As soon as he heard that he was going to climb the casserole cauldron, Hu Zhijun, the second platoon leader, happily went along.
The old platoon leader came forward, but the new platoon leader felt sour and had no choice but to approve the reconnaissance team to go up the mountain.
And Wang Ke has another reason, that is, the troops will be shooting live ammunition in this area in the near future. It is important to be familiar with the terrain. Shaguoding is the best observation post.
After breakfast, the reconnaissance team brought enough water and put on liberation shoes. Wang Ke put on his shoulder bag and specially brought a three-section flashlight inside. After returning from the joint inspection and archaeological team, he bought this extended version of the flashlight.
The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun and five people from the reconnaissance team met at the entrance of the village and headed to Sha Guoding together. It is said that the altitude is more than 1,000 meters. After deducting the average altitude of the western mountainous areas calculated from the Yellow Sea level, the actual peak is only 500 to 600 meters. For a group of young people, it didn't take long to reach the mountainside.
There are sparse grass and sparse forests all the way up this mountain, and there are rugged rocks everywhere on the mountain. When we reached the mountainside, the terrain eased slightly, and there was a hillside the size of a football field. This is very special on the entire cliff. Is this where the temple was? But no one can tell clearly why this temple fell into ruin.
"Platoon leader, take a break! If this place is really where the original temple was, then it's not too far from the Immortal Cave. Everyone spread out and take a look around here. Are there any caves?" Wang Ke found a piece of gum The large and small stones looked very smooth, so he said to the platoon leader Hu Zhijun: "Platoon leader, come here and have a rest! It's rare to see such a smooth stone along the way."
Platoon leader Hu Zhijun also came over and took a look, "This stone is very special! It looks like a fallen half of a stone tablet."
"Platoon leader, it really sounds like what you said. It's a pity that a few of us can't turn it over." As he said that, Wang Ke bent down and looked at the side of the stone. From this look, he really saw some clues. "Platoon leader, look at the side of this side. Are there any artificial patterns?"
"Yes, it's really a pattern." Platoon leader Hu Zhijun affirmed after reading it.
"Is this a stone tablet?"
"If it's not a stone tablet, it's the Bodhisattva base in the temple."
"That means this place was really a temple at that time. But why is there not even a trace left here? Even there are some ruins!"
"Squad leader, we really found a hole on the other side of the mountain. It's quite big." Recruit Song Ruimin shouted as he ran.
"Let's go take a look." Second platoon leader Hu Zhijun stood up, wiped the dust from his butt, and strode towards the direction where recruit Song Ruimin was running. "Song Ruimin, where is the hole?"
Song Ruimin was personally selected by the platoon leader Hu Zhijun, so it was natural that they would become close to each other when they met.
"Platoon commander, over there, I'll take you there."
Follow the mountain ridge and walk forward for fifty or sixty meters. After turning a corner, I saw a stone cave under a cliff facing west. There is sparse grass growing in front of the cave door, and there are many goat dung eggs at the cave door. There must have been some sheepherders who climbed up to the mountainside to rest temporarily.
The cave is indeed very spacious, with a corridor more than ten meters long, and there are some stones at the door where you can sit and rest.
Wang Ke took out his flashlight and walked inside. Several unknown birds flew out from inside.
Under the flashlight light, the southern stone wall is uneven, while the northern stone wall is relatively flat. It can be vaguely seen that there are some words carved on the stone wall.
Several people were using flashlights and struggling to decipher these words.
"It's Huai Su's Thousand-Character Cursive Script!" Second Platoon Leader Hu Zhijun shouted, and then he began to chant softly: "The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing, the stars are lined up, the cold comes and the summer goes , harvest in autumn and store in winter..."
At this point, the second platoon leader Hu Zhijun suddenly said: "Reconnaissance squad leader, wasn't your poem also written by Huai Su?"
Wang Ke shook his head, "Platoon leader, your Huaisu and the Huaisu I mentioned are not the same person. They are sixty or seventy years apart. The Huaisu from our hometown is Wu Zetian's favorite and a great poet. Write this poem Qian Huaisu of Ziwen was a monk and a great calligrapher."
"Oh, they're two people?"
"Yes." Wang Ke continued. "Historically, there were two Huaisu in the Tang Dynasty. One was named Ma Huaisu, who was from Dantu in Runzhou. When he was young, his family was poor and he couldn't afford to light a lamp. He collected firewood during the day and lit it for reading at night. He was well-read in classics and history and was good at articles. . In the end, he passed the Jinshi examination, took the imperial examination, and was promoted four times to Zuotai Supervisory Censor. At that time, Wu Zetian was finally promoted to the Minister of Household Affairs because of Ma Huaisu's uprightness, fairness, humility and prudence. Ma Huaisu loved to study and never put down his scrolls, and he has many poems. He was only sixty years old when he died of illness. The emperor specially mourned for him, stopped attending court for one day, and presented it to the governor of Runzhou."
Wang Ke was catchy when talking about the people and things in his hometown, and he went on.
"After Wu Zetian's death, another Qian Huaisu came out. He was from Lingling, Yongzhou. He was fond of Buddhism in his childhood and became a monk early. He was both a crazy monk and a drunkard. He was also a famous cursive calligrapher in the history of calligraphy. His cursive calligraphy is called It is a wild grass, just like the strong grass in the wind. The pen is round and powerful, making it turn like a circle, unrestrained and smooth, and it is completed in one breath. When Qian Huaisu came into effect, Zhang Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty went to the pond to study calligraphy, and the pond water was dyed black; he imitated Zhong Yao, a man from the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, who practiced calligraphy day and night. In dreams, I often use my fingers to make gestures and wear the quilt through; imitating Zhiyong in the early Sui Dynasty, he practiced calligraphy for thirty years, and his bald pen became a tomb. In the end, he became a calligraphy saint, as famous as Zhang Xu, another cursive calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and was known as Zhang Diansu Kuang Or disrupt Zhang Zuisu."
