My relationship with Uncle Hai is not so good that I have nothing to talk about, usually it is some business communication, after getting acquainted with him, I asked him to give him face, he suddenly wanted to be close to me, I felt a little strange. But the little girl is not good at me. casually agreed, and asked her, "What do you say?" What news did he find? ”

Qin Haiting smiled evilly, "Uncle I said, I'll tell you when the time comes, I don't know what's going on, don't ask." ”

I scolded in my heart, this old jiān businessman, probably wants to knock my bamboo pole again.

On the third day, Lao Hai really arrived, I picked him up from the train station, took him to the elevated hotel to the book, and I asked him in the car what news he had heard, and if he was blinded by me, I would not spare him.

Lao Hai shivered coldly, and said: "The strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, it's all in your territory, how dare I fool you, but let's not talk about it here, I'm about to freeze to death." ”

I took him to the hotel, put down his things, and went to the dining hall to find a private room. After scalding the pot of wine and a few glasses of belly, I finally relieved myself.

I saw that he was drinking all the way to his neck, and I knew that it was almost there, so I asked him, "Okay, you drank and drank, and ate and eaten, it's time to say, what did you find?" ”

He blinked his mouth, smiled, took out a stack of papers from his bag, and slapped it on the table, "Look at this." ”

I picked it up and looked at it. It was a yellowed old newspaper, and the issue was from 1974, and he circled a piece of news with a great black and white photo. Although it is not very clear, I still recognized it, the photo was taken, it was a snake eyebrow copper fish, and there were many small cultural relics on the side, such as Buddhist beads.

However, the appearance of this fish is different from the one in my hand and the one in the third uncle's hand. There is a relief of three fish on the forehead of the tomb tomb statue in the submarine tomb, and this one should be the top one. In this way, it can be said that all three fish are alive.

I asked Lao Hai, "How did you find this newspaper?" What's behind it? ”

Lao Haidao: "I've been helping a big boss tinker with old newspapers recently, you know, rich people collect everything, you see, this is the Guangxi Cultural Evening News in 74 years." He asked me to find him from January to December, and I looked for two months to get it together, and it was going to be delivered in a few days. Do you think it's a coincidence? This newspaper was published for a year in '74, and it closed in '75, and it's hard to find it in the world. If you're lucky, my eyes will be gone sooner. ”

My eyes looked down, and there was a news story of about 300 words under the photo, saying that the fish was found in the base of a Buddhist temple in Guangxi. Because of its age, the tower naturally collapsed, and the underground palace was dug up when the ruins were cleared. There were some soaking scriptures and treasure letters, and one of them had this fish in it. Experts speculate that it is a relic of monks in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Northern song dynasty? I lit a cigarette, leaned back in my chair, and muttered in my heart, this snake-eyed copper fish, the first fish, appeared in the tombs of the princes in the late Warring States period; the second fish is in a submarine tomb at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty; The third fish is in the underground palace of the Northern Song Dynasty pagoda. What kind of plane is there, there is no boundary at all in time.

I flipped through the rest of the newspaper, and only this one piece of news was about this fish, and there was nothing new about it. I still don't know anything about this fish, and I'm depressed thinking about people.

Lao Hai looked at my expression and said, "Don't be discouraged, I haven't finished talking yet, the story behind this is still colorful." ”

I frowned, "What do you say?" Could it be that what else could be derived from this newspaper? ”

Lao Hai nodded and said, "That is, if I just find a newspaper, I don't need to come to Hangzhou to find you, right?" We have to start from the beginning. By the way, you are also mixed in the industry, do you know that there is a person called Chen Pi Ah Si? ”

I was shocked to hear it, Chen Pia Si was a famous Tufuzi in Changsha when he was old, an old scoop handle, and my grandfather's contemporary, I heard that he is now more than 90 years old, and he was blind during the ten years of catastrophe, and he has not appeared since then, and I don't know whether he is dead or alive, but his name is still in my grandfather's mouth, and it is still well-known.

But this person is different from his grandfather, he lived a life on the knife edge, that is, he didn't just rob tombs, kill people and set fires, as long as he could get money, he did it, so before liberation, people called him shave his head, which means that he kills people like shaving his head, without hesitation.

