"This tiger is like a cat and a dog, I heard my mother say that if the cat and dog are about to die, they will leave their owners to find a place where no one is going to die quietly, it seems that this is their habit."

Ugly nodded, "Animals are also like people, they like to find a place for their own bones to be buried, just like when humans are alive, they will think of finding a place to bury themselves when they die."

The ancients had a saying that death is like life, but in fact, this is all animal instinct, after all, human beings are also a kind of animals, but it is more obvious to human beings.

Actually, I can't understand your practice of burning your corpse into a handful of ashes in later generations, according to the ancients, that is, being burned by the wrong bones, and only people with great hatred would do this. ”

Qian Yan didn't understand why, she remembered that when she was a child, she was still buried, and she and her parents attended several funerals of relatives in her hometown, all of which were buried.

It is said that the coffins they used were prepared in advance, some of them were prepared by their children with help, and some were prepared by the old people themselves, so they said that they had a coffin book.

is to save the money for the coffin and the funeral in advance, but then I slowly began to say that the burial occupies land and pollutes the environment.

But this really can't be forbidden, although the body will be cremated, but the funeral ceremony doesn't seem to be much simplified, and I don't know if it's out of guilt for the deceased, it seems to be more done.

Especially in rural areas, where I don't know where to start, I will invite some opera troupes or singing and dancing people to perform at the funeral.

I don't know why the cremation procedure is more, the cemetery is still so large, even if it has changed from a big coffin to a small box, it is still necessary to buy a tomb and set up a monument, and I feel that the area occupied is not less.

However, this is the above policy, and as ordinary people, they can only follow the policy.

Qian Yan asked Chou Chou with some curiosity: "Then can you see how much time this tiger has to live?" It can't come here to die in this stockade, does it? It's not remote or quiet. ”

Chou Chou shook his head, "That's not it, it should be passing by and it doesn't look like it's going into the stockade, it has now bypassed the stockade and headed north." ”

Tilt Yan: "Is it the mountain stream with many bones?" ”

Ugly nodded, "It's over there." ”

"It doesn't think that a lot of bones there are a good place to bury bones, does it?" ”

Chou Chou shook his head, "It's not clear, there are a lot of corpses and bones there, and the yin qi and death qi are indeed heavier, it may think that it is more suitable to wait for death, and after many years, it will turn into white bones, and mix with those white bones, and it will not be taken back to make tiger bone paste and make tiger bone wine." ”

As soon as Qian Yan heard this, she immediately came to her senses, "Then it's going to die anyway, can we ......?"

Ugly glanced at her, "Don't think about it, even if we want to die, we can't wait, you can't kill people now, right?" The tiger is already so old, and he wants to die quietly, and you are not satisfied? ”

Qian Yan rolled her eyes at it, "When did you become so kind?" Remember you're an ancient beast, don't you? ”

The ugly ugly looked at her with a serious face, "Correct, I am an ancient beast, not a fierce beast." ”

"Okay, okay, it's a strange beast, it's not a fierce beast, I'm wrong, it's okay, you're the same beast, so you have a sense of sadness for the rabbit and the fox?"

Ugly scratched his chin, "That's not it, if a sturdy tiger comes running over and wants to attack you or is hostile, I won't hesitate to slap it to death."

However, this kind of tiger that is already old and slow to move will have some mercy. I may have been with you humans for a long time, and I have a bad habit of pitying the weak, cherishing the poor, respecting the old and loving the young. ”

Qian Yan picked it up from the bench and rubbed the fur on its body with amusement, "What a bad habit, this is a good habit Okay, your idea is right, if it is a corpse now, let's pick up the corpse and talk about the past, after all, it is still alive, I think so, it is indeed a little cruel."

Okay, let's discuss where to stay until the time comes to leave, now that there are more mosquitoes, we can't wait until it gets dark in the yard. ”

Because of the mountain forest, although it is not yet two o'clock, it is still hot, and there are already mosquitoes in the grass, especially not far from a waterhole, the grass and trees are vigorous, and there are more mosquitoes and so on.

