Volume 1: The Candle Dragon of the South China Sea Chapter 11: The Mountain Plan
Then the fat man said: "This matter has been going on for more than 30 years, I think that my father followed Chen Haoyue, her grandmother He Xiangu and your grandfather Chen Erye, a group of seven people went to the mountains to rob tombs, and this time it has been more than 30 years." ”
Only after hearing this did I understand that the fat man had such a deep relationship with He Xiangu's family, no wonder she was so close to Chen Haoyue. Before I could recover my senses, the voice of a fat man came to my ears again.
"In the past few years, although I have been to countless places to find my father's whereabouts, and I have been waiting for him to come back, but of the seven people they went to, only your grandfather and He Xiangu were normal people who came back, and the rest of them either disappeared or went crazy not long after they came back."
I then asked the fat man: "Then why don't you ask He Xiangu, my grandfather also passed away half a month ago, and I also want to know what happened to them before they entered the mountain." ”
"I've asked, it's useless! When my father just disappeared, I cried and shouted every day to ask He Xiangu to find out about this, but He Xiangu didn't mention a word, once I cried in front of He Xiangu's house for three days and three nights, and my eyes were almost blind, but the old lady He still had a cold face and refused to say anything. ”
After listening to the fat man's words, I felt more and more that this thing was a little strange, and suddenly felt a little wrong, I quickly stopped the fat man and asked, "What did you say in the first sentence?" Grave? Where to rob the graves. ”
The fat man extinguished his cigarette, unhurriedly took a pendant from his neck, handed it to me, and said, "Let your boy take a look at it today to see if he can recognize this thing." ”
I took the pendant and looked at it carefully in my hand, the size of my thumb, the whole body was black and transparent, shining warmly in the dim light, the front end was sharp and the back end was oval, and there was a silver thread wrapped on it, and the words were deeply engraved inside - touch gold.
"It's... Could this be the legendary gold talisman? You are... Touch.. Touching the Golden Captain? "I groped for memories in my mind, and remembered that this was the talisman used by tomb robbers to protect themselves, which was called in the inverted bucket industry: touching the gold talisman. I used to be able to see it when I was collecting antiques, but this thing can only be found by Captain Jin, where did the fat man get it?
The fat man looked at me a little puzzled, and said with an arrogant face: "My ancestor is the heir of the golden captain, my father followed that group of people to the mountains to rob the tomb, I was still in my mother's womb at that time, I didn't know anything, and when I was sensible, my mother gave this to me, saying that my father left it when he left, and I have waited for so many years to see what my father looks like, and it is the only relic that my father left me." ”
When I looked at him again, the fat man's eyes were already a little moist, and I hurriedly comforted him a few words, but I didn't expect this fat man's life experience to be worse than mine.
I looked at him and said, "My grandfather used to have a notebook that said that 30 years ago, a team of them went to the mountains of Yunnan for archaeology, and then the team began to disappear inexplicably. ”
The fat man was a little puzzled, so I told him everything in the note, and after speaking, the fat man looked at me with a solemn face, and said: "This candle dragon ridge is not a place where living people dare to go, what kind of bear heart leopard gall did your grandfather eat, dare to go to that place." ”
I then asked the fat man, "What kind of place is this Candle Dragon Ridge, and why no one dares to go there?" ”
The fat man lit a cigarette and said: "That place is inaccessible, not many people know at all, I also heard some old people say when I was a child, the legend is that the mountain is the place where the candle yin was born, and there is a candle yin hidden in the candle dragon ridge, the candle yin is a mythical beast in ancient legends, a human-faced dragon god, and a candle is still in his mouth." ”
Myths and stories are just legends after all, what the hell is going on. I listened to the fat man's words, and I lit a cigarette and listened to him.
"I've lived in this place for decades, and I've never been to that place and I've never heard of it."
The fat man continued: "According to those old men, the dragon is thousands of miles long, and when you open your eyes, it is a sunny day, and when you close your eyes, it is a foggy day, and the whole mountain is made of dragons. And the dragon had a candle in his mouth, and whatever was lit by this candle could turn into gold. ”
"The people in that village will use some poultry to worship, and the candle dragon will shine a mountain into a mountain of gold, and then this matter will be spread out, and there will be many greedy people who want to go up the mountain to find gold, and occasionally a few lucky people will come back alive from the mountain, and they can pick up a lot of gold, but they can really come back alive from that place, and there is only one person in a hundred people at most, and that person is eighty percent of the people who saved the world in their previous life."
I was stunned for a moment, and I suddenly gasped in my heart, and the cigarettes in my hands fell to the ground, and my grandfather's notes recorded that gold was indeed found in the mountains, could it be that there is really such a thing in Candle Dragon Ridge?
I listened to him without thinking, but the fat man said that there was only so much he knew, which couldn't help but make me fall into deep thought, I looked at the fat man and said, "I see, if you want to find out the truth of this matter, you really have to go to the candle dragon ridge to find out." ”
The fat man looked at me and punched me: "Brother, just wait for your words." ”
I looked at the fat man and said, "I don't know where this place is, and I don't have any clues in my hand." ”
"It seems that I have to go back to my hometown, what I said was also mentioned by an old man in our village when I was a child, I didn't care about it at all, I just felt curious, and I didn't know if the old man was still alive now." The fat man took a big gulp of cigarette and said with a solemn face.
"I'm here to figure this out, but I can't let my grandfather die in vain, so when are we going to leave."
The fat man sighed, looked at the deep night sky outside the window, and said, "It seems that this matter can be hanging, we have to prepare things, where is really too dangerous, if you don't die, you have to send it there." ”
I continued to light a cigarette for the fat man, thinking to myself that this was not as simple as we thought, and that if we were not fully prepared, it would be like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger.
The two of us continued to talk until midnight, during which time I went to buy two more boxes of cigarettes and smoked as I planned the action. Through this night's chat, I felt that this fat man was okay, and my impression of him immediately changed a lot.
By the next day, when the sky was dark, the fat man and I were already sleepy, and the two of us were leaning cross-legged against the wall, our eyelids beating vigorously.
After the police went to work, they let us go, I endured the sleepiness, took out my mobile phone and called Chen Haoyue to come and pick us up, we were so sleepy that we couldn't lie in the car and fell asleep, at noon the sun shone on the face, the sun's piercing eyes hurt, I opened my eyes and saw that I and the fat man were still sleeping in the car, and quickly woke up the fat man, I didn't eat all night and was too hungry to take Chen Haoyue and the three of them to the restaurant to have a meal first.
When I arrived at the hotel, the fat man's big mouth actually told Chen Haoyue about going to Candle Dragon Ridge this time, and Chen Haoyue was so happy when she heard it that she had to follow us into the mountains to hunt for treasure.