Lin Shuo, Anne, Wei Xingshan, and Liu Qing assembled in Beijing and boarded a flight to Northwest China.
This trip was originally more convenient than going to the Outer Xing'an Mountains before, because there is an airport in the Altay area, which is not far from the incident.
But on the plane, Anne got a bad news. There are some problems with the visas of the four people, and they cannot enter Mongolia for the time being.
It takes three to four days for a new visa to go through a set of procedures.
Anne asked Lin Shuo for his opinion, and decided to stay at Urumqi Airport for half a day before changing the ticket to Qinghai.
It was a rare trip to the northwest, and Lin Shuo wanted to visit Kunlun Mountain during the three or four days of free time.
Xiao Ba, who was accompanying him, volunteered to go to Mongolia first to find out the situation.
As for whether it wants to step on the ground for Lin Shuo, or thinks that the female bird in the Western Regions is unique, that's who knows.
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Kunlun, the backbone of the mountain system in western China, is known as the ancestor of all mountains, and its status in Chinese culture is self-evident.
This is not only because of its majestic terrain and majestic scenery, but also because modern biologists like Yang Tuo have learned from genetic analysis that the Chinese nation is the descendant of the ancient Qiang nationality.
The habitat of the ancient Qiang people was near the Kunlun Mountains.
Therefore, it is said that Kunlun Mountain is the ancestral court and the holy mountain.
According to the secret biography of Liemen "Kyushu Foreign Objects", it is recorded in the sixth year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is 1003 AD. At that time, many regimes in China stood side by side, and the Xixia Kingdom in the northwest was about to rise, and the army was in turmoil.
At that time, the hunters of the Su family from the six families of Liemen heard that there were hooked snakes in the Kunlun Mountains. They set off from their hometown of Bashu at that time, walked thousands of miles of rough and difficult Shu Road, and entered the Kunlun Mountains via the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Then they met the huge and majestic Millennium Hooked Snake.
At that time, the head of the Su family, named Su Yun, besides inheriting his own skills, also obtained fame. He was a top three Jinshi in the first year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty.
After seeing this hooked snake, Su Yun decided that it was a dragon species, and wrote a picture of the hooked snake to the court, expressing that the Su family was willing to protect the dragon species for generations.
Coinciding with the Chanyuan alliance, Emperor Song Zhenzong was inherently cowardly. After signing the alliance with the Liao Kingdom, he lost his ambition to expand the territory.
When the emperor saw Su Yun's memorial, it was really a pillow when he was dozing off. He was overjoyed and gave Su Yun an official hat as a servant of the Ministry of Rites, and appointed the Su family to be stationed in Kunlun Mountain for generations.
Facts have proved that neither the Black Water Dragon City for the Jin Dynasty nor the Dragon Seed Legacy for the Northern Song Dynasty court had any effect, and the two dynasties were destroyed one after another.
But the hunters of the Su family lived in Kunlun because of this, and changed from "Bashusu" to "Qiangdisu".
Now, the last hunter of the Su family, Su Nianqiu, also known as Anne, will join Lin Shuo to enter this ancestral hometown.
She was born in the United States. Because of Miao Guangqi's precepts and deeds, she has not been greatly influenced by American culture, and she is still a Chinese at heart. So when the four of them entered the Kunlun Mountains, the woman was holding the steering wheel, her heart was not calm, and she was a little timid.
For this trip to Kunlun Mountain, the four-member team set two destinations, one was the place where the Kunlun Mountain incident occurred six years ago, and the other was the Su family's ancestral home.
The ancestral home of the Su family is located at the foot of the eastern Kunlun Mountains, within the territory of Qinghai Province. The four of them rented an off-road vehicle, with Anne acting as the driver, and Lin Shuo guiding the way. They followed the Qinghai-Tibet Highway into the mountains, and within half a day, they arrived.
It is not accurate to say that it is an ancestral house. With the size of this house, it should be regarded as a cottage or a village.
Since the two brothers Su Tongji and Su Tongdu died on the Kunlun six years ago, this village has completely declined, and there is no one living there.
The door knocker is green, the vegetation in the hometown is deep, and the atmosphere is in decline.
The other three soon discovered that Lin Shuo seemed to be familiar with this place.
"Have you been here?" Wei Xingshan asked strangely after following Lin Shuo.
"Yeah." Lin Shuo nodded as he walked, "I've been here twice."
"When did Mr. Lin come?" Anne was obviously also curious.
"It was all six years ago. The first time I went to the mountains to worship Buddha, since I wanted to go to Kunlun, I naturally had to say hello to the hunters of the Su family." Lin Shuo said, "The second time, the Su family died at that time. The bodies of Su Tongji and Su Tongdu were collected here, and a tablet was set up for them. This is it."
While speaking, Lin Shuo pushed open the wooden door and said, "This is the ancestral hall of the Su family."
Anne followed Lin Shuo into this room under the bright sun, only to feel that the light dimmed in front of her eyes, and when her eyes got used to the dimness here and she could see the things in front of her clearly, she suddenly felt a panic in her heart.
