Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 26 Erlang God (1)
"Tuoba Gu! Wake up! Tuoba Gu, what's wrong with you?"

I slowly opened my eyes, and the first thing I saw was Gu Meidi.She was looking at me suspiciously, with a slight look of anxiety on her face.

I suddenly remembered that shattered face, and stepped back half a meter in horror, "Monster, don't come here!"

Gu Meidi's eyes widened, "Monster? Who is the monster? I think you fell asleep, kid?"

ah?Drowsy?

I looked up and looked around, and found that my grandfather and Professor Ye were also looking at me not far away.

I rubbed my swollen temples, my dear, was everything just a nightmare of mine?
I reached out and pinched Gu Meidi's face, and said to myself: "It's okay! It's okay! It's not peeling off!"

Gu Meidi's eyes rolled with murderous intent, "Tuobagu, what are you doing?"

I suddenly laughed foolishly, "Hehe! It's okay! It's okay!"

Gu Meidi looked at me in bewilderment, "It's too bad, you're probably crazy!"

I hugged Gu Meidi excitedly, "I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy! Haha! Thank God, I'm still alive! Hahaha! I'm still alive!"

My bold move frightened Gu Meidi, and Gu Meidi leaned against my arms helplessly, her face flushed with shame.She bit my ear and whispered: "Let go of me, you have taken the wrong medicine, grandpa and Professor Ye are watching from behind!"

I didn't hear what Gu Meidi was saying at all, I hugged her tightly like I hugged the whole world, my heart was full of joy for the rest of my life after the catastrophe.

"Ahem!" Professor Ye came to us and coughed deliberately, "You two, I'm sorry to bother you!"

Gu Mei Di broke free from my arms, her face was as red as a ripe tomato.

I smiled at her with some embarrassment, then looked up at Professor Ye.

Professor Ye said: "Have you recovered your spirit? We are ready to sail!"

I got up from the ground, shook my dizzy head, "I've been waiting to leave this ghostly place anytime!"

The water is quiet, as calm as a big mirror.

The roar of the motor broke the tranquility here, and the iron boat chugs away from the waves, increasing its horsepower and heading out of the cave.

I was finally about to leave this ghostly place, and I looked back at the white fishbone temple, filled with emotion.I wanted to say something, but I couldn't, so I just sat quietly on the deck in a daze.

Suddenly, there was a muffled bang in front of the bow, and the hull shook slightly, as if it had hit something.

When I recovered from my daze, Grandpa slowed down the speed of the boat, poked his head out from the cockpit, and asked me to see if I had hit something and if the hull was damaged.

I got up and stood at the front of the deck, looking into the river by the beam of the searchlight at the bow.The white circle of light fell on the water, and there was a dark mass floating in the water less than five meters away from the bow of the ship.I suddenly thought of the train-sized monster in the abyss, and couldn't help but shiver in my heart.But I quickly calmed down again. The black shadow in the water was only about the size of a person, and it must not be the monster in the abyss.

I waved my hand at the cockpit, signaling Grandpa to turn the rudder slightly to the right, and lean over the tin boat to have a look.

The iron boat slowly approached the black shadow, and my heart beat faster.

Gu Meidi manipulated the searchlight from behind, so that the white circle of light was just projected on the black shadow.At this time, I finally saw the black shadow clearly, and I couldn't help but exclaimed "Yeah".

Gu Meidi said: "Tuobagu, why are you like a woman, what are you calling like a ghost?"

I pointed to the black shadow in the water, my voice trembling with excitement, "The coffin... the yin wood... the yin wood turtle coffin!"

"What? The tortoise coffin made of yin wood?" Gu Meidi was taken aback for a moment, and quickly walked to the edge of the deck, stretching his neck to look into the water.

A black yin wood coffin floats up and down in the water, with a huge tortoise shell covering the top and bottom of the coffin, exactly the same as the yin wood tortoise coffin we saw in the old house before.

