94. The righteousness of the small people

This is extremely unusual, according to the solar terms, the crypt should be warm in winter, and when it was just excavated a few days ago, it was also warm in this crypt, and everyone rushed to the bottom of the cave to work. Now it was a very freezing cold gushing.

Something must have been dug up, and it was more than lucky.

The father consulted the officers who were in charge of the work to see the two men who had died earlier, and saw that their bodies were frozen, their clothes and hats could not be removed, and their faces, hands and feet had turned a terrible black. ”

"The deaths of these people are suspicious, more like poisoning. Guo said.

"Poisoning, I don't understand, but my father said he froze to death. ”

"Freeze to death?"

"Yes, my father only told me after that time, I am a daughter like him, women are born with a cold constitution, and they cannot inherit the craft of ice mining, so there are many things that he has not told the old man before. ”

"What did the old man say?"

"It's black ice, also known as Taiyin Xuanbing, which is the thing that ice pickers are most afraid of, this kind of thing my father also heard his grandfather mention, and he has not seen it with his own eyes, but when each generation of ice pickers passes on their skills, they will tell some things to their descendants, and black ice is one of them.

The ice we usually see, as long as it is trained to keep out the cold, will basically not cause any harm to ice pickers. However, just as gold, silver, iron, and tin are melted differently at different temperatures, different things freeze at high or low temperatures, and the ice we usually see is made from water, but this black ice is frozen by the grievances of those who have died in vain. ”

"Resentment?freeze into ice?" Guo Yu was very surprised.

"Yes, it is the resentment that freezes into ice, so the color of the black ice is dark black, if you want this resentment to condense into ice, it must be ten million times colder than water, so the black ice is extremely cold, and it will only be born in the deepest and coldest places of the ice for ten thousand years, so the ice miners call him the ice core.

Black ice is black, and the ice around it also exudes a terrifying black halo, so once you dig up the black ice, you have to stop quickly.

Moreover, he will report to the imperial court through the chief of the Ice Administration Department, and ask the imperial court to hold a water and land festival to overcome the grievances of the undead, otherwise, once the grievances are dispersed, it will hurt the living beings and trees within a radius of hundreds of miles, and at the worst it will cause natural disasters and cause the people to live in poverty.

It is said that a long time ago, some people thought that since black ice was so cold, it was better to use it as an ice seed, put it in an ice cellar, and freeze the water into ice.

Later, the men actually found a piece of black ice the size of an egg. ”

"The size of an egg?"

"Yes, the piece was only the size of an egg, but the cold air it emitted froze a dog to death on the spot, and someone put on thick sheepskin gloves and tried to take it out, but after holding it in his hand for a while, the whole person was frozen, and it was also frozen hard, and the skin of his body was purple and purple.

Later, people used copper spoons, iron spoons, and wooden spoons to hold it, and the copper and iron ones quickly lost their iron, and they couldn't hold the weight of the black ice and shattered to the ground, even the wood. ”

"Black ice is still heavy?"

"Yes, my father said that the legend in the ice pickers is like this, a piece of black ice the size of an egg weighs dozens of pounds. ”

"What about later? People have no choice but to find monks and Taoists to do it?"

"At that time, there were no monks and Taoists, so I found a wizard priest or something, and I was overwhelmed by the resentment of the undead, and later this matter was passed down as the rules of ice pickers. ”

"Did your father report this to the officer at the time?"

But the man didn't seem interested, he just urged his father to understand the situation as soon as possible and get ready to take the person down. ”

"Oh, what's the origin of the officer? Aren't the officers and men who were in charge of overseeing the work also frightened?"

"That officer was sent by King Jin. ”

"Oh, your father, he finally took someone down?"

My father asked the survivors at the bottom of the cave about the situation, and knew that there was a collapse at the bottom, and there was no place to stay, and he didn't know how deep it was, so he asked the officials to prepare as many ropes, oil and iron pots as possible. ”

"Didn't you say that the cold air gushing out of the cave had already killed two people, how could you go down?"

"The initial cold was colder, when my father went, the black fog at the entrance of the cave was gone, just an invasive cold, plus our ancestral cold pills and ointments, taken internally and externally, my father judged that it was no problem to go down, but, in addition to a few Ling descendants brought by my father, the officers sent by the King of Jin also wanted my father to take one more person down. ”

"The envoy of the King of Jin has assigned a man to go down with your father?"

"Yes. ”

"Did your father say who went down together?"

Wang Ping'er shook her head, and said worriedly: "I'm not sure what kind of person it is, that person doesn't talk to anyone, it seems to be a person with a certain status, and the fur he wears is very expensive, but his father said that after he went down together, he took out the compass and looked around, he should be a person who understands the five elements of feng shui." ”

"Take a compass, study Feng Shui underground?"

