Wei Yihu nodded: "Well, yes, you know that I still have to talk about him after all, he is indeed not dead, that year I and the Wing King took 5,000 remnants of the army, along the Dadu River all the way east, and walked to a valley, it was really sleepy and lacking, only to stop and rest for a while, we sent people to defend the valley mouth to the death, and the enemy couldn't do anything to us for a while." On this day, Qinggou sent a messenger, and the messenger came to our tent proudly, saying that we have already died in front of our eyes, and dare to resist stubbornly, what is the reason, if we do not surrender, the army will besiege us and kill Yunyun, and the arrogance is so arrogant, the winged king is furious and does not say a word, and orders me to pull down the envoy and cut off his head. ”

"In the next few days, the Wing King arranged for me to do a very secret thing, and when I came back, the Wing King summoned us and said, he wanted to go to the Qing camp to ask for surrender, with him dead, to beg the Qing Dog to spare our lives, we were very shocked when we heard it, originally the two armies clashed, not to cut the envoy, the day before yesterday we killed the messenger, the original intention was to provoke the Qing Dog, so early decisive battle, although we all know that this battle will be lost, but so what, it is better to kill a big kill than to be besieged and humiliated by the Qing Dog. Unexpectedly, only a few days later, the Winged King changed his mind, we were all very puzzled, we all knelt in the tent, saying that we were willing to die in battle, and did not want the commander to be humiliated, there was a lieutenant, and even said that if the Winged King wanted to surrender, he would kill himself in front of the tent, although his words were a little more intense, but at that time all our brothers also meant this. ”

"As soon as I asked my brother in the tent, I learned that in the days when I left, Qinggou came to another imperial envoy, this imperial history and the envoy of the day before the tone is completely different, he said that the king of the wing is a man of Haineqi, a great husband, he has long admired the prestige, but because of the change of the situation, can not meet, let alone follow the left and right, listen to the teachings. ”

He also said that the fault of our defeat is not in the Wing King, but in the Heavenly King's stubbornness, inability to recognize people, and even the change of Xiao Wall, even if the Wing King does not think about himself, he should also think about his soldiers,...... It was these words that hit the soft spot in the heart of the Wing King, which caused him to hesitate. ”

"My brother in the account said to me, the messenger will come when he comes, Shen Shi will return, for several days in a row, sometimes across the river, will bring some rice noodles for our brother to eat, and not very persuade the Wing King to surrender, the two just drink and talk about the general trend of the world, for a few days down, even rhetoric, confuse the heart of the Wing King, this night I discussed with the brother in the tent, thinking that this imperial history is a big trouble, and sooner or later it will shake the heart of the army, so I decided to find out that in addition to him in the Qinggou camp, even if he cannot be removed, if we can be lucky enough to assassinate their commander, we should have a glimmer of life。 I walked more than ten miles upstream overnight, crossed the river in a secluded place and went around to the Qinggou camp, they were heavily guarded in the big tent of the Chinese army, I couldn't get close, but I saw a big tent in the northeast corner, the lights were not extinguished, I sneaked over, inside was a Qing dog, I saw that the official uniform on his body and the top of the flower feather were the dress of the four members of the Qing court, it was the imperial history, I immediately drew my sword and stabbed him in the back of the heart, you said that the world's affairs are so coincidental, the imperial history turned his head in fear under the light, he is not my senior brother but who is it?"

Wang Xinghui had already guessed the result, nodded and said, "Well, your senior brother has done so much, I can't imagine that I can do the imperial history of the Qing court." ”

Wei Yihu said: "Yes, his position in the four-grade imperial history, I don't know how much the blood of his comrades was exchanged, the so-called enemies saw each other, and their eyes were red, my martial arts at that time were far above him, and he was subdued in a few moves, I pointed at him with a sword, and scolded him for not only coveting glory, serving the dog, betraying the master, and now he is talking about it, blinding the Wing King, I asked him what else to say, he raised his head and said: "Okay, Well, I can't imagine that I have traveled all the way from Beijing, and I still can't save this pillar of the country, so since I can't fulfill the holy order, junior brother, you can kill me!"

