Blind Chen had already made an idea in his mind.
He had been on a tight budget recently and was thinking about becoming a big player.
However, he was not sure yet and refused to tell Mr.
Luo in advance.
However, when it came to this matter, he had no choice but to tell the truth and said quickly: "We have heard that the Mengdong River Basin has deep forests and dense ridges.
It is a place where barbarians and Han people are mixed.
At that time, the Yuan soldiers went south and fought fiercely with the cave people for many years.
Many nobles died, including some monks.
The tombs of Yitongbing generals are the most abundant.
Today, there are still many tombs of chieftains, cavemen and Yuan soldiers and Yuan generals hidden in Naping Mountain.
However, the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty are not sealed or planted, and the tombs have always been buried deep.
The barbarians in Miaodong mostly use poison, and they often have strange and heresies about falling into caves and exorcizing corpses.
Our power cannot cover that area, so we are afraid of making mistakes if we rush there, so we are always hesitant to do something. " Luo Laowai is a warlord who is addicted to tomb robbing.
When he heard that there were so many large ancient tombs in "Pingshan", he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
He had been slashed on the face before, leaving a huge scar that turned the corner of his mouth crooked. , that’s why I got the name Luo Laowai.
At this moment, I felt a burst of ecstasy, and the corners of my already crooked mouth almost reached the back of my head.
He immediately jumped up from his chair.
He was a bandit.
He liked to draw a gun when talking.
He pulled out an ivory-handled revolver and ordered the adjutant to go back immediately to assemble the pistol company and engineer battalion.
Everyone in the engineer battalion brought a shovel. , shovels, hoes, picks, and prepare a large amount of explosives, and will lead troops into the mountains that day.
Chen Xiazi hurriedly stopped him.
This matter needs long-term consideration.
The ancient tombs in Pingshan are not easy to steal.
The underground palace and tomb passages cannot be found.
No matter how many explosives are there, it will not help.
Moreover, if the army moves, it will inevitably alarm the local people. people.
The situation in that area is complex, and there may be extraneous problems.
The current plan is to take a few capable people to the mountain to explore it.
Luo Laowai was addicted to tomb robbing and eager to make a fortune, so he planned to follow him into the mountains and trample on the dishes, so he conspired with Blind Man Chen.
The plan was decided.
Blind Man Chen nodded and called someone over, gave instructions, and then brought a few capable men with him. , changed clothes, packed up, and prepared to go to Mengdong River to find the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty hidden in Pingshan.
Chen Xiazi pretended to be a fortune teller.
He also had three subordinates.
One was the slender and scheming "Hua Maguai".
This man had been a waiter at the Qing Yamen Gate for generations, and he knew corpse wax and corpses.
Poison, corpse insects and other things, but also a good person, he is the dog-headed strategist among the bandits in Xiling.
Another man like an iron tower, born with a sky-high ground and boundless strength.
It's a pity that he was born mute and cannot speak.
Because his skin and flesh are like black carbon, he is also nicknamed "Kunlun Moleh".
This means that he looks like the "Kunlun Slave", a strange man from the late Tang and Five Dynasties.
Blind Chen accidentally saved his life when he was robbing a tomb in Yandang Mountain.
From then on, he followed Blind Chen wholeheartedly and became a personal servant.
In addition, there is a young woman who is a performer in the world of martial arts.
The stage name is "Red Girl", who can do all kinds of ancient tricks and acrobatics.
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She was spotted by a local powerful man who wanted to take her as his concubine and forced her father to death.
Red Girl had a fierce personality and killed her in a rage.
The enemy was a man of good and lowly status, and fled to Hunan, where he became a bandit.
With the skills of the Moon Gate, he joined the gang and became a bandit in Xiling.
Chen Xiazi and these three men, plus Luo Laowai, pretended to be merchants and salesmen respectively.
Because the Mengdong River Basin in western Hunan has complex terrain and rugged and difficult mountains, it is known as "eight mountains, one water and one farmland", and has been sparsely populated since ancient times. , the government's ability to govern is weak, and banditry is serious, so guests with different livelihoods often travel together.
It is not easy for people to suspect that the five of them disguised themselves and went on the road together.
These five people hid three long and two short instruments on their bodies.
They looked at the Mengdong River and were silent all the way.
Not long after entering the mountain, they saw the Miao border wall left in ancient times.
Miao is also known as "Meng", the fast-flowing Mengdong River, It is the Yi Di where caves lived in ancient times.
It is said that the primeval forests on both sides of the river are ancient Miao caves, which have mutual influence with the Wu and Chu culture, so it appears to be extremely mysterious in the eyes of the world.
The ancient "black birds" can be seen everywhere here.
Totem remains.
Chen Xiazi asked Luo Laowai to ambush the hundreds of men from his engineer digging battalion and pistol company in the dense forest near the ancient wall ruins, ready to be dispatched at any time.
Then a group of five people waded through the river and climbed over the mountain.
