Behind the secret door is a very long passage, which is not high and very narrow. Hua Muling and I bent forward and walked forward. Although we were tired, it was not that uncomfortable.
However, it was a bitter experience for Xiong Ming.
This guy was tall and strong, and it was quite strenuous to walk in this narrow corridor. In a short time, most of his clothes were torn, and the guy screamed in pain from behind. .
Since the corridor was too low, I could only stretch the torch as far forward as possible, but even so, the flames from the torch still scorched my hair and eyebrows.
But to be honest, I'd rather be where we are now than groping our way in the dark.
The few of us just smelled the smell of burnt hair and groped for about ten minutes ahead of time. The originally smooth corridor suddenly disappeared, and immediately afterwards, there was a relatively spacious tunnel ahead.
This tunnel was not built artificially, but was formed naturally. There were many bricks and stones facing the place where the corridor and the tunnel were connected. It seemed that the workers who originally built this place did not even consider that there would be a naturally formed tunnel here.
I raised the torch in my hand high, trying to see clearly the road ahead.
I couldn't see the road clearly, but as a gust of wind slowly drifted by, I could faintly smell a fishy smell.
This fishy smell is very light, so light that you can't detect it if you don't smell it carefully, but I am very sensitive to this smell.
Because this smell reminds me of something from my childhood...
By the way, that happened many years ago, so it was when I was about eight or nine years old. In my mind, I was still in elementary school at that time.
During the summer vacation of that year, my old man and I went to the countryside to collect goods.
In name, they are collecting old items from farmers, but in reality they are going to see if there are any famous artifacts dug out of graveyards.
At first, our old man didn’t intend to take me there, but he couldn’t resist me and insisted on wanting to gain more knowledge. In addition, Uncle Xu was helping me, so in the end, our old man couldn’t resist and agreed to take me. Let's go to the countryside together.
When I was a child, transportation was not as convenient as it is now. At that time, if I wanted to go to a famous place, I would not only have to ride in a green leather car for a long time, but also have to reverse the car and finally ride in a donkey cart.
In short, the six of us struggled for a full week before we arrived at a place called Huagai Village.
According to the introduction of the head of Huagai Village, the reason why this place has such a name is because there is a black dragon suppressing it below.
According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were floods in this place year after year, and the people were miserable. At this time, an old road passed by this place. He was a wise man, and he could see at a glance that there was a black dragon entrenched here, causing harm to the world.
So, he took action decisively and fought with the evil black dragon for seven days and seven nights. Finally, he cut off the black dragon's horns and used the Seven-Star Canopy Formation to suppress the black dragon here.
Later, in order to commemorate this enlightened master, people named this place Huagai Village.
When I was young, I didn't think anything of it. I just thought that such myths were very interesting, so when the old man was out collecting goods, I took an old man named Li Yazi from the village and told me the story about the black dragon.
Li Yazi saw that I was curious, so he coaxed me and told me a lot of stories. Among them, he mentioned one thing, that is, in a forest to the east of the village, there was an old Taoist priest who used to seal the black dragon. Array.
"Magic circle...?!"
When I heard these two words, I suddenly became energetic, but I was afraid that the old man would scold me if I went out during the day, so I decided to run over and have a look in the middle of the night.
Although I was young at that time, I still learned a little bit of the "ask" tactic in the Jin family. During the chat with Li Yazi, I accidentally or unintentionally talked about the dragon-suppressing magic circle.
Seeing that I was a child, Li Yazi didn't think much about it. He told me the general location of the dragon-suppressing array in a short time. He was also afraid that I would run away alone and said many things to scare children.
After listening to this, I couldn’t help but feel
It was funny, and he said to himself: "Old man, do you think I am a child of an ordinary family? Young grandpa, I am a descendant of the Jin family. I can scare adults even if I hit children. You can't even try to scare me."
After asking for the approximate address, I made an excuse to go back to the residence arranged by the village chief, and secretly hid a flashlight under my pillow.
In the evening, around five or six o'clock, the old man and Uncle Xu came back with their men. From their expressions, it seemed that today was going well.
After dinner, it was completely dark outside.
It's different in the countryside than in the city. There are no entertainment activities here. After a few people talked briefly around the stove for a while, they went back to their houses to sleep.
Our old man and I shared a room. Perhaps he was tired from collecting goods during the day. After a while, our old man fell asleep, and his snoring became louder and louder.
I didn't move immediately because I was afraid that the old man was not asleep well. I waited for about fifteen minutes. After confirming that he was completely asleep, I quietly took out the flashlight from under the pillow and carefully slipped out. Room.
The place we live in is the village chief's home. My old man and I live in the east wing. Uncle Xu and three of his men live in the west wing. There is another room near the east wing, which is the kitchen and woodshed.
After I went out, I turned around and went into the woodshed and took out a rusty sickle from inside.
Then I walked cautiously towards the courtyard door. Just when I was about to go out, a voice suddenly came from behind me, "Xiaotian..."
It doesn't matter if I say "Xiaotian", it almost scares the soul out of me.
I immediately turned around and found that the person who stopped me was a young guy from our Yiyuanzhai. I forgot his name, but I just remembered that his surname was also Li. Because he had a big face, everyone in Yiyuanzhai was Call him Li Dabing.
I also like to jokingly call him "Pake Brother".
I turned around and saw it was him, and couldn't help but sing.
When Li Dabing saw that it was me, he curiously asked, "Xiaotian, you're not sleeping in the house in the middle of the night, where are you going this sneaky way?"
This guy not only had a big face, but also had a loud voice. When I saw him making a sound, I quickly ran over and raised my index finger at him, making a silencing gesture.
"Shh!" I said, "Brother Pancake...you have a loud voice, don't you know? With such a big movement, you want to shout everyone out?"
Li Dabian looked at me, lowered his voice and asked, "Okay, I'll keep my voice down! But what are you doing?"
I smiled mysteriously at Li Dabi and said, "I'll tell you the truth, Brother Pan! I seem to have found a big tomb on this mountain! Do you want to follow me to have a look? If there are really famous objects inside, you It can be regarded as a first achievement, and his status in Yiyuanzhai is naturally..."
Naturally, Li Dabian would not believe what I said as a child. Not only was he not tempted when he heard what I said, but he frowned slightly and said, "Xiaotian, ok, just stay here quietly! Hurry up! Go back to sleep!"
After saying that, this guy didn't forget to kick me in the butt.
