Chapter 396: Human Skin Coffin (Final Chapter, Part II)
Ge Hongchen told me a story that is not too long, saying that in the Southern Ming Dynasty, there was a famous general who resisted the Qing Dynasty, called Li Dingguo, his exploits can only be described in eight words, two famous kings, shaking the world, and then this Li Dingguo gradually retreated, and finally the army grinded the mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
There are two reasons for the defeat of Li Dingguo, one is that the Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty at that time was weak and incompetent but loved to provoke internal turmoil, plus a group of princes and ministers who could only gamble and often added blockage, and the other was that Sun Kewang, a general under Li Dingguo, rebelled, which eventually led to Li Dingguo's defeat.
Speaking of this Sun Kewang, that is, the protagonist of the human skin coffin, after his rebellion, Li Dingguo has sent assassins to assassinate many times, to say that this Sun Kewang is also a talent, stunned to avoid many assassinations, and finally listened to the advice of a staff member, wanting to follow Cao Cao's 'coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes', and planned to use the then Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty to subdue Li Dingguo.
After a series of military deployments, this Sun Kewang succeeded and was named the king of Qin.
As the saying goes, people, once fame and fortune are added, it will inevitably swell, and this Sun Kewang is no exception, so he did all the insults to the Yongli Emperor at that time, and the most excessive thing is that this Sun Kewang once skinned the human skin of a concubine of the Yongli Emperor alive, and finally made this human skin into a quilt.
It is true that Emperor Yongli is incompetent, but he still has a strategist under his hand, so he sent someone to hold a secret edict to let Li Dingguo, who had been defeated at that time, come to escort him, and this result directly led to the 'prison of Mr. Eighteen'.
When he said this, Ge Hongchen paused, glanced at us, and sighed: "Xiao Jiu, if you guess correctly, you must think that this person's skin coffin contains eleven people under Sun Kewang, right?" ”
I snorted, as far as I and You Tianming's speculation is concerned, this person's skin coffin should be filled with eleven skinning people under Sun Kewang, but listening to Ge Hongchen's tone, it didn't seem right, so I asked him: "Could it be someone else?" ”
He nodded, "This person's coffin contains the eighteen gentlemen who were wronged back then, a total of eighteen people, all of whom were Confucian scholars of the year, if these eighteen people were not killed back then, where would it be the turn of the Manchu Tartars to enter the customs, and the Ming Dynasty would not have been cut off here." ”
After speaking, he seemed to remember something sad, walked to the side of the human skin coffin and gently touched the coffin lid, and muttered: "My ancestor was a member of Sun Kewang's skinning people, and he knew that he was guilty of a lot of sin, and he didn't do anything to repay him, so he made such a human skin coffin, and asked people to move Mr. Eighteen's bones to the human skin coffin, so as to comfort Mr. Eighteen's soul in the sky. ”
I was slightly stunned, so I asked him: "The human skin coffin hurts Tianhe, I'm afraid your ancestor's behavior can't comfort Mr. Eighteen, I'm afraid it will make Mr. Eighteen angry." ”
He nodded, "It is true that ordinary people are in the skin coffin, but, don't forget, there is a formation in this human skin coffin, my ancestor is that he voluntarily uses his life and life for Mr. Eighteen to drive, to put it bluntly, my ancestor is willing to give Mr. Eighteen slaves to pay off his sins." ”
After speaking, he looked at me, "Xiao Jiu, what other questions?" ”
I thought about it for a while, and it was clear that this person's skin coffin was explained by him like this, but there was one thing that I never understood, that is, how could Yang Dalong's family have anything to do with this person's skin coffin?
I asked the doubts in my mind.
After hearing this, he glanced at the human skin coffin and asked me, "Do you think such a large coffin is enough for one person's human skin?" ”
As soon as I heard this, I immediately said, "Not enough." ”
After all, this human skin coffin is much larger than an ordinary coffin, and one human skin is definitely not enough.
Wait, does he mean....
At that moment, I hurriedly asked him: "Do you mean that the human skin of this person's coffin is not the ancestor alone, but there are other people?" ”
He nodded, "Yes, there are three people in total, all of them are people under Sun Kewang, one is my ancestor Ge Anmin, one is surnamed Yang, called Yang Taiping, and one is surnamed Wu, I don't know what the specific name is." ”
As he spoke, he fished the incense from the side, lit it, and inserted it around the human skin coffin, and then knelt down, his forehead pressed against the ground, and muttered a lot of words in his mouth, roughly speaking, he atoned for the sins of his ancestors, and let Mr. Eighteen rest in the human skin coffin.
