11. Chapter 11: Legends
At dinner, perhaps because of the arrival of Wen Jing and Hong Kaiyuan, my father actually invited my grandparents down. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The reason why I use the word "actually" is because if there is no major event, the second elder is usually not moved! As for the reason, I also asked my father, saying that the second elder is old and likes to be quiet, and the others are unknown.
During the dinner, the family talked and laughed, but also had a good time.
After the meal, my grandfather went back to the old house early, but my grandmother stayed behind and let the three of us chat with her.
This is the habit of the second elder for many years, when I was very young, they were like this, never the two of them left home at the same time for a long time, there was always one person who went back first! Moreover, under normal circumstances, except for me, the second elder did not like to chat with young people, whether it was other people in the family or anyone else!
But tonight seems to be a little different, the three of us sat around my grandmother, but her old man seemed very happy, pulling Wen Jing to ask long and short questions, very reluctant, and her interest seemed to be very high, which is indeed very rare.
For as long as I can remember, everyone in the village respects my grandmother as my ancestor, and although the times have changed, her old man's prestige in the Qi family has not diminished at all.
However, I never understood why the whole village respected my grandmother so much. Because in my eyes, she has always been the grandmother who loves me the most, an ordinary old man who can't be more ordinary, and she can't see any difference from other old people.
Taking advantage of my grandmother's excitement, I took out the meteorite iron and asked my grandmother where this thing came from.
The grandmother did not express her position immediately, and her reaction was very flat, only asking what this was for.
I was afraid that my grandmother would be worried, so I said that this thing is valuable, and there are so many juniors in the family, but it is not appropriate to give me such a valuable thing.
To my surprise, my grandmother didn't care about these things, but only asked me how I knew how they were valuable.
In desperation, I had to briefly explain how Hong Kaiyuan found out, how to find someone to test and how to contact the buyer, but I didn't say a word about my kidnapping and discovering those strange things.
Grandmother didn't say anything after hearing this, and smiled indifferently: "Speaking of the origin of this thing, it's really a bit mysterious!"
Hearing this, I hurriedly glanced at Wen Hong and the others, who were still chatting on the side, and the three of them sat around my grandmother and began to listen to her tell us.
It turned out that this so-called meteorite iron was not the Qi family's belongings, but was left in an accident hundreds of years ago.
Hundreds of years ago, for some reason, the Qi family was chased by an enemy, and in that battle, the other party was completely annihilated, and everyone was in different places, without exception, the scene was quite tragic.
And this so-called meteorite iron was discovered when the Qi family cleaned up the scene.
The specific rush process grandmother is not clear, saying that the Qi family was able to escape that time purely because of the blessing of the dragon, because the strength of the enemy family at that time was dozens of times that of the Qi family, if it was not for the appearance of an invisible dragon in time, the Qi family would definitely not be able to escape that catastrophe!
The meteorite iron was found in the body of the human leader, when it was deeply embedded in the muscles of the man's corpse, much like a piece of molten iron falling onto the man's corpse. A hole about the size of this thing was also found in the inner pocket of the person's clothes, and the edge of the hole also looked like traces of fire, and it seemed that it was originally in the pocket of the person's underwear.
Hearing this, I was a little puzzled, so I asked my grandmother if the Qi family had offended some big man back then, and why she was hunted down by the other party so exaggeratedly.
Grandmother stroked the silver threads on her head and said with a smile: "These things have happened too long ago, and the inside story of them has long been impossible to verify, they are all passed down from generation to generation, where can we find the reason and distinguish the truth from the false!"
Hearing this answer, the three of us looked at each other, but we didn't know what to say.
However, I am a little skeptical of my grandmother's statement, because the three of us know that through testing, this thing is not something on the earth at all, and even experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say that it is a meteorite from outer space, formed after burning when entering the earth's atmosphere, how can this be the result?
So, is my grandmother's statement really true? I suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Wen Jing, who was sitting next to me, tilted her head and thought for a while, then said to her grandmother: "Grandma, do you believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world?"
Grandmother looked at her lovingly, then sighed and muttered, "If only there were ghosts and gods in this world!"
