I was slightly startled: "Uncle, do you think so too?"
Huang Yixian turned his head and glanced at Bai Sanyuan, who was chatting with Fatty Niu. He put his index finger to his mouth, said "shush" and lowered his voice: "Keep your voice down, don't let Brother Sanyuan hear it! Let's go." Go in and take a look."
We raised our legs and crossed the half-foot-high threshold and walked into Qiyun Temple.
Looking around, the temple is in a mess. Half of the roof has collapsed, there are tiles and broken wood everywhere, and the floor is even covered with weeds. In the center of the temple, there is a smashed shrine. Except for a huge spider, there was almost nothing. However, there were some smashed Taoist statues on the ground next to the shrine.
I looked down and suddenly, a statue thrown in the corner caught my attention.
Out of curiosity, I walked forward and picked up the statue. It was a black clay statue. In fact, strictly speaking, it could not be considered a statue because only a head and half of the upper body were left. It must have been * *It was smashed by someone during the period.
The statue looked quite special. It had a fierce look. It was not like the statues of the founders of the Sanqing Dynasty that are common in ordinary Taoist temples. I wiped off the thick layer of dust on the statue and held it in my hand for a closer look. I feel like I've seen it somewhere before, but I can't remember it.
Huang Yixian came over, took a look at the statue in my hand, and said in confusion: "Why is there such an ugly statue? It doesn't look like Tao, but more like a demon."
After hearing what Huang Yixian said, my mind suddenly flashed and I thought of where I had seen a similar statue before, in the old house in Ma Tou Town! After subduing the hunchback guarding the old house, we walked in In the main room, he saw such a ferocious statue of gods and demons enshrined on the shrine in front of the main room. Wen Qingshan thought that it might be the totem god of the Black Evil Cult - the Black Evil God. If this is true, then this statue Zuo Qiyun Temple is very likely to be related to the Heisha Gui Cult! Considering that Li Zicheng may also believe in the Heisha Gui Cult, this seems to further confirm that there is indeed some connection between Qiyun Temple and the Dashun Treasure.
Thinking of this, I felt excited, and without saying a word, I immediately put it into my satchel.
Huang Yixian asked in confusion: "You brat, why did you put such a mutilated statue in your bag? You must have been hanging out with Boss Wen for a long time, and you thought it was still an antique!"
I told Huang Yixian what I had discovered. After hearing this, he was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time.
The two of us searched inside the temple again, but found nothing else. At this time, Bai Sanyuan shouted from outside: "Huang Daochang! Shi Yu! Have you finished reading?" I quickly replied: "It's finished! We are here Just come out!”
The two of us walked out of the Taoist temple. Bai Sanyuan and Fatty Niu were waiting outside the Taoist temple.
Seeing us walking out of the Taoist temple, Fatty Niu asked curiously: "Boss, what are you looking at inside? Why did it take you so long to go in?" As he asked, he stretched his neck and took a look inside the Taoist temple.
I gave him a gentle push and said, "There's nothing interesting to see once you see the Taoist temple! Come on, let's go see the whole picture of Qipan Valley!"
Bai Sanyuan led us to the edge of the cliff. When we reached the edge of the cliff, we felt strong gusts of wind coming, which made my body sway slightly. I quickly stabilized my body and looked down the cliff again. After taking a glance, I felt dizzy. This was not an ordinary height. If I fell from here, I would be shattered to pieces. However, the view here is excellent, and the entire Qipan Valley is truly unobstructed.
Bai Sanyuan pointed his hand towards the valley and said, "Looking down from Qiyun Peak, do you think Qipan Valley looks like a chess game?"
I squinted my eyes and stared at the Chessboard Valley for a while. Not to mention, the entire Chessboard Valley was in a square shape, really like a huge chessboard, and the small hills scattered throughout the valley were like chess pieces.
, it seems that the name Qipan Valley is worthy of its name.
Huang Yixian turned to me and said: "You brat, you are still planning to enjoy the scenery here! Why don't you quickly take out the camera and take some photos? Standing on the edge of this cliff is really scary!"
Only then did I realize what I was doing. I quickly took out my camera from my bag and took a dozen photos of the Qipan Valley below the cliff. After taking the photos, we turned around and were about to leave. Bai Sanyuan said again: "We used to have seven buildings in our village.
The old houses were built on seven hills. Looking down from here at that time, they looked more like seven chess pieces."
He said it unintentionally, but the listener has a heart. After hearing this, Huang Yixian suddenly turned his head: "What did you just say? Seven chess pieces?" When he said "seven chess pieces", he raised his voice and prolonged his voice.
I immediately understood what he meant. In the red game engraved on the inside of Li Zicheng’s coffin, there were only seven chess pieces left!
