I hurriedly asked why.
It turned out that the old shopkeeper had a great reputation during the Republic of China.
Everyone in the black and white circles knew about Baoding Mansion's "Salesman Li".
Many guests from all over the world came here to order strange things from him. .
Many years ago, there was a businessman with an abacus who specially came to order a "gold steel umbrella" and left a diagram and the secret recipe of the alloy ratio.
However, when the old shopkeeper finished making the "gold steel umbrella", the merchant was "Huang He left" "Without a trace", he never came back to get his umbrella.
Now, after so many years, it is expected that that person is no longer alive.
I held the "gold steel umbrella" in my hand and looked at it again and again.
The material felt and felt the same as the previous handle.
With this thing with me, I dared to walk back and forth even through mountains of swords and seas of fire.
I couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy.
I didn't bother to bargain at the moment, I just paid the price according to the price offered by the old shopkeeper.
I saw that shopkeeper Li was also an old man, so I might be able to glean some information from him, so I asked him if there was a king whose head was beheaded in ancient times where "Qingxi Town" is located.
The old shopkeeper said: "Seeing that you are all spending a lot of money to buy these sharp instruments, and you are all experts in knowing the goods, when you come to Wushan this time, you are definitely not doing something trivial, and you are so generous with money, and there is a lot of anxiety in your eyebrows.
Presumably it's not a matter of making money.
If I read it correctly, this is probably a rescue operation.
We are both from the rivers and lakes, so we should naturally help each other.
However, I am also a guest here.
I have been suffering from old illnesses for decades.
I rarely go out on weekdays and I don’t know much about the local scenery.
I understand, I’m afraid I can’t help.”
I said politely: "We have accepted the old shopkeeper's wishes.
We can just go find others to inquire."
After that, I wanted to take everyone to leave.
The old shopkeeper said: "Wait a minute, I haven't finished speaking yet.
I only have one god-granddaughter, Yao Mei'er.
Her family is from Qingxi.
Why don't you let her tell you about it."
Then he called Yao Mei'er over and asked him to come over.
She came to talk about things in Qingxi Town.
Yao Meier didn't know what we wanted to do, so she said curiously: "Qingxi Town has been gone for more than ten years.
There are hanging things hanging on the road, making it impossible to get there.
What else are you doing with it?"
I heard the old shopkeeper say that Yaomei'er's ancestral home is Qingxi Town, and I thought to myself: "Finally, we have found a solution."
I quickly asked Duandi carefully.
It turns out that there is a very ancient town in the Wushan Mountains called Wuzhen, which is the official place name.
No one in the area knows or knows about it.
However, it is said that this place is where Wuxian Tomb is located, so people in the town avoid the word "Witch" and call the town "Qingxi".
Most outsiders don't understand this.
There are mineral resources in the mountains, which are extremely rich.
Later, they were attacked by wars.
Moreover, the resources in the mountains were increasingly depleted, the population was gradually lost, and it became more and more deserted.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the whole country was "preparing for war and famine".
In order to implement the three defenses of "air defense, anti-virus, and anti-nuclear", war-ready air-raid shelters and warehouses were rebuilt in the original mines.
Around 1971, the residents near Qingxi were relocated to several surrounding counties.
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However, there were many mines in the area and the earth's crust was severely damaged.
Sections of the air-raid shelters were repaired and collapsed.
The construction progress was not smooth.
However, as current events changed, half of the air-raid shelters were repaired.
Work was stopped and abandoned, and with the passage of time, the entire ancient town has long become a forgotten no man's land.
Although Yao Meier is from Qingxi, her surname is not Feng, and she does not know that there is a legend about the headless king in ancient times.
When the people of Qingxi moved to the town, she moved here with her family.
Both her parents died during the Cultural Revolution.
She was left alone and was taken in by the old shopkeeper.
Yaomei'er left home at the age of eleven, but she still remembers most things in Qingxi Town.
She said that there are three roads in Qingxi, one is the waterway.
It is midsummer now, and the water in the river has surged, and it is dangerous and difficult to travel; the road has been in disrepair for a long time, and there have been landslides in many places, making it impassable; only a section of the ancient plank road is still intact, and the plank road is still in good condition.
It was built in the Qin Dynasty and is only five feet wide, hence the name "Five Feet Road".
It takes a lot of effort to go around the mountain via the ancient plank road.
I immediately unfolded the map and asked Yao Meier to draw directions.
