Chapter 356: Life is Hard Everywhere
Ghost blows the lamp world, Gulan Guest House.
After the three of them took a shower, they came to the canteen of the guest house.
Due to the weather and late hours, most of the other shops in the surrounding area are closed.
Therefore, Lin Chen and the others could only satisfy their appetite in the canteen of the guest house.
Since Hu Bayi and the fat man had just caught a cold, the three of them asked for the only hot noodles they had.
And I also added some chili peppers, and I ate a whole body of sweat.
While I was halfway through eating, the old man in charge of cooking noodles in the canteen of the guest house came to talk to me and asked if we were from Beijing.
The three of them had nothing to do, so they talked to the old man.
The old man said that his hometown is Tong County, Beijing, and he has lived in Gulan for decades.
As he spoke, the old man asked why Lin Chen and the three of them were so embarrassed.
Hu Bayi recounted what happened to the three of them in the Yellow River just now.
I don't know what kind of creature is in the river, but when I talk about the situation just now, Hu Bayi is still a little shocked.
Lao Liu Tou said: "I have also seen this, and the person who ran the boat said that this is the river god." Isn't it a big year for the water, and when the water rises, there are many strange things in the river. I have lived on the banks of the Yellow River for half my life, and I was not yet fifteen years old before liberation, and someone once caught me alive, and I saw this thing with my own eyes at that time. If you really want to see it, I'll tell you a place where you can go and see it when you have a chance. ”
The four of them chatted slowly, and as they spoke, Lin Chen's flowery intestines ran to Lao Liu's body.
You must know that Lao Liu has lived here for decades, and he must know the situation here very well, such as where there are ancient tombs or strange things.
For this reason, Lin Chen also ran out and took out a few bottles of wine from his storage ring, pretending to go out to buy them.
Sure enough, Lao Liu Tou still likes to drink very much, and after drinking some wine, he can be said to know everything about Lin Chen's problems.
In the end, Lin Chen and the others got a very useful piece of information from Lao Liu.
It was the mysterious creature that attacked them in the river just now, and it should be a kind of monster fish known as the Iron Head Dragon King.
In the past, there was also a strange fish that died on the shore, in order not to cause literature and art, so the local villagers shaved the fish flesh, leaving only a pair of fish bones.
It happened that at that time, there was a businessman from other provinces who came to do business in the local area who was more superstitious, so he built a fishbone temple on the top of Longling, not far away.
The merchant from other provinces claimed that he often went to sea to cross the river, and inevitably often took boats, so he paid for the construction of such a fishbone temple. The scale of this temple is not large, there is not even a courtyard, it is no different from the ordinary dragon king temple, take the fish bone as the house shelf, the skull of the big fish is the temple gate, just a temple, for the clay statue of the dragon king. When it was first repaired, some people got sick or caught up with a drought, so they went to the fishbone temple to offer incense and make wishes. It's funny to say, it's really evil enough, it hasn't worked once, if you go to the fishbone temple to ask for rain, it's not good to ask for it, the more you ask for it, the more you dries, so it didn't take long for the incense to be cut off. The merchant who funded the temple was never seen again.
Fishbone Temple Lin Chen didn't care when he arrived, but Lin Chen grabbed a key word.
That's 'Longling'.
Thinking of this person, Lin Chen hurriedly asked, "Is that fishbone temple still there now?" ”
Old Liu nodded and said, "Yes, but it has been abandoned for a long time, and the mud statue of the Dragon King collapsed in less than two years." Some people say that the merchant who paid for the temple repair was not sincere, or had done something lacking great virtue, and the dragon prince was unwilling to accept his incense. In addition, the fishbone temple was built in the recess of Longling Mountain, and the road was difficult, and no one went to the fishbone temple anymore, and many people even forgot about it. During the Cultural Revolution, even the Red Guards didn't think of smashing the fishbone temple, but even if they did, there was nothing to smash. But the layout and bones of this temple are still there, and you can go and see it when you have a chance. ”
Lao Liu Tou was half drunk, and kept telling the three of them some secrets.
