Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 71 Genting Tiangong, coming soon

Unknowingly winter is coming, Mengli sits by the window, quietly looking at the snow outside the window, feeling sad in her heart.

Since the last "showdown" with the younger brother, she and the younger brother have never met again. Wu Xie and the fat man will occasionally call her, but she and the younger brother may be a little "frozen", oh No, it should be said that it is indeed "stiff".

Even so, Mengli still arranged for someone to report their situation at any time.

The fat man is doing his antique business, and the little brother is still running around, but Wu Xie's situation...

Wu Xie's friend Lao You was released from prison and brought amazing news to Wu Xie who had just returned from Xisha: the strange hexagonal copper bell came from the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains.Wu Xie and Lao You went deep into the Qinling Mountains to explore, and entered the cave Zheluo Salmon, Huangquan Waterfall, Corpse Array, Qilin Exhaustion...

The confrontation in front of the Bronze Tree learned from Lao You that the ability to materialize can appear here, that is, all wishes come true, and found that Lao You had died three years ago and materialized himself before death.Zhu Jiuyin stirred up the entire mountain, Lao Xie was trapped to death, Wu Xie escaped and was rescued...

Mengli looked at Xue, curled her lips, and there was loneliness and bitterness in her smile.

"I will take care...to protect...you..."

Hangzhou West Lake, Xiling Yinshe.

Nested in the air-conditioned room, I was too lazy to doze off all afternoon. Wu Xie was lying on the recliner in the inner hall of Xiling Yinshe, his feet were cold, and he didn't know what to do. He was half asleep and half awake when Wang Meng left. Come in and say to him: "Boss, someone is looking for you."

Wu Xie barely reacted, yawned, and said to herself that there were still people visiting antique shops in the past three or nine days. This one was considered positive, but it was still a business anyway, so she got up, patted her face, and walked out in good spirits. .

The air conditioner outside was small, and when the cold wind blew, people shivered. At first glance, it turned out that it was the little girl under Uncle Jinan Hai, shivering from the cold. He hurriedly asked Wang Meng to make tea, and asked her himself: "Why, girl, Uncle Hai asked you to come?"

The little girl is Qin Haiting, a relative of Uncle Hai, she is only 17 years old, and she is already a veteran in the antique world. She nodded and said, "Oh my mother, why is Hangzhou colder than our north?"

Wang Meng said with a smile: "The weather in the south is dry and cold, it feels biting, and your Jinan is not too north."

Wu Xie saw that Qin Haiting was only scratching her teeth, so she dragged her into the inner hall, where the air conditioner was warm, and handed him the water bag from the hot hand, and asked, "You are too afraid of the cold, like this, is it warmer?"

If Mengli saw it, she would definitely joke that he was a warm man.

Qin Haiting took a few sips of hot tea to recover, and still chopped her feet in the room: "It's a little bit better. People say that Hangzhou is so beautiful. My uncle won't let me come here, so I rushed to come here. Who knew so Cold, oops, I won't come again next time."

"Why did your uncle call you here? Why didn't you call me?"

Qin Haiting took off her scarf, took out a letter from her purse, and said, "Of course it's business, here it is, a check in cash, the money for that fish-eye stone."

As soon as Wu Xie heard that it was indeed the price, he took a glance at it and found that the price was good. He immediately put it in his pocket and said, "Then thank him for me."

Qin Haiting took out another invitation card and handed it to Wu Xie: "My Uncle Hai will also come to Hangzhou the day after tomorrow to attend an antique appraisal meeting. He told you to go too, and I have something important to discuss with you."

"The day after tomorrow? I don't know if I have time. Why don't you say it on the phone, it's mysterious?" Actually, Wu Xie didn't want to go. Antique appraisal is too boring. For insiders, it's just a bunch of old men there Chatting, in fact, there are so many allusions, whether it is true or false, it can be seen in a few seconds.

Qin Haiting leaned close to his ear and whispered, "My uncle said, it has something to do with that bronze fish, so don't regret it yourself."

The relationship between Wu Xie and Uncle Hai is not so good that they can talk about everything. Usually, it is just some business communication. After getting acquainted with him, he asks Uncle Sheng to give him face. He suddenly wants to get close to him. Wu Xie feels a little strangeness.

But the little girl didn't want to show it to Wu Xie, so she agreed casually, and asked her: "What do you say? What news did he find out?"

Qin Haiting smiled mischievously: "Uncle said, I will tell you when the time comes, I don't know what happened, so don't ask."

