Early the next morning, the three of them followed Katong to the village to find his uncle, it was an old man, his legs and feet were a little inconvenient, it seemed to be a little lame, it should be the old wound before, after everyone explained the intention, the old man squinted his eyes and looked at the three people on the recliner for a long time, and then instructed Katong: "Go make tea, don't you know how to entertain guests?"

Ka Tong suddenly remembered, and hurriedly went out to boil water, and after the old man saw him leave, he asked with a wry smile: "A mountain peak is out of the clouds, which two lotus flowers bloom?"

The three of them were stunned, they didn't expect this Han Miao to actually be the mouth of the rivers and lakes of the Han people in the Central Plains, and Chu Xunyu stepped forward and replied: "The tide of the four directions meets the sea, and the lotus flowers are different red in the sun." ”

The old man seemed to be a little unconvinced, and continued to ask: "The deep mountain lingzhi has its own master, how dare you pick it if you don't ask the mountain god?"

"Walking by the side of the mountain and looking up, there are immortals to show the way. Chu Xunyu smiled and replied, this time the old man wanted to touch the bottom of Chu Xunyu and the three of them, to see where they came from, he was also afraid that Katong would suffer if he followed the people and horses of the black road on the rivers and lakes, but Chu Xunyu treated the inflow and told Uncle that they were merchants from the Central Plains, and they often ran the rivers and lakes.

At this time, Katong happened to come back: "Uncle, can I go?"

Uncle asked, "You have come from afar, do you think you must do something extraordinary in southern Xinjiang?"

Chu Xunyu hurriedly waved his hand: "It's funny, we came to Southern Xinjiang because we have some things to inquire, so I want to ask my nephew to accompany me and be a guide, hoping that the old man will agree." ”

"If you don't make it clear, it's really hard to obey your fate. The old man shook his head.

Mu Yuan said: "We want to ask you about the content of the ancient songs of the Miao people. ”

"Are you going to the Lost Golden City?" the old man sneered, "Just think about it, there are too many people who want to go to the Lost City over the years, and all of them have gone and never returned, I will not agree to Katong and you to go there, and at the same time, I also advise you not to go, it is too dangerous there, unless it is those high immortal masters, otherwise you can only die in vain." "It turned out that when he joined the army in the Central Plains, he had seen cultivators flying back and forth in the sky.

"That's a coincidence. As soon as Chu Xunyu raised his hand, a fire ignited with a "poof" in his hand.

The old man jumped up and asked in surprise, "Who are you...... Be...... It's a cultivator, ......" Katong next to him was even more frightened, and he couldn't even speak.

Chu Xunyu put out the fire and persuaded him with good words: "Old man, let Katong go with us, we are here to find something, not to covet the lost city, Katong and we just need to find a place, then we will give him a good reward to come back, I am willing to swear a poisonous oath, if Katong is in danger, I am willing to exchange the head of the item." ”

Uncle looked at Katong for a long time, then nodded and said: "You go, go with the immortal masters, the outside world is too exciting, your life should not accompany me as a half-dead old man, be brave, all the men of our Miao family are well-known." ”

"Uncle—" Katong grabbed the old man's arm, "I ......"

"Go ahead. ”

Chu Xunyu silently took out a bunch of salt, silver taels and brocade and put them aside, and the old man waved his hand: "All the immortal masters sit down, drink a cup of tea, and by the way, what are you looking for?"

Everyone sat down one after another, and Katong went to make tea, Chu Xun said: "We are looking for a Han thing, and it is very ancient, so I have inquired, this thing is most likely in the ruins of the ancient Dian Kingdom, in fact, it is what you call the lost city, I heard that the location of the lost city is scattered among the ancient songs of the Miao people, so I remembered to inquire about the content of the ancient songs." ”

"Naturally, I came to southern Xinjiang to find the lost city. Uncle smiled, "This ancient legend has been around for thousands of years, how many people have come here for it, but there is no follow-up, you have a good idea to inquire about the tune of the Mengjia, because I have heard that there is a passage in it that is indeed a record of the golden city." ”

"Yes, we found out what deep in the mountains, by the big lake. Mu Yuan shook his head with a wry smile, "The rest is not clear." ”

"I can tell you some clues. ”

"What?" all three were surprised.

Uncle said slowly, it turned out that Uncle went to the Central Plains with Katong's father, the original two people did not directly join the army, at that time the war between the two dynasties had not broken out, it was the end of the Yuan Dynasty, both of them were very young, about seventeen or eighteen years old, after some experience, accidentally stumbled into the salt gang in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, sold private salt for a few years, Jianghukou was learned at that time, and then coincided with the outbreak of war, when his brothers were from southern Xinjiang, so they were incorporated into the southern expeditionary force of Chang Yuchun, and fought a vicious battle in the south, and finally Katong's father died in battle, and Uncle himself did not die and returned to his hometown with injuries, many years of military career, Uncle once encountered such an incident, which made him remember it deeply.