That night, in the resting room, Lin Chen discussed with Hu Bayi and the others to go to Longling to explore at dawn tomorrow.
In this regard, the fat man and Hu Bayi had no idea.
Lin Chen suddenly thought of a question, that is, the merchant that Lao Liu Tou said used fish bones to build a fish bone temple to worship the river god.
However, temples dedicated to the river gods are not built by rivers and rivers, but in deep mountains and old forests.
I'm afraid this Nima is not dedicated to the river god, but to the mountain god.
No wonder this man went to worship and pray without a spirit, it seems that he is asking the wrong God.
talked to Hu Bayi for a while, and just now Lao Liu Tou said that there seems to be a big tomb of the Tang Dynasty hidden in Longling.
Thinking of this, Lin Chen and Hu Bayi thought that the businessman should be a peer.
What is the construction of a temple, it should be a tomb robbery in order to hide people's eyes.
However, the specific situation will have to wait until tomorrow to see on the spot.
Early the next morning, the three of them counted their equipment.
If there is a tomb, it is generally underground, and the light is certainly not good underground.
But fortunately, when Shirley Yang left, she handed over all the high-level equipment used in the Exquisite Ancient City to Lin Chen.
Therefore, the equipment of the three of them is also very advanced.
Longling is the remnant of the Qinling Mountains in a big way, and in a small way, it is actually a patch of mounds. A mound next to a mound, the undulating drop is very large, the mound and the mound are cut apart by rain and wind, there are countless deep ditches, and there are places where the outside is crust, but when you step on it, it breaks, and the inside is a hollow. It looks like the straight distance between the two hills is very close, but it takes half a day to walk from this side to that side.
The name of this place is unknown, and there is not even a unified name, and the people near Gulan County call this mountain Longling,
Leaving Gulan County at nine o'clock in the morning, I took the car on the section where I could take the car, and walked where there was no traffic.
This made Lin Chen have to sigh about the benefits of advanced technology.
In modern times, this journey is a few hours' drive, and it doesn't take that long at all.
In this world, many times it is a waste of time to rush, just like when I went to the Exquisite Ancient City, Nima walked on the road for almost half a month.
It was getting late, and Lin Chen and the others came to a small mountain village under Longling Mountain.
There are about twenty or thirty families in the village, and it still looks like a very simple small mountain village.
Entering the mountain at night is the most dangerous, because if you don't go in advance, you are likely to be attacked by other creatures in many cases, or become a runaway teenager, and it will be difficult to say at that time.
We found a family at the entrance of the village nearby, explained to the owner the intention, went out in a hurry, not in front of the village and not in the back of the store, can you make a convenient, spend the night, we can pay some money for nothing.
The owners of the house, an elderly couple, were wary of the three of us having nothing with them, and that they seemed to be three idle people.
This made Lin Chen very painful, because for convenience, Lin Chen put all the things into his storage ring.
Now the three of them have basically nothing on them except clothes and a flashlight.
As for the guns, they haven't entered the dragon scales yet, so Lin Chen didn't take them out either.
In the end, the fat man got it for thirty dollars.
The two elders arranged for Lin Chen and them to live in a small cabin, and finally the three learned that the couple's son had disappeared after searching for the lost lamb.
The two old people don't even have anyone to care for the elderly, and they are still able to survive with the help of the people nearby.
It was precisely because of this that the two old men would let Lin Chen live with them for thirty yuan.
Lin Chen and the others sighed, life is hard everywhere, only harder, not the hardest.
Early the next morning, when the three of them left, they left a thousand yuan for the two elders.
This made the two elders thank Lin Chen and them a thousand times.
Lin Chen, they don't care, anyway, they don't lack this little money, even if they help some others.
Helpfulness is a traditional virtue of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.
This thousand yuan may be Lin Chen's living expenses for a period of time, but if you put these two old people here, it will be the pension for the rest of your life.
(End of chapter)