Chapter 3: Into the Mountains

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The second uncle sent me a map, I zoomed in and looked at it, and found that this map was an ancient map, and the fonts on it were all from before, but I still recognized that this map was a map of Chu State, which should include the current South and East China, and the area of Chu State was very large.

There is an area on the map circled in red lines, written Feixu Village, this place is our destination, I opened the map in my mobile phone, carefully looked for a city similar to this map of Chu, and finally locked the target in Nanchang, Jiangsu.

"Wang Kun, do you know how to get to Nanchang?" I asked.

Wang Kun said: "I know, then I started." ”

After speaking, Wang Kong started the jeep and drove a few of us on the road to Nanchang, we only dared to take the small road, for fear of being checked.

Hangzhou is actually not far from Nanchang, but it took us a day to get there in circles on the small roads, and of course we will not drive into the city.

On the way, the second uncle sent me a text message, asking me to go to a courier point to get equipment, this should be the firearm he gave, and many people at the courier point are in the dirt line, these equipment are sent by them, I arrived at the place, reported the name and mobile phone number, he gave me a very heavy package, I put the package in the car, and continued to move on.

The places in the city that can be developed have been developed, and the ants don't know where to put their homes, and if the burial chamber should have been discovered in the city, we chose to park outside a village, because there is a lot of space in the jeep, and a few of us don't feel crowded at all when we sleep in the car.

After a night's rest, I got out of the car the next morning, breathing in nature's freshest air, feeling refreshed and energized.

It's been a long time since I've seen such a simple scenery, and I'm used to seeing reinforced concrete in the city, like a bird locked in a cage, and I can't fly out, so I can only endure a boring life.

Now I am a bird flying out of the cage, enjoying freedom and wildness, but in addition to chic, I have to complete the task given to me by my second uncle.

I took out my phone and looked at where I am, because the village is so remote that the name of the village is not marked on the map, only a few rugged lines showing the path to the place.

This place is not far from the Feixu Village on the map sent by the second uncle, after all, it was a map more than a thousand years ago, according to the current development of the city, it will change greatly if you don't go for three years, not to mention the dynasty that changes with the historical river.

In order to find out, I decided to go to the village to find a few people to ask, and I asked Wang Kun and a few of them to wait for me in the car, because if several of our outsiders suddenly entered their village, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.

The road leading to the village has not yet been repaired, it is full of dirt roads, probably because of the recent rain, and the road is still very wet and has very fine ruts, which should be the traces of the carts of the villagers.

Soon I walked to the entrance of the village, there is a sign here, on which the word Xiong Zhuang is written, seeing the name of this village, I already have the bottom in my heart, when the Chu State was not destroyed by the Qin State, the monarchs of the past dynasties were surnamed Xiong, this place is called Xiong Zhuang, and it must be related to the Chu State.

When I went into the village, the first thing I went to find was the commissary, because the village is not as big as the big city, there are no big entertainment places such as bars and KTV, people usually go to the commissary to sit and play when they are idle and bored, and three or five old friends make an appointment to play cards together, and then buy some snacks and drinks, and sit for a day.

Xiongzhuang is not very big, I went deep along the main road, and soon saw a small store, a two-story building, with a shed at the door, in which many plainly dressed people sat together to chat and play cards, and some people stood behind the card players, poked their heads to see, and from time to time they would sigh, as if this card should not be so out.

I approached the commissary, went to the store first and bought a few bottles of drinks, weighed two catties of melon seeds, and then came out and put the melon seeds on an empty table, and there was a man who looked to be about sixty years old, and I beckoned him to sit down, and the people in the village were very simple, and when they saw me calling him, he came.

"Uncle, eat some melon seeds."

I said, he grabbed a handful of melon seeds and talked to me while sipping on them.

"Where are you from, it looks a bit raw."

Uncle asked me this, but his tone was very light, not vigilant, but like a casual question, just to open the topic.

I said, "I've been going to school in other places, and it's not just in time for the summer vacation to come back and see." ”

"Oh, then your study is quite good, our village has a little bit of culture and moved out to live, in this deep mountain and old forest, the traffic is not convenient, fortunately there is electricity." The old man said to me.

He wasn't suspicious of what I was making up, or that people didn't want to ask me about it at all.

