Chapter 13: The Dead - Unidentified
Professor Sun sorted out the information collected today before the campfire, and on the other hand, he intermittently gave us the legend recorded on the inscription, the stone pillar under the Wuyang King's coffin was left by the water control in that year, the carved seal was extremely fine, the pattern is "light and heavy thunder pattern", the seal is "snail cicada ancient seal", and other idle people can't understand these strange snail seals like a book from heaven, but Professor Sun has been immersed in this way for decades, poured infinite effort, and has attained extraordinary attainments, which is not accessible to ordinary scholars and experts, and it is not a problem to read seven or eight percent. Whole\Ben/Small\Say/Net\
I was secretly glad in my heart, if I hadn't dragged Sun Jiuye to Qingxi alive, with me and Shirley Yang and Fat Man, even if I saw these ancient riddles, I only saw that I didn't say much at the moment, and listened attentively to Professor Sun's narration, the original hint of looking for the entrance of the Dixian Ancient Tomb, in addition to hiding the secret of Qingwu Feng Shui, is really related to the ancient legends in the "Coffin Gorge".
In the early years, due to the unique topography of the Wushan Mountain Range, it was not benefited by the water diversion of the yin and yang fish, and the floods in this mountainous area were raging, and the floods and natural disasters continued year after year, and countless people and animals were swallowed by the flood every year, becoming the food of the fish in the river.
Just when the upper and lower hands were helpless, there was a hermit in the mountain, burly, full of beard, dressed in black robes, calling himself "King Wuling", with the skill of moving mountains, which could drive the Yin soldiers to dredge the river.
But he also put forward two conditions, one is that during the project of moving mountains and opening rivers, the place should be dedicated to wine, meat and rice, and when it is time to eat, the wine, meat and rice will be piled up at the entrance of the cave, and there is a big ding in front of the cave. The people in the food delivery area sounded three times in advance, and then hurried out of the mountain to avoid.
The second condition was to ask the Son of Heaven to be crowned an official in recognition of his merits, because of the huge project at that time, even if he was willing to pay for food and people, he could not do the act of moving mountains and guiding rivers.
So the king of Wuling did it all day long, driving the Yin soldiers and Yin generals to dredge the river. Since then, the mountain is gloomy every day, the sound of attacking the mountain and opening the stone is rolling like thunder, the local people feel its virtue, choose a woman surnamed Li, marry the king of Wuling as his wife, and then offer food for the Yin soldiers of Kaihe, all supervised by the lady herself.
The water control project was difficult and long, and one day it suddenly rained heavily. King Wuling commanded the Yin soldiers to cut down the river, and the wine and food sent were untouched for two consecutive days. The lady became worried, and led them into the mountains.
To the scene of the river felling, everyone was shocked, a big black pig in the canyon is arching the mountain with its head in the water, behind it is countless mountain ghosts and mandrills to carry soil and stones, it turns out that the king of Wuling is the black sheep in the mountain. To show the original form and open the river with the power of ghosts and gods, so he never let people go into the mountains to see each other.
King Wuling saw that the original form was recognized, and since then he has been hiding in the mountain, refusing to open the river again, and he is even more ashamed to see his wife again, and his wife knelt in front of the mountain and begged to no avail. He had no choice but to throw himself into the cliff and die, and King Wuling felt ashamed of his wife, so he led the Yin soldiers to dredge the last section of the river and completely cured the flood.
The DPRK and China issued a heavy reward and asked Wuling Zhenjun to deal with another section of the river that was seriously flooded. If you can collect all the credit, there should be a period of sealing the king. But King Wuling said that he would return to the deep gorge from now on, unless his wife was resurrected, he would never open the mountain, and on the day of farewell, there would be thousands of people to send him off.
King Wuling was drunk, mistakenly went to Xiling Mountain, showed his original form and fell asleep, but was captured by the local unaware mountain people, immediately tied tightly, burned the cauldron, and was a busy job of hair removal and bloodletting, and when his subordinates found the whereabouts of King Wuling of Yishan, the king's water has been cooked for a long time.
Then the local plague was a great blow, and then the locusts came to the sky again, and the people said that this was the ghost of the king of Wuling, so he built a big tomb in the gorge, and collected the remains of his remaining land for burial, but only a body of skin and flesh remained, the head and probably was eaten, and it could not be found again, and the temple was built to sacrifice endlessly every year, and the jade body and copper head were worshipped.
