The tenth episode of The Long Night
Back upstairs, Qin Tai hurriedly made tea for himself and everyone, and was about to drink it. "Ma Sandao" suddenly made a gesture that they only understood, and everyone put down the teacup in unison. Only the old drunkard did not put down his jar.
"Ma Sandao" deliberately opened the window and the door, and he sat against the door. Zhan Xiao sat by the window. Qin Tai stared at the movable wall. Only the old drunkard was crooked on the bed in the Chase bunk, drinking his wine.
"Ma Sandao" said: "Is this tea just brewed by an adult?" ”
Qin Tai said: "No, I remember that my master and I only brewed tea once. It's when you haven't left yet. We didn't brew tea after that. By the way, this tea is lukewarm, not the tea we brewed. ”
"Ma Sandao" said: "When I first came in, I smelled a strange smell. When the tea was poured out, I was sure that it was the tea brewed in the 'Seven Steps'. We often use this stuff in prison, and after drinking it, we will be weak for three hours, and we will be slaughtered. Fortunately, we found out in time, otherwise. ”
He didn't say anything more, but everyone knew what he meant. If they hadn't stopped it in time, they might have really had an accident.
Zhan Xiaoxiao hurriedly poured all the tea out of the window, because there was no tea, so everyone had to drink.
After taking a sip of wine, "Ma Sandao" said to everyone: "This 'saliva chicken' is so delicious." I'm so refreshed, it's been a long time since I've eaten something so authentic. It's too spicy, and you have to drink water after eating, otherwise you won't be able to stand it. ”
Qin Tai looked at the old drunkard master and "Ma Sandao" with questions, and the old drunkard knew what Qin Tai meant. He said slowly: "'Shredded chicken' is 'saliva chicken'." 'Shredded chicken' means that the chicken is torn apart and then burned. 'Saliva chicken' means that the chicken can make people drool just by smelling it. Whether it is 'shredded chicken' or 'saliva chicken', it is a famous dish in Sichuan. It seems that the owner of this wine shop is from Sichuan, and at least he can cook such authentic Sichuan food. ”
"Ma Sandao" said: "The small one turned out to be the cell boss, and the prison often asked some prisoners' families to make some delicious food to honor us. It just so happened that we had a Sichuan guy there, and his wife made a good dish. Every few days, we brought some delicious food, and when we were full, we also gave the prisoner a little food. So the little ones know this 'saliva chicken'. I didn't know that it also had a name called 'shredded chicken'. ”
Zhan Xiaoxiao picked her teeth and said, "Different places, different names." Even in Sichuan, the local name is different. The Tujia people in western Sichuan call this 'shredded chicken' 'grilled chicken'. The place in eastern Sichuan is called 'saliva chicken'. 'Shredded chicken' is called by outsiders, and their locals never call it that. I've lived in Sichuan for five years, and this 'grilled chicken' is very authentic. It was made by people there in western Sichuan. Even people from other parts of Sichuan can't do it. ”
Qin Tai paid attention to his surroundings as he spoke. By now it is certain that no one is spying on them. Only then did they reassure themselves and say that they had something important.
"Ma Sandao" spoke first, and he said, "My lord ordered me to escort Xiao Lingzi out of the village. I secretly followed Xiao Lingzi out of Xiaoyue Village. I didn't even say hello to Xiao Lingzi himself, and followed Xiao Lingzi out of the village all the time. When I was about to leave the village, I suddenly noticed a dark shadow. He followed me and Xiao Lingzi behind me. I deliberately touched my arms very nervously often, deliberately reminding him that I was the one who really sent the letter. Xiao Lingzi is just me opening the way and leading the enemy away. Fortunately, I'm older, and Xiao Lingzi is too young, so that person really thinks I'm the one who sent the letter. After leading him to a fork in the road, I deliberately walked in the direction of the mountain. He also deliberately lost a map at the intersection, which indicated a shortcut road over the mountain to the county government. Soon after I entered the mountain, the shadow that followed me disappeared, and I got lost in the mountain when I thought my plan had been discovered by him. Not only is the original road gone, but the original road signs also point to a desperate situation. ”
He paused, took a long sip of wine, and said, "While I was wandering around the mountains, I accidentally discovered a secret about Satsuki Village. I found this in an abandoned cave. As he spoke, he took out an unknown bone with a lot of words on it.
Qin Tai took a closer look, and it seemed to be a suicide note left by an injured person. The strange thing is that this person should not be Orion, how can he be in danger in the mountains?
