Longling Maze Chapter 23 Blackwater City

The rooster cries and the lights go out, and the clothes are in hand, almost all of them are completed at the same time, and it is difficult to judge which one comes first and which lasts. The partridge whistle tore off the black cloth covering his mouth, and saw that the hungry wild cats were all lying on the body of the female corpse of the Southern Song Dynasty, scratching and biting, and several at the other end of the tomb, competing to bite the corpse of the wild cat that had been killed earlier. Partridge Whistle was secretly frightened, where did this look like a cat, it was clearly a group of hungry ghosts.

At this time, the rooster crows three times, and there will be no more corpse changes, the female corpse in this ancient tomb, with a corpse pill in her mouth, is restrained by the medicine, and the corpse poison is stored inside the zài corpse, and it has not spread outward, so the female corpse is still well preserved, and these hungry cats will definitely die of corpse poison after eating her meat.

So the partridge whistle folded the clothes he had taken, took the lantern on the coffin board, and got out of the hole, and although the rooster was crowing at this moment, the sky was still very dark. The partridge whistle took advantage of the darkness to backfill the thief hole, sealed the wild cat and a qiē in the ancient tomb, and put the half of the wordless stone tablet back in its place, and when I looked at it again, there was no trace of movement.

Only then did he turn back to the Wukuan Temple, saw Elder Chen, presented the clothes, recounted the overnight experience in its original place, and finally said to Elder Chen: "At the same time as the rooster cries and the lights go out, I took the ancient corpse's clothes in my hand, and I can't tell which one is in front and which is behind, and I dare not assert that I have not broken the rules." Presumably, the disciple did not have the opportunity to be taught by my teacher, and if he did not die in the future, he would definitely come to listen to my master's Zen teachings again. ”

Elder Lichen has also been wandering in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he was once the top person among the captains of the Golden School, who was outstanding in his class, and listened to the words of the Partridge Whistle, how could he not know what he meant, thinking that the Partridge Whistle was also a figure that could be counted in the inverted bucket line, and he said this to retreat as advance.

Elder Lichen looked at Partridge Whistle kneeling on the ground, which reminded him of what he looked like when he was younger, almost exactly like Partridge Whistle now.

Elder Lichen has made up his mind since he heard the reason why Partridge Whistle is a mountain movers, firstly, because it is the purpose of Buddhism to save people from the sea of suffering, since he knows the secrets of the Zagrama tribe, he has no reason to stand by and watch; Moreover, he cherished his skills, was open-minded, and did not hide the details of the lights and chickens crowing at the same time to pick up the details, in this society where people's hearts are not ancient, it is really commendable, and the secret art of his own identity can be taught to him.

Elder Lichen helped the partridge whistle up from the ground and said to him: "Hurry up, please get up, although when the rooster lights go out, you can only touch the clothes, and it is not a bad rule to touch gold, Master Zu just said that you can't touch gold after the rooster lights go out, but he didn't say the word at the same time." ”

When the partridge whistle heard this, his heart was overjoyed, and he bowed his head and bowed to the teacher: "Thanks to my teacher, I will not abandon it, and I will include the door wall, which is really a blessing for three lives, and the teacher is above, please accept the disciple's three bows." ”

Elder Lichen hurriedly stopped: "There is no need to make this big gift, since ancient times, Captain Touching Jin has only been said to be peers, and he has never had the inheritance of master and apprentice, unlike the one who moves mountains and unloads mountains, and is passed down from master to apprentice, from generation to generation." Anyone who uses the means of touching the golden captain to fight backwards and abide by the rules of the golden captain, it can be regarded as a peer, and the old man passes on these secret techniques to you, which is the fate of the two of us, but it is only a friendship with you, and there is no name of master. ”

Although the Partridge Whistle was stopped by Elder Chen, he still insisted on making a great salute, and then stood solemnly with his hands down, listening to Elder Chen's teachings. Elder Lichen was very satisfied with the partridge whistle's inversion of the battle this time, and later incinerated the corpse of the Southern Song Dynasty woman, and recited the death mantra several times, so that the corpse transformer could die in bliss.

