Where do tomb robbers meet in their lives?

I vigilantly sat down opposite Bai Tao, ready for him to start a long talk with me, but unexpectedly he opened his mouth and read a poem to me.

"By the Moshui River in Shicheng, the head of Guizhou, the red-faced father's tomb is Baigaohe,"

The Gaoya Medicine Kingdom is on the other side...

I read along with him gently.

A long, long time ago, before I went to school, I went to my grandpa’s house to play. I saw that the aunt’s son in the neighbor’s house would recite “Moonlight Before the Bed”, so I also pestered my grandpa to teach me to read poems to show off in front of that little boy. .Unexpectedly, he seems to be the only one who can only read this poem.

By the Moshui River in Shicheng City, the head of Guizhou,

The red-faced father's mound Bai Gaohe,

The Gaoya Medicine Kingdom is on the other side...

Grandpa, what does this mean?It's hard to remember, it's a bit long, is there a simpler one?

It's fine if you don't want to learn, there are so many excuses.

In my memory, the old man just smiled at me, and didn't explain anything to me that was very boring.

In order to catch my breath, I managed to memorize it, "By the Moshui River in the stone city of Qianshou, the red-faced father's tomb is Baigaohe..." When I read this sentence in front of my grandpa in a childish voice, for some reason, he always smiled at me. Grandpa, there is something flickering in his eyes.

The memory of this period is so deep that I can still vividly recall it now.

I dare not tell anyone what happened that day, for fear that whoever finds out will spank my ass.

I made Boss Liang cry, that is definitely a big event where the sky is falling!

"What do you mean?" I withdrew my thoughts and looked at Bai Tao with a frown. "I can also recite poems. I can recite the entire poem. What do you want to say?"

"Do you know the origin of this poem?"

"I'm sorry, I memorized so many poems after I went to school, but I can't remember much of them now. I also need to know the background. Do you think I'm the number one scholar?"

He lowered his head helplessly: "A child who doesn't even know his family history, I don't know what he will think when you recite this poem in front of your grandfather."

This sentence hit my heart completely, and the scene of that day became more and more vivid in an instant. The way my grandfather looked at me seemed to be tainted with some sadness. What tone did he use to read this poem? ? "By the Moshui River in the stone city of Qianshou..." These few lines seem to describe a place where there is a river in the stone city.

"What do you mean by that?"

"The stone city in the head of Guizhou is by the water in the desert, and the mausoleum of the red-faced ancestors is by the Baishui River. That place is the territory of the Gaomi Medicine Kingdom." Bai Tao took the trouble to explain to me, "These words are from the party members who once established Xixia. Poems describing their hometown. Nearly 1000 years ago, they were threatened by Tubo and forced to leave their homeland. These lines of poems are actually a ballad, full of their nostalgia for their hometown. After that, after hundreds of years of operation , They established a prosperous and powerful Daxia Kingdom, and this song has been handed down. When the Mongols finally stepped on their Xingqing Mansion, they sang this song and left their hometown for generations. According to a record in your family, the journey was long and difficult, and many people died on the journey, while the rest continued to flee aimlessly into the distance. Sound, Qianshou Shicheng, one person sings, hundreds of people respond, low-swallowing Hujia, long journey', this is the description of that journey."

Western Xia?Party people?How long ago was that?It seems to be around 1100 AD, right?

I suddenly remembered a mural in Haidou. Among the funeral crowd depicted on the mural, there was indeed one person holding a flag with our family's logo on it... Could it be Mongolian people?

"Wait, wait, I'm a little confused. Why did I suddenly go to Xixia? I can't react."

"Indeed, the origin of everything is not Xixia, but earlier. The time when your family officially got involved with everything should be traced back to the Northern Wei Dynasty, when this bronze tree was discovered."

This time I couldn't even say "ah".

"Speaking of it, it's not a very complicated story." Bai Tao seemed to find my reaction interesting, and continued his narration before I recovered and asked a hundred thousand why.

