Chapter 62. Millennial Guguan
Matsuko was quick with his hands and feet, and soon applied me with purple potion. Probably in terms of metaphysics, his ability is limited, but in other aspects, he really knows how to take care of people. It's just that I have a purple mark on my face, which is really damaging to my face. It was already approaching evening, and in another hour or two, it was time to eat.
Since we went out in the morning, we have been dealing with all kinds of unexpected situations non-stop, and after a whole day, although we have only passed a level in just one day, we have stumbled and embarrassed along the way. So far, we have only drunk a few sips of water, and under the intense physical exertion, we are really a little hungry. Even people like Qin Bukong went directly into the kitchen to cook noodles for everyone to eat, until they ate noodles, everyone didn't say a word, they each thought about some things, and what bothered me the most was under the word "charm", the seemingly easy-to-understand four words "Dayu controls the water".
What I'm struggling with is that I don't know whether the focus of these four words is "Dayu" or "water". In my hometown, there is a temple called Tushan Temple, which is built on top of Tushan Mountain. And this Tu Mountain is named after Dayu's wife Tu. Legend has it that Dayu ruled the water three times and did not enter the house, so Tu has been standing by the river and looking forward to it, and over time, it has become a stubborn stone in the heart of the river. And that stubborn stone, after the water recedes every year, will appear on the surface of the river, our local elders, call it "Hugui Stone". But there were more people shouting, and it gradually shouted off, just because of the relationship between the Sichuan dialect, Hugui Stone was called "Turtle Stone".
So much so that when I was naughty and disobedient when I was a child, one of the things my mother would often say was, I knew that you were so disobedient, and I should have sent you to Turtle Rock to accompany Tu Niangniang!
But after all, it was in my hometown, and now I am thousands of miles away, and although I have lived here for two years, I have never been able to fully integrate into the blood of the city, and naturally I don't know anything about the local area. So I thought about it for a long time, but to no avail, until Qin Bukong brought a bowl of somen noodles that didn't taste very good, and I began to gobble it up.
Everyone was hungry, so they concentrated on eating noodles. After eating, when Songzi was about to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Qin Bukong suddenly stopped him, and then said that he was not busy cleaning up, let's talk first.
So Qin Bukong told Songzi what we had seen and heard in the underground formation earlier, and just talked about the tragic situation we encountered when dealing with the two monsters, mainly talking about how we put the wax skin beads we found into the stone bricks, and then after passing the first level, the stone bricks in the second level popped out and so on. Although Qin Bukong didn't make his words clear, in fact, I could hear that he himself was confused about those four words, and although Songzi was a weak chicken in exorcism and ghost catching, he had a deeper understanding of other aspects than us. The things under the character are found under the inference of Songzi, and faintly, although Qin Bukong doesn't say it, he still admires Songzi's knowledge in his heart, so he is actually asking Songzi for help when he does it now.
After listening to this, Songzi took out a piece of paper and a pen and drew the general topography of the three towns of Wuhan. If we calculate in a north-south direction, the Yangtze River is going from the southwest to the northeast, and we went to find the Shadowless Tower earlier today, and its original location is at the foot of the Yellow Crane Tower in the direction of the center of the river. That is, in Koto. After gesturing for a while, Songzi said, the three towns of Wuhan have been places of outstanding people since ancient times, and the two rivers meet, and such water wharves are also prosperous places for commerce and trade. With the construction of these years, in fact, many old things have declined, plus the great revolution of the past few years, the things left in the old period are often difficult to preserve, or burned, or miscellaneous, in short, it is not easy to find.
Songzi said that since this Seven Evil Passes were set thousands of years ago, the place we need to find naturally must be more than a thousand years old, so that we can narrow down some of the scope. Speaking of this "Yu water control", in the historical documents, there is indeed a record of Yu in this place to control the water, but it is very few, it is said that it is only a few days, in fact, there is no trace of water control in the local area.
When I said this, it seemed that this speculation was going to be untenable, and I was faintly disappointed that the three people we were surrounding were actually not locals, and even if they were locals, given our age, it seemed that it was not so easy to chase those old things. But soon Songzi went on to say that the three towns of Wuhan can survive for more than a thousand years, and the most related to these four words should be here.
After speaking, he used his pen to draw a circle on the map he hastily drawn, on the west side of the Yangtze River and the south side of the Han River, and then poked twice with the tip of the pen and said, This is it, Qingchuan Pavilion.
