() Found the way home!

This is the first time Ye Liuxi heard someone in Guannei call her name.

The old man's tone was plain and his eyebrows were calm, as if he had a clear understanding of her past and future.

Ye Liuxi asked him: "Who are you? Who am I?"

The old man did not answer, but looked at Changdong's car, paused and said, "Those are your friends outside the gate?"

...

Changdong was a little nervous, not because he was afraid of taking action. Anyway, there were many people and he would lose when he started to take action. But the atmosphere was strange: not being close or distant, not being warmly welcomed or coldly avoided.

Fei Tang asked Ding Liu to cover himself, secretly held the telescope and looked at the other end of the car: "Yulin Guard, it must be the Yulin Guard. The birds painted on these bird flags are different, and the bird feathers on the shoulders of the people next to him are also different. That one is an eagle, but it must be powerful. That... parrot over there?"

Ye Liuxi came back soon. She got into the car, her cheeks flushed because they were cold and hot: "Let's follow first."

The old man's surname is Zhao, Zhao Guanshou, and he is one of the best figures in the Yulin Guard.

The gate of Blackstone City is closed at sunset and the sunrise is opened. No precedent is set for anyone. Cars walk through the side door and enter in one after another.

The street is spacious but empty, with no shops on the street. They are all black and tall walls. Different birds and stone sculptures crouch down every other section of the wall. The flowing light is no different from street lights.

Before the snow had accumulated, the road made of black stone was wet. Occasionally, you could see a night patrol team of seven people. When they saw the front car, they lined up at attention from a distance, raised their heads and held their chests, and watched the convoy pass before continuing to patrol.

The drive seemed to be quite short. Changdong was concentrating on driving, following the car ahead, either walking straight or turning. Only Fei Tang was a little excited and kept whispering...

"This is imitating the Han Dynasty... no, imitating the style of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. It is square, horizontal and vertical, like a chessboard. The Nara Castle in Japan was learned from us."

"Did you see this high wall? Tang Chang'an 108 Fang is a small square city with walls. There are gates on all sides. There are curfews at night. People cannot go out to the streets and go shopping. If they are seen by patrol members, they will be arrested and jailed. It is possible that they will be chopped up on the spot... No wonder there are no people on the streets."

"The height of this wall is very particular. The higher the wall, the more important the people living there... Have you ever visited Shaanxi Bo? There is an introduction to the restoration model of Tang Chang'an, which is very detailed..."

Ding Liu frowned: "I can't go out for a walk that night, aren't you suffocated?"

"Where can you walk around in a yard, it is equivalent to a small community. There may be commercial streets, chess and card rooms, and cinemas. You can't leave the yard if you want."

Fei Tang suddenly thought of something, and his face was so excited that he shone with excitement: "Brother Dong, do you still remember the market in Xiaoyangzhou? Tang Chang'an also has a special market called Dongshi Xishi. I'm so lively. I heard that there are more than 40,000 shops in Xishi, including Persian, Goryeo, and Japanese merchants. The international cbd at that time, we often say "buy things" now, it is said that it is a dictionary of Dongshi Xishi. This Black Stone City imitates Tang Chang'an, and there must be a big market."

Ding Liu looked at him with a little admiration: "How do you know so much?"

Fei Tang sneered in his nose: "How are I born and raised in Xi'an? I don't go to Shaanxi Blog too many times a year."

...

I turned a corner and suddenly suppressed my eyes. The walls were taller than I had seen before. There were sentry towers at all corners, and huge stone murals were carved on the walls.

The first mural that Changdong saw was wearing shackles and entering the pass. Under the tall Yumen Pass, there were endless people entering the pass. Some were walking forward, some were covering their faces with their hands and crying, and of course some were smiling. Perhaps they felt that heroes were born in troubled times, and they might not be able to operate on time in a different world... Once the characters were concave and three-dimensional, their expressions seemed to be particularly vivid. Changdong looked at it for a while and felt that there seemed to be a wail in his ears. He felt a little unbearable, so he didn't turn his face and didn't look.

There are two floors of the yard gate, both of which are thick steel plate gates. When they open to both sides, the ground seems to be vibrating.

After entering the yard gate, another section was opened and stopped in front of a huge unusual building. The building was built like a lying tiger. The flat stone steps lead all the way to the tiger's mouth, that is, the entrance. At both ends of each step, there were golden white tiger patterns embedded in the stone. The patterns were also the style of the Han Dynasty's portrait stone.

