The years when I was Captain Jin

Chapter 248 The Ship to Hell
Seeing those lifelike puppets, Fatty cursed angrily: "Bah! I never thought Fatty would be scared to pee by such a puppet. If this gets out, how will Fatty hang around in Panjiayuan in the future?"

"Damn it, I guess those black shadows on the shore just now are not lonely ghosts."

I heard that the fat man was like a small train, constantly complaining, and I was anxious, so I quickly covered the fat man's mouth.

This fat man doesn't even look at where we are now, if the ghost ship ahead is alarmed, how will the three of us find the Temple of the Stove Lord?

Unexpectedly, what came to my mind, just as I blocked the fat man's mouth, I heard a rustling sound from the ghost ship. The sound was fast and urgent, as if a big animal stepped on it. Like deck scurrying.

No, there is indeed something on board!

I immediately gave Wang Yuanchao a wink. Wang Yuanchao was already prepared, and he swam forward for several meters in the water, and then climbed onto the ghost ship in two or three strokes.

Fatty and I didn't care about being exposed at this time, so we boarded the boat with Wang Yuanchao.

The thing on the boat seemed to know that the three of us were going to catch it, chirped a few times, and blew out all the green lanterns on the boat.

In an instant, the entire ghost ship was plunged into extreme darkness.

"Damn it, what the hell is this? It disappeared in a blink of an eye." Fatty said as he walked over to the boys and girls and fiddled with the lanterns in their hands, as if he wanted to see if they could light them up again.

"Don't be so hasty, we didn't bring a lighter." I smiled and said, shining the flashlight.

"No!" The fat man suddenly said while holding the big lantern in his hand, "Ding Dong, come over here and take a look, this lantern doesn't seem to be filled with candles."

I was suddenly curious, weren't the ancient lanterns all lit by candles?Could it be possible to install a light bulb?If it was a light bulb it would have dropped my jaw.

With a look of curiosity on my face, I walked slowly to the fat man's side, and the fat man handed over the lantern directly for me to see for myself.

I was also stunned when I saw the lantern in my hand.To be honest, I have never seen such a lantern. The whole lantern is woven with bamboo strips and covered with a layer of delicate green gauze. It looks like an immature little pumpkin in the hand, but inside the lantern What was placed was not candle oil, but a green stone.

I touched it carefully with my fingers, and the stone was still warm.

How is this going?

Could it be that the extremely bright lantern just now was glowing because of this green stone?
When the fat man and I were looking at the stone and thinking hard, Wang Yuanchao came back out of breath, put the paratrooper knife back into his trousers waist, shook his head and said: "The speed of that thing is so fast, it will disappear in the blink of an eye. But I can judge that the thing is definitely not human, we have to be careful next, this ship is too dangerous!"

Wang Yuanchao finished speaking in one breath, seeing that we didn't pay any attention to him, Monk Zhang Er was a little puzzled.

I smiled wryly and handed the lantern in my hand to Wang Yuanchao: "Brother Yuanchao, do you know the green stone in this lantern? There is no candle in the lantern, but it can shine with a stone. This ship will not be real. Heading to the underworld, shall we?"

Wang Yuanchao seriously pried off the stone with a paratrooper knife, put it under his nose and smelled it, and finally heaved a sigh of relief and said, "You think too much, this thing is called green phosphorus."

"Green phosphorus?" I blinked. I had only heard of white phosphorus, but not green phosphorus, so I asked Wang Yuanchao to clarify.

Wang Yuanchao picked up the green stone in his hand and said: "Generally speaking, white phosphorus is what we often see. Everyone knows that white phosphorus has a very low ignition point and will spontaneously ignite at room temperature. But green phosphorus is different. Its ignition point is higher than that of white phosphorus. There are many more, and the burning fire is bigger and brighter than white phosphorus. We brought a lot of these things for lighting when we marched and fought..."

"So that's the case." I nodded half understanding.

Wang Yuanchao continued: "Although green phosphorus is easy to preserve, it is rarely formed naturally and is all chemically extracted. How can there be green phosphorus on this ship? And you can see that there seems to be a word engraved on the back of this piece of green phosphorus. "

"What word?" I hurriedly shone the flashlight on it, followed Wang Yuanchao's finger, and found a word engraved on the back of the green phosphorus. The word was neat and clear, and it looked very comfortable. .

I don't know much about ancient characters, so I asked the fat man to recognize it. The fat man just glanced at it, then suddenly slapped his head and said, "Do you know what this character is? It's a big 'Wei' character, and the font is also from that time The regular script used exclusively by the State of Wei."

"Regular script." Impatient, I asked, "Are you sure?"

"Nonsense! Fatty, I have been fooled by this thing in Panjiayuan. I have learned a lot from being fooled, and I can recognize it even if I am beaten to death. It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei, Shu and Wu divided the world, and Cao Cao had a big The calligrapher is called Zhong Yao. This Zhong Yao is not only handsome, but also a great person. He created a new kind of calligraphy called regular script. Cao Cao liked it very much and said it was so fucking beautiful! Let Manchu civil and military follow As a result, regular script gradually became popular, and Zhong Yao became famous because of it, and he was called the two ancient calligraphers together with Wang Xizhi of later generations."

"And Wei's regular script is different from later generations' regular script. Have you seen this radical? Cao Cao likes round characters, so he asked Zhong Yao to make the regular script more round."

Following Fatty's introduction, I fell into short thoughts: "Cao Wei, Cao Wei..."

After a while, I cried out: "Fatty, do you think there is such a possibility? Whether it is Zuoer Village or the legend of Lord Stove, they are all related to the tomb we are looking for! Everything on this ghost ship is also They are all from that tomb, and this ship is the only means of transportation connecting the ancient tomb with the outside world."

"No way?" Before I finished speaking, the fat man knocked on the colorful boys and girls beside the boat and said, "If it's something from the tomb, how could there be such finely crafted puppet figures, and they can even laugh?" Sound? Grandma’s frightened the fat man.”

I saw that the fat man didn’t seem to understand the history of puppets, so I said: “On the contrary, the wisdom of ancient people is often superior to modern people. In the distant Zhou Dynasty, there were records of puppet figures. It is said that a skilled craftsman dedicated them to The king made a puppet man. If you pat the puppet's head, the puppet will sing. If you shake the puppet's hand, the puppet will dance. In the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang even made a thing called a wooden cow and horse, which can travel to and from the mountain road. The delivery of military rations shocked the enemy. A wooden cow and horse that was snatched by desperate efforts was dismantled in public to see what kind of tricks Zhuge Liang was playing, but it turned out that it was all made of wood. So several puppets appeared in the Wei State Tomb It's normal here too..."

Speaking of this, I touched the faces of the boys and girls with my hands and said, "Look, these puppets are all embalmed and oiled on the outside, so it's not surprising that they can be preserved for thousands of years."

"Grandma, let me tell you why these puppets are so broken that they don't fall apart. They've all been embalmed," said the fat man.

Wang Yuanchao saw that Fatty and I believed that the ghost ship came from an ancient tomb, so he asked, "I don't know what you said, but during the Three Kingdoms period, I am afraid that ordinary princes and ministers do not have the strength to be buried with such exquisite puppet figures." Bar?"

"Yes, this is definitely an emperor's tomb." I nodded.

"Then what do we do now?" the fat man asked.

I took a deep breath and said, "Follow the ghost ship and continue walking! When we see the Temple of the Stove Lord, I guess everything will be answered."

(End of this chapter)