Ghost Blowing Lantern World, Gulan Guest House.

After the three of them took a shower, they came to the canteen of the guest house.

Because of the weather and the late time, other shops around were basically closed.

Therefore, Lin Chen and the others could only satisfy their appetite in the cafeteria of the guest house.

Since Hu Bayi and Fatty had caught cold just now, the three ordered the only hot noodles they had.

And also added some chili, eat a whole body of sweat.

When I was halfway through eating, the old man in charge of cooking noodles in the guest house cafeteria came over to talk to me and asked if we were from Beijing.

The three of them had nothing to do, so they started talking with the old man.

The old man said that his hometown is in Tong County, Beijing, and he has lived in Gulan for decades.

While talking, the old man asked why the three of Lin Chen were in such a mess.

Hu Bayi recounted what the three of them had just experienced in the Yellow River.

I don't know what kind of creature that is in the river, but Hu Bayi is still a little shocked when talking about the situation just now.

Old Liu Tou said: "I have seen this before, and the boat people said it was the God of the River. Isn't there a lot of water this year? When the water rises, there will be more strange things in the river. I live on the edge of the Yellow River. For half my life, before liberation, I was less than fifteen years old, and someone had caught one alive, and I had seen this thing with my own eyes. If you really want to see it, I will tell you a place, and you can go and see it if you have a chance."

The four of them chatted slowly, and as they talked, Lin Chen and the others ran all over Lao Liu's body.

You must know that Lao Liu has lived here for decades, and he must know the situation here very well, such as where there are ancient tombs or strange things.

For this reason, Lin Chen ran out and took out a few bottles of wine from his storage ring, pretending to go out to buy them.

Sure enough, Old Liu still liked drinking very much. After drinking some wine, he knew everything about Lin Chen and his problems.

Finally, Lin Chen and the others learned a very useful piece of information from Old Liu Tou.

That is, the mysterious creature that attacked them in the river just now should be a big strange fish known as the Iron-headed Dragon King.

In the past, a strange fish died on the shore. In order not to cause any controversy, the local villagers shaved off all the flesh of the fish, leaving only a set of bones.

It happened that at that time, a businessman from other provinces who came to do business there was superstitious, so he built a fish bone temple on Longling not far away.

The businessman from another province claimed that he often went to sea and crossed rivers, so he often took boats, so he spent money to build such a fish bone temple. This temple is not big in scale and does not even have a courtyard. It is no different from the ordinary Dragon King Temple. It uses fish bones as the frame and the skull of the big fish as the temple door. It is just a temple with a clay statue of the Dragon King. When it was first built, some people who got sick or encountered drought would go to the Fish Bone Temple to burn incense and make wishes. It’s funny to say, but it’s so evil that it never worked once. If you go to the Fish Bone Temple to ask for rain, it’s better if you don’t ask for rain. The more you ask for rain, the drier it becomes, so it didn’t take long for you to stop praying. The businessman who funded the temple construction never appeared again.

Fishbone Temple Lin Chen didn't care then, but Lin Chen caught a key word.

That is Longling.

Thinking of this person, Lin Chen quickly asked: "Is that fish bone temple still there?"

Old Liu nodded and said: "Yes, but it has been abandoned for a long time, and the statue of the Dragon Lord collapsed within two years. Some people say that the businessman who paid for the temple was not sincere, or that he did something lacking in virtue. The Dragon King is not willing to accept his incense. In addition, the Fish Bone Temple is built in the valley of Longling Mountain, and the road is difficult. No one goes to the Fish Bone Temple again. I forgot about it. During the Cultural Revolution, even the Red Guards didn’t even think about smashing the Fishbone Temple. In fact, even if they did, there was nothing to smash. But the pattern and fishbone of this temple are still there. If you have the opportunity, you can Go and see."

Old Liu was half drunk, and kept telling the three of them some secrets.

That night, in the resting room, Lin Chen discussed with Hu Bayi and the others to explore Longling at dawn tomorrow.

