I was busy asking the root cause, it turned out that the old shopkeeper was famous in the Republic of China, black and white, no one knew that Baoding Mansion's "pin Li", there were many guests from all over the world who made a special trip to him to order some strange things. Many years ago, there was a businessman who planned to make a plate, specially came to order the "golden steel umbrella", and left the secret recipe of the map and alloy ratio, but when the old shopkeeper made the "golden steel umbrella", the merchant was "the yellow crane disappeared without a trace", and never came back to take the umbrella.

I took the "golden steel umbrella" in my hand, looked at it again and again, felt the material, are the same as the previous handle, with this thing with me, even if it is a mountain of swords and fire, I dare to go back and forth, I can't help but feel a burst of ecstasy, and I don't bargain at the moment, so I paid the money according to the price offered by the old shopkeeper.

I saw that the shopkeeper Li was also an "old Jianghu", maybe I could hear some news from him, so I asked him where the location of "Qingxi Town" was? Was there a king who was beheaded in ancient times?

The old shopkeeper said: "Look at you at all costs to buy these sharp equipment, and are experts in knowing the goods, this time to the ground of Wushan, it is definitely not a small move, and so stingy with money, there is a lot of anxiety between the eyebrows, presumably not for the sake of money, if the old decay is not mistaken, most of it is to save the first aid, the same people in the rivers and lakes, it stands to reason that they should be able to help, but the old man is also a guest living here, for decades he has been riddled with old illness, rarely goes out on weekdays, and does not know much about the local customs, I am afraid that he will not be able to help. ”

I said politely: "We have all received the old shopkeeper's wishes, and then we will go to others to inquire." "I want to take everyone to say goodbye.

The old shopkeeper said: "Wait, the words are not finished yet." There is only one godgranddaughter by her side, her family is the ancestral hometown of Qingxi, why not let her tell you to know. As he spoke, he beckoned his sister to come over and asked her to talk about Qingxi Town.

My sister didn't know what we wanted to do, so she said strangely: "Qingxi Town? It's been gone for more than ten years, and it's hanging on the road, and you can't go at all, what are you looking for it to do? ”

I heard the old shopkeeper say that my sister's ancestral home is Qingxi Town, and I said, "I finally have a place." Hurriedly asked. It turns out that in the Wushan Mountains, there is a very old town called Wuzhen, which is the place name of the official family. No one knows about it.

It's just that it is rumored that the place is where the Wuxian mound is located, so the people in the town avoid the word "Wu", and they all call the town "Qingxi", and many outsiders don't know about it. There are mineral vein resources in the mountains, which are extremely rich, and they have been subjected to many wars and fires, and the resources in the mountains are increasingly depleted, the population is gradually lost, and it is becoming more and more barren.

In the 60s and 70s, the whole country was "preparing for war and preparing for famine," and in order to carry out the work of "air defense, anti-poison, and anti-nuclear," they rebuilt air-raid shelters and warehouses for war readiness in the original mines. Around 71 years, the residents near Qingxi were relocated to several surrounding counties, but there were many local mines, the crustal damage was more severe, and the air-raid shelter was repaired and collapsed, and the construction progress was very unsmooth, but with the change of current events, the air-raid shelter was stopped and abandoned after half of the repair, and the entire ancient town has long become a forgotten no-man's land with the passage of time.

Although the younger sister is a native of Qingxi, but she is not surnamed Feng, and she does not know that there is a legend of the headless king in ancient times, when the people of Qingxi moved to the town, she moved here with her family, and her parents died in the Cultural Revolution, leaving her alone, and was taken in by the old shopkeeper.

My sister left home at the age of eleven, and most of the things in Qingxi Town are still remembered. She said that there are three roads in Qingxi, one is the waterway, and now it is the height of summer, the river is surging, the turbulence is dangerous, and it is difficult to travel; The road is in disrepair, there are landslides in many places, and it is impossible to get through guò; Only a section of the ancient plank road is still intact, the plank road is built for the Qin period, the width is only five feet, so it is called "five feet road", through the ancient plank road around the mountain to enter, it takes a lot of trouble.