Elder Lichen just felt that Partridge Whistle had done a bit more ruthlessly by kicking the wild cat to death, and in any case, this thing was done a little bit, so he talked about Buddhism to Partridge Whistle, and persuaded him to try to leave a way for the other party to live whenever he does it with others in the future, and not to kill everything in a hurry, and to do so is also to accumulate some yin blessings for himself.

Partridge Whistle has great respect for Elder Chen, but feels that Elder Dust has become a bit of a mother-in-law after becoming a monk, and it is worth making such a fuss about killing a cat, Partridge Whistle is quite unimpressed: "If you want to kill someone in your life, what is it to kick a wild cat in the way." But it was not easy to refute it, so I had to put down my temperament and listen to Elder Chen's talk about cause and effect.

Finally, after waiting for Elder Chen's lotus-like Zen theory to come to an end, he explained in detail the rules and means, taboo avoidance, and various inheritances of Captain Jin. Last time, I said it briefly, but this time I will not tire of it in detail, and I will explain it thoroughly one by one.

The person who does the inverted fight is not so much a human as a half-human and half-ghost, and only enters the ancient tomb to touch the gold in the dark night when ordinary people are sleeping peacefully. One day can not finish the robbery hole, can be divided into ten days, but there is one, once into the tomb, after the rooster crow, you can no longer touch the coffin, because a world has a world of laws, the world after the rooster crow belongs to the yang, the night of the yin must be avoided at this time, this is called "the yang people on the road, the yin people avoid, the rooster does not touch the gold". The world after the golden rooster is announced, no longer belongs to the tomb robbers, if the rules are broken, the ancestor must be guilty, and these things must be believed, otherwise there will really be a day when you can't eat and walk around.

After entering the ancient tomb Xuangong, a lit candle must be placed in the southeast corner before the coffin is opened, firstly, to prevent the sudden increase of toxic gases in the Xuangong; Second, this is a tacit contract between the living and the dead handed down by the ancestor thousands of years ago, the candle is extinguished, indicating that the Ming Instrument in this Xuan Palace cannot be taken, if you insist on taking it, it is not impossible, if you have any trouble, you will bear it yourself, as long as the eight characters are hard enough, you can bring out the Ming Instrument after the light goes out, but it is extremely dangerous to do so, it can be said that you will die for a lifetime. There are a large number of ancient tombs in the world, and they can't take their lives to the death, so this rule of "the lights go out and don't touch the gold" that is most valued by the captain of the gold school is best to abide by. There is also the light and extinguishing of the candle flame, which can predict whether there will be a corpse transformation, as well as some vicious charms under the tomb, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the light of the candle is the life of the Captain Jin, and the candle must be lit in the upside-down bucket, which is the biggest difference between the Captain Touching Gold and the rest of the tomb robbers......

The partridge whistle was kept in mind one by one, and from then on, he had to bid farewell to the identity of the mountain mover and change to the captain of the touching gold.

Elder Lichen took out two gold talismans from his arms and said to the partridge whistle: "This talisman is a thousand-year-old antiquity, and if you learn the means of touching the gold, at most you can count it as half a gold-touching captain, and only if you wear the gold-touching talisman can you be regarded as an authentic gold-touching captain." These two gold talismans were made by Lao Qu and one of the people of the year, and the two of us have had a lot of big fights, but unfortunately he was killed by the soul nail mechanism in an ancient tomb in Luoyang twenty years ago, alas...... Don't mention the old things. This golden talisman will belong to you from now on, and I only hope that you will fight in the future

Touching gold must not break the rules of the industry, and it can be worthy of the name of our school captain who touches gold. ”

Partridge Whistle hurriedly took the golden talisman with both hands, respectfully put it on his neck, hid it against the meat, and fell to the ground again to thank Elder Chen.

Elder Lichen asked Partridge Whistle in detail about some things, all the ties between the ancient tribe and the ghost cave and the dust beads, and then asked some about the treasure cave of the Western Xia Kingdom.