Wu Xie cursed inwardly, this old profiteer probably wants to try to rip me off again.

Beijing.

I heard from people of the older generation that the Meng family moved from the old house in Changsha to the current main house when Mr. Meng was the head of the family.

One is life-saving, and the other is transposition.

In fact, only old man Meng and a few elders knew about the situation at that time. The head of the family at that time received a letter from the head clan and immediately called them together to discuss matters.

Overnight, the head of the family changed positions, Meng's family moved out, escaped the catastrophe of extermination, and gave Master Zhang a favor.

The main house of the Meng family is similar to the courtyard of the ancient big family, but different.

The main house of the Meng family lives with members of the Meng family, but they are open-minded, full of human touch, and have their own customs.

There will be a copper wind chime tied to each corridor of Mengjia's main house. When a gust of wind blows, the wind chime will make a melodious sound of "ding ding, ding ding".

I heard people from the older generation say that this is praying...

"Grandpa, I'm here to see you." In the lobby, Meng Li smiled at Old Man Meng who was at the main seat.

"You still know how to come!" After glancing at her, the old man continued to drink hot tea, ignoring her.

"Grandpa~" Mengli stepped forward, hugging the old man's arm coquettishly, "Aren't I here? Don't be angry~"

"You..." The old man sighed, there was nothing he could do with her, "Live in the main house?" He asked tentatively.

"Well - just stay for a few days," Mengli thought for a while and replied.

The old man sighed, I don't know if it was sad or relieved.

"Okay, let's go back to the house and rest first! Look at your dark circles..."

"Have you? Hehe..." Mengli touched her eyes, as if feeling guilty.

Mengli returned to the room, took out the diary from the luggage, and wrote down some things...

Hangzhou.

On the third day, Lao Hai really arrived. Wu Xie picked him up from the train station and took him to the hotel he reserved. On the bus, Wu Xie asked him what news he had heard. If he was deceived, he would not forgive him. he.

Lao Hai shivered from the cold, and said: "The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake, and it is already in your territory. How dare I deceive you, but let's not talk here, I am almost freezing to death."

Wu Xie took him to the hotel, put down his things, went to find a box in the dining hall, boiled a pot of wine, drank a few glasses, and finally calmed down.

Wu Xie saw that Lao Hai's wine was strong up to his neck, and he knew it was almost done, so he asked him: "Okay, you drank and ate, you should talk, what did you find?"

Lao Hai blinked his mouth, smiled, took out a stack of papers from his bag, and slapped it on the table: "Look at this."

Wu Xie picked it up and saw that it was an old yellowed newspaper dated [-]. He circled a piece of news, and there was a large black and white photo. Although it was not very clear, he still recognized it. When I came out, the photo was taken of a snake eyebrow copper fish, and there were many small cultural relics beside it, such as Buddhist beads.

But the appearance of this fish is different from the one in Wu Xie's hand and the one in the third uncle's hand.There are three fish reliefs on the forehead of the tomb statue in the underwater tomb, and this one should be the top one.In this way, it can be said that all three fish are alive.

"How did you find this newspaper? Is there something hidden behind it?"

Lao Haidao: "Recently, I was helping a big boss to fiddle with old newspapers. You know, rich people collect everything. You see, this is the Guangxi Culture Evening News in [-]. He asked me to read it from January to December. I found it for him. It took me two months to get it together. The delivery will be delivered in a few days. I am checking it. I saw this news by chance. Do you think it is a coincidence? This newspaper is only seven or four It was a year after the year, and it closed in [-]. It is hard to find in the world. You are lucky, and my eyes will disappear soon."

Wu Xie glanced down, and there was about [-] words of news under the photo, saying that this fish was found in the base of a Buddhist temple pagoda in Guangxi. After entering the underground palace, there are some scriptures and treasure letters that have been soaked in blue, and this fish was put in one of the treasure letters.Experts speculate that it is a relic of monks in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Northern Song Dynasty?Wu Xie lit a cigarette, leaned back on the chair, and murmured in his heart. The first fish of this kind of snake-browed copper fish appeared in the tombs of the princes in the late Warring States period, and the second fish appeared in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. In the undersea tomb of the same name, the third fish is in the underground palace of the Buddhist pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty.What kind of plane is it, the time is completely out of bounds.

Wu Xie flipped through the rest of the newspaper, and only this news was about this fish. In fact, there was nothing new in these contents, which meant he didn’t say anything about this fish. He still didn’t know anything about it. Also depressed.

Lao Hai looked at his expression and said, "Don't be discouraged, I haven't finished yet, the story behind this is still exciting."

