Qinxuan focused on the wooden box under the confession, and opened the box on the right first, only to find that it was empty. She went to open the box on the left again. There were nine silk scrolls inside, all of which were genealogies.
Qin Xuan was slightly disappointed, but he looked through it briefly.
The scroll records the personnel list of nine surname families in the form of a diagram, namely, Shang, Lu, Zhang, Sun, Liu, Li, Zhou, Wang, and Lu.
The ancestors of each surname are: Shang Yu (Gongying) is paired with Liu's Sanniang, Lu Changgong is paired with Li Xiang, Zhang Songlin (Yiwen) is paired with Liu's Shulan, Sun Shanyou is paired with Zhou Ruilan, Liu Chaoxian (Yusheng) is paired with Lu's Ya'er, and Li The iron partner is Wang Sini, Zhou Tong is paired with Sun Damei, Wang Qiang is paired with Zhang Lanlan, and Lu Qisheng (Tianyi) is paired with Kong Qingmei.
Among them, the Shang family has been extinct for 78 generations, the Zhou family has reached 54 generations, the Wang family has reached 63 generations, the Lu family has reached 36 generations, and the remaining 87 generations.
It is worth noting that some names on the genealogy are in red. Qinxuan compared the spiritual tablets on the bronze leaf plate and could not find their names.
Qinxuan guessed that these clan members with red names must have made serious mistakes, so that the tablets could not be entered into the ancestral hall.
At this time, she saw Gongsun Zhi taking out the silk from the spiritual tablet, and thought that the box on the right contained the notes of the Hongming tribe. It must contain important information, otherwise it would not disappear.
She told Gongsun Zhi about her discovery. He thought the information was very useful and decided to search for Hong Ming's descendants and see how these families were cut off. After Qin Zhaoyun took the photos, he and Gongsun Zhi looked for information together.
But Qinxuan is not interested in why these people are gone. She wants to know where these people came from. So he climbed up the bronze tree to see the spiritual tablets of the nine ancestors.
"Hey!" Qin Xuan was shocked, "It's so heavy! It must be pure gold! You really respect your ancestors."
It was too tiring to move the spiritual tablets down like this, so she simply opened the bottom cover and took out all the scrolls in the nine spiritual tablets. Surprisingly, Lu Changgong and Liu Chaoxian each had a rectangular wooden tablet hidden in their spiritual tablets. One side was blank and the other side was engraved with a lotus, and it smelled like aniseed.
Seeing that the wooden plaque was nothing special, she thought it was the personal property of her ancestors, so she took it in her hand first. She couldn't wait to open the scroll and read it carefully. There were not many words. After reading them all, Qin Xuan understood the origins of these people.
Li Tie, Zhou Tong, and Wang Qiang were forced into forced labor. Later, they followed the peasant uprising and were captured by the army. He escaped during his exile and moved to Shangyu area in Jiangdong where he became a fisherman.
Shang Yu and Lu Changgong were blacksmiths, Zhang Songlin and Liu Chaoxian were merchants, and Sun Shanyou was a carpenter. Lu Qisheng was originally a county lieutenant. Later, because he did not collude with the county magistrate, he was demoted to the position of prison chief, guarding the cells.
They were only three years apart, and they happened to enter Nanhua Garden one after another and became followers of Tian Can Zhenren, one of the Four Saints. Since then, they sincerely worshiped Nanhua Garden and gradually transformed from believers to disciples, including their children.
Many years later, only Shang Yu and Lu Qisheng were alive among the nine, both of whom were already over eighty. The Four Saints led the descendants of nine people into Dongtianfu to escape the troubled times, and assigned them to Quemu Mountain. Lu Qisheng became the first generation owner of the mountain.
There are nine other people who have done some things for Master Tiancan, but they only use the simple words "righteous things, legal affairs, and colleagues" to describe them.
Qin Xuan estimated that their level as disciples was not high, they were just following orders and doing things.
