Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: Red Bearded Earth Dragon

According to legend, Nuwa Fuxi had a red beard tree in his time. The roots of this undulating dragon are as red as blood. Even if it is not the legendary red beard tree, it is old enough. Its roots are intertwined under the mountains. Most of them are dead. It is still growing, and it has sucked up all the earth, water and soil in the mountains, so that Feixian Village has suffered serious soil erosion, and can no longer cultivate fields and crops. Birds and animals on the mountain are extinct. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, landslides and ground cracks may be the roots It was caused by the collapse of the mountain wall inside.

Da Yandie said: "Old man Zhou seems to have said that Zhou Yuji, Duke of Yin and Yang, built Feixian Village here to restrain the earth dragons in Tongtian Ridge. I didn't think about it, what is an earth dragon, I thought It’s the veins of dragons, and looking at it now, the earth dragons may be referring to these tree roots.” He said cheekily: "The old man likes to play tricks just like his ancestor Zhou Yuji. He doesn't talk about tree heels, but he talks about earth dragons." I said: "Dragon in Fengshui is never a flying dragon flying through the clouds. It only refers to the dragon veins in the mountains. There must be dragon aura in the dragon veins. It is because of the dragon aura in Tongtianling that some of the roots of the trees grow immortal. From my understanding, To put it bluntly, it is earth energy, the active energy of the ground, and it is not completely superstitious, such as the thick tree roots that crack the mountains, and it is not bluffing to describe it as an earth dragon."

Cheeky doesn't care about earth dragons, he said: "If there is a tomb of the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty in Tongtian Ridge, if we go in and take out a few buried treasures, it will be worth the trouble." I pointed the lighter in front of my cheeky face and said, "You don't even look at what you are doing now." Cheeky said: "Look what, a man's shirtless is not yellow." I said: "You are talking in your sleep with your empty fists, thinking that the tombs of the Han Dynasty are made of paper? Besides, there may not be tombs of the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty in Tongtianling. I can see the layout of Feixian Village and the legend mentioned by old man Zhou. It's weird and dangerous outside, but survival is the most important thing right now, and the idea of ​​getting rich from treasures must be put aside first."

Big Yandie nodded again and again: "If the sugar cane is not as sweet as the two ends this time, it will cost money or die, and it still has to die. If there are green hills left, I am not afraid that there will be no firewood." The three of us were shirtless, talking boldly, while groping in the cave, with only one lighter in hand, and taking two steps to take a picture, we couldn’t even discern the general direction in the dark, and we didn’t know that the gas in the lighter could still maintain After a while, walking dozens of steps along the terrain, there was a large coffin in the cave, half sunk in a dead tree root.

Cheeky went forward to push the coffin lid, he gritted his teeth and stared for a long time, but the coffin board remained motionless, as if the dead man was dragging it inside. The big cigarette tray was found to be a sarcophagus, covered with a layer of withered moss, and after wiping it with his hand a few times, a large area of ​​relief patterns appeared. I held the lighter to prevent it from being blown out by the wind, and took a closer look. I saw that the patterns on the coffin lid were clearly layered. The content was an officer with a helmet and full armor, riding a horse, bending a bow and shooting an arrow, and shot a tiger to death. , there is an ape bowing down next to him. I heard that Zhou Yuji, Duke of Yin and Yang, met an old gibbon in the mountains. The old ape seemed to have a human nature. He bowed in front of the horse and led Zhou Yuji to a deep valley. A vicious tiger came from somewhere deep in the mountains and often killed the monkey grandson of the old ape. Zhou Yuji shot the tiger to death with a bow and arrow. In order to repay the kindness of saving his life, the old ape instructed Zhou Yuji to read the heavenly book carved on the cliff by the ancients. Therefore, he is proficient in yin and yang, and the pattern embossed on the coffin lid is exactly the process of Yin and Yang Duangong Zhou Yuji shooting the tiger to obtain the heavenly scriptures. It is obviously the coffin of Zhou Yuji, the owner of Feixian Village.

At this time, the flame of the lighter was only about the size of a soybean, and it seemed that it could no longer be used. I caught a glimpse of two bosses next to the sarcophagus, which looked like lamps. After scraping off the dirt accumulated on them, there was fish paste and lamp oil underneath. I asked those two people to come over. First, I pulled some dry old tree vines nearby, and then wrapped them around the wooden branches to apply fish paste. The fish paste is not afraid of moisture, and it is a torch when lit with a lighter. I tied two torches and lit it, and the eyes are much brighter. But I was more disturbed than when I was in the dark and couldn't see it just now. I thought to myself: "Why is the layer upon layer of barriers in Feixian Village not enough, and Yinyang Duan Gong Zhou Yuji still uses a coffin to block this cave after his death?"