After listening to the partridge whistle's explanation, Elder Lichen nodded slowly: "The old man has also heard of the deeds of the dust beads. According to legend, the dust bead is also known as the phoenix gall, and it is said that it was left by the Yellow Emperor when he became immortal; It is said that it is a thousand feet underground; It is a 10,000-year-old ancient jade transformed by the mother earth, and it is also said that it is made of the phoenix aura, and all kinds of legends are inconsistent. Its shape resembles a human eyeball, it is the first treasure in the world, it was buried in Maoling that year, and then the Red Mei Army excavated it vigorously, and the items in Maoling were scattered among the people, but it fell into the hands of the Xixia royal family in the end. ”

Partridge Whistle said to Elder Chen: "Most of the relatives in the disciple clan are entangled in the evil curse of the ghost cave, and they are all miserable when they die. The ancestors have been passed down from generation to generation, and this disaster is due to the fact that the high priest of the clan did not know what the dust bead was, but through the guò myth, he knew that he could understand the details of the ghost cave with an eyeball-shaped ancient jade, so he made a fake cloud dust bead to peek into the secret of the ghost cave, which caused this endless disaster. Later, the clan migrated to the Central Plains, only to learn that there is this divine object in the world, only to find the real dust beads, in order to try to eliminate the disaster of the ghost cave, since then everyone in the clan to find the dust beads as a task, exhausting countless efforts, has never found anything. The disciple learned a few years ago that in the Song Dynasty, this dust bead had flowed into the Western Xia, and the Mongols had also searched for the treasures of the Western Xia royal family, but those palace treasures were extremely hidden, and the Mongols never found them. Legend has it that there was a city in Western Xia, Heishui City, which was later abandoned as a dead city, and there was a temple near Heishui City, called Heishui River Tongtian Buddha Temple, which was originally rebuilt as a stronghold on the periphery of Heishui City. At that time, there was a minister in Western Xia who knew the heavens and the earth, named Yeli Ji 1, after Yeli Renrong, he passed through Heishui City at night, inspected the city, and saw that the outer earth city ten miles away from the city, the three stars were shining, and there was a purple air rushing between the clouds, so he built a lot of construction and changed it into a Tongtian Great Buddha Temple, hoping that he could be buried there after his death. But later this minister was killed by the dynasty surnamed Li, and the mausoleum built under the temple was always empty. Later, the Blackwater River was diverted, and most of the entire Blackwater City was swallowed up by sand and soil, and it became an abandoned city. When the last Xianzong Li Dewang was broken, he ordered people to hide all the treasures in the palace in the empty tomb near Blackwater City, and it was very likely that the dust beads were also among them. The buildings on the ground there have long been destroyed, and it is impossible to find the exact location without the secret technique of dividing the gold to determine the cave.

After hearing this, Elder Lichen said to the partridge whistle: "Heishui City is located outside Helan Mountain, with its head resting on the green mountains and stepping on the jade belt, and it is a treasure of feng shui. The mausoleum of the nobles of the Western Xia, absorbed the length of the tombs of the Qin, Han, Li and Tang dynasties, the scale is magnificent, the layout is strict, and the Xixia people believe in Buddhism, they are deeply influenced by Buddhism, and at the same time have the national characteristics of the party members, so it is unique in the structure of the mausoleum, and it is difficult for future generations to peek into its mystery, just like the long-lost Xixia text, one by one, are like the Central Plains text, but it is more complicated than it. ”

The partridge whistled and replied: "It is exactly like this, a few years ago, a large number of foreigners colluded with horse thieves to loot the antiquities of Heishui City, dug up a total of seven pagodas, and plundered countless treasures in the tower, among which there are many literature and classics written in Western Xia language, maybe there will be records about the dust beads, but unfortunately they have all been lost overseas and cannot be found." If you can find the location of the tomb in the Heishui Tongtian Great Buddha Temple in the Western Xia classics, it will save a lot of troubles. ”

Elder Lichen said to Partridge Whistle: "The Tangut script has been lost for a long time, and people today have only interpreted a small amount, and even if there is a clear record, there is no way to translate it. However, there are three stars shining, and the place where the purple aura is soaring to the sky, should be a dragon tower treasure hall, in order to touch the secret technique of dividing the gold and setting the acupoint of the golden school captain, even if there is no trace on the ground, you can also accurately find the treasure cave of the ancient tomb. ”

It is a branch of the Feng Shui of the Celestial Stars, and it is also the most difficult one, which requires knowledge of astronomy and geography to view the earth's veins and branches according to the sun, moon and stars. If you want to learn the gold acupoint, you must first start with the most basic feng shui gradually learned, the feng shui art is complicated and mysterious, not to mention can be mastered overnight, not to mention five or six years to learn.

