This should be the weapon of the river god! You...... Where did you get it? ”

Antique Li walked over tremblingly, bent down and touched the black-backed ancient knife.

Hearing him say this, I was first overjoyed and thought: Sure enough, this old boy really knows this weapon!

I thought so in my heart, but I still pretended to be very puzzled on my face, and asked, "This is something that someone accidentally discovered in a cave, can you take a look!" ”

Antique Li touched the dark lines on the weapon, his face was full of excitement, and he didn't know what he was muttering.

"This is indeed the weapon of the river god!" He muttered.

"What is the weapon of the river god! Could it be that there really is a river god in the world? ”

I deliberately provoked him.

Antique Li narrowed his eyes, glanced at me, stroked his sparse yellow beard, and replied: "Speaking of which, this river god is just a code name, originally referring to some mysterious believers in the Yellow River area during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. ”

In fact, Antique Li is a very simple old pedant, when talking about things in his professional field, he has always said something and has no reservations.

According to him, the title of river god should have begun in the Southern Song Dynasty, when the entire Yellow River valley was under the rule of the northern ethnic minorities, and some young people who were dissatisfied with the oppression of the Yellow River valley gathered in secret.

At the beginning, these people still had a slogan "drive out the Tartars, return me to China", but in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the nature of these people changed, and of course they may have lost confidence in "driving out the Tartars".

They began to burn and loot, in order to obtain finances, by any means.

The Great Yuan Dynasty was only a short period of eighty or ninety years, and was soon replaced by the Ming Dynasty, and the Yellow River Valley also returned to the rule of the Han people.

In the Ming and Zhu Di periods, the imperial capital was moved to Beijing, and the prosperity of the north really began.

At this time, these river gods wandering on both sides of the Yellow River suddenly disappeared for decades, and when they reappeared, they became even more mysterious.

They no longer burn and loot casually, but concentrate on finding and cultivating certain things.

Antique Li introduced it extremely roughly, because what he told was also collected from many ancient books, and there were no books in the world that specifically recorded the river god.

Antique Li consulted a lot of information, and the more he checked, the more strange he felt, because all the records of the river god seemed to have been consciously erased. He guessed that the river gods must have discovered something in the early Ming Dynasty decades, a discovery that should have been so attractive as gold, silver, and jewelry that they were no longer obsessed with plundering.

The mysterious river gods accompanied the Qing army into the customs, and also completely disappeared, some people say that they went up the river and came to the generation of Qinghai and Ningxia, because there was something hidden here.

At first, the river gods were not very organized, but in the later period, they gradually formed their own culture and specialized layers, which can actually be regarded as a religion.

The totem of the river god is the dark picture on these weapons - two snake-headed carp with two wings.

In recent decades, the Yellow River basin has occasionally found utensils printed with this pattern, but no weapons have ever been found, and some historians who specialize in the culture of the Yellow River basin speculate that the river god must have consciously hidden his own relics, and even boldly guessed that there was probably a big secret hidden in it.

……

What Antique Li said could be said to be unfinished, and everyone present was dumbfounded.

"Does the river god understand Gu art?"

Grandma suddenly asked.

"Gu art? I really don't understand this! However, some people speculate that the river god discovered the method of cultivating immortals and immortality in ancient times, which should be more attractive than Gu art! ”

After saying that, Antique Li looked at my grandmother and laughed a few times, which was very provocative.

Grandma was a little angry, flicked her sleeves, and said sharply: "What do you know, the highest level of Gu art is to prolong life under the pretense of Gu worms, and the lifespan of the Miao kings of our Miao clan is more than a hundred years old." ”

Hearing this, Antique Lee's smile froze on his face.

I walked up to my grandmother's side and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, do you mean that it is the river god who casts tricks on the monkeys?" Can...... But didn't the river god disappear hundreds of years ago? ”

Grandma coughed a few times and whispered back: "I'm guessing too!" It is said that our Miao people have a "Miao Sutra" that has been lost for more than a thousand years, and it records a lot of incredible Gu techniques, and prolonging life is just one of them, I heard the mother of the previous generation say, and it also records a kind of Gu technique that resurrects the 'dry corpse'......"

Grandma suddenly asked me: According to the description of the Monkey King, what do you think that cave looks like?

I thought about it and felt like a cellar.

Grandma shook her head and said slowly: This should be an ancient tomb, and the "cabinet" told by the Monkey King should be a huge coffin.

The deceased was a person who knew Gu art very well, and before he died, he had set everything up, just waiting for hundreds or even thousands of years later, someone accidentally entered his ancient tomb and touched the designed mechanism, so as to help him complete the "resurrection of the dry corpse" by ghost.

