Twilight Cloud Returns

Such an earth-shattering voice immediately disturbed the rest of the people.

Everyone woke up from the darkness, but no one dared to light a torch for light.

Li Gusheng is also afraid, but he is also the second master of this mighty cave, he must keep calm at critical moments, and not lose his sense of control, otherwise the others will panic even more.

He whispered: "Brothers, close your eyes. The old man often said that Yin soldiers cross the border, and those who see them will be bloody. Let's keep calm and let them go back to the underworld, and we will be safe."

Li Gusheng is the most knowledgeable here, including Zhang Qing, everyone listens to him.

So everyone closed their eyes tightly, leaned against each other, and waited quietly for the sound of fighting to disappear.

Yun Chuxiu once saw a record about Yin soldiers borrowing roads in "Travel to Shu", which said: "In the third year of Jin Shunkang, an earthquake occurred in Shu, and there was a heavy rain in the red sky. When the rain stopped, I suddenly saw the front of a certain farmer. There are five to sixty thousand people in the tent camp, banners and flags. Soon there will be heavy supplies and drum horns, and the troops will move one after another, singing or talking, and rushing forward in a loud way. That's why it is called the Yin soldiers borrowing the way."

Naturally, he doesn't believe in these supernatural powers and gods. It is also rumored that the Yun clan possesses the secret technique of longevity, and he, Yun Chuxiu, is still sick and needs to seek medical treatment?

But after a while, the death-like silence before was restored in the mountain.

All the people breathed a sigh of relief, being so startled, they lost all sleepiness.

After such a toss, the sky is slightly bright.

The robber who was the first to hear the movement of the Yin soldiers crossed the border sighed: "I always heard from the old people in the village that Big Blind Mountain was the place where the former Jin army fought against the Zhou army. The former Jin army Gao Fuda died tragically under the sword of the Zhou army here. , In the end, he failed to guard the rivers and mountains of Dajin for the loyal monarch. The obsession of him and his subordinates turned into wild ghosts and stayed in the blind mountain."

"At these days every year, especially when the earth shakes and the mountains shake, they leave from the underworld and return to the battlefield to fulfill their unfulfilled wishes."

Li Gusheng also heaved a long sigh, "The fortune is not good, the fate of the former Jin Dynasty has come. If there is such a general in the Great Zhou Dynasty, he will not have to fight with the Xiongnu for decades."

Zhang Qing looks rough, but actually he is most afraid of ghosts and gods.

He tucked his head into the animal skin and didn't feel hot even though he was sweating all over his body.Filled with fear in his heart, Zhang Qing became even more stuttering: "No, no, no...I didn't expect that today...today...and I really bumped into...to meet."

Li Gusheng echoed: "It used to be hearsay, but I didn't expect the rumors to be true."

Wu Qing listened to what they said with a nose and an eye, so it turned out that this was the first time everyone had heard the Yin soldiers make excuses.

Zhang Qing panicked: "Yesterday... last night... I... I didn't open my eyes... I opened my eyes... Gao Gao... General no no... I won't come to see me... Let me..."

Li Gusheng joked: "If you want to find him, you are looking for the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty to avenge the subjugation of the country. You are a wild man, and General Gao will not be able to find you."

Hearing this, Zhang Qingcai took off the animal skin on his body, and his back was completely wet with sweat.

The worst night is over.

Today's Blind Mountain is clear and cloudless, and the air is even filled with the smell of new soil.

Li Gusheng asked one of them to go down the mountain to deliver the blackmail letter, and the rest went about their own affairs step by step.

Someone specially guarded Yun Chuxiu and Wuqing, and they squatted on the ground.

Wuqing recalled the incident of the Yin soldiers crossing the border last night, and said in surprise: "Zhi Huan, I didn't expect the records in "Travel to Shu" to be true."

Yun Chuxiu frowned and said, "You also believe it's true?"

"I heard it with my own ears, is it true?" Wu Qing replied, "There is no one else in the Blind Mountain except the bandits. Last night you and I stayed in the cave with them, and we didn't take a step. After thinking about it, only Only the ghosts can make those sounds of gold and iron horses."

