"You are crazy. This is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it is because of this that we all value you." Mr. Bo didn't know why Song Yang was silent, but continued: "I did hide something from you. The reason is very simple.
, we don’t want to go crazy on this matter, but you will definitely become crazy again, do you understand?”
Song Yang smiled: "I'm even more confused."
"Whether you are really confused or pretending to be confused, don't ask any more about this matter. You will naturally know it after a while. When the matter is over, Fatty Silk will accompany you to go crazy." Mr. Silk also laughed.
Everyone's words were very clear. Since Mr. Bo was unwilling to speak, Song Yang gave up.
Without asking any more questions, Mr. Bo patted Song Yang on the shoulder: "Sometimes I wish you were a little stupider, so you don't have to worry.
Let's go, my lady, I'd like to ask you to take more trouble."
After saying that, he shouted in his mouth, rode away, and quickly disappeared into the night.
The moon was high in the sky, and the little catcher could hear clearly that just now the door hinge of the yard next door rang. Song Yang had gone home, and was now feeding the cats and dogs in the yard. She counted the time, and it was a good time to practice double cultivation.
At that time, I happily climbed up the wall. The two houses were less than ten steps apart, but Her Royal Highness felt that it would be more comfortable to climb over the wall to find Song Yang.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she jumped up the wall, there was a knock on the door outside Song Yang's courtyard. Song Yang waved his hand to the little trapper riding on the wall, signaling her not to jump over yet.
He lowered his body to the ground to make himself more invisible.
Song Yang stepped forward to open the door, and under the moonlight, the young man could see clearly that the visitor was Xie Zizuo, and she was holding a box in her arms.
Xie Zizhuo came alone, and did not enter the courtyard. He was not as polite as Mr. Bo. He stood at the door, hesitated for a moment, and then asked softly: "Are you short of money?"
Song Yang coughed and said, "The previous "meal money, etc." were all Lao Gu's jokes, so you don't need to pay attention."
Xie Zizhuo shook his head: "It's not because of the joke, but after the joke, you looked like you were really short of money." Fatty Xie's daughter was born with some of her father's ability to observe people's emotions.
Xie Zizhuo didn't need Song Yang to say anything. She raised her hand and opened the box in her arms. It was a very simple action, but she found it a little difficult: "I don't have much money, I only have this."
There are several banknotes in the box, which add up to more than three thousand taels of silver, which is not a small amount for ordinary people, but for a feudal city, it is not even a drop in the bucket. There are also some gold and silver jewelry with unusual workmanship.
It is exquisite and can be of ordinary color. It is not inlaid with pearls and jade, and its value is not too high. Xie Men's lackey has always been poor. Even if he cares for the porcelain doll like a treasure, he can only give her so much decoration.
Only then did Song Yang notice that Xie Zi's ears and neck were all empty, and the hairpin was just the most ordinary wooden hairpin. No need to ask, she had put all the accessories into this box before coming here.
"I know it's not enough, so I'm just trying my best. You ask for money for revenge in the final analysis."
Song Yang smiled: "I understand the good intentions, but I really can't and won't accept them.
Thank you."
The porcelain doll stood quietly at the door, eyes lowered. After a moment, he closed the box and responded softly: "Oh."
In the previous life, Song Sniper would have patted her shoulders and asked her to rub the top of her head, but this life was different. He didn't dare to move, and just said with a smile: "Don't worry so much, someone will take care of those things."
That's right, you don't have to think about it, just settle down and be happy."
With such an answer, Xie Zizuo turned around and walked away with the box in her arms, but after a few steps she stopped again: "I'm not unhappy. The princess's eyes were bright and her hands were warm: And the princess, she said I looked like a doll,
In fact, she is a doll and her temperament is so good."
There was sincere envy in Xie Zizhuo's tone, and he took another step and left.
The young catcher didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or sigh. When Xie Zizuo walked away, he was about to jump into the yard, but Song Yang waved to her again, signaling her not to come down yet.
On the empty long street, there was an extra "ghost" figure. Its body was hunched and silent, and it was walking towards Song Yang's house, looking at the old woman Mu En.
When he arrived, Mu En got straight to the point: "Are you short of money?"
Song Yang was stunned, shook his head and smiled: "Have you made an agreement with Xie Zizuo?"
