Chapter 7 The Area Erased from the Map

Professor Sun on the side also praised: “This is the Wangxia Peak, legend has it that when the world’s floods were rampant, Dayu led the people to cure the water, what he did was a move to change the universe, not without the help of the power of the ghosts and the gods, so the goddess of the gods descended to the earth, stood here for the ships to navigate the mountains for years and years, and thus also known as the goddess of the gods peak.” He suddenly thought of something, with the mouth to ask the heart, talking to himself said: “the lady does not come, the mountains do not open, this riddle said in the opening of the mountain lady, could it be referring to the goddess peak?”

At this time the clouds gradually close, and the hazy peaks cover, Sun Jiuzi in the car is still out of focus, repeatedly reciting: “the mountains do not open …… hundred steps nine back ……” straight as a maniac.

I have seen Professor Sun’s notes many times, know that he is the study of deciphering ancient symbols of more years, the riddles implied and so on exceptionally obsessive, so the brain instead of some rigid, often drilling a dead end, at this time to see him again will be the “Goddess Peak” and the “ground fairy grave” connection. At this time, see him again “Goddess Peak” and “Earth Immortal Grave” link up, then said to him: “Goddess Peak this legend is too old, almost happened in the age of myth, and Yu is not the king of the headless; myths and legends of the Interceptor dance Ganqi, Interceptor’s headless, will be the face of the belly, but the Interceptor’s is not a king, and its deeds are not the area of the Wushan Gorge, I do not think that the mother does not come, not open the mountains this phrase, and does not look like the myths are related to the, probably in the Wushan mountain range, the mother is not a king, but also in the mountains. , it is possible that in the Wushan Mountains there is another legend corresponding to it.”

Shirley Yang also said that we should focus our attention on the vicinity of the “Qingxi Ancient Town”, and that if the revelation of Mr. Feng about the entrance to the “Earth Immortal Village” was true, the “Earth Immortal Tomb” would in all likelihood be located in the area with salt wells. Nine times out of ten, it is in the place where there is a salt well, although no one has been able to find it in the past, but we have a few favorable conditions, first of all, the Earth Immortal left to the descendants of the Feng family of the riddles, at least half of them are already known; in addition, there is also a “killer”, that is, you can account for the examination of the dragon vein of the bronze mirror, the critical moment, you can use it to get some hints.

I subconsciously touched the backpack in the “return to the ruins of the trigrams mirror”, said to the crowd: “I asked my brother Zhang Yingchuan, to help study the use of the trigrams, thanks to him is the occupation of the test of the projected expert, know a lot of yin and yang, plus refer to the South China Sea boat dwellers trigrams number of the ancient mantra, not long ago, finally have some ideas, but the ancient mirror in the sea gas has been the sea gas. But the ancient mirror in the sea has been dissipated, I’m afraid that the most can be used once, and not fully confident that they can understand half of the trigrams presented? Not until the last resort, must not be used easily, hair mound touching gold, moving mountain unloading ridge left many tomb robbers looking for dragons of the ancient art, I don’t believe that the four methods of looking, sniffing and cutting, but also can’t deal with a landowner mine head of the view of the mountain refers to the fan.”

Sun Jiuzi did not think: “You are still young, lack of experience, you said that the ancient tomb of the Immortals can be obtained by raising their hands, as easy as picking up? I speculate through historical data, buried Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, it is by the Guanshan Taibao site design, that the earth immortal is precisely to take over the name handed down from his ancestors, even Guanshan gold medal is an imperial gift, so the Guanshan Finger Fans is by no means a waste of time, it should be the essence of the traditional culture.”

I am also unimpressed with what Professor Sun said: “so on, the gold touching talisman is the ancestor of the Guanshan Waist Plate, Cao Cemetery is the gold touching lieutenant built, that’s really called the antelope hangs on the corner – no trace can be traced, is not Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum that kind of desktop layout can be comparable to?”

Prof. Sun said: “Hu Bayi, you make up your mind ah, touch the gold schoolmaster made Cao Cao’s tomb this is your mouth all over the right? What part of history says that? This is not the proper attitude toward history, and I refuse to discuss it with you.”

I said to Prof. Sun, “Look at the past and present, how many major events have not been included in the official history? Historical books have always been officials do, not how the official wants to write how to write, the real secret things, write the history of the generation and how to know? It is not just the mystery of those cases, leaving a few lines of vague black characters on white paper, so that future generations to figure out, said the history of the Qing Dynasty, but there are many chaotic and unclear content.”

