Chapter 37 Afraid of Water
"The card of life and death?"
"This kind of sign will have the name of the general written on it. Firstly, it is easier for people in the army to record it. Secondly, it is easier to prevent outsiders from mixing into the army. Thirdly... it means that if this group of people accidentally dies that day,
When the corpses are out there and are in tatters, and cannot even be wrapped in horse leather, this sign will replace their corpses, and the people who replaced them will return to their hometowns, and their fallen leaves will return to their roots."
But if this person has not died, the sign will not be taken back. But you must know that the only reason why such people leave the army and return home without dying is because they have broken arms and legs, or there is a gap between them.
If they go to the battlefield again, such people can have a chance to go home.
This is withdrawal.
The sign will not be taken back, but the name on it will be erased.
I don't know if this sign was erased because they quit their membership, or if the person who did it didn't want others to find out, so it was erased.
After listening to my explanation, Song Yuan nodded: "Who are the other two people? Beggars and... prisoners in the prison?"
"That's how it should be."
Song Jiu and the old man who had been silent just now didn't know when they woke up. The two of them slowly walked next to us. The strange thing is that the old man's body was already very old. First he fell from the top, and then
It was just that it was rolled directly from the top to the bottom by the water.
I almost fell top-heavy, but why didn't he look uncomfortable at all? There wasn't even a single scratch on his body.
It's like what we saw them from behind the door before, they still look like now.
At most, my clothes are a little wet.
I noticed something was wrong, but now I didn't have time to ask them what was going on. I just looked at them lightly and didn't say anything else.
Song Jiu came over, looked at the stone statues on the ground, and said to us: "It seems that you all know about this place? Hey, it is said that two hundred years ago, when the Qing army returned to their hometown, they lost more than a hundred people.
The corpses of more than a hundred people were recovered and hidden underneath."
I didn’t believe it: “He is a soldier after all, how could he be so easy to fool?”
"Actually, it's just that you think such soldiers are not easy to fool. Such people only need to intercept them and tell them that they have something or that their seniors are looking for them. They will knock them down and bring them into the tomb.
Then I told those outside that there were frequent wars, soldiers were killed in battles, and they could be dismissed without finding their bodies. At that time, the surroundings were so turbulent and chaotic that no one would suspect anything."
As if Song Jiu had experienced all this, she continued: "As for other people...whether they are beggars or those in exile, in that era, it didn't matter if there were more beggars or less, but those in prison...
Isn't it just a matter of establishing a good relationship with the police? No one will notice this kind of thing at all."
In this way, with a three-pronged approach, the situation was completed in an instant.
I wanted to ask again, but suddenly Song Jiu pointed behind me: "There is something there."
I thought that she was not an ordinary person, and her eyes were naturally different from ordinary people, so I turned my head and looked in the direction behind me.
There were two stone pieces stuck in the wall. I could feel with my hands that there were some things carved on the stone pieces. I dug them out and put them in my hands: "This thing seems familiar."
Song Yuan came over curiously: "What?"
"I should have used this charm before, or maybe I have seen it somewhere. The light here is too dim. At most, I can see a rough outline."
Song Yuan took the two stone pieces and walked to the side to study them. I asked Song Jiu in a low voice: "Your sister is afraid of water, right?"
She didn't seem to expect that I would ask this.
After hearing my question, she nodded sheepishly.
"This matter is my fault."
It turned out that Song Jiu was not the biological daughter of the Song family. The Song family couple was wide and fat. However, Song Jiu never gained weight no matter how much she ate. People around her said that she was not the biological daughter of the Song family.
Song Yuanpi liked to make trouble, and the Song family and his wife were also warm-hearted, but Song Jiu, who kept away from strangers every day, was so gloomy that he was not liked at all.
When the Song couple met Song Jiu for the first time, the latter was still hiding in the temple, shivering.
"Our family was poor. When there was a famine, my biological parents couldn't support me, so they threw me into a ruined temple. I was not completely blind at the time. When I was twelve years old, my eyesight was so bad that I could hear ghosts.
The thing was invisible, but I suddenly heard a strange sound coming from outside, so I ran to the water's edge. I saw a divine dragon appearing in the water. I was surprised and rushed towards the divine dragon uncontrollably. But.
I can not swim."
Chapter completed!