Wan Jinshan glanced outside, his brows furrowed slightly, "This, it's a bit long to talk about." ”

"It doesn't matter, you start from the beginning, say it slowly..."

"When Gao Qien was dug out of that stone room, after he came back to life, he told me a legend, an ancient legend about Dayu. It is said that when Dayu managed the floods of the Yellow River, after becoming famous, he took his beautiful wife and lived on the edge of the Yellow River. Nominally, Dayu is in seclusion. In fact, he is to guard the river gods, and also, to guard those water spirits who have been drowned by the flood because of the flooding of the Yellow River for many years, so as not to cause trouble.

"Dayu raised two divine beasts, one to help him guard the river god, and the other to help him guard the water ghost. Seclusion, it sounds very pleasant, but in fact, Dayu is not idle, he is doing it every day, surpassing those dead ghosts. Later, he was summoned by Da Shun, supported by the princes, and when he went back to inherit the throne, those water ghosts had all been overtaken by it.

Before leaving, Dayu built a temple on the edge of the Yellow River, and used a formation to put one of the mythical beasts in the altar of the temple, so that it continued to guard the river god. As for the other divine beast, it is useless because the water ghosts have already exceeded it. Dayu was worried that after he left, that thing would make a mess. Just as he didn't know what to do, one of his very faithful servants said that he was willing to stay and guard the beast for generations. Dayu was approved, and told him the origin of the mythical beast...

"In the early stage of Dayu's water control, it was difficult, in addition to the difficulty of the progress of the project, there were drowning water ghosts everywhere, the underworld could not tolerate, stay in the sun, and often make chaos. At that time, Dayu didn't know how to spell and didn't know how to deal with those water ghosts. One night, in his sleep, he saw a glowing man walk in and give him a small box. The man said to Dayu, let him take the small box, go to the depths of Taihang, when the box glows, he will strive to throw the box forward, at that time, there will be a divine beast born, to assist him, to deal with those water ghosts... After finishing speaking, the man took out another stone, put it on Dayu's bed, and told him that with this stone, he could control the divine beast and make it obey his orders...

Dayu woke up and saw the box and stone on the bed, and knew that it was not a dream just now, but a celestial man who came down to enlighten himself. He jumped out of bed, bowed a few times, and then went to Taihang Mountain as the man said. He was hungry and dewy in Taihang Mountain, his shoes were worn out, his clothes were torn, and he had been walking for more than half a month, and the box did not shine, if he was an ordinary person, he might have given up long ago. However, Dayu is Dayu, compared to the management of floods, this hardship is nothing to him. On the twenty-fifth day, Dayu struggled to climb a mountain, the sky suddenly darkened, and then, the box in his hand seemed to be transparent, Dayu saw that there was something flickering inside, so according to what the man said, he threw the box forward... After a loud bang, a valley appeared in front of Dayu's eyes, and in the middle of the valley, there was a big hole, and I don't know if it was there, it was hidden under the mountain, or it was blown out by the box... After a while, a monster came out of that hole...

Dayu told his servant that the monster at that time was the divine beast that had been with him for a long time. Later, he learned that he had blown open the mouth of hell, and that the beast had escaped from hell. Because the mouth has been open, Dayu is worried that there are ghosts running out of hell, so, after he learned the spell, he returned to that place, and used the method of moving mountains to get pieces of huge rocks, stacked them, and put them together to form a one-legged independent big rooster, which suppressed the mouth of hell...

"When the day is about to dawn, it is the time when the hellfire is at its most intense. And when that time comes, the mountain in the shape of a big rooster, affected by the tumbling motion of hellfire, will emit a 'boom' vibration... Dayu told his servant that this divine beast had been in the yang world for a long time and was not suitable to go back to hell. You can bring it back to the valley where it was 'born', where it will be suppressed and guarded..."

It is difficult for me to doubt the authenticity of this legend, because I once entered the temple built by Dayu on the side of the Yellow River...

"This legend was told to you by Gao Qien?" I asked.

"Hmm." Wan Jinshan said, "Gao Qien said that in their dynasty, he was appointed by the imperial court to manage the floods of the Yellow River, and learned about this legend in an ancient county along the river. Later, after he returned to his hometown, through consulting all kinds of information, he believed that the place where Dayu lived in seclusion and the place where he found the ancient river map should not be very far away. So, he kept looking for that place. He was quite old at the time, and in order to find that place in his lifetime, he borrowed the yang shou of several wicked people to prolong his life. The hard work paid off, and he finally found it. When he got through and entered the stone house, there was an earthquake and he was buried inside, and since the digging tools were not brought in, he could not get out, so he ordered himself to 'fake his death'. I dug him up and brought him back to the old village, and because of the shaking all the way, his body organs were revived, and after burying him in the flower pond, he absorbed the vitality of the plants inside, and then he came back to life..."

