What Lao Zhao said was not too surprising to me, but in his fragmentary description, I vaguely heard that Lao Cai had a high status in the construction team back then, and should be regarded as a leader, and many plans and decisions should have been made by him, and he told us obviously much less than he knew, and what was inconsistent with what Lao Zhao said also seemed to be a deliberate concealment, but I couldn't think for a while of what his purpose in hiding this information was. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Our group advanced for more than an hour, in fact, this distance is not far, just ditches and bumps, the terrain is very complicated, there are three or four forks in the road, sometimes the right road is very hidden, we went wrong twice, and there are many more detours. This makes me think that it is very unlikely that a thief will return the way he came, carrying hundreds of kilograms of gold on his back, and climbing over these obstacles, which few people should be able to do.

I caught up with Team Cao who was walking in front, and when I saw that there was no one around him, I briefly told Team Cao what Lao Zhao told me about what I didn't think was right. Team Cao nodded: "Lao Chang, I always feel that something is wrong with Lao Cai, it is purely the intuition of the police, I can't make a judgment now, there is no evidence, but now only Lao Cai understands the following situation, and it depends on him, and our encounter is definitely an accident, he can't make a plan in advance, forget it, pay attention to it, and figure out the following situation." “

I groped my way forward for more than half an hour, during which I had to climb a steep slope more than three meters high. Lao Cai saw this steep slope, but he was overjoyed, "Team Cao, Team Wang, it's almost here, I wasn't sure about it before, I was worried about which fork was wrong, I was relieved to see this steep slope, after this slope, one or two hundred meters away." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, took pickaxes and ropes from their backpacks, and began to climb upwards.

The king team beside me tugged at my sleeve, pointed to the dirt on the steep slope, and whispered to me, "Chang, you see, someone has been up here recently. "Following the direction of his finger, I noticed that there were marks of a pickaxe on the slope. "Just one or two people did it, which is a bit unbelievable, just two people chiseled open the two-meter-thick outer wall of the vault, entered through the vent, and brought out more than 100 kilograms of gold. ”

As Lao Cai said, after the steep slope, walked forward more than 100 meters, the space inside suddenly opened up, it seems to be a naturally formed huge cave, the top of the cave is at least ten meters above the ground, and there are many huge stalactites hanging on it. We shone it with a flashlight, and the area should be no less than 500 square meters. Perhaps because of the low terrain, the cold and dampness make people shiver unnaturally.

Suddenly, under the pillar of light of the flashlight, several huge black shadows flashed out of the dark hollow. Only then did we notice that in this underground cave, there are several pagoda-like buildings four or five meters high, standing in front of them. This black shadow seems to be able to swallow the surrounding light, and the flashlight shines on the tower, as if shining in a black mist, entering more and reflecting less, making it difficult for me to see its true appearance.

In Lao Cai's previous description, there was never a mention of such a few buildings, could it be that we took the wrong path? Everyone invariably turned their attention to Lao Cai.

Lao Cai was obviously in the same shock as us, he didn't realize everyone's gaze at all, and muttered in his mouth, "Impossible, impossible, there were no such towers before." Ignoring us, he took his flashlight and walked straight to the front of the Black Tower.

A few steps had not yet been taken, and there was a clattering sound under his feet, clear in the empty cavern. Lao Cai was full of excitement, subconsciously stopped, shone a flashlight on the ground, and never moved again.

We hurriedly followed, and multiple flashlights shone around Lao Cai, and we found that from Lao Cai's feet to the surroundings of the black tower, a distance of dozens of meters was covered with a thick layer of white bones on the ground.

To this day, it is difficult for me to describe in words our shock and horror at that time, and the bones of Bai Huahua were magnified by imagination at that moment like an endless sea of bones. People are on it, as if they are on the boat leading to the Yellow Spring, lonely and desperate.

In the deathly silence, I heard the old Zhao beside me muttering in a low voice, "Strange, how did the mass grave come here? But I probably understood what he and Lao Cai didn't tell me, what was in the alley they had built to death.

Team Cao and Team Wang quickly reacted from the shock, walked forward quickly, squatted down, and carefully shone their flashlights.

Lao Cai continued to walk in the direction of the Black Tower, and with every step, the sound of clicking under his feet sounded in everyone's ears. I walked up to Team Cao's side and also leaned down to look at the white bones on the ground.

"These white bones are years old, buried for at least a few hundred years, and they should have been dug out not long ago, but the strange thing is that these are all metacarpal bones, and you see, they are all the right hands of adults. Team Cao looked at me suspiciously.

