Self-help guide for non-professional young masters

Junzi Youjia's old house was being repaired, so he and Xiao Beicheng lived in a nearby inn. Su Qinghe came to greet them out of concern, but unfortunately overheard their conversation outside the door.

Xiao Beicheng said: "This king intends to let you enter the imperial court. When the weather warms up after the beginning of spring and your illness improves, I will arrange for you to go to the scientific examination. You must fight for it."

"I'm a common man, and I'm afraid that I'll disappoint the prince's expectations. It's better not to give me this kind of favor. If you want to find someone to help you, you should find someone who is healthy and caring, not an unruly sick child like me. Maybe one day there will be no..."

Having said this, his words stopped immediately, probably because Xiao Beicheng gave him a glare, and choked back his next words.

Su Qinghe felt uncomfortable listening outside, so he stopped knocking on the door, was taken aback for a moment, and then attracted the attention of Shen Ci who was guarding outside.

"Young master, what's the matter with you looking for my lord and sir?"

"It's, it's not a big deal, it's all."

He hurried away with the wine jar, but didn't hear Jun Ziyou's murmur shortly afterwards.

"My childhood sweetheart, the young master of the Su family, also participated in the scientific examination this year. If he can't become an official in the court, he can only go home and inherit the ancestral business. I know that he has always yearned for the temple and has no intention of competing with him for anything, so let's wait. "

Not long after this episode, when Junziyou went out to relax, he saw a familiar toy on a street vendor's stall. He had sharp eyes and immediately took it away, hiding it and took it back, impatiently showing it to Xiao Beicheng.

He wrapped the small object with three layers of veil, carefully, Xiao Beicheng said that he was playing tricks, but he also fell silent when he saw it.

It was a familiar wrench finger, carved out of high-quality mutton fat jade. Its standard shape was almost the same as the one given to Li Ying by King Jin a few days ago. The difference was that the former was engraved with the figure of a phoenix. , but the one in front of him is a dragon pattern.

"The dragon and the phoenix are auspicious. It is a noble ornament. When I saw you give the ring finger to Prime Minister Li earlier, I felt that something was wrong, but I have never figured out what went wrong. I happened to see this today, so I can explain it. gone."

"The people in the small town don't know about antiquities, and they put priceless treasures on the street for sale, which shows their ignorance. But the origin of the objects..."

"My lord, what is the origin of the one you gave Li Xiang earlier?"

Seeing that the man frowned and said nothing, Jun Ziyou rubbed against Xiao Beicheng again, deliberately lowering his voice, "My lord, I also saw many rare and ancient relics on that stall, some of which haven't even been washed clean, you Would you say..."

The latter glanced at him, and teased Xiao Hei disapprovingly, "Do you suspect that there are a group of local masters here?"

"Don't dare, don't dare..."

Doubts are just suspicions after all, even Xiao Beicheng, who has such a noble status, does not want to be involved in unreasonable right and wrong, one thing more is worse than one thing less, even if he had doubts in his heart, he still didn't mention this matter again.

A few days later, a heavy rain washed away Longshen Mountain, exposing coffins that had been buried for a long time in the mountain, large and small, there were more than a dozen of them exposed outside, attracting many people to watch, including some The sneaky idea of ​​finding something out of it without anyone noticing.

Even if the adults were like this, the curious children rushed closer. Unfortunately, the landslide mountain collapsed again, burying several seven or eight-year-old children in it, which became a shocking event.

Originally, Junziyou just lamented that the world is tricking people, and that children are left undisciplined to cause such disasters. It is the negligence of parents, but when the former students come to him crying together and begging him for help, he still can't help getting involved.

"Sir, Li Xiaosan also went into the mountain with those children. Widow Wang has no time to take care of him. Knowing that he was also buried, he passed out and has not been rescued. Sir, you have to help Li Xiaosan. "

He never thought that this incident would happen to him. When he learned that this incident happened to a student he had taught, Junziyou became anxious and fell ill again. Xiao Beicheng, who wanted to persuade him not to interfere in this matter, could only try his best to help.

"My lord, Li Xiaosan's father passed away early. He was weak since he was a child, and suffered from constant disasters. Widow Wang has exhausted all her efforts to pull him back. If she can't save him, she will just watch the mother and child die..."

Jun Ziyou insisted on going to Longshen Mountain to see the situation, and firmly believed that Li Xiaosan might survive, so he refused to listen to anyone who persuaded him.

Xiao Beicheng felt that if he was allowed to wait like this with a gentleman's temperament, it would make his condition worse. Before leaving the capital, Dr. Jiang had told him not to let him be sad or happy. After thinking about it, he took him to the dragon holy mountain.

At this time, Longshen Mountain was in ruins. According to the villagers, all the coffins that were exposed due to the landslide a few days ago were covered up during the second landslide, and the missing children never came out again. No bones remained.

"Those people want to steal the treasures in the coffin, and the ghost grandma got angry, so she took them away. Even if they suffer from those children, they will be implicated even if they did nothing wrong. Life is hard... "

Watching the villagers start to build the Ghost Ancestral Temple to worship the god in order to appease the anger of the mountain god, the gentleman gritted his teeth in exasperation.

"If you don't save the living, you should care about the dead first!!"

"This... what does this have to do with us? It's not that I want them to go in and touch the baby. Don't they deserve it when they die?"

