The Partridge Sentry pointed to several foreigners on the ship, and the Partridge Sentry peeked at it for a long time, and felt that these foreigners were suspicious, and they all had guns hidden in their bodies, and there were several foreign shovels and iron ropes in their luggage, and they gathered together to mutter.

The strangest thing is that these foreigners are not like those that Partridge Whistle usually comes into contact with, Partridge Whistle knows some foreigners and understands some of their languages, but these foreigners on the ship are neither like the old-fashioned and restrained British, not like the strict Germans, nor like the casual Americans, these foreigners with big noses and flaxen hair, with a hooligan air all over their bodies, very strange, which country are they? Partridge Whistle looked at it twice, and finally figured it out, it turned out to be a big-nosed old Russian.

Partridge Whistle thinks that these Russians may have gone to Blackwater City to dig up antiques, after the revolution in Russia, many people have been exiled from the country, and their descendants have been mixed in China, not admitting themselves to be Soviets, but calling themselves Russian exiles, just doing some illegal business.

Elder Lichen is also a person who sees and listens to all directions, so he naturally understands the meaning of Partridge Whistle's words, and signals Partridge Whistle not to act rashly: "What we do is a confidential matter, we must avoid people's eyes and ears, and try not to cause more trouble." ”

Partridge Whistle said to Elder Chen: "When the disciple goes over to find out, if these foreign devils also go to Blackwater City to steal treasures, they are very close to our goal, so they will inevitably get in the way, find a place where no one is around, and easily kill them, so as to save future troubles." ”

Without waiting for Elder Dust to dissuade him, Partridge Whistle squeezed into the crowd and eavesdropped on the Russians as they spoke. It turned out that there were six of them, five Russians and one American.

The five Russians, all descendants of Tsarist Russia in exile in China, were in the business of reselling arms, and when they heard that a large number of cultural relics had been unearthed in Blackwater City, they thought it was profitable, and they were ready to try their luck and secretly dig up a few boxes to come back.

The American is a priest in his thirties and forties, who had been to Ningqing and other places to preach a few years ago, and had visited the ruins of Blackwater City during his trip. The priest went around China, preparing to go to Yinchuan and other places again to promote the belief in God for eternal life, and this incident was inadvertently mentioned to the five Russians he met on the way, and those Russians took the opportunity to say that they wanted to go there to do business, and asked the priest to take them to Blackwater City by the way.

Very few people would lie to the clergy, so the priest didn't know what to do. The six of them do not understand the language, the Russians do not speak English, the Americans do not speak Russian, but fortunately, both sides have been in China for a long time, they can speak Chinese, and they communicate with each other in Chinese.

Partridge Whistle listened to a few words, and only heard that three out of ten sentences from those people were talking about Blackwater City, and the American priest didn't know that these people wanted to dig up cultural relics, and told everything he saw and heard in Blackwater City, no matter how big or small. It is said that the stupa there is half buried in the ground, and there are a large number of Buddha statues in it, all of which are inlaid with gold and silver, and the shape is exquisite, and some Buddha statues are carved with ivory and ancient jade, which are beautiful, and the magical craftsmanship is simply that only God's hands can make zuò out.

The five Russians drooled when they heard this, took out vodka and poured two sips, eager to put on their wings, and immediately flew to Blackwater City, digging up all those precious cultural relics and exchanging them for a large number of cigarettes, women, guns and ammunition, and vodka.

Partridge Whistle sneered in his heart after hearing this, Partridge Whistle had also gone to Blackwater City to find the Great Buddha Temple, so he was very familiar with the ruins of Blackwater City. In fact, these big noses don't know that as early as the beginning of the 19th century, there was a Chinese exploration boom in Europe, and most of the cultural relics of Heishui City were stolen and excavated at that time, and now there are only some clay statues and tiles left in the ruins of the city, and most of them are dilapidated. The American priest did not know how to appreciate cultural relics, and when he saw some colorful clay statues, he said that they were made of ivory and ancient jade, and the Russians believed it.

