Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 746 Fall into a pit? (4000)

When Xu Fu took the tortoise shell to meet Qin Shihuang and recommended himself to him.

Perhaps it was due to a sudden illness, Qin Shihuang really believed his words, and immediately issued an edict to appoint Xu and Tian as special envoys, dedicated to the search for Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi, and all expenses were borne by the treasury.

After this operation, Xu Shi and Tian Shi temporarily escaped the sharp sword hanging above their heads, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

And at the same time.

The content on the tortoise shell actually attracted Xu Fu's attention. This "scam" not only won the trust of Qin Shihuang, but also made Xu Fu believe in the existence of Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi. I also want to find the legendary Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi.

However, this is obviously not easy.

At present, he only knows that Jiang Taigong has been to this magical place, and obtained a long life that is different from ordinary people through nourishing Shenzhi, and recorded the characteristics of Yangshenzhi on the tortoise shell.

As for the specific location of this place and how to get there, I don't know anything.

It is certainly not easy to find a needle in a haystack, but the difficulty of finding an unknown island in the vast sea in this era may not be much easier than finding a needle in a haystack.

What's more, since Taigong Jiang, during the hundreds of years of rule by the Lu Qi royal family and the Tian Qi royal family, they have sent fleets to sea countless times in search of Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi, but they all returned without success. This is equivalent to cutting off Xu Fu's hope ... How can he find the legendary island that so many people have never found for hundreds of years?
However, the matter has come to this point, Xu Fu can only bite the bullet and ask Qin Shihuang for manpower and material resources to build a ship and go to sea, even if he pretends to be decent, otherwise Qin Shihuang's butcher knife can still fall again at any time.

that's it.

The search for Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi lasted for three years. During the three years, Xu Fu went to sea many times and sailed aimlessly in the East China Sea. To prevaricate Qin Shihuang.

Xu Fu knew in his heart that going on like this was not the same thing, Qin Shihuang would lose patience one day, and that day would be the anniversary of his and Xu's death, but he had no other choice but to delay it day by day.

Finally one day Qin Shihuang did a major event that made Xu Fu break out in cold sweat-burning poems and books, defrauding warlocks!

The reason was that two well-known warlocks at that time, one named Hou Sheng and the other named Lu Sheng, were both trusted by Qin Shihuang and enjoyed the gift of a national teacher in Xianyang City. They were ordered to find and refine immortals for Qin Shihuang medicine.

As a result, the two of them had searched for many years but could not find it. Not only that, they actually belittled Qin Shihuang's personality, political strategy and long-term delusion, and carried a huge sum of money for immortality.

The two escaped, but suffered a lot from the group of hundreds of warlocks who were also summoned to Xianyang by Qin Shihuang for the purpose of longevity. Qin Shihuang believed that they were the same as Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, so he ordered all these warlocks to be arrested and interrogated In the end, the whereabouts of Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng were still not found out, and they ordered people to burn all the books on Taoism and witchcraft carried by these people, and buried them alive to vent their anger.

When this matter spread to Qu County, how could Xu and Tian not panic?
After all, what they are doing now is no different from those of Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng. Since Qin Shihuang buried hundreds of warlocks in Xianyang alive, they may also be implicated in the near future.

that's the truth.

Soon, a group of thousands of Qin troops came to Qu County. Although the generals of this Qin army claimed that they were ordered to assist Xu Fu in shooting the sharks in the sea, Xu Fu and Tian knew that there were many of them watching them. The meaning of every move.

It's been an anxious three months.

What Xu Fu and others did not expect was that Qin Shihuang actually visited Qu County in person.

Both Xu Fu and Tian thought they were doomed this time.

But no, Qin Shihuang only inspected the ships built by Xu Fu, expressed condolences to the families of Xu and Tian, ​​and even brought them more supplies. A warm appearance encouraged Xu Fu and Tian not to slack off, and promised that as long as they found their ancestors Zhou and Yangshenzhi were named marquises and nobles for the two families.

Xu Fu and Tian were so flattered that they had no idea what kind of medicine was sold in Qin Shihuang's gourd.

It was only afterwards that Xu Fu learned from Guiguzi that Qin Shihuang's hidden illness had become more and more serious at that time, but he was no longer willing to believe in those alchemists. On the contrary, the real Yangshenzhi became his only hope. He will look at Xu Fu and Tian Shi differently.

