Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 35 There are three fragrances in the mountains

Chen Blind made up his mind, but saw that the group of thieves and sappers in Jieling were already a little exhausted by this point, especially many of them, who were addicted to smoking, and they were even more fatigued.

Chen Blind had no choice but to cheer everyone up: "Brothers, according to the practice of our Changsheng Mountain, whenever we dig up a large ancient mound, it is inevitable that there will be a good market. Today is the auspicious day of the zodiac of the inverted fight, although there have been some twists and turns along the way, so that more than 100 brothers have died in the bottle mountain, but these are the sons and daughters of heroes and heroes, and they are all our righteous brothers and sisters, and they will definitely be able to ascend to the heavenly realm as soon as possible, and bless us on the top and wait for the blessings, and they will not see each other again in this life, but they will continue the righteousness of Taoyuan in the next life......"

Chen Blind first told everyone the words "profit and righteousness", and reminded the group of thieves that they must remember that they had gambled on the big curse before entering the mountain, and they would never return it if they did not steal the empty bottle mountain. Although people in the green forest can not believe in ghosts and gods, they take the act of gambling and swearing very seriously, and breaking the oath is called "breaking the curse", which is despised by everyone. How many notable deeds contained in the history books are as evidence: Emperor Wu of Liang did not believe in the curse, starved to death in Taicheng and no one collected it; Luo Cheng, the silver-speared general asked by Sui and Tang Nian, did not believe in spells and became a thirty-two-year-old short-lived man; Song Gongming of Shuibo Liangshan did not believe in spells, and in the end, a pot of medicinal wine threw away his life.

The group of thieves "profit" word head, and willing to try a righteous spirit, they all cheered up, have to the helm handle to ask the spirit forward, this time even if the liver and brain are smeared, but also refuse to break the sharp spirit of Changsheng Mountain, be sure to collect the full credit. The rest of the sappers who were not part of the thieves of the unloading mountains, although they had the intention of retreating, but under the supervision of these ringing horses, they had no choice but to follow the head.

Stepping on the ruins of the burned apse all the way, searching the vicinity, and finally came to the largest crack in Bottle Mountain. This huge gap like a knife and an axe just starts from the shoulder of the bottle, because the mountain is crooked, the mountain crack will go down obliquely, inserting the front end of the bottle's belly, the crack is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, the clouds flow in the depths, the ancient pine is long, and the legs are numb when you look down from a high place; Looking up from below, the cliffs are towering, and the sky hangs by a thread, as if as long as the mountain wind is a little stronger, the mountain rock hanging at the front end of the bottleneck can be easily scraped off the mountain. This ancient bottle-shaped deep cracked mountain, just like this, will be unbroken for countless years, inclined to hang under the mountain, is the peak and forest overlapping canyon ravine, no matter from which direction, the mountain of the bottle mountain is extremely dangerous.

Chen Blind looked at the bottom of the mountain crack for a long time, the top of the mountain is like a huge blue rock of tens of millions of jun, the steep stone walls on both sides are narrow, but the width is extremely wide, the deepest part is the rain accumulated in the mountain, if you want to move to both sides, you can only use the centipede to hang the ladder on the cliff to climb and walk. He called the guide to the front and ordered him to point out the direction, where did the mountain visitors who usually come to collect medicine climb down the deep stream, and where did they collect medicine. Although Miao Zi has never really been to Bottle Mountain, he is a local native after all, and he has only heard and seen it, and he knows a more or less general idea, and he knows it in far more detail than outsiders. He tilted his head up and pointed to the stone wall.

Bottle Mountain is rich in exotic flowers and herbs and all kinds of rare medicinal materials, the nearby mountain people in Dongyi often rely on the collection of medicine for a living, if you can pick yellow essence and purple ginseng in the mountain, you can resell it to the merchants who buy medicinal materials, you can also take it to the city to sell it yourself. The most valuable things in this mountain are He Shou Wu, Ganoderma lucidum, Jiulongpan and other things, but these things all grow deep in the rock crevices and mountain crevices on the cliffs.

The rock crevices were originally all bluestone, but occasionally the soil fell from the heights, and the small stone crevices were filled over the years, and then through the dew mist in the deep stream, many elixirs were grown, so this big crack on the top of Bottle Mountain was called the medicine wall by the local mountain people. But it is said that there are ancient zombies hidden in the medicine wall, and even if the people who come in to collect medicine can't meet the corpse king, they will be killed by the mountain poison, and the bottle of mountain medicine is surrounded, and there are many evil things lurking around, such as the old lady Bai and the like, no one dares to enter the mountain lightly, and occasionally there are brave and deceitful people who don't want to die and risk their lives to come in, and most of them can't go back and forth.

