The nearest point B is only 370 meters away from the horizontal distance of Zhu Shanxian's backyard, and the equal height is 19 meters. But today, in front of Ding Qi and others, everyone will confirm it together.

The location of point B is a mountain rock in the shape of a lying cow, and it is not difficult to identify it because it is also illustrated by a picture next to the scroll. This area is a granite landform, and the rocks are very solid, and the shape of this mountain rock has not changed much from the Song Dynasty to the present.

The rocks protruding from the surface are more than one person high, Tan Hanchuan is carrying a tripod on his back, still holding things in both hands, and stepping forward on the rocks with his toes a little, he has already jumped up very lightly.

I saw Tan Hanchuan insert a walnut-thick bamboo chisel into the rock, and actually inserted it. Ding Qi, who was standing below, was taken aback, this is too unbelievable, it is even more martial arts master than the legendary martial arts master! I only heard Tan Hanchuan say: "Another person will come up, stay here and watch the drill." ”

Shi Buquan and Fan Yang didn't move, Ding Qi climbed up curiously, and Tan Hanchuan also reached out and pulled him. Ding Qi felt that Tan Hanchuan's hand was very strong, and when the other party held his wrist, it seemed that an invisible force lifted him upwards and stood firmly on the top of the rock. Ye Xing also climbed up with all hands and feet.

After waiting up, I didn't know what was going on, and it turned out that the "bull's head" position of this rock, which was shaped like a lying cow, was chiseled out of a small circular hole at some point, which happened to be able to insert such a thick drill. Ye Xing asked with some surprise, "Senior Brother Tan, did you chisel this hole?"

Tan Hanchuan shook his head and said: "No, there was originally, it should have been left by the ancients, just for the purpose of inserting the drill positioning." Mr. Ye, since you have climbed up, stay here and watch. If the wind is strong, hold the drill in place and keep it vertical. ”

The depth of the small hole is now about five centimeters, and if it was chiseled by the ancients, it may have become shallower than it was after hundreds of years of weathering, but the position of the bottom of the hole is basically unchanged. The prepared bamboo drill is not too much and no less than one meter long, and it can be inserted into the end.

Ye Xing, who had the worst physical strength, finally didn't have to climb the mountain anymore, so he stayed on this rock, and the remaining four people continued to move forward. The next section of the road is not easy to walk, the straight-line distance is almost one point and five kilometers, but in the mountains up and down, there is no trail, many places have to Tan Hanchuan with a machete to open the road, and the middle also passes through the tour route built by the scenic spot.

Ding Qi had a full set of mountaineering equipment, but he still struggled to walk, only to feel that the box in his hand was getting heavier and heavier, and he arrived at the place after an hour. The second position is point A, located on the top of a peak, standing here, the line of sight is exactly in a straight line with point B just now and the backyard of Zhu Shanxian's house.

There is a flat rock at the top of the peak, and there is also a small hole in it, and the silt debris in the small hole has obviously been cleaned up. Tan Hanchuan said: "Ah Quan, you stay here to set up the instrument." Senior Brother Fan and I went to the other two points, and Teacher Ding also stayed here to help, so we didn't have to follow us to climb the mountain anymore. ”

Ding Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief, in order to keep up with these three people along the way, his hands and feet were sore, and he quickly put down the box and found a place to sit and rest for a while. Fan Yang left a tripod, took away the box that Shi Buquan had taken, and quickly disappeared into the mountains and forests with Tan Hanchuan.

Ding Qi was also embarrassed to be idle, so he took a breath and got up to help Shi Buquan place the instrument. Hold the tripod first, and hang down a conical pendant from the center of the tripod, with the tip of the taper facing the center of the hole. Attach the leveling locator and it looks like a telescope with various knobs. Adjust the height of the tripod so that the center of the lens is exactly one meter from the bottom of the hole.

Adjust the angle of the lens so that it is aimed at the top of the bamboo drill at point B where Ye Xing is located, so that it is connected into a straight line, and then adjust the focus, looking for various positions on this straight line, and advancing all the way to the backyard of Zhu Shanxian's house. Shi Buquan made it for about ten minutes, and then said: "It's adjusted, Teacher Ding, you can also take a look." ”

Ding Qi leaned over and looked at it, and it felt a bit like a shot in a sniper's scope in a war movie. The lens is a round frame with a cross-shaped reticle in the center and small scales on the horizontal and vertical reticles. The center point of the crosshairs is aimed at a pair of big scalp shoes.

Zhu Shanxian is standing in the backyard, and the courtyard door is open, the line of sight in the camera passes through the courtyard gate, and one of his feet happens to stand on the center point of the cross marking, holding a ruler rod in his hand.

