The strongest shopkeeper

Chapter 22 Murals
The blizzard in Changbai Mountain is getting more and more violent, and the cold north wind is howling.Jiang Kun stayed with Wu Xie and the others, preparing to go to Yunding Sky to ask Wannuwang to pay back the money.

At this time, Wu Xie smelled a smell of sulfur, and through this smell, he found a gap into the mountain.This gap is only two feet wide, it is not easy to pass through, and there is hot air coming out of it.

Jiang Kun glanced at the gap, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

Poker-Face didn't say much, and went directly to lead the charge, and got into the gap.Wu Xie and Fatty Wang followed closely behind, and Chen Pi Asi also led his men to drill in.

"Master Jiang Kun, shall we go in?" Xiao Ai asked.

"Go in and have a look."

Jiang Kun walked to the narrow gap, carefully moved in sideways, his face almost touching the surrounding stone walls.It's hard for a skinny guy like him to pass, and Fatty Wang, who went in first, must have a hard time.

Not far away, he saw a few lines of writing on the stone wall.Jiang Kun was a top student at any rate, and his knowledge of history was not bad, so he recognized at a glance that this kind of script was very similar to Jurchen script.

Dongxia was a regime that was active in Jilin and HLJ during the Yuan Dynasty. Although it did not belong to the Jurchen tribe in the north, it was influenced by the Jurchen culture, resulting in a similarity to the Jurchen script.

"Master Jiang Kun, what do these words mean?" Xiao Ai asked.

"I don't know." Jiang Kun said.

Looking forward, the light of the fluorescent stick flickered in front of it, and someone had already passed through the narrow gap and entered a stone cave.

He and Xiao Ai were the last to enter the cave, and saw Fatty Wang stretching out his fat hands, scratching the murals on the wall with his nails.After a layer of murals on the surface was scraped off, another layer of murals gradually appeared below.

This hidden mural was painted with blood-red paint, depicting a brutal war in which the Mongolian army wiped out the Dongxia army with an overwhelming advantage.Breaking into the villages of the Eastern Xia Kingdom, burning, killing and looting along the way.

"Look, these handsome people are soldiers from the Eastern Xia Kingdom, and the cavalry over there are from the Mongolian army." Chen Pi Asi said.

"Why do these Dongxia soldiers look so motherly?" Jiang Kun asked. Could it be that Dongxia is a country of daughters?

"I found out in some allusions that those who have dealt with Dongxia said that there are almost no old people in Dongxia, and everyone is very young. The historical data of North Korea also show that there are no old people in Dongxia." Hua Hua the monk explained.

"Then don't they live forever!" Fatty Wang jumped out and asked.

"Not necessarily, because some ethnic minorities have strange customs and do not allow the elderly to see outsiders." Monk Hua said.

Jiang Kun felt that the mural was vivid and lifelike, so he asked Xiao Ai to take a picture with his mobile phone, and then quietly listened to the group of people explaining the history.

Wu Xie is a person who is very good at thinking. After seeing the murals, he asked a question: "Since Dongxia was destroyed by the Mongolian army, why did Wang Zanghai build a tomb for the emperor of Dongxia? Where did the emperor get buried?"

You know, Wang Zanghai was from the Ming Dynasty, and the Eastern Xia Kingdom was destroyed as early as the early Yuan Dynasty.Thinking about it this way, the time is not right.

"Hmph, who said that Dongxia was wiped out by the Mongolian army?" Chen Pi Asi laughed contemptuously, mocking Wu Xie's ignorance.

"Isn't that recorded in historical materials?" Wu Xie asked.

"I know what you are doubting, but I can assure you that your understanding must be wrong. There are very few records about the Dongxia Kingdom in history. After time has changed, many historical materials have been distorted by later generations. It is difficult to tell the truth. .” Monk Hua said.

"You say our cognition is wrong, but you know the truth?" the fat man asked.

"Of course." Chen Pi Asi said proudly, "Monk Hua, take out the things."

At this time, Monk Hua took out a piece of white juan cloth from his pocket, opened the white juan cloth, and a snake-browed copper fish appeared in everyone's sight.

Wu Xie looked a little surprised, because he also had two identical snake eyebrow copper fish in his trouser pocket.

"What does this mean? Isn't it just a copper fish?" Jiang Kun asked.

"Look at it." Monk Hua said, and put the snake-browed copper fish in his hand in front of the wind lamp, and the dim light shone on the snake-browed copper fish. Through the scales of the fish, a paragraph of words was refracted and reflected on the wall.

Everyone was shocked that this little snake-browed copper fish had hidden secrets.

"What does this passage mean?" Jiang Kun asked curiously.

"According to this text, Dongxia was not completely wiped out by Mongolia. The survivors hid in the deep mountains and continued. Both Mongolia and Korea wanted to wipe out the remnants of Dongxia, but for some reason, I have tried dozens of times but failed." Monk Hua said, "Since the first generation of Eastern Xia monarchs, there have been a total of fourteen generations of Eastern Xia monarchs, which have lasted for hundreds of years in the deep mountains."

"At that time, Mongolia was so powerful that it had already fought all the way to Europe, so it couldn't take down a small remnant of Eastern Xia?" Jiang Kun asked.

The establishment of the Yuan Dynasty by Mongolia was extremely powerful. It not only unified China, but also worked hard to expand its territory.It captured most of today's Russia in the north, occupied the entire Middle East in the west, and hit Europe all the way.

He even wanted to cross the ocean and take down Japan, but unfortunately, because Mongolia mainly had cavalry and was not good at naval warfare, it failed to take down Japan.

Such a big empire can't beat a small Dongxia, what are you kidding about?
"That's why."

Monk Hua smiled mysteriously, pointing to the last sentence of this text.

"What do you mean?" Wu Xie asked.

"This sentence says that the emperor of the Eastern Xia Kingdom is not a human being!" Monk Hua said.

What?not human?
Everyone exclaimed again, what else could it be if it wasn't a human being?
Monk Hua put away the snake-browed copper fish, his face became a little dignified, and he said slowly: "It is said that the emperors of the Eastern Xia Kingdom are monsters crawling out of the ground."

It may be because of the existence of this unknown underground creature that the Mongolian cavalry failed to take down the remnants of Eastern Xia, allowing them to exist for hundreds of years until the era of Wang Zanghai in the Ming Dynasty.

"Brother, don't scare my fat man." Fatty Wang said, pretending to be very scared.

"Fatty, you are too timid." Wu Xie laughed.

"Innocent, you fat man and I have been fighting all these years. What kind of monsters and ghosts have I never seen? Are you afraid of an emperor who has been dead for hundreds of years?" Fatty Wang said very dissatisfied.

However, to be honest, everyone's heart is not at peace.What would it be if it wasn't human?Humans have an instinctive fear of the unknown.

As the owner of Hotel No. 81, Jiang Kun had already seen aliens. He was not afraid of the Dongxia Emperor who climbed up from the ground, but more curious.

No matter what kind of monster he is, it's only natural to pay back the debt, and don't even think about running away when he dies.

(End of this chapter)