The next day, we got up early in the morning, packed up our things, and according to what we heard yesterday, we went out of the village and turned around two mountain beams to find the Fishbone Temple.

The two mountain beams are easy to say, but the straight-line distance may be very short, and it is really not easy to walk. Yesterday when I got here, it was already dark, and the surrounding environment was not clear, so I looked at it by the dawn, and the ravines were vertical and horizontal, and the fragmented earth plains, earth beams, earth ridges, and earth ditches towered all around.

Although it is not the Loess Plateau, it is affected by the yellow flood, there is a large amount of yellow hard mud on the surface, and the wind is the carving knife of the Creator, cutting and carving the original rolling mountains, forming countless ravines and wind tunnels, and the ditches in some places are terrifyingly deep.

The natural environment here is harsh, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the wind blows through the ravine, whining, like a ghost wailing, the mountain beams are full of large and small caves, bottomless, in the distance, like the slopes are covered with black spots.

We walked for almost three hours and finally found the Fishbone Temple in a ravine. This temple is even more dilapidated than we imagined. We heard that the incense of this Dragon King Temple has been broken for decades, and we were a little mentally prepared in advance, but we didn't expect to see it on the spot, and this ruined temple was about to fall apart.

There is only one temple in the fishbone temple, and there is no distinction between advancing and backward, the east and west chambers, the temple gate has long been gone, but I finally saw the skull of the iron-headed dragon kingfish, and the fish mouth is the temple gate.

The fat man knocked on the sapper shovel, and when it sounded, the bone was really hard enough. When we looked closely, we saw that this fish skull was completely different from the ordinary fish bones, although it had no skin and flesh, it still made people feel hideous and ugly. We've never seen this kind of fish before, it's not a whale or an ordinary river fish, it's so big that we don't dare to look at it.

The clay statue of the dragon lord in the temple has long been gone, and the ground beams are full of dust and cobwebs, but inside, it is impossible to see that the beams are made of fish bones, and it is estimated that the fish bones are sealed in the bricks.

The walls have not completely peeled off, and they can barely make out that there are four big characters on them, "Wind and rain", and there are several nests of small rats on the ground.

We didn't dare to delay too much in the temple of the Fishbone Temple, this ruined temple may collapse at any time, and a strong wind may tear off the roof.

In front of the temple gate, the big gold tooth said that this kind of fish bone built the dragon king temple, there are several in the coastal area, it is indeed not common in the mainland, there is such a one in Tianjin Jinghai during the Republic of China, it is also a big fish died on the shore, there are good people who paid to build the dragon king temple with fish bones, the incense is extremely prosperous, and then the temple was destroyed in the early seventies, and it has never been seen again.

I looked at the terrain of the Fishbone Temple in this ravine, and said with a smile: "If the location of this Fishbone Temple is the feng shui level, I will go back and burn my book "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique". ”

The fat man asked, "Isn't this place good?" The wind is blowing, and the wind of feng shui is there, huh...... It's a little short of water, and if there's a small river, it's almost a treasure of feng shui. ”

I said: "The place to build a temple and repair a temple is another set of attention compared to building a house and building a tomb, the temple is for the benefit of one party, you can't just find a place to build, the place where the temple is built must be the star peak, the Mingshan Palace." In addition to this fishbone temple, have you ever seen a temple in the ditch? Even the land temple can't be built in such a deep ravine, as the so-called: there is a hidden heart in the valley, and it can't stand in the face when it pierces the heart. ”

The big golden tooth asked, "Master Hu, what did you mean by the last sentence you just said?" Is it said that it is not good to build temples in the valley? ”

I nodded and said, "Yes, you see these ravines and ravines, like dragons and snakes, how can the surrounding mountains be barren, no tent and no protection, it will not be a situation, plus they are deep in the mountains, and the yin qi is also heavy." If the vegetation of this mountain ridge is dense and slightly better, it is called 'the hidden immortal in the tent flies, and the hidden protection is deep and the lord is prosperous'. This broken ravine, according to the principle of ancient Chinese feng shui, let alone repair the temple, it is not suitable to bury people, so I concluded that there is a problem with the repair of this temple, it must be used by the captains of the touching gold to cover the inverted bucket, and it is not surprising when I saw it today. ”

The fat man said: "If you want to hide people's eyes and ears, you can't be so excited, I think it's enough to build a grass hut." Besides, there are people in this ditch, at most occasionally come to herd sheep, I heard the people in the village say, after this beam is the Longling grotto, which is very evil, and there is no way to go at all, so I am afraid that there are not many sheep here. ”

I said: "I'm afraid this is mainly to win the trust of the locals, outsiders pay for the local dragon king temple, to ensure that the wind and rain are smooth and peaceful, the locals will not suspect, if you come directly to the ravine to build a house, will it make people feel that the behavior is abnormal, a little inexplicable, what kind of house to build in the ravine?" This makes it easy to be suspicious. It is better to say that this is the feng shui level, build a temple, so that it is deceptive, there were people who pretended to plant crops, planted green gauze tents and then worked, all of which were a purpose, not to let others know. ”

After listening to my analysis, the big golden tooth and the fat man both agreed that it was indeed easier for outsiders to build a temple in a ravine than to build a house.

