"Ghost faces are a burial custom here. There is a people who will send the ghost faces and the coffin to the cemetery together with the coffin after the death. After the coffin is buried, they will take the ghost faces back and hang them at the door of their house.
To ward off evil spirits.”
"After learning about this custom, I began to investigate the origin of this custom, and found out that this custom was related to a mysterious country that had disappeared for thousands of years. That country only existed for a few hundred years, but in the end it disappeared from history.
In the long river, the name of this country is Dian Kingdom."
When he saw this, Qin Yu's eyes narrowed, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and then he continued to look.
After Huangfu Zhenchuan's father discovered that Ghost Face might be related to the Dian Kingdom, he began to investigate the Dian Kingdom. At that time, archaeological excavations were carried out in Yunnan, and the legendary Dian Kingdom ruins were discovered.
A large number of bronze utensils were excavated inside.
These bronze utensils are extremely exquisite, and their shapes and styles are very different from the bronzes of the Central Plains culture, and even appear very mysterious. These bronze utensils are all preserved in a museum in Yunnan.
Huangfu Zhenchuan's father used his connections to enter the museum. After looking through a large number of unearthed bronze utensils and some cultural relics, he finally discovered a very important clue: in these unearthed artifacts
Among the bronze utensils, only the grimace is missing.
This may not seem like a clue, but Huangfu Zhenchuan's father knew very well that since the custom of making faces was passed down from the Dian Kingdom and was so popular in the countryside of Yunnan, it is speculated that the cultural relics unearthed from the Dian Kingdom sites,
He should have this grimace.
So Huangfu Zhenchuan's father continued to check. He also checked the notes of the archaeological staff who participated in the excavation. Sure enough, he got the clues he wanted.
It is recorded in the notes of an archaeological worker that when they excavated the ruins of the Dian Kingdom, they encountered a strange phenomenon when they discovered these bronze utensils. These bronze utensils were placed in a circle. This circle
The diameter is about ten meters. According to the general burial rules, since these bronze utensils form a circle, there should be something in the center of the circle.
However, when they thoroughly dug up the entire circle, there was nothing inside. This result puzzled Quan Dou, the archaeologist at the scene, but in the end it could only be attributed to the Dian Kingdom.
Burial culture is different from that of the Central Plains. After all, this is a mysterious country with only a few records in history.
However, in the eyes of Huangfu Zhenchuan's father, after seeing this record, he immediately thought of the ghost face. Maybe the existence among those bronze utensils was the ghost face, but I don't know why, the ghost face did not follow him in the end.
Buried together.
Huangfu Zhenchuan's father was very confident in his judgment, and this discovery also convinced Huangfu Zhenchuan's father that the mysterious little girl had something to do with the equally mysterious Dian country. It was even very likely that the Hongmen
The treasure mentioned by a senior refers to the treasure of Dian Kingdom.
After all, the Dian Kingdom disappeared mysteriously, and no one knew why the Dian Kingdom disappeared. It is understandable that the entire wealth of the Dian Kingdom was hidden and became a treasure for a country that was extremely wealthy.
After making this judgment, Huangfu Zhenchuan's father's thoughts became more and more obvious. He decided not to let the little girl take him to find the bamboo house, but began to investigate the Dian Kingdom.
However, things did not go so smoothly. Even in Yunnan, although many people have heard of the name Dian Kingdom, few people can tell about the history of Dian Kingdom, and even how many years ago Dian Kingdom existed.
For many years, no conclusion has been reached. Some said it was more than 100 years ago, and some said it was more than 300 years ago.
Some even say that during the Han Dynasty, when the Han army attacked, the king of Dian Kingdom left here with the entire people of Dian Kingdom and went overseas.
I have no clue. Such a huge kingdom, which has existed for hundreds of years, has only a few traces in history. To say that Yunnan is remote, it is okay if the historians of the Central Plains do not have too many descriptions and records.
I understand, but why are there no legends about the Dian Kingdom left among the local people?
Huangfu Zhenchuan's father had a vague feeling that after the mysterious disappearance of the Dian Kingdom, it was as if people in the future were deeply taboo about it and deliberately chose to forget about this kingdom.
However, it was precisely because of the mystery of the Dian Kingdom that Huangfu Zhenchuan's father became extremely curious about the Dian Kingdom. The Dian Kingdom was like a huge whirlpool, constantly attracting Huangfu Zhenchuan's father to explore.
It's a pity that even with the help of Yang Kun's father, Huangfu Zhenchuan's father still made little progress in his investigation of the Dian Kingdom. In the end, he lost patience and, like Huangfu Zhenchuan's grandfather, chose to rely on
little girl.
And this note ended abruptly here. Maybe Huangfu Zhenchuan wrote notes after leaving with the little girl and his men. However, then he would have to find Huangfu Zhenchuan's father or Huangfu Zhenchuan's father.
Only the body of the person can be found.
