An hour later, when Xu Ruice was shouting for his dad with two big white legs, Xiang Que took a car and returned to Peach Blossom Village again.
"Master, let me ask you something, how much money can you pull this night?"
At the entrance of Peach Blossom Village, Xiang Que pushed the car door and asked.
"Collect the car tomorrow morning, be lucky and earn two hundred" Xiang Que took out three hundred yuan and handed it to the driver, saying: "That's it, if I go to this village to do something, you have to wait for me for a while, and when I finish doing it, I will give you another three hundred, okay?"
The driver took the three hundred yuan and twisted it and said, "Cheng, no problem" "Happy cooperation" to the lack of car into the peach blossom village, came to the middle of the village when stopped, at this time in the peach blossom village because of the amazing change after dark, many people did not sleep, because of fear caused people to be very spiritual, except for the children who don't understand anything, most of the people are in the village In the clearing, today's events were discussed, and a dim light bulb hung from an old tree, and a dozen elderly people sat below.
Xiang Que came to the middle of the crowd, squatted on the ground, took out a pack of cigarettes, smoked a few and handed them to a few old people, someone took the cigarette and looked at him in surprise and asked, "Young man, you are not from our village?"
” Xiang Que lit a cigarette to the other party and said with a smile: "No, I'm here to inquire about the situation."
"Hey, this young man, you're not ······" An old man recognized Xiang Que with sharp eyes, and then stretched out his hand in surprise and said very movingly: "Oh, this young man came to save us at night, we haven't had time to thank you yet, why did you leave?"
The villagers of Peach Blossom Village are relatively simple, Xiang Que saved more than 100 people from all over the village, this kindness is simply great for them, and suddenly several old people all came around, and sprayed him with a face of spitting stars.
After thanking him for his kindness, Xiang Que wiped his face, and then said, "Uncle, do I want to ask you about something?"
” "What do you ask?"
Xiang Que thought for a moment and said, "The village should be quite old, do you know when Peach Blossom Village was built?"
"If you want to say that the history of the village is indeed quite long, our oldest genealogy is also hundreds of years old, but this is also a broken genealogy, and there are still people in the village dozens of years ago" There was an old man with a wrinkled face and teeth that had fallen out, and immediately entered the state of memory, and said slowly "I used to hear my grandfather say that no one really knows when the village fell, no one can say it, it seems that there have always been people here."
Xiang Que sighed, licked his lips a little excitedly, and then asked, "Then do you know any old objects in the village?"
It's not an antique, for example, like the old torii and something like that."
"Huh?
This one, I really haven't done it," several old men shook their heads.
Xiang Que was a little unwilling, smoking a cigarette and frowning, how could it not be, could it be that he had miscalculated.
Xiang Que continued to ask, "What about the fields outside?"
” "This, I haven't paid much attention to it, the village is so big, what can we not know, the field is only about a hundred acres, just around the village, and there is no old thing you said" The cigarette holder in Xiang Que's mouth was immediately bitten off, and he stood up and said, "That's okay, I disturbed a few masters" Xiang Que was poured a basin of cold water on his head, and his enthusiasm was extinguished, and he shook his head helplessly and turned around to leave, it was better to chat with the girl in the hotel, it was much better than tossing in vain.
At this time, an old man suddenly stopped him: "Young man, there are indeed no old objects like the archway you mentioned in the village, but there is a similar thing, I seem to have seen it."
"Huh" Xiang Que paused, turned around and asked in shock, "What have you seen?"
The old man thought for a while, and said: "About three or seven years ago, the Yellow River drought is like now, but it has not been cut off, the water level has dropped very low, one day my father took me to the middle of the river to fish for fish, out of the village to the south walked less than a mile, at that time my father saw a puddle that was about to dry up obliquely inserted a stone tablet, exposed to the water surface seems to be more than a meter high, my father is also very curious because the tablet looks very heavy, there seems to be carved words on it to draw what livestock, so he waded through the water, After my father got to the stele, he tried to shake it but it didn't shake, and then he sank into the water again and looked down, and found that the stele was very deep at the bottom of the river, and he couldn't see how long it was underneath, and since then the water level has come back and the stele has also been submerged under water, and it has never been exposed since, and this year the Yellow River has been cut off, and there is water in some places It's very low, and I guess the stele might have to pop up again."
Xiang Que licked his lips excitedly, rubbed his hands and said, "Uncle, can you take me to find the stone tablet?"
” Xiang Quan's small heartbeat "bang, bang" sounded, and his chest rose and fell, which was a very rare and difficult to suppress excitement for him.
Xiang is lacking, restless!
The old man was a little embarrassed and said, "It's been decades, how can I remember it so clearly?"
Xiang Que took out a stack of money and handed it to the old man and said, "You remember it well, I think you can almost remember" More than a thousand yuan, which made the old man's eyes narrow: "Okay, when it dawns tomorrow, I'll take you there" Xiang Que took out another thousand yuan and handed it to the old man and said, "I don't want to wait until tomorrow?"
” Ten minutes later, the old man flashed a flashlight and followed Xiang Que out of Peach Blossom Village and walked towards the south bank of the river.
The two of them walked about a mile, and the old man said a little uncertainly: "I probably remember, it should be around here, young man, I really don't have the intention to deceive you, I am almost eighty years old this year, I was still young when I was three years old, that is, I just remembered, I don't think you know very well."
You can't blame me, but I can say with certainty that the stele must have" Xiang Que would never doubt the old man's memory, he dared to be sure that the stone tablet that the old man said must be inserted in the river, which was recorded in the ancient Jingguan classics, but there was no definite direction.
This stele is called, Zhenlong Stele.
The Yellow River is cut off, this section of the river has basically dried up, but some depressions are still holding water, don't underestimate these depressions may not look too deep, but if you step on it, it is not too much to drown you seven or eight.
Xiang Que took a few steps forward, and after stepping on the dry river, his eyes began to search for the middle of the river, and after searching back and forth a few times, he suddenly noticed that a black spot seemed to be exposed on the water surface of a depression.