"Before he died, what he thought of was not to be ashamed of his master, but that he was afraid that he would not be able to complete the mission given to him by the Tartar Emperor, I gritted my teeth and hated him to the bone, but his words made me very misty, he was a lackey of the Qing court, how could he think of saving the life of the Wing King? I immediately asked him to make his words clear. ”

He told me that he was ordered by the Qing Dog Emperor to come to recruit the Wing King, it turned out that the Emperor and the Queen Mother were not in harmony in the Manchu Tartar court, and the little emperor had already plotted to change the law, and the heart of the Qing Dynasty was revived, and only the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could listen to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother was even more intolerant of changing the ancestral system. ”

"I listened to his words at the time, although it was not very credible, but it was not unreasonable, after all, at that time, the Wing King Wencai and Wu Strategy were unmatched at that time, and at that time, there were foreign powers still waiting, eyeing the tiger, and it was not impossible for the Tartar Emperor to recruit the Wing King to confront the Queen Mother and the powers. What's more, there was really no better way for us to break through at that time, if we could really use the power of the emperor to save his life, everything would be possible for him every day, so I agreed to spare him after repeated considerations. ”

"I forced him to swear to the heavens, and he said to me: As long as the Wing King is willing to serve the emperor, he will guarantee his life, and he will definitely be able to be used again. At that time, I was bent on saving my life and then saying that I would stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, so I said to him: "Okay, you remember your words today, if there is any difference between the Wing King, the old hatred and old hatred, even if it is traced to the ends of the earth, I will definitely break you into ten thousand pieces!"

In this way, I spared his life, and after that, the Wing King led the people to surrender, and I and more than a dozen of my brothers took advantage of the night to cross the mountains and mountains, and I did not think of it...... I can't think of this dog thief...... , he, he actually lied to me!"

“...... Soon after the Wing King surrendered, he was chopped alive by the Qing Dog, and he didn't even leave a complete corpse, I hid in the Dianhengduan Mountain, and when I learned the news, my liver and gall were broken, this dog thief, if I can't take his life, I take it seriously, under the Nine Springs, it is really shameless to go down to see the Wing King and my thousands of dead comrades!"

Wei Yihu gritted his teeth, his eyes were about to split, and his old tears were rampant, and Wang Xinghui just listened quietly on the sidelines.

"Good brother, in the past ten years, I have been looking for him to take revenge again, this search is different from the past, in the past, as a guard of the Wing King, after all, I could not leave my post for personal vendetta, but this time, the kingdom of heaven is gone, and I, the Marquis of the Guardian Country, have also become a wandering spirit, I can go wherever I want, I first sneaked into the palace, checked for half a month, and did not find the whereabouts of my senior brother, I searched all over the governors around the capital, The governor's official residence, looking for him for eight years, two years ago, I learned from the mouth of a eunuch that my brother was under the command of Li Hongzhang, I then chased to the prime minister's yamen in Dongtang Alley, and finally found his traces, that day I saw Li Hongzhang ordered him to Anyuan to assist in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to excavate coal mines, so I followed his guards all the way down, and found an opportunity in the Huacheng Temple of Yuanzhou Mansion in Jiangxi Province when he was incense, a sword stabbed him in the right chest, killed more than 30 of his pro-army guards, I was also seriously injured, but unfortunately, after all, it was a little bit worse, or did not get his dog life。 Hehe, he told people to be kind to me everywhere, but it's a pity, it's a pity that I can get the love of this dog thief. ”

"That time he escaped again, I almost died, I found the famous Jing'an Dart Bureau in Yuanzhou Mansion, and asked them to send me back to Wanren Villa, to wait for the injury to heal and then go to him, alas, I didn't think that I was in the temple battle, and finally showed traces, to know my identity, and they inquired from the Jing'an Dart Bureau about the location of Wanren Villa, and soon thereafter, there were some Jianghu high-rollers in the south of the Yangtze River, came to disturb, that day you saw the thief surnamed Lu, was a famous gang boss in eastern Zhejiang, but I didn't expect it, hehe, a few old friends who fought against Qinggou together back then, will also come to the door。 ”

Wang Xinghui answered: "Oh, by the way, it's the five people who are collectively known as the Five Heroes of Taihang Mountain!"

Wei Yihu spat fiercely: "Phew, what kind of chivalry is not chivalrous, even if they are so slight, they dare to be chivalrous in front of me?...... They are five brothers, originally a figure in the Twist Army, that year I invaded Shandong, once got the help of the Twist Army, and later lost power, these five people fell into thieves, in Huaibei Taihang area out of the name of the hall, they learned the news of the old man, and came from thousands of miles away, hehe, naturally for the ...... In order to ......"

