Eighty-seven, from the empty flower
Xiao Baoer came to Xiaobai with joy, but the latter was not as close to her as she imagined. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
She asked puzzledly, "Xiaobai, what's wrong?"
Yao Xitong said leisurely: "Your Xiaobai is a female wolf, and the male wolf is one circle bigger, and his husband is very dissatisfied with you." It's currying favor with its husband, trying to get us out of here safely. ”
"How do you know that the giant wolf is Xiaobai's husband?"
"Feeling. Have you noticed that we are surrounded by wolves again. Xiao Bao'er looked around, I don't know when, there was a wolf hidden behind each stone figurine, gray and white is the color of the coat that allows them to blend in with the surrounding environment.
Yao Xitong continued, "Looking at the appearance of the wolves, it was the wolf king who attacked us, and your Xiaobai is the queen of wolves, our life and death depend on whether Xiaobai can make her husband happy." ”
The wolf king raised his head proudly, and Xiaobai crawled tamely and licked his fur at his feet. Xiao Bao'er said uncertainly, "Do you think Xiaobai can convince the wolf king?"
"The wolf is very loyal to his partner, and if Xiaobai is as rude as you, it is not a big problem to convince the wolf king. ”
As the two were talking, the scene changed, and Xiaobai, who had been giving the wolf king a low roar, was unmoved. Xiaobai suddenly jumped up and bit at the wolf king, but the wolf king didn't answer, avoided to the side, and Xiaobai chased and bit unrelentingly. The wolf king was annoyed and let out a low roar, and Xiaobai roared back. The two wolves roared like this, and I roared back.
Xiao Bao'er asked, "Is this a quarrel?" Yao Xitong nodded, and quietly looked at his palm while he was not paying attention. When I went out, I didn't expect to meet the snow toad, a strange poison in the world, and the medicine I carried with me could only suspend the toxicity, but not completely cure it. If he didn't find the antidote before dark, his hand would be dead.
The sound of snow falling from the top of the mountain made the two wolves stop howling at each other. The wolf king let out a long roar, and hid in the stone warriors with the wolves, and Xiaobai tugged at the corner of Xiao Bao'er's skirt with his mouth to signal to follow it.
They didn't go through the door of life or death, but walked towards the place in the middle where there seemed to be no road. Until the end of the snowfield, Xiaobai jumped down, Yao Xitong and Xiao Baoer looked at each other, and jumped down with Xiaobai with a tacit understanding. There was a platform under the cliff, and the thick snow did not hurt the two of them, and then looked at Xiaobai, who stood on top of a sheep intestine path extending from the platform, urging the two to go faster with his eyes.
A quarter of an hour later, Xiaobai led them to a cave, or a narrow slit, located in the gap between the two mountains, which they had to turn sideways to pass.
In this place where there was no light, Yao Xitong lit the fire sickle he was carrying, and the two continued to follow Xiaobai forward in the faint light of the fire. Seeing that the fire sickle was about to be extinguished, Xiao Bai finally stopped in front of a stone door, and his constant tilting seemed to let the two of them in.
Xiao Bao'er was a little timid, Yao Xitong pushed open the stone door without hesitation and walked in, and lit a torch inserted in the door. Inside the stone gate was a corridor, with a lot of tools scattered on it, Xiaobai did not follow, and the corridor was quiet enough for them to hear each other's breathing.
"Dead turtle, what kind of place is this, why did Xiaobai let us in?"
"If there is no miscalculation, the front should be the tombs of the previous Liao kings. ”
"Isn't it?
"This is the way for grave builders, not serious graves. ”
"How would Xiaobai know?"
Yao Xitong shrugged his shoulders and said meaninglessly: "I guess that the tomb repairer was eaten by wolves in the end, do you say it knows." ”
Xiao Bao'er thought it was true, only the people of Northern Liao knew how lonely the snow field was in winter, and so many wolves could live to protect the White Sacred Domain, and cannibalism must be one of the methods. In addition to them, there must have been countless greedy people who tried to disturb the royal tomb and broke into this place and became a snack for the wolves.
The corridor was very quiet, except for Yao Xitong's breathing, Xiao Bao'er could almost hear her heartbeat. If it had been before, she would have walked all the way down the road, trying to figure out what lay ahead! Now it was different, the rhino incense made her full of awe of strange powers, and she really didn't have the courage to break into the ancestral tomb.
But that damn curiosity continued to torment her, the legendary White Sanctuary, the place where half of the treasures of the Liao Kingdom were buried...... Seeing that it was within reach, she was really entangled to death, and couldn't help but ask, "What now, shall we go in?"
Yao Xitong was more curious than Xiao Bao'er, but his intuition reminded him that things would not be so simple. He asked, "Does the princess want to go in?" Although the Liao Kingdom has been divided, you have the blood of the Liao King in your body, so you don't want to see the ancestors' tombs?"
