Shen Mu, the dream came true, the three of them obtained the horn of the four dissimilarities, and after obtaining their own weapons, they took the path back to Tianlong Tunbao. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He said to Shen Mu: "Brother Shen, I often run to Guiyang, and on the way I heard people talking about the killing of Long Bayan, the valley lord of Yelang Valley in Guiyang, have you heard of it?"

Shen Mu said: "I haven't heard of it. ”

Shan Dan said: "I heard that Long Bayan received an anonymous challenge letter the night before his death, the words in the book were very insulting, he was angry, so he accepted the challenge in Qianling Mountain, and then failed, and the body was cut into five pieces, and the limbs and heads were separated. ”

Shen Mu said: "Who is so vicious? If you kill someone, you have to leave a whole corpse." ”

Shan Shan said: "Who knows? But Long Bayan is already in his prime, martial arts is a must in the rivers and lakes, and he is quite famous in the southwest, and he was killed by someone inexplicably, and there is no corpse, how to say it is also a great shame." ”

Shen Mu asked, "Hmm." When?"

Shan Shan said: "Not long, just seven days ago!" Shen Mu was pondering, thinking to himself when such a powerful character came out in Guizhou, and even Long Bayan couldn't beat it?

Shan said: "Maybe it's a rising star in the rivers and lakes, who wants to gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes and become famous in one fell swoop, so it is not necessary to challenge a powerful role." ”

Shen Mu said: "It's unreasonable, if it is a rising star in the rivers and lakes who wants to gain a foothold, he will never kill Long Bayan without letting people know who he is." ”

Just felt that what Shen Mu said was reasonable, so he thought, "Who could it be?"

The three of them returned to Tianlong Tunbao, Su Wen, Shen Ji, and Luo Ying saw that Shen Mu came back with the horns of the four dissimilarities, and they were all happy, and they only saluted the three of them, and the three of them returned the salute. Su asked, "Grab the medicine." "Hand the prescription that had already been prescribed to Shen Mu, Shen Mu took a look, and ran to the pharmacy to grab the medicine according to the prescription, Shen Mu grabbed it and came back and handed it to Su Wen, Su Wen fried the medicine in a hurry, and taught Meng Yuan to take it for Meng Xuan, Meng Yuan thought that Meng Xuan could be saved now, so he fed Meng Xuan bit by bit the medicine and took care of it carefully.

Shen Mu has been running around for Mengxuan's affairs recently, doing everything he can, Luo Ying and Mengyuan are grateful to him, and they are very grateful, Shen Muyan Mengxuan is unhindered.

Luo Ying loves mountains and rivers, this time he came to Guizhou to take Mengyuan Mengxuan's two disciples to see the superb scenery of Guizhou, but unexpectedly gave birth to these many disasters, so that Mengxuan was unconscious, he still had the heart to go to the mountains and rivers, just hope that Mengxuan would wake up earlier, and then take the road back to Mount Emei to prepare for the martial arts conference in Sichuan, but at this moment Su Wen told him that he may not be able to go back for the time being.

"Well, it's much better now," Su asked Meng Xuan's pulse, "but Miss Mengxuan has been injured for a long time, and the injury is important, I'm afraid it won't be able to heal for a year and a half." ”

Luo Ying, Mengyuan heard this, and his face was sad again, but thinking that Mengxuan would wake up after all, but it would take a little longer and a little comfort, Luo Ying asked Su: "May I ask sir, when will it be good at the latest?"

Su asked: "It's the tenth day of the fifth month, around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I promise to return you a living apprentice." ”

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the time for Sichuan Province to elect the leader of the martial arts alliance, although he is very relieved of the Luoyi Sect, but after all, he is the master of a faction, even if he does not seek benefits for Sichuan Wulin, he has to think about the future of the Emei faction, so can he wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival for so long?

When, during the feast, before the meal.

"I have been bothering Mr. Shen for so long, I really don't want to go, Long En can't say enough, only Mr. Jing has a cup to show his respect. ”

"There, there, the Taoist can live as long as he wants. Shen Ji spoke, drinking Luo Ying's wine.

