Shirley Yang sighed lightly and said, "If there is a sound on the qin, why not sound in the box?" If the words are on the fingers, why not listen to them on the fingers, I don't know the technique, even if there are pianos and fingers, I can't solve the mystery. ”

The fat man also sighed: "It seems that Su Dongpo is also a decoding expert, but we now have the piano and fingers, but these fingers are indistinguishable and still can't play the tune, these jade rings are useless after all, and the value will inevitably be greatly discounted." ”

If my family biography "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" has a full book, then I should be able to know the arrangement of these sixteen jade rings, but now I only know the name of the sixteen characters, unless it is my grandfather's master, the resurrection of Mr. Sun of Yin and Yang Eyes, you can ask him how to perform the sixteen hexagrams, otherwise where to learn?

If we don't unravel it, we can't eliminate the curse of the bottomless ghost hole, but what is it, we have to wait until we go back to Beijing to take out the "dust beads" from the human head to know, we have no choice but to fiddle with those "bright weapons".

The fat man went to the dining car to buy some food and beer, and Shirley Yang said to me during the meal: "Lao Hu, I have been wondering where the dust beads of the king came from, there are two possibilities, one is that it was obtained from the Central Plains during the turmoil at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the other may be obtained from Tibet. ”

I drank some beer, my mind became clearer than usual, and when I heard Shirley Yang talk about it, I thought that the "dust bead" was probably a sacred object in the Tibetan border at the beginning. The king hopes that after becoming an immortal, he can go to the place he sees in the lake view, and also make a bronze statue of the strange costume of the human figure there, and place it in the front hall of the heavenly palace, the purpose is to pass the dry addiction first, the mural of the most secret place of the meat coffin, the detailed description of the place seen when watching the lake view, the city is enshrined with a huge eyeball, but what is the connection between this and the ghost cave in the Xinjiang desert? It's just puzzling.

I think the final key may be to the place depicted in the mural, where it is, we don't even know if there really is such a place in the world, maybe there was a zài before, and now we can't find it.

But I did see those strangely dressed human figures, so I told Shirley Yang some of my past memories of being a soldier in Kunlun Mountain, these things I have never been willing to recall, too tragic and tragic, when I think about it, it is like being cut out of the heart by scissors, but that scene is as vivid as if it happened yesterday, clear and distant.

In the winter of 1970, my comrade-in-arms "Big Man" and Luo Ning, a female geological prospector, escaped from the abyss of death.

Luo Ning's condition deteriorated, and she had to be transferred to the hospital on the third day, and then what her condition was, I don't know, I never heard from her again, I and the big man just had a high fever for two days, a few days of fluids, and a few sick meals, and then recovered.

On the sixth day of hospitalization, an officer Xu from our division's propaganda team came to us, and he said that the big man and I were the first people to make a third-class meritorious service after our division entered Kunlun Mountain, and he wanted to take a few pictures of us to carry out propaganda throughout the division and stimulate the revolutionary fighting spirit of the soldiers.

I didn't have a good situation at that time, I wanted to be discharged from the hospital, one class, there were only two survivors left, and it was best to return to the company as soon as possible, so as not to lie on the hospital bed and see those sacrificed comrades dangling in front of me all day when I closed my eyes. I heard that the main force of our division was about to enter the Kunlun Mountains soon, and after he took pictures of me, he had to go to the "unfrozen spring" military station to find the advance team.

As soon as I heard that I was going to the "Frozen Spring" station, I immediately came to my senses, because our company was the advance team of the whole division, so I discussed with Officer Xu and asked him to consult with the doctor, and bring me and the big man back together, so that we could rejoin the torrent of revolutionary struggle as soon as possible.

After the accommodation of Director Xu, the three of us took the truck to transport supplies to the military station on the same day, and entered the Kunlun Pass along the highway.

There is no more adventurous profession in the world than driving on the two highways of Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan and Tibet, the sound of snow chains is frightening, the canvas on the truck and the wind horse flag on the front of the car, the sound of hunting, the cold wind drills through the car, and we are so cold that we have to huddle together to keep warm, the water in the kettle is frozen, the teeth are chattering, and finally hit the "non-freezing spring", and immediately run to the fireplace to keep warm.

