Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 69 Heavenly Palace: Hanging Temple (1)
Wangshan ran the dead horse.

This is a common saying.

People living at the foot of the mountain have heard this saying for generations.

The meaning of this sentence is very simple and clear. Although your eyes can see a mountain on the opposite side, if you want to go to the other side of the mountain, the long road in the middle may exhaust the horse to death, because the visual distance and the actual distance are the same. There is a considerable gap.

During this day's trek under the Qilian Mountains, I deeply understood the meaning of this saying.

Obviously, I saw a mountain on the opposite side a long time ago, but no matter how the off-road vehicle moved forward, it still couldn't reach that mountain.Our car is constantly moving forward, and the mountain seems to be constantly retreating.It takes at least an hour or two to drive between a mountain and a mountain. The surrounding area is deserted and there are only three off-road vehicles, like three lonely black spots, moving slowly among the mountains.

The Qilian Mountains belong to the continental alpine and semi-humid mountain climate. As the altitude of the mountain rises, various climatic elements change regularly from bottom to top, presenting an obvious vertical mountain climate zone.

After several days of trekking, our altitude has reached more than 4000 meters, and we have entered the climate zone of alpine ice and snow vegetation.

Wan Juncheng thought it through and prepared fur boots in advance.

From the moment we entered the glacier area, we put on thick fur coats and leather boots, with only a pair of small eyes exposed all over the body, and walked hard in the ice and snow.

white.

The sky and the ground are a vast expanse of white.

The mountain peaks here are covered with snow all the year round, and some of the snow has turned into solid ice, which is shiny and reflects the sun.

We walked forward in the snow with one deep foot and one shallow foot, leaving a string of messy footprints behind us.

The weather in the past few days is good, there is no snowfall, and the snow is very dry, just like stepping on a pine cake.

The wind is blowing, the weather is dry and cold, not the kind of wet and cold snowy day, the kind of wet and cold that can directly cool people's bones.

The physical fitness of this group of people is not bad, but Liu Hanhao has some altitude sickness, and it is difficult to breathe. His face is full of pig liver, and he looks a little scary.

We took shelter under a rock face and built a fire with solid fuel.The canned dry food in the bag didn’t have to worry about spoilage in the cold environment, but it was frozen so hard that I couldn’t even bite it. I had to throw it in the pot and boil it with water, and then ate it whole to fill my stomach.

After a brief meal, each of us received a light green pill, just like the mints we ate as children.

Abe, the head lowering master, said: "This is the antidote for the Flying Heaven Gu, if you don't want to die, just swallow it!"

We didn't hesitate, we threw the pill into our mouths and swallowed it hard, feeling a little cold and bitter, with a strong herbal smell.

Of course, this kind of antidote is only temporary, and the Flying Gu will not attack if it is suppressed, the Flying Gu in the body has not been relieved yet.

While taking the medicine, I was surprised to find that Xu Bo, a Feng Shui master, and Jiang Yusheng, a fortune teller, also received a pill, and they took the pill silently without saying a word.

I asked Jiang Yusheng before, I think his character is not bad, but why did he work for Wan Juncheng.Thinking about it now, maybe Jiang Yusheng and Xu Bo didn't do it voluntarily, they were probably coerced by the Flying Gu and couldn't help themselves.

As soon as the pill rolled into my stomach, my stomach started to burn and hurt, and I felt like something was trying to rush out of the chrysanthemum.

Panting heavily, Liu Hanhao cursed and said: "You bastard, give us laxatives, it hurts me to death, no, I can't help it!" Then, he ran behind the rock not far away with his trousers .

I couldn't help it either, and walked quickly to the back of the rock, and before I walked over, I heard an earth-shattering sound, followed by Liu Hanhao's contented cry: "Oh... oh..."

I squatted down opposite him, and as soon as I took off my pants, the cold wind blew on my buttocks, like a knife was cutting.I can't take care of that much anymore, after a period of relaxation, I feel that my whole body is about to collapse.Looking back, I saw that my poop turned out to be green, which shocked me a lot.

However, I quickly calmed down, knowing that this was a symptom of being poisoned by the Gu poison, and I just expelled a little bit of poison temporarily.

"I... I'll fuck him..." Liu Hanhao had trouble breathing, and he couldn't even speak when he opened his mouth.

When Liu Hanhao and I were staggering back, Xu Bo and Jiang Yusheng couldn't help running over. From their painful facial expressions, we could tell that they were about to blow out.

Back at the camp, seeing Wan Juncheng studying the map, his excitement was beyond words: "Turning around this mountain pass, we should be able to see the ladder!"

The "ladder to heaven" that Wan Juncheng talked about is actually an ice ladder dug out of the ice-covered mountain, which is smooth and translucent.

When the sun falls, a gorgeous rainbow is reflected on the ice ladder, which is both illusory and real, very dreamy.

This ice ladder is like a meandering snake, going all the way up the mountain, and I don't know how many steps there are.

We climbed the stairs, expecting to climb out soon.Unexpectedly, this ice ladder was completely excavated according to the mountain, and it kept climbing up.