In the midst of this medicine wall, there is an area called the pearl umbrella. There are many uneven rock veins exposed on the mountain wall, which are shaped like stalactites, such as agate, and shaped like umbrella-shaped pearls, which is named after them. But perlite is not gray or white, but red like blood, and like bloodstone, where the most precious Nine Dragons grow.

There was once a man who was good at climbing the mountain, his family was an expert in collecting medicine for eight generations, in order to treat his wife, he sacrificed his life from the cliff to find Jiulongpan, he was familiar with the medicinal properties, so he brought the medicine to repel centipedes and poisonous pythons on his body, and finally he found the pearl umbrella, but he was about to pick, but he saw a tall zombie with a purple robe and gold belt crawling out of the crack in the mountain. The ancient corpse has become a essence, opened his mouth to breathe purple gas, and poked out a big hand full of white hair to catch him, the cave Yi who collected medicine was so shocked that his soul flew away, where can he still take care of Jiulongpan, relying on his own skills not to lose the ape, climbing vines and piercing the clouds, and flying back to the top of the mountain, since then he was shocked by a serious illness, not two spoonfuls: it will be whining and mourning.

According to this person's description, the pearl umbrella was on the shady side of this huge crack. After hearing this, the blind man Chen had a thought in his heart, such rumors must not be believed, and they must not be believed, even if they can't find the population of the ancient tomb, at least they must take off the nine dragon plates that grow on the pearl umbrella. He asked Partridge Whistle again for his opinion.

The partridge whistle saw that the ancient wall was steep, but if it relied on the centipede to hang the mountain ladder, it was enough to be able to walk in danger, and whether there was a tomb road or a tomb door near the pearl umbrella, after all, he had to see it with his own eyes to know, and immediately nodded in agreement. So I chose more than 30 thieves who are good at flying eaves and walking on the wall, each of them carried two roosters with bamboo baskets, if there are really good corpse demons to harm people, there are also roosters that can be deterred, and each with two bamboo ladders to climb the mountain, and the rest of the sappers are withdrawn to help the accomplices carry the glass cup and other things in the Dan Palace.

At the bottom of the crack in Bottle Mountain, a lot of rainwater accumulated, and a thick layer of duckweed grew on it, and the dampness was very heavy, and the rock walls were seeped with water droplets, and the bottom of the gap was narrow, and when they were stuck underneath, they were in a dilemma, and the group of thieves had to hang the rock crevices with bamboo ladders and pass through the air on the desperate stone walls.

Everyone unfolded dozens of centipedes to hang on the mountain ladder, and used all the techniques of fighting, connecting, swinging, and hanging, and climbed on the cliff with a high spirit. All the way along the rock crevice, I saw that between the steep walls on both sides, there were more in the depths of the cuiyun, and there were several martial arts (武, half a step, referring to footsteps. The mountain rock on the side of the bottle mouth is really like a bead wall. The color of the rocks gradually darkened, and the wisteria in the deep weeping stream was surrounded by strange flowers and flowers, and the soil in the rocky crevices was full of weeds.

This place is close to the end of the Sanyin side of the bottle shoulder, and on this medicine wall that does not see the sun all year round, there are more and more strange plants that cannot be named, which is quite unusual. Chen Blind Man and Partridge Whistle both know how to rob tombs to find mud marks and distinguish the color of grass, and look at the vegetation and weeds on the grave to confirm the age, identity, and gender of the bones buried in the tomb. The growth state of the plant on the tomb is commonly known as the "tomb vein", and the rise and fall of this vein are all from the ancient "Mausoleum Spectrum".

For example, there is no owner of a deserted grave, and there is no marker such as a tombstone, but the grave is overgrown with weeds. However, in the eyes of those who understand the "grave vein", this simple messy grass hides a lot of information, such as "the grass on the grave is green, and the coffin is a weak crown", and "the grave grass is mixed, and there will be sick and dead people under the soil".

This means that if the grass on the grave is green and tender, the grave must be buried with a young man who died young; The grass was messy and yellow, and it looked listless, and the dead buried in the grave must have died of disease; Near the mausoleums of those brave people, there are mostly pine and strong grass...... The list goes on and on. The so-called grave is broadly speaking, where there is soil and grass in the grave on the hill and mountain, it is a grave vein, and the larger the scale of the grave under the soil, the wider the range of the grave vein. But in this world, only tomb robbers who have mastered the word "hope" know how to observe and distinguish.