But at the same time, Guiguzi also reminded Xu Fu that if he can't find Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi, he should make arrangements in advance, otherwise Qin Shihuang would definitely order Xu and Tian to be taken away when he was dying.

It was also at that time that Xu Fu drew charts every time he went to sea, and gradually found out the specific location of the Wa country. This was the way he arranged for himself, and even in order to prevent the secret from being leaked, he did not inform Tian of this matter... …

So another two years passed.

There was a strange phenomenon in the sea area under Yuzhou Mountain. At that time, there was no one living on Yuzhou Mountain. Only Xu Fu often went to the island to look far away, so as to predict the climate in the sea and speculate on the timing of going out to sea.

It was also this time that Xu Fu saw the "ghost cave" hidden under the sea.

This ghost cave was mentioned in a memo left by Xu's ancestors, and that memo recorded the exchanges between Xu's ancestors and Lu Qi's last king of Qi, Lu Dai, on Yuzhou Mountain. process.

Few of Xu's descendants knew about this matter. After Xu Fu succeeded to the position of Patriarch, he accidentally discovered it in the process of sorting out family information, and then read the contents... At that time, Xu Fu did not mention this The chapter notes should be taken too seriously, but fortunately the content in it has not been circulated, especially in the era when Tian Qi was in power, otherwise it would definitely cause a lot of trouble for the Xu family.

But when he saw it, he didn't care anymore. After all, Qi was destroyed by Qin, and Tian Qi's royal family could only fold their tails and live in seclusion in Qu County. The situation was not much better than Xu's.

But that's not the point.

The point is the record about the "ghost cave" in that note.

Xu Fu still has some impressions of that strange event: "Lu Dai's son went to the sea and strayed into the ghost cave when the tide was low, and he didn't come out when the tide came back. Everyone thought he was more or less ominous, and built a simple clothes tomb for him. , but more than ten years later, this grown-up son appeared next to Lu Dai, and after Lu Dai died of illness, he disappeared together with other family members."

Based on this strange event, this ghost cave usually hidden under the sea immediately aroused Xu Fu's interest.

The people who followed Xu Fu at that time were all trustworthy members of the Xu clan, so Xu Fu told the story of this strange event and discussed it with everyone.

In the end, everyone unanimously agreed to enter the "ghost cave" to investigate one or two.

Because if what was written in the memoir of Xu's ancestors is true, then Lu Dai's son must have lived in the ghost cave for more than ten years, which means that there may be other caves in the ghost cave, and it is indeed necessary to go in and investigate. Fan.

Speaking of people from the Xu family, they are also bold.

In this way, they walked into the "ghost cave" without any protective measures and didn't even know when the tide would rise back, and spent several hours until they reached the pool at the bottom of the cave.

Living by the sea all the year round, the people of the Xu family are naturally very good at swimming, even Xu Fu is a master at it.

Not long after everyone went down into the pool, they also discovered the light at the bottom of the pool, and in order to find out, they actually forcibly dived down there with only a pair of iron lungs, which is simply astonishing.

then.

The world was spinning and the world was upside down. Xu Fu and others finally landed on this mysterious island.

……

Macaques, parrots, dense forests, Yushan.

Xu Fu and his group saw what Wu Liang and others had seen, and finally they came to the cave under the Jade Mountain. However, there was no such quarry outside the cave at that time, only a few thatched huts that had collapsed. .

In the ruins of thatched huts, there are some living utensils that predate the Qin Dynasty at first glance. These utensils are also full of dust, and some of them have been damaged. Even if someone lived here, they may have left for a long time.

In this pile of ancient relics, Xu Fu found a stone tablet with handwriting on it.

As a descendant of Qi State, Xu Fu is very familiar with the above texts, which are all Qi texts used before the fall of Qi State, and the content recorded in these Qi texts is closely related to Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi.

And the person who left this slate was Lu Dai's son who had disappeared for more than ten years——Lu Kui.

It is written on the slate that this is the Zuzhou where Jiang Taigong, the ancestor of the Lu family, came to Zuzhou, and it also shows the function of raising Shenzhi.

Yangshenzhi not only cannot make people live forever, but it also contains high toxicity, and the person who takes it will bleed to death within a moment.

