Chapter Twenty-Four: Flowing Water Accumulates Corpses, Exploring the Underground Palace at Night

"Tens of thousands, all of them died there, most of them couldn't even see what their faces were, but all of them always maintained one posture, that is, holding their shields high against the flood.

King Yu was shocked and heartbroken when he saw this situation, and hurriedly led people to climb the river embankment next to him to find Gu Qiu.

The Gu Qiu was at the top of the corpse pile, and the miraculous thing was that the people below were all dead, but Gu Qiu had nothing to do, standing intact at the mouth of the river embankment, staring at the surging Yellow River in front of him.

The beloved general is still alive, King Yu is finally a little relieved, and hurriedly shouted to Guqiu to let him come down, the river below has been dug through, and it can completely channel the flood.

Who knew that after these words were shouted, the Gu Qiu closed his eyes, raised his head and fell down from the highest place, and then the embankment where the corpses piled up began to crack in the middle, and the endless flood washed down, drowning all the bones.

This thing sounds like a mythical story, but the earliest historical materials that record King Yu's control of the water really mentions such a section, and some even deify that Guqiu. What is said that he is a descendant of giants, more than ten zhang tall, such as Shiyue hills, it was he who blocked the embankment with his own strength, so that King Yu was spared.

Regardless of whether that Gu Qiu is a general or a giant, he must exist anyway, and later King Yu personally built a tomb dozens of meters high for Gu Qiu and his nearly 10,000 people, and named the tomb Gu Qiu Mountain. Oh, it's the small dirt slope in the ruins of your Yuwang Pavilion.

In fact, it was a grave, and as a result, future generations did not know its origin. It is regarded as the relics left by Dayu's water control, and a pavilion was built on it, named Yuwang Pavilion, to commemorate the achievements of Dayu in controlling the water.

Alas, it's sad to think about. ”

Huang Futian said that at the end, he looked up to the sky and sighed, and the team leader looked at him with both hands and clenched his fists, eager to beat him hard.

The team leader is a native of the local, I don't know how many times I have been to the ruins of Yuwang Pavilion with the elders of the family since I was a child, so a cultural landscape with special significance, to the mouth of Huang Zhuantian turned out to be a tomb. Who listens to this does not get angry.

It's just that Huang Futian didn't notice the abnormality of the team leader at all. The whole person leaned against the wall of the pit next to him, and continued: "Alas, to speak of it, those people in ancient times were really not particular. That Gu Qiu is also a great general. And he died for the sake of curing the water. Why just pile up a dirt slope as a tomb? Good. Even if the conditions are limited, the body can't be recovered, so let's get some funeral goods to show it. It turned out that there wasn't anything down there. I'm so poor!"

"Poor and dead?" Hearing Huang Futian's words, the team leader raised his eyebrows and asked softly: "Huang Futian, listen to what you mean, have you been to the bottom of Guqiu Mountain?"

"Of course, my dad and I went there ten years ago, but we didn't find anything, and we came back empty-handed. If you don't believe me, ask Lian Deli, yesterday I took them to the thief hole we dug back then. It's been ten years, nothing has changed, and ...... Hey hey ......"

"What are you laughing at?"

"Haha...... I suddenly remembered something, and it was ridiculous to me. Yesterday, when I went to the thief cave at the bottom of Guqiu Mountain, I saw a lot of peers hanging over there, and on a whim, I carved a line of words on the wall at the end of the thief hole dug by my father, and I don't know what the people who went later will think after seeing it. ”

"What did you engrave?"

"I said, thirty meters ahead, enter the burial place of Yuwang Jiuding, and idlers are not allowed to enter. ”

"Ah, is King Yu Jiuding really there?"

"How is that possible! That's what I said casually, fooling those who came later. Yesterday we dug a little further along the hole, but we didn't find anything useful, so we withdrew. Didn't I find this here today by following the notes handed down by my Huang family ancestors? ”

"Uh...... Hehe, Huang Futian, you are really in a good mood. ”

"Hey, people, no matter what you do, you have to have some fun for yourself, or you will be a fool if you work hard all day. Forget it, let's not talk about this, I'll continue to tell you about this mass grave here.

Oh, yes, when it comes to that King Yu, he doesn't pay attention to it, and he casually piled up a small dirt slope for his generals to use as a tomb. However, King Yu's son Qi is a particular person. That Xia Qizhen is worthy of being the first emperor of ancient China who turned the Zen concession system into a hereditary system, and he is fully worthy of the throne in this matter of martyrdoming the ancestors.

