"Wow, have you ever taken such a risk with your elbow?" Mai Xiaomiao began to have stars in her eyes again: "Isn't this Indiana Jones?"
"Huh?!" Zhou Zhi quickly shook his head: "Raiders of the Lost Ark The story is too much a caricature, a real archeology The work is not 10% similar to his. Xiaomiao, if you are interested, I can take you to several construction sites of the Three Gorges rescue excavation when I have time. I believe that the boring and loneliness can make you 100% Ninety-nine people can't avoid it."
“It’s like a mountain road like this. Once a group of us walk it like sightseeing, talking and laughing, everyone will find it novel and gratifying. But if you walk it alone once, ten times, or a hundred times, you Think about what it would be like.”
Everyone thought carefully and then realized that the section where Lao Chiri used a knife to clear the way just now, if he came alone...
Thinking about it, he would spend the night alone in this barren mountain. , I suddenly felt panicked in my heart.
"Grandpa Chiri, you are so great!" Mai Xiaomiao's biggest advantage is that he likes to praise others, and his praises are very straightforward and his emotions are expressed with great force.
Lao Chiri waved his hand: "Sonobi Sonobi, without Sono, there would be no Bimo. This is what one must experience to become Bimo."
"Sonobi. Nuo is the source, Bi is the activity of blessing and chanting scriptures during religious activities, and Mo is the Teacher." Zhou Zhi explained: "Bimo is the scripture master, and Sonobi is the source of scriptures. Without the resources of scriptures, you cannot cultivate a scripture master. This is what Grandpa Chiri means."
"So now we are. The Sutra Cave we want to go to is Sono?" Chi Xueli asked.
“Yes, we will be there tonight.”
Although it is a road for horses to walk on, it is still not easy to travel. Fortunately, the pine forest is relatively dry and the road is covered with pine needles, making it more comfortable to walk.
A number of stone carvings with religious color began to appear along the way. They were either carved with strange patterns, or carved with some talisman-like things, or carved with scriptures of the Yi people. It is rough and does not appear to be the work of a professional stonemason at first glance, but it is full of rough and mysterious colors, which must be the imprint left by the Bimo of the past generations.
The group did not even dare to raise their voices too loudly, as if the souls of the carvers were attached to these stone carvings, and they did not dare to disturb them.
Every time Lao Chiri passed by a stone carving, he would touch them with his hands and recite a few verses, just like walking in the village and seeing villagers sitting at the door to rest. Just say hello casually.
This made the group of people who didn’t know what was going on even more upset.
Seeing this, Zhou Zhi had to comfort him in a low voice: "We are here with the purpose of promoting the civilization of the Yi people. Bimo masters of all generations will definitely approve of it and protect us, so everyone does not need to be nervous. .”
Lao Chiri led the way. He was performing the ritual seriously just now, and his mood changed a little. He didn't notice that there was silence behind him. Only then did he react and turned around and said: "These engraved symbols do have the function of intimidation, but Only for evil spirits, Of course, thieves and curses will not be imposed on good people. Even if they are imposed on good people, it will be ineffective."
"Did you hear that?" Zhou Zhi himself breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Speak in Chinese. Speaking, just..."
Mai Xiaomiao raised his hand: "I know! Don't do bad things to others, and you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night."
"Hahahaha..." Everyone laughed, and Chi Xueli praised: "Xiaomiao's Chinese The level is getting higher and higher!”
It wasn't until early four in the afternoon that the team arrived at the foot of a large mountain.
The shape of this mountain is very special, as if some god inserted a card on the top of a mountain. On the top of the arc-shaped mountain is a wide and thin stone wall. The stone wall is very It is smooth, with no earth or trees attached to it, and only a layer of green on the top. It looks a bit like half a stone tablet without words. "We're here."
"This place looks special." Zhou Zhi looked at the stone wall rising not far away: "It would be spectacular if there were a few big characters carved on it. .”
In a few years. , in Maotai Town, not far from Zhou Zhi's hometown, the cliffs beside the Chishui River will be engraved with three characters "Meijiu River". Each character is more than 30 meters high and 30 meters wide, making it the tallest in the world. Zhou Zhi As soon as I saw this smooth cliff, I thought of carving words on it.
"Who are you showing this carving to?" Lao Chiri was dumbfounded by Zhou Zhi's sudden thought: "Almost no one comes here. There are many flying squirrels on the cliff. I sometimes go up there to get the Five Spiritual Oils."< br>
"Flying squirrel? Bat? What is Wulingzhi?" Mai Xiaomiao asked.
“Flying squirrels are not bats, they are flying squirrels. They are a bit like squirrels, but there are webs connected between the four legs and the tail. They stretch out like a kite and can glide. Wulingzhi is the shit they poop. "It's just Chinese medicinal materials, I don't know what it can cure," Zhou Zhi explained to Mai Xiaomiao.
“Wulingzhi can be used raw or cooked, raw used to promote blood circulation, cooked used to stop bleeding.” Lao Chiri said.
“Ah, that’s right!” Zhou Zhi suddenly remembered something interesting: “When we were children, we all learned the story of the Hanhao Bird. In fact, the Hanhao Bird is not a bird, but this flying squirrel.”
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"Really?" Everyone has memorized this text, but most children just forget it. No one will ask what kind of bird this Hanhao bird is. Chi Xueli couldn't help laughing: "The Hanhao bird has wings. "Squirrel?"
"It's called a flying squirrel," Zhou Zhi corrected, "It's much bigger than a squirrel. About the same size as a cat. "
"Flying squirrels have a habit of 'finding food from a thousand miles away', Lao Chiri said: "They will not defecate anywhere even if they are far away. They search for food anywhere and return to their fixed place if they want to defecate. There must be a specific location as a 'toilet', and once we find it, we can often find dozens or hundreds of pounds of Wulingzhi."
Mai Xiaomiao thought that an animal the size of a cat could actually be in his own toilet. There were hundreds of kilograms of feces piled up in the 'toilet', which was a bit funny: "That's a lot to save." "Young man?"
When everyone got to the bottom of the stone wall, they discovered that it was not as smooth as it looked from a distance. There were also some gaps and cavities on the stone wall, especially at the bottom where the stone wall contacted the soil. There are even some tenacious plants that have gotten into the cracks in the rocks and climbed up along the cracks.
There were some small mud balls under the stone wall where the stone and the soil were in contact. Lao Chiri picked one up casually, rubbed the soil off the stone wall and handed it to Zhou Zhi: "This can be sold for money, do you know the elbow?"
< br>Zhou Zhi looked at the quartz luster and translucent stone in his hand: "I don't know, what is this?"
"This is the glaze fruit!" Zhou Zhiyi I couldn't help but be happy when I heard it: "Old Zhong hid the stuff from me and didn't show it. It turned out that the glaze fruit looks like this!"
Old Zhong is the porcelain maker who made clay porcelain in the steamed bun kiln in Jiukou Township. Now the porcelain has been Because it is made by "purely handmade by the Song Dynasty", it is now being rounded off by the islanders, and the price has increased twenty to thirty times what it was sold in the village before. As a result, Lao Zhong became the "first to get rich" in Jiukou Township.
Earth porcelain also needs to be glazed. The glaze comes from a slurry prepared from several kinds of stone powder. It is said to be the "glazed fruit" found in the mountains. It is heated and smoldered, then ground into powder, and then used to fly with water. It is made by aging fine materials selected after removing impurities.
The colors of the fired porcelain include earthy brown, black, light cyan, light green, and yellow-green, and they are very elegant when processed.
But today was the first time Zhou Zhi saw the original appearance of native glaze. (End of this chapter)