After another cup of tea, there were no other strange phenomena in the cave except for the bright light reflected.

Chu Qing stood aside and thought about it quietly, bit her lower lip lightly, and then tentatively drilled into the hole, but only took a small step inside, and then leaned against the stone wall to squat down carefully, using her eyes and ears, and carefully exploring and observing inside.

I saw this a deep stone cave, which seemed to be formed naturally, with a height of more than meter. Lights were lit every other section on the stone wall. The lamps seemed to be carved from rocks and were integrated with the stone walls. They looked like palms with extended palms facing upwards and slender fingers. The lights were burning quietly on the palms. Occasionally, there seemed to be a wind blowing from the bottom of the cave, and the lights were shaking neatly towards the entrance of the cave. They seemed to have been waiting for the past so far, and were able to send a friendly invitation to the people at the entrance of the cave.

Chu Qing squatted and looked at it for a while, and seemed to feel an unknown sound at the bottom of the cave, which seemed to be there and not, ancient and distant, as if she was singing in a low voice, and as if she was murmuring, it was tying her heart and penetrated into the depths of her soul.

Chu Qing mistakenly thought it was an hallucination, so she raised her hands to cover her ears, closed her eyes and shook her head hard a few times. After listening carefully, the sound seemed to be gone. She was delighted and put down her hands. But after a moment, the sound came again, as if she was summoning her to walk towards the bottom of the hole in a language she couldn't understand.

After a long time, Chu Qing finally stood up slowly, her eyes seemed a little confused, as if she was sleepwalking, slowly taking steps, taking the first step, then taking the second step, the third step... Just as she walked about a few feet to the bottom of the cave, she suddenly heard a loud "rumbling" sound from behind her, as if the entire stone cave was shaking, and she was even more unsteady.

Chu Qing was shocked and woke up immediately. When she looked back, she saw a huge rock descending at the entrance of the cave. There was no time to move. She could only see the huge rock closed and compacted with the last gap on the ground. A closed aura arises naturally.

Chu Qing showed a fearful expression, turned around and ran back, slapped the huge rock hard, but the huge rock was like a mountain, and she was like a flock shaking a tree.

The sound at the bottom of the cave sounded again, as if it was misty in the air. Chu Qing was panicked and wanted to escape. She searched on the huge rock for a long time, trying to find a glimmer of life, but in the end she did not find a gap.

Cold sweat suddenly flowed out. Chu Qing leaned on the boulder in despair and sat down powerlessly, her eyes empty and looked at the deep hole, and her mind was even more blank. She tried hard to remember why she came in, but she was as if she felt like she had been here. She pursed her lips unconsciously, she wanted to cry, she thought of Feng Shuzhu, she wanted to go back to Si Xiaozhu, but found that these had become delusions. The fluctuations of emotions once again affected the old wound, and her chest ached faintly.

The chill from the boulder behind her clearly indicated that the road behind her had been completely blocked, and the bottom of the cave became the only place of hope, but a sense of fear that was neither there nor there was lingering in Chu Qing's heart. She felt that there was an unknown demon king at the bottom of the cave, waiting for her to come to her door with a hideous smile.

In addition to regret, she accidentally saw a light on the stone wall. In the quietly burning flames, two figures appeared for some reason, one was a pretty girl, and the other was a handsome and elegant scholar.

The girl had a bright and lively eyes and said while thinking: "Doesn't you say that you have to drink water when you are thirsty? After drinking water, don't think about the empty cup?"

The scholar looked surprised and said, "Qing'er is indeed smart, but how many people in this world can do it without caring about the empty cup?"

"I don't care. As long as the elder brother is here, I won't think about what's going on in the cup." Chu Qing raised her eyebrows slightly and said happily.

As if there was an invisible force that inspired her, Chu Qing suddenly stood up, showed a firm look on her face, and clenched her fist with her right hand, as if she said to herself: "Yes, I just want to go out and go back to Cangqing Mountain and back to my elder brother, why be afraid of what's under the hole?"