There is another meaning between the words, I don't know if Wen Hong and the others heard it, but I heard it anyway.
was about to interject, but Hong Kaiyuan took the lead: "Grandma, what happened to the Shenlong you said?"
Glancing at Hong Kaiyuan, my grandmother smiled and said that after the divine dragon eliminated those people, he hid in the Panlong Cave under the Lei Gong Mountains, and it was precisely because of this that the patriarch of the Qi family decided to take root and multiply here. Because in this way, you can always be blessed by the dragon!
I was a little puzzled when I heard it, and I said in my heart what kind of Panlong Cave I had never heard of before. Hurriedly asked my grandmother: "Grandma, I only know that there is a Gonggong Rock in Lei Gongling, where is there any Panlong Cave?"
"Gonggongyan is Panlong Cave!" Grandmother turned her head to look at me and smiled: "Gonggongyan came later, and it was changed to commemorate a benefactor of the Qi family!"
As soon as I heard this, I immediately became blindfolded, and before this one question could be explained clearly, another one ran out!
"Grandma, can you tell us about it?" Wen Jing grinned and immediately interjected.
And at this moment, I found that Hong Kaiyuan's face sitting next to her was becoming more and more ugly, and I didn't know what he was thinking.
Grandmother looked at Wen Jing with some kindness, and said with a smile: "Girl, I didn't expect you to be so curious?! Grandma is old, I can't remember these things clearly!"
"Grandma, since there is a dragon entrenched in this dragon cave, there should be some interesting stories, right?"
Wen Jing suddenly showed the innocence that only a little girl has, and asked with a smile.
Seeing that I couldn't interject, I was a little depressed, and Hong Kaiyuan on the side still didn't say anything, but he had returned to normal, pulled a cigarette and threw it to me, and lit one himself.
Grandmother glanced at Wen Jing again, squinted and smiled: "I really can't remember anything clearly, but there is one thing that I have personally experienced!"
As soon as the three of them heard the following, they were all immediately interested, just like a group of kindergarten children, pricking up their ears and preparing to listen carefully.
Seeing this, Grandmother showed a more loving expression, glanced at us, and began to describe slowly.
Speaking of which, this incident is also outrageous, and the specific time of its occurrence should be late August 1944, in the words of my grandmother and her old man, "Thirty-three years, go to Japan!"
After the Fourth Battle of Changsha, General Xue Yue finally gave up Changsha, and the later Battle of Hengyang was even more tragic, with heavy losses in the army, but Little Japan also did not take advantage of it!
After the Battle of Hengyang, from time to time, defeated soldiers passed by the village, and at that time some rumors began to be heard in the village. When the devil was really coming, except for a few young people who were a little bolder, the rest hid on the Longshan Ridge, which was about six or seven kilometers away from the village.
Longshan Ridge is a relatively high mountain range in our area, the ridge is densely forested, the mountain is steep, and the only place where you can hide.
It is estimated that in order to avenge the various failures in the battles of Changsha, Changde and Hengyang some time ago, after the devils came, they would arrest people when they saw them, and burn them every house, in short, they did all kinds of evil. Some people who didn't have time to flee were arrested and worked as strong men and porters.
At that time, the devil also had a very perverted rule, according to the age of the porter to set the weight, for example, at the age of forty to pick forty pounds, seventy years old to pick seventy pounds, so that the old and frail old people can withstand such torture, usually overwhelmed, nine times out of ten do their souls under the knife!
This made a few young men who stayed behind to check it out secretly hate.
These young men are a few people with surnames who live around the village, because they don't live in the middle of the village, and there is no local resistance, and they don't worry that the devils will pay too much attention to these retail families around them, so a few young people who are more daring secretly hid.
The leader is a young man named Qian Dongsheng.
That night, I don't know what method they used, they actually killed a ghost soldier, and then they were frantically hunted.
Because there were ghost soldiers stationed in the surrounding villages, there was no chance to escape from this circle, and in desperation, Qian Dongsheng took a few people to hide in the forbidden place of the Qi family-Panlong Cave.