Only such a straight line cannot determine the coordinates, and it is necessary to wait for the measurement results of points C and B. Theoretically, Zhu Shanxian needs to move back and forth along one of the straight lines with the marker, and if it happens to appear in the observation position of the other instrument, it is the intersection of the two straight lines.

About another twenty minutes later, Shi Buquan received a WeChat message, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a photo sent by Tan Hanchuan. The photo is slightly distorted, and it should have been taken with a mobile phone camera against the observation hole of the instrument, but it can also be clearly seen that the center of the cross line is Zhu Shanxian's feet.

Shi Buquan also took out his mobile phone to take the same photo and sent it back to Tan Hanchuan. There is no need to let Zhu Shanxian hold the ruler pole to find a position, and the intersection of the camera observation happens to be where he stands.

Ding Qi was a little surprised, he had looked at the map and knew that the straight-line distance from point A to point C and then to point D was not far, but it was not easy to walk over the mountains and mountains, and Tan Hanchuan and Fan Yang were in place and done it in less than half an hour. What surprised him even more was that the location of Xiaojing Lake marked in the "Fangwai Tuzhi", through the triangulation method shown in the diagram, the coordinates were actually in the backyard of Zhu Shanxian's house.

In this piece of mountain, their location is relatively high with a signal, so they don't use walkie-talkies, everyone is in contact with mobile phones, and they have already set a location and pack up their things and return. By the time everyone gathered in the living room again, Ding Qi's underwear was already drenched with sweat. There was also a chisel inserted in the backyard, which was where Zhu Shanxian was standing, and the ruler rod was not used at all.

For some reason, everyone's expressions were very solemn, and after a moment of silence, Fan Yang first asked: "Ah Quan, where are the exact coordinates?"

Shi Buquan replied: "Our two observation lines are one meter higher than the actual marking line, and if we descend one meter further according to the angle, the intersection will be moved forward, which is the position where the threshold of the backyard is almost in the middle." ”

Fan Yang looked at Zhu Shanxian, and said expressionlessly: "Senior Brother Zhu, what's going on? ”

There is no such coincidence in the world, and even if there were, I am afraid that everyone here would not believe it. The clues found from various channels finally discovered the "location" of the small realm lake in the outer world recorded by the ancients. However, Zhu Shanxian, one of the participants, had already bought a small building here and happened to open a door in this location.

In Ding Qi's opinion, the only explanation for this matter is that Zhu Shanxian had already found relevant clues through other channels, and he had occupied the place long before everyone else.

Zhu Shanxian sighed and said, "Everyone, I know you have doubts. I've made tea, so let's sit down and drink it, and listen to me. Today I confirmed one thing, that is, the legends I have heard are true, and I am looking for the right place. But what is going on with the so-called Xiaojing Lake, we still haven't figured it out. ”

Fan Yang: "Let's not talk about what is going on in Xiaojing Lake, let's talk about District Chief Zhu, what is going on with your house, this courtyard, and the door you specially opened?"

Zhu Shanxian replied slowly: "I am a local, and my ancestral home is Nanlan Town. Now there is no Nanlan Town, and it has long been merged into Yuling District. When Nanlan Town was relocated and renovated, I was not the head of the district, and I was transferred from the town government to the District Urban Construction Bureau, and I took the lead in the planning of the Nanlan community.

At that time, it was still a barren mountain field, and before that, there were vegetable fields in the suburbs. However, during the Qing Dynasty, there was a Taoist temple called Liang Yunguan, which was destroyed during the war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Our current house was built on the site of Liang Yunguan, and in order to determine the exact location, I also specially invited my friends to come and see it.

I came here during the construction of the community, and dug out half of the stele here, which was originally Liang Yunguan, indicating that the location was found very accurately. At that time, Nanlan Town was relocated and renovated, and I could ask for a small building in this community, so I chose this one first.

Mr. Ding found a travelogue in the Ming Dynasty, which is a story of a scholar meeting an immortal. In fact, in Nanlan Town, there are similar legends since ancient times, saying that there is a blessed land of immortals, and Liangyunguan is the gateway to fairyland. The town of Nanlan is gone, and there are probably very few people who know this legend, but I have heard of it. ”

Ye Xing interjected: "Did you listen to what your grandfather said? Your ancestor also served as a Taoist priest in Liang Yunguan?"

Zhu Shanxian shook his head and said, "It's not my ancestor's business. When I was working in Nanlan Township, the government had a task, which was to help the poor one by one. The person I was helping at that time was a lonely old man in a nearby village. Now the village is no longer there, and has been relocated and incorporated into the city.

The old man was already 90 years old at that time, but his body was still quite tough, and he was also very kind, although he did not have a modern education, but he also studied private school before liberation, and he had traveled to many places. I am the heir of the Jianghu Juemen, and he is my master......"

