The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 63 Congratulations to the Groom (2)

Seeing my anxious expression, Yang Sizhao hurriedly asked, "Sir, is this letter important?"

I didn't bother to explain to him, so I followed up and asked, "How did he die?"

Yang Sizhao hesitated for a moment, and suddenly a terrified expression appeared on his face.When I saw this, my heart skipped a beat. Could it be that there was something strange about Hu Xiaotian's death?
Sure enough, Yang Sizhao hesitated for a long time before hesitatingly said: "Mr. may not believe it. The master...was taken away by the mountain god."

Taken away by the mountain god?He suddenly said such a sentence out of nowhere, I naturally couldn't understand it, so I opened my mouth and looked at him.Seeing my expression, Yang Sizhao naturally knew that I didn't understand, so he quickly explained: "At that time, the boss and his party were returning to the mountain from the wolf's den, and they happened to see the mountain god patrolling the mountain, and they were all taken away by the mountain god."

He seemed to think that he had explained it clearly, but the more I listened to it, the more confused I became, so I had to ask him: "Why did the master come back to the mountain from the wolf's lair, and what does it mean to be taken away by the mountain god?"

Yang Sizhao scratched his head and thought for a while, maybe he felt that he had to start from the beginning to explain the matter clearly, so he said: "Many years ago, a man came to Hushan to persuade Hushan to accept the adaptation and join some Northern Expeditionary Army, but he was the leader of the army. He refused. Later that person left, but he took away Qin Jian, who was the second in charge at the time."

"Qin Jian!" He suddenly mentioned Qin Jian, and I was stunned when I heard it, and I suddenly cried out.It turns out that Qin Jian is really the second head of Hushan, so the person who took him away is naturally Gu Yin.It turns out that Gu Yin came here back then to persuade Hushan to accept the reorganization by the Northern Expeditionary Army, but in the end he returned without success and only took Qin Jian away.

But why did Qin Jian go with Gu Yin? When I was in Guhuai Prison, I always had this doubt in my heart. Why did Qin Jian always struggle with the word "faith"?
According to the Qin bamboo slips, Gu Yin came to Hushan again after leaving Guhuai Prison.When I heard this at the time, I guessed that he had gotten clues about the tragedy of the Wei family, so he left.Looking at it now, could it be that my guess was wrong, he came to Hushan only to continue to persuade Hushan to accept the adaptation?

I was so confused, Yang Sizhao was a little surprised when he saw me screaming, "Sir, do you know Qin Jian?"

"I met once." I replied vaguely, and then asked, "The person who took Qin Jian away came to Hushan again later. Have you met him?"

"Did it come again later? I haven't seen it before." Yang Sizhao shook his head and said, "Mr. is going to send a letter to Hushan. Could it be that this letter is from Qin Jian? He has been away from Hushan for many years. I don't know that the head is gone. , is also within reason.”

The letter was indeed from Qin Jian.I nodded and asked him again: "Is Hu Xiaotian's death related to the original adaptation?"

"After the big master rejected the Northern Expeditionary Army's adaptation, he was a little worried, for fear that the Northern Expeditionary Army would turn their guns on him," Yang Sizhao said, "so he went to the Wolf's Den, wanting to form an alliance with the Wolf's Den to protect himself, and the Wolf's Den also I agreed. As a result, on the way back to Tiger Mountain, the group happened to meet the mountain god patrolling the mountain, and they were taken away."

"Being taken away by the mountain god, what do you say?"

Yang Sizhao glanced at me, and the terrified expression appeared on his face again: "Because when the young master took people to find them the next day, everyone's bodies were not intact, and they were all traces of being bitten by wild animals. .”

"That can only show that they were killed by wild animals. Didn't you say that there are many wolves in the mountains? Maybe he was kissed by wolves. How can you say that he was taken away by the mountain god?"

"Footprints, only one and a half inches of footprints." In broad daylight, Yang Sizhao shuddered. "At that time, the body of the head of the family was covered with footprints of one and a half inches. And their guns showed no signs of being fired."

After hearing what he said, I couldn't help but tense my back, and felt the hairs all over my body stand on end.In the dead of night in the old forest, how could there be such small footprints around the corpse?An inch and a half is about the length of a human little finger. Except for babies under one year old, the footprints of normal people will never be so small.