I also told Professor Sun, Cao Cao’s tomb is hidden in the heaven and earth is not open when left in a piece of Hongmeng gas, seemingly nothing, in fact, when buried, to find a snake woman beforehand, scrape the scales and bleed to kill in the tomb, leaving only its grease to take out of the tomb, and then sealed the tomb road, after that no one will be able to see from the outside world the shape of the tomb, the time of worship, the snake woman to do the grease to the lamp to ignite, only to be able to look to the mountains where the red flashes to pay homage to, and so on for a number of years after the After a number of years, the bowl of lamp oil is exhausted, the gods can not find this tomb is located, this is the ancient gold detectives of the magical means, so do not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients and technology, we are looking for the “ancient mound of the earth immortal in the Wushan”, and can never think too easy.

Professor Sun just do not believe, his principle “is the book even if there is a word, can also believe, a word recorded are not, then resolutely do not believe”, extremely stubborn, we argued all the way, the fat man is huffing and puffing, who did not pay attention to the car drove how long, halfway Missy suddenly greeted the driver to stop.

I thought to the station, quickly wake up the fat man, all the fish off, stood and looked around the misty clouds in the mountains, it is “not in front of the village after the store” place, asked the youngest sister this is where ah?

The youngest sister said: “Not said thi, you Lang’er do not remember? To take the five-foot path to Qingxi, from this mountain down, on the five-foot path.”

I looked at the car that carried us to the car, has long been open to the shadow of the county seat to land and then act, but the plan can not catch up with the changes, and now have to go directly into the mountains from this, the youngest sister to grow up so big, but also only walked once, God knows how long it takes to walk to?

The five of us along the mountain goat path, around the mountain and go, soon found the remains of the ancient palisades, that is a faction of cliffs inserted in mid-air, slate and timber built into the “five feet of the road” hanging on it, this section of the ancient road is the pre-Qin period, for the transportation of witch salt to the mountains outside the construction of the Qin project is not the same as idle, “the Great Wall, Qinhuai River, the ancient palisades, the Qin Mausoleum, Afang Palace,” and so on, which is difficult and bizarre and the scale of the huge, so that today’s people can not imagine.

We stepped on the “five feet of the road”, walking through the clouds between the deep canyon, as if walking on clouds, every step down, the footing of the slate are shaky, some places stone slate are collapsed, only a few trembling wood in the air, the fat man to see even the youngest sister to walk easily and comfortably, and refused to lose face, so I have to Hard head forward, he grabbed my backpack step by step to follow behind.

The people who do not dare to be careless, are fearful of the wall and walking, which dared to look around, and sometimes had to stop to take a breather, look around, full of eyes are hanging on the lower cut of the mountains, the foot of the rapids, as if the lion roars and thunder, look at the mountains below are cloudy, and only heard the sound of the water, but do not see the situation of the rapids tumbling.

Five feet of the old road may not be too long, but we feel that the road is like a walk to the end, the deeper the mountains go, the more curious the surrounding scenery, clearly see the pale cliffs blocked no way in, and so walk to the peaks and turns, but see the clouds open up to other places, the steam and moisture through the mountain rising, turned into floating clouds and rain, some places are rolling clouds, some places are blanketed with white dew, the clouds and mist cover, all seem to be Illusory realm, the ancient road has become more treacherous, the altitude difference is close to a thousand meters, who do not dare to be distracted to appreciate those misty clouds and smoke change.

It is not easy to get to the end, the people have been all hands and feet numb, sit down on the mountain to rest for a long time, still feel in a trance, it is difficult to imagine how they are step by step to insist on coming, a thought of going back to the time when you certainly have to go again, can not help but from the bones to feel scared.

The youngest sister pointing down the hillside to me said: “Harrier brother look, below is what you are looking for Qingxi town, you see the town houses are still there, maybe my family’s previous house are not collapsed.”

At this time the rain clouds have just dispersed, blood red sun hanging in the sky, the distant mountain twilight thick, heaven and earth mountains and rivers will be like a hazy picture scroll, I hastened to get up the spirit of the sky is not yet dark, take the binoculars to look at the terrain below the mountain, I only see a large piece of ancient residential buildings, staggered distribution in the hillside, the street has more stone steps through the town has long been deserted, the town of the lamps and smoke are not, it seems to be surrounded by even a wild cat and wild mouse are not left. Wild cats and rats are not left, completely silent dead silence, even on the map has not been this place.

