(1) Treasure hunting

In the first month of the sixth year of Emperor Yonghe of Han Shun, Ma Xian, the general of the expedition to the west, fought with Frozen Qiang in Shegu Mountain, and the Xian army was defeated, and his two sons were gone. Xia, Gong Tang Qiang Kou Northland, Beidi is too guarded by Jia Fu and Zhao Zhenzhi, which is unfavorable. In September, Zhuqiang Kou Wuwei. In winter and October, it is flooded with Qiangkou, and the cool part is terrified. At the end of the year, the thieves in Jingzhou started and died uncertainly.

Emperor Shun no longer dared to ask for Yonghe, and changed the name of the country to Han'an in the second year, but it was enough to seek peace in the four realms, and it was October of the second year of Han'an.

Liangzhou, the desert is lonely, the vast wilderness is reckless, the people are fierce, advocating barbarism and martial arts, if the surrounding people do not temper their bodies like wolves and tigers, how can they fight against the Qiang people who plunder from time to time. The local people are rough and bold, strong and healthy, and then practice martial arts, they will be respected, their ancestors learn from each other, and they will teach their children by word and deed.

Lintao County, Longxi County, Liangzhou, known as Didao City in ancient times, is the right town of Longlong, the Silk Road must pass, the west is adjacent to the Qiang people, the south is connected to Yizhou, and the Han Dynasty is to rush.

But there is a big village in the suburbs of Lintao County, although it is remote, the layout of the village is quite chic, a middle-aged rich businessman in the courtyard is looking at the account book on a big wooden chair, and see that this wooden chair is well-carved, it is not a vulgar product.

After a while, the middle-aged man shouted into the house, "Zhuo'er, the sunlight is not easy to come by in this winter, why don't you go out to play for a while, I think your eldest brother and third brother will go out early in the morning." Since last month, it is rumored that there have been more than 90 movements in Liangzhou, which is really a shocking landslide and valley crack, a bad city and a ruined temple, and crushed many people inside and outside the city. If it weren't for the sturdy construction of our wooden house, I don't know if the whole family would be buried in the ruins that night, but our family's land property has also been crushed a lot, alas......"

This middle-aged man is called Dong Junya, who once served as the county lieutenant of a small county in Yingchuan County, the official position is really not big, and he is bored, and when his eldest son was born, he resigned from the official position and came to Longxi County.

Dong Junya sighed while urging his second son to go out, but there was another reason why he was so eagerly urging. It turned out that the birth of his son coincided with the decline of his fortune and the poverty of his family, which caused this child to be congenitally bad and thin, but now the child is eleven or twelve years old, but he only looks like an eight or nine-year-old child.

As he spoke, he saw a thin boy come out of the room, this young man's face was pale, apparently caused by not seeing the sun for a long time, and his arms were slender, as if he was not enough to hold it.

The middle-aged man looked at the shape of the young man, and sighed in his heart, he had long expected that this son would die one day in the future, if he could barely grow up, he would still be like this, and he would be bullied everywhere in this Xiliang land, and he would not be able to gain a foothold. But he couldn't bear to ignore his parents and children, so he often persuaded his son to go out for a walk, how much he could strengthen his body, and it happened that the earth had stopped moving recently, and there was a blazing sun in the sky, so he wanted to force this son to go out.

The young man's name is Dong Zhuo, listening to his father say this, he didn't want to, but he also knew that his father was kind, so he only vaguely agreed, and went out with a slight trembling body, just because he was thin and weak, and he was always bullied and played by children of the same age when he went out.

When he went out, Xiao Dong Zhuo saw that there were no clouds in the sky, sometimes although the wind was cold and strong, it was refreshing, and when he walked under a huge poplar tree, he leaned on the tree and sat down, closing his eyes and concentrating.

Suddenly, a group of children came from a distance, saw someone under the tree, and found that it was Dong Zhuo who everyone could bully sitting under the tree.

"The second young man of the Dong family! Don't come unharmed. The young man led by Dong Zhuo joked, Dong Zhuo was suddenly startled, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that he had been surrounded, and secretly regretted in his heart how he was so careless, and it was inevitable that he would be poisoned by them again today.

But I saw these children one by one very proud, and they all smiled at themselves with bad intentions, and they were angry, as the saying goes, rabbits bite when they are in a hurry! said, "Boss Chen, you have to fight...... Just hit, don't ...... So...... Bullying people ......", but Dong Zhuo's voice could not hide the low trembling.

"Why is Dong Boy so tough today, what kind of leopard blood did he drink and eat tiger gall?" The young man who was called Boss Chen said to the other children, and his tone was mocking, causing the group of children to laugh, but Dong Zhuo didn't dare to say another word.

"Dong boy, don't be afraid, today we will neither beat you nor scold you, but we will do something with us." At this time, Boss Chen was already smiling silently.

Dong Zhuo was shocked in his heart, and secretly screamed that it was not good, if he was usually only beaten and scolded by them for a while, at most it would be a flesh wound, and he would not have to come out again when he went home to recuperate for a while. But if it is "doing things", it is not easy, some of these things are to dig the eggs of the python in the dunes, and some are to pluck the hair while the tiger is asleep, these children are not for anything else, just for fun, sometimes they dare not do it for Dong Zhuo, if it were not for the first two times the python and the tiger were not at home, Dong Zhuo would not have his life.

Dong Zhuo thought of this, and said in his heart that if it was still like this, it would be better to let them be killed, and he turned his head and was about to flee home, just two steps by an extremely strong young man grabbed his shoulder, only to grab Dong Zhuo's shoulder blades as if it was about to be shattered, the young man continued to work harder, Dong Zhuo only heard his bones rattling, drilling into the heart, and the pain was unbearable.

