Chapter 395: Ghost Sea(1/2)
Zou Liang's life experience is indeed a legend. Zhan Zhao and others were also a little moved after hearing Zhao Pu's story, but this seemed to have nothing to do with Lin Yehuo. In terms of age, Lin Yehuo is similar to Zou Liang, so it is impossible to have anything to do with Zou Liang's father's experience.
In addition, after Zou Liang entered the military camp at the age of four or five, he grew up with Zhao Pu and the others. There was no secret between them and their growth experience was similar. Ouyang and others knew that Zou Liang had no enemies. Zhao Pu led his troops to fight at the age of sixteen. Zou Liang always followed him to fight on the battlefield. At most, some enemies on the battlefield were also involved in revenge. With Zou Liang's personality, he had a grudge and revenge, and he had already been cleared...
Therefore, Zou Liang's enemy could only be formed before he was four or five years old.
What kind of enemies can a child of four or five years old have? In the eyes of Zhao Pu and others, although Zou Liang is cruel, he is actually a very simple person. This is very similar to Ziying. Most people who can form this kind of personality have simple experiences and are scheming.
Even Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang could see that Zou Liang was not like a person who was living with hatred, and Lin Yehuo became even more heartless... So, was the intersection between the two because of their fathers?
The veteran General Ouyang did not mention the mysterious disappearance of General Zou Yue and the 150,000 army after that, but the veteran general did not mention it, which does not mean that Zou Liang would not care.
If anyone knows that his father has disappeared without knowing it, he will check it out... But everyone has never heard Zou Liang mention it. Can this also show to some extent that Zou Liang actually knows how his father and the 150,000 army disappeared? Or is there any other hidden information?
But considering that Zou Liang was still a child when he experienced all this, and maybe even in his baby years... how much can he remember?
Everything is confusing.
On the way back from the Demon Palace, Zhan Zhao and others asked Zhao Pu carefully.
Zhao Pu also said some details.
When Zou Liang lived with Zhao Pu and Ouyang when he was young, he often had nightmares.
At first, he was awake like a wolf at night, looking around with his eyes open, and sleeping on his tummy during the day. So Zhao Pu and Ouyang thought of ways to adjust his sleep time. The method was very simple. He tried to take him crazy during the day, and he woke him up when he was sleepy and waited until night before letting him sleep.
Zou Liang didn't sleep during the day and couldn't sleep at night. After a few days of lingering, he was so sleepy that he fell asleep honestly as soon as it was dark.
At that time, several children slept in the bed, with five people on a large bed, and one with a quilt.
One night, Zhao Pu felt someone kicking the quilt next to him, and it was a "bang bang". He thought Ouyang Shaozheng had kicked the quilt again. When he opened his eyes, he saw Ouyang's feet in front of him. He looked back and saw that Ouyang Shaozheng was sleeping so hard on He Yihang's belly. The sound seemed to be coming from behind.
So Zhao Pu turned over and saw that Long Qiaoguang was awake too. He was holding his chin and looking at Zou Liang sleeping against the wall.
Zhao Pu also leaned over and saw Zou Liang kicking the quilt with his eyes closed, as if he was running away, muttering something in his mouth and wondering what he was saying.
Zhao Pu and Long Qiaoguang looked at each other, then leaned over and listened carefully, and then Zou Liang kept muttering "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Long Qiaoguang was curious, "Is it some kind of wolf language? You know, the little wolf cub likes to call it like this. Speaking of the little wolf cub, the day before yesterday, I saw a big black dog in the military camp seemed to have been kidnapped by a wolf. You guess would be more like a father or a mother? I heard the chef say in the military camp that having a boy is like a mother and a girl is like a father. By the way, do you know if the chef is going to be a father? His wife is so fat... um."
Zhao Pu pressed Long Qiaoguang, who was annoyed in his mouth, and listened carefully to Zou Liang's words with his ears.
Zou Liang repeatedly said a strange syllable. Zhao Pu had studied some of the "wolf words" that Zou Liang often said. He had heard of this syllable before. Every night when he was holding a lamp, Zou Liang would point to the lantern outside the tent and say this word.
Zhao Pu touched his chin and thought - did he dream about the light?
