Ghost Blowing Lantern II

Such a secret treasure must be regarded as an ancient relic of great importance. The leader did not dare to neglect it and presented it in front of the bandit chief. The group of thieves gathered around to look at it. They were all amazed. They had never seen it before. Even Chen Xiazi, the leader of the Xiling bandits, could not identify it. His mind was at a loss as to its origin. This bronze man looked like a talisman and an ornament, so strange that there must be something famous in it.

Blind Chen couldn't figure out the mystery of the bronze man, and he didn't want to show doubts in front of the thieves. He quoted some scriptures and made a few random remarks, then ordered his men to burn the bones all over the cave with fire. The whole box The whole bundle of Taoist classics was burned to the ground. This was not done to vent anger, but was the rule of conduct on the green forest road. Whether it was killing people and stealing goods, or digging graves and graves, they must be set on fire in the end, in order to eliminate traces and leave no future troubles. .

Then the group of thieves dissected the strange python's body and threw it into the fire. The stench in the fire hit their faces, and many people were so smoked that they vomited. At this time, spies came to report that several more snakes had appeared around Lao Xiong Ridge in Nuqing County. The team of unknown origins, including soldiers and bandits, seemed to want to take advantage of the chaos among the bandits in Xieling to come to Pingshan to make a fortune. Most of the defeated soldiers who had fled earlier were robbed and killed by these groups of people on the way.

Blind Chen thought to himself that this damn thing is called the Pogu Ten Thousand Hammers. The bandits and bandits around Nuqing County have also come to fish in troubled waters. This time, too many people died in the tomb robbing and unloading the mountains. The group of thieves are uneasy and want to continue to stay. If you hold on hard, you won't get any good results. A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses and keeps the green hills. He's not afraid of running out of firewood, so it's better to evacuate this troubled place as soon as possible.

Blind Chen made up his mind, quickly called everyone, threw all the bodies of the thieves and engineers who had been smashed to death into the cave, and burned them together. He took the injured brothers with him and evacuated Laoxiong Ridge from the dense forest overnight. The border wall was his own territory, and he himself took twenty or thirty cronies, carrying quick guns and sharp blades, to the mountain col to meet Partridge Sentinel and others.

Partridge Whistle also picked up the important things and told him about his encounter in the forest. In any case, it was not a failure so far. After all, he had broken into the ancient tomb in Pingshan, opened the coffin, opened the body, and pulled out a piece of jade. With the gold belt in hand, he turned a disastrous defeat into a disastrous victory, took full credit, and somewhat saved Blind Chen's face.

Blind Chen was deeply moved when he saw Partridge Whistle going through life and death. He cupped his hands and said, "You and I will never say thank you to each other. When you go to find Muchen Bead in the future, the hundreds of thousands of thieves in Changsheng Mountain will definitely help you." , go in water, go in fire, go in fire, if you violate this, let me, like this bronze man, break a pair of tricks, and be a useless person for the rest of my life."

The Partridge Whistle quickly said: "Mr. Chen is serious about his words. I robbed this tomb and found a clue to the phoenix gallbladder in the tomb. If all the heroes in the Shengshan Mountain had helped me, I would still be wandering around Guizhou like a needle in a haystack. This is a great kindness. Next time Brother Chen goes to the mountains to rob tombs, no matter how difficult the mountains or rivers are, I will follow him and sacrifice my life to repay this great kindness. Otherwise, I will be taught to be a partridge whistle for the rest of my life. Crippled person.”

The two men were so impulsive that they inadvertently cast a spell, but neither of them really thought about it at the time. They looked at the sky and suddenly heard the chaotic sound of gunfire in the distance. They carefully discerned the movement, and it seemed that they were spying on the treasure of Pingshan. The bandits were on fire. Chen Xiazi was afraid of encountering a large group of bandits. He used these days to operate near Pingshan and became familiar with the surrounding terrain. He led the crowd to carry the injured, took a small road out of the mountain, crossed the ridge and waded He arrived at the border wall of the Miao border, finally returned to the brigade, and retreated non-stop to the home base of Xiangyin.

The group of thieves were exhausted and rested for several days. The caveman guide failed to hold his breath in the tomb and inhaled a lot of "ling miasma" poison. He died. The broken leg bone of the red girl was finally reattached. , but as the saying goes, "it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones." Within three months, she couldn't walk.

By the time he regained his strength, Chen Xiazi had realized that his position as the chief helmsman of Changsheng Mountain was in jeopardy. From ancient times to the present, the most serious casualties among tomb robbers might be the robbery of the ancient tombs of Pingshan in Xiling. , and Luo Laowai's troops were so scattered that they could no longer be gathered together. Changsheng Mountain lost its prestige on the ground in Hunan.

Blind Chen couldn't help but get angry. The current situation was not optimistic. If he didn't steal a large tomb and make a fortune, it would be difficult to make a comeback. However, most of the ancient tombs in the surrounding provinces had been destroyed. Where could there be any large-scale ancient tombs at the level of princes and kings? tomb? After thinking about it for a while, an idea came to his mind.

