The county is relatively speaking, it is not very big, at the junction of the suburbs, Qi Xin stopped the car, put one hand on the steering wheel, and one hand on the seat behind him, pretending to ask mysteriously: "Zhang Shao, why do you say we are coming to a sparsely populated place like the suburbs?"

"Monkey, are you testing my IQ, the car and supplies are complete, are you still missing a local guide"?

Qi Xin snapped his fingers and said, "Smart, but not all."

Since he got in the car, Zhang Tianye knew what Qi Xin had paid attention to, but when he turned his head, Zhang Tianye asked him rhetorically: "Monkey, are you funny, where are the people, can a guide run to such a remote place, shouldn't there be something unsightly?"

Qi Xin took a look at the time displayed on the watch he was wearing on his wrist, and said to Zhang Tianye: "Calm down, it's still early, I'm waiting for half an hour, and the show is about to begin."

Seeing Qi Xin's pretended to be a mysterious expression, Zhang Tianye sighed and continued: "The guide you are looking for is really mysterious, where can't you make an appointment to meet, you have to be here, you have to?"

"Zhang Shao, you're waiting, I said I'll give you a mysterious gift, you have to be a little patient, right?"

As soon as Qi Xin said this, Zhang Tianye fortunately got out of the car and walked around the side of the road alone, not because Zhang Tianye couldn't stand Qi Xin's trickery, but because the smell of perfume on his body was indeed too pungent.

After about 20 minutes, a burst of motorcycle roar came from far and near, driving towards the black jeep, after the motorcycle stopped, a man and a woman came down from above, the age of Zhang Tianye and them.

After looking around at Zhang Tianye, who was standing under the big tree not far away, the man shook his head and didn't speak, and when he was about to leave, Qi Xin jumped out of the black jeep, waved his hand and said to the man: "Hey, brother, I'm here"!

Seeing Qi Xin, who had just jumped out of the black jeep, the man's disappointed face showed an excited expression again, and he nodded at the woman next to him, and the two of them walked towards Qi and him together.

Looking at the two people who came over, Qi Xin beckoned the two of them to get into the car, and the three of them chatted mysteriously in the car, Zhang Tianye didn't need to look at it to know that this must be some kind of unsightly 'black thing', thinking secretly, it seems that this kid's mysterious gift is really a bit of a gimmick, and it is not the nomad's native gun.

Although the earth gun is not as good as the real gun, the power is still okay, and it can't hurt people's lives, but it is still no problem to hurt individuals, especially after entering the mountain, it is quite effective to deal with ordinary beasts.

After the three of them chatted in the car for about half an hour, the man and the girl got out of the car one after another and left on motorcycles.

Qi Xin, after jumping out of the car, saw Zhang Tianye standing under the tree on the side staring at his mobile phone alone, so he trotted all the way to him and said excitedly: "Zhang Shao, it's negotiated, this gift, when you enter the mountain, I'll show you."

After Zhang Tianye, who was standing in front of him, put the mobile phone in his pocket, he walked in the direction of the jeep without raising his head, turned his back to Qi Xin and said: "Monkey, I still don't know about your little trick, but hide the earthen gun, this thing is illegal."

Qi Xin, who was standing in place, didn't expect that he couldn't hide anything from Zhang Tianye, and muttered: "What a boring person", he was a little disappointed, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it himself, followed behind Zhang Tianye, and drove into the car.

When they returned to the 'Changming Hotel', it was almost eleven o'clock, and the two of them remembered that they had not eaten yet, and their stomachs had begun to protest constantly.

Today is the last day of the two of them staying in Hualong County, Qi Xin grew up in a young master-like greenhouse, and he knew in his heart that if he didn't eat enough for this meal, there would be no such good conditions in the countryside.

Thinking of this, he pulled Zhang Tianye to eat and drink, and when the two of them returned to the hotel, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, in Qi Xin's room, Zhang Tianye asked him where he found the pair of brothers and sisters just now, and Qi Xin did not answer him directly.

Just told Zhang Tianye that tomorrow the two of them would take the earthen gun and follow them into the mountain, and when necessary, they would transfer the earthen gun to us, Zhang Tianye could obviously know from Qi Xin's words that he had something unspeakable, so he didn't ask anything.

When leaving Qi Xin's room, Zhang Tianye told him that he wanted to have a good rest in the room in the afternoon, and asked him to arrange the afternoon time alone.

In fact, Zhang Tianye was still unsure about this outing, so he had to go back to the room and continue to ponder alone.

After coming out of Qi Xin's place, Zhang Tianye went back to his room to rearrange his thoughts in the past two days, and he always felt that the mysterious man who appeared at the bottom of Professor Lin's house and the person who called himself 'Old Man' on the plane would have a direct connection.

