Chapter 75 The Origin (End)
At that time is in the change of dynasties in the chaotic times, everywhere is natural and man-made disasters, the people are suffering from more than hanging, the three first to Henan Mangshan open market, one after another to steal a few ancient tombs, the tomb in the most valuable artifacts out of the business of antiquities, money for food, help the people, they are a few trips to do business with smooth sailing, and thereafter footprints of the footprints, set foot throughout the mountain and Shaanxi Province, Henan, Shandong Province, I do not know how much stolen hair of the mountain tombs and huge mounds.
Since ancient times, “the mortal world, the sky do”, so life in the world, whether you run in the fire in the water, the last thing or not, often in the will of God. Catch up with the big luck, hit what is the sale, the flame is also like up, there is no tomb theft; if the decline in fortunes, it is really like the tide is also like the retreat, wherever touched, it is all the folding of the capital, the life of the family are often accompanied by the inside.
Fortune has ups and downs, can not always be so smooth, one year, the gold abacus three of them unlucky, the three looked at a tomb near Luoyang, so the food into the mountains, unexpectedly hit a war, a large group of defeated soldiers from the battlefield routed down, the defeated soldiers, rushed countless refugees, like a sky flooded into the mountains, the gold abacus brothers and sisters in three washed scattered in the mountains.
Dust and iron grinding head to save a group of victims, hiding in the mountains in the forest of ancient tombs, those refugees, there is a pregnant woman waiting for delivery, in the chaos of the fetus is about to go into labor, who knows that the fetus is born upside down long, look at the delivery of the difficult to deliver, will be dead in the wilderness of the mountains and the death of a body.
Dust has always been kind-hearted, where to bear to see others die on the spot, he saw this ancient tomb forest, there are sitting in the mound sealed tree just like, Dust examined the ground veins, longitudinal view of the mountain shape, expected the grave side of the coffins there must be springs, that is, there are springs in the underground palace, there is a kind of folklore, the coffins Chung burn rolled to be able to smooth labor.
So the dust and iron mill head a discussion, save the people matter, pull out the whirlwind shovel to, fly like digging open the grave soil, area of a dirt grave, which can hold two gold masters digging, in a moment to see the coffin lid, who knows the grave soil coffin plate hidden pin, two people have not experienced a lot of storms, the gutter overthrew the boat, iron mill head by the mechanism hit the hood door, died on the spot.
Dust this just remembered, when the mountain, the master had a thousand instructions – “together is alive, divided is dead”, now really should be the words of Zhang Zanshi, if there is Abacus here, he is the most proficient in all kinds of numerology, surely can break through the coffin organs, but the thought of a difference. A thought of difference, cast a big disaster, now regret is too late.
Later, Abacus came to find two partners, see the iron mill head has been dead on the spot, is also a black eye almost fainted, can only say that people do not fight with the life, with the dust of the two sighed in contempt for a time, tears will be iron mill head of the body incineration, ashes loaded into the jar.
Dust and Abacus a discussion, according to the master of the “together is alive, divided is dead”, we two if the future to go back to the bucket, it is estimated that there will be no good results, it seems to be unable to do in the touch of gold hook.
The dust of these years to see all the folk of the suffering, since the ability is great, but also can not relief hundreds of millions of the world’s living beings, the sea of bitterness is boundless, turn back is the shore, he intends to hang the seal gold, with iron mill head of the ashes altar, to go to Jiangnan temple as a monk, and later accompanied by the green lamps of the ancient Buddha, repentance of the past.
Abacus does not want to become a monk, also do not want to take off the talisman, since the thing can not do, but also can do the old business, continue to be a profit-making merchants, make money as can help the poor, so with the dust said: “a leaf floating Ping Ping return to the sea, where life does not meet, we part today, there will be another time to see you in the future, you want to encounter what trouble need to help, just tube to the Yellow River boat gang to find me is. Yellow River boat gang to find me is.”
In the ancient tomb forest after a goodbye, gold abacus really only in the Yellow River basin trading goods, he was originally a merchant family origin, the merchants and peddlers are familiar with the matter, but the natural disaster is not endless, the business is not very good to do, coupled with all the habitual thieves, there must be addicted to, in addition to the world and what kind of business has to fight to the money fast? Jin Abacus rely on their own smart top, see the Yellow River flooding, hungry floating all over the place, so still in the dark to do some of the collusion, he is clear that this is a life-threatening move, knowing that it is not for the sake of the heart is also weak, so each time is a well-planned, there is no certainty that will never get down.
One year Abacus trafficked a batch of goods, took a boat to go downstream, when the Yellow River rose, the huge flow rolled down, Abacus is on the deck with a few merchants chatting, suddenly the world changed color, the sun in the sky is like no soul, white only a shadow, and then even the sun has lost sight of the sky and the earth, the black clouds together, the river is filled with turbid fog, mixed with peas and big rain and hail to fall.