"I plan to go back to Mount Emei tomorrow, so I will say goodbye to everyone at the table. ”

"Mr. is leaving?"

"Hmm!"

"But the disciple has not yet recovered from his injuries and cannot travel far. This is exactly what Luo Ying was worried about, he thought about it for a long time, and seemed to have something to say, but he didn't say it, Shen Ji understood that Luo Ying was the master of a faction, and the martial arts conference was related to the future of the Emei faction, and it was inconvenient for him not to show his face outside, so he didn't keep Luo Ying in his words.

Shen Mu saw that Luo Ying didn't speak, so he said: "Senior, it's better for Meng Xuan to stay in Tianlong Tunbao to recuperate, what do you think?"

Luo Ying stayed in Tianlong Tunbao for a while, and he understood that the people of Tianlong Tunbao were not the kind of people who were stingy, so he said frankly and bluntly, "This is very good, but I have to bother Mr. Shen again." ”

Shen Ji said again: "If you let Mengyuan stay, how can the two sisters have a care?" The Shen family has no close relatives and daughters, and it is inconvenient for men to take care of them. Luo Ying thought that it would be good to stay and make her dream come true, so she nodded and agreed, and during the banquet, Luo Ying thanked Su Wen endlessly, and after dinner, they left separately.

Shen Mu told Shen Ji about Long Bayan's killing, but Shen Ji was puzzled, and he didn't understand who killed Long Bayan, thinking that Long Bayan's martial arts were very high, how could he be easily divided into corpses?

On the second day, Mengyuan and Shen Mu bid farewell to Luo Ying, Luo Ying looked at Shen Mu as a talent, and his appearance was good, thinking that although Shen Ji told him that Shen Mu was not his biological son, Shen Mu was also extremely filial to Shen Ji, and he was not by the side of the two apprentices, and he was relieved to take care of Mengyuan Mengxuan. Mengyuan cried parting, Luo Ying said a few words to Mengyuan, and then went back to the mountain, watching Luo Ying go away, Mengyuan was even more sad, Shen Mu comforted him, and said: "Cry, there is the pain of parting today, and only then can I have the joy of reuniting him one day." The two said goodbye to Luo Ying, and slowly returned to Tianlong Tunbao.

Luo Ying left, Mengyuan always had no sense of belonging in his heart, so when he was idle, he either went to take care of Mengxuan or went to chat with Shen Mu.

Time flies, and May has passed in a blink of an eye, under the diagnosis and treatment of Su Wen, Mengxuan finally woke up on the third day of the sixth month, Mengyuan was so happy that he was about to fly to the sky, and happily ran to tell Shen Mu, Shen Mu heard the words, and also came to visit Mengxuan.

Meng Xuan saw Shen Mu and Meng Yuan, and said, "Senior sister, I feel like I've been dead for a long time, are you dead?"

Mengyuan said: "What nonsense are you talking about? ”

Meng Xuan said: "If you don't die, how can I see you, how can I talk to you?"

Mengyuan said: "That's because the king of Hades doesn't accept you, saying that your longevity is not over." When Mengxuan heard this, he laughed out loud, the two sisters looked at each other and smiled, there were some tears in the corners of their eyes, which were tears of joy, Su Wen hurriedly said: "Mengxuan just woke up, don't be happy and sad." Shen Mu and Mengyuan followed the doctor's instructions.

Mengyuan said: "In order to heal you, I have suffered Brother Shen." Mengxuan asked why, Mengyuan told Shen Mu how to ask the doctor, how to take the horns of the four dislikes, Mengxuan was grateful to Shen Mu, and said that if it wasn't for Shen Mu, he would have reported to the Hades Palace, Shen Mu Mengyuan said: "Nonsense, you knew that you wanted to die so much, so I wouldn't save you." Meng Xuan saw that Shen Mu and Senior Sister spoke in unison, saying the same sentence word for word, and laughed out loud, Su Wen hurriedly stopped them, "Do you really want her to die?" Meng Yuan and Shen Mu were yelled at by Su Wen, so they quit.

