Zong Tomb: Starting from Huangpizi Tomb

Chapter 104 The Past of the Golden Bandit

After hearing Bai Jing's words, the fat man hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Could it be that these people died of thirst and starvation?"

Jianguo spoke at this time: "No, if they died of thirst and starvation, even if the corpses have rotted away in the past so many years, the clothes on their bodies should still leave traces. But look, besides the bones, there is nothing here." All gone."

After listening to Jianguo's words, Bai Qi seemed to have thought of a possibility, and said uncertainly: "Could it be that it was eaten by something?"

Bai Jing couldn't help but look towards the roof.

Then he pondered for a moment and said: "Recall that the doors of the houses we have visited before were all bolted, but these houses are generally well maintained, and the roofs are all thatched. I guess there is something wrong with that. Things come in through the roof, and the villagers are eaten by those things!”

Hearing this, everyone else couldn't help but feel their hearts skip a beat.

What on earth was it that could eat the entire village so cleanly?

For a moment, everyone felt a bit of gloom in their hearts.

Everyone was worried that the man-eating thing would appear again, and they did not dare to separate. They gathered together and started searching in the village.

Suddenly, the fat man seemed to have discovered something and shouted excitedly: "Come over and see what this is."

Everyone gathered around to take a look and noticed that it was a large vat. The lid was originally closed, but the fat man opened it.

In the tank, there were more than a dozen bottles of lamp oil sealed with wax in glass bottles. Bai Jing opened one bottle and found that it contained high-quality whale ointment. The so-called "whale ointment" was actually made from whale ointment. Made from boiled fat.

This 'whale ointment' can be used as lamp oil and can burn for a long time. The most important thing is that this lamp oil is different from ordinary lamp oil and does not smoke the eyes.

The only bad thing is that the price is extremely expensive. Bai Jing looked at the words on the bottle. It was a Japanese product from the Manchukuo period. In these barren mountains and mountains, the only people who can make money are by digging for gold. Only bandits can afford it.

Jianguo found several old books in the box, but most of them were damp and stuck together, and they couldn't even be opened. However, the few books that could be opened had some records. How much gold was dug out in the village, or how many guns were purchased, or even how many people were purchased.

In addition, there are genealogies, which record the heads of each family.

Bai Jing also came over and searched around, trying to see if he could find a map of the surrounding area.

But it is a pity that the gold diggers are more concerned about the location of the gold veins than their lives, and will never leave any clues.

Bai Jing was not discouraged and wanted to look through the books to see if there was any useful information.

It turns out that there were gold bandits who were digging for gold in the mountains. They accidentally saw a vein of gold, and the whole family moved here. After that, they dug for gold under the village year after year. In this way, the gold cave became deeper and deeper, and the gold naturally The more he dug, the more he dug, and those who came and went made a fortune. One time, the leader of the golden bandits suddenly saw a white light flashing deep in the golden cave. His uncle who was following him at the time was very good at flattering him and told him that this was an auspicious sign and that the shining thing was probably the legendary " The Golden King's Shroud".

Speaking of the Golden King’s Shroud, we have to mention another legend.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a "Golden King" in the deep mountains and old forests of Northeast China. This man was extremely talented and good at recognizing gold veins. No matter where there was gold, it could not escape his eyes. Therefore, his wealth can be said to be as rich as the country.

In order to be able to ascend after his death, he used all the treasures in the world to make a treasure robe as a funeral robe, and asked his descendants to bury him on the golden veins.

According to legend, if you can capture this treasured garment, you will not only be able to maintain a lifetime of glory and wealth, you can even break the earth and become a king, and even become a king and emperor.

The leader of the Golden Bandits could be said to have no doubts about this legend, so he asked his men to continue digging for the Golden King's corpse. From then on, he began to call himself a lonely Taoist, and even proclaimed himself the Emperor of Caotou, and even made his wife a queen. After marrying the empress, the elder brother-in-law who can tell fortunes is the national advisor, the elders of the clan are listed as the left and right prime ministers, the literate ones are civil servants, and the ones who supervise the gold mining are military generals.

As the saying goes, nothing can be accomplished without rules. After the leader of the Golden Bandit became king, he made the clan rules even stricter.

If someone dares to hide the excavated gold secretly, or tell outsiders about the gold veins, the person will be made to swallow hot coals, and he will never be able to speak again.

That's not all, they will also break the person's legs, and then make countless cuts on the body, and finally peel off the bloody wolf skin and put it on him, so that the wolf skin and the person's body grow together, and then If he is locked in the cellar again, he will be brought up and beaten every two days to warn others.

When they saw this, Bai Qi and the others were stunned for a moment, as if they had thought of something.

However, Bai Qi and the others obviously had no intention of explaining it for the time being, and Bai Jing didn't delve into it either.

Continuing to look back, the gold bandit was digging for gold in the mountains and accidentally dug a mouse nest deep in the cave. As a result, the golden cave was filled with rats. The rats in the cave were not only numerous and big, but also dared to bite people.

According to historical records, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Northeast region has suffered from plague several times. This plague is also different from other diseases. In addition to a particularly high mortality rate, it is also extremely contagious, and one person who dies often will die next. Everyone, in order to prevent the plague from continuing to spread, people here can only burn the dead, and even no corpses can be left behind.

For this reason, the folk rat poisons are very powerful, and the secret recipes are also unique. Almost all the rat poisons in the customs are caused by rats eating them.

But this mouse poison is very different. You only need to put it in the corner of the wall. The mice that have penetrated the wall and lintel only need to go all the way and smell it, and they will die immediately. In this case, one can even be poisoned to death overnight. Sack of rats, it can be said that as many as there are dead, none of them can escape.

However, because these golden bandits have always worshiped the Gray Immortal and said that this thing is the God of Wealth, they all thought that this would offend the Immortal family, so they did not dare to give rat poison, but bought a lot of big girls and let these people wear red coats. Then she would wear red trousers and then tie them up and throw them into the mouse hole, calling it a wife for the immortal.

Many small coffins were built for this purpose. Explosives were inevitably used when digging holes in the mountains. The villagers would put all the rats killed by accident into small coffins, and light up everlasting lanterns to enshrine them together with the ancestral tablets.

(End of this chapter)