I ask why he didn't leave the tomb since he was resurrected! Instead, he used Gu magic to control a group of monkeys, and for more than ten years, he kept coming to the Jade Girl Village to snatch things.

Grandma shook her head and said that she didn't know, maybe there were still many things we didn't know!

Chen Laosan saw his grandmother like a mouse seeing a cat, with his head down and pestle on the side, I haven't asked until now, why his father and grandfather are also called Chen Laosan, and when he said that their deaths, Chen Laosan was like scared.

Looking at this formation, Li Xiaobai has also been observing, and in the end, he still didn't hold back and glanced at me.

I understood what he meant, so I asked my grandmother if I could tell them everything.

Grandma patted me and said slowly: "I'm old, you can decide the affairs of the Jade Girl Village in the future." ”

When I chose to tell the three of them about what had happened in the past few days, the three of them were red and white for a while, and they were dumbfounded.

Antique Li looked at me with a long mouth, and he didn't relax for a long time.

Everyone discussed it, and the top priority was to find this cave, if it was really the same as grandma guessed, then no matter what, we had to send this resurrected dried corpse back to their hometown again.

Discuss and go, everyone thinks that if they want to find this cave, they still have to rely on the Monkey King.

Grandma said it was easy to do!

Calling the Monkey King was the next morning.

After breakfast, my grandmother selected more than 20 girls from the cottage, and together with a few of us, came to the woods behind the village.

My grandmother handed me a horn and told me to blow it with all my strength.

After blowing, the horns made an extremely unpleasant sound, enough to urge people to urinate.

Maybe grandma also thought that this voice was too ugly, so she waved her hand and said, "Okay!"

Grandma quietly looked at the woods in the distance, and did not say a word, as if she was sure that the Monkey King would be able to hear the strange sound of the horns, and would definitely arrive here soon.

One minute, two minutes...... At least ten minutes passed, and just when I thought that the Monkey King would not come, I heard a few high-pitched cries from the woods in the distance, and the white tiger that had been picking its eyes came out of the woods.

When the tiger was still more than 100 meters away from us, it stopped.

The Monkey King jumped off the tiger's back, ran to me and my grandmother with his hands and feet, first squatted down, lowered his head and raised his hands, and then slowly stood up.

I grinned at the Monkey Dynasty, and I could tell that it was happy, probably because the Gu on its own monkey people had been lifted.

"Monkey King, we need you to take you to that cave!"

Grandma said slowly.

The Monkey King seemed to be a little embarrassed, maybe a little afraid, first lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and finally nodded resolutely.

Led by the Monkey King, we entered this forest.

This is a pristine forest that humans have not set foot in, and it is full of thick fallen leaves, and there is no road at all.

I don't know how the Monkey King judged the route, but we followed it around for two hours.

It was originally an isolated valley, surrounded by towering mountains.

The Monkey King actually led us to a small river, and we went down the river until we entered a cave.

At that time, I thought, this hole can't be the hole where the Monkey King said that there are weapons and strange people, right?

As I got closer, I realized that I had overthought it, and that it was obviously a natural cave, more than three meters high and more than two meters wide, with a small river leading deeper into the cave.

After walking for five or six minutes, with my extraordinary eyesight, I noticed that there were some grooves in the rock wall deep in the cave, and there was a skeleton stuffed inside, and it was clear that we were not the first people to arrive here.

The light in this section of the cave was already relatively dim, and I thought that the antique Li should not be able to see the grooves in the wall, so they took the torch in Xiaoqing's hand and held it high.

"Look over there! Lao Li? I pointed to the groove on the top of my head and asked Antique Lee.

Antique Li said "um", only glanced at it, and the crutch in his hand fell to the ground with a "click".

"That's ...... That's like a spirit watchman! Right...... It should be ......"

Antique Li seemed surprised, and raised his hand tremblingly to point at the wall.

At this time, several other young women with torches also raised their torches, and under the reflection of the lamp, the skeletons bound in the grooves by iron chains looked particularly eerie, especially the skulls, whose dry white teeth reflected the light, giving people the feeling of smiling but not laughing.

I glanced around and saw that there were at least a few hundred grooves in the cave from where we were, that is, at least a few hundred people had been crucified in the damp cave (Mom judged from the skeleton and teeth of the skeleton that these were young men between twenty and thirty years old, and that they had been nailed to the cave before they died).

"What do you call a spirit watcher?" Li Xiaobai tilted his head and asked Antique Li in a low voice.

The others were also curious, and turned their heads to look at him, waiting for the antique Li Fenxiao to answer the text.

Antique Li smiled bitterly a few times, and said slowly: "It seems that this is the hiding place of the river god, maybe it is the place where they hide their secrets......"

At that time, I wanted to kick him directly, how can this old guy be the same as grandma! Do you get confused when you get older?