Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Ghost Face Mountain

A few days later, on a mountain road outside Lianjiabao, Xinchang County, Zhili Province, a handsome young man sat on a horse, hesitating. Lianjiabao is just a small mountain village, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with only a few families scattered.There is a big willow tree at the entrance of the village. The branches and leaves of the willow tree are sparse and hang straight to the ground. This young man is Lian Xing who came from Longquan Village, Longgang, Jilin, Northeast China. That day, after Lian Xing told Da Kui the truth in Longquan Village, he entrusted Da Kui to take good care of the little dragon girl, and then left with tears.

Lian Xing couldn't help feeling sad when he thought that he would never see Xiao Longnu again in this life. He walked out of Longquan Village dozens of miles away, sat on the side of the road and cried loudly.After crying, the depression in my heart was relieved a little.Thinking in my heart, I have less than three months left now, what should I do?He thought of his mother.As soon as I was born, I was separated from my parents, and it was not until a few months ago that I was able to reunite with my mother.However, because of the emotional excitement, the mother suffered from yin deficiency after great sorrow and joy.

Thinking of his mother, Lian Xing's heart warmed up, and he rushed to Lianjiabao, Xinchang, Zhili.On the way, I bought a green horse and traveled day and night, but within a few days, I rushed to Lianjiabao. Lian Xing looked at Lianjiabao from afar, hesitating in his heart, wondering if he should go in or not. Near nostalgia is more timid.Lian Xing was afraid that after seeing his mother, he would never want to leave again.However, I only have less than a hundred days to live, if one day I really passed away, wouldn't it make my mother's heart broken again? Lian Xing sighed, feeling sour in his heart, and thought: Let's just leave quietly, find a place where no one is around, and spend the rest of the day slowly.

Lian Xing turned his horse's head and galloped south.This time, he believed in the reins and walked slowly.Knowing that time is running out, Lian Xing simply doesn't think about it.Looking at the bustling and beautiful scenery along the way, I thought it would reduce the depression in my heart, but unexpectedly it still increased the depression.On this day, I came to Kaifeng, Henan unknowingly. Henan borders Anhui and Shandong in the east, Hebei and Shanxi in the north, Shaanxi in the west, and Hubei in the south. In ancient times, Henan was the center of Kyushu in China, also known as Yuzhou, and also known as "Zhongzhou" and "Central Plains".Henan is the main place where the Chinese people lived together in the early days, and it is also the ancestral home of the Han people.According to historical records, since the first dynasty Xia Dynasty established its capital in Henan, there have been more than 20 dynasties such as Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Western Han, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Northern Song and Jin. Dingdu in Henan.Among the eight ancient capitals in China, four are in Henan province, namely Zhengzhou, the ancient capital of Xia and Shang, Anyang, the capital of Shang, Luoyang, the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, and Kaifeng, the ancient capital of seven dynasties.The State of Wei in the Warring States Period, and the seven dynasties of Houliang, Houjin, Houhan, Houzhou, Northern Song and Jin in the Five Dynasties period successively established their capitals in Kaifeng.

When Lian Xing came to Kaifeng City, it was almost noon.An old woman selling tea at the gate of the city saw Lian Xing galloping past her and hurriedly lowered her head.Lian Xing's heart moved, as if he had seen this old woman's back somewhere before. Lian Xing turned the horse's head, turned over and rode back.When he came to the tea stand, he got off his horse and sat in the tea shed. The old lady came over staggeringly, looked at Lian Xing with cloudy eyes, and said, "Guest officer, what tea do you want?" Lian Xing stared at the old woman and said slowly, "Bring me a bowl of Mengpo soup."

The old woman leaned sideways, put her right hand to her ear, and said loudly, "What did you say?" Lian Xing said word by word: "Bring me a bowl of Meng Po soup—ghost mother-in-law." When the old woman heard the word "ghost mother-in-law", her entire body trembled, her right hand stopped in mid-air, but her eyes rolled around, she was no longer the dull look just now. After a while, the old woman laughed and said, "I never thought that you, a brat, would be so clever that you could see that it was my mother-in-law." Lian Xing said coldly: "I never imagined that the ghost mother-in-law would travel thousands of miles to set up a tea stall from Mount Emei to Kaifeng."

This old woman is indeed the ghost mother-in-law in Fengdu Ghost City. I only heard the ghost mother-in-law chuckle and said: "Little ghost, would you like another bowl of Meng Po soup. After drinking Meng Po soup, the gods will not be in vain." Lian Xing stared at the ghost mother-in-law and said: "Does it mean that after drinking this Meng Po soup, you will forget all the pain?" The ghost mother-in-law didn't understand why Lian Xing asked this question, she said in a deep voice: "That's right. After drinking Meng Po soup, you will forget all the painful things." Lian Xing hesitated for a moment, then suddenly said: "Okay! Give me a drink bowl."

