Xijing City, Nanshang Street, Jingsan Alley
As soon as you enter Jingsan Alley, the signboards of Fuyuanzhai, Chang'andang, Huizepu, Qing'andian, and Yanta Trading Firm are laid out. Various pawn shops, antique shops, and handicrafts are opened on both sides of the shop, which attracts people. It was dizzying to see that in the streets and alleys, there were antique dealers selling goods with black cloth stalls at any time, haggling with people, talking and talking, just to fight for those three walnuts and two dates.
They saw Chao Fengdang in the street at a glance. Several people came to the door, opened the door curtain and walked in. The shop assistant in a gray cloth robe was standing next to the treasure rack using a feather duster to remove dust from antiques. They stepped into the threshold, walked over and cupped their hands and said: "A few guests, our shop is a courtesy and also sells antiques. If you have anything you like, please tell me."
"Little sir, let's find someone named Sun Dingying."
Sun Dingying is the shopkeeper of Chaojia Shop in Xijing.
As soon as the boy heard that he was looking for the shopkeeper, he quickly put down the feather duster in his hand. After a while, a middle-aged man stepped out.
Everyone was sitting on their seats, looking carefully at the person in front of them. He had a pear-shaped face, usually slightly straight facial features, and wore gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. He had a neatly trimmed beard and smelled of middle-aged ink. This middle-aged man was as tall as Sun Daqiao was about the same. His figure and bones could not be called fat, but he was not as skinny and dry as Sun Daqiao. He was well-proportioned with a slight belly. He wore a gray robe with faint dark lines and a mandarin jacket and waistcoat.
"Who are you?" As he spoke, he fiddled with the jade ring on his left thumb, feeling extremely curious in his heart.
Sun Dingying looked at the people sitting in the room, including old gentlemen, fortune tellers, and two or a few young people. He didn't dare to make a conclusion for a while.
"Shopkeeper Sun, we are coming from the Northeast. Mr. Chao told us that the Chao family has a shop in Xijing. If there is any difficulty, we can ask us to take refuge temporarily."
As soon as Yue Qingshan said this, although he didn't mention the soul palace, Sun Dingying already knew the origin of this group of people. He looked at the shop, turned to the boy and said: "Put down the sign, we will close early today."
"Yes~"
Sun Dingying took advantage of the boy to close the door and opened the curtain behind him: "Everyone, please come inside so it's easier to talk."
Everyone followed Yue Qingshan into the inner berth. This was a tea room of a suitable size. After everyone took their seats, Sun Dingying cupped his hands and said, "I heard the old man and his boss mentioned the old man a long time ago. When I saw him today, it was indeed extraordinary. Even the two young masters were surprised. They are all well-groomed.”
Shopkeeper Sun spoke beautifully in this scene. As soon as the serious atmosphere of the moment was relieved, Yue Qingshan waved his hand: "You have already given me a reward. These two brats, let alone how annoying they are in private, we are not here today. After hearing your praise for us, I wanted to come and inquire about it, but Mr. Chao wanted to reveal some news and asked me to inquire about it."
"This is really true~"
Sun Dingying took out the banknotes from the shelf nearby, dipped them in ink and wrote them word by word on the white paper. Then he handed the note to Yue Qingshan respectfully. The old man took a look at it and murmured to himself:
"The towering Han and Tang Dynasties, the vast China, feast on our country and sacrifice our country."
"Hey, just these four sentences? What does this mean?"
The three uncles and uncles of the Yue family had confused faces. Sun Daqiao was still somewhat educated, and kept thinking about these four sentences, but in the end he was full of tricks and deceptions, and he couldn't explain why.
Song Siyuan walked over and asked: "Shopkeeper Sun, if these four sentences are clues, where did you get them?"
Sun Dingying had already waited for them to ask this question and explained:
"Girl, you don't know something. As early as half a month ago, I was ordered by the old man to investigate the Ancestral Soul Soul Palace in advance. We first found the old people in the market in Xijing, and they had never heard of the Ancestral Soul Soul Palace. , even if you have heard about it, you only heard it mentioned occasionally by people of the previous generation in ancient times, and you can’t tell any useful information.”
"Later, we heard that there was a Shoushan village near Qinling Mountains in the Tang Dynasty, so we had to go to Qinling Mountains in person to inquire about the situation in the villages near Yuji Mountain in Qinling Mountains. The hard work paid off and we did find the village. The village was located on the Taiyiyu River. Nearby, it’s called Tangling Village.”
"Tangling Village? Will there still be a Tomb Guarding Village in this place?"
Sun Dingying could tell that they didn't understand Qinling. He turned around and took out the photos from the cabinet and showed them in front of everyone, explaining Tangling Village:
"The Qinling Mountains are the Chinese Dragon Vein and the ancient heritage of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. I don't know what the southern slope is like. I only know that there were 72 villages on the northern slope in the Tang Dynasty. These villages all set up camp on the banks of the Yu River to protect the Qinling Mountains. However, they fell with the Han and Tang Dynasties. , the village has no one to supply any more, and because it is blocked and cannot survive, more and more mountain guards have moved out one after another, and now, only Tangling Village has people left."
"This village was hit by a plague decades ago, killing more than half of the people. All the remaining people moved away. Today, only a blind old man still lives in Tangling Village. When we asked him, he only revealed this After the old man found out that we were interested in the Soul Palace, he never revealed a word about it. We kept it for several days and took a lot of photos. At present, we can only say that we have retained the images, and we don’t have any specific clues yet. "
