Liu Bei couldn't believe what he had seen with his own eyes.

Turning around and asking, "Ran away?" ”

"Indeed, he ran away." The queen nodded slightly.

"How is that possible?" Liu Bei pointed his finger to the center of his eyebrows: "An arrow pierces the skull, how can you live." ”

"From time to time, there is a folk proverb that 'abnormality is evil'. There must be something strange about this. Why don't you catch up and find out? The queen whispered softly.

"It makes sense." Liu Bei beckoned people to check the traces.

A team of embroiderers, tracing uphill. Gradually approaching Maijishan.

After a while, an embroidered official returned: "Enlighten the lord, the beast is like a mountain and flees." ”

"You can see it really." Liu Bei asked. The wheat mountains are like a group of wheat standing upright. The mountain is steep, how can the snow wolf climb it.

"The traces are obvious, and there can be no mistake." The embroiderer also felt that this matter was strange.

"Let's take a look." To see is to believe.

Liu Bei really wants to see the snow wolf who can climb rocks.

Everyone then followed the snow path trotted out by the embroidered horse team, climbed the gentle slope, and slowly approached Maiji Mountain.

Looking up at the snow-capped mountains covered with ice and snow, Liu Bei had doubts and turned over and dismounted.

Walking into the mountain rock, you can see claw marks.

Claw marks climb the uneven rocks of the cliff face, meandering upwards and disappearing into the reflection as far as the eye can see.

Maijishan, the relative height is only more than 60 zhang. However, in the midst of the mountains, I suddenly saw a lone peak standing upright, like standing out from the crowd. Since all eyes are on you.

"Go up and have a look." How could Liu Bei die.

The Thistle King gave an order. There are embroidered clothes who are good at flying eaves and walking on the wall, undressing and removing armor. Wearing winter clothes, wearing eagle claws (fingers) sets, tiger paws (shoes) tips, waist tie dragon claws, flying up the cliff. Like a monkey, climb all the way up to the top of the mountain.

After crossing the reflection on the mountainside, he heard an exclamation: "Lord, most of the top of the mountain is carved with stone caves." ”

As mentioned earlier. Most of it is close to three-fifths of the height of the summit.

"Wheat Stone Cave." can't help but remind Liu Bei of the Maiji Grottoes that will be famous all over the world in later generations. But the timing is clearly wrong. At present, Buddhism has just been introduced to the Central Plains and has not yet emerged. Not to mention prosperity. It is impossible for anyone to dig the grotto here with great fanfare.

In addition, in terms of depth, the grotto is obviously deeper than the grotto. The so-called deep caves and shallow holes do not match the depths. Liu Bei raised his voice and asked, "Is there something else inside?" ”

"There is an ancient coffin." The embroidered clothes on the cliff replied.

"Ancient coffin?" Liu Bei was even more stunned. Who actually put the coffin of the ancestors in the cave of the mountain cliff? Such peculiar burial customs are by no means Han people who pay attention to "entering the earth for peace".

"My lord, this cliff is a tomb of ancestors. Or ...... 'hanging coffin'! ”

Liu Bei heard that a small number of alien races have a tradition of "hanging coffins". In later generations, there is also a legend of "the servant hanging coffin".

"Don't move!" Liu Bei then said: "Release the rope quickly." ”

"Whoa!" The embroiderer fixed the claws and threw the rope down. There are embroidered clothes under the cliff, locking the mountaineering pulley around the waist and flying up. Not long after, the second wire rope was fallen.

"Bring your armor." Liu Bei advised.

"Whoa!" Then the embroiderer put the armor of the person who ascended first and carried it on his back.

With a team of embroidered clothes successively ascended to the stone cave. Gravel falls from the cliff face. After a while, I heard another exclamation: "Lord, there are many caves on the cliffs. but it was sealed with gravel and mud. The color is the same as the cliff, far away! ”

In other words. The hanging coffin cave is excavated in front, and the Buddha Gate cave is excavated in the back.

These two things can be related.

Motioned for the crowd to wait. With doubts, Liu Bei wanted to go to the stone cave to have a look.

Shi Lian led the embroidered clothes and protected him from the side.

"Master, be careful." The queen whispered.

"Big brother be careful." Guan Zhang and the others also advised.