Director Xu is a southerner, although he is also considered to be in good health, but compared to the physique of our grassroots company soldiers, his body is still a little thin, but this person, like most young people of that era, has an inexplicable motivation flowing in his blood, and when he warms up a little, he immediately takes pictures of me and the big man.

We accepted his intercession, but had to be at his mercy, I held up a Mao Xuan, and posed by the stove to read carefully, Director Xu pressed the shutter, and the flash turned on, so that I almost fell the book into the furnace.

Director Xu said to me: "Comrade Xiaohu, you don't have to wait for the negatives to be printed, judging from my experience, this photo must have been taken very well, because you are very focused on studying ** works." ”

I hurriedly said modestly: "As soon as I learn, it's easy to forget my personal stake, and completely forget that I am taking pictures, and if the photos are taken well, then your photography skills are good." ”

The big man said next to him: "Lao Hu's style is really good, and I can get the same posture as him, can you give me a comment on tireless work when I report it in the future?" ”

Director Xu smiled: "That's not appropriate, Mr. Lin has already used these four words, and forgetting to sleep and eat is used to describe Comrade Lei Feng, I see that the two of you are concentrating, how about it?" ”

As he was talking, the company commander of our company came back, the company commander was a veteran of the Sichuan army, he heard that the only two surviving soldiers of our squad had returned, and ran into the house in the wind and snow, and the big man and I quickly stood up, stood upright, and saluted.

The company commander punched each of us twice in the chest: "It's good to come back, but it's a pity that the instructor and the rest of your comrades ......, forget it...... Don't mention it, you two hurry up to eat, he will have a plank in the future, and there will be urgent tasks in a while. With that, he hurriedly turned around and went out.

I and the big man Jia Xu, I heard that there was an urgent task, and I saw the company commander's hurried appearance, and knew that something might have happened, and now it is inconvenient to inquire, so we had to hurry to eat, and when we eat, we found that most of the advance team was not there, and it turned out that after us, the advance team sent several small teams into Kunlun Mountain, and now the Frozen Spring Station is an empty shell, and there are not many people left.

I noticed the tense atmosphere in the air, so I asked the correspondent Chen Xing what was going on, it turned out that three days ago, there was another aftershock in the nearby mountain, two herdsmen in the mountain deserted Dafeng Temple to hide in the snow, the earthquake frightened their cattle, ran into the back of the temple, there is a stinky pool behind the temple, the waterhole seems to be the same as the frozen spring, even in winter does not freeze, watching the temple behind the waterhole stretched out a big hand full of green hair, pulled the yak into the water, the two of them hurried over, I wanted to pull the yak back, but when I pulled it up, the yak was already ...... The beef was jerky, and in less than a few minutes, the cow was left with only skin and dried meat, and the herdsmen were immediately frightened, thinking that it was haunted, and came to report to the army.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) could not ignore the herdsmen's affairs, so at that time, they mixed some personnel who could move into a squad, and the two herdsmen took them to the Great Phoenix Temple to see what was digging the corners of socialism.

However, these fighters have been there for two days and two nights, including the two herdsmen, all of whom are missing, and their communications have been cut off, and the Buzhiquan Military Station has reported this matter to the higher-ups, which has aroused the attention of the debugging authorities, and it is just now that the following instructions have been given: The imperialists will not die, the shape of the class struggle is very complicated, maybe the situation reported by the two herdsmen is fraudulent, they are actually spies, especially the task carried out by our advance team in the Kunlun Mountains is highly sensitive, and we must immediately send troops to meet them.

But there are not a few people left in the military station, and some people have to be left to take care of the materials, and the other military stations are too far away to be difficult to respond to in a short time, but the military order is like a mountain, and the orders of the superiors must be obeyed, and the company commander has no choice, so he has to let one person stand in the post of two people, including the company commander himself, a total of three people, counting me and the big man, as well as Officer Xu, and a military doctor also volunteered to catch the spy, and there is a ground officer who has a strong reaction because of the high mountain, and also joins in, there are eight people, I still felt that the strength was too thin, but there was no other way, I didn't have time to wait for reinforcements from the brother company, so I set off.

