Chapter 64 (5) Night Talk in the Mountain Village
Su Shichang said: "In this way, this map handed down by our family is a map that records the location of the buried treasure?" ”
Su Shilong nodded, and shook his head again, "Here's the thing, in order to remember the location of the buried treasure, General Zhou personally painted a landscape painting, which is called 'Zhou Guerrilla Painting', a few days ago, Ling Haibo sent his subordinates to look for Yi Shan's book and the painting along the Yangtze River, but he never returned, and the people and horses didn't know where to go." According to Ling Haibo, they may all have fallen in Wuchang. Oh, don't talk about Ling Haibo, I'll go on to explain the affairs of the dynasty, General Zhou drew a picture, but the generals and colonels under him are not fools, everyone sees the treasure, who doesn't care? So, Su, Chen, and Wu, the three captains, also quietly drew a map to record the location of the treasure, because the mountains there are in the Miao area, so the map is called 'Barbarian Mountain Map'. ”
"In this way, the Barbarian Mountain Picture and the Zhou Guerrilla Painting have the same content, in fact, they are just a picture." Shi Suo said.
"It should be about the same," Su Shilong nodded, "Originally, according to General Zhou and the three lieutenants, they would be able to quietly retrieve the treasure soon, but who would have thought that after King Zhao lost the treasure, he always sent someone to find it, and he has been in power for more than forty years, and he has never forgotten this matter, and General Zhou and his subordinates will never have the opportunity to dig up this treasure in their lifetime." ”
"Haha," Xiao Guo laughed beside him.
"Alas," Su Shilong didn't smile, shook his head and continued: "Therefore, the secret of this treasure has been passed down from generation to generation as a legend, but with the change of dynasty and the change of stars, there are some things that are passed down by word of mouth, but there are also omissions that are difficult to make up. ”
"It's no wonder," Xiao Guo analyzed: "If General Zhou and the lieutenants were asked to look for it at that time, they would naturally be able to find it by looking for it along the same road, and there was no need to indicate which state or county, but when it was passed on to future generations, it became more and more subtle, and after hundreds of years, it would not be understood." ”
"In this way, the location of the treasure is a mystery, although Zhou Guerrilla and his lieutenants have left pictures, but their descendants can not find the location of the treasure." Su Shilong shook his head regretfully.
"If you can't find it, you can't find it." Su Shichang didn't care. Xiao Wu next to him suddenly asked, "Can't you?" At that time, there should have been a lot of people involved in this matter, so didn't anyone remember the location? ”
"You're right," Su Shilong said, "Of course, there will be people who have a heart to remember the location of the treasure, and moreover, they also recorded the location of the place where the treasure is buried on paper." ”
When he said this, the people next to him gradually understood, and Shi Suo smiled: "You mean to say, is this person recorded on the paper Master Yi?" That is, the ancestor of Yishan? ”
"That's right. Master Yi is a thoughtful person, originally, in order to keep the secret of the treasure, General Zhou also gave everyone a lot of benefits, in order to seal everyone's mouth, Master Yi took an ancient book copied from Miao Village, that book, it is said to be a priceless treasure, called "Returning to Tibet" ......"
Shi Suo knew all about these things, and naturally did not react after hearing it, but Wu Lao Nong and a few other elderly people showed a surprised look on their faces, and Wu Lao Nong took the cigarette pouch out of his mouth, "What?" "Returning to Tibet"? Are you sure? I heard that this is an ancient divine book, a part of the Book of Changes, which has long been lost, if it is really that book, it is really a priceless treasure, compared to the buried treasures, but it is not inferior. ”
Su Shilong nodded, "Master Yi is a literati, so he naturally understands the value of "Returning to Tibet", but Zhou Guerrilla and others are all military generals who do not know how to write and ink, and they don't attach importance to this book, what they value in their eyes is only gold and silver treasures, so they all readily promise Master Yi to ask for this book alone." When the treasures were buried, Master Yi had an extra mind, although he didn't dare to draw pictures blatantly, but quietly wrote down the location of the buried treasures, and because the situation was urgent at the time, he didn't bring pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so he secretly wrote the location information on the last page of the book "Returning to the Collection". ”
At this point, Shi Suo suddenly realized that Yi Shan regarded the book as a treasure, Ling Haibo and other robbers and bandits were trying to snatch it, and Su Shilong also tried every possible way to get it, it was definitely not that they wanted to study the ancient "easy to learn and easy to reason", but just because this book recorded the information of ancient treasures.
Thinking of this, there is another question, surging into Shi Suo's mind, according to Su Shilong, the treasure information is recorded on the last page of the book, Master Yi is a Han Chinese, and he should not be able to write that kind of strange female book, so what he wrote at that time must be Chinese characters Undoubtedly, and now the copy in his hand, the text on it, there is not a single Chinese character, could it be that when Yi Shan copied the copy, he omitted those Chinese characters written by his ancestors? Or did you deliberately not write it?
"Since then," Su Shilong said with some emotion: "The story has been passed down from generation to generation, and everyone's idea of treasure hunting has never been broken, there are maps, I don't know the direction, I don't know the direction information, and there is no specific topographic map, so by mistake, the treasure will sleep in the mountains, and it will be hundreds of years." If things go on like this, they may be forgotten and never discovered. It also saves a lot of trouble. However, there are always waves in the water, and during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, by chance, it was time for this matter to see the light of day again, and the descendants of several parties involved in this matter were reunited. ”
At this time, the night was dark, and Su Xiaotong persuaded his father: "It's too late today, you better go to bed early, if you have something to say, I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”
Su Shilong is not sleepy, since moving to the small village, there are no neighbors to come here to chat, at this time a few old farmers gathered here to chat, so that he felt very happy, the conversation is very interesting, a few people next to him are also quite interested, they refuse to disperse.
"What happened during the Qing Dynasty?" Xiao Wu asked.
"During the Guangxu period, the local drought was great, there were hungry people everywhere, our Osmanthus Villa, relying on the low-lying terrain, saved some mountains and rivers, finally had a slight harvest, not to escape the famine to ask for food, but the people who came here to beg for food from other places are always in an endless stream, and there are people who gather recklessly, and even smuggle and rob at every turn, in order to protect the village, my father united with the neighbors to form a township group, and set up a card at the mountain pass, and did not allow outsiders to enter. (To be continued.) )