This simplified small character has been around for some years, and I touched it with my hand and boldly guessed: "Brother Qiang, did you say that this line of small characters was engraved by my father?" ”

Brother Qiang didn't answer me, but asked another question: "Brother, how did you say we found here?" Didn't you say it's far away? ”

This question made me fall into a state of confusion for a moment.

yes, didn't you say it's far away? Didn't you say that Zhangjia Ancient Village was deep in the valley? We haven't gone far since we fell, so we're here?

This kind of distance should be recorded on the map, and at the same time, this place will not be let go.

In these years, as long as a stone tablet is dug out of the ground, as long as it is in ancient Chinese and traditional characters, the tourism department can always find a way to derive a story, and then pull capital according to this story, build scenic spots, and then carry out all-round publicity.

Officials need political performance, and this kind of political achievement is simply faster than developing land, which is nothing more than the propaganda department spending more brains to make up stories. For example, how many "Zhu Yingtai Tomb", "Liangshan Bo Tomb", "Mengjiang Female Temple" and so on have emerged all over the country over the country over the years. These unfounded folk legends, under the official hint and promotion, have been pointed to as horses and published in newspapers and television to promote them in an all-round way.

Therefore, in this environment, the four words of Zhangjia Ancient Village can be turned into tens of millions of stories and drive unlimited tourism economy, but they have not been developed and utilized.

This only illustrates one problem.

People don't know about the existence of this ancient monument.

Besides, this ancient monument, if the small words in front of it were carved by my father, it would have been at least 20 years. In the past 20 years, the ancient monument has not suffered any damage and corrosion, is there anyone who has been guarding the ancient monument here?

Brother Qiang took a flashlight and spun around the ancient monument, and when he turned to the back, he suddenly said: "Brother, there are words in the back, you come and take a look." ”

I hurriedly walked over and looked at the light of the flashlight, and sure enough, there were words, which should be the inscription of the monument.

"Yu is the Zhang clan people, because of the trouble, the ancestors carved the stone tablet by hand, Yu out of the mountain to find this stone, redo the ancient village stone tablet, with this as the boundary, the inside is the place where the Zhang family lives, outsiders are not allowed to enter. The Zhang family should follow the ancestral teachings and should not go out. ”

Because the ancients didn't use punctuation, and this text was written in small seals, it took me most of the time to recognize it. In other words, some time ago, this stele was damaged, and one of my ancestors named Zhang Ke went out to find a stone and made a new stele by himself. This stele is also the boundary between the ancient village and the outside world, not all the people of the Zhang clan cannot enter, and the people of the Zhang clan cannot go out.

Chinese people, whether ancient or modern, have the characteristic of closing themselves off and think that it is safest not to contact outsiders. The so-called seclusion and seclusion of the country is the embodiment of this kind of thinking extended to the extreme.

Brother Qiang lit a cigarette and asked me curiously, "Have you lost that family tree?" Take it out and see which dynasty this Zhang Ke is, if you want to get it like this, how did your family pass it down? It shouldn't be a marriage between close relatives, right? ”

I smiled bitterly: "This shouldn't be, if close relatives get married, a dynasty can't last, let alone from the Warring States period to the present." ”

I took out the family tree from my bag and began to search for the name Zhang Ke from dynasty to dynasty.

The ancients liked the word Ke, which means respect and prudence, and at the same time, the elders also hope that the children who give the name can be honest and orderly, and do not make trouble. For example, Li Shimin named his smartest son Li Ke and told him not to have any other thoughts in his life.

Because this genealogy is not written by one person, it seems that someone has supplemented and sorted it out every few years, so not only the words are different, but even the fonts are completely different. From the beginning of the seal script to the official script, and then to the thin gold style of various regular scripts, the last few pages may have been written by my father, which is simplified Chinese characters.

Just from a small family tree, you can feel the splendor and development history of Chinese civilization, which is incomparable to any nation. As a result, now Chinese people blindly pursue Western alphabets and take pride in taking English names, which is a fuck thing to think about.

Finally, on that page of the Western Han Dynasty, I found the word Ke, Zhang Ke, who was the head of that generation. However, this name actually has a rare annotation, because the word is too small, I used a flashlight to look at it for a long time before I recognized the words "copper coffin to help the descendants", and the other words are because of the age, this spectrum may have been damp, and the ink has become a ball, blurry and illegible.

But what does this bronze coffin mean for descendants?

Calculate that our Zhang family has descendants who are going to die of poverty, so let's get a coffin to help?

