Chapter 368: Where the Bones Are Buried

Linzi is not far from Jinan, after the sun rises, Zuo Dengfeng rushed to Zichuan with thirteen, Zichuan is very poor, as the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and eat the sea by the sea, there is no sea here, the mountains are very few, the people here all rely on farming, it coincides with the famine year, the harvest is not good, life is extremely difficult, and the impact of the catastrophe and famine in the past few years has not been completely recovered until now, it cannot be said that it is ten rooms and nine empty and ten rooms and five empty, the fields are barren, and the population is sparse.

Linzi, Zichuan area is the central area of the ancient Qi country, the capital of the Qi country is located in Yingqiu, according to the historical records, Jiang Ziya's mausoleum is fifty miles northeast of Yingqiu.

There are not many mountains here, not high, in the mountains and wilderness, in addition to the sparse wheat seedlings in the field is the robbery hole that can be seen everywhere, the Shandong region is close to the East China Sea, the terrain is remote, there are very few regular dynasties set the capital here, only the Qi country was set to be here, the tombs of the kings of the Qi country and the dignitaries are concentrated in the area of Linzi Zichuan, because the graves are relatively concentrated, here has been crazy to dig up.

The robberies are of different sizes and irregular shapes, which shows that the robbers are not experts, but some poor and crazy people.

This situation made Zuo Dengfeng secretly happy in his heart, the clues to the tomb robbery to find the ancient tomb are generally from two aspects, one is to find clues from the history books and county records, and the other is according to folklore and the old man's heard, the consequence of these poor and crazy local people digging is to cause a large number of ancient tombs to be destroyed, but Jiang Ziya's tomb can not be destroyed even if they find it, so it plays a role in removing the false and preserving the truth, and certain clues can be obtained through the interrogation of the tomb robbers.

Zuo Dengfeng took the lead in Linzi County, this county is smaller than the town in the south, the county seat is only stationed a small team of devils and dozens of puppet soldiers, there are not many people in the city, there are not many merchants and shops, and there is no cultural institute, no cultural institute can not find the county chronicle, Zuo Dengfeng immediately left the county seat to go to Yingqiu to find the remains of the ancient capital, due to the lapse of many years, it has been impossible to determine the exact location of the capital that year, and searched in the northeast direction for a long time, and finally found nothing.

At this time, it was already noon, the sky was falling snowflakes again, Zuo Dengfeng did not return to the county seat, but found a farmhouse living on the hill in a remote mountain village to rest, he had appeared in Jinan before, the devil knew that he had returned to Shandong, but his hometown was in Shandong, and it was normal for him to come back and wander, and there was no earth branch in Shandong, so the devil did not know his real motive for returning to Shandong.

But once the devil finds out that he has appeared in Linzi, the consequences will be serious, because Linzi is not the only way for him to return to Wendeng County, the devil will definitely suspect what he is doing here, in case the devil knows his true motives, he will definitely obstruct it, those Japanese ninjas know that Jade Whisk took away Zhou Ling's two Yang Inner Dan, the earth dog Neidan also guessed that the Jade Whisk Inner Dan would fall into his hands, so they will definitely try to exchange or recourse with him.

Living on the hill is an old man and a young man, the oldest is an old man in his seventies, and the younger one is sixteen or seventeen years old, although the old man introduced him as his grandson, but Zuo Dengfeng still saw that this short-haired hairy boy was actually a little girl, but he cut his hair for safety.

At this time, not only is there little food, but also the firewood and grass for the fire are also scarce, the people in the village have a fixed piece of mountain in every household, because they are worried that the firewood and grass in the mountain will be stolen and cut by others before autumn and winter, they hire someone to take care of the mountain, this old man is doing this livelihood, the salary is not enough to feed the stomach, the ancestors and grandchildren at the foot of the mountain to open up the wasteland and plant some sweet potato grains to barely survive.

Three broken houses, there is no courtyard wall outside, only firewood, there is a half-big yellow dog in the yard, at this time the yellow dog is gobbling up rabbit offal, these two rabbits are brought by Zuo Dengfeng, and the right is the cost of accommodation.

The grandfather and grandson were a little jealous of Zuo Dengfeng, although Zuo Dengfeng was not like a bad guy, but he carried a knife on his back.

Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng simply explained his intentions, and said that the poor had no way to dig the grave and dig the treasure, so the ancestors and grandchildren were relieved, and the grave digging was much safer than those who killed people and sold goods, and the most important thing was that Zuo Dengfeng's shabby clothes played a role, and a person who wantonly killed indiscriminately would not be poor like this.

The old man also wanted to provide Zuo Dengfeng with some clues, so he told him where there might be ancient tombs and where others might not have been, but the places he said had been dug up by people, and there were no valuable clues. Zuo Dengfeng didn't mind, he didn't come here to spend the night to listen to the news, he just wanted to find a place to hide from the wind and snow.

The old man lives in the west kang, Zuo Dengfeng talks to him on the kang, thirteen naps near the windowsill, the little girl cooks rabbits under the stove, it gets dark early in winter, and it gets dark at five o'clock in the afternoon, the peasants generally have two meals a day, so they eat at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and Zuo Dengfeng doesn't eat much when he eats, and the old and the young don't see meat all year round, and almost swallow the bones.

