Luo Xian, the official in charge of protecting the tomb of Muling in Song Dynasty Yong.
This name is lightly engraved on the inscription, but this long list of official titles is not an honor, but an unbearable shame.
Jiang Wen looked at the inscription in silence, with its earthy surface, and a microcosm of the turbulent era slowly emerged in front of his eyes.
In the turbulent years when the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed and the Mongols took over, there was a group of forgotten people who lived elusively.
Their stories are neither complex nor heroic, and are even so dark and trivial that they are invisible. In the final analysis, they are just the stories of a group of complete losers.
After the Southern Song Dynasty went into exile in the south of the Yangtze River and established its capital in Lin'an, the imperial court was not called "the capital" but only "the place where it is located", and the tombs of the emperors and empresses were not called "mountain mausoleums" but only "caigong". Because when the mausoleum was being built, Zeng Yu, the repairman of the imperial court, said: "The mausoleum of the emperor and empress is now in Yiluo. If it is not to return to the Central Plains one day, it will be returned to the nephew. It should be named Zuan Palace."
Therefore, the name "Zan Gong" is an alternative way of saying it when the army is in trouble.
However, with the hope of regaining the north, the six tombs in the south of the Yangtze River were already populated by seven emperors and seven empresses. A large number of tomb guards were gradually assigned to the foot of Shanghuang Mountain in the remaining mountains of Kuaiji Mountain. In addition to concubines, maids, eunuchs, and servants, there were hundreds of people. The mausoleum guarding army is stationed all year round, forming a small utopia of its own.
Luo Xian, who had nowhere to go, was once a member of this place.
But as the Mongols marched southward, crushing the peaceful dream of the Southern Song Dynasty, misfortune finally came to this solemn and forbidden land with towering pines and cypresses, continuous palaces, smoke-filled areas day and night, and endless enjoyment at all four seasons.
Looting and burning were just a matter of course. As the people who guarded the tomb dispersed quickly, only a dozen middle-ranking eunuchs who were unable to make a living and had mutilated limbs were left at the tomb. Go and live in a hut at the foot of the mountain.
Luo Xian, who entered the palace since childhood, is also one of them.
At the beginning, there were still low walls around the Liuling Tombs, and there were still a few Xiangtangs to provide shelter from the wind and rain. These eunuchs worked hard to make a living in the thin fields, barely getting enough food and clothing, and nothing else.
However, as the monks in Yanfu Temple and Taining Temple at the foot of the mountain continued to cut down the tomb trees and steal the treasures from the tombs, foxes and owls were constantly barking at night among the six tombs. Many walls were deliberately pushed down, and several halls were damaged by wind and rain. Invasion.
Gradually, the so-called solemn tombs of emperors and empresses in the previous dynasty were just a pile of soil and a monument in a small dark pine forest.
The biggest calamity occurred in August of the 22nd year of Yuan Dynasty during the reign of Kublai Khan.
In this year, Yang Lian Zhenjia, the leader of Jiangnan Buddhism, was a disciple of XZ eminent monk Pasiba. This Xixia native was concerned about something in the Six Tombs, so the tombs of Song Ningzong and his queens Yang, Lizong, and Duzong became the first four tombs to be stolen.
According to the record on the stele, there was also an envoy named Zhonglu named Liu who appeared. His face was as stiff as withered, but he was tireless and not hungry or cold. He proclaimed Kublai Khan's decree and ordered the mausoleum guards not to stop him.
Now buried in Netherworld Lane, the mausoleum protector Luo Xian of the Song Dynasty led his people to protect him to the death, but was beaten and tortured. The eunuchs' noses, ears, and tongues were cut off by Yang Liazhenjia's men, and the bones of their hands and feet were repeatedly broken. They took pleasure in torturing them day and night.
Just when they thought they were about to die, an old eunuch who kept secrets on the monument appeared and rescued them by borrowing the handwriting of King Shura from Master Ba Si Ba. Then these half-dead eunuchs had knives held to their necks. Drive out of the cemetery.
The ancestor in the Forbidden Palace told them that he would no longer care about their life and death. If he didn't want to be hunted down by these lamas, he should just escape further south.
The dying eunuchs fled down the mountain and happened to encounter a group of sneaky people.
The eunuchs guarding the mausoleum thought they had encountered tomb robbers and evil monks from the mountains, and thought they were dead. However, the leader of the other party was a man named Tang Yu from Shanyin, Shaoxing. He was a man of justice, wealth and chivalry.