"I know, he taught you the spell, in addition to repaying you for digging him out, and also, he wants you to help him to fulfill his unfulfilled wish back then, right?" I asked.

"You're smart." "Indeed," said Wan Jinshan, "he asked me to help him find the valley." He didn't tell me what he was looking for. At that time, I knew my brother Lao Hu, and I once heard Lao Hu talk about my father Xu Xiangqian, when my father's engineering company was digging a hole in the mountain, he found a stone room. Passing through the stone chamber is a hidden cave. In a measuring cave at the end of the cave, my father pulled off a stone, causing a monster trapped in the cave to come back to life...

"I don't know if that monster is the same thing as the divine beast that Gao Qien said. I didn't tell him about it at first, mainly because I didn't want to cause trouble for myself. But I found that it was more troublesome not to tell him, so he dragged me to the Taihang Mountains at every turn, and asked me to take him around like a headless fly. I finally couldn't take it anymore, and one day the year before last, I told him about it and took him to the place called 'Stone Village'. The entrance to the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army had already been blown up with explosives. took him around the village, went south out of the village, and met a man named Ergouzi. I thought it was strange that the bastard was hiding behind a tree and looking at us, so I asked my men to sneak around and hold him down. After asking, it turned out that he had raped a female college student who went into the mountains to travel and lived in Stone Village, and was wanted by the public security, because the village did not tolerate it, so he had been wandering in the mountains. I gave him some food, and listened to him talk about things in the mountains, and as he talked about it, he actually talked about Rooster Mountain, and Gao Qien suddenly became interested. Then we asked Ergouzi to take us to the village where his sister had married, because the mountain was said to be in the area of that village.

When he arrived in the village, he heard from his brother-in-law, the old lame, that there was a temple outside their village. When I went to the temple, I found that the temple had been built there as if it had been built for the mountain pass in the distance across the town. We crossed the mountain pass and went north, into the woods, and searched for several days. Later, from the dense forest to the east, we saw a dilapidated house on a large rock. Running to the mountain in the east of the rock, along the mountain, we found the stone road paved by the ancient people, along the stone road, and then found the waterfall, and finally, found the cave hidden behind the waterfall, along the cave, we came to this valley...

"Gao Qien was very happy at the time, we lived in this valley for a while, the old ghost likes to worship the fox immortal, he changed the broken house on the big rock into the fox fairy temple, saying that he will live in this valley for a long time in the future. Later, you already know, for that huge sum of money to return to the city, I burned Gao Qien to death, but he didn't see his body. I was very scared, and I didn't dare to act to borrow Yang Shou from the old man Liu and collect that huge sum. I first have to confirm whether Gao Qien is dead or alive, if he is alive, then I have to find out where he is, and get rid of him, this person does not die for a day, I don't want to live a solid life for a day.

"Since then, I've become a soldier and a suspicious person. I ran to Taihang Mountain at every turn to confirm whether Gao Qien had ever been to this valley. I think if he's still alive, he'll come back here again. So, I got some very powerful things in this area, just to deal with him one day. Also, I've been to the stone village more than once. One day earlier last year, when I went by again, I learned that the two dogs had run back to the village. I secretly asked him out, and during the conversation, Ergouzi confided in me that he had had enough of wandering around and hiding in Tibet, and he had decided to turn himself in after being influenced by his family... Originally, the two dogs surrendered to me and had nothing to do with a dime, but when I heard the words 'surrender', my heart tightened, the two dogs had dealt with Gao Qien, would he spit out Gao Qien and us, and then the police investigated and found out that I killed Gao Qien? … In fact, I am not worried about the sky at all, but I have a ghost in my heart, I am too sensitive, and I will not allow anyone who has been in contact with Gao Qien and makes me feel that there is any threat to me, so on the same night, I burned all the two dogs and their families to death..."

"Ahh I couldn't help but cry out, "It turns out that the Ergouzi family was burned to death by you!" ”

"Not bad." The muscles in Wan Jinshan's cheeks jumped, "I did it..."