The ghost mother-in-law didn't seem to believe her ears, and was stunned for a while. Lian Xing said slowly, "Bring me a bowl of Mengpo soup." The ghost mother-in-law's eyes flickered and said: "Do you really want it?" Lian Xing said calmly: "Why not? As long as this bowl of soup from you can make me forget all the pain." Is there really any pain hidden in the heart of this picturesque young man?The ghost mother-in-law rolled her eyes, picked up a light blue teapot, pressed her right thumb on a small hole on the teapot, slightly tilted the body of the teapot, a stream of blue tea flowed out of the pot, and poured it into a small white porcelain bowl.

With a weird smile on the corner of her mouth, the ghost mother-in-law picked up a small white porcelain bowl and gently placed it on the table in front of Lian Xing. Lian Xing picked up the bowl of Mengpo soup and drank it down.There are only dozens of days left in his life, even if there is poison in this bowl, as long as it makes him forget all the pain, he will drink it up. The ghost mother-in-law watched Lian Xing finish Meng Po's soup in one gulp, with a sinister smile on her face.In this bowl of Mengpo soup, the ghost mother-in-law poured the highly poisonous peacock gall, and after a while, Lian Xing would bleed to death from his seven orifices.

The ghost mother-in-law laughed inwardly, and said in her heart: Finally, a bad breath came out of her chest. After Lian Xing finished the bowl of Mengpo soup, he sat there without moving. The ghost mother-in-law secretly calculated in her heart, thinking that Lian Xing would fall to the ground and die on the count of three.But who knows, the ghost mother-in-law counted to ten, and Lian Xing was still safe and sound. The ghost mother-in-law panicked.Peacock gallbladder is one of the seven strange poisons in the world, as long as ordinary people get a little bit of it, they will die instantly.But the young man in front of him drank a bowl of Meng Po soup containing peacock gall very poisonously, as if nothing had happened, and there was nothing wrong with it.Could it be that the Mountain-Moving School really has the secret medicine and thaumaturgy to detoxify all kinds of strange poisons in the world?