In the early years, when Chen Xiazi first debuted, he often fought in the south. From Guangdong and Lakes to Yunnan and Jiangxi, he left his footprints everywhere. He once robbed the tombs of the Dian kings in Lijiashan, Yunnan. The tombs of the ancient Dian Kingdom in Lijiashan were stacked one on top of another. Many tomb robbers in the past dynasties have dug up treasures in this mountain. However, because the target of the Lijiashan Dian King's tomb is so obvious, it has been stolen countless times since the Song Dynasty. It is not that nine out of ten tombs are empty, but basically There are ten tombs and ten empty ones.

When Chen Xiazi went there, he had already arrived in the Republic of China. When he went to Lijiashan, he saw that "the stone people had their eyes closed and the pillars were burning silently". It was like a desolate state where thousands of holes were dug by thefts and the people who fell in love were in charge of it. The tombs left behind by others are called "leaching pits". The first group of tomb robbers who find the ancient tombs and enter the mausoleums have the most to gain. They return home laden with gold, jewels and jade, while the rest are looked down upon.

Although the second group of tomb robbers came in, they saved some effort, but most of the valuable underworld artifacts were not available to them. They had to pick up what was left by the first group of thieves, such as the burial robe worn by the tomb owner's body or the tomb chamber. The copper lamps, clay pots, human figurines, stone animals, etc. inside were all looted by the second group of people.

When the third group of tomb robbers came in, there was basically only an empty coffin and four corners left in the tomb. However, thieves do not steal empty-handed, so the third group of thieves could not return empty-handed. If there were murals in the tomb, The murals were cut and scraped, and if there were no murals, the tomb bricks and tiles were excavated. Finally, the coffin boards were dragged back, washed, and then sold to coffin shops as coffin materials.

Chen Xiazi and others arrived at Lijiashan. When they saw the tombs of ancient Dian princes and nobles, only mud holes were left. They had been filtered out many times by civilians and thieves, and not even the bones of the dead were given to future generations. remain.

However, blind Chen Chen was lucky at that time. They did not give up and dug into several mud ponds with deep mud-colored grass marks. They found a tomb of the last Dian king that had only been stolen two or three times. However, there were also other things in this tomb. There was no obvious weapon left, only an empty coffin. The material was extraordinary. It was all precious wood from the primitive forests of Yunnan. Chen Xiazi had to dismantle the coffin board, but unexpectedly found a human skin map inside. Please go back and ask for help. The craftsmen restored it, and the area depicted on the map turned out to be the specific location of the "Tomb of King Xian".

Most tomb robbers know the various legends about the "Tomb of King Xian". It is said that the ancient tomb was built extremely luxuriously and that thousands of people were sacrificed. Moreover, the underground palace is a palace in the sky. Mortals who want to enter the ancient tomb to pay homage to King Xian, You can only reach it by riding a small boat from the Tianhe River and crossing the Yin River. If you go there, you will never come back. You will have to stay there to serve King Xian.

This tomb exists in heaven and does not exist in the world. It can never be defeated by tomb robbers. These legends have been circulating for a long time and will inevitably become distorted. Many veterans in the tomb robbing industry believe that the "Tomb of the King Xian" is just a legend. The emperors of Qin, Hanwu, Tang Zong and Song Zu all had to build their tombs underground. How could he, a grass-headed emperor in southern Xinjiang, build ancient tombs in the dragon halo in the sky? This is absolutely impossible to do.

Seeing that it was difficult to find the ancient tombs around him, and eager to make a big move, Blind Chen came up with the idea of ​​"dedicating the tomb of the king", and immediately took out the human skin map to discuss it in detail with Partridge Whistle.

However, Partridge Whistle was only thinking about the Muchen Bead hidden in Heishui City of Western Xia Dynasty. He had no interest in "presenting the king's tomb". All his spiritual life was devoted to the Muchen Bead. The legend of Yunnan Worm Valley was illusory. He was not sure whether there was a tomb of King Xian in the world. He mobilized troops to go to Yunnan, but he might not be able to gain anything. So he told Blind Chen that he would first go to the desert of Heishui City to steal the treasure. After that, he would help the Xiling group to find "King Xian". tomb".

Blind Chen disagreed. Nowadays, consolidating the position of the helmsman of Changsheng Mountain is a top priority. Logically speaking, it is easier to find the "Tomb of King Xian" in the deep mountains and old forests than to find Heishui City buried under the yellow sand. After all, there is a leather map with a standard and clear route that you can refer to, but finding ancient ruins in the desert is really harder than climbing to the sky. I have never heard of tomb robbers searching for treasures in the desert. The boundless desert is... It is a forbidden area that is difficult for tomb robbers to enter, and it is difficult to use the method of moving mountains and unloading mountains in such a place.

