Before I knew it, it was already dawn, and it was not a matter of continuing to be here, so Shen Lang and I took Xue Nan back to the hotel where we were staying, and then made plans.

After a busy night, and hearing so much unacceptable information, Shen Lang and I, exhausted, just wanted to sleep well, and wait until we woke up to think about the next plan, but Xue Nan said that she had something to go out, let us have a good rest, and waiting for her to come back is the real beginning of this thousand-year-old unsolved case.

In my sleep, I feel like I have come to a high platform, surrounded by mountains, and there is a stone monument in the middle, which is strong and square, standing majestically, giving people a sense of solidity and awe-inspiring and difficult to offend.

The audience is full of soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons, and I am in the middle of the high platform, the blue bricks have been eroded by thousands of years of wind and rain, the color is mixed with the dull yellow of the years in the blue and black, and the ground is carved with all kinds of strange lines, and there seem to be five huge black shadows at the end of the line extension, the black shadows seem to be looking at me in the dark, as if there is something to tell me, but I can't speak......

When I woke up, it was already afternoon, I hastily ate something, and waited for Xue Nan to come back with Zheng He's imitation of Bi Fang statue on the sofa.

In the evening, Xue Nan finally came back, carrying a box in his hand, and took out a statue from the box, which looked exactly the same as the statue in my hand, I understood that this was one of the five statues of Guanshan that had hidden secrets for thousands of years, and what I had in my hand was just an imitation made by Zheng He back then.

Xue Nan told me and Shen Lang that the bronze statue of Fuxian in Wannian Temple was originally a piece of paper and the imitation Bi Fang statue in my hand, and that paper was the place where the real statue was kept, Xue Nan found the real statue according to the guidance on the note, but she couldn't understand the secret of the real statue, so she could only hope that I would find it, after all, my father had left a letter, and I was the one who could really solve the fate of this thousand years.

After hearing this, Shen Lang and I approached Xue Nan, and the three of them looked at the statue carefully. The statue is shaped like a bird, cyan, with two legs and one wing, and some words are vaguely engraved on the wings with a seal.

Bi Fang, a symbol of fire. Wood spirits, like birds, are blue, barefoot, with two feet and one wing, and do not eat grains. Seeing it, there is a fire in the city. It is the god bird of the Yellow Emperor's car. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Divine Strange Scripture", "Huainanzi" and so on are all contained.

The real statue can be said to be exactly the same as the one imitated by Zheng He, almost as if it were fake, the only difference is the pattern on the wings and the text.

On the wings of the real statue is carved a living dragon, with a head like a camel, horns like a deer, eyes like a rabbit, ears like a cow, neck like a snake, belly like a mirage, scales like a carp, claws like an eagle, and palms like a tiger. The dragon's claws are not like ordinary carved dragons, not the number of ordinary four-clawed, five-clawed and eight-clawed, I counted them, and there are as many as thirteen claws.

There are lines engraved around the dragon, the lines are not straight lines, twists and turns, like auspicious clouds, there are eight carved lines, around the dragon in the middle, more majestic and mysterious.

Seeing the dragon body, the dragon body is engraved with two lines of words from top to bottom with a seal, and these two lines of words should be what this statue really wants to tell us.

Some people are unintentionally afraid of the tiger, and the dead have a vertical son to hide their belly.

The three of them, you look at me, I look at you, they are speechless to each other, and the hearts that have just been excited are like being poured with a basin of cold water.

The text of this carved dragon and dragon body is like a book from heaven, and it is understandable to think about it, after all, this is a secret that has been passed down by Guanshan for thousands of years, and if you can guess it after reading it, it is too child's play.

The thirteen claws of the dragon seem to have a certain significance. The ancients all had corresponding specifications, especially the statues used to hide the message, and it was impossible to carve them wrongly, and the thirteen claws instead of the four claws and eight claws must represent a symbol.

Huaxia respects the dragon, and the emperors of all dynasties call themselves the true dragon emperors, in order to prove that the monarchy is divinely granted, and it is natural for their own rivers and mountains to sit, but the dragon on this statue does not always refer to a certain emperor, it is a location, and the one that represents is a place.

Saying my thoughts, it is better than me alone under brainstorming, Xue Nan seemed to be inspired when he heard it, and said hesitantly.

"I have a guess, if the dragon claw does not represent the emperor, will it represent the imperial city?"

A word woke up the dreamer, and when I heard Xue Nan's words, I suddenly realized that the thirteen claws represent not the thirteen emperors, but an imperial city that has been set thirteen times in history.

Chang'an, also known as Hojing and Xijing, was the political, economic and cultural center of ancient China for a long time, and was the city with the longest time as the capital in ancient China.

There are thirteen dynasties that have built their capitals here: Western Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Xin, Eastern Han, Western Jin, Former Zhao, Former Qin, Later Qin, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang and other thirteen dynasties, which lasted for 1,140 years.

Luoyang, also known as Luoyi, Luojing, and Shendu, is located in the western part of Henan Province, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and is named because it is located in the yang of the Luohe River. It has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city building, and more than 1,500 years of capital building.

