After listening to what Huang Yixian said, Wen Qingshan asked rhetorically: "Do you mean that there were more powerful things besides Mao Zhuang at that time?" ”

Huang Yixian nodded, and wanted to say something more, glanced at me, saw that my eyes were slightly red, and hurriedly changed the topic, saying, "Let's not talk about this first, the military is still waiting for us at ** Yan!" He looked around again, "I don't know how to get around the ** rock from here, I think we should go back to the village first, and then go to him." ”

The cheap immediately chimed in: "Yes! Right! The fat cow is most afraid of the dark, so let's hurry back to find him. ”

So we immediately got up and rushed in the direction of Qiping Village.

As soon as we returned to the village, we saw a large group of villagers with torches and seemed to be walking towards us.

I don't know what the situation is, everyone was wondering, and suddenly they heard Second Master Qi shouting at the top of his voice: "Yu Yanzi, are you back?" ”

I hurriedly replied: "Second Master Qi!" It's us! ”

Second Master Qi said with a smile: "You guys are back, we are about to go to the mountain to find you!" ”

It turned out that Niu Fatzi had returned to the village alone more than an hour ago, and he told Second Master Qi that we had never come out since we entered the ** rock, and he was worried that something would happen to us. Second Master Qi realized the seriousness of the situation, so he immediately organized and mobilized the young men in the village to prepare to go up the mountain to look for us, but fortunately they met us on the road.

Since we were all exhausted, we went to bed early after dinner that night.

The next day, because Wen Qingshan, Seabeard and Cheap were all injured, so they stayed in the village to rest, and Huang Yixian and Niu Fatzi and I went to find Qi Erye, wanting him to find someone to lead the way, leading us to a place where we could peek into the whole picture of the Chessboard Valley, and take a few photos of the whole picture of the Chessboard Valley.

Hearing that we were going to take pictures of the whole picture of the Qipan Valley, Second Master Qi didn't ask the reason, and immediately called his third son Bai Sanyuan, who happened to be at home, and asked him to take us to Qiyun Peak, the highest mountain behind the Qipan Valley. He told us that standing on the top of Qiyun Peak and looking down, the entire chessboard valley could be seen clearly.

Bai Sanyuan took a woodcutter from the house, specially prepared a few rice balls with rice dumplings, and led us to the back mountain.

What I didn't expect was that Qiyun Peak was not ordinarily high, and the mountain road was very steep, and we walked for more than three hours until noon, and finally arrived at the top of Qiyun Peak.

Everyone was already tired, Niu Fat Man lay directly on his back on the ground, panting heavily, the condition of me and Huang Yixian was not much better, but Bai Sanyuan did not change his face and did not panth, if it weren't for his sweating, he would look like he was fine. The strength of the feet of the people in this mountain is really not comparable to us.

After resting for a while, I finally regained my strength, looked around, and suddenly found that on the side of the peak, there was actually a building with black tile and wooden walls, the building seemed to be many years old, it looked dilapidated, the whole building had even fallen to the side, a wall leaned against a few large trees with a diameter of half a meter, if it were not for those big trees to support, the whole building would have collapsed.

I couldn't help but ask curiously, "Brother Sanyuan, how can there be a house there?" ”

Bai Sanyuan replied: "That house was originally a Taoist temple, called Qiyun Temple, but it has long been abandoned!" ”

"You also have a Taoist temple here?" I was a little surprised, but this was the first time I'd heard of it.

Bai Sanyuan said: "It has been there for a long time, and it is said that it has a history of hundreds of years!" It was built when our ancestors first moved here! It is said that our ancestors once got the guidance of a master of Taoism, and used the unique terrain of the chessboard valley to set up a feng shui bureau, and our ancestors built such a Taoist temple on the top of Qiyun Peak in order to retain this master of Taoism. ”

"Then has this enlightened man stayed?"

Bai Sanyuan nodded and said, "Stay!" And he also made a rule, every thirty years, he will select a child from the village to go up the mountain to learn the Tao, and when the child grows up, he will become the new master, so after that, the master of this Taoist temple can be said to be people from our village. ”

"Since it has been passed down from generation to generation, why did this Qiyunguan become abandoned later?" Huang Yixian asked puzzled.

Bai Sanyuan said: "The Cultural Revolution broke the four olds, and the Taoist temple was smashed. At that time, it was Hao Sanye who was learning the Tao in Qiyunguan, speaking of which, Hao Sanye and my father were still cousins, just because they learned the Tao in Qiyunguan, they were criticized for fighting miserably, alas! ”

"Where is Third Master Hao now?" Huang Yixian asked.