Elder Lichen knew that Partridge Whistle was in a hurry, so he decided to go with him to Blackwater City outside Helan Mountain first, get the dust bead in his hand, and then slowly teach him the secret technique of dividing gold and fixing acupoints.

Partridge Whistle was grateful when he saw that Elder Chen wanted to come out to help. After a little preparation, the two set off. Elder Lichen is a monk, and on the way he is still dressed as a monk, and Partridge Whistle has always been a Taoist priest, but a monk walks together, which will inevitably attract people's attention, so Partridge Whistle changed into the clothes of a layman, and served Elder Chen carefully along the way.

From Zhejiang to Helan Mountain, not to mention the mountains and rivers, fortunately, Elder Lichen was also a master of dragon hunting back then, although he was old, his legs and feet were still neat. On this day, when I arrived in Linchuan, I was ready to abandon the car and change boats, take a ferry into the Yellow River, and plan to get off the boat at Wuxiang Fort, which is not far from Helan Mountain.

When waiting for the boat, I looked at the twists and turns of the Yellow River in the distance, like a jade belt, and it was heartwarming to watch. Elder Lichen and Partridge Whistle chatted about the local customs and people, and by the way, they told a story about their experience in this place.

At that time, Elder Chen, who had not yet become a monk, was the top-notch figure among the Captain of the Golden School, and was nicknamed "Flying Monkey 1". Once, I had to cross the Qingtong Gorge to the north of the Hundred and Eight Pagodas, and the locals said that the river god of the Yellow River was extremely effective, and passing ships had to throw some goods into the river before they could pass along.

However, the boat that Elder Lichen took back then was a private boat that sold 2 soil, and he had never been to this section of the river before, and the boat boss was a salt lord, who was very stingy, and a boatman persuaded him to sacrifice to the river god, and the boat boss refused to throw the soil into the river in a bag, and only sprinkled a large salt particle.

That night, in front of the Qingtong Gorge, there was an old man wearing a green pimple hat and thorns, usually the hats on people's heads are red, and this old man wore a green one on his head, which looked very eye-catching. The old man held a scoop in his hand and thought

Find the boat boss to ask for a scoop of hot soil, that hot soil is a very valuable spice, how can the boat boss give it to him plainly, and even coax the old man away.

Elder Lichen was kind-hearted when he was young, and when he saw that the old man was pitiful, he took out the money and asked the boat boss to buy a scoop of roasted earth. This clay can be used instead of lime to pad the bottom of the coffin, dry and has a long-lasting fragrance, at that time, the elder did not ask the old man what he wanted to do with the clay, so he gave a scoop to the old man wearing a green pimple hat and thorns, and the old man went with a thousand thanks.

The next day, the boat continued to move forward, and when it arrived at Qingtong Gorge, it was terrible, and a giant turtle suddenly emerged from the river, which was as big as two or three houses connected together. The giant turtle came to the boat, and finally overturned the whole boat, and all the goods of the whole boat sank into the river, but none of the people on the boat died, they were all swept ashore by the river, and later people said that it was thanks to the handout of Elder Chen's charity that the river god ancestor let them go.

The partridge whistle is also frightened when it is heard, no matter how much ability you have, you can't show it in the turbulent Yellow River, it can be seen that there must be room for people to do things. Suddenly remembering something, he asked Elder Chen: "Disciple has heard that there are many taboos when taking a boat on rivers, lakes and seas, such as not saying words such as overturning and overturning, once you say that the boat will have an accident. The taboos of boating on the water are exquisite, and if you want to count them carefully, I am afraid that they are not less than those of Captain Jin. ”

Elder Lichen was about to answer, when suddenly the crowd of people waiting for the boat rushed forward, and the boat had already sailed, so the two stopped talking, and the partridge whistle supported Elder Chen, and followed the crowd to the boat.

At this time, the sky was clear, the sun was like fire, there was no wind and no waves on the river, and the boat was very stable. There are a lot of passengers on the boat, and the partridge whistle and the dust elder don't like to be lively, pick up places with few people, and watch the scenery along the Yellow River by the railing, while pointing out the feng shui shape shì, and also very comfortable.

As he spoke, Partridge Whistle suddenly lowered his voice and said to Elder Chen, "There are ghosts on this ship. ”