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"First of all, let's start with Zhuo Wenbai's family."

Li Ang looked at Guan Anyan and said with a smile: "Do you still remember that we were at Zhuo Wenbai's house, and the couple specially cooked black fish to entertain us?"

"Um."

Guan Anyan naturally remembered how Li Ang ate a whole pot of fish in one go.

"Not long after eating the pot of black fish, I saw the vague appearance of the woman in the painting."

Li Ang took out the drawing paper from his bosom, and deliberately concealed the fact that the Mosi avatar had the ability to regurgitate the cud, and seeing the appearance was actually after regurgitating and chewing.

"At that time, I was a little surprised. According to Zhuo Wenbai and his wife, Qishui God is the source of the black fish. After eating the black fish, the image I saw should be the young Qishui God in the Qishui Temple. Why is it a woman?

Could it be that the Qihuai Empress was transformed into the water god? "

Li Ang said: "In the field of folklore, it is not uncommon for gods to change from male to female, or from female to male.

For example, before the Yu Dynasty, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was mostly male,

The "Avatamsaka Sutra" has a cloud: Avalokitesvara, the brave husband.

After the Yu Kingdom was established, the legend of Princess Miaoshan spread, and Guanshi gradually became a female figure.

But in the legend of Empress Qihuai, there is no such description at all.

Empress Qihuai is a god that appeared out of thin air, and has no inheritance or evolution relationship with the Qishui God from the perspective of folk beliefs.

Therefore, the Qishui God and Empress Qihuai exist independently. "

Li Ang put away the drawing paper, and said lightly: "This is the first doubt.

The second suspicious point is the genealogy book with suspicious records in the ancestral hall of Qishui Village, and the coffins in different conditions on the graveyard.

In the genealogy of Qishui Village, in the first 80 years after the establishment of the village, no villager was over 75 years old.

And on the cemetery, the coffins in the 80 years since the establishment of the village are all empty, without any corpse.

Strange isn't it? Although the villagers of Qishui Village come from different places in Hedong Road, and their hometowns are different, they all have the concept of going to the soil to be safe.

Even if the conditions are difficult, they will not let the ancestors bury their corpses in the wilderness, and set up a clothes tomb when they have money.

So, where did the dead bodies go? "

He glanced at the other people who were frowning, and continued: "The third doubt is this."

He took out another piece of paper from his pocket, on which were drawn many words with winding lines.

"Chewen?"

Ji Xing recognized the type of characters at a glance. The characters on the note in Li Ang's hand were oracle bone inscriptions, and the content was the same as what he saw on the stone tablet, even more detailed.

"Jiawu Divination is not good for today's use"

Ji Xingwang interpreted the above content word by word, and suddenly stopped, looking at the word after "yong" in shock, ". Qiang."

"Qiang?"

Yu Shusheng frowned, of course he knew what Qiang meant. There are tribes and countries formed by other ethnic groups in all directions of the Shang Kingdom.

There is the ghost side in the north, the tiger side in the south, the barbarian side in the east, and the Qiang side in the west. War never stops.

But "using Qiang"?

What does it mean.

"Qiang has many writing methods and variant characters in the Qiwen. For example, in the neck of the humanoid "Qiang", a hand-shaped character is added to indicate the capture of the Qiang people.

Adding ropes and stone locks around the neck means that the Qiang people were imprisoned with ropes and stone locks.

There are also ropes, adding fire, which means "

"Liao Ji."

Ji Xingwang took a deep breath, and said slowly: "The "Book of Rites·Biaoji" says that the Yin people respected the gods and led the people to do things with gods, ghosts first and rituals later.

The Yin and Shang dynasties are in the same line, and the merchants pay special attention to war and sacrifice, and they need to divination to the heaven and earth, ancestors, ghosts and gods for every major event.

In order to satisfy the ghosts and gods as many as the stars in the sky, they consumed a lot of materials in divination, including livestock, bronzes, jade, pottery, as well as slaves, prisoners of war and barbarians. "

"That's right."

Li Ang nodded and said: "The sacrifices in the Shang Dynasty were extremely cruel and tyrannical. They regarded slaves and barbarians as pigs and dogs, and even inferior to domestic animals,

Killing slaves and barbarians is like breathing and sleeping, it is a very common and normal thing.

