Text Chapter 0417 The Turning Tun of the Year
Ding Fan never thought that one day he would be chased all over the mountains and wilderness.
Although Ding Fan now has a gun in his hand, even Zheng Sanpao also has a gun in his hand, and in terms of weapons, he is not weaker than the other party's strength, but the other party's number is two more than their side.
Even if it's one-on-one, Ding Fan's side is not an opponent.
So the two of them could only keep their heads down and keep running in front, and they had to dodge the bullets flying behind them at any time.
is also fortunate to have Zheng Sanpao running with Ding Fan in front.
He is still relatively familiar with this road, so Ding Fan can follow him, and from time to time there is a chance to take a breath.
If Ding Fan had led the way in front, eighty percent would have run a dead end at this time.
After the two of them ran all the way for a few miles, they slowly shook off the people behind them and hid in a small mountain col, gasping with difficulty.
But Ding Fan's heart was full of questions.
Zheng Sanpao had told Ding Fan many times before, this place was very dangerous, it belonged to a forbidden place in this mountain, even an old hunter like Zheng Sanpao would not come here.
But today Zheng Sanpao was not only caught here, but even very familiar with the road here, is this a little wrong, obviously how many times he has been here before.
Therefore, Ding Fan always felt that Zheng Sanpao must have something hidden from him in his heart.
Ding Fan's eyes have been sweeping around Zheng Sanpao's body, and Zheng Sanpao is very uncomfortable when he sees it, in fact, he has a little consideration in his heart, why the other party looks at him like this, it is just because he is too familiar with the road here.
When I went up to the mountain to hunt last year, I also told Ding Fan that this is a very dangerous place and I can't come here at all.
Well, now that he is not only here, but he is even so familiar with everything here, it would be strange if Ding Fan was not curious.
It's just that the person he just tracked hasn't gone far yet, so Ding Fan has been looking at him with strange eyes now, just because it's inconvenient to speak now.
After the footsteps around him gradually moved away, Ding Fan lowered his voice and asked Zheng Sanpao beside him:
"Third uncle, shouldn't you give me an explanation, what's going on in this matter?
Why are you on the mountain, I remember saying it very clearly before, this place is very dangerous, and in recent times, no villager should go up the mountain. ”
Zheng Sanpao seemed to have known that he would ask like this, so he didn't say anything else, and just said:
"Actually, if I didn't come, I really didn't want to come here, you don't know the danger here, only those who experienced it back then understand. Do you know how many people there were before the turnover?"
Originally, Ding Fan asked Zheng Sanpao, but Zheng Sanpao's sentence directly stopped him, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
How many people are there in turnover?
When Ding Fan first came, he asked Zheng Sanpao, and Zheng Sanpao told him at that time that there were a total of more than 100 households in the Turnover.
The key is what you asked, does it have anything to do with it?
Didn't you just ask, the purpose of Zheng Sanpao's going up the mountain?
Why is it still moving out of this population problem?
And after Zheng Sanpao heard Ding Fan's words not answering him, he actually smiled bitterly and said:
"What you know is only the remaining population now, in fact, in those days, the turnovers were not just such a few people, the turnovers of the year, in these ten miles and eight townships, are second to none.
Not only is the population huge, many famous products were sent out by us back then, but because of a plague that year, the population of the entire Tuntun was basically reduced by two-thirds, and now it is like a nightmare. ”
As soon as he mentioned this, Zheng Sanpao seemed to remember a very terrible nightmare, and even his hands were constantly trembling, and Ding Fan was a little afraid that he would accidentally get the gun in his hand off.
The Dongwei people outside have just left, and they haven't gone far, if they hear the gunshots, eighty percent will still come back, and it will be difficult to run when they want to, and they are simply catching turtles in the urn.
Originally, Ding Fan wanted to remind Zheng Sanpao a little, but he was afraid that if he opened his mouth, he would startle Zheng Sanpao, and in the end it backfired.
Fortunately, Zheng Sanpao just wandered for a while, and it didn't take long for him to recover, and he said with a yearning on his face:
"At that time, the turn of the tun, because of the proximity to the Oupu Bay, often people come and go, so it is a very lively small village, at that time the turn of the tun is not called the turn of the tun, but called the harvest of the tun, because the rice here in the year can be called a must, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the rice produced here, are the tribute in the palace, especially the emperor eats, the result is ......"
Zheng Sanpao said this, Ding Fan didn't think much about it, completely agreed with his statement, and didn't say anything else.
Just talking about the geographical location of Oupu Bay and Turnovertun, this point can be completely explained, and it would be strange if Turnovertun was not prosperous back then.
