Song Yi

Chapter 378 Inside the Waterfall

Seeing that the two of them were mumbling and refusing to leave, Ke Yao ran over and asked, "Brother, what are you talking about?"

Of course, it was inconvenient for Du Wenhao to tell them that there was something hidden in the parchment. It belonged to the White Clothes Society, and the fewer people who knew about the White Clothes Society, the better.She smiled and said: "Your elder sister Qingdai can tell fortunes, she said that there is a treasure mountain in front of you, there may be treasures hidden in it, the two of us are studying if there is a treasure, where should it be hidden in the mountain."

Ke Yao snorted, "Sister Qingdai, do you know how to tell fortunes?"

"Hehe, it's not sure, it's a blind calculation!" Lin Qingdai's words seemed to approve of the result, and she thought about it seriously: "This mountain looks like a cornucopia, maybe it really has treasures."

Ke Yao suddenly became interested: "Really? Let me take a look. I have very sharp eyes. If there are treasures, they will definitely not escape my sight." Tilting his head, he also looked at the mountain and pondered.

Seeing the three of them like this, Xue Feier and others also came over. Ke Yao told Du Wenhao's lie, and everyone was also very interested, staring at the mountain.

Yingzi's eyes were dazzled and he couldn't see anything, so he said: "It's really impossible, go and call the people from the yamen to help search together, we can definitely find it.

Ke Yao said: "That can't be done, this mountain is really too big, if you want to search, there is no one who will search people for several months, and I'm afraid you won't find anything famous."

Xue Fei'er also said: "Yes, Sister Qingdai, you did your calculations right, don't waste a long time and get nothing."

"Like I said, I was just doing random calculations, I can't tell if it's accurate or not." Lin Qingdai laughed.

When everyone heard this, they were immediately discouraged.

However, Du Wenhao still looked at the mountain carefully, and leaned into Lin Qingdai's ear and whispered: "If that painting is a map, there should be some instructions to mark the location of the treasure. Remember carefully, is there such a map?" sign."

Lin Qingdai carefully recalled the details in the painting, bit by bit corresponding to what was in front of her eyes. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she leaned into Du Wenhao's ear and whispered: "There is a gazebo in the middle of the waterfall in this painting. But there is no one in front of me!" "

"Gazebo? Chinese freehand landscape paintings don't pay attention to the exact match, they can be increased or decreased at will according to the artistic conception." Du Wenhao whispered in her ear.

"But why are other places so similar? The distribution of the entire mountain shape and the boulders under the waterfall are exactly the same as in the painting! But you see, there is no mountain road in the place where the gazebo is drawn in the picture, it is completely On the cliff, how was the gazebo built? There is no road, so why build a gazebo?"

"It makes sense!" Du Wenhao mused into Lin Qingdai's ear thoughtfully, "If this painting is really a map, it should match the scene completely. That is to say, there should be a gazebo in the painting , but there is no one, and the big stone with the gazebo hanging in the air, with no way to go, is very strange..."

"Hey! It's almost done!" Ke Yao tilted his head and teased: "Look at you two, you are almost touching your faces together, we still have so many people here!"

Lin Qingdai glared at her, and said to Du Wenhao, "Shall I go down and have a look?"

Du Wenhao glanced at the dizzying waterfall: "Can you do it?"

"Don't worry!" Lin Qingdai said, "It's much easier than going to the house. Besides, there is a pool of water below, even if you fall, you won't fall to your death. Wait for my news!"

"Then be careful!"

"Ok!"

Lin Qingdai grabbed the vines on the edge of the cliff and slid down. When they reached the end of the vines, she started to walk down the slippery stone wall.Du Wenhao and the others were dizzy and worried.But Lin Qingdai was very fast.In many places where there seemed to be no gaps to cling to, she crawled easily like a spider.

Finally, she came to the protruding boulder, which was inside the waterfall, and the cascading waterfall flew over her head, which was very thrilling.

Looking at Lin Qingdai from a distance, she seemed to be looking for something by touching the boulder a little bit.

Suddenly, she exclaimed in surprise: "Wen Hao! There is a big rock on the rock wall, which can be pushed away, and it looks like a cave inside!"

Du Wenhao was also surprised and delighted: "Don't go in first, if the cave is closed, the air inside will not circulate, there will be filth and miasma, be careful of poisoning. First push the stone away to let the air out! Don't worry, wait, let's get down and go in together !"

"Okay!" Lin Qingdai pushed away the stone on the stone wall and looked inside, "The cave inside is very small! You all come down, it won't fit in!"

Xue Fei'er said: "Brother, I'll take you down!"

