Chapter 287 – The Word of Heaven

Update: 2013-05-07

The Yellow River is the mother river of China, from the origin of human civilization has nurtured countless children, which hides countless secrets, to this day no one can understand the deepest secrets of the Yellow River, it is no exaggeration to say that there are thousands of years of Chinese civilization in the Yellow River, it is one of the most valuable resources of the land of China. The Yellow River has a history of more than thousands of floods, washed away countless villages and counties, silt buried countless treasures, as well as the Yellow River residents along the sacred rituals, we must know that they in order to prevent the Yellow River flooding but what tricks can be used out of the sunk into the rituals of the treasure to take out a piece of treasure is the price of the treasures, the residents along the river to fish out a number of cultural relics is not an empty talk, of course, the weird things are countless! The people along the river fished out some artifacts.

Qin Yang and Zhang Ming will target an ancient city in the north of Luoyang, according to Xiang Yu and others explained that after the Qin destroyed Zhou, if really transported back to the Nine Cauldrons, then the ancient city will be a must-pass through the place, and the ancient city is close to the Yellow River, and the speculation of the Qin Yang trio is also very similar to the duo drove before the truck lied to say that it is transporting sand, in Nanyang around a period of time and then went straight to the ancient city, after three days of driving, and finally came to the small county which still retains most of the ancient buildings, and the ancient city. Retained most of the ancient buildings of the small county, if you have to say, it is not too much to say that it is a relatively large township. Zhang Ming all the way tired enough, so after arriving in the ancient city, the two looked for a hotel to live down, after a beautiful sleep, and ate something, in the ancient city to come to the next morning is out of the hotel began to inquire about the news.

Zhang Ming is proficient in metaphysics and other things, coupled with the residents of this county seem to believe in feng shui, so the set of words set very quickly, while Qin Yang is the collection of the nearby residents of the dead after reading their memories, and occasionally get some of the existence of thousands of years of the dead, is to give him a very much more information. While skulking by the Yellow River, Zhang Ming hurriedly arrived on a motorcycle, and after seeing Qin Yang, he said, “I’ve inquired about some news.”

“Tell me about it.” Qin Yang said.

Zhang Ming said, “I asked the oldest old man here, they said that on the records they know, the Yellow River is very quiet in the area of the ancient city, so quiet that people are a little unsure of why, the Yellow River in the area of the ancient city is near the corner, from the plateau leaving a very turbulent current, it is reasonable to say that the possibility of flooding is very high, but they said that eighty years ago, the number of times that it flooded here was only five times. These five times or because of the whole Yellow River flooding caused by the Yellow River, only the last eighty years, the Yellow River in this area of the Yellow River is a little restless, every year to flood once, stirring up the people’s lives, although the country has done the defense project, but very often the Yellow River will also overflow the dyke. I think it is a bit impossible, eighty years ago, a total of five floods? The Yellow River has flooded more than a thousand times, it’s unlikely that this place would be so peaceful.”

“Possible.” Qin Yang nodded, according to some memories he got, before eighty years ago, as to what era was unknown, the Yellow River did flood no more than ten times, five times was not an exaggeration.

Zhang Ming said, “You believe it too? I don’t think it’s too believable.”

“Trustworthy or not wait and see,” Qin Yang looked at the muddy Yellow River water, his eyes narrowed.

The yin and yang eyes had failed again, which meant that one of the Nine Tripods was definitely in this piece, or it could be the influence of other treasures, whether it was the Nine Tripods or not, Qin Yang felt that he needed to check it out.

“This piece, so special.” Zuo Ci suddenly said.

“What’s special?” Qin Yang asked in confusion.

“I forgot.” Zuo Ci smiled bitterly, “After all, most of my memories have not been restored.”

Qin Yang shrugged helplessly.

At this time suddenly a team of engineers came in a construction vehicle, Qin Yang asked in confusion, “What are they?”

“Construction crews from the state, after all, since the founding of the country, this place has become one of the country’s counted hardest hit areas.” Zhang Ming said, “In the past, there were at least more than 100,000 people in the ancient city, from the founding of the country to now there are only a few tens of thousands left, most of them have left, after all, it’s really not a place for people to stay in, no one wants to get up the next morning to see the Yellow River water flooding over their beds. I’ve seen that all the beds within the square here are higher, a meter or two taller.”