I immediately unfolded the map and asked my sister to point out the directions, and it would be best to explain the specific location of the "mine pit and air-raid shelter" in Qingxi Town in detail.

Then the old shopkeeper said, "What other map do you see?" Let my sister lead you to Qingxi, and if you have a chance in the future, you can take her out of the mountain, let her see some of the world, and learn some real skills. ”

I didn't expect the old shopkeeper to let my sister be a guide for the expedition, although I couldn't ask for it, but on the other hand, I was afraid that she would be in danger. We went into Wushan to look for the ancient mound, just to save people, I and Shirley Yang, the fat man and the three of them are needless to say, Sun Jiuye was also a person who underwent the real test during the Cultural Revolution, and how can my sister eat the risk? She has three longs and two shorts, wouldn't I "tear down the east wall and make up the west wall"?

I was about to decline, but I heard the old shopkeeper say: "This sister of my family is smart, bold and bold, she has learned art with me for many years, and she can teach her as much as she can, and she is a child who grew up in the mountains. ”

My sister refused to agree, she said to the old shopkeeper: "Or, you are old, who will I go to take care of the godfather for dinner and tea?" ”

The old shopkeeper said: "Silly boy, the godmaster is over eighty years old this year, how many days do you have to live?" When you are like a flower, how can you stay in the mountains to spend the sun and the moon, are you willing to marry that bald braincase with a big spoon in the future? Although I am old, my vision is still there, look at their spiritual temperament as a harrier brother is the most benevolent and righteous, they are all characters who want to do great things, you just have to go to the world with them, make a lot of money, and if the godfather is not dead by then, you will come to pick up the godmaster and go out with you to enjoy the blessings. ”

The old shopkeeper insisted on letting my sister lead us into the mountains, and entrusted me to take her to the city in the future. I had a little discussion with Shirley Yang, and thought it would be better to have a local to lead the way, and not let her take the risk ahead, so I agreed, and I thought that I would be my junior sister, but I don't know where this generation came from.

At this time, Professor Sun came in from the outhouse and said, "I went out to take a look just now, and the car seems to be about to drive, so we have to hurry up and get on the road." ”

The drivers in the mountains refused to wait for anyone, so we had to wrap some groceries to use, hurriedly bid farewell to the old shopkeeper of "Honeycomb Mountain", and five people hurriedly hurried out of the grocery store with their backpacks and jumped into the car that had started. The car body was constantly jolting and shaking, and it drove all the way out of the mountain town.

I sat in the back seat, looked at the "golden steel umbrella" in my hand, and said in my heart that it was really a good adventure, and I hope to take this omen. Smoothly found the "Earth Immortal Ancient Tomb". Thinking of this, I immediately asked my sister, is there any legend of "earth fairy" near Qingxi?

My sister said: "There is a saying that there are earth immortals buried in the tomb of the king in my hometown, but the common people say that the earth fairy is a demon fairy, and the tomb is the tomb of the demon fairy." Because the earth immortals will be demons, they will be the most charming, and he said that he can live forever if he enters the ancient tomb, and deceived many people to bury him alive. However, these are all legends in the early years, and now no one knows whether the matter of the demon fairy tomb is true or false, but Qingxi Town does have a surname. ”

I wanted to inquire more about things, but I saw that my sister was a little reluctant to let the old shopkeeper look out of the car window, so I comforted her and said: "When I was a few years younger than you now, I had already left home, shouting the slogan of making great achievements in the vast world, and went out to exercise thousands of miles. ”

The fat man heard me mention the eventful years of the year, and he was also energetic: "At that time, I was really a young classmate, and my mind was full of rebellion and reasonable deeds, and I dared to laugh at Huang Chao's husband." Sister, you are in your early twenties, and you are still coquettish with the old shopkeeper? But the fat man, I was only eighteen years old at the time, so I went to the mountains alone at night to see the green, and I ran into a ghost, calling the sky should not be, the earth was not spiritual, and there was no curse, so I had to hold on to the ......."

After all, my sister is young and very curious, and I heard the fat man say that he had encountered a ghost, so he couldn't help but ask us what was going on?

