There were about twenty people in the team, and it was very lively. This is a traditional wedding that is rarely seen in the city. Among the more than 20 people, several are musicians, some of them play trumpets and some play suona. The music is very festive, and there is an inexplicable excitement when I listen to it.

Behind the musician is a palanquin. Women in red clothes and red dresses were carried by a bamboo sedan chair, which was wrapped with red silk cloth. It seems that she is the bride.

It's just strange that the bride actually wears a white hijab on her head.

The people in the car seemed to be attracted by the wedding in front of them. Some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures. The driver also honked his whistle with great interest to bless them.

The procession of sending off relatives swayed past the eyes and gradually disappeared at the end of the path. The driver started the car and continued to walk forward.

This is a tourist bus bound for Tianmen Mountain. The people on the bus were all tourists who came in groups from all over the world. Lin Xin and Nie Mingfei were also inside, but they weren't going to travel. They sat on the way.

Lin Xin lived in Tianmen Mountain when he was a child. After not returning for more than ten years, Tianmen Mountain has been developed into a tourist attraction. This surprised Lin Xin. The people in the car began to chatter about the wedding just now. Of course, the most controversial thing for them is that the bride's hijab is actually white.

In China, the traditional festive color is red, and white is the opposite, which is the color of tragedy. Why did the bride wear a white hijab?

Some people say that it is because it is somewhat isolated from the outside, so the tradition is naturally different. Some people also say that it is because of the recent white incident in the bride's house, so they take a white hijab to avoid filth.

Jack, who was sitting in front of Lin Xin, shouted, "You don't know. It's actually quite simple, because the bride is very fond of white. However, it is not permissible to wear white clothes when getting married. So, she put on a white hijab. Ha ha! After Jack finished speaking, he looked at Lin Xin slightly proudly.

"Nonsense, what logic!" A man next to him scolded.

"What did you say?" Jack's face changed suddenly, and he stood up and answered viciously.

"Jack, sit down. Otherwise, you won't follow us. Lin Xin glared at him in disgust.

Jack scolded twice, unwilling, but he didn't dare to touch Lin Xin's intentions, so he had to sit back in his seat.

Jack is a friend of Wang Tie. On the face, he said that he was here to protect Lin Xin, but in fact, Lin Xin felt that he was using it to spy on her. After Lin Xin decided to go to Yuling Village, she proposed to Wang Tie that she would go back to her hometown to worship her grandfather.

Regarding Lin Xin's request, Wang Tie had no reason to refuse. So he sent one of his most powerful assistants with her. Said that he could protect her along the way.

Jack is a mixed-race child, but he looks like a standard Chinese. He was so good at kung fu that he once participated in the devil training of the American Field Army. Of the 40 runners, he was the only one who made it to the finish line. When the U.S. Field Army extended an invitation to him, he declined.

Jack is very passionate about Chinese culture, especially China's ancient tomb robbing culture. However, tomb robbing is prohibited in China. Therefore, he has never found the right opportunity to learn about tomb robbing culture.

Wang Tie also met Jack by chance. The two hit it off at first sight. In the end, Jack followed Wang Tie's side. Especially when he heard that Wang Tie was going to go to Yuling Village to rob the tomb, he strongly asked Wang Tie to take him.

The road began to bump. It seems to be on the mountain road. The people in the car opened their windows and looked out, only to see a mountain range clearly hovering in front of them in the distance.

"That's Tianmen Mountain, look at it from this position at the moment. It's like a gate falling from the sky. The tour guide started with a loudspeaker.

"Miss Lin, Tianmen Mountain is so winding and undulating. Isn't there any treasure in there? Jack looked out and muttered.

"Treasure? You dream! Lin Xin sneered.

"Look, isn't that the team that just sent off the family? What's changed? Suddenly, someone in the car shouted.

Lin Xin pushed open the window next to him and looked over. It seems that it was really the group of people who had just sent off their relatives, all standing in a col not far away. The people who were originally dressed in red wedding clothes were all changed to white filial piety clothes in an instant.

Only the bride was still wearing a red wedding dress, standing particularly dazzling in the crowd.

Several musicians blew again. The music was very light, but it still reached the ears of everyone in the car. The tone is no longer the festive flavor it used to be, but has become a sad and sad lament.

Lin Xin was stunned for a moment, she remembered something. When she was five years old, she followed her grandfather to the next village to see her marry. The procession of the bride was blowing and sending the bride into a col. Then, he threw some paper money ingots and paper horse paper figures into it and lit them together.

Later, my grandfather said that it was called a yin kiss.

"I see. This is the knot of kinship, and there is this custom in some remote places. The man who had scolded Jack just now suddenly spoke. His words immediately quieted the people in the car.

"Is it the marriage of the living to the dead?" The man added. "I've just heard of this custom, but I didn't expect it to really exist. What a tragedy! ”

"How can a living man marry a dead man? So how do they do husband and wife? Jack asked, confused.