"Well, that's what my father said, they went down to the bottom of the cave to look at the place where it collapsed, and after going down more than ten zhang, the basket carrying people fell to the ground, and my father took people to set up an iron pot to light the fire oil, and set up a pot every other section, and lit more than 30 fires, and I didn't see the end, and there was an extremely wide cave at the bottom.

The feng shui gentleman in fur asked his father to take someone to carry a stove with him to investigate. ”

"Can you see that there is Taiyin Xuanice, black ice or something?"

"No," Wang Ping'er shook her head and continued, "Although there is fire, it can't illuminate much of a place, and the black ice is in the depths of the ice, how can it be easily seen, but there is indeed a thick layer of ice underneath the ground, but it is very strange, and there are few glaciers in the general underground dark river." ”

"The dark river under Luoyang City is a glacier?"

"Yes, and that feng shui gentleman seems to have gone to see the glacier, and he was very happy after discovering the glacier, and my father said that the man studied the direction and direction of the glacier, and also drew a map. ”

"Hehe, this feng shui gentleman is very interesting. ”

"Interesting, isn't it?" Wang Ping'er pouted.

"Well, it's very strange, how is it? They didn't see any ghosts underground, Huangquan Road or something, right? Hahahaha."

"Hey—how do you know you didn't see it?" Wang Ping'er glanced at Guo Yu.

Guo Yu was stunned, his eyes widened, and he asked in surprise: "Did you really see an unjust ghost?"

The feng shui gentleman kept asking his father and them to go to the depths of the glacier, and I don't know how long they walked, but they found a ghost fire fluttering in front of them, green, purple, and red, and one of them screamed in fright.

It didn't matter what this cry was, those red and green ghost fires were all scurrying around, and they also shouted and jumped to chase after their father. ”

"Huh? And then—"

The feng shui gentleman was very bold, probably calculated that someone would be frightened, and hurriedly ordered everyone to close their eyes and not make a sound, and wiped a handful of greasy things on everyone's faces, and waited for a long time, the ghost howl gradually stopped, and he didn't go inside, but he still asked everyone to close their eyes and walk hand in hand, and he led the way in front of him before bringing people out. ”

"Oh, I see. ”

"Well, although nothing happened that time, but my father's body was not good, and when I came back, I was very weak, and the whole person was cold, and I kept shaking, and I used my family's cold ointment to wipe it constantly, and it took a night to get better, but the next day there was a crypt collapse, and they asked my father to go again-"

Before Wang Ping'er finished speaking, tears were dripping down, and Guo Hua already understood what was happening.

Guo Hao comforted her, and suddenly remembered that he might do something for her.

"Miss Wang, when I hear some news in the next few days, you can follow me out of the city first, it's still too dangerous here. ”

Wang Ping'er looked at Guo Yu with gratitude, she was not in a hurry to answer Guo Hua's words, she put down the clothes she was sewing in her hand, slowly walked to the door, leaning on the door and looking at the other side of the courtyard wall.

She was silent for a moment, then bit her lip slightly.

"How many people can you save from it?"

"Luoyang City is heavily guarded, and if you want to be foolproof, you can only take the girl alone. ”

"Childe should go out of the city alone. Wang Ping'er replied decisively.

"How can this be done, Ling Zun has the grace to save my life, but I haven't even seen his old man's face, and I can only try my best to take care of the girl's thoughtfulness, and not to waste his old man's kindness. ”

Wang Ping'er walked over, smiled softly at Guo Hua, and said: "My father was not the only one who saved you that day, all the ice pickers living in this courtyard were from the Ice Administration, and many men came to save you at that time, and Brother Er Niu even wrapped his own clothes, so that he could avoid the officers and soldiers patrolling all the way, and you could return here safely." ”

"This-I see that there are more than 50 people in this courtyard, and it is definitely impossible to take everyone out of the city, it is too dangerous along the way. ”

"Don't think about it, the little woman didn't mean to embarrass the child, even if the son can take the people in this courtyard out, but the thousands of people in Luoyang City, who will take them out of the city?"

Guo Yu was asked, opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, and was speechless for a while.

"Although I don't know who you are, but judging by your appearance and demeanor, you should not be an ordinary ** soldier, Gongzi still puts his mind on major matters, and strives to save the people of Luoyang from fire and water as soon as possible, don't delay major events because of me alone.

When my father was alive, he often said to us, ** will definitely fight back, will definitely come to save everyone, and we must be strong to live, Gongzi sincerely misses his father's kindness, and should also focus on the people of the city. ”

"That girl, you-"

"Don't worry, Brother Erniu, uncles and aunts, as well as the sisters and brothers in the courtyard will take care of me. ”

Wang Ping'er looked resolute, and she had already made a choice in her heart, and Guo Hua couldn't help but be very moved and admired.