The snow outside was falling unhurriedly, and as soon as he left the military station, he met an old lama, who was in the temple on the mountain, and often came to the military station, and exchanged some fine salt with the cooks with ghee, and the company commander thought that this lama had a good relationship with the army, and was familiar with this area, so it was better to let him lead the way.

When the old lama heard that we were going to the Great Phoenix Temple, he was taken aback, the locals didn't know, they all forgot, but the old lama remembered, the Great Phoenix Temple, built during the Qianlong period, for the treasure of the Great Mighty King Kong, but it was abandoned after fifty years, because that mountain was the monarch of the "leading country" thousands of years ago, the "World Enemy Orb King (that is, King Gesar)", a mysterious ancient tomb place that sealed the demon country, is a forbidden place.

The company commander disagreed, and said: "What are the ancient tombs, the Tibetan areas are all sky burials, where are the ancient tombs, it must be those spy turtles who made it terrifying, you won't use your brains to think about it, Ge Laozi, I don't believe it." ”

The old lama has been dealing with the Han people for a long time, the Chinese language is clear, seeing that the officers of the army do not believe it, they decided to follow us, so as not to alarm us to the fierce mountains and ghost lakes, the Tibetans are a people who worship the mountains and lakes, in their eyes, the mountains and lakes are the embodiment of the gods, in addition to the sacred mountains and holy lakes, there are also evil mountains, and unlucky lakes, but these places, are suppressed by Buddhism, the lama is worried that we Han people do not know what is going on, cause any trouble, but these words can not be said clearly from the mouth, so they have to say that they lead the way, Assist the Great Army.

When the company commander saw that the old lama volunteered to lead the way, of course he agreed, and said, "I want it." So he took our improvised reinforcement detachment and set off from the "Frozen Spring" military station.

I listened to what they said, and I thought to myself that our company commander was a good fighter in war, and although he had also been trained in ethnic policy before coming to Kunlun Mountain, his understanding of the ancient and mysterious place of Tibet was still too low.

At that time, I was not very old, and I only had a glimpse of the mausoleum culture and feng shui secret arts, but I knew that in Tibet, fire, water, earth, heaven, and pagoda had coexisted for thousands of years, and the burial was not nothing, but it was very special, and it was the most ominous kind of tomb in Tibet, which was taboo for normal people, and only those who committed great sins would be buried in the soil after death, and they would never be reincarnated.

Ten years later, I fully understood that the burial in Tibet was not as simple as I knew at the time, and that many nobles were influenced by sinicization in ancient times, and they were willing to accept the form of burial, on the Muri Mountain in the southwest of Qiongjie. There are a large number of tombs of Zongpu in the Tibetan Dynasty around the seventh and eighth centuries AD, and there are about 30 tombs. It is collectively called "the tomb of the king of Zao" by the world, all are square domes, up to tens of meters, made of earth and stone, the most famous buried in it is Songtsen Gampo, there are many people who say that this is the form of the tower burial ground, but its essence is no different from the mountain tomb of the Tang Dynasty.

However, at that time, these words naturally could not be said in the army. As a revolutionary soldier. It is to obey orders and listen to commands, and do whatever the superiors tell you to do.

From the place where we started, to the "Great Phoenix Temple" at the mountain pass, the distance is not far, but there is no road, the mountains are rugged, extremely difficult to walk, and the altitude difference is very large. Thousands of miles of different days, it is still snowing on the mountain beam, but it is like spring all year round under the mountain. The desolate "Big Phoenix Temple" area is a no-man's land, just because there is a barren meadow that grows green all year round in front of the mountain gate here, and occasionally some Tibetan herdsmen go there to play some winter grass for emergency, because the mountains there are not good, the lake is not good, and there are often people and livestock who disappear inexplicably, so if the herdsmen can not go, they still try not to go.