In fact, what the fat man said is not unreasonable, but you have to go up to the mountain beam to see the shape of the dragon ridge in order to further judge the reason for building the temple here. I estimate that the ancient tomb will not be too far away from the fishbone temple, otherwise the amount of work to build the tunnel will be too large.

Now that I have finally arrived at the foot of Longling Slope, the two things I am most worried about are whether there is a big tomb in Longling, and now it seems that the answer should be absolutely yes.

The second thing is that this tomb is so big, and it has long been targeted by the fake merchant who built the fishbone temple, whether he succeeds or not, it's hard to say, but looking at his actions like this, such a business, he must be determined to win.

But even if the ancient tomb of Longling has been turned upside down, I think we can also go in and visit and see how other masters are doing.

The rules of the Captain Jin are very strict, and if you open a bucket, you can only take one or two things, and if you have more, you will break the rules, look at this master who repairs the Fishbone Temple, since he can find a big tomb in Longling that many people can't find, he must be a veteran.

The more veteran the master, the more important these rules are, and sometimes even the rules of the industry are more important than life, but I'm afraid no one cares about these fine traditions now, and the current people are almost the same as the Japanese devils back then, and basically implement the three-light policy everywhere.

We circled around the Fishbone Temple a few times, but we didn't find the location of the tunnel, it seems that it is extremely hidden, not easy to find, and it may even be completely sealed after the Captain has done his work.

The big golden tooth asked if I could see the exact location of the ancient tomb, and I said that I couldn't see it in the ditch, and I had to climb up to the mountain beam and look at it condescendingly to see it.

The big gold tooth eats, drinks, prostitutes, and gambles on weekdays, and his health is not very good, and he can't stand the long journey, and he is already tired when he walks to the fishbone temple, and he has to climb the mountain beam and then climb back, which is really unbearable. I asked him and the fat man to stay in the fishbone temple to find out if there were any tunnels nearby, and told them to be careful if they entered the temple so as not to be smashed inside.

I myself climbed up the hillside, hand and foot, and it didn't take long to climb to the top of the mountain beam, only to see that the ravines under the beam were vertical and horizontal, and the earth seemed to have been pinched by someone, forming folds one after another, and the height was staggered, and the terrain was very complicated.

The general characteristics of Shaanxi landform are high in the north and south, low in the middle, high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and it is inclined from west to east. The north is the Loess Plateau, the south is the Qinba Mountains, and the central part is the Guanzhong Plain. Due to the continuation of the Qinling Mountains in this area, there is a rare piece of low hills, these ridges are not too high, if you look at it from a high place, you may feel like a scar on the earth.

I build a pergola with my hand, carefully distinguish the shape of the mountains in front of me, Longling is really worthy of its name, the leylines are vertical and horizontal, the branches rise together, and the dragon is looking for a saying: there are 100 mountains and rivers, and the dragon tower treasure hall goes to countless people.

There is a very hidden "Dragon Tower Treasure Palace" in this Dragon Ridge, the shape shì follows, gathers crowds and gathers together, these undulating mountains are the potential presented by this "Dragon Tower Treasure Palace" in the middle of the mountain. The dragon "potential" here is not the kind of "potential" that can bury the emperor, the "potential" of the emperor's mausoleum needs to be stable and healthy, like the kind of famous mountains towering, large river circulation, with high and deep, majestic in the world, the "potential" presented by Longling is the "potential" of lying in the far-reaching, peaceful and resting.

Such a shape shì can be buried in the country, such as the queen, the queen mother, the princess, the prince and other close relatives of the royal family, buried here, can make the imperial family prosperous and stable, the court is peaceful and tranquil, to put it bluntly, it is similar to living in your own backyard.

However, this "potential" has been broken by the natural environment, cut by wind and rain, earthquakes and landslides, soil erosion in this area is very strict, the surface is broken, and it is no longer the atmosphere of the past.

Even so, I can still see at a glance that this dragon tower treasure hall in the Dragon Ridge is under the mountain beam where I am standing. This is a hillside that has been greatly damaged by the natural environment, and all the nearby mountain ravines extend from this hill, and the ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty is located in the belly of this mountain.