After three or four days, Su Wen saw that Mengxuan's injuries were gradually recovering, so he gave Mengyuan Shen Mu a prescription and told them to take medicine according to this prescription, "I will go back to Xianglu Mountain tomorrow." The two of them obeyed.

Su Wen came to say goodbye to Shen Ji, Zhang Ming and his son, Zheng Lan and his son, Chen Yun and his son came to say goodbye, and the old friend left, and he was reluctant to give up, and he didn't know if he could see each other in this life? Shen Ji asked Shen Mu to give Su Wen a ride, and Shen Mu followed his words and sent Su Wen straight to the Wujiang ferry before going back. Shen Mu returned to Tianlong Tunbao, took care of Mengyuan Mengxuan very carefully, took Mengyuan to work in the fields when he was busy, and pushed Mengxuan to watch the scenery around with Mengyuan in his spare time.

Soon, Mengxuan was able to walk freely, she ran to Shen Mu excitedly and asked: "Brother Shen, what fun do you have here?can you take me and my senior sister to play?" She happened to bump into Shen Ji and Shen Mu discussing things, so she said "Uncle" timidly, Shen Ji saw that Mengxuan's qi and blood had recovered as normal, so he said: "Mu'er, it's the free season now, you can take Mengxuan girl out for a walk if you have time, don't forget the things I ordered." Shen Mu said: "Yes, father!"

Just came to Tianlong Tunbao for a long time, he had a lot of strength, often helped the Shen family to do some housework, moved some things to the street to sell, seven or eight times out of ten the work in the field was done by him, Shen Ji saw that he was honest and worked hard, and he was very relieved of him. He and Wang's mother managed the Shen family's courtyard in an orderly manner, but he was different from Wang's mother, he didn't come to the Shen family for money, as long as the Shen family took care of him three meals a day. Shen Mu wanted to take Mengyuan Mengxuan out to play, but he didn't know where to go, just used to run to Guiyang often and was familiar with the local customs, so Shen Mu came to ask what good places to go in Guiyang alone?

After thinking about it for a long time, he said: "Hongfeng Mountain (now Hongfeng Lake, there was no Hongfeng Lake in the Ming Dynasty), it is a good place to go." But Shen Mu didn't know the way, so he asked him to go with him.

Shen Mu, Mengyuan, Mengxuan, and the four of them left Tianlong Tunbao, and then took the road to the west of Guiyang City, the two places are about forty miles apart, and the four of them spent a whole day from morning to night, but the weather in June and July The air is sultry, the sun is scorching, and they have been on the road for a day, and they are suffering from the two girls, fortunately, they are all people who practice martial arts, and they are hard, not as weak as the petite and delicate flower girl. When the four of them came to the foot of Hongfeng Mountain, it was already evening, so they did not go up the mountain, and said that they would go up the mountain again tomorrow morning, so they found a farmhouse to spend the night. The farmhouse at night has a unique flavor, the love song duet makes people forget their troubles, the dancing makes people forget their tiredness, and the Dong family girl on the flower bridge makes people look pleasing to the eye.

