The python robe should be the dress of the officials in the ancient period of our country, just because it is embroidered with python non-dragon claws for four toes, and the royal dragon is five toes, so there is a saying that four claws are pythons and five toes are dragons. Moreover, this kind of python robe is mostly worn by the emperor and is given to non-ordinary officials who have made meritorious contributions.

Combined with the age when this ancient tomb was built, it happened to be during the reign of Ming Xizong, so after a little thought, I have some guesses about the identity of the owner of this tomb.

"How's it going?"

At this time, Zhang Qian on the side saw that I was silent in thought, so she couldn't help but ask: "Who is buried in this tomb?

"There is an answer!"

I nodded slowly and motioned to everyone, and after looking around for a while to calm down a little, I told everyone what I had guessed in my heart.

Me: "If I'm not mistaken, this tomb should be buried in Wei Zhongxian, a very famous eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty." ”

That's right, it's the notorious, powerful eunuch, speaking of this person, I guess there is no one who doesn't know a little bit of history.

If you want to say that the worst eunuch in all dynasties and generations of our country, everyone must mention him in unison, yes, Wei Zhongxian is not one of them,

In fact, Wei Zhongxian's original name was Li Jinzhong, a native of Suning in Beizhili, which is now our Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and later entered the palace as a eunuch before changing his name.

Later, he hooked up with the wet nurse of Zhu Youxiao, the eldest grandson of the emperor, and ate with him, and tried his best to flatter the eldest grandson of the emperor, luring him to feast, and won his favor.

In the first year of Taichang, in 1620 A.D., Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, and the year name was Emperor Xizong.

According to historical records, in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1384, Zhu Yuanzhang adjusted the eunuch organization and added a celebrant supervisor, mainly responsible for court etiquette.

In ancient times, eunuchs were illiterate and had to be illiterate, but in the Wenxuanzong period, the status of the celebrant was improved, and the inner study hall began to be set up, which was responsible for recording the imperial texts and sealing the ministers' transcripts, as well as issuing imperial approvals, etc.

After the institutionalization of the cabinet vote, the rights of the eunuch Bingbi were promoted again, and the things that should have been approved by the emperor Zhu were completed by the eunuch Bingbi, which was equivalent to the emperor's ghostwriting, and Wei Zhongxian, who became the eunuch of the emperor after Ming Xizong's accession to the throne, eventually evolved into him to deal with the government in the way of ghostwriting.

We all know that Ming Xizong, that is, the fifteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is named Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong. This guy is very interesting, he has not received a good education, and he is not interested in the government at all, even if he is the emperor, he does not put his mind on it.

Instead, he focused all his energy on his hobby, so much so that he eventually evolved into a carpenter. Every day, he is tired of taking a group of little eunuchs to engage in innovative research and development, in order to become a great carpenter and work hard.

In this way, the major affairs of the DPRK and China were handled by Wei Zhongxian, and thus he became the actual decision-maker of the Ming Dynasty, this is Wei Zhongxian, and the power of the government and the opposition was tilted for a while.

After gaining power, because he was disabled, his heart began to twist, and he ate the emperor's wet nurse Ke Yinyue with him, and did a lot of miserable bad things. The first is to frame the queen to confuse the harem, and then attack the other concubines, if any concubine is pregnant with the dragon species, not to mention a pair of abortion pills forcibly taken, let the fetus die in the womb.

In the government and the opposition, there were also some loyal ministers, such as Yang Lian, the left deputy capital at that time, we all know the so-called imperial history, to put it bluntly, it is similar to our current national discipline inspection and supervision personnel. Whoever has a problem will impeach the emperor, of course, those bad things that Wei Zhongxian did, Yang Lian couldn't stand it for a long time, and secretly found out Wei Zhongxian's twenty-four crimes, and prepared to complain to Ming Xizong.

What he didn't expect was that Wei Zhongxian had already noticed all this, and before he could see the emperor, he was imprisoned by Wei Zhongxian in advance on trumped-up charges, and was hit by an iron nail in the prison, and a generation of famous ministers died.

In fact, there are many loyal ministers who died in the hands of Wei Zhongxian, which is not a detailed list, there are too many bad facts he did, and he can't count them, if it weren't for the later enthroned Emperor Chongzhen to give Wei Zhongxian a holy decree to death, I estimate that the entire Ming Dynasty is about to be killed by him.