“...... Rumors in the rivers and lakes say that the Wing King was defeated in the Dadu River that year, and there were still 100,000 taels of gold and silver salaries with the army that did not know where to go. In order to find this batch of treasures, Wang Ba almost dug three feet into the ground along the Dadu River, and found nothing, hehe, they want to find the whereabouts of the treasure in this life, and then after my whereabouts were leaked, these turtle kings know the relationship between me and the Wing King, and want to find the clues of the treasure from me, hehe, the treasure, my brother doesn't hide it from you, but there really are some, but, good brother, brother begs you for one thing, you must go to Yuanzhou Mansion and help me slash my senior brother, a traitor, otherwise, I have no face to explain to the brothers under Jiuquan！”

Wang Xinghui held on to his hand, feeling a little embarrassed in his heart, even Wei Yihu couldn't kill him several times, Wang Xinghui knew that this thing was not easy to do, he hadn't answered yet, Wei Yihu said again:

"I originally wanted to go to him after the injury was healed, but I didn't expect that Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, Wumeng Shancheng was blind in the Qinggou camp back then, his eye, I picked the blind, hehe, so things in the world, always retribution, today I died under his hands, and he was repaid...... I'm afraid I won't be able to, alas, these treasures, after all, they must be taught to see the light of day, you, you promised me, fulfill my wish for me, and I will tell you the secret of the treasure!"

When Wang Xinghui heard this, he hurriedly knelt in front of Wei Yihu's bed, kowtowed and said: "I don't dare to covet any treasure, please rest assured, the old owner of the village, you explain my affairs, no matter what, I will do my best." ”

Wei Yihu hummed lightly and stopped talking. He was already in a dying state, fighting his last breath to finish explaining this important event that had been pressing on his heart for decades, and he was excited just now, almost exhausted all his strength, and his breath was weak at the moment, and his voice was already very small.

Wang Xinghui suddenly thought that the nameless old man in the grotto might have a lot to do with the Taiping Army and Shi Dakai, and happened to ask Wei Yihu for confirmation, he saw that Wei Yihu would be silent, so he told him what he had seen and heard in the grotto by the Chiyu River, and the story of the discovery of the bones of the nameless old man trapped in the barren mountain. Then he asked Wei Yihu if he knew the origin of the nameless old man.

Wei Yihu's eyes flashed for a moment, and then he returned to his sloppy look, and said: "What you said, this old man, I have never seen ,......" He took out a booklet from his arms and handed it to Wang Xinghui and continued: "I can't do it, good brother, my brother knew you before he died, and it was also fate, my senior brother's martial arts are not low, and there are many guards, I am afraid that you will not be able to get close to him...... This is a boxing book that I secretly learned back then, you study hard, this seven-star sword, also handed over to you...... If you go to Jiangnan, if you can take revenge, you will take revenge, if you can't, alas, forget it, he is also an old man in his seventies, and he has no more years to live. The secret of the treasure will ...... In the future, you will study it slowly, this batch of treasures is what our thousands of Taiping soldiers have exchanged for their lives, and we always look forward to the day when we can use him to help the Han people all over the world and overthrow the rule of the Qing Tartars...... I hope you, I hope that after you get this batch of treasures, you must find someone who can save my Chinese compatriots and help him achieve great things, so that my brother will be blind when he dies, you, you must not forget my words, I, I am going to see the Wing King and my old brothers, I can't wait for that day after all, I am going, I am going to ......"

Wei Yihu's eyes gradually became dull, his voice became lower and lower, he waved his hand, closed his eyes, gasped for breath, as if he was asleep, and after a while, the sound of breathing gradually decreased again, and he died in this village that night.

Wang Xinghui pounced on Wei Yihu, feeling sad and sad in his heart, with tears in his eyes, although he and Wei Yihu were just Pingshui, but after a few months of getting along, he had already admired the Marquis of Weiguo who followed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Wing King Shi Dakai to fight in the south and the north, and he had already vaguely regarded Wei Yihu as his father and brother, a respectable and admirable predecessor. I thought of the important mission entrusted by Wei Yihu on his deathbed, and even after going through a lot of hardships, he would fulfill Wei Yihu's last wish and save thousands of lives from that batch of treasures. Since the founding of the Republic of China for more than 10 years, the people's livelihood cannot be safeguarded internally, and the European and American powers cannot be resisted externally.

