Chapter 83: Descending the Mountain
Applejack smiled and said, "What are you doing with us?" Wait below, we'll be down in a moment. ”
Chu Ling didn't listen, stomped his feet, didn't let go, and said stubbornly: "I'm going to follow you up." ”
Ajie glanced at Chu Ye in embarrassment, and sighed, "Okay, you follow us up, don't look down when you climb." ”
Chu Ling nodded happily, and in the end, Chu Chu was a little depressed, and said quietly: "Since you are not afraid of the curse, go and go, leave me alone, I will wait for you in this place." ”
With Chu Ling, their speed is much slower, these stones are larger than the pyramids in Zhangjiakou, and the height of each step is not high, and it is almost impossible to go up, and they have to climb with both hands and feet.
Chu Ling soon couldn't crawl out of breath, Ajie had to turn around and pull her every step up, Chu Ye originally wanted to help, but Chu Ling was very afraid of Chu Ye, and every time he touched her, he would dodge away.
Chu Ye seemed to have chewed Coptis chinensis in his mouth, and it was bitter.
At the top was a platform the size of a basketball court, with a figure sitting in the middle.
Chu Ling's face was originally as red as a red apple, but when he saw the figure, he immediately exclaimed, and his face turned pale with fright. Chu Ye looked at the man solemnly, and walked around in front of him with Ajie left and right.
The man in front of him was facing away from them, sitting cross-legged on the ground, wearing a golden Taoist robe embroidered with yin and yang gossip on it, a handful of dust hanging from the elbow of his left hand, holding a Taoist bun, and his hair was gray.
Chu Ye made a lot of noise, but the Taoist was motionless, as if he had settled down, in order to avoid misunderstanding, Chu Ye shouted, and the person still didn't move.
Chu Ye thought in his heart whether he would be Chu Yicheng or Zhang Chuanbei, Yoshikawa Xiong and Yoshinobu Yanpei are Japanese and can't wear Taoist robes, thinking of this, a thought suddenly popped up in his mind, and he immediately sped up his pace and ran in front of this person.
Seeing his appearance, Chu Ye took a step back in horror, in this environment, even though he was prepared in his heart, it was still a little scary. Because he was not a living man at all, but a skeleton in clothes.
Applejack looked calm and muttered, "I guessed right, it's a dead man." ”
Seeing that it was a skeleton, Chu Ling screamed in fear again, covered his mouth and completely hid behind Ajie, and at the top of the pyramid building sat a skeleton wearing a Taoist robe and holding a dust, which was really sensational, Chu Ye's hair stood on end, and he was shocked into a cold sweat.
Applejack didn't know anything about it, and reached into the skeleton man's arms to fumble around, and Chu Ling stood next to him trembling, a little frightened. Just then, Applejack's eyes lit up, and she pulled out a folded cloth, and nothing else.
Chu Ye made a gesture to this person, and then looked curiously at the cloth that Ajie unfolded, which seemed to be a landscape map, with dark lines, and a gourd-shaped valley at the corner, the picture did not end, it should have been torn apart.
Applejack pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, "It's a fragment, but I think I've seen the same painting somewhere." By the way, I remember, it was at the auction, I followed Huang Yiming to the auction, and they were auctioning a remnant picture, exactly like this one. ”
Listening to Ajie, Chu Ye also remembered it, Ajie said this before, when he saved Chu Ye, he did follow Huang Yiming to an auction in Dongsanqi, which was also confirmed in Chen Yanting's words.
"Are you sure it's the same as this one?"
"Almost, I didn't look carefully, the style is the same, you look at the back, the embroidered peony flower is a picture, the color and pattern of the residual picture at the auction are basically the same, it must be right, but how did this picture get to this place?"
"Do you see who bought it in the end?"
"No, nine times out of ten it is Xiao Jing's person, I didn't see the end, there will be a lot of people bidding."
If Xiao Jing bought it, how could it appear in this place? This doesn't make sense, and this Taoist person doesn't know how long he has been sitting on it, and he has so many cobwebs on his body, it can't be that he moved over later. The more Chu Ye thought about it, the more he didn't know what to do.
"Well, didn't you say the remnant picture? There could be another piece. While the two were pondering, Chu Ling said weakly.
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Chu Ye and Ajie looked at each other, both showing shame, and they all got into the horns of the bull at some point.
"Yes, look at my brain, these are two pictures at all, let's think of them together."
Chu Ling giggled, and Ajie searched for the skeleton again in frustration, and said, "This picture must have some secret, otherwise Xiao Jing wouldn't let people go to the auction house to buy it, and it's related to the Fog Bone Clan, let's study it carefully when we go back." ”
Applejack said that he paused, paused, and took out another thing, which was actually a waist card, carved with a crane on one side and three words on the other: Gao Xiangze.
The waist plate is made of coral, and the carving is lifelike, but what shocked Chu Ye was the name carved on it.
"Do you know this man?" Chu Ye's expression changed, and Ajie couldn't help but ask suspiciously when she saw it in her eyes.
"He's a thousand hands tall." Chu Ye was short of breath, still in disbelief.
This name impressed Chu Ye too deeply, after reading "Dream Strange Chronicles", Chu Ye just made a direction at first, but he didn't expect him to cut his hand, and what flowed out was black blood, and then in Zhangjiakou, Lan Yucheng listened to Chu Ye's performance when he watched "Dream Strange Chronicles", which made Chu Ye believe that he had a lot to do with Qianshou Gao, so since then, he has always recalled the content of Dream Strange Ambition, and he doesn't know how many times he has recalled every word.
It is recorded that Qianshou Gao is the descendant of Su Zuo craftsman, and was called into the palace to repair the palace burned by fire, and later got Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao, when Zhu Youxiao was seriously ill, it was the Lingyin Immortal who he sacrificed, after Zhu Youxiao died violently, Qianshou Gao also disappeared, and no one knew his whereabouts, and he would actually be in this place.
Chu Ye's lips opened slightly, as if he had been struck by lightning, and he couldn't slow down for a long time, and when he finished talking about the content of "Dream Strangeness", Ajie was also stunned, and said to himself: "This is too coincidental." ”
"Didn't you say that this Gao Xiangze is a carpenter? Why did you become a Taoist again? Applejack was still skeptical, not quite convinced that the skeleton in front of her was a thousand hands high.
"Where do I know this, "Dream Strange Chronicles" just said that he was missing, maybe he was afraid of being punished, he escaped from the Forbidden City after Zhu Youxiao's death, in order to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers, he became a Taoist priest, during the Ming Dynasty, our side was still a wild place, so he hid here."
Chu Ye said his reasoning, and Ajie nodded, "This matter is a bit strange, whether he is Gao Xiangze or not, we can't confirm it, unless we put this picture together, maybe we will find anything." ”