It was a night, Uncle and a team of soldiers escorted grain and grass on the border of southern Xinjiang, stopped to rest halfway, lit a bonfire, and suddenly found that there was a person coming in the night, the soldiers drew their knives and scolded, but when they got closer, it turned out to be a crazy Miao man, his whole body was in tatters, and he muttered to himself, because this is near southern Xinjiang, so it is not surprising that there are people of different races, and the soldiers did not care after checking that he was a madman, and they planned to send him away, but Uncle pulled him to the corner and gave him some food and water, because he was also a Miao person, he couldn't bear it, and the crazy Miao was also interesting, I still know how to eat and drink, after eating, I muttered some extremely unobtrusive words in Miao language, and the Han soldiers naturally didn't understand, but Uncle understood, and translated into Chinese probably said that there was a big treasure in the mountains, but there were monsters eating people, and the people who traveled with him died and so on. Uncle thought he was crazy and his brain was not normal, and the crazy seedling said that Uncle was good to him, and he wanted to repay Uncle A, so he gave him a broken stone slab full of mud in his arms, and Uncle was angry and funny, and then sent him away, and he never saw him again.

Later, the war ended, Uncle left the army because of his injury and went home to retire, when he left, he found that this stone slab was still by his side, so he brought it back, and now he felt that it was time to take it out, so he took it out of the box and handed it to Chu Xunyu, hoping that Chu Xunyu They could use it. Chu Xunyu took it and found that this stone slab was very interesting, there was a painting carved on it, depicting a big mountain, there were houses in the mountain, and a stream meandering down, Mu Yuan exclaimed excitedly: "Deep in the mountains, big lake!"

"What is this?" asked Wangchen as he pointed to the uneven lines on the stone slab.

"Huh, the pattern?" Mu Yuanqi said, "The person who carved the stone slab is quite particular, and he also carved the pattern to decorate." ”

"!" Chu Xunyu gave the answer that Mu Yuan needed the most, and then touched these strange lines and said seriously, "This should be some kind of writing, if I guess correctly, it is very likely to be the ancient Miao script that has disappeared for many years." ”

"You know?"

"I don't know. ”

"Then how do you know?" Mu Yuan asked angrily.

"Just because I don't know each other. Chu Xunyu said with great certainty, "There are many words recorded in our family's classics, so I can recognize that this is neither Chinese characters nor Tocharian script, Sulli, etc., nor your Buddhist Sanskrit or something, that is to say, this kind of writing is not within the scope of our cognition, you think about it, the three of us can know at least more than 20 kinds of words together, even if we don't understand all of them, we can recognize a type, what other words on the land of Shenzhou people can't see the way and appear in southern Xinjiang?" Then the answer is obvious. ”

"Makes sense. Mu Yuan nodded, "Then what do these words mean? It's just a few words, could it be that they record a place or a name or something?"

Forget Chen sighed: "Even if it is recorded, there is no way, none of us know each other." ”

"Then we'll have to take this thing and follow the map. Mu Yuan was helpless, "Look all the way to see where the landscape is the same as this pattern." ”

"No need to look for it, I've found it. Uncle suddenly interrupted the three of them.

Everyone looked at him in surprise, Uncle smiled, and continued to tell the story behind, after he left the army, he took silver and luggage all the way to his hometown in southern Xinjiang, at that time the world was too peaceful, Uncle himself felt that although his legs were lame, but his body was still quite strong, and he had a faint plan for the lines on this stone slab, after all, the story of the Golden City in southern Xinjiang no one knows, who doesn't know? So he also had an idea about the Golden City, fortunately, he is a Miao person, unimpeded passage in southern Xinjiang, after nearly a year of searching, he found the place depicted on the stone slab, it is a towering mountain, there is a stream at the foot of the mountain, and there is a small village, after talking, the people inside told Uncle that every rainy night, there will always be a ghost crying sound in the mountain, thinking that this is a mountain ghost, and every year to hold a "send mountain ghost" More importantly, the direction of this place is the place where the crazy seedling came out back then, so Uncle is very sure that he has found the right one, but the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, and there may be many spirits inside. Five days finally gave up, returned here with the slate, until today, only to this day, the three of Chu Xunyu and Pan prominently, because it can be seen that the three of them are cultivators with hands and eyes, and like those people who saw in the army back then, they should be able to go into the mountains to explore, let Katong follow them for a while, if they have wealth in the future, they will not be in vain for a lifetime, only hope that the three of them will take care of Katong and not lose their lives.

Uncle's words are not trivial, the three of them are really unbelievable, as the so-called stepping on the iron shoes has nowhere to find, it takes no effort to get it, the original plan to find the lost city has landed here, and he is grateful again and again, and he promises to take care of his life. Chu Xunyu looked at the ghost town in the mountains carved on the stone slab, if the destiny favors it, it is very likely to be the ruins of the ancient Dian Kingdom established by Zhuang Ji back then, that guy has always liked to pretend to be a ghost, play with power, and it is reasonable to make such a thing, and there is an ancient Miao text on it, even if it is not a lost city, it must have something to do with the ancient Dian country, so no matter what, it is bound to take a trip to see what kind of mystery there is, as for what kind of monsters in the mountains are fighting, Chu Xunyu is not worried about this, as soon as he hears it, he knows that it is some guys who can't make the climate, otherwise the people in the Miao village under the mountain will not live for so many years and be safe, so he made up his mind, take Katong to a trip, knock on the first door of this southern Xinjiang.

After deciding on the decision, the three of them inquired about the direction and said goodbye one by one, turning to leave: "We will wait for Katong outside." ”

When he didn't go out for a long time, he watched the old man send Katong out, Katong's eyes were a little red and swollen, and he seemed to be very uncomfortable, Uncle touched his head and said, "Be strong, go to the outside world and have a good look." ”

He said to Chu Xun again: "Three immortal masters, Katong will be handed over to you, promise me to protect him." ”

"I will vouch for my life. As soon as Chu Xunyu gave up his hand, several people officially separated and walked to the place that Uncle said......