Chapter 22 The secret to finding gold

On the mound in the middle of the Song family's fish pond, the sun was shining directly at noon, and the water level in the fish pond dropped a lot. At this time, the water pump was working in the Haihe River outside to replenish the fish pond 24 hours a day. Although the weather is very hot, there are large shade trees on the mound and it is surrounded by water, which makes it naturally cool. At this time, Song Yijin had been practicing hard for three hours under the guidance of the old man. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the old man called him into the room, took out a pill for him to eat, and asked him to stay on the futon. Sit quietly, and then the futon slowly rises about a foot, and a stream of true energy arises from the top of Song Yijin's head and rotates from top to bottom to surround the whole person. After a long time, it becomes a red fairy energy that takes the shape of a dragon and enters from Song Yijin's mouth. Song Yijin suddenly feels like he has been reborn. The whole body feels hot and cold, like a fairy but not a fairy.

The old man breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had accomplished a major task. At this time, three cranes were heard outside the house, and the sound was loud. Song Yijin went out and saw two very burly red-crowned cranes with huge red feathers on their heads, standing outside the door and nodding to Song Yijin. At this time, the old man came out and said to Song Yijin: "Yijin, today I will set off to travel to Laoshan Mountain, Qiyun Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Wudang Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain, Laojun Mountain and other places. It will take as little as ten years and as long as twenty years." Uncertain, maybe even longer. After I leave, you have to practice hard here. At the same time, remember not to show up in front of others and cause trouble. The one on the right will be your mount from today on. I have already mastered the art of summoning. I teach it to you, and you have to treat it well. There is a small wooden box on the bedside table in my room. There are things passed down from the Song family. You can pick it up tomorrow. And tomorrow I will send you a message to find the golden secret. The Golden Jue is related to the underground treasure secrets of the endless golden world. You must remember it and pass it on to the world from generation to generation." After saying that, the crane sounded, and the old man jumped on the crane's back and sat cross-legged. The surrounding clouds gathered and flew back. go.

Song Yijin watched the old man leave, and gradually felt a lot of emotion. He didn't know whether the old man had gone to wander in the world or became an immortal. He didn't think too much, and the red-crowned crane left with the seal on his right hand left knowingly. Disappearing into the clouds. Back home, while having dinner and playing with my son, I thought of the mark on my son's hand. I looked left and right and found that the key-shaped birthmark became more and more special. The palm of my hand was warm when I touched it, but the other hand was not so warm. He felt that this birthmark was not simple and might have some special meaning. His mother-in-law didn't think it was just an ordinary birthmark. Birthmarks can be black or red, which is normal.

Early the next morning, Song Yijin rushed to Yelaoguozhuang, and the four of them gathered in the yard again to study the next plan.

Song Yijin said: "My great-grandfather asked me to go to his house to pick up something mysteriously tomorrow. I asked him what it was and didn't say anything."

"There must be something." What good things are I going to give you? You are the eldest son and grandson. He is getting older. Only by giving important things to you in advance will you feel at ease."

"Now that we have found the map, the next step is to go. How to proceed? ”

“The map is found, but the entrance is not.Found it, the problem is that the entrance is a mystery, without any hints. ”

“The golden treasure is of huge concern, and the map will not easily show the entrance.” I don’t know whether this entrance is above ground or underground, but one thing I can make a bold guess about. ”

“What is it?” "

"Think about it, the Song family is the mysterious guardian family of this golden treasure. I think all the clues about the golden treasure will be in the Song family. For example, the important stone map is hidden in it. Under the stone altar of Qixing Zhenren, the ancestor of the Song family, the entrance must be known only to the Song family, or perhaps the clues to the entrance also belong to the Song family. ”

“I think Zhao Xixi’s analysis is right. Why else would someone be looking for the guardian family of the golden treasure? It’s useless even if you know where the treasure is, because you can’t get in even if you know it. Now. I also think the clues only lie with the Song family. "

"Could it be with your old man? "

"Will the important thing the old lady will give you two days later be related to this clue? ”

“I don’t know. Jiang Xiaobao, please take out the stone plate and let us study it carefully. "

Jiang Xiaobao carefully fetched the stone plate. He had hardly been out of the yard in the past two days and was guarding the stone plate all the time for fear of something going wrong.