However, after reading the scroll, there was no record of the two wooden tablets, but the woman's sixth sense believed that the wooden tablets were not ordinary wooden tablets, and they must have a certain function. She bowed three times to the shrine and put the wooden sign into her bag.
On the other side, Gongsun Zhi also had an idea. He followed the clues and basically figured out what happened here.
When Merchant 78 turned 6 years old, the depth of the underground mine reached exactly one hundred meters. But we also encountered hard rock and there was no possibility of digging down. If you want to get the mine, there are only two options. One is to dig in the direction of the river, and the other is to dig underground in the forbidden land of Youshan.
Option 1, the ore is scarce, and there is a risk of river backflow.
Option two, rich in ores, especially gold. But if you dig, you will be violating the ancestral precept "You shall not dig for gold."
At first, most people did not agree with the second option, but later someone violated the ancestral precepts and mined privately. The leader should be the famous Shang Chi.
The punishment for violating the ancestral precepts came quickly. In the autumn of that year, more than a dozen people in the merchant died suddenly overnight. The cause of death was due to infection with the evil disease in the gold veins.
Businesses have ended in this generation, but the abominable epidemic has not dissipated with it. People in other families were harmed to varying degrees, and their population was reduced by half within two years.
In the process of fighting against the evil epidemic, Master Yuyin discovered that gold could ward off the epidemic and make medicine to eliminate it, so he went on a gold mining spree. However, within four generations, the gold was exhausted, leading to an even greater disaster.
In order to dig for gold, the mine went deep into the underground of the forbidden area of Youshan, and dug into the partitions formed by tree roots. The area was so large that no matter how hard you dug, you couldn't get around it. But someone just cut off the roots of the tree roughly and continued deeper.
However, Master Yuyin has never really understood the root cause of the epidemic, and has never thought about what will happen once the epidemic is overcome.
The evil plague actually merged with the broken root and grew into a tentacle-like thorn vine, which everyone called the devil thorn.
It is alive, burrowing through mountains and soil like an earthworm. It can stalk and kill any life that comes close to it. Once it sucks flesh and blood, it will grow extremely fast. The roots can also be inserted into the bones of humans and animals.
If people and animals are stabbed by it, it is like planting roots in the body. If it is not treated within two days, even gods will be unable to save it. The roots will invade the blood and then bones, spreading all over the body in about twenty days.
People and animals will be greatly affected during this period. Animals will be very thirsty and will drink water until they drown. Not only are people thirsty, but they will also itch on their hair and drink blood. From time to time, the whole body will be itchy to the point of going crazy. The longer the time goes by, the more time and frequency the itching will occur.
When the roots invade the brain, humans and animals become like zombies, walking aimlessly all day long, killing and eating every living thing they encounter.
After about ten days, several thorn vines will emerge from the body, just like the tentacles of an octopus replacing the limbs, and it will run around like an ant. Moreover, the flesh and blood on the body was quickly sucked clean, leaving only a set of bones.
They are afraid of the hot sun and will move slowly on sand. But in rainy weather and in water they become extremely powerful and move quickly.
The way to eliminate them is to pierce the bones with gold, and then burn the bones to ashes with bamboo from the green bamboo forest, otherwise there is a possibility of resurrection when exposed to water.
Six people from several families were missing before everyone discovered the magic thorn. So everyone gathered their strength, killed and injured dozens of people, and finally disinfected all the demon thorns, and the remaining ones were sealed with gold in the cave where the demon thorns originated.
However, the grass in the original land dries up every year. Wild fire, in spring.
The roots of the devil's thorn are still there, and they will eventually break through.
The 86th generation was obviously ill-prepared for this disaster. What was even more unexpected was that the Demon Thorn had evolved and gained a certain amount of intelligence.
The demon thorn avoids its human edge and continuously eats away at human survival resources while strengthening itself.
Within a few years, people could only stick to their gold-plated houses and look for food during the four or five hours when the sun was at its strongest.