After closing the notebook, Qin Yu closed his eyes and slowly digested the information he had obtained, including the mysterious little girl who had not changed for hundreds of years, the ghost face pendant, the mysterious disappearance of the Dian Kingdom, and Huangfu Zhenchuan's father.
The reason why we judge that the little girl is related to the Dian Kingdom all stems from the grimace pendant. In other words, the grimace pendant is the clue that connects everything.
"Master Qin, to be honest, I have been looking for that little girl for so many years, because I firmly believe that the little girl will still appear, and she will still be in this area, because according to my father's notes, this little girl is related to the Dian Kingdom.
It is related, and the Dian Kingdom is the current Yunnan area, and even the Dian Lake in Kunming was the legendary capital of the Dian Kingdom, but it only became a vast ocean later."
Huangfu Zhenchuan looked at Qin Yu with a sincere expression, "Master Qin, I am not looking for the little girl for the treasure. My grandfather wants the treasure to fight against Japan and strengthen our Hongmen. But when it comes to my father and my generation,
But it’s no longer necessary. I just want to know the whereabouts of my grandfather and my father. Even if my grandfather and my father are dead, I will take their remains back."
Qin Yu understood what Huangfu Zhenchuan meant by saying this. Huangfu Zhenchuan wanted to help him. However, what Huangfu Zhenchuan didn't know was that even if he didn't say anything, he would have intervened in this matter, because, this matter
It's also related to myself. To be precise, it's related to me, Mo Yongxin, and the goddess.
"So after all these years, have you discovered anything new?" Qin Yu asked.
"have!"
Huangfu Zhenchuan looked serious, "There is a village near Dianchi Lake in Kunming called Shizhai Village. This village has a history of thousands of years. According to my investigation, the history of this village can be traced back to the Dian Kingdom period."
"What does that mean?" Mo Yongxing asked puzzledly.
"It can't explain anything." Huangfu Zhenchuan shook his head and replied.
"Uh..." Mo Yongxing just asked indifferently, but he didn't expect Huangfu Zhenchuan to answer like this, and he suddenly didn't know what to say.
"This little brother, Shizhai Village has existed for thousands of years, and the batch of bronze utensils from the Dian Kingdom, including the Dian Kingdom's gold seal, were all excavated near Shizhai Mountain." Chimuzha spoke.
, took Huangfu Zhenchuan’s words and explained: “If there is any ethnic group in Yunnan that has something to do with the Dian Kingdom, it must be this Shizhai Village. There is a high possibility that the villagers of Shizhai Village are Dian people.
The remnants of the country.”
"If that's the case, then you must have gone to this village to investigate?"
"No." Chimuzha shook his head and looked at each other with Huangfu Zhenchuan. Both of them had bitter smiles on their faces. Finally, Chimuzha said: "I have never known that Shizhai Village may have something to do with the Dian Kingdom, but we
I have never been to Shizhai Village.”
"Why?"
"Because I didn't find the little girl, I didn't dare to go."
Chimuzha's answer made Qin Yu's eyelids tremble a few times. The dignified leader and gentleman of Hongmen dared not even enter a village. I'm afraid no one would dare to believe what he said.
"Is it possible that this village is still a dragon's pool and a tiger's den?" Mo Yongxing's face showed a look of disbelief. Isn't it just a village? Why don't you dare to go in?
"Actually, the reason for the preparation is that we dare not go to the real Shizhai Village." Huangfu Zhenchuan took over Chimuzha's words and continued: "The current Shizhai Village is very wide, but half a century ago, the entire Shizhai Village was
Shizhai Village is actually very small, just such a small area, and the population is not large. The current Shizhai Village was expanded, and many people migrated from other places. The real Shizhai Village is very small."
After saying this, Huangfu Zhenchuan glanced at Yang Kun. Yang Kun took out a map from somewhere and spread it on the stone table. Then, Huangfu Zhenchuan drew a big circle on the map.
, said: "This is the current Shizhai Village, but the real Shizhai Village should be within this area."
Huangfu Zhenchuan picked up the pen and drew small circles in this big circle. Compared with this big circle, these small circles are almost negligible.
Qin Yu's eyes fell on the map, looking at the large and small circles drawn by Huangfu Zhenchuan, but he frowned slightly, looked at Chimuzha, and said: "How many people are there in Shizhai Village now?"
Household?"
"There are only thirty households left, and the total population of the village is 221." Chimuzha answered quickly. It was obvious that he had kept everything in Shizhai Village in his heart.
"This is a place where everyone is beautiful, no wonder you don't dare to go in." After hearing Chimuzha's answer, Qin Yu said slowly.
As soon as Qin Yu said these words, the expressions of Chimu Zha and Huangfu Zhenchuan changed suddenly, and they looked at Qin Yu with shocked expressions. They did not expect that this Qin Yu was the secret of Shizhai Village that took them a long time to discover.
The grandmaster discovered it after just looking at the map a few times. (To be continued)