After he heard that the imperial mausoleum had been stolen, he immediately sold his property, gathered patriots from the countryside, and risked their lives to sneak into the imperial mausoleum tonight to replace the bones of the emperors and empresses with animal bones.
Luo Mian was the youngest, and could no longer bear the resentment in his heart, so he volunteered to sneak back to the mountain with them, and then put the bones of the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty into a stone letter and buried them in front of Tianzhang Temple in Lanzhu Mountain, Shaoxing. The skull is so huge that I dare not change it.
It was later learned that Yang Liangzhenjia heard someone say that Lizong's mouth "had pearls in his mouth that illuminated the night, so he hung his corpse upside down among the trees and drained the mercury. After three days and nights, his head was lost."
Later, in order to use the art of hating victory, the demon monk Yang Liazhenjia also collected the bones of all the emperors, mixed them with the bones of cattle and horses and other animals, and buried them together under the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty, and built a "High Ten" on it. The three-foot-long white pagoda suppresses it, which is called Zhenben." It means to suppress the resistance of the people in the south of the Yangtze River to the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
Such behavior aroused great hatred among the people in Jiangnan. The Taoist priests who failed to debate the scriptures and were expelled from secular life, the monks in secret societies, the Mingjiao believers who had been suppressed and resisted for a long time, landless farmers and handicraftsmen finally united and formed a quietly burning A lead.
Seeing the resentment among the people and the courage of the righteous people, young Luo Xian thought that Zhao Song's energy was not exhausted yet. Hearing that some people in Guangdong and Guangxi said that they saw Zhao Bing, the last emperor of Song Dynasty, alive in the sea, so he discussed going south to search for him.
Relying on the help of the righteous Tang Yu, these crippled eunuchs finally entered Fujian by boat after going through untold hardships. Due to strong winds, they first sailed to Nan'ao, Guangdong by mistake. Then the ship was broken by huge waves and drifted to the west of Hepu. Five or six more eunuchs died in the group, and only nine of them were able to go ashore.
Coincidentally, at a seaport in Puxi, they also met Zhao Ruohe, the prince of Minchong County whose surname was Huang, who was avoiding trouble.
The former prince, dressed in brown clothes, was barefoot and carrying a fishing net on his shoulders, preparing to go to sea; the former princess, a noble lady, was selling vegetables at the roadside; a few children without pants were rolling in the mud, and no one could tell what they were. Lingluo has a succession of royal heirs.
An old eunuch took advantage of the fact that there was no one around, and went up to call the county king, but then the other person's eyes were full of panic, and the old eunuch looked around at a loss. The two of them were indifferent for a long time, and finally passed by indifferently in the busy fish market. Who I didn't dare to talk more than one word.
Luo Xian on the side looked ashen, finally realizing that in the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Zhao Song Dynasty for whom he worked so hard to guard the mausoleum had already perished in the hearts of the people, just like Min Chong who was dressed as a fisherman in the fishing market just now. To put it bluntly, the county prince is nothing more than an ordinary citizen.
Even if they find the legendary Emperor of the Song Dynasty, it will be nothing more than a repeat of Lu Xiufu's incident. In fact, in the fierce Southern Song Dynasty, bones and blood were still spreading among the people, but no one dared or even wanted to pick it up again...
The eunuchs came to Fuzhou City to beg for food, but they could not defeat the beggars. They eventually walked into the most filthy Yi Zhuang Cemetery in the city and resumed their old trade - in the corners of the three lanes and seven lanes. There is a righteous village, and opposite there is an abandoned printing office in the late Song Dynasty.
History seems to have come full circle again, playing a small joke on them. However, it was originally used to guard the tombs of the Seven Emperors and Seven Empresses, but now it is used to bury countless people who died in vain or died as guests in Fuzhou City.
The disabled eunuchs guarding the mausoleum come to the city every day, paying 40 guilds for the corpses of children who died young and 80 guilds for the bodies of violently dead children. They are responsible for sending them to the human refining furnace for burning. No one in this city is willing to deal with these lowly and dirty people. , surrounded by eunuchs who smell bad all day long.
The old eunuchs slowly died of old age, and the youngest Luo Xian also grew older and older. Finally, he died staring in this uncared-for yard, as if he had been abandoned by the world. Only a piece of leather that had been rubbed until smooth was buried with him. The waist badge of the mausoleum protector made of jade and ebony.
