The old Taoist priest lit up an incense stick, then lit the incense box with the incense head. Wisps of smoke ignited in the incense box. He closed the incense burner and sent the cauldron into the balcony. The door was restored to its original state.
The smoke is as misty as clouds, filling the cavities between the towers with your breath. Countless thick white mist floats out from various gaps in the Golden Palace and Jade Tower, contaminating the pool platform like a fairyland.
These spices were very useful. Even though Yue Guanchao and the others were behind the railings, they began to smell this strange aroma. Seeing this, he finally knew what the function of these towers was. Probably, this was a huge incense offering platform.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Yu Da Xian'er, Yu Da Xian'er."
Taoist Cui rang the bell, and the bell in his hand jingled at will. In the process, the smoke from the tower became thicker and thicker, like a white waterfall, pouring down from the gap between the towers and falling into the pool. The smoke soon completely covered the water surface. Covered.
Jingle bell, jingle bell, the old Taoist priest's ringing of the bell finally worked. The sound of water paddling in the canal became clearer and clearer. It was obvious that something was swimming slowly from the canal into the rain praying pool. They looked towards In the pool, something was already visible in the smoke.
Wow, smoke rose upwards after the water spray broke, and a pointed head as big as a lantern rose up from the water. Looking at the pointed head with fanned gills and clear black and white eyes, it was clearly the big white fish painted in the caisson.
At this moment, the three of them were hiding in the dark, their hearts pounding.
They thought Taoist Cui's secret skill was just the rain praying pool. Seeing this huge white fish leaning out of the pool, their originally relaxed spirits became confused again.
Could it be that this white fish is really the fish god?
Or is it that the fish god appeared in Baiyu and was specially summoned by Taoist Cui?
Yue Guanchao looked at the pool cautiously. The white fish seemed to be very familiar with these behaviors. They were circling and swimming in the smoky pool like a dragon and a dragon, wagging their tails and splashing water, constantly absorbing the mist.
"Fish Fairy, you have eaten a lot of incense with me over the years. From now on, we can go back to Wushan. By then, you won't have to work so hard anymore. If you are really the Fish God, I wish you the best." Our trip went well.”
After saying that, Taoist Cui opened the cloth bag on his back and threw out a lot of dried fish. The big white fish raised its pointed head and swallowed all the dried fish one by one.
After the dried fish in the bag was completely fed, he put out the incense burner and waited for the big white fish to disappear into the pool, then slowly climbed up again.
Yue Guanchao and the others waited for a cup of tea under the railing. After confirming that Taoist Cui was gone, they carefully jumped off the railing.
Song Siyuan opened the balcony where Taoist Cui was groping. There was still smoke from the incense burner inside. She got closer and smelled it. It was obviously the incense they smelled during the day. However, in this incense smell, there was also an unexplainable smell of food. No, Know what it is.
"Let's take these remaining spices back, maybe we can research something." Song Siyuan took out the bag, put the remaining spice ashes into her pocket, and restored the furnace to its original state.
Yue Guanchao turned on the flashlight and looked at the caisson: "The big white fish is indeed not as long as the one on the caisson, but the details of the head and tail fins are still very restored. This shows that the caisson mural just deified the big white fish and added the body of a dragon to it. , but what on earth is this thing? It can actually grow so big, and it seems that it can still understand human speech."
"This is a sturgeon!"
After Song Siyuan collected the incense ashes, she looked cautiously and guessed.
"Sturgeon?"
Yue Guanchao and Xu Xiake are full of curiosity!
"right!"
Song Siyuan is convinced of this: "I just saw the caisson. The shape of the fish on it has been deified and it doesn't look real. It wasn't until I saw the true appearance of this big white fish that I saw what kind of fish it was." fish."
"River sturgeon can grow up to five or six meters in length. It has a pointed head, a swallow tail, an angular fan fin, and a beard on the lower jaw. The head is slightly pointed and the body is wide and streamlined, like an olive or a shuttle. The body of the fish is mostly black, and the belly is white with fish scales. It is black, from the top of the head to the tail, and has spine-like protruding outer bones on the back and abdomen. It looks like it has three spines."
She pointed to the caisson above and continued: "The characteristics above are basically the same as those of the river sturgeon, except that the fish body has been replaced by the body of a python. Just now, when it was swimming, I could see three spines on the white fish. , only river sturgeons have such characteristics, so probably, the big white fish is a river sturgeon."
Yue Guanchao saw that Song Siyuan's description was indeed consistent with that of Cao Jing, and asked again: "This Taoist Cui has been in Jianghan for ten years. This means that such a large sturgeon has lived for at least ten years. Is there really such a viable fish?" Most fish only live five or six years at most.”
"Why not?" Song Siyuan continued to explain: "The lifespan of fish ranges from two to twenty years. Let's not mention the lifespan of other fish for the time being. Do you know what the lifespan of river sturgeon is?"
"Forty years!"
Song Siyuan also found this very strange, and sighed and said: "This is only the lower limit of its age. If we talk about the upper limit, it may be more than a hundred years. These ten years are probably only the ten years of Jianghan in Jianghan. Maybe before that, It’s over 100 years old.”
Xu Xiake listened to their words and nodded thoughtfully: "Everything becomes better with age. If the big white fish really lives over a hundred years old, it is really possible that it has spiritual intelligence, then it makes sense that it can understand human speech." , if this is the case, the key secret that Taoist Cui can give people to see Luoyin may be the big white fish."
The little Taoist paused and continued to question: "The question is, why is the big white fish attracted by the fragrance, and why does it create an illusion? It is even possible that the big white fish comes from Wushan. Is it possible? What is it really? Fish God?”
"Not necessarily." Song Siyuan's mind was also very confused. She thought about the current situation and explained: "Just now, Taoist Cui was not sure whether the big white fish was the fish god. He kept calling it the fish god. It can be seen that the white fish is not the fish god, but , one thing is certain, the old Taoist priest was able to observe Luoyin, it is true that he passed through the big white fish, which he also admitted."
Thinking about the origin of the big white fish, her eyes lit up: "Could it be that this big white fish also came out of Shennongjia?"
Regarding this point, she does think it is possible. Although the upper limit of the life span of river sturgeons is very high, they are not mostly white. Most river sturgeons have black backs and white bellies or gray backs and white bellies. Like this, the snow-white scales all over the body are still slightly shining. It can be regarded as a genetic mutation, that is, an outlier among the fish.
This is very similar to the albino animals in Shennongjia, they are all changing in special directions!
"Just because it's white, you don't think the big white fish is also from Shennongjia, right?"
Yue Guanchao also felt that it was too arbitrary to only use color to judge the source.
"We need to talk about this matter carefully. Let's talk about it when we go back first."
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