Chapter 50: Secret Mission
Bian Dashou was blessed to his heart, and immediately said: "Yes, the lower officials know, this is all a task sent by Governor Fu Zonglong!"
The messenger listened, and then nodded. As a courtier, you always have to carry some black pot to the emperor to repay the emperor's great kindness, right?
Bian Dashou rushed out to call people, such a big thing, the officials in the yamen must be unreliable.
He directly asked Lian President Hao Guangzheng to call over: "You go and gather all the people, let's go out to the countryside!"
Hao Guangzheng complained bitterly, and hurriedly said: "My lord, it's about to snow, isn't it necessary to go to the countryside at this time to take the lives of the brothers?"
The regimental training is just the armed forces formed by the local wealthy families themselves to defend the township, and the government can also mobilize one or two, depending on the stronger over there.
Bian Dashou sneered: "Don't worry, I know the rules." Wait for everyone to give one or two pieces of silver, this time there will be no problem!"
As soon as Hao Guangzheng heard that there was money to take, he immediately did not complain that the weather was too cold, and immediately shouted: "I will call someone to go immediately!"
"Come back, don't have too many people. Thirty archers are almost enough!" Bian Dashou said.
"Okay!" Hao Guangzheng went to see someone. Shaanxi has belonged to the Qin land since ancient times, and the folk customs are the most martial. Since ancient times, it has been a place to produce elite soldiers, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, there were a large number of folk regiments such as bow and arrow clubs to resist the attack of the Tanguts.
It was at this time, although one of the nine sides, the Yulin General Army, had already been finished. But in such a small place as Mizhi, it is still possible to make up dozens of township soldiers who can fight.
In less than an hour, the number of people was gathered. Bian Dashou respectfully said to the messenger: "Do you want to stay here to post the news, or do you want to go together?"
The messenger said, "Where can I sit on such a great matter?" Let's go together!"
Bian Dashou nodded, although he was uneasy. But he still took his thirty archers to protect this big man from the capital and went to Wujiapo, where Li Zicheng's ancestral tomb was located.
Wujiapo is hundreds of miles away from the county seat, and not long after they left the city, it snowed heavily, and the snowflakes were as big as palms, almost impermeable to the wind.
Those archers all sighed and complained, this kind of cold wind and howling ghost weather ran more than a hundred miles in the countryside, it was really deadly.
This is not an exaggeration!
In this era, a good man is not a soldier, let alone a soldier who is not even a soldier?
Those who can be the sons of this Laosh are all poor families who are bitter. One by one, you can wear a torn sheepskin jacket to the sky, in this cold day, you can't stand it by hiding at home and roasting the fire, let alone now?
These people were still complaining at first, and gradually scolded Huai. What do you say about blind commands, tossing around, asking for human lives or something.
Bian Dashou's face was pale, but he didn't see it. Hao Guangzheng said a little worriedly: "My lord, this can't be done, more than a hundred miles, with such a heavy snowfall, you will definitely not be able to walk at night." This overnight stay will definitely freeze to death!"
The messenger sneered: "How can you be on an errand, isn't it just a snowy day to travel? What is the great ......?"
"Ah......h , the toad yawned, and breathed a big sigh. ”
Someone next to him couldn't listen anymore: "You dog, wearing a mink coat, wrapped like a ball." Lao Tzu is wearing tattered clothes, and the feelings are that you can't freeze to death, aren't you a turtle grandson?"
"It's like, what a royal thing. The bastard is a country-breaker who can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes and clothing, and the old men don't wait anymore, and they don't do it......"
In the face of this commotion, the messenger would never have imagined it. In the capital, it is Zhu Zi's magnates, princes and nobles, who have to give him a little face and accompany two smiling faces.
But he didn't expect that these poor ants would dare to talk to him like this, but he couldn't have a seizure now, and he was extremely depressed for a while.
"Everyone, everyone......" Bian Dashou was scared into a cold sweat.
He is not like this Jinyi Wei messenger, who stays at the feet of the emperor and is offered by everyone. Over the years, I have seen many proud soldiers and fierce generals.
At this time, one is not handled well. It really made these villagers scattered. Or simply turn around and cut them down!
"Rest assured, we have a place to spend the night in the evening. As long as you don't delay on the road, before it gets dark, we can get to the Wildcat Castle in front!
I have already sent someone to ride a horse and take the first step to deliver a message to Wang Daozheng, and when we arrive at Wildcat Castle, there will be fragrant sauerkraut noodles waiting for us. Now we're dozens of miles away from the city, and it's not easy to go back, right?
Everyone is relieved, after I go back, I will treat you well. Someone next to me counts when he talks!"
It's so easy to say it, which persuaded these village soldiers.
The messenger of the brocade guard looked at it from beginning to end, and sighed in his heart, this is really a bad etiquette!
