The fiery red gourd is carved from stone, more than one meter high, smooth and bright red like fire. If it was erected here two thousand years ago, then the sea may become mulberry fields as the passing of these two thousand years, but the stone gourd seems to have just been completed.

When we first saw this gourd, we felt a terrifying heart. It was so bright that it was so bright. It was really strange. When we opened the bunch of "dance grass" and walked closer, we realized that it was made of red marble as the raw material. The marble is a naturally-generated fiery red color. The earliest red dye was made of marble powder.

The stone-carved gourd was also coated with a layer of deworming ingredients on the surface, so that the weeds and vines grew nearby and avoided them. They have been alone for so many years and placed in the inconspicuous corner of the valley.

When I looked at the red stone gourd, I couldn't help but wonder: "Why is it not a toad statue, but a gourd? If you want to completely release the shape and posture of the Fengshui treasure cave of a water dragon vein, an altar or a building such as an ancestral temple should be built here."

Because it is located on the edge of the valley, countless vines hang down on the rugged and steep mountain walls, and they are all covered by vines within three steps. The fat man was impatient and walked a few steps forward, used engineers to shovel to drive away the vines blocking the road, and found something under the mountain wall. He turned around and shouted to us: "Come here and take a look, this is really a toad."

Shirley and Yang Wensheng walked forward, and saw that under the cover of countless vine plants, facing the red stone gourd, there was a god worship that was dedicated to the mountain god, built along the mountain. Although I couldn't see the terrain clearly, it should have been built on the central axis of the mountain behind it, using a "weed-mountain large wooden frame structure" and divided into two fronts and backs. The facade of the temple in front was entangled with vines countless times, and some tiles and wood had fallen.

Although the green tiles on the top and the carved beams and pillars are all broken, because this is the hole of the water dragon vein, it can hide wind and gather energy, and it still retains the general framework. The layers of "broken insect paths" on the mountain wall have lost their function due to changes in water and soil, so the wood of the temple is decayed and has not yet fallen under the pressure of a large number of plants, which can be regarded as a miracle.

This ancient building dedicated to the mountain god quietly spent endless years in this lonely valley corner, all relying on special wood and structure craftsmanship, as well as the special environment where rainfall is very rare in the valley.

I just don’t know what the red stone gourd placed in front of the temple is for. It may be related to the shape of the mountain god. The ancients believed that gold, wood, water, fire, and earth all had gods in charge, and the same was true for every mountain and every river. However, according to customs, geographical environment, and cultural background, the face of the gods is also different.

We looked up and saw that although the temple was covered with layers of vines, there was no hidden danger of collapse. There were many birds nearby, all of which had nests on the temple building, which meant that the air quality here was fine, so we didn't have to worry about the poisonous miasma. So we took off our gas masks, opened the vines in front of the door, and fell down with the broken door.

I stepped in and saw that the main hall was covered with various plants. The temple was not large in size. The clay statue on the altar had fallen down. It was a black-faced god with expressionless face, slightly closed eyes, and a black robe on his body. Although it was arched by the vines to fall from the throne in the corner of the wall, it still gave people a cold and majestic feeling.

Next to the mud statue of the mountain god, there are two clay-sculpted mountain ghosts, both of which are green-faced and yasha, like yakshas. The one on the left holds a fiery red gourd and the one on the right holds a toad in both hands.

When I saw this, I realized that it was true that the toad and gourd were all things of the mountain god. I just didn’t know what the mountain god wanted these two things to do.

The fat man said, "It is probably a gourd to make wine. When drinking, I eat toads to make wine. Didn't Dajinya's grandson like this? But he eats chicken legs."

Seeing that the mountain temple was desolate and miserable, overgrown with weeds, I couldn't help but think of the days when we fat people were so poor that we sold watches. I felt a little uncomfortable, so I said to the fat people and Shirley Yang: "The mountain god was originally a remote god. If you built a temple, you should enjoy incense. Now it seems like this is a waste of time. It's true that the mountain god master has a difficult time, let alone ordinary people. It's true that the yin and yang rule are both successful and failure."

Shirley Yang said to me: "You said so many words, are you trying to make some ideas? Could it be that you still want to worship?"

I shook my head and said, "It's not easy to worship. Let's push the dumped mud statue back to its original position and give the mountain god a single American cigarette, so that he can bless us to make a smooth trip. No mistakes will happen. If you can make progress in the future, you will reshape the golden body and add incense."

