It turns out that I have four surnames in total, and my ancestors were the ancient Yelvmang who stationed in Yunnan with the Khitan descendants. Their original place of residence has always been preserved. After the death of this group of ancestors, they were in the center of the house where the ancient Yelvmang lived.
A stone tablet was erected, which records the names of the soldiers who were stationed here with Yelvmang in ancient times. The four surnames have to take turns to be responsible for the cleaning and arrangement work for a year. This year it is the turn of the Cha surname.
Among people with the surname Cha, everyone takes turns cleaning for a week. When it was Cha Laoliu's turn to clean, he discovered the situation: "I always feel that there is a strange smell in that house. Actually, I have noticed it before.
Yes, but this year it was particularly smelly. When I smelled it carefully, I felt it was under the stone monument, so I dug around secretly..."
"Aren't you afraid of being discovered by others?" Bai Chang said, "Have you returned to the original state?"
"Well, this is natural." Cha Laoliu said: "Look, what is this thing and why is it so smelly?"
"The stems and leaves of the corpse-scented konjac." Bai Moxuan said: "This is a strange flower produced in the Western Regions."
Yue Qing felt strange: "Shouldn't the corpse-scented konjac smell fragrant? Why does it stink again? Did you say it wrong?"
"No, the original smell of corpse-scented konjac is stinky. According to the master, it is extremely smelly." Bai Moxuan said: "When it smells fragrant, it must have been in contact with a corpse. After the death of the woman who pretended to be Cha Qianmo,
The corpse-scented konjac in your mouth is fragrant. This thing is very rare. It's a pity that it withered like this." Bai Moxuan said: "The person who got this thing would put it in such an exquisite wooden box. He must know its value, but this
People must not know its use."
"What's the use of this thing?" Cha Qianmo asked curiously.
"Putting it together with the corpse can make the corpse smell fragrant and protect the body from decay." Bai Moxuan said: "Simply speaking, it is used on the corpse."
Cha Qianmo and Cha Lao Liu exchanged glances, and Cha Lao Liu said, "We have never heard of it."
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it. This thing is not produced in Yunnan, it is imported." Bai Moxuan said.
Cha Qianmo was a little disappointed: "It seems it has nothing to do with the Khitan treasure."
"It's too early to tell now. How about it? Can you take us to your ancestor's house to see it?" Bai Moxuan asked.
"Of course, but wait until night. You are foreigners after all, and you will be too noticeable during the day." Cha Qianmo said.
Everyone agreed with Cha Qianmo's statement. There were always a few people outside staring at them like brown sugar. When night fell, everyone discussed and decided to let Bai Moxuan and Yue Qing follow Cha Laoliu to see the others.
Stay and wait to avoid crowds and chaos.
Cha Laoliu took the two of them out of the back door of the house. Yelvmang's ancient residence was originally a simple stone house. The middle of it was once buried due to mudslides. It was dug out and renovated. The layout is still the same as it was before.
The stone house was far away from the village and located on the back side of the mountain. The three of them walked over cautiously, and when they were about to approach the stone house, Bai Moxuan said coldly: "A good dog doesn't block the way."
Cha Laoliu was stunned, and was about to ask Bai Moxuan why he said this, when a group of people appeared from the narrow roadside in twos and threes, and the leader was the eldest son of the Jiang family.
"Cha Lao Liu, where are you leading the outsiders to go in the middle of the night?" asked the Jiang family boss with a smile. He was born with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and at first glance he was a talker. He was not tall, but with his status as the eldest son
He showed off his power, but his group of brothers from the Jiang family actually obeyed him obediently.
"It's none of your business." Cha Laoliu has never had a good impression of the boss of the Jiang family. He usually does whatever he wants because there are many people with the surname Jiang. If the people of the Cha family hadn't lost the habit of practicing martial arts, they would have been bullied a lot.
"If you are wandering around in the mountains, of course it is none of my business, but if you go to the stone house of your ancestors, then I have to take care of it." Boss Jiang said: "According to my rules, no one who is not of my own clan is allowed to enter the stone house."
"Don't fart. To take a recent example, the man with the foreign surname who almost fell to death on the cliff was lying in the stone house." Cha Laoliu said: "Why didn't anyone say that people with the foreign surname and the people with the surname Li at that time?
By the way, it seems that you, the Jiang family, are the ones who are in charge of taking that person in."
Boss Jiang didn't expect Old Man Cha to suggest this, and was speechless for a moment. Bai Moxuan didn't want to get entangled with such a person, so he said to Yue Qing: "Let's go."
However, the two of them passed directly over Cha Lao Liu and walked straight towards the stone house. Cha Lao Liu was about to follow him when Bai Mo Xuan winked at him and motioned him to stand where he was. Lao Liu knew Bai Mo Xuan's ability and expected him to
When he had a solution, he folded his hands in front of his chest and looked at Boss Jiang with a smile, as if he had nothing to do with me.
Besides, Bai Moqing and Yue Qing were about to walk to the stone house. Boss Jiang shouted: "Wait a minute, who gave you permission to go in?"
Yue Qing stopped and turned around and said: "It's not the people from the tea family who brought us here. See clearly, we came here on our own. Even if you come to embarrass us now, are you going to come alone or all of us together?"
Up? It doesn’t matter, just follow your path.”