The lama led his old horse to carry things, led the way in the front, walked for nearly half a day, turned a few mountain bends, the snow suddenly became bigger, the sky lead clouds hung low, goose feather-like snow flakes, scattered all over the world, the undulating Kunlun Mountains all around, like layers of solidified white waves, as far as the eye can see, everywhere is covered with silver and jade, frost and snow, although the weather of heavy snow is magnificent, but to the people who trek on the ridge, has brought a lot of difficulties.

Director Xu, and Lu Weiguo, the two members of our team, are the two members of our team, who are slightly inferior, the road is getting higher and higher, but the sky is gradually darkening, they invariably have a slight plateau reaction, it seems that they have to climb over the ridge in front of them, in order to reach the big Phoenix Temple at the pass, the company commander conveyed the order, first find a sheltered place, let everyone rest a little, eat something to replenish the body, and then march to the destination in one go.

So our team stopped temporarily, the female military doctor Ga Hong who came with the team, is a Deqin Tibetan, formerly known as Gema, which means stars in Tibetan, Ga Hong checked it for Xu and said it doesn't matter, it is too long to walk continuously, and the cardiopulmonary function has declined, and this situation has occurred, this is a mountain recess, the altitude is not too high, drink a few bowls of butter tea that can reduce altitude sickness, and rest for a while, there will be no problem, and the medicine will not need to be eaten.

The old lama found a big stone, on the leeward side, built a stove with gravel, made a small fire with dried cow dung, boiled the butter tea and distributed it to us, and finally sent it to me and the big man, the old lama smoked the prayer wheel in one hand and the teapot in the other, poured the tea into the bowl, and then said: "May it be auspicious." ”

I was already frozen enough, thanked the lama, raised my neck and drank the whole bowl of butter tea, wiped my mouth, I never thought that this messy thing with sesame, salt, ghee, tea and other messy things, mixed into a drink is nothing good, now in this ice and snow, come to such a hot bowl, suddenly feel that there is nothing better than it in the world.

When the female military doctor Gema saw that I was drinking fast, she asked the lama for a teapot and poured me a bowl again: "Drink slowly, don't burn your mouth, the custom in Tibetan areas is that when drinking tea, you can't drink too cleanly, you should leave a bowl bottom, so that you can show that the owner is generous." After saying that, he smiled at me and turned around to help the lama make tea.

I looked at her back and said to the big man beside me, "I think the military doctor is so good, and he treats his comrades as warmly as spring, especially like my sister." ”

The big man said strangely: "You still have a sister in your hometown?" Why haven't I heard you say that? What does it look like? Take a look at the whole picture. ”

I was just about to tell the big man that I had such a beautiful and amiable sister when I dreamed, but the sentry correspondent suddenly shouted, "There is a situation! ”

The people who had been around the fire to keep warm immediately raised their feet and kicked the snow as if their whole bodies were electrified, extinguished the fire, and quickly fell to the ground.

The company commander lay on the snow and looked around vigilantly, and opened his mouth to scold: "What's the situation?" Chen Xing, you are a turtle, you dare to lie about the military situation, Lao Tzu shot first, do you believe it or not? ”

Correspondent Chen Xing shouted in a low voice: "Company commander, I vouch for it with my head, I am indeed not mistaken, just now on the top of the mountain over there, a few green lights suddenly lit up. ”

I said to the company commander: "Will it be like the one played in the secret outpost in Yangcheng, it is a contact signal sent by the enemy, I don't know if we have been exposed." Just let me go over and scout for it. ”

The company commander nodded and said, "Yes, when you go, you should be cautious." It's better to catch one alive, hey...... It's not right. ”

I saw that in a place dozens of meters away from us, five small turquoise lights suddenly appeared, because the sky was dark, the surface of the barren mountains was covered with snow, and it was difficult to distinguish the terrain over there, these five green lights moved slowly with the wind and snow, like a few ghost fires, flickering bright and dark, and circled around us.

