Bone Picker

Chapter 91 The Origin of Mass Graves
The old man guarding the mountain stared at me angrily for a long time, and met my eyes.

I couldn't see what was going on in his mind.

But unexpectedly, he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed out of anger.

This smile made me dumbfounded, what on earth is he trying to do?
"Hey, I'm also confused!" The old man Shoushan said suddenly: "Actually, what can I explain to you? You don't care if you believe it or not! If you want to know the secret of Jiuxian Mountain, I will tell you." That's right, this little Taoist priest is not an outsider, their Bagua Sect also undertakes the same mission, and they also guard an important mountain."

"Huh?" I turned my head to look at Zibuyu, who was also shocked.

He said, "I don't know."

I thought, maybe Zibuyu is not yet a core member of the Bagua Sect, or maybe he is not the head of the sect yet, and they haven't told him about such an important matter of their sect.

Just like me, I'm the current head of the Li family, and I don't know about our Li family.

"Here is actually a stronghold of the White Lotus Sect, a very important stronghold." The old man Shoushan seemed to be remembering, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "Where do we start? Let's start with the White Lotus Sect selling private salt." .”

"Smuggling salt?" Zibuyu and I pricked up our ears, but we still didn't dare to relax our vigilance.

"As you know, in our era, salt was sold by the government, and the folks were not allowed to sell salt. Once caught, it would be a serious crime of beheading. But since the White Lotus Sect is against the imperial power of the current dynasty Organizations are naturally not afraid of beheadings, so they started the business of smuggling salt."

"In addition to selling private salt, the White Lotus Sect also has many businesses involved. There is only one purpose, and that is to earn silver taels! The purpose of making money is to support the tens of thousands of brothers under the White Lotus Sect. In fact, they are soldiers. , In addition, many activities also cost money." The old man Shoushan simply sat down, leaning his back against the tree trunk, and began to talk.

"There are actually two kinds of salt. One is sea salt from the sea. This part is basically under the control of the government, and the supervision is very strict. It is difficult for us to get it. The other is mountain salt, which is salt dug from the mountains. The ore, after processing, becomes edible salt, and what we sell is mountain salt.”

Zibuyu and I looked at each other. This is the first time I heard that salt can be produced in the mountains.

For someone like me who was born by the sea, it's really hard to believe.

"The Jiuxian Mountain Mine is a huge salt mine. The salt sold by the White Lotus Sect is also dug from this mine. You can go up to those mines and look for them. You will definitely find a lot of salt mines. The old man who guarded the mountain took a deep breath and said, "After we process these salt mines into coarse salt, we sell them in various mountainous areas. Because people in mountainous areas are far away from the sea, it is difficult to eat salt, and it is difficult for the government to trace, so the White Lotus Sect By selling salt, we earned enough silver to support the entire sect, this is also our confidence in fighting against the demons."

"In addition to salt mines, there is also iron ore here. We smelt pig iron ourselves, and then build weapons. Armed troops, there are people, money, and weapons. Why should we be oppressed by the Qing demon? , to fight the Qing army."

"And then?" I was fascinated and asked aloud.

"Then we have fought hundreds of battles with the Qing army, large and small, and won and lost each other over the past few decades, which has caused a lot of impact on the Qing Dynasty's notice. It's just that during these decades, although our team has continued to growth, but our casualties have also multiplied, and most of the people did not die in battle, but died suddenly inexplicably."

"Sudden death?" I widened my eyes, what's going on?

"At first we couldn't find the reason, but after analyzing the corpses, it was discovered that they died of a chronic poison. We thought that our team was mixed with the secret agents of the Qing army and secretly poisoned our food. , We didn’t know that there was something wrong with the salt we sold until we discovered that many of the people who bought our salt died suddenly.”

"Is the salt poisonous?"

"Yes." The old man who guarded the mountain nodded heavily and said: "The mountain salt mine is ore after all, and there must be some other things in it. We just boiled the salt mine and melted it, and then filtered it to become coarse salt. sell."

"But because I don't eat much salt every day, I didn't find anything. It may be a year or so, and there is no big problem, but over time, this chronic poison accumulates to a certain extent, and people will hide it. and die."

I am speechless, and I can only blame the previous detection methods for being too outdated.

"Hey." The old man who guarded the mountain often sighed, pointed to our feet and said, "These people are all the brothers of the White Lotus Sect who died of poisoning after eating mountain salt, and those people who died after eating poisonous salt. They were buried in the way of cliff cave burial, but you have also seen that the cliff cave burial could not be put in at all, so such a huge pit was dug, and once someone sheltered them, they would be thrown here. Thousands of corpses are buried here."

I looked at him in disbelief, and then turned my head to look at Zibuyu, feeling that these people came here like this.

It was not our Li family who killed it, but the generals and common people of the White Lotus Sect who died after eating poisonous salt.

"Then what happened to the sword wounds on their bodies?" Zibuyu asked.

At that time, we saw poison on the bones, and there were fatal sword wounds. We thought that someone killed people in order to create a place for corpses.

"We are the White Lotus Sect, a rebel team, and have fought hundreds of battles with the Qing army. Which soldier has not suffered a few sword wounds?" the old man guarding the mountain asked.

Zibuyu and I were speechless, this explanation is in place.

"Then they knew that the salt was poisonous, so they couldn't eat it or sell it, and the Qing army also discovered the salt mine, so they organized a large number of troops to encircle and suppress it. After many battles, both sides suffered countless casualties. The casualties of the sect were greater." The old man guarding the mountain sighed and said: "As the protector of the White Lotus Sect, my father came up with an asymmetrical strategy, and he and I set up the Nine Nether Bone Formation above. Also refine the Five Elements and Five Evils True Monarch, let the formations guard this place, and then the large troops will evacuate here."

Now I finally know the true purpose of the Nine Nether Bone Formation.

"In the end, the Qing army captured this place, but apart from the poisonous salt mines and iron mines, there were only countless dead bodies left. They were also afraid of being infected with the plague, so they just sealed it up and sent people outside. Guard, I don’t dare to mine.” After speaking, the old man who guarded the mountain sighed again, he must have recalled the scene of fighting back then.

(End of this chapter)