"He still lives in the village, but he is very withdrawn and almost never interacts with other people." When Bai Sanyuan said this, he suddenly thought of something: "However, Bai Xiaowu seems to have gotten quite close to him in the past two years. ”

"Bai Xiaowu!?" Huang Yixian and I exclaimed in unison.

"Yes! Actually, I'm a little puzzled when I say it, and I don't know how they got together. But my father thinks it's okay, Third Master Hao has no children or daughters, and he stays in the house every day and doesn't go out, Bai Xiaowu often goes to see him, which can be regarded as a care. ”

After listening to Bai Sanyuan's words, I not only fell into contemplation, Qiyunguan and Dashun Treasure, will there be any connection between the two? Bai Xiaowu once said that the Bai clan people took root in the Chessboard Valley in order to protect the treasure of Dashun, but in fact, the people in the village knew nothing about the treasure, which is really a bit unreasonable, but if Qiyunguan is related to the treasure of Dashun, it seems to make sense. Maybe the secret of the treasure of Dashun is hidden in Qiyunguan, which selects a person from Qiping Village every thirty years to inherit it, in fact, to let this secret be passed on from generation to generation!

Thinking of this, I got up with a grunt and walked towards the abandoned Taoist temple.

Seeing this, Bai Sanyuan asked puzzledly, "Shi Yu, why are you going?" ”

Without looking back, I said, "I'll go to the Taoist temple and have a look!" ”

"What's so nice about a broken Taoist temple! Be careful, the beams and columns are already a little rotten, don't get smashed! ”

"Don't worry, I'll just take a look!"

The Taoist temple is only a dozen meters away from us, perhaps because it has been abandoned for many years, and the surrounding area has long been overgrown with thorns and weeds. Fortunately, I was too tired on the road just now, so I picked up a wooden stick to make a crutch, which came in handy now.

As the so-called scaring snakes, I took a wooden stick and chopped at the thorns and weeds, and after confirming that there were no poisonous snakes lurking, I cautiously walked to the door of the Taoist temple.

The two gates of the Taoist temple have long been gone, only a door frame covered with green moss remains, above the door frame, there is a plaque that is missing a large piece obliquely, the text on the plaque has been incomplete, I looked at it for a long time, only to recognize that it is the three words "Qiyun Temple".

I was about to step into the Taoist temple, when someone suddenly tapped me on the shoulder, I turned my head and looked, it turned out to be Huang Yixian.

"Stinky boy, do you think this Taoist temple has something to do with treasures?" Huang Yixian said in a low voice.

"Uncle Shi, do you think so too?"

Huang Yixian turned his head to look at Bai Sanyuan, who was chatting with the fat man, put his index finger in front of his mouth, "shhh Let's go in and have a look. ”

The two of us raised our legs and crossed the half-foot-high threshold and walked into Qiyunguan.

As far as the eye could see, the interior was in shambles, with half of the roof collapsed, broken tiles and broken wood everywhere, and even weeds on the floor.

I glanced inside, and suddenly, a statue thrown in the corner caught my eye.

Out of curiosity, I stepped forward and picked up the statue, which was a black clay statue, but strictly speaking, it was not a statue, because only a head and half of the upper body remained, which must have been smashed during the Cultural Revolution.

The statue looks quite special, it is actually a fierce and evil appearance, not like the statue of the Sanqing Patriarch that is common in ordinary Taoist temples, I wiped off a thick layer of dust on the statue, and took a closer look at it in my hand, feeling as if I had seen it somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a while.

Huang Yixian came over, he glanced at the statue in my hand, and wondered, "How can there be such an ugly statue!" It's not like the Tao, it's like a demon. ”

Hearing Huang Yixian say this, my brain suddenly jumped, and I thought of where I had seen a similar statue before, that is, in the old house in Matou Town! At that time, after subduing the camel guarding the old house, we walked into the hall and saw such a fierce god and demon statue enshrined on the shrine in front of the hall. Thinking that Li Zicheng may also believe in the Black Demon Sect, this confirms that there is indeed some kind of connection between Qiyunguan and Dashun Treasure.

Thinking of this, my heart was excited, and without saying a word, I immediately put it in my satchel.

Huang Yixian was puzzled and asked, "Stinky boy, why are you putting such a broken statue in your bag?" Do you think it's an antique? ”

I told Huang Yixian what I had discovered, and after he heard it, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

The two of us searched inside the temple again, but found nothing else, when Bai Sanyuan shouted outside: "Zodiac chief! Shi Yu! Have you finished reading it? I hurriedly replied, "I've read it!" Let's come out! ”