Chapter Forty-Six: A Sad Past

After the little Taoist priest told us a few key words of the Miao witch's dream story, the five of us sat together and began to speculate on the meaning of these words, and finally the more we pushed, the more messy it became, for example, there was a sentence that seemed to be a witch begging her grandmother not to kill her father, and I thought, who is so cruel to kill her son-in-law? The other sentence seems to be her venting, saying that she doesn't want to be a grave keeper. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and then the later more fragmented, the little Taoist priest did not understand the meaning, so we have been waiting for her to wake up.

During this period, I saw that the little Taoist priest was covered with a faint layer of black gas, and he was very uneasy, but he put the jade in the placket, and I couldn't see the situation, so I could only pull him aside, and quietly told him that I knew what would happen after the black gas spread, and asked him how long he could hold on.

Who knew that he didn't appreciate it, but replied lightly: "It's okay, I can hold on until I get out." As soon as he had said that, he turned and sat down in the corner, leaving me alone. To tell the truth, I am used to seeing him as plain as water in the days I get along with him, and I know that he likes to hide any bad things in his heart, I want to care, but he is uncomfortable, and now he can only silently observe his complexion, praying that he can restrain the yin in the dead jade.

Time has passed for a long time, it is not comfortable to stay in this kind of place, when you open your eyes, it is a dry corpse, when you close your eyes, it is what they looked like when they were alive, and the place where they lie is almost full of these things, Baocai said: "If there is no control of the colorful exquisite heart, the yin soul can form a yin army, how many people are buried here?"

I listened to what Baocai said, and suddenly felt that he had said so much nonsense, and this sentence was finally on point.

Indeed, the corpses here can form a group if they want to turn into ghosts. It stands to reason that the tomb of a witch should not have so many people who are buried and buried, even if her identity is like the royal family and nobles that Chen Yu said, there will not be such pomp, after all, the status of ancient women is not high.

In addition, there is one thing that also makes me wonder, most of the tombs in the Warring States period are rectangular vertical pit wooden coffin tombs, and few tombs are stored in the mountain, what is the deep symbolism and meaning of it?

This awkward question haunted my mind, and I suddenly remembered a book I had read about sacrifices, which talked about a ritual of sacrifice in alliance with the heavens. It is said that during the sacrifice, the ancient kings would ask people to find a place that is inaccessible and has good feng shui to facilitate communication with the gods. Judging by the identity of the witch of Chu and the scene carved on the side of the waterfall, the person wearing the robe is the owner of the ancient tomb, and she has the ability to sense heaven and earth, so the tomb was chosen here for the purpose of praying for the country after death. I put my hands on my head, the answer is not certain, but the more I think about it, the more confused it becomes, the thirst for the truth at this time, has scratched my heart, but the treasure and Chen Yu are relatively simple, as long as the artifact in the ancient tomb.

It's no wonder that when Chen Yu was in the antique business in his early years, he was all about folk circulation, and he had to rely on his sharp eyes and means to find a little treasure, not to mention tossing back and forth, and throwing a lot of money into it, so he almost lost everything. Now to the ancient tomb, the artifacts inside are old, the cultural value is high, and it is a complete art form, which is a person who loves collecting and money, it is a mouse falling into the white rice tank.

Looking at him snickering and talking about the spiritual artifact I saw earlier, I shook my head helplessly, thinking that I was all wounded, and I still didn't ask for this kind of wealth, I would rather go out and dig some roots and wild vegetables.

The little Taoist priest was still sitting silently on the side, and I looked at him, thinking that this might be the ancients we admired thousands of years later. After a few more glances at him, I lay on my back, looking at the ghostly stone curtains and stalagmites, and recalling the encounter of the near end of time, although I suffered a lot, but the life was also wonderful. In the past, I always felt that my art student's tone was too heavy, and I lacked a little bit of a man's hot-blooded temperament, but this trip back seems to be reborn.

