Chapter 178
Go out of Xu Mansion to the northwest, pass Jia Mansion, and enter Ya Mansion. Near a small toast, named Lingguan, passes through the territory of the toast, and is a large area of unknown old mountain.
The cellar is hidden in this deep mountain.
After entering Sichuan, King Yi never harassed the people, practiced education, and practiced justice, and killed the powerful and bullied the weak. It was very popular when he passed through this area, and the locals who were rescued warned not to go in, saying that there were evil ghosts hidden in the mountains, which were specifically devoured people. Anyone who intruded in the area had gone but never returned. Local people have regarded this as a ghost mountain for generations, and they did not dare to enter when they talked about changing colors. King Yi was a man of martial arts and his life was iron-blooded, so he naturally did not believe in the strange powers and chaos.
He sent a brave and brave confidant to go into the mountain to explore, and finally found that the sound came from a deep valley. As the wind roared, the wind was roaring. When the wind was at its highest, it could suck people around into the valley, which led to the legend of the ghost mountain. Not only that, this subordinate also accidentally discovered a downward crack path that was formed naturally due to an ancient earthquake. The entrance was hidden. After exploring the way, he found that the valley was a huge cave and came back to report to King Yi. King Yi was struggling to survive the situation independently and was worried. He was inspired, so he placed the cellar secret in batches in this excellent place for accidental gains.
The confidant of King Yi who went into the mountains to investigate and discover this place was Zheng Longwang's father, General Zheng.
Xue Daofu naturally heard the rumors about the Yi Wang Jiaozang and was very coveted. Unfortunately, he was old and had no clues. He was unwilling to give up. He had sent people to find possible places over the years, but he was like a blind cat, with no clue, and gradually lost his heart. However, he didn't expect that he suddenly received news from Tong Guofeng some time ago. He searched everywhere and the famous Water Society Dragon King was actually an insider.
He knew that King Zheng Long and He Hanzhu had a friendship. Not only that, King Zheng Long himself was definitely not a person who was easy to deal with. Xue Daofu was a little worried, but soon, he figured out the meaning behind Tong Guofeng's instructions. It is not difficult to infer that this means that Wang Xiaokun and He Hanzhu have already had cracks.
Since this is the case, with the support of the central government and the temptation of huge wealth, how could Xue Daofu still hold back and arrange his actions quickly. He came first, but he did not directly deal with the water association, but such means were no different from coercing Zheng Longwang. After the hard one, he would go soft. Sure enough, Zheng Longwang's vein was pinned by him. After the three-day period was over, he agreed and agreed to take people to the burial site of the cellar, with the condition that the arrested water corpse was released and the original tax donations were restored.
In addition to being ecstatic, Xue Daofu learned that the gold in the cellar alone could be equivalent to about 20 million yuan. In addition, there were dozens of boxes of invaluable jade, gems, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and King Zheng personally led the way. He did not dare to cheat, and was worried that his subordinates would forget their righteousness when they saw profits. If they colluded with the sidelines and betrayed him, and were worried that the news would spread and attracted the competition among the sidelines and forces in Sichuan, he let go and quietly brought hundreds of personal soldiers from the guard camp to come over, and met with King Zheng on the road halfway, and then set off together.
From the place where the two groups of people meet to Lingguan, the straight line distance is actually not far, just seven or eight hundred miles away, but this area is full of mountains and ridges, with large and small water spider cloths, and the road is blocked, especially after approaching Lingguan, the road is even worse. In addition, Xue Daofu has many people and baggage, and sometimes he can only go 10 or 20 miles a day.
The journey that could be completed in a few days was actually more than half a month. Finally, on this day, I finally entered the Tusi Village outside the Guishan Mountain. I stayed in the rest that night and prepared to enter the mountain tomorrow.