On this animal bone, some past events are written. The animal bones are divided into two sides, and on the front is written what happened to this person. This person is a villager from Xiaoyue Village at the foot of the mountain, and he went outside to do business. When he returned, he found that his fiancée was in love with his own brother. He was very sad at the time, but immediately realized that he was not too angry about his fiancée's betrayal, and it turned out that he didn't care too much about this woman. On the one hand, he is his fiancée who grew up, and on the other hand, he is his favorite brother, and he finds that he is just like his brother and sister to his fiancée. Determined, he left a letter to his fiancée and younger brother in the village. said that when he was doing business outside, he fell in love with a woman. In order not to disappoint her, he voluntarily gave up his fiancée. He asked his younger brother to marry his fiancée on his behalf, take good care of his fiancée, and treat her well for the rest of his life. And he himself will never return to Satsuki Village.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the village, he encountered heavy fog. Before I knew it, I came to the mountain and was attacked by a group of wild beasts. After knowing that he would never pay attention to it anymore, he wrote everything down. I hope my brother and fiancée won't live happily because of him. He will be in heaven watching his brothers spread out.
This unknown villager was obviously a literate person, and it seems that there must have been a teacher in the village at that time to teach the villagers some knowledge and culture.
In the history of Satsuki Village on the back, this person told a surprising truth. Satsuki Village turned out to be not a small village, but a secret mountain village. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, two emperors, Huizong of the Song Dynasty and Qinzong of the Song Dynasty, were captured by the Jin people of the Jurchen tribe, which is the famous "Shame of Jingkang" in history. At that time, the ninth son of Song Huizong, the ninth brother of Song Qinzong, "King Kang" Zhao Gou, fled south to Hangzhou south of the Yangtze River and established the Southern Song Dynasty. When the people of the Jin Kingdom found that the two emperors in their hands were useless, they no longer wanted to raise these two rice buckets. In order to destroy the pattern of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to make the Song Emperor Zhao Gou have no mind to deal with the Jin people, the Jin people deliberately put the two emperors back to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, these two storm-stricken emperors no longer wanted to be in power, so they took the initiative to ask to find a mountain villa where no one disturbed them. This is the origin of Satsuki Village. The two words "Xiaoyue" add up to the word "Xiao", the surname of Emperor Song is Zhao, and the word "Zhao" in ancient China is a "Xiao" character plus a "go" word. Song Huizong and Song Qinzong stayed here and didn't leave, so they went to "go" and stay "Xiao", and changed their names to Xiao. The villa was also officially named "Satsuki Villa". After a few generations, there was no more contact with the Southern Song Dynasty royal family. "Satsuki Villa" became Satsuki Village. Not all the people in the village are descendants of the two emperors, only a few know the origins, and the others are the descendants of protectors and outsiders. Gradually, few people know the origin of Xiaoyue Village, let alone that there were once two emperors living here.
Qin Tai gave the beast bone to the old drunkard, and the old drunkard didn't speak after reading it. They were all immersed in this amazement, and they could not extricate themselves for a long time. I didn't expect the people who lived here to have such a prominent status, and if they were outside, they should also be nobles. When Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established the Ming Dynasty, he also decided to treat the royal family of the Song Dynasty well, and every descendant of the royal family surnamed Zhao enjoyed the treatment equivalent to the four-rank official. If the descendants of the two emperors in Xiaoyue Village can show their identity certificates at this time, they will be hereditary four-rank officials, enjoying glory and wealth forever, and the mountains and rivers here will also be officially divided into their fiefdoms.
As officials of the Ming Dynasty, Qin Tai and the old drunkard had never heard of any hereditary officials from Xiaoyue Village. This means that the people of Xiaoyue Village at that time were either dead and moved away, or they didn't know this instruction at all.
Zhan Xiaoxiao on the side said, "My lord, so there may be treasures here?" At least some outsiders who vaguely know something will think that there is some treasure or treasure here that outsiders don't know about. Like the lame people, they refuse to leave here even if they die, do they know the secrets of this place and are looking for treasures here? ”
Even "Ma Sandao" said: "Could it be that those old villagers who refuse to leave are the guardians or insiders of this treasure?" The reason why they refuse to leave is because there are hidden secrets in the village? ”
But the old drunkard poured cold water and said, "Don't forget, the guardian must have strength against the enemy's people. What is the use of these old people who can't walk a few roads? Besides, didn't the drunk say that? Their ancestors came here more than seventy years ago. At that time it was an abandoned village. If there was a treasure, why didn't they find it in the first place? Even if there was a treasure, it was taken away by the villagers of Satsuki Village when they moved. Otherwise, the people here would have made a fortune a long time ago, and this place would not be unknown. There is not much information in the archives of the government. ”
Qin Tai spoke, and he said, "We can understand it like this. The affairs of the village were known to outsiders. Some people with ulterior motives wanted to find something in the village, so they deliberately created a donkey demon incident to scare most of the villagers away. After making arrangements for them to search the village, they pressed the village elders one by one, hoping to know some secrets, but unfortunately to no avail. Annoyed and angry, they killed all those who knew in order to keep the secret. This is the origin of the Tongling County extermination case. The deceased is the village chief of the village who is the lobby of the drunken man in the village, and the village chief has a family of seven. This connection can explain everything that is happening here. ”
Zhan Xiao Novel: "Adult, but what's the matter with that donkey demon?" Could it be that youkai really join forces with the bad guys? Isn't it a youkai that I see? ”