"Coffin Gorge" criss-cross the canyon, and the wall full of bird road paths, are the remains of the Wuling King to make the Yin soldiers open the river, the past dynasties in the process of opening the river to control the water of the local people, are included in the hanging coffin, with the flood gradually lowered, layer by layer buried on the cliff, originally unintentional, unexpectedly constituted a headless colossus figure, I am afraid it is also the harbinger of the death of the King of Wuling, and the King of Wuling out of the mountain, had taken the Yin soldiers to dig the Wuyan vein in the mountain, the salt well mine in the "Coffin Gorge", that is, where its mausoleum is located, From the palace to the king's tomb, it is necessary to go through a section of "Hundred Steps Bird Road" to reach the entrance of the tomb.
Professor Sun told us this record as it was, and I suddenly realized: "It turns out that this passage left by the head of the Feng regiment back then, in fact, only the last sentence is useful, or this may be just the first paragraph, which means that the entrance to the ancient cemetery of Dixian may be hidden in the original tomb of the Wuyang King, so if you want to visit the Dixian, first look for the black sheep, and the legend of the Wuyang King opening the mountain and guiding the river is an important clue to find the king's tomb, but the first step of this knowledge to find the Dixian Village, there must be some hints next, and it is unknown now." ”
Shirley Yang also has a lot of confusion about the legend of the "Black Sheep King", and asked Professor Sun: This legend does not sound like a historical fact, according to this, the King of Wuling should be a virtuous person who opened the mountain and controlled the water, and the people have merit and virtue, but the corpse in the cave is so tyrannical, but it is very different from the deeds on the inscription, will there really be the tomb of King Guangde in the coffin gorge? ”
Professor Sun said: "The inscriptions engraved on the Zhongding stele are probably the words of praise and virtue, which cannot be believed, but the remains of the ages exist here, and people can't help but believe that the tomb of King Wuling is hidden in the coffin gorge, but the real deeds may not be the case. In addition, this matter is not recorded in various historical records, the witch culture is secret and ancient, and many things have been screened in the long river of history, and now it is impossible to verify.
The fat man interjected: "I see that the coffin gorge is so steep, it doesn't seem like the primitive labor force in ancient times can chisel through, it may be all about looking at the golden rhetoric on his face, this king without a brain should be full of evil, but he was afraid that he would be upside down after death, so he found someone to set up a monument and poke it in front of the tomb, but then again." No matter how tyrannical King Wuling was during his lifetime, he was made into pig's head meat and boiled and burned at the end of his life, which was considered unpleasant. ”
Professor Sun said: "There is a certain truth in this statement, according to my experience, King Wuling may not really be a black sheep, there are too many winds of overturning cases in ancient Chinese history, turning hands into clouds, covering hands for rain, nothing is good for a word, I remember that there is a similar deeds of the kings in the historical materials." However, it is not Wuling, but Longchuan, it is said that the king of Longshan is cruel by nature, poor and extravagant, but he dredges the river, cures the flood, is a person who has merit and is difficult to evaluate, when he died, he was dismembered by a random blade, and his descendants were worried that someone would steal the royal tomb in order to retaliate against him, so he changed his name when he was buried. and used various means to cover people's eyes and ears, as for which region the king of Longshan was. Now there are always different theories, judging from the ruins in the coffin gorge, I think that the king of Longchuan is likely to be the king of Wuling. ”
Sun Jiuye usually doesn't dare to talk much at work, but naturally he doesn't have to worry about making mistakes in front of us, so as soon as the conversation box opens, he can't control it. Pang Zheng Bo quoted endlessly, and then talked about the king of Longchuan, this person will be different from the astrological arts, in ancient times, it is inseparable from the arts, if you don't understand the layout of mountains and rivers. Not only do you get twice the result with half the effort, but also the consequences are endless, and when I was researching the dragon bone riddle, I found many records of floods and earthquakes......