I heard from Lu Buzheng that a small box was dug under this bronze tree during the Northern Wei Dynasty.But exquisiteness is exquisiteness. When I opened it, there was nothing inside.The little worker who found this box decided to hand it in, so this incredible little box appeared in front of the emperor.Even if there is nothing inside, this small box is really amazingly exquisite. The patterns on it are neither birds, animals, flowers, nor caterpillar fungus pond fish, but the carvings are so complicated that everyone has never seen it before. The emperor is fresh and vigorous. , always take it out to show off in front of the ministers and concubines.

Finally one day, when a favored concubine took over the box and played with it, she touched something that caused the box to scatter like flowers.At first the concubine was taken aback, but when everyone took a closer look, they were all stunned.It turned out that this box was like a Russian nesting doll, and inside it was a smaller and more delicate palm-like box.Everyone was amazed and wanted to open the box to find out.Only this time, the small box couldn't be opened no matter what.

Emperor Xiaowen began to scratch his head, and could not sleep at night.

The curious emperor called his most capable craftsman, and ordered him to open the box no matter what method he used. This craftsman was surnamed Zhang.

It is said that any method will work, but really nothing will work.The craftsman surnamed Zhang worked hard for three months, and he didn't even open a gap in the box.And if you shake it by hand, there will be some slight crisp sounds in the box, indicating that there is something inside.

In fact, Emperor Xiaowen gave him four months to explore this box, which was quite generous, but no one thought that even a single box would not be able to be opened with all the effort of a country.At this time, the villains that appear in every period of history began to slander the emperor. It should be boiled down to say that the surname Zhang had no intentions at all.

Emperor Xiaowen thought about it too. After so long, he couldn't even open a box. What's the use of him?So it was ordered that if it couldn't be opened in the last month, the Zhang family would have to go around without food.

The Zhang family couldn't wait to find a way to open the box.

At this time, a man dressed as an alchemist knocked on the door of the craftsman surnamed Zhang.The craftsman surnamed Zhang saw that it was a victim he had rescued a long time ago.About a few years ago, there was a severe drought in the world, refugees everywhere, starving to death, dying of illness, all on the way. This alchemist almost died on the way. Fortunately, he was discovered by a craftsman surnamed Zhang and used what was left on his body. Dry food saved his life.Unexpectedly, this alchemist was actually a grateful person. A few years later, he learned that Craftsman Zhang was about to face a catastrophe, so he paid a special visit to help him open this cheating box.

Before the deadline came, they finally worked together to find a way to open the box.

However, no one thought that this would be the beginning of a curse.

There are two things in the box. These two things are opposed to each other and are inseparable. They are literally translated as "the end of the world" in the narrative.

The craftsmen and alchemists who jointly discovered this secret had a disagreement.

Emperor Xiaowen had great affection for the craftsman's family, so since the birth of the craftsman surnamed Zhang, allegiance to the emperor has been the greatest task in his life.But the alchemist who traveled all over the world was completely different from him. He sighed repeatedly after seeing the contents in the box, and only said, "The country will be restless."

After the alchemist failed to persuade the craftsman surnamed Zhang, he said to him, since I can't persuade you, then you can give me half of the ultimate.It is enough for you to take the other half to see the emperor. I believe the emperor is not rare for my part.

The craftsman surnamed Zhang originally respected the alchemist very much, and was still worried that loyalty and righteousness would be difficult to balance. Now that the alchemist proposed this plan, he also felt that he could accept it, so he handed over the other half of the secret to the alchemist.

On the day the alchemist left, there was a dark cloud and a thunderstorm. This was the last meeting in their lives. When parting, the craftsman and the alchemist reached a promise that involved centuries.

Take this secret to the emperor, but if the dynasty changes in the future, the royal family you are loyal to is no longer there, and my descendants will come back, let our descendants work together to bury these two secrets back to where they belonged place.

After speaking, the alchemist took out something from his arms as a token of seeing the Zhang family again someday. After the two said goodbye, the alchemist stepped into the rain and never heard from him again.