The ghost mother-in-law's eyes flickered, and she said slowly: "I never thought that the disciples and grandchildren of the old ghost who moved the mountain could break the poison of the peacock's gall." Lian Xing's heart trembled when he heard the ghost mother-in-law say this: So what he expected was right, what the ghost mother-in-law gave was not Meng Po soup, but a bowl of tea soup mixed with peacock gall. Lian Xing smiled slightly: "What can peacock gall do to me?" But he didn't understand why he didn't die from poisoning.But he didn't know that the nine-turn soul-fixing needle that Ruan Tiancheng put on him was also simmered with all kinds of poisons. Compared with it, the peacock gall was like a little witch seeing a big witch, but when it entered Lian Xing's body, it disappeared like a mud cow into the sea. without a trace. Hearing what Lian Xing said, the ghost mother-in-law was furious, and her eyes seemed to burst into flames. The ghost mother-in-law looked at Lian Xing and shouted: "The boy is so rampant." Lian Xing looked up to the sky and laughed, but his heart was sore and unbearable: I'm already dying, so what if I'm a little crazy? The ghost mother-in-law's eyes narrowed into a thin slit, shooting out a blade-like light.The ghost mother-in-law said in a deep voice: "Boy, if you have the guts, come with me." After saying that, she looked at Lian Xing with burning eyes. Lian Xing raised his eyebrows and snorted heavily: "There is no place in the world that Lian dare not go to!" The ghost mother-in-law let out a sneer, and said, "That's very good." She turned around and hastily packed her luggage, and hurriedly walked towards the south of the city. Lian Xing rode his horse slowly, following behind the ghost mother-in-law unhurriedly. Although the ghost mother-in-law walked on foot, her steps were very swift.In an instant, he traveled several miles. Lian Xing felt strange, wondering where the ghost mother-in-law would take her. The ghost mother-in-law walked forward without saying a word.Lian Xing followed behind, only urged the horses, quickened his pace and headed south.After traveling dozens of miles away, a huge mountain appeared on the side of the road. This mountain is very strange, as if it is the skull of a skeleton.There are also two dark caves on the mountain, like the eyes of a skeleton. The ghost mother-in-law ran straight to the skull-like mountain. Lian Xing still followed at a leisurely pace.Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the Skull Mountain, Lian Xing suddenly felt moved. Why is this Skull Mountain so familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere? Lian Xing frowned and thought, where did he see it?Suddenly, a flash came to my mind, and I remembered the map obtained from Situ Tianzuo's Seven Yin Beads, on which such a skeleton-like mountain was drawn! There are no signs on that map, just a skeleton. Lian Xing's heart was beating wildly, thinking to himself: Is there really such a coincidence in the world?I just got this skeleton painting a month ago, and within a few days, I met the ghost mother-in-law and led me to the Skull Mountain. Is there something weird about it? I was muttering to myself, but when I raised my eyes, I saw that the ghost mother-in-law had already rushed to the cave on the Skull Mountain and stopped.Lian Xing galloped up and came to the dark cave, jumped in the air, and landed lightly in front of the ghost mother-in-law. Seeing Lian Xing's neat and unrestrained posture, the ghost mother-in-law couldn't help applauding secretly, but she still said in a strange way: "Boy, do you know where this is?" Lian Xing didn't speak, he knew that even if he didn't say it, the ghost mother-in-law would tell him. Sure enough, I only heard the ghost mother-in-law say: "My boy, teach you, this place is called Ghost Face Mountain. It is so named because the mountain looks like a ghost face. Legend has it that there are two springs in the two caves, which are connected to the mountain. Yellow River." Lian Xing still didn't make a sound, he waited to hear what the ghost mother-in-law had to say. "As long as you walk into this grimace hole, turn around, and then come out again, hehe, our past grievances and grievances will be wiped out!" said the ghost mother-in-law. Lian Xing's heart moved, and he said, "Is that all right?" The ghost mother-in-law said in a deep voice: "Naturally, the old woman will give you a string of nanzhu after the young hero comes out!" In order to let Lian Xing enter the cave of Ghost Face Mountain, the ghost mother-in-law changed her name and called Lian Xing "Young Hero".Lian Xing felt quite strange, and what made him even more puzzled was that the ghost mother-in-law promised to give Nanzhu as a gift. The Nanzhu is made of agarwood, which is really rare, but the ghost mother-in-law is so generous to give it as a gift, there must be another reason for this. The ghost mother-in-law saw that Lian Xing was still pondering, she sneered and said, "Coward." She walked quickly to the cave shaped like a ghost's eye. Lian Xing said in his heart: You old hag, you must want me to go into this cave and do something for you.What is in this cave that the ghost mother-in-law can lure her for her own benefit?Thinking of this, I couldn't help being curious, and decided to go in with the ghost mother-in-law. This ghost-eyed cave corresponds to the left and right, and there are two eyes in total.The ghost mother-in-law has already entered the cave on the left. Lian Xing jumped off the horse, slapped the horse's hip, the horse neighed softly, let go of its hooves and ran away. Lian Xing took a deep breath and walked into the cave.The cave was pitch black, and the ghost mother-in-law had long disappeared.Perhaps because of being hit by the nine-turn needle, Lian Xing's ability to see things in the dark has gradually deteriorated.He collected himself, took out a torch and lit it.Under the light of the fire, I saw that I was already in a long and narrow passage. This passage connects to the entrance of the cave, but leads to darkness inside.In the boundless darkness, only the Huozhe in Lian Xing's hand emitted a faint light.Lian Xing walked forward slowly with a fire pocket in his hand. The cave is very tall and wide, and the roof of the cave is shaped like a dome, with some green moss growing on it.From time to time, water droplets slowly dripped from the top of the cave, making a light "click", which was very clear in the silent cave. After walking forward for tens of feet, the passage suddenly opened up, and an even bigger cave appeared at the end.This cave is not smaller than the caves in the tombs of the Khitan gods, and the caves are densely packed with coffins.Each coffin was suspended in mid-air by a long chain. Lian Xing was stunned when he saw so many coffins, he couldn't believe his eyes.He glanced from left to right, and his heart skipped a beat. These coffins numbered at least a few hundred. Lian Xing frowned, wondering in his heart, why are these coffins piled up here?These coffins seem to be disorganized, but there is a lot of mystery in them. Lian Xing looked at these coffins, and suddenly a light flashed in his heart, and he immediately understood the mystery.It turned out that these coffins were arranged one by one according to the changes of the Eight Diagrams. Tai Chi gives birth to Liangyi, Liangyi gives birth to Sixiang, and Sixiang gives birth to Eight Diagrams, and Eight Diagrams are derived into sixty-four hexagrams. In "Xici Xiazhuan", He Xuanzi said: Once the list of eight trigrams is completed, the infinite images are contained in it.Therefore, the eight trigrams are more important, and each hexagram is added with the eight trigrams, which is a hexagram of six paintings. If there are sixty-four hexagrams, each hexagram has six lines, and each line has a meaning, then there are three hundred and eighty-four lines. The reason is completely prepared in it.The six strokes of each hexagram in the sixty-four hexagrams are called Liuyao, which is based on the transformation of the masculine and feminine strokes.And the number of coffins in the cave is exactly three hundred and eighty-four! Are these 384 coffins man-made or a coincidence? When Lian Xing was puzzled, a black shadow, like a ghost, quietly approached from behind him!