Chapter 35
The Holy Land Tomb Village?
This was Rong Thirteen's first reaction. Ancient emperors and princes built mausoleums after their deaths, and there is indeed a saying that there is a mausoleum. The same is true for a generation of kings and a generation of ministers, so after the death of the emperors and princes, the harem and close attendants were either martyred and buried, or sent to the sacrificial hall next to the mausoleum to guard the mausoleum. The mausoleum guards have eunuchs and palace people, and there are also close guards of the emperor during his lifetime, their household registration is still the palace register, nowhere to go, these mausoleum guards are basically forgotten later, ignore it, and over time they become a home in the local area, and gradually multiply into a small village.
It's just that the dynasties have changed, and due to the influence of factors such as war and population migration, Shouling Village has been desolate and withered in a long time, and many have migrated out after a few or more generations. Looking at Jun Yihuang's clothes and tomb utensils, Rong 13 speculated that Jun Yihuang should be a person from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, at least a thousand years so far. Shouling Village, which can still survive zĂ i across thousands of years, is only unique.
These thoughts passed through Rong Shisan's mind, his face was silent, he was still talking and laughing with Meng Zheng all the way, and only took the opportunity to give Bai Suhe and Lan Zui a rough mention of the situation when he was resting on the way.
Now, Rong Shisan and Lan Zui are becoming more and more interested in this Mengjia Village. They entered the tomb for the sake of the Ming utensils in the tomb, but the main owner fished them out and put them in his pocket, and the Ming utensils were half untouched. Huling Village was built near the former sacrificial hall, so I don't know if there are still antiquities of the former sacrificial hall in this village, if you can find one or two leaks, you can make up for the loss.
Meng Zheng is very sincere, she said that it is really far away, and she does not discount it at all. The road is full of sheep intestines, the left and right are covered with wild plants, the barren mountains and wild mountains are extremely remote, and the mountains are green and dizzy. The trio followed the tricycle for four hours, but Meng Zheng told them that they had to cross a valley to get there, and Lan Zui almost stumbled.
Rong Shisan's intention to set Mengzheng was to set Mengzheng, but this long time allowed him to touch the bottom of Mengjia Village.
When Mengjia Village came here, Meng Zheng didn't know, she only knew that Mengjia Village had taken root in this mountain, and her ancestors had relied on this mountain for generations. She heard from the old man that there were only a few male elders in the village who went out to the market regularly, using the medicinal herbs dug in the mountains to exchange daily sundries, grain seeds and domestic animals, and even the daughter-in-law was asked for it in this way. As for the others, they either plough the land or dig for medicine, and rarely have contact with the outside world. Later, it became more and more lively outside, and more and more news was brought back by outsiders, and the people were restless, and the old people in the village couldn't control it, and scolded and beat them, and people still ran out one by one, and Mengjia Village was soon empty, and only she and a twelve-year-old boy were left among the young people.
As for the Holy Land, Meng Zheng didn't understand what was going on at all. When the young people in the village first arrived, the patriarch repeatedly warned them that the cave was the sacred place of their village, that the old people of the Mengjia family were buried in it, that sacrifices must be sent regularly, and that the corpses of the people of the Mengjia village had to be sent into the cave when they died. In this way, the ancestors in the cave will bless Mengjia Village Shun lĂŹ, and the people in the village will be safe. Otherwise, the old ancestor would be furious, and it would affect the entire Mengshi family. The person in charge of the sacrifice was previously the head of Mengjia Village, that is, their patriarch. Later, when the patriarch got older, he passed the position of patriarch to Meng Zheng's father. Her parents once didn't come back while digging medicine in the mountains, and later looked for two bodies stacked on top of each other under a cliff, gnawed beyond recognition. At this time, the young men in the village ran out, and the remaining male baby was still young, so he had to explain the matter of sending the sacrifice to Meng Zheng.
