Chapter 9 The Flowing Water
I saw the pit kick the wolf on my feet, and I hurriedly asked, "Does it matter?" and "It's so important, we have to find a way to rush out." The pit said. Anyone can talk, but at this time, there is no way to rush out, the only way may be for us to jump off the cliff and avoid the attack of the wolf, of course, this is just my own cranky thinking, it does not mean that I will do this. I'm struggling and don't know where to go, but it's really a mountain and a water, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. In the darkness of the night, I noticed a large tree growing on the cliff behind me, and half of the canopy of the tree had grown beyond the cliff. I suddenly had a way, go up the tree!
I quickly shared my thoughts with the three of them, and they all agreed. The four of us alternated cover and climbed the big tree. At this time, the wolves also gathered under the tree, but fortunately the wolves could not go up the tree, so they could only circle under the tree.
Seeing that the wolf couldn't come up, the pit became proud again, holding the tree with one hand, taking off his shoes with the other, knocking the mud on the soles of the shoes on the branches, and his mouth was not idle, shouting at the wolves: "Fuck the dog, I have bitten through Lao Tzu's leather shoes." Come up, come up and let you lick General Niu's feet, and you will have an endless aftertaste. ”
I saw that he was not serious, so I sneered: "Do you still need to lick your feet?" If you throw your shoes down, you might be able to smoke these wolf cubs to death, and we will be able to get out of trouble. ”
The pit glared at me and said, "My shoes are made of leather, and you can eat them if necessary." ”
Lao Zhao interrupted the two of us, "Don't discuss eating leather shoes yet, look at that." ”
Saying the direction pointed by Lao Zhao, I saw that in the woods behind the wolves, a very large wolf slowly walked out, and it was too strange for this wolf to grow so big. When I looked closely, it turned out that it was not a wolf, but a wolf-like creature lying on top of a wolf, so it looked like a big wolf.
I suddenly reacted, is this the legendary embarrassment? That's what you're talking about, right?
Lao Zhao confirmed my idea. However, he explained that the creature was just a legendary thing, and that the real embarrassment was a wolf born with a leg disability, and because of the deformity of the legs, it could not walk, so it had to be carried by other wolves. However, although "Embarrassment" was born with a disability, he was very smart and was born destined to play the role of "military advisor" in the wolf pack.
The pit was puzzled, "Why is this kind of disabled goods, but the brain case is smart?" Is there any inevitability? ”
Lao Zhao suddenly didn't know how to answer the question of the pit, and turned to look at me. I couldn't help but help, so I quickly explained, "This means that when God closes one door for you, he opens another door at the same time." The pit sounded, and he didn't speak again.
The wolf carried him out of the woods and stopped in a clearing more than ten meters away, looking at us not far away. Several large wolves approached him, as if plotting something.
"It's kind of louder to whisper." The pit man charged the old man's gun while looking at the front of the nagging. It was as if the wolves were loud and he could understand.
After exchanging ears with the wolf, several big wolves returned to the pack and howled a few times. The wolves began to stir, and it was clear that they had been given new instructions.
I saw that the pit was still charging, and asked, "Brother pit, what did it say just now?" ”
The pit was stunned for a moment and asked me, "Who?" ”
"Who else, didn't those wolves howl a few times just now, what do you mean by howling?"
Only then did the pit hear that I was squeezing him, and said, "They said to catch the surname Ling and go back to be the lady of the village." ”
"No, I'll kick them down." As I spoke, I kicked the pit with my foot.
"No need to kick down, they're coming." Lao Zhao pointed to the wolf under the tree and said.
I looked down and saw that the wolves under the trees were in the Arhat formation. A few large ones were squatting under the trees, and a few more wolves jumped on them, and in the blink of an eye they had already stacked two or three layers.
The pit yelled, "Holy! The old man's gun, which had just been loaded with medicine, was fired at the tree. Unexpectedly, only the top few squeaked a few times and jumped to the side in fright, and after a while, they ran back again, not even hurting a hair.
The pit was going to continue to charge and shoot, and I stopped him. "Save it, this old-fashioned shotgun with a front charge is almost lethal when fired downward, and a few more shots are in vain."
As he spoke, the wolves had already stacked four or five layers, and the top one by one small wolves had already climbed up with the branches. When I was about to face to face with us, there was a whoosh, and I saw a stream of blood spurting out. I saw Song Jin holding the dagger in his hand, squatting on the slightly lower branch gun, and wiped the neck of the wolf just now with a knife, the wolf didn't snort, and fell straight under the tree without moving.
The wolf is not a beast that gives up its prey easily, although the first one was solved, but there are still wolves trying to climb up, I and the pit want to come forward to help, Song Jin said no, the people of the province crushed the branches. I saw that he was methodical, and the traces of the dagger seemed to have been designed, and several wolf corpses fell to the ground one after another. In a short time, the wolves had lost nearly a third of their troops. When I sighed at Song Jin's kung fu, I saw his ruthlessness again. I can't help but wonder in my heart, what is the origin of this young man?
Seeing that the attack failed, the originally quiet embarrassment raised his head and howled, and the wolves immediately stopped attacking, obviously giving the wolves new instructions. Seeing that the wolves dispersed, the two wolves began to dig under the trees, and after digging for a while, they replaced the other two to dig. The trees on the cliff were not deeply rooted, and after a while, the roots were dug out. The wolf began to bite at the bare roots, and the tree began to tremble slightly, and we in the tree became nervous again.
If this continues, the end result is that the tree falls down or we fall off the cliff, or we ourselves fall down the tree and face the wolves. The pit couldn't stay anymore, "Rush, rush down and fight!" The pit yelled.
"Flush the hair, rush down and bite it if you don't die, and bite into rabies. There are no seedlings for you to call in this land. I retorted.
Lao Zhao looked around and said, "Now our only way out is the cliff behind, but we don't know how high this cliff is." ”
Song Jin nodded and said, "Brother Niu, take a glow stick." ”
The pit didn't understand what it meant, but he pulled out a glow stick from his bag.
"Throw it down," Song Jin said.
The pit bent the glow stick, and a cold fluorescence lit up. Throwing it down the cliff, the glow stick fell straight down.
"30 meters," Song Jin said.
"Damn, you can see this, it's the same as you skipped." Pit Zi said to Song Jin.
"Well, free fall, excluding factors such as wind resistance, it can be approximated." Song Jin replied.
"Uh, what is freedom**?" The pit then asked.
I'll quickly ask him to stop, and when he escapes, I'll study what freedom is**.
The trees are shaking more and more, and time is running out. We counted the equipment, and this time we brought out a total of 50 meters of rope, and it was no problem to reach the bottom of the cliff, but it would definitely lose a lot. At this moment, I can't think too much about it, it's important to run for my life first. The four of them continued to climb higher for a while, making sure that the rope would not be disturbed by the wolves after it was lowered.
It was Lao Zhao who climbed down the cliff first, and Lao Zhao waved the glow stick just now with his hand after going down to the end, telling us to continue. Then there is the pit, the pit directly clamps the rope with his legs, wraps his clothes in his hands and goes down as soon as he slips through the smoke.
Immediately followed by me, I slowly went down to the end with my hand holding the rope little by little, and I saw that the pit was constantly rubbing my legs with my hands, and I asked, "Are you crazy about touching yourself?" The pit explained that it came down too quickly just now, and the heat of the friction burned his legs.
We waited down for a few minutes, but we didn't see Song Jin come down. Was there an accident? The noise on the cliff is getting louder and louder, could it be that Song Jin is at the end and is besieged by wolves?
was suspicious, only to see Song Jin slide down the rope. After landing lightly, he patted the soil on his body, only to find that his face was covered with blood. I pointed to Song Jin's face and asked him what the situation was, he smiled and said that after I came down, the big tree had tilted too much, and the wolves rushed up along the trunk, and he had to kill a few more with his bare hands in order to buy time, and finally simply took advantage of the emptiness behind the wolves to do the embarrassment together, so as not to harm people in the future, and then slid down the rope. The way he spoke was as relaxed as if he had just had breakfast.
Looking up at the top of the cliff, it was still pitch black. Now we are completely lost and it is impossible to go back to the way we came. Thankfully, most of the equipment is still there, so that we can continue to do so, in other words, not to leave us defenseless in the mountains.
In order to prevent other accidents, we found a big tree, and the four of us climbed it together and sat on it until dawn. When the first rays of sunlight shine through the mountain gaps, I rub my eyes and enjoy the sunrise deep in the mountains, a beauty that cannot be seen by people who have lived in the city for a long time.
The morning sun rises with vigour, the light is refracted through the clouds in the mountains, and a large cloud is rendered, as if it has forgotten its own color.
I was distracted, only to hear Song Jin shouting at us from a high place. I don't know when this kid climbed so high on his own. Looking at Lao Zhao again, he is also in a high place, it is really unreliable, he climbed so high at such an age, in case he falls, is there any medical insurance Smecta? In line with the principle of escort, the pit and I also climbed to a high place and sat in a row with the two of them, fortunately, the tree was thick enough, otherwise the four of us would not die if we fell down.
Song Jin pointed to the surrounding mountains and said, "It seems that the location we are in now should be a small basin, with a small area, less than ten square kilometers. ”
He pointed to the middle part again and said, "In the central area of the basin, there is a river, and the flow of water should not be small. The judgment is based on the heavy fog there, which is believed to be caused by a large amount of water evaporation, or the presence of a waterfall that stirs up a large amount of water mist. ”
I am noncommittal about Song Jin's statement, but such an environment and layout reminds me of the words "Qushui Liuzhen" on the jade seal, presumably this artistic conception, did we stumble into it by mistake and were chased by wolves to the vicinity of the tomb? That's a coincidence, but there is a saying that "no book is made without coincidence", and luck is also part of strength.