Cheeky hated the people in Feixian Village Bagua Castle so much, he lifted a big rock on the ground and smashed the coffin half sunk in the tree root with all his strength. Big Cigarette had just asked for the lighter back from me, and when he turned his head and saw the cheeky behavior, he was horrified, and hurriedly said: "Don't do anything wrong, and don't plan to collect things from the village? What's more, Zhou Yuji, the yin and yang duangong, was able to plan for it before he was alive. Gods and ghosts, his descendants are still alive today, so I'm afraid they won't be alarmed, and if I want to get out alive, I have to ask for his protection."

Cheeky and dissatisfied, he said, "Never mind how capable Zhou Yuji is, hasn't he already blown the candle away? Besides, why are the people in the village allowed to stalk us behind us, but we are not allowed to do anything to this coffin? I think We should fight against them and see who is black." He continued to smash the coffin, but Zhou Yuji's coffin was so thick that he couldn't break it open after a few hard blows, but muddy water emerged from the roots of the tree under the coffin. Yellow water. The muddy water under the coffin kept pouring out, submerging the passage leading to the bottom of the well in a blink of an eye. Big Cigarette asked in surprise, "Where did so much water come from?"

I was also surprised, and by looking at the torch, I found Zhou Yuji's coffin had a strange shape, so I hurriedly said to Big Cigarette and Cheeky: "This coffin cannot be moved, it has nailed the dragon veins of Tongtian Ridge." The two people were startled when they heard it: "What does it mean that the coffin nailed the dragon's veins in the mountain?" I said: "The coffin that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom is called Zhanlong Nail. In Tongtian Ridge, there is the root of the red beard tree. This tree root is the dragon vein. It grew outwards, so that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it caused landslides and ground cracks. The Feixian Village built by the army happened to suppress this dragon vein, and Zhou Yuji's coffin nailed the dragon vein to death, and blocked the dark spring, causing the roots of the red beard tree to wither gradually, so Tongtian Ridge has not yet cracked again."

He said cheekily, "Whether the mountain of Tongtian Ridge collapses or not, what does it have to do with Zhou Yuji who is in command of the Kuzi army?" I said: "Back then when the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, the villagers saw flying zombies haunting them. So far, no one can tell what happened. Zhou Yuji's crucification of the Tongtian Ridge dragon vein must have something to do with it." Big Yandie said, "You mean...there are still flying zombies in the mountains?" I said, "I don't know about that, anyway, it's better not to touch Zhou Yuji's coffin."

Da Yandie said: "Yes, life-saving is the most important thing. If not, let's not go to the mountains..." He wanted to retreat, but the way he came from was already submerged by the dark spring. Seeing the stagnant water rising higher and higher, he continued to stay here In the narrow cave, it was definitely not a feasible strategy. He was so anxious that he turned around red-eyed, and accidentally saw that the end of the cave was filled with stones. Maybe the roots of the trees had not died in the early years, and the stones that blocked the cave were somewhat The place is detached and loose enough to allow people to climb in. Judging from this position, it is possible to enter the belly of Tongtian Ridge. Since the mountain fissure closed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, no one has seen flying zombies near Tongtian Ridge, so there may not be a way out ahead, but we didn't care about it. We walked around Zhou Yuji's coffin with a torch and climbed into the hole filled with stones. It has not been extinguished, indicating that there is wind in the depths. So far we no longer believe that there are Han tombs in Tongtianling, but we can't imagine what it will look like and what is there. Big Yandie said: "I was thinking of what to say, what happened when we fell into the ancient well of Feixian Village really seemed to be in the middle of the sky." He said cheekily: "I've heard this before, what is the second half of the sentence, the toad at the bottom of the well?" I said: "The sky in the well is a legend in the old age, but it's not just watching the sky from the well. According to legend, a woodcutter fell into an ancient well and survived the fall, but he couldn't climb up. He accidentally touched a crack in the bottom of the well. Walking in, there are many strange things, and I don’t know how many miles I walked, but I walked into a place surrounded by green peaks surrounded by birds and flowers, where I met a fairy and got a fairy medicine. This folklore is called Jing Zhongtian.” The thick-skinned suddenly said: "Oh, so that's what happened. The three of us fell into the ancient well under the ancestral temple of the village fort, and walked out of the cave in the dark for more than half a mile. I'm sorry if you don't get out with a few valuable things Fall into the well this time." The three of them were talking, and they had already climbed into Tongtian Ridge, and the terrain suddenly opened up. I stood up and looked around. The roots of the dead red-bearded