Li Er and Guan Fengzi were talking, there was a knock on the door of the outhouse, Guan Fengzi said "enter", and a woman came in, carrying a copper kettle, holding lacquerware, filling the two with hot water, putting the lacquerware and copper kettle on the cabinet, and saying goodbye to the two and going out.

When the woman went out, Guan Fengzi said, "Let's rest for a while, and then talk about it when you have enough spirits." After saying that, he lay down and closed his eyes.

Li Er also sat down cross-legged, closing his eyes and meditating.

After two moments, the woman brought food, and between the two meals, Liu Yi returned. The three of them had a meal, and they rested around the unitary hour.

In the early morning of the next day, the three of them left the courtyard of Baijia and came to the gate of the village. Nineteen Inner House soldiers were waiting here, and everyone formed a team and marched towards the cemetery.

At this time, the moonlight was bright and clear, and everything was quiet, only the howling of wolves and beasts came from time to time. The soldiers of the Inner Palace, with their long swords in hand, followed closely behind Guan Fengzi and Li Er, and three moments later everyone arrived at the cemetery. The cemetery was dark and dreary, with a little phosphorescent light flashing from time to time.

The soldiers were apprehensive, but seeing that Guan Fengzi and Li Er, who were walking in front, did not show the slightest fear, they also calmed down, clenched the sharp weapons in their hands, and followed the two.

Before arriving at the cemetery, Li Er took out Sinan Luo, looked at the direction, compared with the stars in the sky, walked forward slowly, and led everyone to a stone cave. The entrance to the stone cave is not large, and it looks like a hare nest, and only Li Er can get into it.

Li Er asked for a long sword, held it in his hand, and probed into the hole, the long sword soon reached the bottom of the cave, and Li Er swung the long sword left and right to test it, and the stone cave did not seem to be deep. Li Er tried the depth of the stone cave, returned the long sword, squatted down, and got into the stone cave.

The inside of the stone cave was really not big, and Li Er only got into most of his body before reaching the bottom of the cave. Li Er's hands rubbed on the cave wall for a while, and where his hands touched, it was not a cold stone.

Li Er lay in the cave, closed his eyes, turned over, and rubbed for a while towards the cave wall, and where his hand touched, he finally felt the difference of a stone wall.

This stone wall is the size of a fist, soft and cold in the hand, as if touching the body of a snake. Li Er grabbed this stone wall with both hands, pulled it hard, and it took nearly a moment to finally break this strange stone off the stone wall.

Li Er broke off the strange stone, and continued to rub the stone wall above with both hands, and found no other abnormalities. Li Er grabbed the strange stone, covered his head with both hands, and shouted, "Pull me out."

The people outside had long been worried about Li Er, afraid that Li Er would encounter an accident in the cave, but now they heard the shouts inside, pulled Li Er's two calves that were leaking outside the cave, and pulled Li Er out.

Li Er got out of the stone cave, stood up, observed the strange stones, handed the different stones to Guan Fengzi to hold, patted the dust on his body, took out Sinan Luo, continued to compare the stars in the sky, and walked forward slowly.

Everyone followed Li Er and walked for nearly half an hour, and came to a mountain spring, which flowed out of the stone crevice, gurgled down, and joined the Sanggan River at the bottom of the mountain.

It was far from the cemetery, on a hillside more than a mile northwest of the cemetery. Li Er held Si Nanluo in his hand, determined the direction of this place, and observed the surrounding terrain. Now there was a glimmer of light in the east, but the moon was gone, and Lear couldn't see too far, so he made a note of the location in his heart and climbed towards the peak.

On the way up the mountain, they met two robes, and in the dark night, they made the soldiers of the inner government nervous. Afraid that the adults would be attacked by wild beasts, Liu Yi walked in front of Li Er with a few inner government soldiers, brandishing his long sword and opening the way.

This mountain peak is also on the outskirts of the mountain range, it is not very tall, and everyone reached the top of the mountain after half an hour.

Li Er stood on the top of the mountain, holding Sinan Luo, and observed the position below the mountain for a while, and after thinking carefully, he looked to the northwest direction, applied what he had learned, and carefully observed the light and color of the sky. After observing for two moments, about forty miles away from here, he finally found a blue purple light, which went straight to the sky and flashed in an instant. After the purple light passed, the clouds that had illuminated it also seemed to turn red, and by this time the sun in the east had already revealed its face.

Li Er saw that the bruised light was powerful, and it was different from what he was thinking, so he couldn't help but let out a "huh". I thought, "How so?"

Guan Fengzi also looked around as if he didn't understand, only Liu Yi and other soldiers from the inner government didn't dare to disturb Li Er, but just watched to ensure the safety of adults.

The sky gradually brightened, Li Er's vision gradually expanded, and after observing for a second moment, a group of villagers came in the distance.

Bai Ji saw that the adults who came to investigate this time were different, and behaved more like wizards or Taoists, and hope was rekindled in his heart: "This little official is not very old, but the master and nephew are adults, and they are from the royal family. Bai Ji was worried about the safety of the adults, so he called out to his children and grandchildren, and asked them to shout at the descendants of the village to come to meet the adults.

When Li Er saw the team of villagers under the mountain, he no longer hesitated and said, "That's it for today, let's go down the mountain and go back to the village." ”

Everyone hugged Li Er and walked down the mountain, and Guan Fengzi was beside Li Er, asking as he walked, "Uncle Shi has found his eyebrows?"

Li Er said: "It is still to be determined, and I can't say that I will set off again today." ”

Guan Fengzi said: "You don't need to look at it here?" Xin said: "The strange stone in my hand is the ice flake, but such a large ice flake appears in a small stone cave, it is very strange, why doesn't Uncle Shi continue to look here?"

Li Er said: "I still have questions that need to be confirmed, and you will naturally know in the future." As he spoke, he handed Sinan Luo in his hand to Guan Fengzi and said, "Give me that ice chip, you still have it." ”

The two exchanged items in their hands, put them in their arms, and concentrated on descending the mountain.

When I got to the bottom of the mountain, I met with the villagers who had come to meet me. The villagers led the team by the Bai family boy and the Li family boy Li Ying. Li Ying met with Li Er and the others, and when they saw that everyone was fine, she relieved herself and took everyone back to the village, saying as she walked: "We have made breakfast, and the adults will go back and rest well." ”

Li Er asked Li Yingdao: "What is the place and what is the topography of this forty miles northwest?"

Li Ying said: "This goes to the northwest is all grassland, the end of the grassland, the north is Yanshan, forty miles to the northwest, it is Shagang, not only there is the Sanggan River, there is also an underground water pool, the water flows into the Sanggan River. ”

Li Er said: "Does the waterhole have a name?"

Li Ying said: "We all call the waterhole the old dragon pool. ”

When Li Er heard this, he asked, "There are villages in Shagang, and how many households are there?"

Li Ying said: "Shagang is a village, with more than 20 households. ”

Li Er said to Liu Yi: "Forty miles is not very far, all the way is the plain, in this case, let's go back to eat and rest, set off at the right time, and go to Shagang today." ”

Liu Yi responded to the promise and conveyed the order of the lord to the soldiers of the inner government.