The conversation went back in circles. Fuying was about to retreat, and Wuyuan said: "Go and ask the old man to come and drink with the three of you." ”

"He said he had something important to do, and he had been out for a long time. ”

Wuyuan said: "What is more important than today's events? I haven't done this for decades, and there are no rules at all." "It turned out that Guo Genfeng felt shameless to see the three Wu clans again, and used the excuse to slip away.

When Madame Wu heard the word "hook", she was shocked in her heart, she didn't know what kind of procedure this criminal law was, looking at it like this, it was wine, fruit, and singing and dancing, I don't know what else was below, the more abnormal it was, the more chilling it was, and it was better to kill with a knife.

Wuyuan said to Wu Zhen: "The three of you are from Chu, and Wuzi has read books, so I will listen to these songs."

"These pieces of music are composed by the musician brought by the lady of Hu'an Palace when she entered the grassland, and she only performed it once in Hu'an Palace, and when Mrs. saw that except for herself, no one else liked it, so she said: It was still taken from the bamboo branch tune, and the musician made some changes, so it was not pleased, and he followed the customs of the locals, and he would not perform it again in the future.

"It just so happened that I went to Hu'an Palace on business at the time, and I was also there to watch, and Yi Jun said: It happened that the musician in the Tiankeng prison camp died not long ago, and this musician went with the master of Guozhai. Soon after he came to me, before he could get enough practice, the musician went crazy and didn't know where to go, so he hadn't performed for a long time.

"A few months ago, I suddenly remembered that the musician had left a few pieces, so I asked to start practicing again. The witch is well-informed, and he laughs and laughs. ”

When the three sinners listen to this song, they seem to understand it or not. Wu Zhen looked at the bamboo slip on the coffee table, and thought: "Qu'er doesn't understand it, why don't you read some book", and said, "Can you read this book." ”

"Why not!" Guo Wuyuan picked up the bamboo slip and handed it to Wu Zhen, Wu Zhen opened it and looked at it, he didn't know anything, looked at it for a while, and chuckled.

Wuyuan said: "Wu Zi knows these words?"

"I don't know, but I can guess what it might be. ”

Wuyuan exclaimed, "What kind of book is it?"

"I guess it's the Book of Mountains. Wuyuan was startled and waved his hand to signal the song to pause.

Wuyuan got up and said: "Lin Yunguan Du Fuzi only understood after watching it for many days, you can know at a glance that it is the "Book of Mountains", and it is really a god. It's a pity that Du Fuzi couldn't come to see him. ”

Wu Zhen also got up and said, "It's too famous." I don't know the characters in this book, but I once saw a copy of the Book of Mountains, and when I saw the number of words, the arrangement, and the reuse of words in the book, I made a spindle, but I don't know what kind of text it is. It's just a coincidence. Let's listen to the music. ”

The music is up again. Wu Zhen said: "Where is the musician, listening to this song, it seems to be in harmony with Chu music." ”

Wuyuan said: "I don't know how to be happy, but I heard that in the past, Ba and Chu were good and intermarried, and the king of Chu also had a favorite concubine who was a woman from Ba Ji."

"The grandmother of the lady of Hu'an Palace was a noble woman of the Chu State, and the ancestors of the musicians came to the capital with marriage. Later, the musician married Mrs. Hu'an Palace to the Hu'an Mountain Grassland. ”

Hearing this, Wu Zhen nodded secretly, thinking that there was something he said about the marriage of Bachu, but he didn't have much interest in it, and said, "You might as well sing the local tune." ”

Wuyuan said to the singer: "You just sing your own side." Then the daughter spoke, and the musician echoed, and only listened to the singing:

Spring water in front of the door (bamboo branches) white grass flower (daughter),

There is no one on the shore (bamboo branches) and the boat is oblique (daughter).

The merchant girl passed by (bamboo branches) Jiang Yudui (daughter),

Scattering the remnants (bamboo branches) to feed the crow (daughter......

This song, called Zhuzhi tune, is a popular song of the Ba people, a folk song, which is exactly what Song Yu called "thousands of people who belong to the country and make peace" The "Xia Riba people" like to sing, accompanied by flutes and drums, dancing at the same time, the tone is like a rotating person.

Later, when Liu Yuxi, a famous poet and writer in the Tang Dynasty, served as the assassin of Kuizhou, he also liked it very much, and filled in the words according to the tune, one of which was "Yangliu Qingqing Qingjiang level, Wen Langjiang stepping on the singing, sunrise in the east and rain in the west, the road is sunny and sunny", it is known to everyone, and it has been passed down for thousands of years.