"I didn't expect that, reconnaissance squad leader, you really know a lot." Second Platoon Leader Hu Zhijun praised.
Could it be that the inscriptions on the stone wall were left over from the Tang Dynasty? Several people were thinking about it there. Wang Ke said: "If it wasn't the Tang Dynasty, it was the early Song Dynasty, because in the later Song Dynasty, they did not believe in Buddhism and converted to Taoism. Otherwise, this temple would not have been destroyed. Not even a single brick or stone could be found."
"Reconnaissance squad leader, if it is true that the inscription on this stele is Huaisu's masterpiece, I will have to make some rubbings for future copying."
"Platoon leader, no problem. If you want, we will help you extend it next week."
Of course, Wang Ke continued to look forward under the flashlight light. Suddenly, Wang Ke stopped because he saw behind these poems, there were animated pictures of people. The first one was bowing to the sun. And this picture seems to have been seen somewhere before.
Wang Ke closed his eyes and searched quickly in his head. Where have you seen this picture?
I thought about it for a long time, but didn't remember it. I continued to look behind me and saw that there were dozens of pictures in total, all of them had strange shapes and different expressions, and I didn’t know what they were doing. And it is neither martial arts nor coherent movements. Each figure is independent.
"Platoon leader, look at these people and these movements, what do they do?"
In fact, platoon leader Hu Zhijun had seen it a long time ago, but he didn't know what was going on.
At the entrance of the cave, several recruits were not interested in the calligraphy and portraits carved on the stone wall, so they sat on the stone at the door and waited. As soon as he saw the two people coming out, recruit Song Ruimin stood up and said, "Squad leader, didn't you go up the hole inside?"
"Is there a hole in it?" Wang Ke was surprised, but they did not go to the end when they saw those strangely carved figures of people.
"Yes, there are two small holes inside, one upward and one downward. The downward one is not deep. You can catch some dripping spring water inside, but it is too little."
"Is there still such a thing?!"
I see. This temple halfway up the mountain has indeed not seen a well so far. It would be too difficult to carry water up from the foot of the mountain to eat. Could it be that water is the reason for the decadence of this temple?
"Have you ever climbed in?"
Song Ruimin shook his head and said: "No, only a small part went in, especially the upward hole, which is relatively deep and easy to get in but difficult to get out."
"Then let's go in and take a look?" Wang Ke looked at the second platoon leader Hu Zhijun with a questioning look.
Second platoon leader Hu Zhijun raised his head and looked at the sky, "Forget it, we will have to come up for rubbings in the future, let's talk about it later. It takes half a mile to travel a hundred miles, so hurry up and climb the mountain."
"Okay, the next climb is getting more and more difficult. Everyone must pay attention to safety." Wang Ke warned everyone.
Sure enough, the next mountain road became narrower and narrower, and it was almost impossible to go up. Sometimes I had to use my hands and feet together, or walk around the mountain several times to find a place to stay. After climbing for more than an hour, we arrived at the foot of an iron barrel-like cliff, twenty or thirty meters high, going straight up and down.
Everyone walked hard around the "iron barrel" and found that the diameter of the iron barrel was no less than 200 meters.
"Platoon leader, the crater is probably up there." Wang Ke said to the second platoon leader Hu Zhijun.
Second platoon leader Hu Zhijun nodded. Because they can't go up, no one can see what the crater looks like. But looking at the outside, they are all covered with black bumps like grapes. The big one is like a basin, the small one is like an egg. From a distance, it looks like black pearls inlaid on stone.
"This should be the magma that erupted at that time, right?!" Second Platoon Leader Hu Zhijun guessed.
At the foot of the mountain, look at the top of the mountain. The terrain on the top of the mountain is not too steep. But when I reached the top of the mountain, I couldn't go back up. Near the south side, the terrain is still enough to stand on, and there is only a platform of more than ten square meters, with a tripod standing on it. It seems that the comrades who surveyed back then were unable to climb to the top for this reason. The next best thing is to put this tripod on the top of the mountain that is not the top of the mountain.
"I'll throw a stone up!" Veteran Luo Shaohuan said, looking around on the ground, and finally found a weathered stone with a little burned bubbles on one side, and threw it up. The stone drew a beautiful arc and fell up, making no sound at all. Throwing another stone still did the same.
"Is it empty inside?" recruit Song Ruimin shouted.
"Don't worry, I'll throw another bigger stone." Veteran Luo Shaohuan said, but it's not easy to find a bigger stone on the top of the mountain. Several people searched together, and finally dug out an irregular, flat weathered stone on the side of the mountain.
"Everyone, stay away." Just as veteran Luo Shaohuan was about to throw it, recruit Niu Suozhu stepped forward, "I'll do it."
Niu Suozhu is obviously bigger than veteran Luo Shaohuan in terms of body size and strength.
He took a breath, took the stone, held it in his hand, and threw it from bottom to top instead of throwing it. The stone drew an arc and fell to the top of the mountain. Finally, a sound was heard. "Crash!" The stone shattered. It seemed to break into countless pieces and fell downwards. There was no sound behind it.
The top of the mountain is indeed empty, and I don’t know what kind of splendor can be seen inside.
However, without ropes or climbing tools, this curiosity can only be left to my own imagination.
Second platoon leader Hu Zhijun was very sorry that he still could not see this crater that had been sleeping for millions of years.
Wang Ke said: "I came to pick up a few stones as a souvenir." In fact, he was thinking about showing Professor Wen how many millions of years it was.