Fortunately, this ancient costume is full of long clothes and trousers, and Qian Yan did not follow her mother's physique to attract mosquitoes.

Although it is occasionally stared at, it is not like the old lady as soon as she arrives in a place where there are mosquitoes, it is like poking a mosquito nest, and she is stung all over the body.

She was glad that she was half of her father's blood, and only got bitten when there were a lot of mosquitoes.

Ugly Chou pointed to the west corner of the yard, "There is wormwood there, don't get it fresh, the ones that are dried down below should be from last year, you can collect those and braid them and light them, and the mosquitoes will be smoked away in a while." ”

Qian Yan walked over and looked, there were a lot of them on the ground, and she directly gathered up the yellow wormwood on the ground, and stopped after getting a bundle that her arms could wrap around, anyway, she didn't stay here for long, just enough for today.

Get them on the stone pavement and weave them into a long braid.

Only the wrist is thick, and if it is broken, I will take a pinch and continue it, and knit it down little by little, and finally it is five or six meters long.

After weaving it, I hung one end on the windowsill, and the wooden window frame that was already rotten on the top was directly broken, saving it from being lit for a while, and the remaining stone windowsill was safer.

Then one end hung in the air, and the other head hung on the ground.

I walked into the house and lit the suspended position, and soon a thick smoke floated up.

It was a little choking at first, but after a while I got used to it, and the smell of wormwood was still quite strong.

Qian Yan watched as the mosquitoes inside and outside the house were scattered in all directions by the smoke, and some other small insects were also smoked out of the house.

After waiting for a while, Qian Yan carried the tables and benches in the courtyard into the house, and tied the horse to the upwind not far from the window, saving the horse.

This room was the one with the entrance to the underground stone chamber, and this room was supposed to be a bedroom before, except for the cabinet that had been knocked down, but there was no sign of a fight.

It should be that when the officers and soldiers came, they all went out to meet the battle, and most of the traces were on the side of the hall and in the courtyard, and this should have been made a mess when they came in and searched later.

The rag that wiped the table before was found from this cabinet that had fallen to the ground.

Walking in the direction of the bed, I didn't have time to look at the bed just now, now I have to take a good look at what is there.

Of course, there will not be that kind of beautifully carved step bed in this cottage, and it is very difficult to transport it up the mountain or come here to build and move in.

In the room is a relatively ordinary large wooden bed, the wood should not be ordinary wood, it looks quite strong, and it has not been as rotten as a window frame for so many years.

Of course, it may also have something to do with being inside the house and not being exposed to the wind and sun.

Qian Yan said to Chouchou: "Chou, do you know what kind of wood this bed is made of?" And see if there are any mechanisms near this bed, don't the ancients on TV like to hide some important small objects in the dark compartment of the bed, or near the bed? ”

People are accustomed to feeling at ease when they sleep and keep things close to them.

Ugly Ugly heard her say this, and released his divine sense to carefully search the bed up and down, not to mention, he really found a secret grid!

"I found it, there was a secret compartment on the bed frame next to the wall, and it seemed to be a seal inside."

Qian Yan raised her eyebrows, "Seals? The owner of a cottage, to put it bluntly, is a bandit leader, and he still has a seal?

Does he not only want to occupy the mountain as the king, but also prepare to establish himself as the king? Even the jade seal is ready. ”

For Tilt Yan's imagination, the ugly face was speechless, "Take it out and look at it, you will know, it is not enough to say that it is a jade seal, it is not that big, it is a small seal." ”

"Wait, let me look for it first, and see if I can find the mechanism."

Qian Yan stopped the ugly ugly who wanted to come forward, and was ready to try it herself, she liked this kind of treasure hunting thing, although it was not very successful every time, and in the end it was ugly and ugly who saved the scene.

Ugly Ugly was not in a hurry to step forward, jumped on her shoulders and let her come.

Qian Yan walked to the side of the bed, looked at the position that Ugly Chou said, looked up and down, left and right, and didn't see where the secret mechanism was.

I touched it from top to bottom, pushed the head of the bed, and patted it on the wood, but there was no response.