Wu Xie frowned: "What do you say? Could this newspaper be anything else?"

Lao Hai nodded and said, "That's right, if I just found a newspaper, I don't need to come to Hangzhou to look for you, right? I have to start from the beginning. By the way, you are also a gangster, you know Don’t know a person named Chen Pi Asi?”

Wu Xie was surprised when he heard that Chen Pi Asi was a famous native of Changsha when he was old, an old ladle, and a contemporary of his grandfather. I heard that he is now over 90 years old, and he went blind during the ten years of catastrophe. , and has never appeared since then, and I don't know whether it is dead or alive.But his name is still resounding in his grandfather's mouth.

But this man is different from his grandfather. He makes a living on the edge of a knife. He doesn’t just rob graves, kill people and set fires. It is he who kills people like shaving his head without hesitation.

When Lao Hai mentioned this person, Wu Xie was a little surprised, because he was not a contemporary of them, and Wu Xie had never had contact with him. Could this fish have something to do with him?

Seeing that Wu Xie didn't speak, Lao Hai thought he didn't know, and said, "It's not surprising that you don't know about Fourth Master Chen. After all, he is not of the same generation as us, but I have to tell you that the copper fish in this newspaper , He brought it out from the underground palace of the stupa, and the matter is really not as simple as the newspaper said." After speaking, he briefly told Wu Xie what happened back then.

It turned out that in [-], Chen Pi Asi was nearly sixty years old, and his eyes were still not blind. It was a period of ten years of unrest. Ling had been a bandit for several years, so he had no legal status. At that time, if he was caught, he would be killed. He could only operate in the ethnic minority areas in Guangxi, and he dared not even set foot in the county town.

A few years ago, the four old ones were removed, and many historic sites were almost smashed. Chen Pi Asi has been to many places in Guangxi, because Guangxi was not considered the Central Plains in ancient times, and there were not many ancient tombs. He lived fairly honestly in those years , but unfortunately, that year, he happened to pass by Jiaqiaoling to stock up, and chatted with some local Miao people. Those people drank too much, and they mentioned that there was a temple tower in Maoershan that collapsed. It is said that there was a lot of movement, and even the ground sank, and a big pit collapsed. On the night of the collapse, many people heard a very strange scream.

Chen Pi Ahsi thought it was wrong when he heard it. He had been to Maoer Mountain many times, and the temples there were very solidly built. How could it be said that they collapsed?After careful questioning, I realized that this tower is not on Maoer Mountain, but in the center of a mountain range called "Wolfing Ridge" on the side. This place is very strange, surrounded by villages, and it is a basin of about ten square kilometers in the middle. , the altitude is very low, the vegetation inside is dense, the trees cover the sky and the sun, the village is on the cliff, and the woods are below the cliff, with a drop of more than 100 meters, they are two completely different worlds, and there is no way to go down from the village. Basin, only with a rope.

The local people said that there must be other entrances and exits in this basin, but the underground vegetation is so dense that it is difficult to walk. The Miao people who used to go down to hunt and collect herbs often disappeared in it, so they generally did not Things that everyone is willing to go down.

The ancient pagoda was built in such a place, almost in the center of the basin. Normally, when people look down from the cliff, they can only see a very small spire protruding from the dense tree crown, and it is covered with plants. What is below? Miao Min said that they knew there was a pagoda here more than a dozen generations ago, but no one thought of going down to see it. Now they are used to it. One day recently, there was a loud noise. Only when it was gone did I know that the tower had collapsed.

There are many local legends about this mysterious ancient pagoda. According to some old people, this pagoda was built by an eminent monk in ancient times to suppress demons. The strange cry is the cry of a monster breaking free from its shackles.

After hearing this, Chen Pi Asi found it very interesting. He vaguely felt that the location where the tower was built and the sound heard by Miao Min in the middle of the night were a bit different.

But people like them may have a peculiar intuition, and they can instinctively find out information from other people's narratives and some legends, which is hard to find in our generation.

Chen Pi Asi thought for a moment, and decided to go and have a look.

There are many mountain ranges in Guangxi, which can be called the first in the country. Maoer Mountain is an important source of them, spanning the three counties of Xing'an, Ziyuan, and Longsheng.It is the birthplace of the Lijiang River, the Zijiang River and the Xunjiang River, connecting the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. There is a large area of ​​virgin forest in that place, and the old mountain boundary, the first mountain that the Red Army crossed in the Long March, is among them.During World War II, several bombers of the Flying Tigers of the U.S. Army that aided China mysteriously disappeared here.So this place has always been a bit mysterious.

