[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Chapter 41

Cui Song didn't expect that he would be so powerful this time, and he was startled.

Guo Jia pulled him to avoid the scattered stones and dust, and when the commotion ended, he went forward to inspect the collapsed mountain wall, and found a passageway as long and wide as one person, which looked like it was dug by hand. Later, someone built it to conceal people's eyes and ears, and Cui Song easily smashed it open because the rear was hollow.

Cui Song, who almost thought he had become a Hercules, was a little suspicious. The modern life has been too long, and this novel-like plot made him feel unreal.Guo Jia felt a bit of introspection, since he came to this place, he hastily reviewed the surrounding environment, but he never carefully inspected the cave wall.

Even if it is temporarily safe, it should not be so negligent.

Cui Song checked the soil quality at the entrance of the corridor, and confirmed that this passage is still stable and will not be easily collapsed by him like the previous mountain wall.

So here comes the question - do they want to go in and take a look?

During the chat before, he discussed with Guo Jia: Neither of them knows how to swim, so they can't leave by water, and this mountain pass is a dead end for them.And those executioners still don't know where they are wandering, and they won't be too far away. If they go out and bump into them, there is no way to escape.

It's just that they can't stay in the cave forever, without food or drink, and they will die sooner or later.

Cui Song checked the supplies on his body, and he didn't care too much when he was avoiding the executioner. Now there are only a few strings of processed meat slices left, and the water bag has gone somewhere.

Guo Jia's situation is similar. After comprehensive consideration, they can only leave the cave at dawn tomorrow.It would be best not to meet that group of people. If they accidentally meet, the state gap between the two sides can be minimized.

The two of them had planned to go to bed early and get up early, but it was only Chen Shi, and it was just over 19 o'clock in modern time. Not to mention the modern Cui Song, the native Guo Jia couldn't fall asleep at this time.

Moreover, someone dug a passage here, no matter how you think about it, it is very likely that there is something hidden in it. If it is something useful, it may help them break out.

Without too much hesitation, the two decided to go in after confirming that the air in the passage was normal.

Guo Jia had been prepared for a long time and made a simple oil lamp with the fat of prey and bamboo tubes. At this time, he lit it with flint. Although the light was weak, it was better than nothing.

No one knew what was at the end of the passage, Cui Song walked cautiously, afraid that someone would suddenly jump out in front of him, or there might be some hidden weapon.

However, after thinking about it, this is the real ancient world, not martial arts novels and tomb-robbing novels. It is already bizarre enough to encounter a mountain wall with a hidden cave, and it is too much to think about hidden weapons.

As for who jumped out... Who would seal the exit and seal himself in the mountain?Even if there was, he would have died long ago without seeing the sun and without eating or drinking for so long.

Cui Song relaxed a little, driving away the random thoughts in his mind.

The passage is not long, and it has reached the end after walking for more than ten seconds.

At the end is a semi-natural, semi-artificial cave. The top is eroded by the water flow, showing honeycomb-shaped holes, and the moonlight still shines through, sprinkled a silver glow on the surface.

After calculating the azimuth and distance, Cui Song confirmed that this place is close to the river at the pass, so the mountain wall on the top is very thin, leading directly to the sky.During the flood season, the water rose and poured in backwards, leaving traces of erosion and corrosion.

There is a wooden box wrapped in cowhide at the end of the cave. I don't know who put it there.When I opened the box, I found some ordinary utensils inside, which looked brand new, as if they were goods left by peddlers.

The two closed the box with little interest and looked around. There was nothing else in the cave except this box.

Turned around in a circle, and found no other secret passages.Except for the hidden road just now, this place is an unusual cave.

Cui Song was speechless.After all, according to common sense, there must be important or precious things in the specially hidden dark room, such as peerless martial arts, shocking treasures, natural and earthly treasures, magical weapons...just a box of ordinary goods, the gap is too big .

Guo Jia didn't know the messy thoughts in his head.Since there was nothing special, he prepared to exit the cave and return to the original square inch.