However, how could a baby under one year old appear around the dead body in the middle of the night?
Yang Sizhao looked at me quietly, "The footprints of normal people are naturally not so small, but those of gods are."

"Those footprints... are left by statues!" I exclaimed in surprise.

"That's right." Yang Sizhao nodded, "They found a mountain shrine that had long been buried in weeds not far from Dadang's house, compared it with the statue of the mountain god in the shrine, and found that it was exactly the same as these small footprints. "

In the middle of the night, the mountain god kills people!I was a little terrified for a moment, and being blown by the mountain wind made me even more horrified, so I hurriedly tightened my clothes. "But why were they taken away, just because they bumped into the mountain god Xunshan?"

"Then who knows, the power of the gods is unpredictable." Yang Sizhao looked up at the sky, as if he was talking to someone in the sky, "At the beginning, the big boss got wolf poison in his house and was rescued by the old patriarch, but in the end he still died Under the wolf's mouth. Maybe this is fate, if you can escape this catastrophe, you cannot escape that catastrophe."

"Huh?" I heard him say that the old patriarch saved Hu Xiaotian from the mouth of the wolf, and I thought it was the old patriarch who repelled the wolf to save people, but now it doesn't seem to be the case.

Yang Sizhao glanced at me and explained: "The master caught a wolf in the mountains and planned to raise it in the cottage, but he was bitten by a wolf when he was teasing him. Maybe you don't know that the wolf's mouth is poisonous. At that time, the old patriarch Just happened to be in Hushan, so I used drugs to heal his wounds with my mouth, but I died of wolfsbane attack shortly after returning to the village."

Only then did I understand, and when I thought about the murder of the mountain god, my heart felt hairy, but when I thought about it carefully, there seemed to be nothing I could say about it.

Hu Xiaotian and his party carried guns with them. If they encountered wolves normally, they would shoot to protect themselves, but none of their guns showed any signs of firing. It was tantamount to letting the wolves tear themselves to pieces.This is beyond common sense, and besides the mountain god, who can command the wolves of the whole mountain?

I don't really believe in such strange things, but there are indeed many things in this world that cannot be guessed by common sense, so I have always held the attitude of respecting ghosts and gods and staying away. At this time, I learned the truth about Hu Xiaotian's death. Shocked, but after settling down, he was even more depressed about losing Gu Yin's whereabouts.But now that we're here, we still have to go to Hushan anyway to find out if anyone still knows where Guyin is going.

Yang Sizhao saw that after I heard the cause of Hu Xiaotian's death, I felt a little depressed. He thought I was frightened, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "Guess, sir, who is married in the village today?"

I was taken aback, I had never been to Xiaoyang Village, and I didn't know anyone except him, how could I know who was married?Yang Sizhao blinked at me again, I thought for a while, and suddenly said in shock: "Today is Yang Siyuan's wedding day?"

As for the people in Xiaoyang Village, he only mentioned this name to me. Since he would ask this question, I naturally presumed that the person who was going to be married was Yang Siyuan.Sure enough, Yang Sizhao nodded and praised: "Mr. is really quick-witted, and he guessed right. Yes, today is Siyuan's happy day."

I thought to myself that there is only one choice for this kind of question, and I can't do it even if I try to guess twice. "Is the bride from the village too?" I asked him.

"No way. The whole village in Xiaoyang Village is of the same family, and they are not married with the same surname." Yang Sizhao's face turned pale when he mentioned Hu Xiaotian's death just now, but now he is in high spirits, as if he was the one who got married, "The bride is from a neighbor. The one who married from Zhen was a marriage arranged by Siyuan's father since he was a child. However, because the mountains are far away, the girl came to the village a few days earlier and lived with her aunt's house, waiting for the day of marriage. , or the big red sedan chair to carry her into the bridal chamber."

"Didn't it mean that Yang Siyuan has no father or mother, so who will arrange the marriage for him?"

"Weddings and funerals are a big event for the whole village in Xiaoyang Village. Since he has no father or mother, the whole village will naturally organize the wedding banquet for him." Yang Sizhao said, "Keep it so lively that he will never forget it for the rest of his life." No."