I have the heart to try my sister's guts, if she is afraid to even listen to a ghost story, I might as well send her back quickly, so I said to her: "I have heard this, after I joined the army, the fat man in the northeast mountainous area, it really makes people's scalp tingle to say, anyway, we are idle in the car, let the fat man tell you." ”

Shirley and Professor Sun were also curious, and they both listened quietly, only to hear the fat man clear his throat, and then he opened his mind:

The location is outside the tunzi of the Shanyingzi production team of the Dahawenzi Commune, the time is 1970, and it is also a summer night, the midsummer night in the mountains should be very cool, but that night I don't know why, it may be a heavy thunderstorm, surprisingly hot, and there is not a single star in the sky.

On that day, Wang Fatzi and another educated youth were assigned to the mountain to "watch", that is, to guard a few acres of land on the slope of the mountain. There are all buds planted, the wild boars in the mountains like to gnaw this thing the most, it gnaws more, spoils more, the bud rice is arched by it is an alley, so at night someone has to guard, hear the movement and come out to knock on the basin to drive away the wild boars.

That night, the other educated youth had something to do temporarily, Wang Fatzi had to go up the mountain alone to watch the field, he set a rabbit during the day, and when he went out, he went out and took a kettle of soil from the tunzi, he was happy to eat and drink by himself, he cleaned up the rabbit in the field, hummed the excerpt of the model play "Red Lantern Record" in his mouth, and so the hare was roasted from the inside out, gnawed a bite of rabbit meat, drank a mouthful of soil roast, and felt that the small days in the mountains were quite moist, but unfortunately there was no wild boar out to make trouble recently, and he couldn't find an excuse to put two shots to have a good time.

Just as he was proud, there was a thunderous thunder, and the raindrops of soybeans fell down, and the fat man hurriedly fled back to the grass shed with the half-gnawed rabbit with the wine jug to hide from the rain, but the shed was leaking rain everywhere, and he couldn't stay at all. He pondered, there was a mill at the other end of the bud rice field, which had been abandoned for many years, why not take refuge over there?

This very simple mill has been there since before the liberation, but no one has been in it for many years, I don't know what the reason, Wang Fatzi didn't care about that, raised his foot and kicked open the wooden door, the inside was black and blind, full of ashes, but it was better than being poured into a soup chicken outside. He poured all the rest of the burnt earth into his stomach, and fell asleep on the wooden box, and in a short time he was already snoring like thunder.

The fat man slept soundly this night, and he didn't know when he slept until he was woken up by thunder, and he vaguely felt that why was it still not bright this day? I turned over and went back to sleep.

At this time, I heard a woman crying in my ear, Wang Fatzi is a bold person, and he has no heart and lungs, he just wants to sleep, who knows that the cry in his ears is getting closer and closer, and he feels like he is about to get into his head, he scolded in a daze: "What the hell are you crying about!" ”

was scolded by him, and the woman's crying suddenly disappeared, but the fat man didn't think about it at all, and continued to sleep. After a while, I heard a woman in my ear say, "Don't press my shoes, don't press my shoes, if you press my shoes, I will ......kill you."

This sentence was clear, and the fat man still heard it very clearly when he was half asleep, and he couldn't help but get a piece of hairy chestnut out of his body and sit up. Rao is bold and bold, and he has already broken out in a cold sweat, and then look at the women in the mill, the sun is shining outside the door, and the sky is bright.

The fat man felt something different, scolded a few words, got up and looked, it turned out that on the wooden board under him, there was a pair of women's cotton shoes upright, and the toe of the shoes was embroidered with two proud red peonies. The fat man wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said to himself, "This guy is really here." He picked up two shoes and threw them on the ground, stomped them a few times, and then walked away.

After returning to Tunzi, he blew the matter to the people, and everyone said that more than ten years ago, there was a little daughter-in-law who hanged herself in the mill, and when she died, she was wearing a pair of new cotton shoes, and even the shoes were buried in the grave together, and no one went to the mill on the edge of the bud rice field, how could she be seen by the fat man last night? Wouldn't you hit a ghost? The people who had good deeds went to the mill again to see, but they didn't see any shoes, and they all said that the fat man was dizzy because he drank the clay and drank it.