Thinking like this, the Miao witch woke up more than four hours later, and when she woke up, she looked around and looked at the five of us, and a hint of joy flashed in her eyes.

At this time, Chen Yu was the most excited, he had always picked on her thorns before, but after being rescued, his attitude had changed greatly.

I let her rest for a while, and then I began to think about how to speak, Baocai was beside her, and said softly: "Son, that brute girl has a good impression of you, you go and ask the interlayer yarn, and we will ask the sea." ”

"Phew, what do you mean that we are across the sea, if you want me to say that whoever asks is the same. Chen Yu was unconvinced.

I was thinking about how to ask, and when I heard Chen Yu volunteer, I pushed the boat down the river and let him ask by himself.

Chen Yu began to agree happily, but when he turned around and suddenly wanted to face the woman he liked, he was hypocritical, and said: "I didn't organize the language for a while, ......" Saying that, he pushed the treasure and said: "Usually you talk a lot, you go and ask!"

Baocai wanted to stay out of it, but he was not happy to say this, and began to shout, and when the three of us were pushing, the Miao witch and the eighth year looked at us suspiciously, Chen Yu saw that the atmosphere was a little embarrassed, his mind turned, he pulled out a smile, and said: "Girl, you said that we have been taken care of by you all this way, and now I don't know the name of Fang......

The Miao girl glanced at him, and then said softly: "Blue Magpie Creek." ”

"Oh, it's the Blue Girl. Chen Yu said suddenly, seeing that Lan Quexi was not as cold as before, he got up and sat on the side of it, showing the smile of a businessman, looking like he was going to play his usual routine.

Just when he wanted to peel off the cocoon in his own way, the little Taoist priest in the corner spoke, and he said straight to the point: "Blue girl, why do you know the structure of the ancient tomb, and what else do you know?"

When Lan Quexi was asked this, a trace of unspeakable sadness crossed her face, she looked up at the surrounding environment, and said with a wry smile: "You may not think that this will be the place where I will live in the future......"

"What? here?" Bao Cai exclaimed, "Then you won't become the little dragon girl of the Tomb Sect?"

As soon as the words came out, Chen Yu patted his head and said, "Don't beep blindly, where does she know about the little dragon girl." ”

Baocai saw that he had eaten and beaten again, he was angry, and scolded and scolded, Chen Yu covered his mouth and asked Lan Quexi: "Miss Lan, what is going on? Liuzi said that when you were outside before, you were with six strange-faced people, and it seemed that you were guarding this Chu tomb, but why did the descendants take your life?"

Chen Yu didn't mention this matter, I almost forgot, it was true that she was obviously in a group with the Gu Keeper at that time, but who knew that the plot later went the other way, and if she didn't tell the truth of this kind of thing, it would be difficult for us to figure it out.

Lan Quexi smiled faintly and said sadly: "Because they hate me and hate my grandmother." ”

"What kind of person is your grandmother? When you dreamed, she said she killed your father. Chen Yu saw that there was some progress and continued to ask.

Lan Quexi lowered her head, the whole person looked very depressed, she said dumbfounded: "That's right, she killed my father......" When she read the word "daddy", two lines of tears slipped down her cheeks.

Looking at her appearance, Chen Yu and I looked at each other, maybe the amount of information in these questions was relatively large, and our questions were too abrupt, so that she was out of her mind for a long time.

While we were silent, she wiped away her tears, looked ahead, and said, "We are all dead people, and there is no need to hide some things from you......

I was surprised when she said this, but suddenly I saw hope, and my heart pounded hard, as if what she said next would be a shocking secret.

Before speaking, she sighed deeply, this time her emotions were calmer than the last time Chen Yu asked her, but it was also after thinking about it for a long time before she was willing to tell us all this.

These things are basically about her, a bit messy, but they are the key to objectively unraveling the past of the owner of the Chu Tomb.