Xiao Bao'er threw out the question back into her hand, she looked at the depths of the corridor longingly, and stumbled, "I...... I...... You say you're going, and I'll take you. If you don't go, we'll leave. ”
Yao Xitong understood the longing in Xiao Bao'er's eyes, but all kinds of doubts about the White Sacred Domain made him pull Xiao Bao'er out without hesitation.
Xiao Bao'er didn't want to leave, and shouted loudly: "Dead turtle, what's the matter with you? I don't want to see what the tombs of the previous Liao kings are like?"
"Are you going to go or not?"
Xiao Bao'er looked back at Yongdao and said pitifully, "Okay!"
Xiao Bai squatted outside the door, and when he saw the two of them coming out, he hurriedly put his head against Xiao Baoer's body and motioned for them to go back. Everything was different from speculation, Yao Xitong was puzzled and asked, "Do you want us to go in?"
Xiaobai stopped his movements and whimpered, as if answering Yao Xitong "yes".
"What a wicked door!"
Yao Xitong said and pulled Xiao Bao'er back to Yongdao, who said happily, "Come in, let's just take a look, don't take anything." ”
The road is very long, spiraling downward, and the further you go, the higher the temperature becomes, and the ground gradually becomes slippery. After walking for half an hour, a simple room appeared in front of them, the murals on the wall were unfinished, and the floor was littered with bottles and cans for painting.
Xiao Bao'er looked at the mural on the wall and said softly, "There should be a concubine's mausoleum here, there is only a description of her marriage on the screen, it seems that she was still alive when the mausoleum was built." ”
Yao Xitong was also looking at the mural, and he asked, "How do you know that you are getting married, not attending a banquet?"
"Liao women only wear a ceremonial crown on the day of their marriage, which is the same as the wind crown of the Central Plains woman. ”
"No wonder it looks familiar, on our big day, you also wore a ceremonial crown, gold and rubies, it looks very valuable. ”
"The ceremonial crown used on that day was made by the internal supervisor in accordance with the customs of the Northern Liao and asked the craftsmen of the Central Plains, and it was worthless. If I marry from Northern Liao, the ceremonial crown I wear must be the phoenix crown of the previous queens of Northern Liao, and each ruby on it is the size of a wolf's eyeball, which is worth ......"
Xiao Baoer felt that something was wrong when she said it, how did she become as cheesy as Yao Xitong, and she could have something to do with money when she opened and closed her mouth.
"Xiaoxiao, why didn't you speak all of a sudden?"
"Dead tortoise, did I look good in my dress that day?"
"It's okay!"
"Why did you answer so reluctantly? You didn't even look at me closely?"
"Xiaoxiao, don't forget that I didn't eat the water and rice that day, and I still had a blue circle under my eyes, and all the people watching the ceremony were secretly laughing at me, do you think I still want to see if you are beautiful? But when I lifted my head, I ......"
Xiao Bao'er interrupted him anxiously and hurriedly asked, "Does it feel amazing?"
"I would say that the lever of the lid is more delicate. ”
Xiao Bao'er ignored Yao Xitong in disappointment, and her mouth was so pouting that she could hang up the oil bottle. Yao Xitong couldn't help but comfort him, "Don't worry, didn't people say it, you are the first beauty in Northern Liao." ”
"Who is the family, I don't care what people say, I want to know what you say. ”
Yao Xitong suddenly approached Xiao Bao'er, "Okay, okay, no matter what people say, in my eyes, you are very beautiful." ”
"Really?"
"Really, I don't lie to you. ”
Xiao Bao'er smiled again, the two little tiger teeth were very cute no matter how they looked. She said, "Let's go out, there's nothing to see here." ”
The passage outside the tomb was obviously different from the passage they entered, with neat floor tiles and smooth walls, and the moment the two stepped on, they could know that the place where the fire did not shine would lead them to the tombs of the previous Liao kings.
Xiao Bao'er couldn't help but clench Yao Xitong's hand, full of anticipation for everything she was about to see, and at the same time worried that such behavior would be a great disrespect to the ancestors.
Yao Xitong noticed that her palms were sweaty, and she was about to comfort her, but she had no intention of catching a glimpse of the tomb she had just left, and the floor tiles were a little asymmetrical. He pulled Xiao Bao'er and walked back, and after some beating, he found that there was still a road behind the unfinished mural.
The two of them had to bend down to climb into the passage, the untreated ground was all mud, and the smell of fishy smell made Xiao Bao'er cough.
"What's going on? Why is there a road hidden here?"
Yao Xitong explained: "The road we entered would be sealed as soon as the cemetery was built, and the builders would be killed in order to keep the secret of the mausoleum. This passage was left by the grave builders for themselves, through which they fled for their lives when the burial chamber was completed. ”
"How shall we go?"