"I haven't talked to her." Mu En ignored Song Yang's joke and continued: "I keep hearing you mention money these days, so I came to ask."
Song Yang asked back: "Are you rich?"
Mu En shook his head and answered simply: "I have no money."
Helplessly at the same time, Song Yang suddenly felt that the conversation between him and the old woman was somewhat familiar. It seemed that similar topics had been mentioned before. After thinking about it carefully for a while, he finally recalled it.
More than two years ago, Mu En said that she would give Song Yang a big gift. Song Yang did not expect that her gift would be Sanshan Xixiu, and said that the barbarians would give him a fortune. The situation at that time was almost the same as now. It was Mu En who asked first.
Are you short of money?, and then replied to himself, "I have no money.", as if he was deliberately trying to make Song Yang happy.
But this time, Mu En was more serious: "There may be a place, and there may be money."
Mu En's words were vague, but Song Yang cheered up. He was too tight and let her in, leading her to the house: "Come in and talk carefully." Mu En has barbarian instincts and keen senses.
The courtyard frowned at first, and did not follow Song Yang to the main room. Instead, he turned halfway and walked to the courtyard wall where the young man was lying down. He looked up at Her Royal Highness and asked in a curious tone, "What are you doing?"
The little catcher blinked, not knowing how to answer at all, so he responded smoothly: "Climb the wall."
Mu En was still curious: "Which way to climb?"
Song Yang coughed dryly while dragging Mu En into the house. The little catcher jumped off the wall dejectedly and came over to listen to the story. However, Mu En didn't want to go into the house. She didn't like the house. If Song Yang asked her to go up the tree and tell the story,
She would probably nod happily.
"Have you ever heard of a native monkey?" Mu En asked first as he sat casually in the courtyard. Song Yang and Xiao
The two men looked at each other and shook their heads. The young man tentatively asked, "Monkey?"
"It's not a monkey, it's a savage in the mountains. It likes to live underground and is best at digging holes. Because it has been running underground for many years, its eyes have sunken deeply and its eyesight is very poor. However, its ears and nose are abnormally protruding.
Anyway, it’s just shockingly ugly, so it’s called Earth Monkey. It was conquered by the Han people in ancient times.
Went out of the mountains." Mu En explained, and then began to tell the story formally: "It is something that has been passed down from generation to generation among the clan members for a long time. I don't know whether it is true or not."
All savages and barbarians are not too docile in temperament, but they are not necessarily as hostile to the Han people as the mountain and stream barbarians. This is the case for the native monkeys. With constant contact with the Han people, they gradually feel that it is hard in the mountains. More and more tribesmen leave the mountains.
They entered Han territory to seek a living. As early as nine years ago, there was no trace of them in the mountains.
More than a year later, in front of Qiduodong, a group of native monkeys suddenly came from outside the mountain. There were more than a thousand people, and they also brought a large amount of luggage. These native monkeys wore Chinese clothes and spoke Chinese, so they were obviously early.
After being assimilated, if the body hadn't retained the characteristics of the ancestors, they might as well have been Han Chinese.
"More than seven years ago, the twelve corpses in the clan were still little babies. In order to avoid the poisonous miasma, the mountain stream lineage often migrated. In those decades, they happened to occupy the territory that the Monkeys used to live in. They have been out of the mountains for a few years. Who can
I know I will come back.”
The people in the mountains are arrogant. When something like this happened, the local monkey didn't say anything, even skipped the negotiation process, and directly went on the offensive. The mountain people immediately suffered a big loss. When he said this, the little catcher's eyes widened in surprise: "
Can they still inflict heavy losses on Shanxi Man? Are they good at fighting?"
Mu En snorted coldly: "It was dark night at that time, and they were all loaches in the soil..."
Song Yang coughed: "What you want to say is "earthworm.?"
The ancestors of the earth monkeys have been living underground for many years, and their eyesight has been severely degraded. However, their senses of smell and hearing are extremely sharp, which gives them a great advantage in fighting at night. However, it is not without reason that the Shanxi tribe can become a fierce fighting savage.
The nine tribes of Shanxi each had their own strengths and were extremely tenacious. They rallied nearby tribesmen and fought hard. After several days of fighting, they finally won a complete victory. Over half of the native monkeys suffered casualties, and the rest were all captured.