" Why is there no prompt at this entrance? "Chen Mingzhi held the stone plate above his head and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.

"Be careful. "

Suddenly, Chen Mingzhi's eyes lit up, as if he had discovered something: "Look, there is something here. There is a figure inside the stone plate. ”

Everyone immediately looked up carefully, and now they saw a clue. Through the sunlight, they could vaguely see a pattern in the middle of the stone plate, so Song Yijin took the stone plate, turned it over and continued to look at it. At this time, Only then did he discover that the glossy side had an obvious concave pattern in the sunlight, and that this pattern was exactly the key-shaped birthmark on his son's hand. Song Yijin looked shocked.

"Look, The pattern on the smooth side looks like a key. The birthmark on my son's hand is also like this. The size and shape are exactly the same. This one is concave, while my son's is convex. ”

“Is it true? That’s amazing. One yang and one yin. The yang and yin are combined into a golden key!” ”

“Yes, I think so.” I'm just saying, this clue must be in your Song family. "

"Let's go, let's go to my house now with the stone map and let our son try it to see if we can find anything. ”

So the four people immediately came to Sanguan New Village with the stone plate map.

At this time, Song Yijin’s two-month-old son was lying on the mat and playing by himself. Bai Bai was chubby and immediately grinned when he saw Song Yijin coming over, waving his two little hands for a hug.

"There really is a key-shaped red birthmark on the palm of your son's hand. I have seen a picture of a key with this shape in a book. It is a type of key commonly used in ancient official treasury."

"Xiaobao, hurry up, take out the stone plate."

Jiang Xiaobao immediately carefully took out the stone plate from his backpack and opened the wrapped foam bag.

Song Yijin's son's clear eyes suddenly lit up, and his expression was filled with excitement, as if this was his baby.

"Come, let my son try."

"The time has come to witness the miracle!" Chen Mingzhi said.

Jiang Xiaobao carefully picked up the stone plate, bowed slightly, and pointed the disc upwards.

Song Yijin hugged his son, turned his palm down, gently grabbed the back of his hand, aligned the birthmark on his palm with the stone plate pattern, and pressed it up.

Suddenly the stone plate trembled and flashed with a golden light. The child burst into tears with a loud "wow", and then with a crisp "pop" sound, the stone plate broke into pieces and fell to the ground. Everyone was stunned. . Song Yijin was so frightened that his face turned green. He quickly checked his son's hand to see if it was injured. His eyes widened and his mouth opened, and he was speechless.

Song Yijin's wife heard the noise outside and ran in quickly: "What's wrong? Is something broken?" Then she took her son from Song Yijin's hand, and Song Yijin pointed at his palm and asked her to look at it. I saw that the raised red birthmark on my son's palm had disappeared, leaving only a shallow scar that looked like a burn.

"Why is the birthmark in his hand missing?" Mrs. Song Yijin asked.

"Could it be that the birthmark was burned off because the stone plate suddenly became hot? I just pressed my son's hand on the stone plate, and the stone plate suddenly shattered, and my son cried. "Song Yijin frowned, deep creases formed between his eyebrows, and his eyes were full of self-condemnation. At this time, the child stopped crying and grinned again when he saw Song Yijin's expression. It seemed that her son was fine. Mrs. Song Yijin was heartbroken and went out with her son in her arms.

No one had come to their senses yet. Song Yijin was looking at the gravel on the ground in a daze. Feeling guilty, he slowly squatted down and picked up the stones mechanically. At this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed in front of the four people's eyes, as if a mysterious revelation had come to the world. They took a closer look and discovered that there was a shining gold bar hidden in the pile of rubble!

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This gold bar is round in shape, about as thick as an adult's index finger, with one end slightly larger and the other end slightly smaller and more delicate. It exudes an alluring golden light. Everyone was shocked from ear to ear, and their hearts were full of doubts and curiosity: How could there be such a valuable gold bar hidden in this ordinary stone plate? And when I put the stone plate in the sun for observation before, I didn't see any clues!