Luoyang also has the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, in history, there are Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, these thirteen dynasties have been set here successively.

"What kind of thing is this, tossing for a long time and ending up in two places."

Shen Lang is like this. The limbs are developed and the mind is simple, and when it comes to the part of using the brain, there is only complaining.

I looked at the statue carefully, such a big secret can't just be given to a vague location, Luoyang Chang'an, there must be another difference, where is the difference?

Inadvertently looking at the lines on the side of the dragon, zigzag and winding like flowing clouds, I thought this was just a decoration of the dragon carving, but such an important matter, how could there be an inconsequential superfluous brush?

I counted the number of lines again, no more, no less, exactly eight, no fixed arrangement, the weirdest thing is that each one is different in length and curvature, just like doing it casually, without a fixed posture.

"Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent...... It's not a cloud, it's a flowing water, or a flowing river! ”

"Eight rivers surround Chang'an, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, this dragon is Xi'an!"

After sorting out the thoughts in my head, I couldn't help but shout.

As soon as I finished speaking, Xue Nan reacted, but Shen Lang still asked me stupidly, why this dragon is Xi'an.

Without waiting for me to speak, Xue Nan glanced at Shen Lang with disdain and explained to him the relationship between this dragon and Xi'an.

Chang'an can be described as "the spine of the world, the first dragon of the Central Plains." "All dynasties have believed that there is a royal spirit here, and there have been thirteen dynasties to set their capital here, which is one of the symbols of China.

Eight rivers around Chang'an refer to the eight rivers of Wei, Jing, Feng, Shui, Wei, Zhu, Chan and Ba, which flow around Xi'an.

Sima Xiangru, a writer of the Western Han Dynasty, wrote in the famous Cifu "Shanglin Fu": "The eight rivers are divided, and they are contrary to each other. It describes the beauty of the forest garden in Chang'an in the Han Dynasty, and later there is a description of eight rivers around Chang'an.

I looked at Xue Nan appreciatively, what she said was not bad at all, and about the eight rivers around Chang'an, I once saw such an allusion.

It is rumored that the family dragon vein of Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is in Longxi, and Longxi is located in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, located on the Hexi Corridor, Weishui flows through the whole territory, west of Lanzhou, east of the ancient capital of Chang'an, the land of Longxi has the spirit of dragon and tiger, nourished by this place, the dragon spirit of the Li family gradually appeared.

But there is a fly in the ointment, Feng Shui Kanyu once said that the mountain is the power of the dragon, the water is the blood of the dragon, the dragon vein is inseparable from the mountain and water, since ancient times, the land of mountains and rivers is a treasure of feng shui.

However, this dragon vein is short of water, the lonely yin does not give birth to the lonely yang does not grow, and there are mountains without water, which is congenitally insufficient, and it is destined to be unpeaceful in future generations.

Therefore, it was not a random decision for the Li family to gain the country and build the capital of Chang'an, but it was the eight rivers around Chang'an that were valued, and the Li family relied on these eight rivers to sit firmly in the country. If it is said that the secrets hidden in Guanshan for thousands of years are related to this ancient capital, it must be a matter of course.

"But Chang'an is so big, it's hard to find a secret to hide."

After the excitement, Shen Lang drooped his head again and said listlessly.

I smiled and pointed to the words engraved on the dragon's body and said to Shen Lang.

"That's the location."

Since I was a child, I have not been a good child in the traditional sense, but I have seen a lot of secrets in various subsets of history, these two sentences are like riddles, I saw the real meaning at first sight, but knowing the meaning does not mean that I can understand, since the premise is Chang'an, then I think, I already know where the real hidden place on this statue is.

Some people are unintentionally afraid of the tiger, and the dead have a vertical son to hide their belly.

For the tiger to do a job, and this is not the other, there is a heart for "long" and no heart for "long", which is hidden in a "long" word.

The deceased, take the word of the person, the vertical child, take the word of the child. Hide its belly, anointment, Chinese medicine refers to the part of the diaphragm of the heart, the ancients said that the disease is from this, the vertical child is hidden in the place where the deceased is anointed, and the person takes half of the child and puts it into it, this sentence is hidden in the word "save". And the two sentences are connected together for the word "forever".

Eight rivers around Chang'an in the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties, this is the place where the statue of Bi Fang really points to.

Tell Xue Nan and Shen Lang what I thought, Xue Nan seemed to think of something, but Shen Lang still looked confused.

"Survive forever, thousands of years have passed, how can there be any longevity, it has been rebuilt everywhere, isn't this still the same as not saying!"

Don't think about it, if you are so active and don't have a long brain, it must be said by Shen Lang.

Ignoring Shen Lang, I asked Xue Nan to put away the statue, pack his luggage, and then shouted Shen Lang.

"Shen Lang, book a ticket!"

Shen Lang looked at me with confused eyes and was at a loss.

"Where are you going, Brother Chuan, do you know the meaning of the land of eternal existence?"

I looked at Shen Lang with a confident glow in my eyes.

"Coincidentally, I really know that Chang'an has a place to live forever!"