Chapter 7 The King Doesn't Come Out
Jiang Qi sat next to the corpse and looked at it calmly, only to see that these words were written very sloppily, as if they were written during the journey, and what was written was from the underground palace Shinto, and the things that came all the way to the crack after entering the underground palace.
This is roughly the same as the route Jiang Qi saw and walked, but there are two places that Jiang Qi is interested in, one is the time, the time is actually January 1972, and the other place is the word "Chaotian Palace" repeatedly mentioned in the notes.
Chaotian Palace 0721 mission log, the whole note is actually a work note. And the identity of this dead person is clearly revealed - he is the one who serves Chaotian Palace, in order to complete the task assigned to him by Chaotian Palace, and this task is likely to be the initial exploration of the underground palace.
It records how their group found the cracks in the ground, "After the three major halls, there are palaces like Qianqing Palaces, and the palaces are left and right, and the construction is different from the six palaces in the east and west." In the west of its hall, there is a kind of Qin'an Palace, and the temple ** is dedicated to the shrine...... Mu found that there was a crack in the ground under the shrine, which was seventeen meters wide and unfathomable...... Determined to take a look. β
There are a few people mentioned in this note, Jiang Qi guessed that it was a partner who came with him, but he only had a surname, but no name, they were Mu, Lu, Liu, and there was another person at the beginning, who was a local sentry, surnamed Wang, this person took them up to Changbai Mountain, and he was not mentioned at the back of the work note, so he should have been sent away by them.
So in the dungeon, there should be only four people, there is a name written on the title page of the notebook, called Yang Heping, this should be the name of this corpse, Mu Lu Liu Yang four people entered the dungeon, and began to explore in the dungeon, Jiang Qi found that the notes did not mention the bronze mirror and the coffin in the main hall, I think it was not found at all.
When they entered the crack in the ground and saw the murals in the square room, Yang Heping also made a reasonable guess about the tomb, but there were a few sentences, very strange - "As said according to the wooden stick, the earthquake in the year of Wuzi, the main hall on the west side cracked, then the time when the underground palace was built, when before the year of Wuzi, the underground palace may be built at the same time as the Forbidden City." Wang Zanghai rushes back and forth between Changbai in Beiping, and repairs the long mausoleum, the three projects are in parallel, it can really be described as a god and a man. β
There is a person mentioned here, named Wang Zanghai, that's right, Jiang Qi carefully identified the word in the middle, it is indeed a "Tibet" word, not the word "Zhan", which makes him very puzzled, Wang Zanghai and Wang Zhanhai, the pronunciation is almost the same, but it is indeed a different word, and the notes say that Wang Zanghai built the underground palace, and on Jiang Qi's drawings, the name of Wang Zhanhai is left in the seal.
Is it one person, or two people?
Is it a fallacy in the record, or is it a misrepresentation in circulation?
Is it a double doppelganger of one person, or is it a succession of two people?
The deeper Jiang Qi thought about it, the more uncontrollable his heartbeat became, and when he touched his neck, he realized that he was already soaked with sweat. He re-read this passage, which said that this person named Wang Zanghai also presided over the construction of the Forbidden City and the Changling Tomb in Beijing while building the underground palace, and the three projects started at the same time, but they were correct.
If what is said in the notebook is true, then this person named Wang Zanghai must have left his name in the history books, because the underground palace is hidden and is not intended to be known, and the Forbidden City and Changling should be serious civil engineering, and will not erase the name of the person who led the project.
Could it be that Wang Zanghai and Wang Zhanhai are indeed the same person, but Wang Zanghai was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to find the dragon point to build the emperor's mausoleum, using Wang Zhanhai's fake name, so there is no record of Wang Zhanhai in the history books, and the construction of the Forbidden City and Changling was built by him after restoring his real name?
It's completely unnecessary, it's just a name, and it's not a private visit from the Son of Heaven, what is there to hide!
