Hearing Ji Yunsheng say this, we suddenly came to the spirit, Ji Yunsheng should know this pattern, what can make Xue Shuqiao care so much is bound to be related to the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace.

"Ji Lao, what is this broken pattern?" I asked eagerly.

"It's nothing, I've seen this pattern before." Ji Yunsheng asked to help push him to the desk, and in the drawer he took out an iron box, which was messy with some miscellaneous items, Ji Yunsheng looked for a long time and picked up a piece of broken ancient jade.

I took it and looked at it, and was immediately amazed, the appearance of the ancient jade was exactly the same as the pattern in the note.

"Archaeology must be rigorous and objective, but in the last few years of Mr. Xue's departure, he has become very biased, and he seems to have fallen into a magic barrier, devoting himself to studying some unfounded rumors." Ji Yunsheng sighed regretfully. "This ancient jade is one of them, I once dissuaded Teacher Xue, but I didn't expect him to put it down."

"This is the ancient jade you know?" I was disappointed, I originally thought that I could learn more news from Ji Yunsheng's mouth.

"It is this mutilated ancient jade that makes Mr. Xue no longer able to look at archaeology objectively and fairly." Ji Yunsheng nodded. "Except for this ancient jade, I know more than you, there is only one rumor, but I have always believed that it is a lie, or a joke, but Teacher Xue is convinced."

"Ji Lao, what kind of rumor is it?" Gong Jue handed the teacup next to him to Ji Yunsheng.

After Ji Yunsheng took a sip of tea, he raised his head and was silent, his mind seemed to be recalling vague memories for a long time, and it took a long time to slowly tell us that things started from 50 years ago, when the political situation was unstable and the army was in chaos, the campus of Nankai University was blown up, the school moved south, and merged with other schools in Kunming, Yunnan Province to form Southwest Associated University.

At that time, Ji Yunsheng followed Xue Shuqiao to Yunnan, in addition to teaching and subject research, the rest of the time, Xue Shuqiao would take Ji Yunsheng to the market for a walk, not to hang out, the people are bored and there are many people who take out antiques to sell their lives, there are many foreigners in Yunnan at that time, Xue Shuqiao is worried about the loss of precious cultural relics, so he will check in the market, if it is a cultural relic of real historical value, Xue Shuqiao will apply to the school for funds to buy.

It is because of Xue Shuqiao's insistence that many precious cultural relics have been preserved to this day, once Xue Shuqiao took Ji Yunsheng, as usual to the market to look for, and did not find valuable cultural relics, just when he was about to leave, Xue Shuqiao saw a bridge horse unkempt man sitting at the end of the street.

And in front of the man was a piece of linen, on which was placed a piece of broken jade, gold in troubled times, and the people were not even able to make gold, let alone a piece of jade that was not in perfect condition.

Xue Shuqiao walked over curiously to take a look, and found that although the jade was incomplete, it had strange patterns and shapes, and it was not a jade from the Central Plains, so he asked the man about the origin of the jade.

Who knows, the jade seller said that one yard is one yard, and he wanted to buy his jade before answering the question, but fortunately, the man didn't ask for much money, so Xue Shuqiao bought this piece of jade, according to Ji Yunsheng's recollections, that person was insatiable at first glance, and took the money to find a reason to let Xue Shuqiao take him to a meal.

Ji Yunsheng insisted that this person was a liar and dissuaded Xue Shuqiao from believing it anymore, but Xue Shuqiao was particularly interested in the jade, and really took the person to the restaurant, the person should have been hungry for several days, and after devouring the meal, he told Xue Shuqiao that he was a horse gang who took the ancient tea horse road.

In the high mountains and valleys of the Hengduan Mountains, in the jungles and grasses of the Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet triangles, there is a mysterious ancient road, which is the famous Ancient Tea Horse Road.

Originating from the ancient southwest frontier and the northwest frontier of the tea and horse market, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancient tea horse road is divided into Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet, connecting Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet, and extending into India until the Red Sea coast of West Asia and West Africa.

And this jade seller, when he walked to the Yunnan-Tibet line, set off from the border of Yunnan and passed through Kunming, because he gambled and lost all his money, so he sold his jade.

"A person who is addicted to gambling can tell the truth in his mouth, Mr. Xue asked him the origin of Gu Yu, and that person's reply was so wild, I don't know how he made up such a story." Ji Yunsheng said.

"What the hell did the man say?" Xue Xinrou asked.

Ji Yunsheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, saying that the way we look now, just like Xue Shuqiao back then, can't wait to know the origin of jade, Ji Yunsheng told us unhurriedly that if we want to take the ancient tea horse road, we must use horses with strong physique, good at mountaineering and long-distance long-term labor, and Yunnan's Yunnan horse can be said to be the best choice.

The people of the horse gang will carefully select the horses before departure, the person who sells jade is the first time to take the ancient tea horse road, only in the west of Yunnan there are the best Yunnan horses, this person went to the west of Yunnan to buy horses, on the way back to camp and rest in the dark, at night he heard the sound of rustling in the forest, at first he thought that he had encountered a wild beast, but he did not expect to wear a person out of it.