The idea was settled! But when he looked at the bottom of the deep and dark cave, Chu Qing still hesitated for a moment, then he pressed against the stone wall on one side of his back, holding it in front with one hand and the other behind with one hand, and moving forward carefully.

There was a silence in the cave, and there was no other movement except for the sound of his own footsteps. I don’t know if he was walking too slowly or the stone cave was too long, but Chu Qing only felt that this ancient and deep cave seemed endless. Although it was always spacious from left to right, it was twists and turns, after turning several directions in a row, except that he probably felt tilting towards the ground, it was almost impossible to tell the direction.

In a trance, I only remembered walking through hundreds of lights. When Chu Qing had countless doubts and conjectures in her heart, the passage turned a corner again. Facing the front, she stood up straight, showing a look of surprise, her fingers unknowingly placed on her lips, and her eyes shaking left and right at the same time. It turned out that there were two forks in front of her, deep and unknown where they led. Due to the encounter at the entrance, Chu Qing was confused about choices for a while, for fear that once she made the wrong choice, she would be blocked by a huge rock to retreat, and what was waiting for her might be a different ending.

A fork in the road is like a choice at the intersection of life.

Maybe on the left is heaven and on the right is hell;

Maybe the left is suffering, and the right is joy.

What's more, people are born with fear of unknown results.

So, in this ancient and deep cave, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl pressed her hands on her chest, and her slightly closed eyes were hidden under her thick eyelashes, quietly feeling the heartbeat at this moment.

In the dark, a breeze seemed to float by, bringing the "Dingdong" and the "Dingdong" sound of "Dingdong" was a familiar sound that immediately touched the heart.

Chu Qing raised her mouth and showed a happy expression. She listened carefully. She was in the cave on the left, and the sound of spring water was like a "falling water cave".

One drop, two drops, three drops..., each drop is like a cheerful note, beating, summoning itself.

Chu Qing did not hesitate anymore and walked towards the fork on the left. After reaching the entrance of the cave, she leaned over and looked inside. Except for the narrower passage inside, the lights were very bright.

Chu Qing observed for a while and saw that nothing was wrong, so she gently bit her teeth on her lower lip, raised her steps, and walked in without hesitation.

At first I felt that the passage inside the cave was a little narrow and felt a little depressed, but after walking less than a few feet away, the passage gradually became spacious, and some murals appeared on one side of the stone wall. After seeing the murals, Chu Qing was no longer nervous, but her eyes were filled with surprise, and she looked over one by one.

In the first mural, it depicts a flood. There are huge waves, the villages and fields have been flooded, and people have brought their wives and children, displaced, and fled.

The second mural depicts people living in a place where they live, surrounded by floods, attacked by poisonous snakes and beasts, and men crying.

In the third mural, a middle-aged man appeared. He was strong, wearing a hat, a short suit, and a long-handled turtle (a kind of digging tool, equivalent to a shovel), standing in front of the crowd, as if convening a meeting for the people.

In the fourth mural, I saw the middle-aged man holding a long handle and tilted turrets, starting to lead everyone to open mountains and dig canals, and divert floods into the river.

The next mural, which is much longer than the previous ones, splicing several scenes together. The previous part was at the foot of a mountain. The middle-aged man holding a long-handled turtle held a wedding with a beautiful woman surrounded by everyone. The middle part was a man holding a long-handled turtle and led the crowd to leave, and his wife stood at the entrance of the village and said goodbye to tears. In the last part, the scene was when the wife was holding a baby in her arms and looking forward to her at the door of the house.

Seeing this, Chu Qing had already understood in her heart. This is the story of Dayu controlling the flood in ancient times that her mother told me in memory. Dayu's wife in this mural is her ancestor, the nine-tailed Heavenly Fox of the Tushan family.

Chu Qing was filled with a thrill of heart, and in the dark he actually entered the underground palace where he worshiped his ancestors.

There were many war scenes in the subsequent murals, including a flying dragon with a huge tail spreading its wings, a fierce god with wide eyes standing on the huge waves, and a fat bear with huge claws waving...

Chu Qing didn't wait to take a closer look, but accelerated her pace and ran towards the bottom of the hole. At this moment, she was no longer afraid at all, and what was added was a sense of anxiety.