I was a little surprised when Lao Hai mentioned this person, because he was not a contemporary of ours, and I had never been in contact with him, could this fish have anything to do with him? The story behind this fish, even if it has nothing to do with me, is definitely worth listening.

Lao Hai saw that I didn't speak, thinking that I didn't know, and said: "It's not strange that you don't know about Chen Siye's affairs, in the end it's not the same generation as us, but I have to tell you that the copper fish in this newspaper was brought out by him from the underground palace of the pagoda, and the matter is really not as simple as what is said in this newspaper." As he spoke, he briefly told me about the events of that year.

It turned out that in 74 years, Chen Pi Ah Si was nearly 60 years old, his eyes were not blind, it was a period of ten years of turmoil, because he was a platoon commander in the Kuomintang army in the early days of liberation, and later became a bandit for a few years, so he had no legal identity, which was caught at that time to be killed, he could only operate in the ethnic minority areas in Guangxi, and he did not even dare to set foot in the county seat.

In addition to the four old in the early years, many historic sites were almost smashed, Chen Pia Si has been to many places in Guangxi, because Guangxi was not the Central Plains in ancient times, and there were not many ancient tombs, and he lived honestly in those years. But unfortunately, that year, he happened to pass by in Jiaqiaoling, chatted with a few local Miao people, and those people drank too much, so they talked about the collapse of a tower in a temple in Mao'er Mountain, saying that the movement was very big, and even the ground also sank, and a big pit collapsed, and on the night of the collapse, many people also heard a very strange scream.

Chen Pi'a Siyi felt that it was wrong, he had been to Mao'er Mountain many times, and the temples in that place were built very strongly, how could it be said that they would collapse? After careful questioning, I learned that this tower is not on Mao'er Mountain, but in the center of a mountain range called "Reclining Buddha Ridge" on the side. This place is very strange, surrounded by villages, that is, a basin of about ten square kilometers in the middle, the altitude is very low, the vegetation is dense inside, the tree cover covers the sky, the village is on the cliff, and the woods are under the cliff. With a drop of more than 100 meters, they are two completely different worlds, and there is no way down from the village, and the only way to go down to this basin is to use ropes.

Locals say there must be other entrances and exits to the basin, but the vegetation underneath is so dense that it is difficult to walk. In the past, the Miao people who went down to hunt and collect medicine often disappeared inside, so generally no one wanted to go down.

The ancient pagoda was built in such a place. Almost in the center of the basin, when one looks down from the cliff, one can only see a very small spire with a dense canopy of trees, and it is full of plants, and it is impossible to see what is underneath. Miao Min said that they knew that there was a tower here more than ten generations ago, but no one thought to go down and see it, and now they are used to it. Recently, one day, there was a sudden loud noise, and when I came out to see that the spire was gone, I realized that the tower had collapsed.

There are many legends about this mysterious ancient pagoda among the locals. According to some old people, this tower was built by a monk in ancient times to suppress demons, and now as soon as the tower falls, the monsters are going to come out to do evil, and the strange cry is the cry of the monster breaking free from the shackles.

After listening to it, Chen Pi Asi thought it was very interesting, and he felt that the location of the tower was not quite right with the sound that Miao Min heard in the middle of the night. But people like them may have a peculiar instinct to find information from other people's accounts and some legends. This is something that is hard to find in our generation.

Chen Pia thought for a moment and decided to go and have a look.

Guangxi has many mountain ranges, which can be called the first in the country. Maoershan is one of the important sources, spanning the three counties of Xing'an, Resources and Longsheng, and is the birthplace of the Li River, Zijiang River and Xunjiang River, connecting the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. There was a large area of primeval jungle in that place, and the old mountain boundary, the first big mountain crossed by the Red Army's Long March, was among them. During World War II, several bombers of the Flying Tigers who aided China mysteriously disappeared here, so this place has always been a bit mysterious.

After several twists and turns, Chen Pia Si came to a village on the "Reclining Buddha Ridge", stood on the mound and looked at the basin in the middle of the mountain range, I cāo, the tower was much larger than he imagined, and when it fell, several trees were knocked down, so there was a gap in the green tree cover of the forest. On the "Reclining Buddha Ridge", you can't see what is in the gap, but Chen Pi Ah Si almost immediately found that in the week of the collapse of the tower, all the trees were very messy because of the ground sinking, it seems that there is something under the tower, and the volume is larger than the base of the tower.