But when I think about it, no, if you think of a statue of mud and stone as a treasure inlaid with gold and jade, what kind of eyes does it have to be? The American priest has no vision, and it is impossible to see such a big error, could it be that the American priest accidentally found the Tongtian Great Buddha Temple? Listening to the description in the words of the American priest, it really looks like a temple buried in the ground.

Partridge Whistle thought of this, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and wanted to continue eavesdropping on their conversation, suddenly the hull of the boat shook, the whole huge ferry boat in the middle of the river, more than 100 passengers on the boat were standing unsteadily, as the hull of the boat staggered, for a while the crying father and mother cried out in pain.

Partridge Whistle was worried about Elder Chen, and he didn't care about those foreigners, and in the chaotic crowd, he quickly grabbed Elder Chen's side, and Elder Dust said to Partridge Whistle: "It's not good, I'm afraid I have encountered something in the water." ”

At this time, I saw that the originally calm river water was tumbling like a pot suddenly boiling, and the hull of the boat was turning in the center of the river, and the boatmen and passengers on the boat were in a mess. The captain of the boat took out a pig's head and threw it into the river as if he were playing a trick, put out a plate of roast chicken, lit a few sticks of incense, knelt on the deck, and kowtowed to the river.

But the actions of the captain of the boat did not have any effect, and the boat spun around in the river, saying that it could not move at all. The boss of the boat suddenly had an idea, knelt down for the passengers on the boat, and said while kowtowing: "Old and young masters, ladies and wives, ladies and sisters, did you say something taboo on the boat, the dragon lord can be taken seriously this time, or the dragon lord, none of us want to live...... Who said what? Don't pull everyone together to die, okay? I'm kowtowing to you. After saying that, he banged his head on the deck.

Everyone saw that a huge wall of water had been erected in the river around the boat, and everyone was so shocked that their faces changed, and even if someone said something unspeakable on the boat, there was nowhere to find it.

At a loss, a merchant pointed to a woman with a child in her arms and shouted, "It's her...... It's her...... That's what she said, and I heard it. ”

Partridge Whistle and Elder Lichen also looked with the others, and saw the merchant grab a woman holding a child of three or four years old and said, "She is crying vigorously, and this woman is annoyed by the baby's crying, and says that if the baby wants to cry again, she will throw the baby into the river." ”

As soon as the businessman said this, several people around him also said that it was indeed the case. The woman's child cried loudly since she got on the boat, and the woman coaxed for a long time, and the more she cried, the louder she became, and the people around her felt irritable, and the woman was angry and scared the child: If you cry again, you will be thrown into the river to feed the fish.

The scare was over, but the boy was still crying and making a fuss, and at this moment, the boat began to spin in the river and could not move. The woman had never seen much of the world, and how could she know that this was so powerful, and when she saw that everyone on the ship was staring at the child in her arms, she was so frightened that she sat on the deck and cried.

The captain knelt down for the woman: "Big sister, how dare you say such a high-level language on the boat, it's too late to say anything now." What you said let the dragon lord hear, the dragon lord is waiting for you to throw the baby into the river, if you don't throw it, our boat will be finished, you can do it. With that, he went to snatch the child that the woman was holding in her arms.

The child is the woman's biological flesh and blood, how can she give up, crying while desperately protecting the child, refusing to let go of death. But the boss of the boat is a stout man who runs the boat all the year round, and a woman can not rob him, so he has to ask for help from the passengers around him.

The passengers on the boat were all indifferent to this, and everyone knew in their hearts that if this child was thrown into the river, no one would want to live, or their own lives mattered. Although this child is pitiful, he can only blame his mother, who let her talk nonsense on the boat, it is really his own fault. For a while, everyone avoided it, and no one went over to stop it.

Seeing that the boat boss was about to throw a three- or four-year-old child into the river, Elder Lichen couldn't bear it, so he wanted to step in with the partridge whistle to stop him, but at this time he snatched a person from the crowd and stopped the boat boss. Partridge Whistle took a closer look, and the man who stopped the boat boss turned out to be the American priest.