In the end, he looked at the ugly ugly.

Ugly jumped off her shoulder, stretched out her little paw and pressed it on a wooden wedge.

The wooden wedge is at the place where the bedside bar and the vertical bed frame are connected, because it is a mortise and tenon structure, there will be this kind of wooden wedge in the place where it is generally connected, if it is not ugly and ugly, you can't see it at all, and you won't think that it is a hidden grid mechanism.

The wooden wedge was pressed, and a soft click was heard, and a rectangular crack appeared underneath, and then the ugly ugly pressed the rectangle again, and the rectangular wooden block was bounced out.

This mechanism is not complicated, the principle is to use the wooden wedge just now to pin the wooden block, press it down and the wooden block will loosen, and then press it and it will be pushed out by the contents inside.

The ugly claw stretched out his claws and took out the wooden box inside, the hole was not big, that is, the ugly claws could enter and go freely, otherwise Qian Yan would have to find a tool to take it out.

The wooden box was not much bigger than a baby's fist, and when it was opened, it contained a seal carved from jade with a full head of water.

Tilt Yan looked at the seal backwards, well, I couldn't read it at all.

I don't know what font is engraved on this seal, only the last inscription can be understood, and the other characters are completely incomprehensible.

Ask Ugly Ugly, and Ugly Ugly doesn't know Ugly.

Tilt Yan also knows that it is good to be literate, after all, there are still a lot of ancient fonts, this five thousand years of history, plus there are many nationalities, this character is not necessarily where it is.

However, the material of this seal is very rare, and she put it back in the wooden box and prepared to take it back for her father to see.

Her father is very interested in ancient culture, because he collected undersea shipwrecks back then, and collected a lot of antiques, many of which he didn't know, and her mother was more curious about those, so his father specialized in studying them for a while.

I really read a lot of books about antiques, and even went to the university to ask some experts and professors, but I was afraid that when her mother asked, he would not be able to answer the questions, and then the universal image in her mother's heart would collapse.

As the daughter of the two, she was a little envious and jealous, how could her mother be so lucky to find such a good man, which made her how to find her other half in the future, and directly raised her mate selection standards too much.

Well, the topic is back to the present.

Qian Yan put away the seal and looked at the bed again, only to realize that the dusty cushion on this bed was not a mat or felt, but an animal skin!

"Ugly, what kind of animal skin is this? Why is it so big. ”

It should be because there are too many years, and this fur is a little weathered, and I can't tell what color it is.

Ugly: "It's not unusual for a bear skin to be covered on this bed, brown bear's, and it's found in the mountains here."

However, because it has been too long and has not been well protected, it has been a little messy, and it is estimated that it will rot as soon as you pick it up. ”

Qian Yan nodded with some pity, if only it was intact, she could take it back to her family, this bear cannot be hunted in the future, it is already a protected animal.

"The owner of this village is quite able to enjoy it, but it's a pity that his fate is not good, he chose such a place to occupy the mountain as the king, this place is so close to the Xingtang Mansion, it is impossible for the Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty to let such a force jump under his nose, and it is a matter of time before it is destroyed."

After that, Qian Yan felt that she was idle anyway, so she asked Chouchou to use her divine sense to search the other houses in this village again to see if there were any such fish that slipped through the net.

Even some pottery that seems worthless now should be quite valuable in future generations.

Chou Chou used his divine sense to search around again, and found some gold and silver jewelry in the walls and cracks of some houses.

There are not many individual ones, and there are a few pieces of so many houses found, but there are no of those pottery porcelain, and some have been broken.

Those officers and soldiers were not stupid before, it was impossible to just move the things here, and all the houses were searched, and these fish that slipped through the net were still hidden and hidden, so they were not taken away.

Chou Chou directly used his divine sense to get those things back and put them on the table for Qian Yan to see.

Qian Yan picked them up one by one and looked at them, the most valuable thing was two pieces of gold and a few ingots of silver, it seemed that the hiding place was not big, so there was not much hidden, or more was taken away.

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