Volume 1 Chapter 49: The Truth About the Six Fingers
On the way, in order to delay time, I tried my best to talk to Wang Degui, because I saw that my eyes had been searching around, and I knew that he had been looking for opportunities.
I said, "Boss Wang, this tulou was built by a six-fingered person, right?" β
Wang Degui glanced at me and said, "Aren't you talking nonsense, this is not built by the Six Fingers Clan, it was built by you?" β
"What about this stone statue? This can't be built by them, this stone statue is outrageously big, even if it has such a construction capacity in ancient times, at least tens of thousands of people have to be used, not to mention that it is still in this deep mountain..... As far as I know, in ancient times, even princes did not have such an ability to appeal, except for the emperor, such a huge project could not be built by a small clan like the Six Fingers. β
Wang Degui looked at it, his face was mocking, and his tone of voice was smug: "Hehe, the next life is the next life, short-sighted, it's normal that your second brother doesn't know these things and didn't tell you....."
I wondered, "What do you mean by that?" β
Wang Degui didn't answer me, but when he reached the tenth floor, he casually pushed open a wooden door, and under the light, I saw several white bones on the stone bed in this room, all of which were six finger bones.
I was surprised how Wang Degui knew that there were six-fingered human bones in this room?
He stepped forward and picked up a piece of sternum, compared it to his chest, and asked, "What did you find?" β
I shook my head inexplicably, and when Wang Degui saw this, he put the sternum on the chest of the sturdy black sunglasses and asked me the same thing again.
This time I found a problem, the six-fingered sternum that Wang Degui took seemed to be larger, although there was no flesh wrapping, but the width and thickness had exceeded the chest of black sunglasses.
"This sternum is bigger than normal."
Dawu, who had not spoken on the side, suddenly said, Wang Degui nodded lightly, and then took another sternum and put it on the chest of black sunglasses, which was still very large.
I don't know why Wang Degui did this, even if the six-fingered person has a larger sternum, what can it represent?
Wang Degui put down his sternum and said: "I don't know which version of the legend about the six-fingered clan you heard, but there must be a mention of the six-fingered people who look extremely ugly, and each clan has the ability to be different from ordinary people. β
I frowned, thinking back to the legend that Master Cao told me about the Six-Fingered Clan in the tomb, and he did mention Mr. Yi's description of the Six-Fingered Clan after he saw the Six-Fingered Clan.
The original words are as follows: When Mr. Feng Shui, surnamed Yi, got lost in the mountains and couldn't get out, he met a group of mountain people living in the mountains, and these mountain people all had six fingers. The looks are extremely ugly, but they are very good at it, and they have this amazing ability.
I immediately nodded to Wang Degui: "That's right, the legend does say that the six-fingered people are extremely ugly and have different skills from ordinary people.....
Next, Wang Degui told me a story, and from this story, I also thoroughly knew the secret behind the Six Fingers.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the way of selecting officials was not quite the same as that of other dynasties, and it was very cruel.
Needless to say, there were ministers sent by the king to inspect the place and then recommend it to the king. Local officials are recommended by the princes to the king, and capable people with lofty ideals can submit letters to the monarch themselves. Of course, there are also those who inherit the title of their father and brother, those who come back to be awarded an official because of the military industry, and those who spend money to buy a knighthood, but it is not so common to buy a position with money in the Western Han Dynasty, and what can be bought is not an important official position. In addition, the two thousand stone officials such as the Assassin Shi County Guard have the power to appoint subordinate officials.
Recommendation, not only civilians can, small officials and small officials are also in the recommendation team, after being elected as an official, they will generally start from the basic official position, and then move up step by step.
At that time, there happened to be a scholar named Gao Zheng, who felt that he was capable and could serve the king, and he wanted to be a good official who could be recorded in the history books. He quickly wrote to the king and recommended himself, and he was valued by the king as he expected.
After Gao Zheng entered the palace, his ability was quickly displayed, and his promotion speed was extremely fast, which aroused the jealousy of many old ministers in the palace. Once a person is envied by others, he will be found wrong, especially in the court.
Gao Zheng was born with six fingers, one more than ordinary people, and in the ancient palace, the king has always paid attention to appearance, but all those who are long and those who are crooked and cracked are basically without the opportunity to serve. And the six fingers are a kind of deformity, Gao Zheng knows this very well and hides his six fingers.
But when the jealous officials learned of the news, they immediately reported it to the king, who snubbed him and stopped using him.
Gao Zheng was disheartened, took the initiative to leave the court, and returned to his hometown to become his ancestor who made a living by hunting. Gao Zheng found a woman in his hometown to marry and lived an ordinary life, and the ambition of his youth has long been gone.
One day, when Gao Zheng went into the mountains to hunt, he threw down a boulder from the sky and fell into the mountain, people in ancient times did not know about meteorites, Gao Zheng thought that this was a mascot from the sky, and hurriedly ran into the mountains to find this meteorite.
He found this huge meteorite in a valley, and the meteorite had smashed a huge crater in the mountain. After Gao Zheng was shocked by this scene, he took his wife to see the boulder that fell from the sky the next day.
Not long after, Gao Zheng's wife became pregnant, and a year later gave birth to a son named Qualcomm.
Not long after Qualcomm was born, Gao Zheng and his wife gave birth to two more sons, both boys.
When Gao Tong was four or five years old, Gao Zheng and his wife found that their eldest son was extremely ugly, developing faster than children of the same age, and his temper was very irritable.
Qualcomm because of his ugly appearance and short temper, no one in the village wants to get along with him at all, Qualcomm has nothing to do with his father Gao Zheng into the mountains to hunt, especially loves to run in the mountains, and will go down to the river to swim in the summer.
Gradually, Gao Zheng's second and third sons also grew up, and found that they were also extremely ugly, and their personalities were the same as their eldest brother Qualcomm, who was extremely irritable and would beat people at every turn.
When Gao Tong was twelve years old, he took his two younger brothers to swim in the river, and when it was time for dinner, Gao Zheng came to call his three sons home for dinner, and was surprised to find that his three sons were full of muscles, and they were as strong as the military attachΓ©s in the palace.
Because of the ugly appearance of his three sons and the beating of many people in the village, Gao Zheng's family was spurned by the villagers, and he had to take the family out of the village.
But where can he go?
Gao Zheng immediately thought of the boulder that fell from the sky a few years ago, and he took his wife and three sons into the mountains on a whim, and built a house in the crater that the boulder was smashed by the meteorite.....