Chapter 14: Origins
The story that Lao Zhao tells next happened in a certain year during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, on an unknown mountain and an unknown temple. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The protagonist of the story is a gray-haired, withered old man, and an unknown young man, between the two of them, there has been the following conversation, said to be a dialogue, in fact, it is just the old man's self-talk, and the young man, a listener, is more like a statue in the temple that does not move.
"It is rumored that there is a person who is feathered in the mountains, I am young, I heard this, I have the dream of becoming an immortal, the year of the weak crown, I asked my father, can there be an immortal in the sky?" The old man spoke, his voice rough and hoarse, "Father said yes, I asked, in this case, what is a fairy?" ”
"My father told me that a person and a mountain are immortals, a skimming and a pinch of people, the flat ground is a mountain, people are in the mountains, there are people in the mountains, that is, immortals, he also told me, immortals, do not ask about the world, do not follow the red dust, no sorrow and no joy, but since they do not follow the red dust, do not ask about the world, how to talk about existence, since it does not exist, why is it called an immortal?" The old man's eyes burst into a strange light, as if he was still the ignorant and energetic teenager back then, "So I packed my bags and embarked on the road of seeking immortals." ”
"Unconsciously, fifty years have passed, I have left my hometown, traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, stepped on the red dust road for a long time, I am used to seeing the vicissitudes of the world, worship when I meet the mountains, and help when I meet people, but I don't want to be involved in many causes and effects, I almost died, my parents have left me, I also have a wife and children, the immortals said in the past, I did not get what I wanted, I looked up to the sky and asked, where is this immortal?!"
"Then, I devoted myself to studying the classics of the Immortal Family, and it was another fifty years, and I had exhausted the scriptures, read all three thousand Dao Collections, and learned that the immortals were in the Daluo Heaven," the old man's voice raised a few points, his withered body seemed to be unable to support it, and he coughed violently, "But if you see the sun through the clouds, how can you come to the sky?!" ”
"Finally, finally, at the end of this line, I finally realized that immortals are people, people are immortals, as long as you stick to the Tao in your heart, any road can lead to the sky," the old man chanted leisurely, "Half a word has been understood, why do you need to write thousands of scriptures; If people are not burdened by the form, they will turn around and be Da Luotian! ”
"Yes," said the young man, his eyes always calm, like a pool of stagnant water, and the flames of the candles in the temple flickered, reflecting the ripples of water in his eyes.
Soon after the old man said this, he passed away, and before he died, he asked the young man to bring to his descendants a Feng Shui Secret Book and three sentences that he had written with his life's work.
The first sentence, all the descendants of my Mo family will send out all the hills and mounds in the world, life after life, eternal life and eternity, endlessly.
The second sentence is like a question, but it contains endless mysteries, in my life, is it really an immortal?
Lao Zhao didn't say the third sentence, because he didn't know it himself, it was a secret, an ultimate secret that only the Mo family patriarch could touch.
"This is the origin of the Mo family, the largest tomb robber family in the world," Lao Zhao said.
"But...... What does this jade pendant have to do with it? I was puzzled by the fact that I was confused by his story, and I didn't understand what it meant.
"Don't worry, my story isn't finished yet," Lao Zhao smiled and continued.
The Mo family has accumulated a lot of unique secret skills in thousands of years of wits and courage with the tomb owner, and has widely absorbed various theories and techniques of other gangs and even folk thieves, and will use the three major systems of "feng shui, magic, and external force" to rob the tomb to the extreme, and the whole family is also a genius, Lao Zhao's master, the former head of the Mo family, the Mo Xingyun who dug the sarcophagus out of the ground is one of the most legendary.
The strength of the Mo family is the result of accumulation to a certain extent, and eventually quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
It was established in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Mozi's Mo family, which advocated "both love and non-attack", is not well known, and does not occupy a certain seat in the hundred sons of the people, but it is not a dispensable role in history, but exists as a hidden powerhouse, and the people of the Mo family have almost penetrated into all schools of the hundred schools of the princes, and even many people are still important ministers of the court, and they also looked for the elixir of life for Qin Shi Huang in the pre-Qin period, of course, they failed in the end.
The Mo family has gone through several dynasties, and under the painstaking management of countless generations, it has gradually developed and become the leader of the entire tomb robbery industry, but later, with the collapse of the feudal dynasty and the impact of new ideas, the original system of the Mo family gradually could not support the operation of the entire family, and faced the crisis of extinction.
Coupled with the special period of ten years, by the time Mo Xingyun sat in the position of the head of the family, the Mo family was left with an empty shelf.