tree snaked like snakes. There is a dim light on high, like the skylight leaking through.Big Cigarette thought that there was a crack in the wall of Tongtian Ridge, and he became addicted to smoking, so he went out in a hurry to find a cigarette, and climbed up the vine to fuge.I was afraid that he would fall if he stumbled, so I asked Cheeky to follow him closely. I felt something was wrong in my heart, but I couldn't tell what was weird.Seeing my hesitation, Big Smoke Disc urged, "Brother Shengli, we should not die. There is a crack in the mountain wall of Tongtian Ridge, so we can definitely climb out." I said, "No, it's midnight at this moment, how could there be any light leaking from the sky?" Into the mountainside?" I was dumbfounded when I heard the big smoke dish. The time was wrong. When I went to the ancestral temple of Feixian Village with the fool, it was just dark. From the time we fell down the well and walked all the way to Tongtian Ridge, it was still midnight, and it was still early before dawn. . I saw that the high part of the cave looked like a gloomy white mist, but the surrounding area was too dark, and there were many ancient tree roots as thick as pillars covering it, so I couldn't tell what it was standing on the spot. Cheeky said: "There is moonlight at night, anyway, the cave in the mountain is not so bright for no reason, it is almost to the top, can't we go back the same way?" Big Cigarette and I were right after thinking about it. Now that we have come to this point, we might as well go and have a look with courage. In the belly of Tongtianling Mountain are the dead red-bearded tree roots, and the outside of the tree cave is the mountain wall. Hundreds of surprisingly thick tree roots hang down around the wall in the cave. We stepped on the deep moss on the bark and climbed to On a high place, the branches on his body were scratched with blood, and he accidentally rubbed off a piece of dry moss cheekily, revealing the petroglyphs on the cave wall, which are faintly lined with human-shaped patterns, and the lines of the characters are simple. There is an extra eye, and there are longitudinal eyes on the top of the head. There are some pottery fragments nearby, and the image of a three-eyed person is also on the pottery fragments. Da Yandie was amazed: "The petroglyphs and clay tablets in Tongtianling Cave are much older than Feixian Village in the late Ming Dynasty." Cheeky said: "From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the present...isn't that considered ancient?" Big Yandie said: "Two or three hundred years is just a flick of a finger. I have seen these rock paintings of three-eyed people in Tongtian Ridge for no less than two thousand years." Cheeky said: "The person with three eyes at that age?" I shook my head and said, "It doesn't matter what age, I've always been an ordinary person with one nose and two eyes, unless it's Lord Ma and God Erlang." Big Cigarette suddenly patted himself on the head and said, "Oh, guess what I remembered?" I said, "Your head didn't grow on me, so I don't know what you thought of." Da Yandie said: "I saw people with three eyes on the clay tablets, and it was in Tongtian Ridge again. I suddenly remembered the Jin Kingdom's extermination of Qiuyou. Do you know about Qiuyou? It's also called Qiushou. It was the kingdom of Rong and Di on the edge of the Central Plains. I have seen Qiu You’s pottery and jade pieces before, all of which are full of three-eyed people, and Qiu You’s eyes are pierced in front of the forehead. The rock paintings in the Tongtianling cave may be what they left behind." Scratching his head cheekily, he said, "Chou Youren... I've never heard of it, is there still one nowadays?" Dayan Dieer said: "The state of Jin was destroyed long ago. Two thousand years ago, the state of Jin wanted to destroy Qiuyou, but because of the dangers of the mountains, the army could not enter, so it cast a huge bronze bell and lied that it would be given to the king of Qiuyou. Lord You was overjoyed when he heard the news, and ordered people to build a road to welcome the giant bronze bell, and when the road was built, the Jin army immediately entered the mountain and wiped out Qiu You." I thought to myself: "Da Cigarette has been in the antique shop for many years, and I don't have some knowledge to eat this bowl of rice. Even if the story of Jin's extermination of Qiuyou is not accurate, it must be an ancient country that is similar to Qiuyou and has long since disappeared. Maybe Tongtian Ridge used to be Qiu Youren’s big tomb, or why there are so many pottery tablets and petroglyphs, but I don’t see any bones, are they all at the bottom of the cave?” Thinking of this, I subconsciously looked down, and the torch could only A few steps away from the photo, the cave in the belly of Tongtianling Mountain is too big, how can you see the bottom. Big Yandie said: "It's not surprising that there are no dead bodies. Even if there are coffins and bones in the cave, they have all been turned into mud by now." I think what he said made some sense, and I walked forward with a drum in my heart, and found that there were a lot of pottery fragments in the cave, and it could be seen that each was in the shape of humans and animals. , most of them are three eyes, so many terracotta tiles used for burial, and the petroglyphs in the cave all show that Tongtian