Tang Dayang pointed to the abandoned forts and said: "Miss Song, these forts and observation towers are old things. I have been here since I was a child. The old man said they were built during the Tang Dynasty's military garrison. I don't know whether they are true or not. .”
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan conquered the world. The royal family believed that the Qinling Mountains were both a dangerous place for military strategists and the ancestral line of the Li family. They began to move here and charge Chong army to garrison and stay behind. After Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty established the Cuiwei Palace in Huangyu, it was officially privately owned by the royal family. During the four seasons, there must be a prince. Wangsun came here to hunt.
In addition, there are many royal tombs in the Qinling Mountains. As the number of tombs in the Qinling Mountains increases, the royal family also has new worries. If these tombs are discovered, they will be destroyed by lawless people.
In order to protect the many tombs, the Tang royal family began to move the garrison inland to protect the tombs of nobles. At that time, they built bunkers and plank roads in the valleys in order to protect the entire Qinling Mountains based on the valleys and mountain roads, so that hundreds of When Guozuo passed, the Seventy-Two Valley had been completely occupied and turned into a garrison camp.
It can be said that the Qinling Mountains were filled with Tang Dynasty officers and soldiers. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the descendants of these officers and soldiers had become common people. Since they were no longer driven by the Li and Tang royal families, they no longer had to settle in the Qinling Mountains. They began to move out one after another. After thousands of years in the valley, all those who could walk have left, and the only thing left is Tangling Village.
They are different from other military camps. Most of them are Li Tang's Yuanmai clan. They gather in Tangling Village to guard the tombs of their ancestors. No matter how difficult the conditions are, they will not leave. After the Ancestral Soul Palace was established, there were more of these people. a task.
That is to pay homage to the Ancestral Lines and Soul Palace every year, offer incense to the Ancestral Lines in the Soul Palace, and pray for the longevity of the country.
Since then, even if the Tang Dynasty disappeared, Tangling Village has preserved this custom and it is still passed down as an ancestor worship ritual to this day. If the Soul Palace had not taken in most of the villagers, the village might still be prosperous today.
"So, it's really possible that these things were left behind by the Tang Dynasty!"
Tang Dayang nodded towards Song Siyuan: "Indeed, I remember my grandfather said that there are many wild beasts in the mountainous areas, so this fortress can not only prevent wild beasts from attacking the village, but also supervise the guards."
They had arrived in front of Tangling Village while they were talking!
Yue Guanchao looked around. Houses in mountainous areas were rarely built on flat land and tidal flats. They could only be built halfway up the hillside. This village was no exception.
The only exit of the entire village is the natural stone bridge near the entrance of the village. This bridge is a huge stone erected in the valley on the ancient road. You can climb the stone bridge along the ancient road. Once you cross the stone bridge, you will see two dangerous mountains sandwiching the valley. The dilapidated buildings of the Tang Dynasty were built on earth platforms on the mountainside, and were connected by stone staircases and caves dug up and down. They ran right through the villages, and you could walk to any house.
Everyone looked at the scene in front of them, as if they saw the patterns on the Ancestral Soul Sacrifice, but upon closer inspection they saw that they were completely different. Now they can only guess that Wanyan Cave Mountain is probably a settlement similar to a village.
Walking on the stone bridge into the village, the rammed earth walls were exposed to the sun and wind and fell into disrepair. Even the gray tile roof with the character "人" in the courtyard has fallen off and broken corridors. Broken walls and walls can be seen everywhere. They have not been repaired for decades. No one had ever lived there, and the entire village was considered completely dead.
"Isn't that blind old gentleman gone?"
They walked along the stone stairs leading up and down between the houses. Song Siyuan looked around and found no living people at all. She began to wonder if there was something wrong with the photos Chao Fengdang gave them.
"Not necessarily. It's also possible that the blind old gentleman hid it deliberately."
As a few people were talking, smoke suddenly floated out from the depths of the village. As long as there was smoke, it proved that someone was still alive. They walked along the straight plank road in the village to the back of the village. When they reached the end of the village, they could see that a house was still intact. This is where the smoke comes from.
As they walked up the steps and pushed out the door, the situation of the yard came into their eyes.
The house has very typical Shaanxi characteristics. The "herringbone" shaped eaves seem to have been split into half, and the eaves fall directly along the ridge. The east and west wings and the north hall form a square courtyard. The courtyard is flattened by loess, leaving only a sweet water well. And the old crooked-neck tree with fallen leaves and branches.
"Who's coming?"
While they were taking a closer look, there was a knocking sound in the north hall, and then a blind old man picked up a cane and groped out of the house to step out of the threshold. It was a very easy thing for ordinary people to step over the threshold, but for the old man, it was very easy. But it is very difficult, as if crossing the top of the mountain seems slow.
Yue Guanchao observed carefully that the blind old man's clothes were quite simple, even to the point of being rustic:
The old man wore a thick black and gray coat, knickerbockers on his legs with straps on his feet, a sheepskin jacket on his head and a sheep's belly scarf on his head, an oily pipe hanging from his waist, and black cloth shoes with worn heels and a few patches on the cloth. The copper complexion was blown by the wind and sand, dry and peeling.
"who are you?"
The blind old gentleman noticed that there were many of them and became wary.
"Uncle, do you still remember me?"
Tang Dayang approached the old man. He had not been to Tangling Village for more than ten years. He thought this blind old man was here to deceive people. He hurriedly took a few steps back and carefully touched Tang Dayang's face: "Let me touch it, don't you guys?" Whoever steals money will be in trouble for me."
