Chapter 44 The Road to Bashu
"Yo ho! Let's go!"
After leaving the Liu family villa, Liu Sa immediately jumped into the car and said she was going to Chengdu. Everyone was very happy.
After all, Sichuan is known as the land of abundance, and now Chengdu has become a famous tourist attraction destination for Internet celebrities. Although I personally dislike the word Internet celebrity, I can't resist the temptation of Chengdu hot pot.
We all got into the car happily, but Shang Qingyun was the only one standing outside the car door, hesitating.
I thought he was afraid of motion sickness, so I told Liu Sa to go to the drugstore later to buy him some more effective motion sickness medicine.
But Shang Qingyun still stood in front of the car door without moving. I jumped out of the car and just wanted to coax him, but he handed me a letter.
When I saw the handwriting on the envelope, I immediately lost my composure: "This is! This is my grandmother's handwriting!"
Shang Qingyun nodded.
I opened the envelope hurriedly, and several other people got out of the car and came over.
I opened the letter and sure enough, it was written to me by my grandmother!
The first sentence grabbed my heart: "Xiaoyu, grandma is in Wudang Mountain now, everything is going well, but grandma misses you..."
"Senior..." I looked up.
Senior Liu Sa snapped his fingers: “OJBK, let’s go! Target, Wudang Mountain! Let’s go!”
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It only took us less than a day to drive to Wudang Mountain.
It’s neither far nor close. Geographically speaking, Wudang Mountain belongs to Shiyan City, Hubei Province, but in fact it is located at the junction of Henan and Hubei. According to my grandfather, in the era when he lived, food and other
There is often a shortage of food, so some people go to the deep mountains and forests of Wudang Mountains to become monks in order to eat or escape the disasters of war.
However, there are also many chivalrous and courageous Taoist priests who not only do not want to hide from the world, but throw away their fly whisks and swords, pick up their guns and join the battlefield to save the country. But that was a past event a long time ago.
The route we took was not to the mountain gate of Nanyan Crow Ridge, but to the Nanshen Road near the Lujia River in Danjiangkou. There is a small road near the Nanshen Road that leads directly to the inner mountains of Wudang Mountain. My grandfather once told me about this when I was a child.
It's a road, but I haven't walked it specifically. Fortunately, Shang Qingyun guided me the whole way.
According to Shang Qingyun, Wudang is divided into inner mountains and outer mountains. The outer mountains are the Taoist temples of Sanfeng, Xuanwu, Songxi and other sects.
Lord.
The first time I met Shang Qingyun, I entered the inner mountain by mistake.
According to legend, the Nanshin Road was a convenient road opened by Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xian, who made regular pilgrimages to Mount Wudang every year after he was demoted to Fang County. It is the only way to the inner mountains.
However, the road is rugged and difficult to walk, and it is easy to get lost. Generally, few people can find the correct road, so sentries are never set up.
But today we just drove to Minami Shinto when we were stopped.
What stopped us were two Taoist priests wearing blue robes: "Stop, you can't go in."
Erpang pulled down the window and looked at the two Taoist priests: "Do you know who we are? Dare you stop our car?"
"There will be a festival in the mountain recently, outsiders are not allowed in, please understand." The two Taoist priests politely said goodbye to the guests.
At this time, Shang Qingyun opened the car door and jumped out, then walked forward with a livid face.
When the two Taoist priests saw Shang Qingyun's expression change, they hurriedly saluted: "Uncle Shang."
Even I didn't expect that Shang Qingyun was so senior, but a ten-year-old boy was actually called uncle by two adults in their thirties, which shows that the Wudang sect has strict rules.
Seeing that Shang Qingyun's face was not good, the two of them acted timidly: "Uncle Master, please calm down. We didn't mean to stop you, but you really can't go back to the mountain today."
It seems that they misunderstood and thought that Shang Qingyun was unhappy because he was blocked. I thought to myself, how did you know that he was actually suffering from motion sickness?
Shang Qingyun frowned, and the two of them became even more frightened. One of them took out a token and said, "This is what Master Tiangan ordered. He said that it won't be too late for you to finish your work before returning to the mountain! We are only responsible for guarding the mountain road. , please also ask Master not to punish me."
I was surprised when I saw the submissive attitude of the two people, and I was curious about how terrifying Shang Qingyun was in their eyes.
Shang Qingyun took the token from the disciple in a depressed manner. We all thought he would be furious, and then fight all the way to Wudang Mountain to question why he was not allowed to return to the mountain.
Unexpectedly, Shang Qingyun actually turned around and came back and said to us: "We are not allowed in."
I almost laughed. Who would have thought that Taoist Master Shang Qingyun, who was fighting countless living corpses in the tomb without any fuss, would actually show such an expression.
But we didn't want to laugh, so we had to comfort him a little, and then left in disgrace.
Liu Sa sat in the passenger seat and turned on the navigation. After all, it was a long journey and it would be too tiring for Liu Sa to drive alone. Fortunately, Erpang and I both had driver’s licenses and could interchange each other: “That’s fine, let’s go to Bashu first. Your grandmother was worried when she saw you like this."
