Chapter 472 Guanyin Cliff
He picked something from a canvas bag and let Heng Fa pull it to the top of the cliff. After the rope was thrown down again, Zhou Zhi also took the buckle and tied it with a climbing knot and started to climb the cliff.
Go to the bottom of the gap, hold on to the cliff and climb up to a certain position, then select a depth where you can lean your body against this side of the gap, stretch your legs to touch the other side of the gap, and fix your body on the cliff. Start climbing operations.
This action is a bit like vertical breaststroke. First, you retract your legs, then spread your legs. After fixing, you straighten your body, spread your arms to support it, and then retract your legs and spread your legs again, just like a tree frog climbing up the cliff. .
Except for some adjustments that need to be made, climbing such a cliff is actually easy and pleasant. As the line of sight rises, the scenery outside the gap gradually changes. From being hidden under the woods, it gradually rises It reaches the level of the tree crown, and then exceeds the tree crown, seeing the strong sunlight shining above the tree crown, until the line of sight becomes wider and wider, and you can see the spectacular scenery of the entire valley.
Of course, from here, you can only see the side of a gap, and the other side is the cliff face of a large cliff.
It is difficult for plants to attach to the red sandstone. Except for some long vines hanging down from the cliff, and a small amount of dendrobium and ferns in the stone nests, there are also lichens covering the water on the ocher stone walls. It seems that some unreadable heavenly scripts have been written on this large cliff by mysterious hands.
This kind of sight blocking is of great benefit to people's psychological protection. Although he is already more than ten stories above the ground, Zhou Zhi feels full of security and can even enjoy the scenery leisurely. .
There are some stone eaves and stone nests in the stone crevices that can provide shelter from the rain. When Zhou Zhi climbed to a certain height, he found that these stone eaves and stone nests had been modified, and there were many more mud lamps.
Each mud cup is a swallow's nest, but most of them are empty. Only a few of them still have a few black heads with white chins. They poked out curiously and looked at Zhou Zhi, squeaking constantly. Chirp.
It is now the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and most of the swallows have grown up and can leave their nests to look for food.
As we approached the top of the cliff, the gap began to widen, but fortunately, just like the top of Guanyin's head, the slope for climbing began to slow down.
Zhou Zhi found some "foot nests", which proves that someone visited here a long time ago, and also used it as a shelter for a long time, and spent a lot of effort to build it.
In the vast mountains at the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, there is still so much hidden in such places.
Climbing a few more steps, the ground finally became enough for me to stand upright. Zhou Zhi hurriedly took a few more steps and finally reached the red sandstone fence on the edge of the top of Guanyin Cliff. I stepped over it and reached the top of the cliff.
It looked very small from a distance, but now I realized that the area is really big, at least three to four hundred square meters.
"It's not bad here..." Zhou Zhi looked around the small square and found that Mr. Qiao was already sitting on the railing facing the cliff and came to his side.
Under the cliffs of Yadanshi, there are continuous hills. The hills are covered by dense vegetation. They are all green in various colors, and the color of the soil is not visible at all.
Between the hills, you can see that the green is more tender. Those are the bamboo forests beside the stream, covering the stream with their own figures.
Looking very far along the green, you will see a trace of water line. That is when the stream becomes wider and the bamboo forest can no longer cover it.
Behind you is an ocher cliff, and in front of you is endless green. Together with the white clouds on the zenith and the whispers in the mountains, the sun has now reached the back of the mountain, and the coolness has begun to show, which is very comfortable.
"Show me the telescope." Mr. Qiao stretched out his hand: "I wonder if anyone on Anle Mountain is looking at us. Is that Jiachuan over there?"
"I'm afraid not." Zhou Zhi handed over the telescope. Anle Mountain was shaped like a pen holder. It is very special. No matter how far away it is, you can recognize it at a glance: "The height here is not high enough. Jiachuan is located between the Yangtze River and the Hongshui River. It is easy to recognize. What you see is obviously wrong. It is actually far away from Mount Anle." Very, it should be the city first, right?”
“That’s right. , Dashuikou was not found..." Mr. Qiao looked at the basin under the cliff with a telescope: "It seems that the Japanese army suffered such a loss during the Japan-Russia Battle of Lushun. Because of visual observation errors, all the artillery shells were sent to the Russian army in Mantou Mountain. Went behind the fortress..."
"To It's Wen Yu who has appointed me to chat with you... Take a look at the Hongshui River. If it's Xianshi Town, there is a soy sauce garden next to the river, with many soy sauce vats in the water. "I'll look for it... eh, it's those little ones. A little bit, right? A lot of grass along the river..."
"That should be it. This reminds me that when I pass by there, I have to bring some soy sauce back..."
"Brother Xian, should we get down to business?"
"Ah, yes, but if there was a drama, you wouldn't be sitting here, right?"
"..."
No matter what, Zhou Zhi got up and went to the grotto at the junction of the small cliff and the big cliff to investigate.
There may have been buildings like temples here, because there are some square holes in the ground near the grottoes.
It is conceivable that there was a building standing here, connected to the grotto behind it into one space.
Now these square holes have accumulated rot and have become flower pots for weeds. For some reason, the buildings on the cliff did not leave any remnants of rotten wood and tiles. There is also a big hole in the grotto. , without any cover.
However, the grotto is only a large opening, and the two sides are still sealed with stones, and there are even a few small windows.
Entering the grotto, Hengfa was already busy in the "main room", where there was a fire pit.
Zhou Zhi looked up and found that the stone wall above his head had been blackened, and the traces walked along the stone wall to one side, and then emerged from the gap in the corner of the "ear room".
This is the wisdom of the predecessors. It does not require a chimney and can achieve such an effect by taking advantage of the unique microclimate of this cliff.
Hengfa was boiling water and roasting potatoes with the hanging things. When he saw Zhou Zhi coming in, he smiled and said, "How is it? Isn't it a good place to sleep tonight?"
"It's quite good. Not bad." Zhou Zhi nodded: "What we want is not here."
"Hi!" Hengfa is actually not very optimistic about the two children's ideas at all. He must have been ordered by the abbot to accompany them on this trip: "This place is probably too prominent in the eyes of the mountain people. Who dares to hide in a place that everyone knows?" Something?”
Zhou Zhi didn’t quite agree with this statement, which was why he insisted on coming over to take a look, because the people in the mountains are still very simple now, and they still rarely know the legendary grottoes, hanging coffins, and caves. Go ahead and bother.
The proof is that during the Bo people's hanging coffin archaeological activities last year, funerary objects could still be found in the coffins. During Zhou Zhi's field investigation, he also discovered several tombs that had not been disturbed.
However, the cave here is obviously not among them. There are obvious traces of carvings on the inner wall of the cave. There is a row of stone platforms and three semi-column stone pillars with reliefs.
You can also see the general shape of the Third Buddha or the Sanqing statue. The stone was once preserved there, and then used as a matrix to shape the statue.
But now these are also gone, not even a trace is left.
There are a few grass nests at the window, but those are nests built by wild birds. Now that Zhou Zhi and his party have arrived, they have scared away the wild birds.
(End of this chapter)