The next day, the four of them quit the farmhouse, and went to the red maple mountain, it was midsummer at this time, the mountain was full of green maple trees, the mountains and rivers were connected, the green fields were thousands of miles, the pines and cypresses were verdant, the cliffs and steep rocks, quite imposing, but they were no different from other places in Guizhou, the three of them were responsible for taking the wrong place, and the three of them blamed him, so they said aggrievedly: "I also heard others say that this place is very fun, who knows that this mountain is full of maple trees?" Uncle, don't be aggrieved, it's really fun here, but it's just the wrong viewing season, if you look at it in late autumn, it's definitely a red world. He looked at it for a while, pointed happily to the distance, and said, "Mengyuan Mengxuan, do you see that the mountains are particularly like birds, snakes, and turtles?" Seeing that this place was no different from other places, the four of them quickly descended the mountain. They walked to a grand ancient tomb, it seems that no one has repaired it for many years, not even the tomb fluttering (when going to the grave, cut into a pattern and wrapped in a wooden branch and inserted into the grave pile of sacrifices), the surrounding area is overgrown with vines, it should have a thousand years of history, but the tomb has been moved, there is a freshly opened opening in front of the tomb, the footprints are just stepped on, just looked at the tomb, and then said to Shen Mu: "Brother Shen, are you afraid?" Shen Mu understood what he meant, and said: "Don't be afraid, but this is not very good?" Even if the ghosts and gods blame them, the ghosts and gods have to do it first to do the person who dug the grave before it's our turn!" Shen Mu has never done this kind of immoral thing of entering the grave since he was a child, even when he was a child, he bet with Zhang Huo, Chen Ming, and Zheng Xie that he was more courageous, but he just ran to the grave and slept for a night, and finally happily accepted five taels of silver from each person. At this time, just asking him to enter the tomb, he was still a little scared in his heart, and asked Mengyuan Mengxuan to wait outside, the second daughter was young and vigorous, and wanted to see what was in the ancient tomb, they thought to themselves, with Shen Mu, who was strong in martial arts, what else were they afraid of? Shen Mu refused, and when he saw that the two little women on the side wanted to learn this bad trick from them, he deliberately scared them, saying, "Let's go, let's go!" The two girls just took a step, and Shen Mu could stop them. In front alone, Shen Mu and Mengyuan Mengxuan followed behind with fear, Shen Mu saw that he was proficient and old-fashioned, so he asked: "Uncle Shan, did you often do this kind of thing before?" After they got down the steps, they came to a flat ground about three feet in length and width, surrounded by walls made of stone, and there were murals on the walls, and the graphic painting was to the effect of a hunting scene, but the shape of the painting was unbalanced, and it seemed that the painter deliberately did it, and there was nothing unusual about it. With a torch alone, there is a door inside, and if you look closely, there is a line of words on the right side of the door, which is: Whoever dares to send me to sleep, let me never sleep with me. Shen Mu saw the words, and then said: "Uncle, this ......" and said simply: "Ha...... The words of the dead are called ghost words, and you also believe the ghost words?" he said and entered through the door, and the three of them followed him in, and there was nothing else in it except for the spaciousness, and Mengxuan secretly thought that the place where the dead man lived was not much different from the house where the living lived, so he said, "This tomb is very big, I don't know what is strange in it?"

The more they went inside, the flame of the torch gradually weakened, but as long as they waited for a while, they rekindled as before, the four of them saw that there were two forks in the road, so they chose one of them and continued to walk forward, walked a few steps, and saw that there was no way out at the end of the straight end, so they looked left and right, Mengxuan also followed the blind touch, she felt that she had touched something, there was a sense of flesh and temperature, first five small ones, the more she touched the back, the bigger it became, she looked closely under the torch, it was five green fingers, she "ah......" screamed, but there were two different voices, which scared her so much that she jumped three feet high, and ran to hug Shen Mu tightly, Shen Mu was yelled at by her and her hair stood on end, and Mengyuan was also frightened by her scream and took a few steps back. Seeing this, he picked up the iron rod to resist the enemy, and when he saw that there was no response for a long time, he raised his torch and went forward to look at it, which also frightened him back a few steps, for he saw three people, three people who were looking at him with shining eyes.

Frightened, Shen Mu took out the "Yelang Sword", Mengyuan pulled out the "Meteor Sword", and looked at the front cautiously, just in case, he was bolder, and then shouted: "What person?" At this time, three people sweating slowly walked out, all holding short swords, and they simply concluded that they were the gravediggers, so they put down their high hearts, and after the three people saw their faces clearly, they also said, "Damn, it's really scary and scared to death."

