Tomb Raiders in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 52 The Tree That Eats People
Let's say that the general didn't believe it when he heard what the soldiers said, so he directly led the people to the front, and saw that there was really a mountain creature lying in front of the road.

At this time, the general was also frightened, and went directly to the alchemist accompanying the army to ask what he should do next.

The alchemist came to the front and took a look, and he also jumped down, directly explaining that this is not a dragon, this is a giant snake, and the energy of the dragon veins in this place has leaked out, which manifests itself and becomes like this .

At this time, the military commander couldn't help but believe what he said in this way.

The alchemist suggested that the jade coffin can only be sealed and buried here to suppress the dragon's veins, otherwise the dragon's veins will always be exposed outside, and if it is controlled by some evil thing, it will be a disaster.

At that time, this mountain-like body will definitely not be able to compete with manpower.

The military commander immediately called the local officials, and according to what the alchemist said, he built a bronze coffin.

The alchemist above the coffin personally carved talismans to suppress it. Finally, the alchemist chose a location on the mountain and sank the jade coffin.

It is really strange to say that after the jade coffin was buried deeply, the heavy rain in the sky stopped, and a strange thick fog came just as soon as it was said.

But it went quickly, within three or four breaths, the fog dissipated, and the mountain-like giant snake also disappeared.

The alchemist said that this is because the dragon's veins have been suppressed, so the giant snake will no longer manifest itself to be scary.

Later, the bones also disappeared. Di Bao smiled and said that the people in Lousang Village were the descendants of that alchemist.

Adhering to the duty of guarding the jade coffin of the times, it's just that countless years have passed, and the things handed down by the alchemist ancestors have long since been thrown away, so they simply cultivated the land.

The story told to Zhang Faqiu is known to almost many people in the village. It is usually told by adults to children and passed down from generation to generation.

The most important thing is that they have lived here for generations, and there are countless people cutting down trees and hunting on the mountain, but no one has really seen any jade coffins anywhere.

So everyone regards this as a legend in their hometown.After listening, Zhang Faqiu and Pan Cheng were dripping with sweat.

"Did anyone go back to Lousang Village after you got here?" Zhang Faqiu couldn't help asking.

The dibao smiled: "The general gave us such a nice house and gave us so much food. The county magistrate said that the general will train troops there. How can the villains dare to go there?"

Zhang Faqiu couldn't help but glance at Pan Cheng, this guy is really good at doing things.

What are people most afraid of these days?It's soldiers!

People in governing times are afraid of officials, and people in troubled times are afraid of soldiers.

Using the excuse of where he is training troops can indeed scare away many people.

"Well, don't go anywhere if you have nothing to do." Zhang Faqiu followed the words: "It is very dangerous to practice archery during this time."

"Thank you, General, for reminding me, little people understand." Dibao said honestly.

"Besides this one legend, do you have any other legends here?" Zhang Faqiu asked, hoping to find some clues from here.

"It's gone." Dibao said, "This is the only story passed down from the older generation. My family has lived here for generations, so there is no way I don't know anything."

Zhang Faqiu nodded slightly, and then said: "Well, very good, I would like this story very much..."

While talking, Zhang Faqiu took out an ingot of horseshoe gold from his body and piled it on the table.

Di Bao's eyes landed on the gold horseshoe, and he couldn't move his eyes away.

"This is a reward for you. I am very satisfied with your story." Zhang Faqiu smiled slightly: "I have been very interested in these folklore since I was a child. If I think of other stories in the future, I can come to the army to find them." I."

After saying this, Zhang Faqiu led Pan Cheng, turned around and was about to leave.

Dibao looked at the gold horseshoe on the table, then at Zhang Faqiu's back, gritted his teeth, put the gold horseshoe away, and said loudly: "General, please stay!"

Zhang Faqiu heard this, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "Xiaomian, I don't think you will take the bait!"

"What? You want to keep us for dinner?" Zhang Faqiu turned his head and looked at the landguard with a smile.

Dibao showed a struggling look on his face, and waved his hands: "Please also invite the general and your lord to come into the room, and I will prepare a little wine to entertain the two distinguished guests."

Hearing this, Zhang Faqiu pointed to a flock of chickens running in Dibao's courtyard: "Get one?"

"alley!"

The dibao yelled at his son to do it and started killing chickens.

Zhang Faqiu winked at Pan Cheng, Pan Cheng understood, and they both came to the room and sat down.

The dibao brought the farmer's stale wine, and before the food was served, he had already poured himself a bowl of wine, drank it in one gulp, and his eyes turned red immediately.