"Be careful, don't be careless." Liu Bei then climbed the rope.

Mai Jishan said that it is not high or not, and it is not low that it is low. When you climb up to the stone cave, you can look down and feel dangerous.

"My lord." The embroidered clothes were put back on their armor. led Liu Bei into the depths of the stone cave: "The stone cave is connected to each other, but it is covered by a sandwich wall. Therefore, it is shallow. ”

A stone wall made of gravel and mud has been broken by the embroiderers.

"It will be crushed and sealed with the gravel left by digging into the cave." The embroidered official said: "Because of the sound of the wind, I found cracks in the stone wall. Try to break it, and sure enough, the wall is hollow. ”

Liu Bei nodded lightly. It was because of the cracks in the rubble wall that attracted air convection, which was discovered by the embroiderer.

The stone ** is placed in the ancient coffin, but there is a hole behind it. In other words, this grandiose ancient coffin placed in the stone cave is just a cover-up.

Liu Bei has already seen in advance that the ancient coffin is made of a whole section of large wood, 刳制 (kū zhì, cutting a large wood to make it hollow). The petroglyphs painted all over the caves are also in line with the style of antiquity.

Maiji Mountain, located in Qindi. The Qin people in the Weishui River valley not far away, also set up the "Burnt History Pass" to guard.

However, the hanging coffin burial system is not owned by the Qin people.

Could it be that the tomb here is older than the Qin people.

"Open the coffin." Liu Bei took the breathing mask in his hand and motioned for everyone to open the coffin.

"Whoa!" Shi Jian and others put on breathing masks one after another and worked together to remove the lid of the coffin.

Wood cutting craft is mostly seen in the ancestors. For example, canoes. It is made of a whole large tree, dug up. This coffin is also the same. The only difference is that the log is first divided horizontally from three-fifths of the way. Most of the bottom half is made into a coffin, and the remaining half is carved into a coffin lid. In this way, it will be tightly fitted, like the beginning of the whole wood.

Han aesthetics, high as the extreme. But I don't know if it was influenced by the ancestors here.

Later generations explained the cause of the hanging coffin burial system. There is "the highest one thinks that it is the most filial piety." ". In short, there may be ancestors who believe that they should bury their ancestors to the heavens in order to do their best. It is an expression of filial piety. I don't know if there is an echo with the "immortal good building".

Re-association, when the restaurant An was buried in Luoyang, I heard about the Sabbath burial customs. and the construction of the Tower of Babylon from later generations. Liu Bei felt in a trance that the ancestors of the ancient times were not as isolated from the world as later generations thought. Perhaps, a long, long time ago, human beings scattered all over the world had communication and connection.

The lid of the coffin is slowly displaced. Liu Bei's whimsical thoughts reunited.

"This is ......" coffin, on display is an ancient dried corpse wearing a bone mask and a dark bird feather robe.

"Lord, this is the coffin of the Qiang people, Wu Zhu." There are well-read embroidered clothes officials, who can be identified at a glance.

"The coffin of the witch." The identity of Wu Zhu is not difficult to see. Liu Bei looked at it carefully, and then asked, "How do you know that it is a Qiang person?" ”

"Hanging coffin burial is out of the Qiang tribe. Legend has it that the ancestors of the Qiang people are descendants of Dayu. Dayu led the crowd to control the water, and his merit was higher than the world. After Xia Yu died, the Xia people hung his body in a cliff hanging coffin. Since then, the Qiang people have followed this method and applied hanging coffin burials. In order that the body hangs in the air, and the soul soars. Gain supreme divine power to bless future generations. ”

"I see." Liu Bei nodded lightly: "Cover the coffin." ”

"Whoa!"

The coffin was left untouched, and the coffin was reunited. Liu Bei ordered people to break the wall.

Shi Lianjin said: "The cemetery of the ancestors, the time is far away, and I am afraid of witchcraft. The body of the lord's daughter should not be easily involved. ”

Liu Bei replied: "What Gong Liu said is extremely true. However, the matter has come to this point, and if the mystery of the snow wolf is not solved, it is really difficult to feel at ease. ”

As he spoke, Liu Bei pointed at his eyebrows again: "An arrow pierces the skull, how can you not die." ”