It is estimated that Demon Jing quickly found a way to break through the restrictions and killed all the remaining humans in Dongtian Mansion.
Gongsun Zhi suddenly became excited and thought, "Maybe Jiang Jinjiu was abducted by the devil! Among the four, he is the only one who does not have gold ornaments on his body."
Thinking that Jiang Jinjiu might be in bad luck, Gongsun Zhi felt melancholy, but thinking that Li Er followed Jiang Jinjiu, he had some hope.
"who!"
Suddenly Qin Zhaoyun shouted. He saw a dark figure flashing past the door and immediately chased after him.
Gongsun Zhi and Qin Xuan followed closely. As soon as they went out, they also saw a black figure moving quickly through the shadows, running generally towards the east.
The three of them were chasing after them, but they still couldn't see what the thing looked like. However, it kept walking through the trees on the side of the road leading to the unknown mountain peak, but did not enter the dense forest. This made the three of them feel that it was deliberately guiding them.
Qinxuan said as he ran, "Isn't this guy taking us into the ditch?"
Gongsun Zhi said, "I can't tell, let's chase it first. If it rushes into the forest, we must not chase it in. We must keep the distance first. Zhaoyun, you are the first."
Qin Zhaoyun responded, quickened his pace and ran ahead. The three of them formed a column and chased the thing.
However, the slope of the road is getting higher and higher, which affects the speed of the three people, but it seems to be unaffected, and the distance between them is getting farther and farther.
Soon the three of them chased to the foot of the mountain, and when they looked around, they saw a mountain of steps!
But it is not affected by the slope of the mountain at all. It forms into a ball and bounces up the mountain, covering more than a dozen steps in one jump. At this moment, it jumped halfway up the mountain and was already a black dot in the eyes of the three people, disappearing at the end in a flash.
The three of them looked at the stairs like a ladder, gasping for air.
The mountain in front of me is less than 400 meters high, but it is extremely steep. The shape of the mountain is like a bucket with a lid, with steep cliffs on all sides. Only the mountain about four meters wide protrudes from the north. It looks like a triangular bracket installed on the bucket, with a slope of about fifty degrees. People built stone steps on the slope leading directly to the peak. The steps are more than two meters wide, with no protection on both sides. The height of the steps is higher than usual. You have to straighten your legs to go up the steps.
Qinxuan's feet were hanging half of his heels on the steps. It was so steep and narrow that it must be difficult to climb.
She took a sip of water and scolded, "What the hell is this damn thing? Why did it lead us up the mountain?"
Qin Zhaoyun said, "I don't think it is hostile to us. Maybe it wanted to avoid it, but unfortunately it was targeted by us."
Gongsun Zhi took a sip of cold water and suddenly had an idea. He said happily, "Maybe Xiao Jiang was brought to the mountain by it."
The brother and sister's eyes widened, thinking that this was really possible.
That thing didn't make too much noise when it was moving quickly, and it took people away silently. The theory is sound.
The three of them adjusted their breathing and climbed up the stone stairs.
When they reached the mountainside, the shape of the mountain became clearer, and the three of them felt uneasy as they looked at it.
There are many trees on the mountain wall, but most of them are dead, and the roots of some trees are outside, and the treetops are pressing against the mountain wall.
What is unusual is that these trees are entangled with black vine branches, and the dead trees are even penetrated by vine branches, but the vine branches do not cling to the mountain wall at all. Such trees and vine branches are connected in series, almost wrapping the entire mountain. If you don't get closer, you can't tell that the original color of the mountain is light yellow.
The three of them felt that the tree did not grow on the mountain wall, but was tied to it by black vines. It seemed that the black vines could not touch the mountain wall, so they used the tree as a stepping stone.
But if the black vine is a demon thorn, and the record states that it is afraid of the sun, how can it climb mountains and cliffs? If not, why does it grow like this? How was the tree moved up? If it is really a demon thorn, is it going to swallow this mountain?
The three of them were full of questions and climbed the mountain in silence.
