From a distance, Qingyunguan at night looks like a giant reptile, lying prone on the top of the mountain.

In the sky, the stars are shining. A crooked crescent moon hangs lonely in the night sky to the southwest. The moonlight is hazy and faint against the starlight.

On the tall ancient locust tree in the northwest corner of Qingyun Temple, an owl stood among the branches, making ghostly calls from time to time.

It's almost ugly at this point.

In the east room, among the eleven men lying on the kang horizontally and vertically, some people snore heavily from time to time.

The downwind ear lies in the middle of the big kang. He had trouble falling asleep on the kang because he had heard about the haunting of the room before going to bed, not because he was timid and afraid, but because of curiosity and his more sensitive hearing than the average person.

Although he has followed the ancestors of Hua for many years and has seen many strange things in this land of China, it is the first time he has encountered ghosts and monsters.

Being able to witness the true face of the so-called "ghost" in this Taoist temple in the barren mountains and mountains made Shunfeng Ear's heart somewhat excited and excited.

Therefore, although he has been lying on the kang for nearly two hours, the nerves in the ears of the wind are still a little excited. Many people on the kang were already snoring like thunder, but he was lying on the kang tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

Suddenly, a small voice came from a corner of the room, intermittent and thin.

For the sensitive Shunfeng ear, this small sound was like a bell in the middle of the night, vibrating his sensitive eardrums crisply and powerfully.

Shunfeng Ear did not immediately wake up others, but held his breath and listened carefully to the sound quality characteristics of the sound.

"Wow, wow, wow" sounded like a baby's cry, and like a woman's grief.

Shunfeng couldn't tell what the sound was for a while, and he gently poked the Hua ancestor who was sleeping beside him with his hand.

Hua Xianzu was woken up by Shunfeng Ear.

"Commander Hua, listen." Shunfeng saw Ancestor Hua wake up and whispered in his ear.

Hua Xianzu listened attentively, and indeed as the old Taoist priest said, a cry similar to that of a woman or a baby came from time to time in the room.

At this time, all the people in the room woke up, and everyone rubbed their hazy sleepy eyes, and each of them stretched out their ears to listen attentively to this strange sound that seemed a little sad and resentful in the dark night.

"Are there really ghosts?" Li Dai didn't believe his ears, but the sound did come from a corner of the room. Everyone present could hear it clearly.

"Listen carefully, listen carefully to where this sound is coming from." Hua Ancestor commanded to Shunfeng Ear. At the same time, Hua Xianzu stretched out his hand and motioned for everyone to lie on the bed and not move.

"Yes, Commander." With a soft sound in the wind, he rolled over and got up.

Shunfeng first leaned over the kang and listened to it again, then stood up and put his ear on the wall to listen, and then came to the ground under the kang lightly, leaned down, and listened to the ground in front of the house twice, and finally, his body stopped on the ground facing the door in the middle of the kang.

"It's from here...... Coming out below. Shunfeng said in a less proficient Chinese dialect.

"Are you sure?" Hua Xianzu asked.

Shunfeng Ear once again pressed his ear to the ground, listened attentively for a while, then got up and said affirmatively, "That's right, this is it." ”

Hua Xianzu, Du Heng and Li Dai jumped off the kang one after another. Because the sound of the three of them going down to the ground was too loud, the sound suddenly disappeared.

Everyone stopped speaking and listened patiently for a while. Suddenly, the voice rang out again.

"Can you borrow a shovel from the Dao Master?" Hua Xianzu said to Li Dai in a consultative tone.

"It should work. I'll go. Li Dai responded.

After a while, two Taoist priests, one old and one young, together with Li Dai, came to the east room with three shovels in their hands.

"Daoist, we've patiently confirmed that this voice is coming from under the ground. Do you think you can dig and see what the hell is going on? Hua Xianzu said to the old Taoist priest with the help of the translator Che Fanyou.

"Yes, as long as you can find out the truth, then dig it." The old Taoist priest pointed to the ground and said.

With the permission of the Taoist chief, Hua Xianzu, Du Heng, and Li Dai each took a shovel and began to dig in the place determined by Shunfeng Er.

The clanging digging sounded, and the sound died down immediately.

The three of them dug more than a meter deep, and found nothing unusual except for a large pile of earth and rocks.

"Still digging? I don't see anything. Li Dai stopped and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"yes, I don't think there's going to be anything. Is it the sound of the mountain wind blowing in outside? Du Heng was also a little skeptical of Shunfeng's words.

"No, just ...... It's coming out from below, trust me...... Ear. Shunfeng saw Du Heng looking at him with suspicion, and immediately said in a firm tone.

"Then dig a little deeper." Hua Xianzu said.

The three of them continued to dig hard, and dug down more than half a meter deep, Du Heng dug down with a spade, only to feel the shovel in his hand suddenly plunged deep into the soil and rock. There seems to be a hole dug under the shovel. He pried up the shovel vigorously, and with a "bang" sound, the soil and stones that he had pried loose suddenly scattered downward, and then, from below, there was a sound of "plopping" the earth and stones falling to the ground.

"It's a hollow." By the faint light of the candle in the hand of the Taoist chief, all the people present could see that a hole the size of a human head appeared under the excavated earth and rock.

"Let me hear it." Shunfeng pushed away the crowd, came to the edge of the cave, supported the earth and stones on the edge of the cave with both hands, leaned down, and listened carefully to the movement below.