Just as he was thinking, he felt someone patting him. Zhao Pu turned around and saw that He Yihang, who was unable to move by Ouyang, woke up at some point. He pointed to Long Qiaoguang who was pressed with his other hand and said, "Xiao Guang is about to be suffocated."
Zhao Pu was shocked and quickly let go.
Long Qiaoguang was breathing, and he complained while gasping, "Zhao Pu, you dare to plot against me. Wait, wait, wait for me to take a breath, should this quilt be washed? Why does it smell strange? Did Ouyang wet the bed and then change the quilt with me..."
Long Qiaoguang continued to talk.
Zhao Pu blinked, and He Yihang sighed, "You can just suffocate him to death."
Zhao Pu asked Long Qiaoguang to cover his mouth and stop quarreling, and asked He Yihang, "Where is Zou Liang dreaming?"
He Yihang nodded, "He often does this, and he always says this word."
"What does this word mean?" Zhao Pu was curious, "Light or fire?"
He Yihang frowned and shook his head, "He also sent this word when he saw the sun, and the moon was...."
Long Qiaoguang, who was covering his mouth, raised his hand and needed to speak.
Zhao Pu had no choice but to look at him, "Say it."
"Does it meant by light?" Long Qiaoguang finally said a more focused word, "He also said it when he ran after the fireflies that day."
Everyone looked at each other.
"Light..." Zhao Pu tilted his head to look at Zou Liang's expression, "Dreams about light? This kind of nightmare expression is like dancing with quilts. What's the terrible thing about light?"
"Wow!"
Everyone was focusing on Zou Liang's expression. Suddenly, Zou Liang screamed and sat up.
Zhao Pu and others were shocked by him, especially Ouyang Shaozheng who was drooling in a drooling state. He jumped up with a "bang". He was still sleepy and was still yelling, "Who is there? Someone is stealing the camp?"
Just as he was watching, he saw Zou Liang sitting and wiping his forehead. He Yihang reached out and touched his forehead and frowned - he had a lot of cold sweat.
Zhao Pu asked him what nightmare he had. Zou Liang couldn't say too much at the time, and he was trying to express something. The other four children tilted their heads and guessed all night, but they didn't understand it. They knew what "light" he was trying to say!
Zou Liang continued to have nightmares like this, and it did not gradually ease until he was six years old. Zhao Pu and others had asked him what he dreamed of. Zou Liang's answer was quite interesting. He said, "The light of eating people!"
Zhao Pu and a few other children couldn't understand what he was talking about. In addition, at the beginning, Zou Liang was very afraid of the arrows used to contact him.
Everyone still remembers what happened when they used a contact arrow to sound the first time.
That night, General Ouyang taught everyone how to fire up the contact arrows. In order to make the children who were not interested happy, the old man lied to them and said he would set off fireworks.
But on the dark night, the contact arrow just dropped and exploded. When the light came around, Zou Liang suddenly threw all four people behind him and shouted, "The light is coming! Hide!"
The old general Ouyang hurriedly pulled him up, and Zhao Pu and others also got up, looking at him in confusion, "What's wrong with the light coming?"
Zou Liang looked around and then at the light above his head, and seemed very confused.
In this way, another year passed, Zou Liang gradually overcomes the discomfort of the light, especially the strong light at night. Perhaps as children grow older, some things they have ever experienced will gradually fade away. Zou Liang gradually stops dreaming and is no longer afraid of the light. After the age of eight, he will grow up and live like a normal child.
Zhao Pu and others also discussed in private whether it was because Zou Liang saw something when he was a child that left such a shadow.
He Yihang guessed whether it was when Zou Liang lived with the wolf pack that he had seen thunder and lightning. The lightning on the vast grassland was very vulgar. Maybe he was scared at that time, so he was afraid of the sudden bright light.
...
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang sat in a daze, recalling the things they talked to Zhao Pu before.
Zhao Zhen and the Eighth Prince were chatting with Bao Zheng while drinking tea. At this time, the voice of talking was heard outside.
I saw Zhao Pu bringing Ouyang Chunhua to come together.
Chunhua came in and asked the emperor and the eighth prince first, and sat down to have tea and snacks.