Song Yijin picked up the gold bar with trembling hands and looked at it carefully. asideChen Mingzhi said with uncontrollable excitement: "I'm rich! This gold bar weighs at least two hundred grams!". Others also showed ecstatic expressions after hearing this, with greedy light shining in their eyes. However, amidst this frenzy, Zhao Xixi fell into deep thought. She felt that things were not that simple. The appearance of this gold bar was too strange and there must be some secret hidden...

"Brother, I understand. This gold bar is a tube-cone-shaped key. It has a simple appearance. One end is slightly thinner than the other end. The outside is round and the inside is conical. The outside is circular tube-shaped and the inside is cone-shaped. There are sophisticated mechanisms inside. The Song Dynasty This kind of key was used in the Zuozang Nanku of the imperial court. It was made by capable people at that time. Zuozang Nanku was the emperor's inner treasury. This lock and the cone-shaped key are still a mystery to this day. No one has been able to figure it out since the Song Dynasty. Master this production method." Zhao Xixi's explanation was very professional and detailed.

Everyone nodded in admiration.

"Unexpectedly, there is a key hidden in the map stone plate."

"But the stone plate is broken and the map on the back of the stone plate is gone. What should I do? Isn’t it even more directionless to find it this way?”

“The real mission of the stone plate is this golden key, not a map. The map above is also relatively simple. It roughly tells you what kind of structure it is. But the entrance and the real location of the gold treasure are not on the map."

"We have the key now, but we don't know where the key is? Find the lock and find the entrance."

"Where could it be?"

"Underground cave!" The four of them answered in unison.

"Look, let me analyze it for you." Jiang Xiaobao said and gestured: "The underground cave is seven or eight meters deep underground, and there is a river twenty meters away from the ground. According to the water level Situation, if you dig a well three to four meters deep in that place, you will definitely be able to produce water, but the cave is seven or eight meters underground, and the water entering it is only about one and a half meters deep. The reason why it is not completely submerged in the water is that I The key point is that the walls and floors of the cave are not that simple, and the ancestor of the Song family, Qixing Zhenren, has lived in the cave for a long time and practiced. Apart from the huge stone altar, there are no other furniture and other daily necessities in the underground cave. Then there is only one possibility. The ground may have been built at that time. There is the house of Master Qixing, or it is the ancestral homestead of the Song family. The secret entrance to the underground cave is inside the ancestral house of the Song family, so Master Qixing can secretly enter the underground cave in his own home."

"But my home. My ancestors moved here from Changmen in Suzhou." Song Yijin didn't believe it.

"Your family must be an original resident. If you don't believe me, ask where your ancestral homestead was." Jiang Xiaobao said.

This is Song Yijin's father coming in from outside. Everyone stood up to say hello, and Jiang Xiaobao called him "uncle" affectionately. Song Yijin's father is a village committee member. He just came back from a meeting in the village. When he saw everyone there, he chatted with everyone and said, "There was a meeting in the village just now."We will study the matter of confirming the ownership of houses in the village, and two town leaders also came. The area of ​​homesteads of many families in the village exceeds the standard. In our family, five generations live under the same roof, and the household registrations are not separated, but the area is four homesteads. According to the policy, it is If there is a violation of regulations, we must take the lead and find a solution. If we still give up, we should give it up, and if we return the household registration, we should separate it. We must comply with the above regulations in terms of policy. ”

“Dad, isn’t our place this big from our ancestors?” Song Yijin asked. "

"Hahaha, no, no. "Song Yijin's father laughed heartily. Although Song Yijin is already thirty-nine years old this year, his father is only fifty-eight years old and looks very young. "Our current compound was only half the size in the early years. It was expanded later. Two times, although our family has the largest land in the village, our ancestors' homestead is even larger. I heard that my great-grandfather said that our family ran a grain store, and there were more than a dozen granaries in the yard. Later, there were always wars, so he went to Suzhou to do business. Later, when Suzhou was not at peace, he came back here to escape the war. The original house was long gone, and he rebuilt a house in this place now. It has been many generations. . "

"Then where is the original homestead of our Song family? "Song Yijin asked.