I said to Professor Sun, "It doesn't matter if he is the King of Wuyang or the King of Longchuan, his tomb has been stolen for hundreds of years. The success or failure of right and wrong is empty, so there is no need for us to examine the merits and demerits in history. If the cave with a jade statue is really a place to sacrifice the tomb, according to the layout of the feng shui burial system, the entrance to the tomb must be in the direction behind the jade man, and it will not be too difficult to find. ”
Professor Sun and Shirley Yang were also deeply worried, the hint left by the head of the Feng regiment was only after the entrance to the ancient tomb of the Wuyang King, we had no reference at all, and we could only take one step at a time, no one knew how far it was from the ancient tomb of Dixian Village, and everyone had been thinking about it for a long time, but it was only uncertain and unpredictable.
Rest in the cave until the early hours of the morning, then shake up the spirit, continue to the end of the cave, to the hole to see, sure enough, it is through the mountain to come, this is another canyon of the "coffin gorge", although it is much more open than the hanging coffin area, but there is also another precipitous situation.
The peaks of the mountains are misty and misty, the vast and vast sky is endless, the water at the bottom of the gorge is monstrous, it is impacted by the mountain cliff, forming an "A" shaped turn, and the upstream in the distance, it is a waterfall mouth that roars like thunder, the rapids "fall and turn sharply" between the canyons, stirring up the mist in the sky, just like a giant dragon with silver scales, flying down the clouds in the air, drilling into the depths of the canyon, hitting the cliffs on both sides and splitting the sky.
I glanced at the rapids at the bottom of the gorge a few times, although I was not afraid of heights, I also felt dizzy, and then looked at the cliff opposite, sure enough, there were many winding volley bird paths, like a huge spider web, embedded in the thousands of cliffs, lost in the intricacies, for a while to see the eyes are dazzled.
Shirley Yang held the binoculars and looked at it for a while, and unconsciously hesitated: "There are hundreds of dangerous paths on the opposite side, in addition to many desperate roads, there are many caves at the end, how do you know which section of the Hundred Steps Bird Road refers to?" ”
I said don't worry, Sun Jiuye contributed a lot last night, otherwise how would he know the origin of the headless king? But the credit can't be taken by him alone, today let the comrades see the means of "touching the golden captain", I confirmed with Professor Sun again, is the original words of the head of the regiment "Bird road is vertical and horizontal, one hundred steps and nine times"?
Professor Sun immediately vouched for his reputation, and this passage has been repeated in his mind for more than ten years, and he will definitely not be wrong.
I nodded secretly, I already knew the way in my heart, the key word of the sentence "Bird Road Vertical and Horizontal, One Hundred Steps and Nine Times" should be "nine", looking at the bird road on the opposite cliff, just like the trend of "dragons entwining the mountain", no matter who left the ancient ruins in this canyon, it is definitely not a random structure, maybe it is difficult for others to peek into this mystery, but this time the pattern of deferring stars and hexagrams, but it is just hitting the tip of the knife of the secret art of touching gold.
The tombs of the ancients, their parts or the whole, must be combined with the "nine" number, take the land is the meaning of "long-lasting", "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" of the "dragon hunting" has clouds: "The dragons entangle the river to do nine songs, and the songs are all nine loops; Nine times outside the nine turns, nine turns and nine times around the dragon tower; Ninety-nine circles and finally returns to one, and enters the spiritual mountain in twos and threes
The fat man said strangely: "Commander Hu, you are a good counter." I can read ninety-nine eighty-one, but you've been ninety for a long time, I can't figure out which way we should go? ”
I explained, "When did you say ninety-nine-eighty-one? It's also 3972, let's call it the trick of finding the dragon into the potential, and the mysteries of the nine palaces and gossip are all in it, if even a rough person like you can understand it, I might as well tear up this broken book of my family heirloom and throw it into the river, you see that the bird road on this mountain is as dense as a spider's web, in fact, there is only one way to be true, as long as you go up from the bottom tenth. Every third fork in the road turns a turn, after turning twice, every three bad roads turn again, go down and don't go up, go left and don't go right, so repeated nine times, the hole to see can enter, it is estimated that there is the entrance of the tomb of the black sheep king. ”
Professor Sun found it even more strange. Out of his work habits, he likes to get to the bottom of everything. Then he asked me: "Back then, Zhuge Liang almost trapped Lu Xun, the general of Eastern Wu, with the Eight Gate Formation, as if he used the principle of the Five Elements Shengke, which has been lost for many years, how do you still know?" I heard Lao Chen say that your set of things was passed down by the elders in the family? What exactly do the elders in your family do? ”
I glanced at Shirley Yang and thought to myself that Shirley Yang's maternal grandfather was the leader of the mountain movers, how famous was he? Her grandfather was also from a scholarly family. I can handle it with anyone, even my sister's godfather is the old Yuanliang in the "Honeycomb Mountain".