Gentleman was dizzy due to hesitation, and he took a few breaths after being supported by Shen Ci to sit down, and then clamored to go to the mountain to save people.

Xiao Beicheng went to investigate the situation, and found that the soil here is Xinghong soil, which will become extremely hard after being mixed with water. Once the sun rises after the rain stops, the water will evaporate and form a hard shell At that time, even the gods will not be able to save them.

"Shenci, go and prepare some necessary things for entering the mountain, and let the guards enter the mountain in groups of three or four to search, and no single person is allowed. We must also convince the villagers that if they are afraid of the mountain god and dare not intervene, please invite them Help sprinkle water on the Xinghong soil after the rain stops, as long as the soil does not condense."

It has been nearly a day since these children were buried. If they were suffocated in the mud, they would be suffocated to death by now.

After Junziyou calmed down, he asked the villagers for details. An elderly man said: "Those who come to touch gold are from other villages, and we locals dare not approach them."

"Old man, what is the legend about this Dragon God Mountain?"

"Yes, Longshen Mountain is originally a place where yin energy gathers. There is a legend in our village that there is a ghost grandma living in the mountain, who will take away the souls of the dead from ten miles and eight villages, so going to the mountain in summer will feel gloomy. , then Cheng thought that there were so many dead people buried in this mountain, it seems that Grandma Guizu still took in a lot of people..."

"When did the legend begin to spread, and what happened before that?"

The old man didn't know about the fact that the age was too long, but he saw that the gentleman was friendly and he knew that he was saving people, so the old man went to look through the village chronicles collected in the ancestral hall. After searching for a long time, he said that it was only after the Western Han Dynasty The rumors started to spread.

Gentleman You absent-mindedly drank the medicine from Shen Ci, frowned and muttered to himself: "There...is there anything strange about it?"

Xiao Beicheng persuaded: "You are worrying too much, the most urgent thing is to find those children trapped in the mountains as soon as possible, don't think too much."

"My lord, I want to go and see for myself."

After he said this, he wanted to save people himself, and Shen Ci also advised him not to meddle with him, since his illness is still not cured, and if something goes wrong, no one can afford it.

But Jun Ziyou still insisted on finding out, and no one could stop him.

Even Xiao Beicheng was helpless to him, let him go, if something went wrong, it would be too late to regret.But if he is not allowed to go, he is sullen and sick, so there is nothing he can do.

"It's hard..."

Even King Jin, who called the wind and rain in the capital, heaved a long sigh, and Shen Ci realized that his prince was ruled to death.

Before leaving, Jun Ziyou asked a few villagers who watched the disaster happen, and knowing the approximate location of the mountain collapse and the place where the children were before the accident, he entered the mountain together with Xiao Beicheng and Shen Ci.

Fortunately, it was still raining, and the Xinghong soil showed no signs of congealing. Junziyou changed into a robe with a round neck and narrow sleeves that was easy to move, went to the place pointed by the villagers, and took a bamboo pole as tall as a person to test it. After making a few small holes, they all shook their heads.

Shen Ci was puzzled, "Sir, what are you doing?"

After asking this question, the gentleman who had stirred in the mud again raised his eyebrows, threw the bamboo pole and went to dig the mud under his feet with his bare hands. Shen Ci couldn't stand it, so he used a pickaxe to dig down for him.

"I have tried several places along the way, and there are solid mountains under the silt. It can be seen that this mountain is not a dirt mountain, but a rock mountain."

"Stone Mountain? Then what's the matter..."

"Since it is a rocky mountain, where does the large amount of soil come from? Furthermore, Xinghong soil is not a naturally formed soil, but a mixed material used to strengthen the building structure. In addition to the red soil, more than a dozen kinds of ground materials are added. The stone powder and soil ash have to go through various processes such as frying and filtering water, in order to make the surface of this soil not grow grass in addition to being firm."

"No grass?"

Junziyou nodded. He picked up a handful of Xinghong soil and rolled it in his palm. Sure enough, he could see fine sand and gravel mixed in it, and as far as the eye could see, there was not a single weed in the whole mountain.

"To do such a waste of people and money, I am afraid that the influence is not small."

It seemed that Xiao Beicheng had said something sarcastic, and as dull as Shen Ci, he also realized that something was wrong.

"My lord, so many coffins have been found just outside the Longshen Mountain. Inside...couldn't it be some kind of big tomb?"

"Didn't the old man in the village say that the legend of the ghost grandma began to spread after the Western Han Dynasty. I am afraid that the one in it is a hero in the late Western Han Dynasty."

Shen Ci was so frightened that his hands shook, the pickaxe lost its weight for a moment, and actually smashed a hole, and after clearing the mud a little, a dark and deep secret path was revealed.

The entrance of the cave is very spacious, and the road leading to the depth is also very flat, which can accommodate a grown man walking in it.

"Could this be... a robbery cave?"

Junziyou shook his head and said: "The robbery cave was built by Tu Fuzi for convenience. Normally, it can only accommodate one person to pass through it. It would not be so spacious. It should be built by the craftsmen who built the mausoleum to escape. Unexpectedly, thousands of years later Saved the lives of several children."

"You mean those children might have escaped inside, so they saved their lives?"

Seeing Xiao Beicheng and Junziyou nodding one after another, Shen Ci looked like he was about to cry.

"Could it be...we have to go in and find someone too?"