This place is even more humid than the original small place, and it is light and windy, so it is really not a good place to rest.

Cui Song also agreed.After all, given the degree of corrosion of the rock here, it is uncertain when it will collapse.

"Although the stone wall here is a bit soft, it won't collapse for a while." Hearing Cui Song's concerns, Guo Jia said, "Unless the earthquake..."

As long as there is no earthquake, it is safe here.

At this moment, Cui Song suddenly felt an inconspicuous tremor on the mountain wall.

Cui Song: ...

Guo Jia:  …

Cui Song glanced at Guo Jia in surprise, the latter twitched the corner of his mouth, and quickly grabbed his arm: "Let's go."

The ground shook violently, countless rocks fell, and it was difficult to stand firmly on the ground. Seeing that the passage was in front of him, and it was only a few steps away, the ground suddenly sank.

When Cui Song regained consciousness, he found himself lying in a bucket of rubble, with a big hole in the top, and the bright moonlight sprinkled silver light, making him feel like falling into a dream.

Opening his eyes and staring for a long time, listening to the regular and rhythmic sound of water droplets falling on the stone slab, and the memory before coma gradually returning to his mind, Cui Song was startled and sat up suddenly.

Because he got up too quickly, he pushed his arms hard to the ground, and there was a sharp pain in his right elbow.

Cui Song took a deep breath, checked himself by the moonlight, and found that his elbow was swollen and congested, with an obvious protrusion, which looked shocking.

Trying to turn the forearm, the heart-piercing pain hit like a tide, Cui Song's eyes went dark, and when he recovered, sticky cold sweat covered his back, blown by the night wind, it was icy cold.

Cui Song guessed that his right arm might be fractured, and he had bad luck secretly, so he got up with difficulty while holding his right elbow, and took two steps, when the small stone pile next to him suddenly broke open, and a person crawled out from it.

Cui Song: ...

This special effect scene like a ghost movie made him stunned for a while, when the man coughed, Cui Song hurried forward and pulled the man out with his good hand.

Guo Jia used his strength to get away from the pile of stones, and just wanted to thank him, but before he could stand still, he suddenly staggered and fell to the side.

Cui Song reacted very quickly, pulling and pulling with his left hand, bringing Guo Jia to his side.

The hard head hit his shoulder, Cui Song couldn't help taking a few breaths, grinned for a while, wrapped his hands around Guo Jia's shoulders to keep him from falling, and managed to calm down his facial muscles: "Brother Guo, are you okay?"

Guo Jia climbed onto his shoulders, using his strength to stand firm, his face was a little pale: "Jia... there must be something wrong."

Cui Song hurriedly said: "What's wrong?"

"Cui Di's shoulders are as solid as a rock, and Jia is a little dizzy from the impact."

"(Laughs) Cui Di's eyes, which seem to be eating people, made Jia even more dizzy."

"Brother Guo, since he's in the mood for joking, it's not a big deal." Cui Song felt that his shoulders were a little heavy—probably because he fell down when the ground sank, or was hit by falling rocks. Except for his seriously injured right arm, his whole body was injured It was like being beaten with a sack, and the pain was terribly painful, "It's not a serious problem, can you move Zun's arm?"

"I'm afraid it won't work." Guo Jia finally smiled helplessly and apologetically, "My leg is broken."

Cui Song: ...

Looking down, Guo Jia's standing posture is indeed a bit strange.

The center of gravity was on the right leg, and a little blood was stained on the bottom of the trousers of the left leg.

Cui Song sighed: "It's just right, my hand was also broken."

Guo Jia:  …

Cui Song thought to himself, no wonder the elders in the family often said that curiosity killed the cat. He and Guo Jia just went in to investigate, and one broke his hand and the other broke his leg...in the true sense, brothers and sisters.

"This can be regarded as difficult." Guo Jia comforted, and with the help of Cui Song, he sat down in an open place, "Let me see your hand."