The group of thieves climbed on the centipede ladder and picked up the lamp to carefully observe the plants growing on the medicine wall. The partridge whistle looked left and right, the pine branches and vines were growing lush and vigorous, and they were all the grave veins of the general's mound, and he pointed to a large cluster of golden flowers on the vine, and said to everyone: "This is a cat's eye, which only grows near the left of the tomb, and there will be a tomb on the top of the mountain." ”

Chen Blind saw that the strange flowers really looked like cat's eyes, all of them were born by the yin qi condensed in the ancient tomb, and there was a faint murderous aura in the flowers and plants. He looked at the grass marks, and raised his nose to sniff the breath on the wall of the medicine. This "smell" word recipe to smell the soil method, although a "soil" word, but no one will be like a dog lying on the ground inch by inch to smell, this method must be learned from childhood, a lifetime of taboo tobacco and alcohol spicy things, and not only smell the soil, where the deep mountains are absolutely gorgeous, there are many strange fragrances lingering, Chen blind can smell this strange fragrance through guò smell the mountain method to identify the acupoints to find hidden.

There are three kinds of aromas that are common in deep ravines and valleys, and the mountains without incense are all barren mountains, such as the confrontation between the two walls, and the condensation of mountain qi in the extreme depths, which can only be performed in this specific terrain. The most fragrant smell is the mountain poison miasma mirage, the more poisonous the miasma, the stronger the aroma, but the fragrance of the poisonous miasma has a dusty smell, it is an earthy fragrance, and it is easy to identify.

There is also the aroma of herbs, wild flowers, yams and other plant essences, and its aroma is misty, and the smell makes people feel refreshed. The most peculiar fragrance is the breath of the ancient tomb, which is made up of mercury, coffins, bright vessels, corpses, and embalming lime in the tomb soil. The closer you get to the tomb, the stronger the cold scent becomes, and it contains a peculiar fishy smell, but this eerie smell is not unpleasant.

Blind Chen took a deep breath with his nose, and felt that the cold fragrance in this pearl umbrella had a strange fishy smell, and it turned into a rich and strange fishy fragrance that was difficult to describe. This place is in a remote place in Sanyin, if you don't come to find it on purpose, it is difficult to find this place lightly. I saw that the wisteria ancient pines on the medicine wall were densely stacked, and the entrance of the tomb must have been covered, so he made a gesture and ordered the group of thieves to hang the centipede on the mountain ladder and build a bamboo bridge across the mountain stream.

Seeing that the traces of the ancient tomb had appeared, everyone cheered up the spirit of twelve, set up a bamboo bridge on the medicine wall, grabbed the footsteps one by one, and walked through the clouds on the trembling bamboo ladder, either climbing the old vine, or using the rest of the centipedes to hang the mountain ladder to build the rock crevice, hang the body in the air, and then pull out the knife and axe, to cut the plants covering the pearl umbrella.

The severed wisteria flowers and pine branches fell into the depths of the mountain gap, and in a short time, most of the sunken chicken blood rock was revealed. I saw several large cracks on the rock wall, the largest one was wide enough to cover the cow, and the inside was dark and dark, and there were several nine-dragon pans with bright scales growing in the small cracks.

Chen Blind and the others were secretly happy in their hearts, and the legend of the Miao people collecting medicine on the pearl umbrella of the medicine wall was indeed true. This Nine Dragons Plate is worthless in Shanyang, ordinary can only drive wind and detoxify, only the deep valley and ravines that do not see the light of day all year round can grow this kind of dragon plate with large scales and leaves, also known as the Nine Ghost Plate, each plant is worth a thousand gold, and has the miraculous effect of hanging life.

Seeing this, the group of thieves all threw the matter of the ancient tomb out of the nine clouds for the time being, and those who were close, even if they reached out to collect the medicine and carefully cut it up by the roots, if the nine ghost plates were missing a whisker stem or half a scale leaf, it would be equivalent to a broken condition, and it would no longer be worth anything.

The partridge whistle turned a blind eye to this object, and he plunged into the big crack in the bamboo ladder jumping man's chicken blood rock, and when he reached out to touch the stone wall, his fingertips immediately felt a bad cold, which is the cold that can only be found in ancient tombs. Carrying the lantern forward, he found that there was a figure in a trance at the end of the light, and half a step forward was already illuminated, only to see a tall male corpse standing motionless in the mountain gap. Judging by the thickness of the dust, the deceased was alone in this mountain crevice, and had not moved for many years, but he could still see that the dead corpse was wearing armor on top of the armor, obviously wearing a military uniform on the battlefield in ancient times.

Partridge Whistle often goes alone, and he is a master of the arts, and he is impatient to wait for the gang to scavenge inch by inch, thinking why not see it first, so without waiting for Chen Blind and others to follow up from behind, he first held the lantern high in his head, took out the German-made mirrored box gun inserted in his waist, and used the muzzle to pluck the head of the ancient corpse, wanting to see what this corpse looked like. Unexpectedly, before the German made the ancient corpse that was draped all over its body, the wind was blowing in the cave, and the zombie suddenly shook off the thick dust and pounced on it.