But I heard that Boss Chen said again, "Dong boy, we are not here to discuss with you, but I can't help you, do you want to be a coward for the rest of your life, if you don't go today, we will beat you half to death first, and then you come out again, see you once and beat once, just like today; If you go with me today, not only will we not beat you, but you will go out and play with us in the future! "This Boss Chen actually used both soft and hard.

The young man next to him shouted, "Boss, we're afraid that he won't succeed, so let's beat him up first!" "How can this Dong boy play with us with such a sloppy appearance."

But I heard a tall and thin boy say, "Don't make any noise, the boss has his own plans." When Boss Chen heard the tall and thin boy say this, he couldn't help but look at him with admiration, and the group of children stopped shouting.

"You...... Are you serious! Dong Zhuo couldn't believe that Boss Chen had offered such conditions to himself, so he only whispered, "I...... I don't ...... either I won't be with you, as long as you don't beat me in the future......" I thought, if only they didn't beat me again in the future, otherwise would I really not go out of the house for the rest of my life?

"Stinky boy, I don't know what to do, it's a blessing in your previous life that we can play with you......" These children are gossiping one by one.

"Good! So you agreed, don't rely on it! Let's go. With that, a group of children got up to leave, but the two children followed Dong Zhuo to prevent him from escaping.

"Boss Chen, let's ...... Where are we going? Dong Zhuo still didn't know where to go, and he was suspicious in his heart, and couldn't help asking.

"It's okay to tell you, we're going to the border 'treasure hunting'!" Boss Chen said proudly.

"Treasure hunting ......," Dong Zhuo muttered, he had also heard that Boss Chen and a group of teenagers tell them what their so-called "treasure hunting" was.

This Lintao County is located at the junction of Han and Qiang, and from time to time there are wars and conflicts between the two sides, as large as a battle of thousands of people, and a dozen or so people will fight when they meet together. If the two sides have no time to clean up the battlefield after the war, these Han and Qiang soldiers will always leave a lot of big and small things, weapons and armor are the most common, and then there are silver coins and pearls like the soldiers of the Han Dynasty, like the animal skins and bones of the Qiang soldiers, which are very interesting in the eyes of children, and they will take the things on the dead corpses and keep them for themselves, which is the so-called "treasure hunting".

Dong Zhuo thought to himself, if I didn't encounter the soldiers fighting, it wouldn't be very dangerous to go "treasure hunting", so how could Boss Chen allow me such benefits, and I still couldn't understand it in my heart.

After walking for an hour, the group of children had approached the border, and Boss Chen asked them to slow down and look around carefully, and found that there were no Qiang people around, so he let the group children follow.

After a while, the place where the children set foot was already a wilderness, only to see that the wilderness was full of corpses, flesh and blood were blurred, hands and feet were incomplete, some of them could be distinguished from the color of the armor and clothing on their bodies, and some could no longer be seen.

The group of children has seen a lot of scenes, and they are not surprised at all, but today these corpses are a little different, only to see a look of horror on the faces of these dead corpses, as if they saw something extremely horrific before they died, and a trace of black gas appeared above the forehead of the corpses, as if they had been poisoned.

Although the group of children felt a little frightened in their hearts, they didn't take it seriously, and suddenly a teenager shouted, "Boss, I found it!" Over there! The voice was full of joy.

"What was found?" Dong Zhuo muttered to himself.

Boss Chen and the others looked in the direction pointed by the shouting young man, only to see an underground pit the size of a wellhead, I don't know what it was, but from time to time it radiated a faint glow, one time it was extremely bright, and the other time it was extremely dark, Boss Chen asked the tall and thin young man beside him, "Feng Abao, is this it?" ”

The tall and thin boy Feng Abao said excitedly, "This is it!" ”

It turned out that Feng Abao's uncle was a hunter, and he wanted to hunt some food outside the border yesterday, but he just caught up with a team of Han soldiers and a cadre of Qiang soldiers fighting here, and there were only thirty or forty people on both sides.

But after a while, the mountain shook and the ground shook, and the soldiers on both sides also panicked, and they all stopped, thinking that the earth was moving again, but the earth stopped moving a few days ago, and today it started again. Suddenly, a big hole appeared on the ground, only to see that the hole was glowing with a faint light, and in a blink of an eye, wisps of black gas floated out of the hole, and then Uncle Feng Abao heard the Han and Qiang soldiers screaming one after another, which was extremely terrible, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to look back, and he didn't care about meeting the soldiers, so he fled home in a hurry.

Feng Abao went out at night to relieve his hands, and heard someone talking in his uncle's and aunt's room, but it was his uncle who remembered what he saw during the day, and was so frightened that he couldn't sleep, so he told his wife to listen, but Feng Abao overheard. When he heard that there was light in the cave, Feng Abao was curious, and the young man didn't care what his uncle said about the soldiers' screams, so he went to the border early in the morning to check, and sure enough, he saw the hole that his uncle said, and looked at the light, thinking that there must be a rare treasure in this hole, and he hurriedly went to report to Boss Chen that this was the "treasure hunting" trip today.

The group of children came up one by one, and they all gathered around the entrance of the cave to look into the cave, but when there was no light in the cave, it was pitch black, as if it was bottomless, and when the light was bright, it stabbed people so that they couldn't open their eyes, but they didn't speak one by one. If there are any mountain spirits and ghosts in this cave, it is not a small life, but if this cave is extremely deep, it will not be able to come up if it goes down, and everyone is still concerned about their lives, and they are speechless for a long time.

"Dong boy, it's time to use you! Go down and show us what kind of treasure is shining in this hole? As long as you go in and take out that treasure, you will be my brother Chen! Boss Chen said loudly to Dong Zhuo.

The group of children looked at Dong Zhuo, but saw that his body was trembling slightly and hesitating.