It turned out that the three people went into the tomb in a hurry, and at this time, the tomb had just opened, and the air flow inside was not complete, and after walking not far, their torches were extinguished in a flash, and the three of them suddenly felt tinnitus, shortness of breath, chest tightness, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty breathing, and they suddenly encountered "heavy qi" [1] Therefore, he quickly touched the outside of the black light to ensure smooth breathing, but he happened to bump into Shen Mu, single, Mengyuan Mengxuan four people, this section of the journey is a straight ninety-degree angle, it looks like the end of the road, the two groups of people met, they were all startled by each other, and the different "Ah......" was one of them shouted with Mengxuan.

Just looked left and right at the unkempt three people, saw that their hands were different from others, and knew that they were people who often did this kind of "lack of morality", so he said, "How long have you three been doing this?"

One of them paused and said, "Ten years!"

He said, "You are from there, and why did you come here to dig graves?"

The man said: "People from northern Shaanxi." They didn't answer the question of why the tomb was dug up, one of them had a misty look in his eyes, Shen Mu thought that this tomb must be an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, so he asked fraudulently: "Looking for the golden seal of Yelang Kingdom?" They didn't reply, Shen Mu said again: "Those who get the golden seal will get the world, but I didn't expect you to live in northern Shaanxi and come to Guizhou to find it?" The man said: "What do we want the world to do? What we want is money." Shen Mu got the result he wanted to ask, avoiding questions often became a flaw in the question, and he knew where the golden seal was, so he didn't argue with it anymore.

Gradually, the torches burned more and more, just knowing that the air was gradually circulating, so the two groups lit the torches and walked together together, the three people had been rushing in front of Shen Mu and them, as if there was something valuable in it, as if they were afraid of being robbed by Shen Mu and them.

As the group reached the center of a relatively open area, they heard something ringing, all seven of them holding torches in their left hands and weapons in their right. Seeing this, the seven people knew that it was difficult to avoid, and they all thought, should they be buried here? Shen Mu Mengyuan raised his sword and blocked it ten times before it was blocked. Seven people saw that there was no movement, only to step forward, they just walked and felt that the floor under their feet was moving, suddenly, the floor fell in pieces, just yelled "jump", six people jumped to the opposite platform in response, only Meng Xuan was at a loss in place, and when everyone reacted, Meng Xuan had already fallen, just hurriedly raised the eight-foot iron rod, and shouted "Grab the iron rod", Meng Xuan struggled to grab it in a panic, just grabbed the iron rod, just pulled Meng Xuan up, Meng Xuan tears were scared out. They fixed their eyes on it, the place where it fell was upside down with a steel knife, there were several corpses on the steel knife, it was obvious that they died due to tomb robbery, and the seven of them were in a cold sweat, Shen Mu looked at the three people from northern Shaanxi, and thought that these three people had good martial arts.

