Beyond the Noisy World: The Long Lost Eight Sects: 358, Yeren

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At noon on the 18th of the first month of the lunar calendar, deep in Shennongjia, there was wind in the mountains, which was blocked by the forest and turned into countless small winds, whizzing straight into the bones. There was a drizzle in the sky, which seemed very poetic, but when you look closely, the rain is actually countless tiny ice crystals.

There is still snow in the shade and low-lying areas. The temperature should be a few degrees above zero, but the humidity is relatively high, and there is a lingering chill wherever you go.

Zhuang Mengzhou wrapped in a large cloak of mink fur, leaning on a long wooden stick of the Demon King, trekking in the wild forests of the peaks and hills, the road was very difficult to walk, he exhaled white steam from his mouth, it was already a little hot, and he took off the link The bigcloak's hood, the silver hair was curled up by the fine wind in the forest.

Shi Buquan next to him felt boring on the road, and he broke his mouth and said: "Mr. Zhuang, your Diaoqiu is a bit incorrect now!"

Zhuang Mengzhou wondered: "What's wrong?"

Shi Buquan: "Animal protection organizations will protest. If there is no such thing, there will be no such thing. Have you never heard that slogan?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Cold wind, wet rain, cold and soaking in the bones, what should I wear in this weather?"

Shi Buquan: "Of course it's down jackets, good quality and low price... There was a news last winter that El Niño caused a cold current in the Arctic to go south, and the temperature in North America was cooling extensively. Many robbers changed their jobs and robbed down jackets on the road!"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "That's not called change of career, it's called change of subject matter! What is the down jacket made of?"

Shibuquan: "Down."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Be specific!"

Shibuquan's voice became lower: "Goose down or duck down."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "The mink is an animal, and the geese and ducks are not animals. They are now farmed artificially. The Buddha said that all beings are equal, and you can’t discriminate! It’s not enough to make clothes if you pull out other people’s down, such as roast ducks and roast geese. I never see you eat less every time?"

Shi Buquan smiled: "It looks like you can only wear a cotton jacket. The old-fashioned khaki army coat is quite suitable, which keeps you warm and windproof."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Where did the cotton come from?"

Shibuquan: "It is planted in the field, and the cotton farmer picks it."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Cotton is also a living thing."

Xian Hao, who was walking in the front, couldn't help but interject: "According to the Buddha's view, there is no Alaye consciousness in vegetation and no sentient beings."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "How do you know that trees and trees have no Alaiye Consciousness, in case you become refined?"

Xian Hao: "This is not what I said."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Who said that?"

Xian Hao said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "It should be the Buddha said."

Zhuang Mengzhou raised the bar and said: "Did you hear it with your own ears? Let me tell you the truth. If animals can't eat, and plants can't eat, everyone will starve to death? That would become anti-humanity!"

Shang Ni at the back also said: "The Buddha said that he does not eat meat, Mr. Zhuang always knows it."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Don't talk nonsense! Wuliangguang never said that Buddhas are not allowed to eat meat. This is the rule set by Emperor Wu of Liang. I think this rule is very well set. At that time, the monks did not give birth. , Do not serve, do not pay taxes, if you still eat meat every day, how can you afford it?"

Shang Ni: "Who is Wuliangguang?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Immeasurable light is Immeasurable light. Do you have a good look at the novels I recommend?"

Shang Ni: "Oh, I remember...Hey, this area is the remains of an ancient village."

They walked in the dense forests in the deep mountains. The vegetation in this area is very lush. The virgin jungle is covered with a thick layer of humus and covered with a lot of litter. There is snow in many places, so you can’t see anything at all. Ruins. But Shanni said yes, so there must be.

Ding Qi has been walking in the forefront, smiling and chatting with the audience. At this moment, he stopped and dug out a piece of something beside a small mound. He turned and said: "This is really an ancient village relic, it should be an ancient Ba people. Stayed."

The Ba people are a tribe that lived in the Shennongjia area in ancient times. They are also distributed in the Sichuan Basin and the Huguang Plain. The mound that Ding Qi had just turned over was actually a house that had collapsed for an unknown number of years. It was weathered and disintegrated and covered by vegetation. There was almost no trace of it, but he dug out a piece of broken pottery.

The fragments of pottery in the plains are almost everywhere as long as they are dug underground. The remains from various historical periods are traces of artificial activities. But this kind of thing can also be found in the primitive jungle deep in Shennongjia, indicating that there were villages here a long time ago.

