Chapter Ninety-Four: The Su Family Ancestral Hall
Lin Shuo, Anne, Wei Xingshan, and Liu Qing gathered in Beijing and boarded a flight to northwest China.
This trip was originally more convenient than going to Wai Khingan Mountains, because there is an airport in the Altay region, which is not far from the incident point.
But on the plane, Anne got a not-so-good news. There are some problems with the visas of the four people, and they cannot enter the territory of Mongolia for the time being.
It takes three or four days to process a new visa.
Anne asked Lin Shuo's opinion and decided to stay at Urumqi Airport for half a day and then change the ticket to Qinghai.
It is rare to come to the northwest, and taking advantage of these three or four days of free time, Lin Shuo wants to go to Kunlun Mountain to have a look.
Xiaoba, who accompanied him, volunteered to go to Mongolia to explore the situation first.
As for whether it wants to step on a little bit for Lin Shuo, or whether it thinks that the mother bird in the Western Regions has a unique style, that is only known by the ghost.
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Kunlun is the backbone of the mountain system in western China, known as the ancestor of all mountains, and its status in Chinese culture is self-evident.
This is not only because of its majestic terrain and thousands of weather, but also because Yang Tuo, a modern biologist, knows from genetic analysis that the Chinese nation is a descendant of the ancient Qiang people.
The habitat of the ancient Qiang people was near Kunlun Mountain.
Therefore, according to legend, Kunlun Mountain is the ancestral court and the holy mountain.
According to the record of the secret biography of the hunting gate "Kyushu Foreign Body", the sixth year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1003 AD. At that time, many political regimes in China were coexisting, and the Western Xia Kingdom in the northwest was about to rise, and the army was in chaos.
At that time, the hunters of the Su family, who were hunting the six families, heard that there were hooked snakes in the Kunlun Mountains, and set off from their hometown of Bashu at that time, walked through the rugged and difficult Shu Road for thousands of miles, and entered the Kunlun Mountains by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Then they met the thousand-year-old hooked snake that was huge and strange-looking.
At that time, the head of the Su family, named Su Yun, in addition to his own skill inheritance, also obtained fame, and was a third-class jinshi in the first year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty.
After seeing this hooked snake, Su Yun decided that this was a dragon species, and drew a photo album of the hooked snake to play the imperial court, indicating that the Su family was willing to protect the dragon species for generations of the Great Song Dynasty.
coincided with the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the emperor Song Zhenzong was cowardly by nature, and after signing the alliance with the Liao State, he lost the ambition to expand the territory, and gradually shifted his energy to the matter of enshrinement, built a palace view, and whitewashed the peace.
When the emperor saw Su Yun's recital, he was really overjoyed to send a pillow when he was sleepy, and gave Su Yun an official hat of a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and appointed the Su family to be stationed in Kunlun Mountain for generations.
Facts have proved that neither the Black Water Dragon City nor the Dragon Seed Vein to the Northern Song Dynasty has played a role, and the two dynasties have been destroyed one after another.
But the hunters of the Su family lived in Kunlun because of this, and changed from "Bashu Su" to "Qiangdi Su".
Now, the last hunter of the Su family, Su Nianqiu, that is, Anne, will enter this ancestral hometown with Lin Shuo.
She was born in the United States, because of Miao Guangqi's teaching, she was not much influenced by American culture, and she is still a Chinese at heart. So when the four of them entered the Kunlun Mountains, the woman was holding the steering wheel in her hand, and her heart was not calm, and she was a little timid.
On this trip to Kunlun Mountain, the four-person team set two destinations, one is the place where the Kunlun Mountain incident occurred six years ago, and the other is the ancestral home of the Su family.
The ancestral home of the Su family is located at the foot of the eastern mountains of Kunlun Mountain, in Qinghai Province. The four of them rented an off-road vehicle, Anne acted as the driver, Lin Shuo showed the way, and entered the mountains along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, and arrived in half a day's effort.
It is said that it is an ancestral house, but it is not accurate, with the scale of this house, it should be counted as a cottage or village.
Since the Su Tongji and Su Tongdu brothers were killed in Kunlun six years ago, this village has completely declined, and now no one lives there.
The door knocker is patina, the grass and trees in the hometown are deep, and there is a decaying atmosphere.
The other three soon discovered that Lin Shuo seemed to be familiar with this place.
"Have you been here?" Wei Xingshan asked strangely as he followed behind Lin Shuo.
"Hmm. Lin Shuo nodded as he walked, "I've been here twice." ”
"When did Mr. Lin visit?" Anne was obviously curious.
"Six years ago, the first time I went to the mountain to worship the Buddha, since I wanted to enter Kunlun, I naturally had to say hello to the Su family hunters. Lin Shuo said, "The second time, the Su family died at that time. I had no choice but to collect the bodies of the two brothers Su Tongji and Su Tongdu and receive them here, and set up tablets for them. This is it. ”
While speaking, Lin Shuo pushed open the wooden door and said, "This is the ancestral hall of the Su family." ”
Anne followed Lin Shuo into this room under the bright sun, only to feel that the light in front of her was dim, and when her eyes adjusted to the dimness here and saw the things in front of her clearly, she suddenly felt panicked.