Look around the ancient town, the surface has been damaged, can not watch the feng shui situation, if the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal is hidden in the vicinity, I really can not imagine how the “Observatory refers to the fan” to find the dragon phase of the land, see the sky is already late, all the people in some long-distance trekking, have been hungry and tired, to have any action to be said tomorrow, and then took out the wolf’s eye flashlight to So take out the wolf eye flashlight to adjust the aperture, shine the road at the foot, lead the way down the mountain, to the town to find a place to spend the night.

A group of people walked to the foot of the mountain, the sky has been dark, the youngest sister let me find a long branch to explore the road, it turned out that from here to the past, on the road are graves, there is quite a large piece of cemetery, coffins are moved to other places to move the ancestral graves, leaving the empty pits of earth, full of weeds, grassy heights sunken, if you don’t use a stick to explore the road to explore the landmines like walking, this dark night, surely there will be people trapped in the graves and break their feet.

I had to poke a branch step by step, the other four people are following me, there are mosquitoes in the weeds, the flashlight beam is to attract many moths and midges, constantly towards the face of the people pouncing over, while walking but also waving their hands to drive away, I can not help but frown, Qingxi ancient town of the terrain and the environment, is far more complex than expected, the town of the dead city in general, I do not know what will be some of the town?

The crowd of deep and shallow feet through the graves, although the exposed places are coated with anti-mosquito drops, but still do not know by those “kamikaze” general sea mosquitoes sucked how much blood to go, and bypassed a few dry ponds, and finally into the town, only to see the town of Qingxi an ancient unoccupied building, all are open doors, most of them even the door panels are removed, and the furniture inside is also moved to the town of the old town. Inside the furniture also moved empty, leaving only empty shell houses and full walls of quotations, in the night as a piece of tall dark ghosts, the summer heat Wei is blazing, a wind is not, into the night the air is more humid and stuffy, so that a person doubly depressing and uneasy.

Prof. Sun said: “Thanks to us this is a team of people, if alone, who dares to spend the night here? To find a house as soon as possible to settle is, otherwise outside the mosquito bites all night, gold steel Luo Han can not withstand.”

I said that since I did not bring a tent, certainly to find an abandoned house for the night, but the stars and moon in the sky, the latter half of the night there will be thunderstorms, you see these houses are old and dilapidated, at any time may be the house collapse, the heart can not be in a hurry, you have to choose a solid and reliable some of the only security.

Fatty held up a wolf-eye flashlight, stood in the street to the surrounding sweep a few sweeps: “I think it’s about the same, it’s already dark, where to find what peace of mind? Simply take a chance and forget about it, cross your heart to live in carelessly, the house does not collapse even if it is our good fortune.”

I do not agree with the fat man’s approach to luck, luck should be reserved for critical moments and then plug, how can we expect to take it all the time to fight? So want to take the group to continue down the street to go in, this time Shirley Yang asked the youngest sister: “There is no police station in the town, hospitals and other facilities? Or …… where the largest and most luxurious houses?”

The youngest sister carefully recalled said: “To say that the Public Security Bureau and the hospital is no, the former supply and marketing agencies, guest houses, health centers are not like a child, the house is very old and simple, and now certainly can not live, to say that the largest and most luxurious mansion, certainly to be counted as the first Fengjiazha, that is the oldest piece of house, bigger than the Temple of the Dragon King, but said that the inside of the unclean, is a murderous, old times ago, no one lived in, and the old days, the old days, no one lived in. Old before no one lives, Feng family house is also the old name, later generations of masters are not surnamed Feng, mansion in front of the green stone pagoda and stone lions, has a history of several hundred years.”

I heard the original now there is Guanshan Taibao when the “Yang House”, naturally want to see, let the youngest sister to lead the way, she left home for a long time, can not remember the road, but also remembered “Fengjiazha” is in the center of the whole town, groping for the past, and then arrived! In front of a building with black tiles and white walls, there is a pair of large stone lions guarding the entrance, which is the old mansion.

Most of the old mansion has been demolished, not the old look, the remaining part of the scale than the old times is much smaller, in addition to the stone lions in front of the door, only this building and a lofty and lofty green stone pagoda, is the Qing Dynasty before the preservation of the old building.

I see this building eaves and columns of heavy color although all have fallen off, but the material of brick and wood and the construction of the tight, far better than the ordinary residential, as a year-old mansion, but far more than the town of the other after the construction of the house is strong, I just do not know whether the Feng family mansion at night is peaceful?

At this time the sky began to rain, all the people are tired hard, also no longer hesitate, immediately decided to spend the night in this room, each playing a flashlight through the door into the interior.