The place where they stand is relatively flat, which can avoid floods in the rainy season and is close to the water source. It is indeed a good place to build a village. At this moment, it has become a dense forest, and there are many trees that have grown for thousands of years. .

This fashionable Ni wondered again: "Mr. Zhuang, what are you doing?"

I saw Zhuang Mengzhou using the long stick in his hand as a shovel, pulling away the dead branches, and picking up the soft humus layer to continue digging down, and then taking out a thing from the soil layer: "I picked the owl Yang Guo’s treasure of world control, do you believe it?"

What he holds in his hand seems to be a string of very primitive necklaces, a rope made of gray-yellow fine linen, and a bone ornament the size of a dollar coin hung with a decorative pattern on the surface. Is a walking person.

Ding Qi walked over and took the string of ornaments, and dried the black dirt on it, saying: "I don't believe it, how can the treasure of the world be picked up everywhere... But it's really a bit tricky, like ordinary rope I'm afraid it has been rotten for many years...Hey, it is really a treasure of the world!"

Ding Qi, Xian Hao, Zhuang Mengzhou, Shi Buquan, and Shang Ni went to Shennongjia in the first month to look for Xiaoyang Country. The original plan was that Ding Qi and the three of them came to explore the way first, but when Shangni went to Cuiraozhuang last time because of school problems, Shi Buquan also stayed in Nantong community to look after her house. People must follow.

The location of the remains of this village is only five kilometers away from the site where Ding Qi was attacked last time, which can be said to be very close.

Ding Qi got the ornament, and with his cultivation base, he could sense that there was information about the world in it. If it was discovered here, it should be the treasure of Xiaoyang Kingdom. The portal of Xiaoyang Kingdom has not been found yet, but the thing was dug out first, Shi Buquan asked: "Mr. Zhuang, you are honest, did you bury this thing here beforehand?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Your little Nizi is an expert, look at the pit, don't you know if I buried it?"

Shang Ni really ran over to study the pit that Zhuang Mengzhou dug, and shook her head: "From the traces of the buried soil, no one has moved for at least a thousand years, let alone newly dug. Traces."

Xian Hao said to Ding Qi: "This is nothing strange, think about how we found Yao Guangzhen back then?"

Ding Qi: "Yes, it was also dug from the riverbed outside the Qin Gaotai."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Teacher Ding, what is the name of this thing?"

Ding Qi: "It seems to be ground from skulls, and its name is Xiaoyangding."

How did he know the name of the treasure of the realm of control, and did not find any written records, but the treasure of the realm of control itself contains a lot of information, and the proficiency in the method of induction is self-observable, Ding Qi said yes.

Shi Buquan looked around: "I found the key, but where is the door?"

Zhuang Mengzhou asked Ding Qi: "Teacher Ding, do you remember the top village outside Cuirao Village?"

The situation is indeed a bit similar, there is a village in the deep mountains. The difference is that the top village is still there today, and there is only a relic that is difficult for ordinary people to find. Ding Qi nodded and said: "It seems that our path is not wrong. We may find the gateway through here, but the villages here have disappeared for thousands of years, and the inheritance of Xiaoyang Kingdom may have long been cut off."

Shi Buquan: "Maybe they moved away?"

Ding Qi shook Xiao Yang in his hand and said: "People may move away, but the treasure of controlling the world remains, indicating that the inheritance has been lost."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Xiao Nizi, take a closer look, are there traces of ancient roads behind the village?"

Shang Ni: "Yes, come with me."

The portal of Xiaoyang Country is easy to find, walking through the dense forest to a high place, and you can find it when you look up. There is a huge arch-like trace on the cliff in front, which is four feet high and two feet wide, like a natural relief. Going closer and taking a closer look, it is actually an artificial relic, but after years of erosion, the gouge marks of that year are no longer recognizable.

This is actually the portal of the heaven and earth secret realm, or its location coincides with the portal of the heaven and earth secret realm. In ancient times, someone carved out the shape of the portal on the cliff to mark it out.

Ding Qi put away Xiaoyang and said: "Looking at this posture, this portal has not been opened for thousands of years, but maybe there are still people living in it. Let’s not use the treasure of the world, just dive in, try not to Alarm the people inside."

The so-called infiltration is to enter with the secret method outside the square, without the help of the treasure of controlling the world to open the door. If this outside world has been isolated for a thousand years, ordinary people may be in danger if they enter it, and they may get sick inexplicably. If there are still people living and multiplying inside, it may also bring a plague to the local people.

