I couldn't wait to run to the wooden box in the utility room in the backyard to rummage through the notebook, the wooden box was some old things from my uncle, who had been unmarried for many years, and many things were stored in my house, but I never touched the exploration notebook, and my father and mother hardly told anyone about my uncle's experience, but I remember listening to them quietly discuss that issue and talk about that strange thing when I was a child.

If it weren't for the time I opened the note, I wouldn't have known that this place was so close to our county. There was a yellowed ancient book pressed under the notes, and on it were some tadpole-like words that I couldn't understand at all, and I flipped through them, and I couldn't recognize a basket of them in Chinese, and I didn't understand them, so I just put them on the side.

Liye, Qixing Mountain, the mysterious fire in Yongdao, dry bones, underground deep pools, bronzes scattered in underground rivers, mysterious big fish. Every time I flipped, I increased my curiosity a little more, and when I skimmed out the data, the whole thing became clearer and clearer in front of me.

But when I thought about such a terrible thing, many people missing, missing, my uncle's brain damage, and loss of consciousness, I hesitated a little. I guess I was too excited about what I did just now, and Mao followed me on Tuesday, I don't know what's wrong with me.

I told him about the matter, but I didn't expect this kid to get excited all of a sudden, and said: "Erwa, I think it's okay, this is just a piece of fat in your hand, how can you miss it in vain, anyway, it's idle now, it's better to do it once, anyway, these things are put in the ground for nothing." ”

This Tuesday baby is really interested, this kid went back to the county to buy equipment, to be honest, in the Republic of China, our county slapped a large piece of land, high-end goods have not heard of and can't afford to buy, just buy a flashlight, batteries, ropes, candles, two machetes, two small hoes, chalk for marking, etc., and finally a large bag of dry food.

The year 1918 of the new lunar calendar kicked off the prelude to our future exploration career.

At that time, there was no road at all, we took a boat down the water, and finally arrived at Liye, I used to hear the old man say that we were in the upper reaches of Liye, and when we arrived in the countryside, we began to look for Li Shuifa.

Li Shuifa is the uncle of the local robe, no need to ask, the inn guys all know, and said with a smile: "Uncle is estimated to be eating tea in the Shunqing teahouse on the front street now." ”

"Eating and talking about tea", this has to involve the largest non-governmental organization in the southwest region during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China-Pao Ge.

Brother Pao, also known as Hanliu, was one of the three major non-governmental gang organizations in old China, along with the Qing Gang and Hongmen. In our time, most of the adult males in the Wuling Mountains joined the organization, and "being a robe" became a social trend. There were many people who later said that Brother Pao is a bandit, this is too one-sided, there are Brother Pao among the bandits, but Brother Pao is definitely not all bandits. Like my father, who has a bit of face in the local area, but is just to expand his contacts and find a kind of shelter to join, they are called "Brother Qingshui", and that kind of professional bandit is called "Brother Muddy Water". ”

The office of Pao Ge Wharf is located in the teahouse, and some of the teahouses themselves are opened by Pao Ge. The robe brothers deal with some civil disputes in the teahouse, which is called "eating and talking about tea"

Chen Congxian is an outsider, Brother Pao naturally has rules for outsiders, I am Brother Pao, when I walk to someone else's dock, I naturally have to worship the dock according to Brother Pao's rules. Back then, we called this kind of rule the Tea Bowl Formation.

When we entered the teahouse, we found an empty table and sat down. After the cousin brought it up, I was not in a hurry to drink, the right hand served the tea, the three fingertips of the left hand lightly leaned against the teacup, made into the shape of "three and a half incense", indicating that the so-called "Hongmen shot without leaving the three", and sat without saying a word, indicating who was waiting for someone.