Originally, the remnants of the native monkeys were bound to die, but when they were about to be executed by the barbarians, they cried bitterly and begged the barbarians for a way out. The reason was simply that they were already the last members of the clan, and if they were killed, they would die.
Extinction.
After questioning, Tuhou told them the reason. The Han people outside the mountains had already felt that they were of no use and began to kill them bloodyly. Only this team managed to escape back to the mountains.
The young catcher was puzzled when he heard this: "How can they say that they are useful or not when they enter the Han territory to live?"
Mu Enshui shook her head and said, "I didn't know, so I beat her."
"Unless" he is his wife-in-law after all, Song Yang is very patient with Xiao Zai: "The native monkeys come out of the mountains not to live their own lives, but to do things for the Han masters. In the past, the Han masters could use them, but not at that time."
Use it again."
The young catcher was indignant: "There's no need to kill them all."
This time Song Yang had no choice but to shake his head: "I don't know." He gestured to Mu En, indicating that she could continue talking.
The request of that group of local monkeys is very simple. They will never leave the mountain again, nor will they be enemies with Shanxi Man. After experiencing a "human world", they just want to recognize their ancestors and return to their clan, as long as Shanxi Man spares their lives.
, they are willing to live in slavery for years.
The Shanxi barbarians hate the Han people the most, but they are much friendly to the people in the mountains. Even though the group of barbarians had surrendered to the Han master and had just attacked them, they finally agreed to their request and did not use them as slaves. The native monkeys retreated
Entering the ancestral home, the two tribes can be regarded as sharing the same territory.
Although they live in a mixed community, the barbarians live on the ground, and the monkeys mostly live underground and rarely come up, so they don't bother each other much.
"But in the following ten years, the mountain stream suffered a lot for those "loaches. Han people continued to enter the mountains, apparently just to look for the native monkeys." Mu En's expression was gloomy: "The native monkeys are not good things.
I have learned all about the cunning of the Han people, but when I begged for mercy, I never mentioned that there were countless Han people chasing them behind them, because they, the ancestors of Shanxi and those Han people fought countless times, and countless people died."
"Until the Twelve Masters chose a new camp for us, we could better avoid the poisonous miasma and avoid the harassment of the Han people. Our ancestors were not afraid of the Han army and warriors, but the messy grievances and feuds between the Han people and the local monkeys
We have nothing to do with it, and there is no need to participate. Those ancestors who used to eat local monkeys and secretly regretted it don’t care.
From then on, we had nothing to do with the earth monkeys. "I heard that four years later, a Han army marched into the mountains and entered the earth monkeys' nest. The specific situation is unknown. I only know that the Han army did not return.
came out, but the team was large in number and very elite. Even if the earth monkeys won the battle underground, they would still suffer heavy casualties. The matter ended here, and no Han people came back, but I have never seen any earth monkeys in the mountains. I guess they were
Completely destroyed."
After Mu En finished speaking, he closed his mouth.
Song Yang waited for a while to make sure that the old woman had nothing more to say, and then tentatively asked: "Where is the money? Where is the money?"
Only then did Mu En remember that she had forgotten to mention the most important thing: "The ancestors mentioned this when they passed it down. When the native monkeys begged for mercy, they said that they had the wealth of the Han people and asked us if we wanted it."
Shanxi people are self-sufficient and have almost no contact with the outside world. They have no need for gold, silver and jewelry, not to mention they don't want anything from the Han people.
The little catcher's eyes lit up: "So, the local monkeys took the gold and silver treasures and hid them underground. The Han people kept chasing them, and in the end both sides were hurt, but the money was left?"
Mu En was noncommittal and repeated what he said at the beginning: "I don't know whether the legend from a few years ago is true or false. If you are really short of money, you can go find one and try it."
Song Yang asked: "Why haven't I heard you mention it before?"
"In the past, it had nothing to do with me that you were short of money." Mu En answered directly: "Now I hope you have money."
Song Yang nodded, understanding what she meant. The cost of feeding an entire tribe of barbarians is astonishing...
In fact, there is another reason. The Shanxi Barbarians kept their promise. They promised the local monkeys that the two sides would not invade each other. After worshiping Song Yang as their master, Mu En and the Sanxiu tribe gave up their identity as Shanxi Barbarians and no longer accepted the promise.
There are restrictions, but she is still unwilling to break the promise of her ancestors unless she has to.
