At dawn the next day, people went out to see that it was a west wind.

Qin Caihou and Chunni threw baskets and bags of food and drink into the big willow basket, and finally they climbed into the big willow basket and lit a fire with charcoal, and the heat generated slowly puffed up the animal skin bag. Fulin hurriedly led the people to remove the wooden sticks that supported the animal skin pockets one by one.

At this time, Fuhai ran over, picked up the big willow basket, and wanted to climb in. Chunni hurriedly stopped, "What are you going to do?" ”

"I'm going too!" As he spoke, Fuhai had already jumped into the big willow basket.

Qin Caihou was slightly moved, it seems that he did not accept this apprentice in vain. On the second day after Qin Caihou came to the fart ditch, he accepted Fuhai as an apprentice to teach rebirth skills. In two months, Fuhai has grown from a frail and sickly boy to a strong young man.

At this time, the hemp rope hanging from the big willow basket began to tighten, and the big willow basket shook a little and was about to leave the ground. The big willow basket dragged on the ground, and finally left the ground, slowly swaying and flying towards the sky.

Suddenly, the large willow basket was caught by the branches of a dead tree. Fuhai picked up a small hoe and climbed out of the big willow basket to cut the branches, but before he cut them twice, the branches broke with a "click", and Fuhai fell to the ground with a branch, grinning and hurting his buttocks. The big willow basket "whirred" to the ground, and it bounced into the air more than 30 meters high. Fuhai stood on the ground, rubbing his aching buttocks, watching the hot air balloon fly into the sky, regretful.

Qin Caihou began to manipulate the angle of the canopy, wanting the hot air balloon to fly eastward, but the hot air balloon didn't listen to the call at all, but just went up and down in the air around the fart ditch, turning people dizzy, and Chunni lay in the willow basket and vomited.

Qin Caihou maneuvered for a long time, and felt that this sail canopy could not control the flight direction of the hot air balloon at all, and could only let the hot air balloon rotate in the sky like ice. However, he also found that the wind direction is not only different at different times and places, but also at different altitudes, which means that if you want the hot air balloon to fly east, you have to let the hot air balloon rise and fall into the wind layer where the wind blows westerly. The lifting of the hot air balloon is very easy to control, by adjusting the size of the fire. When the fire is large, the temperature of the air in the skin pocket rises, and the hot air balloon rises; When the fire is small, the air temperature in the skin pocket decreases, and the hot air balloon also decreases.

Qin Caihou dismantled the canopy, threw it down, and then adjusted the fire to let the hot air balloon rise and fall in the wind layer blowing westerly. The balloon began to drift steadily eastward.

Qin Caihou held the telescope and looked down on the edge of the big willow basket. found Chunni curled up in the willow basket and didn't dare to move, so he said to her, "You are faint." ”

Chunni blinked her eyes and asked pitifully, "What's the motion sickness?" ”

"Some people get motion sickness in a car, they get seasick when they take a boat, they get motion sickness when they get on a plane, you get motion sickness in a hot air balloon. The hot air balloon was spinning and shaking so hard just now that I almost fainted. ”

Chunni asked with a sad face, "What should I do then?" ”

"You lie here like me, but don't look down, look into the distance, and maybe you'll be fine in a while."

Chunni did as he said, propped up her body, and leaned on the edge of the big willow basket to look into the distance. After a while, I was no longer nauseous and vomiting, my head was no longer dizzy, and I could lower my head and look down.

At this time, Qin Caihou had already seen the entire formation on Weidiao Mountain.

No wonder Shi Po told him that this Weidiao Mountain was not called Weidiao Mountain in the past, but Badaogang. After Cui Sandiao occupied this mountain, because his brothers' names were all "eagles", they changed its name to Weidiao Mountain. Originally, this tall and mighty carving mountain embraces the eight gangs, these eight gangs are thousands of ravines, heavy mountains and mountains, naturally formed the kan, gen, earthquake, Xun, Li, Kun, Dui, dry eight parts, true and false, virtual and real, like a huge cornucopia, low and flat in the middle, gradually higher and higher all around. From the inside out, like undulating waves, one post is higher than the other; From the outside to the inside, the ridges are towering, layer upon layer, like a labyrinth, forming a natural nine-palace gossip array, which is wonderful. If you don't look down from the sky, you will never be able to solve the mystery.

In a rocky hill, Qin Caihou found the big bear father and son in the telescope. But he didn't rush to land to save people, but let the hot air balloon continue to fly eastward, and finally flew to the place Qin Caihou was looking for - poppy field.

In the center of the Badaogang embrace, there is a fish-shaped pond in the northwest, there is a fish-shaped cultivated land in the southeast, the pond and the cultivated land are inversely symmetrical in the shape of yin and yang Taiji, there is a big elm tree in the north of the cultivated land, and there is a small island in the south of the pond, which is shaped like a fish's eye in the Taiji, which makes Qin Caihou admire. He took the binoculars and looked down, and saw the red, white, yellow, pink and purple flowers blooming on the cultivated land, and he knew that this was the poppy field. He couldn't help but sigh: This is really a wildfire that can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows! It's been more than 30 years, and the poppy here is still stubbornly surviving year after year.