After he became the emperor, he first cast Jiuding to commemorate his father, and then looked for those heroes who controlled the water one by one to posthumously seal them, help with funerals, and conduct sacrifices. The kind of ritual system of our ancient Chinese thick burial was handed down by Xia Qi. Think about it, if everyone elected an emperor according to the original Zen concession system, how could this elected emperor have such a grand funeral ceremony for the previous emperor who had no blood relationship at all. Without burial, where did we tomb robbers go to touch gold and steal treasures?

Therefore, we must thank Xia Qi, he is the food and clothing parent of our industry!"

Huang Futian said, and bowed with his hands folded with respect.

The team leader saw it in his eyes, was really speechless, and coughed lightly and said, "Ahem, Huang Zhutian, let's talk about the mass grave now." ”

"Oh, haha, I'm sorry, as soon as Xia Qilai was mentioned, I couldn't help but get excited and digressed. Let's just talk about this mass grave. Didn't you just say that Xia Qi not only buried King Yu, but also posthumously sealed those heroes who controlled the water. Gu Qiu, who led tens of thousands of people to block the flood with his body, was one of the people who Xia Qi chased after him.

The handwritten notes of the ancestors of my Huang family said that Xia Qi specially went to the estuary where Guqiu drowned and sent people to salvage the body, wanting to give Guqiu a serious funeral. It's a pity that too much time has passed between Gu Qiu's death and Xia Qi becoming the emperor, and it is impossible to find it for a while, and it is impossible to find it. Therefore, Xia Qi came up with a strange trick.

He had 10,000 slaves captured, tied them together on planks, and drove them to the embankment of the river blocked by Guqiu, and piled up the slaves with the trunks of several large trees to support the pillars. Let them block the mouth of the river like Guqiu. When the water on the estuary had accumulated like a flood, he had the trunks of the trees used for support removed.

As soon as the water rushed down, the corpses of tens of thousands of slaves went down with the current, and when these corpses stopped, Xia Qi determined where Gu Qiu died.

Then, Xia Qi regarded this place as Guqiu's cemetery, and those slaves were considered to be buried, and then buried some treasures and bronzes, which was considered to be the completion of Guqiu's funeral. It's just that King Yu has already made a Guqiu Mountain out in his early years. Xia Qi respects his ancestors. It's not good to build a second tomb and say that my father was wrong. Therefore, this Guqiu tomb just made a simple tombstone and sent people to guard it for generations.

According to this geographical location. I'm guessing now. The second mound tomb should be the one we are digging now. ”

Huang turned the sky and said this. Unconsciously glanced into the hole next to him, and at this moment, two of Nomura's men ran out of it. One was holding a rusty knife in his hand, the other holding something that looked like a pistol.

The two of them sent the things to Nomura, and Huang Chutian hurried over and took the two things and examined them carefully.

"Hey, long knives and muskets, what kind of match are these?"

Huang Futian didn't know why, and the two people who had just run out on the other side said a few words to Nomura, and Nomura whispered to Lian Deli again, and Lian Deli turned his head and said: "Huang Futian, don't look at it, the experts brought by Mr. Nomura said that the time of these two things is also about a hundred years." It's just that the burial place is under the bones dug up before, which doesn't match what you said about the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, so hurry up and explain what's going on. ”

According to what our Huang family's handbook remembers, the last time it was buried here should be a group of peasant rebels at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and what you dug up should be three hundred years ago. Could it be that there are still people who have died nearby?"

Huang Futian looked aggrieved, and the team leader next to him leaned over to take a look, and said tentatively: "Huang Futian, I think that pistol seems to be a firecracker." When I watched the TV series, I saw this thing in the hands of the Eight-Nation Alliance. ”

"The Eight-Nation Alliance?"

"Yes. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, we had a Boxer Rebellion's broadsword team, and further along, there was also the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Northern Expeditionary Army that fought against Western devils here, is it something left over from that time?"

"Well, it's possible. Comrade policeman, you are still educated, and you can see at a glance where this thing came from. Awesome!" Huang Chutian nodded clearly, praised the team leader, and then turned his head to Lian Deli and said: "Lian Deli, our Huang family has rarely run here since the Qing Dynasty, and we don't have time to come here to take a look during the war." So, I didn't remember it in too much detail. You just tell these Japanese devils, just dig down, and the next time you dig up will definitely be antiques from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. ”

"Okay, surnamed Huang, believe you again, if you are wrong again next time. If you don't wait for Mr. Nomura to do it, I'll abolish you first!"

