After a long time, the old man finally spoke, his voice hoarse and hollow, and it always sounded strange.

"Get up, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

The two of them stood up at this time, Cheng Ye slowly bent down to re-light the oil bowl again, and then walked to the shrine to retrieve two incense sticks and twisted the lamp there, and after a while, the incense was burned.

"Take it, go there and put incense there."

Wang Ling hurriedly took it, and Lao Pi muttered as he walked: "What is this for, kneeling and worshipping, you can't see the portrait on the wall black, which god is this worship?" ”

"What so much nonsense, just worship if you ask you to worship."

After working for this circle, the two returned to Cheng Ye respectfully, and the old man sent a message to let the two sit on the stool in front of them, saying that the stool was actually a stump, and it was estimated where it floated from, but it looked like it had been polished very smooth for some years.

Then fell into silence again, both sides looked at the bowl of oil lamps in muffled voices, this rhythm made Lao Pi really unbearable, so he took the lead in breaking the deadlock and said: "Old man forgive me, we kneel and kneel for you, worship and worship, you are so late to summon us to have something to say, I have been hungry for a few days and have not eaten dinner." ”

Cheng Ye looked at Wang Ling with half-squinted eyes and said, "Do you know who you worship?" ”

Wang Ling thought to himself that since this Cheng Ye was familiar with numerology, he was afraid that he should be a Taoist figure such as Lao Jun, but there were many Taoist immortals and different sects of faith, so he had to answer honestly: "I don't know." ”

"You worship the King of the Pure Sea."

When Lao Pi heard this, he immediately screamed: "The big pirate leader Wang Zhi? "He heard Zheng Jiuwu talk about the title of this King of the Pure Sea in that cave, saying that after this soldier became strong and strong, he also made himself a king, and he didn't want to worship such a pirate leader in this Cheng Ye's house!

Wang Ling immediately coughed dryly twice, since people are worshipping there, isn't it disrespectful for you to call the pirate leader?

"He's right, it's indeed a pirate leader," Cheng Ye's answer surprised Wang Ling a little, and then he continued: "But Wang Zhi robbed the rich and helped the poor all his life, but he is not the kind of devil who kills people without blinking, and there are far more people who have been robbed by him than by him. I came to you to tell you a story, and when I heard it, I was done. ”

Wang Ling guessed that Bacheng's matter was somewhat related to what Zheng Jiuwu said, and now the situation is still confusing, and he is also eager to know more information, "You talk, we listen here." ”

"You saw the dead people...... the story captivated the two from the start......

Cheng Ye, whose full name is Cheng Taihe, is said to have come to this island when he can't even remember it himself, he came here to find someone and give him something. There was also a master who went to the island with him back then, and the two masters and apprentices were originally from the mainland, and they were still in the Xianfeng period at that time......

In 1860, with the fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance marching north, the incompetent Qing government had no power to resist, and many missionaries entered the Forbidden City along with foreign guns. Cheng Ye was originally from a poor family, and when he was seven years old, he was sold into the palace to prepare to be a eunuch, and the Qing government had regulations at that time, and the Qing Dynasty stipulated: The age of the eunuch "Those who are less than 15 years old, each person will be given a reward of 12 hangings to the knife maker", called "knife reward" or "hand-washing money", the younger the eunuch, the more valuable it is, but there is a lower limit for this age, generally ten years old.

Cheng Ye is a small man but very clever, he was only seven years old, he was not old enough, but he was deeply liked by Liu Dahai, the great eunuch in charge of the Qing history archives at that time, so he took it back privately and recognized him as a godson, thinking that someone would give him an end after he died in the future.

Although Liu Dahai was a eunuch, he was proficient in astronomy and geography, and he worked as an errand in the library pavilion, and he was quite talented in reading a lot of books, and was valued by Emperor Xianfeng. Therefore, when Liu Dahai took the young Cheng Taihe, although he had not yet purified, he could also enter and leave the palace.

After only half a year of entering the palace, Cheng Taihe showed amazing talent, especially in astronomy and geography. Liu Dahai was overjoyed to take care of it more carefully, but not long after, the British and French troops invaded Andingmen and took control of Beijing, and the emperor's family could only go west to take refuge, and even a dragon chair was sat on by foreigners.