Boat boss even called bad, heaven and earth lost color, indicating that the water in the old dragon frightened, which is the sign of the Yellow River surge, hurry to the boat to the nearby wharf, the cargo ship just stopped in the rainstorm, the back of the water on the arrival of the upper reaches of the Yellow River only to see the turbid waves of the air, the water is almost connected to the sky, can not be divided into where is the water, where is the sky and the earth, the gusty winds of heavy rain, hailstones, wrapped with the bottom of the river to get the mud and sand, a head of the down pour, the whole world is in a state of near-uniformity, the whole world is in a state of near-uniformity, the whole world is in a state of near-uniformity. The whole world is plunged into a near darkness in the yellowish, really is “the yellow river flooding Qiankun dark, waves and torrents rolled to.
Jin Abacus see torrential rain, the four more and more black, know that this is encountered in the day of disaster, this time even if there is a great skill, but also can not fight the Yellow River anger of the power, he could not care about the ship’s goods, with the people jumped off the boat, pulling the feet to the heights of the run, those who fled the crowd, the crowd has slow legs, was instantly swept away by the turbid current, dead in the water even the body can not be found back.
In the past, Mr. Zhang had said that Abacus is not good, but that is divided with who than, compared to the dust and iron grinding head is a lot worse, but after all, it is to do for many years to touch the gold of the old hand, compared to those ordinary people, his legs and feet are considered extraordinarily agile, was forced by the water, all the way to the rainstorm, and finally grabbed a high hill with his life.
Jin Abacus fled to the high ground, lying on the ground to look down, only to see the black clouds have gradually receded, the distant sky is like a piece of black and yellow muddy mud, in which floating dark red light, flooding of the Yellow River to the unstoppable trend, engulfed the shore of the villages, ships, was swept by the Yellow River water, people, cattle and sheep and cattle together with struggling to follow the waves, all fed to the shrimp soldiers and crabs in the Water House, the people who escaped to the heights of the people, one face like dirt, not a single one. One by one, face like dirt, not stop crying father and child, but all the sounds of the world, are covered by the sound of rumbling water, the scene is miserable unspeakable.
The water came very quickly, muddy river water but enough two hours to retreat net, Jin Abacus picked up a life back, a little bit of shock, a touch on the body to wear things, only to find that the back of the back of the golden steel umbrella is gone.
At the beginning of the Zhang three masters left them the “Golden Steel Umbrella” a total of two, one of which is the gold touching lieutenant passed down a thousand years of antiquity, this handle in the hands of the dust, Jin Abacus with the Ming Dynasty, the material craft and the ancient umbrella is generally not the same, but also a piece of rare self-defense equipment, must have just run for his life, the Golden Steel Umbrella is lost, and now more than likely to have been Was swept away by the water, where can still find back, have to think again to find a skilled craftsman to redo a handle.
Jin Abacus made up his mind, walked down the hillside, want to buy some things to eat with the local villagers, but after the disaster, the starving people all over the place, the fields and villages are gone most of the time, even if the money can not buy food, he was burning with hunger, and was hungry in front of the back of the heart, when he saw a lot of people are going to the riverside, said that they are going to see the Dragon King, his heart felt strange, with the flow of people went over.
To the river to see, spare is Jin Abacus see a lot of knowledge, but also can not help but secretly surprised, only to see the bend in the river on the slope, stranded a big fish, has not yet broken gas, fish head than the ordinary folk are larger, full of huge scales and iron leaf similar, no silt place with a greenish luster, fish eyes open, head and tail swing, the black hole in the mouth of the fish open and close, fishy and smelly, look at the size of the mouth of the fish, I’m afraid that even the big yellow cattle of a thousand kilograms are not enough for it to swallow.
The local people were all frightened, trembling kneeling in front of the fish, burning incense and kowtowing more than willing to ask the Dragon King to calm down, quickly back to the water, there are many people immediately went up to push, want to send the “Dragon King” back to the Yellow River, but as a dragonfly shaking the pillar, simply can not be pushed half of a millimeter, and there is no place to go to find the oxen and horses to drag and pull, looking at the Dragon King into the gas less, out of gas more, staring at the fish, the Dragon King is not enough to swallow the fish, the fish is not enough. The king’s eyes were on the bank, staring at the fish’s eyes.
Jin Abacus watched for a long time, and then to bow to the people of the Dragon King inquired about some, find the path into the county to eat, listen to the locals said that this is a hundred years of heavy water, although in time to retreat quickly, can cause heavy losses, and the Yellow River in the water of the Dragon King died on the shore, is by no means a good omen, there is surely a catastrophe after the Yellow River is inundated, drowned I do not know how many people and animals, here this is a thin people poor, within ten years, the energy is not a good sign, there are certainly big disasters, the Yellow River floods, drowning many people and livestock, here this is the land of the Thin people poor, within ten years the energy is difficult to recover, I do not know how many poor people to starve to death.