Yue Qing's neither yin nor yang words made Boss Jiang feel a drum in his heart. Yue Qing said these words with great confidence, and these three-legged cats immediately felt guilty.
Bai Moxuan bent down and picked up a pebble. The pebble flipped up and down in his hand very lightly. Boss Jiang subconsciously took a step back: "You, you, what do you want to do?"
Bai Moxuan sneered, flicked his thumb, and hit Boss Jiang on the forehead with a stone: "I will give you a small gift, please accept it."
Seemingly without exerting any force, Boss Jiang felt his head was blurred. When others looked at it, a purple-black mark appeared on his forehead. In this moment, Bai Moxuan grabbed another handful of stones. When everyone saw this posture, they looked at it.
When he got off, Boss Jiang dispersed, leaving only himself. Boss Jiang called out, stepped back, tripped over a stone, and fell heavily to the ground. Cha Laoliu laughed loudly: "Haha, Boss Jiang, how are you?
Doesn’t the mountain mud taste good?”
"You, you guys have the guts." Bai Moxuan only showed a small hand. Boss Jiang knew that this man was a real guy. A group of unreliable brothers had dispersed. He thought that a good man would not suffer the immediate consequences, so he jumped up and ran away with his forehead covered.
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Seeing Boss Jiang running away, Cha Laoliu shook his head repeatedly: "A bunch of useless things, they just know how to scare people. When they meet those who are really capable, they will wilt and make you laugh."
Yue Qing said: "It's okay, let's go in and take a look now."
Pushing open the door of the stone house, a musty smell hit his face. Yue Qing said: "The humidity in the mountains is really heavy."
Although the corpse-scented konjac has been taken out, the stench is still there. There are only two rooms on the left and right of the stone house. In the middle of the left room is a stone tablet with dense Khitan characters on it. Cha Laoliu said: "These
They are all names of soldiers, there is nothing special about them."
The stone tablet was slightly loose, which was the result of Cha Laoliu's previous excavation. Yue Qing said softly: "What a heavy Yin energy!"
"Yin Qi?" Cha Laoliu lives in the countryside and has heard about the theory of Yin Qi: "There are many dead things in the mountains, and it is inevitable that Yin Qi is heavy. Do you want to go and have a look in that room?"
Yue Qing had already walked over there. The two stone chambers were connected and there was no door in between. Yue Qing went over and saw the Lin Li spiritual tablets. He couldn't help but shuddered and quickly backed away: "Are these the spiritual tablets of your ancestors?"
Cha Laoliu was not surprised by these spiritual statues: "Yes, we have been coming to worship every month since we were sensible. Does it scare you?"
"No, I'm the one making the fuss. I didn't expect there to be so many."
Yue Qing swallowed a sip of saliva. The spiritual tablets in front of him were all cut into fan shapes. They were different from the usual token shapes. Their names were written in small Khitan characters. These tablets were not placed on the table, but were worn with threads.
Hanging from the roof, the thread is very thin, and the tablets are swaying as if they are hanging in the air.
, the atmosphere in the mountains is gloomy. There are no lights here, only the pale moonlight comes in, and the dense shadows on the ground are shaking. Yue Qing came in just now and saw this situation. He was inevitably frightened. He thought his reaction was pretty good.
Well, if Su Bai comes over, won't he scream in fright?
"Should this scare you? The way we place spiritual tablets here is different from that of the Han people." Cha Laoliu said: "We have a saying here that if the line of an ancestor of a family is broken and the spiritual tablets fall to the ground, it means that the family's spiritual tablets fall to the ground.
It is very effective when someone in the descendants is about to pass away."
Yue Qing became more and more reluctant to go in, fearing that if he broke an ancestor's spiritual tablet, wouldn't it be a sin?
Bai Moxuan coughed lightly: "Yue Qing, come here and take a look."
Yue Qing passed by, and Bai Moxuan whispered a few words in his ear. Yue Qing took out the compass in his bag and saw the pointer turning rapidly, but could not stop. Yue Qing immediately came to the conclusion in his heart: "It's underground."
"It seems there is a mystery down here. Sixth Brother, how deep did you dig last time?" Bai Moxuan asked.
"It's only about one meter." Cha Laoliu said, "It's impossible to dig any more for fear of being discovered."
"Yue Qing, what do you think?"
"A few meters further down, there should be a big discovery." Yue Qing said: "My preliminary estimate is that it may be the corpses of the people on the stone tablet. There is a death pit here, just under the stone house."
Chacha Lao Liu's face turned pale: "Death pit?"
"This is my guess. We can only find out if we dig deeper." Yue Qing saw Cha Laoliu's hesitant expression and immediately said, "It's just a talk. There's no need to dig deep down there. However, this should be able to explain it.
Why is corpse-scented konjac placed at the top?"
Bai Moxuan nodded: "Yes, there are many corpses, but there is little corpse-scented konjac. At most, it can only keep one person's body from rotting. If there is a death pit underneath, so many people may feel embarrassed, so we simply don't use it. It's not that we don't know how to use it.
, it just doesn’t work, Sixth Brother, what do you think? Do you want to solve this mystery? "
"If you dig it, there must be a good reason." Cha Laoliu said: "It is actually a good thing that the Khitan treasure is gone. Everyone no longer has a goal to fight for, and it slowly fades away. I don't want to stir up trouble again. This box
Once the mystery of what’s inside is solved, that’s the end of it.”