"Has our village been here all along, have you ever moved? We had a teacher who taught cultural heritage and gave me an assignment to write about the cultural heritage of my hometown, because we used to be the boundary of the Chu State, so I wanted to know the history of the village. I would also like to ask you about the elderly. "I'm glad I'm young enough to use this homework to learn about the history of Kumazhuang.

When the old man heard me talk about cultural heritage, his eyes were full of essence, as if he had suddenly become a teenager younger.

"Yes, our village was Chu in ancient times, and there are still many direct bloodlines of Chu surnamed Xiong, but there are no famous buildings, when I was young, the village moved several times, because the back of the village is hills, and landslides often occur, so we can only keep moving outward, but our roots are here, and we are reluctant to move too far. In the past, our village was very big, because of the relocation again and again, many people went directly to the county town to settle down, and we old ones were left here. ”

The old man gushed endlessly, and I picked the key memories, because I came to find treasures, not really to study history, and my family is not here.

According to the clues given by the old man, I probably know some clues, because this place is in a hilly area, and it is very prone to landslides in heavy rain, and Feixu Village is likely to have been buried, but in this range, we are in the right direction.

After thanking the old man, I went out of the village to meet with Wang Kun and a few of them, Wang Kun asked me impatiently, "How is it Brother Yang Qi, is it here?" ”

I nodded yes, "We've come to the right place, but we have to go a little deeper, and the road will be difficult to walk any further, and we may have to walk on foot in the end." ”

After speaking, let Wang Kong drive forward, there were more and more trees in front of him, the road became narrower and narrower, and finally the jeep couldn't move forward, so we all got out of the car.

In front of us was a slowly rising ramp, which was no longer accessible to jeeps, and due to the rain, the road was muddy and there were many puddles.

"It's going into the mountains ahead, and the road is very slippery, so everyone should pay attention." I said.

After that, we all took the equipment, Qin Jue was the largest and had the most equipment, and the rest of us took flashlights and guns, and I took a pistol. Qin Jue's shotgun, Wang Kun and Mu Ling all took submachine guns, and the rest were bullets and plenty of ammunition.

I took a few of them to the mountain, stepping on the muddy road, if you are not careful, it is easy to slip, along the way a few of us did not talk much, after walking for an hour, there was a cliff in front of us, in the middle of which was a wooden bridge entwined with vines, it seemed that no one had walked on this bridge for a long time, and I don't know if we could still walk through it.

Mu Ling walked up directly, he easily walked to the other side, and said to a few of us, "It's very strong, you can go." ”

I just walked up the bridge slowly, I didn't dare to look down at the bridge, I knew that there might be an abyss below, and I walked over in fear, my heart was still beating.

"Your face doesn't look right, there are even more terrifying things in the ancient tomb, don't waste your expression here." Wang Kun looked at me and said jokingly.

I patted him and said, "I'm not afraid, I'm just tired." ”

While the two of us were talking, Mu Ling, who was walking in the front, suddenly shouted, "Come on, there are many tiles and stone bricks here." ”

Wang Kun and I hurriedly followed, and came to the location of Mu Ling, which was indeed full of broken walls and collapsed gatehouses, and it seemed that it was a small village before, but now it is uninhabited.

"This is the same clue I heard, the old people in the village told me that they used to live in the mountains, and then moved to live outside, this place may be the ruins of the previous village, but the bricks used to build the houses in this place and the shape of the houses are not much different from now, so it should not be the Feixu Village we are looking for, and we have to continue to walk inside."

We are now in a position that has just entered the mountains, not yet deep, and there are no people around, there are weeds and dead trees everywhere, and my vision is limited, so it is difficult to observe the terrain here, and I can't use the terrain I have learned.

"We have to move on, if you are tired, you can take a break, eat some dry food, drink some water, and adjust a little." I said, in fact, my body is a little unbearable, usually I stay at home in the antique shop, how can there be such a serious physical exertion, the three of them just wait for me to rest for a while, and then a few of us set off again.

The road behind the ruins of this village is even more difficult to walk, because there is no road left, and you have to find the way by yourself, and there are no human footprints in it. And the road is no longer smooth, but a 60-degree slope, and it is very difficult to walk on this slope.

However, after going up this slope, we can see the whole view of the hills, and then we can deduce the location of the tomb based on the theoretical knowledge of the earth bracket, so that we can start the work of descending into the ground.