Ridge is an ancient tomb.Is the corpse change related to the dead red beard tree in Tongtian Ridge? Cheeky asked Da Yandie: "What the hell is a flying zombie in the mountains? A dead person who can fly?" Da Yandie said: "In the old superstitions and legends, the zombies in the graves have been monsters for a long time, can swallow clouds and come and go like the wind, that means they have become flying dead, and only those ignorant country people will take it seriously. Your brother, I have been roaming the rivers and lakes for so many years, but I have never seen any mountain monsters and earth ghosts..." Just as he was halfway through his words, suddenly a gust of wind blew out of nowhere with the stench of corpses, the torch was almost extinguished, as if something flew down from a dark hole, and the big cigarette dish fell to the ground in fright. Called: "Flying Zombie in Tongtian Ridge!" Thick-skinned and I realized that the situation was wrong, and at the same time, we waved the torches and aimed at the comings and goings of the gust of wind. The light and shadow of the torches flickered, and a dead face like dry wax appeared in the midair. That face was like a dead wax zombie. , the skin is red, the eye sockets are sunken, and there is a chirping sound in the mouth, which is even worse than that of a night owl. Although we heard old man Zhou talk about the origin of Feixian Village, we still thought that what the mountain people saw was some kind of strange bird. Based on what we have seen, it is impossible for flying zombies to exist in the world. When it comes to zombies, most of them are found in places north of the Yellow River where the water is deep and the soil is thick. They are not walking corpses, but because of the thick soil, the dead buried in the graves have not rotted for many years, and the hair and nails even continue to grow. It's frightening to see, it's true, walking corpses are called walking shadows, that's to say that more people see them than few people, and it's hard to say whether they exist or not, so it's been passed down for centuries. The corpse is called 魃, which has been born for thousands of years. 魃 produces white or black hair, and 犼 produces golden hair. Only the Buddha can reduce the pressure of golden-haired 犼. Flying dead is rare since ancient times. As the big tobacco disc said, it was all superstition in the early years The legend, how can it be taken seriously, just like the ancients saw a lunar eclipse, they said it was a dog eating the moon, in fact, the people at that time were not knowledgeable enough, the mountain people saw a big bird living in the deep mountains, maybe they thought it was flying dead, but no Thinking of encountering flying zombies in the Tongtianling cave, the three of us were almost stunned. We didn't want to think about why zombies could fly. There is a way to survive, to escape from Tongtian Ridge. Don't look at the big smoker who always has something to say when he is always boastful. When something happens, he is less courageous than anyone else. At this time, he only wants to run for his life, wishing he could grow two more legs. He also forgot that the terrain in the cave is rugged and there are many dead moss Teng, tripped and knocked his mouth full of blood, and lost two front teeth. Fei Zhan in the cave was afraid of the fire, so he didn't dare to bully him for a moment. I stretched out one arm to set up the big cigarette tray, and waved the torch with the other hand. The torch was almost burned out, and when it turned around, it was grabbed by a strange force and brought I staggered and rolled down the root of the tree. I let go of the torch and grabbed the edge of the root. The big cigarette dish was frightened. I didn't care about me. What I didn't expect was that the thick-skinned was really righteous, and I ran back two steps Pulling me to the root of the tree, I dragged the big cigarette dish with weak calves, and followed the thick-skinned to climb to the highest point of the cave. In the cave in Tongtianling, the inner layer is dead tree roots, and the outer layer is as thick as 100 meters. At the bottom of the cave, you can see bright light on it. When you climb up, you find that it is not the skylight leaking. The top of the cave is covered with balls of white lantern-like objects, emitting dim fluorescence. The three of us are dumbfounded and want to ask: "what is that?" At this time, the torch in Cheeky's hand was almost burnt out, and the wind suddenly picked up, and the flying zombies came to attack people again. Through the fluorescent light on the top of the cave, we could vaguely see at least three or five flying zombies approaching, like dragonflies born in a tree hole. .Big Cigarette was so frightened that he crouched on the ground with his head in his arms and trembled all over, and he couldn't stop chanting Buddha's blessings.I was unwilling to wait for death with nothing to do, but naked and unarmed, I took off my two rubber-soled shoes in a hurry, raised my hand and threw it at the flying zombie that was jumping down.Thick-skinned has always been brave and ruthless, but at this moment, desperately, he raised the torch and poked it head-on, with a bang, he poked hard on the face of the leading zombie.Na Feizhu screamed, turned around and fled to the side.Thick-skinned but with too much force, the torch poked into a white