After thinking about this, Zhang Tianye felt more and more that his reasoning was not wrong, and secretly thought that in fact, Professor Lin was very likely to be completely prepared after he returned to China, why did he seem so nervous after hearing about the 'Zang Hai Hidden Jade', it was obvious that he must have met someone before this, or received some news.

In addition, the book in Professor Lin's hand "Miscellaneous Talks on the End of the Joke" and the one in the hand of the "old man", the two books are the same, they don't look like rubbings, how can such a book with a sense of age be kept so coincidentally, and both will appear in front of his eyes.

Zhang Tianye, looked at the time, it was just three o'clock in the afternoon, he remembered a person, maybe he could help himself, that person was Ye Xinxin, he knew that Ye Xinxin must be by Professor Lin's side now, if Ye Xinxin asked it, he would have a little bottom in his heart.

But after thinking about it, Ye Xinxin was angry that she and Ye Hong forced her back to the UK, not to mention that Professor Lin is still receiving treatment in the UK, in case she is excited to hear about this matter again, and there is something wrong with her heart, she can't afford this responsibility, after thinking of this, Zhang Tianye dispelled this idea again.

Because he had to leave early the next day and go to the first stop, Mayin Mountain, to understand the local situation, Zhang Tianye called the hotel front desk to book a bento, and told Qi Xin that he was going to open the door and get his own takeaway later.

After arranging dinner, Zhang Tianye put all his energy into studying 'Mayin Mountain', and sure enough, he found a different historical material on the Internet:

In the fifth year of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang once hunted here, and then saw Chu Shishu. Also known as "Snow Ridge", it is named because the snow on the top of the mountain does not melt all year round. The main peak is 4295.4 meters high, it is the second highest peak in the territory, there is a pond on it, the rain is dry and dry, the whole territory of Ledu is overlooked in the north, and the mountains of Hualong are viewed in the south.

On the occasion of spring and summer, the sun is beautiful and the wind is quiet, the blue sky is like washing, the top of the mountain is dazzling with silver light, the green grass under the mountain is yin, the cauliflower is covered with gold, climb its top and look south, it is the grass slope of the vast undulating grass hill, the cattle and sheep are flocked, the movement is like the clouds, it is one of the largest pastures in the county, it is the official horse farm in ancient times, the county town of Hualong is looked at in the distance, it is like the heart of a giant lotus, so it is called Bayan Rongge City (meaning Lotus City).

After reading this historical record, Zhang Tianye had an idea in his heart, often in ancient times, many emperors and generals would create some false things to confuse sentient beings, and then do some things in secret, would Emperor Yang have anything to do with it? Did he really just come here to hunt?

Thinking of this, Zhang Tianye took out the book "Miscellaneous Talks at the End of the Drama" from his backpack, and read it carefully, hoping to find clues from it, but this book is only about some turbulent things in the last years of the Ming Dynasty from beginning to end, and there is almost nothing that can connect with the historical information of the previous dynasties.

The whole trip to Qinghai made him fall into contradictions and predicaments, although Professor Lin gave a twelve-word riddle, plus his own speculation for more than two years, but there was still no substantial progress in the whole thing, just take the place on the map drawn by speculation, Zhang Tianye felt very confused, and all the information recorded in the historical materials was almost asymmetrical, but the final conclusion was directed here, to be honest, it really made him a little overwhelmed.

In addition, Mayin Mountain is just Mayin Mountain, how can it become 'Lao Ye Mountain', and what is the connection between the two? For Zhang Tianye, the matter in front of him suddenly became, a mess after the threads of the knitting sweater were torn apart.

After putting down "Miscellaneous Talks at the End of the Show", Zhang Tianye rubbed his eyes, finished eating the takeaway just delivered by the waiter, and went to the bathroom to take a shower, when the hot water on the shower flowed down from the top of his head, he was very relaxed at that moment, and the fatigue of the past few days was also relieved, and the whole person's brain was much clearer.

After turning off the shower, taking out the bath towel, and wiping the water off his body, Zhang Tianye walked out of the bathroom, changed into a set of loose pajamas provided by the hotel, sat on the bed, and connected the clues just now, and finally he came to the conclusion that maybe the mysterious stone may have been passed down from here.

Zhang Tianye made a bold assumption: judging from the information currently available, the piece at hand is definitely an evil thing, but Mayin Mountain, also known as Lotus Mountain, in the records of classical Chinese historical data, also represents the sacred, supreme purity, perhaps the ancients superstition to restrain this stone.

The most important thing is about the lotus, there is also an allusion: it is said that after the birth of Prince Siddhartha, who later became a Buddha, he immediately went down to the ground and walked seven steps, step by step to give birth to a lotus. So the lotus became a symbol of his birth. The lotus flower has deep cultural roots in China.

After Buddhism was established as the state religion in the Tang Dynasty, the lotus flower was highly revered. The hometown of Buddha Shakyamuni is rich in lotus flowers, so Buddhism often uses lotus flowers as a metaphor.