He walked forward dozens of feet away and saw that he was suddenly cheerful, an extremely huge underground palace appeared in front of Chu Qing.

The underground palace is extremely wide and magnificent. The main hall can accommodate as many as two or three hundred people. There is a huge round stone in the center of the dome, which is as bright as jade, with moon-like stars, dazzling and dazzling. Around the round stone, there is a flying goddess floating around it, lifelike. There are three stone bridges in the main hall, which are arranged in the left, middle and right, all made of jade. The bridge deck is in a double reverse curve, forming a wave-shaped line bridge, and equipped with exquisite white marble railings, which looks particularly magnificent. The water flows under the bridge arch, clear and visible, and the size of a bridge hole is accessible to the small boat.

There is a wide field after crossing the bridge, with a square tripod made of huge rocks placed at the end, with four legs and two ears, and ancient words engraved on it, and it seems to be covered with thick silver syrup and incense ash.

Behind the large square tripod, there is a Sumeru-shaped base with a waist, with a fence on the top and bottom, and a stomp stairs on the top.

The base of the platform consists of two stone pillars. The stone pillars look like Huabiao. There are auspicious clouds and strange beasts on the pillars. In the center of the lintel, there is also a stone-carved fire bead, and two stone dragons on the left and right form a playful bead. There are two stone statues in the door, one man and one woman, the left and right. The male elephant is burly, wearing a hat on the head, a short dress, holding a long handle in his hands, and stepping on the huge waves barefoot; the female elephant has a graceful figure, beautiful appearance, with a half-armed upper robes, a strapless breast, a long skirt on the underside, and a baby in his arms. There are nine huge tails flying behind her.

Behind the two stone statues, a water curtain was hung straight from the top of the cave, making a "whirring" sound, splashing water everywhere, crystal clear and beautiful.

Such a beautiful scene made Chu Qing open her mouth wide and reluctant to blink, especially the huge round stone on the dome, which contained the moon-phase and stars flickering and changing. After watching for a long time, she felt that it was not the moon-phase and stars moving, but the flying goddess around her circling and dancing in the sky, as if she was in the scene, as if she was flying in the night sky, the breeze blew on her face, as if she was in a deep sea that could not calm the slightest waves. The stars beside her were shining with the moon shadow, reflecting her charming face, and there was an indescribable joy in her heart, like a dream.

Chu Qing walked up to the stone bridge on the left, stood at the head of the bridge, held the railing with his hands, stood on tiptoe, and looked down. The dark river under the bridge was shallow and clear, with many round stones of various colors in the river, and there were small fish entering and leaving, or wandering alone, or in groups of three or two, looking like small loaches, with transparent body, and clearly visible internal organs, which was very magical.

Several small fishes passed through the bridge hole along the river. Chu Qing also ran to the other side of the bridge and continued to look after it. She looked in the direction of the fish swimming. She found that there was a single-wood boat floating in the stone bridge hole in the middle. The boat was full of anchors and oars. The boat seemed to be old and was soaked in the river water. The paint had fallen off, revealing the original color of the wood. The fish swam into the shadow at the bottom of the boat and could not be seen.

Clapping and stroking the white marble railings on the bridge, Chu Qing came to the huge stone cauldron and looked forward from here, and felt that the two stone statues in the door hole on the Sumeru-style base were extremely majestic and tall.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, standing under the bright round stone dome, wearing an ice-blue silk skirt, showing her innocent face, and a pair of watery eyes, looking at two huge stone statues, the moon-like stars on her head, walking and changing like a giant wheel that drives time to pass, returning to the era of raging wilderness, united people, and moving mountains and seas. The sound of huge waves rolling, the sound of high-pitched and low trumpets, and the sound of longing for his wife and children at the door of their homes gathered together, like a music that awakens the soul, shocking the soul.