So it seems that in the Biyun Temple in Xishan, the tomb found is not Wei Zhongxian's, the tomb owner should be someone else, of course, it is not a doubtful tomb, the tomb is also the meaning of the fake tomb, mainly for anti-theft, in ancient times, tomb robbers were very rampant, so this kind of fake tomb was derived, that is, the hidden tomb site, so that the tomb robbers do not know where it is.

It is said that the ancient tombs are not sealed or trees, and do not set up prominent signs on the ground, one of the main starting points is to prevent robbery and excavation, and the traditional anti-tomb robbery methods also include stone coffins and iron walls to be strong, water and sand storage to prevent theft and chisel, and crossbows and arrows, fire and poisonous smoke to kill and injure tomb robbers.

When the phenomenon of tomb robbery became serious in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, various forms of anti-tomb robbery appeared, that is, the situation of confusing tomb robbers with real and false tombs.

It is the most famous set up by Cao Cao, according to folklore Cao Cao has a total of seventy-two doubtful graves, some are even set in the water, folklore General Shi Lang also has seven doubtful graves, respectively located in several ancient city gates in Quanzhou, true or false I don't know if I just listen to it, but now we are in this tomb, nine out of ten is the ancient tomb of Wei Zhongxian.

"What do you mean...... This ancient tomb belongs to Wei Zhongxian?"

Qiu Dajun said: "I fuck this old thing, it's not a good thing, I have caused a lot of disasters to the common people before I died, and I don't stop when I die, and there is no other old man who has to pull this old guy out and whip the corpse." ”

I was stunned for a moment! Fuck don't look at this usually honest peasant man, I didn't expect to be so perverted in my heart, and I plan to whip the corpse.

Peng Hui: "Now that we have figured out who the owner of the tomb is, then we should also go to meet it, there is nothing else to do after death, and we can't leave it." ”

"Hey...... I don't think the road ahead will be smooth. ”

I said, "No matter what, I hope you can go back safely!"

As soon as the words fell, we didn't linger, but walked straight towards the tomb door, fortunately, I am familiar with this tomb door structure, and I opened the tomb door in a few clicks, and I also lost the ventilation facilities when the ancient tomb was built, and the oxygen content in it was quite sufficient, which was much more convenient for us to move next.

Behind the stone gate is a narrow road, a few of us cautiously walked inside, for fear of accidentally touching some hidden weapon, no way we walked too smoothly in front, so that there was no obstacle, greatly surprised our expectations, such a large tomb said that there was no mechanism to kill me don't believe it.

In this way, we walked in for about forty or fifty meters without any danger, and soon came to the front of a fork in the road, which seemed to be the road leading to the left and right ear chambers, which showed that the structure of this tomb, like most ancient tombs, was also formed by the left and right ear chambers of the front room, and finally the main burial chamber.

Since we have already arrived here, and our ultimate goal is to find someone to come, so there is nothing to scruple about, so after a brief discussion, we decided to go to the left and right ear chambers to have a look and then go to the main burial chamber, and after the summing up, we will start to act.

After walking through the corridor, we entered the left ear room, which is a large space with an area of about 200 square meters, and the walls are full of neatly stacked wooden boxes, and there is a lot of dust on the surface, which is more than a finger thick.

Around me in the tomb of Yang Guozhong in the Qinling Mountains, I have also seen a lot of valuable treasures, which can be regarded as a bit of vision. But this time I was really shocked, and I couldn't help but curse in my heart, what the fuck, how much people's fat and ointment Wei Zhongxian looted when he was alive. The abundance of funerary goods and the variety can only be described as exaggerated.

However, we didn't rob the tomb this time, so we didn't have the idea of touching the gold in our hearts, so we basically rummaged through the ear chamber and didn't find any clues, so we went to the ear chamber on the right as planned.

As a result, we didn't wait to get close to the ear chamber on the right, we dispelled the idea of going to find out, the main reason was that all of us, almost at the same time, noticed the strangeness of the burial chamber in front of us, and before we could see the shadow of the ear chamber, there was a sudden gust of wind blowing in the corridor, and the scene was quite terrifying, not to mention how scary.