"It's the third team's grain farm, including the entire grain farm. In the early years when cattle plowed the fields, the cornerstone of the Song family's boundary was dug out, and the word Song was engraved on it. "

"Dad, is it the third production team's grain farm, the land of the old temple? Song Yijin asked anxiously.

"Yes, that's right there." ”

The four people looked at each other and understood.

It turned out that Jiang Xiaobao’s reasoning and analysis were all correct. The ground of the underground cave, including the entire grain farm, was the Song family’s ancestral homestead. The four people decided to go back to Lao Guo. Zhuang discussed it carefully. Before setting off, Mrs. Song Yijin stopped him and asked him when he would return to Nanjing. She had been back for more than ten days and asked him to return to Nanjing early. Business was important and he should not delay the business. In fact, she wanted to follow him early. In Nanjing, although Jiang Xiaobao said that Zhao Xixi was his girlfriend, she seemed to have an indescribable feeling when she saw Zhao Xixi, and she couldn't explain it clearly.

After being comforted, Song Yijin went to the hospital. He fished four large snails and about ten kilograms of crayfish from his pond, and went with his mother-in-law to take them to her home. The mother-in-law laughed so hard that she had to let him go, and took down three more snails, saying they couldn't eat that much. , Grandpa caught it today and will deliver it to the morning market tomorrow, so the four of them went to Yelaoguo Village all the way. Zhao Xixi sighed and said: "When a woman spends money, she goes to her parents' house to get things." Heartache, as the ancients said, a married daughter throws away water. Cousin, don’t be angry, I just feel it. I’m not saying that my sister-in-law is bad, I’m praising her for her good housekeeping! ”

“Haha, the fish is too big and I can’t even finish it.” "Song Yijin smiled bitterly.

"When you go back, let your eldest cousin give you four large snails on the green belt. "Chen Minghua chatted.

Song YiJin looked at Jiang Xiaobao and said with a smile that there were also hairy crabs from Jiang Xiaobao's family. They weighed twenty or thirty kilograms, and they couldn't carry them and send them back by express delivery. There was someone in town doing this hairy crab express delivery business, and they had all the foam boxes and ice packs.

The four of them were chatting and joking all the way. They had arrived in the town and decided to come down for a walk and have lunch. Song Yijin told Jiang Xiaobao to keep his backpack and never lose the key. After talking, I went to the Diguo Chicken restaurant where I ate last time to eat the big white goose. People here eat goose every three days. Zhao Xixi ate goose for the first time that day and thought it was extremely delicious. She had never eaten it before. Song Yijin seemed to know that he loved to eat, so he didn't know whether he dragged the three of them to this shop intentionally or unintentionally. Jiang Xiaobao and Zhao Xixi made a bench, and Song Yijin and Chen Mingzhi sat on one. Jiang Xiaobao was rarely generous enough to say that he was a treat today. As for Zhao Xixi, needless to say, he has followed the old rules.

"Cousin, let's drink less. We have to go to the underground cave in the afternoon." Chen Mingzhi picked up the wine glass and took a sip first. As soon as he said these words, two people were eating at the next table. When they heard this, they looked towards him. One of the brothers immediately got up and came over to sit down at his table and said: "Brothers, we are all locals. I Can I have a drink with you?" Then, a person at his table shouted to the boss at the back: "I'm treating the table next to me!" Song Yijin finally realized that what Chen Mingzhi just said about the underground cave caused a misunderstanding. Song Yijin hurriedly filled the glass for this brother, and laughed in a pretense of madness. Then he picked up the wine glass and said hello. He explained that he was taking relatives to the county government office, the old Yamen, to play in the afternoon. He didn't expect it. Misunderstood. The brother was still confused and said: "I was really shocked when I heard you said that you were going to the underground cave in the afternoon. The four of you, please don't think too hard. Just be fine. I saw this kind of news not long ago, so this will I'm just a little more sensitive." Just as he was saying this, three police officers came in from outside the door and anxiously asked who reported it. When Song, Yi, and Jin saw this posture, their hearts trembled. It's over, it's over. The brother just now must have seen the world, so he took the initiative to explain and say hello, saying that he had drunk too much and heard the wrong words, which caused a misunderstanding. Song Yijin and Chen Mingzhi also stood up and explained quickly for a long time. Seeing that nothing happened, the three police officers gave them a few verbal criticisms and asked them to drink less to avoid getting into trouble by drinking too much. Jiang Xiaobao was already soaked with sweat. If he were called inside to ask questions, he wouldn't know how to answer.