This is a small village, with a closed place and only intermarried with Tuzhai around them on weekdays. The population is less than 1,000. Except for one or two hundred young and strong, the rest are all old and young, women and children. The entire village has only about ten mud guns. The old chieftain is also old and weak. Seeing that the high-ranking official who claims to be the governor came, he brought hundreds of tiger and wolf soldiers with live ammunition, he dared not ask more questions and gave up his residence.
The people Xue Daofu brought out were all personal soldiers around him. They usually worship and enjoy them in the army. In the past, they were used to being arrogant and domineering in the provincial capital. Now they have been traversing mountains and rivers for more than half a month, but they can't eat well or sleep well. They all complained behind their backs. Today is finally here, and they can rest well at night, and with the excitement of huge wealth in front of them, the Tusi Village suffered a great disaster that night. The chickens and ducks were chased and ran around the ground, and every household had no drops of wine left. The soldiers ate and chewed and were in a carnival.
Xue Daofu was very respectful to King Zheng Long along the way. Not only did he not dare to be negligent, but he was also afraid that he would be exhausted and would be inconvenient to ride a horse on the road, so he asked his subordinates to cut down wood and bamboo and tie a mountain sedan chair to carry him over.
It is only one last step to get to the West to get the scriptures. Of course, he should also rest well tonight.
King Zheng Long lived alone in a house vacated by the village people, not far from Xue Daofu's residence. After dark, he sat alone by the fire pit in the house. When he closed his eyes, he faintly heard a woman's crying sound from the direction of Xue Daofu's house.
King Zheng Long opened his eyes, stood up, walked out, and was blocked by the two guards at the door.
King Zheng Long pushed away the gun pointing at him and strode out of the house. The guard did not dare to stop him, so he had to follow closely.
King Zheng Long went outside Xue Daofu's house. Xun Dashou and two personal soldiers in charge of guards were eavesdropping on the cries of the woman in the door, with a vulgar expression. Suddenly, he saw King Zheng Long coming, and quickly turned around and raised his gun to stop him. King Zheng Long looked angry, his hands were as fast as lightning. Before he could see how he could use his hands, he clamped the wrists of the two soldiers on both sides and left and right at the same time. One of them bent, and the two soldiers screamed, the gun fell to the ground, and they squatted on the ground with their arms.
Xun Dashouben also wanted to stop him, but when he saw this, he immediately closed his mouth.
The sound in the room stopped.
"What's going on?" Xue Daofu roared.
King Zheng Long kicked open the door.
"But a rough woman in the mountains, Governor Xue has never seen a woman? It would be fine if you pass by, but you still insult her. Governor Xue, you are not afraid, but I am afraid of damaging my good deeds. I brought you by me, so please send a kind woman to release this village."
He stood at the door, his eyes shining cold, and his divine power was captivating.
Xue Daofu sobered up a little, blushed and felt ashamed, but thinking that the cellar had not yet been obtained and did not dare to commit crimes, he explained embarrassedly, saying that he had drunk two more drinks tonight and sent someone to someone. He was confused just now, not his intention. As he said that, he slapped Xun Dashou twice.
The woman was the granddaughter of the Tusi. She put on her clothes randomly and knelt down to King Zheng Long in tears. She thanked him in a divine manner, ran out and ran towards her grandfather and the village people who were blocked outside.
Xue Daofu ordered someone to call the adjutant and passed the message. He immediately released all the women in the village who were arrested. After that, he smiled: "Is this satisfying? Don't worry, Dragon King, go and rest early, and we will enter the mountain early tomorrow!"
King Zheng Long refused to speak and turned around and left. That night, he sat by the fire pit until dawn.
After dawn, he left the house and saw that Xue Daofu had gathered his subordinates to wait outside the house.
The mountains were full of grass and thorns. Xue Daofu captured more than a dozen Tusi Village villagers, and used machetes to open the road and walked forward with difficulty. After walking for most of the day, in the evening, the wind suddenly became fierce, and the sound of whining in the distance kept whipping. The villagers were afraid and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the wind. They ignored the whip and stopped moving forward half a step.