Everyone fell silent.

"There's the sound of water flowing down there." Shunfeng listened for a while, then got up and stood up.

"Is it hard to see a dark stream down there?" Ancestor Hua muttered to himself.

"Commander, why don't I go down and have a look?" Du Heng said.

"Yes, we brothers go down together, and we can take care of each other." Li Dai agreed with Du Heng's suggestion.

"Dao Chief, I don't know if there is a spring on this mountain?" Hua Xianzu did not directly agree to Du Heng's request, he asked the old Taoist priest under the translation of Che Fanyou.

"No, I've lived in this mountain for most of my life, and I've never heard of any mountain springs or anything like that." The Taoist shook his head.

"Or you two can go down and have a look." Hua Xianzu said.

"Okay." Du Heng agreed.

Hua Xianzu, Du Heng, and Li Dai waved shovels in their hands and expanded the entrance of the cave to a meter square.

The old Taoist priest asked Chuifeng to go to the west side room to find two thick hemp ropes. Du Heng and Li Dai simply cleaned up, and the two of them each grabbed a rope, and with the help of everyone, they went to the cave at the same time.

When they went down to the cave, a cool and damp wind immediately penetrated into the sweaty clothes of the two of them. I faintly heard the sound of running water under my feet. The further down you go, the louder the water becomes.

After descending a distance of about three or four meters, the feet of both men touched the water almost simultaneously. Based on the feeling of their feet, the two of them judged that there should be a stream under their feet that was not flowing fast. The two tried to continue their descent, but their feet soon touched the rocks at the bottom of the stream.

Du Heng and Li Dai let go of the rope in their hands. The two of them have adapted to the dark environment inside the cave.

This is an underground culvert with a small space, and the distance from the water surface to the top of the culvert is about four meters. Reaching out and touching it, the uneven rock on the cave wall was smooth and wet. The smooth side of the rock on the roof and wall of the cave is on the back side of the direction of the water flow, so it can be inferred that the water flow in the cave should fill the entire culvert when the water flow is at its highest.

It is precisely because of the erosion of the water flow that the uneven rocks in the entire culvert are neatly presented with a smooth side and a rough situation.

This is the time of year when the water in the cave is light. The cool stream just touched the thighs of Du Heng and Li Dai.

The two looked into the cave. The narrowest part of the stream is about one meter wide, and on both sides of the river are sloping rocks about half a meter wide.

The two tried to move upstream of the current. After about five or six meters of progress, the culvert became wider. There are several puddles on the banks on either side of the stream.

Du Heng and Li Dai approached a puddle.

Suddenly, in the shallow puddle, a clumsy reptile was frightened and fled into the deep water in the middle of the puddle.

"Oh, it's doing the trick." Du Heng and Li Dai, who were standing on the edge of the puddle, saw the truth of the thing in the water at the same time: a giant salamander of about one meter.

The puddle is separated from the stream by a stone edge nearly a meter high, and the walls of the stone edge are almost straight up and down, and they are very smooth. It seems that the giant salamander strayed into a puddle on the shore when the current in the cave was strong. When the water level dropped, it was difficult for the giant salamander to climb across the edge of the rock and enter the stream, so it became trapped in the puddle.

This giant salamander is commonly known as the baby fish and is named because its call resembles the cry of a baby. It seems that the cry of the giant salamander disturbed the two Taoist priests in the temple, making them mistakenly think that some ghost was at work.

Du Heng waved his hand to Li Dai and made a gesture, signaling the two of them to go into the water and grab the giant salamander.

Li Dai understood, and went down into the puddle with Du Heng. The giant salamander's body was smooth and covered with mucus, and the two of them wasted a lot of effort to catch the giant salamander.

Du Heng hugged the head and neck of the giant salamander with both hands, and Li Dai hugged the waist of the giant salamander. The giant salamander struggled desperately. Du Heng and Li Dai didn't dare to let go, and cooperated with each other to raise their legs to cross the stone edge between the puddle and the stream, and then, the two stood in the stream and gently put the giant salamander they were holding into the water.

The giant salamander shakes its body quickly and swims downstream in the direction of the current.

Du Heng and Li Dai returned the same way. The two grabbed the rope at the entrance of the cave and beckoned to their companions above.

Hua Xianzu and the others pulled the rope up forcefully and pulled the two people below up.

Coming to the top of the cave, Du Heng and Li Dai introduced the following situation to everyone respectively.

"It turned out to be a giant salamander." After listening to Li Dai's introduction, the old Taoist priest woke up like a dream.

"Dao Chief, this giant salamander has swam downstream along the current. In the future, he won't bother us anymore. Look, is this hole resealed? Li Dai asked the old Taoist.

"No, no, when the day comes, wouldn't it be nice for me to let the wind build a well at the entrance of this cave. In the future, he will no longer have to work hard to carry water at the bottom of the mountain. The old Taoist priest said.

"Well, that's a good idea. It seems that this giant salamander has solved your problem of getting water. Hehehe! Li Dai joked.

"It's thanks to all of you, otherwise, how could I and the wind be at peace, let alone get water." The old Taoist priest was grateful.

The next day, Hua Xianzu and his entourage simply finished breakfast at Qingyun Temple, said goodbye to the two Taoist priests, and walked to the east of the sea.

Walking in the middle of the line, the clairvoyant eye can already clearly see the outline of Black Bamboo Island, which is located in the eastern sea.