Compared with other royal treasures, the Forbidden City collection is not very interesting to those Westerners, originally thought that they could escape a catastrophe, but did not expect a few missionaries to rush in accompanied by soldiers, they asked Liu Dahai to find them a volume of archives about the treasures of Wang Zhi back then, and only after inquiring did they know that these people were from Portugal, that is, the Franco. At that time, Portugal was in the midst of civil strife, and did not care about invading China at all, and these missionaries were actually roaming in Europe, one of them was called Charvis.

The ancestor of this Charvis was a pirate who had been to Southeast Asia during the Ming Dynasty, but his status was relatively low, and he only knew that there was such a thing as Wang Zhi's treasure, but he didn't know anything about it. Dreaming of going to the East to pan for gold, Chalvis entangled a few accomplices and persuaded a small French leader in the coalition army, who had "big" dreams in vain to get rich overnight, and the first thing they thought of was a library of archives.

Under the coercion and temptation of Chalvis, Liu Dahai said that now that the emperor has run away and the dragon chair is empty, what should he do as a eunuch for the rest of his life, and now turning his face with this group of people is undoubtedly self-defeating. So I made a suggestion to them, just don't do it and don't stop everyone to do it, if Charvis doesn't agree, there's nothing to say, the huge library of Ming and Qing historical materials is piled up, and they are all eight-strand texts that foreigners don't understand, you can check it slowly by yourself.

This Charvis was a gangster, and the deal was completed as soon as a few people in private put it together. So a few people got a small boat and swaggered out of the port under the banner of a French warship, and Cheng Taihe also went south together. So does Liu Dahai really have the treasure information that Charvis wants to find?

In fact, he really has such a part of the information, and what interests Charvis the most is that a battle was accurately recorded in the Ming history archives that year, that is, the battle to exterminate the Japanese on Xuanwu Island. It was this information that allowed the master and apprentice to avoid Charvis's butcher's knife, this gangster was naturally an untrustworthy person, Liu Dahai knew better than anyone else, so he also concealed some of the appalling content.

After a period of sailing, they successfully arrived at Xuanwu Island, which was deserted and lifeless, only the buildings on the island still had traces of the past, and the obvious Portuguese style architecture made Chalves and his gang ecstatic. He called it God's instruction, and when he arrived on the island, he immediately turned his face and imprisoned the master and apprentice in a stone room.

There were four hooligans, including Chalvis, and five French soldiers, who found wine in the cellar of the church and got drunk.

Wang Ling listened attentively, saw Cheng Ye stop, and hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" ”

Cheng Ye sighed and said: "This sea can't go out at night, and this is why we learned later that too many people died around this island back then, and those dead souls were not reconciled, they would wander on this sea every night......"

"Yes," Lao Pi stopped when he heard this, "Old man, I don't like to hear what you say, just tell me the truth, have you ever seen a ghost?" What does a ghost look like, you get one and I'll take a look, it's the era of materialism, I think you are a person left over from the Qing Dynasty, so I kindly remind you that if you don't do it well, you will have to eat a lawsuit, which is called promoting feudal superstition! ”

"Old Skin!" Wang Ling drank him and said: "Don't be big or small, didn't Cheng Ye also tell that this is just a story, and if it is a story, there will be room for imagination." Cheng Ye, don't be angry, he is a fast talker, and our parents have more or less changed because of some things......"

Cheng Ye was not angry, but waved his hand and continued: "Whether you believe it or not, those foreigners didn't believe it at the beginning. In those archives, it is recorded that the other end of the island is buried with dead foreigners, some of these foreigners died hundreds of years ago, but they are not dead, and the rest of their souls are still haunting here. Our people are not dead, and those Ming Dynasty people who came to exterminate the foreigners still fight back and forth with them after death. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Pi remembered what he had encountered in the shipwreck, the dead Japanese soldiers and national soldiers, Zheng Jiuwu said at that time that it was caused by drugs, which is very similar to what Cheng Ye is saying now.

"That night, when the foreigners had drunk and searched the island, the master and I were locked up in a hut, and they went out on a boat and never returned. We were afraid of the harm, and we didn't dare to move, and then we were locked up for three days, without food or drink, until the master pried the door open to know that the foreigners were dead. The remnants of the ship floated on the surface of the sea, as if they had been bombarded, until on the seventh day there were two bodies floating on the beach by the sea, one of which belonged to Nacharvis. ”