When he opened the door, he saw who it was. It turned out to be the Leader Wang of the archaeological team, who was smiling at the door with brine dishes in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other hand. Leader Wang had just come back from an Archaeological site outside the city. As soon as he came back, he carried his wine and meat, and came here. Three people drank wine with brine dishes. Leader Wang heard Mr. He told the thing happened in Wangzhuang village, when it comes to those ghosts, his eyes opened largely. He is more admire to Wenbin Zha, even went to toast, this atmosphere has eased down a lot from just now.
Speaking of Wenbin Zha going out for fortune-telling, Leader Wang also disagree with it. You as a living immortal, went out for fortune-telling which is overqualified for the job, so didn't agreed with Wenbin Zha to suffer this grievance. Leader Wang discussed with Mr. He for a while, came up with an idea: the provincial archaeological team, lacking a technical consultant. In straight forward words, there requires a man who knows about Geomantic Omen. According to Leader Wang, in recent years, because of the hot cultural relics, many of the remains of the great tombs in the country have been stolen. The group of hamsters not only have a good sense of smell, but also know something about geomantic omen, often let Leader Wang and his team of archaeologists come across ten tombs and nine of them are empty; another is that in archaeology, they cannot avoid will encounter some strange things, like the Temple of Generals last time, which almost let half of the team lost their life. So Leader Wang wants to let Wenbin Zha go to the archaeological team to be a consultant. Firstly, they can help and support each other and Wenbin Zha can find a proper job. Secondly, what Mr. He means is that many things lost in ancient times can only be found in the grave of those old ancestors, maybe they can find some clues from those places.
Wenbin Zha did want to trouble them two, as he had no culture and also did not understand archaeology. But this work was a good one. He hesitated for a long time. Mr. He said that he would accompany them to the archaeological team tomorrow, and it would be no problem. Wenbin Zha nodded his head and agreed. Three people see the thing was almost settled, then they began to drink, the two bottles of "red sorghum" (the name of the wine) brought by Leader Wang were almost finished in a short while, then they opened another bottle from Mr. He. They drank and chat until midnight, then three of them fall asleep.
In the dark night, Wenbin Zha suddenly heard someone was calling him: "Daddy, Daddy... ", Wenbin Zha listen carefully, "Dad, dad, I'm so scared, come and save me, dad... ". He looked carefully, not far away there is a hall-like building, there is a small pond below, moonlight reflected in the middle of the pond, from time to time came a circle of water halo, which scattered the moonlight then gathered moonlight again. It seems a small hand breaks the moonlight, which was still in the water kept shaking.
Wenbin Zha rushed there, the pond looked is not far away, but he ran in a hurry for more than half an hour. But, no matter how fast he ran, he found that the pond is still so far away, it seems that he could never reach to the pond. Only can hear the shouting sound which was sometimes far and sometimes near, it is clearly audible. Wenbin Zha shouted loudly: "Girl, Girl, don't be afraid, daddy came to save you!" After shouting, he kept ran toward the pond, and another half an hour passed, he still did not reach to the pond. He was tired, full of sweat and breathed heavily. He held his legs to have a rest, as soon as he turned around, he saw a white stone tablet beside him, with a broken corner—— Isn't this the one he saw when he opened his eyes? Why he is it still here? Has he running for an hour but still in the original place?
Wenbin Zha followed the moonlight and walked slowly toward the stone tablet. The handwriting on the stone tablet was already indecipherable, only the bottom of a "yuan" word can be identified, a few words above have been covered with moss. Wenbin slowly peeled off the above moss, one by one of the words revealed—— Yang Tong Yuan
How could my daughter be here? Why would she be here? Looking at the pond not far away, Wenbin Zha ran crazily. Another hour passed, when he stopped again, he found the stone tablet was still there and the peeled off moss was still there. What's going on here? How did my daughter end up in Yang Tong Yuan-- under the Eighteenth Hell, the inferno of endless karma -- a place written in books? Why did she suffer here? Wenbin didn't have time to think, and even did not have time to look at the stone tablet again. He continued to run, only towards the direction of endless running.
"Daddy, Daddy... " that familiar voice still reverberates in his ear, Wenbin Zha couldn't run any longer, fell down in front of the stone tablet. In the moment where his eyes were closed, he clearly saw a monster ——"Taotie"（A beast that eats people in ancient books） jumped in from the side of the pond, straight to the small hands waving in the water.
Not far away Taotie hands with a little girl, jumped from the pond and looked back at Wenbin Zha who fell on the ground, shook off that disgusting ugly face, seems smiled evilly, then walked toward the hall.
"No" shouted at the loudest, which startled Mr. He and leader Wang outside. Wenbin Zha woke up at five o'clock usually. It is already seven o'clock, why didn't he wake up? Mr. He thought he had drunk too much wine last night and was eating porridge with leader Wang, and was planning to wake him up later. The roar, scared them where they burned their lips as the porridge was too hot. They rushed in, saw the lying Wenbin Zha was scratching in the air with his hands, frown and teeth bite the rattle.
