Chen Blind has already had an idea in his heart, he has been tight recently, and he is thinking about making it bigger, but he is not sure yet, and he refuses to make it clear to Luo Lao in advance, but when it comes to this, he has to put it together, and hurriedly said: "I have heard that the forest in the Mengdong River Basin is deep and dense, and it is a miscellaneous place of the Yi and Han DynastyHowever, the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty are not sealed or trees, and they have always been buried deeply, and those Miao Cave barbarians will release Gu poison, and there are often demonic heresies such as falling holes and driving corpses, our forces can't cover that side, and we are afraid of making mistakes in the past, so I always hesitate whether to do it......"

Luo Lao Crooked is a warlord addicted to tomb robbing, when he heard that there are so many large ancient tombs in the "Bottle Mountain", he couldn't help but be overjoyed, he was slashed on the face before, and he fell with a big scar, and the corners of his mouth were crooked, so he got the name Luo Lao Crooked, at this time there was a burst of ecstasy, and the corners of his mouth were about to grin to the back of his head. \\。 QВ5、ｃǒｍ//

He immediately jumped up from his chair, this man was a bandit, and he liked to draw his gun when he spoke, drew his ivory-handled revolver, and ordered the adjutant to go back at once to gather the pistol company and the engineer battalion, and each of the engineer battalion had brought shovels, shovels, hoes, and pickaxes, and prepared a large number of explosives, and was to lead the troops into the mountains on the same day.

Chen Blind hurriedly stopped him, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, the ancient tomb in the bottle mountain is not said to be robbed, you can't find the underground palace and tomb, no matter how much explosives you have, it will not help, and the army moves, it is inevitable to alarm the local natives, the situation in that area is complicated, maybe there will be extraneous branches, and now the plan is only to bring a few capable people. Go to the mountains to find out what it is.

Luo Lao was addicted to robbing tombs, and he was eager to make a fortune, and he also planned to follow him into the mountains to step on the plate, so he conspired with Chen Blind, and the plan was decided. Pack up and prepare to go to the Mengdong River to find the ancient tomb of the Yuan Dynasty hidden in the bottle mountain.

Chen Blind himself pretended to be a gentleman who asked for divination, and he also had three subordinates, one was the yellow-faced and thin-skinned scheming "Hua Ma Kui", this person's ancestors were all messengers at the gate of the former Qing Dynasty in the past dynasties, and he knew corpse wax, corpse poison, corpse insects and other things, and he was also a good man, and he was the dog-headed military advisor in the group of thieves in the Jieling group.

Another tower-like man, born skyscraper and grounded, has infinite strength. It's a pity that he was born a dumb person and couldn't speak, just because the skin and flesh around his body were like black carbon, and he also had a nickname called "Kunlun Mole". This is to say that he looks like the strange man "Kunlun Nu" of the late Tang Dynasty, Chen Blind Man inadvertently saved his life when he robbed the tomb in Yandang Mountain, and since then, he has followed Chen Blind with all his heart and made a personal servant.

In addition, there is a young woman, who was born in the rivers and lakes, and her art name is "Red Girl", who will make all kinds of ancient tricks and acrobatics, and was favored by a local magnate to accept her as a concubine, forcing her father to death. The red girl has a fierce personality, and in a fit of rage, she killed the enemy and fled to Hunan to fall into the grass.

Chen Blind and these three subordinates, plus Luo Lao, dressed up as merchants and merchants respectively. Because the terrain of the Mengdong River Basin in Xiangxi is complex, the mountains are rugged and difficult, known as "eight mountains, one water and one field", since ancient times, the population is sparse, the government's ruling ability is weak, and the bandits are serious, so all kinds of guests who make a living often go together in groups, and the five of them disguise themselves and go on the road together, which is not easy to make people suspicious.

These five people, the three long and two short instruments, open and secretly inserted, are hidden in the body, looking at the Mengdong River to go, all the way without words, into the mountain soon, is the ancient time left Miao border wall, Miao is also called "fierce", the turbulent Mengdong River, is to the ancient cave dwelling place, the legend of the river on both sides of the primeval forest, are the ancient Miao Cave, and Wu Chu culture has mutual influence, so in the eyes of the world seems to be mysterious, here you can see the totem remains of the ancient "Xuanniao" everywhere.

Chen Blind asked Luo Lao to be crooked, and the hundreds of men and horses of the engineer digging battalion and the pistol company under his command were ambushed in the dense forest near the ruins of the ancient wall, ready to be dispatched at any time, and then a group of five people waded through the water, drilled the mountains and crossed the mountains, and went straight to the Bottle Mountain.