When I heard this, I already knew that it was a "mirror palace". "Jing'er Palace" is the dialect of Changsha before the liberation, that is, under the above-ground buildings, there are underground parts with the same scale as the above-ground buildings, which looks like the reflection of the above-ground buildings on the lake, and the upper and lower ends are symmetrical.

This is also called "yīn yang shuttle" in the northern school, which means that the whole building is like a shuttle inserted into the ground, with one side being yīn and one side being yang. However, such ancient tombs or ancient buildings are rare, and most of the ruins on the ground have been destroyed, so this kind of statement was almost no one mentioned in the ten years before the liberation.

Just by looking at the changes in the arrangement of the trees, Chen Pia Si can know that there is a "mirror palace" buried underneath, and this kind of judgment is impossible to do without extremely rich experience. I couldn't help but sigh secretly, calm down, and listen to Lao Hai continue.

After Chen Pi Asi made up his mind, he was already greedy in his heart, there will only be three things in the underground palace of the pagoda, either the relics, or the golden body of the monk, or a large number of Buddhist scriptures, anything is priceless.

But he is such a foreigner, it is not very convenient to move here, firstly, his identity is special, and his background is not good, and secondly, the Miao and Han clans were constantly in dispute at that time, and several villages here are Miao villages, and rashly entering may arouse the suspicion of others.

After much consideration, he came up with a plan, he paid a high price for a local Hmong guide, and he told the guide that he was an old branch intellectual, and when he came, one of his students fell off a cliff. The Miao people are simple and unfamiliar with the world, how could they think that there is a trick in it, and as soon as they heard that someone had fallen off the cliff, they immediately notified the people of the whole village. The young Miao man tied the hanging basket with a rope and lowered Chen Pia Si and a few young men who helped him to the bottom of the cliff.

According to Chen Pi's own recollection, the difference of more than 100 meters was a hellish experience. The cliff is very steep, the weight of the person is completely stretched by a rattan rope, the buttocks are wrapped in a basket, and when the wind blows, the whole person spins in circles like a top, which is extremely unstable. By the time he had passed through the dense canopy and descended to the bottom of the jungle, only half a human life remained.

There is hardly any sunlight in the interior of the forest, the light is extremely dim, and the smell of swamp gas fills the air. There are many types of trees here, but without exception, green moss grows everywhere, and the mud is so soft that it is almost impossible to stand.

After Chen Pia came down, he pretended to be physically exhausted (in fact, he was really frightened), and sat there panting. The Miao leader saw that he was not too young, and he looked like a little old man, so he asked him to wait for them to come back in the same place, and he himself lit torches and beckoned the others to search in the direction he pointed.

As soon as they left, Chen Pi'a Si immediately took out the compass and drilled into the depths of the jungle according to the direction noted in advance. It's a pity that he didn't bring enough equipment this time, and whether he can enter the palace or not depends on his own creation.

After walking in the jungle for four hours, relying on the compass and his courage to travel north and south over the years, Chen Pi Ah Si finally came to the area he planned on the "Reclining Buddha Ridge", that is, the temple ruins around the tower.

After walking in the jungle for four hours, relying on the compass and his courage to travel north and south over the years, Chen Pi Ah Si finally came to the area he planned on the "Reclining Buddha Ridge", that is, the temple ruins around the tower.

As he continued to go deeper, Chen Pi'a Si saw more and more broken eaves, obviously the ancient buildings here have disappeared, only some foundations and broken walls remain, almost mixed with those vegetation, and it is not clear what it is. But looking at the scale, the area of this temple is huge, and although the tower is in this large area, it is difficult to see where it is.

Chen Pi Ah Si is not young in the end, walking around, feeling a little short of breath, and was about to sit down and rest, when suddenly his eyes flashed, and the grass that wrapped the entire wall on the side suddenly shrank, and it seemed to be wrapped in something.

Chen Pi Ah Si was startled, he rolled and rolled out, and at the same time turned out an iron bullet in his hand, and when he looked back, he saw that in the vine grass quilt wrapped around the wall, there was a corpse of a Miao person, which was almost shriveled, but the stomach of the corpse, I don't know why, was slightly agitating, as if there was something inside.