The Bai family has a lot of eyes on Bai Chuncheng, who is a whole round older than the old man, and is 38 years old, a native of Nanyang, Henan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info When Bai Yushan went to visit a friend, unfortunately there was a famine, and the matter of finding friends ended hastily, and on the way back, he saw a child guarding the corpse of his parents crying, so he moved his heart of compassion and received it to his side, when Bai Chuncheng was 8 years old. Since then, this fate has been given to the benefactor Bai Yushan, and only his horse is the first to look forward.

The two of them didn't have a point on the road, they both ate this bowl of rice, and naturally there were a lot of topics.

It turned out that the ancestor of the Bai family had been a treasure connoisseur of the palace in the Jiaqing Dynasty and had been specializing in jade. Later, he had a close personal relationship with the third son of Jiaqing, Prince Dun, and began to do a large-scale gold and stone antique business. However, there were unforeseen circumstances, and the ancestors of the Bai family participated in the struggle for the reserve, and as a result, the family was almost ruined, and they had to move out of Beijing and go all the way to the northeast. Although it has long since lost the power of the past, it has always been a wharf in the northeast.

And Bai Yushan is the fifth generation, he has been the most favored since he was a child, and the most valuable thing is to be low-key, and he does not participate in grievances and hatreds on the road, and does business and conducts his own research, so the Bai family is under his helm, but it is also stable.

The two hurried all the way, and arrived near Lushan before Hai Shi, Bai Chuncheng proposed to rest for a while, and then go directly into the mountain.

The old man immediately agreed, but told Bai Chuncheng all the weirdness of the Bay of the Dead, and then made three chapters:

First, it is not known why there are so many deaths, so it is not to act rashly, and any action must be carried out by two people at the same time.

Second, if the situation changes, do not force it, and retreat immediately.

Third, if any person has an accident, the other party must return their bodies home.

Bai Chuncheng gave the old man a thumbs up and praised: "Lu Ye is noble! ”

The two of them ate and drank in the woods on the side of the road, stared and rested, and after the time passed, after counting the guys' affairs, they went straight to the White Emperor Temple.

To get to the Bay of the Dead, you must first go to the White Emperor Temple, from there go down into the Bay of the Immortals, and then go up the river all the way to a bend where the entrance is.

When the old man passed by the White Emperor Temple, he was still thinking about the sigh he heard inexplicably that day, and he always felt uncomfortable in his heart, as if he had a pair of eyes always staring at him.

The road into Xianrenwan and the road back to the village that day diverged in the middle, until it went down into the valley, the old man sighed that nature was magical, the whole terrain and the side of the White Emperor Peak dropped dozens of meters, figuratively speaking, it was like a mountain, the side was connected to the earth, and the other side was deep underground, this sense of asymmetry was really like the legend, the Bodhisattva rose up the mountains and trapped the evil dragon here.

It was already dark at this time, but the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and things in the valley were faintly visible, with the occasional birdsong or two, reflecting the roar of the rushing river. Now in the flood season, the width of the river is about ten meters, but the depth of the water is only to the calf, because the old man remembered that Wangyun Song was on the other side of the river, so the two waded across the river and continued to move forward. Along the way, Bai Chuncheng was in high spirits, but the old man was always vigilantly observing his surroundings.

The two did not light the torches, firstly for fear that they might attract the attention of the mountain people, and secondly, because the experience of the chief had led him to deduce that there must be a pack of wild beasts and foxes here, so he did not light the torches so as not to disturb them.

In this way, in the moonlight, the two of them could see through until there was an obvious bend in front of them, and the entrance to the Bay of the Dead had arrived.

After all, Bai Chuncheng is also an old Jianghu, and that sensitivity is also counted, so he immediately stood and swept around, and the atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

"As Lu Ye said, the airflow here is indeed completely different from that of Xianren Bay, as soon as I arrived here, I immediately felt a chill, and I won't tell you, my hairs are standing on end now."

"Bai Ye feels the same way as me, maybe I eat this bowl of rice more directly than you, the aura of this place does have a feeling of sourness."

The old man was holding a shovel, and Bai Chuncheng was simply holding a dagger, and the two of them turned into the river one after the other.

This time they entered, both of them gasped, originally looking up at the moon and stars, and the vision was transparent, but now there was a mist rising, and as far as the eye could see, the front was even more foggy.

The two raised their vigilance and walked into the fog, and the old man took out the compass to identify the direction, but the compass did not work at all, and the pointer swayed from side to side, and there was obviously magnet interference here. Although the orientation and topography have been memorized in the old man's mind, now he can't see it clearly, what can he do.

At this time, Bai Chuncheng motioned for the old man to protect him, only to see him withdraw to the entrance, starting from the bottom of the mountain, walking to the river, then walking a few steps along the river, and walking back down the mountain, just like that, all the way in a zigzag back and forth, the whole person seemed to enter the ethereal, repeating like a machine.

