Chapter 28 the divine brush

Although there is no key in the golden box, but hid a “brush”, but not for ordinary writing brush, that should be used to draw ink landscapes with a large brush, I in line with the principle of seeing is believing, so that the crowd should not be confused, should believe their own eyes: “This is only a brush, and not anything else.”

Mr. Sun Jiu scratched his bald head, shook his head and said, “What kind of riddle is it to hide a brush in the golden box of the stone coffin? Why did Head Feng say in his suicide note that it was the key to open the door to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortals? Could it be that the Guanshan Finger Fascination Fugue passed down from his ancestors was also a fake? Or did he deliberately mislead others before he died? Now that my mind is already a bit spinning, it seems that it’s really time to retire.”

Shirley Yang said, “I think Chief Feng’s words are good even when he is about to die, he won’t try to deceive people anymore, if this is just a brush that has nothing to do with the ancient tomb of Di Xian Village, what is the point for him to lie to us? There are so many incredible things in the Guanshan Finger Fugue that it is difficult for ordinary people to understand, maybe this brush is the key to open the door of the ancient tomb …….”

Said, Shirley Yang from the gold box to take out the rod of the brush carefully scrutinized, the brush pen is not made of bamboo, is also made of pure gold, gold brush engraved on the two lines of words, she read word by word: “Guanshan God pen, painting the ground for the door …… What does this mean? Is it possible to use this pen to draw a door on the ground to pass through? How is it possible ……”

Fatty suddenly thought of something: “Hey …… it seems that I have heard of this before, there is a divine pen to draw anything and everything can become real, draw a road and you can go up the mountain, draw a bamboo ladder and you can climb the wall, but I really don’t remember too well… …which ancient tomb I saw it in? Old Hu, do you still have any memory?”

I said Commander Wang you are confused, but perhaps you love our cause too much, otherwise how can you think of everything above the bucket? Take the pen to draw a ladder to climb the wall, I remember very clearly, either the book or cartoon, called what “Magic Pen Ma Liang”, this story has years, than I am not a few years old.

Fatty busy said: “Yes, yes, this is the paragraph, Guanshan divine pen is not the meaning of this? Let us see where good where to draw a tomb door, and then push the door to go in on the line, to the fat master of this half life summarized the rich experience of the struggle to see …… us eighty percent and let the militia of the village of Dixian to shabu, is simply an insult to our intelligence ah, with a pen drawn out of the door, can he fucking into the people it!”

Shirley Yang does not know what we are talking about, asked me: “How? That divine brush painting door thing …… in ancient times really had?”

I smiled bitterly and said that is not an event, is a mythological story created in the 1950s in China, said there is a poor family child called Ma Liang, from childhood with art cells, not honestly herd cattle, instead of special love to engage in the creation of fine arts, although a day of school has not been, but what to draw like what the teachers of the Academy of Fine Arts are not as good as him, and he also has a habit of not divided into occasions not divided into places, to go to where the paintings to He also has a habit of painting wherever he goes, regardless of occasion or place.

His only dream was to have a pen of his own. One night, a white-bearded old man came out of nowhere, and the old man gave him a paintbrush, letting him paint whatever he wanted to paint, and from then on, Ma Liang used this pen to paint.

Unexpectedly this pen is a magic pen, draw things can become real, draw a crane immediately flew into the sky, draw a plough ox can immediately pull the plough, and then the oppression of the ruling class of the working people know about this, they caught Maliang, put him in jail, at night Maliang drew a door in the cell, and pushed it, and the door opened, and then drew a ladder, and successfully escaped from the prison over the wall.

Finally he was caught in the palace, to the emperor drew a gold mountain, the mountain in front of a sea of ocean, the emperor and ministers and other bad guys, sitting in the treasure ship painted by Maliang to go to the gold mountain to carry the gold, but by Maliang secretly painted a storm, the treasure ship overthrown, the bad guys were all drowned in the sea.

The divine pen Ma Liang eliminated the emperor who exploited the people, and took the divine pen back to the folk, specializing in painting for the poor old people, his story in the fifties and sixties, is the children at that time the most favorite kind of story, similar to the secret of the treasure gourd and so on, but why did we like this story when we were young? Other people I am not sure, anyway, I and the fat man seven or eight years old when the consciousness is still very low, we imagine all day long that they can have such a magic pen, you can draw yourself a cream popsicle to eat, want to eat as much as you can eat as much as you can eat, and we also agreed that Ma Liang’s magic pen, than the treasure gourd is good, because that year in-depth imagined a very long time, so to until now still remember more clearly.

Shirley Yang laughed: “It seems that you have been very ambitious when you were a child, but this mountain-viewing divine pen is the same as the story you just told? Can you really draw the door to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village?”