Gu Meidi and I looked at each other, with deep doubts on our faces, how could there be a yin wooden tortoise coffin here?Could it be that this is really the source of the Yinmu turtle coffin?It seems that in this cave, apart from the black coffin hanging in the air, there are other coffins buried.Where did this tortoise coffin come from?Could it be that it came out of the water?From this point of view, there are still many secrets hidden under this water area!

We hurriedly cast down the fishing nets, and with our joint efforts, we dragged the tortoise coffin onto the deck.

The tortoise coffin was wet, dripping water dripping down, and the two huge tortoise shells glowed with ancient gloom.

I spit into the palm of my hand and picked up the engineering shovel to open the coffin.

Gu Meidi quickly grabbed my arm, "Wait! Wait! What are you going to do?"

"Of course it's opening the coffin!" I said.

Gu Meidi said: "Why do you open the coffin? Even if you think about it with your toes, you can tell that there must be a body of a Xixia warrior in the coffin! Have you forgotten what happened in the old house? The death worms of the Western Regions, if the death worms of the Western Regions wake up and turn the Xixia warriors into corpses, we may not be able to deal with them!"

"That's right!" I slapped my head violently, how could I forget about the death bugs in the Western Regions?Fortunately, Gu Meidi reminded me in time, otherwise I would open the coffin recklessly, and everyone might be harmed.But then I thought depressingly: "Then why do we bother to salvage this tortoise coffin? Isn't this full of food?"

"Do you want to take this coffin away?" I asked Professor Ye.

Professor Ye shook his head, "No, carrying this coffin is too eye-catching. Besides, there is nothing valuable in the coffin. I guess the real valuable things are still under this water."

I pushed the tortoise coffin back into the water, clapped my hands and said: "I think so too, now I can confirm that this is the source of the tortoise coffin, the secrets we want to find and crack may all be in this water area Next, why don't we go into the water and have a look?"

"Go into the water to die?" Gu Meidi gave me a white look, "There are corpse rats under the water, there is a black fog that eats people, there is a bottomless abyss, and there are Yellow River monsters as big as trains, even if you have Nine lives, I'm afraid I can't come back alive!"

"Hey! Then what should I do?" I sighed slightly. In fact, I know what Gu Meidi said, but the matter has reached this juncture, how can I give up?If we can't figure out what's going on with these Western Xia warriors, what's going on with eyeball tattoos, and if someday a killer really kills us, we'll die with regret.

Professor Ye said: "I also think that you should not act recklessly. After all, you only have one life, and it is gone after death. No matter what, we should cherish life and never gamble with our own life. In my opinion, launching into the water requires In the long run, anyway, we have survived so much time, and we are not in a hurry."

Although I know what Professor Ye said is very reasonable, but I am still very disappointed, "Are we really going to give up this operation?"

Professor Ye stared at the dark water and said, "I didn't say that I would give up this operation completely. What I mean is that we have to wait two more days until all the preparations are done before we go into the water. After all, we have run out of ammunition now." Food is running out, boats and vehicles are tired, and equipment is lacking. If we go into the water now, we will have no chance to resist when we encounter danger. Or we can leave here temporarily and go to Yinchuan to settle down. I have some friends in Yinchuan and ask them to buy some equipment and wait for preparations After the work is done, we will come back here to find out what happened, what do you think?"

Professor Ye's proposal is good, we all nodded in agreement.

The iron boat restarted and drove out of the cave. I looked back at the deep pool and swore in my heart that no matter how dangerous the pool was, I would go down and find out the whole story.

The iron boat sailed out of the cave without haste. Fortunately, the strange black mist did not appear, nor did the monsters in the abyss.When we left the cave, the sunset was flying outside, and we actually stayed in the cave for a whole day and night.The storm has passed, the sky has returned to clarity, the Yellow River has stopped roaring, and this section of the ancient Yellow River road has restored the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River.

We bathed in the evening breeze blowing slowly, and a kind of joy of surviving the disaster rose in our hearts.Looking back at the Yellow River cave, it slowly shrinks in our sight until it disappears.The strange experience of this day and night has already left a hot brand in my heart, and I am afraid that this life will not be able to erase it.

