Grave Robber: Beginnings Fusion Hydra Cypress

Even though nine centuries have passed, Wang Zanghai still feels a wave of emotion when he thinks of what happened back then.

If meeting the old Taoist priest was a turning point that changed his life, then meeting Zhang Qiling made him re-recognize the world.

At that time, he lived in Zhangjiatun for half a year. It was not until the summer of the following year that Zhang Qiling appeared again and invited him to go to the Far North together.

Although he had doubts in his heart, he had no choice but to do so in Zhangjiatun.

Besides, there was the temptation of ten thousand taels of gold, so he agreed without thinking too much.

In addition to him and Zhang Qiling, the Zhang family's team to worship their ancestors also had more than sixty strong men, each of whom was an extraordinary master.

The team marched towards the depths of the snow-capped mountains, and walked north for seven days before walking out of the mountain.

In front of them was a large plain covered with ice and snow.

Even though it was midsummer, it was still frozen for thousands of miles and the cold wind was howling.

It was not until many years later that he knew that this was Siberia.

Zhang Qiling told him that if you come here in winter, you will be frozen into ice if you stay outdoors for an hour. Only in summer can you cross the plain safely.

They walked on the plain for a day and came to a village in the evening. The people in the village were all blue-eyed and red-haired foreigners.

Zhang Qiling seemed to be familiar with these people. The villagers took out strong liquor and caviar to entertain the guests and prepared more than a dozen sleds for them.

In Siberia, dog sledding is the best means of transportation.

The next day, with a large group of huskies barking happily, the team set off on a sled, and two foreigners acted as guides.

He couldn't understand the language of the foreigners. The Zhang family members who accompanied him told him that this great plain was larger than the Kyushu of the Central Plains. It would take at least three years to walk from east to west!

However, their destination was in the northeast, and they didn't need to cross the entire plain.

Even so, the journey was thousands of miles away. They had to travel day and night to get back before the end of summer, otherwise they would be trapped in the far north.

It was not until hundreds of years later that he realized that this statement was not exaggerated at all. Siberia covers an area of ​​more than 13 million square kilometers!

Fortunately, on the flat plain, there were no high mountains and gullies blocking the way, and the team moved very fast.

It took them a month to finally reach the end of the plain.

At the end of the plain is the sea.

But the sea here is different from other places. There are icebergs in the sea!

The temperature suddenly dropped, as if he had returned to the cold winter. Only then did he understand why he had to wear a thick fur coat, because this is the far north!

"Shenyi Jing" records: "There is a layer of ice in the north that is thousands of miles thick."

Qu Yuan's "Zhaohun" Yizhu: "It is said that the north is always cold, and its ice is as heavy as a mountain."

It was not until this day that he saw the far north with his own eyes that he believed that what was said in the ancient books was true.

There is a small fishing village on the seashore, with hundreds of households in the village.

After Zhang Qiling entered the village, all the families came out to greet him, as if welcoming the host.

This made him think that this village was the destination of this trip.

At the welcoming banquet that night, he drank a lot of wine and got completely drunk to celebrate the upcoming ten thousand taels of gold.

The next morning, he was dragged out of bed by Zhang Qiling with a hangover headache.

He thought he was going to perform a ceremony to worship his ancestors, but Zhang Qiling asked him to go into the mountains with him.

He asked what they were going to do in the mountains, and Zhang Qiling only said two words.

Cut trees.

There were more than a hundred villagers who followed him into the mountains, all of them strong men. They also brought some strange tools that they had never seen before, and they didn't know what they were used for.

After walking in the mountains for half a day, they finally stopped under a towering tree.

The tree was more than thirty feet tall, and more than a dozen people couldn't hug it. It was the largest tree he had ever seen.

There was a fence around the tree. Under Zhang Qiling's command, people began to dismantle the fence and took out strange tools to get busy.

He asked quickly.

"Are we going to cut down this sacred tree?"

Zhang Qiling nodded.

"Building a fence is to protect it and let it thrive."

"Today is the time for it to complete its mission."

He couldn't help but feel a little surprised and asked.

"Why do we have to cut down trees for ancestor worship? What are such big trees used for?"

In his common sense, such big trees are only used by emperors to build palaces.

Zhang Qiling gave an unexpected answer.

"Build a ship."

When he heard it, he was surprised.

"Build a ship? Do we have to go to sea!"

Zhang Qiling nodded.

"To go to the Far North, we need a big ship to cross the sea covered with icebergs."

"Only such a big tree can be used as the keel of the ship."

This was something he never expected. He thought that this village was the Far North, but it turned out that the Far North was in the depths of the sea!

He had never been to the sea, so he was naturally a little scared, but Zhang Qiling told him that the ancestors of the Zhang family had been there many times and were absolutely sure.

He said quickly.

"Even so, it will take at least three to five years to build a big ship!"

He didn't want to live in this barren village for so long.

Zhang Qiling smiled faintly and said.

"We have to get back before the end of summer, so it won't take that long."

"It only takes half a month to build a ship."

This was beyond his common sense again. Although he didn't know how to build a ship, he knew that even if it was an ordinary small boat, half a month was far from enough, let alone a large ship for crossing the sea!

Zhang Qiling's explanation for his question was even more shocking.

"The people in this village have been craftsmen for generations. The reason they live here is to build ships for our Zhang family."

In order to wait for the arrival of the Zhang family, they practiced the same thing every day, and they were so skilled that they would not make mistakes even with their eyes closed.

Every process and every step of shipbuilding has long been deeply engraved in the genes of these craftsmen.

Even except for the keel, other parts have been prepared long ago.

This can save a lot of time and build a large ship in just half a month!

After hearing such an explanation, he was deeply shocked and unbelievable.

There are thousands of people in the whole village, living on this seashore for generations. From birth to death, every generation of them has only done one thing in their lives, building ships for the Zhang family!

Not to mention how much financial support is needed to feed so many people, how terrible it is that these craftsmen have maintained their loyalty and faith for dozens of generations!

It was not until this time that he suddenly realized that all his previous judgments about the Zhang family were wrong.

The wealth of a country, the absolute loyalty of his subordinates, and the sphere of influence radiating thousands of miles away.

It is impossible for ordinary local tyrants to achieve this level!

What kind of family is this mysterious Zhang family?