Ghosts-afraid spirits?

The young man suddenly realized, but Ji Le jumped to his feet in anger and defended again and again: "In our time, how can there be any ghosts?"

"What ghosts, it's all nonsense!"

"I'm not so much afraid of ghosts as I'm worried about unknown enemies. In order to show that he is not afraid of ghosts, Ji Le even summoned a lot of puppet minions. These spirits surrounded him, and there was indeed no sign of fear in him.

"I'm not afraid of ghosts at all, I'm just worried about the dangers of the night road. For example, walking on the path in the middle of the night, what if there is a robbery with a knife?"

"So, try not to walk at night!"

"You must be on high alert to guard against enemies in the dark!"

Ji Le gushed about his own safety debate, but the young man was not in the mood to listen: "Hurry up, after the worship, let's go around the cemetery." After all, we don't have much time. ”

Tossing now, it is already a child, they must return to the Yongle Hall before dawn to avoid Yang Ke and the others from noticing.

At this time, Ji Le closed his mouth, took out incense and candles to worship the ancestors, and then walked around the tombs with the young people.

But after a while, the two sensed that something was wrong.

Ji Le: "No, I still can't perceive the soul, the soul of the ancestors doesn't seem to be here." ”

The young man stared at a tombstone beside him and said in a deep voice: "The tomb is regarded as a 'Yin House', and the dead ancestors continue their lives in the tomb. Maybe because of the barrier of the tomb, your perception is not clear?"

He stretched out his hand and stroked the stone tablet in front of him, and asked Ji Le, "I'm going to dig it up, do you want to retreat first?"

Ji Le muttered two words, but did not dodge, but connected to the treasury of Yongle Palace, took out a shovel and handed it to the young man.

The young man was quick with his hands and feet, and soon dug up the coffin.

The tombs of the ancestors are square, and there is only one beautifully decorated coffin inside.

Ji Le's brows moved slightly, and he whispered to himself: "There is a tile coffin of the Yu family, a coffin of the Xia Hou family, a coffin set up by the Yin people, and a wall by the Zhou people." The burial style here is in line with the ritual system. ”

Many patterns are depicted on both sides of the coffin, including "Ascension to Immortals", "Queen Mother", "Tianlu" and so on. However, the "immortals" of the Han Dynasty were mostly "feathered people" images.

The young man looked at it casually, tapped the coffin gently, and weighed the weight: "Something is wrong, there is something wrong with this coffin." ”

"Why, you can't suddenly raise a corpse, right?" Ji Le said as he stepped back, with a group of Yin Spirit guards beside him, and motioned for the young man to open the coffin.

In the dead of night, the two of them were active in the cemetery, how could they feel like a tomb robbery novel? Ji Le had goosebumps all over his body, and he abandoned the unrealistic thoughts in his mind.

The young man opened the outer coffin, and in addition to the inner coffin containing the corpse, there were many burial utensils. He knocked on the inner coffin and said, "Sure enough, it's empty." ”

"Empty?" Ji Le furrowed his brows: "Clothed mound?"

"Yes. After the young man finished speaking, he immediately rummaged through the coffin.

And Ji Le's fingers moved slightly, and he also asked several puppet servants to assist in counting the burial goods.

"Looking at these pottery and a few bronzes, you can imagine that the ancestors did not have such a good life in the beginning. Even gold and silver were rarely buried, and there were not many iron tools. Ji Le examines the burial goods inside the coffin, and with these things, he can get a glimpse of the signs of the deceased's activities and life experiences.

"This should not be the tomb of the nobles, but like an ordinary citizen? pottery, this should be used for wine, and it is not a special artifact, it was used during his lifetime. ”

Ji Le examines the burial goods one by one and explores the origin of these things.

"Found it!" the young man suddenly shouted, throwing a piece of wood to Ji Le: "Look!"

Ji Le subconsciously took the wooden slip, but then his face changed, and he hurriedly threw it to the puppet servant. After he took out a clean water cloth and wiped his hands, he looked down at the wooden slab, and his body was far away: "This is the legendary book of confessions?"

Confessions, ancient funeral customs. The identity of the deceased is written in the form of wooden and bamboo slabs, which is used to communicate with the god of the underworld. At the same time, it also has some of the benefits of the title deed. After all, according to the ancient worldview, the emperor and the queen of heaven are the gods of heaven and earth. The earth belongs to the god of the earth, and when the dead are buried in the earth, they have to ask the god of the earth for their life and ask for the right to use the land.

The funeral regulations of the book of confessions also have some flavor of sacrificing to the gods.

"It's written on it,......" Ji Le read hastily, and said to the young man, "It's an ordinary citizen, like someone from Tianjiao City, who left a well-dressed grave here after his death. ”

"Skyhorn City. ”

The young man and Ji Le looked at each other, and they all thought of one thing: the disaster of peace!

"If you look elsewhere, you can also use puppets to help - forget it, you can't let them dig the graves of their ancestors. The young man jumped up and told Ji Le to come forward and bury him, and ran to another grave himself.