Zhao Pu sat down, looked at Zhao Zhen, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Zhao Zhen put down the teacup and said to the Eighth Prince, "Uncle, why don't the banquet start soon?"
The Eighth Prince understood it. It seemed that everyone in Kaifeng Prefecture had something to discuss, so it would be better to have dinner early and let them go back.
Everyone quickly finished the banquet, and Zhao Zhen continued to stay and chat with the Eighth Prince, and let everyone in Kaifeng Mansion go back.
Grand Master Pang was still holding Xiangxiang in the royal palace, but Pang Yu couldn't help but be curious and followed Bao Yan to Kaifeng Mansion.
Everyone gathered in Lord Bao's study room, closed the door and sat down, and asked Zhao Pu what he asked when he went to General Ouyang's mansion.
Zhao Pu looked quite entangled and took out a scroll from his arms and put it on the table.
"I asked my godfather, and he really knew something. He originally planned to die and didn't say it, and also told Zou Liang not to say it, so that kid never mentioned it." Zhao Pu said while opening the scroll.
From the outside, the scroll looked like a tattered sheepskin. After opening it on the table, it was a map, and it was a very ancient one. Some symbols on the map attracted everyone's attention.
"Huh?" Gongsun pointed to the strange words and said, "Isn't this the same warning words as the stone tablet in the Demon Mountain Canyon?"
Zhao Pu nodded.
"There is also this sign." Zhan Zhao pointed to the sign of the three triangles paired together.
Everyone frowned. This was the place where the Soul-Suppressing Bottle appeared, the "extremely dangerous" sign.
Mr. Bao touched his chin, stared at the picture, and asked, "This is..."
Zhao Pu pointed out the center area of the map and extended to four corners, saying, "The north is the extreme north, and down is the Wolf King Castle, the south is the Black Wind City, the west is Xixia, and then up is the Liao Kingdom... The other side is the Huofeng Hall, the northwest corner is the Skeleton Sea behind the Wolf King Castle, the southeast is the Ghost Domain, and there are uninhabited deserts at both ends of the north and south. The Gobi Desert is in the west and the east. There is a clear map in the middle area, and that area should be..."
Everyone gasped.
Hou Yin couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "Ghost Sea."
The Heavenly Lord even found it incredible, "Is this a map inside the Ghost Sea?"
"The route and quicksand pit are indeed marked here, as well as sand whirlpools." Gongsun studied the map carefully, "but the map does not look very detailed."
"How could there be a map of the Ghost Sea?" Bai Yutang felt unbelievable, "No one can't get in that place, and even if he goes in?"
Everyone looked at Zhao Pu with full of questions.
Mr. Bao asked, “What does this have to do with Zou Liang?”
Zhao Pu said softly, "After getting familiar with Zou Liang, he asked him if he knew what happened to his parents back then. However, Zou Liang was too young and didn't remember anything. But one day, Zou Liang suddenly pulled his godfather out... We didn't follow him, and we didn't know where they went. I just asked my godfather, and he told me that Zou Liang took him to a forest that day."
Zhan Zhao and others listened carefully.
"Godfather said that there were many wolves in the forest where Zou Liang took him to. He walked to the depths of the dense forest and found that it was a wolf's cave. Fortunately, he was with Zou Liang, and the wolves just looked at him with their heads tilted, and did not attack. Zou Liang took him to the entrance of a cave. There was a very beautiful and huge white wolf in the cave. The wolf came out and rubbed Zou Liang's nose against his nose, and then entered the cave. Not long after, the wolf walked out with a sheepskin bag in his mouth and handed it to Zou Liang. After Zou Liang took the bag, he gave it to his godfather."
"What bag?" Everyone asked in unison.
"There are two things in the bag, one is this scroll, and the other is the same..." Zhao Pu took out something and put it on the table.
Everyone looked down and saw a bronze crouching tiger token.
"This is..." Zhan Zhao picked it up and looked at it.
"Zou Yue was the commander of the Xilu Army back then, and this was the tiger talisman." Zhao Pu said, taking out a somewhat old sheepskin bag and put it on the table, "It was put in this bag."
Everyone saw the word "Yue" on the bag.
To be continued...