In less than an hour, Bai Chuncheng finally spoke, and the old man was also relieved, in this hour, it felt like accompanying a dead person, he didn't know where he was in the dark, and the one next to him was walking around like a zombie, this atmosphere was really weird.

Bai Chuncheng asked the old man whether to light the torch, he must have light to continue to work, the old man had to be good, but this torch a little, the sense of security did not increase, the two of them were indeed transparent in front of their eyes, but the difference between light and shadow was greater, and the fog floated around like a ghost.

Bai Chuncheng took out a pen and paper, chattered in his mouth, and after a while, a topographic map was drawn, and he showed it to the old man to identify and determine the approximate location of the Wangyun pine.

The old man was really surprised, it turned out that he was drawing a map, this walking around is to determine the distance between the river and the mountain, and then outline the direction of the river and the shape of the mountain through the distance change, this extraordinary memory and spatial thinking, this person is definitely a genius.

Bai Chuncheng didn't care about the old man's admiration at all, feeling that this seemed to be a very normal thing, he pointed to the map, saying that now he only drew this side of the river, and hoped that the old man would determine the general area, and if necessary, he could continue to draw the terrain on the opposite side.

The old man carefully compared the map with the picture in his memory, yes, there are actually three mountains here, two are on the side of the river where he is located, and the other is on the opposite bank, and he looked at it from the angle of Wangyang Peak, there was an obvious bend in the big river between the two peaks, and the Wangyun pine was in front of that bend.

The old man pointed to the position with his finger, Bai Chuncheng gestured on it with his finger for a while, stood up and walked back with the old man, this time he didn't go back and forth at all, but along the big river, his mouth kept counting the steps.

"Arrived, it's roughly in this area, if it's correct, it should be in the area above us, but now there's a thick fog that can't be seen clearly, and I'm going to use the fire dragon to rush."

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly stopped it, this fire dragon chong is a kind of signal flare, after improvement, adding metal chips, a variety of colors can appear, and the explosion range is much larger, but once it explodes in the air at night, it can be seen in ten miles and eight villages, which is equivalent to telling everyone that there are people in the Bay of the Dead who are lying alive, and now the direction of raising their heads is unknown, if they blow up into the mountain and cause a mountain fire, this is a sin.

The old man simply proposed to give up tonight, since no one came to Dead Man's Bay during the day, it was better to leave now, and then come in to explore the treasure after receding from the fog around noon the next day.

But he didn't want Bai Chuncheng to refuse, he said that he had always told him that he had to do it when he entered the valley, and he couldn't do it during the day, in case he was caught, the Bai family couldn't afford to lose face.

The old man tried hard to persuade him, but Bai Chuncheng just didn't allow it, forcing the old man to be ruthless, and planned to knock him out, but he saw Bai Chuncheng stand up instantly, and shot out with the fire dragon rushing upward, the old man had to look along, indeed, this fire dragon rushed directly on the mountain, and suddenly the light was everywhere, and the clouds and mist were also washed away for a while, and both of them saw the Wangyun pine.

But where can the old man take care of the Wangyun pine, and pray not to cause a mountain fire, it can be said that fortunately, after a burst of explosions, there is no obvious continuous fire.

However, the mountains immediately became agitated, and in the mountains and forests on both sides of the fog, there was a lot of noise about the scattered beasts, and the old man had to call Bai Chuncheng to take precautions first, lest he rush out of any jackals, tigers and leopards and the like to bite the two to death.

After a commotion, there were no beasts rushing out, and the mountain fire was not caused, the old man really sweated, and immediately killed Bai Chuncheng's thoughts, cooperating with such a person, completely ignoring the actual situation, this one made a fuss, and he didn't think about the consequences at all, it seems that he has to guard against it, maybe Bai Yushan is kind on the surface, and secretly confesses that he will kill himself after exploring the treasure!

Bai Chuncheng may also feel really embarrassed, apologize to the old man, and head in the direction of Wangyun Song.

When he came to the place, he lit two more torches and planted them in the distance as a warning. After doing so, he took out the Luoyang shovel and handed it to the old man to explore the soil, and he was responsible for looking at the wind.

At that time, the Luoyang shovel had only been invented for three years, but it had been sealed as an artifact by tomb robbers, and it could be said to be a revolutionary progress compared to the previous brazing cone. The key to the entire Luoyang shovel is the hollow rotary shovel at the very front, which can drill vertically into the ground and then take out the soil completely, just like the core of oil exploration is now.

Then it is necessary to determine whether there are traces of artificial transformation in the ground by analyzing the condition of the soil, that is, to distinguish between dead soil and living soil, dead soil is also called old soil, which is deposited by nature itself, and the general stratification is clear and uniform in texture, but the living soil is formed after artificial excavation and backfilling, and the layering and texture are obviously mixed, so it is also called five-flower soil.

