The Ninth Departure
"Master, is this the map of Huanxue Forbidden City?" Qin Feng asked...
"Yeah." My father nodded, as if he had already recorded the whole picture. Three minutes ago, Peanut had already started to turn to the side to smoke.
"What exactly is that glowing thing?" Qin Feng continued to ask.
"That is a kind of corpse worm. When it is still a larvae, as long as you put it in a mold, it will grow up as the mold. After it is released, it will not change anything. When it dies, it will become what it looks like when it grows up." said Dad.
Qin Feng seemed to be very interested in the thing and asked again: "What's its name? Why haven't I even heard of it before?"
My father shook his head, "This kind of insect has no name because it grows very special." My father stared at the blue corpse worm and said, "There is a top-quality treasure cave on the earth vein, called the "Wanxiang Jizong". Legend has it that as long as a person who died normally is buried in the land of the Wanxiang Jizong, the descendants of that person, even those who knew during his lifetime, will get great benefits. But if a person who died suddenly or died unjustly in the Wanxiang Jizong, then the treasure cave will be completely reversed and become '
Nine Yin Corpse Vein’ Those who die within a radius of 999 miles will defraud the zombie. This is quite good. It is said that in the center of the Nine Yin Corpse Vein, a very strange ghost ulcer will grow. Every thousand years, that ghost ulcer will eat once. After eating it, tens of thousands of people will die in the world. So some people call that kind of ghost ulcer "Wanjie". They say that after Wanjie eats people, they will spit out a kind of corpse insect. These corpse insects are dormant around Wanjie, and what we see in front of us is one of them."
Qin Feng heard it very seriously, "But what do Wanjie want these corpse insects to do? Use it as an electric light?"
"Hmph." Dad laughed, "A corpse worm like this can't do anything, but we can't know what tens of thousands or even hundreds of them can only do."
Erlangzi also became interested and asked, "In other words, the person who possesses this kind of corpse insect has been to Huanxue Forbidden City, but didn't you say before that no one who has been there came out?"
"Having this kind of corpse insect at least means that the man has been to the Nine Yin Corpse Vein and has returned alive. Theoretically, the Nine Yin Corpse Vein is not as good as the Huanxue Forbidden City. However, there were rumors of exploring the Huanxue Forbidden City a thousand years ago. It is not surprising that some special things have happened in such a long time. My grandfather's generation has kept this map in his hands, but at that time the conditions were not good enough to allow them to come and find it. Later, the conditions were given, but unfortunately, the map was taken away by the eldest girl's father again."
Neither Fatty nor I spoke. Although my face was not too excited, our hearts were already surging. After listening to my father’s narration, I had a guess in my mind.
Perhaps, in the Yue Opera team in the old Shanghai, there was the person who had been to the Nine Yin Corpse and came out of the Huanxue Forbidden City as my father said. This map might have been made by him.
Then, the opera troupe and the one who sang in my dreams, overlapped with the fat man's experience. The letter Liu Jinsun wrote to my grandfather must have nothing to do with it. The most outrageous thing is that my long-dead mother was also vaguely related to this matter.
Maybe it was a mistake in my memory, but once my memory is fine, my mother, who also lives with my father and grandfather, must know something.
I didn't expect that things would become more complicated at this critical moment.
The fat man quietly winked at me, meaning that I would stop thinking about it. There were two guys with amazing observation skills sitting in the room, maybe it was my behavior that would make them suspicious.
I sighed in my heart. After the conversation last night, I felt that I and Dad had already gotten very close to these issues. But now it seems that it is my wishful thinking. Dad never told me the truth.
At this time, Guan Ze on the corpse worm on the table gradually became dim. The deer oil wine completely dried up.
"We can only keep the map in our minds. We can't let others know about this thing. Qin Feng, you can use it to burn it." As he said that, my father pried up the deer oil sticking to the table with a knife, broke it into three sections, and then handed it to Qin Feng.
Qin Feng went out with the things, and Erlangzi also opened the curtains.
