I thought that the so-called grave mountain was buried many dead people. It turned out that it was not what I imagined, but that many people died in the grave mountain. The former is very different from the latter. The former is a person in the village who died and then buried in the grave mountain, while the latter died on the grave mountain, and not one or two.

According to Lao Yang, the Tomb Mountain, Dongshan, and Dongshan Valley actually refer to Dongshan. As early as the late Qing Dynasty, there was a plague in the alpaca village, and countless people died. In fact, before that time, there were many villages east of Dongshan and in the mountains on all sides. It was because of the plague that destroyed countless lives. Finally, the imperial court came up with a solution. In fact, there was no way to put it bluntly. All the people infected with the plague were imprisoned in a mountain pit in Dongshan, which is the current stinky puddle.

Some died directly, while others were still struggling, but the officials sent by the court did not care about you. First, they sprinkled a circle of lime powder around Dongshan, saying that they would isolate the plague. Then if someone dared to step out of the lime powder, they would be shot to death by arrows. The death was even more cruel than the plague.

The old sheep could not determine how many people died at that time, but he just heard the old people's descriptions with tears on their faces, there were tens of thousands of people,

After the plague was eliminated, the remaining villagers of each village went to Dongshan to check it. It was really shocking. The mountain pits and the hillsides were covered with corpses. The relatives hugged their heads and cried, and ordinary people couldn't help but cry. It took three days for the villagers to clean up the bodies, but some had climbed to the hillside and did not let go of their hands until they died. They grabbed a life-saving straw. The villagers were deeply grateful and buried them on the hillside. There were many others who refused to go down the mountain, so they had to bury them. In this way, hundreds of corpses were buried on the hillside alone, and the rest were all in a regular way to burn them in the hillside. Because the court had orders that although the plague had been lifted, the diseases obtained from the corpses during their lifetime were still contagious, so it was strictly forbidden to take them home to bury them. No one could leave Dongshan.

As for whether tens of thousands of corpses were burned, I can’t explain this clearly. Besides, no one dared to speak nonsense during that period, and even more dared to have objections privately, otherwise it would be very likely to cause trouble.

After all the bodies in the mountain pit were burned, the villagers sealed the mountain pit, which could be considered as letting the dead people be buried.

Later, after years of precipitation, the soil layer on the mountain pit gradually sunk, forming a natural puddle. Although it is a concave, it does not accumulate water all year round. Not only that, it is also drier than the high ground. No one can tell why this is so.

I took a sudden breath, but fortunately there was no water accumulation, otherwise it would become a slaughter again.

But what's going on with the stinky puddle?

Lao Yang immediately explained that the rain in the mountains is somewhat different from the plains, because the mountains, rivers have been washed and penetrated by time. The seemingly low valley, in fact, as long as rain falls, it will flow into the ditches along the direction of the mountain and flow into the river. Dongshan is also called Dongshan Valley. Its origin is the depression behind Dongshan, which is the place where the bones were buried in the past. Once it rains, a little water will emitting a foul smell, which spreads around the Dongshan Valley. Those who pass by will bypass it from afar. According to legend, there is a constant resentment in the inside, but on sunny days, the big mountain of Dongshan Mountain suppresses them, and only on rainy days can they express their resentment along the rain. No one knows whether there is such a thing, and it cannot be verified.

I looked at the old sheep, and the old sheep sighed bitterly, and then said, once it rained, the accumulated water in the East Mountain Valley would leak through the dark mountain eyes. Once the sky cleared, the stinky puddles would dry again, and it seemed that they had never been wet by rain. At first glance, it was still a depression.

This is a bit strange. Could it be that the plague that year was God's will?

I frowned and said, "Where is Li Xushu buried?"

Lao Yang said: "It's in the stinky puddle, but it's just buried on the edge. It is said that although Yang Datou deliberately asked someone to do this when he was buried, the people who were doing the business knew about Dongshangou. They were afraid and dared not go inside. They dug a hole on the edge and buried Li Xushu."

Geng Qing suddenly interrupted: "Yang Banxian'er, the whole village doesn't know about this, and the Gu Laozi never says it. How did you know about it?"

The old sheep looked embarrassed and said, "Because,,,, one of the few people who went to bury Li Xushu back then was my grandfather's cousin. Not long after he buried Li Xushu, he got seriously ill. My grandfather went to visit him and he secretly told him about this. I still remember that my grandfather kept sighing when he mentioned this, "It's really a sin," he said. "

I realized after thinking about it, Yang Datou did bad things and naturally would not look for people from other families. Moreover, once such a thing was investigated, it was at least a serious crime of raiding the family at that time. Who knew that God would make people beat people up and happened to have a major change in the domestic situation. The Qing Dynasty was destroyed and the war was in full swing. Yang Datou was gone. The result of the whole incident could only be a silent tragedy. To this day, who can give the orphan justice to the orphan justice to the orphan justice to the liu Shu?

The orphan girl never mentioned this matter. She must have known that there is no need to raise this matter, and no one can find Sheep Datou. The evidence of Sheep Datou's persecuting the Li family back then was probably destroyed, and only the way of heaven punished Sheep Datou's sin.

"Mr. Da, Dongshan is coming soon."

Gengqing's voice suddenly woke me up. I suddenly raised my head and immediately said, "Let's go and see Li Xushu's cemetery."

The road to the mountain is extremely difficult to walk, with messy rocks everywhere, shrubs and weeds, and the strange trees that seem to be scattered, making people panic all over their bodies. The old sheep pointed to the dim forest and said, "This is the old road into the mountain next to the foot of the mountain. People who used to travel here back then have been here, but no one has ever been in there in recent decades. If there are old people who passed away in the village, they will usually go up the mountain from the other side of Dongshan to be buried directly. What we are going to now is the back of Dongshan, which is the mass pit of the year."

"A mass grudge." I said in surprise: "If there were so many ten thousand people, what a tragic killing would be."

However, in order not to spread the plague, the rulings at that time had no choice but to do anything. Alas,

This time, the old sheep was led by the old sheep, and Gengqing was still walking in the middle. I cushioned it. It was difficult to walk on such an old forest. Not only did you have to clear away obstacles such as spider webs, but you also had to be careful not to be scratched by branches. The trees here are very short, but the branches are very long, and you will be injured by branches if you are not careful.

After a hard journey, I came to Dongshangou. In front of me was the smelly puddle we were looking for. I looked at it in a daze. It turned out that this was the mass pit that Lao Yang said.
Chapter completed!