My relationship with Uncle Hai is not so good that I can talk about everything. Usually, I only communicate in business. After getting familiar with it, I asked him to give him face. He suddenly wanted to get close to me. I felt a little strange. But the little girl said it was difficult for me to show it, so she agreed casually and asked her: "What did he say? What news did he find?"

Qin Haiting smiled badly, "My uncle said, I will tell you then, I don't know what's going on, so don't inquire."

I cursed in my heart, this old profiteer probably wants to come and quarrel again.

On the third day, Lao Hai arrived. I picked him up from the train station and took him to the elevated road to the booked hotel. In the car, I asked him what news he heard. If I missed me, I would not forgive him.

Lao Hai was trembling coldly and said, "The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake. It has reached your territory. How dare I deceive you? But let's not say here, I'm almost frozen to death."

I took him to the hotel, put down my things, found a private room in the cafeteria, scalded a pot of wine, and drank a few glasses, and finally recovered.

I saw that he was drunk until his neck, and knew it was almost done, so I asked him: "Okay, you have drunk and eaten, you should tell me, what did you find?"

He blinked his mouth, smiled, took out a stack of paper from his bag, slapped it on the table, "Look at this."

I picked it up and saw it. It was an old yellow newspaper. The date was 1974. He circled a piece of news. There was a large black and white photo. Although it was not very clear, I still recognized it. The photo was taken with a snake-eyed copper fish, and there were many small cultural relics on the side. Things like Buddhist beads.

However, the appearance of this fish is different from the one in my hand and the one in my 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 have appeared.

I asked Lao Hai: "How did you find this newspaper? Is there any hidden information behind it?"

Lao Hai said: "I have been helping a big boss to tinker with old newspapers recently. You know, rich people collect everything. Look, this is the Guangxi Cultural Evening News in 1974. He asked me to find it from January to December. I searched for it for two months before I got it all. I have to deliver it these days. I checked it. When I saw it, I happened to see this news for me. You said it was a coincidence? This newspaper was released in 1974 and closed in 1975. It is difficult to find it in the world. You are lucky, and my eyes will disappear sooner."

My eyes looked down, and there was about 300 words under the photo, saying that the fish was found in the base of a Buddhist temple in Guangxi. The tower collapsed naturally because it was old. When cleaning up the ruins, the underground palace was dug up, and there were some scriptures and treasure houses that had already been Polanta. One of the treasure houses was placed in it. Experts speculated that it was a relic of monks in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Northern Song Dynasty? I lit a cigarette. I leaned on the back of the chair and wondered in my heart that this snake-eyed copper fish, the first fish, appeared in the tombs of the princes in the late Warring States Period, the second fish was in the underwater tombs of the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, and the third fish was in the pagoda palace of the Northern Song Dynasty. What kind of planes are there? Time is completely unrelated.

I looked through other parts of the newspaper. The only thing that was about this fish was this news. In fact, there was nothing new about these contents, which meant that I didn't say anything. I still knew nothing about this fish, and I became depressed when I thought about it.

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

I frowned and said, "What do you say? Can this newspaper produce 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 find you, right? This matter has to start from scratch. By the way, you are also a stubborn person. Do you know that someone is called Chenpi A Si?"

I was shocked. Chenpi Asi was a famous local master in Changsha during his old age. Lao Piaozi, a figure of the same generation as my grandfather. I heard that he is now in his nineties and was blinded during the ten-year catastrophe. He has never appeared since then. I don’t know whether it is death or life. But his name is still very famous in my grandfather’s mouth.

However, this person is different from his grandfather. He lives on the edge of a knife, not only to rob tombs, kill people and set fire, but also do whatever he can get money and land. So before liberation, people asked him to shave his head, which means that he killed people like shave his head without hesitation.

When Lao Hai mentioned this person, I was a little surprised because he was not a person of our contemporaries, and I had never been in contact with him. Will this fish have something to do with him? Then, even if the story behind this fish has nothing to do with me, it is definitely worth listening to it.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Lao Hai thought I didn't know, and said, "It's not surprising that you don't know about Mr. Chen. After all, you are not of the same generation as us. But I have to tell you that the copper fish in this newspaper was brought out from the pagoda and underground palace. The matter is not as simple as the newspaper." As he said that, he briefly told me about the local affairs of that year.

It turned out that in 1974, Chen Pi A Si was nearly 60 years old, and his eyes were not blind. It was a ten-year turmoil. He was a platoon leader in the Kuomintang army in the early days of liberation, and later he became a bandit for several years, so he had no legal identity. This was captured at that time and wanted to be killed. He could only operate in ethnic minority areas around Guangxi, and even dared not step into the county town.

A few years ago, many ancient monuments were almost destroyed. Chenpi 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 was still honest in those years, but unfortunately, that year, he happened to be passing by at Jiaqiaoling and chatting with several local Miao people. Those people drank too much, so they talked about the tower in Maoer Mountain that collapsed. They said that it was very disturbing and even the ground was sinking, and a large pit collapsed. On the night of the collapse, many people heard a very strange scream.

Chenpi A Si thought it was wrong. He had been to Maoer Mountain many times. The temples in that place were built very strong. How could it collapse? After asking carefully, he realized that the tower was not on Maoer Mountain, but the center of a mountain called "Sleeping Buddha Ridge" on the side. This place is very strange. There are villages around, and there is a basin about ten square kilometers in the middle. It is very low in altitude, with dense vegetation inside, and trees covering the sky and sun. The village is on the cliff, and the woods are under the cliff, with a drop of more than 100 meters. It is two completely different worlds, and from the village, there is no road to go down to this basin, only ropes are needed.

