And said that Bantu was discussing the search for treasures in Chongqing Mansion the next day, and the housekeeper of Pan Mansion found Pan Yue from Huichun Hall, saying that Jinghe, the cliff woman who was searched by the Short-Clothes Gang yesterday, had been found, was seriously injured, and could not speak, and was being treated and recuperated in the Rejuvenation Hall.

As soon as the steward had retired, an errand had come to report that the Governor's Yamen Exploration Bureau had arrived and asked to see Lord Bantu, who got up and said, "Hurry up and please go to the inner hall to speak." ”

Bantu and Pan Yue got up and welcomed four people, the four of them greeted Bantu and Pan Yue, sat down in batches, the maids in the house sent tea, Bantu introduced Pan Yue one by one, and saluted each other.

The leader is the good and good of the Tuguan of Dajinchuan in this province, full of wind and frost, wearing a wide linen Tibetan robe, with a white Hada tied around his neck, a string of nine-eyed dzi beads around his neck, a gold belt inlaid with agate and red sapphires on his waist, and a short knife with a gold handle hanging on his belt.

Liangernuo is proficient in the geography of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet and Qinghai, and the five southwestern provinces are all connected to mountains, rivers, roads and products, which can be said to be the living map of the four provinces.

The second is named Zhang Xunshui, wearing a flat crown and a brown Taoist dress painted with gossip diagrams, with a thin face, slender eyes, sharp eyes, and a fairy wind and bones. It is said that he is from Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi, and is especially good at the feng shui of the yin house, such as looking at the feng shui of the yin house, looking for the feng shui hole, looking for the direction of the yin house of the emperor and the nobles, and is a master of the Xuanmen.

The third named Chen Shuiya, with slightly yellow eyes, a thin body, a blue complexion, slender fingers, and long nails, is rumored to be the most famous water master in Jiangnan, that is, an underwater tomb robber. He once held his breath underwater for twelve hours, stole and excavated the tomb of King Chu of the Warring States Period, and took out countless treasures, and the people in the rivers and lakes called Chen Shui Duck.

The fourth was a foreign priest in a robe and a cross, named Makchi, with blue eyes, flashing with cunning brilliance, speaking Chinese in a strange tone, he was proficient in mountain and river hydraulics, astronomical calendars, physics, mining, gunpowder, and Western cannons.

"I am ordered by the imperial court to find the whereabouts of the treasure of the Great Tibet, and you have worked hard for many years, has been in vain, the day before yesterday accidentally found the clues of the treasure of the Great West at the mouth of the Jialing River, I hereby let you take the trouble to come from Chengdu, specially discuss the case of the treasure hunt in the river, please see the case records and physical evidence on the case, I will report to the imperial court, I don't know what you suggest?" Bantu pointed to the Qinggang stick wood chips and the five gold ingots and the case record on the case.

After a pause, the great Jinchuan local official said well: "Is it true that Zheng Yi, the giant of the Mo family, said that he found a hidden treasure in order to find someone?" Need to verify? ”

"The woman who fell off the cliff has been rescued by the local fisherman, seriously injured, in the local medical hall Huichun Hall treatment, it is not difficult to verify, you can send someone to verify the details, the woman's injuries can be treated by Imperial Doctor Huang, the section of the Hidden Treasure River has been blocked by the soldiers and officers of the green battalion, let's go to the scene to investigate!" Bantu said.

Bantu and his entourage took a fast horse to the mouth of the Jialing River, only to see that the distant mountains are like green daisy, the clear water is like jade, the green mountains and cliffs on both sides of the river are facing each other, the torrents are surging and turbulent, the mountains and rivers are picturesque, and the beautiful scenery is fascinating, just as the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem:

What does the Jialing River look like? Shi Dai jasper depends on each other.

The sun is breaking through the waves, and the spring is returning from the sand.

Ba Tong rowed the oars sideways, and the water pheasant fish flew back and forth.

Langzhong wins things can be broken, and the south of Langzhou is rare!

That Zhang Xunshui is worthy of being a feng shui master, observed it and said: "The general trend of mountains and rivers here, high in the west and low in the east, the green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the feng shui of the three rivers converge into a treasure of feng shui, but it is a dangerous place for soldiers to be in the soldiers' homes, so it is also a place where financial resources gather, but wealth enters the flowing water, enters the feng shui throat here, and the financial situation gathers here, and the financial resources flow from here, and then flow eastward." Since then, the gold and silver of the soldiers have passed here, and they have become rich in water here, and there is feng shui here to gather treasures, no wonder the Daxi army's salary and baggage are all filled here, "Everyone feels reasonable when they hear it."

"Although the feng shui here gathers wealth, but it is also a dangerous place of feng shui, the mountains in the east and west, the north and south surround the river, the mountain belongs to the soil, the river is water, surrounded on all sides, the four sides become the trend of the green dragon and the tiger, the water is bound to be big, it must be dangerous, it must be deep, this place can pass through the giant ship and big ship, although there are many treasures, it is not easy to take it!" That Zhang Xunshui explained again.

"In the area of the estuary, the water potential is low-lying, the ice and snow in the surrounding mountains have not melted, in the early spring, there is no mountain torrent, only the dripping spring rain, it is the season with the smallest water potential in the year, but the heart of the river is also fifteen zhang deep, to the flood season is coming, the water depth is thirty zhang deep, the water potential is greater, and now is the best search season. However, the river is too wide, the river section is too long, and we have no Yangtze River sailors, so we can only recruit civilian boatmen to first pull up a large net in sections and a long net to feel and drain, and then depending on the situation. "That good promise is worthy of being a capable person in geography, and what he says is the way.

