Chapter 4 The Secret of the Town

Professor Sun worried: “I am also anxious ah, but there is information that can be checked, only the head Feng joined the army when he stayed in the army’s place of origin and address, and then it was hard to find his file, but never find out where his ancestry is.”

I realized, it seems that this matter is really not easy, the end of the Ming stray invaders into Sichuan, as well as the end of the Qing dynasty war, resulting in the migration of displaced persons, resulting in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and other places produced a large number of immigrants, so stay in the files of the place of origin and address, is not the Feng leader of a number of generations of ancestors before, not to find his closest relatives to the familiar, I’m afraid no one can know the details.

I was half cold in my heart, and asked Prof. Sun: “So there is no hope to find?”

Prof. Sun said: “I have been probing, until today at noon just have some clues, but ……” said took out a just bought China atlas to, turn to point to me: “only in this mountain, the clouds deep do not know the place. ”

I looked carefully at the location he pointed to, the original is the Yangtze River Three Gorges around the Wushan, since ancient times, said Wushan clouds, Goddess Peak hazy misty, ancient times is the fiefdom and mausoleum of the Wuham where, so called “Wushan”, used to this day. This place perennial cloud cover, clouds and fog to the mountain range trend are covered, so touch the gold school lieutenant of the “look” word trick does not come into play, the specific location has to be more accurate some of the good, I asked Professor Sun: “Wushan is a branch of the Dragon, in the Qingwu feng shui has always had a group of dragons without a head of said that the most let a person is elusive, this mountain! Also within the scope of the influence of the Wu Chu culture, there are many ancient customs and legends, now has been found to Feng head of the ancestral home in Wushan County, but the scope of this area is still too large, is not investigated specifically in what towns and what villages? You also don’t tug the text with me to say what the clouds are deep and don’t know where, his hometown town always have a place name is.”

Professor Sun said, “I did inquire about the name of the town, called Qingxi Town, but this map is very exhaustive, Wushan County, large and small every place, but could not find the name of the Qingxi Town place, so it is said that only in this mountain, the clouds do not know where the depths of the place.”

I listened to Master Sun Jiuzi said Wushan County map does not have “Qingxi Town”, also feel a little confused, is not the source of information is not accurate? Or maybe it is the history of change, the ancient name of the place is not used down? So the newly published map is not labeled, this town is the Ming Dynasty still exists in the world, is bound to be an ancient town, deserted and abandoned, there should also be ruins to find the right, it is not possible to even a piece of tile are not left, carefully check the local history, may be able to find clues.

Professor Sun nodded his head in agreement: “When I was looking to cheat the old Chen asked you to go to the South China Sea to salvage the responsibility of the ancient mirror in me, I thought for a long time, decided to go with you, what is the plan?”

I thought about it and said, “Nine masters you finally think open, the matter of the ancient town of Qingxi, you can go to Wushan County and then inquire, we can not be delayed, tomorrow we will set off, people should not be too many, the fewer people who know, the better, wait a while, let’s get together.”

I came out of the study, look outside the guests have been dispersed seven or eight, Professor Chen drunk, early was helped back to the bedroom to rest, I called Shirley Yang and Fatty into the study, unlocked the door, plotting to go to Wushan “field trip” plan.

Professor Chen’s study, a cabinet of all the books, naturally, there are a lot of local history of a kind of literature and history, Sun Jiuji rummage through the box to find a few big brick books, check the history of Wushan County, but did not find any “headless king” records, it seems that the head of the seal mentioned the “hint”. It seems that the “hint” mentioned by Mr. Feng is not so easy to find the answer.

I said to Professor Sun: “Wushan there is no headless king I’m not sure, but it is said that the Qing Dynasty Emperor Yongzheng was assassinated, was cut off the head of Lv Sinniang to go, so Yongzheng buried, the corpse without a head, connected to a gold head, which is a body without a head, but he is the emperor, to say that is the king, it is not a demotion of him? Besides the age and geographical location do not match.”

Sun Jiuji said, “This is a wild legend, not enough to believe, Wu Chu culture period, there has been a headless general, but he is not a king, the ancient punishment of cutting off the head is very common, the chaotic world, there are many kings and generals, and even emperors, and finally fell into the body and head separation, to one by one to count, I’m afraid that I can never find the clues, so our eyes, we should still focus on the land of Bashu. Land.”

