Chapter 315: The Sunset on the Long River
After eating, I went outside. Tuoba was not there, and Satsuki was squatting on the sand alone, not knowing what she was drawing.
"Satsuki, what are you doing?" I approached Satsuki.
Satsuki probably didn't expect me to appear out of nowhere, startling him, and he hurriedly scribbled what he drew with his hands.
I looked at it, and it turned out to be a painting, as if a person was standing under a sun about to set.
Because it's so simple, I'm just guessing a little. And before I could see it clearly, Satsuki had already erased the words.
"Do you have any secrets?" I deliberately teased her.
Xiao Yue's face turned red all of a sudden, and she quickly defended, "Where do I have secrets, don't talk nonsense." ”
Seeing him look like a little daughter, I laughed, "I teased you, by the way, what did your grandfather do?" ”
"Grandpa said to go and explore the terrain." Satsuki said.
As we spoke, Tuoba walked back from a distance with his head bowed. I watched him come over, and instead of catching him up, he squatted on the ground and didn't move.
Tuoba Qian came straight to me and squatted down, he asked Satsuki to play somewhere else, and then said to me, "Little brother, do you know what I just went to do?" ”
Hearing him say this, I immediately understood the point of what was going on, and I didn't speak, just shook my head.
Sure enough, Tuoba bowed and said with a sigh, "I just went to look for the entrance, and I have been looking for this entrance all my life, but I haven't found it." ”
Hearing him say this, I immediately asked rhetorically, "Don't you have a map in your hand?" ”
"That's the location on the map, but you can't find the entrance." Tuoba bowed and took out the map and spread it out in front of me.
His move couldn't help but surprise me a little, before he said that this is a secret in their clan, and it is passed on to men and not women, and now he suddenly let me see that he is trying to win my trust or what does it mean.
"Little brother, we are grasshoppers on a rope now, and I believe that even if you show it, even if we fail this time, you will not reveal it." He spoke in a very sincere tone, and showed great trust in me.
I didn't say anything, if he had said so before, I might have thought that this old man was very sincere, and with the words of the old mouse last night, I would not believe this tuobai at all now.
He's doing this to gain my trust, and he's pretty sure he'll be able to destroy us here. If I die, what will happen if I see it?
This is a very old parchment map, and the place marked on the map is indeed our place, but the map does not indicate the location of the entrances and exits.
In addition to the route, there are two verses on the map, "The desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river." ”
These two poems are poems by the famous dead man Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, describing the scene of seeing in the desert.
Why do these two poems appear here, needless to say, the desert is under our feet, and this long river refers to what kind of river it is, as well as this sunset.
I suddenly remembered the place I saw before the rain yesterday, where the greedy wolf star shone, if there was a dragon vein, could it be that there was a river before, but then for some reason, the river dried up.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Tuoba asked me if I had thought of something, and I didn't hide it from him, but just said what I thought.
Tuoba immediately patted his thigh and said excitedly, "After so many years, why didn't I think of finding a feng shui gentleman." Little brother, you are really the noble person of my life, and this time it is really thanks to you. ”
I grinned a little, and said to myself, "What can we do, we still have to break the net in the end." ”
During the day, everyone slept in the tent to recharge their batteries.
Towards evening, I emerged from my tent, and Tuobaqian was already waiting for me. At this moment, the sun in the sky was already in the west, and he didn't call anyone else, only the two of us headed towards the dry river.
I walked forward for about ten minutes, according to the position I judged yesterday, and a low hill appeared in front of me.
At the back of the hill there is a clear depression, and this is not small.
Getting closer, I saw a small pool.
The waterhole is small, but against the backdrop of the sunset, the pool is still and there are no waves, and I have a little certainty in my heart.
The water in this place should have gathered from the rain last night, and there should not have been so much before.
Because there are some plants like salt wood and cacti in the water. These plants are supposed to grow in a dry riverbed, and it would not have been possible to grow them if there was water here all year round.
I stopped, took a closer look at the feng shui level, and then at the sun that was about to sink in the west.
With the line, it's OK to determine the point. As long as the position of the sun is determined, that place should be the entrance.
Soon, we decided on a direction, and Tuoba took a shovel and dug it up. He digs fast, as if he had been trained in it.
However, because of the special terrain here, if you dig out the sand with a shovel, a lot of quicksand will be left behind, so the progress is very slow.
The two of us dug for more than two hours, and it was dark before we dug more than two meters deep.
However, I don't know if Tuoba believed me very much, or if he knew that this was the entrance early on, and he didn't question my judgment.
Just three hours after we had been digging, a hole was revealed underneath. Then quicksand flowed down the pothole.
I quickly took a few steps back with my shovel, and the hole that had been dug was scattered in all directions, and the hole was getting bigger and bigger.
"That's it!" Tuoba said excitedly.
"Mr. Tuoba, should you call people over, it will definitely not work by relying on the two of us." I said.
Tuoba nodded, and then went to call someone.
After he left, I lit a cigarette and threw it down, and it fell with the spark, and then I couldn't see anything, and I don't know how deep the hole was.
I sat on the top of the hole, wondering if I should go down first, and make a first move, but my thoughts were quickly suppressed. The reason why Tuoba Bowqian dared to leave me here alone was that he went to call people. The reason is because Du San is still in his hands, and for Du San's safety, he is sure that I will not come nonsense.