"The Qi family has no rebellious heart and no ability to build soldiers."
"However, the words of a treacherous and sycophantic person are muddying the ears, and the instigating heart is blinding the eyes. If you want to impose a crime, why bother without saying anything?"
Zhou Sheng read the words in the remonstrance carefully.
If General Qi's lineage was exterminated due to misjudgment, it would not be surprising that there is no record of this person in history for such a major mistake.
After all, most of the history that has been handed down to this day is still recorded by the historians of the main family.
It is simply unrealistic to expect historians to record all the mistakes of the master's family impartially.
However, judging from the general's description, the purpose of his death remonstrance was not to clear up his own grievances, but to hope that the Holy Spirit would spare his family members after years of hard work on him.
Through the wild regular script fonts, scenes from hundreds of years ago seemed to be presented before Zhou Sheng's eyes.
"...I have been guarding the border for decades, and have always been surrounded by snow. Once during the New Year's Eve, an official froze to death in front of the dim light of the sky. The white snow covered the red cage, and it looked as if it were plain for thousands of miles..."
The general idea is that when the New Year is approaching, someone in the house freezes to death before seeing the new year's sun. The red lanterns are covered with white snow, just like the white cloth hung on the door during a memorial ceremony.
"We experienced barbarian raids, food and grass were exhausted, and reinforcements were never expected. The soldiers used their bodies to build a city, and shed their blood to guard the walls. Their blood became icicles, and their food quelled hunger. After a few years, I was summoned to rebel against the government and asked where the reinforcements were? The answer was that there was no book...
"
When fighting broke out on the border, reinforcements from the rear failed to arrive, and the frozen-hard corpses of the soldiers formed a solid city wall.
The spilled blood quickly froze into icicles, and the surviving soldiers even had to drink snow water mixed with blood to satisfy their hunger!
When the general was summoned back to the DPRK, he asked why there were no reinforcements or food supplies, but he received an answer from the DPRK that no letter requesting for help had been received at all.
If someone hadn't deliberately intercepted the request for help, how could this situation have been caused?
"The things mentioned above will not cause you to become rebellious or rebellious for the rest of your life. They only describe the pain of being deceived by the Holy One and being unable to hear or see clearly."
Throughout his life, General Qi seemed to be far away from the capital and escaped the wars between several kings, but he still suffered from his own sufferings.
After all, in troubled times, who can survive alone?
Zhou Sheng said nothing and quietly read the last few paragraphs of the text.
The few thin pages are filled with pain, sadness, and helplessness.
Although Zhou Sheng was only a latecomer, as a bystander, he was also deeply moved.
"It's so sad that if your inner body is cold, it will be difficult to have children, and you will die without heirs."
"I am not begging for mercy, nor am I seeking merit. I just hope that the Holy Spirit will remember the bitter cold in the frontier when he was alive, and the bones in Enzhunmen will be returned to the land of warm spring, so that there is no need to endure the desolation."
"...Rather than seek justice in the world, I would rather bear the injustice and hope that my relatives will be safe..."
"The Holy One is wise and mighty, and his longevity is boundless."
After reading this letter of remonstrance and contacting Qi Ziyu who just said that his wife killed them, Zhou Sheng was finally able to connect everything.
I'm afraid that the charcoal fire Qi Ziyu borrowed that night was mixed with some intoxicating ingredients, so that everyone in the house could be killed without any resistance.
In the middle of the journey, Qi Ziyu felt that the strange scenes he saw when he woke up might be hallucinations caused by the psychedelic elements.
Perhaps the reason why the General Mansion wanted to exterminate the family on its own was because of the torn bloody book and cloth hidden in the tomb.
This piece of cloth was torn up by the general angrily, but would there be other bloody books on the cloth that were passed to the Holy Lord at that time?
The general is outside and difficult to control. If he encounters the jealous master again, I am afraid that the strangulation order is already on the way to the general's palace!
Therefore, the general took the first step to prevent the superiors from taking action and ended the matter by himself. Then he used his own death in exchange for letting the bones of the whole family return to the land of spring warmth and no longer suffer from the cold.
After all, in that era, the crime of rebellion was to punish the nine tribes.
The general used the death of his own clan to avoid the disaster of other clan members, which can also be regarded as a counter-restriction on the royal family's actions.
In that dynasty, there were not many celebrities named Qi, and there were no historical records of any of the nine clans being executed.
Therefore, the general's goal should be considered achieved.
However, because there are not many famous people with the surname Qi, Zhou Sheng can probably guess the general identity of General Qi.
If calculated carefully, he does have a close relationship with important ministers who hold military power in the DPRK, which will inevitably arouse suspicion and targeting.
With the status of General Qi, although he is not a brilliant person, he should definitely not be an unknown person.
The reason why there is no record about him in historical materials may be because of this disgraceful past incident.
Since this death letter was placed in the general's tomb, it means that this matter did not cause any disturbance in the court and was covered up, so I am afraid that very few people know about it.
Time gradually submerged everything. Perhaps there are thousands more stories like General Qi's, but there is no chance for future generations to discover them.
Who can know what kind of ups and downs history has hidden?
Zhou Sheng carefully put away the death remonstrance book, and then looked at the brown earth wall above his head.
If we forcefully open a hole here and crawl back to the ground, it is not completely impossible.
Even if Tianzun causes the entire tomb to collapse, Zhou Sheng is still capable of saving his life.
But if it gets to this point, his identity will inevitably be exposed.
Zhou Sheng temporarily withdrew this plan. At this moment, the call gradually weakened and the corridor began to shake again.
Zhou Sheng looked from a distance, and as the sound weakened, the red light from the main tomb became even brighter!
The red light flashed, as if something was trying to escape from inside.
"Boom——!" There was a loud noise, and the earth walls on both sides of the corridor suddenly collapsed.
At the same time, the iron door of the main tomb was also broken open!
Mud, sand and bricks were scattered in all directions, but the expected collapse did not come. The walls fell to both sides, revealing a larger space.
Only then did Zhou Sheng realize that the walls on both sides of the corridor and the partition in front were all deceptions!
They have long been standing in the final main tomb! This large underground space, including the corridor, is all within the scope of the main tomb!
I am afraid that the location where Wei Ping was hiding previously was the hidden space behind the corridor wall.
From this point of view, Wei Ping was stalling for time from the beginning, making Zhou Sheng mistakenly think that as long as he did not enter the room where the coffin was stored, everything would be fine.
If we look at this entire space as a tomb, it will be larger and more open than the tomb where the murals are stored.
There will also be more mechanisms and secrets that can be hidden here.
After the ethereal calling gradually weakened, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang were the first to regain their consciousness.
However, they were unable to move freely. Instead, they frowned tightly and raised their hands to hold their heads, as if they were suffering from great pain.
Liu Ruyan asked: "Is this the sequelae of being bewitched? Or was there something else that affected them?"