"It's better to look at your feet first, they are bleeding, it must be worse than mine." Cui Song took a step back, looked around, and saw the cowhide wooden box, "I'm going to find something."

The whole box was overturned due to the earthquake and subsidence.With great difficulty, Cui Song straightened it with one hand, unlocked the latch, opened the top of the box, and took out all the utensils inside.

Pottery pot with dragon pattern, purple bamboo pan flute, nine lamps, lacquer box, mahogany dowry, silk forging...

Cui Song took out the last thing, which he had never seen before. It looked like two closely connected white jade wine cups, embedded on the copper platform, held by two ring-shaped phoenixes, forming a whole.

Cui Song opened Fenghuang's mouth and found that both cups could be removed.

He was feeling thirsty, and these two cups were just right for him...just one for Guo Jia.

Cui Song found a few pieces of charcoal in the cooking retort, and in a flash of inspiration, he took the pottery pot with the dragon pattern, and found some smooth stones.

The teapots of the Qin and Han Dynasties are different from those of later generations. They are often large in size, with high necks and wide mouths, a bit like the plastic bottles of later generations.

Cui Song is planning to use this pot to make a simple water purifier.

He first sealed the mouth of the pot with kraft paper, folded off a pipe from the pan flute, and sharpened the end with a hole.Then he turned the body of the pot upside down, cut open the bottom of the pot, and put in silk, charcoal, silk, fine sand, silk, small stones, silk, large stones, and silk in sequence.

After finishing all this, he pierced the kraft paper with the sharp end of the bamboo tube, inserted the mouth of the pot into the notch of the retort, and scooped a pot of muddy water into the puddle next to it with a large pot, and poured it from the bottom of the pot. Down.

Cui Song checked it once and made sure there was nothing wrong with it. He broke off the two longest sections of the pan flute and brought them back to Guo Jia's side together with two pieces of clean silk.

Now they are still located between the mountain walls. Because of the earthquake, the entire cave collapsed, and they fell a certain height, so that the corridor leading to the outside of the mountain was two meters high from them.Now, one of the two has a disabled hand and the other has a disabled foot, and the mountain wall leading to the corridor is as flat as if it had been cut through, and it is impossible to climb up at all.

However, no matter how urgent it is, the most important thing at present is to heal the injury.They had little food on them and hoped to find a way to escape before starving to death.

Fractures are not minor injuries, and there is no treatment available here. They can only do emergency treatment first, and fix the injured limbs with bamboo tubes and cloth strips to avoid secondary injuries.

At Cui Song's request, Guo Jia took care of his legs first, then tied Cui Song's arms, and then asked, "What were you doing squatting there just now?"

"Purify the water." Cui Song said, "It should be almost done, I'm going to start a fire."

Cui Song boiled the purified water, poured another spoonful of muddy water into the bottom of the pot, wiped the two jade cups clean with an unused silk cloth, poured boiling water, and carried the jade cups like scales back to the table. Beside Guo Jia, "Are you thirsty? Drink some water."

Seeing the two twin wine glasses held by the phoenix, Guo Jia's expression became a little subtle.

Cui Song was a little strange: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Guo Jia quickly returned to normal, took a sip from the cup.

Cui Song didn't take it to heart, blew the water in the cool jade cup, and drank it all in one gulp.

"I'll get another cup and let it cool down to clean your wound."

Guo Jia watched Cui Song go away and blinked.

——Brother Cui, he...you really don't know that this is the Hebei Cup[1].

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[1] 合卺: Instant cup.Starting from the Zhou ceremony, the handles of the two utensils (ladles) are connected to each other to hold wine, and the couple drinks together, which means that they have become one from now on, and it is called "Hebei".

(Little theater of no responsibility many years later)

Guo Crow Jia: I slept through it, and I drank the wine when I handed over a glass. You have to be responsible.

Cui · Li Banner Little Expert · Song: ? ? ? (black question mark)