It would be best if I could explain in detail the specific locations of the "mines and air-raid shelters" in Qingxi Town.
At this time, the old shopkeeper said: "If you are still looking at the map, let Yao Meier lead you to Qingxi.
If you have the opportunity in the future, you can take her out of the mountains and let her see the world and learn some real skills." " I didn't expect that the old shopkeeper would let Yao Meier be the guide for the expedition team.
Although I couldn't ask for it, on the other hand, I was afraid that she would be in danger.
We went into Wushan to look for ancient tombs, just to save people.
Needless to say, Shiry Yang, Fatty and I, Sun Jiuye was also a person who underwent a real test during the Cultural Revolution, and how could Yaomei'er survive?
The risk is that if she has three advantages and two disadvantages, I won't be "tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall."
I was about to refuse, but I heard the old shopkeeper say: "My sister is smart and courageous.
She has studied with me for many years and has taught me everything she can.
She is also a child who grew up in the mountains.
She has traveled across mountains and ridges.
The words will definitely help you a little."
Yao Meier refused to agree, and said to the old shopkeeper: "Otherwise, when you are old, who can I go to take care of my godfather for dinner and tea?"
The old shopkeeper said: "Silly boy, my god is over eighty years old this year.
He still has a few days of good life and you are as good as a flower.
How can you stay in the mountains and waste time?
Are you willing to marry that man who weighs a big spoon in the future?"
Do you have a bald head?
Lord, although I am old, my eyesight is still the same.
Still here, look at the spiritual temperament of their group, Brother Yaozi, who is the most benevolent and righteous, and they are all people who want to do great things.
You just go out into the world with them, make a lot of money, and make a lot of money.
If the godfather is not dead by then , come pick me up and go out with you to enjoy yourself."
The old shopkeeper insisted on letting Yao Meier lead us into the mountains, and entrusted me to take her to work in the city in the future.
I had a little discussion with Shiry Yang and thought it would be best to have a local to lead the way, as long as she was not allowed to take risks ahead, so we agreed and accepted her as my junior sister.
In fact, I don’t know who this generation is.
Where did it come from?
At this time, Professor Sun came in from the outer room and said, "I went out to take a look just now.
The car seems to be about to leave.
We have to hurry up and get on the road."
Drivers in the mountains are unwilling to wait for others, so we had to pack some groceries and hurriedly said goodbye to the old shopkeeper of "Honeycomb Mountain".
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The five of us each carried backpacks and hurried out of the grocery store.
We jumped on the truck that had started. car.
The car body was constantly bumping and swaying as it drove out of the mountain town.
I sat in the back seat and looked at the "gold steel umbrella" in my hand.
I thought to myself that it was such an adventure, I hope this is a sign.
Successfully found the "Tomb of the Earthly Immortal".
Thinking of this, I immediately asked Yao Meier if there was any legend about "earth immortals" near Qingxi.
Yao Meier said: "There is a saying in my hometown that the earth immortal is buried in the tomb of King Feng, but the common people say that the earth immortal is a demon immortal, so the tomb is the tomb of the demon immortal.
Because the earth immortal knows magic and is the most charming, he said You can live forever after entering the ancient tomb, and deceived many people into being buried alive with him.
However, these were all legends in the early years.
No one knows whether the story of the Demon Immortal Tomb is true or false now, but Qingxi Town does have surnames.
Sealed.”
I wanted to find out more about it, but I saw that Yao Meier was a little reluctant to leave the old shopkeeper.
She reluctantly looked out the car window, so I comforted her and said, "I left home when I was several years younger than you are now.
Shouting the slogan that there is a vast world and great potential, I traveled thousands of miles to exercise, and this fat man came with me back then. " The fat man became excited when he heard me mention the prosperous years of those years: "At that time, I was really a boy who was my classmate.
His mind was full of rebellious and reasonable activities.
How dare you laugh at Huang Chao for being unhusband.
Sister, you are in your early twenties, and you are still acting like a baby with the old shopkeeper.
But Fatty, I was only eighteen years old, and I went to the mountains alone at night to watch prostitutes.
I encountered a ghost, calling the sky and the earth for help, and the earth and the earth were not working.
I had no spells to recite, so I had to bite the bullet and hold on."
After all, Yaomei'er is young at heart and extremely curious.
When the fat man said he had encountered a ghost, he couldn't help but ask us what it was like.