The woman's vision soon blurred, and tears filled her eyes.
Not only Anne, Wei Xingshan and Liu Qing also immediately put away their playful and smiling expressions.
Lin Shuo took out matches from his pocket and lit the candles here one by one.
It was white wax as thick as eight arms. Once it was lit, the ancestral hall of the Su family's ancestors covering an area of over a thousand square meters finally unveiled the last mysterious veil.
The candlelight flickered, illuminating the two white curtains hanging from the floor and the ancestral spirit tablet of the hunters of the Su family.
The ceiling of this ancestral hall is 20 meters high, and the spirit plaques are stacked starting from a height of one meter, with fifty pieces in each row, and the rows are higher from the front to the back, and the last row has already been placed on the rafters of the house.
These are more than a thousand ancestral tablets, and they are also more than a thousand Su family heritage hunters like Anne.
Wei Xingshan looked at the dates of birth and death on these spirit cards, and found that the lifespan of these Su family hunters was very short, rarely exceeding thirty years old.
After figuring out why, he couldn't help feeling a sense of respect in his heart, and quickly clasped his hands together, and bowed respectfully three times.
And Anne, who had already knelt on the futon in front of the memorial tablet, took a deep breath, stopped the tears from her eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Su Nianqiu, the sixty-third generation successor of the Su family, kowtowed to the ancestors. "
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
After three rings, a red mark appeared on the woman's forehead.
She wiped her face and stood up: "Mr. Lin, I want to see the place where my two uncles fought for the last time."
The two uncles she was referring to were the two brothers Su Tongji and Su Tongdu. According to seniority, the Su family brothers are of the same generation as Lin Shuo's father, Lin Leshan, Lin Shuo is one generation younger than the two of them, and Anne is two generations younger.
So when Anne hinted at her identity in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, she would say that she should call Lin Shuo "uncle".
And the place she wants to go is naturally the place where the Kunlun Mountain incident happened six years ago, the highest peak in Kunlun, Gongger Peak at an altitude of 7,648 meters.
"Not in a hurry." Lin Shuo shook his head, "Bringing you here this time is not just to kowtow to the ancestors of the Su family."
Anne was slightly taken aback, waiting for Lin Shuo to continue.
"You and I are inheritance hunters of the six great families." Lin Shuo said, "As inheritance hunters, blood relationship is the second most important thing, and the key lies in family inheritance. You were originally an overseas branch of the Su family, although you have a part of the inheritance of the Su family, But it’s missing the bottom-of-the-box trick.”
Listening to Lin Shuo's words, Anne nodded slightly.
She knew that Lin Shuo was right.
More than 80 years ago, the domestic warlords fought in a scuffle. Facing the troubled times, the two descendants of the Su family had disputes in their philosophy of life, and the contradictions could not be reconciled. Among them, the one with more radical thinking went to Nanyang after failing to fight for the position of Patriarch. After two generations of hard work, he finally took root in the United States. This Su family hunter who went to Nanyang is Anne's great-grandfather.
Each of the six families of Liemen has a complete set of inherited skills, but among them, there are only one or two special skills at the bottom of the box.
The Lin family is the "Three Great Martial Arts".
The Su family is an "enclosure".
The hunters of the Su family established themselves in the world with three unique skills: "listening to the mountains", "painting prisons", and "enclosing the land".
The "big cut" that the Su family relied on for self-defense is actually a modification of the "painting prison". Although it is exquisite, it is far less incredible than the "enclosure".
In the past hundred years of Liemen, after the unpredictable Yun family gradually faded out of the six families, the number one magic skill of Liemen respected by people in the door is not the Lin family's "Three Great Martial Arts", nor the Zhang family's "Do Not Move the Sword". ", but this unique skill of the Su family.
However, although this trick is famous, it is very difficult to practice. What can be practiced in the history of the Su family can be counted on one hand.
Even Su Tongji, the spoiled son of the Su family six years ago, has only scratched the surface.
And Lin Shuo's "unique knowledge at the bottom of the box" mentioned at this time is naturally the "enclosure" that only the Patriarch of the Su family is qualified to practice, and it is very difficult to practice.
"This time I came to the Su family, I just want you to make up for this inheritance." Lin Shuo said to Anne, "Only if you know this, you will be worthy of the name of the Patriarch of the Su family."
"Mr. Lin, do you know how to 'enclose land'?" Anne asked.
"No." Lin Shuo shook his head and said, "When I collected the corpses of the Su brothers six years ago, I found the secret book of this unique skill from their corpses. I flipped through a few pages and found that my talents did not match. , really only the Su family can do it. So I hid the cheats near here. Come with me."
After saying this, Lin Shuo turned back and walked out of the ancestral hall. Wei Xingshan was about to follow, but Liu Qing grabbed him by the hem of his clothes.
"The flower fields outside the village are very beautiful, come and take a look with me." Liu Qing said softly.
Wei Xingshan was startled, then he seemed to understand and nodded.