Chapter 6 Mao'er Temple

The next day, the third uncle of the Zhang family sent a guy over and said that he would set off in the afternoon, and the fat man complained on the side, saying that he was in such a hurry, and the elder brother of Erzhuang and Meirener said that they would come back next Monday, but the result was that the Zhang family was so disturbed, and Erzhuang and they directly decided to go to Xinjiang and we will be together. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info This time the second uncle specially instructed me to take care of the copper sheet before leaving, don't let people run away like last time, I thought to myself that it wasn't because of the Zhang family's ghost, but this time I cooperated with the Zhang family, one of the benefits is that you don't have to care about anything, just take care of yourself, it's best to pick up the bag and leave, clean and neat.

Before leaving, I took out the copper sheet to the second uncle to see, to make sure that there is no problem and foolproof and rest assured, in the afternoon, the fat man and the left and right in the lobby early waiting for me and the second uncle, the Zhang family also came as scheduled, a total of three cars, I and the third uncle of the Zhang family a car, the fat man, the second uncle and the second uncle take a car, the third uncle of the Zhang family did not bring a few guys out, but I heard that a group of guys set off last night to go there to make arrangements, and a group of guys will go a few days late, Anyway, we don't know what kind of medicine they sell in their gourd, but now that we have decided to cooperate, we can only take one step at a time.

In this way, our three cars of people came to the place more than 70 kilometers east of Turpan, Xinjiang, to say this place, the locals call it Maoer Temple, the place is not big, it is a small village, the car drove a section and then went directly into it, I asked the second uncle why he didn't take the big road, the second uncle said that he didn't know very well, the task of the exploration route was responsible for the Zhang family, and he didn't ask much, the so-called employment is not suspicious, the suspect does not use, The Zhang family said that if we take the main road directly to Xinjiang to find something in the ancient country of the Western Regions, we will not have a little harvest in the end, according to the news sent back by the guys, we will enter from another way, pass by the Mao'er Temple, and then directly arrive at the ruins of the ancient car division country, which will be more efficient.

Anyway, as soon as we heard it, what the Zhang family said was right, and we didn't have any better ideas ourselves, so we walked like this first, in fact, here I can briefly mention that the place shown on the second copper plate is called Cheshi, and the ancient country of Cheshi was originally one of the cities and kingdoms in the Western Regions in eastern Central Asia, it used to be a place full of romanticism, and then it continued to decline because of repeated wars.

During the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the Cheshi country was divided into the former Cheshi and the rear Cheshi, although the place described on the second copper plate we speculated before was the Jiaohe Ancient City, that is, the capital of the former Cheshi, but when we arrived at the Maoer Temple, the locals said that the current Jiaohe Ancient City is not actually a Cheshi, but an ancient settlement site similar to the Cheshi Ancient Country after modern people have been repaired and transformed, and the real Cheshi has not been found, it exists in the depths of the desert. However, we don't take all of them seriously, but we can't believe it, and from experience, in fact, often the source of folklore is a real historical story, so not all legends are not credible.

Anyway, the ordinary cars on the road couldn't get in, and the second uncle finally hired several carriages, and we still put things on it, and finally I sat on this carriage and walked forward little by little. As soon as I arrived at the place called Mao'er Temple, there was an old man who came out to greet him enthusiastically, with a smile on his face and a flamboyant tongue, looking dishonest, the old man probably also saw who was the first to come, and had been patting the second and third uncle's sycophants, and then from his words I heard that this was the guide hired by the Zhang family, and paid a large deposit to him in advance, so that he could pick up our line.

However, I was silent all the way, and I found that since the last Huayi Hotel banquet, I felt that he was sluggish, and he talked a lot, but now he basically doesn't speak, every day with a chin in his hand, his eyes are slippery, and he doesn't know what he's thinking in his head, anyway, he won't say it if you ask him, I just don't care about him.