But Yangshenzhi can indeed bring alive people, even those who have been poisoned to death by Yangshenzhi, just cover the face with its branches and leaves, and soon the dead can get up and walk like a living person.

However, such a person is just a walking corpse, still unable to change the fact that he is dead, and will continue to rot like a dead person. After a month of this, it will turn into a pile of black soil.

And this black soil is the real panacea that can prolong life.

After the living people take it, they can feel refreshed, even if they are terminally ill, the medicine can cure the disease, and taking it for a long time can prolong their life, and it is easy to live beyond a hundred years old.

But the black soil is not without its disadvantages.

The biggest disadvantage is that people who have taken black soil will completely lose their fertility, and they will no longer be able to have children, and they will not be able to be "resurrected" by Yangshenzhi after death, and their bodies will become extremely hard. Crisp.

If the corpse is left in this way for about ten days, the surface of the deceased's body will gradually turn gray-black like rocks.

After another month of storage, the corpse would dry up and crack again, eventually turning into a field of cold gravel, without any sign of being alive.

In addition to humans, this is true for animals such as macaques and hares.

But birds, fish and snakes are not included. Not only will these animals not be poisoned by Yang Shenzhi, but there is no obvious harm in eating black soil, and they can still reproduce.

So it is.

Animals such as macaques and hares on the island do not like to eat black soil, and are even afraid of avoiding it.

However, birds, fish and snakes flock to the black soil, and they often fight endlessly for the black soil. Birds hover in the air all day long and look down on the island. Whenever they see a macaque or animal dying, they will take it. Come to Yang Shenzhi to wait for death to come, then use Yang Shenzhi to revive it, and wait by the side to wait for it to turn into black soil before robbing it...

That's all there is on the slate.

Xu Fu was shocked when he saw it, and he just wanted to find Yangshenzhi as soon as possible, and then take some black soil written on the slate to find out.

As for the family members of Lu Kuang and Lu Dai who left this stone slab.

Based on the situation of the thatched cottage, Xu Fu guessed that they had left here long ago, and it was absolutely impossible for them to live to the present. After all, Xu Fu was hundreds of years away from the time when Lu Kuang lived, and even Jiang Taigong had never lived for so many years... Or they completely lost their fertility due to taking black soil, which has never lasted until now, and turned into gravel without the slightest sign of life after death.

Xu Fu is more inclined to the latter.

Because Lu Kui was able to write down the consequences of taking black soil and the changes that occurred after the death of the user on the slate, and also left the slate with these information on the island, it means that he must have lived on the island for a long time, It took a long time to witness the death of relatives around me before I recorded it, and all this can only be done on the island.

After looking at the slate.

Immediately, Xu Fu's clansmen searched the island, and finally they found the cave under the Yushan Mountain next to the thatched house, and saw a Shenzhi plant in the cave.

Xu Fu carefully picked the next branch and wrapped it up for emergencies.

Later, a group of noisy parrots were found in the woods at the foot of the mountain. The group of parrots were scrambling for something. Xu Fu immediately ordered people to disperse the group of parrots, only to find a pile of black soil that had been ruined by the parrots.

The stench of the black earth was disgusting and disgusting.

In view of the information on the slate, Xu Fu was eager to try, so he asked the young people who had no children in the clan to step aside, and he and two clan members who had children and volunteered to try.

In fact, when he checked the slate just now, especially when he saw that the black soil would make people infertile, he thought about the descendants of the Lu family left by Jiang Taigong. If you take black soil to prolong your life, don't you have to bear the unprecedented consequences?
At this time, Xu Fu was already full of children and grandchildren, and even he was old and strong, and he still left some blood in Laoshan, so there is no worry about the future at all.

then.

He and the two clansmen endured the stench and ate some black soil... such a smelly thing, it tastes a bit sweet?

Xu Fu was very surprised, so he took a sip with peace of mind. This sip made him refreshed and relaxed, as if it really had some immediate effect...

……

Seeing this, Wu Liang had already finished reading the contents of four volumes of bamboo slips. Before picking up the fifth volume, he looked up at the empty underground palace, and immediately wondered: "Why hasn't Miss Hu come back yet? Did she fall into the pit?"

(End of this chapter)