I wanted to test Yaomei's courage.
If she was scared to hear even a ghost story, I might as well send her back quickly.
I said to her, "I've heard about this.
After I joined the army, the fat man was in the Northeast."
Telling you what happened in the mountainous area is really mind-numbing.
Anyway, we are just sitting in the car with nothing to do, so I will let the fat man tell you."
Shirey and Professor Sun were also curious and listened quietly.
The fat man cleared his throat and started talking: The location was outside the village of Tuanshanyingzi Production Team of Daha Zhanzi Commune.
The time was 1970, and it was also a summer night.
The midsummer night in the mountains should be very cool, but something happened that night.
Maybe there was a big storm.
It was a thunderstorm, it was extremely hot and muggy, and there were not a single star in the sky.
On that day, Fatty Wang and another educated youth were assigned to "watch the field" on the mountain, guarding a few acres of land on the hillside.
All that is grown there is corn.
The wild boar in the mountains likes to chew this stuff the most.
The more it chews, the more it destroys.
The corn field is covered with corn and becomes an alley, so someone has to guard it at night.
If they hear any noise, they will come out and knock.
The basin drives away wild boars.
That night, another educated youth had something to do, so Fatty Wang had to go up the mountain to watch the show alone.
He lassoed a rabbit during the day, and when he went out, he brought a kettle of clay from the village to cook.
He was happy to eat and drink by himself, so he picked up the rabbit in the field and said humming in sample Excerpts from the play "Red Lantern".
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After roasting the hare from the inside out, I took a bite of rabbit meat and drank a mouthful of earth-cooked meat.
I felt that my life in the mountains was quite nourishing.
It's a pity that no wild boars have come out to cause trouble recently.
Looking for There is no excuse to fire off two shots to enjoy the pleasure.
Just as he was enjoying himself, there was a rumble of thunder, and raindrops as big as soybeans fell down.
The fat man quickly grabbed the wine bottle and carried the half-eaten rabbit and fled back to the thatched shed to hide from the rain.
Unexpectedly, the shed leaked rain everywhere, and he couldn't stay there at all. .
When he thought about it, there was a mill on the other side of the corn field that had been abandoned for many years.
Why not take shelter there?
This extremely simple mill has been around since before liberation, but no one has been in it for many years.
For some reason, Fatty Wang couldn't care less.
He kicked open the wooden door and found that it was dark and full of dust.
But it's better than being soaked outside.
He poured all the remaining clay into his stomach, stretched out on the wooden box and fell asleep.
Soon he was snoring like thunder.
The fat man slept soundly.
He didn't know how long he slept, but he was half awakened by the thunder.
He vaguely felt that it was still dark all day, so he turned over and wanted to go back to sleep.
At this time, I heard a woman crying next to my ear.
Fatty Wang was a brave person and he didn't have a heart or lungs.
He just wanted to sleep.
Unexpectedly, the crying in his ear was getting closer and closer, and he felt like it was about to penetrate into his head.
He cursed in a daze: "Why the hell are you crying?"
After being scolded by him, the woman's cry suddenly stopped, but the fat man didn't even think about what was going on, and continued to fall asleep.
After a while, I heard a woman say in my ear: "Don't press my shoes, don't press my shoes.
If you press my shoes, I will kill you."
This sentence was so clear that the fat man heard it very clearly even though he was half asleep and half awake.
He couldn't help but feel hairy all over his body and sat up.
Even though he was so bold, he was already breaking out in a cold sweat.
Look, there was no woman in the mill.
The sun was shining brightly outside the door, and the sky was bright.
The fat man felt something strange, cursed a few times, stood up and saw that on the wooden board under him, there was a pair of women's cotton shoes neatly placed, with two dazzling red peonies embroidered on the toe.
The fat man wiped the cold sweat from his head, became angry in his heart, and said to himself: "This guy is serious."
He picked up two shoes and threw them on the ground, stepped on them a few times, and then walked away. .
After returning to the village, he told people about it.
Everyone said that more than ten years ago, a young daughter-in-law hanged herself in that mill.
She was wearing a new pair of cotton shoes when she died, and even the shoes were buried in the grave. , no one went to the mill next to the corn field anymore.
How could it be possible that the fat man saw those shoes last night?
Wouldn't it be a ghost?
Someone with good things, ran to the mill to look, but he didn't see any shoes. , they all said that the fat man secretly drank the local roast and became dizzy.