"Don't take any risks, Li Pu, you lead someone to twist a long rope immediately, and Fei'er and I fall. I have a soft hedgehog armor to defend myself, and Fei'er is good at martial arts. The three of us are enough to go down. The others wait on the top." .”

Ke Yao said: "I want to go too! I am very light, and I can use a rope with Sister Fei'er. My martial arts are also good!"

Du Wenhao knew what Ke Yao believed, and if you didn't let her do it, your ears would get callused, so he didn't bother to chat with her, and said, "Okay then."

Ke Yao never expected that Du Wenhao would agree so readily this time, and he was overjoyed.

Li Pu hurriedly led the guards to start cutting bark and weaving rattan ropes. There were many people and quick hands, and it took only half an hour to weave two long rattan ropes.First hang Du Wenhao down, and tie a handful of pine oil sticks to the other as a torch, and then hang Xue Fei'er and Ke Yao.

The three of them went down to the boulder, lit a torch, and threw one into it. After a while, the torch did not go out, indicating that the air inside should be relatively good.

Du Wenhao covered his face with a face scarf, and wanted to enter the cave first, but Lin Qingdai stopped him: "There may be poisonous snakes and beasts inside, I'll go first, and you will follow behind."

Of course Du Wenhao knew that Lin Qingdai was much better than himself, and she was the most suitable pioneer.So without arguing, he followed her into the cave.

The passage of the cave is very narrow, you have to bend over to enter, and there are laid steps that go up slowly.At the beginning, the four of them covered their noses and mouths with face scarves, and when they entered the cave, Ke Yao felt that it was congested, so he tried to let go of the face scarves, but nothing happened, and he didn't feel dizzy and difficult to breathe. All let go.

After walking not far, they came to a spacious place, a cave as big as half a basketball court.

Ke Yao found a ray of light penetrating above his head. Everyone looked up and found that there was a long gap the size of a palm that could steal the light in on the side of the cave wall facing outwards.The difficulty has been closed for so many years, but the air inside is still so good.

In this cave there was a stone bed, a large chest, and some china bowls, but nothing else.There is no other way to go on.

All eyes were on the box.Xue Fei'er said: "Sister Qingdai, you are really amazing! You really have a baby!"

Lin Qingdai was also very excited: "Guess what, what is it?"

Ke Yao said: "Maybe it's an empty box, everything has been taken away."

"Don't disappoint, okay?" Xue Fei'er stared, stepped forward, took a torch and looked at the box first: "It's locked!"

"Find a rock and break it open!" Du Wenhao said.

"No, let me do it!" Lin Qingdai walked over and knelt down, grabbed the brass lock and twisted it hard. With a creak, the brass lock came off, and she pulled the lock out casually, pressed the lid of the box, and turned around to let everyone back out. Open, in case there is an agency plotting against him, he took a deep breath, lifted the lid of the box with shaking hands, and then stepped back.

It was still quiet, nothing happened, only the faint sound of water outside.

The four of them guarded the front with one hand and held the torch in the other. They walked slowly over, looked into the box, and saw that the box was full of books—neatly bound books!
"Hi!" Ke Yao was disappointed, "I thought it was some kind of treasure, but it turned out to be a box of books. It's boring!"

Du Wenhao handed the torch to Lin Qingdai, knelt down and took out a copy, and found that it was a handwritten copy, and he didn't know any of the characters written on it, because it was written in Sanskrit!Fortunately, Du Wenhao heard from the abbot at Baoguo Temple in Mount Emei last time that he had seen Sanskrit.

I took out all the books in the box one by one, and found that they were all manuscripts in Sanskrit, which should be Buddhist scriptures. The paper was yellowed, which must have been a long time ago.

Du Wenhao heard from the magistrate of Luzhou that during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Master Huiyuan, the founder of Baiyi Society, lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain for 30 years, and these books should be left by him.From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, there were six to seven hundred years. It is really rare that these books can be preserved to this day.

Ke Yao said: "Since there is no baby, let's go."

Du Wenhao said: "Bring these books."

"What do these bad books want him to do?"

"These books are especially hidden in such a hidden cave. They should be very precious. Take them away!"

"It's so heavy!" Ke Yao pouted.

"Let me do it!" Lin Qingdai went over and fastened the box, still twisted the copper lock, picked it up and turned to go out of the hole.

When they came outside the cave, they first hoisted Xue Feier and Ke Yao up, then Du Wenhao and the box of books, and finally Lin Qingdai went up to the top of the waterfall.