I stood on the ridge, looked at the undulating qi veins of the mountains and rivers, wrote down the possible location of the ancient tomb, marked the distance, and then turned to look at the fat man and the big gold tooth on the other side.

The two of them were looking for a hole in the fishbone temple when I put my finger to my mouth and whistled loudly at the fat man and the big gold tooth.

When the fat man heard the voice, he raised his head and shrugged his shoulders at me, indicating that he had not found the entrance to the thief cave, and then lowered his head and continued to search, turning the fishbone temple inside and out over and over again.

It was easy to go up the mountain, but it was difficult to go down, so I looked at the place where I climbed up, it was too steep, it was difficult to go down the same way, and I looked around, and I saw that the hillside not far from my left hand was eroded by wind and rain, and a large piece of the soil slope collapsed, and it would be easier to go down from there.

So I walked a little to the left along the ridge, stepping on the collapsed lump of earth and slowly descending, this section of the slope was still difficult to stand on, and it was slippery as soon as I stepped on it, and I saw that there was a slightly flat place nearby where I could settle down, so I jumped over it.

Unexpectedly, after standing still, just two steps away, my feet suddenly sank, and the lower body fell down instantly.

Hearing from people in the nearby village that this snake slope is full of this kind of trapped, I thought that this marginal area was quite safe, but I couldn't think of carelessness. At this time, my waist has fallen into the soil hole, I know in my heart, at this time must not struggle, the geological structure here is similar to the quicksand of the desert, the difference is that there is less sand, more fine soil, the more you struggle, the faster you fall, in this case, you can only wait for rescue, if you are alone, you have to wait for death.

I tried not to let my body move, and I didn't even dare to breathe, lest I sink into it again if I made a slight movement, and if it passed my chest, it would be a big problem.

I gently supported my hands to keep the force on my body evenly, waited for more than ten seconds, and saw that I was no longer falling down, so I took the whistle from my neck with one free hand, put it to my mouth, and prepared to blow the whistle to beckon the fat man to come and help.

But blowing the whistle requires a lot of strength in my chest and abdomen, and I am now in a delicate balance of power, and I dare not move my body a little, lest the slope of earth may collapse at any time and bury me alive in it; Of course, it is not necessary to fall and be buried alive, and there may be a large karst cave below; What's even more unfortunate is that it falls into half of it, and you can't see the sky or the ground, and you can't see it alive, and the taste is really uncomfortable.

This thought turned in my mind, and I still decided to blow the whistle, otherwise when the fat man and the two of them remembered me, his mother's daylily was cold, and I hope they will come to help as soon as they hear it, otherwise I will really return to my place this time. I have experienced a lot of wind and waves, and I really don't want to die in this dirt slope.

I blew the whistle, my chest and abdomen moved slightly, my body snored, and I sank into a piece again, just squeezing my chest, and my breathing became more and more difficult. If you bury a person alive, you generally don't need to bury it on the top of your head, and you will suffocate if the soil passes through your chest. I'm in this situation now, with my hands outstretched, obviously holding back uncomfortable, but I don't dare to struggle. This moment is a time to test one's endurance, I try to keep myself calm, and I must not try to crawl out with my arms because my chest is so stuffy that I am about to suffocate, that I will die faster.

For my current situation, a second is longer than a year, his grandmother, why don't the fat people come over, if they don't hear the whistle, then I'll be here.

Just as I was holding back my breath and thinking wildly, I saw the fat man and the big gold tooth, slowly and leisurely, talking and laughing from below.

When they saw me, they were astonished, shook off their legs, and ran over. The fat man untied the rope he was carrying while running, and he was also carrying a bamboo basket, and the two big white geese in it were frightened by the fat man's sudden acceleration and screamed loudly.

The fat man and the big golden tooth were afraid that there would be crusts nearby, so they didn't dare to get too close, but they stopped a dozen paces away, threw the rope over, and I finally grabbed the straw that saved my life, and pulled the rope twice in my hand.

With the help of both sides, they pulled me out of the crust, and when I came up, my legs completely crushed the whole crust, revealing a large hole in the hillside, and the crumbs of the earth continued to fall into it.

I gasped for breath, unscrewed the kettle, poured a few sips, poured all the rest of the water on my head, wiped it on my face with my hands, looked back at the collapsed soil hole behind me, I couldn't tell myself how many times I had turned back from the ghost gate, I was really scared, I didn't dare to think about it.

