So the three of them separated and went in three directions to explore the small basin.

The basin is not large, but it has lush plants. There are bamboo forests and waterlogged wetlands at the bottom, shrubs on the slopes, and arbor forests higher up.

The tree species of the trees turned out to be nanmu, which was thick and straight. The largest one must be at least three to four hundred years old.

The weather is very hot now, which is when snakes and insects are active. Hengfa does not let Zhou Zhi and the others go down to the bottom of the basin. He is in charge there and asks Zhou Zhi and Qiao Laoer to explore both sides of the basin along the nanmu forest on the edge of the shrubs.

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Zhou Zhi secretly rejoiced in his heart. It was unlikely that so many nanmu trees were in a natural forest. It was most likely planted here by predecessors.

The specific reason is not known, but Zhou Zhi deeply hopes that this nanmu forest was used as a landmark by previous generations.

Before we reached the halfway point, Hengfa's whistle sounded at the bottom of the basin, accompanied by his shout: "Slow down when you come down! Watch the road! Pay attention to the bamboo shoots on the road!"

Then someone added: "There are still bamboo branches, be careful of the green bamboo leaves!"

Both Bamboo Leaf Green and Bamboo Bamboo Shell Spot are one of the highly venomous snakes that can be seen in Jiachuan. The reason why Fawang Temple’s snake medicine is so good is that Erli Township is rich in various venomous snakes. Monks of the past dynasties have gradually figured out some unique snake medicine formulas.

When nearby villagers encounter bites, they will rush to Fawang Temple in time to let the monks provide treatment.

The bamboo leaf green snake is a small green snake. The biggest difference from the green snake is its red eyes, lateral lines, and yellow burnt tail.

This thing is not only highly poisonous, but also lives on trees and bamboos. It attacks the upper body of people, and the toxin can easily reach the heart and other organs.

The branding iron head is the original spearhead viper. It has blocky patterns on its body and is very similar in color to the bamboo shoot shell, hence its name.

The annoying thing about this snake is that it is not only highly venomous, but also lazy and fat.

Generally, snakes will choose to avoid after sensing the movement of humans, but the bamboo shoots will not.

It will still hide lazily on the side of the road, motionless, but once a person enters its attack range, it will quickly take a bite.

Zhou Zhi followed the teachings of Heng Fa, holding an elastic bamboo stick in his hand and beating it all the way down to the bottom of the basin.

When we reached the dense bamboo forest below, we found a dilapidated house!

Master Qiao was faster than Zhou Zhi and had already joined Heng Fa there.

The appearance of dilapidated houses also confirms Zhou Zhi's guess that this is indeed a man-made place. In addition to the nanmu marking the location, the dense bamboo forest also covers up traces of human habitation, making it highly concealable.

The house is designed as a bamboo building on stilts. The nanmu used as the base pillars has rotted, causing half of the bamboo house on one side to sit down, and the remaining half is also crumbling.

Bamboo buildings have side walls woven from bamboo, plastered with mud, and a grass roof on top. This is also the simplest residential style in southern Sichuan.

If the grass roof is properly maintained and the foundation is made of stone or rammed earth, such a house can last for decades without any problem.

But the premise is that it must be inhabited and maintained by people. Obviously, the bamboo house in front of you is not one of them.

The bamboo house has been covered with vines and fallen leaves, making it almost impossible to find the entrance.

Hengfa pulled out a machete from the side of his backpack and began to attack the vines hanging outside the bamboo building.

Zhou Zhi didn't pay attention at first, until he inadvertently wiped a handful of the cut vines with his hand and discovered that there was some blood-like red juice on his hand.

Zhou Zhi was startled when he discovered that the vine cut by Heng Fa began to flow out of strange red juice from the cut place.

"Master, Master, what's going on..."

"This is the mountain dragon, also called Chicken Spath..."

"Chicken Spatholobus?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel ashamed of his own suspicion. Knowing that it was Chicken Spatholobus was no longer scary: "Chop some in a while and bring it back to boil water for soaking your feet!"

The bamboo ladder and entrance area were quickly cleared. Hengfa also cut off the vines on the window part, and then used bamboo poles to poke the window open.

"Crash..." A big brown bird suddenly flew out of the opened window, startling the three of them.

When I calmed down, I realized that a pheasant had just escaped.

"Master, be careful." Zhou Zhi looked at a few big inchworms crawling out from under the decayed window sill, and felt psychological shadow at the place that had scared him twice in a row.

"Yes." Master Hengfa took off all the pieces on his body, leaving only the machete used to cut the vines: "I will go in first and ask you to come in again."

Seeing Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao holding bamboo poles in their hands and looking nervous, Master Hengfa smiled instead: "Don't worry so much. Think about it, how dangerous can a place where pheasants can live be?

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Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao finally relaxed after thinking that this was true.

But even though Hengfa said this, he was very careful with his feet. Step by step, he carefully climbed up the half-ruined wooden ladder to the floor one meter above the ground, and entered the bamboo house through the newly cut doorway.

After roughly checking around, he said to the two of them: "Come in, be careful where you step, don't stand on a bamboo beam."

The furnishings inside the bamboo house are very simple, including a bamboo cabinet, a bamboo bed, and a futon. There is a tea tray in front of the futon, a tea tray with crude tea sets, a wooden fish, and a drumstick.

There are also coir raincoats, bamboo hats, backpacks on the wall, and a tool similar to a medicine hoe whittled from green gangwood branches.

"Amitabha." Hengfa clasped his hands together and pronounced the Buddha's name.

Obviously, the previous owner here was a monk or layman.

Zhou Zhi's heart moved, and he rushed to a few places ago to inspect it.

This furniture is incompatible with the furnishings here. It is an exquisite wooden work, and the whole body is coated with lacquer, and it is polished with fine rice flour, which is relatively exquisite lacquerware.

The level of craftsmanship is completely different from the bamboo bed and bamboo frame. It is obvious that this thing can only be brought from outside.

Zhou Zhi pulled out a few coir raincoat leaves from the coir raincoat on the wall, rolled them into a brush handle, leaned down in a low voice, with his side face pressed against the floor, and reached out to brush away the cobweb dust from the bottom of the coir raincoat: "There are words here."

"Why don't you move the things away and turn them over to look at them?" Heng Fa didn't understand.

"This is the rule of archeology. If you can obtain information without destroying the original situation, it is best to obtain it without destroying it, and then judge whether it can be moved and excavated." Mr. Qiao said while also imitating thoughtfulness.

He lay down and tilted his head to read the text at the bottom of the book: "Jiachen, October and Bingwu, the devout Li Zhang family sent the Dharma king to the temple."

After reading these words, Mr. Qiao stood up with his butt sticking out. Compared with the dog, he was just a tail short: "This is something from Fawang Temple! How do you know there are words here?!"

"There are a lot of similar furniture in Fawang Temple, and they look a bit similar to me." Zhou Zhi continued to brush the dust on the bottom of the furniture: "If it is something from Fawang Temple, they will be used to putting the name of the worshipper, and

The date of the offering should be kept out of sight."

"Now we can know that this piece of furniture is an old item from Fawang Temple. The owner here is related to Fawang Temple."


Chapter completed!