Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "Haha, speaking of it, I really need your help."
"Professor Wen, please speak!"
Wen Qingshan paused and asked: "I would like to ask, how many caves are there around the Qipan Valley?"
Second Master Qi took a puff of dry smoke and said: "There are quite a few caves in our area. There are caves in front of and behind the mountains. Moreover, there are large caves within the caves and small caves inside. It is very complicated. It takes less than ten and a half days to complete the tour."
"
After listening to what Second Master Qi said, I couldn't help but be slightly startled. I didn't expect that Wen Qingshan actually told me that there is indeed a huge underground cave system around Qipan Valley. From this, it seems that the Dashun Treasure is really possible.
Hidden in this area.
Wen Qingshan seemed a little excited and continued to ask: "Then have you ever gone inside these caves?"
Second Master Qi smiled and said: "Haha, I'm not afraid of your jokes, Boss Wen. I have never been to any of these caves. Our ancestors once left an ancestral saying that caves are where mountain gods live. If the mountain gods are disturbed,
The people in the village will suffer. Therefore, we people in the village dare not enter the cave easily."
We were all surprised. We really didn’t expect that the ancestors of the Bai family actually left such an incredible ancestral precept. Could it be that something strange had happened in the cave?
"So, haven't you ever gone into the cave to see it?" Wen Qingshan looked a little disappointed.
"That's not the case. In the past, very few people went in. However, in recent years, some young people in the village did not take the ancestral teachings seriously and went into the cave to knock out stalagmites. For this broken stone, there were actually people in the city.
I came here to collect it, saying it was used to make a bonsai, but I don’t know what this bonsai is." When Mr. Qi said this, he suddenly thought of something, turned to me and said: "By the way, Shi Yu, do you remember Bai Xiaowu?
What?"
I nodded immediately. Bai Xiaowu is Ma Laoqi's nephew. The incident happened when Master was with him. Naturally, I will not forget him.
Second Master Qi said: "Bai Xiaowu, this kid, often goes into caves now. Speaking of which, he is probably the person in the village who is most familiar with caves. You can ask him about some things."
"Then where is he now?" Wen Qingshan asked quickly.
A villager said: "This guy Xiao Wu hangs out with a few foreigners all day long, and he doesn't know what he is doing." As he said this, he suddenly looked up and looked out of the yard and said, "I'm talking about this guy.
, and here he comes.”
Looking in the direction of his gaze, I saw two young people passing by a field path. They stopped from time to time and looked towards us.
Both of them seemed to be around thirty years old. One of them had a strong build and was wearing a white shirt, black trousers and leather shoes. His hair was three-quarter length and he had a cigarette in his mouth. The other one was wearing a white shirt, black trousers and leather shoes.
His figure is even burlier, with dyed yellow hair. He wears a black printed T-shirt on his upper body and a pair of tight jeans on his lower body. There are tattoos on his arms. Judging from their more fashionable outfits, they don't look like Qiping.
The people in the village look like tourists coming here from the city.
I looked at them for a long time, but I didn't recognize which one was Bai Xiaowu, because the two of them had almost no resemblance to the appearance of Bai Xiaowu in my impression.
Second Master Qi shouted at the top of his lungs: "Xiao Wu! Come here."
The young man in a white shirt turned around and said, "What's the matter? Second Master, I have to play cards!"
I was slightly startled. It turned out that this person was Bai Xiaowu! I didn’t expect that he would look like this now. When I saw him more than ten years ago, he was quite thin and had no color on his face.
He looked gloomy due to side-effects, but now he is not only strong in stature, but also quite rosy in complexion, completely different from the other two.
When Second Master Qi heard that Bai Xiaowu said he was going to play cards, his face darkened and he cursed angrily: "You're a prodigal, you only know how to play cards! Come here, I have something to ask you!"
Bai Xiaowu whispered a few words to Huang Mao who was standing next to him. Huang Mao turned around and left. Bai Xiaowu reluctantly walked towards us.
"Second Master, what's going on?"
Second Master Qi pointed at me, raised his head and asked Bai Xiaowu: "Do you still recognize him?"
Bai Xiaowu glanced at me and replied indifferently: "I don't know."
Second Master Qi snorted lightly and said coldly: "He is Mo Shiyu, the disciple of Taoist Priest Mo who saved you back then!"
Bai Xiaowu glanced at me again, his expression still indifferent, "It's been so many years, not to mention he was just a baby at that time, how could I recognize him?"
Although Bai Xiaowu's words were reasonable, his cold tone made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't have a good impression of this guy to begin with, because in my subconscious, I would always involuntarily associate the master's death with him. After all,
When something happened to Master, he was the only one present at the scene, and the key point is that when something happened to Master, he escaped from the ravine alive. Although he would not be a murderer, I am afraid that Master's death has nothing to do with him.
It doesn't matter.