On the first time I came to Wuchang, I had repeatedly heard people talk about the three major scenic spots in Wuhan, among which was this Qingchuan Pavilion, which is said to be almost as famous as the Yellow Crane Tower. When I was thinking about what others had told me about Qingchuan Pavilion, Qin Bukong suddenly said, I thought you were a serious person, why did you start fooling people so indiscriminately? Could this Qingchuan Pavilion be an old thing from a thousand years ago? This was built in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, only more than 400 years ago, where did the thousand-year-old culture come from?
Songzi smiled and said, Senior Qin, what you said is right, but you are talking about the time when the Qingchuan Pavilion was built, but do you know what its predecessor was before it was built? Qin Bukong didn't speak, not only that, but he was probably still regretting his rash rebuttal just now. Songzi went on to say, before that, it was called "Yuwang Palace", but the Yuwang Palace was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, from the time of our breakthrough, it is still more than 100 years late, but this place is before the formation of the palace view group, it is the Yuwang Temple where the local people worship Yuwang in the past dynasties.
As soon as Matsuko said this, it became a lot clearer, but I still didn't understand it, so I interjected and asked, but how are you sure that this must be this? There are a lot of Yuwang Temple in Yuwang Palace all over the country, even on the edge of some small rivers in my hometown, a small Yuwang Temple will be repaired, used to guard the river, the Yangtze River Basin is a flooded place in the Yuwang period, if it is just to commemorate the exploits of Yuwang, then so many Yuwang Temple Yuwang Temple, which is what we should really find? Songzi shook his head and said, Situ, you don't know about this. Wuhan is really different from other places, although there are many rivers and lakes, and it was also a place hit hard by floods, but this place, there is only such a place to really formally worship King Yu, and it is precisely because of this that I dare to propose it to you so boldly.
I was silent, if this is the only one as Songzi said, then it has indeed become our only clue.
Songzi continued, but whether it is this Qingchuan Pavilion or Yuwang Palace, they were all built after the people who set up the array, and the years are too long, if we rashly look for it here, I am afraid we will find nothing. So let's change the angle, starting from the fact that we passed the test itself, the evil of "charm" mostly refers to "charm", which seems to be the same as the "confusion" of "魑", but there is a difference in nature. Situ, you are young, what do you say is charming.
After saying this, Songzi blinked his eyes a few times, and then glanced at Qin Bukong, like that, even a little charming, it seemed to be laughing at Qin Bukong, an old bachelor, who didn't know what charm was. I coughed twice and said, this charm is to tempt you with something beautiful and make you confused. Matsuko asked, what kind of things are beautiful? Money? Power? Beauty?
I said all of this, but since it is a pass, and it can turn into a human form, it should be a woman, a beautiful woman who can seduce others. Speaking of this, my heart suddenly trembled, my face turned red, and I didn't know why, I suddenly thought of Meng Dongxue. Fortunately, Matsuko's next words interrupted my memory, and he said, yes, so since this is Guan and has something to do with beauty, what is a word that is not difficult for you to think of?
"The hero is sad to pass the beauty pass".
I blurted out. Originally, without thinking about it, Songzi slapped the table and said, yes, that's it, coincidentally, near this Yuwang Palace, there happens to be a pass, built in the Three Kingdoms, and has survived to this day, if you want me to analyze, this must be the place we are looking for - Iron Gate Pass!
Iron Gate? What a down-to-earth name, I've never heard of such a place in Wuhan. Songzi said that this place is not very famous, because it has almost completely integrated into the lives of the common people, many residents who live in the vicinity, have to travel back and forth many times a day, and it is precisely because they have always stayed there, so the common people have long been accustomed to its existence, we rest for a few days, make a good plan, and then go to investigate, presumably it should be easy to find.
Qin Bukong asked, didn't you say that there were many people living near that place? This person is a lot of mouthful, and a group of our god-chattering people went there, how can we start? Don't just pick up the hoe and be denounced, let's just wait to be put in jail. With a clean and thin commodity like you, if you go in, it will be over in a few days, do you believe it or not?
I couldn't hold back and burst out laughing. In fact, it is also quite interesting to watch Qin Bukong and Songzi fight wits and courage occasionally. Songzi was not angry, and then said to Qin Bukong with a smile, Senior Qin, don't be in a hurry if you don't move, after a few days of rest, let's go to the scene to have a look.