Xiao Maitreya said: "Yes, Sister Jingxin understands it, after all, both of you are also regular employees, and I can't spare time in my busy schedule." It's like the second brother, Ah Turtle, and the three of them, a complete miscellaneous army, and the big temples don't accept the idle personnel left by the small temples. It's really a little bit bad, and it doesn't hurt, isn't it, hehehe......"

Mengshan Turtle said: "Okay, you dead fat man, now that your original form is exposed, you dare to even speak so loudly." Sample, you wait for me, and wait for a chance to see how our three miscellaneous troops can take care of you. ”

The little Taoist priest said: "Yes, you be careful, one day our cold-faced judge second brother will be angry, so he will erase your name with a big stroke of the pen and send you directly to the morgue of the doll hospital, hehehe......"

Everyone pushed the cup and changed the lamp, laughed and played for a while, and then they were full of wine and food. It's not too early to see the time, Xiao Qingfeng and everyone agreed to go to the White Horse Ancient Spring early tomorrow morning to have a look, and then check out and return.

Early the next morning, everyone rode their respective "BMWs" and gathered at Xiao Qingfeng's house with breakfast. After a light breakfast and tidying up, everyone stepped on their mounts and went straight to the White Horse Ancient Spring.

When they arrived near the White Horse Ancient Spring, everyone found a shade to park their cars, and then walked straight towards the goal.

This White Horse Ancient Spring, as the doll said, is located about eleven or twelve kilometers east of the Phoenix Ass Gate behind the Yellow Mountain. More than 200 meters below it is a small artificial reservoir of about 30 or 40 acres, which is connected by a natural ditch, and the Baima Ancient Spring at a higher location should be the source of this reservoir. It's just that now the ancient spring has almost completely dried up, but there is still a lot of water in the reservoir below, which is estimated to be the rainwater stored in the early days.

The White Horse Ancient Spring in front of you is about 20 meters from east to west, about 123 meters from north to south, and about 89 meters deep. The vertical walls with a depth of about three or four meters are artificially built with bluestone walls around it, and from the four walls of the bluestone down is the kind of black natural sand and gravel, which gradually closes down from all sides. At the bottom of the deepest part, there is only a rectangular space of six or seven meters from east to west and two or three meters from north to south. The bluestone rock wall directly south of the ancient spring and the natural ditch stream form a seamless whole.

Standing on the edge of the bluestone of the ancient spring, looking down, I saw two round raised sand mounds in the style of large pot lids at the bottom. When you look closely, there seems to be a slightly sunken pit in the center of the two round raised mounds of sand.

After taking some photos above, Xiao Qingfeng and the little Taoist priest carefully descended from the still slippery bluestone rock wall to the bottom below. At the same time, he asked the Mengshan turtle to take Jingxin and dolls to continue to take pictures and record the shape of the sand and water and the terrain trend near the ancient spring. He also let the mute and the laughing Maitreya wander around the ancient spring and the outer perimeter of the reservoir below, and see if they could get some other windfalls.

The two of them stayed below for more than ten minutes, then returned to the top, first cleaning the mud and sand from the shoes.

Xiao Qingfeng smiled at this time, and said to the Mengshan Turtle and them: "We have seen it carefully just now, as I said last night, there was no so-called Zhenyan Stone in this place at all. The circular bulge and the depression in the middle that we see now are the natural halo caused by the long-term spring gushing. However, when there was water, it looked like a round stone pressed against the top of the spring. And now the two depressions that appear in the middle of the circular bulge may have been mistaken by people in the vicinity as traces left by the so-called eye stones that were stolen. On the contrary, it is precisely those two depressions that are the location of the ancient springs, and it turns out that it is from these two places that the spring water gushes upwards continuously. ”

The doll said: "I see, it seems that the rumored feng shui Mr. and ancient spring feng shui are just the subjective imagination of some good people." Not to mention, now some idle people who are in pain like to make things up like this to earn attention and clicks, this kind of person is really boring. ”

Jingxin said: "Now not to mention ordinary people who eat melons, even some so-called experts and professors are often making things up, and they have completely lost the rigor and authority that the academic field should have." ”

At this moment, the mute and the laughing Maitreya returned from a distance, and with them was an old man with gray hair. I saw that this old man was about eighty or ninety years old, although his beard was all white, his face was ruddy and energetic, especially the two snow-white longevity eyebrows, coupled with his well-dressed clothes and brisk steps, he looked like a well-maintained country gentleman.