I believe that many villages and towns have simple folk customs, and it is natural for neighbors to help each other. What's more, in this situation where the whole village is of the same clan, the affairs of one family are the affairs of the whole village. I yearn for this kind of place with strong human relations.

We were talking, and although we arrived at Xiaoyang Village soon, in fact, most of the day had passed. When we arrived at the entrance of the village, it was already dark and thin. Someone was there to meet me at the entrance of the village, and Yang Sizhao introduced me to them.It may be because there are very few guests in the mountains, and I am a city patrol horse, so everyone in the village regarded me as a distinguished guest and brought me to the patriarch with great grandeur.

The head of the patriarch is an old man in his sixties. He is in good spirits. When he heard that the patrolling horses came from the village, he was startled. Such an honored guest.”

I hurriedly said that I didn't dare to take it seriously, Yang Sizhao led me to the front and back of the patriarch, and then pulled the patriarch to say something in a low voice, and then went to help prepare for the wedding.The patriarch called a few respected elders in the village to sit with me, and when he learned that I was going to Hushan to deliver a letter, he suddenly let out a "huh" and asked, "Sir, don't you know that Hushan is empty now, only a few people are left?" Guard the cottage?"

I was dumbfounded when I heard it again, thinking that what I heard along the way was really good news. First I heard that Hu Xiaotian was taken away by the mountain god strangely, and now the patriarch told me that even Hushan is empty , is this going to completely break the clues to the Wei family tragedy?Thinking of this, I looked up at the sky, and I couldn't help but suspect that it was God who colluded with the mountain god to obstruct me on purpose.

Seeing that I was in a daze, the patriarch called me again, and I regained my composure and asked, "Why is Hushan empty? It's because Hu Xiaotian is not here, so the tree fell and the monkeys scattered?"

"Hey, where?" The patriarch smiled, "Although the big master is gone, under the leadership of the young master, Hushan is still thriving. It's just that they fought with the wolf den in the neighboring town during this period, so they are not here now Hushan. But if you just deliver letters, sir, you can still find someone."

It turned out that Hushan was not disbanded.I was cheered up when I heard the words, thanked the patriarch, and asked him again: "Why does Hushan fight with the wolf den, does the patriarch know?"

"I don't know about that. However, the head of the family was taken away by the mountain god when he returned to the mountain from the wolf's den. It's unknown that the people on and off the mountain may have some grudges against the wolf's den."

Could it be that Hu Xiaotian's death was related to the wolf's den, rather than the mountain god killing people?My heart moved, but why did the wolf den kill Hu Xiaotian?If Gu Yin once persuaded Hushan to accept the adaptation of the Northern Expedition Army, then did he also persuade Lang's Den?Is Hu Xiaotian's death related to this?
I was a little restless thinking about it for a while, and randomly associated many things.Hu Xiaotian is currently the only person who knows the whereabouts of Guyin, but he died before I came to Hushan, it is really a coincidence.While he was thinking wildly, Yang Sizhao walked in from the outside and said that everything about the wedding banquet was ready, and asked the patriarch to preside over the wedding of the two newcomers.

The patriarch nodded when he heard the words, and invited me to go together, and I went out with a few old men.Although Yang Siyuan's house was simple and simple, it was decorated joyfully, with lights and festoons inside and out.After the patriarch arrived, there really was a big red sedan chair carrying the bride from not far away.Yang Siyuan is a simple and honest young man from the mountains. When he saw the bride getting off the sedan chair, he was so nervous that his hands were sweating and he kept wiping his trouser legs, as if he was not picking up the bride, but a hot potato.

The crowd watching the bustle suddenly burst into laughter, coaxing him to lead the bride into the main room, and finished the ceremony amidst a burst of noise, and then several aunts sent the bride to the bridal chamber, leaving Yang Siyuan in front serve customer.

The patriarch led me to sit at the main table, and insisted that I sit at the head, but I couldn't refuse, so I had the audacity to sit.It didn't take long for Yang Siyuan to come over and toast a round of wine at the main table, and specially toasted me a glass, and then he was rude and went to another table to toast, and later he was stopped by his brothers from the same clan to drink a lot of wine, and he was not allowed to get away.

(End of this chapter)