But soon, the devil soldiers also followed, but for some reason, the ghost soldiers who went seemed to have died there, and in the end, only Qian Dongsheng escaped.
According to him, those devil soldiers were all killed by the monsters in the cave, and all of them were in different places!
But the few young men who went into the cave with him were all killed by the little devils, and Qian Dongsheng escaped with his life because he fell into a dark river in a panic.
Unfortunately, because the devil threw a lot of grenades into the cave before entering the cave, Qian Dongsheng was seriously injured and passed away on the day he returned. Moreover, the rest of the lads were also killed by the earthquake because the grenade exploded in the cave.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but bite my back molars fiercely, and said in my heart, these little devils who kill a thousand knives, now that there is a chance in the future, Lao Tzu will definitely let you drink a good pot!
Later, in order to recover the bodies of those brave young men, people went to the Panlong Cave, but they were all scared half to death.
On the afternoon of the day when Qian Dongsheng was found, under the arrangement of the elders, several young and strong young people in the village rushed to the Panlong Cave, at the entrance of the cave, they found the corpses of more than 20 devils, without exception, they were all in different places, the whole cave was like a Shura field, the corpses were lying around the cave entrance, the scene was extremely terrifying!
The August weather was unbearably hot, and the corpses had begun to decompose and stink.
A few people who were a little more courageous found the body of a young man surnamed Feng in the corpse pile, and everyone checked it and found that he had been shot several times, as well as the traces of bayonets, and it seemed that he was stabbed with a bayonet by the devil after he was killed.
Seeing the tragic condition of the body, several people held back their grief, found some branches and vines to tie up the body, and brought him back.
Since several people who went there had heard Qian Dongsheng's narration, although they wanted to go into the cave to get out the bodies of the rest of the people, but when they saw this scene, no one dared to go in again.
Several people returned to the village with the body of the young man surnamed Feng, and when they talked to the elders, everyone didn't dare to have any other thoughts.
The grandmother said that the day after they recovered the body of the young man surnamed Feng, there was news from the front that the ghost soldiers were coming again. Everyone hid in the mountains again, and only ran back when the devil soldiers passed.
But when he came back this time, someone found that all the corpses of the devil soldiers at the entrance of the cave were gone.
At that time, the Battle of Xianggui had just begun, and the devils were attacking Yongzhou, and from time to time there would be devil soldiers going south along the railway line. The people of the village have already figured out how to deal with it, and there are people along the way who watch the wind, so they can always hide in the mountains before they come. Since that time, the people in the village have basically not been harmed by the devils again.
The strange thing is that after that time, when the devil soldiers passed by, they would never pass through the street in the middle of the village again, and they would always pass quickly from the official road behind the village in a hurry, and they would not stop for a moment.
Even their usual style has changed, and they used to burn, kill, and loot every village they passed, but they have never seen any devils burn our village.
After listening to the grandmother, the three of them were a little confused, but they thought that it was a little late, so they didn't want to ask too much. After chatting with my grandmother for a while, I sent my grandmother back to the old house.
When I came back, I found that Hong Kaiyuan and Wen Jing were surrounding their father in front of a big wooden box, as if they were looking for something.
Just when he was puzzled, he heard his father say happily: "I found it, this is it!" As he spoke, he handed a book to Hong Kaiyuan, who was standing next to him.
When I got closer, I found that the wooden box was from our family tree.
I was even more puzzled, so I asked my father, "Dad, why are you turning this thing out?"
"Oh, just now Xiao Hong asked me why Panlong Cave was renamed Gonggongyan, I remember that there seems to be a record in the genealogy of this matter, so I found it out and showed it to him. The father smiled, lowered his head, closed the wooden box, and dragged him back into the house.
I have seen this box many times, and it will be taken out every year on the Qingming Festival, because the family is huge, and there are many houses, in order to prevent omissions in the process of worshipping ancestors, they will be arranged and distributed according to the family tree on the house system, so the family tree will be used every year during the Qingming Festival.
At this moment, I heard Hong Kaiyuan muttering: "What a strange genealogy!?"