The fat man lit a cigarette for me to suppress the shock, I was shocked, took two puffs of cigarette, choked myself and coughed, this experience was different from the past, before life and death in an instant, too late to be afraid, this time it is the grim reaper slowly approaching step by step, there is no more tormenting nerves in the world.

My three souls and seven spirits have probably flown two souls and six spirits, and it took a full twenty minutes for my two souls and six spirits to slowly come back.

When the big gold tooth and the fat man saw that my face was white, they did not dare to speak, and after a while, when they saw that my eyes were no longer straight, they asked me how I was.

I asked the fat man to bring the liquor and drank a few sips of wine, which was considered a complete recovery.

The three of us went to see the dirt hole I had just stepped on, and the big gold tooth asked, "Could this be a thief hole?" ”

I said: "No, the edge of the cave is not so scattered, this is the result of the erosion of the karst cave in the mountain, there is only an empty shell left outside the mountain, some places are thin, some places are thick, it seems that the scale of the karst cave under the dragon mountain is really not small." ”

I told them what I had just seen on the ridge, and there must have been a large tomb in the mountain over there, about a kilometer away from the fishbone temple in a straight line.

If there is a robbery hole in the Fishbone Temple leading to the ancient tomb, this distance and direction are completely reasonable, and it is not difficult for a master to hit a one-kilometer robbery hole, but it just takes some more time.

The fat man asked: "This man is full of food, since he can see the specific location of the ancient tomb, why do he still go so far to make holes?" ”

I said to the fat man: "This senior who built the fishbone temple is far better than you, he naturally has his reasons, I speculate that he wants to enter the underground palace from below." ”

The big gold tooth said, "Oh? Going in from below? Isn't it because the surrounding area of this tomb is too strong and sturdy, and I can't know where to start, so I have to go up from the bottom? I've heard that this trick is called the top palace. ”

I said, "That's how it should be." The Tang Dynasty built a mausoleum in the mountains, and the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, the national strength was solid, the crown was unbeatable in the world, the mausoleum must be built extremely solid, the underground palace was built with big stones, reinforced with cast iron strips, and it was difficult to break through the tomb wall and enter. However, no matter how the ancient tomb is repaired, it is not a seamless egg, any mausoleum has a void, from the perspective of feng shui, this is to collect the wind and gather qi, if the tomb does not have this void, no matter how good the feng shui treasure cave is useless. ”

The fat man asked, "Just leave a back door?" ”

I said: "No, in order to maintain the shape and potential of the feng shui level, so that the feng shui treasure is fixed, the pattern of the mausoleum can not be thorough, it needs to gather qi and melt, the general mausoleum's corridor or apse is the place where the qi melts, that kind of place can not be sealed too solidly, otherwise it is not good for the lord." ”

In addition, there is a saying that large mausoleums are similar to palaces, and when they are finally sealed, in order to keep the secrets in the underground palace, they must suffocate the last group of craftsmen left inside, and those experienced craftsmen, in the process of the project, will leave a way back for themselves, and secretly repair a secret road, which is often under the underground palace.

However, this kind of escape secret road secretly built by craftsmen for themselves has no basis in feng shui at all, and it can be repaired as much as it is hidden, which has a great impact on the pattern of the mausoleum, but it can never be banned.

Therefore, when encountering this kind of tomb with strong and abnormal walls, after the captains of the touching gold school find out the situation, they will choose to start from below.

The three of us discussed it a little, and we all felt that it was worth spending our effort to go to the Longling Tomb, because the location of this tomb was very special, and the shape of the mountain was no longer what it used to be. If you can find that there is a tomb here, it must be a master among the captains of the Golden School, he will definitely uphold the rules of the line, two do not take one, such a big tomb, not to mention that he took one or two treasures, even if he touched one hundred and ten pieces, the rest of us will touch two things casually, and we will gain a lot.

First of all, the thief hole of the Fishbone Temple is only a few decades ago, and there will not be much change, even if there is a collapse in the middle, we can dig a short road to bypass it; Secondly, there are trapped crusts on Longling, and walking in the ridge has a certain danger, and I almost suffocated in it just now, so as to avoid danger.

At that moment, the plan was decided, and he went back to the Fishbone Temple, where the fat man and the big gold tooth had been looking for a long time, and they had not found any robbery holes. This temple is not built by the mountain or the water, and there is no pattern, and it is extremely difficult to judge the location of the cave from the appearance. But this thief hole is too important to us, and the premise of the inference I made is that the fishbone temple was built by the captain of the golden school.

I suddenly had an idea, and beckoned to the fat man and the big gold tooth: "Let's take a look at the altar where the clay statue of the Dragon King was placed before, if there is a thief hole, it is very likely to be hidden under the altar." ”