Jiang Qi thought about it for a while, when he was in Yunnan, he first knew the name Wang Zhanhai, which was mentioned by Bai Wenshan when he told him about Yunnan Feng Shui, because Wang Zhanhai single-handedly built Kunming City, and at the same time traveled all over Yunnan, surveyed the entire territory of Yunnan, and pointed out the location of forty-eight auspicious points, which was the basis for breaking Yunnan Feng Shui in the future. And because the pattern on the shadow wall shows that the Ji Cave is in the area of Snake Mountain, they saw one of the forty-eight Ji Cave in the "Records of the Bowl" handed down by Wang Zhanhai, which is located in the Snake Mountain.
The original name of "The Legend of the Horse" is "The Legend of Mr. Wang Zhanhai", but this is actually added by later generations, not the name of the book at the beginning, so what should it be called at the beginning, Jiang Qi felt that maybe this thing did not have a name at the beginning, just like the work notebook he held in his hand, maybe "The Legend of the Horse" was Wang Zhanhai's private notes, but it was later circulated, and later generations named him "The Legend of Mr. Wang Zhanhai".
Could it be that the people spread the wrong information, and such a mistake appeared when the story was circulating-no, Jiang Qi shook his head, and it was clear in the sample picture that it was Wang Zhanhai, the word Yuecheng, this thing is a private seal, and it is impossible to fake.
There is also a mention of Wang Zanghai in the note - "After Lu identification, the mural shows that Wang Zanghai is indeed carrying a nine-palace box." β
The message of this sentence is even greater, especially this "Lu", which refers to one of the partners who went to the tomb with Yang Heping, but this "Lu" surname is a sensitive surname in Jiang Qi's opinion, because it is linked to "Gusu Lu", and the family behind Lu Feiyin, and the family of Gusu Lu is the family that makes the Nine Palace Box, and this "Lu", among the four people, only he can identify the Nine Palace Box, then he is indeed the descendant of Gusu Lu.
There are too many branches of the Lu family, hundreds of thousands of descendants, all over the country, which one he is, Jiang Qi doesn't know, but he knows a little bit that the origin of the Jiugong box and the incomplete craftsmanship that has been handed down, only the core figures of the Lu family know, this is what Lu Feiyin told him, then this person is likely to have a different status in the Lu clan.
The last two pages are speculations about Dongge, and it is very strange that Yang Heping didn't know the identity of the woman in the painting at first, they saw the painting behind them and pushed it back.
"Ming Palace Nursing Mother, Nursing Emperor, the powerful person, only one person; and the picture four painted, the fire is flying, the sky collapses, the ten thousand rooms are flat and sinking, and the painting of both men and women is naked, which is the earthquake of Wang Gongchang, but I don't know what the relationship is. The identity of the Hakka clan, drawn in the picture, comes from the northern grassland, the woman can not see anything when she wears, and the man has a money rat tail, which should be the Jurchen tribe. In the Wanli period, there was a beautiful person among the Yehe Jurchens, who was famous, and the person who asked to marry was not counted, and his name was Dongge. β
After that, it was speculated that Dong Ge appeared in the tomb, and then the group continued to walk forward and came to this stone hall, which is where Jiang Qi is now.
Jiang Qi was shocked, because he saw that the notes also recorded the lack of oxygen in this place, saying that "candles can't be lit", and said their situation, "The four of them can't see each other at hand", and the four of them are in the main hall, but because this hall is very strange, at such a small distance, everyone can't see each other.
Turning the page, it was said later that Yang Heping had found his little friend, but there was only one - "When I called, I heard an echo in the southeast corner, and I saw that it was Lu." Mu and Liu can't see each other, and I don't know what happened to them."
After that, Yang Lu and the others searched for Mu Liu again and again, while exploring this hall until they were exhausted.
However, what was recorded after the notes made Jiang Qi fall into the abyss.
Because the notes said that Yang Lu and the others groped the entire hall back and forth for an unknown number of times, but they couldn't find any exit at all, and they were trapped in the main hall.
