Mrs. Ba Yongqiu had studied the early version of "Shennong's Materia Medica", and had directly or indirectly known the patterns of many plants, although she could not recognize these songs, she still looked at them one by one, the purpose was to remember what flowers there were, count the past, a total of sixteen kinds, and firmly remember the names of the flowers she saw.

After seeing the flowers, Yongqiu was about to go out of the gate and return the same way, but he couldn't find the door, turned around, and the temple in the middle of the garden was gone, he was very anxious, and said, "Where is this gate?"

I felt that someone pushed me, and I heard someone ask: "What door?" Mrs. Yu woke up, only to understand that it was Nan Ke's dream, it turned out that it was the little maid Licorice who saw Fan Zhen's eldest lady coming and woke her up.

Mrs. Yu said, "I just had a dream." ”

Mrs. Fan smiled and said, "Don't you sleep well on the collapse, you will fall asleep on her, and you are not afraid of the cold?" I came to call you, I went to eat some morning food first, and then went to find someone." ”

"I'm not hungry, I've had a snack. ”

Mrs. Fan smiled: "Eat it in your dreams." ”

Mrs. Yu got up and walked out of the room, and when she saw the sky, she felt a little at ease.

The smile of the lady in the dream returned to her eyes from time to time, feeling that something was going to happen, and secretly prayed that the fairy lady in the dream would bless the five children; and remembered that the lady said to see Chang'e, if she was not a fairy, how could she go to Chang'e's osmanthus feast?

and he spread his net to find it.

Several ladies shouted all the way in the woods, the maids opened the way, the Brazilian Concubine An was in front, the two ladies Zheng and E were in the middle, the two ladies of Fan and Fan followed side by side, and the little lady Fan Zhen was dying behind, and there were several maids behind.

Mrs. Fan said, "Sister, is there a mage on the mountain?" Mrs. Fan Zhen said: "The mage does not know where the child has gone." And there is no one on the mountain. ”

"I had a dream this morning, I don't know if it's good or bad?"

"Don't think about it. ”

"It's not that I'm thinking too much, it's that things in my dreams don't fit with common sense. ”

Mrs. Fan smiled: "Things in dreams are often reversed. ”

"Why do more than 10 kinds of flowers bloom at the same time in different seasons?"

"Tell me about it. "Mrs. Yu talked about it, and I can't remember most of the things.

After taking a few steps, Mrs. Fan said: "Legend has it that there is a place for the cultivation of the Nine Heavens Xuannu here, and the lady that my sister saw may be the Nine Heavens Niangniang." Since it is a fairy guidance, I think it is a good omen. This sentence is exactly what Ba Yongchun wants.

"Do you remember all the methods you said about making incense powder?"

Only this one barely remembers, those songs in the tune of bamboo branches, I don't know what they mean. ”

Mrs. Fan said: "If you don't know, don't guess." If you have time to try to make the four or four spices you said, if it is really fragrant, don't forget to send some to the old sister. My sister is right, since the gods have the guidance, I asked people to go to the capital to invite a mage to come, I am afraid that I will be able to find the children. ”

As he was talking, the leader of the Hongdu Mountain guards ran over with sweat on his face and said, "I have found it!"

Mrs. Fan said happily: "I just said to invite the mage, and it will work." Or my sister dreams are doing well. ”

The group hurried back to the summer palace.

When the missing person returned, she couldn't be happy, and Mrs. Yu asked angrily: "Where did you run away?

Menglong said: "We went to the back mountain, there is a large bamboo forest, after the bamboo forest, there is a slope of stone ladder, when stepping on the stone ladder, there is a sound of 'hole hole' below, it sounds like music.

"Another journey, there is a cliff, there is a lone road on the edge of the cliff, and there is a gold (bronze) gate at the junction. And the lock of the door was broken, so we went up and took the lock, and we went in, and closed it again. After walking for some distance, there was a cave called Changchun Cave, and there was a flat land nearby, with a grass house on it, and fruit trees were planted. ”

Dream said: "There are also chicken babies running." ”

Mrs. Yu shouted, "You Hugh interjected!"