The American priest held up the Bible and said, "Captain, in the name of God, I must stop you." ”

If someone else stretched out his hand to stop him, he would have been knocked down by the boat boss with a punch, and the boat boss saw that he was a foreigner, and he didn't dare to offend lightly, but the hull of the boat was spinning in the river, and it might capsize at any time, so he glared at the American priest and said: "Don't care, if this baby is not thrown into the river, the dragon lord will have to take us even with the boat, and then your black book will not be able to save your life." ”

The American priest waited to say that he was pulled away by a short, stocky Russian with a red nose: "Father Thomas, don't meddle with your business. These mysterious rules of the old Orient are very strange, and they have to do what they want to do, and they are just Chinese children anyway, otherwise the boat is really likely to capsize. ”

The American priest said angrily: "Mr. Andrew, I can't believe that you would say such a thing, that all men are equal in the eyes of God, and that only the devil would think that it is right to throw children into the river to feed the fish." ”

Taking advantage of the argument between the American priest and the Russian named Andrei, the captain of the ship raised his foot and kicked the woman down, throwing the child under the boat, and the woman fainted with a scream.

Elder Lichen was shocked, and wanted to say something to let the partridge whistle save people, but it was too late. Although Partridge Whistle didn't want to meddle in things, but when it came to the end, after all, he couldn't see death without help, and before others could see what was going on, Partridge Whistle had already taken out the Flying Tiger Claw and threw it out.

The Flying Tiger Claw is made of stainless steel, the front side is like a tiger claw, the joints can be loose or tight, and the back is a long rope that can grab things from a distance, and the Partridge Whistle uses the Flying Tiger Claw to catch the child who fell to the half-section, and lifts him up again with a shake of his hand.

The people on the boat were dumbfounded, and as soon as Partridge Whistle picked up the child, the Russians aimed five black-hole revolvers at Partridge Whistle's head.

The waves in the river were even more rapid, and the people on the boat were dizzy, and it seemed that the boat would capsize at any moment. The Russians, who have lived in China for a long time, know that the boat boss is right, if he throws the child into the river to feed the king, the boat will not want to move. At this time, seeing that the partridge whistle had pulled back the child who had been thrown down, he couldn't help but take out his gun, trying to deal with this troubled guy.

The five Russians were just about to shoot, when they heard a burst of machine gunfire, and everyone shrank their necks in fright and looked around, wondering who had shot?

Partridge Whistle used ventriloquist to distract them from their minds, and threw the child to Elder Dust, while pulling out two German mirror boxes from his clothes, propping up the nose of the machine on his thigh, and the "pop papa" bullets swept through them like a whirlwind, and the five Russians were shot one after another, falling in a pool of blood.

The people on the ship were stunned, their faces were as white as earth, and they killed five people in an instant, and their speed and marksmanship were accurate, and the murderous aura of that body, killing so many people without even blinking an eye, was really the same as a Rakshasa demon. Partridge Whistle, regardless of what others thought, threw the bodies of the five Russians into the river with his own hands.

Isn't there such a saying, gods and ghosts are afraid of the wicked, as soon as the corpses of the five Russians fall into the river, the boat no longer spins, but can move again, the river that was originally boiling like a pot slowly calmed down, and the partridge whistle told the boat boss to stop the boat immediately on the north bank.

The boss of the boat was frightened, where did he dare not obey, and led the boatmen, anchored in the gentle part of the river, and lowered the gangplank.

Elder Lichen had already returned the child to the woman, telling her not to talk nonsense again, otherwise she would not have such good luck next time. Partridge Whistle knew that he had killed five people in full view of everyone, and this matter was very big, and he had to leave the avenue and hurry to the sparsely populated place. When he got off the boat, he took the American priest with him, in case he ran into the military police, the American could be used as a hostage, and the American priest and the five Russians were accomplices, and the five Russians were thrown into the Yellow River and their bodies were destroyed, and the people in the official face could not find their accomplices, and it was difficult to start tracking.

Partridge Whistle and Elder Chen, holding the American priest, walked away in the wilderness, but fortunately it was not far from Helan Mountain, and it would take three or four days to get there by land, and the land was vast and sparsely populated, so it was not easy to bump into anyone.

