Xixia dead book

Chapter 42: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (42)
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"The party members believed his words? Maybe he made it up!" Han Jiang questioned.

"Wei Ming Zunxu took out a string of human bone rosary beads, saying that it was given to him by the warrior before his death. As evidence, the officials and people of Xingqing Mansion were sure that there were no such human bone rosary beads in Xixia at that time, so they asked him The narrative is undeniable."

"Human bone rosary, is this string in your hand?" Tang Feng asked suddenly.

Hearing Tang Feng's question, the great lama clasped his hands together, looked at the string of human bone rosary beads in his palm, and said, "That's right, the string of human bone rosary beads brought back by Wei Ming Zunxu back then is the string in my hand. He not only brought back the string of human bone rosary beads The human bone rosary, and the four jade screens on his back, coupled with the experience of his narrow escape and the exciting news brought back, Wei Ming Zunxu's status in the hearts of the Chinese people has risen sharply. Wei Ming Zunxu took the opportunity to tell the Chinese people Promise that if everyone supports him as the emperor of Xixia, he will lead the people to take back the treasures of the Hanhaimi City and defeat the invading Mongols. The party members are already dissatisfied with the incompetent Weiming security, facing Zunxu's beautiful promise , there is no reason not to choose him. Therefore, Zunxu easily abolished Wei Mingping and became the emperor of Xixia."

"Another coup!" Makarov sighed.

"Did Wei Zunxu fulfill his original promise after he became emperor?" Han Jiang asked.

"After Zunxu became emperor, he completely changed Weiming's policy of coordinating gold to attack Mongolia, and took the initiative to repair Mongolia. After a few years of stability, he knew that this peace was only short-lived, so he did not stop looking for it for a moment. Hanhai Micheng’s actions. However, he sent several groups of people who either returned without success, or disappeared without a trace. It didn’t take long for the Mongols to know the secret of Hanhaimi City and sent envoys several times When he came to Xingqing Mansion, on the one hand, he demanded that Xixia send troops to attack the Kingdom of Jin, and on the other hand, he asked for jade screens, which made the people of the Xixia court panic. Zunxu delayed and prevaricated several times, but the conflict between Mongolia and Xixia finally broke out. Before Genghis Khan’s expedition to the west, he sent envoys to Xixia to ask for jade screens, and asked Xixia to send troops to help in the battle. Xixia was already overwhelmed by the burden imposed by Mongolia. Before Zunxu could answer the Mongolian envoy, his minister Asha dared to reject Mongolia directly. People's request. After the envoy returned to his mission, Genghis Khan was really furious and led a large army to come. Zunxu was unable to resist, so he had to beg for peace. Genghis Khan was busy with the Western Expedition at that time, so he agreed to Xixia's begging for peace and led the troops to retreat.

"This conquest by the Mongols dealt a serious blow to Zunxu. In desperation, he had to give way to his second son Wei named Dewang. Dewang was young and vigorous, and once again united with the Kingdom of Jin in an attempt to fight against Mongolia. Mongolia conquered Xixia for the fifth time. At that time, Genghis Khan was still on his way to the west, so this time the Mongols’ conquest was just a lesson for Xixia, and the real punishment was yet to come, so Xixia was able to survive. At this time, the entire empire The apocalyptic atmosphere is pervasive, and no one dares to hold on to the city of Mi in the vast desert. In such an apocalyptic atmosphere, the party members waited for the final apocalypse."

"That's 1227, when Genghis Khan conquered Xixia for the last time?" Tang Feng said.

"That was the darkest chapter in the history of the party nation. When the Mongolian envoy came to Xingqing Mansion to announce the ultimatum, Asha dared to speak big words again, and Genghis Khan was completely enraged. He personally conquered Xixia when he was sick, and swore: "To die, to destroy, to exterminate! From the parents of the people of Tang Wuti to the children and grandchildren of their children and grandchildren, all will be killed!" In the early spring of the last year of the White Empire, Genghis Khan's army surrounded Xingqing Mansion. Sheng Dewang had died suddenly, and his nephew Wei Minghu was supported by the Chinese as the last emperor of Xixia. This time the capital was besieged, unlike in the past, this time the Mongols had captured all the towns and cities of Xixia except Xingqing Mansion , The power of the empire has been completely lost. Unless there are magical soldiers from the sky, Xixia will undoubtedly perish. The whole city, women and children, old and young, they know that there will be no more rescuers to rescue them, unless it is the one who was ambushed by King Hao back then. That group of troops... But they were eager to see through, but they couldn't wait for a single soldier. Wei Mingxi took out the four jade screens, and he was determined that even if the city was broken, he would not let these four jade screens fall into it. Therefore, Wei Mingxi ordered people to search the whole city, only to find the only jade craftsman left in the city. He asked the craftsman to erase the original Chinese characters engraved on the front of the jade screen, and re-use Dangxiang characters, and it was in Dangxiang official script, which is rarely used, engraves the original words of King Hao, and then engraves the hidden location of another jade screen on each jade screen, and then secretly sends four groups of people with four jade screens Ping rushed out of Xingqing Mansion and went to the four places where the jade screens were secretly stored."