Fei Tang stretched out his neck to see that the blue dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, black trunk are the four great beasts in ancient China. The white tiger is located in the west and belongs to metal. It is reasonable to build this building, but what is it for?

He was born in business and was very concerned about Feng Shui. When he thought of going to this building, he had to pass the "tiger's mouth", he felt it was unlucky.

Zhao Guanshou got out of the car first, leaned on a black iron crutch, and cast his hands on the top into the shape of a falcon. It had been rubbed and shining. Changdong and the others also got out of the car one after another. Li Jinao had never seen such a big formation. He held a chicken on each of his arms and swallowed his saliva excitedly.

Zhao Guanshou looked at Ye Liuxi: "Do you want to send your friends to rest first?"

Ye Liuxi pointed to the building: "What is this place? Is it very confidential?"

Zhao Guanshou had an indifferent expression: "It's equivalent to a museum outside the pass."

Fei Tang quickly urged Ye Liuxi in a low voice: "Sister Xi, I want to see, can I be more comfortable?"

Ye Liuxi replied: "My friends are with me."

Zhao Guanshou acquiesced and climbed up the stairs with a cane. Li Jinao also wanted to follow him excitedly, but was stopped by the people around him. He could only watch Changdong and the others enter, and he was very envious: I heard that the large museum in Black Stone City is all-encompassing, and even has a special monster exhibition hall...

It's really a chance to meet in a century. But I was not lucky enough and I was stopped when I arrived at the door.

When you enter the hall, your footsteps are empty, and it really has the style of a large museum. The light from the high place is getting brighter. The first thing you see is the map inside Yumen Pass.

It is worthy of being used exclusively for high-rise buildings. This map is much more detailed than those seen on the street.

Zhao Guanshou looked at Ye Liuxi: "I know you don't remember a lot of things. It doesn't matter. After walking this lap, you will almost understand it."

He motioned for the map: "When I entered the pass, Blackstone City was the oldest and largest plate-area, because the terrain was excellent: two mountains, like two arms, surrounded a large mountain basin, one of which was called Blackstone Mountain. We used quarries to build a city, and the other was called Gold Mine, which produced something, so I don't need to say more."

This is really a reward for God. Until today, gold is still a hard currency available worldwide. Changdong remembers the shadow camel team walking inside and outside the pass: It is not a businessman, it is clearly a huge buyer with wealth.

Zhao Guanshou led them forward. This time, what he saw was a glass display cabinet with more than a dozen shadow puppets inside. Like the ones seen in the shadow puppet coffin, they wore various clothes, including short brown from the Han Dynasty, round-necked robes from the Tang Dynasty, jackets from the Qing Dynasty, and those wearing white vests wearing workers' uniforms, standing or standing with different expressions.

The background image of the display cabinet is... Sima Dao, with loess and earth platforms, with several open eyes above, as if warning him to patrol.

Zhao Guanshou's voice tablet: "For a long time, we have been no different from life outside the pass, and we even lived better. The secret method of shadow puppets in Lao Li's family can make shadow puppets almost the same as humans. Those novel things, clever things, and money can be bought, but for nearly a hundred or ten years, they are indeed behind... The technology outside is developing too fast, some things are difficult to learn, some can only learn some fur, and some can only use finished products."

Seeing that he was about to move forward again, Changdong couldn't help but ask: "That... Sima Dao, what's going on?"

Zhao Guanshou glanced at him: "You are asking about the shadow puppet tomb group, right?"

"Shadow puppets are similar to people, but they are more delicate than people. When wind and rain are blowing, they will inevitably lose weight. When the temperature changes, they will deform. If it is damp, it will not be well maintained and moldy. After a period of time, the old and new will be replaced."

"We are grateful for their contributions. Although they are not humans, they have also been buried in peace. After putting them in the coffin box, there is a sand burial eye to build a tomb for them... The sand burial eye is pitying for death and protecting death, which is equivalent to the guards of the tomb. If there is wind erosion and water invasion, they can be repaired in time."

So that's it. Changdong felt a little bit: there are so many lonely graves in the world, and the beasts are scattered and washed away by water, and no one takes care of them. The grass on the grave is half high. In contrast, there are sand burial eyes to guard them, so their luck is pretty good.

What I saw next was a large and square stone, and it also appeared on the shadow puppet coffin: Emperor Wu of Han looked sad across the curtain, and the beauty on the other end covered her face with her sleeves, crying sadly, and there were six horizontal seal characters on the side...

The west bones look at the east soul.

Ye Liuxi's lips were a little dry.

