The location of Xiangshui Peak is at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, a place called Gongchuan in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province. Qinling is the ancient Zhongnan Mountain, which is a famous cave blessed land, and now there are many people who settle down in the Zhongnan Mountain to cultivate the Tao. The location of Gongchuan is already on the edge of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, only an hour's drive from the city of Xi'an.

In ancient times, the climate in this area was warm and rainfall was abundant, and the springs in the mountains flowed vertically and horizontally, converging into a river and entering the plain to flow into the Bahe River. If viewed from above, these mountain streams converge to resemble wheels, hence the name Rim River.

This valley is dotted with large karst caves left by the erosion of water flows, the most famous of which is the tin water cave, also known as the fine water cave. In the sediments in these caves, modern researchers have found a large number of ancient stone tools, animal fossils, charcoal ashes, and animal bones that have been roasted by fire, indicating the living place of ancient humans in this area. The stone tools left in the cave date back millions of years.

In ancient myths and legends, Lantian is where Huaxu is located, and Huaxu is the mother of Fuxi.

Cui Shanhai and his wife asked everyone to meet in front of the Xishui Cave, because this place is easy to find, the meeting time is nine o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the two of them drove by themselves, and there is a parking lot in the Xishui Cave Scenic Area.

Ding Qi, Zhu Shanxian, Xian Hao, Shi Buquan, and Shang Ni set off after work on Friday, rested on the train for a night, arrived in Xi'an early in the morning, and called a business car to rush to Gongchuan. They came relatively early, so they simply walked around the tin water cave first.

It was just past seven o'clock, of course, Xishuidong didn't open the door, but it couldn't stop a few of them, so they quietly went in and visited with a flashlight. Legend has it that this place is one of the eight immortals of Han Xiangzi's practice, so there are also many sculptures of Taoist gods in the cave, many of which are erected in contemporary times.

Out of the Tin Water Cave, they went to the Lingyun Cave, which was located higher. This cave is very deep, there are two floors, more than ten halls, and the stalactites in the cave have different shapes. They also saw a sign on the landscape that read "Fairy Bathing", and they couldn't help but laugh. Shi Buquan didn't know what he meant, and Shang Ni gave him another explanation.

The last time everyone went to visit the Qin Gao Platform together, only Shi Buquan was not there, they were trapped in the prescription world for more than half a year, and after opening the portal, they came out and arrived at the location not the Qin Gao Platform outside, but the Tianmen Cave Scenic Area 80 kilometers away in a straight line. The place where they came out at that time was called the bath pot cave, and according to the introduction of the scenic spot, it was also a place for fairies to bathe, and there were two rocks sticking out of the cave that were attached to the peeking monsters.

It seems that the imagination of the people is almost the same, which reflects what kind of mentality in the subconscious, are they all interested in fairy bathing, or do they all want to be Dong Yong?

Not far from the landscape of "fairy bathing", they met several acquaintances, who were Ye Zongqing, Yan Binbin, Shi Heyu and other three people from Wuxin Valley. They also came early, and also chose to visit the nearby attractions first, everyone greeted them with a smile, and seeing that the time was almost up, they quietly avoided the staff who went to work and left Lingyun Cave and arrived at the agreed place, and it happened that Cui Shanhai, Shui Ruo, and Li Zhiyao also arrived.

The time was 8:50 in the morning, Cui Shanhai looked at his watch and said, "Wait a while, Lao Tan and Mr. Zhuang haven't come yet." At this time, I heard Tan Hanchuan say not far away: "I have arrived, I just turned around the mountain for a while, and the scenery is good." ”

Cui Shanhai said with a smile: "Actually, there are many places to visit in this area, and several days are not enough. ”

Tan Hanchuan replied: "It's easy to say in other places, today is to visit Xiangshui Peak." ”

At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhuang Mengzhou finally arrived. A group of thirteen people left the scenic spot and walked towards the mountain, the terrain gradually got higher, the mountain cliff was rugged and steep, there was no village around, and it had entered the Qinling Mountains. Everyone looked very leisurely with their bags, and they didn't hurry up, they walked for about forty minutes, and came to the small hole under the rock wall.

Ding Qi wondered, "Could it be that Xiangshui Peak is in this cave?"

Li Zhiyao shook his head and said, "This is just a passage, and we have to go a long way." ”

The geomorphological characteristics of Gongchuan are similar to those of Tianmen Cave in Ningxiang County, and there are complex karst cave groups. However, the scale of the Gongchuan Cave Group is much larger, and its location is at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, which is far from the small hill where the Tianmen Cave is located. The cave in front of me is very hidden, the space is very small, and there is no tourist development value, so no one usually comes at all.