The fat man was also confused and did not take it seriously.
After so many years, no ghost came to claim his life.
But when I think about it today, I did feel a little bit creepy when I stayed in the mountains and slept with the female ghost's shoes all night.
God knows what kind of evil I encountered that night.
This experience was a real thing that the fat man encountered when he jumped in line.
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However, when he talked about it in the car, he was deliberately showing off and refused to tell the story. part.
But Yaomei'er was so courageous that she couldn't scare her at all.
She just thought it was a bit exciting and novel, and didn't care how scary it was.
She also made fun of the fat man's arrogance, and told a scary story without being able to tell it vividly.
I nodded secretly: "This girl really has the courage to do something difficult and dangerous."
I was about to ask about the legends near the ancient tomb of Dixian, so I took the opportunity to say that Yaomei'er's courage is really extraordinary.
Do you always hear this in your hometown?
You might as well tell us some ghost stories.
Yao Meier said that Qingxi Town has a very old history.
Wu salt mines have been open for hundreds of years.
Wu salt is a special geological salt that can be processed into edible salt.
In ancient times, the salt tax was very heavy, and the salt mined privately had to be discarded.
Most of the people are digging and mining secretly. , in order to make huge profits, so there are no fewer than thousands of large and small mines in Qingxi area.
By the time of the Qing Dynasty, they were almost exhausted.
No new salt veins could be found in the mountains.
In addition, the massive construction of air raid shelters later made the mountains all over.
It's a hole.
Various "natural, artificial, and semi-artificial" caves and caves are crisscrossed and overlap each other.
Some places are tens of miles deep, making it difficult for outsiders to walk.
If you dig deeper, you will inevitably see many strange things. , so there are various legends.
She often went to the mines to play.
Anyway, she was not very sensible at that time and did not feel scary.
Hearing these situations, I couldn't help but secretly complain, seeing that this last bit of hope was about to be thrown into the East Sea.
Various projects in Qingxi have almost dug through the mountains, but no one has ever discovered the "Earth Immortal Ancient".
"Tomb", I don't know what means the "Guanshan Taibao" used to cover up the sky.
Maybe the "Fengwang Tomb" is just a myth and does not exist in the world at all.
However, what Yao Meier said mentioned "salt mining in caves".
Witch salt is an extinct resource and is no longer available.
When I was an engineer in the past, I had never heard that it could be mined in the mountains.
Salt comes out, but this matter is somewhat consistent with the saying in the ancient riddle of the Earth Immortal: "Dig wells to cut salt, and ask ghosts for money."
Thinking of these, I thought: "What a great king, but he has no head; if his wife does not come, the mountains will not bloom; he will burn firewood and cook the liver and lungs; he will dig wells and cut salt, and ask ghosts for money; there will be hundreds of bird paths.
Step 9: "If you want to visit the earthly immortal, first ask Wuyang" and ask Yao Meier if she knows what secrets are hidden in these words.
Yao Meier was also at a loss.
She had never heard of the Feng family's secret message about seeking immortality.
She didn't know what kind of riddle it was, but it said "dig wells to cut salt and ask ghosts for money." , it must refer to the ancient town of "Qingxi", it can't be wrong.
In the old days, the Caiwu Salt Mine was called "salt well".
This was just a local name, and most outsiders had never heard of it.
The "Wushan Salt Mines" are all occupied by local wealthy families, and the poor have to work as "coolies and kiln slaves."
There is often methane in the Wu Salt Mines, and groundwater gushes out of the ground at any time.
Miners and kiln slaves often have to bear many risks when working in the mines.
A large number of kiln slaves often died underground, so the local proverb goes like this: "Dig wells to cut salt, and ask ghosts for money."
I finally have some clues, but with this paragraph, it is still difficult to understand the whole meaning.
I guess if I want to understand the mystery of "Dixian Village", I still need to decipher the first sentence "What a great king, with body and headless" and follow the steps step by step.
It is gradually speculated that the old residents of Qingxi Town have long been scattered all over the place.
It is impossible to find a few more people to inquire.
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Those ancient legends must be older than the tombs of the Ming Dynasty, and people today may not still know them.
The thoughts in my mind were cluttered, and I was paying no attention to them.
I saw outside the car window where the clouds had cleared and the mist had dispersed, and a green and tall mountain peak appeared in the distance.
It was so beautiful, so beautiful, so quiet and hazy that it caught my eyes
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