The one who opened the door was an old man. He has a gray beard, a loose bun on the top of his head, a bamboo hairpin pinned to it, a green robe on his body is very shabby, he is fifty or sixty years old, and he carries a lantern that is also quite worn out. Looking at the appearance of this person, he is probably a low-level Taoist who watches the door in the "Seven Stars View".

The old Taoist was blind, his clothes were fluffy, and he was quite disheveled, as if he had just woken up, and muttered: "I'm really sorry, it's late today, the incense burner in the temple has been extinguished, if the donor wants to sign the incense, please come back tomorrow." ”

Hua Bushi said: "This immortal chief, we didn't come to ask for incense, we just want to enter the view and appreciate the stele forest ink treasure in the back mountain of your view." ”

Lao Dao frowned and said, "You are here to see the Forest of Steles, the sky is already dark, and you can't see anything when you get there, I think you should go back and come back tomorrow!"

Hua Bushi said: "There are some urgent matters in the next, I will leave Nanao tomorrow, I have heard the name of the stele Lin Mobao in the 'Seven Stars View', so I came to the starry night, please make it convenient for the immortal chief." ”

He gave Bai Yiling a look, and Bai Yiling took out a piece of broken silver weighing two or three taels and stuffed it into Lao Dao's hand.

Money can make ghosts grind, even for monks, it can also have an effect. Although there were not many pieces of silver, they were enough to change the attitude of this veteran gatekeeper.

Lao Dao immediately opened the door and said, "Childe, please come in quickly!" Although it is a little dark this day, it is no problem for Childe to look at the stele forest, so I will find another lantern and take Childe there!"

Hua Bushi said: "Don't dare to work together, if the immortal chief can temporarily lend the lantern in his hand, we can go over by ourselves." ”

Lao Dao nodded and said, "Oh, Gongzi thinks he doesn't want outsiders to disturb him, so it's okay, you just have to take this lantern!"

A broken lantern is not worth a few copper coins, and it is of course nothing compared to the silver taels just obtained, which is very generous.

Bai Yiling took the lantern in Lao Dao's hand and carried it in front of him, while Hua Bushi followed behind and walked towards the back garden of the Taoist temple.

Speaking of the "Seven Stars View", the stele forest ink treasure is actually just some poems and sentences inscribed by celebrities or literati who came here to play. The viewer of the "Seven Stars View" also knows the vassal elegance, let people engrave these ink treasures on the stone tablet, stand in the garden of the mountain behind the Taoist Temple, and over time, it has also become a scenic spot, many tourists who know some words, and most of them will visit this place.

However, there are not many people like Hua Bushi who came to see the stele forest Mobao.

This "Seven Star View" is not big, only two back two halls, in the apse is enshrined is the statue of Taishang Laojun, but now there is no light in the hall, when the two people bypass the temple door, they can not see the situation, and they can not hear a little human voice in the four times, in this view to the night there is no trace of the Taoist priest, probably have gone to sleep.

After passing through a half-moon-shaped gate, it is a stone path and steps, leading to the back mountain of the "Seven Stars View", and the stele forest is on the mountainside of the back mountain. Walking along the stone steps, there are dense pine forests on all sides, and the stone path through the forest is quite tortuous.

The lantern in Bai Yiling's hand was dim and could not be far away, but it was very quiet on the road, and he did not meet any Taoist priests or miscellaneous servants in the Taoist temple.

The so-called stele forest, there are a total of sixty or seventy stone steles, the height is uneven, and it is located in a large open space between the pine forests. If you come here in broad daylight, you won't feel anything, but at this time it is the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the light is dim, and these many stone monuments are lined up everywhere, but they are all like the tomb cards in the cemetery, which makes people feel a little creepy.

Bai Yiling, who was walking in front, was scared in his heart and asked, "Master Gongzi, will 'Panlong Jue' really hide in such a ghost place?"

Hua Bushi said: "Of course there will be no mistake, Ling'er must not say much, lest others listen to it." ”

Bai Yiling said: "Where there will be people here, if there are only ghosts!"

Speaking of ghosts, Bai Yiling couldn't help but shudder, slowed down at the moment, and leaned his body towards the side of "Master Gongzi". Although she has martial arts, she is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl after all, and she is really not very courageous.

Hua Bushi was quite calm, stretched out his hand to hold Bai Yiling's arm, and said: "There are no ghosts and gods in this world at all, if there are any, it is just people pretending to be gods and playing ghosts, we don't have to be afraid." ”

While the two were talking, they had already come to the front of the stele forest.

Hua Bushi said: "Ling'er, you take a lantern to illuminate the words on these stone tablets, so that I can see them." ”

Bai Yiling agreed, and brought the lantern close to the stone tablet, while Hua Bushi stared and recognized the words engraved on it.

Most of the inscriptions on these steles are the poems and sentences of the ancients of the Tang and Song dynasties, and there are also the improvisations of contemporary literati, and there are a few stone steles that are engraved with excerpts from the Four Books and Five Classics.