Therefore, this matter has not been stated before.
But now, in order to feed her relatives in the mountains, the old woman doesn't care about anything anymore.
Mu En stood up and said, "If you think about it, call me if you want to go, otherwise you won't find the place at all." After saying that, he walked out of the yard without saying goodbye.
After she left, Xiao Qiao smiled sweetly: "I understand, it makes Chang Chunhou feel uncomfortable asking my sister to find ways to make money every day. Now that he has a way to make money, Mr. Hou has no choice but to go."
I don’t know if it was because of his dual cultivation, but the little catcher became unusually smart, and then smiled and said: "But if you tell my sister about this, she will definitely not let you go." Deep in the mountains, the situation in the underground lair of the savages is still vague.
It's not that Ren Churong has no money, but she just doesn't want to ask for money from her family all the time. She probably won't agree to Song Yang's adventure. At least she will send someone else on the first trip.
The princess was pleased with herself, shaking her head and just about to continue talking, when Song Yang said directly: "I will take you with me, and you won't tell your neighbor, right?"
"Yes!" Xiao Zhan immediately answered resoundingly, then pulled up Song Yang's sleeve and said pitifully, "I want to go..."
Song Yang smiled and said: "I want to go too, but it's not smart to go into danger just by relying on a legend in a mountain stream. I'll ask Lao Gu first. I can't compare to his knowledge. Let's hear what he says.
." The young man always agreed with Song Yang's idea with both hands and feet. He immediately jumped up and said, "Let's go find him!" After saying that, he was about to walk out. Then seeing Song Yang not moving, he frowned and asked: "What's the matter?
?”
Song Yang looked up at the moon and said with a smile: "It's so late at night, and if you don't rest, others will still be sleeping."
The little catcher chuckled: "Then let's practice kung fu first?"
"It's interesting, it's really interesting." The next morning, Song Yang and Xiao Dao went to Pinjin Nest to find Gu Zhaojun. After telling the legend that Mu En had told him, Lao Gu thought for a while and said.
Song Yang became more energetic: "How do you say it?" Gu Zhaojun said with great interest: "Time, the interesting thing is time. More than seven years ago, the native monkeys returned to the mountains and forests, saying that the Han people will kill the rabbits and cook the dogs. You know that more than seven years ago, something happened in the world?"
What kind of thing? The Great Flood Dynasty unified the world! The only unification of Middle-earth."
As soon as he started talking, Xiao Zhan was confused and couldn't understand the connection between them.
"Listen to me and tell me slowly." Gu Zhaojun understood the "pain" of Xiaoqian and said with a smile: "Because the time is right, I think so: in ancient times, the earth monkeys came out of the mountains for the great flood dynasty.
There is no need to mention the things done by the ancestors until Hong Taizu unified the world of Middle-earth more than seven years ago. The things that the Earth Monkey Gang did for his family before were no longer needed after Hong completed his ambition.
"
Song Yang responded: "And those things can't be brought to light, so at this time, Taizu Hong will be silenced."
Gu Zhaojun nodded and continued: "As far as I know, Hong Taizu was in power for almost twenty years. According to the old woman, after the last native monkey returned to the mountain, Han people kept attacking. This lasted for almost twenty years, and then
There’s no movement anymore.”
Song Yang thought for a moment: "You mean that it was Hong Taizu's idea to kill Tu Monkey. When he died, the plan to kill him... was shelved and no one mentioned it anymore."
Gu Zhaojun nodded again: "I am telling the story based on time. It is completely a guess and cannot be accurate. However, there is another legend, which is an interesting confirmation." As he said that, he paused for a moment.
He turned to look at Her Royal Highness the Princess.
The young catcher was thinking hard. When he saw Lao Gu looking over, he immediately asked the question that tickled his heart the most: "What on earth is the earth monkey doing for the Han Lord?"
Gu Zhaojun expected that she would ask this question, so he laughed and said, "Princess Xuanji is well-deserved. Your question hits the mark on the legend I want to talk about.
Isn't the greatest strength of the Earth Monkeys the breaking of soil and digging holes? According to legend, Hong Taizu started his business in the ancestors.
At the time of the uprising, a large amount of the expenses came from the dead: According to legend, there was a ghost soldier under Hong Taizu who disappeared during the day and hid in the night to rob the tomb!"@.