Zhao Guanshou said: "These six words can be thought directly, which is to flow westward and look at the east soul, and the other way around, which is to look eastward and look at the eastward and flow westward."

"At that time, when Li Shaoweng summoned his soul, Mrs. Li knew about Emperor Wu of Han's plan to 'severe demons and ghosts at the Yumen', and asked the emperor whether it was really cut off from within and outside the pass. Emperor Wu of Han replied that the west bones and hoped that the east soul could be broken."

"These six words are the essence of the secret shadow puppet technique of the old Li family."

Ye Liuxi couldn't help but: "Does this Liuxi Gu have anything to do with me?"

Zhao Guanshou answered the question irrelevantly: "Let's keep going."

This time, it was a copper relief mural that was close to the ground. It was nearly ten meters long and wide. The pictures were chaotic and tense. It was like the copper water was blown dry by the wind in an instant. People walked down their heads and felt depressed.

Zhao Guanshou looked up at the mural. The gray-white beard trembled slightly. He held the hand of the eagle crutch, and the blue veins pushed the dry wrinkled old skin.

Ye Liuxi asked: "What is this?"

Zhao Guanshou's voice was emotional and vicissitudes: "This painting is about the chaos of beast heads."

"More than a thousand years ago, the Nandou appeared on the sun. At first, before the signing of the sky without words, the signing family used yarrow and turtle shells to divine the fortunes of Emperor Wu of Han, and the South Dou Pound broke the Yumen Gate, which means that the Nandou Star appeared. At that time, the secret technique of shadow puppet failed and the shadow puppet camel team was paralyzed. The 'Liuxi Bone Looking at the East Soul' will be all born. This person can enter and exit Yumen Pass and will inevitably cause trouble."

"This is a great disaster in the pass, which we call "Go to the West to the Jade Gate."

Ye Liuxi asked him: "What a mess?"

Zhao Guanshou pointed to a man in the center of the painting.

"This man's surname is Li, and his name is Li Wangdong. Those who were born on the South Dipper Star should keep their original surname, with a man's reputation in the East and a woman's reputation in the West."

"Li Wangdong was very concerned about reopening Yumen Pass. While strengthening the beast's head, he frequently went out of the pass to seek foreign aid. At that time, the Sui and Tang Dynasties were in the process of the change of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He used the wordless sky sign to find out that Li Tang was going to rise, so he used a pair of 'beast head agate' as a meeting gift to establish a relationship with the Li family, and promised countless gold to help him."

Ye Liuxi asked: "What are the conditions for exchange?"

"Li Wangdong felt that since Emperor Wu of Han could seal Yumen Pass with the power of the whole country, Emperor Tang could also do the opposite, respect Taoism, accumulate alchemists, and break up this Yumen Pass."

"Not successful later?"

Zhao Guanshou sneered: "Li Wangdong Hua's sweet words made Emperor Taizong feel that the emperor was the destiny of heaven, the fate of the Tang Dynasty was about to rise, and ghosts and gods were intimidated. In addition, Taoist priests were all over the country and were not afraid of demons and ghosts causing trouble. Who knew that human calculations were not as good as God's calculations, because of a dream, Emperor Taizong of Tang changed his mind."

"What dream?"

"Just when Emperor Taizong of Tang was determined to open the Yumen Pass, he suddenly had nightmares. There were countless demons in the dream. Some ministers suggested that the generals Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong should be worn every day with weapons and protect them outside the bedroom gate, so that they would be peaceful."

Fei Tang blurted out: "I know this too. Later, the common people put the portraits of these two people on the door, and over time they became the 'door god'."

Zhao Guanshou nodded: "Tang Taizong repented, Li Wangdong was disappointed. The gold could not be returned. He wanted to get the priceless pair of beast-headed agate, but unfortunately, he could not fight against the emperor with his own strength. In the end, he tried his best to get only one of them back and returned to Yumen Pass in a mess."

"After Li Wangdong died, he returned to the shadow puppet. Yulin Guard and the Fangshi worked together to combat the beast head rebellion, but he could not find the beast head agate. The family member tested the wordless sign and said that when the Nandou appeared again, the next person who was in trouble with the Yumen would appear, and this person was the owner of the beast head agate."

Speaking of this, Zhao Guanshou paused for a while.

Fei Tang and the others were stunned for a long time. Ye Liuxi's chest was undulating, and his hands hanging beside him trembled slightly. Chang Dong walked over and gently held her hand.

Zhao Guanshou looked at Ye Liuxi.
Chapter completed!