It turned out that in the early years, Lan Quexi's father was a well-known inverted fighter, named Cao Qiuji (Lan Quexi took his mother's surname). In a tomb robbery, he got several silk books from a tomb of a nobleman of Chu State, some of the contents of the silk book are written about the location of a royal tomb of Chu State, and some of them record the life of the owner of the royal tomb who is beyond mortals, and it is very evil, and even a little terrifying.

But for those who are inverted, it is very rare to encounter a royal tomb. Cao Qiuji didn't care about the gods and warnings in the silk book, and with the record in it, he and his companions went to the river full of organs, and the river was the place where Chen Yu and I met again, and Cao Qiuji was in danger there.

At that time, the person guarding the ancient tomb was Lan Quexi's mother, and after she met the dying Cao Qiuji, she did not take advantage of this to kill him, but hid him in a cave and took care of him.

After a long time, the two people slowly fell in love, and then they could not be separated, but the Miao people in the deep mountains who guarded the ancient tomb at that time did not accept outsiders. Lan Yuyu, the mother of Lan Quexi, is also a fierce child, and after getting everyone's opposition, he privately made a lifelong agreement with Cao Qiuji, and lived in a cave with him silently, and lived for six years.

During this period, the husband and wife lived comfortably, and had a pair of children, that is, the Miao girl and her brother Lan Yu. Cao Qiuji often told them about people and things in the outside world, which gave them a beautiful fantasy of the world they had never seen.

It's just that fate plays tricks on people, when Lan Quexi was seven years old, she and her brother were forcibly taken back to Miao Village by their grandmother, so that they could learn the drug production and Gu control that Miao Wu would know from elementary school.

At that time, Cao Qiuji objected, but he didn't want his children to learn something evil from elementary school, but slowly he found that things were far more complicated than he imagined. Through the questioning of Lan Yukite, he finally knew the identity of the Miao people in the deep mountains, and knew the future whereabouts of a pair of children. He lamented that the fate of his children in their lives would be trapped by the ancient tomb of the Chu State, and thought about taking them to escape from this place, but he did not succeed. On the first day of escape, he was captured by his clansmen and killed by Lan Quexi's grandmother with a Gu, and died tragically in front of his children.

After that, Lan Quexi's mother shouted out about the debt, the debt...... So she went with her husband, leaving her children in front of a cruel grandmother. They were taught from an early age to guard the graves of their ancestors and not to disobey them, otherwise they would end up like their dead father.

On the one hand, he longs for the outside world, but on the other hand, he is bound by the rules of the clan, and Lan Yu lives in dire straits with Lan Quexi.

However, despite the pain of life, Lan Wei was very sensible since he was a child, and has always protected his sister, he took Lan Quexi to the cave where he used to live on the death day of his parents, and one day, they found the Warring States Silk Book left by his father.

Lan Wei Yu has been different from ordinary Miao teenagers since he was a child, when Cao Qiuji was there, he often taught him some ancient characters, which was regarded as passing the time, and over time, he knew a lot and got happiness from it.

After he translated the contents of the silk book, he became more and more reluctant to guard the tomb. Lan Quexi knew the content of the silk book, although she didn't want to, but she could only persuade her brother, because she often dreamed of her tragic death of her father, and she was afraid that her brother would embark on this road of no return, so she kept him suppressing his inner dissatisfaction.

However, the beginning of things is like a circle, and it is predestined in the dark...... Lan Yuyu's ending was tragic, and I seemed to understand the reason why Lan Que Creek was cold on the outside and hot on the inside. People who have endured too much hardship, tasted too many joys and sorrows, and are clever, kind, and full of warmth will be full of hostility to people and things in the world. Looking at her now, I feel pity and admiration in my heart, because she has been resisting her fate in her bones. This kind of thinking of resisting fate is not something that all ancient girls have. At this moment, I was glad that I pulled her to jump into the waterway, igniting the fire of her hope, freeing her from depression and truly facing herself.

It's just why her grandmother is so cruel, and why do the Miao people in the deep mountains insist on guarding the ancient tomb? The next answer may only be answered by the silk book that Cao Qiuji found......