In the ninth year of the Republic of China, September 26, 1920, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Qin Beiyang pinched his fingers and counted, they had been trapped in the underground palace of Li Mausoleum for seven days and seven nights.

The second underground palace, the world of Han portrait stones, the small county king of Ordos Doro, is already dying. The last half of the cow's skin water had just been carefully drunk by the three of them. Only the town tomb beast, which does not need water and food, can live and die with heaven and earth.

"Nine colors, nine colors, when we die of hunger and thirst, please dig a grave in the underground palace. When the time comes, you'll be our grave beast. ”

The little king spoke to the tomb beast, but it rolled its eyes, meaning please don't have a crow's mouth.

The little widow of White Russia, Wolfna, walked behind Qin Beiyang and blew like an orchid behind her ear: "Qin, are we really going to die?" ”

For seven days, she always slept in the third underground palace, keeping her distance from two men. But I couldn't wash for seven days, and I couldn't change my clothes, and my dress was already torn and full of holes, and I felt faceless.

Qin Beiyang trembled sensitively: "I hope God will come to save us." ”

Before the words fell, a rattling sound sounded overhead. They all thought it was a hallucination, and the seven days and seven nights they were trapped often appeared.

A large expanse of sand slipped down from the hole, as if quicksand had struck again......

As a few stones fell, a black shadow fell to the underground palace, and a man's voice came: "Oh Mom! What the hell is this place? ”

The nine-colored glass fireball, illuminating a gray face, dressed to look like a Han man, holding a mining pickaxe, tied a thick rope around his waist, connected to the top of the thief hole.

Anyone who fell into the ancient tomb and found Qin Beiyang's gang of people, plus the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast, would be scared half to death.

This uninvited guest who fell from the sky, named Lao Jin, was originally a miner in Gansu, and heard that the Altai Mountains were called "Golden Mountain" in ancient times, and that people often dug up the priceless "dog's head gold", so they wandered thousands of miles from their mouths. He observed the situation in the valley and determined that there was a gold vein, so he dug above the tomb of Li, and as a result, he dug through the ancient robbery hole and fell into the underground palace. Fortunately, he was still tied with a rope, which became a lifesaver for Qin Beiyang and the little county king.

Led by the gold digger Lao Jin, everyone climbed the rope and escaped from the hole above their heads.

Returning to the Altai sky, Wolfna, who had escaped death, hugged Qin Beiyang tightly for no reason, buried her head in his shoulder and said, "Qin, I suddenly want to live!" Even if I lost my most precious child, I didn't want to die easily. ”

Qin Beiyang was embarrassed for a while, his face was red, and he didn't know how to break free? I can only murmur over and over again: "Live...... Gotta live......"

Lao Jin was a good man, and he took out the water and dry food on his body and distributed them to these people who were about to die of hunger and thirst. He even put the water in front of the Nine Colors, but was disgusted by the town's tomb beasts. Although it was just a few nests and half-full, the little county king seemed to have eaten a full feast, and generously took out dozens of oceans as a reward.

"What is this for? Little brother, often floating in the rivers and lakes, how can he not be stabbed? Saving someone's life, isn't that as easy as farting? Get the money back quickly, or my brother will turn his face! Lao Jin laughed, "If I dig out the dog's head gold, how many oceans will I have, how many daughters-in-law will I have, how many babies will I have, how many ...... will I have."

As he spoke, Jiuse spread his hooves and ran to a gravel field where there was no grass, and after cutting a few stones, he let out a piercing deer roar.

"What is this brute for?"

Old Kim had never heard a "big dog" bark from a deer.

"Did it find out?" As soon as Qin Beiyang took a few steps, he felt that something was wrong, turned around and dragged Lao Jin and said, "It's better for you to go and see it first!" ”

"See what?"

Lao Jin rushed over suspiciously, and found that there was a black stone hidden in the ground, which was dug out by Nine Colors. Picking up the heavy stone, he squinted his eyes to make it carefully, and suddenly his face changed drastically. He ran to the valley stream and carefully washed the surface of the stone with water, revealing a golden undertone......

"Oh my God!"

A piece of fake dog head gold.

It is about seven inches long, about five inches wide, about three inches thick, and weighs more than ten catties, which resembles the head of a mastiff. The gold nuggets have many hollow points, sticking to the sand, gravel and soil that may be tens of thousands of years old, and at first glance it looks like the spirit stone of the tomb beast, emitting a dazzling golden light.

"Hey! Nine colors can do anything, and when he heard that you dreamed of digging up the dog's head gold, he immediately helped you realize your wish. The little king touched the head of the town's tomb beast and said, "This guy is too familiar with ancient tombs and the underground world, and he knows where to hide ore veins. ”

Lao Jin, an experienced miner, nodded excitedly: "Yes, as long as there are gold veins, dog-headed gold may exist anywhere, so it is difficult to grasp the rules, so you can only try to look for it by the valley of the stream." ”

"Nine colors, can you smell the gold? Like can you find the direction of the tomb? Is that right? ”

Qin Beiyang discovered a new skill of the town's tomb beast, and Jiu Se blinked his glass-colored eyes to indicate the correct solution.

Lao Jin kissed the dog's head gold, but handed it to Qin Beiyang: "Little brother, this treasure was discovered by your family's beasts, how can I swallow it alone, you should take it away quickly, lest I shed tears." ”

"Lao Jin, it's not in vain that I didn't misread you. Nine colors help you find the dog's head gold, in order to thank you for saving my life. Qin Beiyang returned the dog's head gold to him, "Take it, go back to buy a house, marry a daughter-in-law, and have a baby!" ”

He told Lao Jin what his father expected of him before he died. The value of this piece of dog's head gold is quite tens of thousands of oceans, which is enough to change the fate of a person or even a family for several generations. Of course, it can also lead to the death of countless people.

Lao Jin trembled and took the dog's head gold, knelt in front of Qin Beiyang and Jiuse, and kowtowed three times in a row: "You saved my life!" ”

The dog's head gold is like the root of life, repeatedly wrapped in the burden by Lao Jin, straddling his chest diagonally, and riding a gelding. He found a few horses left behind by the White Russians, and Qin Beiyang, Xiaojunwang, and Wolfna each rode one.

"I have been digging gold in Xinjiang for ten years, and I only found dog-headed gold for the first time! Now that you are my benefactors, I will be your guide. ”

Lao Jin rode a gelding and took Qin Beiyang and the others out of the valley, and Jiu Se cautiously followed last. The group walked through the lush forest in the majestic high mountains, and when they reached a hillside, the little county king excitedly pointed to the bottom of the mountain: "Kanas! ”

Under the sunset, a long crescent-shaped lake, like a sapphire set in the mountains, is surrounded by snow-capped mountains, forests, and grasslands...... The sunset sends layers of golden light, like a nine-colored bronze scale armor, which is better than the fairyland on earth.

"When I was in Ordos in the past, I heard about Kanas Lake in the Altai Mountains, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes in this life. Beiyang, it's worth it to come out on this adventure with you! ”

The little king galloped down the mountain, Qin Beiyang followed closely behind, and slipped to the lake. Horses and people alike threw themselves into the water, and it was so cold and hot that I wanted to soak in Kanas Lake for the rest of my life.

Qin Beiyang surfaced and found that on the south side of the lake, there was a piece of ruins emitting black smoke. He and Lao Jin rode to the village, which turned out to be a local resident Tuvan village, and several old, weak, sick and disabled villagers were collecting bloodstained corpses.