People in this kind of place have already lost the concept of time. I estimate that a group of people climbed on the ice ladder for no less than an hour. When we were exhausted, we finally saw the shining exit.It was an ice crevasse at the top of the mountain. The sun slanted down, and the hole covered with solid ice was dazzlingly bright.

Wan Juncheng took out a few pairs of sunglasses for us to wear to protect our eyes, so as not to hurt our eyes from the sunlight reflected by the ice and snow and suffer from snow blindness.

When we climbed out of the ice crevice above our heads, we were surprised to find that we had climbed all the way to the top of the mountain along this ice ladder.Thinking back to the ice ladder below, it was really a huge and arduous project. It is not easy to dig a ladder on the frozen mountain, and it is really ingenious to dig such a high and long ladder. I must have died of exhaustion back then. Craftsman.

The cold wind raged on the top of the snow mountain, making whistling noises.

The ground has turned into permafrost, covered with a layer of dry snow.

When the bitter mountain wind blows, the snowflakes flying all over the sky will inevitably be rolled up, which is also a beautiful scenery.

This mountain is very high. Standing on the top of the mountain, the heroic feeling of "seeing all the small mountains at a glance" suddenly appeared in my heart.

The surrounding hills are lower than the hills where we are, and the mountains are continuous. Looking around, the clouds and mist are misty, and there is no end in sight.

The sun falls on the top of the mountains, the ice and snow reflect the sun, shining brightly, coupled with the lingering white sea of ​​clouds, this place is like a fairyland on earth.Spreading his arms, there is a feeling that he is about to become a fairy.

The mountains and rivers are picturesque.

I finally understood the meaning of this idiom.

I wondered to myself, why would someone build such a huge ice ladder to the top of the mountain?What is the place on the top of the mountain?Looking around, there was nothing but a vast expanse of whiteness.After spending so much manpower and material resources, it's not just to build a viewing platform, right?
At this moment, Xu Bo, a feng shui master, was holding the heaven, earth and universe disk flat in his left hand, with an excited expression on his face: "Brother, we are here! We are here!"

"It's here?" Wan Juncheng was overjoyed, and strode over: "You mean, we have reached the dragon's head?"

"Yes!" Xu Bo stretched out his hand and pointed at the surrounding hills, "Brother, look, we are on the highest hill, and this hill must be the leader of the Jiuzhuan Huilong Fengshui Bureau!"

Wan Juncheng hastily pulled out the human-skinned map, double-checked the terrain, and couldn't hide the deep joy on his face: "We're here! We're really here!"

"Brother, are we really on the dragon's head? But the mountain is bare, there is nothing but white snow!" Agou walked to Wan Juncheng and raised his doubts.

To be honest, everyone's heart is full of doubts at this moment, is the Heavenly Palace they want to find invisible?Or, are we simply in the wrong place?However, this possibility is unlikely. First, the ice ladder below was not built for no reason; second, Feng Shui master Xu Bo has already determined that this is the dragon's head. With his Feng Shui attainments, his judgment should not be wrong.

Wan Juncheng didn't make a sound. He looked at the sea of ​​clouds in the distance with his hands behind his back, said to himself, and said softly: "It's not easy to reach the sky in one step, and the clouds and mist are empty. Nine dragons gather in the heavenly palace, and they fall into reincarnation." middle!"

We were confused and didn't know what he was talking about.

I thought Wan Juncheng was so elegant at this moment that he wrote a poem impromptu.

I read it silently. Although the poem doesn't rhyme very much, it has a good artistic conception, just like a love poem.

Could it be that Wan Juncheng is in heat at this time?Remember the old friend he missed in this life?
"Brother, what are you reading?" Agou asked.

Wan Juncheng's eyes shone brightly: "This is a code poem handed down from my ancestors. It is said that if you decipher this poem, you can find the Heavenly Palace!"

"Then have you cracked it?" Agou asked.

Wan Juncheng smiled slightly, and slowly clenched his fists: "I couldn't crack it before, but I think I have cracked it! It's not easy to reach the sky in one step, and it should refer to the difficulty of climbing the ice ladder; Nai Hekong is very easy to explain. It is our current situation. After climbing to the top, we found nothing; the third sentence refers to the Jiuzhuan Fengshui Bureau. As long as you can stand on the top of the mountain and see the Jiulong Fengshui Bureau, it means you have found the right place. , the Heavenly Palace is here. The first three lines are easy to understand, and the last line is very intriguing. If I guessed correctly, the last line pointed us to the location of the Heavenly Palace!"

"Where is it?" Agou asked.

"Follow me!" Wan Juncheng beckoned, leading a group of people to the edge of the cliff.

"Below!" Wan Juncheng said with a serious face, pointing to the steep cliff surrounded by clouds and mist.

The Heavenly Palace is below? !

isn't it? !

Wan Juncheng's words stunned all of us present.

The cold wind was blowing, and no one spoke.

"Brother, below is a cliff of ten thousand zhang, bottomless, how could the Tiangong be... how could it be below?" Agou raised his doubts in his heart.

"That's right! Outside the cliff is a sea of ​​white clouds, you can't see anything!" Han Jing said.

(End of this chapter)