Turn off the lights and extinguish the wax, and warm the kang like a fire.

Everyone slept soundly all night, and the next morning, the morning chickens crowed, and the red sun had already risen on the branches, and Old Man Tang was standing in the yard, clucking and feeding the chickens with a food bowl.

Yue Guanchao was born in martial arts, and he was more vigilant than anyone else, and he had completely woken up from the kung fu of the rooster's crow, and he looked at the window paper, which was full of hot dew from the kang warm, which was condensed by the cold air in the early morning, turning into ice to seal the window.

At the kang table, Yue Erpao, Tang Dayang, and Xu Xiake were still sleepwalking in Huangliang, since they felt that they were not sleepy at all, they simply wore cotton clothes and cotton clothes and walked out of the house, the old man felt that someone yawned and said with a smile: "Baby, I have already done your things." ”

After speaking, he released all the chickens, ducks, cats and dogs in the family out of the cage, and Yue Guanchao hurriedly stopped him: "Uncle Tang, what are you doing with these things?" What a shame. ”

Old man Tang waved his hand, with a look of Yue Guanchao's incomprehension: "Baby, chickens, ducks and poultry are also the same as cats and dogs, as long as they are old enough, they recognize their own family, I don't know when I will come back when I go out with you, my chickens and ducks will be in trouble if they starve to death, and if they are released, they can also go to the mountains to find food to eat." ”

"Aren't you afraid that these chickens and ducks will be eaten by wild beasts?"

These poultry and livestock can indeed find food in the mountains, but they also face dangerous situations, and once they are targeted by wild beasts, it is difficult for them to fight these ferocious beasts with their size.

"This shouldn't be the old man's care, chickens, ducks, cats and dogs are all living beings, what will happen in the future is their own experience, we living people can't do everything smoothly, what happens to them is the creation of heaven and earth, you might as well hurry up and eat, wait for everyone to wake up, we have to see how to get to the vicinity of the Soul Palace."

After breakfast, Old Man Tang instructed Tang Dayang to carry the stool and grope on the thickest beam of the stove room, and when he got off the stool, there was an extra wooden box wrapped in grease cloth in his hand.

It is estimated that it has not been opened for decades, and it is full of dirt formed by oil and dust, as if it is wrapped in several layers of mud.

Old man Tang was not too dirty, he tore open the oilcloth and opened the wooden box inside, in addition to a few insect repellent sacs, there was also a rolled up cowhide scroll.

"Woman, you have the smartest brain, you help the old man spread it out for everyone to see."

It is true that Old Man Tang is not completely blind, and it is true that there are limited things that can be seen, Song Siyuan knew his difficulties, took the cowhide picture scroll in his hand, and slowly unfolded it on the table, which was a map of Shaanxi Province depicted by the ancients.

Careful observation, this map has been a long time, so long that the surface of the cowhide has been yellowed and oxidized, it should have been rubbed many times, and some places have been pulped and reflected, as if it has been coated with a layer of soy sauce.

The loess tundra in northern Shaanxi is only a sketch map, and the focus is all on the leaf-shaped Guanzhong Plain and the whole vein of the Qinling Mountains.

Yue Guanchao and Song Siyuan unconsciously approached Yutu, their eyes attracted by the Qinling Mountains, which start from Kunlun and are shaped like a curved barrier, covering between Sichuan and Shaanxi, and at the same time using this as a boundary, completely separating the north and south.

On the mountain that stretches for thousands of miles, you can see that there are six cinnabar lines marked the Qinling Ancient Road, and the signs are Chencang Road, Baoxie Road, Luogu Road, Meridian Road, Yugu Road, Wuguan Road, these ancient mountain roads start from Chang'an City in the Guanzhong Plain, and vertically crack the Qinling Mountains.

The most conspicuous location is the Yungu Plank Road between Chencang Road and Bao Chuan Road!

"Speaking of which, this map is preserved in the village for generations, after the people of the whole village moved out, they gave me the map, these decades have passed, the old deaf and blind have no possibility to go, and they have been hanging in the stove room and have not moved much."

Old man Tang stroked this map, and his tone was full of emotion: "This map has been deleted and modified since the completion of the Tang Dynasty, just like the Yungu plank road between Chen Cang Road and Bao Chuan Road, this plank road was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, and the repair was unknown before the Ming Dynasty, and it has been destroyed for many years. ”

"Now in this year, the names of the six customs roads have changed and changed, and it was not completely fixed until the Republic of China came down, and I didn't have any ability to make changes, so I didn't change them again."

"Here, is there the approximate location of the cave mountain?"

Song Siyuan looked at the map, the place where the lines were redrawn and emphasized, I thought it was the land of cave mountains, but she didn't wait for Old Man Tang's confirmation, and she didn't dare to arbitrarily conclude that it must be here.

Old Man Tang trembled and touched the map, and reminded her: "Woman, if you look at Chencang Road and Bao Shute Road, starting from Phoenix Station and Wusheng Station, the mountains around this Yungu Plank Road are actually the range of cave mountains. ”

Song Siyuan looked at the Yungu plank road according to the words of Old Man Tang, the Yungu plank road is between the Chencang Road and the Bao Slope Road, the overall shape is like the flat lying form of the word "work", according to the proportion of the map and the real mountain, the route is at least four hundred miles long, no matter how many miles it is widened on both sides, the area is definitely not small, such a large area is all cave mountains, everyone can't help but be startled.