As for what kind of rice or something, Ding Fan didn't know, he hadn't heard anyone say it before, but Erzhuzi said it once, it seemed to be their family's land, what was a great good land before, what was planted, it was a good thing that someone could not read, and so on, as for how good, I don't know, Erzhuzi himself can't understand.
It's just that Ding Fan still can't understand what happened in Fengshoutun back then, why did it turn into a turnover, and even why did so many people die in the tun at once, and in the end, there were only about a hundred families left?
It seems that I heard Zheng Sanpao say something like plague before, in fact, the most important point, and the point that Ding Fan is most curious about, is the problem on this mountain, why no one comes to this place?
At the beginning, Zheng Sanpao told himself that the location of this place was a forbidden place for everyone, and even an old hunter like Zheng Sanpao would not dare to come here.
Originally, Ding Fan thought that there would be a lot of traps and the like on the mountain behind, but after seeing the engineering bricks on the ground, he also had some conjectures, thinking that this place might have been a strictly guarded place before, or a small fortress or something, thinking that even if some mines and other things were placed outside the small fortress, it would make perfect sense.
At first, Ding Fan thought like this, and thought that there would be a lot of mines and other things in front of him, but after he came, he found that there seemed to be nothing on the way, and as for what dangers and the like, it seemed that there was nothing except that the road was not easy to walk, and even the beasts here seemed to rarely appear here.
At that time, Ding Fan was thinking, did Zheng Sanpao know that there were gold treasures on the mountain, and he was afraid that he would worry about these things, so he didn't talk about it to himself, and he didn't even want to ask himself to come here?
"Back then, when I was young, I was only in my twenties, and I was still a yellow-haired boy, and a plague broke out in Tunzi. Zheng Sanpao said to Ding Fan with a heavy face:
"How the plague began, no one knows, the only thing that knows is that the plague came from the mountains, and a master who took me to hunt was the first person to get sick.
In less than a day, he began to have a rash all over his body, his face was pale and blue, and the whole person seemed to have turned into a wild beast.
Died directly in Tunzi, at that time, Tunzi was still a big Tunzi with more than 300 people, but in one night, more than a dozen people were infected, as long as the disease spread, it was almost completely uncontrollable, just a few days, the originally lively village, has become a deserted village. ”
Zheng Sanpao sighed as he spoke, moved his body a little, told himself to lie down a little more comfortably, and then continued to tell Ding Fan:
At that time, the barefoot doctor in the tunzi ran around, thinking about curing this disease, but when he saw the people in the house, he ran like a ghost and ran like crazy, and he was still shouting something Zatha appeared, which is a very vicious spell in shamanism, and it was originally a legend.
No one believed it at the time, but after a short time, several patients died one after another, and when looking for this barefoot doctor, it turned out that he was already dead, he died in his own home, and he bit off his tongue and died. ”
When Zheng Sanpao said this, Ding Fan was already starting to chill all over his body, but after thinking about it, it didn't seem right.
This witchcraft is actually just the ignorant belief of the people at that time, and the reason why people died at that time was because of this meson poison gas.
And the first person to come into contact with this thing should be the so-called master that Zheng Sanpao said.
After figuring this out, Ding Fan didn't say anything, but just continued to stare at Zheng Sanpao's body, wanting to hear what he still had to say.
The result was just as Ding Fan imagined, after Zheng Sanpao said this, he turned his head to him and said:
"Later, I found the body of my master, and I also read the notes that my master usually writes, which is what my master has always been used to.
As long as there is something new that he has never seen, he will record it, and this is how I know where the master went in the end. ”
"Third uncle, your master wouldn't have come here back then, would he?" Zheng Sanpao said so, if Ding Fan couldn't guess it, it would be strange, and he thought that there was only one possibility.
After Zheng Sanpao listened to Ding Fan's words, he nodded and said:
"You kid is really smart, the last place where my master was seen was here. Originally, I didn't think it was here, but when I followed the master, he often told me that this place should not come in the end, it was very dangerous inside, but the funny thing is that I didn't believe it back then, and I didn't think that when I came here, I understood why the master said that. ”
When he said this, a look of fear appeared on Zheng Sanpao's originally calm face.
Ding Fan is really curious now, and he doesn't know what Zheng Sanpao saw on the mountain back then, why he was so scared, and there was a cold sweat on his face.
"Third uncle, did you see the fortress here after you came?"
Ding Fan suddenly thought of the previous engineering bricks, and thought that after Zheng Sanpao came, he saw the engineering bricks here, so he was frightened by these buildings.
As a result, Zheng Sanpao just closed his eyes slightly, shook his head slightly, took a deep breath, and said: "If I only saw any buildings here, I wouldn't have been scared like I was at that time, and I almost scared Lao Tzu to pee, do you know what hell is like? What I saw at that time should be a hell!"