Gu Meidi stood on the deck with her arms outstretched, and the evening wind blew her long hair. She squinted her eyes and looked at the crumbling sunset in the distance. She sighed and said, "It feels so good to be alive!"

Professor Ye took out the hook again and sat by the boat to fish.

I lay lazily on the deck, basking in the sun with my eyes slightly closed.Gu Meidi suddenly squatted down beside me, and poked my waist with his fingers, "Hey! Tuoba Gu, there is something I forgot to ask you!"

I opened my eyes, "what's the matter?"

Gu Meidi said: "I'm curious what kind of nightmare you had in the Fishbone Temple. Why did you shout and cry in your dream? I thought you were bewitched!"

I smiled awkwardly, and kept saying, "It's nothing, it's really nothing!"

However, I was muttering in my heart: My aunt, do I dare to tell you about that nightmare?If I let you know that I dreamed of you lying in a coffin, you must skin me!

Facing Gu Meidi's hard questioning, I could only adopt evasive tactics, and ran into the cockpit on the pretext that my grandfather was calling me.Leaving Gu Mei Di behind me in a daze, "Did Grandpa call you? Why didn't I hear you?"

Grandpa smoked a pipe while steering the helm, and gave me a meaningful look, "Little Gu, she's not bad!"

As soon as I heard this, I got angry, and hurriedly clasped my fists to beg for mercy: "Grandpa, stop, stop, why do you keep saying this?"

Grandpa looked at me sideways, "You know what I mean?"

I said: "I understand! You just want to tell me to seize the opportunity and try to marry Gu Meidi into the family as soon as possible!"

Grandpa said: "This is just one layer of meaning!"

I asked suspiciously: "Then there is another meaning?"

Grandpa let out a long puff of smoke, "There is another meaning...uh... give up this operation..."

"No! I don't want it!" I shook my head almost without any consideration, "Why did you give up this operation?"

Grandpa said: "You have also seen the danger of this operation. If we continue, the result is likely to be a dead end! Grandpa is not afraid of death, but grandpa is afraid of what will happen to you. If something happens to you, how can I be sorry? Your dead father! Also, this operation is not only about your own life, but also about Gu Meidi's life. Since you love her, why do you let her take risks with you? You This is irresponsible behavior!"

I sat on the side of the boat with my arms folded, letting the wind blow my hair.I was speechless for what my grandfather said, and my heart became extremely heavy as I watched the sunset gradually sinking.Maybe Grandpa is right, but things have gone to this point, it is really difficult to give up and turn around.

After several hours of sailing, near midnight, the iron boat docked at the water terminal in Yinchuan City.After bumping on the boat for so long, we all felt that our steps were a bit vain when we stood on land.We took a taxi and headed for downtown Yinchuan.

Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is a famous historical city with splendid civilization.The majestic Helan Mountains and the Yellow River have created the Yinchuan Plain together, and an endless civilization has been bred on this land.The annual rings of history and diverse cultures have accumulated here, and various cultures such as Central Plains culture, frontier culture, Hetao culture, Silk Road culture, Xixia culture, and Islamic culture are stirring and blending.The strong homecoming style, the majestic desert scenery, the beautiful water color of the Fortress, the ancient Yellow River civilization, and the mysterious Xixia culture constitute the city image of "Majestic Helan, Colorful Yinchuan".

The taxi is speeding on the wide street, watching the tall and exotic buildings pass by outside the window, our hearts seem to float back to the ancient and magnificent era.

Our stomachs were all growling with hunger, and we wanted to find a place to have a good meal, but because it was too late, many gourmet shops were closed.Later, we asked the taxi driver, who took us to a small roadside noodle restaurant and told us that the beef and mutton ramen in this noodle restaurant is very delicious.

Although it was late at night, this small noodle restaurant was still crowded with diners.We sat down around a small square table, and each ordered a large bowl of mutton ramen.After a while, the steaming hot mutton noodles were brought up. Before we could move our chopsticks, we were already salivating just smelling the delicious and rich broth.

(End of this chapter)