lantern-shaped thing. That layer was like cocoon silk, dry, brittle and tough, and ignited when exposed to fire. The cocoons and dead tree roots on the top of the cave quickly burned into one piece . All of a sudden, the smoke was burning, and several zombies couldn't escape, and the raging fire burned, like a moth touching the fire, and suddenly turned into a black fireball, rolled and fell to the bottom of the cave while struggling, looking around into a sea of ​​flames, the three of us I had nowhere to hide at the top of the cave where the flames were rising. I was forced by the flames and felt that my hair was going to catch fire. In Tongtianling cave, there is no way to go to the sky, no way to go to the earth, and in a blink of an eye, it becomes a roast duck in a hanging oven!" At the moment of our fate, a bright light suddenly appeared on the top of the cave. A fat man descended into the cave along a long rope. It was the fool who pushed us into the ancient well of the ancestral temple. Climbing up the rope with the big cigarette dish under his armpit, he was agile and did not let the apes in the mountains get away. Cheeky and I saw the savior when we were desperate, and we didn't care about settling old scores with the fool, so we immediately followed the fool and climbed out of the cave. It collapsed, and the fire spread to the depths. When we climbed to the top of the mountain, the dawn was about to break, and the mountain wind was chilly. Old man Zhou was also on the mountain. He rescued us with the idiot. The three of us met the old man Zhou and the idiot. He couldn't help being annoyed, but he didn't have an inch to cover his body, and he looked extremely embarrassed, so he had to wait until he returned to the village fort to say anything. The idiot carried old man Zhou on his back, led the way down Tongtian Ridge, and led us into the Baguabao of Feixian Village again. He brought water for us to wash the muddy wounds, and found some old clothes for us to change into. In the old man's house, he explained the ins and outs to us. It turns out that there is a red beard tree in Tongtian Ridge, which is full of dragon energy. It can be buried for thousands of years. It is a treasure land of geomantic omen. There is a red-bearded insect in the root of the red-bearded tree, which is called an earth dragon by the Qiuyou people. It is worshiped as a god. It is said that this insect spins silk to make cocoons on zombies. Those dead people are wrapped in this layer of cocoon, and they will revive after many years. Few people knew this secret until the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Tongtianling mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, and zombies from that year flew out from the mountain pass. Rigidity is not the resurrection of the dead, but the earth dragon using the dead as a cocoon to give birth to larvae, which will cause endless disasters. Zhou Yuji wanted to get rid of the earth dragon in Tongtianling, but there was water in the cave and he couldn't use fire to attack him. Kuzijun built Bagua village fortress to block the cracked mountain pass, and ordered his descendants to put him in a coffin and nail the dragon's veins after his death. After the dark spring in the mountain dried up and the red beard tree died completely, he went in and set fire to burn the earth. The dragon's cocoon will never cause future troubles. Yesterday old man Zhou was too drunk to drink. When he woke up, he found that the three people who stayed in Feixian Village were gone, but their backpacks were still thrown in the house. The idiot came to ask what was going on, and the idiot told the old man with gestures that the three people uncovered the feng shui well of the ancestral temple. With one foot, the three of them were kicked into the well.The old man Zhou turned pale with fright, fearing that someone would die, he asked the fool to go down to the bottom of the well to check, but he didn't see any corpses, and seeing the well water rising, he deduced that the three people had entered Tongtian Ridge, and went to the ridge to open and seal it for two hundred The entrance of the cave for many years, rescued people at a critical moment. Thanks to the dissipation of the earth energy in the Tongtian Ridge these years, the earth dragons in the roots of the trees have all died, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. Hearing this, the thick-skinned quit: "We have provoked whoever we provoked, and we have not provoked anyone. We let fools kick into the well for no reason. If it weren't for fate, the three of us would have returned to their positions long ago. Such a big matter, you want to deal with it in a few words?" Old man Zhou said: "We have been guarding the ancestral temple in the village castle, just to wait for the red beard tree in Tongtianling to die, but no one dared to go in for so many years to see what happened. The three strong men ran into the cave by mistake. , The earth dragon and the corpse cocoon were burned away in one fire, this is also the protection of the ancestors and the Holy Spirit, and the people of Feixian Village should thank you." Big Cigarette said: "It's good to have this kind of intention. To tell you the truth, the three of us are dealers in collecting antiques. It's not easy to get out. Not only did the car overturn on the way this time, but now we even wear underwear. I