Seeing that the misunderstanding was resolved, Song Yijin was not in the mood to drink, so he stood up to pay the bill, and by the way, he also secretly bought the order from the brother next to him. The four of them ate in a hurry and left. When the two brothers saw that someone had paid for them, they chased them out with Jiang Xiaobao's backpack in their hands. It turned out that Jiang Xiaobao had forgotten his backpack when he left in a hurry.

Song Yijin was speechless when he saw this, and could only shake his head and sigh with a wry smile. After getting in the car, the four of them didn't speak for a long time.

"After today's incident, we must pay special attention when speaking in front of others, including in front of our own family members, to avoid trouble. Let's do this, we are nowI went back to Jiang Xiaobao's house to pick up some equipment and pretended to go fishing. I happened to have fishing gear in my car, so I went in when no one was around. "Song Yijin said.

Everyone agreed. So the four people picked up their equipment and returned to Sanguan New Village non-stop. It was hot in the afternoon and there were no people on the road. The four people walked all the way to the third team's grain field. Meet other people. Open the door and go in. Everything is as before. It seems that no one else has come in. Carefully remove the bricks, get in and remove the soil with your bare hands, then open the stone slabs, lay the ground nails, and make these preparations. , Song Yijin seemed to be worried about something again, because all four of them had to go down today, so he asked Chen Mingzhi and Jiang Xiaobao to bring bricks in from outside the opening of the platform, and then code the opening with bricks from the inside, so that if someone enters the warehouse , it was not easy to see the clues. After doing this, the four people descended to the bottom of the cave smoothly. It had only been a few days, but the water on the ground had dried up. I was a little worried about whether water would seep in again.

Jiang Xiaobao carefully took out the cone-shaped golden key from his backpack. The four of them looked for the mystery separately with their headlights on. Zhao Xixi groped around on the wall and hammered with his fists from time to time. The sounds were all real. It can be seen that The stone wall was extremely thick. Jiang Xiaobao and Chen Mingzhi searched carefully for the keyhole on the top of the cave, while Song Yijin searched carefully on the ground, hammering on the stone slabs from time to time. The four of them still had no clue.

Song Yijin had no choice but to put away the cigarette case silently and continue to search on the ground. When he looked at the seven-star pattern on the ground in a daze, Zhao Xixi said: "I found that the spoon with the seven-star pattern was facing this Facing the wall, come and take a look. "The four of them were about to walk to the wall. Song Yijin carefully touched the wall with his fingers. At this time, he found that there was a small piece of stone protruding from the wall. It was different from other stones, so he dug it hard. Unexpectedly, After peeling it off, they saw a round hole exposed where the wall fell off. Zhao Xixi said with great joy: "This should be the keyhole, that's it, the shape is very similar." "Chen Mingzhi put one eye to the keyhole to look at it. Zhao Xixi quickly pulled it away. The situation was unknown and asked him not to do this.

"Jiang Xiaobao, take out the golden key quickly. "Song Yijin said excitedly. He carefully took the golden key. Under Zhao Xixi's guidance, he slowly inserted the thin end of the golden key into the keyhole on the wall, and then gently pushed it in little by little. Wait until the golden key is unlocked. When all the keys were pushed in, they suddenly slipped in. The four people panicked. Did they find the wrong keyhole? Chen Mingzhi stamped his feet anxiously, but now the keyhole was not found and the gold bar fell in again.

Just when the four people were helpless, the wall suddenly moved. The entire wall began to slowly push inward, making a roaring sound. It advanced about two meters, and a hole appeared on the right side of the wall. , holeIt is about two meters high and about one and a half meters wide. "Yes, you found the right one. This wall is the door. It's amazing!" Chen Mingzhi was the first to rush into the cave. Song Yijin, Zhao Xixi and Jiang Xiaobao also ran into the cave. They waited until all four people entered the cave. , I heard another roar behind me, and the wall closed!