After several twists and turns, Chen Pi Asi came to a village on the "Wolf Ridge". Standing on the mound and looking at the basin in the middle of the mountain range, the tower was much bigger than he imagined, and it fell down several times. tree, so there was a gap in the green tree cover of the forest. On the "Wolfing Buddha Ridge", there was nothing in the gap, but Chen Pi Asi found it almost immediately. During the week where the tower collapsed, all the The trees were very messy due to the subsidence of the ground. It seemed that there was indeed something under the tower, and it was bigger than the base of the tower.

When Wu Xie heard this, he already knew that it was a "Jing'er Palace". "Jing'er Palace" was a dialect in Changsha before liberation. Just like the reflection of the above-ground buildings on the lake, the upper and lower ends are symmetrical.

This is also called "Yin-Yang Shuo" in the northern school, which means that the whole building is like a shuttle inserted into the ground, with one side being the underworld and the other side being the sun. However, such ancient tombs or buildings are rare, and most of the ground The relics of the city have been completely destroyed, so this kind of statement was hardly mentioned in the ten years before liberation.

Just by looking at the changes in the arrangement of the trees, Chen Pi Asi could know that the "Mirror Palace" is buried underneath. This kind of judgment is impossible without extremely rich experience. Wu Xie couldn't help but secretly sighed, calming down, Listen to Lao Hai going on.

After Chen Pi Asi made up his mind, greed was already in his heart. In the underground palace of the stupa, there will only be three things, either the relics, or the golden body of an eminent monk, or a large number of Buddhist scriptures, whatever They are all things of value.

But as a foreigner like him, it is not very convenient to move around here. First, he has a special status and a bad background. Second, at that time, there were constant disputes between the Miao and Han races. Several villages here are Miao villages. If he enters rashly, he may be killed arouse suspicion.

After thinking twice, he came up with a plan. He found a local Miao guide at a high price. He told the guide that he was an old intellectual from the branch. When he came, one of his students fell off the cliff. , The Miao people are simple and honest, and they don’t hide the world. How could they think that there was a trick in it. When they heard that someone had fallen, they immediately notified the people in the whole village. The young man is put under the cliff.

According to Chen Pi Asi's own recollection afterwards, it was a hell-like experience to pass through the drop of more than 100 meters. The cliff was very steep, and the weight of a person was stretched entirely by a rattan rope. The buttocks were wrapped in a basket. The same circle, extremely unstable.By the time he passed through the dense tree cover and descended to the bottom of the jungle, only half of his life was left.

There is almost no sunlight in the interior of the forest, the light is extremely dim, and the air is filled with the smell of swamp gas. There are many types of trees here, but without exception, green moss grows everywhere, and the mud is so soft that it can hardly stand .

After Chen Pi'a came down, he pretended to be physically exhausted (in fact, he was really frightened), and sat there panting. The Miao leader saw that he was not young, and he looked like a little old man, so he waited on the spot. They come back.He lit a torch and called others to search in the direction he pointed.

As soon as they left, Chen Pi Asi immediately took out the compass, and drilled into the depths of the jungle according to the direction he had recorded in advance. He estimated that it would take the Miao people one night to go back and forth in such a large area. With his It should be enough to find the entrance of "Mirror Palace" and make a round trip.It's a pity that he didn't bring enough equipment this time, whether he can enter the palace or not depends on his own good fortune.

After walking in the jungle for four hours without thinking, relying on the compass and his courage to travel all over the years, Chen Pi Asi finally came to the area he had planned on the "Wolf Ridge", that is, The remains of a monastery around a tower.

With the continuous deepening, Chen Pi Asi saw more and more broken eaves and broken walls. Obviously, the ancient buildings here have disappeared, only some foundations and broken walls are left, which are almost mixed with the vegetation. I can't even see what it was.But looking at the scale, the area of ​​this temple is huge. Although the pagoda falls within this large area, it is difficult to see exactly where it is.

After all, Chen Pi Asi is not young, walking around, feeling a little short of breath, just about to sit down and rest, suddenly a flash in front of his eyes, the grass covering the whole wall suddenly shrank, as if something was wrapped inside thing.

Chen Pi Asi was startled, he rolled over and rolled over, and at the same time he found an iron bullet in his hand. Looking back, he saw a corpse dressed as a Hmong man in the vines and grass quilt wrapped around the wall. It was shriveled, but the belly of the corpse, for some reason, was pulsating slightly, as if there was something inside.

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