"Using party words? Is it to prevent others from recognizing the content on the jade screen?" Tang Feng asked.

"Yes, that's exactly what Wei Mingxiu meant!"

"Then did these four groups of people arrive at the scheduled location?" Han Jiang asked.

"No one knows about this, because since then, the four jade screens have been separated from each other, and they have never been gathered together, and no one knows where the four jade screens are stored... In this way, Xingqing Mansion has always been He was surrounded until midsummer. It was also the midsummer of this year that Genghis Khan, who recuperated in Liupanshan, deteriorated and finally died in Liupanshan. There are rumors that Genghis Khan was stabbed to death in the big tent by a party boy in white."

"What? A party boy in white?" Tang Feng suddenly remembered the strange nightmare on the plane.

"In any case, Genghis Khan, the conqueror of the world, finally died on the land of Xixia. Come and surrender, and then kill all the party members in the city. It was the bloodiest night in the history of Xingqing Mansion, a night of massacre of the city! In Xingqing Mansion, no matter men, women, old or young, all were killed, and there were very few party members who survived ..." At this point, the great lama stopped narrating, and began to read an obscure scripture.

The hall suddenly became silent, and everyone was silent.

【No.18 Massacre City Night】

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After being silent for a long time, Tang Feng saw that the great lama had stopped chanting sutras, so he broke the silence carefully: "Then...then how did you party members come here?"

"Is your ancestor one of the four people who escaped from the Xingqing Mansion with the Jade Chaping before the Xixia Kingdom fell?" Han Jiang interjected.

The great lama sighed softly, and said: "No! Our ancestors are not the last few troops sent by Wei Mingxi. The ancestors of our family are the Wuzang people I mentioned earlier."

"Ah! No wonder many of the spiritual boxes we saw in the pillar hall had the word 'No Zang' written on them. It turns out that you are the descendants of the Wu Zang family." Tang Feng was amazed by this astonishing discovery.

"Yes, we are all descendants of the Wuzang family. The Wuzang family has lost power after the death of Wuzang Yepang. The emperor will no longer trust the Wuzang family. In order to avoid disaster, the Wuzang people moved to Helan Mountain. Until the last moment of the empire. For so many years, our family has passed down such a legend from generation to generation. When Xingqing Mansion was attacked by the Mongolian army, there was a young man in white who fled to the village where the Wuzang family lived with a burden on his back. I just learned from the boy in white that Xingqing Mansion had been captured by the Mongols. It was a bloody massacre. The Mongols have always had a tradition of massacring cities. This time, the party members were not so lucky.

"In order to save the people in the city, Wei Mingyu led the crowd to open the city gate and surrendered to the Mongols. He didn't know the news of Genghis Khan's death at this time. When he led his people to the Mongolian camp, he found out that Genghis Khan was dead. , but it is too late to regret at this time, the Mongols will not forgive those who surrendered as before. Because Genghis Khan died in Xixia, whether he was killed by the party members or not, the Mongols vowed to avenge Genghis Khan. Therefore, Mongolia The people first killed Wei Minghu, and then massacred the party members. That night, blood flowed like rivers in the Xingqing mansion, it was horrible, the boy in white broke through the siege, and then escaped."

"What's in the boy's baggage?" Han Jiang asked.

"It's a piece of jade screen! According to the boy in white, the four men and horses that Wei Mingxi ordered to take the jade screen out of the city were dispersed by the Mongolian cavalry, and one of them was forced to return to the city. When the city was broken, a woman Entrusted him with a burden. When he fled to Helan Mountain with the burden on his back, he was shot by several arrows in the back, and there were Mongolian cavalry chasing after him. Fortunately, the village where the Wuzang family lived was hidden in the valley of Helan Mountain, and the Mongolian cavalry The village where the Wuzang family lived was not found for a while. When he opened the package, everyone found a jade screen inside. At night, when the Mongolian cavalry who were chasing after them retreated, the patriarch decided to take the jade screen and leave with his family. Helan Mountain, leaving the beautiful and rich Ningxia Plain."

"Since then, you party members have embarked on the road home." Tang Feng couldn't help sighing.

"Yes, go home! Helan Mountain and Ningxia Plain are our home, but they no longer belong to us. Just like the party members left their homeland and migrated here in order to survive, our party members once again embarked on migration in order to survive This is the fate of the nomads, the first song of the Yellow River, the source of the White River, this is the original hometown of our Dangxiang people. The road home is long and long. Encountered a blizzard, just when the whole family was about to freeze, they found a cave in the valley under the glacier, no, to be precise, it was a stone chamber!"