After dinner, the snow stopped, Zuo Dengfeng went out with thirteen, chatting with the old man during the day was not for nothing, at least the old man corrected him a wrong understanding, before this he had always thought that tomb robbers did not work in winter, but did not expect that winter is a good season for them to work, although it is very cold in winter, but as long as the frozen soil is dug up, it is very convenient to dig down, the most important thing is that the soil is hard in winter, and the robbery hole is not easy to collapse, in addition, it is windy in winter, and it does not feel stuffy in the robbery hole.

After going out, Zuo Dengfeng walked around, he walked around for hundreds of miles, but he did not find that there were farmers who stole and dug ancient tombs, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, but anyone who has a bite to eat will not come out to work at this time.

At three o'clock in the morning, Zuo Dengfeng returned to the resting house, this time he brought back two Wang Ba, he originally wanted to set up a formation to catch fish, but when he set up the formation, he was careless and ignored the existence of snow, resulting in the formation being watery, and only two turtles surfaced from the ice cave.

When he returned to the house, the old man had already woken up, the old man was used to going to bed early and getting up early, and he was very surprised to see Zuo Dengfeng bring back Wang Ba, and asked Zuo Dengfeng how he caught it, because Wang Ba was inactive at this time, Zuo Dengfeng casually fooled a few words, and rested on the kang.

Although he was running around for half a night, Zuo Dengfeng was not sleepy, he was thinking about the possibility of Jiang Ziya's mausoleum in this area, in fact, his ultimate goal was not Jiang Ziya's mausoleum, but the Yin Earth Cow, looking for Jiang Ziya's mausoleum was just to find the Yin Earth Cow.

At this time, there were a lot of clues in his mind, first of all, he thought of the whereabouts of the four native branches that belonged to the Zhou Dynasty, the two Yang branches were left in the Zhou Dynasty, and the Yin native sheep was brought to the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan by the first monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Ping, this Yin native cow was brought to the country of Ba by Ji Xuan, and later Jiang Ziya went to the country of Ba to borrow the native cattle, but this loan was not returned to Ji Xuan, why did Jiang Ziya leave the native cattle of the Yin genus, this is one of the questions.

In addition, according to historical records, Jiang Ziya and his descendants were transported back to the Zhou Dynasty for burial, this is his own idea or the idea of the Zhou Dynasty authorities, it stands to reason that it should not be his own idea, because Jiang Ziya's birthplace is on the "coast of the East China Sea", and the explanation of the coast of the East China Sea in the "Historical Records" is Henan Xincai, which is pure nonsense, because Henan is not close to the sea at all, where does the coast of the East China Sea come from. The explanation on the "Taiping Guangji" is that the coast of the East China Sea is near the current Rizhao, as we all know that Rizhao is by the sea, although Rizhao depends on the Yellow Sea, but in ancient times there was no such thing as the Yellow Sea, whether you are the Bohai Sea or the Yellow Sea, it is collectively called the East China Sea.

If this account is true, Jiang Ziya is a native of Shandong. People have the vanity of returning to their hometowns and the sense of belonging to the roots, Jiang Ziya was a centenarian when he was entitled, he was a great hero of the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, and he should have the right to choose the land, and most people will choose to return to their hometown. Since this is the case, he should be buried in his homeland after he dies, how could he be buried in the Zhou Dynasty. Moreover, Xi'an is thousands of miles away from Shandong, and there were no cars in ancient times, so the corpse would stink if it was not transported well, so Jiang Ziya should not take the initiative to ask to return to the Zhou Dynasty for burial.

Since Jiang Ziya doesn't want to go back, he will definitely not go back, even if the Zhou Dynasty authorities ask him to go back, he has a thousand reasons to prevaricate, if he just gets a stand-in and sends it over, it will be rotten for more than ten or twenty days, Zhou Tianzi can't open the coffin to see, and even if he can't see anything.

Although it is still uncertain why Zhou Tianzi transported Jiang Ziya and his five generations of descendants back to the Zhou Dynasty, it can be roughly assumed that Jiang Ziya himself did not want to go back, and if he did not want to go back, he would definitely be buried in the territory of Qi.

Due to the lack of tangible evidence, in order to avoid his analysis being too subjective, Zuo Dengfeng again connected many clues in series, according to the things Jiang Ziya did, although he was old, he was not a timid person, in order to deal with the thirteenth, he did not hesitate to move out of the twelve earth branches again, and in the later period, he did not return the Yin Tuniu to Ji Xuan, no matter how bad Ji Qian is, he is also a relative of the emperor, Jiang Ziya can not put him in his eyes, and he can not put Zhou Tianzi in his eyes.

Moreover, Jiang Ziya's allegiance is to King Wen and King Wu, King Wu died within a few years of ascending the throne, and was succeeded by his son King Cheng, who was only twelve years old when King Cheng succeeded to the throne, and was a hairy boy who didn't understand anything, and the government was actually controlled by his fourth uncle Zhou Gongdan, would Jiang Ziya listen to Zhou Gongdan's words? Definitely not, the Zhou family he is loyal to must be disdainful of Zhou Gongdan, who has no merits, it is good that his face and heart do not match, and it is not impossible to fight against him clearly. In this way, Jiang Ziya will never return to the Zhou Dynasty after his death, why do you go back, let people whip the corpse?

After careful and extensive scrutiny and analysis, Zuo Dengfeng came to the final conclusion that Jiang Ziya's mausoleum must be in Shandong, just look for it in Shandong!