The man was dressed in strange clothes, not like the local minority, but he was hungry and seemed to be lost in the mountains, and the caravan saw that the man was not fierce, so they left him with him for the night, and gave him some dry food.

The man asked the caravan about the year and month, and the caravan's answer made the man very confused, and the man didn't seem to move the time at all, which made the caravan very curious, and asked where the man came from. Ji Yunsheng shook his head and said with a wry smile. The man actually replied, "It's from Lingshan."

"Lingshan?!" We exclaimed in unison almost at the same time.

"Why is your reaction so big?" Ji Yunsheng looked at us blankly. "This place name should not be true, presumably the people of the Horse Gang will prevaricate me and Teacher Xue to make it up, because he told us that the man he met in the forest said that he was from Lingshan, which is a place where you can see the sun and the moon at the same time."

"......" I was dumbfounded, remembering that Yin Die had told us that it was indeed recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that in the great wilderness, there was a mountain named Fengfu Yumen, where the sun and the moon entered, and this place was Lingshan.

"Anyone with a little common sense knows that the sun and the moon cannot appear in the sky at the same time, such an absurd and flawed lie is simply ridiculous and generous, but often people are always very curious about unknown things, and this curiosity will make people lose objective judgment and analysis, even Mr. Xue is no exception." Ji Yunsheng sighed again and said regretfully. After hearing the man's story, Teacher Xue was shocked, and asked with conviction.

We looked at each other, and the person who lost his objective judgment was Ji Yunsheng, who was too stubborn and conservative, not believing in rumors and only believing in well-documented documents, but I don't know how many things that have been recorded for five thousand years under the mountain are true.

I believe that what shocked Xue Shuqiao at that time was that the man said the vision of Lingshan and the sun and the moon in the same day, a horse gang who walked the ancient tea horse road, even if he wanted to make it up, he would not make up a place that was the same as the description of the Book of Mountains and Seas.

"And then, what else did you ask?" The palace lord was impatient.

Ji Yunsheng continued to say to us, the caravan didn't know what the man was talking about, and even felt that the man had some problems in his brain, he seemed to be at a loss about the caravan's clothes and words, and during the conversation, the people of the caravan found that this person actually didn't know anything about what was happening in the outside world.

Therefore, I was very curious about what the Lingshan mentioned by the man would be, and the man told the caravan that Lingshan was a country, a country that worshiped the snake god, and that the Lingshan people coexisted with the snake, and built a palace for the snake god with Yellowstone.

Under the protection of the snake god, the people of Lingshan live a life without quarrel with the world, every three hundred years, the people of Lingshan will worship the snake god, but he has never walked out of Lingshan, so he wants to see what is outside Lingshan, he himself does not know how long he has walked, and he does not know where he is at all.

The man told the caravan that he had to rush back before the next sacrifice, that he had not seen the snake god for a long time, and that those who missed the sacrifice would be punished.

"Ji Lao, you wait, you just said that the man hadn't seen the snake god for a long time, but didn't he say before that the sacrifice was made once every three hundred years, what did that person mean, he, he participated in the last sacrifice?!" Xue Xinrou was taken aback and asked.

"In this way, that person is more than a hundred years old, to say the least?" Tian Ji also looked puzzled.

"At that time, Mr. Xue also reacted, and also asked in detail, and the people from the horse gang told us that he thought that the person had a problem with his brain at first and didn't want to pay attention to it at all, but something happened that made him convinced of what the man said." Ji Yunsheng said.

"What happened?"

Ji Yunsheng told him eloquently, and the people of the Ma Gang were also curious about how old that person was, and the man told him that the people in Lingshan had a long lifespan, and he himself didn't know how long he had lived, but he did participate in the last sacrifice.

The people of the horse gang thought that the man was open-mouthed, and asked casually, as I said before, what is the Yellowstone to build a palace for the snake god.

The man replied that not only the palace of the snake god, but also the entire Lingshan was built with Yellowstone, but it was difficult for the man to describe what Yellowstone was to the people of the Horse Gang, so he groped around for a long time and handed over a piece of Yellowstone brought out of the Spirit Mountain to the Horse Gang.

When the horse gang took over Huangshi, they were stunned for a long time and couldn't speak.

"What is Yellowstone?" I asked blankly.

Ji Yunsheng's wife brought the food over, was pulled by Ji Yunsheng, put his wife's hand in front of us, pointed to the ring his wife was wearing, and said, "This is Huangshi." ”

All of us looked at the ring, and then we were stunned at the same time, and the corners of my mouth squirmed for a long time: "Yellow, gold!" ”

Ji Yunsheng nodded, he recalled that the people of the horse gang compared the outline of the size of a pigeon's egg in front of them, and at that time, the man gave him a piece of pure gold that was so large, and said that he had inadvertently brought it with him after leaving Lingshan, and in that person's eyes, gold was just an ordinary stone, far less expensive than the dry food gold that the horse gang gave him.

The caravan didn't expect that the man would give him a piece of gold, but soon the caravan realized that all the buildings in the entire Lingshan were built with gold, and that it would be a golden city, and if they could find that place, they would have an inexhaustible supply of gold.