Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 779
Is there quicksand here too?Ding Ermiao frowned.

As he spoke, the road ahead became even more difficult. Zong Ruixiang stopped the car, got out of the car, and looked around with his binoculars.

Ding Ermiao also got out of the car and felt a strong wind blowing against her face.Those tiny bits of sand were swept up in the strong wind, hitting the face with a dull pain.

"Damn it, look at the weather forecast, doesn't it say there will be a breeze today?" Ding Ermiao complained, setting up an arbor to look around.On the way here, you can still see a hint of crispness in the distance, but the way out is full of yellow sand...

Ji Xiaoxiao and Gu Qinglan also jumped out of the car, each put on their goggles, raised their collars, and fluttered their sleeves, looking as dashing and heroic as heroines.

After watching for a long time, Ji Xiaoxiao said with emotion: "Why do you feel like you are in the desert when you come here? The desert is so vast in all directions."

"You're right, this place is known as the Hanzhong Desert." Zong Ruixiang put down the telescope and said:
"As the saying goes, the temple is full of monsters and the wind is strong, and the cave is shallow and there are many venomous snakes. Don't underestimate this desert. Countless tomb robbers have buried their skins in this vast yellow sand."

Ding Ermiao smiled and was noncommittal.

"Senior Brother Zong, is it impossible to move forward?" Gu Qinglan asked.

According to the calculation of the driving distance, this is only the edge of the small desert, and there is at least [-] kilometers away from the central area.It’s not easy to abandon the car and walk from here.

"We can go forward another ten or twenty miles, but if we go further back and go deep into the hinterland of the desert, I'm afraid we won't be able to." Zong Ruixiang waved his hand and said, "Everyone, get in the car and drive a little further to take a look."

Everyone got in the car again and continued westward.

However, the ground was bumpy and uneven, and we encountered piles of sand from time to time, so our progress was slow.

This twenty-mile journey took more than an hour.When the speed of the car was almost the same as walking, Zong Ruixiang turned off the off-road vehicle and asked everyone to get off.

Ding Ermiao took Ji Xiaoxiao out of the car and looked around. There was thousands of miles of yellow sand, but no green could be seen.

"Senior Brother Zong, you need to be more familiar with the situation in this area. Now we listen to you." Gu Qinglan looked around and said, "You can tell us where to go and where to set up camp."

Zong Ruixiang turned back to look at Ding Ermiao, and said in consultation: "It's still more than ten miles away from the hinterland of the desert. What I mean is that everyone should bring some equipment and food, walk forward, find a place to settle down, and then Explore forward step by step.”

"No problem." Ding Ermiao nodded, packed his umbrella and backpack, and then picked up a suitcase filled with food and drinks.

Ji Xiaoxiao also put on a backpack, affording some of the equipment she could.

Gu Qinglan and Zong Ruixiang brought other tomb robbing tools and miscellaneous items and led the way.

Based on the experience and lesson of "don't put your eggs in one basket", some equipment was left on the off-road vehicle in case of accidents.

The west wind blew fiercely, and the four of them walked in the vast sea of ​​sand, as small as an insignificant army of ants.

Because we were mentally prepared for a protracted war, we were not in a hurry or in a hurry, and walked slower.After stopping and walking, at noon, we finally reached the hinterland of the desert.

Fortunately, the journey was safe and sound.

It's just that the strong wind is raging and the sand is flying, making people feel even smaller and helpless.

Everyone put down their luggage and equipment and hid behind a sand dune to take a break.

"Brother Ding, Junior Sister Gu, I listen to you about what to do next." Zong Ruixiang looked at the expressions of Ding Ermiao and others and said.

There is yellow sand everywhere in front of you, a flat river, no mountains and no ridges. From the topography, no one can tell the origin of the matter.So when it comes to finding tombs here, even Ruixiang's experience in tomb robbing seems to be stretched thin and not enough.

Therefore, even Ruixiang could not come up with an idea and was willing to be a pawn and wait for orders.