Why did my old Hu family go to my grandfather's generation, and they set up a stall to tell fortunes and promote feudal superstition? My consciousness was too low to be embarrassed to say it, so I whispered in Professor Sun's ear: "My grandfather was a harrier who walked across mountains and seas back then. Famous all over the world, I participated in the revolution relatively early, but I participated in the Xin Revolution, and the old man in the rivers and lakes called it the golden point, and my skills are all family heirlooms. I didn't learn one or two hands, which made you laugh. ”
On the way, Professor Sun asked Shirley Yang about the incision of the mountain scripture. Hearing this, he came to his senses and praised: "No wonder, if it weren't for the Green Forest family, it would be impossible to have such a genius." ”
I'm worried that Sun Jiuye will ask again, and quickly take the lead in looking for a dangerous path that can be walked down the mountain, between the two seemingly boundless cliffs, and several iron-locked wooden bridges are connected, walking on it with the bridge swing, the soles of the feet are rushing rivers, it is inevitable to be thrilling, and it is difficult to turn back, and everyone went to the opposite side hard.
Suddenly the clouds and rain rise between the canyons, in the rain and fog, the surrounding scenery has become blurred, fortunately I saw the path before, found the entrance of the hanging mountain bird path, according to the mantra of "looking for the dragon into the potential" all the way up, this road was wet by the rain, walking up to shave the head, one hundred steps and nine turns, walking behind, can see the feet of the people in front of them on their heads.
I secretly silently recited the "dragon hunting", in the desperate cliffs all the way up the road, and worried about leading the wrong way, inevitably distracted from time to time, as the saying goes, "up the mountain is easy to go down the mountain is difficult", go up to see the road in front of you, even the fat man can insist, but if it is going down, what you see in your eyes is the deep gorge fog that makes people tremble, if one does not pay attention, stumble and fall down, even the corpse can not be fished back, but the bird road is up and down, a hundred turns and a thousand times, there is no fixed number.
Kankan to the end of the bird road of one hundred steps and nine turns, there was a strange and unfathomable tunnel on the mountain wall, I climbed into it first, and the probe arm connected the other four people one by one, only then carefully watched the situation in the cave, the fog here is thick, breathing is not smooth, there are traces of the stone mother in the rock formation, which is completely different from the previous Qingxi air-raid shelter tunnel, it should be an ancient tunnel, I don't know where it leads.
I don't have any confidence in whether this road is correct, maybe just turned the wrong path on the cliff, I can't help but be in a trance, holding a wolf's eye flashlight and walking a few steps inside, I suddenly saw a tombstone standing next to it, a dead body sitting cross-legged in front of the monument, the face and clothes have been weathered, the skin and flesh have been dissolved, I don't know how long I have been dead, I hurriedly beckoned Sun Jiuye behind me to come over, let him see if this is the body of the head of the Feng regiment.
When Sun Jiuye saw the dried corpse, his emotions immediately became a little excited, and he put on a mask and gloves tremblingly, and held the deceased's head up to look at it carefully: "It's not like ...... Unlike ......, I remember that before absconding, Captain Feng was injured in the quarry and had several teeth knocked out. Wrong...... Come and see what this is? ”
We thought Professor Sun was talking about the "nameless dead corpse", and we were about to go to see it, but we heard Professor Sun say: "It's not a dry corpse, it's this tombstone, and it's really the road sign of Dixian Village." ”
I was in high spirits, and hurriedly lifted the "nameless corpse" away with the fat man, only to see that the tombstone that was originally blocked by the dead corpse did not have the name of the deceased, but was engraved with five vigorous concave characters of "Guanshan Finger Mystery Fu", and there were several lines of small characters on both sides, I glanced at it, it was the hint of finding the ancient tomb: "What a king, with a body and no head; If the lady doesn't come, the mountains won't open......"
I saw a few hints on the remnant tablet, which were far more complete than what the head of the Feng regiment confided to Sun Jiuye back then, and I couldn't help but be moved: "It turns out that this hint about the secret of the entrance to Dixian Village is called Guanshan Finger Mystery Fu, and the next few sentences are."
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