Locals say that there must be other import and export sites in this basin, but the vegetation underground is too dense and it is difficult to walk. The people who went down to hunt and collect herbs in the past often went back to the inside to disappear, so there was usually nothing to do, and everyone was willing to go down.

The ancient tower was built in such a place, almost in the center of the basin. Usually, when people look down from the cliff, they can only see a very small spire with a dense canopy, and it is full of plants. They can't see clearly what is below. Miaomin said that they knew that there was a tower here more than ten generations ago, but no one expected to go down to see it. Now they are used to it. One day, there was a sudden loud noise. When they came out, they saw that the spire was gone. They realized that the tower collapsed.

There are many legends about this mysterious ancient tower. According to some old people, this tower was built by a monk in ancient times to suppress monsters. Now that the tower collapses, the monsters will come out to do evil. That strange cry is the cry of the monsters breaking free from the bondage.

After hearing this, Chen Pi A Si found it very interesting. He vaguely felt that the location of the tower was built and the sound Miaomin heard in the middle of the night. It was a little bit wrong.

Anyone like them may have a strange intuition that can instinctively find information from other people's narratives and some legends, which is already difficult to find in our generation.

Tangerine Pi A Si thought for a while and decided to go and have a look before talking about it.

Guangxi has many mountains and can be regarded as the first in the country. Maoer Mountain is an important source of the three counties, covering Xing'an, Resources, and Longsheng. It is the birthplace of the Lijiang River, Zijiang River and Xun River, connecting the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and Pearl River. There are large areas of primitive jungles, and the first mountain that the Red Army overturned by the Long March is in it. During World War II, several bombers from the Flying Tigers of the US Army aided China mysteriously disappeared here. So this place has always been a bit mysterious.

After several twists and turns, Chenpi Asi came to a village on the "Sleeping Buddha Ridge". Standing on the hill and looking at the basin in the middle of the mountain range, I fucked, the tower was much larger than he imagined. When it fell down, several trees fell down. So a gap appeared on the green trees in the forest. On the "Sleeping Buddha Ridge", there was no gap in the gap, but Chenpi Asi discovered it almost immediately. In the week when the tower collapsed, all the trees looked very messy because the ground was sunken. It seemed that there was something under the tower, and it was larger than the base of the tower.

When I heard this, I already knew that it was a "Minger Palace". "Minger Palace" was a dialect before the liberation of Changsha. That is to say, there is an underground part under the ground building with the same size as the ground building. It looks like a reflection of the ground building on the lake surface, with the upper and lower ends symmetrical.

This is also called "yin and yang shuttle" in the Northern School, which means that the overall building is like a shuttle inserted into the ground, one side is the underworld and the other side is the world of the world. However, such ancient tombs or ancient buildings are rare, and most of the remains on the ground have been completely destroyed, so this statement has almost been mentioned within ten years before the liberation.

Just looking at the arrangement of trees, Chenpi Asi could know that "Jinger Palace is buried below. It is impossible to achieve this kind of judgment without extremely rich experience. I couldn't help but sigh inwardly, calm down and listen to Lao Hai continue to say.

After Chen Pi A Si made up his mind, he was already greedy. There were only three things in the pagoda and underground palace, either the relics, the golden body of a monk, or the large number of Buddhist scriptures, and anything is a value-continuous thing.

However, he, a foreigner, was not convenient to move here. First, he had a special status and a bad background. Second, the Miao and Han tribes were in constant conflict at that time, and several villages here were Miao villages. If you go in rashly, you may arouse others' suspicion.

After thinking about it over and over again, 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 who came from outside to support the border. When he came over, one of his students fell from the cliff. The Miao people were simple and did not secretly do things in the world. How could he think of a trick inside? When he heard someone was hanging, he immediately notified the people in the village. The young Miao man tied a hanging basket with a rope and placed Chenpi Asi and a few young people who helped him under the cliff.

According to Chen Pi A Si's own memories afterwards, the gap of more than 100 meters was simply a hellish experience. The cliff was very steep. The person's weight was stretched completely by a rattan rope, and his butt was wrapped in a basket. When the wind blew, the whole person gyrified like a top, which was extremely unstable. When he passed through the thick tree cover and went to the bottom of the jungle, only half of his life was left.

There is almost no sunlight inside the forest, the light is extremely dim, and the air is filled with the smell of biogas. There are many types of trees here, but without exception, green moss grows in all places, and the mud is very soft and can hardly stand.

After Chen Pi's four came down, he pretended to be overdrawn (actually, he was really scared), and sat there to breathe. Seeing that he was not young, the leader of the Miao tribe looked like an old man, he asked him to wait for them to come back on the spot. He set off a torch and asked others to search in the direction he pointed.

As soon as they left, Chen Pi A Si immediately took out the compass and drilled deep into the jungle according to the direction he had recorded in advance. He estimated that in such a large area, the Miao people would have to go back and forth for one night. With his ability, he should be enough to find the entrance to the "Jinger Palace" and go back and forth. Unfortunately, he did not bring enough equipment this time, and whether he could enter the palace depends on his luck.

After walking in the jungle for four hours, relying on his compass and his courage to travel around the world over the years, Chen Pi Asi finally came to the area he planned on the "Sealing Buddha Ridge", which is the ruins of the temple around the tower.

As we continued to deepen, Chenpi Asi saw more and more broken eaves and walls. Obviously, the ancient buildings here were gone, only some foundations and broken walls were left, almost mixed with the vegetation, and it was hard to see what it was. But judging from the scale, the temple was very active and large. Although the pagoda fell within this large area, it was difficult to see clearly where it was.

Chenpi Asi was not young at all. When he walked around, he felt a little short of breath and was about to sit down and rest when his eyes flashed in front of him. The grass wrapped around the entire wall suddenly shrank, and it seemed that something was wrapped inside.
Chapter completed!