They didn't believe that this was a secret room without the slightest flaw, but they checked it over and over again, and were disappointed over and over again - until the food ran out, Yang Heping suddenly understood the secret of this hall.
"This is not a palace, this is a stone coffin".
The stone coffin is a stone coffin, Yang Heping said that this palace is actually a large coffin, a palace-style imitation wood structure building, which is composed of three parts: the coffin seat, the coffin wall, and the coffin top, Jiang Qi saw this and finally understood, why the entire hall does not have a beam and column, because the weight of its top is placed on the wall, and the wall is spliced out of four huge stones, Jiang Qi couldn't help jumping up when he thought that the wall behind him was not a real wall, but actually a giant coffin.
An example is given in the notes, it is the stone coffin of Li Jingxun of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Heping drew the appearance of this stone coffin, Jiang Qi found that the structure of the hall in front of him is very similar, the stone coffin plane is rectangular, it is the shape of three houses with reliefs, the coffin cover is carved from the whole stone, the lower part of the six stones is inlaid as a whole, the door is opened in the middle, the windows are opened on both sides, the bucket arches, doors and windows, tiles are engraved around, and the line is engraved with the green dragon, the red bird, Waiters and other patterns, but the difference is that the top of Li Jingxun's stone coffin hall is a mountain-style building, and this hall is a sharp building, the difference is also marked out in the notes, there are nine roofs on the top of the mountain, that is, a positive ridge, four vertical ridges and four ridges, so it is also called the top of the nine ridges. The top of this hall is quadrangular in plan, with a tapered roof on the top, and there are no ridges, but a number of ridges intersect at the upper end.
If this is an ordinary stone coffin, they only need to pick up the top and wall of the coffin, but this hall-style coffin, even if they know where the flaws are, they can't reach the gap, and they can't reach it but they can open it by manpower.
Without notes, Jiang Qi couldn't discover the secret of the hall at all, but after discovering it, he felt even more frightened, because Yang Heping had already discovered the flaw, but he was still trapped here, they were still two people working together, Jiang Qi was just alone - when he thought of this, he remembered that there was only one corpse in front of him, shouldn't there be another corpse?
No, no, no, shouldn't there be three more corpses?
Yang Heping died, and Mu, Liu, and Lu came in with him, where did these three go?
Jiang Qi swallowed, he picked up the flashlight, and then walked in the direction of the root of the wall, and finally under the root of the wall on the other side, he found the second corpse.
This corpse is also dressed in the same attire, Lei Feng hat and military coat, but when he took off his Lei Feng hat, Jiang Qi was so frightened that he fell to the ground - I thought that Yang Heping's face was weird enough, but I didn't expect that the face of this corpse was even more terrifying. Because of a face, the eyeballs bulged, full of unwillingness and anger, and the mouth was wide open as if he was going to pounce and eat people alive, so hideous.
Jiang Qi wiped his sweat and stood up from the ground, he couldn't look at this person directly, he could only cover this guy's face with a Lei Feng hat, and then searched for him.
When he was digging his pocket, he suddenly saw that there seemed to be some calligraphy and paintings on the ground, and when he took a flashlight, he found that it was actually written in blood - Mu Liu harmed me, heaven and earth are a lesson, if you can survive, you will be rewarded tenfold!
The back is full of the same words, and there are shocking exclamation marks, not only the ground, but also the walls are soaked in blood, even if the blood stains have long since dried up, but you can still see this person's agitated mood. Jiang Qi calmed down a little, and when he saw such a line of words, he was really a little confused.
The identity of this person is about to come out, it is the "Lu" mentioned in Yang Heping's notes, and he used his life to prove one thing, that is, his death was caused by Mu Liu - this made Jiang Qi difficult to understand. Obviously, the two of them were trapped in such a stone coffin, let alone the two of them, even if there were ten people, they might not be able to break it, and their final cause of death should be suffocation and starvation due to lack of oxygen, and there were no other scars on their bodies, but Lu swore that his death was because "Mu Liu harmed me".
