Chapter 43 Chapter 6: Goose Tomb

It is said that nearly a thousand regiment warriors from the Goose Camp gathered together many thieves, set up an ambush in Huang Tiandang, and laid out a murderous formation like a net of heaven and earth.Most of these people are from the generation of wild goose hunters, and they are used to using ambushes. The prodigal area is overgrown with water and grass, and the reeds are extremely dense, and their eyes are dim, hiding the hidden murderous intentions.The desolation and coldness between the water and the field is strangely quiet, and there is nothing abnormal at all outside. At dawn, the morning dew on the tip of the grass has not disappeared, and the mist is misty in the puddles deep in the reeds. Seeing that the Taiping Army is about to enter Huang Tiandang, Zhang Xiaozhuan hurriedly asked the wild goose row and Li Si to stay and dispatch troops to prepare for the battle. Ambush the Guangdong bandits.He took the black cat and was followed by two guards, Sun Dazi and Yan Ling'er. The three supported a goose row across the water and headed for the wild goose mound in the deepest part of the marsh.

The Yan Tomb was originally a mound in Huangtiandang, but it was submerged by water later.It is said that in the past, many of the migratory birds migrating from north to south were old and weak, or were injured on the way. They knew that they would never reach their destination, so they had to hold on to the wild goose mound and wait slowly. When they die, they will look up at the sky until they die, watching the same kind soaring in the sky.No one has ever known why those dying migratory birds and wild geese would stay on the goose mound.However, the geese people have respected loyalty since ancient times, continued the old practice, and never wanted to harm the migratory birds that landed near the geese.

As for the Yanzhong, there is another legend. Of course, even the oldest Orion among the Yan people doesn't know its origin very clearly, it's just passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation.It is said that it was probably at the end of the Tang Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, a general was murdered here.The wild goose people in the raging felt sorry for his heroic death, so they built a low and simple earth temple on the goose mound, hid the general's bones in it, burned incense every year, and worshiped every year. Even the mud god of Lengmiao, who has received more incense and incense, has to be active, not to mention the corpse in the earth temple is a general who has been wronged.I don't know if the heroic spirit is immortal, but since the General Temple was built on the Yanzhong, the mound began to sink, and finally sank below the surface of the water.Afterwards, the signs of the sky turned abnormal, and countless water rats held stones and threw grass, and built circles of dams around the Yanzhong, which stretched for tens of miles, and dredged and connected all the water systems flowing into Huang Tiandang, raising prodigal sons The water and grass are abundant, and the drought and flood do not invade.

It's just that from now on, there are often dark winds and black mist surging in the reed marsh, which changes the color of the sky and the earth, and the waterways get lost. These abnormal phenomena between the sky and the earth come and go, and there has never been a certain pattern to follow.The people of the geese all said that the general in the geese tomb had not let go of his grievances, and as long as there was a bad wind, it would indicate that there would be swords, fire, floods, famines and diseases in the world. People in the past believed in this deeply. They bought children from poor families from other provinces according to the year of the year. Boys and girls got together a pair. Ask the gods at the bottom of the water to appease their anger and bless one party with peace.But it has never really played any role, no matter how foolish people worship, wars and natural disasters will still come, so the incense here is gradually deserted.It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that this cruel custom was completely abolished.

Zhang Xiaozhuan remembered that when he met the old ghost in the forest for the second time in the Maoxian Temple, he was told that he was going to be the star.To be able to prosper with martial arts in this chaotic world, as long as you follow the arrangements of the old ghosts in the forest, whether it is fighting bandits or killing thieves, you must win the battle and conquer the attack. If you want to win in Huang Tiandang, you must use the black cat If there is even the slightest mistake in bringing out the general's corpse from the wild goose mound, the entire wild goose battalion is in danger of being wiped out.

As the saying goes, "Cheapness is a trap for people, and talking is a trap for people."This statement is not false, but Zhang Xiaozhuan was fascinated by ghosts, and even regarded the words of the old ghosts in the forest as the golden rule, and he really obeyed them. The tomb is exactly "the heart is busy like an arrow, but it is too slow, and it is too late to go away like a fly". Yan Linger, who led the way, grew up in Huangtiandang since she was a child. She is very familiar with the various waterways. She supported the goose row and crossed the water. Through the dense reeds, she brought Zhang Xiaozhuan and Sun Dazi to an open water. .I saw that deep in the reeds, the level was like a mirror, and the mist was vast and unpredictable.

Yanling'er lowered the pole to stop the wild goose row, and told Zhang Xiaozhuan, "Third Brother, this is the Yanzhong. The General's Temple is submerged in the water, and there are often whirlpools that attract people. The water is deep or shallow. Unpredictable, for many years, no one has ever dared to go down to find out." Zhang Xiaozhui'er is not very good at water, at most he can use dog-planing tricks twice, when he got on the water, he couldn't help trembling, but insisted on saying: "Those who make big things don't care about small things, we are all good men in the wild goose camp. Be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, don't care about what people say, what kind of ghosts and gods do you believe in? You guys just show your tricks, and let's see how the third master invites the general who is buried under the water to come out and meet him."

Sun Dazi has never been afraid of ghosts and gods, but he only respects the heroes and heroes of the ancient times. Now that he is about to fight the Cantonese invaders, he can't understand why Zhang Xiaozhuan suddenly did such a strange thing. You can't let yourself be fooled by your temper in this matter, thinking about it, the general is also a man of the Shuifu who has a heroic spirit, how can you easily alarm him?" Zhang Xiaozhuan said: "If there are really heroic spirits in the water, they should help me fight the bandits and kill the thieves in the Yanying camp." After speaking, he ordered Yanling'er to support the row to the side of the dam.The dam is full of fist-sized holes, which are drilled by water rats and are connected throughout.Water rats are a bit like water raccoons, with the same sharp teeth, capable of gnawing down thousand-year-old trees, and good at building dams and dikes.But the water rats in Huangtiandang, commonly known as water rats or ghost rats in the folk, are not of the same kind as water raccoons and beavers. It feeds on wild geese, water birds living in the reeds, and the rats among them can even kill old cats.In this prodigal place, taking advantage of the yin energy in the water, they are gathering more and more, the number is hard to estimate, and only Lingzhou cats can subdue them.