And I stood on the side with You Tianming and looked at Ge Hongchen, my heart was quite complicated, I had fantasized about many endings, and even thought that the reason why Ge Hongchen appeared here should be to use the human skin coffin to achieve an ulterior purpose.
However, judging from the current situation, it looks like atonement.
After being stunned for a while, I asked You Tianming, "Tianming, do you think what he said is true or false?" ”
He didn't speak, his eyes kept staring at Ge Hongchen, until Ge Hongchen stood up, You Tianming immediately leaned over and asked, "Chief Ge, there is one more thing, I really don't understand, according to your old saying, this human skin coffin is made of human skins of three people, why Yang Dalong and his family will not be killed." ”
As soon as these words came out, all of us looked at Ge Hongchen, this question was too important, especially Yang Dalong's eyes staring directly at Ge Hongchen.
Seeing that all of us were staring at him, Ge Hongchen smiled bitterly, his face sank, and he said lightly: "I was born in a big family, and some cousins and cousins add up to nearly a hundred!" Now only the little old man is left alone. ”
As soon as I heard this, I immediately understood, he meant that something similar had happened in his family, in other words, everything that happened to Yang Dalong now, Ge Hongchen had also suffered before.
In this way, that is to say, this so-called human skin coffin is a curse, even if there is no Baojia Immortal, Yang Dalong and his family will die?
I told Ge Hongchen what I thought.
He nodded and said: "Human skin, human skin, where did the skin of the immortal come from, when the three ancestors set their own human skin on this coffin, they expected that there would be today's encounter, but fortunately, God has been blessed and left us with a single seedling, which can be regarded as a generation of descendants." ”
Hearing this, it was Yang Dalong who reacted the most, and there was no way to do it, this time he was the biggest victim of the human coffin, so he heard him shouting hysterically, "Why!" ”
Na Ge Hongchen patted him on the shoulder and said in a low voice: "Little brother, it has long been destined in the dark, you and my ancestors did that kind of immoral thing to peel people's skins, and they should be retributed." ”
When Yang Dalong heard him say this, his face sank suddenly, and his eyes were red staring at the human skin coffin, seeing that the posture was to smash the human skin coffin.
I secretly said no, and was about to stop him, when I saw Yang Dalong scoop up a stone from the ground and smash it into the human skin coffin.
"Don't!" I shouted and hurriedly ran towards Yang Dalong.
Before I could run in front of him, a figure appeared on the side of the human skin coffin, it was Ge Hongchen, he grabbed Yang Dalong's arm, and said in a low voice: "Little brother, the destiny of heaven cannot be violated, accept your fate!" ”
Frankly speaking, it is not comfortable for anyone to have this happening, if it is a person with poor bearing ability, it is estimated that he would have collapsed a long time ago, and Yang Dalong may not have any feelings for his relatives, so it broke out now.
"I don't know what the destiny is, I know that my ancestors made mistakes, why should we be borne by our descendants, we are innocent, and we have not skinned people!" Yang Dalong struggled a few times and roared angrily.
"The ancestors accumulate blessings, the descendants enjoy, the ancestors make mistakes, and the descendants suffer, this is the definition of eternity, how can ordinary people like you and me change it." Na Ge Hongchen said lightly.
Seeing this, I was stunned with You Tianming and Guo Fatzi, and it was not easy to step forward, to put it bluntly, the three of us were outsiders, and it was not easy to get involved, only they were the ones involved.
Subsequently, Na Ge Hongchen roughly told Yang Dalong some truths, which was basically to make Yang Dalong look down, while You Tianming and I took advantage of this time to revolve around the human skin coffin, thinking about how to carry the human skin coffin to be buried.
It was probably a little more than a little later, that Ge Hongchen finally persuaded Yang Dalong, and led Yang Dalong to our side, "Xiao Jiu, how do you see how to carry this person's leather coffin?" ”
I thought about it, this human skin coffin contains the bones of Mr. Eighteen, although it is only some bones, it should not be particularly heavy, but in the end, this human skin coffin is different from ordinary coffins, and its method of carrying the coffin is also quite particular, one is the number of restrictions, the second is the zodiac restraint, the third is the excessive evil, and the fourth is the distance from the grave.
As soon as I thought of these questions, my face sank, and I said, "I'm afraid this person's skin coffin is not easy to carry!" (To be continued.) )