went in, since you have helped the village so much, you can't bear to let us go back empty-handed, I wonder if there are any handed down things in your village, you can spare a few, I'll see first, as long as they are good Things, I will definitely give money according to the market, and I will never lose you." Old man Zhou said: "Although our Feixian Village has been around for two or three hundred years, but in the remote mountains, there is nothing that can catch the eyes of the three. In the past, there were some ancient relics handed down by our ancestors, which could survive the famine years. They all moved to exchange for food." We heard old man Zhou say that all the antiquities in the village castle were traded for food during the famine. Seeing that he is honest and honest, what he said was true, we were a little disappointed.Da Yandie didn't give up, and asked: "Is the Panlong Chenxiang chair in the village castle still there?" Old man Zhou said that the Panlong Chenxiang chair is gone, so it's okay, the three of you can take a look in the village castle , except for the things in the ancestral temple, you can take one of everything else you fancy, and you don't need to pay for it. I thank you. Ever since I entered Old Man Zhou's room, I saw a rectangular porcelain beast in the corner, with a round head and a round tail, and four curled claws. It was dirty and inconspicuous in the corner, but where did I see it? After passing this thing, he pointed to the corner and asked old man Zhou: "What is that?" Old man Zhou was taken aback for a moment, and replied, "It's a pillow." I thought it was right, it was a pillow. There is also a tiger pillow in the shape of a beast in the ancient tomb of a Khitan female corpse. The shape of the beast is similar to this porcelain pillow, no wonder it looks familiar. Old man Zhou asked the idiot to take the porcelain pillow to the table, wipe off the dust and dirt with a damp cloth, and there were fine painted patterns around the pillow. Cheeky didn't know anything about it, he asked me: "What's the use of making a pillow in the shape of a beast if it's just for sleeping?" I said: "In the early days, people were superstitious, thinking that nightmares and night terrors were all related to ghosts. Animal pillows can scare away evil spirits and make people sleep peacefully." Big Smoke Disc continued to wonder: "This pillow is interesting. There are three strange dreams painted on each side. You see, this is Zhuangzi's dream of a butterfly, this is Li Bai's dream of Tianmu Mountain, and this is Tang Minghuang's dream of Guanghan Palace. It’s Zhao Jianzi dreaming in Juntian, this is Qin Shihuang’s dream of fighting the sea god, and there are also four dreams of Linchuan, Peony Pavilion, Handan Dream, Nanke Dream, and The Story of the Purple Hairpin..." The old man Zhou said: "This pillow is called the Yin-Yang Pillow. There are ten dream pictures painted on the pillow. They are the ten most famous strange dreams in the past and present. Among them, they coincide with the metaphysics of Buddhism and Taoism. For example, Zhuangzi's butterfly dream is a metaphor. In the Handan dream, Lu Sheng went to the inn to stay, waiting for the waiter to cook the yellow rice for him. Lu Sheng fell asleep while waiting, and experienced the prosperity, wealth, life and death in the dream. When he woke up, he found that the yellow rice was not yet cooked. , so as to see through life and death, realize Taoism and become immortal." Big smoke dishes have been tossing antiques on the black market for many years. He has not done a lot of business, but he has seen a lot of things. Since the Song Dynasty, porcelain pillows have been very common among the people, and there are all famous earthen kilns, but this kind of yin and yang pillows This is the first time I have seen it, and I have never even heard of it before. He infers that it is something from the late Ming Dynasty, because the Linchuan Four Dreams in the Ten Dreams Picture did not appear until the Ming Dynasty. Although the animal-shaped porcelain pillow is from the late Ming Dynasty It was fired in a kiln, but the texture is not inferior to that of famous kilns. There is also an extremely exquisite picture of ten dreams on it. No matter how you think about it, it is a rare commodity. He was reluctant to put it down when he held it in his hand. He asked old man Zhou about the origin of this porcelain pillow. It was passed down from his ancestors , or dug out in the mountains? Old man Zhou said: "The Ten Dreams Pillow was left by the ancestors of Feixian Village. Zhou Yuji, the yin and yang duangong, was good at interpreting strange dreams, so he left such a yin and yang pillow. Don't look at it as dilapidated, and it's not a famous kiln artifact. There is really no other one in the world, if you don’t mind, just take this porcelain pillow.” Big Yandie hesitated: "Is there anything better than this pillow in Feixian Village?" The allusion of the ten dreams on the yin and yang pillow is thick-skinned. I have never heard of it, and I only know a little of it. Beast head and beast tail, with three dreams on the top and two sides, a total of nine dreams, and one dream may be painted at the bottom of the Yin-Yang Pillow, except Zhuangzi Dream, Tianmu Mountain, Guanghan Palace, Juntian Dream, Sea God Dream, and Lin In addition to the four dreams of Sichuan, the