Chapter 122: The Mystery of the Hanging King (Text)
Even if this matter is revealed, only my mother is still a little unwilling, Wu Chen finally finished appeasing her, and suddenly remembered that he still owes his mother a pair of bracelets, and he sweats wildly, it seems that every time he goes to Jade Street, he swears by it, but as soon as he arrives at the place, he forgets about it, and he hasn't bought it until now.
He blamed himself in his heart, so he quickly changed the topic and talked about the brawl in the town, which evoked a lot of memories for the adults. Everyone talked nonsense about the history of the armed fight in their village, and on a certain year, month, and day, they had a fight with that village, and what were the casualties; On a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day, there was another fight with other villages, and what was the result.
Many of them were not experienced by Wu Chen, and they listened to it with relish at the moment, until it was more than eleven o'clock at night, when the little girl fell asleep in her aunt's arms, and her uncle and aunt said goodbye and left, and the countrymen went to bed early, almost to the point.
Wu Chen hurriedly took a few cigarettes, two bottles of wine, and some snacks from his luggage, and some snacks for them, and his uncle was not polite, these were all taken for granted, pushing them around was rusty, they didn't live far, just in the front row, a few steps away, they didn't even bother to hit the flashlight, and went back by moonlight.
Wu Chen only had time, took a shower, and returned to the room where his mother had just cleaned up for himself.
I don't know what Lu Dao is for, now is not the harvest season, but it is full of the fragrance of straw, smelling this familiar smell, Wu Chen gradually fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Wu Chen was still asleep when he was woken up by the sound of coming and going outside.
The countrymen got up early, as soon as the day dawned, there were already people on the ground, greeting each other, the people of the partial village were all loud voices, met in person, they were all roaring and talking, plus all kinds of chickens and dogs barking, driving cattle and pigs, and suddenly resounded.
For a lazy person like Wu Chen, it was really a painful thing, but fortunately, his parents knew that he had the habit of getting up late, and after cooking breakfast, they didn't ask him to get up to eat, let him wake up and sleep, and grind until more than ten o'clock.
Wu Chen drank porridge, called Lin Zhen again, and snorted for a while, and after being busy, he saw his mother and aunt coming back from shopping for vegetables, preparing lunch, this is to give him a formal pick-up, and in the afternoon, according to his father's arrangement, he went to a relative's house to sit for a while.
The countrymen are enthusiastic, and after he came back, in the past two days, there have been relatives, or friends who knew each other when they were young, came to sit and chat, everyone drank tea and chatted, and talked about some past events in the countryside, and time passed very quickly.
Sometimes, looking at these partners who went down to the river to touch shrimp and catch snakes together when they were young, they are now a little restrained, and they speak politely, Wu Chen is also a little sad in his heart, the years are really a ruthless knife, not only changing people's appearance, but also changing people's psychology, he can be regarded as a thorough understanding of Mr. Lu Xun's feelings when he wrote "Leap Earth".
Because of this feeling, in the next few days, he rarely went out to walk the streets and alleys, teasing the little girl at home, the little girl at this age was the most gratifying, Wu Chen played some very childish games with her, and time slipped away unconsciously.
It wasn't until this day that Daya called over, and Wu Chen was shocked to realize that he had been back for several days, and he hadn't gone to his place yet.
"Hey, I'm talking about wood! You can't do that! As soon as Daya heard Wu Chen talk about the situation in the past few days, he was very dissatisfied with the lesson on the phone, "The early bird has worms!" The plan of the day lies in the morning! If you don't drive the car over and let the buddies show off, forget it! Since you are busy with serious business, how do you know that you are a corpse at home, didn't you say that you want to go to the archives to check the information? How can you be so idle all day? Brothers, you can wait for the rice to be put in the pot! ”
"Holy! If you don't say that I really forgot, I'll go in the afternoon! I'll pick you up then, don't run around. "Wu Chen's immortal life in the past few days is really a bit of a taste of no time in the mountains.
"Hehe, if you don't say that the authorities are fans! Work still needs the supervision of the people! Big Tooth said triumphantly on the phone, and the conversation changed, "As for this afternoon, I won't go, I haven't been back for too long, I'm busy!" ”
"No, I said what are you busy with?" Wu Chen was sweating, he hadn't seen anyone for a few days, he wanted to be put in the town, every year after going home, the two were basically inseparable, and this time in the countryside, he didn't even see a shadow.
"Hey, that's too much! No, brother, I have to play mahjong again in the afternoon, no way, it's all a bureau of relatives, don't you put some water! I said that my buddy got rich, but no one believed me! Who says you don't have anything to prove in your hand? If you want to say, it's all your fault, you drove the car away and you couldn't see anyone! Big Tooth said on the phone, half complaining, half proud, "But, it doesn't matter, the buddies have been guarding against artillery these days, and they have fed these grandsons to their fullness, so they are almost called masters, can you still believe this?" ”
Wu Chen was drinking water and was choked, and the "grandchildren" in Big Tooth's mouth should be his uncle and second uncle or something, this is going to make him Lao Tzu hear, and he can't fan out his two front teeth!
"That's it, the glorious task of checking the archives is entrusted to you! This represents the trust of the country and the people in you! You can do it, I'm optimistic about you! Don't say much, buddy, don't call my phone if you don't have anything to do! Ha Lu haha...... " Da Ya Da Lu hung up his phone with a smile, so as not to hear Wu Chen scolding his mother here.