"What a place, why is it suddenly getting cold?"

Qiu Dajun rubbed his hands and said, "Damn, drill straight into the cracks of people's bones!"

"It's yin. ”

I explained, and hurriedly said: "In my opinion, let's not touch this ear room, I estimate that if there is really a tomb guard for Wei Zhongxian, nine times out of ten it will be here, there is a way that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, don't provoke them if you can." So let's go back and go straight to the main burial chamber!"

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

Penghui They basically agreed with my opinion, and they no longer turned around and walked back, and went straight to the direction of the main tomb without stopping, and we came to the front of the tomb door of the main tomb in a short time.

Unexpectedly, the tomb door of the tomb chamber has been destroyed, and two stone doors carved from white marble are hidden, and the long strip of stone used for the top door is lying aside.

Who could have done this? I don't know!

But these are not important, after a little hesitation, I gritted my teeth fiercely, and directly pushed open the tomb door, only to hear the sound of the tomb door open, and the entire main tomb was finally presented in front of us.

To my astonishment, there was nothing empty here, except for two large red coffins in the center of the burial chamber and a few corpses on the ground.

Judging from the surface of the corpse, these people should have just died a few days ago, and there has not yet been a phenomenon of decay and stench, and it is preliminarily determined that these people are likely to be the Chen family in Jingnan, so the tombs were destroyed by them.

Retracting my thoughts, my eyes fell on the two coffins again, the two coffins are one large and one small, it is obvious that the slightly larger one on the left is the tomb owner, and the one on the right is the tomb owner's wife, after all, the ancients paid attention to the joint burial of husband and wife, although Wei Zongxian is a eunuch who is half sick, even if there is no such thing in the crotch, he can't stand that people have wives!

Although we were struck by the magnificence of the main chamber, we did not forget the purpose of our visit, and when we were relieved, we went our separate ways to search the chamber, but we found nothing, and we searched all the places where it was possible to hide people, and although we were disappointed that there was no other way, we had to plan for the next step.

I was probably haunted by curiosity! I became interested in the two coffins, and the idea of opening them to take a look came to me. According to common sense, we don't need to open the coffin, although we have accepted Liu Nan's commission in advance and take her into the main tomb, the rest has nothing to do with us, we only need to remove the main coffin in the center of Jiang's tomb and open the hole that leaks from the bottom, and she will complete the rest by herself.

But since I have already come to the main tomb, I am always a little unwilling to open the coffin to see the face of the tomb owner! Not only me, but even Qiu Dajun is staring at me with an expectant face, so we finally decided to open the coffin.

It's not enough to see what Wei Zhongxian looks like, okay, maybe this is the kind of thing that ordinary people say, if you have nothing to do, you can support it when you are full.

We made up our minds to go into battle together, but it was mainly carried out by me and Qiu Dajun, and none of the steps should be missing, first a white candle was lit in the southeast corner of the tomb to measure good luck. As for why we have to light candles in the southeast corner, the reason is that the southeast direction is the auspicious position, the northwest is the evil position, and the southeast is the gateway for people and ghosts to enter and exit according to the house scripture.

Therefore, a candle is placed on this point and then the coffin is opened, which can predict whether the tomb owner is unwilling to be reincarnated because of greed for yellow and white things, and guards his own burial goods, so as long as the Tufuzi has the idea of opening the coffin and touching the gold, the tomb owner will blow out the candle as a warning. There is a way that people light candles and ghosts blow out lamps, so no matter how powerful the tomb robbers are, they will also abide by this rule.

Everything was ready, so I took out a crowbar, walked to the coffin with Qiu Dajun, and began to get busy. There are many people and great strength, and they quickly pry out all seven nails on it. The rest is just two simple words to open the coffin! Just because there are many taboos in the process of opening the coffin, I asked Qiu Dajun to step aside and do it himself.

Seriously, Wei Zhongxian is still enough for himself, and even the coffin is made of golden silk nanmu that can only be used by the royal family, so there is no need to say much about the degree of luxury. The lid of the coffin was slowly pushed open, and a gap gradually leaked out, and suddenly a thick black gas floated out of it, followed by a pungent corpse smell, this smell is old and ecstatic, maybe the word disgusting can't be described, fortunately, I was prepared, and I was not sprayed with black gas on my face, otherwise the problem would be serious.