I waited for Bai Tao to finish speaking, and wiped the sweat that had oozed from my temples at some point: "You don't mean that this alchemist's surname is Liang, he is our ancestor, right?"

"It is indeed your ancestor, but your family's records do not contain his name. According to the genealogy, some local unofficial history and rumors, this alchemist should have been surnamed Qiao."

"Joe... a beam on a river, isn't it a homonym for a bridge?"

Bai Tao nodded: "Siqi always said that you are smart, it seems that you are right."

When I heard him calling my elder brother so intimate, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

Hey, don't think that you look like Wu Xie, and I will be happy if you still praise me like this. My mind is a bit messed up now, and I don't care about your favor.

I waved my hand: "No, no, what you're telling is more like a story, and it's so strange to me. Didn't the Northern Wei Dynasty perish later? Why didn't the descendants of the alchemists show up and bury the secret you said? Besides, what is the ultimate? Stuff? It sounds fantastic to me."

"Do you still remember how the Northern Wei Dynasty perished?"

"Well, archeology is not my major..."

"It was a gradual process of fragmentation, accompanied by painful migrations..."

Since Gao Huan decided to move the capital to Yecheng, more than 40 Luoyang residents were forced to relocate, and the splendid capital city that had prospered for 300 years gradually fell into ruins.When the grandson of the alchemist returned to that place, his eyes were empty, and there was no trace of the descendants of the craftsman surnamed Zhang.Then the dynasties changed, several parties came together, and the world was displaced in troubled times. The Zhang family and the alchemists completely lost contact.In the hundreds of years since then, the family surnamed Zhang has gradually grown in turmoil, while the family of alchemists has gone through several grand catastrophes but has become more and more weak, and finally migrated all the way north until the establishment of the Great Xia Kingdom. Both have been in turmoil, unable to live in complete peace and contentment.

When Xixia was founded, the descendants of alchemists changed their surnames several times, and one of them changed their surname to Liang, and finally developed and grew up in the bloody political struggle in Xixia.

The real revitalization of the Liang clan was in the mid-Xixia period.

Around 1000 A.D., Emperor Xia Yizong killed Wuzang Huopang who planned to rebel, and later married the daughter of the Liang family who assisted him in regaining power, and appointed Liang Yibu as his prime minister. The queen mother really stepped into the stage of history.

I "hmm" a few times: "I have read this in the book. After Xia Yizong died, Xia Zhu seemed to be very young. The Queen Mother Liang and Liang Yibu began a period of dictatorship by the mother party. But the Queen Mother Liang This guy doesn't look like much."

Bai Tao also quite agreed, nodded and said: "The Queen Mother Liang's ambitions are too strong, that is, during this period, the Liang family began to lose control over the Queen Mother's branch, and thus began to split from within. Of course It's not just because of the Queen Mother's arbitrary decision."

After a hundred years of turmoil, there are different voices in the Liang family. Many people have already regarded Daxia as their real hometown. The hearts of people who live in peace.Zhang family?where are they?Have they survived our trials?

This secret we hold doesn't seem to be doing anyone any good, so let it be.

With the prosperity of the Empress Dowager Liang's clan, chickens and dogs ascended to heaven, more and more people tend to live a prosperous life, so the previous promises are regarded as legends and passed down formally.Only a few Liang clan members firmly believe that the family has been entrusted with an important mission, and they still have an unfulfilled promise to fulfill.

Under the superficial comfort of Xixia lies all kinds of undercurrents of uneasiness. The dictatorship of the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yibu has had internal and external troubles from the very beginning. Human and material resources.Even within the Liang family, some people were dissatisfied with her interference in the family and her rejection of their Han identity. They began to gather with some clan members who still had a sense of mission. Separated, on a snowy day, they began to embark on the journey to fulfill the promise.

