"Ah Chang! Why are you telling these legends so late at night?"
""Do you think it's fun to scare people? I can't say enough about you!"
"Sisters, help me look for it. It should be right there! It's only 500 yuan!"
Ah Jing was a little angry, complained a few words, and asked others to help find it.
"I'm not trying to scare you!"
Ah Chang immediately jumped out to stop him and said, "If you don't believe me, ask Sister Yun! She is also from Luanchuan! She must know that we can't pick up money at night in the mountains!"
"Oh! You should say something, Sister Yun!"
When asked, Sister Yun looked a little unnatural and said, "There is a legend circulating here about this kind of money-making at night, but I don't believe it at all."
It’s still raining outside. Why don’t I talk about it? We can’t go out now anyway. We outsiders really don’t understand.
Sister Yun shook her head: "I can't say this, let A Chang do it."
Late at night, we lit a fire in the temple, sat around, and Chang told the stories she knew.
It is said to be a true story, and the Luanchuan Museum still has physical evidence. If you are interested, you can go and see it.
Next, Ah Chang sat next to the fire and preached: "When I was very young, my grandma once said that if you see copper coins or logs in the mountains, don't reach out to pick them up. They are ghost princes."
The men left them there intentionally, and whoever picks them up means joining them and killing people."
After hearing this, Ah Jing's face suddenly turned extremely ugly!
Because she was the only one who touched the copper coin just now, and Brother Yu almost touched it.
Ah Chang added: "It is said that hundreds of years ago, after Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain, he ran out with more than a dozen people, but was soon caught by King Chuang Li Zicheng."
"Later Wu Sangui sent Qing troops into Shanhaiguan, and Li Zicheng was defeated and retreated to Shaanxi. The Qing troops received the news in advance and cut off their retreat, so Li Zicheng led his troops south to Hubei to withdraw."
"As they retreated to Jingzi Pass, Prince Zhu Cihong and his people suddenly ran away and took six large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry with them. I don't know where they went."
Hearing this, I threw a piece of firewood into the fire, frowned and asked, "So you said that the deposed prince took people and treasure and hid in your Luanchuan River?"
"Isn't this right? What I know is that after Shunzhi ascended the throne, he told the outside world that he had killed the Ming Taizi. This was mentioned in the Qing History at the beginning."
Ah Chang said loudly: "That's not right! How could the former prince be killed at will? He was usually under house arrest. He would only lie about killing the prince when he couldn't be found!"
What she said actually made sense, so I motioned for her to continue.
Ah Chang first looked up at the roof of the ruined temple, then lowered his head and continued: "After the deposed prince arrived in our Luanchuan, he hid in a mine on the mountain for fear of being chased by the Qing army. At that time, he hid in the Lion's Pit Gold Mine.
The large mines have been mined since the Qing Dynasty."
"At that time, there were two main ministers around him, named Wang Chongru and Jia Shangheng. Do you know these two high officials?"
Everyone looked at each other and said they didn't know. I had never heard of the names of these two high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty.
Ah Chang was somewhat proud: "I don't blame you for not knowing. Most people don't know this. These two ministers were actually the chief eunuchs of the imperial palace at that time! One was Wang Cheng'en and the other was Jia Shanghuai. After they came to us, they changed their names.
