The city on the eastern side of the mountain must be heavily guarded, and the inner area is the core area of the Mon people. Pang Tong and Xueyue came to the west of Shanxi, where a large number of houses of the Meng people were built up one by one, as if they were originally different villages. However, there are also a large number of patrols, all with serious faces treating strangers.

Pang Tong, who was constantly questioned, also kept saying to them: "Buy ivory." ”

Some of the soldiers were more patient, so they said, "Go to the stockade to the north, where the ivory carvings are the best." ”

In the evening, the two entered the small village, where the open space was full of ivory, and some workers were carving. The wooden shelves are all carved into various patterns. Some of the ivory was made into seals and crutches and the like. These things are sold for amazing prices in the Central Plains and the North.

A **** man with an upper body walked towards Xueyue and Pang Tong, who were looking at the surroundings of the division with the eyes of a visitor.

"Do you want to buy anything?" The man's rough, strong hand waved around. "Do you want ivory?"

"I'm here for these crafts." Pang Tong said in a warm tone. He approached a row of wooden shelves in a serious manner, one of which was resting on top of two wooden mats. The round end of the ivory is wrapped in a silver ring, and the surface is carved with a dragon motif, which is very ornate. At first glance, it is intended to be sold far away.

"It's worth a lot." The man pointed to the ivory.

"It would be nice if the end was a gold ring." Pang Tong sighed. Then he continued to look at the ivory with a tangled mood, as if to ignore the only fly in the ointment presented by the silver circle, and try to find other bright spots to convince himself.

The man saw the dynamics of his expression and said with a sneer: "It's not easy to change the gold circle, but how much does this brother plan to make?" ”

"You say." Pang Tong glanced at him, with a calm and hidden appearance.

The man touched the surface of the wooden frame and said, "One hundred taels of gold!" ”

Pang Tong nodded slightly, his expression calm. The man saw that Pang Tong was not an ordinary businessman, and immediately said, "Do you want it?" ”

"I'll see." Pang Tong still seemed to be dissatisfied with the ivory, and began to look at it carefully on the shelf next to him. The man explained earnestly on the side, and seemed to have decided that Pang Tong was the master of big business.

Time passed, and the sky was so dark that it was impossible to see the ivory. But a man named Dushan raised a torch and stood on one side. The workers had already gone back to eat, and at this moment, the lights of those houses were already on.

Pang Tongyi frowned tightly and sighed: "It's really hard to choose." ”

"So be it. If you don't wait until tomorrow to look at it, when the sun is shining, you can see the details better. Dushan suggested.

"Ah, it's so late." Pang Tong looked around, and said to Xue Yue, who had never spoken on the side, in surprise: "It's too late, I don't know where to go." ”

"Don't, just stay here, I'll entertain you." Dushan said earnestly.

"It's fine." Pang Tong nodded.

Like a professional guide, Dushan walked in front with a smile and brought the two to a large room with bright lights, and a woman was putting a large basin on the table. In that basin is a whole pig hind leg.

Pang Tong thought to himself: "It's a rich place, and I still use Han people's tables and stools." ”

"Sit down." Dushan asked Pang Tong and Xueyue to sit on the bench, and gave the woman another look. His women knew that these were two rich lords, and after a moment of greeting and laughing, they went inside and began to cook some other things.

And Dushan took a knife and cut the leg meat and handed it to Pang Tong and Xueyue.

"It's wild boar." Pang Tong tore at random. After taking a few bites, he seemed to remember something important, and asked, "What's the matter with the white light on the mountain?" ”

"White light...... Yes! That's the sun! God! It is our god of fire, so we are rich! Dushan said excitedly, his voice heroic.

"Have you gone up to see the sun?" Pang Tong asked again.

Dushan put down the flesh and bones in his hand, and licked the minced flesh at the corner of his lips with his tongue.

"How is it possible, it is forbidden to go up the mountain. No one dared to go anywhere, and the halfway up the mountain was full of soldiers. ”

His woman came over with a large pot and placed it in the corner of the table. After Pang Tong mentioned the sun, her face was not good, and she seemed to be in awe of the existence of the sun, and she couldn't mention it at will. And Dushan's attitude is similar, and he doesn't want to talk about it anymore.

"That's the realm of God." He said heavily.

"Hmm." Pang Tong nodded and didn't mention the matter again. At night, Pang Tong and Xue Yue slept on straw mats in the inner room. Moonlight leaked through the window. Two figures stood up, sliding out of the window with cat-like agility and whispers. Pang Tong and Xue Yue hurried briskly in the dark night, heading towards the mountain to the east. At this point, the sun was gone. It seems to be as common as sunrises and sunsets. But Pang Tong still didn't believe in such a thing as two rounds of suns.

They galloped up the hill, but soon saw patrols with torches. They cautiously ascended the mountain, and on the mountainside they saw many tents, where the guards were more numerous and denser. They had to slow down and watch cautiously what was going on around them.

