After dispersing, Chen Yulou, Luo Changfeng and the others changed their outfits, packed up properly, and the inverted team was launched.

A few days later, when they arrived in Nuqing County, the troops went up the mountain from outside the county seat, and at this time, Chen Yulou and Luo Lao were crooked, dressed as merchants and merchants respectively.

Because of the complex topography of the Mengdong River Basin in Xiangxi, the mountains are rugged and difficult, known as "eight mountains, one water and one field", since ancient times, the population is sparse, the imperial court whip is beyond the reach, and the bandits are serious.

Therefore, all kinds of businessmen with different livelihoods often travel in groups, and the six of them disguise themselves and go on the road together, which is not easy to make people suspicious.

Kunlun separated the big sword from the iron chain and handed them over to the other swordsmen to carry, and he was empty-handed.

Chen Yulou, Luo Changfeng, Red Girl, and Hua Ma also handed over their steel long swords to other swordsmen, and they didn't carry them, since they were pretending to be merchants, they naturally couldn't bring blades.

Chen Yulou carried his sleeve sword Xiao Shenfeng, Hua Ma took a dagger, the red girl was naturally her flying knife, and Luo Changfeng was carrying a flying knife and a soft sword wrapped around his waist.

Soon after entering the mountain, it is the border wall of Miao Jiang left in ancient times, Miao is also called "fierce", the fierce cave river with turbulent water flow is the land of the cave dwelling in ancient times.

Legend has it that the primeval forests on both sides of the river are ancient Miao Caves, and there is mutual influence between Wuchu culture, so it looks very mysterious in the eyes of the world, and the totem remains of the ancient "Xuanniao" can be seen everywhere here.

Chen Yulou asked Luo Lao to be crooked, and the hundreds of men and horses of his engineer digging battalion and pistol company, as well as more than 200 unloading bandits, were stationed in the dense forest near the ruins of the ancient wall, ready to be dispatched at any time.

Then a group of six people waded through the water, drilled the mountains and crossed the mountains, and went straight to the bottle mountain, only to see that the peaks and forests in this big mountain overlapped, the valleys were vertical and horizontal, and the mountains were full of unique bamao flowers in Xiangxi, which was a good group of isolated primitive scenery.

When a group of people found the local mountain people passing by, they learned that the mountain range that was full of Kaiba Maohua was the Old Bear Ridge, and beyond the ridge was a wild place that no one could reach.

Bottle Mountain is in the deep mountains of the old bear ridge, there are several villages in front of the ridge, Yi and Han mixed places, in addition to the Han people, there are Miao people and Tujia people.

After Chen Yulou inquired and understood, he knew that there were two villages in the north and south in the mountains in front of him, and he groaned a little and said to everyone: "The day before yesterday, I watched the sky at night, and saw that the seven stars of the Big Dipper were dim, and I thought that the South Dipper would be born and the North Dipper would die, and this has been said since ancient times." ”

"I'm going to go into the mountains to look for the ancient tomb at this moment, I'm afraid it's rare to get the day, why don't you avoid the north and take the south, and go to the south of the old bear ridge first?"

In the matter of inverted fighting, Chen Yulou is the expert, and no one else has the right to speak, so they naturally agreed in unison.

At the moment, the merchant dressed up by the flower hemp led the way in front, cast the mountain road to the south, not long ago, sure enough, I saw a village, this village is located in the strange peaks and green valleys, the scenery is beautiful, such as in the landscape painting.

There are about more than 100 households in the village, because the local soil is full of miasma, the mountain is poisonous with weeds and sand stinging pit vipers, so the local people do not distinguish between Yi and Han, all live side by side, pedal up the ladder, and call it "pole railing".

All the dwellings, all built by the mountain, take the direction of the north facing south, in order to avoid poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, the bottom of the wooden building of the duplex structure adopts nine pillars to the ground, and the beams are crossed, so that the platform is suspended.

