Chapter 233: The Burden on Your Shoulders
In the years after killing the Loulan people, Gu Xiu and the Han army spent their days in madness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThey are used to the days of murder and can never stop, and at the same time, they do not give up on the ancient tombs they were looking for. It's just that things are just like what Sopi said, they can't trace the location of the ancient tomb for the rest of their lives, and the Gu family, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited Gu Xiu's search for treasures, which is a rotating and sad fate......
When it comes to fate, the old man Gu's face is desolate and sad, everything began like a dream, the heavy burden of killing people and the curse of Suopi crushed the hearts of the Han soldiers after the death of the Loulan people, and the tragic and extremely terrifying picture, the old man Gu can't remember how many times he has seen it, he remembers that his father committed suicide because of those terrifying illusions when he was very young. In their Gu family, there are many such people, they are a little fragile in their hearts, so they choose to commit suicide to liberate, like the old man Gu, who refuses to accept fate and still fights, and lives to the present. However, being alive does not mean luck for the Gu family, the old man said that in the face of those resentful souls, it is really more painful for people to live than to die.
Old Man Gu's nightmare began very early, he remembered that he was only six years old that year, and he was still an age to enjoy the arms of his parents, but while other children were still digging in the mud and playing, he had to face the whimper of evil spirits on his pillow every day......
Old Man Gu didn't know who those evil ghosts were back then, but he remembered those resentful and sad faces...... To this day, the old man has not married or had children, and he does not want the pain and nightmares of the family to continue to his next generation.
The mistakes of the ancestors, the nightmares brought by the ancestors must be borne by someone, and the old man Gu resisted the burden of the Gu family to lift the curse. He began to devote himself to cultivation in the Central Plains, and during that time he met a master who told him that there was a treasure in the world that could undo the curse of losing the soul, but that treasure was lost and long gone.
When the old man Gu heard what the master said, he seemed to see hope, and he begged the master to tell him more information about the treasure, and the master saw that he had suffered a lot since he was a child, and he was running so much for his people, so he told him a thing or two.
It is said that the treasure is called "Soul Bead", which is a rare and valuable spirit bead, from the "and the end of the country" in the 36 countries of the Western Regions, and then in the hands of a Loulan prince, the prince was sent to the Xiongnu as a hostage when the Han and the Xiongnu were in dispute.
Old Man Gu recalled the history of Loulan that he knew, but in his memory, the kings of Loulan changed frequently, and there were several princes, so it was still difficult to confirm which prince it was.
Although this information came vaguely, the existence of the Soul Bead made Old Man Gu see hope, but he was not in a hurry to find the Soul Bead, but continued to strengthen himself, and in that day of strengthening himself, he met the little Taoist's master - Yu Muye, the two were of the same age, like-minded, and soon became friends who talked about everything.
It's just fate, the old man Gu didn't live long and happy, because he was burdened with a heavy burden, he said goodbye to Yu Muye and returned to Dunhuang. In Dunhuang, he started a camel business, with the aim of finding out about the ancient tombs that his ancestors had searched for and the soul beads that had been used to unravel the curse.
By chance, he met a poor old man from Loulan, who took in the childless old man and let him spend the rest of his life in his own place. And it was from the old man's mouth that he learned more about the "Soul Bead".
The identity of the old man's ancestors was a trusted minister around the King of Loulan, and it turned out that there was such a secret in that royal family: it was said that the Xiongnu and the Han army fought in the war, and the feng shui of the two countries took turns, and the King of Loulan, who was sandwiched in the middle to make the grass on the wall, sent the prince to the Han Dynasty as a hostage in order to keep his country, and sent the second son to the Xiongnu.
The prince sent to the Han Dynasty had an arrogant personality, he refused to accept that he was brought into the Han Dynasty as a hostage, often causing trouble, and finally died because of violating the criminal law, and the second son who was sent to the Xiongnu had a quirk since he was a child, it is said that he has a different ability from mortals, he can understand the celestial phenomena when he is very young, can budget some natural disasters, and is a natural material with spiritual power.
King Loulan doted on this little son very much, and let him study from a young age with the national teacher, who was actually the ancestor of the old man, that is, Sopi's brother.
In order to protect this special son from being sent to the territory of the Huns, Sopi's brother Tu Xie found a person who was very similar to the second prince and sent him to the Huns, and the real second prince secretly hid in the forest where we were.
It's just that, sadly, although the second prince was not sent to the Huns, not long after that, he suddenly died. As if he had expected the second prince to pass away, Tu Xie placed him and the Soul Bead in a tomb that had been built a long time ago.
The old man said that when his ancestor Tu Xie first met the second prince, he knew that his life was not ordinary, which made me feel strange, if a person wants to be extraordinary, he must make something, but then the prince of Loulan died very early, how could he be destined to be extraordinary? With a full stomach full of questions, I listened to the old man continue to speak.
Back then, King Loulan and Tu Xie kept their mouths shut about the second prince's ability in order not to be discovered, and everyone only felt that the prince often loved to talk to birds and beasts, and his personality was obedient, and he didn't really take his special features to heart.
When the second prince was young, the national teacher asked the king of Loulan to give this prince a good resting place for the prince who would bring hope to the people of Loulan in the future. (The tomb we are in, in fact, has been built when the second prince was young, he spent a lot of wisdom to slaughter evil spirits, and also consumed a lot of energy of the Loulan people, and in order not to be discovered, those who built the tomb were secretly executed, I think the corpses we encountered in the cave may be the tomb builders of the year)
Before Tu Xie died, he handed over this secret and mission to two people, one was Tu Xie's own brother Sopi, and the other was An Gui's father, Tu Xie's best friend who made weapons for Loulan Kingdom. The former was involved in all the things that led to the creation of the tomb, while the latter returned to his father, who was assigned to assist Sopi in the protection of the tomb. (So in fact, only Suopi knows the location of the ancient tomb, An Gui's father, including An Gui, and those Loulan people have no way of knowing)
The old man Gu was overjoyed when he heard the news from Sopi's descendants, but the old man was not a relative of the Suopi family, he didn't know anything about the specific location of the tomb, he only heard about it from his ancestors, he regarded this matter as a story, and he always liked to talk to people about the secrets of the second son of King Loulan back then.
Old Man Gu knew that no matter how much he asked the old man, he couldn't get any answer, but he could be sure that the tomb that his ancestor found back then was the resting place of the second son of King Loulan in the old man's mouth, which meant that the Soul Bead was at the bottom of that dense forest.