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Chapter 46: The Remains of the Ancestors

Sorry, there are only two updates today———————————————— Seeing Elder Muba and his party arrive, the two gun-holders at the entrance of the cave immediately saluted the military with their guns neatly than other Bushmans.

The soldiers are much stronger, even if they are not inferior to Zhou Jiping's field platoon. Obviously, these two sentries have put a lot of effort into this.

Elder Muba walked to the guard at the entrance of the cave, whispered to the guard, and then nodded and ran to an inconspicuous path on the side of the platform. Zhou Jiping was originally decent to these two.

The sentry had a good impression, but when he saw the sentry turning around and running away, Zhou Jiping was so upset that he looked like an ordinary person, and he didn't look like a trained soldier! Could it be that Bushman

What do all the soldiers of the human race look like?

The soldier returned soon, but this time he was holding two emergency lights. It was obvious that the other side of the road was the lounge leading to the guards.

After taking the emergency light, Elder Muba gave one of them to Duka, and then the four of them walked into the cave together.

The cave is not deep and not big, and the width is not even enough for four people to walk side by side at the same time. Under the leadership of Elder Muba and Lila, Zhou Jiping and Duka followed behind and walked carefully in the cave with uneven broken potholes.

On the stone road

After walking about seven or eight meters in, as the cave turned slightly to the right, the light outside the cave could no longer illuminate the scenery inside the cave. Elder Muba took the lead in turning on the emergency light, and Duka behind him was also helping Zhou Jiping.

The emergency lights were turned on. Under the lights, the few people walked forward for more than ten meters before reaching the bottom of the cave - where a large cave room was located.

Zhou Jiping took the emergency light from Duka's hand and shone it up and down, then he realized that this was the largest place in the cave, about forty or fifty square meters in size, and there were several oval cave rooms made of gravel.

There are some uncleaned thatch on the bed. Obviously this is a place to rest, but no one has used it for many years.

The light flashed, and some special traces on the interior wall of the cave attracted Zhou Jiping's attention. Is it a rock painting or a mural? Zhou Jiping couldn't help but lift the light, shines the light on the stone wall inside the cave, and then approaches to take a closer look.

"This is the ruins of the ancestors!" Elder Muba also approached with a lamp, explaining to Zhou Jiping.

With a loud bang, the mystery suddenly opened in front of Zhou Jiping - Chinese characters! Zhou Jiping was so angry that he almost rushed to the stone wall to see. Although these characters were traditional, and the handwriting was very blurred over the years, it still made Zhou Jiping feel in his heart.

An uncontrollable excitement and affection

"Do you know these?" Elder Muba saw Zhou Jiping watching carefully, and knew that these symbols that were unfamiliar to him touched Zhou Jiping, but he still couldn't help but want to get confirmation from Zhou Jiping.

Zhou Jiping was so excited that he couldn't speak. He just nodded repeatedly, responding to Elder Muba's words. The light of the emergency light encountered Zhou Jiping's silhouette on the stone wall of the cave. It seemed that the life scene of the Chinese crew members in trouble for hundreds of years reappeared again.

It seems

Although I learned from Lao Long that they were crew members of the Ming Dynasty, even Zhou Jiping didn't dare to confirm what he heard from Lao Long, whom he could not remember, now, the evidence is real.

In front of him, Zhou Jiping was not excited and inexplicably

The story of Lao Long is indeed true. The fleet of Zheng He's voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty did come here. Damon and Bushman did have the bloodline of the Chinese crew in the Ming Dynasty for 600 years. What kind of historical imprint is this!

After a while, Zhou Jiping woke up from his excitement

Six hundred years? So what about six hundred years? Today, six hundred years later, aren’t I also coming here as a troubled person? How similar is my fate to them. They have left these marks, nothing more than

I want to let later generations discover, especially my hope that my relatives from my distant motherland will discover it, but now? So what if I find it myself? I am also a passerby who cannot protect myself?

A gentle sigh, Zhou Jiping lifted the emergency lamp and read the handwriting on the stone wall carefully. Elder Muba and Lila. Duka looked at Zhou Jiping who suddenly became a little depressed. He didn't know why he sighed, but he didn't know.

What should I say to him

These handwritings are mottled and the strokes are thick, but they are all straight characters with similar sizes. Obviously, the writer's calligraphy skills are very good. Read the writing materials. Zhou Jiping probably wrote them with red pigments and some kind of gum.

The following, otherwise these handwritings would not be kept on the rock walls of the cave by the sea for so long. But even so, at least half of the handwriting and strokes were blurred or dropped, which made Zhou Jiping very difficult to read.

The stone wall is uneven, and the handwriting written on the stone wall can only be distributed irregularly along the stones on the rock wall. Zhou Jiping looked at it for a long time before finding the starting point of these handwriting.

First, a few big characters, because the strokes are relatively thick, Zhou Jiping can still recognize them: "The 20th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty..."

What year was the 20th year of Yongle? Zhou Jiping, who was not very clear about history, certainly had no accurate concept, but he could at least according to what he said in unofficial history: Zheng He's voyage to the West was the Emperor Jianwen who was missing by Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, unofficial history carried out by Zhu Yunwen is unofficial history. It is absolutely impossible for an emperor to put such great efforts into a matter of catching up on the wind and shadow.

However, from this unofficial history, Zhou Jiping can also infer that Emperor Yongle should have sent Zheng He to the West shortly after he ascended the throne. Now the stone wall records the twenty years of Yongle, which should be Zheng He's seven voyages to the West and is more behind.

How many times?

Zhou Jiping guessed correctly (Old Ben can remind him that this was the time when Zheng He went to the West six times - checked on the Internet!) Continue to read down, and the text on the stone wall: "Hometown... I hope to return...Homeland..."

The words "Wait" appear the most, and you don't need to guess Zhou Jiping can understand that this is written by the writer who misses his hometown.

Since these fonts are relatively large, few hundred words occupy almost half of the stone wall. The more the last words, the closer they are to the entrance of the cave, the more affected by the wet sea breeze, the more they become, the more they are unable to recognize the last one.

Zhou Jiping saw traces of artificial chiseling on only a large stone

Even if it is carved, the boundaries of the handwriting are still blurred after hundreds of years of wind and rain. In addition, there are many strokes in traditional Chinese characters, Zhou Jiping can only tell that these are the names of the twelve people—

—In other words, twelve people were wandering here at the beginning, which is consistent with what Tang Shi Laolong said about "more than a dozen people"
Chapter completed!
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