Partridge Whistle often travels alone. When he went to Heishui City in Xixia, he didn't want to let the Xiling group of bandits help him, but he was open-minded and told blind man Chen bluntly that when it came to the tomb robbery in the desert, in fact, Taoist Taoist Banshan had the entire The family members all migrated from the deserts of the Western Regions to the south of the Yangtze River. They also went deep into the desert many times to search for ancient ruins, but that was thousands of years ago.

As early as the Han Dynasty, Banshan Taoist priests had exhausted their efforts to find the Muchen Bead. At that time, some people thought that if they could not find the Muchen Bead, they might as well return to their ancestral home, Shuanghei Mountain, and go to the bottomless ghost cave in the Zagrama Sacred Mountain. If we look into it, we can find out the source of the evil curse.

However, at that time, the Shuanghei Mountains of Zagrama had been occupied by the Ghost Cave People. They built a city at the end of the Shuangsheng Valley, with the country name "Jingjue", and the Queen Jingjue in it was an extraordinary person. .

Legend has it that Queen Jingjue can capture people with her eyes. Some people say that her magic is a moving magic, while others say it is a magic that uses round light to capture souls. No one knows her true identity. There are many in the thirty-six countries in the Peacock River Basin. Under the control of Jing Jue, Taoist Banshan sneaked into the heavily guarded Zagrama Mountain several times, but was discovered by the guards and lost several lives out of thin air.

Later, a Taoist who moved mountains finally came up with a clever plan to deal with Jingjue Kingdom. Jingjue was so strong because the queen of the country was so powerful. As long as this person was removed, the city could be broken easily.

So this senior Taoist of Banshan pretended to be a fortune teller from the far east, and used the art of vertical and horizontal alliances to make the countries in the Western Regions, which were enslaved by the Jingjue, share the same hatred. The countries joined hands and secretly planned to gather troops and attack. In the main city of Jingjue, Taoist Banshan prepared slow medicine and hid it in the meat of the golden lamb. Prince Gu Mo, the first warrior of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, brought the golden lamb to the Queen of Jingjue and used the slow medicine to kill the queen.

The weakness of Queen Jingjue is that she thinks too highly of herself. She is the bright moon in the desert that eclipses the stars. She thinks that only a god-like figure like her can taste the golden lamb. Sure enough, she fell into this trick and soon became poisonous. He died in a fatal accident and was buried in the bottomless ghost cave of Zagrama Mountain. When the coalition forces of various countries, which had been ambushing in the desert for a long time, learned of the queen's death, their morale was immediately boosted and they stormed into the city with all their strength.

The coalition forces slaughtered all the Jingjue people in the city regardless of good or bad. The fierce battle lasted from the early morning of the first day to the early morning of the next day. Finally, the underground palace was captured. The coalition soldiers who had a deep hatred for Queen Jingjue were about to He was going to dig up the queen's ancient tomb to vent her hatred, and then empty out the large amount of treasures that the queen had collected. Suddenly, there was sand and stone flying in the desert, and the sun and moon were dim.

The all-devouring black sandstorm was like the whip of the true god. It moved the sand dunes wherever it went, covering everything in Zagrama Mountain. The coalition forces that invaded the city, including the mountain-moving Taoist who unexpectedly planned to assassinate Queen Jingjue, all Swallowed by the desert, in the following thousands of years, only after the desert storm has passed, the ancient city of Jingjue will occasionally reveal its mysterious veil. As the quicksand moves, this ghost-eyed city, like a flash in the pan, will sink again. Into the rolling yellow sand.

The rest of the Taoist mountain movers were not willing to give in. After that, they continued to go deep into the desert, looking for the Shuangheishan Mountains buried deep under the yellow sand, but they all returned in vain. They tried their best, but could not find the unmarked Zagrama Sacred Mountain. Completely gave up on this idea.

During this period, Taoist Banshan who entered the desert encountered countless adventures and accidentally found some ancient tombs. Finally, he came to a consensus to search for ancient tombs and cities in the desert without any special geographical markers. For Taoist Banshan, Not even a one in ten thousand chance.

After hearing these old stories, Blind Man Chen became ambitious and could not help but imagine that he would lead a large group of thieves deep into the desert, dig out mountains of gold and silver in the ancient city, and then return to Xiangyin to do some earth-shattering things. In the future, the person named Chen may be the founding ancestor of the People's Republic of China, and let the American, British, and Japanese barbarians who have repeatedly invaded our country of China write "letters of surrender" to the Celestial Empire one by one. "I accept the obedience, make offerings every year, and come to court every year." In this way, he followed his heart and lived up to the ambition of a man. He disciplined those few lines in the history of the Qing Dynasty, leaving a name of "Xiling".

The Partridge Whistle saw that Blind Man Chen's face was cloudy and clear for a while, as if he was happy and sad at times. How could he tell how ambitious he was? I asked him what was distracting him? Only then did Blind Chen come back to his senses and sighed again and again. He also understood that going to the desert to hunt for treasure was ultimately a wishful thinking to the bandits in Xiling. Even if there were tens of thousands of people, they would only be able to find treasure in the boundless desert. It's like a drop in the ocean, it won't do anything, God knows where to dig it up? (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)