Yu Wenhao didn't say much on the way down the mountain until he took the carriage back to the yard, but Xu Yi kept talking outside, saying that Jinghu Lake was really magical.
Yuan Qingling didn't say anything. After the enthusiasm, she thought deeply.
Since she came here, she has missed her family all the time. The appearance of Jinghu Lake has once again aroused the homesickness she had suppressed with great difficulty.
She was not so irrational as to jump off Jinghu Lake. She just believed that many things were reasonable when they existed. Since they were reasonable, there must be people who understood, such as the person who sent Mo Yilai.
With such a person and a place like Jinghu, she became more and more sure that going home was not a dream. It would be possible in the days to come, and her hopes were growing bit by bit.
After Yu Wenhao was silent for a long time, he held back a sentence to Yuan Qingling, "Don't think about what happened before you borrowed a corpse to resurrect the soul."
Yuan Qingling leaned against him and said, "I didn't think about it."
"What exactly is that time and space? Is it the entrance to the underworld?" Yu Wenhao didn't understand, and he was afraid because he didn't understand.
He thought that Yuan Qingling would be so happy because Jinghu Lake was probably related to the resurrection of corpses.
Yuan Qingling smiled and said, "Why do you think so?"
Yu Wenhao said dullly: "To me, that is like the entrance to hell."
Yuan Qingling just got closer to him and couldn't tell the difference. After all, it was uncertain whether Jinghu Lake was the entrance to time and space, and what the Taoist said was not entirely credible. It was not that he was lying, but that the great uncle might have gone down the mountain on his own.
Everyone thought he went down to Jinghu Lake and finally appeared, and then mistakenly thought he appeared from Jinghu Lake. As for the other world and time and space entrance he mentioned, he might have heard it from elsewhere. It is even possible that he knew the junior, the junior.
I told him about the time and space in another world.
So, now that I have calmed down, I think more rationally.
Back in the yard, Ah Si pulled Yuan Qingling to talk, "The two of them haven't said a word today."
Yuan Qingling sighed, "Don't force it, let them do as they like."
Ah Si said depressedly: "It just doesn't taste good when you look at it."
Yuan Qingling patted her shoulder gently, then went in to see Yuan Yongyi's wounds.
Man'er took Ah Si to talk about everything he saw in Jinghu Lake today. He said that Jinghu Lake was some otherworldly place and that it would disappear immediately after throwing something in. Ah Si wanted to go and see it and was excited to see it.
Looking at Xu Yi, "Let's go again tomorrow."
Xu Yi looked at Ah Si's shining eyes and said calmly: "I won't go, so as not to misunderstand you."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Ah Si looked at his back in surprise, what did he misunderstand? This guy hasn't calmed down yet? He's so stingy!
We spent the night in silence, everyone had their own thoughts. The next day we were going to Leprous Mountain.
Yuan Yongyi was injured, so King Qi and Ah Si took her back to the capital first.
Xu Yi and Man'er followed Yu Wenhao and his wife to secretly visit Leprosy Mountain. They had personally seen the situation on Leprosy Mountain, so Yuan Qingling could make plans.
No one is allowed to enter Leprous Mountain, especially the current prince. If anyone finds out, he will probably be impeached at the court.
Leprosy Mountain was an unlucky existence for the Northern Tang Dynasty. When leprosy broke out five years ago, an official in the court suggested killing lepers and then burning their bodies.
Because leprosy has always existed, but it is rare to have such a concentrated outbreak in Beijing.
This official, named He Ruxiu, was a regular servant of Zuo Sanqi in Menxia Province, and is now a disciple of King An. This He Ruxiu was born in the imperial examination and was promoted by Di Weiming. He came to Menxia Province six years ago when leprosy broke out.
At that time, because he was rampant with evil diseases and undermined the power of the Northern Tang Dynasty, he secretly told the emperor to kill all the lepers and then burn them to avoid future troubles.
Because it was a secret report, no one knew about it. Yu Wenhao would know because he happened to be waiting at the bedside of the Supreme Emperor at that time and heard Emperor Ming Yuan go to discuss with the Supreme Emperor.
The Supreme Emperor was ill at the time and had great empathy for the patients, so he disagreed with He Ruxiu's proposal. In the end, he chose a compromise method and imprisoned these patients on the mountain. In the place where there were thousands of people at that time, there were only
Ten acres of mountainous land, one side faces cliffs and one side is dense forest, which is filled with miasma and cannot be entered. The other two sides are fenced and guarded by soldiers.
The supplies inside are all provided by the imperial court, but these are all patients who have been abandoned by the world. The imperial court is only responsible for life, care, death and burial. As for the quality of life, there is no quality at all.
They are just locked up here like dogs, and the food is the worst. The yamen responsible for supplying them never gives them a piece of meat all year round.
This is the real situation on Leprous Mountain today. However, the money allocated by the imperial court is enough to provide one meal of meat every day. As for whose pocket the money allocated by the imperial court falls into, it is not known.
Yu Wenhao had never asked about Leprosy Mountain before. In fact, no official in Beijing would think about paying attention to these patients who were abandoned on the mountain, and no one was willing to mention it.
If Grandma Xi had not contracted leprosy, which attracted Yuan Qingling's attention, Leprosy Mountain would never have appeared in anyone's eyes.
There is no one guarding the bottom of the mountain because no one can come up here.
The soldiers on the mountain were not there to prevent outsiders from coming, but to prevent the patients from running down.
Therefore, it is not difficult for Yu Wenhao and Yuan Qingling to go up the mountain. However, if they want to go in, they must pass through the dense forest. However, there is no need to really go deep into the dense forest, they just need to go through the edge.
Around the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone in the capital and various state capitals are celebrating reunions with great fanfare. However, from the moment I set foot on the mountain, I felt filled with a dead silence and strange atmosphere. It was clear that the sun was high in the sky, and there was always a strange feeling
It gives people a cold feeling, as if this place is a hell where the sun cannot shine.
The situation here is completely different from yesterday at Wanfo Mountain.
After walking around the edge of the dense forest, you will see a flat land with densely packed small buildings, which are wooden houses, built very crudely and without any rules.
There is a mountain breeze blowing here, but there is a smell blowing from the other side of the house. Take a deep breath, and it seems to be the smell of rotting corpses.
Xu Yi soon discovered that the rotting corpses did not come from that way. He, who had always been shouting, now became sad and silent, "There are many corpses over there."
Yu Wenhao and Yuan Qingling looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a mass grave-like hill outside the fence, with bones piled up on top, corpses lying on the ground, and smelly flies buzzing around the newly rotted corpses.
, the stench came from this hillock. At a glance, there were at least four to five hundred corpses including bones.
Because it is close to a dense forest, no one burns the corpses, and there is no wind or sunlight in the forest. When the corpses rot, they smell very bad, and you can even see rotting corpse fluids on the ground.
Yuan Qingling almost vomited. She held on to the tree trunk next to her and retched, and tears came out. In this leprous mountain, human life is very cheap.
No one even buried him when he died, he was just dumped here casually.