Liu Xingye followed Wang Yuan and Xiaoying to Li Fangzheng's house, just about to start eating. Liu Shiye's first feeling when he saw Zhou An was that there was something wrong with his eyes, as if he had seen this kind of look somewhere.

"Hello Mr. Liu, I'm ......"

"I've heard Wang Yuan say it." Liu Xingye interrupted Zhou An's self-introduction. "Professor Zhou, I heard that you are going to enter Yansheng Mountain?" Liu Xingye then asked.

"Maybe there are some misunderstandings about Yan Shengshan in your village, so you have always been very resistant to entering the mountain." Zhou An said.

"It's a ghost mountain, I've been looking at the mountain here for more than ten years, I advise you not to go in." Liu Industrial said.

"Actually, I also know a little bit about Yan Shengshan's rumors, if you listen to me later, maybe you won't think so." Zhou An said.

"Is it scientific again? I've been comforting myself with these things all these years. Liu Xingye said with a smile.

Zhou An seemed to think of something, stared at Liu Shiye and Wang Chengqiu and said: "I'll just say it directly, I heard that you were the closest person to Wang Chengqiu when you were young, so have you ever heard Wang Chengqiu mention a country, or a tribe?" ”

"!! of the Underworld" Liu Shiye and Li Fangzheng blurted out at the same time.

"He really knows about it, and it seems that he can't be wrong!" Zhou An was so excited that he almost jumped up, and his demeanor seemed to be far from the image of the professor in people's hearts. "Can you tell me more about it?" Zhou An then said.

Looking at Zhou An's reaction, Liu Xingye and Li Fangzheng understood. "You're a professor in the history department, so that country really existed......" Li Fangzheng felt that this matter was a little incredible.

"This matter is very complicated, how did Wang Chengqiu mention this matter to you back then, and also, is the purpose of his entry into the mountain also for this matter?" Zhou An asked.

"Hmph, if he is willing to tell the two of us, maybe he won't lose his life." Liu Industrial said.

Li Fangzheng continued on the side: "Before he got married, the three of us were still good friends, but after he got married, he almost cut off contact with anyone. ”

"For what, is it because of Wang Yuan's mother, Lin Lan? Or is it because of the ...... of the Underworld," Zhou An said.

"It should be, at first we didn't pay much attention to it, and we were still saying that the boy forgot about us brothers when he married his daughter-in-law, but then the facts showed that it was not so simple." Liu Industrial said.

"What do you mean, did he behave in any unusual way?" Zhou An asked.

Liu Shiye put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked out the window, and said; "The three of us got married on the same day, his home is halfway up the mountain, that is, my old house now, after getting married, I still have a close relationship with Li Fangzheng's family, his home is far away from us, maybe not much, we didn't feel abnormal at first, we occasionally go to him to play. Until one night, Wang Chengqiu came to me and Li Fangzheng to drink, I remember that he was very disappointed that night, usually he doesn't drink, we thought he had a quarrel at home, so I didn't ask carefully. The three of us were drinking and gossiping, and when all three of us were a little drunk, he would tell us a story. Liu Xingye turned his gaze to Zhou An and said, "This story is about the country of the underworld you said. ”

"What did he say?" Zhou An asked. Not only Zhou An, but everyone present put down the chopsticks in their hands and looked at Liu Xingye. Li Fangzheng also said: "Tell me, after so many years, I hardly remember that story." ”

