Two hundred and eighty-eight The origin of the rumor
Seeing his eldest nephew's eager look, Xie Zhiying said seriously: "Don't think about it, you can't enter Xishan."
Zhang Yu: "Why?"
Xie Zhiying explained: "According to the older generation, Xishan is full of obstacles. In addition, there are also wild beasts such as big snakes, big cats and bears. In short, it is full of dangers and people can't get out after entering."
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To the people in the brigade, Xishan is a forbidden area. On weekdays, people in the brigade are unwilling to go there to chop wood and dig wild vegetables. Even when they are about to starve to death, no one dares to say that they want to go to Xishan.
In those two years, some people were so hungry that they couldn't bear it. Several young people refused to listen to the advice of their elders and insisted on going to Xishan.
A total of six people went in, but only one came back alive.
The only young man who escaped was not only in a state of embarrassment but also almost stunned. He still cannot tell what happened in Xishan.
Now that I have been recuperating for a long time, I still suffer from hysteria from time to time.
Someone in the brigade said that the night a few young men entered the Western Mountains, they heard the roars of wild beasts in the Western Mountains. It is estimated that those who did not come back were probably eaten by wild beasts."
When he said this, a trace of sadness flashed across Xie Zhiying's face.
It had only been two years since this incident happened. Even if the young people who entered the mountain were not their children, they were all people who had grown up watching them.
No matter which one is missing, everyone feels distressed.
That time there were five missing!
Zhang Yu was confused. He could understand the big cat and the bear. The big cat should be a tiger, but what was a big snake?
He opened his mouth to ask, but when he saw the flash of sadness on Uncle Xie's face, he quietly closed his mouth.
Forget it, why bother opening my second uncle's wounds again.
Seemingly realizing that the topic he was talking about was too heavy, Xie Zhiying took the initiative to change the topic: "If you want to hear about this kind of treasure hiding, I will tell you a good way. You can go under the big locust tree in the village and find those treasures."
Elders like to sit under the big locust tree and chat.
As long as someone starts it, you can hear all the news about all kinds of treasures in the entire county in less than two days."
"Really?" Zhang Yu suddenly became interested.
He didn't have any special desire for the treasure, he mainly wanted to hear some stories.
"Then you can still have a day off. You can ask your grandpa to take you there tomorrow. With your reputation as a college student, as long as you open this mouth, those elders will definitely be able to talk to you all day long."
Zhang Yu: "Then I'll go over and try tomorrow."
Xie Zhiying smiled: "That's easy, just ask your grandpa to take you there."
After that, he started talking about the Xishan treasure: "Our area was quite chaotic before liberation because it was backed by a mountain and there were several bandits entrenched nearby...
Pingding Mountain, which is closest to our place, was home to hundreds of bandits back then.
No, that’s Pingdingshan.”
As he spoke, Xie Zhiying stretched out his hand and pointed at one of the mountain peaks.
"The mountain peak is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, but there is only a small platform on the top of the mountain, so it is called Pingding Mountain.
At that time, the group of bandits on Pingding Mountain made the people nearby very nervous.
Later, after the founding of China, the country launched a campaign to suppress bandits, and things got better.
However, Pingding Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has three cliffs and only the north can be climbed. However, those bandits have been operating on the mountain for several years and basically turned the mountain into a fortress with many weapons."
As Xie Zhiying spoke, he used his hands to describe the terrain of the flat-topped mountain in Dawai.
Then he pointed to the north of Pingding Mountain and said: "You may think that you can go up from the north, but the road up is only so narrow and very rugged. Heavy weapons, including cannons and the like, cannot go up.
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The bandits also built defense projects throughout the north. Relying on the terrain that was easy to defend but difficult to attack, the soldiers really couldn't do anything to them for a while.
The losses incurred by rushing up were too great, and the superiors were not willing to lose their own troops here, so they were wasted here in a short while.
At first, the higher-ups planned to encircle and not attack, so that they would be starved of food, but they must have known that the bandit boss was very cunning and had moved a lot of food to the mountain one after another over the years, and it would be impossible to stop the food supply for a while."
Zhang Yu: "If it's so difficult to walk, how do those bandits usually transport things up there?"
Xie Zhiying: "This is easy to do. They pulled it directly up from the bottom of the mountain using a hanging basket."
Speaking of this, Xie Zhiying couldn't help but shake his head. According to the older generation, those mountain bandits succeeded and failed depending on the terrain.
They thought they had three cliffs and could sit back and relax as long as they guarded the north side.
But someone thought of a way and recruited a group of rock climbing experts to climb up the cliff.
While sleeping, catch all the bandits in one fell swoop.
"The news about the treasure in Xishan also came out at that time. It is said that there was an ambush at night and the bandit leader and the bandit's second-in-command were captured, but the bandit leader's son and third-in-command escaped.
People of the older generation said that they went down from another cliff, because there was a big river at the bottom of that cliff, and the river was very fast. The people above did not expect that anyone would escape from there, so they ignored it for a while.
After pursuing all the way, the soldiers found the bamboo raft abandoned by the two people in the lower reaches of the river. I don't know how the two of them escaped safely with a small bamboo raft in such a fast river.
However, they did not escape for long. Not long after, fellow villagers discovered their traces. After that, they chased and beat them all the way, and finally caught the escaped bandit boss's son and the third-in-command in Xishan.
It's just that the two of them had nothing on them at the time, and the soldiers didn't think much about it at first. Later, for some reason, word came out that when the bandit boss's son escaped from the village, he took away a valuable treasure from the mountain, and that valuable treasure
So he buried him on the Western Mountain."
Speaking of this, Xie Zhiying still vaguely remembers some of it.
They had just moved here at that time, and they had witnessed the bandit suppression operation with their own eyes.
It was also at that time that the Xie family took advantage of the census and registered with the local household registration, and finally took root here.
After the news spread that there was a treasure in the Western Mountains, people started looking for it one after another, but most people didn't dare to go deep into the mountains, so that was it.
After a long time, everyone just listened to it as a rumor. After all, in the situation in Xishan, there is only one way to die.
Besides, at that time, these two people slipped directly from the cliff, and then escaped from the rapid river with only a small bamboo raft. Under those circumstances, how much stuff could they carry, and how much stuff could they run with?
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You must know that when they got to the back, the soldiers chased them almost all the way and followed them closely. Even if they took something with them when they escaped, they probably had to abandon it in order to escape for their lives.
