As soon as the steamed buns come into contact with water, they will swell and bulge in the stomach, giving me a false sense of food and clothing. I clapped my hands and stood up, and walked towards the shack covered with striped cloth, and saw a middle-aged man with his shirt open, slumped under a tree, and was napping with a straw hat buttoned to his face to cover the sun, and a horsewhip was placed beside him. I didn't find it when I walked into the other party, I think it was because I was asleep, because I had read a few books of sages and knew that disturbing people's dreams was a bad behavior, so I was extra careful when disturbing his dreams.

I first pretended to be passing by, then coughed slightly, and then kicked the stones on the ground, and sure enough, under this series of disturbances, the man suddenly lifted the straw hat and wanted to see what was going on, so I pretended to be embarrassed and came up and said that the eldest brother is really embarrassed, I passed by, and disturbed you. The man saw that my attitude was so "sincere", so he also politely said that it didn't matter, and I took the opportunity to go up and ask for directions, where is this ancient road up the mountain, can you show me the way? You see, I'm a foreigner, my accent is not local, I can't find my way, so I especially came here to take a look.

Probably thinking that he would do a good deed every day, the horse herder showed me the way, and I asked him if he knew that there was a cave in this mountain. He asked me if you were going to the cave of the horses. I said yes, if I could see the best, it would not be easy to visit. Who knew that this horse herder told me at this moment that the Tibetan horse cave has been abandoned for many years, a few years ago there were wild boars on this mountain, and hunters were sent to hunt and kill, and they temporarily lived near the Tibetan horse cave at that time, but basically no one will go to it these years, a tattered hole, what are you doing there?

I smiled and said that since I was here, I would go and have a look, and ask him to show me the way. So this middle-aged man told me that when I first went up the ancient road and then walked up the mountain for about three miles, I would see a small stream, and the first big stone I saw when I walked up the stream, and behind that stone was the Tibetan Horse Cave. After I said thank you, I was ready to go on the road, but the middle-aged man added another sentence and said, you have to be careful, although I have fought wild boars a few years ago, but in this barren mountain and wild, I wonder if there are other wild beasts, when I passed by that road more than ten days ago, I heard the sound of some animals running away by the stream, look at that head, it really looks like a wild boar.

Wild boar, I'm still a little worried. However, I believe that with my strength and strength, I should still be able to handle it.

I walked along the shack and followed the direction the middle-aged man had given me, and it didn't take long for me to see a muddy path, with no grass on the road, and it was of different widths, which seemed to be the same ancient road as it was back then. The road is not easy to walk, but it does go all the way up, and when it is about three miles or so, you do see a very small stream, and judging from the traces of stones on the side, this stream is probably a little wider when it rains or when the tide rises. So I left the trail and climbed up the ground in the direction of the stream.

This process is actually not easy, because although it is a gentle slope here, the slope is actually larger than the slope of the small forest in the "Xiao" pass before, and because it is close to the stream, the soil is a little loose, and I have slipped several times because I did not step on it steadily, fortunately I am a practitioner, otherwise I would have to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair if I fell like this.

According to the middle-aged man, I climbed about a hundred meters upward, and indeed on the side of a mountain wall, I found the tail of a large raised rock, the front part of which was not visible from the angle I had ascended the mountain. So I went around to the front and saw that there was really a cave, and the big raised rock looked like a canopy at the entrance of the cave.

But when I saw this hole, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, because the hole was so small that I could see the bottom of the hole without even shining a flashlight. From the entrance to the innermost part, it is only about 10 meters deep, and it is more like a few large rocks sliding down from the top of the mountain than a cave, and accidentally forming a small space that can be accommodated. The cave was chaotic, with newspapers and rags thrown all over the place, and it looked like a homeless man's home. I didn't go in first to be on the safe side, because I was afraid that I would be attacked as soon as I entered, and I was not an opponent on my own, and with a lack of tools.

I first went to the hole and sniffed it, and found that there was no smell of rotten eggs, but rather the smell of dust mixed with the air that had not been there for too long. The location of the cave entrance where I am standing, in fact, even if I stand side by side, it is nothing more than the appearance of three or five people at most, if it is not deliberately mentioned that there is a cave here, it is estimated that even if the ancient road is not closed, few people will come here.