The fat man didn't take it seriously, and after so many years, he didn't see any ghosts come to ask for his life. But looking back today, I did feel a little sensational when I stayed in the mountains all night and slept in the shoes of a female ghost.

This experience is a real thing that the fat man encountered when he cut the queue, but at this time, he was about to come out of the car, and he was deliberately showing off, and he refused to tell the truth, which inevitably added fuel and vinegar, adding many sensational and terrifying episodes.

But the younger sister is bold and can't frighten her at all, she just thinks it's a little exciting and novel, and doesn't care how terrible it is, and makes fun of the fat man, and can't tell a scary story with a rake.

I nodded secretly: "This girl really has the courage to do some difficult things." "I was trying to inquire about the legends near the ancient tomb of the earth immortals, so I took the opportunity to say that my sister's courage is really extraordinary, do you always hear ghost stories in my hometown? Tell us a little bit about it.

My sister said that the history of Qingxi Town is very ancient, opened hundreds of years of witch salt mine, witch salt is a special geological salt, can be processed into edible salt, in ancient times the salt tax was extremely heavy, private mining of salt is to lose the brain, most of the people are secretly digging and mining, in order to make huge profits, so the size of the mines in the Qingxi area is not less than thousands, to the Qing Dynasty around the mining is almost exhausted, the mountains can no longer find new salt veins, and later built a large number of air-raid shelters, so that the mountains are full of holes.

"Natural, artificial, semi-artificial" various caves and caves criss-cross, accumulating and stacking each other, some places can be dozens of miles deep, outsiders are difficult to walk, digging deep will inevitably see a lot of strange things, so all kinds of legends have, she has often gone to the mine to play in the pit, anyway, at that time was not very sensible, and did not feel terrible.

When I heard these situations, I couldn't help but secretly complain, seeing that this last bit of hope was going to be thrown into the Oriental sea, and all kinds of projects in Qingxi were about to dig up the mountains, but no one ever found the "Ancient Tomb of the Earth Immortals", and I don't know what means the "Guanshan Taibao" used to cover the sky? It may also be that "sealing the king's tomb" is just a myth that does not exist in the world at all.

However, in what my sister said, she mentioned the matter of "mining salt in the cave", witch salt is an extinct resource, and now it is no longer seen, when I was a sapper before, I have never heard that salt can be dug up in the mountains, but this matter is somewhat in line with the ancient mystery of the earth immortals, "digging wells and cutting salt, asking ghosts for money" words.

Thinking of this, I thought, "What a great king, with a body and no head; If the lady does not come, the mountains will not open; Burn the wood and boil the liver and lungs; digging wells and cutting salt, asking ghosts for money; The bird road is vertical and horizontal, with nine times in one hundred steps; If you want to visit the earth immortals, first find the black sheep ......" and ask the younger sister if she knows what secrets are hidden in these words?

My sister is also puzzled, she has never heard of the hint of seeking immortals in this paragraph of the Feng family's secret handdown, I don't know what kind of dumb riddle is played, but when it comes to "digging wells and cutting salt, asking ghosts for money", it must refer to the ancient town of "Qingxi", and it will not be wrong. In the old days, the pit of the mine was called "salt well", but it was only the name of the local village, and most outsiders had never heard of it.

"Wu salt wells" are occupied by local wealthy people, the poor have to do "coolies, kiln slaves", there is often methane gas in the witch salt mine, and there is groundwater gushing out at any time in the ground, miners and kiln slaves go down the mine to work, every time they have to bear many risks, often a large number of kiln slaves die in the well, so the local proverb only says "dig the well to cut salt, ask the ghost for money".

I see that I finally have some clues, but only this paragraph, it is still difficult to solve the whole meaning, it is estimated that if you want to understand the mystery of "Dixian Village", you still have to solve the first sentence "What a king, there is no leader", step by step speculation, the old residents of Qingxi Town have long been scattered all over the place, and it is impossible to find a few more people to explore, and those ancient legends must be older than the tombs of the Ming Dynasty, and people today may not be able to know. My mind was chaotic, and I was ignoring it, only to see a lush and tall mountain in the distance outside the car window, where the clouds and fog dispersed, magnificent and strange, quiet and hazy, and I couldn't help but see it.