Chapter 19: The Ancient Town

A few days ago, Sun Yifeng fled from the Guo family's old house in a panic, but he didn't go far, Youliang really can't be underestimated, he actually found two helpers, a dead corpse and a parasite, especially the big civet later, as if it was his nemesis, this battle lost two cat cubs, Mei Niang is still immersed in pain.

He hid near the bus station, and after dawn saw them take the morning bus to Xi'an, so he took the second bus and went straight to the provincial capital. After arriving, I found a secluded hostel to stay in, and then dialed the phone.

"I'm Sun Yifeng, those two children found a powerful helper, but there was no way to start, so they followed them to Xi'an."

"Where are they now?" The other party said.

"I don't know where I am, but I'm on the second bus." Sun Yifeng replied embarrassedly.

"Find out their whereabouts as soon as possible." The other party commanded.

"Yes, Lao Bai."

The other party hung up the phone, Sun Yifeng looked out blankly, Xi'an is so big, where to find it?

He thought about it for a while and decided to find a helper, so he looked at his watch and picked up the phone again and dialed the capital, and on the other end of the phone was the phone number of the teaching and research department of the Huaxia Qigong and Acupuncture Training School.

The phone was connected, Sun Yifeng coughed twice, and then waited quietly.

The other party also coughed twice.

"Is it Li Lin?" He asked softly.

"It's me, Professor Sun." Li Lin replied quietly.

"I'm in Xi'an, you come over immediately." He gave the name and phone number of the hostel.

"Yes, I'll leave right away." Li Lin answered, and then went to the office to ask for leave.

"Alas, Professor Sun said goodbye, you have to ask for leave again, our school will close sooner or later." Sister Du grumbled.

"I'm in a bit of a hurry, I'll be back as soon as I'm done." Li Lin explained.

Sister Du reluctantly took out the leave book and asked him to register, muttering: "I want to find someone to substitute for the teacher." ”

Li Lin wrote Xi'an City in the destination column, and the reason for asking for leave was that a relative died of illness to attend the funeral, and Sister Du asked him when he would leave, and told him to rush back to class as soon as possible.

Li Lin left in a hurry after saying goodbye.

When he walked away, a slight sneer appeared on the corner of Sister Du's mouth, and she dialed a number from the phone, and then said lightly: "Liu Shisan, keep an eye on Li Lin." ”

Since losing the trace of Arira in the Buddha Cliff Temple, Liu Shisan rushed back to the capital and stayed in the original inn, waiting for Arira to return, but there has been no news of him. Just when he was anxious, he received a call from Sister Du of Huaxia Qigong and Acupuncture Training School.

At the Beijing Railway Station, Li Lin hurriedly boarded the train to Xi'an, and he didn't notice the old blind man following behind him.

In the early morning of the next day, after nearly 20 hours of travel, the train slowly stopped at the Xi'an Railway Station, Li Lin walked out of the ticket gate with the crowded flow of people, called a rickshaw, and went to the hotel notified by the phone while enjoying the scenery of the ancient city, and the old blind man's tricycle followed unhurriedly.

The inn is located in a quiet street, the old blind man changed into the original shabby clothes, sat in the corner across the road, the dark eye stared at Li Lin through the closed eyelids and walked into the door of the hotel, passers-by thought it was a blind beggar begging for food.

"Professor Sun, I'm here." Li Lin knocked on the door of a guest room.

The door opened, Sun Yifeng looked at him, and said lightly: "Come in." ”

Li Lin entered the house and poured a glass of water and drank it all, and then asked, "So urgent, is something wrong?" ”

"Well," Sun Yifeng said slowly, "Sun Simiao may have a whereabouts." ”

"No wonder you didn't say goodbye, it turned out that you finally found the tomb of the Medicine King." Li Lin was immediately excited.

"Lao Bai asked us to find the suspect's whereabouts in Xi'an City, but they have a new helper." Sun Yifeng told what happened in the old house of the Guo family in the east of the river.

"Big civet?" Li Lin asked suspiciously, "It's impossible for our family to be that big. ”

"Yes, they call it the 'Great Spirit Cat', but it is by no means the same kind as you, its body is full of gloomy and murderous aura, we are not opponents, fortunately, there are no peers."

"What do we do now?"

Sun Yifeng sighed: "I want to find their whereabouts all over Xi'an, be careful not to alarm them first, everything is waiting for Lao Bai's instructions." ”

"Understood, I'll start with the hotel guest house."

"Let's do it." Sun Yifeng commanded.

Early in the morning, Secretary Xing opened the door with a spring breeze on his face and invited Lao She into the guest room.

Ke'er, who was dressing up in the room, turned her head and smiled, and Lao She looked at Secretary Xing in surprise.

"She's my wife." Secretary Xing said with a smile on his face.

"Oh, we can go, the car is parked outside." Lao She didn't ask anything more, just urged everyone to pack up and go downstairs quickly.

This is a Beijing 213 jeep, the driver is a young man, and Secretary Xing and his party are sitting in the back compartment.