Menglong said again: "On that flat land, we practiced martial arts. Just then, a white-haired old woman came out of the house, beckoned us into the house, and brought us some fruit to eat. Before I could think of it, it started to rain.

"The mother-in-law said, "It's raining, and the road on the edge of the cliff is very slippery, and if you fall down, you will feed the fish." The two younger sisters were scared, so we had to hide from her in the rain. ”

Osmanthus said: "We are not afraid, they want to avoid trouble." ”

Mrs. E shouted, "Shut up!" Fan Yuntong glanced at Osmanthus with a gloating expression.

Menglong continued: "That's it, I had to stay for one night. We didn't come out until today when the rain stopped. ”

Mrs. E first exclaimed: "I grew up in the capital when I was a child, and I have been to the mountain many times, but I have never heard of outsiders living on the top of the mountain. Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Fan also said the same.

Concubine An said: "Naturally, you don't know, this is the secret of the Ba Gong Office. I guess they saw the old concubine.

"Many years ago, the old concubine was the favorite of the first monarch, but she angered the first monarch and was sent to the cold palace. The concubine is a native of the capital, so she asks to return to the mountain. Xianjun remembered his affection, so he was gracious and placed under house arrest on this mountain. Unexpectedly, after so many years, her old man was still alive in the world, and she thought she was dead, but she was alone in the mountains to cultivate land, raise chickens and fruits, and live a pure and pure fairy life.

"Only a few people in the Ba Gong Office know a little about this matter, and even fewer people know about it for a long time. I think that when the seeker saw the golden gate, he thought it was closed, and he didn't go in to find anyone. I didn't think for a moment that Ba Chong might have heard about it. ”

Ba Chong and Fan Yuntong were chirping while listening, and then said: "Yuntong said that he was going to a secret place, and I remembered that once I went up the mountain, I heard my mother say that there is a place to go after the bamboo forest. ”

Mrs. Yu sighed: "Life is really impermanent!"

"Okay, the children have found it, it's better than anything." ”

The five children returned to their mother, and the steward arranged for someone to clean up, and then returned to the capital together.

Several ladies gathered in the tea garden again, while waiting for departure, while resting for a while, enjoying the dried fruits, Mrs. Fan said to Yun Tong, "Why are you fighting again?" Yun Tong lowered his head and chose the fruit.

E Guihua said the reason, Mrs. Fan said: "Even so, you shouldn't move your hands and feet, if you don't enter the oil and salt, you will not be allowed to practice martial arts again, and then read that book!" Fan Yuntong was in and out of his ears on one side, and when he heard the word "reading", he suddenly wanted his life, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense, and concentrated.

Mengyu said: "They scolded Brother Yuntong for being a wild seed!" As soon as these words came out, several ladies were surprised in their hearts and stopped asking.

It turned out that Fan Yuntong was not Mrs. Fan's biological son, and Concubine An of Brazil knew the most details, although the other ladies did not know the children very well, they had also heard some rumors. Again, we have to start from the beginning.

The Wujiang River basin is rich in mercury ore and is one of the three major mercury mining areas in China. In ancient times, the area of Pengshui and Qianjiang River was not only famous for salt, but also famous for dansha. Dansha here, seen in the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, "Zhou Yishu" contains "the meeting of the Zhou...... The people of Bu are Dansha. It means that at that time, the Bu (Pu) people of Fuling had already paid tribute to the king of Zhou.

The Book of Pictures also clearly says: "Dansha comes from the valley of Fuling", Fuling, that is, Fuling. And "Fuling" used to refer to Pengshui in the Wujiang River basin (Shu Han placed Fuling County, the county was in the territory of present-day Pengshui), not the current location of Fuling District of Chongqing, although today's Fuling also produced dansha.

Dansha is mercury sulfide, which was mainly used in medicine and construction in ancient times. In terms of medicinal use, it has the effects of calming the heart and nourishing the mind, invigorating qi and brightening the eyes, stopping irritability, and removing evil and so on.