There are also people who have verified that the folk song "Badong Three Gorges Wuxia Chief, Ape Singing Three Tears Stained Clothes" contained in the "Yuefu Poetry Collection" compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty is a bamboo branch lyrics, and the lyrics are added when singing, which is actually "Badong Three Gorges (Bamboo Branches) Wuxia Chang (Bamboo Branches), Ape Singing Three Sounds (Bamboo Branches), Tears (Bamboo Branches)." ”

After listening to this song and taking a sip of tea, Wu Zhen said to Wuyuan: "I still have something unclear and want to ask for advice." ”

"Please. ”

"I see that under the plaque here, there are two lines of small letters, and most of them are five words, which is rare. ”

Guo Wuyuan said: "There were originally seven words." There used to be a few words, because the locals didn't love this, and they were lost during the repair. ”

Wu Zhen said: "Seven-word songs, there are singing among the people of the Yue country, when Wu Zixu was touched, the Yue national musician Hu once composed a seven-word song, which was widely spread. ”

Wuyuan said: "The names of the flat foreheads everywhere in the sinkhole, and the songs on them, are all written by the drunken son, and my ancestors ordered them to be engraved. Yuzi is the Yue Guoren clan. ”

Wu Zhen exclaimed: "Which Tangzi, could it be that Lao Tzu's disciple Tangzi has been here?"

"Exactly. Not only has he been here, but he has also gone down to the sinkhole. ”

Wu Zhen was even more shocked and said: "I heard Confucius say: If you hear the Tao, you can die at night." Taste the immortal wine, taste the tea, smell the truth, and go with the sages, what a pity!"

Wu Zhen heard a somewhat special tune, and became very sad, and said to Wuyuan: "I am deeply grateful, the person who is going to go, everything has turned to dust, but there is still a big concern. What is it for sinners to ask for something, and they don't know whether it's convenient or not?"

"Please speak, but if you can do it, the old man must be thoughtful. ”

Wu Zhen said: "My husband and wife, and a daughter, were detained on the grassland, life and death are unpredictable, and I am really sad, it is better to go down to the sinkhole together, and I have to have a family reunion." When they parted, they didn't even say a word. I just heard that the items should be returned to us before going down the pit, so I would like to ask the owner of the village to send an ancestral thing to the little girl. ”

"It's not difficult. ”

"Borrow a cup of tea and thank the owner of the village for his great kindness. Wu Zhen took the lead in getting up, the husband and wife raised the lamp together, Wu Cheng reluctantly raised it, and Wuyuan even said "how dare you".

Wuyuan asked the three of them to send their bags, and Wucheng couldn't wait to find something.

Wuyuan smiled: "I know you're looking for a sword, and the sword has been put down in the sinkhole and headed for the road." There are only a few baggage you can take with you. ”

Wu Cheng sneered: "Who said that I was looking for a sword! There are thousands of ways to kill people!"

Wu Zhen took out the tiger talisman from her bag and handed it to Wuyuan. Wu Zhen said: "I still have to leave a letter to my family." After speaking, he tore off a piece of cloth on his underwear, bit his index finger, repaired the letter, handed it to Wuyuan, and said his daughter's name and other important matters.

Wu Zhen said: "Although this thing is small, including family letters, I dare not fall into the hands of others. ”

Wuyuan said: "Wuzi don't worry, I will go to the grassland in person and hand it over to Ling Ai." ”

"This thing is not an extraordinary thing, but an important object of the late lord Yong's monarch's room. My Wu clan has sworn blood for generations to return things to their original owners, and if I take them into the sinkhole, I will never see the light of day again, and I will be ashamed of my ancestors and ancestors. When I went to the underworld, I didn't have the face to see my ancestors, not to mention that according to the owner of the village, I went down to the sinkhole, I didn't know where the soul went, and I had no chance to ask for sin. This thing, left to the little girl, is really helpless. ”

Wuyuan said: "The old man understands, you just have to rest assured, except for me and Guo Huang, no one else will know about this matter." ”

"The time has come, please enter the pit!" A samurai ran up and shouted, thunderous.

The three sinners drank half of the wine and woke up again, and Wuyuan sent his bags. Under the escort of several hazy-faced warriors, the sin passed through a zigzag corridor, with the words "Tongyun Corridor" written on the plaque, and a small text underneath: "The winding path can reach the Jiaolong Pond, and the straight road is difficult to reach the blue clouds."