Chu Qing couldn't help but kneel down, respectfully approached the stone statue above, performed three bows and nine bows, and murmured and prayed: "The ancestor's mother (Note: Dayu's wife is the nine-tailed fox of Tushan clan, named Nujiao) King Yu is on the top, and Chu Qing, a descendant of Tushan clan, sincerely paid a visit. By chance, he accidentally entered this place and became a blessing in disguise. I only hope that the mother, King Yu, will be blessed with me with mercy and blessings, so that I can see Brother Feng Shuzhu as soon as possible."

After praying, Chu Qing stood up and walked around the huge stone square tripod. From the left step stairs to the Sumeru-shaped base, stood in front of the door hole, and knelt down to the stone statue of his ancestors. He stood up and looked down from the base. The huge stone square tripod and stone bridge were all at his feet. Looking up at the bright round stones on the dome, it became clearer. At this time, he found that the huge bright round stone was irregular, with a hemispherical surface slightly tilted towards the base, and the protruding hemispherical surface was as bright as jade, with stars changing inside and moon phases changing. The stone wall of the hall was cylindrical, and hundreds of lights burned quietly on the stone wall. In contrast, the lights in the passage when he came was much dim.

Chu Qing turned around again, walked to the stone statue of the girl, holding the stone carved skirt pattern with one hand, looking up at the head, and could no longer see the head of the stone statue. She only reached the knee of the stone statue on her head, and continued to walk a few steps. Behind the graceful and gentle body of the girl, the nine-tailed lace was covered with cloth.

Behind the two stone statues, a water curtain was hung straight from the top of the door hole. The water droplets were crystal clear and beautiful, falling into a small pool. The bottom of the pool was green. Chu Qing squatted down and teased the clear water in the pool with her hands. Suddenly, a biting chill came. She shook her hands, shook the water droplets, and put them to her mouth to keep warm.

While he was puzzled, the entire hall suddenly became dark, and all the lights on the stone wall went out at the same time, and the darkness swallowed the entire space. Only the bright round stones on the dome of the hall were still as bright as jade, and looked extremely bright in the darkness. Because the prominent spherical part slightly turned towards the base, the bright round stones were radiant like a stage spotlight. A pillar of clear light shot down, shining two stone statues and Chu Qing in it.

Chu Qing looked back along the light column and saw that the moon phase and star change was accelerating in the bright round stone. From the beginning of entering the hall, the moon phase was always the waning moon. At this time, a full moon gradually formed. The surrounding stars gradually disappeared under the light of the full moon. Finally, the full moon filled the entire bright round stone.

Chu Qing was just experiencing a sense of indescribable chill from behind her neck. She was shocked and took a step back and turned to look at the small pool. At some point, the water curtain that hung directly from the top of the door hole disappeared. The stone wall behind the water curtain was revealed, which was extremely smooth. Under the moonlight, it was like a dark blue night sky. Later, a white nine-tailed fox gradually appeared, and its whole body was snow-white without any colors. It was a full moon, as if it was in the moon palace, and its blood-red pupils burst out with a stunning hostility. After a while, the nine-tailed fox slowly slowed down.

Lifting up his right claw, a cold mist rose in the small pool below, and then the water in the pool seemed to be boiling and boiling. A fresh and elegant fragrance spread out. Later, round green duckweeds split into water, and a long branch stretched out between the duckweed. It was a lotus, and the lotus actually gradually opened into a light pink lotus, like a dazzling jade plate, Lingbo Fairy holding up the ice-skinned and jade bones. The most peculiar thing is that there was a small box in the lotus, which seemed to be silver and had simple patterns.

Chu Qing was not curious, resisting the cold, walked towards the edge of the pond, squatted down, and reached out to get the small box, but it was almost an inch if he tried several times. While hesitating, he felt that the light column behind him had changed. Looking back, the moon phase in the bright round stone gradually changed, as if it had changed from a full moon to a waning moon. The water curtain at the top of the door began to drip water, and the lotus petals in the pool were gradually closing.

Chu Qing knew that if she didn't get the small box back, she would sink into the pool again after a long time. So she felt anxious, twisted her body, endured the pain in her body, and revealed her true appearance.

