The pool of clear water in front of me has begun to be turbulent under the blowing of the breeze, it is hard to imagine how such a bottomless lake bottom can appear at the bottom of a ghost hole for no reason, it is really incredible to think about it! I and the three "water ghosts" by the lake are ready to go, just wait to go down to the lake, find out, and get rid of these three demons in one fell swoop.

With my encouragement, the three young men were already eager to try their hand and gesture around me from time to time, and they all wanted to prove their diving skills, which aroused the high morale of everyone present.

At my command, Qi Muge was the first to jump into the lake, and I followed closely behind, followed by the other two young men, and the four of us dived into the green water like four water snakes.

Its wooden lattice is really watery, and it has distanced itself from me in the blink of an eye.

After diving like this for a long time, I used the turtle breath ** to hold my breath and follow its wooden lattice tightly, and suddenly its wooden lattice swam excitedly in one direction, and I and the other two also followed closely, and its wooden lattice swam laboriously to a sleeping cave, and then quickly surfaced and gasped for breath.

The moment we were brought out of the water, I looked around, and realized that this hole was not a natural formation at all, and it seemed that it should have been dug artificially, but I don't know who actually dug this hole under the lake for no reason? Is there any special significance to this?

Now that I have found the location of the cave, I will ask you to return to the wooden grid and bring everyone down, because I see that there are many small holes in this cave, and it will be difficult for the three of us to search for them, so it is best to find more people. The next chapter has been updated

After hearing this, he took a few deep breaths of air, then jumped into the water and swam out of the cave, heading towards the lake.

Two young men and I swam from the surface of the cave to the stone steps at the edge of the cave, carefully observing everything around us.

It turns out that this cave is only a part of the ground, and there are many similar caves around and in it. What's the point of digging these caves? I couldn't figure it out for a while!

"Come and see, how can there be paintings here?" A young man exclaimed.

I heard the sound and ran straight away, and sure enough, there were some faint patterns on the wall, but it was soaked in the lake for a long time and gave birth to a very heavy green sponge, and I couldn't see it very clearly. I took out the dagger and scraped it vigorously a few times, and a picture was presented to us, this picture of the busy scene of the autumn harvest, the high piles of grain and the smiling farmers on their faces, making this picture vivid, and the art of painting and carving alone is also a masterpiece of ingenuity.

I groped the wall and looked down step by step, these murals have scenes of sacrifice, there are scenes of worship, and more are the pictures of the gods driving cranes and the birthday star carrying the boy, so some Han-style pictures appear here, I am a little inexplicable, this should not belong to the grassland people's things, to like the etiquette and etiquette of the Han people in the Central Plains, looking at the meaning and connotation of the picture, I probably guessed what this place is.

This should be the place of "heavenly burial" of the grassland people!

The so-called burial place is to dig many caves in the cliff wall of the high mountain cliff, and after death, people fall into it with ropes, and ordinary people cannot enter at all. Thinking of this, I am even more puzzled, the heavenly burial that appears under the deep water, the depiction of Han culture on the cave wall, and the magic of this cave deep at the bottom of the lake but not submerged by the lake, all kinds of signs come out of any kind of past, but these kinds of gathered in one place, that is the incredible place.

I was about to continue looking inside, when suddenly a strong yin wind came at me from behind, I didn't have time to turn back, my feet stepped on the wall, a beautiful carp beat and dodged the attack of this yin wind, and when I stood still, it was the pus-covered Batu zombie who attacked me.

The two young men beside me were so frightened by this half-human, half-ghost monster that they collapsed to the ground, their faces pale.

I couldn't care about them anymore, and instantly cast a single dragon to explore the sea and attack this Batu, and the dragon scales in my hand changed into a move to destroy the door, and instantly drew a deep cut on Batu's body, and the skeleton on Batu's chest had been cut off by me, revealing the shaky white bones.

Batu was attacked by me in one move, obviously he didn't feel pain, just looked at the wound strangely, but I didn't expect him to be angry all of a sudden, jumped to my side like lightning, and stuck me with two skeletal hands.

Just as I was about to attack, Batu jumped into the water and quickly swam deeper into the cave.

I withdrew my strength and hurried over to see what the two young men were like.

These two people are glazed in their eyes at the moment, they look like they are really startled by monsters, I shouldn't have taken them down just now, I didn't help much, and scared people like this, I don't know how long it will take to get back to normal?

At this time, Qi Muge and the beggar and Uncle Balhu have already entered the cave, and they were shocked to see these two young men with dead faces, I told you about the zombie sneak attack on me just now, everyone was relieved, this time, everyone has gathered together, and they will definitely pay for the blood debt of the three beasts!

"Shaoxia, what should we do now?" Uncle Balhu said.

"For now, we can only go into the cave to search, that monster was injured just now, it must be hiding somewhere and won't come out easily! But the biggest problem now is that among our group, maybe only me and the beggar can deal with that monster, and the others will only have to die when they encounter it, what should we do? I said with a sigh.