old man didn't mention the tenth dream Zhou, and it was hidden under the pillow. As if, there was no one there, and if you look carefully, you can see a large city sunken at the bottom of the lake. There is a palace at the bottom of the lake, but it is not in the city. There is a stele on the back, which seems to be an imperial mausoleum. Cheeky asked Da Yandie: "Boss, what kind of dream do you think this is?" Big Yandie stared at it for a long time, with a look of surprise on his face: "This... I haven't seen it before... Where can there be an underwater imperial tomb?" I have never heard of an entire city sinking to the bottom of a lake, and how many people would have to be drowned. It is even more unheard of that there is an imperial tomb under the lake. Old man Zhou said: "This lake really exists. According to the legend passed down by our ancestors in Feixian Village, it is the disaster of the lake subsidence that Lord Yinyang Duan dreamed about before his death." I said, "Mr. Zhou, can you tell me how this happened? It's true that the whole city sank to the bottom of the lake?" Big Cigarette and Cheeky also said: "Yes, we would like to hear more about it." Old man Zhou said: "It's a long story. You escaped from Tongtian Ridge and didn't eat any food. You must be very hungry. Let me get something to eat first. Let's talk while eating." After finishing speaking, he made a few bowls Braised noodles, the fool also ate with us, a few people sat around and listened to his story. Old man Zhou explained that in the last years of the dynasty, Zhou Yuji was still an official in the imperial court. When he did not live in seclusion in Feixian Village, he led troops to garrison Sizhou City. Sizhou City in the Huai River Basin was located in the area of ​​Hongze Lake. The lake back then was not as big as it is now. The terrain is nine hills and eighteen valleys, with many mountains and many waters. Sizhou City has been a battleground for military strategists in ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, it was repeatedly invaded by Japanese pirates. Therefore, the city wall of Sizhou was built extremely strong. Yinyang Duangong Zhou Yuji led his troops to garrison Sizhou At that time, I had a startling dream, dreaming that the two dragons of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River were fighting each other, causing the water to overflow Sizhou, the houses in the city were reduced to a huge flood, and the soldiers and civilians were buried in the belly of fishes. robbery. The treacherous ministers in the court were in power, closed to the saints, and no one paid attention to them. The soldiers and civilians in Sizhou City did not believe it. Zhou Yuji was forced to resign. The catastrophe was all because of an ancient tomb in Xiong'er Mountain, which touched the dragon's veins and caused the Yellow River to seize the Huaihe River. Sizhou City must have a catastrophe in recent years. He recorded his ominous omen of the dream of sinking into the lake on the porcelain pillow. Later, his words came true. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, nothing happened. In the Qing Dynasty, the southern branch of the Yellow River was flooded, and the Huaihe River was taken into the sea. It rained continuously for more than ten days. , Chengguan houses were reduced to Jiaoku and Tortoise Caves. As the name suggests, Hongze Lake is a lake formed by flooding. Many lakes are connected by the flooding of the Yellow River and Huaihe River. At the bottom of the lake, there is not only Sizhou City, but also the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty emperor. Zhou Yuji is determined to lead the cave. The military robbers dug the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain, but the weather was wrong and they failed to succeed. At that time, they had to build a village fortress to suppress the earth dragon in Tongtian Mountain, so the tomb robbery had to be put aside for now. The world is in turmoil, and his descendants can only guard the village castle, unable to steal and dig the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain. The more we heard, the more we were surprised. It turned out that the Kuzi army led by Zhou Yuji also engaged in activities such as tomb robbery. I thought that this man was called Yinyang Duangong, what kind of skill was that? Didn't succeed?Is the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain also in Tongtianling in Western Henan? The old man Zhou said: "I don't know much about the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain. I only know that the place is also in the west of Henan Province, but it is not Tongtianling in Funiu Mountain, but Caoxieling in Xiong'er Mountain. I heard what the elders in the village said. There is a huge tomb at the foot of Caoxie Ridge in Xiong’er Mountain, and there is a golden terra coffin and jade coffin buried there. I don’t know who the owner of the tomb is. There are many legends, none of which are credible. The underground palace may be the mausoleum of a certain prince. Many years ago, a mountain torrent broke out and formed a lake among the mountains. , the ancient tomb will be exposed on the lake, and the folks call it Xiandun, so this lake is called Xiandun Lake. Back then, the Kuzi Army of Yinyang Duangong Zhou Yuji wanted to steal the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain, but