Chapter 797: Worn Inscription
With everyone's unremitting efforts, a month later, I finally found an old stone tablet of the Liang Dynasty in Henan Mall, which recorded the last experience of Luo Chengji's life.
The stele was found in a village in the Mall, and the farmer who owned it did not know it was an antique, and built a sheepfold as if it were an ordinary stone. Due to the perennial grinding, the text on the stele is almost polished, and it took several masters to restore antiques to restore some of the contents.
This stele was carved by several "horn dealers" near Langshan, as for what the "horn dealers" do, and why they set up a monument for Luo Chengji, I don't know.
The inscription says that there was a famine in the area of Longshan one year, and everyone had nothing to eat, so the village planned to pack up their belongings and go out to escape the famine.
Coincidentally, just when everyone was about to leave Longshan, there was a grain merchant from other places carrying the newly harvested grain passing by Longshan, and he saw that this generation had run out of food, and even the mountain was about to be eaten empty by the villagers, so he did not hesitate for a moment, and immediately asked the people to distribute grain for disaster relief.
In the eyes of the villagers, this grain merchant is naturally a "living bodhisattva" and a "great good man", but only Luo Chengji scolded the grain merchant, saying that this grain merchant is "a big insect (tiger) from Lilu Mountain (I don't know what it means)" and "a man-eating beast", the villagers originally thought that Luo Chengji was crazy, and at first he didn't care about his words, but then he scolded more and more fiercely, and even took a torch, wanting to burn the grain and grass transported by the grain merchant.
Who would have thought that the villagers just wanted to clean up Luo Chengji, but Luo Chengji suddenly returned to normal.
There is a fault in the inscription here, but I can probably guess the content of it, it should be that Luo Chengji began to accept the grain distributed by the grain merchants, and treated the grain merchants well.
This is not a random speculation, the second half of the inscription says that when there was a famine, it was just in time for the village chief's woman to give birth to a child, and not long after the grain merchant came, the child was born.
The inscription says that at that time, Luo Chengji had a very good relationship with the grain merchant, and not long before the banquet, he also bought an ox cart from the grain merchant, the car has been around for many years, the ruts and wheels have begun to rot, and the cow pulling the cart is also a very old ox, when Luo Chengji bought the car, everyone couldn't understand what he thought.
At the beginning of the banquet, the guests were in a harmonious mood, but in the second half of the night, some people went crazy at the banquet for no reason, and even a few men in the prime of life fought, and almost killed someone.
As for the reason why these people are crazy, it is not written on the stele, or it is written, but because the text is too bad, it is impossible to restore it.
Fortunately, this madness did not last long, and when everyone calmed down, they found that the grain merchant had died in the chaos just now.
He died a strange death, not only did he not have the slightest scar on his body, but also on his earlobes and the back of his neck, there were tufts of yellow-black hard hairs, which at first glance looked like stubble of hay on his body.
The people present said that in the entire village, only Luo Chengji could kill a person silently, and the people he killed had a strange death.
In addition, all the guests were there at that time, but Luo Chengji was nowhere to be found, so the people sitting there insisted that Luo Chengji killed him.
The benefactor was killed, and the villagers were completely enraged, they took sharp weapons and torches, and went to the small house on the mountainside to find Luo Chengji to beg for his life, but these villagers never thought that Luo Chengji would have died a long time ago.
When they rushed into the small house, they found that there was a strange coffin in the house, the coffin sheets were all made of old wood that was about to rot, and on the surface of the coffin, it was also wrapped in a layer of cowhide of an old ox, and the coffin lid was placed on the ground, and Luo Chengji was lying in the coffin.
And Luo Chengji's death was exactly the same as that grain merchant, with no scars on his body, and a handful of yellow-black stiff hairs on his earlobes and the back of his neck.
As I mentioned before, the personnel structure of this village can be said to be mixed, most of them are grass bandits, deserters, or some prisoners wanted by the imperial court, but there are few serious people.
As soon as they saw Luo Chengji's coffin, and then looked at Luo Chengji's death, they shouted that this coffin was evil, and if it was left for a long time, it would harm the villagers and must be disposed of as soon as possible.
How was it handled? First, the coffin lid was wedged with seven-inch nails, and then the coffin was tied firmly with cow tendons, and thrown into the waterhole on the top of Longshan Mountain.
According to these two fighting masters, Langshan is the place where the Yellow Dragon broke the ground, and there is a real dragon true qi standing in the waterhole, which can suppress the evil qi on the coffin.
Let's not talk about whether it is right to deal with an evil coffin in this way, I estimate that the reason why these two tomb robbers said that the coffin was evil should be that they found something terrible on the coffin, after all, people like this who go to the tomb all the year round have a special sensitivity to this kind of thing.
After disposing of the coffin, the villagers ransacked Luo Chengji's family property in the spirit of being a thief, took away all the valuables, and gathered the worthless ones together and burned them on fire.
