I heard that this prince usually lives a very luxurious life, and his daily food and drink are extremely exquisite, which is bigger than the emperor's pomp.

To maintain such a huge expenditure in the palace, it is strange that this Duan Wang Ye did not expropriate and extort violently, nor did he cause a civil uprising. But I don't know where his huge money came from?

You must know that last time those golden silk nanmu were millions of taels, and the cost of repairing his mausoleum must have been a huge amount of money.

Zhang Mingchang was also curious, and asked the people next to him, "This brother, where is the prince going?"

The man gave him a blank look, "Where do we know where to go, why don't you go and ask?"

Zhang Mingchang frowned, this is really as the restaurant owner said, the people here are not too friendly to the Han people.

But looking at how this person speaks and dresses, he shouldn't be like an orthodox Bai person, he should have been born of intermarriage, but he doesn't know why he is so unkind to the Han people?

He was stunned, the sedan chair had already walked past in front of him, and the noise was everywhere in the distance, and it took a long time to go far.

Since there was nothing to do, they did not dare to stay any longer, so they went back to the inn to rest.

After a few days, it seemed that the appointed time had arrived.

In the past few days, Zhang Mingchang has been inquiring about the news of Yulongshan and learned that the new army has changed guards, that is, the army of Yulongshan is under the control of Lu Weixin.

They were overjoyed and took their luggage early in the morning to find the restaurant owner.

The owner of this house is also hospitable, and asked the proprietress to prepare a lot of dry food for them early in the morning, as well as anti-insect herbs, and told his wife to show them the way.

This wife's surname is Zeng, everyone calls him the third child, and he looks honest and very obedient, he leads them to the entrance of the cave under the Jade Dragon Mountain, where there is a small bamboo forest, you can cut down a few big bamboos and tie a bamboo row.

The main tree species in the forest here are mostly hairy leaf slopes, followed by fragrant fruit trees and large rhododendrons, and there are also a small number of silver-leaved cinnamons, only a pit lower than the flat land grows a large emerald bamboo, and the waterway into Yulong Mountain is not far from here.

As soon as he entered the forest, Zeng Laosan said: "The clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker, I'm afraid it's going to change, let's hurry up and tie up the row, and strive to rush forward to the mountain before it rains." ”

At the moment, they didn't have to wait any longer, he and Zhang Mingchang carried machetes, and each went to find fat bamboo to cut down, while Guo Wenying was responsible for cutting off the branches of the bamboo with a knife.

The conditions here are poor, there are no wide roads, and the bamboo is cut down and put into the river one by one. In some places in Fujian where the waterways are vertical and horizontal and the traffic is inconvenient, there are also discharges, so these jobs are not new to them.

Especially Guo Wenying, she already did good carpentry work, and she got started after a while.

If the bamboo rafts need to be used for many years, it will be quite troublesome to make, and the bamboo needs to be scalded with hot oil before it can be used as a raw material, and there are some other additional processes, and they only need to be used once or twice temporarily, so those unnecessary troubles are completely eliminated.

Zeng Laosan went to the cave to explore the depth and flow of the waterway, and estimated that only six large bamboos with the thickness of human legs were needed to carry a few of them plus luggage.

After all this busyness, I finally tied up a small bamboo raft, dragged it into the cave with a rope, and entered it with my front feet, and thunder rumbled and showers fell outside my back feet.

This is a limestone cave, as soon as you enter the cave and walk down obliquely for more than a dozen steps, you can see that there is a river at your feet, but it is more suitable to say that it is a deep stream than a river, it is nearly a meter lower than the ground, the water depth is about more than three meters, the water flow is very slow, it may be a tributary of the Lancang River, the first half is hidden underground, until the terrain in the cave is low.

The cave is very wide, they picked up the air dead wind lamp, and shone into the depths of the dark cave, the height difference inside is very large, the wide place can open a tank, the low place is only more than a meter high, there are many lava rocks formed for more than a thousand years, all of which are strange.

This is only the entrance to the cave, and the environment inside will be more complicated, and it seems that if you want to put a row through the cave, you need to lie on your stomach to pass through some sections. Except for the sound of the murmuring water, the whole cave is unusually quiet, and the sound of rain and thunder outside is not heard here at all, like a completely isolated underground world.

They pushed the bamboo raft into the water, and Zeng Laosan immediately jumped on it, inserted a bamboo pole into the water from the front of the bamboo raft, and fixed the bamboo raft to prevent it from being swept away by the current.

Guo Wenying then also jumped up, seeing that she was about to come up, Zeng Laosan took a few steps forward, and at the same time retreated to the end of the bamboo row to maintain his balance.

Guo Wenying put Feng Yu'er on the bamboo raft first, and then came up herself.

They had already thrown their luggage one by one, and Zhang Mingchang himself jumped into the middle. As soon as he came up, the entire bamboo raft sank down, Guo Wenying hurriedly pulled Feng Yu'er to his side, and then dragged some luggage to the end of the bamboo raft where she was, so that it was temporarily balanced.

Since there are a lot of upside-down stalactites and stalagmites in the cave, in order to avoid breaking their heads, they have some hardwood blocks wrapped in their hats on their heads to prevent them from hurting their heads when they bump into them.

Zeng Laosan turned on the air death lamp, saw the terrain in front of him, stretched out his hand and pulled out the bamboo pole inserted in the water, and under the impetus of the slow current, the bamboo row moved forward and slowly drove into the depths of Yulong Mountain.

When they encounter a narrow place, they set up a horizontal pole and use the bamboo pole to support the bottom of the water to balance the bamboo raft. A small bamboo row zigzags drift in the hole, but unfortunately it is pitch black all around, and if you don't turn on the searchlight, you can't see anything, otherwise you can really roar two mountain songs.

Unlike the hot and humid weather outside the mountain, the deeper you go down the mountain, the more you feel the cool breeze hitting people, and from time to time you will see a group of phosphorus fires flickering in the distance, which indicates that there are animal corpses, and it seems that this is not a lifeless world.

Sitting on the bamboo raft, you can still feel some water snakes and small fish swimming, Guo Wenying put her hand into the water to try, the water here is even a little biting, in Yunnan in all seasons like spring, such a low water temperature is really rare, maybe the top of this Jade Dragon Mountain has snow water flowing down directly.

Zeng Laosan said with a smile: "Let me tell you, this is not the reason for the snow and ice, because the temperature difference between the cave and the outside is relatively large, and the human body will have an illusion, and after adapting, it will not feel so cold." In addition, there are no traces of artificial construction and excavation in the caves, and they seem to have been completely natural. ”

Guo Wenying listened to what he said, and couldn't help but look at him a few more times, who can have this insight, but he doesn't look like a mountain villager, and I don't know where he heard it.