Chapter 81: Mother-in-law's Clue (1)

You and I glanced at each other, consciously made a way out of the way, and let Liu Qingyan into the house. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"I know that there are still people who have 'been' Xishan." Without waiting for us to ask, Liu Qingyan took the first step and said.

"Anyone else?" I was taken aback by Yuyu. We all understand what Liu Qingyan means by "been", which is by no means "been" like ordinary tourists in mountaineering tourism.

"Yes. This person is my former mother-in-law. Liu Qingyan said in a deep voice.

"Mother-in-law?" Isn't that Hu Dongyang's mother? Yuyou and I suppressed the surprise in our hearts and waited for the following.

"Yes, although Dongyang and I are divorced, she has always treated me very well, so now we have occasional contact. Moreover, she knew that I had come to Xishan to look for Dongyang again. Last night, she called me and said something very important...... "Liu Qingyan's face was gloomy, it seemed that what he was going to explain was a very heavy thing, in fact, it was true, after listening to her statement, Youyou and I both fell into a kind of fear and suppressed emotion, and even began to doubt and waver about the rest of the trip.

For the time being, let me recount this from God's point of view.

More than 30 years ago, in 1985, a 12-member mountaineering team gathered from all over China and came to the ancient city of Yongzhou to meet him.

Their team leader is Hu Jianye, a middle-aged man in his early thirties, who initiated the investigation activity of "exploring the true address of 'Xishan' in Liu Zongyuan's "Travels to the Xishan Banquet".

In the early eighties of the twentieth century, local people in Yongzhou researched the location of the West Mountain, and some believed that the West Mountain where Liu Zongyuan feasted was today's Liangziling, and some believed that it was the Pearl Ridge behind the ancestral temple on the north bank of Yuxi. In 1983, the county-level Yongzhou City Gazetteer of Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, identified Xishan as Liangzi Mountain, which aroused the doubts of many ancient literature study enthusiasts.

And Hu's team of twelve people, except for a couple of Yu couples who are nearly 50 years old, the rest are young people in their early 20s, and the only young girl among them, named Liu Shulan, is the younger sister of the team leader Hu Jianye, who followed her husband Hu Jiancheng.

After the field investigation and experience of Liangzi Mountain in the south of Yuxi, Hu Jianye basically denied the judgment that "Liangzi Mountain is the West Mountain", believing that this mountain is low and soily, and the trees are luxuriant, which is far from the description of "the height of the poor mountain stops" and "the land of the few states is under the seat" and "the green and white, the outside is the sky, and the four views are like one", so he led everyone to the Pearl Ridge north of the Liuzi Temple.

At that time, they were full of fighting spirit and confidence, arguing about how to organize their findings in a reasonable, detailed and wonderful way after returning to China Youth Daily, but they did not know that what awaited them behind them would be the most unavoidable nightmare of their lives.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the team was trudging on the thatched mountainside of Pearl Ridge. From the broad-leaved forest at the bottom of the mountain along the ridge, the vegetation gradually becomes scarce, and the trees gradually change to shrubs and grasses, and the rocks are already bare when you look at the top of the mountain. Hu Jianye excitedly told everyone that this is in line with Liu's description of mountaineering first "cutting hazelnuts" and then "burning thatch".

By this time, the sky was getting dark, and thick dark clouds were already rolling and gathering from the horizon. Some of the other teams on the mountain saw that the sky was not good, and there was no shelter from the rain on the top of the mountain, so they gave up going down the mountain. However, Hu's team was unmoved by the vision in the sky, because they were too obsessed with it, and they were too eager for quick success, and the mountain of more than 100 meters was not unattainable for them, and even if there was no ready-made path, they were sure to climb to the top and return before the heavy rain came. For them, the sooner they get the full results of their investigation, the sooner they can return, the sooner they can publish their findings in the press, and "shock the world". What's more, they are not the only team here, which makes it even more necessary to race against time and not fall behind.

At Hu's order, the young people worked harder towards the mountain, but they didn't notice that there was a middle-aged and elderly couple in their team who knew the destiny of heaven. The Yu couple soon fell behind, but they kindly couldn't bear to be a burden to the team, so they endured it silently and followed desperately, without raising any objections.

It wasn't until Captain Hu found that the Yu couple were missing when he stopped for a while, and he regretted that as the team leader, he forgot to take care of all the team members. So he arranged for himself and his younger brother to go down the mountain to find someone, and the rest of the team continued to move forward.

Fortunately, they had the habit of marking the mountains along the road, and the two brothers returned the same way smoothly and found the Yu couple. However, this time and again delayed the time, the mountain was already windy, flying leaves and rocks, and heavy rain was pouring at any time. Hu Jianye, who lacked real experience in surviving in the wild, realized at this time that he had miscalculated, and they simply did not have enough time to descend the mountain.

In an instant, heavy rain poured down, and the four of them panicked for a while. With such heavy rain, the mountain road is slippery, and the descent is more difficult than the uphill, maybe the young people are fine, but the pair of middle-aged and elderly people ...... Hu Jianye regretted that he had included them in his team because the Yu couple were willing to fund the event. But it was too late to regret it, Hu Jianye could only stubbornly propose to continue to go up the mountain to meet with other team members and make plans again.

Maybe God wanted to help, but halfway through, I actually heard my teammates calling loudly, and it turned out that they had found a natural cave where they could shelter from the rain. When the rain passes, they can still reach the summit earlier than the other teams and bring back valuable argument results sooner.

Probably this is the "ghost mind" caused by "quick success", none of them thought that maybe yesterday, the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, a week ago, a team had already reached the top and written a report, they only saw today, they just wanted to defeat today's team that climbed the mountain together and get the fruits of victory. In this way, a series of accidents related to the "ghost mind" encountered later probably had such antecedents.

This natural cave is very peculiar, the entrance of the cave is not large, and only one person can pass through it at a time. But once inside, I found that the cave suddenly opened up, and it was a gourd-like structure with ten people standing side by side. And the cave seems to be very deep, and it is pitch black inside, and the light does not shine to the end.

At this time, a young man took out a flashlight and brought light. At this time, everyone was surprised to realize that there was really a cave in this cave, and the surrounding walls were like knives and axes, and there were a large number of huge murals painted.

Everyone was amazed and overjoyed, and in this way, they had a discovery that "shocked the world" more than other teams, even if their reports were later than others, they were definitely more valuable and shocking than other teams' reports. Thinking like this, everyone hugged each other and almost cried with joy.

Look at the murals one by one. The lines are delicate and expressive, and the paintings are lifelike about marches, battles, sacrifices, ceremonial guard travels, and even market sales, palace music performances, etc.

It's a pity that there are no people in the team who are proficient in ancient calligraphy and painting, so everyone can't tell what age this painting is, but fortunately, the Yu couple brought the Pearl River S-201 camera and could temporarily put these exquisite murals into the camera.

Everyone followed the mural all the way to the inside of the cave, and before they knew it, they walked very deep until they encountered the entrance of the cave again!

Can't imagine that this cave is actually connected?

After another burst of surprise, everyone came out of the cave, but they were surprised to find that the cave was actually connected to the wall of a temple, and they were coming out from behind a statue of Liu Zongyuan...... (To be continued.) )