Yun Chuxiu couldn't help laughing: "Seeing is sometimes false, let alone hearing?"

He picked up a branch on the side and wrote a few words on the ground - banditry, iron ore mine, big earthquake, evil soldiers borrowing the way.

"Come and see."

Wuqing looked down and blurted out: "Aren't these few things that we have experienced one after another recently?"

Yun Chuxiu nodded and said, "Then how are these four things related?"

Wu Qing thought for a while, "The robbers in Weiwu Cave became bandits because the government forcibly conscripted their men to go to the mine...The latter two things are established independently and have no connection."

Yun Chuxiu shook his head, and said: "The big earthquake happened in Blind Mountain, and Blind Mountain is the stronghold of bandits; although it is a legend of ghosts and monsters, it is the first time for bandits to hear about all this. All things revolve around the same center, which is banditry."

He circled the word "bandit trouble", Wuqing subconsciously said in a low voice: "You mean that these bandits still hide shocking secrets? But in my opinion, they are all poor people from the surrounding villages, simple and honest , without malice."

Yun Chuxiu smiled and said, "Of course the common people are innocent, but the problems behind the troubled people are the shocking secrets."

As soon as the words were finished, a person ran in in a panic, rolling and crawling, and said in panic: "Big... the second head of the big family, you go to the back and have a look, and suddenly there is a big corpse pit, which is full of corpses." , it's full!"

The people who were still in the cave were stunned, and when they heard this, they all went out of the cave to see the corpse pit.

The robbers guarding the two also forgot their existence and ran out.

As soon as Yun Chuxiu heard that there was a difference, she also came to the corpse pit with Wuqing.

Just one glance is shocking—the corpses of more than a hundred people are piled up crookedly, some people's brains mixed with blood are exposed in the air, attracting many blowflies; the weather is hot and humid, white maggots are born, and the maggots are wriggling Slippery bodies, in and out of their muzzles.

Many people couldn't bear it, and turned their heads to vomit without looking carefully.

Having just gone through the passage of Yin soldiers, and now seeing so many corpses, it is hard not to connect these two things together.

Li Gusheng frightened: "Yes...it's General Gao's Yin soldiers...they will come again tonight...they will come again..."

Hearing this, everyone gasped.Some were so frightened that they froze in place, while others cried to their father and mother, threatening to go down the mountain and never be such bandits again.

It was also the first time for Wuqing to see such a dazzling array of corpses, and his palms were full of sweat.

Yun Chuxiu quietly pulled out the feather fan from Zhang Qing's waist, and walked towards the corpse pit as if.

Wuqing raised his foot and wanted to follow, but Yun Chuxiu pushed him away and said, "I'm pickling below, you stay up there, I'll go down and investigate and then come up."

Wuqing really has lingering fears about these horrific corpses, but he will never let go of knowing and leave them alone.

Hearing this, he firmly grasped Zhihuan's sleeve, and said firmly, "I'll go with you, don't try to abandon me."

Yun Chuxiu had nothing to do with him, so she stretched out her index finger and scratched the bridge of his nose helplessly, and said, "Okay, then you follow me closely. If you notice anything wrong, then drag me."

"Ok!"

The two went down the slope and walked towards the corpses piled up into a hill.

It was only then that everyone on the slope realized that the two hostages had gone into the body of the Yin soldier, and they all shouted: "Are you two crazy! Come back quickly! If you break General Gao's taboo, you will die!"

But no one really dared to jump down from the corpse pit to stop the two, so they had to watch them rummage back and forth in the corpse pit.

The rotting corpse exuded a pungent and unpleasant stench, and Wu Qing couldn't help covering his mouth and nose, retching violently.

Yun Chuxiu also took a deep breath, this... the taste is indeed a bit sweet.

He casually raised a corpse's hand, and said to Wuqing: "Look at this man's calluses, which are evenly distributed on the heel of his palm, he is definitely not someone who marches and fights."