He carried Wei Yihu's body to a hill with a cart, dug a big pit, put Wei Yihu in the pit, and took out a few silver tickets from his arms and put them on Wei Yihu's chest, buried them, bowed four times, pulled out the seven-star sword, and prayed silently in his heart, asking Wei Yihu to bless him in the spirit of heaven to go to Yuanzhou Mansion, everything went well, and he could slash the enemy. He knew that he would go to say goodbye, and he didn't know if there would be a chance to come here again in the future, and he still couldn't bear to leave when he sat down until the day of the sun.

He held his eyes and saw that someone was hiding behind a tree not far away, it was the Miao woman and child who saved his life, the woman approached slowly, she saw Wang Xinghui sad, her eyes were full of compassion and pity to look at Wang Xinghui, but the words of comfort could not say a word.

Wang Xinghui gave the woman a silver ticket, and was afraid that he would not exchange it, so he gave him a dozen pieces of silver, and the woman thanked him a thousand times. Wang Xinghui unloaded the cart for the horse again, abandoned the cart, and saw at a glance that the child was unclothed, skinny, and timidly hiding behind the woman, Wang Xinghui dismounted again, squatted down and asked him: "Thank you and your mother for saving me, you, do you have a name?"

The child, who was also twelve or thirteen years old, trembled and said, "We, we don't have names, we are all called Ganren." ”

Wang Xinghui asked: "Why are you called Ganren, is it your nation?"

The child said, "I don't know, the old ladies and gentlemen in the town call us that, and my mother said, we have nothing, we are dry, so they call us dry." ”

Wang Xinghui felt sad in his heart, thinking that the people of this tribe didn't know how much suffering they had gone through, and over time, they had gotten such a nickname, he didn't know how to comfort him, so he walked to the side of the cart, put a cotton coat worn by Wei Yihu on the child, and buttoned it for him. The child looked at him gratefully and asked, "Where are you going?" Before Wang Xinghui could answer, the child suddenly said in horror again: "You go quickly, go quickly, get out of here, there is a ghost here! After speaking, he pulled his mother and walked away quickly, and turned back from time to time to urge him to go quickly.

Wang Xinghui didn't have time to ask clearly, and the two had already gone away. Wang Xinghui raised his eyes and looked around, here was a mass grave, full of devastation, everywhere there were unattended graves, the west wind blew, whining, it was not early, a heavy twilight.

Wang Xinghui was suspicious in his heart, and sure enough, it didn't take long for him to see several figures dressed in white in the mass grave in the west, lined up in a line, walking straight from a small road to this side.

Wang Xinghui was taken aback, he rubbed his eyes, and wondered if he had seen it wrong? Looking intently at dusk, he saw a group of people in white, about two or three people, with pale faces, covered with yellow paper, walking in unison, and not bending their knees!

Wang Xinghui almost shouted, although he didn't believe in the ghosts and gods, but the scene in front of him also startled him, he had goosebumps all over his body, and he saw that the group of zombies also stopped suddenly. It was as if he had been discovered. The two sides faced each other for a while, only to see the leading zombie scream and spit out a tongue more than a foot long.

When he stuck out his tongue, Wang Xinghui immediately saw that he was dressed as a person, and the other party obviously wanted to scare him away, Wang Xinghui thought in his heart: The more they want to scare away pedestrians, the more it shows that their hearts are empty. He took out the seven-star sword in his hand and held it in his hand, and asked, "Where is the rat, pretending to be a ghost here!"

The leading zombie saw that he was not running away, he was also very curious, he was stunned for a while, and suddenly turned around, like a small forest in the south, jumping and jumping, Wang Xinghui thought: It must be the tomb robbers dressed as zombies, Wei Yihu has just been buried, I am afraid that this group of tomb robbers will come to grab the property later. He made up his mind, rushed forward, shouted to stop, blocked in front of the zombies, and when he got closer, he could see it clearly, the man at the head stared straight ahead, still pretending, and the two people in the middle and back turned their heads slightly, obviously afraid that Wang Xing would see that he was dressed as a person.