How Mu Liu harmed him, he didn't understand.
Jiang Qi rubbed his eyebrows, he imagined several possibilities, but before he found Mu Liu's body, these assumptions were just assumptions, so he stood up again, and then walked towards the next wall, but then he didn't find anything, in an hour, he not only turned around the wall, but also almost groped the entire hall, and returned to this place again.
He now knows that Mu Liu did harm Lu.
Because in this hall, there is only Yang Lu's corpse, not Mu Liu's corpse. The note clearly states that the four of them entered the place, but two of them were trapped and died, and the other two were missing from the beginning.
What does this mean, Jiang Qi came up with two possibilities, one is that Mu Liu and the others found the mechanism of the coffin room, and they didn't need to break the coffin wall and the coffin roof, they unlocked the mechanism, and then went out smoothly, but after they went out, they didn't come back to rescue the other two friends. The second possibility is that among the four people, Mu Liu knew about the mechanism here for a long time, and what they did was to introduce the other two unwitting friends into this place, and then trap them to complete the murder that had been planned for a long time.
One or two children, three or four children, went into the tomb hand in hand. A notebook has not yet been written, and the story has already had an ending.
Of the four, who is a wolf and who is a sheep?
Why did the wolf open its bloody mouth, and did the awakening of the sheep before death come too late-
The more Jiang Qi thought about it, the sweat on the top of his head dripped down. It was the second time since he had gone to the grave that he felt a real fear, different from the fear of seeing something strange, it was only a superficial fear, but now he could feel a chill oozing from the bottom of his heart.
When he put himself in this situation, his first reaction should be, why did Mu Liu harm me? What kind of grudge do I have with them? The matter of going to the grave, unless the artist is bold, he usually holds the Unity Society, that is, he is afraid of any danger, and he can always help each other. However, this incident confirms the old saying in the tomb robbery industry, fighting tigers and brothers, and going to the tomb of father and son. If you are not a blood relative, it is not surprising that you want to get rich or run away from difficulties.
However, with such a story in front of him, Jiang Qi didn't see that he had the intention of getting rich or running away.
There are piles of treasures in the main hall, so why don't you take them? There are so many treasures, four sacks can't fit them, and it is almost impossible to have murderous intent because of the uneven distribution of the spoils.
In distress, if a disaster comes, it is very likely that the ground will move - but there are corridors in front and behind the main hall, wouldn't it be even more death to run out? It is better to be safe inside the main hall. What's more, when Mu Liu and the others found the mechanism, couldn't they shout loudly so that Yang Lu and the others could hear it and quietly leave this place, that was ill-intentioned.
Of course, is it possible that Mu Liu disappeared from the beginning because they touched the trap of the trap, and in the blink of an eye, they didn't have time to warn and call for helpβit was also possible, but Lu used a very positive tone to think that these two people had harmed him.
What does this mean, that is, there is indeed a certain contradiction between Lu and Mu Liu. Because if it is between friends, the other party has done something that you are incomprehensible, your first reaction is actually to reflect and consider from his point of view, which is called exculpatory to a certain extent.
Only if someone who has a bad relationship with you does something, your first reaction is that this person wants to harm me.
Either there is a real hammer, or there is a long-standing grudge, Jiang Qi looked at the corpse under the wall, and he really couldn't imagine how he came to the end of his life in resentment, fear and despair, and this emotion did infect Jiang Qi.
At this time, he suddenly noticed that the pocket of this person's military coat seemed to be slightly bulging, and he reached out and took it out, and really took something out of the pocket.
It's two photos.
In the first photo, four men stand shoulder to shoulder, grinning their back molars. Such a photo reminded Jiang Qi of his college days, and the four people in the dormitory often took pictures like this, which was extremely stupid. This photo is a black and white photo, the background makes him a little familiar, and when he looks closely, he finds that it is a large hall, and the plaque on this hall reads "Chong Sanctuary", and he remembered which place this is.