Xue Daofu's adjutant was furious and pulled out his gun and was about to kill people. Zheng Longwang said: "Let these people go."
The adjutant looked at Xue Daofu and saw that he did not make a sound, so he had to put away his gun and ask his subordinates to continue to open the way. In this way, hundreds of people were in a long snake shape. Under the leadership of King Zheng Long, they walked slowly in the deep mountains. After dark, they spent the night on the spot. The next day, got up early, walked for another half a day, and finally arrived near the entrance.
King Zheng Longwang observed the terrain and ordered to cut open a large area of crazy-growing thorns and wild vines. After cleaning it, he saw a ladder made of iron chains and old wood hovering down along the rock wall. Looking down, it was so deep that it was not bottom-out. A cold air came out of the bones.
King Zheng Long said: "This is a secret passage built by King Yi based on the terrain. I remember that at that time, I was less than ten years old. After I was completed here, King Yi went on a fairy trip within two years. Everything was below."
At the end of the day, his tone was full of desolation and bleakness.
Xue Daofu leaned over and stared at the bottom, nervous and excited.
If he had always been a little doubtful throughout the journey, now he saw this artificial passage with his own eyes and had no doubts anymore.
"Hurry up! Go down!"
Xue Daofu divided the people into two groups, a team of about ten people guarding here, and the rest, as the precautions, followed them all.
King Zheng Long smiled and took the lead, stepped on the slippery ladder, leading the people behind him down. The lower the light became, the darker and darker. Xue Daofu ordered people to light the torch he carried and followed closely. In this way, hundreds of people slowly went down the bottom of the valley. He raised his head and saw a natural hole in front of him, but was blocked by the stone gate.
Zheng Longwang directed the man to open a pile of stones next to the stone gate, revealing a round hole with a diameter of yards. He ordered people to lift a giant tree that had been treated with anti-corrosion from nearby. After inserting it into the hole, more than a dozen people lifted the giant tree together, exerted force, and pushed it inward.
Accompanied by a dull crackling sound, the stone door slowly cracked, revealing a crack, and finally opened completely. The hole was pitch black, and a strong smell of musty scent accompanied by the cold wind suddenly surged out.
The scene was silent. Hundreds of people squeezed at the entrance of the cave, stretched their necks, and tried hard to see the scene inside the cave.
Xue Daofu ordered Zheng Longwang to take the lead in.
King Zheng Long raised his torch and led his men into the cave.
The cave was covered with lime, and the light of torches was as bright as day, illuminating the rugged mountain walls. After walking along the entrance passage for more than ten meters, when you turned, you suddenly realized that a cave appeared. The ground was filled with copper coins, stacked like mountains, and there were many lumps in the pile of money, which were piled up from the ground to the top of the cave. Because of the age, the color turned black, but it could still be identified, it should be silver ingots.
The soldiers opened their eyes wide, looked around, and stopped. Someone reacted and rushed up to pick up a string of money. Unexpectedly, the string had already rotted like mud. When they moved, they broke into pieces. The string of copper coins fell and rolled around with the sound of jingling.
"Get rich! Get rich!" The soldier excitedly knelt in the pile of money, and went to plunder silver ingots randomly. With a clamor, the silver mountain closest to him collapsed, and immediately buried him below, missing his head and half of his body, leaving only two legs.
The man screamed, struggled desperately, and called to help his life. But his companions' eyes were all attracted by the unoxidized silver ingots exposed in the middle. Everyone's eyes were white. The soldiers who were closest to rushed forward, and suddenly, a gunshot was heard, awakening everyone. Looking back, he saw Xue Daofu's adjutant shot the leg of the soldier who was still pressed down at the foot of Qianshan, and his eyes were gloomy: "The things here are all from Governor Xue. Who dares to get a point privately? This is the end!"
Everyone was silent. Xue Daofu said at this time: "You are all my confidants. Thank you for your hard work, brothers, of course I know. When the transportation is done, don't worry, everyone has a share!" After that, he glanced at it and asked, "That's all?"