American priest Thomas began to think that he had been kidnapped by two murderers, and he kept preaching God's mercy to them, persuading them to change their ways, especially the old monk, who was kind and kind-eyed, and he couldn't imagine that he would be kidnapped at such an old age, so it was better to convert to God and believe in God for eternal life.

After walking for three whole days, Thomas found that the two men did not look like they had kidnapped him, and they kept walking northwest, as if they were going somewhere, and the motive was unknown, so he asked where he was going.

Partridge whistled to American Father Thomas: "You have been deceived by those Russians, and you know that you want to go to Blackwater City to steal cultural relics by looking at the large number of tools they are carrying." When they heard that you had been to Blackwater and seen the treasures there, they wanted you to show you the way, and when they got there, they would surely kill you. I saved you, you can be relieved, I am not killing innocent people indiscriminately, wait for us to go to Blackwater City to do something, and then let you walk, I can't let you go now to prevent the rumors from being exposed. ”

The American priest said to Partridge Whistle: "Mr. Gunner, you draw your gun as fast as lightning, you are super dashing." I also noticed that something was wrong with the Russians, they said that they were going to open a mine and do business, they originally wanted to dig up Chinese antiquities, but now God has punished them. ”

Partridge Whistle asked the American priest to tell him about his sights of the Buddhist temple in the ruins of Blackwater.

American Father Thomas asked rhetorically, "How?" You also want to dig up artifacts? ”

Partridge Whistle was not too disgusted with the priest, and said to him: "I need to find something important, which is concerning the life and death of many of my people, and which is so confidential that I cannot tell you any more." ”

Father America said, "OK, I take your word for it. A few years ago, when I went to the ruins of Blackwater City, when I was walking nearby, I stepped on quicksand, and at that time I thought that I was called by the Lord to meet God, but I didn't expect to fall into a Buddhist hall, where there are many precious and bright Buddha statues. Because I was in a hurry to go to the mission, I crawled out without looking too much and left, and now I can't find it when I go again, but that place is very close to the ruins of Blackwater City, about six or seven kilometers. ”

The words of the American priest confirmed the accuracy of the information of the partridge whistle, it seems that the Great Buddha Temple in Blackwater City is not too deeply buried, as long as you find the right location, it is easy to dig a hole and steal it in.

Legend has it that the Great Buddha Temple in Heishui City is dedicated to a huge reclining Buddha, and the tomb under the Buddha built a Xuan Temple, ready to be used to bury people, and was later used as a treasure to hide the Xixia court. Partridge Whistle's goal this time is there.

The ruins of Blackwater City are not difficult to find, there are obvious dilapidated buildings on the ground, and stupas are silently recording the glory and magnificence of this place. When the three of them arrived in Blackwater City, it was nearly dusk, and the gray outline of the mountains in the distance was faintly recognizable.

The ruins of Blackwater City, standing in the twilight, seem to be as silent as death, as if death has stifled the breath of all creatures here, and the atmosphere of desolation and silence makes it impossible to imagine that this place was once an important town of the Western Xia generation.

Elder Lichen is a monk, Partridge Whistle has been pretending to be a Taoist, and the American Thomas is a priest, this monk and a priest are going to the vicinity of Blackwater City to find the treasure cave of the Tanguts, and even they themselves think that this is really a strange combination.

Near Blackwater City, the three of them waited quietly for the cold moonlight to shine on the earth. This is the Northwest Plateau, where the air is thin and the sky is full of stars, many times more numerous and brighter than the plains.

Elder Lichen looked up at the celestial star, took out the compass, and divided the gold into the acupoints. The giant gate in the sky, the greedy wolf, and the three-star robbery hole of Lu sickle have all been upright and unbroken, and the auxiliary star is as true as the acupoint, and the auspicious is expensive, but the lack of entanglement is the acupoint on the ground, and the acupoint on the ground is like a dragonfly point water hole, and the direction has been found in a moment.

Elder Lichen checked the direction, took the partridge whistle and the American priest to the place by the moonlight like water, pointed to a place on the ground and said, "The Daxiong Treasure Hall in the Tongtian Great Buddha Temple is here. But...... It seems that there is a one-eyed dragon buried here. ”