When the wave subsided, the seven men did not seem to look back, and came inside, where there were many coffins, and in the middle there was a pool, and the pool was some distance from the coffin, but the smell of the water was strange, the smell of the water was slightly stinky, and the body of water was slightly yellow[2]. The three northern Shaanxi people opened the coffin one after another, and it was full of agate, precious stones, jade, gold and silver and other treasures and ornaments, but they still turned left and right, as if looking for something more important, and finally they turned their eyes to the coffin that had not yet been opened, this coffin was very special because it was made of stone, one of the northern Shaanxi people held a torch, and the other two pushed the sarcophagus away, and the sarcophagus opened with great force, and put out a cool air, and actually ignited a blue flame [3] The face of the person holding the torch in northern Shaanxi was burned by the fire, startled, and jumped back, and the flame was extinguished, and the three of them cautiously stepped forward to look, but saw that it was a dry corpse, and there was nothing else, and they all showed disappointment. Then they looked east and west, and it seemed that they were sworn by what they wanted, so they each looked around, and one of the northern Shaanxi people saw a very special box on the wall eight feet high, and wanted to take it down, but the box seemed to be fixed on the wall, and he borrowed a single iron rod to take it down, and there was sand flowing at the breach. At the same time, two other people from northern Shaanxi also fished out a box from the yellow pool, and they were so happy that they opened the box and saw that there was a yellow-colored thing in it that formed a square[4] , but not gold, they were curious, with a dagger everything, the cut surface was silvery-white luster, but quickly turned into a dark gray, the three of them were amazed that the square in the box had a color change, only to hear the sound of the slash, bang, the yellow block exploded, the fire soared, the yellow pool was also detonated by the yellow block, only saw the light, and said "climb down" The flames floated over their heads, and the two people of northern Shaanxi were surrounded by a sea of fire, and the screams were endless, and as soon as the explosion stopped, the mountain shook and moved, and the five people stood unsteadily, Shen Mu saw that the quicksand was constantly flowing, and there were as many as two stones [5], so he pointed to the quicksand and let Shan look at it, and said: "Run, the tomb water is coming soon." As soon as he finished speaking, the quicksand mouth has been flowing out of the water, the amount of water is getting bigger and bigger, the people of northern Shaanxi who are not dead see the death of two partners, sad, but there is no room for him to grieve, the stone wall has been washed down by the water, the five people have to do their best to run out of the tomb, fortunately there is a trap that places steel knives to block the water for a while, but the stones above everyone's heads are constantly collapsing, the water and stones are down, the falling stones are four or five hundred pounds heavy, if it falls on people, where is there a chance to live? Seeing something like a book floating in the trap, he picked it up with an iron rod, took it in his hand and ran out with all his might. The people of northern Shaanxi still had half of their bodies in the tomb, and the water filled the entire tomb, and they pulled it out of the tomb with a single force. The five people were so frightened that the three souls had lost two souls, and the seven souls had lost their five souls, and they were out of breath when they ran out of breath, Meng Xuan said: "'Those who dare to send me to sleep, let me never go to the house, and sleep with me', this is true...... It's true. ”

Seeing that the northern Shaanxi man was heartbroken, he comforted: "Brother, don't be sad, you should have thought that there would be such a day." ”

Digging people's graves is not a fair and righteous thing, the people of northern Shaanxi did not respond to the words, he saw that he only saved himself, but thanked: "Thank you for saving me, dare to ask the name of the Engong? The two companions who died were his brother Zhai Lan and his cousin Wang Xian, Zhai Qi was sad, and he went north after saying goodbye to the four.

Shen Mu, alone, the four of them got up and went to Guiyang after resting, and only saw that there was a turbidity in the center of the small lake behind the grave, and the water level of the lake had dropped, knowing that the lake was connected to the tomb, but the water was blocked with quicksand, when someone touched the quicksand, when the quicksand was exhausted, it was also the time when the lake water was irrigated.

Exegesis:

[1] The "heavy gas" in the text is actually CO2, which is a colorless, odorless, non-combustible, and non-flammable gas at room temperature, with a density greater than air, and the decay of animals and plants will release CO2 gas, and a large amount of CO2 usually accumulates in the deep wells drilled. The main symptoms are: headache, dizziness, tinnitus, shortness of breath, chest tightness, fatigue, rapid heartbeat, cyanosis of the cheeks, irritability, delirium, dyspnea, if the situation continues, there will be drowsiness, apathy, coma, reflexia, dilated pupils, incontinence, blood pressure drop and even death.

[2] The yellow body of water is kerosene.

[3] The blue flame is caused by the burning of biogas from the decaying corpses in the sarcophagus.

[4] The yellow square in the box is sodium metal. Sodium is a metal element, soft and light, can be cut with a knife, the new cut surface has a silvery-white luster, oxidized in the air into a dark gray, and water reacts violently, when the amount is large, it explodes, and the metal sodium will be yellow when soaked in kerosene and will be yellow and attached to the surface of sodium. The air in the tomb was humid, so it reacted with sodium, causing an explosion. If a reader reads it, don't get caught up in it, because at that time there could be no pure sodium metal.

(5) "Stone" sound dan, the ancient unit of weight.