The people discussed for a long time, can not think of any “headless king” near Wushan, Shirley Yang said: “I’m afraid that this king is not the king, the local legend or to Wushan County and then inquire, to be confirmed, since tomorrow will set off into the Sichuan, should first make a well thought out plan. ”

Sun Jiuji said: “Is it necessary to find a way to open a letter of introduction or something? To the local lodging and walking are convenient, to open a letter of introduction need to wait at least another month.”

I said I don’t need to open a letter of introduction, but a letter of introduction is really convenient, why don’t I just write one myself, let Dajinya find a master engraver, overnight engraving a Wulabu chapter cover on the line.

Sun Jiuzi at first glance: “or you have the balls, letter of introduction also dare to open their own?”

The fat man hemmed and hawed and said, “These days, recognize the stamp does not recognize people, with a set of Wubu chapter have a preparedness, Sun Laojiu you do not know, Panjiayuan there are a lot of special rely on carving Wubu chapter for a living of the craftsmen.”

Shirley Yang, however, did not know the usefulness of the letter of introduction, asked me what equipment to bring? What is the natural geography of Wushan?

I said to Shirley Yang: “I’ve never been to Wushan, but when I was in the army, I had a few comrades from Chongqing, according to them, Wushan is the gateway to eastern Sichuan, the county has many slopes and many steps, and the overall terrain, in a nutshell, is the seven mountains and two parts of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River rolls on, and the mountains are cloudy and rainy, and we used to stay in Beijing’s tools and equipment are not much. But I think it should be enough to use, this time, although it is also into the mountains, but the local than not the Xinjiang desert, explosives and firearms can not be carried, remove the tools of the gold touching schoolmasters, only first aid medicines, engineer shovels, lighting communication equipment, as well as simple mountaineering equipment will be enough.”

The fat man said: “with a gun is like a tiger with wings, hand without guys are not strong guts, I estimate that the gang of what Guanshan Taibao is not what oil lamp, most likely sophisticated thieves, murderous robbers, and then more explosives to be prepared for any trouble.”

I told him that: “in recent years, the railroad highway are very tight inspection, the road is not allowed to carry flammable and explosive substances, in addition, all the legends about the ancient tomb of the village of the Earth Immortal, more than describing its mysterious and bizarre, but never said that it is horrible and dangerous, I think that at most there are some old malfunctioning of the machine bracket pin, we are going into the mountains to investigate, but not to go to war, I think that the tomb of the Earth Immortal hidden in the Wushan Mountain. Wushan in the ground fairy tomb, but is a large landlord tomb in the Ming Dynasty, it is mainly hidden hidden, not as strong as the emperor’s mausoleum general huge, so there is no need to take a cannon to fight mosquitoes, this time we have to rely on us to touch the gold means.”

Sun Jiuzi jacked in and said, “Good you Hu Bayi, experience is so old-fashioned, every sentence has taught you to say on the point, and still dare to say that you will not be able to rob the tomb of the craft? But in order to find the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village, it still has to be done by someone like you.”

I said, “in deciphering ancient symbols and riddles, you Sun Jiuji is Yuanliang, but when it comes to searching for dragons in the mountains, you are a layman, but as for that set of what a good king, there is a body without a head, in order to see the Earth Immortal, the first to see the words of the search for the Immortal of the Woolly Sheep, but also count on you to think of ways to decipher, and at that time we two-pronged approach, not worried about not doing this matter.”

I said so, but the heart did not make optimistic estimates, perhaps the last had to face the result of nothing, the legend of the village of the earth immortal is extremely mysterious, mostly for the official history is not contained, the only more credible paragraph of the record, is from the Qing Dynasty Sichuan people by a notebook “Bashu Miscellany”, which mentioned: the end of the Ming dynasty and the early Qing dynasty, roving bandits into the Sichuan, a large number of robbed the tomb, want to get the earth immortal tomb of the Danding Tianshu, “Danding”. “Danding” is a very special word, is the scientific name of the ancient corpse of the inner dan, if not I really can not think of other tricks, will not rely only on the words of the record, on the idea of going to Sichuan to look for the ancient tomb of the village of Dixian, in addition to the end of the Ming Dynasty invaders digging the mountain cave legend did not occur in the Wushan area, but “Miscellaneous Records of Marsh” is not a wild rumor of absurdity, the book is a true record of many of the sights and sounds of Sichuan. Recorded many of the anecdotes in Sichuan, the content is still relatively credible.