Bai Sanyuan did not expect such a big reaction from Huang Yixian. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "I just said it looks like it, but of course it's not a real chess piece..."
Before he could finish speaking, Huang Yixian couldn't wait to ask: "Then do you still remember which hills those seven old houses were built on?"
"Of course I remember! That's it! And that..." Bai Sanyuan pointed towards the bottom of the mountain, but we didn't understand at all which mountains he was talking about.
It's a pity that the photo hasn't been developed yet, so I can't label it. I was about to ask him to label it for us after the photo is developed. After taking a look at Fatty Niu, I suddenly had a new idea.
The fat man said: "Fat Niu, can you draw a topographic map of Qipan Valley, and then ask Brother Sanyuan to mark the locations of the seven old houses on the map?"
Fatty Niu glanced at the bottom of the cliff and said tremblingly: "It's okay to draw... but... when I look down from here, I... I feel dizzy..."
"What's there to be afraid of! Aren't we all here with you? Hurry up and draw!"
Fatty Niu had no choice but to take out a pen and paper from his backpack, found a relatively flat stone and sat down, put his backpack on his thigh, and started drawing on the white paper with a pen.
This kid loves painting and has an extraordinary talent in this area. Although he is timid, as soon as he picks up the paintbrush, he seems to be a different person. The timidity on his face disappears and his legs no longer shake.
, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to it.
It took him nearly half an hour to finally finish the topographic map of Qipan Valley. When he showed it to us, everyone was stunned. This was not a topographic map, it was just a landscape painting! It was nothing like what we saw.
The scene is almost the same.
I couldn't help but sigh: "Hey! If I had known you could draw so well, why would I have carried such a heavy camera up here!"
Huang Yixian handed the topographic map to Bai Sanyuan and said, "Brother Sanyuan, please mark the specific locations of the seven old houses."
Bai Sanyuan took the picture and looked at it. He thought for a moment and drew circles on it with a pen. After a while, he marked it and handed the picture back to Huang Yixian. Huang Yixian held the picture and looked at it for a long time.
, suddenly slapped his head and said excitedly: "That's right! That's right! This is the endgame!"
Bai Sanyuan had no idea what Huang Yixian was talking about, and asked blankly: "Master Huang, what endgame are you talking about?"
Only then did Huang Yixian realize that he had let something slip, and hurriedly said: "No...nothing, I...I mean, this looks like the end of a game. By the way, you can play chess, right?"
He changed the subject.
Bai Sanyuan smiled and said: "We are from Qipan Valley, why can't we play chess? Everyone in our village is a chess master! My father almost never loses."
"Really! When we get down the mountain later, I will definitely have to play some games with Second Master Qi!" Huang Yixian finally avoided the topic. He carefully folded the drawings and put them into his satchel.
Since it was already noon, and I had to climb mountains and ridges along the way, my stomach was already growling with hunger. Bai Sanyuan took out the rice dumpling leaf rice balls he brought. Although the rice balls were already cold, they were nothing.
It was just a dish for dinner, but I thought it was extremely delicious and ate it all in one go. Huang Yixian and Fatty Niu also ate it with great joy.
This rice dumpling leaf rice ball didn't seem to be very big, but it was quite filling. After eating, our strength recovered a lot. We sat and rested for a while, and then walked down the mountain.
When we returned to the residence of the village committee, Haibeard and Jianjian went to the village infirmary to get medicine, leaving Wen Qingshan alone at home. Speaking of which, Wen Qingshan was actually the most seriously injured, but
He trusted his dog-skin plaster so much that he didn't bother to go to the infirmary to get the medicine, but Seabeard and Jianjian still felt that formal medical institutions were more reliable.
As soon as he got home, Fatty Niu, who was already exhausted, went straight to his room and fell asleep.
Wen Qingshan immediately asked me for a camera, saying that he would rush to Sanyuan Township and develop the photos as soon as possible. Before I could take out the camera, Huang Yixian said to the side: "No need to bother, the topographic map has been drawn."
It’s over.”
He took out the topographic map of Qipan Valley drawn by Fatty Niu from his bag and spread it out in front of Wen Qingshan. Wen Qingshan looked at it, was slightly startled, and asked, "Who drew this?"
Huang Yixian said: "It was painted by your stupid apprentice."
"A soldier actually has this ability!" Wen Qingshan was a little surprised.
He held the topographic map and looked at it carefully for a while, pointed to the circled hills on the map and asked, "Why are these places circled?"
Huang Yixian said: "These circled hills are where the Bai family's old house used to be. There are seven Bai family houses in total, distributed on the seven hilltops. It is said that a Taoist master based it on the Qipan Valley.
A Feng Shui bureau arranged on top of the terrain. Boss Wen, take a closer look, does this so-called Feng Shui bureau look familiar?"