Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Before the boat even arrived, we could see someone waving at us from a distance; he had seen us too.

"Isn't that the silly kid behind the steering wheel? Did he and the boat owner find out about us? Did they pull him into the group?"

Xiaoxuan scolded me, "Yunfeng, their name is Fang Xiaopan, not Fangxiangpan. We only chartered the boat for a few days, so they don't know what we do."

I instantly remembered what Chaosheng had said a few days ago.

Chao Sheng said at the time that even if the Jiang family had informants all over Qiandao Lake, they still couldn't find the leader's hiding place. So that's how it is...

We chose to set up camp not on land, but on water. The boat was constantly moving, and if things went slightly wrong in the next few days, we could escape down the Xin'an River at any time.

After boarding the boat, Fang Xiaopan immediately said to us, "I'm so sorry! We're more than twenty minutes late. The waterways here are difficult to navigate."

The ship owner came over upon hearing the noise, shook hands with the other party very warmly, and said, "I can't find a trace of what it used to be. I remember there was a mill around here fifty years ago."

The boat owner looked at the azure lake and smiled, “I understand your feelings, sir, that you want to find your hometown to pay respects to your ancestors. But after searching for so many days without any results, I’m afraid there’s not much hope. The water in this area is at least eighty meters deep. All the places you remember are submerged. If all else fails, you can go to the county cultural bureau and ask them. They might be able to help you.”

He waved his head and said, "I don't want to trouble the locals. I plan to visit a few places in the next few days. If we really can't find it, we'll have to give up."

"Fengzi!"

As the foreman and the boat owner were talking, Bean Sprout ran over with a bowl in his hand, and Fish Brother was also there.

"Tell me quickly, what's been going on these past two days! You look like a beggar. Where are your pants? And what happened to your injuries?"

"It's nothing, I'll tell you when I have time."

Brother Fish coughed lightly, and Bean Sprout immediately shut up.

After taking a shower and having dinner, I wanted to talk to Uncle Cha and Chief Ji again, but suddenly I felt sleepy and fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

When I opened my eyes, I found it was already 11:30 p.m.

I went out onto the deck for some fresh air, and my mind gradually cleared up. We should still be within the Nanhu District at this point.

"Yunfeng, you're awake."

A voice suddenly came from behind; it was the leader.

"Boss, I slept for fourteen hours straight. I rarely sleep that long."

“You’re too tired. Do you have some questions in your mind? Since I knew there was something strange about that place, why didn’t I stop you from going there?”

I nodded.

Looking at the lake, he frowned and said, "Yu Dingcheng didn't mean to harm you. That old house deep in the mountains is indeed the ancestral home of the Jiang family. However, in recent years, no one from the Jiang family has lived there. Xu Tongshan and I wanted to verify some things. He sent his godson, and I had to send someone too. You are my apprentice. Compared to Wenbin, you are clever and intelligent, and you can always sense danger, so you are the most suitable."

I asked the leader what he wanted to verify.

He looked at me for a few seconds, his expression grave, and said, "That person is very likely still alive."

"That person? Who?"

"Yunfeng, who do you think I'm talking about?"

I thought for a moment and asked, puzzled, "No more than six?"

He lowered his head and gave a curt "Mmm".

"No."

"How could this be! It's impossible, boss!"

“He’s been dead for decades! How could he possibly be alive? If he were still alive, how old would he be? Besides! There’s a grave for him on the east mountain! I saw it with my own eyes!”

“This is what we do. You should know Yunfeng. The grave is just a facade. Even if you dig up the grave and see the skeleton in the coffin, it doesn’t mean anything, because neither you nor I have ever seen what the skeleton looked like when it was alive.”

“If you can get out of that courtyard safely, it means he is dead. On the contrary, the fact that you were in danger last night means that the feng shui layout of that place is still in operation. Perhaps that courtyard is the tomb he built for himself, a tomb for a living person.”

I was completely stunned after hearing what the foreman said.

I can't accept the boss's point of view in a short time, because based on what I know about the cause and effect of the matter, if that person is still alive, he must be at least 110 years old!

At this moment, Uncle Cha came onto the deck wearing a coat. He hadn't rested yet either. Seeing my extremely pale face, Uncle Cha looked at the foreman and said, "Did you tell this kid?"

“Yunfeng has suffered a lot; it’s better for him to know,” the foreman said.

"Uncle Cha, boss, this is just a guess you made based on that strange courtyard. Apart from Jiang Zhaoxue's grandfather's generation, no one has ever seen it! Since none of us have seen it, we can't take it as fact!" I said loudly.

Uncle Cha said, "That's right, kid. You're absolutely right. None of us have ever seen that person, so it's just a guess, but this guess is almost certainly true."

"You can't compare yourself to others. I consider myself to have some skill in the field of feng shui, but I'm far inferior to the other person."

Uncle Cha shook his head and continued, "In terms of understanding and application of feng shui alone, even if you combined all the folk commoners and the Jingmen, they might not be as good as the other side."

"No way, Uncle Cha! Didn't the sect leader see through the layout of that courtyard and tell you?"

"When did I say that it was someone from the Jingmen who told me? Didn't you understand what I said?"

Uncle Cha looked at me and said firmly, "The layout of that courtyard! Even the sect leader of the Jingmen Sect couldn't see through it. The other party's expertise in this area is ahead of its time. The Jingmen Sect can't see through it, I can't see through it, let alone ordinary people."

"Such a feng shui genius, how could he have lived in seclusion in Qiandao Lake for so many years without a trace? I really don't know what he was thinking."

He interjected, "This person is not exactly unknown. Some of his early deeds can be found in the martial arts world, but there isn't much information. His senior brother is the famous Hunan Bu Guo Wu. Mr. Cha must know about this person. It is said that he and his senior brother had a so-so relationship. Because of jealousy, he gave himself the name Bu Guo Liu in his early years. Later, he suddenly disappeared from the martial arts world. I didn't expect that he settled in Qiandao Lake."

Uncle Cha nodded: "However, I wasn't born in the era when Wu Cheng was famous. I've heard my master mention some of his deeds before. This junior brother of his should have already surpassed his level back then. Worldly things are easily obtained by such a person. He has helped the Jiang family for so many years. I wonder what he is after."

“Could it be…?”

Uncle Cha, gripping the deck railing, looked on in surprise and doubt: "Could it be that he's been able to survive until now because of the Jiang family's help?"

After saying that, Uncle Cha immediately shook his head: "No, no, that kind of life-extending method is a low-level method. He must have used some other strange method."

“Mr. Cha, I’ve had someone find out his birth date. Why don’t you cast a divination to verify if our analysis is correct?”

"This person's birth date and time? Chief Wang, are you sure?"

He nodded: "I have an old friend in Hunan, so what I found out should be correct."

Upon hearing the foreman announce a birth date and time, Uncle Cha looked extremely anxious and immediately turned around to go back to the cabin to perform divination.