Team Wang squatted on the ground and didn't look up, and then Team Cao said: "That's right, there are only hand bones and small arm bones, but you see, these little arm bones were all cut off from the middle with sharp weapons. He shone his flashlight around again, "There are at least thousands of hand bones piled up here, but where are their bodies?"

Team Wang's words made a thought pop into my brain, maybe it didn't help the gold theft case, but it could be the origin of these hand bones.

"I think I know the story of these bones. I said, took out a cigarette from my pocket, and gave one to Team Cao and Team Wang. They all looked at me in amazement, waiting for my next step.

"It's actually the last piece of history I want to talk about. I sighed and lit my cigarette. "Since Cuba Shu has many disasters and difficulties, although there are natural dangers and fertile soil, it is enough to make the people of Bashu live in a couple, but it is not a paradise, but just a piece of fat. Historically, the land of Bashu was slaughtered more than five times, so there were many later Huguang filling Sichuan. ”

"The origin of these arms, I think, should have occurred at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, a wave of peasant uprisings swept through China, with Li Zicheng in the north and Zhang Xianzhong in the south. Li Zicheng went out of Shaanxi, according to Henan, and the attack on Beijing was just around the corner. Zhang Xianzhong occupied Hunan at that time, and his power was far inferior to Li Zicheng. He knew that Hunan was a place of four wars, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and bordered by Li Zicheng, once Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the spearhead would definitely be pointed at him. Zhang Xianzhong simply gave up Hunan, prepared to march west along the Yangtze River, occupied Bashu, had a stable rear, and Li Zicheng, Manchu, and Nanming three regimes stood on their own, and had the capital to turn the tables. ”

Zhang Xianzhong thought well, but he also thought that the Ming Dynasty was about to fall, and there would be no stubborn resistance on the way west. But when his 300,000 troops arrived at the city of Chongqing, he found that the Ba people were braver than he imagined. This battle lasted for three months, and Zhang Xianzhong's 300,000 people surrounded Chongqing, while the Ming army in the city was only 30,000 or 40,000. Zhang Xianzhong paid the price of more than 10,000 people, with the help of the rising water of the Yangtze River, broke through from the waterway, and attacked by land, before he broke through Chongqing City. But the main reason for this was the news that Chongzhen had hanged the coal mountain, and the defenders of Chongqing had no will to resist, and most of the defenders chose to surrender. ”

I pulled the Cao team and the Wang team down to a boneless clearing, and the others gathered around me to listen to my unbearable story. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong looked at the tens of thousands of captives who surrendered and tens of thousands of people, and also encountered a problem, he poured out of Hunan, brought limited food, and besieged Chongqing for three months, his own grain and grass were not enough, and the city of Chongqing was not much better, after a battle, the food of five or six hundred thousand people became a big problem. ”

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong still had the idea of dominating the world, far from becoming the later murderer, killing these tens of thousands of captives, although it can reduce the consumption of food, but once this matter spreads, the counties and counties of Shu will definitely resist to the end, and the plan to enter Sichuan will have more twists and turns. However, if these tens of thousands of people were incorporated into the rebel army, there was not enough food, and if they were released, they fled into Sichuan, and it was very likely that they would become resistance again. After thinking about it, Zhang Xianzhong came up with a vicious idea. ”

He gathered all the captives, set up a dozen guillotines on the school ground, and announced in public that all the captives would be released, but all of them would have their right hands chopped off as punishment for resisting Zhang Xianzhong, so as not to continue to resist the Great Western Army in the future. As soon as this order was issued, some people wanted to escape, but after being killed, the surrender army had no choice but to accept their fate. When cutting off the hand, there are also people who reach into the left hand, after the left hand is cut off, the right hand is cut correctly, suddenly, the screams of tens of thousands of people resounded above the two rivers, this is an extremely dark and bloody hand-cutting action. ”

However, this method was very effective, and these one-handed troops fled into the counties of Bashu, and this terrible punishment caused many defenders to break their will to resist. Zhang Xianzhong was also able to successfully take Sichuan, of course, many injustices will kill themselves, Zhang Xianzhong eventually became a murderous maniac, the culprit of the bloody slaughter of Shu, and soon died under the iron hooves of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

I remember this history deeply, every time I read this history, I have a feeling of being stuck in my throat, the truth of history is not flaunted by later generations, the peasant uprising hit the rotten feudal rule so simply, and the suffering and blood and tears in the process are only nearly 10 million Bashu people can understand.

(Holding on to the profit is not as good as it is; it is not as good as it is; it cannot be kept for a long time.) The hall is full of gold and jade, and Mo can keep it, and he is rich and arrogant, and he is to blame. If you retire after success, the way of heaven is also. --Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )