The so-called grave mountain, I thought it was buried a lot of dead people, it turned out not as I imagined, but a lot of people died in the grave mountain, the former is very different from the latter, the former is someone in the village who died and then buried in the grave mountain, the latter died on the grave mountain, and not one or two,

As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a plague in the alpaca village, and there were no dead people,,, in fact, before that time, there were many villages in the east of Dongshan and in the mountains on all sides, because of the plague, it was simply extinct and destroyed countless lives, and finally the court came up with a way, in fact, there was no way to put it bluntly, and all the people infected with the plague were imprisoned in a pit in Dongshan, which is now a stinky puddle,

Some died directly, and some were still struggling, but the officials sent by the imperial court didn't care so much about you, first sprinkled a circle of lime powder around Dongshan, saying that it was to isolate the plague, and then if anyone dared to step out of the encirclement of lime powder, they would be killed by random arrows, and their death was more ferocious than the plague.

Lao Yang couldn't be sure how many people died at that time, but he just listened to the old people's tear-filled descriptions, there were tens of thousands of people,,,

After the plague was eliminated, the remaining villagers of each village went up to the East Mountain to check, it was really a shock, in the pit, on the hillside, were crawling with corpses, relatives hugged their heads and cried, and ordinary people couldn't help but have tears on their faces, for three days, the villagers cleaned up the corpses, but some had climbed to the hillside, their hands were not released until death, they grabbed a life-saving straw, the villagers were deeply moved, and they were buried halfway up the mountainside, and there were many others who refused to go down the mountain, so they had to be buried by homeopathy, and so on, Hundreds of corpses were buried on the mountainside alone, and the rest were all burned in the mountain pit, because the imperial court had an order, although the plague had been lifted, but the disease obtained by the corpse before death would still be contagious, so it was strictly forbidden to take it home for burial, and never leave Dongshan for half a step.

As for whether tens of thousands of corpses were really burned, it is not clear to say, and no one dared to talk nonsense during that period, let alone have private objections, otherwise it is likely to lead to trouble.

After all the corpses in the pit were burned, the villagers sealed the pit and let the dead be buried in the ground.

Later, after years of precipitation, the soil layer on the pit gradually sunken, forming a natural puddle, although it is a depression, but it does not accumulate water all year round, not only that, but it is drier than the highlands, which no one can say why.

I gasped sharply, but luckily there was no standing water, otherwise it would have become a dead ground again.

But what about the stinky puddles,

Lao Yang immediately explained that the rain in the mountains is somewhat different from the plains, just because the mountains and rivers have been washed through the years, and the seemingly low cols are actually as long as the rain falls, it will flow into the ditch along the direction of the mountain, so as to flow into the big river, and the East Mountain is also called the East Mountain Valley, and its origin is the depression behind the East Mountain, that is, the place where the bones were buried. According to legend, the souls inside are endless, but on sunny days, there is a big mountain suppressed by Dongshan, and only on rainy days can they express their grievances along the rainy day.

I looked at the old sheep, the old sheep sighed bitterly, and then said, once it rains, the water in the east ravine will be discharged through the dark mountain eye, once the sky clears, the stinky puddle will dry again, as if it has never been drenched by rain, at first glance it is still a depression,

This is a little strange, could it be that the plague of the year was not providential,

I frowned and said, "Where is Li Xushu buried?" ”

Lao Yang said: "It's in the stinky puddle, but it's just buried at the edge, it is said that although the sheep head deliberately found someone to do this when it was buried, but the people who did the work knew about the Dongshan Valley, and they didn't dare to go down to it for a while, so they dug a pit at the edge and buried Li Xushu." ”

Gengqing suddenly interjected: "Yang Banxian'er, our whole village doesn't know about this, and the lonely woman never says it, how do you know." ”

The old sheep said with a sad face: "Because ,,, because of the few people who went to bury Li Xushu back then, one of them was my grandfather's cousin, and not long after he buried Li Xushu, he became seriously ill, and my grandfather went to visit him, and he secretly said this, I still remember my grandfather kept sighing when he mentioned this matter, what a sin, what a sin,,。 ”

I think about it a little to understand, the sheep head does bad things, naturally will not find a foreign surname, not to mention that once such a thing is investigated, at least at that time it is also a big crime to rob the family and destroy the door, who knows that the will of heaven makes people, it happened to rush to the domestic situation to change greatly, the Qing Dynasty fell, the war is raging, the sheep head does not know where to go, the result of the whole thing can only be a silent tragedy, to this day, who can give the orphan a justice, who can give Li Xushu a justice,

The orphan woman has never mentioned this matter, presumably she knows that there is no need to raise this matter, and no one can find Yang Datou, and the evidence of Yang Datou's persecution of the Li family back then is only afraid that it will be destroyed, and only let Heaven punish Yang Datou's sins.

"Mr. Big, Dongshan is almost here."

Gengqing's voice suddenly woke me up, I raised my head suddenly, and immediately said, "Let's go and see Li Xushu's grave." ”

The road into the mountain is extremely difficult to walk, the messy rocks can be seen everywhere, the shrubs and weeds, and the strange trees that seem to be fangs and claws, can not help but make people panic, the old sheep pointed to the dim mountain forest and said: "This is the old road into the mountain next to the foot of the mountain, the people of the year are here to come and go, but no one has entered in recent decades, if there are old people who have passed away in the village, they generally go directly to the mountain from the other side of the east mountain for burial, we are going to go now, is the back of the east mountain, that is, the mass grave of the year." ”

"Mass graves." I was stunned and said, "If there were really 10,000 people, what a terrible killing." ”

However, in order to prevent the spread of the plague, the rulers at that time were also helpless.

This time by the old sheep to start, more Qing is still walking in the middle, I pad behind, such an old mountain forest is not easy to walk, not only to remove obstacles such as cobwebs, but also to beware of not being scraped by branches, the trees here are very short, but the branches are very long, if you are not careful, you will be injured by the branches,

All the way to the east ravine, in front of us is the stinky puddle we are looking for, I looked at it in a daze, it turned out that this is the mass grave in the mouth of the old sheep,