When Xue Dongqing said this, my first reaction was that the two of them had the same name, but I immediately dismissed it. How could there be such a coincidence in the world? I asked him to recall it again.
Seeing Xue Dongqing thinking about it, I suddenly slapped my forehead and secretly cursed myself for being so stupid. In his impression, Liu Shengping was a villager. Thinking of this, I told him not to think about it, he couldn't run away, and I would just call him back to his hometown and ask. I also told him not to alert others, but to find someone with a tight mouth to inquire.
The call was dialed, and it was the uncle's family who took care of him. The uncle knew that Xue Dongqing was working in Beijing and was very happy. He told him something about how to be a good person. After being happy, Xue Dongqing mentioned Liu Shengping to the uncle, although the uncle was still a little puzzled. , but after recalling it, he said that Liu Braid was indeed not from this village. He came here many years ago and liked to drink a little wine. Since he lived at the foot of the mountain, he didn't see him often.
Xue Dongqing and I looked at each other, and then my uncle asked if he had something to do with him. Xue Dongqing made a casual excuse and asked if he had seen him recently. The uncle said that the gang from the village came to steal some time ago. After the hunter (Cao family) left, I seemed to have seen him once in the village.
I wrote "go home" on the notebook and handed it to him. Xue Dongqing nodded and said it was a holiday here and he wanted to go back in a few days.
After hanging up the phone, Xue Dongqing looked at me: "Second Master, it seems that your guess is right. There is really something wrong with Liu Shengping."
"I told you, what is my name, Second Master?" I gave him a shock. Then I thought of another question and asked, "By the way, how did you get the information about the Dragon Cave from Liu Braid?"
He thought for a while and fell into memories: "One day when I came back from digging herbs in the back mountain, Liu Zhuizi was chatting with me. He accidentally let it slip that there was a dragon cave in the back mountain. I told him he was bragging, and he said he would go see it himself. However, it is the big dragon in the mountain who is tied up by the immortal, and he also said that there will definitely be a lot of people coming to buy his information."
Speaking of this, Xue Dongqing blushed and scratched her head in embarrassment, "I was moved after hearing this, and thought that if outsiders really wanted to go up the mountain, I could make some money, so I bought it in the store. I drank some wine, burned some wild ducks, and went to find Liu Braid. You all know it later, so I figured out the route and took you up the mountain."
I thought to myself that if all this was Liu Shengping's fault, then maybe revealing the news to Xue Dongqing might also be part of the other party's plan. I couldn't help but become curious, why did this person show up now after he had been lurking for so many years? Moreover, what puzzles me the most is what is this guy's identity?
I thought of a possibility. Judging from the clues we found in the Qinling Underground Palace, it seemed that one of my father's team also made it to the end. I made a bold guess that that person probably came out alive.
Damn it, only Han Sheng, whose life and death is still uncertain, has entered the deepest part, so there is a missing link in our logic and we cannot judge where they have gone.
Liu Shengping appeared at this time, what was he planning? !
I shook my head to stop myself from thinking too deeply. Seeing Xue Dongqing still waiting nearby, I asked him with a smile: "Have you given the money to the guide that Datou promised you?"
Xue Dongqing nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes, they gave me an extra 30,000 yuan, saying it was money to support my study."
"He still has a conscience. It seems we have to go back."
Xue Dongqing asked: "Just two of them?"
I nodded and said, "Any two will do. If there are too many people, I will alert the snake, and Longshan Pavilion moves too much. I'm afraid of attracting attention. I finally caught this big fish, but I can't let others get there first, sneak into the village, and shoot." don't want."
We didn't bring any equipment if we didn't fight back this time, so we took a plane and arrived in Xi'an the next afternoon. The route was the same as last time. This time we had plenty of time. We also visited Xi'an, and Xue Dongqing took me there. We went to Yongxingfang, experienced some local specialties, and visited the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Xue Dongqing curiously asked me if the scriptures were still in it. I said that none of the locals knew about it, let alone me, but 80% of the time it was not there. , now it is just a tourist attraction.
Not far from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is the Shaanxi Museum. I thought of Datou, so I joked with Xue Dongqing and said that Datou claimed that he never went to the museum. Xue Dongqing asked me why, and I told him that he said it himself, for fear of losing control.
We finally went to the city that never sleeps, but it was not very lively during the day, so we finally climbed the city wall.
Before going down to the village, Xue Dongqing told me that there was a place that I must go to, which had special meaning to me. I asked curiously where, and he said Lishan Mountain, where there is the Qin Shihuang Museum, which is filled with terracotta warriors and horses. I said dumbfounded, I have a day off today and won't talk about business.
We spent a day traveling. On the way, I accompanied Xue Dongqing to buy a lot of gifts locally. He also spent his own money to order a set of screening equipment for the village. He said that when he was a child, his parents left early and he ate almost all the meals in the village. However, you must remember the kindness of others.