Once the cat's waist is inside, it can stand up straight, and it is a rugged road, but the width is only enough for two people to walk shoulder to shoulder. A small dome appears at intervals above the corridor, where there are often branching branches. According to Cui Shanhai, they took a shortcut, if they went outside to climb the mountains for a long time, and the terrain was dangerous, there was almost no way out.

Walking in such a long, winding cave with many forks in the road is also very dangerous, and if you get lost, you may not be able to get out, and you must be guided by a guide.

I drilled up and down the cave for about 20 minutes with a flashlight, and there were several places where I had to crawl up and down, and there were several places where I had to climb up and down with my hands and feet. As they walked, the light seemed to get cooler, and almost without warning they turned a corner, only to see that they had suddenly entered the deep valley, and there were no people in sight.

Walking through a mess of rocks again, Cui Shanhai stopped and said, "This is it!"

In fact, there is no need for him to say that Ding Qi has already discovered the portal after sweeping it with his divine sense, but Ding Qi has not been able to expose his own ability. When everyone stood still in front of the portal, Cui Shanhai took out a Ruyi. This Ruyi is only half a foot long, it seems to be the texture of boxwood, the bamboo handle, the Ganoderma lucidum head, swaying slightly forward, and an invisible portal appeared out of thin air in front of everyone, and at the other end is another piece of heaven and earth mountains and rivers.

Presumably that Ruyi is the treasure of Xiangshui Peak's control, Cui Shanhai took the lead in walking into the portal with Ruyi in hand. Ye Zongqing saw that Cui Shanhai opened the door with the treasure of controlling the realm like this, his face showed surprise, as if he wanted to say something but did not speak, and everyone rushed in.

The crowd came from the staggered rocks, but after entering the portal, the terrain was very flat, and there was a forest path at the foot, and there were beautiful peaks in the distance. Tan Hanchuan praised: "This is another Rim River, the scenery is better than the Rim River outside!"

The scenery in front of you is indeed very similar to the Rim River outside, and it is the essence of the Rim River style. Tan Hanchuan's eyesight is very good, and he can see that the highest peak in front of him has extended veins on both sides, forming an encircling valley, and there are many springs around the valley that converge in the middle of the mountain, and then the water flows down from the high cliff in the middle of the mountain, forming a waterfall like a match.

The springs that converge in the middle of the valley look like the spokes of a wheel, making the surrounding valley look like a rim. If you add the waterfall that flows down, it looks like a fan with tassels. Due to the effect of the reflection of the valley sound, the sound of rushing water can be faintly heard from a long distance directly in front of it.

It almost takes an introduction to know that Xiangshui Peak should be named after it.

Although the spring and waterfall are already in sight, and you can still hear the sound of the water, you can't get close to it. Everyone walks through the flowers and plants, the road winds and undulates, and the sound of water always seems to be ahead, sometimes big and sometimes small, sometimes hidden and sometimes appearing. Crossing a small hill, they reached a yard.

The so-called yard is that there is no wall, and there are several houses next to a vacant lot, which is a bit old, but it is still well preserved after repair. After a casual visit, Ding Qi found that this place is simply a farmhouse, with a restaurant and a kitchen, and you can also set up a table on the open space to eat in the open air, and the empty house next to it can also be accommodated.

Tan Hanchuan asked: "Xiao Cui, you said that the opening of Xiangshui Peak can receive thirty people to visit at a time, but this place can't live in it? Even if it is squeezed, I think there will be more than a dozen people at most." ”

Shui Ruo explained: "This is the place where we usually come to Xiangshui Peak to stay by ourselves, and there are other places in the mountain to entertain guests, all of which have been left by the ancestors of the past generations. It's already noon, let's have lunch first, move the tables and stools, and eat in the open air. ”

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Would you like some bamboo wine?"

Shanny: "You drink at noon, and you have to climb the mountain in the afternoon!"

Cui Shanhai also shook his head with a smile and said: "You can't drink bamboo wine now, just order beer at noon, otherwise you won't be able to enter Xiangshui Peak in the afternoon." ”

Xiangshui Peak is not only the name of the world outside the prescription, but also refers to the peak in front of it. Zhuang Mengzhou said curiously: "It's not so strong, right, just taste it and pour it?"

Shui Ruo smiled: "It's not for this reason, you will know what is going on when you go up the mountain in the afternoon."