King Zheng Long smiled and said, "Governor Xue, what is this? It's just a piece of fragments. Gold and valuables are still inside." After that, he continued to walk in.
Xue Daofu suppressed his excitement and ordered people to wait outside. He brought a few confidants to follow him. He suddenly saw a larger cave inside. There were wooden barrels tied up on the ground, densely packed, and the number was estimated to be nearly 1,000. Further inside, there were wooden boxes one by one, which were also stacked up from the bottom.
King Zheng Longwang took the dagger from his adjutant, walked to the outermost wooden barrels, cut the stirrups one by one, lifted the lid of the barrel. Instantly, yellow light shot out from the barrel, reflecting the torch, stinging people's eyes.
"There is gold in the bucket, and the box-" he pointed to the innermost point, "Anti-tal calligraphy and paintings are all in one go."
Even though Xue Daofu was knowledgeable, he was shocked by the gorgeous scene in front of him.
He seemed to be wandering souls, slowly walked to the wooden barrel, picked up a heavy gold brick, put it into his mouth, took a bite, turned his head, looked around, his eyes shining, and could no longer help, and he laughed wildly: "I have it! I have it! It's all my Xue!" He turned his head and shouted: "Hurry! Call everyone in and move it for me!"
The adjutant was excited and ran out. Xue Daofu himself took a dagger and couldn't wait to pry open a wooden barrel in the middle. When he lifted the lid, he saw a layer of moisture-proof oil paper that he had not just now. He pulled it away, he hesitated, turned his head and pointed at the wooden barrel, shouting at King Zheng Long, "What's this? What's going on?"
King Zheng Long was calm and said lightly: "Governor Xue has been in a military life for half his life. Can't he even recognize this?"
Xue Daofu's face changed drastically. He knew something was wrong, so he pried open several nearby wooden barrels one after another, without exception, all of them were pitch black. He was frightened and extremely unwilling to accept it. He looked at the wooden box inside. After rushing over to see what happened, Zheng Longwang had slowly walked to the barrel and stood firm. Then his expression turned cold: "I haven't moved the things in the box. But let me tell you the truth. You took them and you have no life today. Most of the gold in the barrels in this place has been lifted out, and the stuffed ones are fried medicine and tinder oil."
"It's just a pity that the things in the wooden box will be destroyed today-"
As he said, he lifted the lid of a wooden barrel at his hand, pushed it hard, and the barrel fell to the ground, and black oil flowed out. Then he took a fire from his arms, pulled out the lid, and in a flash, the flames rushed out.
The adjutant led the soldiers in and was shocked to see this. A soldier raised his gun and aimed at King Zheng Long to shoot. The adjutant's face changed drastically. He knocked off the soldier's gun and shouted: "Are you a fucking pig? You want to die!"
"Governor Xue, run!"
The adjutant screamed again, then turned around and fled abroad desperately. The remaining soldiers also came to their senses and fled in a hurry. Xue Daofu was sweating profusely and fled abroad in a hurry.
The inner movement that had just been filled with people became empty in a blink of an eye, leaving only a few guns that the soldiers had not had time to take away when they fled in a hurry, as well as the pungent smell of sulfur and tinder oil.
King Zheng Longwang stood on the ground full of tincture, holding a fire in his hand, and the flames reflected his face, which was cut by the knife of time. His expression was calm, as if he was returning home.
The terrain here is like a deep-dig narrow well. Soon, a huge explosion will cause the collapse of the entire cave and the outing passage.
Even if there are still people who are lucky enough to not be killed, the valley bottom will become a tomb capped by a thousand-pound rock, and there is no possibility of escape.
King Zheng slowly turned his head and stared at a distant, invisible distance.
That was his only concern or regret.
If there is a next life, make up for it.
He raised his hand and was about to drop the fire in his hand when suddenly, a burst of gun fire came from outside. Judging from the distance, it should be at the entrance of the cave.
Is there a group of people coming down?
Chapter completed!