Zhang Xiaozhuan followed the cat-finding technique taught by the old ghost in the forest, and pushed the golden cat with the moon shadow and black pupils to the water mouse hole.The nature of cats is to move immediately when they smell fishy smells. Although Lingzhou tabby cats never catch mice, they are naturally restrained. It can't help "screaming" when it smells the fishy smell in the water rat's cave. Some judges may want to ask, why is it "shouting" out loud?It turns out that the meowing of cats has been divided into several levels since ancient times. All cats are valued for being able to "yell". ".The cat shouted that it was no small matter, and it was really "sounding until the nine heavens and the clouds dispersed, and the sound entered the deep spring to startle the fish".

There is a saying in "The Book of Cats", which says: "Those with golden threads in their eyes are as prestigious as a lion or a tiger. Even a dormouse will die if they live in a town house." They fled at the sound, and the panic was spread from one to another, spreading rapidly. The water mice hiding in the caves of the embankment thought that a catastrophe was imminent, so they saw the mother with the little one in her mouth, The old ones dragged the old ones and swarmed out of the caves, and it seemed like the tide was rushing out on the embankment. Zhang Xiaozhuan and the others didn't expect that a few meows would cause such a commotion. Seeing the countless smooth-skinned, sharp-toothed water mice running wildly, rushing past in front of them like a muddy current, It seems that the end of the world is coming.The three of them couldn't help but feel astonished, it really made one's scalp tingle.Yan Ling'er hurriedly rowed the row into the water, hoping to get as far away as possible.

The number of water mice was astonishingly large, and the narrow and long mouse dam could not squeeze them, so many of them were forced to fall into the water.Those yin rats were born able to wade through water, and the group of rats that fell into the water struggled to swim away, stirring up the still water surface for a while. Suddenly the water surface sank, and a huge water-absorbing vortex appeared, and the water rats were drawn into it when they got a little closer.This made the water mouse panic even more, Yanling'er yelled badly, it was probably Midongling fish lurking at the bottom of Huangtiandang water.She knew this thing very well, and knew that she couldn't stay on the water, so she drove the goose row to a nearby high ground. This place was originally a broken root of an ancient tree, and she could barely settle down. The three of them stepped on the old tree root with their front feet, and the goose row was overturned with their back feet. The water waves parted, and a big fish like a water monster emerged from it, with the head and tail invisible.The head of the fish was three circles larger than the large millstone. The head of the fish was shaped like a human face, its skin was like a stone, and its mouth was astonishingly big. Everything in the world circulates according to the law of heaven. There is a saying that when you order tofu in brine, one thing will drop another.There are a lot of water mice gathered in the prodigal son, and naturally there are Midongling fish that eat water mice.The so-called "Midong" means absorbing water. This fish is a rocky fish, and it lies motionless at the bottom of the water all year round. But at this time, a group of rats gathered on the water surface and made a lot of noise, which attracted it to come out. Even the sediment at the bottom of the water surged up, and they all turned up to the surface of the water. Sun Dazi didn't know Midong Lingyu, and he thought it was really a creature transformed by Mr. Shuishang, so he couldn't help but stare dumbfounded.Yan Ling'er knew that the mausoleum fish could swallow cows and horses with its water-absorbing power, and she didn't know what Zhang Xiaozhuan's intention was in doing this, so she asked, "Third brother, the Guangdong bandits will be here in a blink of an eye, and you want to catch fish now?" ?" But Zhang Xiaozhuan is the most lazy person, even in a dangerous situation, he did not forget to try to have a good time, and said casually: "I don't know, your third brother has an 80-year-old mother at home." In the hall, I hope to catch this fish and bring it back, so that I can sell it to support my eighty-year-old mother..." Yan Ling'er was very moved when she heard the words, and thought that I, Zhang Sange, the officer of the Yanying Camp, was not only resourceful, generous, and loyal, but what was even more rare was that he was a dear and filial person. A ten-year-old lady."As the saying goes, all evils and adultery are the first, all goodness and filial piety are the first, and the current world is out of fashion, it is commendable to be so true, and I respect and love him even more since then. But before Zhang Xiaozhuan finished speaking, he saw the mausoleum suddenly wagging its tail and pulling its scales, and actually spit out a big skeleton from its big mouth.The skeleton was huge, even though all the flesh and skin had been removed, only the white skeleton was left, even so, it was half taller than the burly Sun Dazi.The whole body is covered with helmets, the helmet is the sun, the moon and the flying tiger helmet, the armor is the lock and louver chain armor, the animal head shoulder pads, the bronze mirror heart protection, the tendon and leather ropes are the sash, and the parrot green rolling embroidered war robe is lined.For some unknown reason, that pair of military uniforms is still as bright as new. Zhang Xiaozhuan could see clearly from the root of the tree, he thought it was really Grandpa Maoxian who appeared, and finally invited this "grandfather" out of the water.It has buried its bones underwater for thousands of years, and it really is because of its age and cultivation that it has become a great climate, but it doesn't know how it will behave after it appears. This is exactly "the white cloud is an unintentional thing, but it is drawn out by the breeze".If you want to know how this general's bones can help the Yanying Pingkou to kill the enemy, let's listen to the next chapter to break it down.