Master Sun Jiuzi, however, giggled at this, “Ridiculous, too ridiculous, we are here to search for ancient tombs, we can’t talk nonsense anymore, we need to bring up more constructive ideas, I think this Mountain Viewing Divine Brush will have a mezzanine layer, perhaps hidden inside the brush? Maybe there is a key hidden inside the pen.”

I picked up the gold box and the divine pen repeatedly looked a few times, the gold pen is hollow, there is no mezzanine mechanism, but I found in the gold box but seems to have another mystery, the box surface hollowed out pattern belongs to the Ming Dynasty style, there are mountains and rivers and figures, the whole is a stone screen like mountains, mountains and rivers and valleys among the dense forests, and there is another immortal, in the two stone screens between the confrontation of a large mountain painting, the immortal drew a picture of the graphic seems to be precisely A gate.

I look at the gold box pattern in the mountains and rivers have flying swallows for the bridge of the vision, similar to the “Scared Souls Terrace” in front of the temperament, if the tomb door is at the bottom of the canyon, but also should be what I said earlier – the ancient tomb of the village of the Earth Immortal will not be far from the “Coffin Gorge” to hide the wind and the gas. “Hide the wind and gas is too far away,” “Observation of the mountains pointing to the fan fugue” exhaustive bizarre and bizarre ideas, more than the conventional thinking can not be realized, perhaps there is a special place in the canyon, with the magic pen can really draw the mountain to open up the road is also not known.

I think anyway, the next step is about to find a place without dead bodies, in order to use the “return to the ruins of the trigram mirror” insight into the mystery of the tomb, at this time and then stay in the hanging coffins in the crypts of the thoughtless, why not to the bottom of the canyon to get two things in one, as long as the place in person to try, it will be aware of the divine pen to draw the door is true or false.

I made up my mind, put the golden box together with the pen, let the people ready to find a path down the mountain, Professor Sun pointed at the Bashan ape called me: “This guy how to do? Its master is dead and it’s all alone in the desert, isn’t it pitiful? How about I bring it back to Beijing?”

I thought for a moment and told Prof. Sun that this was not a feasible idea. There was no way to keep it at home, and the Bashan Ape had been wandering around for the past ten years, which showed that it was very fond of its master. As the saying goes, “The elk will return to the mountains, the unicorn will give to the pavilion”, and the deep mountains and old forests are its home, so let it go.

I persuaded Professor Sun to give up this unrealistic idea, and we all watched the Bashan ape climbing the cliffs and disappearing into the clouds before we set off.

Cavern crypts from the bottom of the valley is not far, and chiseled with embedded walls of the bird path connected, from the crags through the clouds and down, only between the rushing rapids roar from the mountain tour through the mountains, in this place, as if in the elevation of thousands of feet deep in the mountain cracks, more than 1,000 meters above the head of the sky intermittent, only vaguely visible, as if it has entered a completely isolated area.

The terrain at the bottom of the canyon is relatively open, and the middle of the canyon is like two different places, although the upper treacherous cliffs are narrow, but the river at the root of the mountain on both sides, but the deep depression inward, the edge of the riverbed is full of a piece of pebbles as smooth as a mirror, the rocky crevices of weeds and wildflowers in the thicket, and the birth of a lot of strange species of trees that do not have the name of the name.

Here all year round no sunshine, water fog, making the nearby plants extremely gloomy, coupled with the weather hot and humid, easy to make people produce a kind of inexplicable irritability.

I searched for a while with reference to the scene depicted in the golden box, and saw that there was a fork in the canyon, which contained a dried-up bluestone river, and not too deep inside it reached the end, a waterfall embedded in a high mountain, but the waterfall was either rerouted or dried up, and there was no longer any water source, and only a wall of slippery crags remained to meet my face.

Before the waterfall dried up, I do not know will be this wall washed thousands of tens of thousands of years, smooth and clean as a stone mirror, the wall in front of five dense old trees, branches born with teeth and claws, and the pattern on the gold box is extremely similar, the immortal with the divine brush to draw the door, it should be the rock wall at the waterfalls without water.

But the mountains in front of us are all in one, there is no trace of any artificial repair, with a brush to draw a door on it can go in? How to think is also unlikely, unless that the view of the mountain divine pen, really a can depict the miracle of the “divine pen”.

The people here looked at each other, who would be so stupid as to take the pen to the mountain to draw a door to open the way? Go back to be known, “touch the gold lieutenant” reputation will not be reduced to a laughing stock?

I thought about it, said to the fat man: “When in the military nursery, our aunts there have seen that you have art cells, other children bedwetting are tasteless blind urine, only Wang Commander, you today, a big train, tomorrow, a big ship, every day without repetitive, really admirable, the last two years I see that you have the potential to be a Picasso, to you go over to paint the doorway. Not …… you go over to draw the road gate for us to appreciate how?”