We carried big and small bags back to the village, but my uncle was so happy that several neighbors came out to welcome us, dragging us and not letting go, as if we were celebrating the New Year. When I took the time, I poked Xue Dongqing to signal that he could leave. Xue Dongqing declined and came out to smoke a cigarette, and we hurriedly walked towards the back of the village.
In fact, Liu Zhuizi's place is not very far away. We passed a vegetable field before going up the mountain last time, and he lived in a townhouse at the end of the vegetable field.
When we entered the room, this guy was sitting at the small wooden table on the kang, drinking wine. He became happy when he saw Xue Dongqing. Before he could say anything, he caught a glimpse of me following him. His face suddenly changed and he put down the chopsticks in his hands. I was also shocked. I didn't expect him to be so young. He was a little surprised by my appearance, but he seemed to be making sense.
Liu Shengping took off a paint-peeled marching kettle hanging on the wall, handed it to Xue Dongqing and said: "Go, go to Old Yangtou's house in the village and fill me with some wine."
Xue Dongqing has grown up a lot with Lao He these days. He immediately understood that we had something to say, and when he saw me nodding, he took the wine bottle and went out.
Seeing that Xue Dongqing was gone, Liu Shengping pulled a shiny black old cigarette stick, rubbed the tobacco leaves inside and sighed: "I guessed that you would come, but I didn't expect it to be so fast."
I was stunned for a moment, and then I came to my senses. He really knew me, so that meant that the Qinling Underground Palace was really his game, and he did all this just to lure me into taking the bait?
I asked him carefully: "Brother Liu, what do you mean by this?"
Hearing me calling him that, he frowned subconsciously, then sneered and said in a nonchalant tone: "I went to Cao's Qingshan with your father back then, hum."
I was completely shocked by his words. He is actually the same generation as my father? Did you survive from that time? Didn't all the people who went to Cao's Green Mountain get trapped inside by the Broken Dragon Stone? If he didn't come out of the underground palace, then who was the last one who came out of the underground palace?
For a moment, my head was filled with all kinds of questions. Looking at the middle-aged face opposite, who was only in his early forties, I asked in disbelief: "Did you really go to Cao Family Qingshan back then?"
He touched his face and said lonely: "Don't doubt it, my face will never grow old until I die."
I caught a glimpse of the wrinkles on his hands when rubbing cigarettes, and the veins on his loose skin were bulging. He really didn't look like a middle-aged man.
He lit up the cigarette and took a puff. The smell of the smoke was so pungent that it almost made me cry. I fanned the smoke and asked him: "Why are you here? You brought me here, right?" What on earth are you going to do? Where is my father?"
In the smoke, I saw Liu Pingsheng across from me slowly leaning on the kang cabinet behind him, squinting his eyes and looking at me, as if he wanted to see something. It took him a long time before he said, "I'll look for him again, too."
I hesitated for a moment and tried to ask: "Are you all out?"
Unexpectedly, he shook his head and looked out the window with confused eyes, "I don't know, when I woke up, I was outside the mountain. Your father told me to come here. It must have been more than twenty years ago."
"You said my father told you, then you must have met him? Why did you do all this?" I was shocked again.
"For what?" Liu Shengping moved his gaze and stared into my eyes seriously, "Promise, for a promise, even if your father harms me, I will always be here waiting for him."
I was furious for a moment and a little excited: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could my father harm you?"
He ignored me, shook his head as if mocking himself, leaned back against the cabinet at the back, took a puff of cigarette, and continued: "I have never met your father, or to be precise, I have never met him. We are in Cao's Qingshan I was hit by a trap, and when I woke up, I was already outside the mountain. Next to it was a letter left by your father. The letter told me to come here and wait for him. Until a while ago, I received a letter and the letter told me , someone will come here, and I will be responsible for taking them to the dragon cave in the mountain."
My heart beat faster, wondering if it was possible that my father was not dead. Before I could ask, he sneered again: "It's not your father's handwriting."
I was a little disappointed and surprised, so I asked him, "So you took someone with you?"
He poured me a glass of wine, took a sip himself, and put down the glass with a snap, "Of course, but I not only led them to the Dragon Cave, but also led them into the mountain opposite."
I asked in surprise: "Did you take him there?"
"Hmph. I've been here for more than 20 years and I've been to Houshan many times. No one knows what's in that cave better than me. To be honest, I think your father may be dead. You don't know what he did back then. .I am still sitting here just to see who is behind the scenes! I have been waiting for more than 20 years, until the other party finally took action again some time ago. They don't know that I have read your father's notes, okay, I will Take advantage of the situation.
When you go up the mountain to catch foxes, you must first set traps on their long walking paths, and then scare the snakes, so that they can be forced into the circle by themselves.
I just want to disrupt their plans, make them panic, and show their tails. "