The lord of a dignified county actually talked to these township soldiers in such a low manner. It seems that the current situation of the country is really declining......
It's just that although he is so slanderous in his heart, he doesn't dare to open his mouth anymore.
The snow grew heavier and heavier, and they made it to Fort Wildcat before it got dark. At this time, it was not far from Sanfengzi Mountain, where Li Zicheng's ancestral tomb was located.
Wang Daozheng, the chief of Wildcat Castle, has indeed gotten the news. Hurry up and get ready to eat, although the noodles of Bai Huahua are not expected, but at least they can eat enough, and even have a few sips of wine to drink.
On the second day, when we set off again. Bian Dashou has an extra heart. Let Wang Daozheng find sixty people and go with him.
First, it was convenient to dig graves, but secondly, it was to let those archers coax again......
The place where Li Zicheng's ancestral tomb is located was originally called Sanfengzi Mountain, but since Li Zicheng became the king of Chuang, this place has also become Huanglongling.
In the event of heavy snowfall, more than two feet deep, the mountain road is steep and slippery, and horses cannot enter. This time, there were a lot more villagers to play and suppress, and those archers didn't dare to agitate at will.
Walking for five or six miles, a full number of hours, shows how difficult this place is.
Along the way, the bird path is rugged and untouched for a long time, and even the original path has been overgrown by weeds and thorns, and someone has to be found to open the way with a knife.
After walking about a mile, I saw more than ten kiln houses, and the walls still existed, which was the courtyard of the Li Zi family. It's just that since Li Zicheng raised his army, this place has been exterminated by the local government!
Then cross a mountain, to its cemetery, surrounded by mountains on all sides, the spirit is magnificent, there are no less than 1,000 trees in the forest, and there are 23 large and small tombs.
These are the ancestral graves of Li Zicheng's family, in fact, many of those guys in Wildcat Fort are natives of their hometown, and when they come here, they begin to have some speculations.
Now when they see these graves, as long as they are not stupid, they all know it in their hearts, and they all shout. Although Li Zicheng raised an army to plague the world, he is still good for the local township, after all, don't rabbits eat the grass by the nest?
In addition, the matter of digging people's ancestral graves is naturally extremely immoral among the people, and it suddenly makes everyone roar.
But at this moment, Bian Dashou stood up and shouted: "This is the order of the governor Fu Zonglong, you still dare to disobey, dig, dig for me!"
As soon as they dug up an old grave, they saw that the corpses in the grave had already turned into white bones, and their bones were all bloody and oily, not like things that had withered from a long time ago.
Digging up another one is like this again, and all of a sudden, everyone is a little hairy. Many people are secretly saying that Li Zicheng's family is buried on the dragon vein, and even the bones are nourished by the dragon vein!
This time, don't say it's Bian Dashou, it's the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who pretended to be a messenger, and he only played the drum in his heart. Especially Bian Dashou, who was in a cold sweat behind his back, remembered that strange dream.
"It's all bones, what are you afraid of? If you dig again, can these bone racks still stand up and bite people, dig, keep digging!"
At the sound of an order, these archers and people, who were also difficult to ride tigers, had to shout bad luck and then dig again.
Li Zicheng's family is in this poor and remote place, and their ancestors have been farmers for generations. The tomb would not have been built very well, and the materials used for the coffin board were extremely ordinary, and the excavation speed was extremely fast.
Soon, another grave was dug up, and this time the frightened person sat on the ground, and my mother screamed.
And I saw the bones in it, the bones were as black as ink, but white hairs grew on the forehead, six or seven inches long. This makes the heart of everyone who sees it cold.
This should be the tomb of Li Zicheng's grandfather Li Hai, and it is already so weird. If Li Shouzhong's tomb is dug up, I don't know what will happen?
For a while, everyone who was looking at each other was silent.
"Dig again!" Bian Dashou shouted, snatched the hoe from a man's hand, and dug it himself.
With the county magistrate personally going into battle, at this moment, the others mustered up courage.
Bian Dashou only pretended to dig twice, seeing that it had already stirred up people's hearts, thinking of that strange dream, where did he dare to dig by it?
Someone just dug up the coffin board with a hoe, and there was a click, and the coffin that had been old for a long time had already rotted and was dug through by a hoe.
But I saw a black gas coming out, and everyone was scared to hide. One of the archers was probably stunned, and before he had time to dodge, he was shrouded in black gas and let out a heart-rending scream.
"Mom......"
"Toxic ......"
In the midst of all kinds of strange screams, a black shadow suddenly burst out and entrenched itself on the grave.
Everyone who saw it had their feet weakened. This is a black snake as thick as a bucket, black and weird, and it looks like it is poisonous.
You must know that snakes are generally non-poisonous when they are big, and such a big snake is also poisonous, no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel cold in their hearts!
The black snake suddenly raised its head, its cold eyes were already fixed on a nearby man, and it swam over slowly. rs