I saw a white three-tailed fox with a pair of ice-blue sharp ears, with blood-colored pupils standing proudly by the pool. The three-tailed fox looked at the small silver box on the lotus, then turned around, shook the three huge tails, rolled up a strong wind, swept across the entire pool, stirring up a wave of ripples on the water surface. The small silver box seemed to be picked up by an invisible hand, and shook it on the lotus, and was thrown to the edge of the pool, making a sound, making a slight sound, but it was not damaged at all.

At the same time, Chu Qing had turned back to human form. She saw her lips purple, her face was pale, and her eyes were not blood-colored. She hugged her arms tightly and squatted beside her trembling. It seemed that she was attacked by extreme cold air, causing her old injuries to worsen.

Chu Qing squatted aside and relaxed for a long time before gradually regaining her strength. She frowned and looked back at the small silver box thrown aside. She tried hard for two or three times before she stood up and walked over with a staggering pace.

After a distance of several feet, Chu Qing felt that she had been walking for a long time, and beads of sweat were oozing out from her forehead. When she came to the small silver box, she slowly squatted down.

Just as she reached out to pick up the small silver box, the cold mist in the pool gradually faded, and the lotus withered in an instant, the branches and stems broke and fell into the water of the pool, the duckweed was shattered, some of the leaves were broken, and some were rolled into a black ball.

The water curtain at the top of the door hole has returned to its original posture. The water splashed down, and some splashed onto the broken duckweed, rolling into water droplets, crystal clear and moving, like tears falling from the corners of the beauty's eyes, as if saddened by the decline and withering of the pool.

The image of the nine-tailed fox on the stone wall behind the water curtain gradually became hazy in the water curtain and finally subsided.

The bright round stones on the dome of the hall also restored the moon phases and stars at the beginning, and were still quietly changing.

The hundreds of lights on the stone wall seemed to be ignited at the same time. With a "sky" sound, the flames rose again, illuminating the entire space.

It seems like the beginning, and there seems to be no change.

The chill subsided. Chu Qing squatted on the ground, curiously picked up the small silver box, shook it gently but couldn't feel any weight, so she held it in her palm, looked carefully, and stretched out a finger to gently lift it on the lock, and opened the lid by itself.

Chu Qing's eyes flashed, and the corners of her mouth raised slightly, showing a smile. She saw a twisted silk bracelet that looked like stone but not jade and a small key that looked like iron.

Chu Qing picked up the bracelet and looked at it carefully. She saw that the bracelet was as warm and delicate as white jade, and the carvings were extremely delicate and smooth. The two twisted silks were coiled around each other like dragons. The three words "Finger-like" were engraved on the twisted silk on the inner wall of the bracelet. After thinking for a long time, she stopped thinking about it. She liked it in her heart. She tried it on her wrist and found that the size was just right, so she raised her hand and shook it in the light to play with it.

"bite",

A pleasant sound came, and the sound was extremely slender, like an lingering sound surrounding the beam and echoed in the ears.

Chu Qing looked down and saw that she accidentally dropped the small key in the small silver box to the ground. After the small key hit the bluestone ground, it did not bounce off, but was firmly stuck to it.

Chu Qing was curious again, and reached out to pick up the small key, frowned slightly, thinking that the ordinary keys were all outside the box, and how could this key be hidden inside the box? Moreover, the appearance of this small key seemed to have been seen somewhere, only the size of a little finger, the handle of the key was slender and cylindrical, the teeth bloomed strangely at the top, and there was only one square notch, which was not as many teeth and bloomed on the side as a common key. I looked it carefully and found no handwriting, so I didn't look at it carefully, so I simply put it with me and ignored it.

Chu Qing took the small silver box again, looked through it carefully, and confirmed that there was nothing else, so she held it in her hand, searched around the pool for a long time, but no discovery, and instantly lost her excitement.

After looking around and then, I suddenly felt a little tired, so I walked to the foot of the female stone statue and sat down. Relying on the skirt pattern of the stone statue, I quietly looked at the bright round stones on the dome of the hall. As the moon phases and stars change inside, my eyelids gradually became heavier. I forced myself to open my eyes a few times, but I finally fell asleep.
Chapter completed!