Ridge, heading straight to Pingshan Mountain, I saw "overlapping peaks and crisscrossing valleys" in this mountain.
The mountains and fields are covered with the unique Ba Mao flowers in western Hunan, which is like a primitive scenery isolated from the world.
None of them had been to Pingshan before.
They were worried about getting lost and encountering wild beasts, so they did not dare to wander around at will.
After asking local mountain people who were passing by, they found out that the mountain range full of Ba Mao flowers was called "Lao Xiong Ridge".
After crossing the ridge, there is a wild and uninhabited land.
"Pingshan" is located in the deep mountains of Laoxiong Ridge.
There are several villages in front of the ridge, and there are many Yi and Han people.
In addition to Han people, there are also Miao and Tujia people.
After Chen Xiazi inquired about it, he learned that there were two villages in the north and south in the mountains ahead, so he said to everyone: "The day before yesterday, I watched the sky at night and saw that the stars of the Big Dipper were dim.
I thought that the South Dipper is for life and the Big Dipper is for death.
This has been said since ancient times.
I If you want to go into the mountains to look for ancient tombs at this moment, I’m afraid it’s a rare opportunity, so why not avoid the north and go south, and go to the South Village of Lao Xiong Ling first.”
The other four people had always looked up to Blind Man Chen like a god when it came to fighting, so they naturally agreed in unison.
The salesman dressed as Huamaguai led the way and headed south on the mountain road.
After a while, they saw a village.
The village is located among strange peaks and green valleys, and the scenery is as beautiful as in a landscape painting.
There are about a hundred households in the village.
Because the local climate is full of miasma, and the mountains are home to poisonous weeds and sand vipers, the locals, regardless of whether they are foreigners or Chinese, all live side by side on the same floor.
They climb up on ladders, which are called "rails".
All residential buildings are built along the mountains, facing north and south.
In order to avoid venomous snakes and insects, the bottom of the duplex wooden building is made of nine pillars, with the beams passing through each other, so that the platform is suspended in the air.
This kind of building is also called a "stilted building", and there is a wood carving of a black bird at the bottom of each stilted building. , a little weird in the mystery.
The Xiling group of thieves saw this in their eyes and secretly remembered it in their hearts.
When they came to the village, they set up a small gong to sell business.
The local customs are simple and simple.
People like to barter with each other.
There is little money in circulation.
They produce batik, ham, Three snake wine and other things.
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Although it is located in a remote location, it is not uncommon for outsiders to come here.
Almost every month, several salesmen come to exchange mountain goods.
It is not uncommon to see merchants from outside, each bringing their own mountain goods to exchange.
Huamaguai is in the grocery business, selling daily necessities such as needles, threads, and brains.
The mute "Kunlun Moller" dressed as a porter and carried salt for Luo Laowai, who was dressed as a smuggling merchant.
Money is useless in the mountains, and there is no place to spend it if you have it.
There has always been barter between the mountain people and the vendors.
The customers who carried the goods from the mountains exchanged the goods for the goods and went to the towns outside to earn profits.
Due to the inconvenience of access to the deep mountains and old forests, the most valuable thing here is salt.
Salt itself has been regarded as the hardest currency by local people.
The natives often have a saying: "Three pounds of rice and one pound of salt."
It can be said that this is a locally recognized "exchange rate."
Blind Chen had planned carefully in advance.
The things they brought were all urgently needed by the mountain people, and they were not as careless about petty profits as ordinary merchants.
They were quite popular with the people, and the business was done without much effort.
I also asked the locals for a few bowls of water, pretending to drink water and take a rest while also inquiring about the Pingshan Ancient Tombs.
Chen Xiazi and others, under the guise of looking for a ghost house through Feng Shui and inquiring about the path in the mountains, found some clues from the mountain people without any effort.
The Laoxiong Ridge by the Mengdong River is a large lofty mountain range with an altitude of thousands of feet. , there were indeed bears in the mountains in ancient times, but now they are rare.
It is said that the ancestor of the Miao people, the Miao King "Chiyou", was the incarnation of a giant bear, so Laoxiong Ridge got its name from this.
It is the sacred mountain where the cave people originated.
There are many historical sites in the mountain forest.
The ancient Yi people mostly lived in caves, so they were also called cave people.
They were divided by tribes, with a total of seventy-two caves.
There is a strange peak called Pingshan in Laoxiong Ridge.
It is shaped like a bottle falling from the sky.
It looks like a divine power, not artificial. , there are many unknown exotic flowers and plants on the mountain.
There are natural caves in Pingshan with unfathomable ravines inside.
It is rich in cinnabar, and lead and mercury are indispensable raw materials for alchemy.
Therefore, from the Qin and Han Dynasties, emperors of various dynasties continued to send warlocks to Pingshan to refine the elixir of immortality.
They also built Taoist temples in caves, visited famous mountains, and collected Jia stones.
Filling it with treasures from all directions and asking for medicine from the immortals, it is like treating it as a fairyland in a Taoist cave.