The whole car did not speak. Lin Xin pulled Rajak and motioned with his eyes to stop talking.

"The people here, their minds are always so stubborn that it's despicable." Thinking of when he was a child, because his eyes could see other things, his grandfather was beaten to death by the villagers, Lin Xin couldn't help but say hatefully.

"Yes, when we get back to the city, we must complain to **. We must get rid of all these bad customs. Someone in the car chimed in.

Lin Xin didn't speak again. She looked at the Tianmen Mountain opposite getting closer and closer, and the emotions in her heart became more and more complicated. Lin Xin seemed to see his grandfather standing at the entrance of the village again, smiling at him.

Grandpa, I'm back. Lin Xin said softly.

The village in front of me was still as dilapidated and dilapidated as it had been when I left, except that there were many more vendors selling things on the side of the road. Seeing Lin Xin and the others, they thought they were tourists from other places, and waved their hands vigorously.

Lin Xin followed the mountain road, turned around a few times, and finally found the previous house. Standing in front of the old house, memories of the past clearly come to mind. Grandpa, old house, and broken memories.

The dark gate was already in tatters. A rusty lock, nothing like nothing. The grass on both sides clings upwards along the almost crumbling wall. The years have destroyed everything, and the only thing that has not been destroyed is memory.

"You, you are the girl of the Lao Lin family!" Suddenly, a faint voice came from behind him.

Lin Xin turned around and saw an old lady with gray hair standing behind him. Gray-haired, with a cane in his hand, squinting at himself.

"You are, Aunt May." Lin Xin immediately recognized the person in front of him.

"Girl Lin, you're back. I, I thought, will never see you again. Aunt Mei said, tears streaming down her face.

"I ......" Lin Xin said to his lips and swallowed back.

"Come, come. I have something to tell you. Aunt Mei wiped the tears from her face and staggered to her home.

Lin Xin was stunned for a moment, looked at Jack next to him and walked forward.

Aunt Mei put a black iron box on the table with a trembling hand, "Back then, your grandfather asked me to keep this box. Say, I'll give this to you when he's gone. Who knows, what happened back then was too sudden. I thought I'd give it to you the next day. But your mother took you away. For more than ten years, I have been looking forward to seeing you back and giving you this thing. Otherwise, if I die, I will be scolded by your grandfather. ”

Lin Xin's tears flowed out at once. She choked up and took the tin box, holding it tightly in her arms, not knowing what to say.

When the tin box was opened, there was a yellowed letter and a crystal pendant. The pendant was engraved with a phoenix, and strangely, the phoenix actually had nine heads.

"This, this is a high-grade ancient jade!" Jack next to him screamed.

"Huh! This young man has a good eye. This is indeed a superior ancient jade. Come to think of it, it's the heirloom of your Lin family. You descendants may not know that our ancestors of Tianmen Village are masters of making jade. Aunt Mei's cloudy eyes gleamed with pride.

"So, can you tell us about it?" Jack next to him asked curiously.

Aunt Mei's face trembled slightly, and her eyes looked into the distance, as if she had fallen into a long story.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuan Shun did not want to forge ahead, was intimate with villains, and stayed away from loyal ministers, which made the whole country miserable and the people miserable.

In the 11th year of the Yuan Dynasty, an uprising called the Red Turban Army broke out among the people. All of a sudden, the world's heroes responded. Moreover, there was a struggle for power within the Yuan Dynasty, resulting in a variety of power differences. The world is plunged into a war of eternal peace.

However, the battle outside did not affect Tianmen Mountain, which was close to the border jungle. Therefore, the people at the foot of Tianmen Mountain are still living a peaceful life. They eat from the mountains, hunt men and weave women, and although their lives are hard, they are very stable.

It was a sunny day. Ah Wuye picked up the hunting knife and took his hunting dog to hunt at the gate of heaven. Today, Ah Wuye's luck is very good. By noon, he had already hunted a wild boar and two pheasants.

As he prepared to return, the hound stared at the front and could not pull it. Following the direction that the hound was staring at, Ah Wuye walked forward cautiously with a hunting knife. In a bush in front of him, Ah Wuye saw a young man who was injured all over his body.

It looks like he's escaped from the outside. His clothes had been hung in tatters from the bushes because of the long journey. What is puzzling is that although he has fainted, he is holding a jasper flute tightly in his hand.

It was a time of war, and Ah Wuye didn't want to meddle in things. However, the kindness of the mountain people eventually allowed him to save the young man.

Ah Wuye didn't want others to know that outsiders had come to the village. So he placed the young man in an abandoned house a mile from the village. It was the place where Ah Wuye camped during the night vigil of the forest, and no one usually went. Ah Wuye left some food, and then let his daughter Shui Yun stay to take care of the young man.