The fat man said, "I think I want whatever I believe, but it's useless. I just don't believe in heaven or earth, but only believe in my arms and legs. If this mountain god's grandson is really effective, how can he not even protect himself? According to my opinion, it's best to let this grandson lie down. As the saying goes, it's better to eat dumplings than to stand. It's better to walk and take a look at it later."

Seeing that no one was willing to help, I had to give up and follow Shirley Yang and Fatty to the back hall. This back hall has been built inside the mountain peak on the left side of the "Insect Valley", which is narrower than the front hall. It is a "cui stone screen" on it, with a picture of the mountain god on it, and its figure is similar to the clay sculpture in the main hall, but it is relatively blurry and it is not clear that it looks. There is no mountain ghost foil on both sides. This stone screen seems to be not painted manually, but a naturally generated texture.

Turning over the "Cui Shiping", at the end of the temple, there are stone statues of nine huge toads lined up horizontally. I felt the eyes lit up at the sight, and it really corresponded to the number of "Nine Curves and Circles". This mechanism is very obvious in the eyes of those who understand the "Yi Long Jing". If you don't understand the essence of Feng Shui secret techniques and only know the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes, you will most likely treat it as the number of "Nine Palaces" to deal with it, and you will never find a secret passage in your life.

I looked carefully and found that the mouths of the nine stone toads are open and closed, and the toad heads are also different. The mouths of these toads are carved with stones and troughs that can rotate. The nine toads each have four directions to rotate. With the opening and closing of the toad mouth, it will take a lot of brains to calculate how many different arrangements there are. Moreover, these stone mechanisms should be pushed one by one from left to right. If you move around casually and miss the correct position three times in a row, the machine expansion will be completely stuck.

So I asked the fat man to help, and according to the number of "Nine Curves and Circles", from left to right, first open and close the toad mouth separately, and then use the word "shield" in the "Sixteen-character Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" to arrange the stone toads one by one in the corresponding direction.

After doing this series of things, the inner hall did not react. It is said that the "Nine Curves Back to the Mountain" should be impossible to be wrong, so why didn't the secret door open?

Shirley Yang's mind was turned quickly and asked us to go outside the temple to take a look. We hurriedly turned around and went outside to search. Finally, we found outside the mountain temple. We saw that the gourd in front of the temple was split into two halves, and a stone door was exposed below.

The stone gate was built into the shape of a toad's big mouth, which was flat and short. It was also made of fiery red marble stone, with some simple patterns on it, and there were two large copper rings on the left and right, which could be lifted upwards.

It turns out that this mechanism is designed in a very good way. Even if someone knows that the nine toads are mechanisms that open the stone gate, as long as they don’t know how to crack the hair, even if they use a large amount of explosives to blow it up, they will not be able to find the entrance outside.

Shirley Yang asked, "This stone gate is so weird that it looks like a toad mouth? I wonder what the name is inside. Is there really an authentic tunnel to the main tomb?"

I said to Shirley Yang: "The mark on the Zhenling Tuan is correct. This should be an underground passage, and it must be able to reach the closest point of the cave eye star to the water dragon halo. When you go to Minglou for sacrifice, it seems that you can only reach it by passing here. As for why you use toads as marks, I can't guess it."

In ancient China, toads had many symbolic forms. There was a kind of New Year painting, which was painted with a fat child holding a fishing pole, hanging a money, and playing with a three-legged toad, called the Golden Toad. As the saying goes, three-legged toads are hard to find, which is derived from this allusion. However, in some places, in the traditional folk customs, the toxicity of the toad is specially highlighted. However, the two toad statues opposite us are neither three-legged nor wart-shaped, and may be just toys of this mountain god.

The fat man patted the "Chicago typewriter" in his hand and said, "At worst, I can meet a big toad below. If there is such a gun, I am afraid that it will not work. Even if the ancestor of the toad comes, he can make it into a honeycomb."

Since the powerful firepower of the American submachine gun, we have indeed become more of a backer. However, I still remind the fat man: "The tomb of King Xian is arranged very closely. Although the stone gate is extremely hidden, it is difficult to guarantee that there are any powerful mechanisms inside. After we go down, soldiers will come to block the generals and water will cover the soil, so there is no need to be afraid."
Chapter completed!