So Ding Qi was very cautious. Only five people came to explore the way for the first time, and the five of them were fine. After passing through the door, everyone was a little startled, they were in an abandoned temple.

Why is it a temple? The surrounding buildings are very tall, piled up with stones, each stone is chiseled and polished very beautifully, but it has obviously been abandoned for a long time, and many places have collapsed and weathered with the years. trace. And their location seems to be an altar on the central square of the temple.

Shibuquan: "Sure enough, there were people living here. The ability to build such a building shows that the scale of the ethnic group is not small, and the level of productivity is also high."

Zhuang Mengzhou added: "The level of organization is also good! I don't know if this tribe is still there today."

Ding Qi raised his head and looked into the distance and said: "It should be there, but everything is wrong, otherwise, how could this place be abandoned?"

Shi Buquan exaggeratedly exclaimed: "Gosh! There is so much gold and silver here, did we get into the gold mine?"

There are many gold and silver ornaments in the remaining buildings, many of the patterns inlaid in the reliefs are made of gold, and there are many gold statues of animals, plants, birds and beasts. Even some of the collapsed houses were originally inlaid with a layer of gold roof, not just a layer of gold leaf, but a large piece of gold shell.

In addition to gold, there are silver products, but the surface of the silver products has become dark and black after so long, which is not as conspicuous as the shiny gold.

Xian Hao: "These leftover gold and silver are not easy to dismantle and move away, so I just threw them away."

Shang Ni: "I don't think it takes a lot of time, do the locals even bother to do this kind of thing?"

Shi Buquan: "Maybe there is no one here long ago, or there is no shortage of these things here, and those that are easy to take away will be taken away, and those that are not easy to take away will be left behind."

The surrounding area of ​​the temple is relatively desolate, with sparse trees growing densely on the rocks. Walking down the hill along the remains of an ancient road, standing on a high **** can see the wilderness ahead. There are villages, rivers and fields in the field, and people who are moving can be seen. Xian Hao frowned and said: "The look here is a bit like Cui Rao Zhuang, but I always feel that the atmosphere is not right, and I lack a bit of anger."

Ding Qi's impression of Xie Jingzhi is not very good, but the secret world of Cui Rao Zhuang gives people a feeling of vitality. But here seems to lack that kind of vigorous vitality, Ding Qi also frowned and said: "There seems to be a fascinating atmosphere between the heavens and the earth...No, there are similar elements in the air."

There is indeed a fascinating breath in the air here, very, very light, and ordinary people can't even notice it, but they can't escape Ding Qi's induction. The five people came to the wilderness, but they didn't alarm anyone in the area. They just observed in secret what kind of world it was. The more they looked at it, the more they frowned...

Three days later, five people gathered on a hill next to the wilderness. You looked at me and I looked at you, and you couldn't hide the disappointment. The situation of Xiaoyang Country is basically clear. The scale of this outer world is quite large, but it is not as large as Xiaojing Lake. There are more than two thousand people living in isolation, but it is clear that the civilization here has declined. Or it is obviously degraded.

There is also a temple in the middle of the plain, which is not only different in shape from the abandoned temple in the distant mountains, but also the scale of the building and the construction techniques used are far inferior. If the abandoned building in the distance is a real temple, then the temple of the people today is simply a clumsy, illegal building.

The houses in the village are mostly shabby and shabby, mostly with earthen walls and grass roofs, and some stone materials. However, many of these stones are obviously the remains of ancient buildings, and there are still many exquisite patterns on them, which are piled up to form various foundations and wall foundations.

It is strange that in such a primitive and backward village, there is actually a drainage system. Along the sides of the road and the trenches dug in front of and behind the house, many places are covered with stone slabs, and running water flows in from the outside of the village. People's domestic water and discharged sewage go through two sets of canal systems respectively.

With such a plan, it is already a sign of a fairly developed civilization, and it appears a little bit abrupt here. This probably shows one thing. In ancient times, the productive forces and farming civilization were very developed here, but there are still some traces left today.

The clothes worn by the locals are also very simple. It is a thick gray cloth woven from plant fibers. Looking at it from a distance, it looks like everyone is wearing a rag bag, regardless of age. The local staple food is a barley crop, which is basically harvested by wild planting. The farming method is a bit like five-hearted grains. The harvested wheat grains are not ground for making cakes, but are cooked and eaten directly.

