Chapter 85: The Origin of the Ghost City (I)
According to the words of Master Tang, Yao Village turned into a ghost town, which happened once hundreds of years ago during the Ming Dynasty, that is, on the fourth day of the first month of 1368, when Zhu Yuanzhang took Yingtianfu (present-day Nanjing) as the capital and the country was called Daming.
Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang was so ambitious that after he unified the mountains and rivers, the people of the world lived in peace and happiness. There were no more conquests and a period of peace was ushered in.
And at that time, there was a great man who was a household name in Liu's village in Qingyuanfu (present-day Hechi City) of the Great Ming Dynasty.
This person is named Liu Qiming, born in the village of Liu family of a farmer's home, his parents died when he was a child, and then was adopted by a widowed old woman, has been raised to the age of eighteen, the old woman before she died.
At that time, Liu Qiming was determined to become a good person, he wanted to be like the widowed woman who adopted him to help others, to be a respected good person.
So after the widowed old woman was widowed, Liu Qiming started his road to be a good person.
The village old man who has no one to rely on, he went up the mountain to the old people to cut wood, diving, accompanied the old people to chat to relieve boredom, and on New Year's Day will give some gifts to the old people. Whose family's man died, he carried a hoe to help whose widow planting plow, whose family was robbed by bandits, he will not be stingy to put his own money out of some, to help those who were robbed to get through the difficult times.
So Liu Qiming gradually became the number one good guy in Liu's village, no matter it was the village head or the villagers, when they mentioned the word Liu Qiming, they would immediately give a thumbs up, and all of them praised Liu Qiming's character. However, Liu Qiming also has another title in this village, that is, the masked gentleman.
This Liu Qiming although willing to do good, but also has a fetish, that is, whether it is out, on the street, sleep, or is to do something, his face will always be covered with a piece of gauze, cover the face, it can be said that from the birth of Liu Qiming to the present, no one has ever seen Liu Qiming's real face, so the village people gave Liu Qiming a masked gentleman title, so that the love of doing good to the good people, and then more than a layer of mysterious veil.
"I say he Liu family male, such a hot day, why still with your coarse cloth hanky, not hot dead people. Could it be that by taking it off, I could still eat you?"
Liujia Village, the village's first beautiful widow Zhong You asked Liu Qiming teasingly, she was fifteen years old, the family's man in a rainy day on the mountain to cut firewood was smashed by the mudslide, has been widowed until now, has twenty one, is also considered to be a household name of the village of the beauty of the small widow.
And this little widow of the Liu family village, has always had a good feeling about Liu Qiming. At this moment is also teasing Liu Qiming, want to see her heart secretly good feelings of the young man is a handsome look.
But this Liu Qiming everything is good, the village people what things he is a request, but only who let him take off the veil, that how can not.
"He Zhong You sister-in-law, you don't have to make fun of me, this day is like a tiger's poison, you'd better go back to rest quickly. I'll do the geography work!"
Liu Qiming said, also not angry, stifling work, but the widow Zhong You a burst of heart and soul, what a good ah, if you can become a family member, it is also a beautiful thing.
Zhong You thought, from the back hugged Liu Qiming, "Liu family son, is it that you still do not understand a piece of my heart, as long as you are willing, I would like to follow you for life."
"He Zhong You sister-in-law, don't be like this, Xiao Sheng is not worthy of sister-in-law you by all means."
For the first time in my life, I was hugged by a woman, for the first time, someone expressed his love for Liu Qiming, which made Liu Qiming's heart like a deer, the whole person panicked, and that Zhong You said: "Liu's son, do you dislike the slave, although the slave is not a perfect body, but the slave's heart for the son is true, the slave only seeks to do the son's a concubine which is still not? "
Zhong You continued to say, a look is going to give up the appearance, so Liu Qiming even more panicked, almost threw down the hoe to run. But at this very moment, a small child who can be more than ten years old ran from a distance, breaking this embarrassing situation for Liu Qiming.
"He Liu family big brother, not good, the village old Li head went to the mountains to hunt encountered a big bug (tiger), by the big bug back chased all over the mountain, his son came back to report, the village chief is organizing people to go up the mountain to rescue it, asked you to quickly go over."
That little waif said crisply, and Liu Qiming was like grasping a life-saving straw, immediately answered, "Good, I'll go with you, he Zhong You sister-in-law, geography work I'll help you do tomorrow, you also go back to rest quickly."
Said, Liu Qiming and that wazi went back to the village, and then and the village chief, and more than thirty strong man, and that old Li head of the son Li Dagou, with steel fork, bow and arrow and so on up to the mountain to rescue that old Li head went.