When the young man woke up, he didn't say a word. He always curled up on the bed with that flute as if it were his life. The strange behavior of the young man made Ah Wuye feel that it might be because of some stimulus. So, he just asked Shui Yun Haosheng to take care of him.

Gradually, the young man became familiar with Shui Yun. Shui Yun knew about the young man. His name is Shi Ke and he comes from a place called Yuling Village. Because of the war, he was caught in a lawsuit. was chased and killed by the yamen, and had to run here.

Shi Ke has a hand-picked carving skill. When he has nothing to do, he always picks some stones to carve some gadgets for Shuiyun. With the passage of time, Shi Ke's talented character deeply attracted Shui Yun's girlish heart.

Ah Wuye didn't find out about Shi Ke and his daughter. By the time he found out, Shui Yun was pregnant. He whipped Shi Ke like a mad lion.

Finally, he was tired and had to admit it.

On the day of the delivery, it rained heavily in the sky. This is a heavy rain that Tianmen Mountain has never seen in a hundred years, and God seems to be flooding Tianmen Mountain. In that frail hut, Shui Yun gave birth to a baby boy.

The moment the rain stopped, a team of officials came to Tianmen Mountain. They named him to take him. Otherwise, the entire Tianmen Mountain will be killed. Just when Ah Wuye was about to fight with the official to the death, Shi Ke stood up. He didn't want to implicate the entire Tianmen Mountain because of himself.

Before leaving, he told Shui Yun the truth of the whole matter.

Shi Keben was a disciple of the old man Jade in Yuling Village. The jade carved by the old man has always been a noble object to pay tribute to the imperial court. A year ago, Old Man Jade got a piece of an extraterrestrial meteorite. He used the family book left in Yuling Village to carve two pendants, one for the Jianwei pendant and the other for the nine phoenix pendant. These two pendants are not only priceless jade, but also the key to open a buried treasure place in Yuling Mountain.

I don't know how the news got out. So, someone started to come up with the idea of two pendants. Even the government sent people to buy the pendant.

Those two pendants were originally the works of the old man of jade. Most of his life's works were tributed to the royal family. There are few satisfactory works around me. So, he refused.

The government did not give up. They fabricated an unnecessary charge and planted it on the old man Yushi, and went to Yuling Village to arrest people in a high-sounding manner. At the last moment, the old man gave the two pendants to Shi Ke and asked him to leave Yuling Village through the secret passage. Then, he committed suicide by hitting the wall.

Shi Ke held back the grief and anger in his heart, bumped all the way, and fled. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and he does not know where to find his place. However, in order not to be caught by the government, he had to keep running. Hide in uninhabited places during the day, and escape by taking advantage of the path at night.

Later, he came to Tianmen Mountain, but fainted because of his physical exhaustion. As a result, he was rescued by Ah Wuye.

After Shi Ke finished talking about all this, he handed over the Nine Phoenix Pendant and the whole jasper flute to Shui Yun. And told her not to blow the flute until absolutely necessary.

Shi Ke was taken away by the government. No matter how the government tortured him, he did not tell the whereabouts of the two pendants. In the end, the government had no choice but to issue a killing order.

The execution was carried out in secret. The government specially explained that there was no need to wait until three o'clock in the afternoon.

Three o'clock in the afternoon was the best time for the prisoners to go on the road. Because Shi Ke did not tell the whereabouts of the pendant, the government also made him an unjust ghost when he died.

After Shi Ke's death, the government sent people to Tianmen Mountain. They believed that Shi Ke must have hidden the pendant there. They seized the villagers there, persecuted them, tortured them. finally learned that Shui Yun turned out to be Shi Ke's wife, and also gave birth to a boy for him.

At the last moment, the water cloud blew the flute. The flute seemed to be a monster carrying a devil, and the music it played and blew was like a thousand ghosts crying, and it was grudging. All the officers and soldiers went crazy and fled from Tianmen Mountain.

Later, Shui Yun took his children to live in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests of Tianmen Mountain. The government never sent anyone again. Tianmen Mountain has returned to its former calm.

However, this history was recorded in the genealogy of Tianmen Mountain. It records the short but eternal love between Shi Ke and Shui Yun, and also records the secret of Tianmen Mountain's stability for thousands of years.

After listening to Aunt Mei's story, everyone was stunned.

Lin Xin took a closer look at the pendant in his hand. That's the nine phoenix pendant that Aunt Mei said. Could it be that all this was predestined for a long time? She never thought that she would be closely connected with Yuling Mountain.

"What a heart-wrenching story!" Jack clapped his hands.

"Girl, this pendant is the nine phoenix pendant mentioned in the family tree. The ancestors of your Lin family are the descendants of Shi Ke. Later, because he was afraid of being arrested by the government, he had to change his surname. Aunt Mei said abruptly.