The cousin saw that he was a robe brother who came to worship the pier. "Where did Hanliu come from?" Where did Hanliu come from? ”

I took out my public film treasure and said, "I'll talk to the fifth brother of the red flag." ”

The cousin glanced at it and said, "Brother, please!" ”

On Tuesday, Mao was a widow (he didn't join Brother Pao), so I had to go to the back hall alone.

Entering the back room, the cousin led me to a crowd of people who were drinking tea and smoking hookah, and whispered a few words to a middle-aged man wearing a top hat and a gray cloth robe. Brothers worship brother cultivation, under the brother to carry love, the word of the false occupation of the word righteousness, long heard that Guilong Wharf is beautiful, outstanding people, my brother brought a single piece of grass, please wait for Guilong Wharf a brother. My brother is mostly in the hills, less in the study, only knows the preciousness of the rivers and lakes, is not familiar with the etiquette of the rivers and lakes, everything is not thoughtful, and I hope that the eldest brother will raise the dragon sleeves high, show his arms, dragon and phoenix flags, sun and moon flags, flower flags, and give my brother a good word flag. ”

The middle-aged man listened to my incision skillfully, nodded slightly, and said, "What is the matter with my brother coming to our dock?" ”

I bowed to the mountain and said, "I want to see the dragon head." ”

The middle-aged man asked: "Uncle is eating tea now, what is difficult for you, how about I call the second master in charge?" ”

I said, "Brother, I'm not too troublesome, I just want to ask my uncle something." ”

The middle-aged man said: "Then please ask my brother to serve tea outside, and I will invite my brother to go upstairs when the matter is done." ”

After a while, the middle-aged man came to invite us upstairs, the tea bureau was dispersed, and an old man sat by the window in the private room upstairs, it was Li Shuifa, after we saluted, Li Shuifa wanted to greet him, and said: "I don't know what my brother has to do with me?" ”

I said: "Three years ago, there were more than a dozen exploration teams to engage in geological exploration, and the leader was my uncle Chen Congxian, who now has cerebral palsy and is still recuperating in Nanjing. ”

Li Shuifa sighed and said: "Three years ago, we came here with more than a dozen outsiders, engaged in geological exploration, I had to go to a mountain at our point, saying that there might be some mines in that mountain, I advised them not to go, maybe you little babies don't believe it, that mountain was cursed by the "ghost grass woman", they said that I was feudal superstition, and then I went up, I accompanied them to move the machine up the mountain, and then they went into the cave, let us go back and wait, and said that they would come back in a few days and continue to drink with us.

After many days without news, suddenly one day someone came to me and said that the leader of the exploration team had been found by a fisherman on a river beach dozens of miles away, and only found that he was washed out by the water. Estimate... ”

I asked, "What's wrong with that mountain, why do so many people go in and come out alone?" ”

"That mountain is called Qixing Mountain, the problem of dog day is big, when we were young, we heard a lot of people from the old generation say that it was a mountain that was Gu by a "ghost grass woman" with high mana in ancient times, and I don't know which life has never been up. Legend has it that there were some people who collected medicine and firewood in the past, and they never came down when they went up, and occasionally one or two came back either stupid or stupid, and we don't know why. When the old man Li Shuifa talked about Qixing Mountain, he still had palpitations.

"We don't know that it was the "ghost grass woman" who was gracious, or the idea was too right, after going up, there was no, and everyone came back safely, everyone had to be happy, thinking that it was really feudal superstition, who knew that it was only a few days, and I heard the news of the exploration team, and now the mountain is even more daring to go. ”

I asked, "Old man, where is that mountain?" ”

Li Shuifa glanced at me and said, "You little baby, what kind of JB is curious, the farther away you are from that mountain, the better, and don't ask about those inexplicable things." ”

I lied and said: "Brother Longtou, this is the case, the two of me are learning feng shui, last time my master talked about how the feng shui of the Seven Star Mountain is a fierce land, and it involves my family, I am a little curious, I want to come and see, it is also to learn Ha, in the future, we can also avoid this Tianxin, the five elements!" ”