"This is my assistant, just call him Xiaojin, now give me Yuyun," Lao She asked Yuwan to put on a platform of instruments in his hand, and explained, "This is a magnetometer, the hearing device of the female witch cicada can receive the faint magnetic field emitted by the male cicada in the distance, and the instrument will be amplified thousands of times. ”

On the metal platform, the cicada's head rotated slowly, and it was fixed in one direction and did not move.

"2 degrees east of due south, so the male cicada is somewhere south of Xi'an." Lao She said excitedly.

"How far?" Secretary Xing asked.

"We don't know the way from far or near, we just need to follow the indicated directions to find it."

The jeep drove out of Xi'an City, has been along the highway south, the road stops and stops, Lao She corrected the direction at any time, two days later has come to Sichuan Daba Mountain, the front into Wuxi County.

Although the mountain road is rugged, the reading of the magnetometer is getting higher and higher, and Lao She's mood is becoming more and more excited, and he secretly prays in his conscience, hoping that the male witch cicada is in the tomb of the medicine king, so that he can find the "devouring needle".

The ancient town of Ningchang is located in Wuxi County, which was the country of Wuxian in ancient times, and was later annexed by the country of Pakistan and renamed "Wujun". The jeep traveled along the Houxi River through the deep mountains and valleys, and entered the ancient town after passing the Scissors Peak.

The narrow bluestone streets in the town, the antique wooden houses are built by the river, and the wooden piles stand diagonally below, and the wooden buildings are supported crookedly on the piles, which the locals call "stilted buildings", which seem to be crumbling but are actually firm and durable. The Houxi River passes through the building, dividing the ancient town into two, and the scenery is as beautiful as the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

At dusk, the jeep stopped in front of an inn at the entrance of the town, which is the only hostel in the ancient town, and there are only more than ten rooms in total.

Lao She and his party stayed in the inn, where the reading of the magnetometer was close to the peak, and the male witch cicada must be in the nearby Daba Mountain, it was getting late, and the only way to continue the search was tomorrow.

In the inn restaurant, Lao She specially ordered a jar of local shochu, and ordered special side dishes such as Wuxi old bacon, fried intestines with green onion steak, grilled fish from Daning River and noodles and wild vegetable rolls.

"Team Leader She, I'll go and hang up a long-distance call in the hall and let me know." Kim walked away.

"Secretary Xing, this Ningchang town was the salt capital in ancient times, and the title 'Yanba' came from this, and I didn't expect the male cicada to hide in this place." Lao She said while drinking.

"Will it be buried in some ancient tomb?" Secretary Xing did not directly mention the tomb of the Medicine King.

"The earth absorbs the shielding magnetic field, and if it is buried deep in an ancient tomb, it is difficult for the female cicada to receive the signals from the male, so it is not underground, but may be in the mountains." Lao She explained.

When you heard this, you drew a question mark in your heart, could it be that the male cicada has nothing to do with the tomb of the medicine king?

"On the mountain?" Secretary Xing was also a little deflated when he heard this, and drank his head down.

"This place is far away from Xi'an, although the pair of witch cicadas have experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, but they are still attracted to each other, we don't know what kind of story happened in the road that caused them to separate, if you can study it, it must be quite tortuous and wonderful." Lao She's eyes behind his glasses exuded irrepressible excitement.

Yes, the witch cicada turned into stone can still miss it for such a long time, but what about Nizi, she changed her mind so quickly, doesn't she blush compared to knowing it? has a depressed conscience, and when two glasses of wine fall into his stomach, his eyes are red, and he feels sad.

"What's wrong with you?" Erya noticed that there was a good mood and asked with concern.

"I miss my mother." Arira covered up.

"Alas, I miss my grandfather too." Erya sighed.

At night, Youliang was still in the same room with Erya, each lying on the bed and talking quietly, and Secretary Xing and Ke'er next door were fighting, every night since they came out of Xi'an.

"I don't know if this little wooden building will collapse for the two of them?" Er Ya listened to the creaking sound of the floor and said worriedly.

Youliang thoughtfully: "If the male cicada is not underground, then where will the tomb of the medicine king be?" ”

"The tomb of the medicine king can also be on the mountain, the ancestor Sun Simiao lived to be 168 years old, he must be well-informed, and he is different from ordinary people." Erya said.

"What you said also makes sense, but didn't Lao She say that the soil can absorb and shield the magnetic waves of the male cicada, according to his meaning, the male cicada is definitely not in the soil."

"I know what to say," Erya said suddenly, "it may be placed in someone's house on the mountain, or it may be hung on someone's body." ”

"Well, you're still smart." Youliang also recognized her idea, but what she couldn't put down in her heart was still the tomb of the Medicine King, and only by finding the "devouring needle" could she heal her hands and release the "bardo corpse sucking method" in her body.

The two fell asleep after chatting, and the creaking of the next bed finally stopped, and in a daze, they seemed to hear the slight footsteps passing by the door.