Later, the old man of the guide led us directly into the house, made a table full of dishes, these days I and the fat man did not eat anything along the way, saw the table full of big fish and meat, quickly took off his shoes and ran on the kang to sit and eat, the second uncle and the third uncle and the left and right also sat down, the second uncle is the most close, just sit hot and asked, "Uncle, why is your village called Maoer Temple?" I saw that the old man with an oily tone thought about it and said, "Actually, we were originally called Xu Gong Village, not called what hat temple at all, legend has it that in 156 BC, that is, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, when this side was barren, there was a person named Xu Gong passing by here, seeing that this place was so desolate, the people were not able to make a living, so they stayed here to reclaim farmland and plant crops, and finally with the passage of time, there were more and more residents here, and this land gradually became vibrant.

However, the good times did not last long, the war was about to break out, at that time there began to be a legend that this Xu Gong was a fairy, because at that time other places around the smoke had already risen, the people were not happy, but the place where Xu Gong stayed was still quiet and peaceful, and the people were leisurely, so the local residents built a temple for him in order to thank the person called Xu Gong, but at that time the local people really did not know what to name this temple, so they sent someone to invite the old Xu Gong, Xu Gong waved his pen, and wrote the three words of Maoer Temple on the flat.

Later, a few years later, the war still did not affect this village, not only the war, but this place did not even have natural disasters and man-made disasters, almost most of the people lived a long life, everyone really thought that this Xu Gong was a god, but this Xu Gong suddenly disappeared one day, some people said that he died, some people said that he flew immortals, and even more said that it was because Che Shiguo discovered the secret hidden by Xu Gong, and he was directly arrested by the people of Che Shiguo at that time, anyway, there are all kinds of words, but what is true and what is false, No one knows.

However, this Xu Gong left a letter before leaving, which read, "Ancient and modern capable people, forget where I hid, abandon Xu Gong to come to the hat, now I will go, come for a big thing, do a big thing." At that time, the content of this letter was spread in the village, and everyone was talking about what Xu Gong was going to do, but the old man in front of him did not make it clear to us, he himself said that because this was a story a long, long time ago, it was passed down from generation to generation by the older generation, and he didn't know very well, and there were several sentences before and after I forgot, but the general meaning of the letter is that I, Xu Gong, came here, and did not seek benefits for the people. I hope that the people here can forget that I have forgotten this place where I stayed, and stop calling it Xugong Village, but call it Mao'er Temple instead, today I am leaving, I once came here for a big thing, and today, I left this place for a more important thing.

After listening to the old man's words, our group, including the second uncle and the third uncle, were all confused, but the third uncle later asked the old man another question, which was "Uncle, may I ask you if there are any strange things happening here, or are there any strange people in the past?" The old man thought for a long time, and then said slowly, "There is no strange thing, but there is a strange person, he said that if we go more than ten miles east along the Maoer Temple, there is a very remote place called Executioner Ditch, where there is a cave, and there is a strange person living in the cave."

Strange man he claimed that he was the Xu Gong of the year, because he was crazy every day, no one believed him at all, he was often bullied in the village before, and then it was estimated that he could not stand the fingers of the people in the village, so he simply moved to the cave to live, but at that time he always read a string of strange words in his mouth, saying that there are monsters living in the depths of the desert, and monsters eat people, and he said that he knew what treasure map, and after speaking, he kept stomping his feet in place, you said strange or not.

Deep in the desert, treasure map, although we don't know what this strange man who says he is Xu Gong means, but we vaguely feel that this matter may be a breakthrough in this trip, so that night, the third uncle of the Zhang family and the second uncle discussed it, and decided to go to what executioner ditch tomorrow to visit this strange man, touch his details, maybe we can really learn any useful news from his mouth.

Because, after all, there is too little information on the second copper plate, and the scope of the reference is too large, the key is that we just know that we are looking for a place called the ancient country of the Cheshi, but this ancient country of the Cheshi has a ruins for a while, and a ruins appear for a while, and it has undergone a change of dynasty, once the matter involves history, plus some gossip that the third uncle and his friends have explored, the whole thing becomes unclear and messy.