She didn't say why, and everyone started to cook together. There are a lot of ingredients that are carried in from the outside, which is what everyone said in advance, and there are oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice noodles and the like in the backpack, which are all materials that need to be replenished here, and Cui Shanhai also specially carried in a box of canned beer. You know, they walked outside for an hour, climbing mountains and drilling holes.

Fortunately, the season is good, so you don't have to carry fresh vegetables, because there are a lot of wild vegetables here, what is the taste and how to do it, and it has been ripe since ancient times. Everyone first went to the neighborhood to pick wild vegetables, and then went to the water's edge to clean the ingredients.

There is a crystal clear stream that flows from the side of the yard, it is very convenient to get water, there are a lot of fish in the stream, Tan Hanchuan and Shi Buquan caught a few more, they are all more than half a catty, and the species looks very similar to the carp. There was a large tree by the river, the canopy of which was open to cover the sky, and there was a well in the stream under the canopy.

The stone railing of this well is square, more than two feet wide and four feet long, and the water in the well is only two feet deep, which is very clear, but it is separated from the water in the stream. Ye Zongqing was surprised: "The well water does not interfere with the river water, is the allusion from here?"

It is indeed rare for rivers to have wells. Zhuang Mengzhou shook his head and said: "Outsiders don't know that Xiangshui Peak, the allusion that the well water does not violate the river water comes from a place called Zhuwang Village. There is a stream that flows through the village, and there are many square wells in the stream, and the villagers wash their clothes in the stream, but they eat the well water. ”

Yan Binbin was surprised: "There is still such a place?"

"There's a place like that," Tinzi explained. Zhuwang is a thousand-year-old village, there are nine wells and thirteen bridges in the village, and the nine wells are all in the stream, which is very similar to this well, and you can walk directly to the well from the stone steps on the bank. There is also a very beautiful waterfall on the mountain behind Zhuwang Village, and there is a waterhole called Longtan under the waterfall. ”

Zhuang Mengzhou nodded and said, "Well, Zhu Wang Longtan, I've been there." I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, I was looking for the country of birds and beasts, that is, Jinshanyuan, but I went to the wrong place, so I took it as a tourist. ”

Shi Buquan: "Are you really going?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Yes, I found seven or eight places called Longtan around Jinghu, including the back mountain of Zhuwang Village. Today, when I saw this well in the stream, I remembered Zhuwang Village again, and it seems that Mr. Ding has also investigated the situation there. ”

Ding Qi: "It's not around Mirror Lake, it's hundreds of kilometers away, and it takes four hours to drive." ”

Zhuang Mengzhou: "It's much closer than the Iron Lock Cliff, right?"

Cui Shanhai and his wife curiously asked what was going on, and Ding Qi explained briefly. At first, they began to investigate the area around Jinghu Lake, and later found the Tiesuo Cliff on the outskirts of Fangshan District, Beijing, according to new clues.

Anyway, everyone knows that Jinshan Academy is a world outside the Fang that has just been discovered, and Ding Qi has already opened up to the members of the Fang Outside Alliance, so there is no need to keep some situations secret, you can talk about them with your own people as anecdotes.

How can there be such a well in the stream in Xiangshui Peak? This well was not dug by Cui Shanhai and his wife, but has been there for a long time. Everyone speculated that there were several possibilities: either a certain ancestor of Xiangshuifeng had been to Zhuwang Village, or the ancestors of Zhuwang Village had come to Xiangshuifeng, or it was simply a coincidence that everyone invented such a way of taking and using water at the same time according to the local conditions.

The cool water of the well is just right for the town beer, and there are trees on the well to shade the sun, and there are no fallen leaves in the well. Cui Shanhai put the beer he had brought into the well, and took out a batch of the original beer from the well—that was the last time he brought it in. Every time he comes, he fills something, and the beer that he brought in today is replaced by the one that he carried in the well last time, so that he can always keep the goods without spoiling.

More than a dozen people did it, lunch was quickly ready, a table was set up in the open space, and in this refreshing worldly blessed place, I drank some beer with game, which felt very nourishing.

Shi Buquan sighed while eating: "This place is really good, but the road is a little more difficult, and many daily things have to be carried in from the outside, including rice, flour, oil and salt, if you can drive directly to the door." ”

Tan Hanchuan said with a smile: "It's okay, it's not tired anyway, everyone has practiced more or less." "Today, I counted the most things he carried, a mountaineering big strip packed hundreds of pounds of things, when drilling caves, some places had to unload the backpack to get by.