Li Pu and the others were a little amused when they heard that what they found was just a box of books. Those warriors had no interest in books.Master Shen was interested, but the brass lock of the box had already been screwed to death by Lin Qingdai, so it was difficult to open, so he didn't mention it.

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After Du Wenhao and the others visited Mount Lushan for a few days, when they descended the mountain, it was already March of Fireworks.

Luzhou City is located fifty miles away from Lushan Mountain. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is an open land. The people here do all kinds of farming, hunting and fishing. In addition, the weather here is good. Along the way, you can see all the beautiful scenes of men farming, women weaving and children playing. , Du Wenhao and the others looked a little envious.

At dusk, Du Wenhao and his party entered the city gate,
As soon as he passed the city gate, he saw a man who looked like an official shouting loudly behind Du Wenhao and his carriage. Ke Yao gently opened half of the curtain to take a peek, and saw the man chasing after him panting, with a sling on his waist. A waist knife.

Xue Fei'er was puzzled, she poked her head to look, and said: "I just said that the local officials have managed the place well. Look, I can't praise it. It must be that we didn't pay for the road."

Li Pu, who was driving in front of the car, stopped the car and said, "My lord, let me see what's going on."

The car in front also stopped, and Li Pu jumped out of the car to meet the official.

Ke Yao sneered, put down the curtain, took something out of the suitcase, Du Wenhao smiled and said, "Ke Yao, what are you looking for?"

Ke Yao turned his head and stared at Du Wenhao with a pair of almond eyes, and said with a half-smile, "Looking for money?"

Du Wenhao laughed loudly and said, "I don't think so, maybe they are looking for us to drink!"

Ke Yao ignored Du Wenhao, and just buried his head and said, "My good brother, you just wait for a drink. I think that other than those of us who buy you a drink, that official officer will definitely not..."

Before Ke Yao finished speaking, Li Pu poked his head in and said with a smile, "My lord, he is from An Yilong, the prefect of Luzhou, and I have been waiting for you here for a long time."

After hearing this, Ke Yao couldn't help but said, "What's the matter? You're not a thieves? Am I still a robber?"

Du Wenhao laughed loudly: "Officials rob? Hehe, thank you for thinking about it."

"It's not robbery, look at how anxious he is!"

"It means something urgent!"

Li Pu hurriedly said: "Your Excellency is right, Master Zhizhou said that he needed to consult with you on an urgent matter, and asked the humble official to take his wives to the official post first."

Lin Qingdai: "This Zhizhou lord is quite interesting. He put us all aside, and won't invite you to drink at the flower bar!"

Du Wenhao chuckled and said, "That might be!"

Li Pu hurriedly said: "No, he said that there is a life lawsuit and he doesn't know what to do, and the specific situation is not clear."

Ke Yao smiled and said, "This prefect is different from other officials. He doesn't invite food or give gifts, but he talks about the case as soon as he arrives. It's interesting."

Du Wenhao got up and said: "That's okay, you and Li Pu go back to the official post to rest first, I'll go and have a look."

Ke Yao suddenly stood up from his seat and was about to get out of the car.Du Wenhao hurriedly said: "Hey, what are you doing? Let me make it clear first, don't yell and go with me, and go back to the official post with your sister Qin and the others obediently."

Ke Yao laughed and said, "How suitable is it for you to go alone?"

Du Wenhao: "How could I go alone? Why should I bring my master and money?"

"I don't care!" Ke Yao snorted, and got out of the car first, and saw two people standing not far from the car, one was the official chasing the car before, and the other was wearing a green shirt, of medium height, about 40 He looked more than a few years old, with a strong figure, and looked at Ke Yao with a smile on his face.

Seeing Du Wenhao approaching, the magistrate An Yilong rushed forward and said humbly: "I am about to go up the mountain to meet my lord, I heard that my lord has gone down the mountain, so I am waiting here."

Du Wenhao saw Ke Yao standing aside, acting like a follower, and said, "What are you doing standing here, why don't you go back with Sister Qin and the others?"

Ke Yao was displeased, pouted his mouth, didn't speak, but didn't leave either.

Du Wenhao: "What I'm talking about with Mr. An is business, what are you doing here?"

An Yilong saw that Ke Yao seemed to want to go with him, and Du Wenhao seemed to dote on this beautiful girl, so he hurriedly said, "Master Du, there is no other important secret in this humble job, it is just a troublesome incident in Bizhou recently. I don't know how to deal with this case, so it's not a big problem for my sister to go to the trial together."

Du Wenhao looked at Master Shen, seeing that he was only smiling and nothing unusual, and he was not much better, so he waved to Li Pu and let them go.

(End of this chapter)