Mo Xingyun is talented and intelligent, and his understanding is also extremely high, and he quickly practiced the family heirloom stunt to the point that he is able to deal with all kinds of dangerous situations, plus his feng shui attainments have reached the point where no one can match, especially the good kung fu of finding the dragon point with one hand, so he can quickly find the hidden tombs under various complex terrains, so in the thirty-eight years that he debuted at the age of twelve and closed at the age of fifty, he swept the major tombs and collected countless treasures, which was able to pull the Mo family back from the brink of destruction.
Mo Xingyun not only revived the Mo family, but also helped many families in the organization, pulled them at a critical moment of survival, and provided them with a lot of manpower and funds, which enabled them to turn around and develop again.
He is also kind and generous, attaches great importance to love and righteousness, and makes friends with capable people on the rivers and lakes, and he is generous, spends money like dirt, and never cares about his own gains and losses, so he has a high reputation on the road, and is respected as "Lord Mo".
The people in the tomb robbery industry almost regard Mo Xingyun Mo as a kind of faith, and even some tomb robbers' homes also pay tribute to Mo Xingyun's immortal card.
Mo Xingyun has robbed countless tombs in his life, and the weird things that have happened to him can write a horror novel by picking up two random things, but he is very evasive about that incident, this matter is not a secret, and it caused a lot of sensation at the time.
Fifty years ago, hundreds of masters, under the leadership of Mo Xingyun, carried out the largest tomb robbery in history.
These people are the core figures of the major families, everyone can go out, they can be alone, they took the most sophisticated equipment at that time, under the leadership of Mo Xingyun, they plunged into the endless "Sea of Death" Lop Nur, and never came out again.
It was also from that incident that Mo Xingyun chose to wash his hands in a golden basin, and since then he has been at home since then, and he will never get involved in anything related to tomb robbing.
What exactly did they encounter there, where did those people go, and other families sent people to inquire many times, but Mo Xingyun remained silent.
Gradually, rumors began to circulate about Mo Xingyun in the rivers and lakes, saying that they had found a shocking treasure in Lop Nur, and Mo Xingyun wanted to swallow it alone, so he chose to kill people and kill all the others in Lop Nur.
But Lao Zhao did scoff at this statement.
Not to mention whether Mo Xingyun has the ability to kill these hundreds of masters without leaving any clues, if he really did it, he could have made up a perfect lie to cover all this, instead of saying nothing like now.
What puzzled Lao Zhao was his attitude. He didn't even open his mouth to defend himself, as if none of this had anything to do with him.
As a result, some people began to be suspicious of Mo Xingyun, and even some big families who had never been at odds with the Mo family entangled a group of people and came to find trouble with the Mo family, and those families who had been helped by the Mo family naturally stood on the side of the Mo family and firmly supported Mo Xingyun, and the entire organization gradually divided into two factions.
The two factions fought against each other, causing numerous casualties for a while, and even alarming the government.
In the end, several high-ranking officials stepped forward and used force to carry out a bloody suppression, and even dispatched several armies, which put down this unprecedented civil strife.
After this accident, the vitality of the major families was greatly injured, and they did not recover for a long time, and the Mo family ran out of oil, and the guys in the family died, scattered, and there were only a few antique shops left, barely making a living, although after a long period of hard work, the Mo family gradually developed, but the comprehensive strength and status in the major families have been much worse than before.
Up to now, more than 50 years have passed, but in the past 20 years, people have not given up investigating this matter, and Mo Xingyun has always been secretive about this matter, and he has not mentioned a word until he died.
Lao Zhao originally thought that this matter, like other historical events, would gradually surface over time, but he was wrong, this matter, like an old wine that has been aged, has become more and more intense with the changes of time, and finally, with the death of Mo Xingyun, like the many mysteries he carries, it has completely disappeared from this world.
There are some secrets that are destined to be brought to the grave.
The strange thing is that before Mo Xingyun died, he hung a house full of important people to visit him, and even his son Mo had no intention of seeing him, and his grandson Mo was gone, but he just called a young man whom Lao Zhao had never seen before into the house and talked all night.
Then he died, before leaving, the young man found Lao Zhao, and his junior brother, the current head of the Mo family, Mo had no intention of telling the long-sealed secret, in fact, most of the people at that time were not dead, but they were all hidden, like the evaporation of the world, what did they carry, what kind of changes could make them have such a terrible tacit understanding, the young man did not say a word.
"He just told us that those people didn't find nothing, and that my master, that is, Lord Mo, brought out a piece of jade pendant from Lop Nur," Lao Zhao lowered his voice, "It is the Pisces jade pendant." ”