Neither Fatty nor Hu Bayi had any idea about this.

Lin Chen suddenly thought of a question, that is, the businessman Old Liu Tou mentioned used fish bones to build the fish bone temple to worship the river god.

However, temples dedicated to the river god are not built on the banks of rivers and rivers, but in deep mountains and old forests.

I'm afraid this Nima is not dedicated to the river god, but to the mountain god.

It's no wonder that this person didn't get any results when he went to worship and pray. It seems that he prayed to the wrong god.

After talking to Hu Bayi, Lao Liutou just said that there seems to be a large tomb of the Tang Dynasty hidden over there in Longling.

Thinking of this, Lin Chen and Hu Bayi thought that the businessman should be a colleague.

The construction of temples should be done by robbing tombs to deceive people.

However, we still have to wait until tomorrow to see the actual situation.

Early the next morning, the three of them took stock of their equipment.

If there is a tomb, it is generally underground, and if it is underground, the light is definitely not good.

Fortunately, Shirley Yang handed over all the advanced equipment used in Jingjue Ancient City to Lin Chen and the others when she left.

Therefore, the equipment of the three of them can be considered very advanced.

From a large perspective, Longling is the remnant of the Qinling Mountains. From a small perspective, it is actually a dotted hillock. One mound is next to another, and there is a huge difference in height. The mounds are cut to pieces by rain and strong winds. There are countless deep grooves, and there are some places where there is a shell of earth outside, but once you step on it, Broken, there is a hollow inside. It seems that the straight line distance between the two hills is very close, but it takes half a day to walk from one side to the other.

This place is so little known that it doesn’t even have a unified name. People near Gulan County call this mountain Longling.

I left Gulan County at nine o'clock in the morning. I took the bus on the roads that could be reached by car and walked where there was no traffic. I inquired all the way and when I arrived at Longling, it was already dark.

This made Lin Chen have to lament the benefits of advanced technology.

If it is placed in modern times, this journey will only take a few hours by car, and it will not take such a long time at all.

In this world, most of the time it is just rushing to waste time, just like when I went to the ancient city of Jingjue, I spent almost half a month on the Nima road.

It was getting late, and Lin Chen and the others arrived at a small mountain village at the foot of Longling Mountain.

There are only about twenty or thirty households in the village, and it looks like a very simple small mountain village.

Going into the mountains at night is the most dangerous, because if you don't prepare well beforehand, you may very well be attacked by other creatures, or become a lost boy, and it's hard to predict when the time comes.

We found a nearby house at the entrance of the village, explained our purpose to the owner, and set off on our way. We had no way to go to the village or shop. Could it be convenient for us to stay overnight? If we didn’t stay in vain, we could pay some money.

The owner of this household is an elderly couple. Seeing that the three of us had nothing with us, and seemed to be three idlers, we became vigilant.

This made Lin Chen very painful, because for convenience, Lin Chen put all his things into his storage ring.

Now the three of them had basically nothing except clothes and a flashlight.

As for the guns, they haven't entered the dragon scale yet, so Lin Chen didn't take them out.

In the end, the fat man settled it for thirty yuan.

The two old people arranged for Lin Chen and the others to live in a small wooden house, and finally the three learned that the couple's son had disappeared after searching for the lost lamb.

The two old people didn't even have anyone to support them until they died. They only managed to survive with the help of the people nearby.

It is precisely because of this that the two old people let Lin Chen and the others live for thirty yuan.

Lin Chen and the others sighed, life is hard everywhere, only harder, not the hardest.

Early the next morning, when the three left, they left a thousand yuan for the two elders.

This made the two elders feel extremely grateful to Lin Chen and the others.

It doesn't matter to Lin Chen and the others, since they don't lack this kind of money anyway, it is considered as helping some others.

Helping others is a traditional virtue of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.

This thousand yuan may be Lin Chen's living expenses for a period of time, but if it is left here for these two elders, it will be their pension for the rest of their lives.

End of this chapter

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