Pictures of pomegranates

Chapter 87 Cheung Po Tsai

The next day, when I woke up without feeling hungry, I still didn’t want to accept my fate and wait for death.After thinking over and over again by the waterhole, I remembered the advice in wilderness survival and decided to continue walking downward in the direction of the waterpool.

This time, my heart was filled with despair, and I moved around in despair.

I don’t know how long it took, but a group of figures carrying hiking bags suddenly appeared in front of me. My legs began to tremble subconsciously, thinking that it was another scary monster that tortured me to death.But I didn't expect that the figures that appeared in front of me this time not only had their shadows in the sun, but the distance between them and me did not disappear as I got closer.

On the contrary, as the distance got closer, their figures became clearer and clearer.

This surprising change, coupled with the shadows under their feet, finally convinced me, who was extremely helpless and frightened, that the climbers in front of me were real living people.This means that I walked out of that unknown and terrifying space, and I was finally saved.

Overjoyed, I quickly caught up with the group of climbers, hurriedly borrowed their mobile phones and called the police.While I was waiting for rescue, I met my friend Xiao Li who came to find me, and I was finally rescued and returned to my home.

The most puzzling thing for me is that according to the descriptions of friends and others, they have been searching for me on Gongshan Mountain, but they have not seen anyone else at all.And in the past few days, I haven't left since I climbed up MacLehose Second Trail. I really can't understand why the search and rescue personnel have walked back and forth there several times, but we have never met?

Moreover, according to the descriptions and memories of many of our climbers and professionals, there is no waterhole or cemetery like the ones I have been to on Mount Gong, let alone whether there are any human figures there.Moreover, I have been missing for several days, but my body does not feel the slightest hunger. This cannot be explained by common sense at all.

So, the place that has made me lost, trapped by the waterhole, and extremely scary these days, is it the fake MacLehose Trail, or is it that I have entered the boundary of the legendary Gongshan?
To be honest, I am a highly educated person, and I am also a person who believes in science very much.

Before this, I didn’t believe in those so-called legendary Gongshan Barriers.But this encounter made me confused, but I was unwilling to give up finding the truth, so after returning home, I did a lot of work to try to find a reasonable reason that I could accept.

In the end, I chose to believe the explanation given by the psychiatrist at Hong Kong Island Hospital:
When a person is alone in the forest, he has seen strange sights, heard various strange sounds, and scary figures that should not appear in the forest. It is very likely that the human body has accidentally eaten the food in the forest due to hunger, thirst, and fear. The result of not knowing what food or water source is in the food.Those unidentified food or water sources must contain some kind of hallucinogenic ingredients, which cause the human brain to produce all kinds of bizarre hallucinations under extreme fatigue, fear, anxiety and great pressure.As for the human body not feeling hungry for many days, it is because people are completely ignored by the brain under high pressure and excessive fear.

Xie Kangnian narrated this, and Xie Rouxi couldn't help but ask: "Grandpa, Zhang Luyu is the same as Wang Liwen, why were they both 45 years old when the accident happened? According to what he said, people were walking well, why did they suddenly faint? ?Medical experts mentioned some kind of hallucinogenic ingredient. Could it be the poisonous gas produced by a drug factory that Wen Bo suspected? And the endless cemetery, which was obviously the strangest place he encountered when he disappeared. , why is he so understated in his narrative? I always feel that this memoir seems to be deliberately concealing something. Is there really a Gongshan barrier?" Xie Rouxi frowned and asked a series of questions. , this thing is so weird, what does it have to do with Deadline?Xie Kangnian glanced at her, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes. She was indeed the granddaughter he had taught, and she could always find the key immediately when something happened.

Xie Kangnian replied: "Xi Xi, you are observing very carefully, answer the first question first! Yes, Zhang Luyu suddenly disappeared at the age of 45. This is the same age as Wang Liwen, so Wen Bo, who is struggling to pursue the truth, still We found a person, and that person is Cheung Po Tsai!"

"Cheung Bao Tsai? Grandpa, are you talking about the Qing Dynasty pirate Cheung Bao Tsai, a famous pirate on the coast of Guangdong? It is said that after his death, he left many treasures in the waters of Hong Kong Island and hid treasures in many places on Hong Kong Island?"

"Well, Xixi is right, yes, he is the person that Uncle Wen found!"

"The bow of the boat is facing Wuzhu Mountain, and the stern is facing Guanghai Bay. It is burned with firewood and dipped in vinegar. There are ten thousand taels of gold here. This is his first treasure-hiding poem. There is also a treasure-hiding poem, which is said to be Lanzi's love for Mo Mei. , one hundred and nine thousand four, the moon hangs at the end of the bamboo pole, where the two shadows intersect! By the way, grandpa, I also heard that someone did find a pile of rocks on the coast that resembled olive and silkworm eyebrow stones, and a diameter of About 4 centimeters in the stone hole for inserting bamboo poles. But for the other things in these treasure poems, no one has found more clues over the years." Xie Rouxi said in great surprise.

Xie Kangnian nodded, took out a file box from the desk, and said as he opened it: "Xi Xi, you have a good memory. It is said that half of the circulating treasure poems have been solved by people. But the strange thing is that after so many years, people I still can’t find any new clues to unlock the other half. So, if you look at this information again, it’s half of Wen Bo’s life’s work!”

With that said, Xie Kangnian handed Xie Rouxi some documents. The text on them read like this:

According to legend, Cheung Po Tsai's original name was Cheung Po Tsai, and his ancestral home was either Xin'an or Xinhui.This man was born during the Qianlong period to an ordinary fisherman's family and was a well-known pirate in the Pearl River Delta.Some people say that Zhang Baozai was kidnapped by the pirate Zheng Yi when he was 15 years old, and he became a member of the pirates ever since.

Because Cheung Po Tsai was both good at doing things and talking well, he was highly appreciated by Zheng Yi, the pirate leader at the time, and was later adopted as his adopted son.After Zheng Yi's death, he gradually became the leader of the Red Q Gang at that time. At his most powerful, he had 800 large ships, more than 1000 small ships, and a crowd of more than [-] people.

Rumor has it that under the leadership of Cheung Po Tsai, the Red Q Gang at that time only robbed foreign merchant ships and government ships, and never bullied ordinary people. They also often distributed the looted property to the people, so many local people would even take the initiative to join in. After joining the Red Q Gang, the gang became more and more powerful, and even defeated the Portuguese pirate fleet, and was known as "Zheng Chenggong Second".

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