Chapter 389: Thatched Cottage (2)
It can be seen from this imperial edict that it was not that the emperor at that time was unimproved.
It was some outstanding people at that time, especially the ministers of the government, who presented this seemingly absurd proposal to the emperor.
The purpose is to persist in living in this situation where we are outnumbered and have no chance of winning!!
The emperor was very resistant to this humiliating proposal at first.
The Song Dynasty ruled the world with literature, advocating Confucianism and Taoism, and caring about character. The court at that time attached great importance to civil servants.
Faced with this spineless and extremely humiliating way to save his life, the emperor was furious at first and would rather die for his country than submit!!
But in the end, after everyone's persuasion, and most importantly, after weighing it, he still obeyed.
After paying this bloody compensation, the Han people in the Song Dynasty finally survived and multiplied.
There are many records like this.
The Kong family deserves to be regarded as a powerful family of officials from generation to generation, and has deep connections with the royal family of every dynasty in China.
Afterwards, several boxes were opened, which contained many extremely precious items, including royal secret treasures, inherited items, and extremely confidential royal secret files.
The internal records inside are all horrifying things, as well as some familiar truths about historical events!!
If any historian were included, he would be excited by this huge historical treasure house.
For Chen Zhi and others, these are not the purpose of their trip. In the history of the Chinese royal family, they are just a group of passers-by.
What happened in history at that time?
And those shocking truths are no longer important to them.
What they have to do now is to enter the last area of this building.
The 3rd hut!
For some unknown reason, Chen Zhi can feel a very weak aura now.
That aura is looming, very thin, but it belongs to human beings, and it belongs to human beings' special aura~~
And this human being seems to have been very depressed and in pain, with almost no vital signs!!
If you want to describe it, it is more like a residual consciousness...
They formed a pair again and began to walk toward the back. The corridor after that was very dilapidated.
When they stepped on those wooden boards, they felt that their bodies were shaky, as if they would fall at any time.
I don’t know what is under the wooden bridge. Looking from above, there is only a dark patch.
It seems that there is a hell waiting for them...
And finally, they finally reached their destination, which was the last hut here!
This hut looks small in size, but it has an obvious feature, that is, the door of the hut is closed from the inside!!
This proves that someone has lived inside for a period of time and has never come out...
Fat Wei gently opened the door and found a small leather belt behind the door. It was gray and bald and was old. It broke when he pulled it lightly.
Fat Wei acted cautiously, not wanting to make too much noise, so he gently leaned the door to the side, then lowered his head and walked in.
Chen Zhi and the others also walked in. It was dark inside, but the smell was a bit sour. It was a fat smell unique to humans. Sure enough, someone had lived here...
For some unknown reason, after entering this space, the oil lamps in their hands began to make a "pop, pop, pop" sound.
After a while, the light began to weaken, and only the general layout of the room could be seen.
This room is completely different from the two houses just now. This room is very messy. It seems that someone moved some useful furniture from outside into this room and then put it up randomly for use.
They saw a lot of miscellaneous things, piled together randomly~~
After pushing it aside, I discovered a very dilapidated writing desk among the garbage-like debris.
And the table was covered with piles of paper, and it was almost full.
Fat Wei rummaged around on the table and found an oil lamp on it. Fat Wei lit it and the oil lamp lit up.
So everything on the table is clearly visible...
It turns out that the piles of paper on the table are all folded letters...
These stationery papers looked yellowed and were obviously old, but they were not damaged in any way and were definitely from the past few decades.
Chen Zhi picked up one and flipped through it. The handwriting was very familiar. It was Kong Qinghan's handwriting...
[When the country and the nation are in crisis, we must risk our lives, devote ourselves to serving the country, and relieving China's crisis, otherwise we will read the books of sages in vain...]
The lengthy text that followed was filled with these passionate words.
It can be seen that this Kong Qinghan is just like the young people of that era, passionate, upright and patriotic!!
The few letters I opened later no longer had such a tone.
Most of what it says is that he was trapped in this place, very hot, and scared of the lack of light, and he begged people to save him.
It seems that this Kong Qinghan had many friends outside at that time, many of whom were close friends who had received kindness from him. Kong Qinghan expected these people to repay their kindness and come to save him!!
There are so many such letters, they are piled on top of each other on the table, so densely packed that they can’t even be counted.
Chen Zhi moved the lamp to the front. It turned out that not only the tabletop, but also the ground was piled up into a mountain.
Fat Wei walked to the pile of letters and rummaged carefully for a long time. He found that except for the mountains of letters, there was no trace of anyone.
You want to see people when you are alive, and you want to see corpses when you die. I don’t know where the Kong Qinghan who wrote the letter has gone!!
Perhaps out of a samurai's intuition, Ji Ying stared closely at the back from the moment she came in. Finally, she patted Fat Wei on the shoulder and pointed to the back wall.
Fat Wei turned around and saw that the back wall was dark and there was a large wooden shelf placed there.
Fat Wei walked over and moved the wooden shelf away, then dug in the corner for a long time, and finally said over the wireless:
"Come here, everyone, this guy is here!!"
As Fat Wei's voice shouted, everyone immediately moved over there, and when the light shone there, they discovered that there was a hole the size of a dog hole in the corner of the hut.
The shape of the hole was very strange, as if it had been scratched by people over the years.
And inside this small cave, curled up was a corpse.
The corpse looked very pitiful, skinny and bones, as thin as a chicken, and all its hair had fallen out.
Because of the hot temperature here, the clothes have melted into the skin, making it look a bit scary.
Chapter completed!