The mark was carved with a sharp weapon, and gold dust was sprinkled on it, and Yin Si and Liang Zhesi followed the mark, came out of the Taoist temple, went north, through a forest, and arrived in front of a mountain.

The marker disappeared from the stone wall, and there were some holes around the marker, communicating with each other, and winding into the depths of the cave. The people of Dali Temple have already groped out several exits in it, and the corresponding direction of each exit is different.

"Lord Liang, Lord Li," the person waiting at the entrance of the cave was called Liu Qing, who had already received Huang Pi's order, and when he saw the two of them coming, he immediately led them to talk inside.

"Did you find anything?" Liang Zhesi's eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Yes," Liu Qing led the people inside and showed the two of them the markings in the cave, "I'm just a little unsure which of these marks is useful!" ”

There are indeed markers in the hole, and there is more than one, three markers.

An arrow, a cross, and a circle. Three markers, each going in three directions.

"Look at the arrow," Yin Si didn't say a word, and followed the arrow, Liang Zhesi immediately followed, and the guards behind him also chased after him.

The scissors were sprinkled with gold dust, and there was no light in the depths of the cave, and when the torch shone through, the golden arrows stood out. A group of people turned around in the hole, the passage was sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, sometimes high and sometimes low, and the ground was uneven.

At first, the cave was dry and waterless stones, and the further you went, the more slippery the ground became, first the moss vegetation that liked the shade and the tide, and then the seeping water droplets, which condensed into a trickle from the drops, and finally converged into a dark river, flowing in the cracks in the stones under your feet.

The group walked for an hour before all this gradually dissipated and returned to a dry stone cave.

"Two, the last place where the arrow disappeared was in a cave, and in this cave, there are coffins," Liu Qing explained to the two of them as he walked.

The cross eventually leads the person to a valley, the circle leads the person to the top of the mountain, and the arrow is a cave where the coffin is placed.

He asked people to inquire about the coffin in the cave, which is the custom of the mountain people, who will make coffins here every autumn, and then store the coffins here in case of emergency.

This hole with the coffin, they call it the old house hole, the coffins in the hole are large and small, are made by people within a radius of several miles, around here, whoever dies can come to this hole to choose a coffin. Even if an outsider who doesn't know anything dies violently in this mountain forest, he can come here to pick a coffin if he needs it.

"Why is there such a custom?" Liang Zhesi stopped, and before he reached the exit, there were already more coffins in this cave, a lot, like some years, a musty smell, the rotten smell of rotten wood.

"They say that it has been passed down from generation to generation," Liu Qing also wondered about this, "I guess, probably in times of war, people's life and death are not guaranteed, in order to let the soul rest in peace, there is a place to go, so I made these coffins!" ”

Yin Si also stopped, and stopped for a moment in front of the still decaying and brittle wooden planks, and there were some marks on these rotten coffins, which looked like some kind of animal.

"There's too much of a coffin, isn't it?" Liang Zhesi continued to move forward, the closer he got to the exit, the more he sighed, this cave is getting bigger and bigger, not to mention, there are more and more coffins piled up, and the originally empty cave is full of these coffins, leaving only a few sheep intestine paths.

"The ancestors have accumulated it for generations," Liu Qing also sighed, "There are at least tens of thousands of pairs!" ”

"Brother Li?" Liang Zhesi turned around, but only saw Liu Qing beside him, and a guard.

Yin Si was still in front of the coffin, bending over, and restoring the large piece of peeling patent leather into a rough pattern. Then, silently, it was disrupted.

"Brother Li, did you make any discoveries?" Liang Zhezhe looked at the coffins piled up everywhere, he had a headache, and he didn't have any idea at all.

"Guard Liu, how did the people here go out of the funeral?" As he asked, he looked at the coffins around him along the path that had been left behind.

"Directly put it in the coffin and bury it, there is no ceremony or anything," the people in this mountain, after death, they all have to be buried in the coffin immediately, and there is nothing at the funeral.

"If someone from outside came to fetch the coffin, would the people in the village know?" Yin Si stepped forward and touched the dust on the coffin.

"I know, the people in the village said that two days ago, a group of merchants passed by here, and a cook lady brought by the merchant was gone, and they borrowed a coffin from them, and they had to give money, but they didn't accept it," Liu Qing asked, "That group of merchants, we also went to see, it was indeed a coffin, and there was indeed a fat cook's body in the coffin." ”

Liu Qing carefully interrogated this group of people, who were ordinary businessmen, who came to do tea business from Wei in the south, and were ready to continue to the north to the territory of Qi.

This cook, a native of Qi, married to the Wei State, but her husband died and lost her relatives in the Wei State. It just so happened that they were going to Qi to do business, and the cook begged to follow them and wanted to go back to Qi to join their relatives.