Soon they walked to the edge of the ancient spring, and Xiao Maitreya politely introduced to everyone: "This old Mr. Zhang is a famous old Chinese medicine doctor in this neighborhood, and we just met him in the small square below where he is practicing big characters with water. In addition, since I had taken my father to visit him several times in the early years, I recognized him at a glance. After we chatted a few words about this ancient spring, the old man insisted on coming here, saying that he wanted to talk to us about some things about this white horse ancient spring. ”

When everyone heard Maitreya say this, they immediately remembered this famous old Mr. Zhang in the east of YZ City. It turns out that this old Mr. Zhang has been practicing medicine for generations since his ancestors, especially good at acupuncture, massage and the treatment of mental diseases, and he also has considerable knowledge and research on Zhou Yi and Kanyu.

It's just that this old Mr. Zhang is low-key, tranquil, and quite Taoist and secluded. In recent years, he has been in a state of semi-seclusion, except for concentrating on sorting out some ancient medical cases, that is, practicing calligraphy, fishing and raising flowers, and generally rarely shows up to sit in the hall to diagnose diseases.

Everyone was very happy to see him today, and they respectfully stepped forward to greet this old man who was over 90 years old as a junior. Especially the doll and the Mengshan turtle turned out to be only famous but had never met, and this time they rushed forward to support each other, as if they wanted to touch the fairy spirit of this fairy wind and bone old man.

After a polite uproar, Xiao Qingfeng once again told the old man about the purpose of coming here today and the discovery under the ancient spring just now. In addition, he also described in detail the situation of the Phoenix Ass Gate Deep Pool in Huangshan before, but he avoided talking about the ancient prohibition there. Moreover, the doubts in their minds about the existence of underground rivers were specifically mentioned.

After listening to Xiao Qingfeng's detailed explanation, the old man pondered for a moment, smiled slightly, and said slowly: "Yes, it is really commendable that you little guys can have such insight and rigorous attitude. Moreover, you can associate the Phoenix Ass Gate with this White Horse Ancient Spring, and it seems that there are indeed talented and talented people among you. In addition, since you can freely enter and exit the Phoenix Ass Gate, it also means that some things there are no longer fetters for you. Well, my old man is already old and can't help you much, but I remind you to go to another place, which may help you. Thirty-six miles east from this White Horse Ancient Spring, there is an old city of Xiaobei Lake, you can go there and take a look. ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to look at Xiao Qingfeng intentionally or unintentionally, laughed, and without waiting for everyone to answer, he then said aloud: "Young man, everything must follow the natural way ......of heaven and follow the trend;

Everyone roughly understood his words earlier, which was to point everyone to a place that seemed to be very crucial and continue to explore relevant clues. However, he was confused by what he said at the end, which made people very puzzled. At first glance, it sounds like an old man's earnest advice to the younger generation, but if you taste it carefully, it seems to be pointed, as if you are deliberately igniting someone or something.

After a while, Xiao Qingfeng suddenly seemed to have an understanding, but he didn't say anything. just smiled slightly, and directly beckoned everyone to follow the old man's instructions and go straight to the old city of Xiaobeihu.

After riding for about half an hour, everyone arrived at the old city village that Mr. Zhang said. Although this old city village is not large, with a population of only five or six hundred people, it is a famous ancient village in the ancient geography of YZ City. Legend has it that this was once a very prosperous town in the Song and Jin dynasties, and it is also said that it was an important post station with a large scale, and it is even said that this was once the site of YZ City.

However, these are only a few records in the ancient gazetteers, and there are no valuable unearthed cultural relics in the local area, or the stone inscriptions left to this day can be truly confirmed. Of course, this may have been the later war, which made it completely disappear in the long river of history, like many ancient important towns. All in all, after a long time, this place has been called Gucheng Village, indicating that this place was once a "city" in ancient times.

The so-called Xiaobei Lake in the old city is actually a natural lake in the north of the original old city village. In the original gazetteer, there was a clear record of Xiaobei Lake, and even in the Republic of China period, there was a written record of "YZ Northeast, there is a North Lake, excellent water quality".

It's just that the so-called North Lake has almost ceased to exist, and has gradually become a large area of high-quality low-lying farmland under the efforts of the hard-working people. It's just that in the center of the center, there is still a large natural puddle, silently undertaking the sacred mission of irrigating the nearby farmland.