In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had flourished for nearly two centuries, began to decline, with continuous natural disasters and corruption. Taxes are heavier, and the people are struggling to make a living. The stormy Zhou Dynasty was crumbling, and its national strength was becoming increasingly empty.

At this time, there was a family surnamed Bai in Xihai Jining, who made a living by collecting medicine all the year round, although he was not rich and rich, but his life was barely alive.

One day, the county government posted a notice to find a ginseng plant that was more than 1,000 years old. Bai Enze, the old man of the Bai family, regardless of his age of sixty, decided to go up the mountain again to collect medicine and try his luck.

Unexpectedly, a strong wind suddenly broke out in the mountains, and dark clouds and thunderstorms were combined. Old Man Bai was careless for a while, fell off the cliff, and passed out.

When the old man Bai woke up, it was already dark and his fingers were missing. The old man Bai lit the fire twist, and unexpectedly found that he was only scratched on his skin, and there was no major problem, and he suddenly felt that there was a god in the dark, and he knelt down and bowed to the mountain god.

Coincidentally, as soon as the old man Bai finished bowing, he found that the place where he fell was a ginseng with the thickness of a person's calf and wrist, and he was immediately overjoyed.

Ginseng is worth a fortune if it is enough for eight taels, and it is a priceless treasure on the catty, but ginseng pays attention to the integrity of the roots to be the top grade. Old Man Bai hurriedly took out the red rope to tie the ginseng firmly, took out a special shovel and bone comb, and carefully dug it up.

After about three hours, Old Man Bai finally dug out a huge ginseng, and with his hand, his face suddenly changed. This ginseng weighs ten catties, and it is impossible to grow without tens of thousands of years. At that time, the husband is not guilty, and even if he hands it over to the county government, those officials and lords may also harm him in order to keep this secret.

Old Man Bai sighed, and said with words in his mouth: "This kind of heaven and earth treasure can not be possessed by ordinary people like the old and decayed. San'er, San'er, you go quickly, don't be found again. ”

The old man untied the red rope tied to the ginseng and replanted the ginseng into the soil. Then he picked up some dead branches, made a fire, took out the nest in his arms, roasted and ate it, closed his eyes and fell asleep slowly.

When Old Man Bai woke up again, the ginseng was gone. Ginseng has a spirit and can walk underground, not a dead thing, so ginseng pickers will find ginseng since ancient times and tie it with a red rope first.

Old Man Bai packed his bags and was just about to leave, when he suddenly found that in the pit where the ginseng left, there was a bundle of jade slips. In ancient times, human beings did not have paper, and mostly used animal skins and animal bones or bamboo slips to leave words, but this way is not easy to preserve, and the words left behind will mostly turn into ashes. Therefore, the ancients thought of carving very important information on the jade slip and leaving it forever.

The so-called antiques, the material age is only a part of its value, and the most important thing is to see who has held the antique. Jade slips are expensive to build and cannot be possessed by ordinary people. Especially in ancient times, jade mining was difficult, and it was extremely precious. Therefore, all the characters who used jade slips to leave words in ancient times must be dragons and phoenixes among people, and celebrities who are rich and rival the country. It is that as long as there is a jade slip unearthed, even when the Emperor Wu of the Pilgrimage will salivate, let alone the rich minister.

Old Man Bai hesitated, but he still didn't resist the temptation and picked up the jade slip. The season is almost late autumn, and the weather is unusually cold, but the jade slip is warm, and it is obviously a rare priceless jade. Old Man Bai unfolded the jade slip with his hand, and found that the first sentence of the jade slip was written in the first sentence of the jade slip, which is to believe in me, the descendants of Yongze.

Old man Bai was already in awe of ghosts and gods, and when he saw the beginning of this jade slip, he suddenly felt that his repeated encounters in one day must have been instructed by the gods, so he looked at the content of the jade slip with anxiety.

It stands to reason that a poor family of medicine pickers has no money for their children to go to private school. But when Old Man Bai was born, the Great Zhou Dynasty was prosperous and had no worries about food and clothing, so his family background was not bad. It's just that the words and graphics on this jade slip are weird, and Old Man Bai has never seen it. But the bizarre thing is that the old man Bai can understand it, and when he stares at the words on the jade slip, he feels as if his soul has been sucked into the jade slip and entered a fantasy space.

In this desolate space, there is no wind, no plants, everything seems to be still. The old man looked up and found that the sky was gray, as if it was covered with a piece of dirt, and he couldn't see the original color clearly.

Old Man Bai has lived for most of his life, and he has never encountered such a strange thing, and he was suddenly a little scared in his heart. He walked cautiously forward, groping his way like a blind man. After walking about a pillar of incense, I suddenly saw a large field of torches in the distance, and the sky seemed to be on fire.

Where there is fire, there are people, this is common sense. Old Man Bai quickened his pace and strode forward, but unexpectedly saw a group of beast-headed and human, blue-faced and fanged monsters, kneeling in front of an incomparably huge stone statue with a bull-headed body, with words in his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Old Man Bai is no stranger to this kind of scene, in previous years, when Jining was dry, the county often held this kind of sacrifice ceremony. He vaguely sensed that these monsters might be praying for something.

However, Old Man Bai didn't dare to take another half a step forward. Although he has been collecting medicine in the uninhabited deep mountains and old forests and cliffs all the year round, he is much more courageous than ordinary people, but when he suddenly encounters such a group of monsters, it is false to say that he is not worried and afraid.

He lay on the ground, afraid that the monsters would find him, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to gasp. But at this time, the earth suddenly began to tremble, and countless monsters that looked like humans but had tails rushed out with sharp blades in their hands, killing living creatures indiscriminately, and the monsters that knelt on the ground immediately picked up the weapons beside them to resist. The scene became extremely bloody for a while, and the screams of women and the cries of children formed a strange picture, which made the old man Bai startled on the spot, his face was pale, and his whole body trembled.

About half a cup of tea passed, and the still space was filled with a strong smell of blood, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, exposing bones and intestines, and the scene was miserable. A bloody intestine suddenly flew and landed on the head of the old man Bai impartially, still squirming. Old Man Bai screamed, and couldn't help screaming anymore. The two groups of monsters that were fighting stopped fighting in surprise and looked at him in unison.

The sharp pain in the heart came, and the old man Bai covered his head in pain, woke up with a howl, and sat on the ground with his ass. The jade slip in his hand fell to the side, and a layer of cold sweat covered his forehead.

Everything just now seemed to be a dream, but it was so real that Old Man Bai couldn't tell what was a dream and what was reality. He hurriedly got up and wanted to leave, but he was reluctant to let go of the jade slip.

Old Man Bai had a faint premonition that this jade slip was very important and should not be touched. But as soon as he thought of Yu Jian's opening words, he gritted his teeth, picked Yu Jian up from the ground again, and put it in his arms.

He is already in his sixties and does not have many years to live, but the Bai family still has to pass it on. The court is becoming more and more corrupt, life is getting more and more difficult, and it may not be long before there is no food. Although he may have become a loess embryo by then, he must not let the Bai family cut off the incense. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, even if he goes to hell, he will let the descendants of the Bai family live a good life.