People have never been to Bottle Mountain before, worried about getting lost in the road and encountering fierce beasts, and do not dare to walk around at will, find the local passing mountain people to inquire, only to know that the original mountain range that blooms all over the place is called "Old Bear Ridge", over the ridge is the wild place where people do not reach, "Bottle Mountain" is in the deep mountains of Old Bear Ridge, there are several villages in front of the ridge, Yi and Han are miscellaneous, in addition to the Han people, there are Miao people and Tujia people.

After Chen Blind inquired and understood, he knew that there were two villages in the north and south in the mountain in front of him, so he said to everyone: "The day before yesterday, I watched the sky at night, saw the dim light of the Big Dipper, and thought that the South Dipper was born, and the Big Dipper was dead. ”

The other four people in the inverted bucket, has always been to Chen blind like a god, naturally agreed in unison, by the Hua Ma kidnapped merchant in front of the way, cast the mountain road south, not long, sure enough to see a village, this village is located in the strange peaks and green valleys, the scenery is as beautiful as in the landscape painting.

There are about more than 100 households in the village, because the local soil is more miasma, the mountain has poisonous weeds and sand stinging vipers, so the local people do not distinguish between Yi and Han, all live side by side, pedal the ladder and go up, called "pole railing", all the residential houses, all built according to the mountain, take the direction of the north facing south, in order to avoid poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, the bottom of the wooden building of the duplex structure adopts nine pillars to the ground, the horizontal beam is crossed, so that the building is suspended in the air, such a building is also called "stilted building", each house is stilted downstairs, and there is a wood carving of a mysterious bird, the mystery reveals a little weird.

The group of thieves in the unloading ridge see in the eyes, secretly keep in mind, go to the village to start a small gong to sell business, the local people are simple, the people like to barter between the people, there is very little money circulation, the production of batik and ham, three snake wine and other things, although it is located in the middle of nowhere, but the outsiders are not rare, almost every month there are a few merchants to exchange mountain goods, see that there are foreign merchants are not surprised. Each took their own mountain goods to exchange.

Hua Ma Gui is doing a grocery business, all of which are bits and pieces of daily necessities such as needles and threads, and the mute "Kunlun Mole" is dressed as a porter, and Luo Lao, who is dressed as a private merchant, carries salt crookedly, the money in the mountains is useless, there is no place to spend money, and there has always been a barter between mountain people and merchant traders. The customers who picked up the mountain goods changed the mountain goods and went to the outside town to earn profits.

Due to the inconvenience of entering and exiting the deep mountains and old forests, the most valuable thing here is salt, and the salt itself has been regarded by the locals as the most hard currency, and the natives often have a saying: "three quintals of rice and one pound of salt", which can be said to be a "exchange rate" recognized by the locals.

Chen Blind Man planned carefully in advance, and these things they brought were all urgently needed by the mountain people, and they were not as concerned with small profits as ordinary merchants, which won the favor of the people. It didn't take much effort, so he stopped the business, and asked the local people for a few bowls of water, pretending to drink water to rest, and by the way, he inquired about the news of the ancient tomb in Bottle Mountain. Chen Blind and others, under the pretense of looking at feng shui to find the yin house, and inquiring about the path in the mountains, really did not waste any effort from the mouth of the mountain people to ask some clues, this Mengdong River by the old bear ridge, is a large area of thousands of feet above sea level of the mountains, in ancient times there are indeed bear traces in the mountains, but now it is rare, according to legend, the ancestor of the Miao people Miao King "Chi You", is the incarnation of a giant bear. Therefore, this old bear ridge is also named after this, it is the sacred mountain where the cave people originated, and there are many historical sites left in the mountain forest.

Ancient Yi people live in the caves, so they are also called cave people, according to the tribe distinction, a total of seventy-two holes, there is a strange peak called the bottle mountain in the old bear ridge, the shape is like the heavenly bottle falling to the ground, it seems to be divine power. Unlike artificial, there are many unknown strange flowers and plants on the mountain, there are natural caves in the bottle mountain, the caves and ravines are vertical and horizontal, unfathomable, Xiangxi is rich in cinnabar, lead Gong is an indispensable raw material for alchemy, so from the Qin and Han dynasties, the emperors of each dynasty have continuously sent warlocks to come to the bottle mountain to refine the immortal elixir, and build the Taoist temple in the cave, involve the famous mountain, quarry the Jiashi, fill it with treasures from all sides, in order to ask the immortals for medicine, it seems to be a fairyland in the Taoist cave.

