Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

As Lin Ran expected, they continued walking along the mountain road.

Sure enough, after climbing up for more than ten meters, you can see the veins of soapstone!

"Let's walk along the bloodstone vein." Lin Ran suggested.

Since the specific location cannot be determined, there may be unexpected gains along the veins.

Before climbing the mountain, Lin Ran had roughly estimated the altitude of the mountain, which was about 1000 meters.

Now, they have reached an altitude of about 300 meters.

Lin Ran glanced at the foot of the mountain. Generally speaking, emperors would set their cemeteries at the top of the mountain instead of on the mountainside.

Unless the mountain structure has changed.

They continued to climb up the mine vein for a full hour.

Finally, they were exhausted. Fortunately, they came to a flat place on the mountainside.

"Take a rest." Xu Yi said breathlessly.

Seeing his tired look, Wang Jinpeng couldn't help but laugh: "You are still a young man, not even as good as Master Zhenbao."

Zhenbao was just a little tired, so he found a stone to sit down, took out a paper fan and started fanning himself.

Xu Yi was kneeling on the ground, coughing and drooling.

"Are you okay?" Liu Jingfeng was a little worried and handed him a bottle of water.

"It's okay, cough...vomit."

They all laughed at the sound.

Liu Jingfeng clapped his hands and said, "Okay, everyone, let's rest here for a while."

"I'm sorry." Xu Yi's eyes were red because he had vomited just now, but he still sincerely apologized to everyone for delaying the progress.

"What did you say? Have a good rest. Everyone is indeed tired." Liu Jingfeng said disapprovingly.

Xu Ning hurried over and patted his back to let him catch his breath.

Lin Ran did not laugh at him with the others, but said, "It seems that your pharyngitis is serious? Go back and grab some medicine."

"Pharyngitis?" Xu Yi was puzzled, "Isn't it a lung problem?"

"It doesn't look like it. Pay attention to your breathing for a while. We still have a long way to go," Lin Ran said.

"I won't hold you back!" Xu Yi said firmly.

This was the first time in his life that he went to the grave, and since he was so close to his ancestors, he naturally did not want to give up.

"Yeah." Lin Ran smiled and patted his shoulder, then stood up and went to the edge of the cliff to observe.

Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain.

There is a house at the bottom of this mountain.

It's just that this house looks a little weird. The roof is a whole slate and the walls are extremely smooth.

"What is that?" Huang Hao noticed Lin Ran's behavior and came over to take a look.

"It looks like a place for sacrifice." Lin Ran replied, "It's not for living people anyway."

"That's the Xingdong." Xu Yi appeared beside him at some point.

"Traveling cave?"

"I don't know how to translate it into Chinese. I only read it in a book. The Khitan people have always had the custom of worshiping their ancestors in caves. Later, not everyone lived in the mountains, so they built this kind of house to simulate The cave is also used to enshrine the spiritual tablets of ancestors." Xu Yi explained.

"I see." Lin Ran had learned a lot, and he really didn't bring Xu Yi here in vain.

"Could that be the entrance?" Lin Ran thought to himself, who would build a sacrificial house in such a wilderness nowadays.

"Is there any need to say it?" Wang Jinpeng said happily, "We'll find out after we go and see it!"

He excitedly pulled out a machete from his backpack and shook it.

Lin Ran quickly pushed his hand away and said disgustedly: "Don't point the knife at people. What did you do with the knife suddenly? Others will think you are a bandit."

"Hey, this is called a machete. I drive this road and pick this tree." Wang Jinpeng took out his machete and chopped down the bushes blocking the road ahead.

The knife was quite sharp and instantly split a path.

"Follow me, and I won't ask you to pay for the toll." Wang Jinpeng said coolly.

In fact, it was considered the foot of the mountain. After only climbing down for more than 100 meters, they arrived in front of the stone house.

Only then did I notice that in addition to the roof being a single piece of granite, the walls on three sides of the stone house were also single pieces of carefully polished mountain stone.

This stone house is definitely not simple!

On the front, there is a stone slab on the left and right, and a stone slab hangs in the middle as a door beam, leaving a door opening of about one meter.

It's winter, and there are no spiders on the spider web hanging at the door.

But there are so many cobwebs here, it's obvious that no one has come in for a while.

Since no one was in charge, Lin Ran and others came in uninvited.

As soon as I walked into the stone house, I was blinded by darkness.

Wang Jinpeng turned on the flashlight, and the dazzling light instantly made their eyes close.

As they adjusted to the light, they noticed that the room was empty, with nothing in it.

"Is it just an ordinary stone house?" Lin Ran didn't understand. Due to emotion and reason, a house shouldn't be built here out of the blue.

"It's quite cool in here." Wang Jinpeng shined a flashlight around, but found nothing wrong. "Be careful! The ground is quite slippery."

After being reminded by Wang Jinpeng, Lin Ran glanced at the ground.

Unexpectedly, the ground here is also a whole piece of granite.

After being illuminated by the flashlight light, it will also reflect the light of stars.

Near the inner corner, there is a rather abrupt stone slab, twenty centimeters above the ground, with a thick layer of dust already covering it.

"This is where the sacrifices are placed." Xu Yi said, "But it's strange. Generally, the wall facing the gate has portraits of the gods or people to be worshiped, but there are none here."

Xu Yi looked at the wall and said.

The wall is very smooth, the opposite side of marble, and there are no traces of paint on it. Unless the Khitan did not master the use of paint, it would not have been possible to do it so thoroughly.

"There should be no paintings." Lin Ran replied casually.

His attention was entirely focused on the sacrificial altar, so he approached cautiously with a flashlight.

There were so many cobwebs in the room that he had to raise his hand to move them away from time to time.

Thick dust accumulated on the table, and Lin Ran didn't even dare to speak for fear of blowing his nose into dust.

He knelt down and took a closer look, and sure enough he found something unusual.

He gently put on his gloves and touched the center.

He turned to everyone and said, "There is a mechanism here."

As soon as the others heard this, they quickly ran over and squatted down to check with him.

"Do you have a knife? Lend it to me." Lin Ran stretched out his hand to Wang Jinpeng.

Wang Jinpeng would not joke when he was serious, so he handed the knife to Lin Ran decisively.

I saw Lin Ran cleaning up on the table with a knife.

Soon, a groove appeared in the center of the platform. From the outside, it should be an oval-shaped groove about ten centimeters deep.

"What on earth is this for?"