Longling to the big place, is the remnant of the Qinling Mountains, to the small place, in fact, is a densely packed mound, a mound next to a mound, the undulating drop is very large, between the mound and the mound is cut by the rain and the wind is fragmented, there are countless deep ditches, and there are some places outside is the crust of the earth, but it is broken when you step on it, and the inside is a hollow. It looks like the straight-line distance between the two hills is very close, but it is very likely that it will take half a day to walk from this side to that side.

The name of this place is not well known, and Cheng does not even have a unified name, the people near Gutian County call this mountain "Longling", but the villagers who live near Longling call this area "Pansnake Slope".

"Pansnake Slope" is far less imposing than the name "Longling", but it is more intuitive and more vivid to describe the topography and landform here than the latter.

I and the fat man, the big gold tooth three, left at nine o'clock in the morning in Gutian County, can do the car on the road section of the car, open the 11th place is not open to traffic, all the way to the "Longling" when the day has been dark.

There is a small village at the foot of Longling Mountain, there are about 20 families in the village, the three of us discussed, now it is late, it is not easy to find the fishbone temple, the mountain road is difficult, don't fall into the ditch without paying attention, then it can be the damn teacher died before he got out, so he simply spent the night in the village at night, and waited until tomorrow morning to talk about it.

We found a family at the entrance of the village nearby, explained to the owner the intention, went out in a hurry, not in front of the village and not in the back of the store, can you make a convenient, spend the night, we can pay some money for nothing.

The owners of this family were an elderly couple, and when they saw the three of us carrying large bags and small bags, and two big white geese jumping around, they were a little puzzled, and they didn't know what our group was doing.

The fat man hurriedly said to others with a smile: "Uncle and aunt, we are going to visit our former comrades-in-arms in the army, passing by here, missing the accommodation, you see we are also going out, it is not easy, no one goes out with the house, isn't it, can you do it well, find us a room, let our brothers deal with it for a night, you take the twenty yuan." After finishing speaking, regardless of whether people wanted to or not, he took out the money and stuffed it into the old couple.

When the old couple saw that we didn't want any bad people, they gladly agreed, and made room for us, which seemed to have been uninhabited for a few years, and the kang was cold, and if the fire was burned, we would have to pour a day's black smoke, and I told them that there was no need to burn the kang, and that there was a shelter from the wind, and then I asked them to get us some food.

When the fat man saw that there were buckets and flats in the courtyard, he said to me, "Old Hu, go and fetch two buckets of water." ”

I wondered, "What are you doing with water?" Don't you have water in your kettle? ”

The fat man said: "When you PLA live in a villager's house, you don't have to fill the water tank of the villager's house, and then you have to sweep the yard and repair the roof. ”

I said to the fat man: "Just fucking you talk a lot of nonsense, I don't know where the well is, I went out in the dark and turned around, what if I can't come back, and besides, I'll ask them about the situation around here in a while, don't talk too much, you can say less and say a few fucking words, don't forget to say more." ”

While we were talking, the old couple scrambled a few eggs for us, made two pot helmets, and brought them into the house.

I thanked him even more, and while eating, I got close to the owner, and asked who lived in this house before?

I didn't expect to ask this, the old man and the old lady were in tears, this house was originally their only son to live, ten years ago, their son into the "snake slope" to find a lost lamb at home, the result was never back, the village people looked for three or four days, even the corpse was not seen, presumably fell into the shell of the hollow, fell into the cave in the mountain, the only son, just gone, even a pensioner to send the end of the person is gone, these years, relying on the help of the villagers in the same village, barely survived.

When the fat man and I heard this, we all felt sad, and we took some more money to give to them, and the old couple thanked them a lot, and even said that they had met a good person.

I asked some about the situation of "Longling", but the old couple said that there is no Tang Dynasty tomb in "Pansnake Slope", only to hear the older generation of people mentioned that there is a big tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and this tomb is haunted and haunted, and even in the daytime, there are people on the slope who encounter the ghost wall, and get lost on the slope at the bottom of the ditch.

The local people call this area "coiled snake", which means that the road is complicated and easy to get lost, and the "Longling Maze" refers to the caves in the mountains, criss-crossing and criss-crossing, which is simply a natural labyrinth.