This group of people, seeing that she cooks well, is strong, and can be used as a man, so they agreed. Who knows, a few days after arriving in Wu State, she began to have a headache and fever, and the merchants stayed in the capital of Wu for her for some days, until she was almost well, and then went on the road to Qi State.

The merchants originally wanted to bury her on the spot, but who knew that the people in this mountain would not, saying that they were not from this mountain and could not be buried here, so this group of people had to give up.

When Liu Qing looked for it, a group of people were secretly digging a pit behind a mountain bag! was tracked down by him like this, so he had to kowtow and promise that he would bring the body of the cook back to Qi and hand it over to her relatives for burial.

"Are the merchants gone?" Yin Si twisted the ash from his fingertips and made some guesses in his heart.

"Let's go, we should go to Qingzhou City now, right?" Go to Qi State, out of the capital of Wu State, the first city to settle down is Qingzhou City.

"Intercept them in Qingzhou City," Yin Si returned to the two of them, "There is something wrong with this group. ”

"What's the problem?" Liang Zhesi and Liu Qing asked in unison.

"Here, there are two coffins missing," Yin Si just looked, the big coffin on the far left was all freshly made, and the paint on it was freshly baked. On the other side, there is very little dust. The coffin below should be from last year, and there is a lot of dust.

Near the innermost position, the coffin on the lower floor, the dust was wiped clean, almost spotless. Four places were moved out of that position, and there were deep marks on the bottom of the newly removed coffin.

When Liang Zhesi heard this, he hurriedly went to the place where Yin Si had just seen and took a turn, indeed, the innermost coffin should be a passive one.

"No one has passed away in this mountain recently, right?" Liang Zhesi looked at the rows of coffins, some of them were black lacquer, some were red lacquer, and some were original wood.

"No," Liu Qing shook her head.

Yin Si and Liang Zhecheng glanced at each other and left the cave quickly.

"Lord Liang, Lord Li," Liu Qing followed, "Are there any other arrangements?" ”

Is there anything else to do besides letting people go to Qingzhou City to intercept these merchants?

"Leave some people to continue to guard here, and the rest go to this group of merchants along the road to see if they have changed their routes," Liang Zhesi said after he finished instructing, "Also, report the situation here to Lord Huang!" ”

"Yes," Liu Qing immediately ordered after receiving the order, "Do you want anyone to follow you?" ”

"No," Yin Si dropped the sentence, and luckily flew away.

"Guard Liu, thank you!" Liang Zhesi also hugged his fists and said goodbye.

In the capital of Wu Kingdom, Gongbo's Mansion, everyone was restless, Ah Wan and Ah Ru sat on the ground and cried non-stop, Wang kept pacing in front of them, and Gongbo Shengde sighed and shook his head.

The news of Zhezhe's abduction was already known to the Gongbofu.

That night, Ah Wan and Ah Ru have been guarding the two young ladies, everything is as usual, Xiao Zhezhe has some insights because he has practiced new internal skills, and he has been happy for a long time.

On the day of Zhezhe, it was also the time when the Jade Buddha was in better spirits after the Jade Buddha was taken off, and he slept a lot during the day, and he was not sleepy, so he accompanied Xiao Zhezhe until late.

When the two young ladies had washed, they lay down and told the two of them to wash up and come back to rest. There are guards guarding all around, and Xiao Zhezhe knows martial arts, so the two maids didn't think too much about it, and they went with peace of mind.

Who knows, it was smoked in the washing room and fell asleep directly on the ground, or the people in the Taoist temple came to find them and pinched them, and the two of them woke up.

"Master, how good is this!" The Wang family was so anxious that they were all over the place, and their hearts were full of thoughts, it must be them, it must be them who captured Zhezhe, and they must have discovered something.

"Don't panic first, everything is still undecided," Gongbo Shengde was also very irritable, seeing that the two maids were still sitting on the ground crying, his heart was even more blocked, and he waved his hand, "You both go down, you will be upset when you look at it!" ”

"I knew that it wouldn't be so simple, they wouldn't be so resigned," two years ago, when Zhezhe was kidnapped, the peace of this family was broken, and the Wang family at first still had the idea of calming things down and shrinking their heads to live, but now it seems that those crazy people, how can they let them live a peaceful life?

"Madam, I'm sorry," the matter has come to this point, and a thousand words can't explain anything, and the only thing that Gongbo Shengde can say is this, "Back then, if you hadn't been given marriage to me, all this would not have been borne by you." ”

"When have you been saying these boring words," the last thing Wang wanted to hear was the three words sorry, sorry, she should have said it to others.

I never thought that this group of people could start planning more than ten years ago, even Wei Jin, Wei Shen did not let go, and Zhezhe, her own flesh and blood, for the peace of this family, how humiliated she was!