In Luo Chengji's house, in addition to the gold and silver soft, the most is a vivid portrait, in the past he only painted mountains, rivers, grass and trees and did not paint people, but after arriving in the ridge mountain, he only painted portraits, and never painted anything else.
The inscription says that when the villagers were sorting out the portraits, they found a very strange new painting, and the reason why it is strange is that this person is wearing human clothes, but he has a cat's face, and it is said that it is a new painting, because when the painting was found, the ink on the painting had not yet dried.
The next inscriptions are all large areas of faults, and I can only judge from some sporadic words that not long after Luo Chengji was sunk into Langtan, Langshan Village disappeared due to an earthquake, and only these two "horn dealers" who erected monuments for Luo Chengji left the village alive.
The stele has long been transferred to the museum, and the inscription I read is a rubbing copy that has been repeatedly rubbed and trimmed by craftsmen. Lao Wen brought this rubbing back from Henan, and after reading it practically, he asked Li Huaishan to bring the rubbing to school and handed it over to me.
In the past month, I have been teaching in the school, this is the meaning of Yu Heng, he said, the right thing is very important, but I have also reached the age of talking about marriage, and it is also very important to fall in love, since they are all very important, then I will do the right thing in school.
As soon as I finished reading the rubbing, Shao Kewei entered the history office, and at noon that day, it was just in time for the students to take a weekend, and other teachers went back to the office to pack up their things and leave, if Shao Kewei didn't come, there would be only me and Li Huaishan in the huge office.
Seeing Shao Kewei come in, I looked up and asked, "Why did you come here, didn't you say that you wanted to go shopping with Liu Lu?" ”
Shao Kewei sighed: "Liu Lu went on a blind date again, and I am also alone now." ”
While speaking, Shao Kewei glanced at Li Huaishan, and Li Huaishan immediately grinned at her: "Brother and sister are good." ”
Shao Kewei rolled his eyes and said to me: "You are not serious, and there is no one around you who is serious." ”
I said, "So serious, how tired." ”
Shao Kewei said: "Do you have time in the afternoon?" Liu Lu went on a blind date, or you can accompany me to go shopping. ”
It just so happened that I also wanted to say goodbye to Shao Kewei, so I nodded and promised to accompany her shopping.
At noon, I found a place to invite Shao Kewei to have a meal, and I told her that I was going to Henan to do errands next, and I was afraid that the school would have to leave her job.
Hearing me say this, Shao Ke was only a little disappointed and asked me when I would come back.
I said, "It's hard to say, if it's fast, it's probably only a few days, if it's slow, it's not going to take a month or two, but if I can survive." ”
Shao Kewei immediately glared at me: "Crow's mouth!" ”
I smiled and didn't say anything more.
After eating, I accompanied Shao Kewei around the city center for an afternoon. Actually, I can't figure it out, it's just a shopping, obviously I haven't walked much, and I haven't spent much physical strength, but why are I so tired, psychologically and physically, from head to toe, it seems that it is not my own. On the contrary, it was Shao Kewei, who walked in high heels all afternoon, and he didn't feel it at all.
I couldn't figure it out, so I had to ask Yan Yanan for advice, and Yan Yanan told me that shopping is the gospel of the vast majority of women, and it is also the natural enemy of the vast majority of men, which has nothing to do with physical strength, but most women are excited when they hear the word "shopping", and I am depressed when I hear these two words. Of course, it feels different to do one thing in a state of euphoria and to do something in a state of malaise.
Before I returned to the old alley, Zhang Donghai helped me send my resignation to the school, because I was in a hurry to go to Henan, the resignation procedures must not be done in person, Zhang Donghai said that it can be done or not.
In the evening, I convened everyone for a short meeting, and decided to let Li Huaishan, Huang Yuzhong, Sun Luyuan, and Qingyazi follow me to Henan, and the rest of the people were stationed in Bohai Bay.
After the meeting, I went back to my bedroom to pack my luggage, and this time I planned to bring the big and small black and the hammer with me, and specially prepared three small bags for them.
Just as I had just finished packing up the three little ones and was about to start working on my equipment, the bedroom door was pushed open, and Zhang Donghai stood at the door with a backpack on one shoulder and looked at me with a smile.
I asked him, "What kind of play are you playing?" ”
Zhang Donghai said: "This time go to the fairy cave and take me one." ”
"You're gone, what should I do with Heng?"
"I talked to him, and he said that he didn't need me lately, so let me follow you."
"Then you can follow." I smiled and nodded, and continued to pack my things.
After a while, Zhang Donghai poked his head out of the door and asked me, "That 'executioner on the edge of the city' will also participate in the operation, right?" ”
I couldn't help frowning and turned to look at Zhangdonghai.
Zhang Donghai smiled at me: "I want to meet him." ”
I pondered for a moment before nodding slowly.
See you if you want, anyway, even if you see Wu Lin, Wu Lin will use his means to make you forget all about seeing him.
(End of chapter)