As for the old site of the fishbone temple, there is indeed still there, but it has been abandoned for decades, there is a deep ditch out of the village and two mountain beams, "the fishbone temple" is at the head of that ditch, when the temple was built, the businessman who paid the money said that it was at the feng shui level, and the temple of the dragon king must be kept smooth.

I didn't expect that after the temple was repaired, nothing has changed, God wants to rain on it, if you don't want it to rain, you will be dry for a few years, burning incense is useless, so the incense of the temple is broken, and few people go again.

I said, "We were just crossing the Yellow River when the boat was almost overturned by the Dragon King, so we were more curious and wanted to go to the Fish Bone Temple to see the bones of the iron-headed dragon kingfish." ”

The old couple said that it is okay if you want to go to the Fishbone Temple, but don't go to the depths of the snake slope, even the natives of this village are easy to get lost, not to mention the three of you from outside.

I nodded and thanked me, and at this time I had almost eaten, so I started to help clean up, took the dishes and chopsticks out of the house, and walked in the courtyard, when the big gold tooth suddenly whispered to me: "Master Hu, there are good things in this courtyard." ”

I glanced back, and the big gold tooth stretched out his finger and pointed to a large stone in the courtyard: "This is a stele, it has been around for many years." ”

I didn't speak, nodded to indicate that I understood, helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, the old couple went back to the room to sleep, and the three of us gathered around the courtyard pretending to smoke and chat, and secretly watched the stone tablet mentioned by the big golden tooth.

If it weren't for the big gold-toothed eye thief, we wouldn't have noticed that this rectangular stele was very badly worn, and there were several deep stone grooves carved in the middle, which might have been used to tie up animals.

There is only half of the stele, and there is half a broken beast head on the top of the stele, and the text pattern on the stele is long gone.

The fat man asked the big gold tooth: "This is the good thing you said, I think it may have been worth a lot before, but now it is like this, it is a big stone, you see, the things on this side are all smoothed, how many years has it been used." ”

Big Golden Tooth smoked a cigarette and said: "Fat man, I'm not saying that this stele is valuable, this stele is definitely not worth it now, there is only half a beast head left, and even the research value may not exist, it's a pity, but don't forget, our ancestors are also fighting down, the reason why I say this is a good thing is not that there is no reason at all, just rush the half of the beast head on this stele on it, I dare to conclude that there must be a Tang Dynasty tomb in this Longling, but the specific location, tomorrow we will have to look at Hu Ye's means." ”

I reached out and touched the head of the beast on the stone tablet, and said to the big golden tooth, "You mean this is a tombstone?" ”

The big gold tooth said: "Even if it is a tombstone, although the head of the beast on this tablet is broken, but I can still see it, this beast is called Le Li, the Tang Dynasty was strong, all built the mausoleum in the mountain, with the mountain as the mausoleum, there are some corresponding facilities on the ground, erect some stone stele statues, stone camels, stone steles and the like, as a symbol of the Gongwei mausoleum, this music is a kind of auspicious beast lying on the stone stele, legend is that it is a spirit animal in the west sky, the sound is good, like fairy music, so as to infer that this stele should be a song of merit and praise and the like, Eighteen miles before the mausoleum, there is a pair without a mile, and the music is the second pair of stone tablets. ”

I said: "Master Jin, don't see that you don't understand feng shui, but your attainments in ancient history and culture are beyond my reach, let's not talk about it in the courtyard, go back to the house to discuss." ”

We went back to the house to continue planning, and now we have reached the edge of Longling, from the current clues, it is certain that there is an ancient tomb here, but whether this tomb is from the Tang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is a bit of a contradiction.

If you look at it from the tombstone, there is no doubt that it is a tomb of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also in line with what Lao Liu Tou said in the guest house in Gutian County, but how do the local villagers say that this mountain is the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty?

The big golden tooth asked me, "Do you think there is such a possibility, in a feng shui treasure vein, there are many acupuncture points that can be set up in tombs?" ”

I said, "That's true, but the whole leyline can't be a good place, and there are high and low acupuncture points in various places, and the best location is often only enough to build a tomb." However, it is not excluded that the ancient tombs of the two dynasties have a view of the same acupuncture point. ”

I asked the fat man and the big gold tooth to recuperate well tonight, tomorrow morning, whether he is "Longling" or "Snake Slope", let's go to the place to have a good look, in addition, there may be a lot of antiques in this village that have not been discovered, and when you come back, you will go to the local villager's house to have a look. ”