On the south bank of the pond is a steep slope, along which several rows of stone houses have been built, with ups and downs, and the contour line rises and falls, and the scene is steep and beautiful.

Qin Caihou began to turn off the fire and let the hot air balloon land, and the hot air balloon slowly landed in several rows of stone houses, and the animal skin pockets covered the big willow basket all over the place. Qin Caihou asked Chunni to stay in the big willow basket and not move, he climbed out of the big willow basket with a small basket for collecting medicine on his back, searched through these rows of stone houses, and finally stopped in front of a door wrapped in iron sheets. He found a rusty iron pickaxe, and with a single pickaxe, he smashed open the door, and when he smashed it open, he found that the room was full of jars and jars. He pulled out a dagger with his name engraved on it from his waist and pried open the mouth of a porcelain jar plugged with a wooden stopper wrapped in kraft linoleum paper, revealing that it was filled with large cigarettes. He stuffed the wooden stopper, put the porcelain jar in the back basket, covered it with a layer of grass, closed the tin door, and returned to the big willow basket.

Qin Caihou climbed into the big willow basket, lit the fire, and the hot air balloon slowly rose again. Qin Caihou found the wind layer where the east wind was blowing, and the hot air balloon began to drift back.

Floating above the rocky hill, Qin Caihou began to extinguish the fire again, and the hot air balloon slowly landed in the stone pile. Qin Caihou and Chunni climbed out of the big willow basket and found the big bear father and son in front of a pile of stones.

It is really worthy of the old hunter, who was trapped in this strange rocky hill like a sword for a month, and the father and son were stunned that they did not starve to death. Although he did not starve to death, he was also dying. Qin Caihou and Chunni took out food and drink from their bags and ate and drank with the big bear father and son.

At this time, night began to fall. As soon as the father and son struggled out of the death line, they began to be curious about Qin Caihou and Chunni coming here to find them. After listening to Qin Caihou and Chunni's narration, although they were like hearing the Arabian Nights, they also had to give Qin Caihou a thumbs up.

After eating and drinking, Qin Cai said humorously: "The sky is the house, the ground is the kang, it seems that we have to spend the night here today." ”

All four of them climbed into the big willow basket and fell asleep together.

In the middle of the night, the wind rose, and the air flow like an arrow shuttled and swirled among the strange stone mountain craftsmen, making a sharp sound, like a wolf howling and a tiger roaring, and the ghost crying god, Chunni was so frightened that she went straight into Qin Caihou's arms. Qin Caihou also hugged her tightly in his arms, and hugged and slept in the bleak and terrifying moonlight.

It was just a little white, and Daddy Bear woke up. At this time, he found Chunni sleeping soundly in Qin Caihou's arms. He woke everyone up, and when they had eaten and drunk, they began to burn the fire, and the hot air balloon slowly rose again, to the easterly wind layer, and the hot air balloon began to drift westward.

Da Xiong's father lay on the edge of the big willow basket and looked down, looking at the horizontal sand standing stones, overlapping like a mountain, frightened, and asked Qin Caihou: "Doctor Qin, how are these piles of stones placed, why can't I and Da Xiong go out?" ”

Qin Caihou said as he walked: "This is the gossip stone formation laid out by Cui Sandiao here according to Dunjiaxiu, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, shock, and opening repeatedly. You do not know this formation, and when you come in, you must enter through the door of death, so you cannot go out. Fortunately, we are now riding in a hot air balloon and escaping from the sky. ”

When the big bear father and son heard this, cold sweat broke out on their backs.

Talking and chatting, the hot air balloon has flown out of the rocky hill, and it is about to fly out of Weidiao Mountain, and even with a telescope, you can see the fart ditch, but the fire has roasted the bottom of the big willow basket and burned. Fortunately, there was a bucket of water next to the stove to extinguish the fire, and they quickly used it to extinguish the fire. They had just breathed a sigh of relief, and they didn't want the bottom of the basket under the stove to suddenly leak due to the burning just now, and the furnace leaked out of the hole with a "hole". Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, staring at each other, dumbfounded.

The hot air balloon lost control and fell helplessly like a parachute, but finally landed smoothly and no one was injured. They climbed out of the hot air balloon and had to walk back on foot. It didn't go far before the hot air balloon was ignited by the red charcoal that had been sprinkled on the ground and burst into flames. They all turned around and watched from afar as the fur pouches and large willow baskets burned to ashes, then turned back and continued on their way towards the ditch.

The sun was about to sink in the west, and the four of them finally went down Weidiao Mountain and returned to Jiafugou.