Ding Qi's habit of observing people was unintentional, when Zhu Shan was casually telling this past, looking at the reactions of Shi Buquan and Tan Hanchuan, these two people obviously knew about it for a long time, and Ye Xing and Fan Yang should have heard it for the first time. I heard Ye Xing interject again: "I see! It's a pity, why didn't I have the opportunity to meet such a master?"

Zhu Shanxian ignored Ye Xing's emotion, and then said: "I was twenty-six years old at the time, just a few years after I joined the work, at the beginning it was just a task of help required by the government, I often sent rice, noodles, and oil to the elderly, and also contacted to help him solve the tap water, and often visited him during the New Year's holidays.

The old man is very knowledgeable, often talk to me about the past walking all kinds of stories, I am very interested, I am always willing to run to him when I have nothing to do, by the way to help him do some work, gradually no longer to complete the task of helping. The old man told me a lot of things about the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, and about a year later, he told me that he was actually the heir of the Jianghu Juemen.

He got the inheritance of the Jianghu Juemen, and when he was in his thirties, he also served as an official in the government of the Republic of China, but the troubled times were unbearable, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to his hometown. It will be liberated in a few years, it is a new society, the routine of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, especially those things of the Juemen, let it pass, and the old man will live in seclusion here from then on.

The old man told me this because he wanted to hand over the inheritance of the Juemen he had obtained to me, just for a matter of his heart, and he did not ask me to formally apprentice. But after I heard about it, I still took the initiative to worship the teacher according to the ancient rites, and accompanied the old man for the last three years, which can be regarded as his retirement.

The old man only wants to give me his inheritance, and he doesn't want me to say his name, so I'm sorry I can't tell you what his name is. He didn't ask me to do anything, and told me that the times are different, and the eight gates of the rivers and lakes are disappearing, but the rivers and lakes are still there, nothing more than people's hearts and the world.

Liang Yunguan has a gateway to the fairyland, which the old man told me before he died. When I was a child, I had vaguely heard the local legend, and the old man said it very solemnly and specifically, he said that the gate was the backyard door of Liang Yunguan......"

Ding Qi couldn't help but interject: "So has your master ever entered Xiaojing Lake?"

Zhu Shanxian shook his head and said, "It's a pity that he didn't find it." Before leaving, he said to me that many things in the world are often close at hand, but they cannot be seen. ”

Ding Qi: "His old man has never found Xiaojing Lake, but he is convinced of it?"

Zhu Shanxian sighed again and said: "He is a person from the old era, and many concepts are different from ours, but he definitely has vision and insight, no worse than anyone here." Although he didn't see Xiaojing Lake, my senior ancestor went there. Didn't Mr. Ding find a travel record of a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, which recorded that there was a scholar who met immortals in Xiaojing Lake.

I can tell you unequivocally that this incident happened during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and the scholar's name was Chen Mianzhu, and the immortal he met in Xiaojing Lake was named Zhu Jingyi. Chen Mianzhu got the guidance of the immortals, and took the immortal bait medicine to prolong his life, but he did not become an immortal, and later became an official, which was my ancestor and a disciple of the Jianghu Juemen at that time. ”

Hearing this, Ye Xing patted his thigh and said, "Senior Brother Zhu, why didn't you say it earlier!"

Zhu Shan took a sip of tea and said: "I said this earlier, will anyone believe it? I'm afraid they will think that I have something wrong with my brain! Patriarch Chen Mianzhu told his disciples about his experience before he died, but when his disciples came to visit Xiaojing Lake again, they couldn't find anything. So this secret past has been passed down from generation to generation, and my master and his old man also told me before he died.

I think that my master's master, that is, my ancestor, once came to visit Xiaojing Lake, but I didn't find the secret realm outside the square, but I accepted a successor, who was my master. My master is an old man, and he is convinced of the things that have been passed down from generation to generation. I'm ashamed, I'm actually skeptical, and the reason why I want to find Xiaojinghu is to some extent to make up for his old man's regrets.

My master may not have had the conditions back then, but I still have some conditions. It was I who took the lead in planning the relocation and transformation of this generation, and specially invited my fellow Fengmen to find the site of Liang Yunguan, and took advantage of my position to pick this small building first and open the door in the backyard. I only learned today that the method of that fellow Fengmen is really clever, and the door he instructed me to open almost completely coincides with the location of Liang Yunguan's backyard door back then.

But I didn't dare to be so sure at first, but I would rather believe that there was a small building here, and I deliberately asked for this one. Even if the legend isn't true, I have nothing to lose. But Senior Brother Shi came to me last month and told me about Teacher Ding's latest discoveries and restored the contents of the ancient scrolls, so I realized that the words of the ancestors of the past generations are true!"