Zhou Xiaoqin, who had not spoken, suddenly slapped me on the head: "Bronze coffin!" He is the one who made the bronze coffin for Sister Wanqing! ”

Only then did I react: "Yes, the bronze coffin, Meng Wanqing's bronze coffin was made by Zhang Ke!" So the descendant he said is me? ”

Brother Qiang smiled: "Call the ancestor, don't mention the name of the ancestor without big or small." ”

I scratched my head: "I'm a child, my ancestor won't blame." To get down to business, why did he get a coffin and help me? Let me sell? It is true that the goods can be sold for a good price in Hong Kong, but how to ship them out is a big problem. Besides, my Ke Ancestor shouldn't let me sell it, right? ”

Brother Qiang took a puff of cigarette: "Your ancestors are idle, and they still want to sell, I guess it is estimated that the descendants after two thousand years are in danger, and it happened that when he came out of the mountain, he bumped into the daughter of the Meng family who was dying, so he made this coffin, making her a thousand-year-old female corpse, in case it can save your life, it can be regarded as a continuation of the incense of the Zhang family." It's okay if you can't save it, anyway, it's not him who pays for it, the Meng family pays for it to help your Zhang family...... Let's not figure out the thoughts of your ancestors, first, to be disrespectful, and second, to delay time. Let's go in and see if we find anything. The other beast hasn't shown up yet, and I'm afraid it's going to come out now......"

I nodded, put the family tree in my backpack, took a flashlight around the stone tablet, and found nothing more, so I walked inside with Brother Qiang.

Brother Qiang said to me: "Let's be careful, your ancestors are here to protect Guiguzi, and it is estimated that they are the followers of Guiguzi back then." Even if they are poor, they will learn one and a half moves, such as formations, such as fortune telling. He said that this was a boundary, but he didn't see either the wall or the boundary, and he thought he was guarding this place with a formation. So, let's be careful, it's okay if I'm dead, if you're harmed by the formation designed by your ancestors, it's going to be a lot of fun......"

I smiled helplessly: "Everything goes naturally, let's go go around first, if there is no one, come out, find Mr. Qi first." Xiaoqin, do you feel anything? Like dangerous or something. ”

Zhou Xiaoqin shook his head: "It's the same as the outside, I don't feel anything, if it was a formation that was arranged a long time ago, I'm afraid it would have been invalid at this time, after all, because of the movement of the earth's crust and the flow of feng shui, I'm afraid that the situation here will be broken by itself." Don't keep scaring yourself, do you think you're muddy? It's so cautious to go back to your hometown. ”

I smiled helplessly: "The point is that my family members are all talented in this area, so I have to be cautious." ”

There was no road ahead, it was all shrubs, weeds and woods, and there was no sign of anyone stepping on it.

Here, it looks like no one has been in for a long time.

Walking in this kind of forest, there is a feeling of time and space travel, and further on, it is the place where the Zhang family has guarded for thousands of years, and has lived for thousands of years, for some kind of obsession or belief, willing to be unknown in history, rather than being famous in history like other students of Guiguzi, and being admired by future generations.

What exactly is this for?

I would love to know the answer, I hope they are indifferent to fame and fortune, and they are immortals who do not eat the fireworks of the world. But there are all kinds of signs that the Zhang family is not like this, at least it can be seen from the sentence on the stone tablet warning the Zhang family not to go out, that someone in the Zhang family is trying to leave here.

This shows that the Zhang family is not simply guarding, and should have other purposes.

But now, whether it is Zhang Zhao, the founder of the Zhang family, or Zhang Ke, the ancestor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who made bronze coffins, I can't ask these questions, I can only find the answer myself, looking for the motives of the ancestor who vowed to keep the Zhang family here almost 3,000 years ago.

Crossing the jungle, the front suddenly became clear, although there were still large clumps of bushes and weeds, but there were no big trees, and the place where the flashlight shone was all plains.

The Zhang family has guarded this place for generations, is it because it is suitable for farming to avoid war?

Brother Qiang shook his head: "No, we are in the hinterland of the Central Plains, although there are mountains here, but dozens of kilometers away from here are all fertile and fertile fields, there is no need for them to guard the land here." Although it is fertile and a paradise of seclusion compared to other mountainous areas, it is not worth mentioning here in the Central Plains, and there is no reason to protect it. Besides, your Zhang family should be able to tell fortunes for generations, which was quite marketable in ancient times, and they didn't need to farm. So, land is definitely not their first choice. ”

Zhou Xiaoqin also said: "The land here is not as good as Centipede Ridge, Zhang Wenbin, don't use the old peasant thinking to speculate about your ancestors, they should be the middle and high-level of society such as scholars at that time, how can they farm?" Staying here is still because of Guiguzi. Let's go in and have a look, maybe your Zhang family's ancestral hall or something is still there, find that kind of place, and the purpose of your Zhang family's stay here will be clear......"

As she spoke, the grass in front of her suddenly moved, and then I smelled a fishy smell.

Zhou Xiaoqin raised his hand and pushed me back: "Big python, run quickly!" ”

As I spoke, a black shadow appeared in front of me, and Brother Qiang shone it with a flashlight, and I was so frightened that I almost peed my pants.

I saw a snake head appear in front of me, the front half of the body was about four or five meters tall, the snake body was as thick as a small water tank, and its two eyes were like lanterns, staring straight at me......