Here, too, is a well-dressed mound, and the time of the dead is also a disaster of peace.

The two of them looked worse and worse, and continued to explore the cemetery.

It took three hours for the two of them to survey the cemetery roughly.

But the results shocked the two.

Among the tombs of the ancestors, except for a few with corpses, most of the tombs are empty, just clothed mounds!

The two of them were standing by a tomb with bones, and Ji Le was looking through the bones. The puppet servant carefully held the white bones and sent them to Ji Le for him to look at.

Ji Le covered his nose and endured the discomfort and said, "Extrapolating from time, this is a female skeleton." ”

The young man held the notice to the ground: "According to the time above, it should be the people who were buried by the ancestors in their early years." At that time, it was still the Metropolitan Palace. ”

"Wait, judging from the bone age, it should be an old lady, so it may be old and dead?"

"You're going to do an autopsy?"

"I've heard from a friend about some basic common sense. Ji Le pinched his bangs, closed his eyes, and sketched out the life of an old lady in his mind.

When the ancestors crossed, the old lady was too old. Not long after, he died in a foreign land and was buried here. Judging from the weathering of the tombstones, it is indeed older than other tombstones. And there are few funeral goods, only a few items before death.

"It can be determined that before the Taiping disaster, the corpses of many ancestors were here, and only a few were devoured by wild beasts, and the bones could not be found. But these reasons are recorded in the land notice. The young man buried the coffin again: "But that is the only thing, there is no record in the notice book!"

Woe to the Peace!

Not only are there no corpses of the ancestors, but even the cause of death of the ancestors is not mentioned in the letter of complaint, only an approximate time.

"It's a taboo for the heavenly one, isn't it?" Ji Le ordered the servants to rearrange the white bones and place them back: "Let's go, go to the martyr's cemetery." ”

Liegong is the honorific title of Yang Ke's ancestors in the Xia Kingdom, and his cemetery is in the center. But after checking, the two were even more confused: "Why is it also a well-dressed mound?

When Liegong was here in Jiugong City, he didn't participate in the disaster of peace at all!

The young man dug up the coffin, but found no letter of confession, only a scroll of brocade silk with a dull luster. He took it out and looked at it for a while, and handed it to Ji Le: "The experience of Liegong before his death can barely be regarded as his letter of confession." ”

Ji Le asked the servant to take it and read it carefully. This is written about the deeds of the Liegong after the crossing, and from this you can also see the history of the ancestors.

Liegong was not the first batch of ancestors to cross over, and when he arrived, the ancestors already had a simple institutional system.

Among the original ancestors, there were two captains, and they gathered several pavilion chiefs who also crossed the same time, co-opted the rangers, and restrained the ancestors by force, forming the initial institutional system.

At that time, although Liegong and several companions from the same family were more educated, they could not interfere in the operation of the group of the ancestors. After they crossed over, they stayed in the school palace to write the classics silently and help restore the inheritance of civilization.

Gradually, the rule of force was transformed into the cult of faith. The captain surnamed Di was treated by a master of the Taiping Sect because his youngest daughter was seriously ill, so he began to worship the Taiping Sect and urged the ancestors to worship "Huang Tianjun". Then there are other cities such as Tianjiao City. The center of the ancestors also shifted from Jiugong City to Tianjiao City.

It was also at that time that Lie Gong finally had a certain status and could interfere in the planning of Jiugong City. Under his management, the original stronghold of the ancestors was transformed into the current Jiugong City.

"There is a struggle everywhere!" Seeing the simple description on the brocade silk, Ji Le could guess the open and secret struggle between the ancestors back then.

The final result was that the Taiping Sect was completely eradicated, and the Liegong won and won the right to rule the ancestors.

And yet—

"There is still no record of the cause of Liegong's death. ”

"It's just that from the time, it seems that it was not long after the disaster of peace. ”

The other ancestors died in the disaster of Taiping, and the timing of the letter is almost the same. But it seems that Liegong is a few days late?

"But I can guess that the disappearance of the souls of the ancestors is indeed related to that incident and to that person. Ji Le looked up at the sky.

The hour had come, dawn had arrived, and the sky was glowing with a white light. Ji Le's gaze turned to the light, looking at the God who was at the height of the heavens.

"The contradiction has been established, even if it is to find the souls of the ancestors, it is also a situation that will never die!"

Seeing that it was dawn, the young man hurriedly buried the coffin back: "Bury it first, and talk about other things later." ”

Ji Le hurriedly said: "Wait, this brocade silk-"

Seeing the brocade silk in the puppet's hand, the young man took action for a moment before continuing to move: "You take it first, let's go back quickly, and then find a chance to put it back!"

Indeed, time is running out!

Looking at the sky, Ji Le was worried about alarming others, so he reburied it with the young man and crept back to the fork in the road. The woman and the others had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and were ready to go over to find the two.

"Why is it so late?"

Ji Le haha, pointed to the young man and said, "This guy is a little timid, and the two of us don't know the way, so we have been delayed here for a lot of time." Sister, let's go home. ”