Jiang Wen looked at the date of signature and realized that God had played another black humorous joke on him.
Reading between the lines, Luo Xian is full of depression and resentment. He wants to resist and cry out, but is weak and powerless. He longed for the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty that he had never experienced before, and saw the increasingly cruel rule of the Meng Yuan Dynasty. Fantasy visions of light shining through.
Luo Xian, the official in charge of protecting the tomb of Muling in Song Dynasty Yong.
These eleven words are not only an identity that will be remembered for a lifetime, but also the only thing that he can remember in this hesitant life journey, although he can never mention it.
Luo Xian finally lived to the tenth year of Zhizheng, a full eighty years old, which was an unprecedented longevity for a eunuch - but in the second year after his death, the public resentment could no longer be suppressed. The White Lotus Sect, Han Shantong, Liu Futong took the lead in the uprising, and Peng Yingyu and Xu Shouhui subsequently responded, marking the prelude to the overthrow of the Meng Yuan Dynasty.
Jiang Wen watched the inscription reach the end and sighed deeply. valley
If I had no knowledge of future generations and would never be able to see through the deepest and darkest fog of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and know the direction of all developments, then I might be like this old eunuch who died alone and poor. , all my life I don’t know where the ship carrying me will eventually go.
Oh no, maybe I will write "Dugu Qiubai" on the tombstone, make up some sensational stories, and create a prophecy book even more bizarre than "Tui Bei Tu".
"Why are you sighing? You don't really believe these old eunuchs' lies, do you?"
The master of Eryouzhai suddenly spoke up, his words full of superiority and arrogance.
Jiang Wen frowned: "What do you mean?"
The owner of Eryouzhai shook his body.
"Let me go first and then tell you. I can't run away anyway."
Jiang Wen thought for a while and then slowly let go of his hand.
"Say it."
The owner of Eryouzhai shook his painful shoulder, grinned nervously, and carefully looked at the thick night that was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved.
"I mean, these eunuchs are not as pitiful as they say. Think about it, if this place is only occupied by a group of disabled old eunuchs, how can the name of Netherworld Lane be spread?"
The other party pretended to be deep and said, but he hid his body a little deeper into the main hall, as if he was guarding against the cold arrows in the dark, "Hongyang Holy Child told me that these eunuchs controlled the secretaries in the former Song Palace and could create ghost buildings. Alleys, still refining corpses and worshiping ghosts in the alleys.”
Perhaps in order to strengthen his persuasion, the owner of Eryouzhai tried his best to move his stiff face.
Jiang Wen learned someone's exclusive tone with great proficiency, and made the other person furious with just one sentence.
"Really? I don't believe it!"
The owner of Eryouzhai explained excitedly.
"Humph, it was here that Hongyang Holy Child secretly found the "Book of Ascension to Immortality" left by Luo Chunyi. His martial arts improved by leaps and bounds, and then he was obsessed with looking for an opportunity to rise to immortality. According to what he said , this group of eunuchs not only retained Luo Chunyi’s letters, but also searched for the secret records of the former Song Dynasty in Fuzhou on the order of the other party. Each one of them is extremely strange..."
Jiang Wen said doubtfully: "Are they so powerful?"
Then he looked at the other person with eyes full of amusement.
The owner of Eryouzhai immediately noticed the gaffe and quickly added: "I've heard about it too. I only know the specifics, and I don't know the inside story!"
Jiang Wen looked at the corpses all over the place and smiled lightly: "You have killed so many people and yet you dare to claim that you are not familiar with this place. You don't seem to be an honest person."
The master of Eryouzhai broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.
"This group of eunuchs guarding the mausoleum secretly practiced Northern Dharma. They cursed and killed hundreds of Mongolians in the city without anyone noticing. They also secretly refined the Flying Drought Demon in order to rebel. They have long since turned this place into a slaughterhouse. I just used the place to hide the corpses. Look at these sallow skins and withered flesh, they are actually the Mongols they cursed to kill, and they have not rotted away for two to three hundred years!"
Jiang Wen stepped back in horror and found that the corpses were of different colors and their clothes were unusually old. Some even wore rare sheep fur cloaks.
"Good guy, what kind of evil magic is this!"
The owner of Eryouzhai also muttered nervously.