Liandeli threw down a sentence hatefully and turned to explain to Nomura.

Huang Futian raised his eyebrows and spat on the ground: "What is it, the traitor with a face, and it abolished me." This kind of person should have a baby without an asshole!"

After speaking, Huang Futian threw the big knife and firearm to the ground casually, and walked to the other side by the shoulders of the squad leader.

"Comrade policeman, let's continue to talk about our business, we have no common language with these uneducated people at all!"

The team leader was pulled by Huang Zhuantian, and the person walked to the side, but his eyes were fixed on the things that were thrown on the ground. It was a hundred years ago, and if these were seen by the archaeologists who were here two days ago, they would have gone crazy on the spot, and they would have become garbage in the hands of tomb robbers.

"No, we have to find a way to protect these things. Alas, why are you still trying to protect the, let's save your life first. ”

The team leader's heart was infinitely entangled, and at this moment, Huang Zhutian beside him sat down on the ground and said, "Comrade policeman, come, sit down for a while, where did we just go?"

"Oh, oh, what kind of mound tomb is this pit that has been dug so far. ”

"Yes, Guqiu Tomb. Comrade policeman, let me tell you, I dare to say that this Guqiu tomb is the first tomb built on the riverside since ancient times, and it is also the first tomb with a crown of clothes, and it is also the first tomb where 10,000 people were buried. Since Xia Qi built this tomb, he didn't do this at all. Even the tomb of King Yu did not have so many slaves to be buried. ”

"Really?" The team leader's curiosity was instantly aroused by Huang Futian's words~, and he couldn't help asking: "Huang Fantian, I heard you say just now that Xia Qi built a tomb for Guqiu, and it took a lot of effort, and this funeral skill is stronger than that of his own father King Yu." Could it be that the relationship between Guqiu and Xia Qi is not ordinary?"

"Haha, it's not ordinary, according to the legend, this Gu Qiu should be Xia Qi's mother. ”

"What! Gu Qiu is a woman?"

"I don't know, and no one knows clearly. Anyway, there is such a legend. Dayu controls the water, and you know this story three times without entering the house, right?"

"Yes, I've listened to it since I was a child. What's wrong?"

"Hehe, in fact, this three pass through the door and don't enter, the wife of the family is the little wife of King Yu, and King Yu also has a genuine wife named Tu Shan, you know this, right?"

"I don't know. ”

The team leader shook his head suspiciously, seeing him like this, Huang Chutian suddenly came to his senses. took out a small notebook, flipped to one of the pages, and said with a smile: "Hehe, comrade policeman, few people know about Tu Shan's matter." Let me tell you, there is such a passage in "Lu's Spring and Autumn" about Dayu's water control. I have it all written in this little book, you see here. ”

"Well, Yu married the daughter of the Tushan clan, did not harm the public with her own interests, and went back to control the water for four days from Xin to Jia. Yu ruled the flood, passed through the mountain, and turned into a bear. Tu Shan said: 'If you want to eat, you will come to hear the sound of drums.' 'Yu jumped the stone, hit the drum by mistake, Tu Shan's go, saw Yu Fang sitting on the bear, and went away.

To the foot of the high mountain of Song, turned into stone, Fang Shengqi. Yu said: 'To my son!' broke through the north and was born. ’”

Babbling out the sentence that Huang Chuan Tian found, the team leader felt that his head was going to be dizzy.

"Huang Zhutian, what does this mean?"

"This tells the story of King Yu marrying a wife and having children. Legend has it that in ancient times, Dayu was ordered to control the water, and in addition to the magic weapon of the variable things given to him by Emperor Shun, there was nothing else, and he had no clue about the water. Therefore, he wanted to find some talented people to help him.

The first thing King Yu thought of was the tribe of the Tushan clan. The shortest of the Tushan clan's people is three zhang tall, and the tallest is more than a hundred zhang, and it is a complete giant tribe. If you can get the people of this tribe, water control is equivalent to a very big help.

So King Yu took the magic weapon given to him by Emperor Shun and turned himself into a giant and infiltrated the Tushan clan and tribe to win people's hearts. But that tribe is a matriarchal clan, and women are respected, and King Yu has no right to speak as a man.

Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly heard news that Nujiao, the daughter of the head of the Tushan clan, was recruiting a husband. (To be continued.) )