This one comes. We all lifted our semi-automatic rifles. Aiming at the target, but the company commander said that no one was allowed to shoot until he figured out the situation, and the old horse in the lama's land suddenly neighed at this time, and kept pouting, the lama hurriedly led the horse, stroked its mane and chanted the sutra to appease, and then told us: "The protector god in charge of animal husbandry has been alarmed, and it is a pack of wolves." ”

I looked at the fluttering. Of the five green bright spots that appear from time to time, is there one one-eyed? As soon as I entered Kunlun Mountain, I heard from the veterans of the military station. In the nearby Mojan grassland, there is a one-eyed white-haired wolf king, but recently the military and civilians have cooperated, and the wolves have been beaten a lot, and the herd has almost disappeared.

Three wolves circled around us a few times, the company commander let the big man shoot in the sky, to scare them away, so as not to attract more hungry wolves, cause us unnecessary trouble, the current urgent task is not to fight wolves, but to quickly search and rescue those comrades who are missing, so the big man fired a gun into the air, a domestic five or six semi-automatic rifle, the unique sound of gunfire pierced the night sky.

A few wolves around, seem to know the power of the weapons in the hands of our soldiers, dare not continue to stay, soon by the night, disappeared in the wind and snow, the company commander said that maybe the squad in front, on the way back, was attacked by wolves, but then I thought, this possibility is not very likely, more than a dozen semi-automatic rifles, how many wolves can not get closer, now the weather is bad, compared to the wolves, more terrible is the enemy who infiltrates the mountains, and there are many potential threats, The unaccounted for squad must be found immediately.

We set off immediately, climbed over a large ridge, walked down a very steep hillside, below is the barren meadow, there is no snow here, the temperature is relatively high, it is still very cold, everywhere is barren smoke and withered grass, the dilapidated and desolate "Great Phoenix Temple" is hidden in the barren grass.

The meadow is surrounded by ancient wood wolf forests, and the area is really not small, we are not many people, and it is not easy to search such a large area, so we are divided into two groups at the moment, the company commander and the communicator, the cook, Lu Weiguo of the Dikan Academy, and the military doctor Ga Hong, these five people are a group, and the rest are the big men, lamas, and Xu Officer, and then these four people together with me, for the second group, and the company commander arranges the second group to be in charge of me for the time being.

The two groups searched from the left and right flanks respectively, and I took the second group to push away the grass that was nearly one person high, and groped my way into the depths with a gun, and pushed away the wild grass, and I could see the ancient stone remnants that were covered up and covered up, which were all the remains of the Qing Dynasty temples, and I thought that these ruins could just confirm the direction, so I wanted to continue walking, but I was pulled by the old lama, and he said to me: "Hey, the Puse army, this road is not for people to walk." (Puse: Young People)

I thought to myself, it's not for people, so it's not for ghosts? Then he said to the lama: "The people's country and the people's seat, the people's road is taken by the people, and in China, no matter whether it is a big road or a small road, it is a socialist road, why don't you let it go?" ”

Officer Xu felt that I was talking too impulsively, so he stopped me and said, "The local comrades are cooperating with us in carrying out our tasks, and I think we should listen to their opinions more." ”

The lama took out an old iron rod from his colorful satchel and said: "I have been an iron rod lama for two generations of living Buddhas for 40 years, and I know everything about this temple. After saying that, he walked around from the side, and sang the scriptures as he walked: "Oh, Jin Gang subdues the evil demons, the magic power is wonderful and good, and I have achieved the right cultivation, and I will send out the appearance of all the enemies, and the demon will ......be extinguished."

None of us understood the meaning of the mantra he sang, thinking that this was in the interior, and the Red Guards had already been asked to criticize the fight, that is, in the Tibetan area, so I had to follow behind, and asked the lama without words: "Old comrade...... Lama Ak, since you are so familiar with this ruined temple, can you tell us why this temple was abandoned soon after it was built? ”

When the lama heard this, he stopped and turned around, and a dark cloud appeared on his old face: "Legend has it that the last generation of the Demon Kingdom Ghost Mother and the Great Cicada Extermination Demon Bowl are buried here, and even the Great Weide Golden Steel offered in the temple can't stop it, and the matter is fierce, and there are too many people and animals to die, so they have to be deserted." ”