Xiandun Lake The water surface is open and the lake is deep. The Kuzi army is only good at digging tunnels, but they have nothing to do with the ancient tombs under the lake. They have to give up. The topographic map of the ancient tombs in Xiong'er Mountain is still hidden in the yin and yang pillow, but hundreds of years have passed. In 2009, the landform today is quite different from that of the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the flood of the Yellow River has subsided, so it is useless to take it out again." I was shocked when I heard this, and thought to myself: "There are also jade coffins and golden figurines in the nightmare in the murals of the Liao tomb. Could it be that it should be in the Xiong'er Mountain Palace?" After hearing what old man Zhou said about the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain, Da Yandie'er immediately became greedy, and he said to old man Zhou: "We put this yin and yang pillow in the room at a glance, because it is related to this thing, we want this pillow Yes, we are acquainted once and twice, you wait for me to go back this trip and earn money, and then come back to repay you well, if there is anything good in the village castle, you have to keep it for us." We lived in the village castle for two days, and we couldn’t collect anything, so we had to say goodbye and leave. Before leaving, old man Zhou asked a fool to take us to the road. I still have some money in my backpack that can be used as travel expenses. It's been a bad luck for eight lifetimes. Only his precious lighter is left on Big Cigarette's body. In the end, he accepted such a Ming Dynasty pillow. No one knows how much it is worth. The cheeky car is scrapped and there is no place to make a living. He and I lived and ate at Dayan Die'er's house, but the pillows had never been sold, and he hadn't met the owner who knew the goods. Big Yan Die'er kept complaining: "To be honest, I really can't hold you two together." Heaven is with me for free, we want to go if we want to go, we have no choice but to die, something happened, we are forced to this point, we can’t survive without stealing the jade coffin and gold figurines from the ancient tomb of Xiong’er Mountain.” On this day, Big Yandie took Cheeky and me to a shabu-shabu restaurant with no business, ordered a pot, and served a few plates of sliced ​​meat and vegetables. We haven't eaten meat for several days. We ate noodles with sesame sauce all day long at Dayan Die'er's house, and we drool when we saw the hot pot. He cheekily said, "What do you mean by this? The central government has issued repeated orders, repeatedly emphasizing that work is not an excuse to eat and drink. I have been in the army for so many years, and I have been upright and clean. What I hate the most...is...corruption..." While talking, he put the freshly cooked slices of meat in his mouth, and he didn't care about talking about anything else after eating. I saw that Big Cigarette had been lighting matches and smoking, so I asked him, "Brother Dier, did you sell the lighter and let us eat the pot?" Big Cigarette said: "Well, when I thought about it, if you want to be poor, you should be poor to the end. You can't even smoke, and what do you do with your lighter? You just sell it to let the brothers have a good meal. It used to be really poor. I never thought about the meaning of the word poverty, but now that I understand it, being poor first and then being impoverished, there is nothing more terrifying than being trapped by poverty, if you have no money, even dogs will look down on you." I know that the cigarette lighter is hard to come by, and it is his lifeblood. Not long ago, when he escaped from danger in Tongtian Ridge, he even ran away with his pants, and he was not willing to throw away the lighter. I heard him sell the lighter at this time. He invited us to eat hot pot, feeling very uncomfortable, and persuaded him: "Life is alive, and there is no guarantee that there will be no ups and downs. We won't always be so unlucky. When I get along someday, I will definitely find you a better lighter. " Big Yandie said: "Come on, brother, if you have this kind of heart, it's better than anything else. I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that day. In fact, since I heard old man Zhou talk about the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain, I thought it was a way of making money. If we continue to make small troubles, we will not be able to make a lot of money. If we want to make money as soon as possible, we still have to steal and dig ancient tombs.有玉棺金俑的传闻，也已确认如今还有仙墩湖这个地方，1965年黄河有了三门峡水库，仙墩湖的水源枯竭，水位比早年间低得多了，正可下手。” 厚脸皮想都没想就说好，他恨不能当天就去盗墓取宝，以他的脾气秉性，生姜到手都要捏出汁儿来，李天王从他门口也要留下甲仗，档次上去容易下来难，从通天岭回来，已经不甘心开车跑运输挣那几个小钱，即知豫西熊耳山有古墓，不想去就不是他厚脸皮了。 我说：“可没有这么容易，出门的路费都凑不齐，怎么去盗墓？我看还是先给那枕头寻个买主儿才是正事，听说最近南城鬼市上有不少老外来逛，这帮八国联军的重子重孙，现今又回来挖咱社会主义墙角了，那些洋鬼子最喜欢古董，也舍得出钱，我顶恨这帮鬼子，不如让我明天抱着阴阳枕过去转一圈，蒙上一个是一个。” 厚脸皮道：“要说蒙人，那也是我的强项，蒙老外这种为国争光扬眉吐气的事你算我一个，明天我跟你一块去。” 大烟碟儿说：“那才能蒙出几个钱来，咱哥儿仨要脑子有脑子，要本事有本事，除了经常倒霉走背字儿，也不比别人少什么，得对自己有点要求不是？” 我自嘲道：“如若比赛倒霉，咱仨或许能在杠房胡同拿个名次，本事却是不值一提。” 大烟碟儿说：“怎么没本事，谁不知道兄弟你是瞎老义瞎爷的传人，盗墓取宝的勾当谁还比你在行？我都打听明白了，关于熊耳山那座古墓的传说，谁知道的也不如瞎爷多，瞎爷能没告诉过你？咱是一条命的兄弟啊，事到如今你还要瞒着我们不成？” 我那天多喝了几瓶啤酒，话赶话说到这，也不得不给大烟碟儿说个明白，其实瞎老义在盗墓行中普普通通，算不上什么厉害角色，可在他的上一辈人中，却真有几位惊天动地的人物，另外先前在村堡中听周老头说到熊耳山古墓，地宫中有玉棺金俑，这与我在辽墓壁画中见到的情形十分相似，过后我又想到当年听瞎老义提起黄河上下有这么一个古墓，多半也是指熊耳山地宫，至于瞎老义如何得知，这话说起来可远了，也着实惊心动魄，你们坐住了，听我说一说。