"Shaoxia, look at this, you told me yesterday that the way to deal with these monsters is to attack with fire, I thought about it, and finally rummaged through the cabinets, and found that the fireballs left by the official army more than ten years ago to defend us against foreign enemies are a lot left! Today I specially asked everyone to bring some, as long as you see a monster thrown on it, it will definitely burn that monster half to death, and the same is true in the water! Uncle Balhu took a black object from his bosom and handed it to me.

I was overjoyed, I didn't expect that there were such powerful firearms on this desolate grassland, these things were killer weapons that only the Praetorian Guards could use, and ordinary people couldn't get them.

Uncle Balhu saw that I was a little unconvinced, and hurriedly said: "Shaoxia doesn't know, we are just on the border here, very close to Tsarist Russia, those old Maozi people often rely on advanced firearms to break into our grassland to burn and loot, the court was furious after hearing the news, and sent Heilongjiang General to expel these robbers, but these old Maozi are very smart, the official army hid back as soon as they came, and the official army came out to make waves, and the court could not always be stationed here with us, so Heilongjiang General said let us solve the foreign invasion by ourselves, To defend the country, they gave us plenty of weapons, including this fireball! ”

When I heard this, it dawned on me that a large part of the troublemakers in the northeastern region were indeed Tsarist Russians, and that it was still very useful to use these things against their powerful firearms.

Now that you have this, you can rest assured that you can search boldly, as long as you run into a dozen or so of them, you will be crushed to pieces by those three beasts!

So, for the sake of safety, I divided the group into three teams, led by me, the beggar, and Uncle Balhu, and searched cave by cave, calling people as soon as I found them.

Once they all understood their mission, they searched the cave in a big way, and I wanted to see where the three zombies could hide.

I searched straight ahead with four or five men, and Balhu and the beggar searched the rest to the left and right, so that we could force our way into the cavern inside.

At this time, I and a few people came to a very large cave, and suddenly a clever guy shouted: "Where, where, I looked in the direction, and sure enough, I saw that the three monsters were firmly attached to the top of the cave wall at this time, watching our movements motionlessly."

One of the men immediately called out two groups of beggars and Uncle Balhu, and a group of thirty or forty of us barricaded the three monsters in this huge cavern.

The torches in everyone's hands illuminated the cave, and the youkai who thought it was safe to hide in the shadows would walk around the walls of the cave in a hurry, but seeing that there were so many of us, the three of them did not dare to attack us rashly.

I made a look at the beggar, the beggar understood, and Sou jumped into the air at once, and threw two fireballs at the three monsters, and the monsters were very frightened when they saw the firelight, and hurriedly jumped away, and then the female monster had been ignited by the fireballs, and the smell of burning was unpleasant in an instant.

The remaining two youkai, one large and one small, hurriedly ran over to extinguish the fire on the female youkai.

Seeing that this thing is very effective, everyone was a little frightened just now, and they will all be eager to try and burn these beasts that once plagued their relatives!

When the Batu monster saw that the female monster was burned, he was furious, and instantly pounced on the beggar, and the beggar easily dodged the attack with light skills, and when Batu saw me, he turned around and attacked me, and I went out and took out the dragon scale brush twice to cut off Batu's two arms and fall into the water.

At this time, the beggar, who had already jumped on the wall, performed the gecko swimming wall, came to the female monster, the female monster was burned by the fire, and the beggar's mouth opened wide in surprise! Seeing this, the beggar threw a stream of fireball into the banshee's mouth with a "whoosh", and instantly the banshee's whole body burned by the stream of fireballs burst out of flames, and instantly turned into a pair of white bones and collapsed to the ground, the little monster saw this and pounced, the beggar easily dodged, and came back with a rifle to knock the little monster into the water.

When everyone saw the little monster fall into the water, they stepped forward to restrain the little monster with a knife and fork, and then threw two flowing fireballs over, and the little monster was instantly burned and his bones were gone.

Seeing this, Batu was already furious, and hit me straight with his bare body, I was already ready, and used a trick to push the boat, kicking Batu to the wall heavily, and then slid down, everyone angrily threw more than a dozen fireballs over, Batu instantly ignited a raging fire, and there were no bones left in an instant.

In order to avoid future troubles, I asked everyone to collect the bones of these three people together, and then set a raging fire to burn them to the ground, so that they would never have any possibility of resurrection!

So far, the three monsters have finally been executed by the villagers I led by me, which not only gets rid of the monsters, but also eliminates the people's fears, killing two birds with one stone, and the villagers can be said to have jumped up and down for celebration.

After a few moments, Uncle Balhu came up to me and the beggar and gave us a thumbs up, and then said to us with the highest Mongolian courtesy: "Thank you, distinguished guests, for helping us get rid of the monsters, and I salute you on behalf of the whole town of Balhu!" ”

I also replied with a serious salute, and then said: "When the road is uneven, draw a knife to help, it is what we who walk the rivers and lakes should do, you are welcome!" ”

When I finished speaking, Uncle Balhu laughed.