“Let’s look around everywhere and find a place where we can dive.” Qin Yang said.

The two of them kept walking back and forth around here, drawing some markers from time to time, and were planning to go to the far end to take a look, when they suddenly heard one of the workers from the construction team shouting out, “Come quickly, a treasure has been dug out.”

The sound of the voice made a lot of construction team members around them rush over, Qin Yang and his duo followed along and went there, but found that the worker was originally digging up some silt, but dug out some strange and weird pieces of iron, Xiang Yu said, “It’s the iron pieces on the armor of the Qin army, it should be a heavy armored soldier.”

“True enough.” Qin Yang nodded and silently retreated, while those workers kept on digging, hoping to see any bigger treasures, of course Qin Yang was too lazy to pay attention to it, but instead, he came all the way to a small village near the Yellow River, but when the two of them walked in they were the first to see a huge dilapidated stone monument that was more than two meters high and more than half a meter wide, Qin Yang pulled over a passing citizen and handed over a cigarette, saying: “Friend, what the hell is this?”

The man took the cigarette, beautifully smoked a mouthful, said: “old long ago here, I heard that almost a hundred years, is a Yellow River flooding when washed up, the country also came to people to check, but nothing has been found out, just said it is a piece of stone monument sunk in the bottom of the Yellow River, the pattern on it is the Yellow River mud sand polished out, not much reference value, at most, is the period of Qing dynasty Polished. This thing is too heavy, they think it’s time-consuming and laborious to take it back and it doesn’t have much research significance, so they put it aside here.”

“That’s so.” Qin Yang nodded.

The man asked curiously, “Listening to the two of you, your accents don’t sound like locals.”

“Oh, I’m an entourage member of the construction team, here to survey the surrounding terrain.”

The man didn’t feel any skepticism and left after saying a few words, Qin Yang pointed at the stone tablet and said, “What do you think, what’s the significance of this thing?”

“Can’t tell, it might really be sand polished.” Zhang Ming shrugged his shoulders.

On the contrary, it was Qin Yang who stood in front of the stone monument and watched it with interest, Zhang Ming found it a bit boring and simply went to the village to inquire about the news, Qin Yang walked around the stone monument twice and said, “There’s really nothing to look at.”

“That’s not necessarily true.” Bai Qi suddenly said, “This is the Heavenly Character.”

“What Heavenly Character?” Qin Yang asked.

“Words that communicate with the heavens.” Bai Qi said, “This was a mysterious script during the pre-Qin period, all the words needed when countries sacrificed to the heavens, only that very few people knew about it. Usually it is the presiding officer of the Imperial Temple in can understand some of it.”

“Oh, I do remember this matter.” Zuo Ci said, “It is rumored to be a very ancient script, only later the First Emperor burned books and pitted the Confucian scholars to completely extinct this weird script, the First Emperor thought that he was the fate of heaven, and it was better to worship to the sky than to worship to himself, so this heavenly character is simply something indistinct, and shouldn’t exist in the world under his rule.”

“How dare you.” Qin Yang laughed, “Mr. Bai, trouble.”

“En? Using the tripod to suppress the Yellow River, worshiping the river god, praying for mediocrity, the latter is a bit blurry, it’s been polished by the mud and sand and can’t be seen anymore.” Bai Qi said somewhat helplessly.

“This point is enough.” Qin Yang laughed: “It looks like the Qin army really robbed the nine tripods in the beginning, just in this place may be encountered the Yellow River flood, they fear the river god, cast the nine tripods, to worship the river god, just worried about going back to be unable to account for the task, so some should not know about the matter of the death of the people, this matter has no record, go back just say that the Yellow River flood washed away the nine tripods, this speculation of mine should be reasonable, right? ?”

“Bold assumption.” Xiang Yu said, “The word Tian is very honorable, no one dares to fake it, at least what is recorded on this stele is true. It looks like one of the nine tripods might be in this area. It’s just that there are too many weird things in the Yellow River, if you go deep inside the Yellow River, I’m afraid that some of the creatures you encounter will be even more terrifying than the White Python. And this place is close to some villages, so if there are any big movements it would be easy to startle them.”

“No, there is a thunderstorm tonight, the sound of lightning is enough to cover up some unnecessary movements.” Zuo Ci said with conviction.