If I hadn't been knocked unconscious, I might have wanted to say let's go take a look, but seeing the deep darkness in the distance, I didn't say this. The fat man didn't sense my fear and asked, "You have a point. Where are they going? Why don't we go take a look? Anyway, the river is not long."
Pan Zi immediately shook his head and disagreed, saying, "We can't waste time. Young Master San is injured. If something else happens, we can't run away. Let's not waste our time here. We don't know what Young Master San told us. Instead of making trouble, we might as well take this opportunity to think about where the entrance to the underground palace that Uncle San mentioned is. It just so happens that those strange birds don't seem to fly down."
This was exactly what I wanted, so I nodded immediately and coughed a few times to show that I was seriously injured. Shunzi didn't say anything either. Seeing us like this, the fat man couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, so he shrugged and said forget it.
Shunzi pulled them up to the Stone Warrior Canal, and we returned to the place where I fell. Panzi took out the wind lantern from his backpack and lit it to keep us warm. I calculated that we hadn't eaten for almost a day, and my stomach immediately started to growl, so the four of us sat down and ate some dry food.
After opening our luggage, we found that most of our food was in the bags of Chenpi A Si and his group. The food we brought was obviously not enough, especially for Fatty. After this meal, he had almost nothing to eat in his bag. However, almost all of our equipment was with us, such as ropes, grappling hooks, fire tools and other necessary expedition supplies.
Pan Zi checked and said to us, "It seems that Chenpi Ah Si has put a lot of effort into allocating our equipment. All the equipment is carried by our people, and the food is carried by their people. This way, neither side can hold the other down, and neither side can run away. I really didn't notice this trick."
The fat man laughed and said, "What the hell did you notice? Luckily I didn't count on you and your Third Master. Every time I run into you, I'm sure I'll lose money. I knew this day would come on the train."
Pan Zi spitted and said, "Stop talking nonsense, you are not a good person. I will be happy if you don't cause trouble for us."
Shunzi was afraid that they would quarrel, so he said, "Boss, instead of having the energy to quarrel, why don't you think about what your uncle said?"
I also patted Pan Zi to tell him not to get angry. I asked Shun Zi, "What happened when Third Uncle came to see you? Why don't you tell us in detail? That sentence is too general. We didn't even enter the imperial mausoleum. I really don't know what to think."
When I asked this question, Fatty and Pan Zi also calmed down and looked at Shunzi together.
Shunzi sat down, frowned and said, "That was about a month ago. At that time, I also took guests up the mountain, of course not as much as you guys. I just walked around and looked at the snow-capped mountains. Your Third Uncle was among those guests at the time. Later, when we were staying overnight on the mountain, he suddenly called me out. He said mysteriously that he was going up the snow-capped mountains alone now, and asked me not to tell anyone else. He then gave me some money and asked me to wait for a man named Wu Xie at the foot of the mountain at about this time. Then he would take you into the mountain. As long as I could bring you to him, I would be given a large sum of money. He told me this hint at that time, and he emphasized that as long as it was 'you', you would understand it immediately."
"He did say that?" I asked.
Shunzi nodded with a very sure expression.
I just feel that it is a bit strange, as these words seem to emphasize the listener rather than the content of the words. As long as I hear them, I can understand them immediately. Do I have some characteristics different from those of the other people?
"Then how did you know to tell us these things only after sending Chenpi A'Si away?" asked the fat man.
Shunzi chuckled, revealing a completely different expression from before, and said, "I'm not a fool. Your Third Uncle told me your number, saying that if the number is not right, the message can only be passed on to you alone. When I saw you, I felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in your group, as if there were two different groups of people mixed together. At the time, I didn't know what you were doing, so I had to play dumb for now. After all, I have received money from others, and it would be bad if I didn't do it well and delayed your business."
When I looked at Shunzi's expression, I felt a sense of cunning, and I felt a knot in my heart. I thought, so since he came up the mountain, his simplicity and honesty was all fake? Oh my god, you can't judge a person by his appearance. No wonder the boy became calmer as we walked further. It turned out that his true colors were revealed.
Pan Zi was an old hand, so his face darkened at this moment, and he said, "It's not that simple, it seems like you know something else?"
Shunzi smiled faintly, "I served in the army here before I retired. I have walked a lot in the snowy mountains. My parents are native Koreans. They fled here from North Korea during the 718 turmoil and hid in the mountains for several years. There are many ancient legends in this mountain, and we have encountered many strange things. Every year, countless people go into the mountain with various strange purposes. If you say that I don't know anything, I do know something. So when I saw you walking towards the top of the mountain, I guessed what you wanted to do." He paused and looked at me meaningfully, "If it weren't for your third uncle's instructions, I would never let you go forward at the place where the avalanche occurred on the mountainside."
Pan Zi looked at me, then at the fat man, and was speechless for a moment.
After being silent for a while, Pan Zi took out a cigarette, handed it over, and said, "Brother Shun, you are blind to the truth. We are family now, come and have a cigarette."
Shunzi didn't take the cigarette, but looked up and said, "I'm a real man, don't talk nonsense. I'm helping you not because I like you, but because I want money. The amount your Third Uncle promised to give me is enough for me to use in two lifetimes, so I have to bring you to him no matter what. You'd better think about what that sentence means quickly."
Pan Zi made him very embarrassed, so he had to put the cigarette in his mouth and looked at me with a wry smile.
I asked Shunzi, "Then please repeat to me what Uncle San said at that time."
Shunzi recalled, "At that time, he seemed to have said something like this: 'When Wu Xie arrives, tell him that the entrance to the underground palace is at the Xuanwu Corpse Rejection Site.' Then I asked him what that meant, and he said that if it was you, you would definitely know it if you said that."
"Still the same." I sighed and thought, after listening to the whole sentence, the key is still 'I', but I clearly don't understand this sentence at all. Where the hell does Uncle San get such confidence in me? Isn't this just trying to trick me?
Several people looked at me with eager expressions in their eyes. I shook my head and sighed.
Seeing that I couldn't figure it out, the fat man asked, "Could it be that this hint is related to something that happened in your family before? So only people in your Wu family know about it?"
"That's not the case." I said, "I know Uncle San's personality. He's not the type to tell us a complicated code and then let us guess. Since he asked Shunzi to pass on the message, the meaning of this sentence must be very clear. There must be something wrong. We must have thought it wrong."
"But since Third Master said that it's 'you' who can tell it right away, but not 'we', then it must be a code about something in common between you two." Pan Zi said, "Why not think about what you have in common?"
I felt that this was not very reliable, but there was no other way at the moment, so I just flexed my fingers and started to think about it.
Actually, we don't have much in common with my Third Uncle, and it has to be between me and my Third Uncle. If Pan Zi and the others have the same surnames, we have to exclude them. For example, if we are all men and Pan Zi is also a man, then that doesn't count. If we count, we both have the last name Wu, so we should be counted as one, but this should have nothing to do with the code.
Also, he and I both feel a little weird when we see women, but this is rather vague and he would never admit it. Apart from these, the only thing we have in common is that we both live in Hangzhou, and now our main place of life is Hangzhou.
Wait! When I thought of this, I suddenly got a shock, as if something appeared in my mind, as if something appeared in my mind, and a hint of inspiration suddenly appeared in my mind -
'Xuanwu Rejects Corpses'——Uncle San's Hint——Hangzhou——'I'm Sure to Understand——
It suddenly dawned on me that this was what these four words meant!