Longling is the remnant of the Qinling Mountains in a big way, and in a small way, it is actually a patch of mounds. A mound next to a mound, the undulating drop is very large, the mound and the mound are cut apart by rain and wind, there are countless deep ditches, and there are places where the outside is crust, but when you step on it, it breaks, and the inside is a hollow. It looks like the straight distance between the two hills is very close, but it takes half a day to walk from this side to that side.

The name of this place is unknown, and there is not even a unified name, and the people near Gulan County call this mountain Longling,

However, the villagers who live in the vicinity call this area Pansnake Slope.

The snake slope is far from being as imposing as the name Longling, but it is used to describe the topography here and is more intuitive and vivid than the latter.

I and the fat man, the big gold tooth three people, left Gulan County at nine o'clock in the morning, can take the car on the section of the road, open the 11th place that is not open to traffic, all the way to Longling, the sky has been dark.

There is a small village at the foot of Longling Mountain, and there are about 20 families in the village. Now it's getting late, it's not easy to find the fishbone temple, the mountain road is difficult, don't be careless and fall into the ditch, then the damn teacher died before he got out, just spend the night in the village at night, and wait until tomorrow morning to talk about anything.

We found a family at the entrance of the village nearby, explained to the owner the intention, went out in a hurry, not in front of the village and not in the back of the store, can you make a convenient, spend the night, we can pay some money for nothing.

The owners of this family were an elderly couple, and when they saw the three of us carrying large bags and small bags, and two big white geese jumping around, they were a little puzzled, and they didn't know what our group was doing.

The fat man hurriedly said to others with a smiling face: "Uncle and aunt, we went to visit our former comrades-in-arms in the army, passed by here, and missed the accommodation. You see, we are also away from home, it's not easy, no one goes out with the house, does it? Can you do it, find us a room, let our brother deal with it for a night, you can take the twenty yuan. After finishing speaking, regardless of whether people wanted to or not, he took out the money and stuffed it into the old couple.

When the old couple saw that we didn't look like bad people, they gladly agreed and made room for us, which seemed to have been uninhabited for a few years.

When the fat man saw that there were buckets and flats in the courtyard, he said to me, "Old Hu, go and fetch two buckets of water." ”

I wondered, "What are you doing with water?" Don't you have water in your kettle? ”

The fat man said: "When you PLA live in a villager's house, you don't have to fill the water tank of the villager's house, and then you have to sweep the yard and repair the roof. ”

I said to the fat man, "Just you talk a lot of nonsense, I'm not familiar with this, how do I know where the well is, I go out in the dark and turn around, what if I can't come back?" Also, I'll ask them about the neighborhood in a moment. Don't talk too much, if you can say less, just say a few fucking words, and don't forget to say more. ”

While we were talking, the old couple scrambled a few eggs for us, made two pot helmets, and brought them into the house.

I thanked him even though I was eating, and asked who used to live in this house.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he asked this, the old man and the old lady burst into tears. The house was originally occupied by their only son, who had gone into the Snake Slope ten years ago to look for a lost lamb in the family, and never returned. The people in the village searched for three or four days, but they didn't even see the corpse, presumably falling into the hollow of the earthen shell and falling into the maze in the mountain. The only son is gone, and there is no one to send him to the end of his life, and over the years, he has relied on the help of the villagers in the same village to barely survive.

When the fat man and I heard this, we all felt sad, and we took some more money to give to them, and the old couple thanked them a lot, and even said that they had met a good person.

I asked some more about the situation, but the old couple said that there is no Tang Dynasty tomb in Pansnake Slope, only to hear the older generation of people mentioned that there is a big tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and this tomb is haunted and haunted, and even in the daytime, there are people on the slope who encounter the ghost wall, lost their way on the slope at the bottom of the ditch, and those who are lucky can be rescued, and those who are unlucky are trapped in it.

The local people call this area "coiled snake", which means that the road is complicated and easy to get lost, while the Longling maze refers to the caves in the mountains, criss-crossed, which is simply a natural labyrinth.

As for the old site of the fishbone temple, there is indeed still there, but it has been abandoned for decades, there is a deep ditch out of the village and two mountain beams, the fishbone temple is at the end of that ditch, when the temple was built, the businessman who paid the money said that it was a feng shui level, and the temple of the dragon king must be kept smooth. I didn't expect that after the temple was repaired, nothing has changed, God wants to rain on it, if you don't want it to rain, you will be dry for a few years, burning incense is useless, so the incense of the temple is broken, and few people go again.