But there is a kind of crop that is artificially planted. Almost all of the crops are planted on the artificially cultivated land with convenient irrigation conditions. Ding Qi calls it cotton trees.

Through secret investigations over the past few days, Ding Qi can also draw many inferences. The birth rate here is very high, but the infant mortality rate is also very high, and the total population size is slowly decreasing. Judging from various traces, the total population in its history may have exceeded 10,000 at its peak, but now there are more than 2,000 people left.

As for the level of medical treatment, let’s not talk about it. The only medicine in the area is the cotton leaves, and the only cure is to pray in the simple temple, and the sorcerer-like figures will give the soup of crushed cotton leaves. juice.

In fact, there are cotton trees everywhere here, and every family has cotton leaves. Why go to the temple to ask for them? Because that represents the blessing of God, it should also have a placebo effect for the local residents.

The cotton tree is an evergreen shrub. The wild plant can grow to three or five meters high. It is not kapok. The flowers on the tree are like cotton bolls. There are many light yellow fibers in it. The locals use it to process fabrics. . But the main purpose of artificially planting this thing is to chew. In the cultivated and irrigated field, the branches are inserted to grow to a height of one meter, and the young leaves are picked for food.

Fresh young leaves can be chewed directly, or dried into tea-like storage. Dry leaves can be ground into powder and taken with water, or chewed directly. Almost all local adult men love to chew cotton leaves, and they carry a bag with them when they go out. Neighbors are also used to entertain guests with this stuff when they visit.

Alcohol is not produced here, and of course people don’t drink. Their diet is extremely simple and their life is equivalent to abject poverty. Chewing cotton leaves is the most important entertainment. Men have to worship God and pray several times a day, and chew cotton leaves for fun at other times, or gather in twos and threes, or find a comfortable place to lean at home alone.

Women take on more work, including farming, cooking, raising children, and harvesting grains, while men only do some work occasionally when they are excited after chewing cotton leaves. But women seldom chew cotton leaves, because in the local people's perception, this is a gift from God to men.

Only a small number of very old women with a certain status chew some cotton leaves, and other women only take them as medicine when they are sick. Of course, some women will chew a few tablets secretly when a man is not paying attention, but this is rare after all, and it is difficult to form a habit.

Ding Qi and the others found the native plant of this cotton tree in the mountains where it is difficult for the locals to set foot. They also did some research and found that the sap has a special effect on people. It can make people excited, feel clear thinking, and even temporarily forget hunger and fatigue, stay energetic, and bring people a sense of pleasure and satisfaction.

Ding Qi is not an ordinary person, of course he will study the more special uses of this kind of thing. The native plants found in the mountains have strong medicinal properties, and to a certain extent, they can be regarded as an elixir in a certain sense. If you use the method properly, you can help you stay clear and drowsy at the time of entry, and even experience a more sensitive state. But if it is used illegally, it will be harmful and useless, and it must not be used much.

As for the cotton trees that have been planted manually in the local dynasties, their medicinal properties have been weakened a lot. Ordinary people will also feel energetic, active and inexplicably excited after chewing. But after the drug's properties subsided, I would feel frustrated and confused again, and I would not be able to lift the energy for anything.

Needless to say, you can also know that chewing and eating for a long time is harmful. It is not only detrimental to the physical and mental health of the individual, but the greater harm lies in the entire society. Just look at the current situation of Xiaoyang Country.

It is surprising that such a place is full of gold. There are a lot of gold and silver products in the local area, and even ordinary people eat boiled wheat grains in broken houses, using pitted golden bowls. There is a large gold mine here. Ding Qi and the others have also discovered the relics of ancient mining and smelting. As for silver, it is a companion of gold smelting.

But the local gold mines are no longer smelted. Those ancient mines were abandoned some years ago, but there are still many gold and silver artifacts left behind. Nowadays, there are craftsmen who can re-cast the ready-made gold into new objects with regular shapes. As for the production of silverware, it is the highest level of craftsmanship that is still preserved in the local area.

There is more gold here than silver, and silver is harder in texture and suitable for processing into all kinds of knives. Here is something better than gold. Ordinary people use gold wares, while powerful leaders use silverware.

In such a world, people don't know what to say. Ding Qi and the others are here to investigate the situation in Xiaoyang Country, not to make a special trip to complain. Several people sat there in silence for a long time before Shang Ni took the lead and said: "Are they savages?"

Ding Qi smiled bitterly: "Yes, they are also human."

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