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"Heitou Shishi!" Both Tang Feng and Han Jiang exclaimed.

The big lama seemed to be unable to hide his excitement, and he raised his voice obviously: "Heitou Shishi, the birthplace of our ancestors. The whole family rushed into the stone room. It was freezing outside, but the stone room was as warm as spring. The stone room saved the lives of the whole family." At this time, the patriarch and the boy in white remembered the jade screen. What was written on the jade screen? The boy in white took out the jade screen and everyone carefully identified it. The difficult verses, none of the clansmen understood what these verses meant, only the young man in white read out the meaning of the verses."

"Is the first line of the poem on this jade screen 'Long Mi Yao Ren Guo is there'?" Tang Feng suddenly remembered Professor Luo's previous judgment.

"It is impossible for me to know what verses are engraved on the jade screen. In short, the boy in white recognized the meaning of the verses on the jade screen, and claimed, 'This jade screen should have been stored in the Heitou Stone Chamber. , we came to the Blackhead Stone Room because we avoided the snowstorm, this is the call of the Changshengtian, the will of the gods.' After hearing this, the people of the tribe knelt down and thanked the blessing of the Changshengtian, and from then on, this jade screen was placed in the Blackhead Stone Room."

"And what happened next?" Makarov asked.

"Later, we crossed the Animaqing Snow Mountain, went all the way south and came back here, and also returned to the mountains in the northwest of Sichuan, hiding our names and living in seclusion. After more than 100 years like this, people who lived in seclusion in the mountains heard that the dynasty had changed. The Yuan Dynasty had long since perished. So the tribesmen left the mountains one after another, and lived together with the local Qiang, Han, and Tibetan ethnic groups. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty even conferred the title of chieftain on our party, which lasted until the early years of the Republic of China. Later, due to the war, more As the population in Shanghai decreased, we gave up the Qiang village that we had been operating for many years, and all came here—Qise Jinhai, our paradise, and the last paradise of the party members.”

"In this way, everything is correct. The Qiang village we saw in the mountains was abandoned by you, no wonder it is still so well preserved." Tang Feng said.

"Qiang village? Have you ever been to that Qiang village? Is that Qiang village okay? I spent my childhood there." As he spoke, a gleam of light flashed in the eyes of the great lama.

Tang Feng hesitated to speak, he really couldn't bear to say that the Qiang village had been blown up by those who chased and killed them, the Dalai Lama must not be able to accept this reality, so he had to prevaricate: "Oh! That Qiang village...is okay! It’s just been in disrepair for a long time.” Tang Feng suddenly remembered the tunnel in the Qiang village, and his curiosity prompted him to ask the great lama, “Do you remember the tunnel under the Qiang village? How come there are so many tunnels in it? Bones?"

"Authentic? Bones? When I was a child, I heard from my elders that those bones were collected by our tribe after defeating the enemy. As for why we did that, I think it might be to show our military exploits!" the great lama explained.

"We were in the tunnel and saw those bones piled up like a mountain, blocking the tunnel. Do you know what is at the end of the tunnel?" Tang Feng asked again.

The great lama shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know either. I heard from the elders in the clan that the end of the tunnel is connected to a shaft. Apart from that, I haven't heard anything else."

"Shaft?" The terrifying scene of Stephen falling down the shaft immediately appeared in Tang Feng's mind.

At this moment, the great lama said slowly to the three of them: "I have told you everything I know, and you must swear to keep this secret for us."

Tang Feng, Han Jiang, and Makarov looked at each other after listening. None of them could guarantee it, because if they had to go to the Heitou Shishi to find the second jade screen, it would inevitably make outsiders, especially those who hunted them down. Knowing this secret, maybe those people will find them soon.Tang Feng suddenly felt an ominous premonition.

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Tang Feng didn't know how to answer the big lama, but Han Jiang asked: "But there is one more thing we don't understand. We saw two bones in the cave. Judging from the items they left behind, these two bones seem to be Went into the cave in the 20s, then had an accident and died in the cave. Can you give some clues about these two people?"

After listening to Han Jiang's question, the great lama meditated for a while, and suddenly said in shock: "Could it be that their ghosts are lingering!"

"What haunts you?" Han Jiang asked.

The great lama tried his best to maintain his composure, and said slowly: "Over the years, there have been some outsiders who have strayed into the sea of ​​colorful brocades, but most of them are tourists or hunters nearby. After we swore to keep the secret for us, we all kept They were sent out here safely, and these people also kept their oath and did not tell our secrets, so we can live in peace until today. However, several decades ago, there were a few people like you who, for jade insertion Come on the screen."

"What? You...you mean that the two bones in the cave also came for the jade screen?" Tang Feng was extremely surprised.

(End of this chapter)