Chapter 396: Book of Despair
However, although the villagers were loud, only the empty monk who really dared to go to the front of the hill was empty.
The rest of the villagers stopped in the distance and waved their flags and shouted, and the empty monk strode directly to Lu Yu's side, without even looking at the bones under his feet, and said to Lu Yu: "Master, where are the ghosts?"
"Ghost?" Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, looked left and right, pointed to the neatly placed bones on the side, and said, "That's what you said?"
The empty monk has experienced the real battlefield, and he doesn't care about the bloody Senluo Hell on the battlefield, how can he be afraid of these dry bones?
He glanced at the bones and said, "Master, don't be kidding, I heard that you dug up the graves of the powerful ghosts, and the nine ghosts have all rushed out to ask for their lives! I have learned some Buddhist scriptures from you before, and it is more than enough to deal with the powerful ghosts!"
It turned out that the villagers who ran back to the village from Huolonggang had already turned the discovery of the bones into "digging up the gate of the Nine Secluded Underground Mansions" with false rumors.
And the empty monk is the one who does not believe in evil, and because he is worried about the safety of his master Lu Yu, he hurriedly brings people to "catch ghosts".
As for the rest of the villagers who came with them, they naturally thought that the empty monk was really a high-ranking monk who could catch ghosts, and they also came to open their eyes and see the scene of the mage fighting ghosts.
Lu Yu, Professor Huang and others immediately shook their heads and laughed.
"Good apprentice, let's take the magic power first, and then show it next time I have the opportunity, there are only living people here. ”
"Oh......" When the empty monk heard this, he scratched his head in disappointment, and then turned around and glared fiercely at a villager who was spreading rumors, and then gave up.
Lu Yu also cried and laughed for a while before continuing to tease: "By the way, Monk Kong, I heard that you have been very popular in the village recently?"
During this time, the monk has been helping the villagers in the village, and it is all heavy work that ordinary people can't do, so the villagers are very grateful to him, and it is precisely because of this that so many villagers come to "catch ghosts" together today.
When the empty monk heard this, he couldn't help but smile proudly, and said, "Master knows everything? Isn't it just learning from Lei Feng to do some good people and good deeds? Who said it with such a big mouth? hehe......
"Oh yes!" Speaking of this, Monk Kong suddenly remembered something, reached out and took out an envelope in his pocket and said: "I found this a few days ago when I was helping a big stone mill in the village committee, it looks like it's been some years, is it useful for Master to see what?"
"Oh?" Lu Yu took it and looked at it, this brown paper envelope was obviously some years old, there was no text written on it, and it didn't seem to have been opened.
Monk Kong explained: "I didn't open the envelope, I just waited for the master to come back and look at it! The people in the village said that no one had touched that big stone mill for at least a hundred years. ”
Over 100 years......
Lu Yu and the two professors glanced at each other.
When Professor Wu heard that it was a letter from hundreds of years ago, his eyes lit up and he said, "Take it apart and take a look!"
Lu Yu also thought the same way, and immediately opened the envelope carefully......
"The kiln of Yixing began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the kiln was a circular flame-raising firing...... Even in the Tang Dynasty, the kiln is like a dragon, the Song, Yuan, Ming and the present, and it has been passed down for thousands of years......"
Just seeing this first paragraph, everyone gasped!
This is clearly a record of the history of Yixing's kilns! And the history of Yixing's local kilns can be directly traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago.
With the help of the light, Lu Yu and the others could clearly see the surprise in each other's eyes, the content of this letter was really shocking!
Professor Wu muttered, "At least one thing is absolutely not wrong, before the Tang Dynasty, most of the kilns were indeed circular flame kilns...... Keep watching!"
The next few paragraphs are all recording the development history of Yixing's local kiln.
Although there are not many words, they are very close and detailed, which makes it easy to understand at a glance.
And on the third page, the conversation suddenly changed!
"Today, the barbarians are rampant in the country, the people are weak, the government is mediocre, and the foreign ghosts are like Shura, and the barbarians are becoming more and more unscrupulous, wanting to destroy my thousand-year-old inheritance......"
"Today, there are one hundred and sixty-three brothers in Huanglong Cottage, although they are called bandits, they dare not abandon the righteousness of their home and country...... Hearing the news that the barbarian army will arrive at dawn tomorrow, our brothers will swear to destroy the barbarians and live and die together with my Huaxia Dragon Kiln!"
Our brothers are worthy of leaving their names in history, but this time they have died and have no life, in order to strengthen the heart of the army, to revitalize the country's prestige, to leave their names here, but I hope that the people who come after will not forget each other!"
"Huanglong cottage owner, Cui Long. Deputy village owner, Cheng Hao. Military Division, Wang Luzhong. Top door beams, Chen Ergou. Facing the beams and pillars, Wang Sanpao ......"
……
Thousands of words are sprinkled, every word is ironclad and impassioned!
Densely packed with one hundred and sixty-three people, everyone has hot blood, and their names are ancient and modern!
On the hill, under the searchlight, the crows are silent, and the heaven and the earth are silent.
This is a "desperate letter"!
After reading this book, Lu Yu and the others turned their heads again to look at the rows of cold bones not far away, and couldn't help but sigh and be in awe.
It turned out that the original owners of these bones were all heroic souls who died to protect this great dragon kiln!
A short time later, sirens sounded and police officers came to the scene.
Under Professor Wu's direction, excavations continued and more bones were excavated.
By the afternoon of the next day, almost all the bones had been unearthed, no more, no less, exactly one hundred and sixty-three!
When two armies are fighting, the victorious side will naturally remove the bones of its own men and place them, while the bones of the enemy are often buried on the spot.
In other words, these 163 skeletons are the 163 strong men of the Huanglong Cottage guarding this big dragon kiln!
These strong men fulfilled the oath they had promised, and fought to the last moment for this great dragon kiln, the last man!
Immediately after that, the archaeological excavation made another new discovery......
In the deeper layers of the earth, a large number of remains of the site that had been burned by the fire were found!
After preliminary archaeological restoration, the consistency between the original buildings on these wrecks and the Dalong kiln is as high as 95%!
Combined with the "Book of Despair" left in the village and the 163 skeletons, it is completely possible to deduce the scene at that time......
These strong men on the Huanglong cottage got the news that the "barbarians", that is, the army of the foreigners, were expected to come early the next morning to destroy the Dalong kiln, and the strong men in the village were also ready to fight to the death.
But for some reason, the foreigners came earlier than in the intelligence, and by the time the strong men arrived, the Great Dragon Kiln was already on fire!
In a bloody battle, all 163 strong men died.
In order to cover up the atrocities, before the foreigners evacuated, they buried all these heroes and the ruins of the Great Dragon Kiln.
Since then, the ancient kiln of Yixing has disappeared from the world, and the villagers who have experienced this incident have not known why, or they have completely forgotten about it, or they have been silenced because of the ferocity of foreigners, and the thousand-year-old inheritance has disappeared without a trace, and no one knows it anymore.