These words in the ears of the gold abacus, will move the compassion, see the natural disaster relentless, bitter people on both sides of the river, thought: “after this kind of catastrophe, will certainly be starving people everywhere, nowadays the world is in ruins, incompetent government, in addition to me, who is willing to take care of it?” At that moment, he had the intention to purchase food relief, but his goods lost in the river, the discount of the capital, although there is still some money on the body, but the face of thousands of victims, is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, and then moved the idea of the bucket, thinking about doing a big deal.
Jin Abacus recalled a few years ago a love, from a merchant’s mouth at that time, not far from here in the Dragon Ridge, there is a Tang Dynasty mausoleum, hidden in the rugged stumptown Snake Plate slope, if you can steal one or two pieces of the royal treasures, you do not have to worry about raising money, but he knew the mausoleum genealogy, but projected that there is a Tang Dynasty which the royal mausoleum was built in this place.
He picked up a few “tongue leaks” in the inn, peeped some end of the side, asked for the path to the Dragon Ridge, will go into the mountains to look for ancient tombs, and really see the situation in the mountains is not bad, although the mountain is fragmented, but can not hide the weather of the dragon and phoenix, according to the theory of a mausoleum, just a few scattered villages in the vicinity, often have sheep and cattle in the neighborhood! Wandering, want to make a pothole digging into the tomb dungeon easy, but difficult to hide people’s ears.
Abacus thought of an idea, and back to the Yellow River bank, see the big fish body is still parked in the river, then the local people claimed that they are willing to pay to build a Dragon King Temple enshrining the fish bones, in order to bless the river god god blessed the local wind and rain, and fabricated some excuses to make the people believe that the fish bone temple location must be built in the mountains, or else there will still be flooding.
By “building temples, building houses, planting crops” to camouflage the traces of ancient tombs, is a common method of the gold inspector, the villagers do not know the details, naturally believe, immediately by Abacus money, the people contributed to the bones of the big fish into the mountain, built a temple of the Dragon King.
Abacus took advantage of this time to build the temple, start to prepare for the inverted bucket, according to his experience, the Dragon Ridge Tomb scale is not small, the local legend of the tomb is extremely mysterious and bizarre, it is expected to be not a peaceful place to go, there is no Golden Steel Umbrella to protect the body, the heart always feel not too solid, but the other handle of the umbrella stayed in the hands of the Dust, a parting of more than a few years, has never been through the news, and I do not know that year’s companion’s whereabouts, so we had to take a ship to Hebei Baoding, looking for concealed weapons master “pin weapon Li” and then re-customized a handle.
The pin Li is the beehive mountain bee head, outstanding craftsmanship, can build a variety of equipment, but he looked at the map of Jin Abacus, the recipe, but feel very difficult, because the “Golden Steel Umbrella” is not more than usual, some materials are not very easy to put together, and the requirements of the process and fire extraordinarily complex, at least one year to build out.
Jin Abacus anxious to steal the Dragon Ridge Tomb, simply can not wait for a year and a half, coupled with the separation of more years, he was on the year Zhang San’s instructions have remembered the fade, thinking that since the death of the Iron Grinder, their own solo also stole many tombs, have not been half a flash, as long as the fight is cautious some of these, with a body of knowledge, even though some of the organs of the dark, the material is also able to cope with, will not be too big a mistake, which is so coincidental on the really folded in the But this time, his appearance is not as good as the others.
But at this time he was the vice shape of the pure gold abacus, good end of the sudden cracked and broken, gold beads fell to the ground, this abacus is his family heirloom treasures, destroyed for no reason good not heartache. His heart vaguely think, this is more than half not what good omen, on the premonition of the king of hell to collect his life.
Abacus clever life, all things are well thought out, but this time can really be considered “hanging guests at the door, the black star when the head”, like a ghost in the mind, even if the Goddess of Mercy West spirit, but also can not persuade him to turn back. Simply put the heart of a cross, thinking “is not a blessing, is a curse to avoid,” really want to be dead, sitting at home behind closed doors will also end without a disease; if the fate should not be dead, even if in the fire in a back and forth, the whole body can also be intact. Instead of fearfully burning incense to seek the Bodhisattva, it would be better to do what to do, and thought “if the treasures stolen from the Dragon Ridge Tomb, disaster relief to save the people, the virtues must not be small, really want to do this great good deed, there will be ghosts and gods in the dark blessing, may be able to increase the life of a century”.
He felt that although the size of the Tang tomb, but can project the internal topographic structure, there is a certainty that single-handedly steal the treasures in the tomb, but also thought of the possibility of encountering untoward events in the tomb, in case of some blunders, is not the death of a silent? In the traditional concept, reputation is often more important than life, as the so-called “wild geese have left their voices, people have left their names”, so he will be his life experience, are written in the account book of the peddler, along with the destruction of the pure gold abacus, sealed together in a box, temporarily stored in the “pin ware Li” cabinet, and agreed to wait until we get the treasure goods in the tomb. The cabinet, agreed to wait until the time to take the “Golden Steel Umbrella” and retrieve it.