Stepping into the Central Plains again, what they faced was a dazed vast sky. They used to be Han Chinese, but they had long been accustomed to the way of life of the Party members. Everything in the Central Plains was strange and full of hostility.There are too many people surnamed Zhang here, without anyone's help, it is impossible to find a trace of clues with just a token.These people have spent more than ten years searching, but still have no results, so they can only set off back with tired steps.Perhaps it was their own arrangements, and the regret of not completing their mission made them not return to the camp of the ruling relatives. Instead, they hid in seclusion and carefully sorted out the clues brought back from the Central Plains, hoping to find some clues for the next time. Prepare to explore.

Finally, after unremitting efforts and speculation, they grasped a clue related to the Zhang family.

Some weak evidence and rumors from some traveling merchants prove that some members of the Zhang family have been to Changbai Mountain. The reason is not very clear, but it seems that such rumors will appear every few years. It is said that a rainbow appears in the depths of the snow mountain. At the top of the mountain, a Han person would come out of the mountain. Even after decades, the appearance of this person has not changed a bit. Some mountain people have worshiped him as a god and have seen his waist faint Wearing a half ring of water jade.

That is exactly the token in the ancient promise, Double Dragon Half Ring Jade.

But the scope of Changbai Mountain is too large, and they still need to know a more precise location, so many people proposed to go there in person.

Unexpectedly, this idea came true soon.

The days of ease are over.

The life of Empress Dowager Liang was full of blood and killings. In order to resolve internal and external conflicts, coups and wars were the themes that continued to appear alternately in her life.After she died of illness, the Liang clan quickly lost popular support and political foothold, and they were irresistibly falling into decline.

"However, the hundreds of years of Xixia's history may be the most peaceful period in the Liang family." Bai Tao finally commented, "In their past, only the 200 years of living in Xixia The most comfortable and prosperous in many years."

But good times don't last long.

In the end, the Mongols came, Xixia perished, and the Liang family began a long journey of escape.

By the Moshui River in Shicheng City, the head of Guizhou,

The red-faced father's mound Bai Gaohe,

The Gaoya Medicine Kingdom is on the other side...

Once again, they embarked on an unknown journey.

Listening to Bai Tao's calm talk, I recalled the history that my elder brother told me many times.

Xixia perished, and Mongolian iron cavalry invaded every inch of the original hometown, wantonly massacring. The former residents, whether they were Han, Fan or Party members, became displaced refugees and fled abroad one after another. The Central Plains, the West, or perhaps It is the farther beyond the Great Wall, fleeing to the land that has never been trampled by Mongolian cavalry.

The Liang family, who used to live in seclusion, began to embark on the road of their own mission, following the displaced refugees and absconding into Changbai Mountain.The hardships and dangers of this journey are hard to describe. In short, there are less than thirty or forty people who survived.

Here they hibernate again, waiting for the appearance of the people of the Zhang surname, waiting for the day when the ancient mission will be completed.

But they didn't expect that after breaking into the center of the Eastern Xia regime through untold hardships, they would meet an ultimate opponent more terrifying than the disaster of war-Wang Zanghai.

The catastrophe this time left almost no way for all of them to escape, so that for the next nearly 600 years, escape and genocide have always been the dark cloud that hangs over Liang's head and cannot be dispelled.

The author has something to say:

Xiaoran's brain hole is starting to grow here~

Oops, when I was watching Stealing Pens before, I wanted to make a story about the mysteries in Stealing Pens, but I didn’t expect it to come true today!So I mixed the Xiaoliang family into it.Xixia's history about Queen Mother Liang is also roughly true.But those about the ultimate are all made up, just show everyone how big my brain can be, don't take it seriously!It's really hard to make up these stories!The third uncle is too powerful, I studied it carefully again today, and found that the timeline span of stealing pens is really huge, if you go back further, you can go back to ancient times!It really benefits me a lot to be able to write the article in such a mood!

Writing this article is really unexpected and gave me a lot of experience.

So Xiaoluan, I am so greedy. I want to write BG, spoof BL, and play puzzles. I am completely satisfied this time.