Such a building is also called "stilted building", each stilted downstairs, there is a wood carving of a bird, mysterious and a little weird.

Luo Changfeng and his party were obviously not popular with the villagers, and as soon as they entered the village, the originally lively and busy village suddenly quieted down.

All the villagers looked at them with wary eyes, and when they reached the center of the stockade, a man was the first to walk up to them, shouting the local dialect, and the others gathered around.

They couldn't understand what the villagers were saying, but everyone could see what the villagers were doing, and they were told to leave the village.

Chen Yulou smiled slightly, and said: "Brothers, don't misunderstand, we are just a foot merchant who picks up the mountains, passing by the precious land today, just want to exchange some mountain goods, I hope you will have a convenient trip." ”

Hearing Chen Yulou say this, Kunlun and Hua Maqiu, who were picking up the goods, put down the burden on their shoulders one after another, and showed a kind smile to the surrounding villagers.

At this time, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy with a simple and simple face, with a local braided hairstyle on the top of his head, explained a few words to the surrounding villagers, and the villagers slowly lowered their guard and began to look through the goods they brought.

The local people are simple and simple, and the people like to barter with each other, and there is little money circulation, producing batik and ham, three snake wine and other things.

Although it is located in the middle of nowhere, but outsiders are not rare, almost every month there are a few merchants to exchange mountain goods, it is not uncommon to see foreign merchants, each take their own mountain goods to exchange.

Chen Yulou planned carefully in advance, these things they brought were all urgently needed by the mountain people, and they were not as concerned with small profits as ordinary merchants, which won the favor of the people, and it didn't take much effort to stop the business.

At that moment, I asked the villagers for a few bowls of water, pretending to drink water and rest, and by the way, I inquired about the news of the ancient tomb in Bottle Mountain.

The young man who translated for the villagers was called Rong Bao Youxiao, who knew the official language, Chen Yulou gave it with his tongue, Rong Bao Youxiao was a simple young man, how could he have so many precautions, and he took out all the useful information in a few clicks.

In the end, he was tempted to take advantage of it, and soon fooled this kid into being willing to be a guide for them and take them to see Bottle Mountain.

As for the Xiangxi Corpse King, there are legends such as monsters in the woods, which were naturally ignored by Chen Yulou and them.

After walking for three hours, the group finally climbed a dangerous cliff behind the old bear ridge, the top of this ancient cliff was overgrown with weeds and ancient trees, and it was condescending to overlook the veins of the Bottle Mountain.

Look down, only to see the deep mountains behind the main ridge, all are cone-shaped strange peaks and dangerous rocks, the successive peaks are connected one by one in the distance, like thousands of bamboo shoots unearthed, ten thousand wat to the sky, the peaks are connected, there are peaks behind the peaks, and the endless is filled between heaven and earth.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, that's Bottle Mountain. Rong Bao Xiao pointed to a strange mountain road in the distance.

Everyone looked around, only to see that the bottle mountain resembled a big-bellied ancient bottle crooked, the mountain was full of magic, the terrain was treacherous and peeled, and it was full of cliffs where apes kneaded the road.

Although the mountain is dangerous and terrifying, it is surrounded by mountains and green peaks, and it seems that the smoke trees are rising and falling, as in the painting.

Looking at the mountains from afar, there are really a few places where the white mist rises, and the rainbow-colored color in the mist looms.

Luo Lao said with great interest: "Always look at it, look at it, this mountain is really evil! This fog is actually colorful." ”

Chen Yulou smiled slightly and said, "This is called Baoqi." ”

"Treasure? When Luo Lao heard this, he was overjoyed.

The corners of Luo Changfeng's mouth twitched, and he said lightly: "In my hometown, treasure is the meaning of a fool." ”

Chen Yulou glanced at him amusedly, and said, "Hey, it may also be demonic." ”

"Uh...... Hey, hey, hey...... Always a joke. Luo Lao was stunned when he heard this, and smiled wryly.