Outside the city.
Yinyi River.
At this time, the riverside was blocked by the government officials to prevent the people who heard the news and came to watch the excitement. They crowded the riverside and pushed and pushed him into the river.
If you look down from a high place at this moment, you can see the wide scope of the Yinyi River's cutoff. The river bed is as winding as a sky-reaching moat carved by miraculous craftsmanship, opening up the world between the mountains and ridges. It is majestic and vigorous.
——Zeng searched the scene for fear that it might lead to the gods, and there should be an owner underground.
The cutoff in the section near Fucheng is only a small section of the Yinyi River.
It was still early in the morning, and the dew from last night had not completely dissipated, but at this time, the riverside was already densely packed with people watching the excitement.
As the news that the Yinyi River stopped flowing overnight spread wider and wider, the number of people who came after hearing the news continued to increase.
"Everyone, please stop moving forward."
"Whoever dares to cross this line on the ground in a crowded place will be punished on the spot and punished for twenty years."
The government officials kept persuading and blocking people, maintaining order on the riverside.
When noon came, something unexpected happened again.
Suddenly, the ground trembled, as if a marching and fighting team was passing by.
Not long after, a group of soldiers wearing armor and holding long spears, their armor clashing in the sun with a cold light, led by a dozen black-armored cavalry guards, went out in neat little steps with a bang, a bang, a bang.
military camp.
They marched quickly with murderous intent, chasing them into the distance.
This army has hundreds of people, and behind it, there are thousands of Xiangyong who came out of the "Yong Camp". These Xiangyong can only be regarded as local soldiers, with loose discipline and not as well-trained as those soldiers.
, full of murderous aura.
But even so, with over a thousand people and densely packed heads, the aura alone can intimidate people.
Facing the rapid march of thousands of soldiers and local warriors, the people along the way hurriedly got out of the way, fearing that they would bump into the military masters and be thrown into prison.
These military lords are different from those government officials.
The yamen servants are without merit.
The military master received the product.
Confronting the army is no different from the crime of beheading.
The government officials and police officers who were trying their best to maintain order among the people by the river looked at these well-trained soldiers coming out of the barracks with envy.
I couldn't take my eyes away for a long time.
Especially when looking at the cavalrymen who led the group of more than a dozen riders, they were even more envious, and the blood in their whole bodies seemed to be boiling.
State capitals are different from local county towns.
There are civil servants and military attachés in the state capital. There are military tents in the state capital, and the military attache is called the capital.
There are two types of errands in Kangding State.
One is established by local officials, and the other is established by the imperial court who pays salaries to the imperial court.
Government servants, catchers, masters, etc., are supported by the local government and financed by the local government, so it is difficult for them to get ahead in their lives. Therefore, even the catchers who look very impressive on weekdays, their real status is not
If you are high, you can't get into the imperial establishment, that is, you can't get into the rank.
If you work hard all your life until you die, you will still be a local employee.
However, the status and status of these military men in the military camp, who are usually aloof and superior, are completely different.
They receive military pay allocated by the central government of the imperial court. They eat well, drink well, and receive high treatment. They are officially assigned by the imperial court. If they receive military honors, they have the opportunity to be promoted to military attache.
The people of Fucheng who had originally gathered around the river bank really exploded when they saw this thousands-strong team composed of regular soldiers and rural warriors walking away.
They all inquired one after another, what big thing happened, and even the military men in the military camp looked murderous and wanted to fight?
Actually, the military master and the country warriors all went out together?
Wuzhou Prefecture is located in the hinterland of Kangding State. It is not a border area like Grassland and Mobei. It should be impossible to fight. Is it to suppress bandits?
I haven't heard of any serious banditry happening anywhere recently.
Even if there is a bandit trouble somewhere, the captain in Fucheng usually likes to train troops and suppress bandits. It is estimated that within a few days of taking the lead, he will be trained and suppressed by the captain, and there is no chance to grow stronger.
"Don't you know this? This time it's not about suppressing bandits, but it's not easy to cut off the flow of the Yinyi River this time. It not only exposed the river bed, but also exposed thousands of underwater caves that have been submerged by the river.
"
"My uncle owns a tavern. Today, some of the waiters revealed some rumors while drinking..."