In the eyes of the Ba people, far more than this, Dansha is considered to be a kind of sacred object, it is the same color as blood, the Ba people, and not only the Ba people believe that it can resurrect the dead in another world, and it also has the effect of warding off evil spirits, called "the medicine of immortality", and many important rituals cannot be separated from it.

Therefore, dansha, like salt, is also a great source of wealth.

Yuhou's salt and dansha, Shennong's tea and Gong's peach are called the "Four Treasures of Danfushui", while the Baxiang sake in the belly of the fish, the willow leaf sword in the mouth of the chicken, the beauty of the Danfushui and the winged bird of the country are called the "Four Uniques of the country".

Later, after Qin destroyed Ba, in order to facilitate the rule, the Ba people adopted a policy of restraint (similar to the implementation of autonomy) against the martial Ba people, and the Ba nobles still had a lot of power and financial resources.

To Qin Shi Huang to dominate the country, the Ba clan leader had a widow named Qing (it is rumored that her ancestral home is now Chongqing Changshou), after the death of her husband, she transferred her desire to the career, painstakingly ran the mining industry, accumulated countless assets, became the richest man, thousands of servants (there is a team of mining dansha and escort the dansha private arm), spent a huge amount of money to build the Great Wall, and provided a large amount of mercury for the tomb of Qin Shi Huang as an antiseptic for the corpse, so Qin Shi Huang built "Huaiqing Tai" for her, and was named "Zhennu".

The main source of mercury is the product of dansha after heating.

In the territory of Pengshui County today, there is a rock mouth less than 30 kilometers away from Yushan Wharf, named "Babatai", and the local legend says that "Babatai" is actually "Ba Widow Tai", which is suspected to be the former site of Huaiqingtai.

During the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Danxing County was placed in today's Qianjiang District, which was also related to the production of dansha. It can be seen that at that time, the fame of Dansha in Pakistan was the same as that of salt, and the trumpet was blown in the window eye, and the name (chirping) was outside, not in vain. It is precisely because the lower reaches of the Wujiang River are the transportation route of Badansha, so it is also called "Danfu Shui" (sometimes referring to its tributary Yushui, etc.).

Straight to the point. Not far from Yushan, there is a large Dansha mine (about today's Cinnabar Village), which naturally will not fall into the mouth of others, and is firmly in the hands of the Ba clan, which is still under the jurisdiction of Yushui Yuhou.

In a deep mountain not far from the Dansha mine, there is an indigenous tribe, called Qiaoshi, also said to be the Qiaoshi, also known as the Qiaoshi, famous for the production of high-grade charcoal, is to smelt bronze, heating, is also suspected to be the top grade of warming Dansha.

About in the early days of Hu'anshan, there was a charcoal burning young man in the Qian clan, with dark skin, and perennial charcoal ash on the face, so everyone called him "Black Brother", homophonic "Black Pot", loyal and honest, tall and tall, its strong as a cow, but the strength is great, but the martial arts are not proficient, so it is not a big tool, usually, often carry charcoal to the Dansha mine.

Coincidentally, on the Dan sand mine, there is a mining foreman, known as "sand nose head", he has a daughter, born in March, just when the azalea is blooming, named Yinghong, industrious and simple, the most filial piety, gentle temperament, not good at words, honest duty a woman, tall and healthy, this looks like a sign, just because there is a red birthmark on the forehead, known as "Sister Hong", also known as "Dansha Shih", some people say that it is a great noble, and some people say that it is a big bad omen, so ordinary people dare not marry her, unconsciously has been twenty-five years old.

Seeing that Hei Ge'er was loyal and kind, and had brute strength, and his daughter had become a leftover girl, the master of Dan Mine went to ask Ba Tao, who was in charge of Dan Mine, to agree to allow this woman to Hei Ge'er. Ba Tao listened to it and laughed loudly: "One black and one red, it is a natural pair, which can be called black and red." ”

This black brother was originally charcoal-burning, there are such pies falling from the sky, naturally happy, tie the knot, a pair of men and women who have been empty for more than 20 years, without much effort, gave birth to a son, the face is like a heavy jujube, so the nickname "Hong'er", also means "the son of red", the husband and wife beware of the liver-like love.

