Chapter 261 Sea Falcon
In the library, Li Ang held a stack of files and put them on the table.
It is not easy to investigate the so-called "Thirty-Nine Sea Falcons in Changmen, Wujun".
Fortunately, there are still a few words in the thick file.
Many emperors of the former Sui Dynasty were keen to find the legendary endless sea and overseas fairy mountains, in order to obtain the elixir of life, live forever, and hold imperial power forever.
This also made the shipbuilding and shipping industries of the former Sui Dynasty extremely developed.
It will be a large sea-going ship built regardless of cost, and its performance is still excellent even in the present.
There are also large-scale sea caravans among the people, and they go as far as the western countries for trade.
"Sea Falcon is the name of a medium-sized sea-going ship. It was first produced by Changmen Shipyard in the fourth year of Daye. Because of its stability and reliability, it was purchased by various companies for maritime trade."
"Among the various companies in Suzhou at that time, the most prominent one was undoubtedly the Yiyuan Company. In its heyday, it owned more than 200 seagoing ships, large and small, and more than 20,000 seamen and laborers. The Su family who controlled the Yiyuan Company, and its family members also Achieved the official position of long history—second only to the governor of Suzhou."
"However, in the ten years of Daye, natural disasters occurred frequently on the coastline, the sea conditions deteriorated, and many seagoing ships were sunk by natural disasters. The Yiyuan Company was hit particularly hard and declined rapidly. As for the Su family, it seemed to be cursed, and the members of the family were bizarre one by one. died of illness."
Li Ang looked at the dossier and frowned slightly.
The former Sui Dynasty was no different than the Yu State. At that time, there were many sects of practice, and more frequent birth and entry into the world.
Some monks will be bound to private firms and gangs,
As an offering, to solve troubles for firms and gangs,
in exchange for practice resources.
According to the size of Yiyuan Company, it is not difficult to hire monks, but in the ten years to the thirteenth year of Daye, in just three years, nearly 2,000 people from the immediate and collateral lines of the Su family died. Down four hundred.
At that time, there was no outbreak of disease in Wu County, so there were rumors among the people that the Su family salvaged something that should not be messed with from the bottom of the sea, which brought irreversible bad luck to the family.
The reason why this story can be passed down is that the head of the Su family at that time, probably for the purpose of saving the family, built a large-scale manor on the outskirts of Suzhou City.
The manor occupies a very large area, and its architectural style is quite different from that of popular folk. It lacks an atrium as a partition.
On the contrary, all the houses are tightly attached to each other, and the internal structure is extremely complicated, full of secret doors, secret passages, and secret rooms that are difficult to find.
Outsiders walk into it, it is easy to get lost, and they must be led by a guide.
According to rumors, the Patriarch of the Su family at that time built such a manor to ward off the curse against his family—the more complex the manor, the more it could delay the evil spirits from taking their lives and fight for the family's life.
Whether this strategy worked in the end is unknown. More than ten years later, with the assassination of the former Sui emperor, the Sui Empire collapsed.
The states and counties fell into chaos and chaos, and the flames of war raged. The Su family was also submerged in the long river of history together with the vast number of "rich families".
"It is clearly recorded in the file that the Su Company bought the first forty Sea Falcons from the Changmen Shipyard. That is to say, the thirty-nine Sea Falcons engraved on the stone box containing ink silk indeed belonged to the Su Company .”
Li Ang said silently, "The question is what happened to that ship, and the entire Su family."
The best way to find out about this is undoubtedly to find shipwrecks, family records, or epitaphs.
The ruins are located on the hillside, and have long been covered by wanton vegetation and vines. We can only find some stone bricks and stone tiles that have not been picked up by the previous villagers under the vegetation.
‘The sporadic remaining wooden structures have obvious signs of being burned. I don’t know if it was burned down by Su’s own people, or because of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty’
Mosi clone searched for a while, but it may be because the Su family was so rich and coveted by others back then,
Including the underground structure of the manor site, they have been dug up and searched, but nothing of value can be found.
In desperation, Li Ang controlled Mosi's avatar to continue south, and came to a cemetery.
Aristocratic and wealthy families all have family tombs, where dozens or dozens of generations of the family are buried.
According to the rules of the family, the family tomb should be guarded by special personnel to prevent thieves from digging the tomb, stealing the tomb objects, or even stealing the offerings.
The results of the investigation are still not smooth,
The collapse of the Su family was too rapid, and they couldn't even send someone to guard the ancestral tomb. Most of the tombs were stolen and excavated, and the tombstones and coffins were all destroyed.
"There are only a few epitaphs. The inscriptions all record the life stories of great scholars or important officials in the Su family. They are dated before the Daye period and have nothing to do with the mutation that caused the demise of the Su family."
Is the clue interrupted again?
Li Ang felt a little resigned in his heart, and finally followed the clues to trace this place, and it seemed that he was close to the origin of Mosi.
Mosi's clone stood there for a long time and sighed.
Forget it, let’s go back.
Mosi turned around and turned back, her spiritual sense inadvertently swept across the valley, and she discovered something by accident.
It was placed in front of a tombstone, and it was still a fresh offering.
"Um?"
Mosi's avatar immediately fled underground, approaching the tombstone quietly.
I read it right, in front of the old tombstone, there were fruits, vegetarian food, wine, and pastries that hadn't completely rotted.
The tombstone itself was scratched many years ago, and it can only be vaguely seen that the owner of the tomb is named Su, and the date matches that of the late Sui Dynasty.
"The offerings are still relatively fresh, and it feels like they were put down more than ten days ago."
Li Ang changed his mind and said: "This tombstone is at the entrance of the valley. It is covered by trees and is quite hidden. Could it be that these fairs were placed by the descendants of the Su family? Because the family has declined, they have no ability to repair and maintain the ancestral tomb, so they can only worship it One of the ancestral graves."
The more I think about it, the more likely it is, especially after noticing that the tomb itself is unremarkable and the sacrificial objects are somewhat precious.
"Where will the descendants of the Su family be?"
Mosi's avatar searched in situ, but couldn't find the trail of spiritual energy, and the footprints were also destroyed by the forest ecological environment.
Only a cat hair was found in a small pit near the grave.
With the salty smell of the sea breeze, it belongs to the light gray hair of the ship cat.
(end of this chapter)