Wu Zhen didn't have time to take a closer look, and arrived in front of an irregular circular building made of large stones, with the name on it: "Go to the cave to return to Xi", and there are two lines of small characters below: "Go to the pit with broken liver, and the dragon dance will come in shock."

Wu Zhen thought to herself, could it be that Yuzi has lived here for many days, and there are his words in a few places. Wu Zhen didn't know that Yuzi was the owner of the village at that time, and he was also the guest of Guofeng, the director of the Tiankeng prison camp, and before going down to the pit, Guofeng invited him and Zheng Bai to enjoy almost all the delicious food they could get, and then let the two go down the Tiankeng.

Before going down the pit, Guo Feng said that he asked him to write some words as a commemoration, and then people carved them out.

Inside, there are big stones around and on the top, the stone barrel is several zhang high, there are two small windows on the side, which can accommodate more than ten people, there is a hole in the center of the bottom, and the light below shines into the building. At the entrance of the cave there was a winch made of large logs, on which a large circle of long rope was attached. It turned out that the building was built between a narrow and bottomless road, with a sinkhole below.

At this time, two hazy Hercules came in, full of flesh and strength, one with a red cloth and a black cloth with a hazy face, showing only the eyes, nostrils, and mouth, they could not let the dying people see their faces clearly, for fear of being cursed, and the hoods they wore were cast by the sorcerers, and they thought that they had the function of warding off evil spirits.

The metal sound of the bronze door closing in the cave was like a death knell for the three of them. It was a little dim, but light came in through a few holes.

Guo Wuyuan didn't want to see the miserable scene, so he returned to his room after sending out of the garden, and sat silent. After a long time, two wrestlers came to report that the three sinners had been beaten into the sinkhole, and Guo Wuyuan asked Guo Huang to prepare some necessary items, and when it was dark, he went to light a lamp and offer some water and wine on the Huangquan Road for the three Chu ghosts.

Guo Huang remained silent again, and did as instructed.

On the fourth watch of the next day, a group of husbands started the fire to cook as usual, and only then did they step into the room, and saw three people falling to the ground, not knowing life and death, they were shocked, and they were anxious to report the results. Wuyuan didn't dare to slack off, and when he came to see in a hurry, the two wrestlers who beat people down the sinkhole, as well as the gangster golden-headed leprosy, the three of them were already so cold that they were erected, and they checked their whole bodies, and saw that there were gold, jade and other things, and said to the guy: "Don't shout, go and call Genfeng quickly." ”

Gogunfeng came in a panic. Previously, he felt that he had no face to see the three of Wu Zhen, so he took refuge in Dongting Village not far away, and his henchmen reported that the three had gone down to the sinkhole, and they came back listlessly last night.

Guo Wuyuan said: "I guess the three of them partnered to take the Wu family's property, and the dirt was unevenly divided, and the killer was killed. ”

Guo Genfeng said: "The kid who went down to the sinkhole, his martial arts are extremely high, Xiang Yin still died in his claws, although the brute strength of the three golden-headed lepers is not small, but the martial arts are not his opponents at all, and it is impossible to take the property easily." Could it be that the three of them collaborated to release the Wu clan privately?"

Guo Wuyuan was shocked: "I sent out the homesick garden, and I didn't want to see the miserable scene, so I left, and the two of them came to report that they had gone down to the pit, and they didn't check it." What a dog-biting careless person!"

The man said: "The golden-headed leper has often gone to gamble six times recently, and his luck is very poor, and he is speechless when he loses, just to get money, and it is possible." ”

Guo Genfeng said: "The Tiankeng camp is heavily guarded, and there may be other accomplices. ”

Guo Wuyuan was shocked into a cold sweat, and said, "Or, but don't make a noise, check it slowly." I can't imagine that my Guo clan has such a big scandal. If it leaks out, I don't know how many people in the sinkhole prison will lose their brains. Listen to the two of you: drag the three of them out into the mountains and bury them deeply, don't let the wild dogs drag them out and show their elephants, and don't mention it to anyone again!

"When someone asked, they said that the three of them went out, and after a long time, they said that they were missing, and they hid it. "Gogong wind, the man answered.

Wuyuan left the room first, and asked Gen Feng to go out outside to have something to say, Gen Feng came out, and Wu Yuan said: "Take an inventory of your belongings, except for the best-looking jade necklace, give him all the rest, and block his mouth." ”

Gen Feng said: "I understand, he doesn't dare to talk nonsense!"