After nearly a thousand years of management over many dynasties, the caves in Pingshan have become full of palaces and palaces.
The towers and pavilions are better than those in the human world, but the elixir of immortality has not yet been refined.
Until the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan people were brutal.
Some cave people in the mountains could not bear the tyranny and gathered to rebel.
Fan soldiers and generals massacred the cave people in Laoxiong Ridge.
The killings were extremely brutal.
The cave people in each cave were almost massacred.
The Yuan army was Unable to adapt to the hot and humid environment in the mountains, the plague spread among the army and suffered heavy losses.
All the generals who commanded the army died here.
In order to suppress the cave people and prevent them from rebelling, the people of the Yuan Dynasty used the Pingshan Mountain as a tomb to bury the fallen soldiers.
The rare objects in the Taoist temple in the cave were used as burial objects, and they massacred the remaining cave people.
For burial, the mountain was sealed with molten copper, molten iron, and huge rocks.
The tomb was buried deep in the tomb.
Without sealing or trees, future generations would never be able to find the tomb passage and underground palace.
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These legends have been passed down orally for hundreds of years among the mountain people in Laoxiong Mountain.
Everyone knows that there is a huge ancient tomb in Pingshan Mountain, but it is limited to this.
No one knows the detailed content.
After all, back then Almost all the cave dwellers in each cave were exterminated.
Blind Chen had heard about this for a long time.
Now he went to the local area to investigate and further confirmed that the legend of the Pingshan Tomb was not groundless, and he also found out some little-known inside information.
When the locals saw these merchants, they seemed to be going to Pingshan.
They did not expect that they were a group of tomb robbers, and they kindly advised them.
Pingshan was surrounded by dense forests and steep mountains.
In the early years, there were many precious medicinal stones for alchemy, so many poisonous insects and monsters gathered there.
Nearby, that vicious place is extremely dangerous.
If a living person goes there, at least nine out of ten people will be killed.
Blind Chen quickly explained: "I'm just a foreigner passing by here.
When I heard the strange name of Pingshan Mountain, I couldn't help but get curious, so I asked a few more questions.
We are all ordinary people doing business in the world, how dare we go to ancient times?
Walk around the tomb."
After that, he discussed with the mountain people and wanted to stay in the village for one night.
The elders in the village told Chen Xiazi and others that there have always been rules here, and outsiders were never allowed to stay overnight in the village because bandits and horses had been causing too much trouble in recent years.
As the saying goes, "Thieves come like combs, soldiers come like goads, and bandits come like shaved heads."
When thieves come, it is a brutal bloodbath.
Therefore, the gate of the village must be closed at night to prevent any outside guests from entering.
Mix in and cooperate with the outside.
Although I see that you are all honest people doing small business and are by no means thieves who kill people and steal goods, I still can't break the rules for you.
I advise you to get out of the mountain as soon as it's dawn.
Luo Laowai has a bad temper and is used to bossing around.
When he saw that the people in the village refused to let them stay overnight, he had never seen such a cunning man dare not give him the respect of Marshal Luo.
He cursed "Fuck you" Grandma, I just want to pull out my gun and kill a few of them.
Blind Chen knew that Luo Laowai could not hold his temper, and was afraid that he would reveal his secret and spoil his plan, so he hurriedly held down his hand, carefully asked the natives about the surrounding roads, and hurriedly led everyone away from the village.
Walking into the mountains and forests, the sun was already setting.
Luo Laowai asked Chen Blind what it was like now that there was no shelter in the wild mountains.
Why not go back overnight and directly raise troops into the mountains to conduct a so-called "military exercise" in Pingshan?
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Blind Chen looked at the shadow of the sun, estimated the time, pondered for a moment, turned around and said, "Shuai Luo, don't be in a hurry.
It gets dark early in the mountains, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get back tonight.
I just learned from the mountain people that Lao There are coffins for mortuary bodies on Xiongling Mountain.
Why not go there for one night and go back to the mountains early tomorrow morning to see the situation in Pingshan Mountain and see if the ancient tomb can be recovered."
Zancoffin is another name for Yizhuang.
To put it simply, it means "the hotel of the dead."
There are many Han Chinese in several villages nearby.
They are either dodging military service or evading rent and taxes.
There are also a small number of people who travel to and from various places.
People who do business between villages.
Due to the different burial customs of Yi and Han people, once these people died in the mountainous area, they would have died in a foreign land.
This kind of experience was very taboo in the old concept.
They all hoped to bury the bones back to their hometown.
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However, the mountain roads were rugged and far away, and they wanted to transport the corpses.
It is extremely difficult to go out of the mountains.
Whether it is the person carrying the corpse or the person driving the corpse, it only takes half a year.
Before that, the dead bodies that had not been transported out of the mountains were all stored in "Yizhuang", which was called "Zuanji".
Each village pooled money to hire full-time guards.
Similar places were very common in the mountainous areas of western Hunan
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