I suddenly remembered the origin of this cave, so I asked Uncle Balhu, "Uncle, you have lived here for a long time, do you know the origin of this cave?" ”

"If it hadn't been for Qi Muge saying it just now, I really didn't know there were so many caves here!" Uncle Balhu shook his head and said.

"It's a little strange, who would build a cave under a lake? Isn't it easier to flood the cave with so much water? I muttered.

"Although I don't know the origin of this cave, according to our family's genealogy, the entire Kuleng Lake dried up for decades hundreds of years ago, and there was only a little bit of water in the lake, so I guess there should have been no water in the place where we are standing now, right?" Uncle Balhu said after hearing this.

Uncle Balhu's words woke me up, indeed, as he said, the entire Kuleng Lake dried up for a long time hundreds of years ago, and people at that time may have chosen this lakeside hillside for sky burial, and in our time, the lake slowly increased, and finally flooded these caves, which became what we see now!

"This question is solved, but how to explain that there will be murals of the Han people in the Central Plains here?" I muttered again.

"You scholars like to trace back to the roots, in fact, this is nothing, although the vast majority of our entire Balhu Town are Mongolians, but there are still many Han among us!" Uncle Balhu laughed.

I was shocked when I heard this, I didn't expect that there would be Han people in the places where ethnic minorities live, what the hell is going on, I looked at Uncle Balhu with longing eyes.

"I didn't expect you to be quite interested in this, in fact, not all of our Mongolian steppes are Mongols, there are many Han Chinese, Jurchens, Uighurs, and even Tsarist Russians, who have lived in our steppe for a long time and have slowly been assimilated by our customs, so they look no different from the Mongols! Uncle Balhu laughed.

According to the old people in the clan, Genghis Khan laid down thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, but he did not forget the place where he was born and grew up, so he sent his youngest brother to come here to stick to his homeland, which has a lot of Han slaves brought from the Central Plains, and after a long time, everyone slowly integrated into the customs of the Mongols, but their thoughts still more or less retain the civilization of the Central Plains in the past, so it is not uncommon for Han murals to appear here, and there are many things handed down by the ancestors of the Han people in our village! ”

It turns out that this is the case, then I can boldly speculate that a large part of the people who practice sky burial here may be the Han people brought from the Central Plains back then, they inherited the Mongolian practice of sky burial, and the culture of the Central Plains has been preserved through the portrayal of the situation, which is indeed incredible!

It is difficult for us to judge Genghis Khan's merits and demerits, but under his influence, he narrowed the scope of the world and promoted the great integration of nationalities, which is an indisputable fact, and perhaps this is the reason why he can be immortalized!

At this time, Uncle Balhu said: "Young man, let's go home first!" Brothers and sisters, wives and children at home are waiting for our good news! ”

After Uncle Balhu said this, I suddenly felt desolate, it has been almost three months since I came out, I didn't expect to feel that these three months are so long at this moment, I don't know how my father, Uncle Wu, Qingyi, and Fairy are doing now? Are they waiting for good news from us, just like the folks in Balhu Town?

Suddenly, a feeling of homesickness quickly took root in my heart!

At this moment, only He Zhizhang's poem can express my thousands of feelings at the moment:

I have been away from my hometown for a long time, and I have been half-worn recently.

Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring breeze does not change the old waves.

The beggar and I left Kuleng Lake with Uncle Balhu, and it was almost nightfall, and we all walked towards Balhu Town.

Back in the town, Uncle Balhu held a grand bonfire party for me and the beggars, everyone sang and danced, sang and drank, ate the roasted whole sheep with great characteristics, and drank warm goat milk wine, which was like a big family.

At this moment, although I am in the grassland, my heart has already crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and flew to Wenbao Zhai in Xi'an Mansion, talking and laughing with my father, Uncle Wu, Qingyi, etc.

So, I decided to leave early tomorrow morning and rush back to Xi'an!

Seeing everyone's passion that could not be extinguished for a long time, the beggar and I were already sleepy, so we had to go to bed first, and we will start a long journey early tomorrow morning!

The next day, I got up early in the morning and told Uncle Balhu that we were leaving, but Uncle Balhu did not agree to live or die, saying that he had not yet fulfilled the friendship of the Mongol landlords to entertain us, and that he had not yet heard me tell him about the strange things in the Central Plains, and so on.

And I was homesick and couldn't afford to delay a little time here, so I politely rejected Uncle Balhu's enthusiasm and had to keep these simple Mongols in my heart.

This grassland has given me a lot of memories in my life, beautiful, tragic, painful, etc., which will become the cornerstone of my continuous growth, I gave the first time of my long journey to this vast grassland, to this blue sky, I hope that this beautiful and simple place can forever be far away from the catharsis of the world, and live their free and free nomadic life, until the day when the earth is barren......

Goodbye, Reich's Prairie!

Goodbye, simple Mongolian people!

I rode on the green grassland, galloping on the green grassland, at this moment, my heart was particularly throbbing, because only the word "home" is where my dream lingers......