The space inside the cave is about three meters high, which is still the highest point measured in an irregular place, in other words, if there is really a "kui" here, then its height will not exceed three meters at most, which does not seem to be much higher than the previous "kui". And "Kui" only appeared after we eliminated "Lu" a few days ago, and it's only been a few days now, and very few people come here, so I guess no one has been hurt by this thing.

Personally, I'm a big believer in Matsuko's reasoning, but this place makes me secretly suspicious. To be on the safe side, I'm going to get it real, but it's not like I'm going to go to the cave myself, and I don't have the courage to do that after what happened before. So I lit the incense at the entrance of the cave and asked the soldiers and horses to help me find it, and I didn't even have to ask rice, because Kui is not a category of ghosts that I can understand in my previous studies, and asking rice may not be able to get the answer.

The movement of the terracotta incense made me conclusive of the statement of pine nuts. Because after the smoke rose, we went straight to the direction of the cave entrance, but when we arrived at the cave gate, it was like the one we encountered in Guiyuan Temple before, and there seemed to be an invisible wall blocking the smoke.

The terracotta incense is different from the ordinary incense smoke, it is impossible for them to flutter for no reason, even if there is a huge suction force in the cave at this moment, but as long as it is not what it is looking for, it is absolutely impossible for it to drift past. And when I hit the invisible "wall", the smoke dispersed in all directions, as if I had taken a puff of cigarette and exhaled into a mirror or glass.

This shows that the pine nut's guess is correct, and I was also nervous at this time, because it means that now "Kui" is actually in the cave, but I can't see it, it didn't come out, and I really can't figure out the reason why it doesn't come out, so I vigilantly took a few steps back, and then felt out the incense ash in my pocket, and sprinkled a thick layer near the cave entrance, almost exhausting all my incense ash, and then I slowly retreated the same way, and when I left, I still found a dry place under the big stone behind the cave of ZangmaI pressed a few pieces of rune paper with small stones, because I was afraid that when we officially came here, there might be a chance that the other party would be too fierce and my things would not be enough, so I would leave a little supply in advance.

The descent was a bit less effortless, but it wasn't easy, as I had to be on the lookout for possible slips. I finally returned to the ancient road, and then walked back along the ancient road to the river, and the middle-aged man who had shown me the way before was now asleep in a straw hat, almost in the same position as when I saw him before. Only this time I didn't wake him up again, but walked away gently.

I went back the way I came, and it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. Songzi and Qin Bukong asked me about the situation on the mountain, I told the truth, and emphasized that the road up the mountain is not easy to walk, we are an old man with a sick number, it is estimated that the day when we really want to go, we have to go out earlier. And I also told me about my soldiers' incense, which confirmed Matsuko's suspicion, but I didn't see anything when I looked into the cave. Qin Bukong said, probably when it needs to be excavated or the three of us appear together, it will be forced to appear. I said I don't know, but although my trip today was a bit hard, I haven't encountered any danger on the surface, and I feel calm.

After comparing Kui's attributes, we plan to leave every other day. Taking advantage of the fact that there was still a day left, Qin Bukong had a rare sense of nervousness, and told us to bring this and that, it seemed that it was the last moment to get to this point, if we failed because of insufficient preparation, it would be really unwilling. In fact, Songzi and I are also participants in the whole process, although the initiator is Qin Bukong, but for the two of us, the feeling is exactly the same.

The air in Wuhan in summer is very hot, but because of the river, it is not very dry. We went out very early the next day, with everything we had, including shovels and shovels, and under my guidance we had arrived at the stone behind the cave before noon, where there was the talisman paper I had stored here two days ago, but after I touched it, I found that it was still wet, presumably because of the fog and other reasons on the mountain after nightfall. However, as the three of us slowly walked around the cave with full vigilance, I looked at the layer of incense ash that had been sprinkled on the ground and was shocked.

The incense ash is the same as the rune paper, it is also soaked because of the water mist and other relationships, but it is still condensed together because of the dust, and it is still attached to the ground, but on the incense ash, there are many horizontal and vertical and messy footprints. And when I saw these footprints, I felt incredible.