Ping Xie's Life and Death Qi Kuo

The light in the room was insufficient, and the light source of the searchlight alone illuminated the small area around the stove faintly white.Papa Dou sat back in his seat and quickly told the whole story. After hearing a few words, I felt chills all over my body, and suddenly figured out the reason why he was obsessed with this tomb.The whole incident was completely beyond my expectation. I really can't imagine what kind of weird and cruel group this is, and I can't understand what kind of means it relies on to make this group of people willing to last in this hill for thousands of years.If what Dad Dou said was true, then what they shouldered was not the mission of guarding the tomb at all, but a heavy sin that had been cursed.

All things originate from the history of Niudongping and an ancient dark secret of longevity.According to Yidou's father, their entire family is considered a survivor of the Shang Dynasty. According to their ancestral records, they have been active in the Shandong Peninsula, near the mouth of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is near Henan today.

That area was the center of political power in the true sense in ancient China, and it remains unchanged to this day.In fact, the Central Plains area in ancient times refers specifically to Henan Province today, also known as "Zhongzhou, Zhongtu and Huaxia".As the center of China's Kyushu, Henan Province is the most important area where the Chinese nation lived in the early days, and it is also the most important birthplace of Chinese civilization.Since the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty in history, established its capital in Henan, it has experienced more than 20 dynasties including Xia, Shang, Zhou and Han.It's just that at that time, the Central Plains region was not only the Shang Dynasty regime, but more of it was under the control of the Tribal Fangguo.

During the Shang Dynasty, there were nine most powerful tribes forming an alliance, which was called Jiuyi in history. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "There are nine kinds of Yi, namely Quan (quan) Yi, Yu Yi, Fang Yi, Huang Yi, Bai Yi, Chi Yi, Feng Yi, Xuan Yi, and Yang Yi." The original group of totems is called Dongyi. The Huangyi among the Nine Yis originally originated in the present-day Xilamulun River Basin, and then entered the Shandong Peninsula through Qian'an County and Shulu in Hebei before joining the Dongyi Group.

The scope of activities of Niu Dongping's ancestors is within this group, a small country called Yufang.Yu Fang is also written as Meng Fang, so Dad Dou and his family follow the surname of Meng, and I will call it the Meng family for the time being.In other words, the ancestors of the Meng family were actually Han people who lived among these foreign races, which is strikingly similar to the history of the Zhang family.But why did this huge family disappear in the Shandong Peninsula after the Shang Dynasty, and instead appeared in Niudongping, which had not yet been reclaimed?This is related to the war between the Shang Dynasty and the Dongyi tribe.

From the end of the 12th century BC to the beginning of the 11th century BC, Emperor Yi and Emperor Xin of Shang successively launched a long-term war against the Yi people in the East.This war was recorded in the ancestral home in the form of words by the ancestors of the Meng family: In February of the ninth year of Emperor Yi, the king of Shang led his army to go to the Yi side, but was intercepted by the Yu side on the way, and returned to the army; The king defeated Yu Fang, and entered the country of You in September. He joined forces with You and defeated the Yi army.Qidi is the Shandong area today.

Judging from the battle situation, Yin Shang's strength is clearly superior.So after Emperor Yi's death, Emperor Xin (King Zhou) succeeded to the throne, continued to follow Emperor Yi's military strategy, and finally put down the rebellion.

In this war, the strength of the Meng family suffered a heavy blow.After the collapse of Dongyi, the ancestors of the Meng family carried out a large-scale migration.But strangely, the reasons for this migration and the destination are not mentioned in the ancestral books.However, according to the current situation, they moved from Shandong to Niudongping, Hubei today.

Dad Dou said that the Meng family's ancestral home has been recorded many times, and the first time it appeared was during this period.In fact, this is easy to understand. In times of war, it is difficult to guarantee that documents will not be lost. In addition, the Meng family has existed for too long, so it is normal for some records to be missing. This is the same as the historical documents of our country.

The strange thing is that after that migration, almost all the activities of the Meng family were hidden. In other words, this big family that was once extremely popular disappeared in history.And the reason behind all this is for a mysterious and strange tomb.

They became guardians of that tomb.

No one knows what happened in that time-dated history. What is certain is that the ancestors of the Meng family got a huge secret, and this secret made them give up all the prosperity in the past and stay in the uncultivated valley willingly. inside.