In fact, this thing is of the same nature as corpse poison, simply put, the corpse has been sealed in a coffin for hundreds of thousands of years, and the internal organs in the body are rotten, mixed with corpse poison produced by various bacteria.

If you accidentally get sprayed in the eyes or inhaled into your body by this thing, it will be a big game, and if you don't want to quickly pull out the corpse poison, you can only wait for death, especially under our current conditions, it is even more fatal.

After the corpse poison was completely dispersed, I continued to step forward to open the coffin, I have to say that this time will always be, the most exciting moment, because you don't know what is lying in the coffin, so the whole process is very tense.

When the lid of the coffin was completely lifted, an extremely well-preserved male corpse was suddenly presented in front of all of us.

If you look closely, you can see from the face that this is definitely Wei Zhongxian, and there are many similarities between his eyebrows and the one on the mural. Dressed in costumes, it is also a python robe, not who else can he be.

Qiu Dajun: "This ...... This is Wei Zhongxian, how to look at it as if he had just been buried not long ago. ”

"You know. ”

Me: "It's not a good thing that corpses don't decompose for hundreds of years!"

Qiu Dajun scratched his head in confusion, and was about to say something, when the corpse in the coffin suddenly changed its skin and fat, and it was withering and shriveling at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it didn't take long for it to completely turn into a dry corpse.

We can see the scene that happened clearly! It's false to say that we're not afraid, but that's all. But I didn't think about it carefully, and I neglected that every dynasty has the custom of preserving the body of the dead, especially with an identity like Wei Zhongxian, even if he dies, he will not lack the treatment he deserves, and preserving the corpse for thousands of years is one of them.

In ancient times, people usually believed that after death, it did not mean the disappearance of a life, but the beginning of another life, in other words, to live in another unknown world, so there was a custom of thick burial, of course, it was also very important to one's own body.

But under natural conditions, it is difficult to keep the corpse from decomposing, even for a short time. Because after death, the cells in the body will soon begin to autolyze. Lytic enzymes in cells release various proteolytic enzymes that gradually degrade biological macromolecules into small molecules. In addition to this autolysis process, the corpse is also eroded by various bacteria, causing the body tissue to decay and decompose.

Therefore, the ancients developed a variety of ways to prevent the corpse from decomposing, one of which is to completely seal the coffin, so that the oxygen and moisture from the outside world cannot enter, enclose the corpse in a small environment with constant temperature and humidity, and then put in the Chinese herbal medicine with bactericidal effect, at this time, the residual bacteria inside the corpse begin to multiply, and the gas produced makes the intestines continue to expand and push the rectal mucosa out of the body.

However, the few oxygen in the coffin were soon depleted by the bacteria, so that they could no longer grow and reproduce, and at the same time, a large number of traditional Chinese medicine also played a role in embalming and sterilization, so it was possible to preserve the corpse. Once the sealed environment is broken, the corpse will instantly weathered when exposed to the air, and it will dry up and wither directly into a dried corpse.

Looking at the scene in front of me, I smiled bitterly and shook my head, just wanted to put the coffin lid on the new one, but before I could make the next move, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the tomb without warning, and at the same time, the candle lit in the southeast corner of the tomb was extinguished with a pop!

I noticed this detail at once, and my heart suddenly trembled, and I cursed secretly: "Damn, this is ...... The ghost blows the lamp. ”

Just as we were shocked by this sudden scene, suddenly an eerie and very sharp laughter echoed through the tomb.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey......"

I was startled by this laughter, and I chuckled in my heart, and even thought of a series of strange things and scolded, is it possible that Wei Zhongxian has been dead for so long, and he still stays in the tomb to guard these gold and silver treasures.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly took a few steps back, and pulled out the long knife at my waist, ready for battle.

Then the seeping ghost laugh rang out again: "Hey, hey, hey, ah...... For many years, I've been waiting for someone to break open this damn coffin and today I finally got my wish, and the damn Taoist priest put Lao Tzu together. Hey, hey, hey...... As for you... It's to give me the best sacrifice, none of you can escape, it's all mine. ”