Wang Xinghui blocked the road, took out a silver ticket, stretched out in front of the zombie at the head, and said: "I know that you are dressed as a human being, I don't care what you want, but one of my teachers and friends died in your place, just in the precious treasure land, I hope you don't bother, this is a small meaning, please accept it, I thank you in advance." ”

The zombie's eyes flickered, blinked a few times, and suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha, don't pretend, don't pretend, I'm laughing to death, brother, daddy, people treat us as tomb robbers." The voice was sweet, it turned out to be a woman's voice.

The two zombies still wanted to cover up, but the female zombie had already reached out and ripped off the yellow paper on their faces, and giggled: "Don't pretend, don't pretend, everyone can see it." As he spoke, he also reached out and wiped a few strokes on his face, and immediately revealed a pretty face. It's actually a young girl. As soon as she stretched out her hand, she took Wang Xinghui's silver ticket, and said with a smile: "Okay, for the sake of the silver ticket, we don't blame you for blocking our way, you are really not afraid of us?"

Wang Xinghui said: "What is there to be afraid of, there are no ghosts and zombies in the world, you can only scare the elderly and children by doing this, but since you are not tomb robbers, why do you pretend to be ghosts?"

And the woman said, "It's fun, isn't it? Saying sticking out her tongue, she made a grimace again, she originally had a beautiful face, not powder, in fact, she pretended to be a zombie, and she didn't make up much, but she wore a white robe, three white shadows were walking in the cemetery, and it looked like she was floating without a little bit from a distance.

The man in the middle smiled and said: "Okay, little brother, since you have seen through it, we will not pretend, because we have been walking on the mountain and forest roads for many years, we are afraid of delays along the way, so we simply pretend to be corpse chasers in Xiangxi, so that the residents along the way see us coming from a distance, they will avoid it from a distance, and they don't have to be careful of bandits and robbers on the road, which saves a lot of trouble." We are really not tomb robbers, you can take back the silver ticket," he took back the silver ticket from the woman's hand and put it in Wang Xinghui's hand, "But we are really in a hurry, we can't delay any longer, let's go our separate ways." After saying that, he hugged his fists, no longer bypassed Wang Xinghui, and walked briskly on the path to the east, and the girl turned around and smiled at him, and then disappeared into the twilight.

In the early years, the residents of Xiangxi often went to Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei to work and beg for a living, all the year round, there was inevitably a three disasters and six diseases, often had the misfortune to lose their lives in a foreign land, the tradition of the old generation, all hope that the fallen leaves return to the roots, the soul returns to the hometown, at that time the vehicles and ships often dislike the transport of corpses is unlucky, so the folk prevailed in the occupation of driving corpses. The so-called driving away the corpse is actually very simple, that is, the corpse is passed through the sleeves with two long bamboo poles, and two people carry it in front and behind. Driving corpses is most afraid of being tabooed along the way, so they often rest during the day and rush in the evening, wearing white clothes is to make people consciously avoid seeing them from a distance, and over time, they will become more and more mysterious. At night, the sight is often not good, and pedestrians see a row of white figures walking straight up and down without bending their legs from a distance, just like zombies.

There are often some long-distance travelers, because of various purposes do not want to be disturbed along the way, will also pretend to be a corpse chaser to hurry, although Wang Xinghui has heard of the legend of the corpse, but he is not afraid of ghosts and gods, that day broke the secret of the three people, can't help but laugh dumbly, thinking that they don't know what they are so anxious, even to pretend to be a zombie to hurry.

That night, he kept vigil in front of Wei Yihu's grave, and the next morning, he stepped on horseback, identified the direction to the east, added two whips, and ran towards the road......

Wang Xinghui only felt that the scenery along the way kept retreating, although the scenery was beautiful, he had no intention of watching, morning and night, wearing the moon and stars, so running for several days, this day the horse's footsteps gradually staggered, either stumbling, or stumbling, Wang Xinghui turned his head sideways to see, the horse opened its nostrils wide, and the mouth was foaming at the mouth, and then he suddenly remembered that he only cared about running, forgot to sympathize with the livestock, and had not given it forage for most of the day.

He led the horse to a river beach, the river side of the water and grass is very abundant, Wang Xinghui let the white horse graze, he bowed his head thoughtfully, unconsciously walked about three or five miles, suddenly looked up, only to see in front of him is an endless flat lake, a restaurant stands high on the bank, a plaque on the lintel, read:

Dongting is 800 miles west of the first floor of the Huaihai Sea