Anyway, I'm already lost now, so I suggest going near the river, and if there is no result, continue along the river. My suggestion was approved by several people, and without further ado, we packed up our gear and got out of the trees and headed for the river that Song Jin had mentioned.
It's not far, and an hour later we're already hearing the sound of rushing water, and it's loud, maybe there's a waterfall. After walking for more than ten minutes, a large river nearly 20 meters wide appeared in front of us, and we couldn't believe that there was such a wide river in the deep mountains. The speed of the river is not fast, it can even be said to be slow. There is a small waterfall in the upper reaches of the river, with a drop of less than ten meters, and the huge sound of water comes from here, although the drop is not large, it is like the sound of a waterfall of tens of meters.
Now there is "Qushui", but where is the "Liuzhen"? How can this be explained? Maybe I'm thinking too much, this is not the location of the tomb of the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty that we are looking for at all.
Just as he was thinking, the pit that was wandering by the river cried out, "Come and see what I have found." I saw him running over with a handful of mud in his hand.
I think this product is hungry, how to hold the mud in my hand is as happy as holding a lamb skewer. I took a closer look and saw that there were two copper coins inserted in the mud, and I took a look at them, only to see that the copper coins were engraved with the words "Zhizheng Tongbao" and the other one had the words "Xuanguang Treasure". I had looked up books on the history of the Yuan Dynasty in the museum before, and I knew that "Zhizheng" and "Xuanguang" were both era names used by the Northern Yuan Emperor. The discovery of these two copper coins here indicates that there must have been Northern Yuan people who had been active here.
This raised the possibility of my guess to a very high level, I excitedly hugged the pit and yelled, and the frightened pit threw down the mud and ran, shouting as I ran: "Teacher Ling is crazy, even the man will not let ...... go"
I didn't take care of the pit, but told Lao Zhao and Song Jin about this matter as it was, along with my doubts: where is the "Liuzhen"?
The three of us fell into deep thought together, if this was really the case, I am afraid that we would have to find the Liuyu to find the entrance to the tomb. Could it be that the wandering here refers to the ship? I'm afraid it would have rushed into the Pacific Ocean long ago. Or maybe there's some monster in the river? It's bizarre, and it's not really a big goblet......
The so-called "liuzhen" is a wine glass that drifts with the water, but the tomb can never drift with the water, and the entrance to the tomb cannot drift with the wind. Unless it is a ship burial, and it is impossible to choose this kind of diving site for ship burial. In addition, the flow of rivers in the Northeast region decreases in spring and winter, and the hull of the ship burial may leak out of the water.
Thinking of the problem of the hull of the ship being exposed to the water, I suddenly had an idea, could this "Liuzhen" be the island in the middle of the river? I hurriedly ran to the shore to look around, but I saw that the river was flowing quietly, and there was no trace of the island in the middle of the river.
There was an inexplicable sense of loss, and the speculation seemed to have been frustrated again. Just when I was about to give up, I turned around and suddenly thought of the words "the beginning of late spring" on the jade seal, and suddenly seemed to understand something.
I hurriedly told the pit to throw a few gravel blocks into the center of the river, and as soon as the pit raised his hand, a stone and a half pound of heavy stones went to the center of the river, stirring up a splash more than three meters high, and the same was true for the second one, until the third one, but the splash was only more than half a meter high and fell into peace. I think my suspicion has been confirmed.
Lao Zhao and Song Jin have been standing next to me, watching the pit and throwing stones together. Seeing this, I seemed to understand something, only the pit was still in the dark, and it was not chasing me to ask what the situation was.
I couldn't stand the pit grinding, so I had to explain it to him. The words "the beginning of late spring" actually limit the time that can be seen at the entrance of the tomb. Spring is the third month of the lunar calendar, that is, around the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar. It stands to reason that the river here should have a spring flood at this time, but we ignore the fact that Mr. Wang Xizhi, the author of the "Lanting Collection Preface", lives in the south, and due to the difference in latitude, the spring there comes earlier than in the northeast, and when the spring passes south of the Yangtze River, the people of the northeast still wear big fur hats. Therefore, we should look at the time slightly earlier, and the "late spring" here is the period when the northeast region has just entered spring, the river water is very small, the river surface is frozen, and the entrance to the tomb leaks out of the water at this time. It resembles a wine glass floating in the middle of a river. Originally, people rarely go to such deep mountains, let alone this kind of season, so the chance of being found is extremely low. With the arrival of summer, the flow of the river increases, the water level rises, and the entrance to the tomb is naturally hidden during the wet season.
In fact, I know that I can find the entrance to the tomb, most of the time because the blind cat meets the dead mouse, with my ability, I really let me find a tomb by myself, I don't know where to cut perhaps.
Now the entrance to the tomb is in the middle of the river, although we are not 100% sure that this is the tomb of the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty that we are looking for, maybe it was just a coincidence that I met the tomb of another person with a strange mind, or maybe it was just an ordinary island in the middle of the river, I thought too much. Anyway, though, we're going to visit this riverside island that is flooded during the rainy season.