After how many dynasties and how many generations of nearly a thousand years of operation, the cave room of the bottle mountain has been a lot of palaces, the towers and palaces are better than the world, but the immortal elixir has not been refined, until the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan people were brutal, the cave people in the mountains could not bear the tyranny, gathered the crowd to rebel, the soldiers would destroy the cave people in the old bear ridge, the killing was tragic and abnormal, the cave people in each cave were almost slaughtered and exterminated, and the Yuan army was not adapted to the humid and hot environment in the mountains, the plague spread in the army, and the damage was also very heavy, the generals of the army died here, the Yuan people in order to suppress the cave people, So that they will never rebel, the bottle of the mountain as a tomb, bury the fallen soldiers, the cave Taoist temple in the rare things, are used as burial vessels, and the remaining cave people slaughtered and buried, with copper juice molten iron and boulders to seal the mountain, buried deep in the tomb, do not seal the tree, so that future generations will never find the tomb and the underground palace.

These legends, among the mountain people of the old bear ridge, have been passed down by word of mouth for hundreds of years, and they all know that there is a huge ancient tomb in the bottle mountain, but it is limited to this, and no one knows the detailed content, after all, the cave people in the cave were almost all killed, Chen Blind has long heard about it, and now he has gone to the local area to investigate, which further confirms that the legend of the bottle mountain tomb is not groundless, and has set out some little-known inside information.

When the locals saw these merchants, they seemed to be going to Bottle Mountain, where did they think that this was a group of tomb robbers, and kindly advised that the forest around Bottle Mountain was steep, because there were many precious medicinal stones for alchemy in the early years, so it attracted a lot of poisonous insects and spirits to gather nearby, and that fierce place was really extremely dangerous, if the living people passed, at least nine out of ten should be sent away.

Blind Chen hurriedly explained: "It's just that outsiders passing by here, listening to the strange name of this bottle of mountain, can't help but be curious, so I asked a few more words, I and others are all people who run the rivers and lakes to do business to make a living, how dare to go around the ancient tomb." After that, I discussed with the mountain people and wanted to spend the night in the village.

The elders in the village told Chen Blind and others that there have always been rules here, and they never want to leave outsiders to spend the night in the village, just because the thieves have made too much noise in the village over the years, as the saying goes, "thieves come like combs, soldiers come like casters, bandits come like shavings", the sound of horses is a tragic bloodbath, so the door of the village should be closed at night, and no half of the foreign guests should be left behind, so as to prevent thieves from mixing in and out, although you are all honest people who do small business, and are by no means thieves who kill people and cross goods, but still can't make an exception for you to break the rules, and advise you to take advantage of the dawn, Hurry out of the mountain.

Luo Lao Crooked has a bad temper, usually arrogant, seeing that the people in the village refuse to keep them overnight, I have not seen Diao Min who dares not to give him Luo Dashuai face so much, scolded you nn, I want to pull out the gun to collapse a few, Chen Blind knew that Luo Lao Crooked couldn't hold his breath, afraid that he would leak the hidden and spoil the plan, hurriedly held down his hand, and carefully asked the Turen about a few roads around, so he hurriedly took everyone away from the village.

Walking into the mountains and forests, the sun was already slanting in the west, and Luo Lao asked Chen how the blind man was doing now? There is no place to stay in the barren mountains and mountains, so it is better to go back overnight and directly raise troops into the mountains and go to the bottle mountain to have a so-called "military exercise."

Chen Blind looked at the shadow of the sun, estimated the time, pondered for a moment, turned around and said: "Luo Shuai doesn't have to be in a hurry, it's dark early in this mountain, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back tonight, I just learned from the mountain people that there is a mortuary museum on Lao Xiong Ridge, so it's better to go there to deal with it for one night, and then go to the mountains early tomorrow morning to watch the situation of the bottle mountain and see if the ancient tomb can be found." ”

There are many Han people in several villages in this vicinity, they are not hiding from military service, or they are running over to rent and tax arrears, and a small number of people are people who go back and forth between villages to do business, due to the different funeral customs of Yi and Han, once these people die in the mountains, it is equivalent to a guest death in a foreign land, this kind of encounter is very taboo in the old concept, and they hope to bury the bones back to their hometown, but the mountain road is rugged and remote, and it is extremely difficult to transport the body out of the mountain, whether it is a corpse or a corpse, It's only once every six months. Prior to this, the dead bodies that had not yet been transported out of the mountain were stored in the "Yizhuang", which was called "saving the foundation", and the various villages pooled money to hire people to guard them full-time, and similar places were very common in the mountainous areas of Xiangxi.

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