Hua Bushi looked at each stone tablet one by one, glanced at each stone tablet a few times, and then motioned to Bai Yiling to shine the lantern on Xiangxia.

After looking at more than 20 stone tablets, he has come to the center of the stele forest, Hua Bushi suddenly said: "Stop, this is it!"

The lantern illuminates this stele, which is engraved with only two lines of cursive text: "Under the east fence of picking chrysanthemums, you can see Nanshan leisurely"

This is the famous sentence of Tao Yuanming, the great poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, to describe the interest of the mountains and countryside, there are a lot of poems of this kind in the forest of steles, and this stele is mixed in it, which is not conspicuous at all. It's just that under these two lines of text, there is a signature, which is: Jiangnan Sima.

This Jiangnan Sima is undoubtedly the "Jiangnan Swordsman" Sima Chafeng, and the words on this tablet are actually inscribed by Mr. Ma Da himself.

Hua Bushi came to the stele, put his ear on the stele, and tapped it lightly with his fingers, while listening to the sound, he probed inch by inch, trying to discover the secret hole in it.

Bai Yiling held the lantern high and stared at the actions of "Master Gongzi" with big eyes. She had long been full of curiosity about this legendary piece of endless treasure, the black and white things in the Guangdong Realm that she wanted to get at all costs.

This stele is only six or seven feet high, and the width of the ruler is narrow, and the thickness of three inches is not too big. Hua Bushi soon knocked the entire stone tablet and searched for it, but found nothing. Undeterred, however, he immediately began to explore the base of the stele.

Soon he noticed that on one side of the base, the sound of striking on it was different from the others, and it was evident that it was hollow. Bai Yiling took the lantern closer, Hua Bushi carefully inspected the surroundings of that position, and sure enough, he found that on the side of the base, there seemed to be a place that could be pulled, if he didn't specifically look at it, it would be absolutely impossible to find it.

Hua Bushi knows a little about the various organs in the rivers and lakes, but he is not proficient. The hidden box mechanism used to store objects is often equipped with some hidden weapons such as poisonous needles and arrows for protection, and if the unknown method of opening is triggered, the machine will be activated, shooting out hidden weapons, endangering the life of the person who opened it.

If Meng Huan, who is proficient in the ambush of the mechanism, is here, he can find out whether the mechanism here has placed a hidden weapon ambush, and if there is, he can also disassemble it, but it is a pity that Meng Huan is still in the inn in Nanao Town, and Hua Bushi, the eldest young master, does not have such ability.

Hua Bushi pondered for a moment, but still reached out and pulled the rock, but only saw a "prick" sound, and then a "snap", and the stone wall on one side of the base had bounced to the side, revealing a black hole half a foot wide and three or four inches high.

The dark box was opened, and there was no hidden weapon shot out, it seems that the luck of this eldest young master is really good.

The reason why Hua Bushi directly opened the dark box was, of course, not just luck. Before opening it, he had carefully recalled what Mr. Martha had said that day, and there was not a single word about the hidden weapon of the mechanism, if this secret box contained a secret weapon to kill, Mr. Martha should at least mention it.

Of course, if Mr. Martha had the intention of killing people and deliberately did not mention it, it was not impossible. However, Hua Bushi finally chose to believe that the deceased "Jiangnan Swordsman" would not intentionally assassinate himself, and this guess was obviously not wrong.

He reached into the dark box and quickly pulled it out, and in his hand, there was already an extra jade pendant as white as snow.

"'Panlong Jue'!" Bai Yiling shouted.

The jade pendant in Hua Bushi's hand is oval in shape, only three inches square, half the size of a palm. Carved on the jade pendant is a white dragon that turns over the clouds and mist, which is extremely exquisite, but does not lose the meaning of simplicity. Although the style of this jade pendant is old, it is white and flawless, the brilliance is as new, and under the dim light of the lantern, it looks even more exquisite and transparent, and it is absolutely extraordinary.

Hua Bushi is a connoisseur of treasures, if you look at it from the perspective of identifying antiques, this ancient jade can be worth about a thousand silver, but it is related to the treasure in the East China Sea, then the value is immeasurable!

He stared at the jade pendant for a moment, and then put it in his pocket. But at this moment, the eldest young master suddenly looked at a bush outside Zhang Xu and shouted, "What person, come out!"

Bai Yiling was also shocked when he heard this, and immediately stepped forward and blocked in front of Hua Bushihe, holding a steel needle in his hand.

A strange laugh came out, and a figure flashed out from behind the bushes, but it was a burly man wearing a royal blue coat and a beard, it was Yuan Gongyi, the head of the "Danxia faction"!

He laughed dryly a few times and said, "Young Master Hua's ears are really sensitive, Yuan just accidentally took a breath of air, and you discovered it." ”

Hua Bushi's face turned a little pale, and he said, "Didn't you leave with your men a long time ago, how did you get here?"

Yuan Gongyi said: "What kind of person is Yuan, how can he be angry with your little tricks, Young Master Hua can't help but underestimate me and other characters of the 'Four Great Factions in the Guangdong Realm', am I right, Brother Wu?"