"There is one thing that I didn't want to say at first, but the general spends a lot of money and treats us untouchables very well. If it were another general who expropriated our village's land, how could he give any compensation?"

Zhang Faqiu nodded slightly. Naturally, he shouldn't interrupt at this time. Being a quiet listener will definitely have unexpected benefits.

Dibao went on to say: "In our Zhuo County, there is one thing that almost everyone knows, that is, there is an ancient mulberry tree in Lousang Village, and there are rumors that the ancient mulberry protects people and must produce nobles. But , no one knows, that ancient mulberry tree eats people!"

Hearing this, Zhang Faqiu couldn't help but shudder, if he remembered correctly... that little girl Zuo Xiaoqing likes to climb on ancient mulberry trees...

But after thinking about it carefully, Zuo Xiaoqing was not an ordinary person, and he felt relieved, so he didn't say anything more.

"You are a local landlord. You dare to say such rumors to confuse people, but you are dying?" Pan Cheng suddenly looked serious and shouted in a low voice.

Zhang Faqiu raised his eyebrows and said, "Pan Cheng, shut up!"

Pan Cheng shrank his neck quickly and stopped talking.

Di Bao looked at Pan Cheng with some fear, but he also understood that Zhang Faqiu was more powerful than the county magistrate in front of him, so he pretended to continue to say:

"It's not something that can't be said, so let's talk about it from several years ago..."

That year caught up with the rainy season. At that time, the imperial court issued an edict to crusade against the Yellow Turban Bandits. The people went to the mountains to cut down trees, prepared some supplies, and sent them to the battlefield.

Lousang Village is backed by a mountain. At that time, many trees were cut down, and a natural disaster similar to a landslide occurred, but it was not so serious.

The place where the landslide occurred is where the ancestral graves of the people in Lousang Village are located.

The Han Dynasty promoted the rule of filial piety, and the bones of the ancestors were exposed to the outside, which can be regarded as unfilial piety.

A group of people immediately stepped forward and turned over the mud to find the bones of their ancestors.

Strange things happened. There was nothing inside those rotten coffins. When people saw it, they felt something was wrong, wondering if they were being targeted by tomb robbers.

The trend of thick burials is prevalent, and the trend of tomb robbery is also very rampant.

It's just that with the subsequent excavation, everyone's expressions changed. Even if there were tomb robbers, it would be fine if they stole the funerary objects, but why are there no bones left?
At this time, many people began to become suspicious.

In the next two or three days, people kept digging and found that there was nothing inside except the empty coffin!

As for the funerary objects in these tombs, quite a few have been cleared out.

"And then, where did those bones go? Were they dragged away by wild beasts in the mountains?" After all, the county magistrate, who used Taoism to educate the people, more or less inherited the tradition of being silent, strange, and chaotic. What came to mind for a moment was... scientifically revealing unknown events.

"No!" Di Bao said, "Where there are quite a few people taking turns guarding it, even the ferocious beasts dare not come at this time."

"Don't interrupt, wait for him to finish!" Zhang Faqiu was very unhappy with the county magistrate Pan Cheng's behavior of interrupting others.

Pan Cheng immediately stopped talking, and Dibao continued his narration.

This incident became an unsolved mystery at the time, and no one dared to report it to the court.

After all, if you say that there are tomb robbers, but the tomb robbers don't steal the funeral objects, but the bones, what kind of thing is this?
Besides, these bones disappeared innocently, and you reported it to the imperial court, and the imperial court said that there was a problem here, and if they asked everyone to move out, wouldn't it be your own thing to find something to do?
If the next thing doesn't happen, then this is the end of it.

A few days after the rainstorm, a woman in the village slipped into a pond and drowned when she went out to fetch water.

After the burial, the family thought about the disappearance of the bones before, and worried that grave robbers would come to spare people's peace, so they quietly built a shack outside the cemetery.

The shack is in a dense bush, if you don't pay attention, you really can't find it.

On the first night, nothing happened.

The next night, it was business as usual.

Just when the family was about to lose patience, weird things happened...

In the middle of the night, I heard the sound of "boom" and "boom" coming from the tomb.

It was as if the person inside the coffin had come to life and was beating on the coffin.

The man guarding the tomb was also a brave man, so he quietly crawled in the grass and looked out under the moonlight.

Looking at it, there was no special change. When he was about to get up, he saw the soil on the top of the new grave shaking and sliding down!
This is terrible, folks have always said that the buried person held his breath and turned into a dead body.

The tomb guard was trembling with fright, sweating profusely, and walked back to the village by a detour along the back of the grass.

As soon as he knocked on the door, he told his family that the dead body had changed...

(End of this chapter)