Speaking of this, he stood up, poured a cup of tea for both Shi Buquan and Ding Qi, and then took the cup and said, "Senior Brother Shi, Teacher Ding, I want to thank you, just take tea as a respect...... Guys, I've already said what I know, is there anything else you'd like to ask?"

He took the lead in making this cup of tea, and Shi Buquan and Ding Qi also got up and drank it all. Fan Yang asked, "Did your master give you something that has been passed down through the generations, such as how to enter Xiaojing Lake?"

Zhu Shanxian shook his head again and said, "No, it's just word of mouth, not words." The patriarch's message back then only said that the gateway of Xiaojing Lake was the backyard door of Liang Yunguan. ”

Tan Hanchuan suddenly said at this time: "I have heard Senior Brother Zhu tell this story a long time ago, and I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't dare to deny it categorically until I investigated it clearly. With recent discoveries, the fact that cross-evident evidence from all sides can corroborate and coincide with each other shows that the rumors are not unreliable and must have their source of facts.

It's useless to say anything else now, the exact coordinates have been set today, and the location of that gate, Senior Brother Zhu has found it several years ago, but it can't be determined at that time. So the question now is, where is Xiaojing Lake?

Chen Mianzhu's predecessor's disciples were also from the Ming Dynasty, Liang Yunguan was still there in the Ming Dynasty, and it was easy for him to find the backyard door, but he didn't find Xiaojing Lake. It's the same situation we are in today, we just found a coordinate, not a place.

Where is Xiaojing Lake, how can I get in, and what kind of place is it? Push open the backyard door, and it is Nanlan Mountain Forest Park. In fact, as a scientific research worker, my most direct judgment is that the ancient Xiaojing Lake is the modern Nanlan Mountain?"

The "door" has been found, but where is the place, this is the most critical question at the moment. Ding Qi couldn't help but blurt out: "It's definitely not Nanlan Mountain Forest Park, not only does it not match the records and legends, but it also doesn't match my experience." ”

Zhu Shanxian looked at Ding Qi and said, "The one who has the most say here should be Teacher Ding, because only you have seen it, no matter how you have seen it." Teacher Ding is also an expert, you can analyze what kind of place the so-called Xiaojing Lake is, why didn't my master and his old man find it?

He may not have found the exact location. But the Ming Dynasty descendant of Patriarch Chen Mianzhu, Liang Yunguan was still there at that time, why didn't he find it?"

Fan Yang also said: "Teacher Ding treats himself as if he is in the classroom, and we are all your students, you can teach us all a lesson." ”

Looking at the room full of people from the eight sects of the rivers and lakes, all of them are human spirits, but they want Ding Qi, an "outsider", to come to class, Ding Qi muttered: "I don't dare to talk about class, I just discuss it with everyone." According to my analysis, the situation may include, but is not limited to, the following three types. First, as Mr. Tan just said, the so-called Xiaojing Lake is today's Nanlan Mountain.

But this possibility, I personally ruled it out in the first place, because I have seen the outside world. After different people were hypnotized by my guidance, they all entered the same place, and I also went to Mr. Ye to inquire about this clue, and only then did I learn about the legend of the outside world. Later, the record of "Fangwai Tuzhi" was discovered, which proved that the legend was indeed based.

Then in the second case, you need to open your minds, think about all kinds of fantasy, science fiction, and fairytales, and the various immortal blessed lands, cave secret realms, and even space enchantments described in them. It is not the same place as the world we live in, or it overlaps, ordinary people cannot see it at all under ordinary circumstances, and can only be found under certain conditions.

As for the third situation, it is somewhat similar to the second situation, let's just say that according to the legend of the ancestor introduced by District Chief Zhu, Xiaojing Lake is a place where immortals live, and mortals cannot find it without the permission of immortals. This may not sound credible, but it doesn't hurt to make just one assumption for the time being. Maybe the immortal is no longer there, so the portal is closed, or the portal is broken.

But this assumption is also problematic, because as far as I know, there are at least three people who have been to such a place, and they are all ordinary people living in the Realm Lake, their names are Tian Qi, Tu Zhi, and Lu Fang, and Tu Zhi met a girl in the secret realm outside the Fang. It may be incredible, but from a professional point of view, this is the most reasonable inference.

That's why I said that the outside world should exist, and under certain conditions, people can find it, and there are even people living there. ”

After Ding Qi said this, everyone was silent for a long time. In the end, it was Zhu Shanxian who took the lead and said: "Teacher Ding said three possibilities, but ruled out two possibilities. So in your opinion, the situation is the second one?"