Liu Xingye said: "I can basically tell it, at that time he asked the two of us, do you know that there is a story on this Yansheng Mountain, we said I don't know, he went on to say that he knows that there is a country on the mountain from ancient times to the present, a very ancient country, called the country of the Underworld." At that time, I was almost drunk, so I laughed at him, saying that his brain was in water, and he was in a hurry, and he said that he dared to pack the ticket, there must be one on the mountain, and if he didn't believe it, he would find it out. He then spoke to us in a very mysterious tone, like an adult telling a child nonsense. Liu Xingye paused, looked at Zhou An and said: "I will try my best to tell the whole thing, at that time he told me that the legend of the Underworld was a small country during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it can also be said to be a tribe, and there are almost no records in history that have been handed down, only mentioned in the relevant historical records in some parts of the Qi Kingdom." The people of the country of Hades live in the mountains, they are good at witchcraft and divination, and the place where they live is surrounded by mountains, and no one knows where their specific location is, and even almost except for Qi, almost no country knows about their existence, which is also the reason for their existence in troubled times. The people of the country of Qi call the people of the country of the underworld the people of the underworld or the people of the underworld, not to be offended, they are always haunted in the mountains, the legend says that they can call the wind and rain, and the mountains of Qi are full of their traces, and no one really knows and understands them. During the Warring States Period, I forgot what the king of Qi was, I once wanted to obtain the secret art mastered by the people of the Underworld, and sent an envoy to ask for advice, but was rejected by the people of the Underworld, so the State of Qi tried to attack the Underworld State, and they were ready to send troops to the Underworld according to the location of the Underworld State, but when the mighty army arrived here, they were left with only empty houses and caves mixed in the mountains. Unexpectedly, no one was found, and even the Qi army was lost in these mountains. But at night, smoke began to rise from the whole area, and the devilish howls came from the surrounding villages, the mountains in the distance, and even the wells next to the houses to get water. So in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the generals of Qi decided to withdraw and set fire to the mountain, which burned for several days and nights. After the fire was extinguished, the army entered the mountain again, just when the Qi army thought that the so-called Hades was burned to the ground and wanted to take a breath, the surrounding mountains erupted into countless ghost-like wails, and the campfires near the military camp at night would also flicker and flicker, and the Qi army's heart was gone, and the generals of the Qi army had to lead the troops to evacuate, and since then they have dispelled the idea of the Hades Chi country. Legend has it that the monarch of the Underworld can communicate with ghosts and gods, and he can calmly travel between the human world and the underworld, which is why the Qi Kingdom calls them Yin people. In this way, the country of the Underworld has existed for hundreds of years in a turbulent situation. In the late Warring States period, the Qin State became more and more powerful, and the monarchs or leaders of the Hades Kingdom began to realize that the secret arts mastered by their people would sooner or later fall into the hands of the brutal Qin people, and they could no longer protect themselves by relying on the witchcraft they mastered. An action or project that was unimaginable at the time began to be proposed, and their purpose was to go deep underground, a legend that had been circulating for a long time, that there was an entrance to the underground world beneath the boundaries of the realm where they were located, where there would be no wars and no strife, enough for them to move their whole country here. It seems similar to the paradise described by Tao Yuanming in the future, but their entrance is underground. The entire kingdom of the Underworld believed in this legend, and a huge project began. There are many strange people in the country of Hades, they are proficient in feng shui and divination, so they have to go through precise divination and calculation before starting construction, and investigate the terrain and feng shui. Sure enough, after decades of excavation and exploration, they finally got there. The underworld opened its doors for them, and the kingdom of Underworld and everything it had disappeared without a trace overnight. Later, the Qin State completed the unification, when the ruler of the Qin State was the First Emperor Yingzheng, in his later years, he was obsessed with immortality, and at this time a man ran out of the ground and told Qin Shi Huang all this. ”

Liu Xingye stopped here again. "And then?" Zhou An looked at Liu Xingye and stopped talking, and was a little anxious.

Liu Xingye scratched his head and said: "Later, I remember that I drank too much, and then it seemed that I fell asleep on the table, after Wang Chengqiu had an accident in the mountain, I also recalled this incident, but there are so many things that can be sorted out, and I forgot whether he didn't talk about it, or I fell asleep." ”

"If you don't talk about it today, I don't know there are so many things...... I remember a country of the Underworld. Li Fangzheng said.

"Oh my God, the most important thing is that I didn't hear it......" Zhou An said.

"Were there only three people there?" Wang Yuan asked.

"yes, it's just us, what's wrong?" Liu Industrial said.

"So have you ever done this to anyone else? It was before my dad's accident. Wang Yuan asked.

"No, you mean that others also knew about it and harmed your parents?" Liu Industrial said.

"Actually, it's not impossible." Zhou An said, "Do you know where I learned about the Underworld Pond Country? ”

"From?" Liu Xingye asked.

"From one of my teacher's notebooks, I'll show you something." After Zhou An finished speaking, he took out a few photos from the notebook he was carrying.

"Why don't you finish your meal and study these things?" Qin Xiuzhi, who had been sitting on the side, saw that the whole table was so excited that she almost didn't eat.

"Why don't you wait until you're done to eat, put it away. Wang Yuan, Xiaoying, you two go to the kitchen to eat. Li Fangzheng said.

"No, I'm full." Wang Yuan obviously didn't want to go away either.

"I'm full, too." Xiaoying said.

Seeing this, Qin Xiuzhi could only clean up the table and then go out, she didn't seem to have much interest in this matter.