The scholar first whetted people's appetites and enjoyed the pleasure of being noticed. After everyone urged him again and again, he continued to talk eloquently.
"Everyone knows that there are mountains on both sides of the Yinyi River, which are submerged by the rushing river all year round. No one knows what is under the river."
"But from ancient times to the present, the Yinyi River has always been associated with various mysteries and ancient sacrificial legends, such as the century-old fish king crashing into a shipwreck, and the millennium-old turtle spirit overturning a boat and eating it... Or there are floods every year, and people on both sides of the river offer sacrifices to the river.
The god, the River God, threw twenty-eight maidens into the river to marry him and prayed that there would be no floods in the coming year."
"Although the Yinyi River has been cut off several times, the past few times have been small-scale cuts, and no big surprises have happened. However, the scale of the cut-off this time is really rare and unheard of. Because
This time the flow was cut off, unexpectedly, thousands of caves were exposed at the foot of the mountain. These thousands of caves are connected to each other and extend in all directions. They have been submerged under water all year round and no one knows about it. And strange things happened in these thousands of waterways...
"
Ordinary people don't know about the Zhijie Immortal. This is considered secret information in a small area, so these people have never heard that the Zhijie Immortal was dug out when the Yinyi River dried up in the early years.
This is precisely why Uncle Lin, the owner of the coffin shop, was surprised when Jin An told the story of the corpse.
The scholar continued to speak eloquently: "The first person to discover the discontinuation of the Yinyi River was probably a small village near the river at the source of the discontinuation."
"Just think about it, the villagers on the river bank who are used to hearing the roar of the river will definitely get up and check as soon as there is sudden silence."
"It is precisely because of this that the villagers on these river banks discovered the thousands of caves exposed under the broken river bed."
"But these villagers were timid and did not dare to go down to check the situation until dawn. As a result, not long after they entered these caves, they lost two people. The caves are connected to each other. From the outside, they look like large and small water holes. When they go inside
But there are caves and caves, which are interconnected and extend in all directions, forming an underwater cave that is even larger than what you see from the outside. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are tens of thousands of caves."
"In order to find the two lost people, the villagers used long ropes to continue descending into these underwater caves. As a result, they could not reach the end no matter how far they walked. There were so many water holes in the caves that it was like a trance formation.
It’s a crowd-pleaser.”
"Just when the villagers were about to give up, a scream echoed through the cave. When the villagers found the villager who screamed, they saw several corpses floating in the water that had not receded in the cave."
"At this time, people scattered in other directions began to scream. The deeper they went into the cave, more and more floating corpses were found. These villagers were so frightened that they ran outside and then hurriedly came to the city to report to the official, saying that they had found a body in the water.
When we went down to the corpse cave, two villagers were missing."
…
The troops who came out of the military camp and the Yong camp, the Xiangyong, marched in a hurry, their cloaks covered with dust all the way.
Finally, at midnight, they finally arrived at their destination.
This is the dangerous corner where a landslide occurred and the river was blocked when Jin'an came.
At this place, many village warriors from several nearby villages, under the leadership of several Li Zheng, have blocked off the surrounding land and waterways to prevent anyone from accidentally entering.
As soon as the soldiers arrived in a hurry, they immediately stood upright and respectfully stepped forward to report the situation.
It turns out that there has been more than one mudslide here. The mountain where the last landslide occurred, perhaps because there was a hidden risk of loose soil, had another landslide yesterday, a month later.
This time the mudslide was more serious than last time. It happened to be at the narrowest point of the sharp bend of the Yinyi River, directly blocking the river channel.
After reporting the situation, the man in charge urgently asked for help in finding the two missing people in their village.
The leader of this thousand-man team is the cavalry guard with more than a dozen horses. They are all strong and powerful, with sharp eyes, and they are all masters in the army who are decisive in killing.
Among the dozen or so riders, one of them was the deputy commander with a beard.
After hearing Li Zheng's report, the deputy commander did not go down to the cave immediately. It was night now, and the visibility was not good at night, so it was inconvenient to go down to the river bed. Moreover, the sergeants had been marching for a day and were exhausted now.
Need to camp and rest for one night.
He could still decide whether the lives of two ordinary villagers were more important than the lives of thousands of people.
Although this matter was cruel to those two ordinary villagers.
But kindness does not command troops.
To be continued...