"Okay, you guys go and prepare. At five o'clock tomorrow morning, the other five people will pick us up outside the city." After my father finished speaking, he stood up in a leisurely manner and walked out of the house. Erlangzi followed, and only me, Peanuts and Fatty were left in the house.
At this time, Peanut said, "Your father didn't finish his words just now. He must have known the person who made this map."
The sudden words of Peanut made my mind flash. This is exactly what I guessed just now. If my mother had something to do with the Yue Opera team in the old Shanghai, then my father should also know that if he continues to go down, he can prove that someone in the Yue Opera team is the survivor of Huanxue Forbidden City.
Before I could speak, the fat man said, "Nothing is important. I think we should think about the information on that map. What are you doing? What do you think?"
I wondered why Fatty had to tell the question over this question. Later I found out that Fatty thought that Peanut and my father had too many problems hidden from me. We already have some clues in our hands. If we say it out, Peanuts might use some methods to lead us to the wrong direction. Fatty told me that the best way is to go to old Shanghai to inquire about these things.
The logical order he gave was: the totem problem can indicate what kind of relationship was Liu Jinsun and grandpa. In this way, we may know who the weird guy wearing gloves in the photo was. I know what kind of relationship he had with our Yuan family, and then the secret of our old Yuan family would surface.
No matter what my father does or what he does, it must have something to do with our Yuan family themselves. So I can solve my father's plan easily. As long as I know all this, my doubts will be completely solved.
"Totem—Grandpa and Liu Jinsun—Old photos—Old Yuan’s secret—My father’s plan”
This is what the fat man thought. As for the Daluo Feng Shui, the four-way mountain and river map, the boat, the fate of the fat man ignored them. He thought that these were not important. I just needed to know the part that I was associated with the whole thing.
This is an extremely realistic and feasible idea. Maybe I have to do this in the end if I want to break my head.
But I also think that the fat man's idea seems to be missing some key parts.
Peanuts were smoking, as if thinking about something.
"After I read the map just now, I didn't understand a problem." Peanut said.
"What's the problem?" I leaned forward slightly.
Peanut continued: "That map that looks like a human face is very complicated. Putting aside the lines, we completely paint it black, it will be a human face. If I remember correctly, that human face, I have seen it in a noble tomb in the early Shang and Zhou dynasties before. Such a face is usually cast on bronze ware, and nothing special."
"Are you suspicious that Huanxue Forbidden City was a tomb from the Shang and Zhou dynasties?" said the fat man.
Peanut smiled and asked the fat man, "Do you think it's possible?"
"Of course it's impossible." The fat man immediately replied, "Where was the territory of the Shang Dynasty at that time? Not to mention the current Xinjiang province, it has not even passed through the Yellow River Basin. I heard that Huanxue Forbidden City is a cemetery, and no matter how outrageous it is, it will be from the Shang Dynasty."
I thought about it and asked, "Will that be the same time? Maybe at that time, that kind of face shape was popular in the world."
"I'll go, you can be more clear-headed. During the Shang Dynasty, whether there are people living in Karakoram was a problem. It's still popular. Go and go, stay wherever you are cool." The fat man didn't want to discuss these with me.
"When was that not the Shang Dynasty?" I also felt ridiculous.
The fat man continued, "Didn't you just hear it? It's been around a thousand years, which means it was around a thousand years ago, and it must have been during the Tang and Song dynasties. Don't let your thoughts go so shallow and short, maybe the Huanxue Forbidden City has nothing to do with our China at all. Think about it, there are so many countries around you, and it's probably a foreign fighter."
Peanut shook his head, "No, I don't know anything else, but the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss is absolute in the Fantasy Snow Forbidden City, and it can just prove that Fantasy Snow Forbidden City is something from ancient China."
"Then what do you think is going on?" asked the fat man.
"Escape." Peanut said, "I think the Forbidden City of Huanxue may be a cemetery established by a fugitive king in ancient Chinese history. What might have happened at that time that forced the king to migrate across the country. Then they went to Xikunlun and buried everything about themselves here."