After hearing what Senior Liu Sa said, I thought so.
Grandma is old.
Maybe Uncle Tiangan was afraid that my grandmother would be worried and sleepless if she found out that I was not in good health, so he first asked us to go to Bashu to find Hei Miao to cure the poison.
I told Shang Qingyun my thoughts, and Shang Qingyun was relieved a lot.
Our next destination is Sichuan.
We bought a lot of snacks and mineral water on the way there. This journey was no better than going to Wudang.
The total length of the expressway from Xichuan to Chengdu is more than a thousand kilometers, but looking at the figure of more than a thousand kilometers, it doesn't seem that far away, but actually driving this way is very tiring.
In addition, several of us just experienced a narrow escape from death in the Sea Eye Dragon Palace not long ago, and we all have more or less hidden injuries on our bodies.
Walking and resting along the way, the journey that originally took one day ended up taking two and a half days.
When we arrived in Chengdu, it was already Sunday night.
According to the instructions of Mr. Liu, our contact person in Chengdu will meet us at Xiaolongkan Old Hotpot on Chunxi Road on the fourth day after our arrival. During this period, we can go shopping in Chengdu and spend all our money. The reimbursement by the Liu and Mo families can be regarded as a small compensation from the Ninth Family for the news we brought back from the Sea Eye Dragon Palace.
By the way, after meeting the old Patriarch Liu, we returned the notes of Mo Qiaoyu and Lu Fang to the Ninth Family, along with the amulets they left behind.
In addition, I also confirmed with the Han family that the missing Han Qi was indeed a member of the clan sent by the Han family to enter the Sea Eye Dragon Palace. However, since I did not find any related relics, I could only take pictures of Han Qi on my mobile phone. The suicide note engraved on the stone wall of Limuling was sent to Uncle Liu Anyu, who would print it out and deliver it to the head of the Han family another day.
We booked five private rooms at a five-star hotel in Taikoo Li near Chunxi Road. Senior Liu Sa showed something as soon as we entered the door. Originally, the front desk of the hotel saw a few of us disgraced country bumpkins coming in and looked down upon us.
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As a result, after receiving confirmation from Jiushijia, we directly asked the lobby manager to arrange it for us personally.
This is the first time in my life that I have enjoyed such luxurious service.
"Who is that? What did you just show them? Why did the other party's attitude change all of a sudden?" The five of us soaked in the hotel's physiotherapy hot spring, washed away our fatigue, and the fat man lay on his back beside the hot spring.
, cover the area to be mosaic with the wooden basin.
"Liu Sa, my name is Liu Sa. You did it on purpose, right?" Liu Sa rolled her eyes at him, flipped her wrist and created a black-faced silver card out of thin air, "This is a silver card that only belongs to the direct lineage of our Ninth Family.
, but any property under the name of the Ninth Family will be polite when seeing this card, it is valid nationwide."
"No way! This hotel is also owned by your Ninth Family?"
"That's not true." Liu Sa waved a glass of red wine in his hand. He didn't know where he got it. It was a hot spring paired with red wine, and no one could drive him away.
"This is because Brother Mo Ya from the Mo family is bored. Recently, he is learning how to invest and manage money. He first practiced investing in hotels. It's not really an industry."
Several of us secretly cursed in our hearts, what a rich life it is.
That sentence really fits the bill. Do you think rich people are as happy as you imagine? No, rich people are happy beyond your imagination.
I lay on my back on the cobblestone edge by the hot spring, looking up at the steam floating upward until it disappeared under the light. In the light, I seemed to see Professor Jiang's face.
Until the end, I didn’t understand what Professor Jiang’s last words meant.
Dragon Palace...Kunlun...Liu
What exactly is Professor Jiang going to say?
And on the strip of cloth left by my grandfather in the box containing the mother voodoo: Sea Eye Dragon Palace, what is the dragon?
It's like it's reminding me of something, but I can't figure it out.
Professor Jiang once said that the Huanlong clan kept the dragon clan and suppressed them in Suolongjing for a secret, and this secret involved the Ninth Family.
But the Ninth Family seemed unaware of this.
A secret about a certain group of people that this group of people doesn't know. What kind of secret would it be?
My intuition tells me that Sea Eye Dragon Palace is just the beginning, and what we have to come into contact with next is the source of everything and the truth of everything.
In fact, when I recalled this past event many years later, I realized that we were really young and naive at that time.
I soaked in the hot spring for a long time, and Shang Qingyun returned to the room early. I heard Shang Qingyun say before that he had been soaked in special potions made from many rare Chinese medicines since he was a child, which also created his magical powers.
I had only heard of the scene in martial arts novels where someone takes a medicinal bath and is reborn and develops peerless skills. I never thought it was true.
But when I asked Shang Qingyun if other people could take medicinal baths, he flatly denied it and said that most people would never be able to bear it.
For Shang Qingyun, soaking in a hot spring is no different from taking a bath, as long as it is clean.
Ah Hui also went back very early. The reason was that he had not taken a bath for a long time and the water turned black when he touched it. We strictly prohibited him from polluting the water source and asked him to go to the bathhouse to clean himself before coming back.
Chapter completed!