Chapter 15 2
"What are you waiting for? Let's go." As he said this, Gao Hongjin took the lead and walked towards the stairs.
There is a small village called Jiushan in front of Dafo Mountain. The name of this mountain village may come from the nine peaks behind the village. The village is not big, with only dozens of households.
There are many persimmon trees planted on both sides of the streets in the village and in front of and behind the houses. Because it is late autumn, the leaves have almost all fallen, leaving only the big red persimmons on the trees. From a distance, they look very beautiful, as if clusters of colorful clouds are floating in the village.
Gao Hongjin parked the car on the playground of the village primary school, then took out three mountaineering bags from the trunk. He placed the necessary equipment in the backpacks, including safety ropes for mountaineering, lighting fixtures, and enough food and water for three people for two days. These things were all prepared yesterday afternoon.
The three of them carried their mountaineering bags on their backs, and also carried water bottles and climbing ropes. After everything was packed, Gao Hongjin asked Mu Linfeng: "Which direction should we look in first?"
"Let's first ask the villagers whether there is a cave in the mountain behind us. If there are any villagers here, they should know the answer best."
Wen Yinqiu also agreed with Mu Linfeng's idea: "Brother Mu is right. We should first find out the situation from the villagers. It's better than looking around blindly."
The three people came out of the school and walked a short distance along the bluestone-paved village path. They saw two old men sitting by an abandoned stone mill drinking tea and chatting. Mu Linfeng walked over.
Mu Linfeng smiled and greeted the two old men: "Hello, uncles. We are here to climb the mountain and want to ask you something."
"Haha, it can be seen that in recent years, people often come from the city to climb the mountain. Are they asking for directions or for people?" one of the old men said cheerfully.
"I'm not asking for directions or asking about people. I just want to know if there are any caves or anything on the mountain behind the village..."
The two old men seemed to be stunned when they heard Mu Linfeng's question. The old man who spoke just now immediately asked: "Young man, why are you asking about the cave?"
At this time, Wen Yinqiu and Gao Hongjin also came to Mu Linfeng, and they also noticed the strange look on the old man's face. Mu Linfeng smiled and said, "We are all from the Wilderness Adventure Club, and we came here together to find an exciting place to play. We heard that there is a cave on this mountain, so we came here, but we don't know where it is..."
The smile on the old man's face had disappeared, and he said solemnly: "Young man, it is true that there is a cave on this mountain, but you'd better not go in casually."
Gao Hongjin asked hurriedly: "Old man, why can't we go in? Is there a ghost in there?"
The old man said with a mysterious expression: "The things in the cave are scarier than ghosts. They are blood-sucking bats. A few years ago, there was a cow in the village eating grass on the mountain. I don't know how it ran into the cave. When we found it, it was dead. Its skin was wrinkled and there was no blood in its body..."
Wen Yinqiu asked curiously, "Uncle, how do you know that the cow died from being sucked blood by a bat? Did anyone see it?"
"At dusk, you will see many bats flying out of the cave. What else could it be but bats? Girls, I am telling you this out of kindness. It is up to you whether you want to listen or not..."
Mu Linfeng hurriedly said, "Thank you, old man. How many caves like the one you described are there on this mountain?"
The two old men exchanged glances, and one of them said, "There are about five or six of them, big and small." The other old man nodded, "Yes, about five or six, but no one has counted the exact number. Some of the holes are connected..."
Mu Linfeng hurriedly asked again: "Where is the nearest cave to the village?"
An old man stood up, looked northwest, and pointed over there, saying, "There's a cave under the cliff a mile or so from here. The villagers blocked the entrance with rocks a few years ago to prevent children from playing in it, but you should be able to recognize it when you get there."
After saying goodbye to the two old men, the three people followed the direction pointed by the old men.
The hillside is full of terraces built by villagers with stones. They are only the size of a palm, and what is planted on them is not food, but hawthorn trees and peach trees. Qingzhou peaches are a well-known specialty. The peaches are only the size of walnuts, but they are very sweet and delicious, which makes people have endless aftertaste.
The three of them walked on the rocks on the ridge of the field and headed towards a cliff in the northwest direction. After more than half an hour, they arrived at the cliff that the old man mentioned. The cliff connected to a ravine, which was overgrown with weeds, and there were also many thorny brambles and low jujube trees. If you were not careful, you would be pricked by the sharp thorns.
Mu Linfeng walked in front, using a wooden stick to push aside waist-high weeds and brambles from time to time, and slowly searched along the ravine. The cliff on one side of the ravine was about three or four hundred meters long and fifty or sixty meters high. There were many bowl-sized trees on the cross section, stubbornly inserting their roots in the cracks of the rocks, trying to grow upwards, as if they were clouds attached to the cliff. In addition, the cross section was uneven, with many stones of different sizes protruding.
Gao Hongjin walked at the end, and Wen Yinqiu was sandwiched between the two. As she walked, she asked Mu Linfeng in front of her, "Brother Mu, where on the giant Buddha are we now?"
"This should be the place where the giant Buddha's ear cavity is. Looking here from the Buddha worship platform, you can only see the cliff above, but not the ravine below."
Mu Linfeng stopped walking suddenly when he said this. He found that there was a pile of rocks just a few meters ahead, close to the cliff. The rocks did not completely block the entrance to the cave, and a narrow gap was vaguely visible on the upper part.
Mu Linfeng pointed at the two-meter-high pile of rocks with a wooden stick and said, "This should be the cave entrance that the old man mentioned."
Wen Yinqiu observed the pile of stones covered with weeds, and then said: "Judging from this pile of stones, the entrance of this cave should be quite large, with a height and width of more than two meters. The coffin can enter through the entrance..."
Before Wen Yinqiu finished speaking, Gao Hongjin laughed, "Haha, Xiaowen, do you really think this cave is the entrance to the Heng King's Mausoleum?"
"Of course it's possible, Brother Mu, don't you agree?"
Mu Linfeng didn't seem to notice the conversation between the two. He looked up at the towering cliff above the cave entrance and muttered to himself, "The method of burying a mountain is that momentum is the most difficult, followed by shape, and then direction. The momentum is like thousands of horses descending from the sky, and that is where the king is buried. The momentum is like huge waves, with thousands of chariots buried on the top of the mountains. The momentum is like a descending dragon, with water surrounding it and clouds following it, and the title and salary of the three dukes..."
At this point, Mu Linfeng raised his hand and pointed at the cliff above his head and said to the two people: "Look up, don't you feel like a thousand horses are coming down from the sky? This should be the place where the king is buried."
Gao Hongjin asked hurriedly: "Lin Feng, do you mean this is the entrance to the Hengwang Mausoleum?"
Mu Linfeng shook his head: "I can't be sure yet, but this mountain is indeed the burial place of the king. Let's move some of the rocks on it first, and then go into the cave to check. If it is really the entrance to the Heng King's Mausoleum, there must be traces."
After saying that, Mu Linfeng took off his backpack and placed it on the stone next to him. Then he used his hands and feet to climb to the top of the pile of stones and pushed the stones on top to the side.
Gao Hongjin saw this and climbed up to help. After a while, the two of them moved some of the rocks on the top, and the blocked hole gradually appeared...