The woman's vision soon blurred, and tears filled her eyes.
Not only Anne, but also Wei Xingshan and Liu Qing's original hippie smiling expressions were immediately put away.
Lin Shuo took out a match from his arms and lit the candles here one by one.
It was eight arm-thick white wax, once it was lit, this ancestral ancestral hall of the Su family, which covers an area of thousands of square meters, finally unveiled the last veil of mystery.
The candle flame flickered, illuminating the two white curtains hanging on the ground and the ancestral spirit card of the Su family hunter.
This ancestral hall is twenty meters high, and the spirit cards are stacked from a one-meter-high position, fifty pieces in each row, and the row is higher than the row from the front, and the last row has been placed on the rafters.
This is more than a thousand ancestral tablets, and there are also more than 1,000 Su family inheritance hunters like Anne.
Wei Xingshan looked at the years of birth and death on these spirit cards, and found that the lifespans of these Su family hunters were very short, rarely exceeding thirty years old.
After figuring out why, he couldn't help but feel a sense of respect in his heart, and hurriedly folded his hands and bowed respectfully three times.
And Anne, who had already knelt on the futon in front of the tablet, took a deep breath, stopped the tears that came out of her eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Su Nianqiu, the sixty-third generation of the Su family, kowtow to the ancestors. ”
"Bang!" "Bang!"
After three rings, a red mark appeared on the woman's forehead.
She wiped her face and stood up: "Mr. Lin, I want to go and see the place where my two uncles fought in the end. ”
The two uncles she was referring to were the two brothers Su Tongji and Su Tongdu. According to generation, the Su brothers are the same generation as Lin Shuo's father Lin Leshan, Lin Shuo is one generation shorter than the two of them, and Anne is two generations shorter.
So when Anne hinted at her identity at the beginning, she would say that she should call Lin Shuo "uncle".
And the place she wants to go to is naturally the place where the Kunlun Mountain incident occurred six years ago, the highest peak in Kunlun, Gonger Peak with an altitude of 7,648 meters.
"Don't rush yet. I saw Lin Shuo shake his head, "Bringing you over this time is not just to kowtow to the ancestors of the Su family." ”
Anne was slightly stunned, waiting for Lin Shuo to continue.
"You and I are both inheritance hunters of the Six Great Families. Lin Shuo said, "We inherit hunters, blood kinship is secondary, the key is family inheritance." You were originally an overseas branch of the Su family, and although you have a part of the Su family's heritage, you lack a peerless knowledge at the bottom of the box. ”
Listening to Lin Shuo's words, Anne bowed her head slightly.
She knew that Lin Shuo was right.
More than 80 years ago, there was a warlord melee in the country. In the face of troubled times, the two Su family heirs had disputes over the concept of life, and the contradictions could not be reconciled. Among them, the more radical one went to the South Seas after failing to compete for the position of head of the family, and after two generations of hard work, he finally took root in the United States. This Su family hunter who went to the South Seas is Anne's great-grandfather.
Each of the six families of the Hunting Gate has a complete set of inheritance skills, but the stunts at the bottom of the box are only one or two.
The Lin family is the "three unique martial arts".
The Su family is an "enclosure".
The Su family hunters established themselves with three-handed mastery: "Listening to the Mountain", "Painting the Prison", and "Enclosure".
And the "big cut" that the Su family relies on for self-defense is actually a workaround of "drawing a prison", although it is exquisite, it is far less incredible than the "enclosure".
In the past hundred years, after the unpredictable Yun family gradually faded out of the six families, the first magic skill of hunting the door respected by the people in the door is not the Lin family's "three unique martial arts", nor the Zhang family's "no moving knife", but the Su family's unique skill.
However, although this trick is famous, it is very difficult to practice. What the Su family can practice in history can be counted on one hand.
Even Su Tongji, the son of the Su family six years ago, only mastered some fur.
And the "Peerless Learning at the Bottom of the Box" mentioned by Lin Shuo at this time is naturally an "enclosure" that only the head of the Su family has the qualifications to cultivate, and it is very difficult to practice.
"This time I came to the Su family, I just want you to make up for this inheritance. Lin Shuo said to Anne, "Only if you know this, can you be a veritable head of the Su family." ”
"Mr. Lin, will you 'enclose the land'?" Anne asked.
"No, it won't. Lin Shuo shook his head and said, "Six years ago, when I collected the corpses of the Su family brothers, I found the secret book of this mastery from their corpses. I flipped a few pages and found that my talent did not match, and it was really only the Su family who could succeed. So I hid the cheats around here. You come with me. ”
After saying this, Lin Shuo turned around and walked out of the ancestral hall, and Wei Xingshan was about to follow, but was pulled by Liu Qing at the corner of his clothes.
"The flower fields outside the village are beautiful, so come with me to see them. Liu Qing said softly.
Wei Xingshan was stunned, then seemed to understand and nodded.