Mr. He looked at the situation was not right, immediately shouted: "No good, I think it is a nightmare, Wang, pinch the philtrum! "
"Ok" Wang answered. He was about to stretch hand to pinch, not yet to the lips, that hand was pinched by Wenbin Zha : "Wang, what are you doing?" Wenbin has woken up, saw Wang's big hand come towards his face, it is his naturally reaction to hold leader Wang's hand.
"We were so scared by you. You awake now, what happened? Bad Dream? "
Wenbin Zha shook his head: "nothing", he did not say more, got up to wash. Leader Wang wants to ask more, was stopped by Mr. He. Looking at the back of Wenbin Zha, leader Wang sighed and went to the mirror to look at his scald lips.
Mr. He's home was not far from the museum. After breakfast, they three arrived at the museum. Introduced by Mr. He, all procedures for Wenbin went smoothly. He was hired as the technical consultant, which was assigned to Leader Wang's team and he can start work today. Now, Wenbin's work is sorted, leader Wang was so excited. At noon forced to pull Wenbin to the restaurant to drink a few cups, Wenbin can't refuse, so they go together.
At dinner, Leader Wang, a chatterbox, drank a few glasses and asked, "Wenbin, how come you have never talk about the situation at your home? "
Wenbin Zha stopped eating, glanced at the West Lake outside the window, turned and muttered: "there is only my son left in my family, he is 17 this year and still in education. "
Everyone looked at Wenbin facial expression was not right, Mr. He asked: "Wenbin, is there something happened?"
Wenbin took a sip of wine and squinted, don't know if he didn't sleep well last night or if he was sad, Wenbin Zha's eyes were already covered with bloodshot: "my wife left me a son and a daughter, but I couldn't take good care of her. I'm sorry for her and for my children. " After saying this, he took another sip of wine, and leader Wang over there, feeling something was right, wanted to persuade him not drink too much. This was stopped by Mr. He, he shook his head at Leader Wang and motioned Wenbin to continue. Wenbin Zha looked out of the window at the West Lake, which was already in autumn, and said, "my wife died when she gave birth to my little daughter. Her last request was to let me take care of these two children. However, unfortunately, my little daughter drowned in the Chinese New Year Eve. The water was only as deep as my knees; she went like this. Is it wanted me to pay the price. " the wine cup was crushed as he said.
Mr. He stood up, wentt to see whether Wenbin's hand was hurt, but was pushed away by Wenbin, he stood up and yelling, "I just didn't realize that my daughter wouldn't be at peace after she died. Why did it do this to me? What have I done wrong? What have I done wrong? Why do you have to hurt me like this? You have taken my wife, now you have tortured my daughter. Why?" This loud roar let the two people which do not know what has happened, standing there did not know what to do.
Mr. He looked at leader Wang and asked in a low voice, "what's the matter? Who is it?" Leader Wang shook his head. "I don't know either. "
That afternoon, Wenbin Zha was drunk for the first time, really drunk. He needed the paralysis of alcohol. At the end, two of them carried Wenbin to leader Wang's home to have rest. Wenbin Zha was probably really drunk, or maybe he was really tired, he didn't wake up until noon the next day.
Wenbin as the consultant for the archaeological team, but he knew nothing about archaeology, but luckily he had a formal identity. He spent all day with Mr. He on the rubbings of those strange characters. After Mr. He read a lot of materials, he got two words from the rubbings: Qing Cheng.
Mr. He thought that the two words——Qing Cheng—— referred to the name of a place. He asked Wenbin if the Taoism had any records about this place, Wenbin Zha nodded: "if my guess is right, the two words referred to the Mount Qingcheng. The Master Daoling Zhang cruised to this mountain by chance, see there was full of nimbus and is such a land of idyllic beauty, then he went up the mountain to explore. Where he found a cave, on the cave he sees through the doctrine of the bejesus. From which he then established the sect, which is the world-famous Tianshi Dao. Now it is merged into Zhengyi Sect. The Mount Qingcheng is known as the fifth heavenly abode."
Mr He nodded. The Mount Qingcheng is the famous Taoist Mountain, and he naturally knew it too. Since the inscription on the rubbings had some meaning, could it be a clue? Now that Mount Qingcheng is a tourist attraction, only need buy a ticket and can go up the mountain for visit. So he asked Wenbin: "Wenbin, do you think we should go to Sichuan to have a look? "
Wenbin thinks so too. Since there is no clue, it would be better to go there first. But now he is also part of the archaeological team, and he can't just walk away. At this time, Leader Wang rushed in from outside: "Wenbin, Mr. He, I just got a notice, our leader has an interesting idea, let us do an archaeological research about Chinese religions. He said in recent years, upsurges of religious cultural relics market are hot, a lot of multiplier, statues, classical and murals are popular. The leader let us to work in teams to carry out a census of the religious culture of the whole country. Ha ha, Wenbin this time it is a coincidence. you are a Taoist priest; I think we may choose Taoism to study. Anyway, with you in, if it does not work out, we'll take it as a trip."