After a while of silence, Peanut continued: "There is nothing on that map related to the landform of Xi Kunlun, so it can only be the internal structure of Huanxue Forbidden City. There are such things to build the entire mausoleum into a human face, but without exception, such construction has a purpose. I think it is definitely not a coincidence that it is similar to the bronze face of the early Western Zhou Dynasty. Huanxue Forbidden City must have some connection with the Western Zhou Dynasty."
When the fat man heard this, his eyes widened. "Damn, then, if it was a large tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, we would have made a fortune this time. If we could find a few jade artifacts from the Western Zhou Dynasty, we would probably not have to worry about spending money in our lifetime."
I suddenly remembered something again, "Hmph, yes, so you can really buy a courtyard house for one hundred people in your family in Yanjing." I mean, just be your dream, don't think of these things.
The fat man ignored me and then asked Peanut: "Hey, then you can tell that the part on the map is a tomb chamber?"
Peanut smiled, "Since it's a cemetery, there must be tombs everywhere."
After hearing this, the fat man stood up immediately.
"What are you doing?" I asked with a glaring look.
"I'm going to sleep, and I'm fully energetic and have the strength to move things in the future."
The matter came to an end. The three of them lay in a crooked manner in their spacious suite.
The next day we arrived. Before dawn, the six of us left the hotel and walked directly to the west of the city. On the way, I asked my father, is it just us the only ones who can do this? My father said that there is nothing we can do. As long as we find the entrance, the three guides can't follow us anymore. However, uncles and uncles and the third uncles will soon come over to pick us up nearby. As long as we send a signal, they will come immediately.
When we left the city, the surroundings were very secluded. From a distance, we saw the four-station headlights on in the distance. We ran over and saw that they were two large off-road vehicles.
Next to a car in front, the three local guides my sister-in-law found were sitting on the ground fighting against the landlord. When we saw that we were coming, we packed up and stood up.
When I looked at the three Tajiks, I immediately found that they all looked similar but were of different ages. After introducing them, I realized that this was a family of three generations. The old one was named Tuhti, who was over seventy years old, but he was very profound and strong. The middle-aged man named Aman, who looked a little honest. The young man of his grandchildren seemed to be less than twenty years old, and he was called Buck.
My dad and the others should have had enough money before, so the three of them were very enthusiastic about us.
I turned my head and saw that my father invited two other so-called "experts", but I happened to see my father walking towards the car behind.
After seeing and drinking, I didn't know if the two were masters, but that attitude was quite awesome. It was obviously found by my father, but the two men were sitting leisurely behind the car like the two princes, and had no intention of coming down to talk to us at all.
I didn't like it, so Qin Feng and Fatty became even more angry. So we ignored those two people.
Before leaving, my father told us that the two people behind were lamas he paid a lot of money to pick up. Such people are not very famous in the Tao, but they can definitely help us.
The two taller ones were called "Brother Jiu", and the shorter ones were called "Just Master Shui". My father told us to be polite to others on the way. These people were very pretty. If they were furious, they would be troublesome if they were left.
I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be enough if I didn’t talk to those two people anyway?
Then, I, Fatty, Peanut, had one of the three guides. The youngest Buck was in a car in front, and the one who drove was Buck's grandfather, Tuheti. The others took the car in the back with my father. At less than 5:10, the car set out in the direction of the Karakoram Corridor.
Before dawn, it was very cold around. But less than two hours after the sun came out, the fat man and I were so hot that we were sweating all over. We were afraid of the sun when we took off, and it was uncomfortable if we didn’t take off. Fortunately, there was a little wind around, otherwise I might have had heatstroke before I reached the snow mountain.
You said this place is really, with so many snow-capped mountains around it, and it is still so hot. As a result, the little Buck told me in a pretty good way: "This is a continental climate, with a drought, and there is very little water dropping at the bottom of the snow-capped mountains. Generally, you outsiders can't stand it. But our place is very interesting. It is the land overlooked by the divine birds, and there are magic everywhere here."
Chapter completed!