I saw the old man connect a few connecting rods and then install the shovel head, the whole length is more than two meters, and then walk far away to the area outside the torch, feet apart, waist and ridge straight, hold both hands in front of the chest, determine the vertical, both hands force down, and then quickly lift vertically, to the torch to begin to analyze the soil layer.

Reflecting the firelight, the old man first carefully identified the soil stratification and color, only to see that although the soil layer was thin and thick, there were no traces of pottery, bones, and stone bricks, which was sure to be the original form of the land, and it was very tight when pressed by hand.

Then he walked back to Wangyun Pinason, still shoveling, this time pulling up, the soil level was obviously different from before, but it was not the colorful kind of tomb soil, but it can be concluded that the soil here has been turned over.

Then, the old man took this point as the center, increased the length, and then probed down one meter at a time, and each time the soil was lifted, it could be judged that the place had been excavated and backfilled, disturbing the original level, but it did not touch the masonry and utensils.

Bai Chuncheng also saw the clue next to him, he knew that this time it was not a tomb robbery, naturally there were no complicated things like tomb soil, but this was five meters, and dozens of holes were drilled, and the range was expanded to about ten meters under Wangyun Songxia, but the soil layer proved that it was only excavated and backfilled here, and it still did not touch the masonry utensils. If you bury the treasure yourself, at least you have to make a secret room or something, is it difficult to dig a pit and fill it directly? That's unprofessional, isn't it?

So, he discussed with the old man, suspecting that it was not on the flat ground, it might be on the mountainside under the Wangyun pine, so they climbed up the mountainside, searched carefully with torches, and finally, simply used the Luoyang shovel to continue to explore the soil on the mountain, but the disappointing thing is that this mountain has only been turned over, but there is still no other breakthrough, the old man guessed, such a large area of digging and backfilling, must be done by people like Li Chengliang, they probably also determined that the location of the moon is a treasure.

The two of them sat on the ground in a daze, the old man felt that Bai Chuncheng's space was strangely good, so he simply gave him the landscape map and the poem as it was, Bai Chuncheng was very surprised, which meant that the old man trusted him very much, only to see that he first analyzed the text clues, and paid special attention to secret words such as Tibetan poems, but was disappointed to find that it was not at all, so he had to compare and analyze the actual terrain drawn on the map more carefully.

He began to construct a three-dimensional space in his mind, if the topographic map he drew was not wrong, then the mountains on the map should be different from the actual distance, with the Wangyun Pine Mountain as the center, and the other two mountains as one near and one far away.

And today's fifteenth moon is full, according to the "Tianxuan Wuzhi", the fifteenth moon midnight is due south, which is the same as when Fang Cai entered the valley, and the location of Wangyang Peak has been determined by the old man in the north, so comprehensive calculation, the slope of Wangyun Pine here is also due north, and this place is in the direction from west to east.

If the moon moves in this trajectory, then it is a cross-cutting of a large river, is it possible to be on the other side of the river?

After listening to the analysis, the old man always felt that something was wrong, if it was on the other side of the river, then it would be enough to simply draw the moon on the other side, so much more, is it sincere?

The old man put forward his own idea, he believed that the moon on the landscape map is not in the water, and this is the key.

If the direction is determined, this is the trajectory of the moon's movement, but it has been foggy here at night, so it is impossible to stand on Wangyang Peak in the middle of the night and see the moon reflected in the river, and naturally it is even more impossible to see it reflected in the land under the Wangyun pine.

Moreover, it is now certain that there is no such thing as a treasure chamber in and around Wangyun Matsushita, but the moon and the river are clearly separated, which seems a bit nondescript, and if the river is enlarged to enclose the moon, this will only feel normal visually. So, on the other hand, if the river shrinks and the moon is not with it, does this mean a period of high water and a period of dry water?

Maybe the moon is still a clue to observe, rather than a specific location, then, if the painting represents the river shrinking and the moon leaving the river, then it is the season of high water, and the clue for this observation should be in the river.

But Bai Chuncheng immediately denied the old man, he felt that this inference was more than his own, if so, the whole poem and landscape painting did not provide other clues, if there is one more observation point, how to observe, not to mention this fog, just one more point, where to observe in all directions? The old man was also speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer.

"In this situation, I may have to go home empty-handed, but I think that since this possibility exists, I should give it a try. Lu Ye, although I didn't eat your bowl of rice, but I also knew that treasure maps or secret words and the like would deliberately blur a few clues, and even lead the treasure thieves in the wrong direction, now that the trajectory of the moon and the river are determined, then, why can't it be on the other side? ”

"It's like the principle of a mirror, you see it's on this side, it's actually on the other side! Lu Ye, what do you think? ”

The old man couldn't think of anything for a while, so he nodded, and the two of them packed up their things, raised their torches, and walked to the other side of the river.