This son is very naughty, and he is not very active. His parents had to work hard, there was no one to take care of him, and before he was three years old, his shadow was everywhere in the mountains around the village, and his mother felt that his feet had never fallen seriously to the ground.

In the spring of this year, Yinghong took her son back to Dankuang to visit his parents, and his cousin had been good with her since childhood, and came to see her mother and son.

Yinghong said with a smile: "Citrus is a big crossing, very lively, I want to go in my dreams, where don't I want to? It's just that there is a little dog by your side, how can you be at ease." Still not going. You can help me bring something good back. ”

Yinghong has an easy-going temperament, and she can't stand her cousin's soft grinding and hard bubbles, so she agrees to go with her, and according to her mother's proposal, she will take Hong'er to see the world in the orange capital.

Yinghong's uncle, who was a boat boss who specially transported various materials for Dan Mine, took the two sisters the next day, and arrived in the capital in a few days, and settled in the reverse brigade, that is, the hotel, and went to get busy with business.

This day is the third day of the first month of March, a small sun day, the two sisters have nothing to do, so they took their children to roam on the streets of Tongdu, plus today is an important festival for the locals, a number of activities are going on, more lively than usual, the flow of people is like a tide, bustling, endless prosperity, endless shops.

When they arrived at a shop that made clothes, they saw silk materials from Shu, and the two sisters suddenly became excited, and they didn't care if there were enough hard goods on their bodies, so they looked up.

The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man, who looked like a blessed man, dressed in Shu satin, and when he saw that business was coming, he hurried to the door to greet him warmly. The two sisters had only been to Yucheng a few times, and they had never seen such a polite rich man, as if he was in debt, and they were flattered.

Stepping in, Hong'er saw a wooden carving at a glance, jumped and ran over, felt that the wooden boat was really good, and wanted to touch a claw when she stepped forward, but Yinghong hurriedly stopped. This sculpture is called Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li boating, and next to it is a silkworm cong clan raising silkworms.

As the saying goes, Ba is a general, Shu is a minister, and Shu businessmen seem to have better taste than Pakistani businessmen.

Yinghong saw that her son was staring at Tao Zhugong Fan Li's Zhou'er in a daze, and gently pulled him, but he was reluctant to leave and shook off his mother's hand.

At this time, the store was deserted, there were only two middle-aged female customers, and there was no accident in Yinghong, so she said to her son: "If you want to see it, you can't touch it, you can't get rid of it, stand here and don't move." We'll be fine for a while, and then we'll buy you something delicious. ”

Hong'er nodded.

Wang Po sells melons, sells herself and boasts, the shopkeeper is like a river, and the two sisters are confused and dazzled when they hear it, and they can't wait to wear it all on their bodies.

After a long time, only to hear the shouting and shouting outside, the two sisters remembered that they were not the ones who wore such high-end clothes, thank you goodbye to the shopkeeper, go out to see what is going on, but see everyone avoids both sides, I don't know what's going on, I want to see a lively.

Suddenly, Yinghong shouted: "Where's Hong'er?"

The two sisters looked back at the same time, except for Tao Zhugong and Silkworm Congren, who were motionless, empty, and shocked.

I asked the shopkeeper and the two women who were continuing to bargain, and they both said that they didn't pay attention to him and should have gone out of the door.

The sisters went out again in a hurry, but there was still no Hong'er, so they cried out in fright, looking for people left and right. Outside, everyone was crowding around to watch the excitement, no one paid attention, and the two sisters screamed and searched in the crowd.

At this moment, a team of flags and samurai passed by, followed by several luxurious cars, and then behind a team of samurai, which turned out to be the second son, Pasir An.

As soon as the group passed, the pedestrians dispersed, and there was a great confusion and crowding. When the sisters met, they asked, "Where is there any trace when they find it dark?" and they wept and returned to their lodgings.

When Yinghong's uncle learned of the bad news, he took people around that street to look for him all night.

Until the fifth day, there was still no shadow, and it was concluded that he had been abducted.

The sisters had to return to their hometowns and threw their hearts in the capital, and the tragedy was indescribable.