Xiao Bao'er's question made Yao Xitong a little surprised by her reaction. In this case, most people will choose to go to the emperor's tomb along the neat tomb road before, and even if they find this passage, they will not be stupid to get into it. Xiao Bao'er's question proved that she thought of another question, why did Xiaobai, as the guardian of the mausoleum, let them in?
Xiaobai definitely didn't want them to go to the mausoleum, which violated the meaning of guarding itself. But when they wanted to leave, Xiaobai kept letting them in, this behavior definitely had some meaning, maybe this hidden escape route could give them the answer.
Xiao Baoer can figure all this out in a short time, and this kind of reaction speed is really a bit contrary to her usual performance.
Yao Xitong asked tentatively, "How does the princess want to go?" Xiao Bao'er glanced at him and took the lead in getting into the passage used by the tomb builder to escape.
The air in the damp tunnel was cloudy, which made Yao Xitong suspect that the craftsman who built the passage had died before the passage was completed. The two of them couldn't walk upright, so they could only crawl forward like dogs, so the torch in Yao Xitong's hand became clearly extinguished, and it was completely impossible to illuminate Xiao Bao'er in front of him.
Worried that something would happen to Xiao Bao'er, he said, "Let me lead the way, you can follow me." ”
"No, it's my duty to protect you. Don't worry about me, climb a little longer and get used to it, I didn't ...... Oops......"
Xiao Bao'er exclaimed before she finished speaking, in such a narrow place, Yao Xitong didn't care about the number of courtesies, and the whole person lay on her back, probing to see what was wrong with her.
There were white bones on the ground, Xiao Bao'er's palm was cut a little by the white bone, and red blood dripped down the palm of her hand.
Yao Xitong held the torch in one hand and the ground with the other hand, and couldn't spare his hand to give her the medicine, so he only asked, "Can you bear it?" ”
Xiao Bao'er said, "Give me the torch, a good ground, why suddenly there are more bones, I will take care of it." ”
Yao Xitong's whole person was almost lying on Xiao Bao'er's back, and it was undoubtedly a difficult action to hand her the torch at this time. The cheeks of the two almost touched each other, Xiao Bao'er held the torch steadily, only to see her take a photo forward, and she was instantly shocked into a cold sweat.
The road ahead is basically paved with white bones, and the bones that cannot be seen glow in the firelight. Occasionally, you can see the skull, and the black hole hole in the eye socket seems to tell the pain of being killed, not to mention how penetrating it is.
The two said in unison, "Go back!"
The tunnel was so narrow that they couldn't turn around, so the two had to crawl out upside down.
Yao Xitong retreated first, and when his body was completely out of contact with Xiao Bao'er, he said, "You can retreat, be careful!" As soon as the words fell, Xiao Bao'er heard another "ah". Helpless, he could only get close to Xiao Bao'er again as before, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Bao'er lowered her head and shone the bones on the ground with a torch, "Look, the bones are blooming!" A broken rib cut through Xiao Bao'er's palm, and at its crack, a small big red flower was blooming faintly. "I didn't have anything just now, how did I give birth to a flower? Dead turtle, I'm not mistaken, right?"
Yao Xitong suddenly urged: "Dripping blood, hurry up and drip blood." ”
Xiao Bao'er asked blankly: "What blood, what blood?"
In an instant, the blooming little flower was about to close again in a blink of an eye, Yao Xitong grabbed Xiao Bao'er's injured hand and pressed it hard, and the wound that had not scabbed shed a lot of blood.
Red blood dripped down the bones, and the small flowers that were about to close bloomed again. When all the petals opened, Yao Xitong plucked the flowers and pressed them tightly to the wound where he was sprayed by the snow toad's syrup. The palm that had turned black and purple due to the spread of the toxin slowly returned to its original state, and before the small flowers withered, Yao Xitong's injured palm had healed.
During this period, he lay on Xiao Baoer's back, his hands passed under his armpits to heal his wounds in his chest, and the posture of the two was really ambiguous~ to the extreme.
"What kind of flower is this?"
"The empty flower, also known as the Youtan bowl, is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures, but I didn't expect to see it in hell. ”
The mausoleum, a passage paved with human bones, is not an exaggeration to say that it is hell.
Xiao Bao'er was a little annoyed when she heard this, after all, this was the mausoleum of her ancestors. Thinking that it was his own blood that saved Yao Xitong, he couldn't help but sneer: "Why don't you say that the blood of the devil saved you?"
Yao Xitong didn't know what Xiao Bao'er was annoying about, and explained seriously: "As long as it is fresh and healthy blood, whether it is you or Xiaobai, you can bloom empty." ”