But the mountain is so big, the old Li head is being chased by a tiger, how can it still be in the original position? So when it was dark, they couldn't find any trace of Old Li.
So the village chief decided to give up on Old Li Tou, after all, in those days, walking in the mountains at night was very dangerous, and it was easy to lose one's life. So at that time everyone went down the mountain when it was dark, even that old Li head's son Li Dagou was the same.
But Liu Qiming didn't, he really couldn't bear to give up Old Li Tou and let him perish in the mountain. So after everyone went down the mountain, Liu Qiming he still continued to search in the mountains.
That night, Liu Qiming almost put a pair of shoes are walking broken, the soles of the feet are full of big blisters as big as fingernail caps, he has encountered wolves, has been to the human bear cave, and almost encountered do not know how many dangers, and in the next day dawn, Liu Qiming in the mountains in the side of a river ditch, to find the old Li Tou.
The old Li head was unconscious, body full of injuries, the mouth of a hard to say nonsense, what ghost grandfather spare life, small old man to avoid the plague of insects, before mistakenly broke into your house, don't ask for my life and so on.
After this Liu Qiming only know, the old Li head then to avoid the tiger's pursuit, hiding into a cave, and that cave is actually a tomb, do not know what age, years and days before the cracked mouth, and then the old Li head confusion, fell into the tomb's mouth, lucky to escape the big tiger's pursuit.
However, although the old Li head avoided that big tiger's pursuit, but is also scared lightly, that tomb do not know what belongs to what people, very scary, inside everywhere is human bones, the old Li head at first casually touched, and ran into a skull, which did not put the old Li head to die of fear. At that time, jumped out of the cave, ran desperately, and then ran too fast, rolled down from the mountain, unconscious in the river, and finally was found by Liu Qiming, to bring back.
This thing was a big sensation in Liu's village, the village people heard the description of the old head of Li, they felt that the old head of Li encountered should be an ancient tomb, which should have gold and silver treasures.
So at that time, the village chief, as well as some of the people who can speak, organized a village of strong men, discussed a go to the mountains to dig ancient tombs, if you can bring out some treasures from the tomb, so that everyone's life will also be richer.
For the village chief's proposal of digging an ancient tomb, almost everyone in the village agreed, even Liu Qiming, although he knew that it was immoral to touch the dead people's things, but in that era when anyone's children could starve to death at any time, if he could offend some dead people's face and make more living people live, Liu Qiming felt that there was nothing wrong with it.
So on the second day after Old Li Tou came back, the people went up the mountain again to find that ancient tomb to dig. And this digging, Liu Jia Village was really rich.
That ancient tomb do not know what age, the scale is very large, the chamber also has a lot of gold and silver treasures, the first day the village went to the people, have made a small fortune, with gold and silver treasures down the mountain, buy do not know how much soy sauce beef, daughter of the red, eat and drink a big meal.
This made the village exploded at that time, almost everyone knows the mountain has an ancient tomb, there are treasures in the tomb of the thing, so in the next day, almost everyone in the village, men and women, young and old, adults and children, went up to the mountain, to dig the treasure in the ancient tomb.
In this way, in just half a month, because of the treasures unearthed in the ancient tombs, Liu's village gradually became known as the richest village in the world. All people do not have to work, you can eat every day big fish and meat, Zhuang family also do not need to plant, but that food money is constantly.
And Liu Qiming face all this, at that time is also very happy, although he does not know everyone does not work, do not plant crops right, but since everyone is so happy, that he himself is happy.
Liu Qiming thought, is also continue and the villagers digging the treasure in the tomb, but this digging does not always so calmly continue, in the Liu family village people digging the tomb of a month later, the tomb appeared a strange thing.
That is, when the people of the Liu family village digging to the main chamber of the tomb, there is a group of strange snakes, this group of strange snakes each have thigh so thick, black and white flowers, straighten up can have seven or eight meters long, blocking the door of the chamber, so that the people will not be able to excavate, after all, so many horrible snakes blocking, who dared to hands digging?
So the whole Liu family village panicked, how those big snakes appear they do not care, they care is, can not continue to dig the tomb, then who give them money? No money, then can continue to eat every day braised pork, daughter red?
So at that time, the villagers of the Liu family village, as well as the village head, are disturbed up, but the Liu family village of the great sorcerer at that time is to point out a clear way to the crowd.
The great sorcerer also participated in the excavation of the tomb, and made a lot of money, when he saw a group of pythons blocking the main chamber, said to the village people: "You are offended by the God of the Mountain, these days of excavation of the God of the Mountain his old man dug pain, so the God of the Mountain called these big snakes to punish you. Now if you want to continue digging, you'll have to sacrifice to the god!"