The vanguard general and several cavalrymen behind him were swallowed into the mouth by a big green dragon. There was very little description of this section. He almost said it in one sentence. He only said that his heart and thinking seemed to have stopped, and he felt like Like a good night's sleep.
Then, in a flash, his physical condition returned to normal, except for the faint green in front of his eyes. He pinched himself with his hand, and the pain was excruciating. It turned out that he was still alive.
The cavalryman behind him carried an oilcloth and made a torch and handed it to him. It was strange that the color of the torch was also green. When the light spread out, his vision became clearer.
It turns out that what was just a patch of green was gold everywhere, but the refracted light was green. The vanguard general suspected that his eyes were broken, so he asked other cavalrymen if there was something wrong with their eyes. Unexpectedly, the other soldiers were in the same situation as him.
In fact, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, gold generally referred to all metals. In Shuowen, an ancient Chinese philology work written by Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, gold was called gold, silver was called platinum, and copper was called gold or iron. For black gold. Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, because of the many characteristics of gold and silver that are easy to shape, resistant to retention, and the mineral sources of gold and white are not widespread, first of all, silver circulation was relatively common, while gold was mostly used for construction and decoration, and later with Western Europe and other Western countries After conducting trade, it was discovered that other people's currencies were mainly gold, so gold was taken seriously, and the meaning of gold gradually shrank to gold.
It was during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which was exactly the opposite of today. At that time, people valued copper over gold, and did not care whether bronze was turned into gold. Moreover, the mainstream currency was also made of bronze. Bronze was even more valuable, and it showed a distinguished status. Tall and tall status. So here, what the pioneer generals of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty look at is not gold in our ordinary consciousness, but bronze.
During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there were internal strife and foreign wars, and the corruption was unbearable. Many general military headquarters that commanded operations, because they were worried about military pay issues, issued "coin molds", also known as coin stamps, to various military headquarters. Of course, there are many other names, that is Official stuff that makes currency. With it, the military and generals can make currency as needed at any time, and the raw material for making currency is this bronze. Of course, the general cannot make as much currency as he wants. The king will send someone to take charge of the coin mold. , how much money the general wants to build, and where he spends it, will be reported to the king when the final battle is completed. However, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, during the period of King Nan of Zhou, King Qin Zhaoxiang of Qin had basically replaced the emperor of Zhou. So this allowed the pioneer general to see some opportunities.
His idea at the time was to transport the gold (bronze) out. So they ordered their subordinates to look around for the exit. Then they gradually discovered and suddenly realized that this was not the belly of the big green dragon, but a black mineral rock cave. They began to be afraid. Could it be that they had encountered some mountain demon and were looking for confirmation? In the mountains of Heigangzi.
After all, the pioneer general was experienced in the battlefield, and soon issued a new order, asking all six cavalrymen to pack a bag of gold and then immediately look for an exit. It was estimated that several hours had passed. One hour in ancient times was equivalent to two hours today. They lamented how the inside of the cave could be so big. From the outside, the black hill was only three miles square.
Just when they were exhausted physically and mentally from walking and were about to rest, some scattered bronze coffins began to appear in front of them. At that time, they were called gold coffins, which were very precious things. It can be seen that the owners of these bronze coffins , how noble the status is.
Everyone is greedy for money. It was a troubled time at that time. Immediately, the vanguard general and the six cavalry forgot about their tiredness and tacitly agreed to go up and pry open the bronze coffin. But when they saw the contents of the coffin, their temples and foreheads froze. I broke into a cold sweat and asked what they had seen and how could they be so frightened. I also felt chills on the back of my neck when I listened to Bai Laogou's story.
They actually saw a dead body with two heads. The dead body had not rotted and was quite well preserved. This corpse has no legs and feet. There is actually a black human head and two arms on the lower body that should have legs and feet. At this time, the black head is looking at the vanguard general and six cavalry with eyes open. It is green. The eyes are slender and have an evil aura of death.
At that moment, they were so frightened that they began to flee forward. As they ran, they discovered that there were more and more bronze coffins like this, almost everywhere. When they took a break to count the number of people, they found that one cavalry was missing. They all had an intuition that the missing cavalry was probably kidnapped by the corpse just now.
Although they were exhausted to the extreme, this place was not a place to stay for a long time. They continued to move forward with a tired pace, and suddenly they plunged into the gray fog without knowing when, and the torches were extinguished. They could still see because yellow light came from the front. They thought the light in front of them was the sun's rays, so they quickened their pace.
After walking out of the fog, they were horrified to see a glittering golden city far ahead. Colorful clouds floated over the city. When they were happy, they forgot about the two corpses and began to drag their tired footsteps towards the city. Run slowly.
According to the records on the silk map, the city gate was very high, estimated to be nearly a dozen people high. The city gate was ajar, as if waiting for their arrival. It was dark inside, and they lit the torch again. It was found that one more cavalry was missing. There were originally six cavalry, but now there are only four left.
The vanguard general frowned and entered the city with four cavalrymen under torches. However, he didn't know whether it was because the torches were extinguished or because the black fog in the city was so thick that all the light sources disappeared and it was pitch black. , and no sound could be heard. My breathing gradually stopped, and my brain went blank.
Up to this point, the records in the silk map were also quite vague. It only said that he, the pioneer general, escaped alone and woke up in a cave of black mineral rock. When he went out to inquire, he had actually arrived in the big cave. The Great Southern Region of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty! The black hillock in the Xiongnu territory is actually thousands of miles away!
He was so frightened that he became seriously ill. He knew that he had committed a serious crime of beheading and delayed the military plane, so he kept going to the cave to study what was going on. In the end, not long after, he used the gold he brought out to buy a coffin and put the The whole incident and the map of Heigangzi were recorded on a silk map. Before he died, he still did not dare to leave his name. He was afraid that the king would find his body and punish his nine tribes.
After Bai Laogou finished telling what happened on the silk picture, he said: "Alas... Actually, if the knife wasn't placed on my neck, I wouldn't dare to talk about it!"
My grandfather said oh and said to me: "Boy, this pioneer general is the third legend I wanted to tell you all at that time, but there are just some differences."
He frowned and asked Bai Laogou again: "What's going on? Why don't you dare to say it?"
I raised the horse whip and cracked it, pointed at the white old dog and said, "Speak quickly! If you don't talk about eating the whip, believe it or not, I will blind your dog's eyes!"
Bai Laogou was so frightened that he quickly bowed and stammered: "Alas... alas! Guo Guo... Guo Da... Mr. Guo, why are you so scary! You hate the Japanese more than the Japanese! I said it, I said it. …”
I coughed and said, "What a verbose carrot, fart!"
Bai Laogou said: "That Xiaojiro's father actually foamed at the mouth and died after listening to what the old man said. Now his eldest son Tailang is the leader of our Zhao family village. Today I and his younger brother Xiaojiro are catching young men." , He will reclaim that black hill tomorrow!"
As soon as Bai Laogou said this, suddenly, Fatty Wang, who had been silent all this time, screamed.
I immediately turned to look at him.