"Why is that?" Wu Qing asked in confusion.

Yun Chuxiu stretched out her right hand, a layer of calluses grew on the tiger's mouth.

Wuqing understood immediately, "People who practice martial arts often use weapons such as knives, guns, swords and halberds, and cocoons are more likely to grow in the tiger's mouth."

Yun Chuxiu put down her hand and pointed to the clothes on the corpse: "Look at the clothes of the dead, they are all slanted collar shirts of ordinary people. If it is really Gao Fuda's Yin soldiers team that Zhang Qing and others talked about, just from last night. The sound of fighting in battle, the corpses lying here should at least be protected by armor."

"The most unreasonable thing is that the Jin army led by Gao Fuda has fought against the Zhou Dynasty for more than a hundred years. Even if this is the corpse of a soldier who died at that time, the corpse has already become bones. How can there be such a flesh and blood body?" ?”

"So these dead are not the corpses of Yin soldiers at all, but just like them, they are just ordinary people busy with farming. Maybe there will be people from the same village as them..."

Wuqing's heart was filled with mixed feelings, gangsters were bandits, and death was dead. Is there any secret in this blind mountain?

The two walked around the corpse and continued to walk forward, as if they saw a small mouthful.

Yun Chuxiu squatted down and moved the corpse in front of her with her bare hands, and a mine suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

"It seems that the corpse came out of the mine due to the earthquake."

Yun Chuxiu waved his hand upwards, and calmly shouted: "Gu Sheng, borrow a fire note."

Li Gusheng had just recovered from the shock, he obeyed the order dumbfoundedly and threw down the fire folder he was carrying with him.

Yun Chuxiu caught it, and Wuqing plunged into the deep mine and disappeared from everyone's eyes.

Zhang Qinghou realized it later, and said anxiously: "Then those two... father-in-law... son and brother!"

Only then did Li Gusheng come to his senses, he patted his head and said, "It's broken! They seem to have drilled into the cave below."

The bandits on the slope discovered that there was a hole in the deepest part of the corpse pit.

Someone yelled: "That must be the entrance to the underworld, whoever enters will be on the road to the underworld!"

"The head of the family, there are no hostages, Yangzhou City will take the ransom to ransom people, what should I do if I can't hand them over?"

Zhang Qing blushed, and said angrily, "Big... at worst, force... grab it!"

Some people echoed: "Just grab it! Anyway, the government also said that we are bandits! Besides, the two of them are like little ghosts possessed, and they voluntarily go to the underworld. They were taken away by General Gao's ghost soldiers. What have they to do with us?" Dry?"

"It's true what my brother said."

Everyone agreed with this strategy, so they looked at Li Gusheng.

Li Gusheng stretched out his head to look at the dark cave with no end in sight, and felt apprehensive in his heart, he gritted his teeth and said, "Just do as the master says!"

Having said that, he always felt that these two people were not like ordinary dandy rich sons, they had a little more proud look and admirable courage.

Li Gusheng clasped his hands together and prayed silently, hoping that the two would return safely.

After everyone made up their minds, they quickly escaped from this terrible corpse pit, returned to Weiwu Cave, and laid out the same set of sacrificial items from yesterday. Rest in peace, the Yin soldiers can return to the underworld as soon as possible.

In the mine, the two followed the faint light of the fire, and gradually touched the center of the mine.

Except for those in the corpse pit, there are also quite a few corpses here, and the death conditions are even more horrific - some were crushed to death by falling boulders, and some fell to the ground and were trampled to death by the people behind.

Everywhere he looked was scarred, and Yun Chuxiu was heartbroken.

In this affluent Yangzhou, a large number of people died in the mines, but the government ignored them and even regarded them as bandits.

Where are the civil affairs and laws of the Great Zhou!

When he was full of resentment, a bloody hand suddenly stretched out from the pile of corpses, and then the messy hair pressed in the middle also began to squirm, struggling to go in the direction where they were!

The author says:

②: Excerpted from "Strange Records·Liu Weiqing".