"If it weren't for an emergency tonight, I wouldn't want to come to this ghost place! Hongyang Holy Child has studied this place the most, but he didn't tell me in detail. He only said that the official files recorded that Emperor Hongwu sent people to find Emperor Liuling. The descendants of the righteous Tang Yu eventually went to Tianzhang Temple to retrieve the bones, and along the way, they told the story of the eunuch who guarded the mausoleum."
"Emperor Hongwu immediately sent Jinyi guards to Fuzhou to search, and finally found this ghost alley. The guards were frightened to death. Later, the government ordered the houses to be demolished and the alley entrance to be buried, and no one was allowed to enter."
The owner of Eryouzhai said with a mysterious expression.
"But I found a version from the remaining wood carvings, which contains Northern French scriptures that were circulated in the former Song Dynasty. The content is also appalling."
After saying that, he quietly picked up a piece of wood hidden under the corridor pillar, and the title of the book "The Buddha Speaks of the Great Maritime Bodhisattva Sutra" was suddenly written on the binding.
[Those who subdue the furnace multiple times will have a half-moon phase. The world road around the circle is also decorated with vajra garlands... Burnt corpses are cooked with human flesh and human bones, and they are soaked with human fat... Their faces are evil, their mouths are sharp, and their teeth are coming out to make a sign of great evil. Like a calamity fire hole burning, the name is wrathful. Such a method is said by the great Mori branch...]
Jiang Wen took a cursory look and found that this Buddhist scripture was full of horrific methods of burning human flesh, rubbing human fat, and removing human bones, clothing, and human skin. He also said bluntly, "If you follow this method, you will die in seven days of destruction."
The owner of Eryouzhai knocked the engraving in Jiang Wen's hand like an electric shock and kicked it away from a distance.
"Don't look! This evil spell will get into people's minds and torture them crazy! The people who are targeting me in the dark will definitely know these spells. I have nowhere to escape..."
The other party frantically and nervously told Jiang Wen that someone was going to kill him, seemingly because he knew and had been to this place.
Jiang Wen paid no attention to his sudden illness and thought to himself. No matter from which angle you look at it, this seems to be closely related to the cruel and bloody murderous animal sacrifices and life-saving blood sacrifices during the Song Dynasty!
Jiang Wen had also heard from Chen Jinnan before that the origin of Lizong's skull Gabala bowl was because "it may be said that the Western monks returned to their customs to obtain the emperor's skull so that they could get tired of winning and become rich, so they stole the ears."
Could it be that these horrific Northern French customs have some deeper connection with the Lamaism practiced by the Meng Yuan Dynasty? !
Suddenly there was a sound of wall tiles, a strong wind, and the owner of Eryouzhai suddenly screamed.
"My killer is here!"
As the strange wind surged in the abandoned bookstore where corpses stood like a forest, it seemed to wake up something that had been dormant in the dark for a long time. A ghostly face with upside-down and twisted features and a bizarre appearance slowly appeared on the wall.
"You are indeed here - hand over the secret of Qian Song Dynasty!"
"Brother Shen!"
"Um!"
When Shen Changqing walks on the road, whenever he encounters familiar people, he will say hello or nod to each other.
But no matter who it is.
There was no unnecessary expression on everyone's face, as if they were indifferent to everything.
To this.
Shen Changqing has become accustomed to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, an organization that maintains the stability of the Qin Dynasty. Its main responsibility is to kill monsters and monsters. Of course, there are also some other side jobs.
It can be said.
Everyone in the Demon Suppression Division has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but he got used to it over time.
The Demon-Suppressing Division is huge.
Those who can stay in the Demon Suppressing Division are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppressor Division is divided into two professions, one is the Guardian Envoy and the other is the Demon Slayer.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Department starts from the lowest level as a demon slayer.
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Then he will be promoted step by step, and he is expected to eventually become a guardian envoy.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level among the demon slayers.
Possessing the memory of a previous life.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of a loft.
Unlike other places in the Demon Suppressing Division that were full of chills, the attic here seemed to stand out from the crowd, showing a different kind of tranquility in the bloody Demon Suppressing Division.
At this time, the attic door was open, and occasionally people came in and out.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment before stepping in.
Enter the attic.
The environment changes in vain.
The fragrance of ink mixed with the faint smell of blood hit his face, making him frown instinctively, but then relaxed it quickly.
There is almost no way to cleanse away the smell of blood on everyone in the Demon-Suppressing Division.
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