At the same time, even though Ruixiang said this, he also wanted to see the quality of Ding Ermiao, a disciple of Maoshan.It is said that Taoist masters can not only make judgments based on the mountain topography when looking for dragons and caves to find tombs, but also have a unique trick, which is to look at the stars at night to determine the caves.

But watching stars and fixing acupuncture points, not to mention auspiciousness, even his ancestor Li Yaya couldn't do it.

If Li Yaya had that ability, he wouldn't have invented the Luoyang shovel.The principle of the Luoyang shovel is to bring out soil samples from the ground, and then the tomb robbers can determine whether there are ancient tombs underground based on the soil layer analysis, which dynasty the ancient tombs are, how large they are, etc...

"Er Miao, there is yellow sand as far as the eye can see, and the surface features are almost exactly the same. Can we find Liu Bowen's tomb?"

Gu Qinglan also saw Zong Ruixiang's purpose of testing Ding Ermiao, so she helped Ding Ermiao speak, "Why don't we look for the Sand Dune River first? Maybe with luck, we can still find the ancient river."

Who knew that Zong Ruixiang was determined to test Ding Ermiao's behavior, and said with a smile: "Junior sister Gu, have you ever thought about what we can do if we find the Sand Dune River? Since it is a river, the river must be very long. Who can say for sure? , where are the tombs located on the river? The head of the river, the tail of the river, or the middle of the river?"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Gu Qinglan glanced at Ruixiang.

"I heard that... people in the Taoist sect can find tombs by relying on the position of the stars." Zong Ruixiang showed his intention and said:
"Since Brother Ding is a disciple of Maoshan, he must be good at this technique. There is yellow sand as far as the eye can see. If you want to find the location of the tomb, it depends on Brother Ding's ability."

"Stargazing and fixing acupuncture points are just passed down from ancient times. Whether it's the ancient people who moved mountains and mountains, or the modern Southern and Northern sects, we have never heard of such a genius." Gu Qinglan made things difficult for Zong Ruixiang. Obviously dissatisfied, he said: "Even our ancestor Li Yaya doesn't have this ability, right?"

Ding Ermiao looked around and then at his compass, pretending to be deaf to what Gu Qinglan and Zong Ruixiang said.

Zong Ruixiang chuckled and said, "Junior sister Gu, you must also know the story about Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang choosing a tomb for Wu Zetian, right?"

"It's an old story, everyone on earth knows it." Gu Qinglan shrugged.

This is indeed an old story, almost everyone knows it.

——It is said that when Wu Zetian became emperor, he ordered the prime minister Li Chunfeng and the national counselor Yuan Tiangang to choose a cemetery for himself.Li and Yuan did not dare to neglect, and set out at starry night to visit famous mountains and rivers.

A few months later, the two returned to the DPRK at the same time, saying that they had chosen an address.After some humility, Li Chunfeng first said that he had selected a tomb somewhere in the northwest far from Chang'an and buried a copper coin as a mark.

Yuan Tiangang also said that he also selected the tomb at that location and inserted a silver hairpin as a mark.

When Wu Zetian heard that the tombs chosen by the two men were all in the same area, she secretly expressed surprise and ordered other officials to verify it.The verification officer went to check and sure enough found a silver hairpin stuck in the ground.

When I peeled away the loose soil under the silver hairpin, I saw that the silver hairpin was stuck right in the eye of the copper coin buried by Li Chunfeng!

It turned out that the place the two of them had chosen was completely unexpected and unbiased.Wu Zetian was overjoyed and decided to place the tomb here, which later became the Qianling Mausoleum.

Zong Ruixiang chuckled and said:
"Junior sister, did you know that Yuan Tiangang used the sky star to locate and select the tomb? The world is like a dream, and the sea is changing, but only the sky star is eternal. Since the sky star can be used to select the tomb, why can't the sky star be used to find the tomb?"

(End of this chapter)