They found a mountain road that passed through the valley and made it easier to get around to the top. However, as soon as I dived into the valley, I noticed that there was a little fire here. That's due to the fact that the brazier that was erected was far away. There was a woman sitting on a three-story wooden platform. The brazier was right in front of her. The woman must have been tall and plump, a woman in her thirties, dressed in a red cloth garment and with gold rings on her hands.

She sat cross-legged like a stone statue, her eyes closed and her hands folded.

Pang Tong and Xue Yue glanced at each other. Xue Yue said softly, "Talk from her." ”

Pang Tong shook his head suddenly, pulled her into the grass slowly, and said in a low voice: "That kind of person is very troublesome. Maybe you can't even get out of your words, and it doesn't look like there's no ambush around. It could just be a trap, and I thought that woman was dangerous. Take the other route. ”

"Why?"

"That must be Meng Huo's wife." Pang Tong concluded. "We don't have any qualifications to negotiate with this clan until we know their secrets."

Xue Yue could only agree with him.

The two of them searched for another jump, and climbed up the steep road. After successfully reaching the top of the mountain, I found that there was no one here. It's a place with few plants, more hard stones. And a cave turned out to be open in front of the two of them. They never imagined that there would be a deep black hole in this high place.

"The sun?" Xue Yue looked at the cave indifferently. She and Pang Tong have good vision, and they can clearly discern the heavy outline left by this history at night.

"Which is the sun?" Pang Tong smiled, he was in a happy mood as if he had won a bet.

Xue Yue was puzzled by this phenomenon, and she boldly stepped closer to the cave.

"Ahh She covered her mouth and whispered. Pang Tong ran over suddenly, and found that the girl did not see anything like a poisonous snake, but saw a sparkling scene in the cave. The moonlight was emitted inside, and there seemed to be countless small mirrors surrounding the inner wall of the cave, and the opposite side turned out to be empty, or the end of the twentieth zhang was an exit.

Seeing the strange situation, Pang Tong judged and approached inside. Yukitsuki was surprised by his audacity. Pang Tong touched the wall of the cave as if he had touched a mirror, but it was a harder mirror. Some parts were a bit diamond-shaped, and he struggled, and he had to move carefully. Step by step, he walked towards the end of the book, and saw the influence of his countless bodies, which were strange images caused by the constant refraction of mirrors. It will be easy to do in the future. But in ancient times, it was probably the only place where this phenomenon could be seen, and it could be called an ancient wonder, he thought.

"Be careful." Xue Yue said at the entrance of the cave. Voices reverberated through the walls of the cave.

Pang Tong took a deep breath, jumped down, and landed on the mountain, which was the exit of the cave to the east. He walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down. In the dense darkness below was a little fire. That is the Meng city inside the earthen wall, and the people who live here are either rich or noble, except for the soldiers. In a sense, the Mon is a large tribe, a tribe with a strong sense of hierarchy. They also have beliefs, believing in what is behind Pang Tong, the so-called god of fire.

Pang Tong turned around and looked at the hollow, and the small figure of Xue Yue on the opposite side was watching him. "Which guy did it, that's an exaggeration. It's not like it's natural. He couldn't help but laugh. Then you're welcome. ”

Two things brought a huge shock to the Mon people.

In the city of the Mon people, the location of the mountain wall is steep and it is impossible to go up the mountain, but the falling stones have also happened. But this stone is too strange. Someone turned the stone over and found something terrible.

"Helping Ren to fight against Shu." One of the soldiers said silently, immediately holding his mouth.

There were more and more onlookers, and with reverence, they saw the four words like an oracle. But that's not the one that shocked them the most. The people of the city, including the villages to the west, were crying and weeping, and some fainted in terror. The sun at the top of the mountain is gone. The entire Mon people were in a mess.

An ominous atmosphere enveloped the entire territory of the Meng tribe, and those who could easily see the sun on the top of the mountain could easily see it standing at the moment were not even in the mood to eat at the moment.

Inside a large wooden house. Meng Huo sat cross-legged on the ground, his face was round and broad-mouthed, with thick and loose tiger whiskers, and his eyes were round. Surrounded by the heads of the tribes. They were in a mess, each believing it to be a sign of a catastrophe. But until the man came, no one dared to speak lightly about the gods.

Zhu Rongkuo walked inside. Several people immediately got up and stepped aside. Zhu Rong sat down in front of Meng Huo.

"The sun is gone, and it is falling on that stone again. What exactly is the significance? Meng asked impatiently. It seems that the relationship between the couple at the moment is more like a situation in which a religious believer asks questions about the leader.

Zhu Rong raised his thin lips lightly and said, "This is an oracle, and it must be in accordance with the will of the gods." Move closer to the Ren people and rebel against the Shu State. ”

The dignitaries who were standing heard a whisper of discussion, with a nervous and uneasy expression.