry trees that support each other.The earliest record about it is in the "Shan Hai Jing", "Shan Hai Jing? Overseas East Classic": "There is a hibiscus in Tanggu, bathed in ten days, in the north of Heizhi."

"In the middle of the wilderness there is a mountain named Nieyaoyao. On it are buttresses with pillars three hundred miles away, and its leaves are like mustards. There is a valley called Wenyuan Valley. There are buttresses on the valley of Tang, which arrive in a day. When the sun rises, everything is contained in Wu."

The Tang Valley mentioned here is "Yangu", which is the place where the sun rises in myths and legends.As opposed to Yu Yuan, Yu Yuan refers to the legendary sunset.According to historical records, Tanggu is located in the eastern coastal area of ​​Shandong, where it faces Japan across the sea. It was the place where the Xihe people worshiped the sun god in ancient times. birthplace.

Heizhi is an ancient country that has disappeared in Chinese civilization. According to the "Shan Hai Jing" and "Overseas East Classic", there is Hei Chi country in the north of Qingqiu country, "Tanggu" not far from the north of Hei Chi country, and "Tanggu" in the south of Qingqiu country. Chaoyang Valley, Honghong, Gentleman Country, Shebizhishi, Adult Country, Qiqiu, Qiqiu is in the southeast.It is roughly in the eastern part of Liaoning Province in today's China, and these places are the closest to Japan.

It can be said that the Yugu culture and the black tooth culture are the birthplaces of ancient Japanese culture.

When Mochizuki and his party found the evidence of the existence of the legendary ancient sacred tree, they couldn't control the excitement anymore, and knelt down towards the bronze coffin. I wondered why the Japanese knelt down and kowtowed to the coffin of their ancestors?

In fact, these poor Japanese people are just trying to steal the culture of our country. Japan was called Wa country in ancient times, and Japan pretended to be Fusang after Song Dynasty.The so-called "fuso" is actually the soaring fire column, fireball, smoke and swirling hurricane that occurred when Fuji volcano erupted in Japan.Because of its shape like a tree, it is said to be the "sacred tree" in the East China Sea. The hibiscus tree in the myth is Mount Fuji in Japan...

This also confirms that the myth of "Fusang" in ancient China is related to the belief in Mount Fuji in Japan. The word "Mount Fuji" is pronounced "fujisang" in Japanese—almost exactly the same as the pronunciation of "Fusang" in Chinese.

Mochizuki bowed to the old man Zhuo again, and said: "Mr. Zhuo, I am very lucky to have met you. Because of your help, we have found this place. The promise to you will definitely be fulfilled. Now we need you to bring We keep looking forward."

How could a person who was so vicious just now become a virtuous person?Although Zhuo Yugui was cowardly and greedy for money, he still understood the principle of dancing with wolves, and hurriedly said: "The old man will try his best, but I don't know what Mr. Mochizuki is looking for?"

Mochizuki pointed to the carved hibiscus tree on the bronze coffin and said, "Help us find this lesson tree here, and your mission will be completed."

The old man Zhuo looked at the weird patterns on the coffin, looked down for a few times, and finally figured out what they were looking for. , how would he know.If you want to say that you don't know, you will probably have to wade into the bronze coffin, so you can only say: "I will try my best!"

Mochizuki was overjoyed and asked, "Does Mr. Zhuo know anything about this tree?"

Where did the old man know about this thing? He said nonsense, "I heard from the old man in the village that there is such a tree in this area, and it is on Mount Qifeng!"

"Qifeng Mountain? There is no way to get in from there. Our ancestors have tried it."

The old man had an idea: "I heard that there is an ancient road under the village, which can be walked. It's just that the old man is weak, so I'm afraid he can't go that far." Right now, he can only lie one lie after another, and he must not expose his ignorance. the truth, otherwise. . . . . .

Mochizuki immediately called two big men and made a simple stretcher. The old man Zhuo turned into a guest of honor and was carried on the road ahead. It was really comfortable at the moment, but his back was already covered with cold sweat.

When Mochizuki Kazuki and his group walked to the big rock, they saw a pile of rubble. The experienced Qianxue said, "Report to the Patriarch, there was a battle here, and there was a smell of gunpowder."

Mochizuki closed her eyes, sniffed for a long time, nodded and said, "Be careful too, it seems that they still have weapons in their hands. Before finding the Fusang sacred tree, try not to conflict with that Taoist priest."

"Yes!"

The quality of the equipment can determine everything in many cases. Cha Wenbin and the others used rotten wood to tie a simple raft and wobbled across the river, while Mochizuki and his party were much more advanced.

After a while, two simple inflatable kayaks had already landed on the water surface, and the remaining nine people were divided into two groups, Mochizuki, Sister Momoi, old man Zhuo, and five big men. They picked up some wood by the way, Split it with a knife to act as an oar, and drive inside.

They didn't meet the three-legged toad, but on the way, they encountered the two coffins that had been burnt into wreckage and slipped down the river one after another. Momoi Qianxue touched it and said that it had just been burned. Mochizuki said happily: "This Taoist priests are really capable and have been paving the way for us haha."

When they encountered that fork, they were also in a dilemma. Judging from the two almost identical forks, it was really not sure which opening Cha Wenbin entered, so Mochizuki had to ask the old man Zhuo.

Right now, the old man is sleeping soundly on the kayak.

Although Mochizuki was slightly dissatisfied, she still woke him up politely and asked, "Mr. Zhuo, there is a fork in front, which way should we go?"

Zhuo Yugui stood up, pretended to look at it for a long time, and said, "To the right!"

Mochizuki looked at the hole on the right, then at the hole on the left, looked at the old man hesitantly, and asked again: "Why does Mr. Zhuo want us to go to the right?"

The old man's favorite thing in his daily life is to find people to be silly, so he made up nonsense, naturally one after another, staring at Mochizuki and said: "There has been a theory of left yin and right yang since ancient times in China, and the right is yang. Going to the right, is it possible to send yourself to the underworld?"

Mochizuki Kazuki has learned a little bit of fur Taoism, so he naturally knows this. Hearing the old man's explanation, he can't help but believe it. He clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Zhuo's advice, let's go to the right."

The two kayaks are slowly advancing along the dark underground channel to the right, which is completely opposite to the path taken by Cha Wenbin and the others. No one will know that without Cha Wenbin's path, Mochizuki will meet No matter what the situation is, all that remains is the fading lights and a streak of water in the cave.

At the foot of Mount Qifeng, by the ancient well, two men in black were pulling the climbing rope that Mochizuki had put down, and one of them said: "Should we go down too..." If Zhuo Xiong was on the ground now, he might recognize the one who was diving The back of him was the person he shot at in the village that night. . . . . .