Mantra

Chapter 284 The Eight Treasures
Just now, when Hongye was observing the eight black tripods, perhaps because of her archaeological experience, she only read the inscriptions and the descriptions on the outside of the tripods, but she didn't look at the bottom or the inside of the tripods.

But for the cooks of the Wu Zang Temple, the inside of the pot is the most important place.

According to the legend in the Wu Zang Temple, the pots used by ancient cooks, especially the more expensive copper pots and stoves, would have some special patterns and characters carved on the inner wall of the pot. The function of preventing someone from stealing the pot and changing the stove.

The cook at the Wuzang Temple saw that the patterns used for identification were engraved on the inside of the pot. First, it would not affect the overall appearance of the pot and stove, and second, the logo patterns would not be damaged by the external high temperature after the carving.The third reason is that the oily fume left by cooking food will form a natural protective layer, filling between the patterns, forming a kind of "dark pattern" that is difficult to identify, and the dark pattern is not easy to see, so the cook is identifying his pot When they were in the stove, it became the only unique evidence they knew.

Of course, the rules of the dark patterns I mentioned were passed down many years ago, and they are not very rumored. I don't know how many years it has been passed down to now.

But according to my speculation, if the eight tripods underground in Heilanbo City are really related to the ability of Wuzang Temple, then there must be similar dark lines in these eight such important tripods.

This is just speculation, and speculation requires a complete chain to prove it.

So, I climbed into the cauldron, took out the flashlight, and began to imitate Xian Hongye, looking carefully at the black walls of the cauldron, hoping to find some clues about the dark patterns.

And when I entered the cauldron, when my hand touched the wall of the cauldron, a special sense of touch was transmitted from there to between my nails, which once again proved my inner thoughts.

Inside the black tripod, there is a layer of fat that is not thin or thick. The fat is like a protective layer, and it spits evenly inside the tripod.Through the grease, my hands can feel a trace of thin line-like bumps, those bumps are sometimes parallel, sometimes interlaced, and the lines are smooth and regular, which only makes me feel that the texture is definitely not worn out later, but someone deliberately made it.

In order to verify, I hurriedly took off my clothes and wiped off the layer of turbid sludge on the tripod wall. At the same time, I opened my eyes wide and looked at the concave and convex patterns on it.

When I wiped off about half of the sludge with clothes, a "magnificent" picture appeared in front of my eyes.

The painting on it is a river. There are countless boats and people in the river, preying on a big fish. The fish is very big, and I can’t tell what kind of fish it is, but I can tell that the fish in the river have been killed by the boats. Half of the people were dragged onto the boat, and the fish had already been disembowelled. The scene was spectacular, sad and... miserable.

What shocked me the most about this fish was not its size, nor the number of people who caught it, but that after the fish was thrown away, another turtle appeared from inside?

I was shocked and said: "There is a turtle in the belly of the fish. Isn't this the 'carp monster'?"

This scene reminded me of the "sieve" inside the golden boa constrictor, and the "deliciousness" that shouldn't grow in snakes and humans.

Carp monster, also known as "fish handle", is a kind of parasite with delicious meat that grows in fish.This thing has a long history of eating, and it is one of the treasures called "ghost eight treasures" by the ancients.

Because carp monsters are quite similar to turtles in appearance, so in Huo Gong language, they are often called "turtle among fish", which is a more individual delicacy.

Looking at that picture, I can imagine how shocking it would be to take out a huge fish-belly turtle from the body of such a big fish.

It's no wonder that the ancients in the tripod pattern stared dumbfounded at their prey, and the people standing on the shore even worshiped them.

Looking at the picture, while I was amazed by the scroll, I also realized that this is a primitive worship, the most primitive worship expressed by the ancients for the pictures formed by nature.

I suddenly felt that the flower rolls in the cauldron were more like totems or idols?
An interesting idea quickly entered my mind.

But before proving my idea, I didn't say anything, but jumped out of the tripod, went to another tripod, jumped in again, wiped off the sludge with the clothes in my hand, and then used the flashlight to Shine on the picture scroll over there.

Another strange scene appeared before my eyes in an instant.

In the picture on the cauldron wall, a monster that looks like a monkey but not a monkey sits on a certain throne. It looks around at the people who surrendered to him. A very contradictory posture, that is, they offered a tray full of some kind of food to the left hand of the monster, but on the other hand they cut the meat from the monster's right hand and put it into the tray on the other side.

With just a few strokes, the magnificence and weirdness of the whole scene are vividly expressed, and it also let me know immediately what the "monster" drawn in that picture is.

I suddenly realized, and said to everyone: "The picture in this tripod is 'Zhu Antu', and this tripod with a strange monkey is the first tripod. While eating delicious food here, it is called by the monster that people eat. Piling, this guy is the first of the eight treasures of ghosts! If my guess is correct, there is a creature among the eight treasures of ghosts drawn in every tripod."

My words aroused double interest and questions from Hei Lang and Xian Hongye, they both asked me almost at the same time: "What is Zhu Antu, can you solve the mystery between the eight tripods and the wall of the dead?"

I nodded and told the two people: "Zhu Antu is a picture scroll of begging for peace and fortune in the Temple of the Five Viscera. He is mostly depicted in the cooking pots and stoves for cooking specific meals. Often they are pictures of worshiping food and gods."

According to my knowledge, this kind of pattern can only be drawn by cooks, and it must be found in old stores and stoves in the past.For example, an old store in Wuzang Temple, which is famous for its mutton products, often finds the "San Yang Kai Tai" cooking An picture in the soup pot that has been passed down for more than three generations. The business is booming, and the food is delicious in color, fragrance and taste.

To put it bluntly, it's just a good fortune.

The ancients in the city of Heilanbo knew the way of "Food Prohibition of the Week" very well. Although they were not from the Wu Zang Temple, I feel that these people are better than the cooks of the Wu Zang Temple, and the last millet king was so superstitious, so all the formal principles , It is not surprising that they all follow the doorway in "The Forbidden Law of the Week".

Although I haven't read that ancient book, I already knew in my heart that the cauldron I jumped into just now might have been used to cook the Piling Monkey, the first of the eight treasures of ghosts.

(Starting from today, try to change three times a day, finish the curse as soon as possible, and speed up the new chapter. I hope everyone will support the new book of Cricket and Cicada, thank you.)
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