"After the fixed point, you still have to send people down the river, the spring river is cold, the river is too deep, the water is too fast, and there are many whirlpools.

"Then, Lord Pan, please issue a reward notice, first from the green camp and the official mansion to hire a lot of money to hire good men in the water to go down to the river to touch the platoon, the treatment is good, if there is a harvest, there will be a heavy reward, tomorrow I will ask the Mo family giant Zheng Yi to arrange a boat and a good hand to participate in the search, we will send people on board to assist in the salvage, no loss!" Bantu said confidently.

"Master Pan, Imperial Physician Huang, let's go to the Rejuvenation Hall to visit the Gongzi and the woman who fell off the cliff and was rescued, who fell from a cliff of dozens of feet, and was able to survive, it is really a great fate!" Bantu said jokingly.

The three of them took ten green camp horsemen all the way, and when they arrived at the Rejuvenation Hall, they first went to see Pan Baobao, and saw that he and Pan Xiaodonkey were still groggy and asleep, and they could only be rescued by waiting for the antidote to be ready, but there was no sign of a seizure; When I arrived at the quiet ward, I saw that Mr. Zheng and Dr. Liu were taking a few mothers-in-law to deal with their injuries, and they were changing their bloody clothes and taking them out.

Imperial Physician Huang went in after a while, and saw that the girl's face was as white as paper, her lips were blue, her breath was weak, and her pulsation seemed to be absent.

Bantu saw that the yellow divine doctor came out of the ward, his face was solemn, and he shook his head again and again, understanding that the girl was indeed in danger, and he could only look at her creation. Master Na Juejing walked around the outer room, restless, with sad eyes, folded his hands, and silently recited: "Amitabha, my Buddha is merciful, save the suffering and save the suffering Guanyin Bodhisattva!" ”

When Mr. Zheng came out, Bantu rushed forward and asked, "That girl will not die in a big disaster, she will have a blessing, is the treatment smooth?"

"The injury is too serious, although I have taken the Yin Yang Great Returning Pill and used the Yellow Emperor's Nine Needles Golden Needle to overcome the misfortune, but I still can't wake up, and the girl will not die after experiencing a catastrophe, I think it will be interesting to see if it will come," Mr. Zheng said.

Bantu had already ruled out the previous suspicion of the Mo family's plot to treasure the treasure, and explained the arrangements for the requisition of the Mo family's ships and manpower tomorrow, "Later today, Master Pan will send the notice of the requisition to your gang," Bantu said.

"I'll arrange for thirty boats today, and sixty water experts on standby, all the equipment, but please show me," Zheng Yi solemnly agreed.

On the second day, all the ships and good men of the Mo family arrived at the designated wharf, and dozens of ships requisitioned by the Chongqing government filled the wharf, and after assigning the ships and sailors, they rowed to the designated river surface and began to pull the net.

As a result, the morning passed, nothing was found, although the sailors on the ship had wages, they could not help but be anxious, several diving sailors surfaced, and the people on the same boat hurriedly handed over the soju, dried their bodies, put on their cotton jackets, and were still shivering, "The river is too deep, it can't dive to the end, and it is pitch black under the river, and you can't see anything!" Then he yelled and cursed.

"There's something down there, and the fishing net can't be pulled," suddenly the sailors of a boat shouted together, only to see the boat pulling the net spinning in the middle of the river, and the sailors on the boat did not dare to let go, so they hurriedly tied the fishing net to the cable at the bow of the boat, and almost pulled the two sailors off the boat.

"I've met the dragon in the river," the sailors began to think crankily.

The shouting alarmed Bantu, he hurriedly took Chen Shuiya to row to the vicinity of the rotating boat, only to see that Chen Shuiya was dressed in a black water coat and water armor, looking at the brown clothes as if it was a fish skin, and there was a shining oil, only to see that Chen Shuiya split his hands and jumped into the water, just like a fish turned over a splash, sank into the river, disappeared without a trace, a stick of incense passed, there was no movement, everyone couldn't help but wonder, after so long, is the person still alive?

After another stick of incense, there was a splash on the surface of the water, like a big fish jumping out of the water, and Chen Shuiya, dressed in brown, jumped on the bow of the boat, and whispered a few words close to Bantu.

"Lord Zhang Yong of the Green Battalion, according to today's deployment, block the river, don't be onlookers, and anchor under this ship," Bantu issued a military order, and the Green Battalion General obeyed the order.

"Can you be sure that what is hanging out of the net is the mast of a warship, not a tree trunk or the mast of a civilian ship," Bantu asked in a low voice.

"Lord Hui, the river is sick, the trunk will not remain here, and it will not be so heavy, after I explored carefully, I touched the bow to the stern, the length and height, it is indeed a military ship, but the river below is turbid and dark, I can't see, I can't see clearly, although I can't be sure, it should belong to the sunken battleship of Onishi," Chen Shuiya whispered.

"Today's exploration, four hours have passed, more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians have been mobilized, and this is the only clue to find, the stakes are significant, and it is appropriate to reward and recruit divers on the spot, and then do the platoon, and then make a final conclusion," Bantu said.

So, Bantu gathered five disciples of the Mo family, Li Yu, Chen Shuiya and other diving masters, each of them drank soju, dressed in water clothes, jumped into the water from the bow of the boat, only to see a circle of waves on the river, and the figures of the five people sank into the river and gradually disappeared under the water.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew across the river, setting off a monstrous wave that crashed against the bow of the boat, splashing on Bantu's face, splashing his face, and his heart somehow flooded with uneasiness.