This can't help but remind me of the Zhang family, who also lived for the so-called secret.

The lunatic was curious, so he asked, "What secret?"

I thought Papa Dou wouldn't answer his question, after all, Poker Finger didn't tell me what the ultimate protection of their family is. Who knew Papa Dou stopped and said only two words: "Resurrection!"

resurrection? !

I felt a "thud" in my heart, and thought it was funny again. This is not a sci-fi movie, what is resurrection?dead?

However, looking at Dad Dou's serious expression, I had to think about the credibility of this statement.Resurrection, to another extent, is not longevity in disguise!

Suddenly, a chill ran from the soles of the feet to the nape of the neck, and he unnaturally turned his head to look at the oil bottle, his frowning eyebrows were twisted into a capital "Chuan", and the faces of the others were also covered with frost. gloomy.

I lifted my chin, signaling him to continue.So, Dad Dou told us about the so-called mausoleum they guarded and the "resurrection" in his mouth, but I didn't expect that the way they guarded it was so barbaric or cruel.

Like the Zhang family, the Meng family has extremely strict family rules. If a large group like them can last for such a long time in history, there must be layers of strict hierarchy and rules, otherwise it will be difficult to maintain the entire family normal functioning of the group.Therefore, after the ancestors of the Meng family got the secret about "resurrection", they left an inviolable ancestral precept to their descendants: they must not step out of Niudongping for generations, and live to guard the tomb all their lives.

Of course, not everyone knows what this "secret" is. Like the Zhang family, only the patriarch can understand the secret itself.But sadly, in the long course of historical development, the powerful Meng family also cannot avoid being disturbed by wars and coveted by another force. The secret of "resurrection" is gradually forgotten by the tribe in the process.In the end, they were unable to know the function of this secret itself, they just followed the instructions left by their ancestors and followed the procedure of guarding the mausoleum, guarding this cemetery that they would never be able to touch.As for who they want to protect!And why go to guard!No way of knowing.

The lunatic asked again, what is the procedure for guarding the tomb?

At this time, I clearly saw the grief flashing in Papa Dou's eyes, as if he had experienced something extremely painful, and his tone suddenly dropped, saying: "Living sacrifice!"

I was startled, but later I realized that the living sacrifice he was talking about was different from what I had imagined. It was more like a ritual, which the Meng family had to follow in order to protect and survive.

Such a ceremony is held every ten years.Dad Dou said that the responsibility of the patriarch is to send the person chosen by the tomb spirit into the tomb during this ceremony.No matter men, women, young or old, as long as they are selected, they must enter the tomb according to the agreement.And their final result, there is only one, death!

But no one has really seen how those chosen know their own lives, because their end is in this tomb, and none of those who went in came out alive.No one knows what kind of secrets are hidden in that tomb. They can only respect the things in the tomb like gods, like enslaved ants.

Hearing this, I can't help but feel a little angry. Could it be that the lives of the people are so ignored just for a so-called ceremony! ?For them, what does guarding the mausoleum mean, faith?Or kill?

However, in response to my doubts, Dad Dou just snorted coldly and said, "You think we haven't resisted?"

I was taken aback, and it turned out that the first civil strife in the history of the Meng family was caused by the tribe's resistance to this cruel ritual.

At that time, the Meng family was divided into conservatives and radicals, and a tug-of-war of open and secret struggles was launched within the family.Radicals believe that this cruel regulation can no longer be continued, and another way should be used to sacrifice tomb spirits.The conservatives insist that the ancestral precepts cannot be violated. In their eyes, the consequences of disobeying the ancestral precepts are unimaginable, and it is not just as simple as genocide.

However, there was already resistance in people's hearts, so the final result was that the radicals with a superior number won the victory.So after the ten-year period expired that year, they chose the ordinary way of offering sacrifices to spirits instead of the original "human sacrifice".

But what I didn't expect was that in that year, a large-scale plague broke out in the Meng family. Almost the whole family died in that plague. Except for conservatives, no one survived.At this time, someone stood up and said clearly that the ancestral precepts cannot be revoked, and the undead must be sacrificed!

Since then, no one has mentioned the abolition of "living sacrifices", because no one dared to bet the lives of the entire clan, and would rather sacrifice the lives of those chosen than take risks.