I said, "We were just crossing the Yellow River when we were almost overturned by the Dragon King, so we were more curious and wanted to go to the Fishbone Temple to see the bones of the Iron Headed Dragon King." ”

The old couple said that it is nothing if you want to go to the Fishbone Temple, but don't go to the depths of the Snake Slope, even the natives of this village are easy to get lost, not to mention the three of you from outside.

I nodded in thanks, and at this time I had almost eaten, so I started to help clean up, took the dishes and chopsticks out of the house, and walked in the courtyard, when the big golden tooth suddenly whispered to me: "Master Hu, there are good things in this courtyard!" ”

I glanced back, and the big gold tooth stretched out his finger and pointed to a large stone in the courtyard: "This is a stele, it has been around for many years." ”

I didn't speak, nodded my head to indicate that I understood, and helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks. The old couple went back to their rooms to sleep, and the three of us gathered around the courtyard pretending to smoke and chat, and secretly looked at the stone tablet mentioned by the big gold tooth.

If it weren't for the big gold-toothed eye thief, we wouldn't have noticed that this rectangular stone tablet was very badly worn, with several deep stone grooves carved in the middle, which seemed to be probably used to tie up animals.

There is only half of the stele, and there is still half a mutilated beast head on the top of the stele, and the text patterns on the stele are long gone, and without this half of the beast head, I can't see that this is a stele.

The fat man asked the big gold tooth, "That's what you call the good thing?" I think it used to be worth a lot of money, but now it's a big rock, and you see, everything on top of it has been smoothed, and how many years have it been using. ”

The big gold tooth smoked a cigarette and said: "Fat man, I'm not saying that this stele is valuable, this stele is definitely not worth anything now, there is only half a beast's head left, and even the research value may not be stored zài, it's a pity." But don't forget, our ancestors are also fighting down, the reason why I say this is a good thing, it's not that there is no reason at all, just rush at the half of the beast head on this remnant tablet, I dare to conclude that there must be a Tang Dynasty tomb in this Longling, but the specific location, tomorrow we will have to look at Hu Ye's means. ”

I reached out and touched the head of the beast on the stone tablet, and said to the big golden tooth, "You mean this is a tombstone?" ”

The big gold tooth said: "Even if it is a tombstone, although the head of the beast on this monument is broken, I can still see that this beast is called Le Lynx." The Tang Dynasty was strong, and the mausoleum was built in the mountain, with the mountain as the mausoleum, and there were some corresponding facilities on the ground, and some stone steles and stone statues were erected, such as stone camels and stone swords, as a symbol of the mausoleum. This music lynx is a kind of auspicious beast lying on the stone tablet, legend has it that it is the spirit animal of the western sky, the sound is good, like fairy music, so it is inferred that this stone tablet should be the content of singing praises and virtues. Eighteen miles before the mausoleum, there is a pair every other mile, and the Le Lynx is the second pair of stone tablets. ”

I said, "Master Jin, don't see that you don't understand feng shui, but your attainments in ancient history and culture are beyond my reach." Let's stop talking in the courtyard, go back to the house and discuss. ”

We went back to the house to continue planning, and now we have reached the edge of Longling, from the current clues, it seems that there is an ancient tomb here, but whether this tomb is from the Tang Dynasty or the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is a bit of a contradiction.

If you look at it from the tombstone, there is no doubt that it is a tomb of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also in line with what Lao Liu Tou said in the guest house of Gulan County, but how do the local villagers say that this mountain is the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty?

The big golden tooth asked me, "Do you think there is such a possibility, in a feng shui treasure vein, there are many acupuncture points that can be set up in tombs?" ”

I said, "That's true, but the whole leyline can't be a good place, and there are high and low acupuncture points in various places, and the best location is often only enough to build a tomb." However, it is not excluded that the ancient tombs of the two dynasties have a view of the same acupuncture point. ”

I asked the fat man and the big golden tooth to recharge their energy tonight, and tomorrow morning, whether it is Longling or Pansnake Slope, let's go to the place and take a good look. In addition, there may be a lot of antiques in this village that have not been discovered, and when you come back, you will go to the local villagers' homes to have a look.