At this time, the fat man remembered that there is an important issue has not been discussed, immediately stood up and said: “Just now the old man said quite good, but the ideological aspects of the work is not enough to talk about, the commander of the group to add a few sentences, in the face of the South China Sea egg people tearful cries and pleas for help, are based on the craft of the meal, we touch the gold lieutenants by no means stand idly by and listen to what you say, that the Guanshan Taibao is a heavenly robber! He was in the Wushan Tomb hidden gold beads and jewels, must be piled up, I see our expedition, we should be in line with the principle of not being corrupt and wasteful to raise the coffin and send material, when the pile of the pile of the pile of the pile of the packaged packages …….”

Professor Sun immediately opposed: “Absolutely not, only the Zhou Tian Gua map of the keel pattern can be top down, other uniformly immobile, I reiterate, I’m not to get rich.”

Fatty said you are not deceiving yourself and others? Striving for fame is nobler than profit-seeking? I stopped the fat man said: “for people to deal with, each has its own way, can not be forced, other things I do not care, anyway, the ancient corpse of gold I must give it key out, now arguing about what is still too early, and so on to find the ancient tomb of Wushan and then the camera act on it.”

Discussion has been completed, the four of us will be their own tidy up and pack, the next day early in the morning to set off, less than the “road by car, encounter water boarding boat”, not those “hunger, thirst and drink, the pain of the boat” under the words, Wushan County is the Yangtze River in the Wushan section of the Yangtze River Gorge, the Yangtze River The Yangtze River’s torrential flow to swallow the mountains of the momentum, open up the mountains and mountains to the east, this section of the gorges divided into “Qutang Gorge, Wushan Gorge, Xiling Gorge,” three sections, the gorges and gorges are connected to the wide valley, the total length of nearly two hundred kilometers.

Qutang Gorge is known for its majestic and precipitous, Xiling Gorge is a lot of water, the origin of its name can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, with the Ruan Ling, Wuling, the same name, are due to the burial of an ancient mound or hidden hanging coffins and the name, but now has long since not been able to find the ruins of the Qulong Lings, and even more so, no one can say that these “Lings” as the name of the place, the burial of which are the ancient people. Ancient people.

Wushan Gorge is characterized by “deep and beautiful”, the mountains stretched, clouds and fog. Wushan County through the mountain highway, you can take a long-distance bus into the county, the mountain road winding rugged, partial value of the day fog thick, the car driving exceptionally slow, around the dense green dyed through the dense forests, as well as the strange rocky mountain slopes, in the clouds and misty in the hidden, teach people difficult to see the peaks of the show.

Did not go halfway, the driver stopped the car, I think he may be too much to drive up in the fog, for fear of accidents, want to wait until the clouds and fog to go, when China’s cars are still few, fewer people have a driver’s license, so the driver will drive the driver doubly respected, who if you know a driver who can drive in front of the other people will feel the face of the light.

This trend is heavier in the mountainous areas, look good condition of the girl, are willing to marry the driver, married to the driver of both the beauty of the gas and the spirit, did not marry into the tears all day long. The driver is also a big bull, say no one, he does not want to go when, no passenger dare to urge him, if the driver is happy to drink a few two, and then sleep in the afternoon to drive is not impossible, every day, only this car, do not want to sit can not be, we follow the customs of the countryside, we also had to eat and rest in a small town by the side of the road, and by the way, prying into the town of Qingxi and the king of the news of the Headless King.

This small can not be small town built on the mountain, the building is mostly red and white, mostly before the liberation of the old houses, we found a local snack store at the town’s entrance to the whole ornamental lunch, the boss is a bald head, dull, according to their local language is “Gua Ruoxi’s”, to see someone come to eat on the grinning, and do not know how to He grinned when he saw someone coming to eat and didn’t know how to greet guests, but he would make you whatever you wanted to eat, and his skills were quite good.

I ate two bowls of dragon hand, stomach bottom, all the way full of bumps in the brain is also awake a lot, then Shirley Yang and Sun Jiuji master made a wink, let them continue to eat, I go to set some “tongue leakage” out of the moment to get up and go over to the balding boss handed a cigarette, take the opportunity to make a conversation: “Boss, the brain is so bright yo, it seems to be a lucky star high omen.”

The bald boss was overjoyed and asked me where I was from. I said we are from Beijing to this place to investigate the historical monuments, and you ask a place to see if you know.

Bald shell boss nodded and said: “to get, I do not know you want to ask what place?”

I asked him if he knew where Wushan Qingxi Town was? And this neighborhood in ancient times, is there any king was cut off the brain of the legend?

The bald boss shook his head and said, “I’ve never heard of it, where did the king get his head chopped off? Before the liberation of the common people by the bandits and warlords cut off the brains of the child is a lot, then I was a half a child, listening to the old people say, the street stakes is beheading with ……”