Lan Zui listened to it beside him, secretly thinking in his heart, it seems that the theory of this holy place was made up by the first generation of the original tomb protectors, and over time it has become a legend of their clan. I just don't know how the people in this village would feel if they knew that the sacrifices they sent regularly and the corpses of the Montessori clan had all become food for leeches and snakes, and that the cave was not a holy place at all, but a place of accumulation of corpses, which would only make the souls of the dead undead.
However, this news must not be revealed, so Lan Zui just silently sympathized with the innocent girl next to him.
In the end, what surprised them was Meng Zheng's age. Looking at Meng Zheng's dress and talking, the three of them estimated that she was at most fourteen or fifteen years old, and they never thought that Meng Zheng would be seventeen years old.
"It's here!" Meng Zheng's words were like a heavenly sound, and the three of them were ecstatic. Hurry up a few steps, at the end of the road is a stone ridge of about three meters, and set up a wooden ladder to go up and down. A large piece of flat land below the stone ridge is the 'Mengjia Village' in Mengzheng's mouth. It is said that the village is really a little lifted, sparse more than ten or twenty houses, the building resembles a stilted building, the lower floor is supported high by poles, and the upper floor is inhabited. Most of the tops were broken, revealing a messy interior. The remaining dozen or so buildings are also in old condition, and the roofs are covered with cow hair felt and thatch. From time to time, chickens and ducks ran all over the house, and in front of the largest house was a chaise longue, on which an old man with a white beard lay with his eyes closed to bask in the sunset.
Meng Zheng parked the tricycle on the side of the stone ridge, took the initiative to climb down the wooden ladder with a large bag on his back. The wooden ladder was very old, and it creaked when I stepped on it, and a woman in her fifties came out of the nearest room when she heard the sound, and was about to greet Meng Zheng, looking at the string that followed Meng Zheng, and was stunned.
"Zhuo Bao, special mountain to knock." Meng Zheng spoke loudly to the woman, the three of them couldn't understand, and when they got off the wooden ladder, they stood by the ladder with a smile, and the back of their hands behind them made a counterattack at any time.
Fortunately, the woman just looked at the three of them curiously and fearfully, and after talking to Meng Zheng for a few words, the woman's fear faded, and she nodded shyly at the three of them.
"There are few people in Emen Village, and Auntie is not used to it." Meng Zheng turned around and explained to the three of them, and then pointed to the old man and said, "The master is the patriarch of the Emen family, and he doesn't recognize people." Everything else is outside ploughing the land. â
Rong 13 and Lan Zui nodded, relieved and slightly disappointed. This village is really as Meng Zheng said, not asking about the world, and there is really no threat to the three of them, but I am afraid that this superfluous news will not be able to be found.
Meng Zheng let the three of them and Chen Yifei into her house, which was very simple, with walls made of cow dung mixed with wood, and covered with newspapers, many of which were broken. The room is divided into two rooms, one wooden bed in the middle and two chairs in the outside. A little surprisingly, there was a radio on the table, and there was a light bulb hanging on the top, Rong Shisan pulled the drawstring at the door, but it didn't light up.
"The extra head is to learn from the box." Meng Zheng touched his braids, and his face was full of color: "The cadres of the next village have to pull electricity for Ecun, and the lamps are used to install karma, but the line is not good, and it is not lit." â
After a pause, Meng Zheng said again: "I also want to go out, and when my brother grows up, I will also go out." Is it good to find Nongmen when it is your turn? â
Rong Thirteen responded in vain, and Meng Zheng happily went out to prepare dinner for them.
"I heard her say that there is a village next to Mengjia Village, and it is connected to electricity, so at least there is a telephone. I stayed overnight tonight and changed my clothes, and then went to that village tomorrow morning to contact my own people. Bai Suhe came out of the mountain with a frown, and when he entered the house, he looked even more disgusted, standing in the center and not wanting to stand next to each other.
This girl named Meng Zheng, including where she lives, makes Bai Suhe feel uncomfortable, and she just wants to stay as far away as possible.