Use Qiang, use Qiang,

Killing Qiang people is as common as using a consumable. "

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Yu Shusheng's face became even paler, and he suddenly thought that after using Qiang, there was a word for steaming and cooking.

"These words were excerpted from an oracle bone in the rock formation at the bottom of the lake after I dived into the bottom of the lake."

Li Ang said: "In addition to more black fish at the bottom of the lake, there is also a zigzag cavity.

In the concave cavity, there is a huge bronze vessel, 甗 (yǎn).

That should be an ancient alienated object, and it is also the root of everything in Qishui Village. "

"Can you dive to the bottom of the lake?"

Wang Linian's tone finally changed a bit, "This is impossible, the water of Qishui Lake is full of resentment and hatred, even if a cultivator in the Cloud Patrol Realm is fully prepared, it is impossible to dive all the way to the bottom of the lake."

While talking, he suddenly got stuck. According to the Taiyuan Wang's contact person in Chang'an Ghost City, Luffy is likely to be the successor of the former Sui pirate sect's nine-headed monster.

It's not too strange to have some kind of special water-avoiding technique.

"hehe."

Li Ang would not explain the special features of Mosi's avatar to the other party, so he smiled slightly and let the other party make up his own mind.

Yu Yong couldn't help asking: "What is Zi?"

"It's a kind of bronze cooking utensil from the Shang Dynasty, which was passed down to the Han Dynasty as a ritual vessel. If you go to those houses of Zhongming Dingshi, you might find it."

Ji Xingwang said quietly: "Zeng is composed of two parts, the top is a round bucket, which is used to hold food, called zèng;

The bottom of the steamer is a perforated board, called grate (bì);

The lower part below the grate is a tall foot used to support the container, called 鬲 (lì).

When in use, place firewood under the 鬲 and light it. The water in the retort forms steam, which passes through the perforated grate and rises all the way, heating the part of the retort, thereby steaming the food. "

"That's right."

Li Ang nodded and said: "The entire jar is more than three feet in diameter, and the top is completely sealed by a heavy bronze plate.

The tall feet below were deeply buried in the mud and could not move.

Such a huge zi, even in the country of Shang with powerful monks, could not be cast casually.

Moreover, its material is quite special. In addition to bronze, it is also mixed with other special materials, which can last thousands of years underwater without rust or decay.

In addition, do you still remember the steamed '郹' (ér) in the text?

The whole zi is a tool used to torture Qiang slaves and please ghosts and gods.

Considering that on the way here, I have been using my feet to measure the distance and direction between the tunnel location and the ancestral hall.

The place we are standing at this moment should be under the Qishui Lake.

And behind that stone door, leading to is the bottom of the jar. "

clap clap.

Applause sounded behind the stone gate.

From the shadow behind Wang Linian, a figure slowly walked out.

It was a young man in his twenties. He was wearing a muddy green shirt and his face was quite messy, but his handsome appearance and refined temperament could not be concealed.

It is the search and rescue target of Li Ang and his party.

Chu Haoman.

He stepped slowly through the stone gate and stood shoulder to shoulder with the expressionless Wang Linian.

Li Ang watched this scene with great interest,

Yu Yong and Yu Shusheng were shocked and astonished, unable to believe it,

But Ji Xingwang and Guan Anyan's master and apprentice were not only strongly shocked, but also angry.

Guan Anyan clenched her fists, looked at Chu Haoman and shouted sharply: "Senior brother!"

"Junior Sister."

Chu Haoman smiled wryly, bowed his hands towards Guan Anyan and Ji Xingwang, and sincerely said to Ji Xingwang, "Teacher, I have let you down."

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Ji Xingwang was silent for a long time, and asked slowly, "Why?"

"Why did you come here, why did you worry everyone, why did you collude with Wang Linian, why did you put your junior sister in danger."

Ji Xingwang's words were as calm as ever, but there was a firm will in his tone.

"teacher"

Chu Haoman took a deep breath, bowed again, and replied peacefully: "Disciple, this is a last resort, not for myself.

It is for the safety of tens of thousands of people in Bingzhou City, Taiyuan County, and even Hedong Road. "