Careless dating! Wu Chen endured it, pressed the heart of the person who got off the flying car, ate lunch, slept a little, drove to the county seat, pulled Du Qin, and the two went straight to the county archives.
The school has actually been on vacation for a long time, and Du Qin has been staying in school because he secretly opened a small cram school outside of school with others to earn some extra money. During this time, I was also a little bored, and I just didn't have class, so I followed Wu Chen to the archives.
The county archives are located opposite the Red Star Cinema, which is the old town of the county, full of Republican style buildings, but it has been dilapidated a lot over the years, and it is a bit gloomy when you walk on the street!
This archive is another temple-like building, and there is a narrow and winding path leading to the courtyard of the hall inside.
Wu Chen shouted as he walked, there is an administrator in this archive, called Lao Luo, and he is also familiar with Wu Chen, Wu Chen lived here for a period of time in high school, one big and one young, and the relationship is still good.
Lao Luo heard the roar, came out and took a look, and quickly recognized it as Wu Chen, although they hadn't seen each other for seven or eight years, but Wu Chen's appearance had not changed much, but Lao Luo had become a little old.
He had heard that Wu Chen was now working in the provincial capital, and when he saw him, he hurriedly called the leader, which made Wu Chen stunned for a long time.
"Leader of the fart! Come, take it. Wu Chen knew that he couldn't explain to him that he was not a bullshit leader, so he was too lazy to talk about this issue, and just threw two good cigarettes over! Immediately made Lao Luo smile, smoking is one thing, face is important, this kid is okay, don't forget your roots!
In a corner of the hall, there was a little dilapidated dwarf, and the three of them made tea for a while, chatting about the situation, Lao Luo heard that Wu Chen wanted to check the county records, so he threw the key to him and let him toss it himself, anyway, those things have not been touched for more than ten years.
According to Wu Chen's earlier speculation with Daya, this map should be related to Wen Tianxiang's organization of the rebel army to resist the Yuan in the Chaoshan area.
In their impression, when they were children, they listened to the old man tell stories, and during that period, the leader of the rebel army who was active in the east and south of the province should be Chen Hangwang, so they focused on checking the information about Chen Hangwang on the Internet, and never thought that the more they checked, the more confused they became, this Chen Hangwang was very weird, during the event, it actually lasted for hundreds of years, and the location was all over the entire Chaoshan land, and there were cottages everywhere!
At that time, Big Tooth said, this guy is quite capable of tossing! From the angry youth tossing to the old man, where did he get so much energy! Wu Chen has nothing to say, if you do a little calculation, this buddy's lifespan must be at least one hundred and fifty years old! However, he did not dare to conclude that there was no such thing because of this, you must know that during that period, there were indeed several particularly long-lived people, such as Zhang Sanfeng, who was also known as a "living immortal".
When he came back this time, Wu Chen just wanted to figure out the trajectory of Chen Jiaowang's activities in the local area, and he was afraid that there would be many fallacies in oral transmission, so he thought of the county chronicles.
In the past, when Wu Chen lived here, he had also seen the local county chronicles, the thick pile of old books, in addition to the revised complete version during the Republic of China, there are some more ancient remnants, which is extremely rare, after that era of blowing withering and decaying, these "feudal dross" can still be preserved, can only be said to be lucky!
After two days of tidying up, Wu Chen gradually sorted out the context, according to his layers of cocoons, but it turned out that in this history, there are two people, Chen Hangyan and Chen Hangwang! I've never heard of this before.
In the articles published by Shi Xian about Chen Hangyan and Chen Hangwang, such as historical events, historical sites, legends, sayings, etc., and even in the newly revised chronicles and cultural relics, the above two people are mixed into one person.
But according to Wu Chen's research, these two guys are not the same person, Chen Hangyan's original name was Chen Daju, who was mainly active in the early Yuan Dynasty, and Chen Hangwang's original name was Chen Sui, who was active in the late Yuan Dynasty, with a difference of nearly 100 years!
Because the two have the same surname, nickname, and place of origin, and the main time of the activity is also similar, it will make people confused; Of course, this can't be blamed on folk legends, Xu Wei's deeds can be set on Tang Yin's body, not to mention that these two brothers are both from Zhangzhou, Funan, and they are closely related to the history of Chaozhou, and the official historical materials are little or even not involved, and Fang Zhi is recorded very briefly, and it is indeed difficult to sort out the clues.
This discovery made Wu Chen very excited, and he informed Big Tooth of the results as soon as possible, but he was poured a basin of cold water by this product. After listening to this, Big Tooth said disdainfully on the phone: "I said, wood, we have to keep a clear head at all times, now is not to write a paper, don't make so many vain, you can go straight to the topic...... Touch! Wait, I want green hair! ”
"......" Wu Chen looked at Du Qin, he was speechless, hung up the phone, and went into the historical materials again. However, Daya is right, this 10,000-mile long march has only taken the first step, since the characters have been distinguished, next, Wu Chen will focus on Chen Hangyan at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.
Relatively speaking, there are still a lot of historical materials about Chen Hangyan, aside from the "History of the Yuan", "The Great Dictionary of Names of the Heavenly Dynasty? The "Historical Figures Volume" has a special introduction, and there are also concise and appropriate records in the local county annals.