Mantra

Chapter 237
On Wang Hou's side, because of the previous agreement, we didn't dare to take any action. Even when we went back, according to the agreement, Wang Hou was notified by radio at a distance of 500 meters from the vehicle.

After waiting for a while, Wang Hou finally removed the so-called "booby trap". He announced "safe" to me through the walkie-talkie before everyone returned to the vehicle's station.

At this time, the sun is already setting.

I looked at the sun that was sinking in the west, and knew that the time was not waiting for me, so I hurriedly took Agou and Amao to light the fire and wash the basin, and prepared a snake meal, while the Golden Fleece got into the car and fiddled with his equipment. Wang Hou was even more nervous. Taking explosives, electronic detonators and batteries, and studying the method of "laying mines" with Baturu, it seems that the two are very interested in the newly discovered "enemy defense plan"...

In short, before nightfall, everyone was very busy, but there was joy in the busyness. This may be the most relaxed time since we entered the mountain.

At that time, Agou and Amao and I were very busy. First, we used miscellaneous firewood and stones to build the "cross pit" for outdoor stoves. After it was done, I took out the military dagger while talking and laughing, and then followed the procedure of making a snake to cut the blood of the golden-scaled animal, skin it and cramp it, and prepare it for washing.

But at this time, Xian Hongye, a sensitive woman, called me over again, saying that she wanted to show me her "discovery".

"What discovery?" I asked in surprise.

"Do you still remember the pot we took out from the cave tunnel?" Xian Hongye reminded.

Immediately I thought of those clay pots encased in stalactites inside human corpses.

Those ancient people who were nailed to the wall of the cave, with the passage of time, left only empty shells made of stalactites, and even the iron armor that once wrapped them turned into thick rust, but the inside of them That clay pot unexpectedly got rid of the torment of the years, but it was covered with a thick layer of stalactite salt.

After Xian Hongye came back, he has been experimenting with how to open the jar. Obviously he has succeeded now, and he has gained something.

Out of curiosity, I followed Xian Hongye back to the off-road vehicle, ready to reveal the secret of the jar, but before I left, I was afraid that Agou and Amao would steal raw snake meat, so I told Lin Shaosong to keep an eye on the two of them. Don't give them a chance to steal it, or they will eat the sparganosis into their brains, and we don't have the tools to open their heads.

Then I saw the cans in the car that we had taken out of the dead man's hole.

When I calmed down and looked at it, I just had time to carefully look at the jars we brought back. Except for the one I took out, everyone found four more one after another. These five jars are now stacked in the car. On the food box inside, the thick stalactite salt on the outside has been carefully removed by Xian Hongye with tools, revealing a glassy sauce red glaze.

I looked at these jars and was quite novel for a while.

Looking at it as a whole, these jars are basically oval-shaped with a flat top, and the top is relatively smooth, but there are countless densely packed prototype small holes on each jar. , obviously traces left by man-made.

The whole pot is like honeycomb coal, and it is connected inside and out. I looked at this strange pottery and couldn't understand it.

"What's this?" I scratched my head and said, "It's the size of a fist, and it's full of holes. Let it leak out."

Xian Hongye is a student of literature and history. I thought he would tell me some specific content about this "sieve urn", but unfortunately, Xian Hongye also shook his head, expressing that he did not understand what it was.

But after all, there is ink in their stomachs. Although they don't know the specific purpose and name of this thing, they still get some rare information from the production method of this small object.

He first told me that this thing is actually black pottery, but it is covered with red glaze, so it shows a unique sauce red luster. Black pottery is a relatively primitive pottery, which can be found all over China. Grandpa Yin Hongye Xianyun There are also similar black pottery Suiping in the ancient Ailao porcelain pieces left by Du, but this kind of pottery has been basically abandoned since the Ming Dynasty. In modern times, it is only partially inherited in remote areas such as southwestern Yunnan and Kham.

Compared with the original black pottery, the red glaze of this "sieve urn" is very clever. Although it is pottery, it uses the unique "Jiehong" glazing technique of the Ming Dynasty, and the glaze is smooth, which can be called exquisite.

It can be said that this "sieve" is a "hodgepodge" of freaks.

At this point, Xian Hongye summed it up in a general way: "This urn is so weird, it combines the very primitive 'black pottery firing' technology with the very advanced 'sacrificing red enamel' technology, making it unpredictable. "

I don't understand what Xian Hongye said, I really don't know what is called "black pottery" or "sacrifice red", let alone understand what it means.

Simply, I said to Xian Hongye: "Yezi, I don't understand a single word you said so much, can you tell me something so I can understand?"

Xian Hongye saw that I didn't understand, so she thought about the gap, and then proposed to me a hypothesis about the connection between Heilanbo City, the goddess Hua of Miaojiang and the ancient country of Ailao.

First of all, before we came out of the Yaowang Temple, we heard Zhao Gong's past and legends. From the legends, everyone learned a very important piece of information, that is, many years ago, there was a "survivor" from the south who came from far away. The place moved to the present Furongchuan.

These survivors brought cultural relics that only existed in the ancient Ailao country and the "Laughing Skull Flower" that symbolizes the millet king of Ailao. With the help of some kind of power, these "survivors" fought a big war with the surrounding nations, and the result of the war was very terrible. Cruel, this sturdy nation was likely to be uprooted by the army and locals, leaving only a piece of ruins that were built in the Ming Dynasty, which is the so-called "Heilanbo City".

In Heilanbo City, Xian Hongye’s grandfather, Xian Yundu, once discovered many relics similar to the ancient Ailao Kingdom. Most of those relics were made in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is more certain that these "Heilanbo people" are the survivors of the ancient Ailao Kingdom in the Ming Dynasty. speculation.

And based on the unearthed five pottery with characteristics of both the Ailao Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, Xian Hongye has a further inference about what will happen next to the Ailao survivors.

She felt that after the ancient Ailao people migrated to Furongchuan, they probably came into contact with other advanced civilizations. The two merged and finally produced a "subspecies" between the Ailao culture and the Central Plains civilization. ".They integrated ancient "witchcraft" with relatively modern techniques, and finally this unique "religious culture" of "nailing" people to walls and burying "clay pots" in dead bodies emerged.But what is the purpose of this religious culture is unknown.

Hearing this, I barely understood. After staring at these broken jars for a long time, I had to ask Xian Hongye again: "Then what is in this jar?! Can you open it?"

Xian Hongye nodded, put on her gloves, and was about to unscrew the jar again and show it to me.

(End of this chapter)