Zhuang Mengzhou, who carried the least things, said with a smile: "In many places in the past, pilgrims who went up the mountain to enter the incense had to carry some rice, flour, oil and salt, otherwise they would be embarrassed to enter the door today, let alone ask for a Bodhisattva." ”

Shi Heyu interjected: "I thought it would be enough to give money, but now the monks are all asking for money directly." ”

Zhuang Mengzhou shook his head and said, "Then maybe, there is still such a place now." Have you heard the story that once upon a time there was a mountain and a temple on the mountain, and there was an old monk and a little monk in the temple......"

Everyone laughed and said, "I've heard it, I've heard it, this is an endless loop of stories." ”

Zhuang Mengzhou picked up his glass and said: "My version is different, but it is a real story, that mountain is called Baijian Mountain, and that temple is called Tiewa Temple." There is also Longtan Waterfall in Baijian Mountain, and there is also an iron character in the name of Tiewa Temple, so I also went to it when I was looking for the country of birds and beasts......"

Everyone asked about this anecdote, and Zhuang Mengzhou introduced it. It is said that there is a place called Baijian Mountain, there is an ancient temple on the mountain called Tiewa Temple, the road up the mountain is steep and steep, the sheep intestine trail only reaches half of the mountainside, and then go up to climb along the cliff between the two mountains. When a pilgrim goes up the mountain, he carries some rice, flour, oil and salt.

Being able to go to such a temple to make incense itself represents piety, and rice, flour, oil and salt are what monks need. The monks opened a few acres of fields around the top of the mountain, planted their own vegetables and beans, and used beans to make sauce when they had salt. The temple was destroyed by fire decades ago, but only a small part of it was rebuilt because it was so difficult to carry out construction in that place, and it was impossible to go up and down the mountain when the weather was bad.

When Zhuang Mengzhou came to the foot of Baijian Mountain, he saw a very interesting temple, and an old monk lived in the temple. When it comes to temples, everyone may think of various classical temple-style buildings, but in fact this is not the case, and the place where the Three Treasures are enshrined can be called Buddhist temples, not in the architectural form.

The temple is two very dilapidated simple red brick houses, the roofs are covered with linoleum, one for the Bodhisattva and the other for the monk. Zhuang Mengzhou came to visit Longtan, so he gave the old monk some incense money and chatted with him for a few words, only to know that there is another iron tile temple on the top of Baijian Mountain, and another old monk lives on the mountain.

From the foot of the mountain to Longtan Waterfall, there are messy and broken old stone steps are feasible, from Longtan Waterfall to the halfway up the mountain, there are still rugged wild paths, but there is no road from the halfway up the mountainside!

The old monk at the foot of the mountain told Zhuang Mengzhou that the iron tile temple on the top of the mountain is a place of cultivation since ancient times, but there have not been many monks, and almost all of them have run away this year, either returning to the vulgar or going to other temples, because the life on the mountain is not something that ordinary people can bear, and even the monks can't stand it. The old monk at the foot of the mountain had been up many times, but he did not live on the mountain permanently, but stayed in the broken temple at the foot of the mountain, which felt quite good.

There are pilgrims who go up the mountain to incense near the New Year's Festival, and many of these pilgrims are family members who have been worshiping the iron tile temple for generations, and each time they enter the incense, they carry some rice, flour, oil and salt. If there are no pilgrims to go up the mountain or there are not enough things on the mountain, then the monks themselves have to come down the mountain and carry it.

Why there is still this broken temple at the foot of the mountain, it is because the monks can't go back that day after coming down the mountain, and they have to have a place to rest. The official name of the two dilapidated houses at the foot of the mountain should be the outer courtyard of the Iron Tile Temple, or the Zhike Courtyard and the Convenient Courtyard.

Zhuang Mengzhou asked again, is there only one old monk left on the mountain now? The old monk at the bottom of the mountain said again that another little monk went up the mountain last month, and it seems that it is okay, but he has not come down the mountain for almost a month. This little monk came on a motorcycle, and the motorcycle has been left at the bottom of the mountain.

Speaking of this, Shi Buquan smiled and said: "Mr. Zhuang's story is interesting! If Baijian Mountain is compared to Xiangshui Peak, we are pilgrims going up the mountain today, carrying rice, flour, oil and salt on our backs. If Xiangshui Peak needs anything for daily use, you can ask those visitors to bring it in the future, and it will save a lot of trouble over time. Master Cui Feng told them what to prepare each time...... Next time, I'll bring an extra set of kitchen supplies. ”

Zhuang Mengzhou said seriously: "I'm not making up stories, I'm telling real people and real things." ”