Second Master Qi was also angered by Bai Xiaowu's words. Huo De stood up and raised the tobacco pole in his hand to hit Bai Xiaowu. Several villagers sitting next to him quickly stood up and held him back.
Second Master Qi was so angry that his face turned red and he cursed: "You ungrateful guy, if it weren't for Taoist Priest Mo, would you be alive today!? Who can show you that you are half-dead now!"
Bai Xiaowu didn't answer, he lowered his head, clenched his teeth, and his face was ashen.
Although I felt unhappy in my heart, I was still a little surprised that Mr. Qi got angry because of Bai Xiaowu's words. What surprised me even more was that instead of trying to dissuade Mr. Qi, several villagers also followed suit and criticized him.
Come on, Bai Xiaowu.
After listening to them talk for a while, I finally understood what was going on. In fact, they were not blaming Bai Xiaowu because of his bad attitude toward me, but because they had accumulated resentment for a long time.
It turns out that since that incident, Bai Xiaowu's temperament has undergone great changes. He was originally very filial to his parents, but he has become more and more rebellious. Over the years, he has caused a lot of troubles, because he was infected with
His bad gambling habit not only often stole things from the villagers, but also secretly sold the family's water buffalo, forcing his parents to drink pesticides in anger and both died. Now, no one in the village can control him, of course, only
Second Master Qi can still say a few words to him.
Seeing that the villagers not only had no intention of stopping blaming Bai Xiaowu, they became more and more enthusiastic, and even brought out the incident of Bai Xiaowu stealing someone's chicken seven or eight years ago. Huang Yixian was worried to no end, so he had to step forward to start a fight.
After some persuasion from him, the villagers stopped.
Bai Xiaowu kept his head lowered from beginning to end, without saying a word. It wasn't until everyone stopped talking that he raised his head, his expression still indifferent, as if he had long been used to the villagers' accusations against him, and he said lightly:
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
Bai Xiaowu turned around and was about to leave, but Second Master Qi called him out again: "Wait a minute!" Bai Xiaowu turned around again, and Second Master Qi took a puff of dry tobacco, sat on a stool to calm down, and then spoke.
Said: "This Professor Wen is an expert from the provincial capital. This time he came with Shi Yu and Huang Daochang to inspect the caves around our Qipan Valley. You are the most familiar with the caves in the village. They want to know more about the caves."
Please introduce the situation to them."
Bai Xiaowu glanced at Wen Qingshan and said coldly: "What are these broken caves worth investigating? I don't have anything to introduce. There are only rocks in the caves!"
Second Master Qi was about to get angry, but Wen Qingshan stepped forward and said to Bai Xiaowu with a smile: "Haha, brother Xiaowu, don't worry, I won't waste your time in vain." As he spoke, he took out his wallet.
He took out a few hundred-yuan bills from it and handed them to Bai Xiaowu, "How about this? How about I buy you a few hours for five hundred yuan?"
Bai Xiaowu was stunned when he looked at the money in Wen Qingshan's hand. All the villagers looked at each other in shock. They probably didn't expect that Wen Qingshan would actually spend money to buy the idle Bai Xiaowu's time. For someone like him,
, I’m afraid the most indispensable thing is time.
Seeing that Bai Xiaowu did not reach out to take the money, Wen Qingshan tilted his neck and asked: "What? Are you unwilling to sell me your time? Or do you think the money is too little?"
Only then did Bai Xiaowu react, snatched a few hundred-yuan bills from Wen Qingshan's hand, and said loudly: "Sell! Why not sell!"
When Second Master Qi saw that Bai Xiaowu actually took the money, he immediately stood up, pointed at Bai Xiaowu's nose and scolded: "You beast, Professor Wen came to you to ask about the situation, you... you actually..."
Before Second Master Qi finished speaking, Wen Qingshan hurriedly advised: "Second Master Qi, there is no need to be angry. I have always thought that time is the most precious thing in the world. Since I delayed brother Xiao Wu's time, I must give him a certain reward.
." Having said this, Wen Qingshan turned to look at Bai Xiaowu and said, "Brother Xiaowu, since you have accepted the money, please sit down and have a chat."
Bai Xiaowu put the money into his pocket, and without being polite, he pulled a bench and sat down. This made Second Master Qi feel dissatisfied again, and glared at Bai Xiaowu with a pair of resentful eyes, but Bai Xiaowu didn't care at all.
He just started chatting with Wen Qingshan.
Wen Qingshan asked him about the distribution of karst caves around Qipan Valley. Bai Xiaowu told us that there are three karst caves distributed around Qipan Valley, named Hukou Rock, ** Rock and Feibat Rock. Among them, they are the largest in area and have the most terrain.
The most complicated thing is Hukou Rock, which is named because it looks like a tiger's mouth. There are large caves within the cave and small caves, and the caves are connected. Because the terrain in the cave is very complicated, if an unfamiliar person enters the cave and is not careful, he may fall into the cave.
I lost my way inside, so it has another name, Mizong Seventy-Two Cave.