The soldiers destroyed the temple of the king of Chu, and they were especially resentful. Shang Song Lu said: "Now that King Ping is dead, the King of Chu has fled south. The revenge of the minister's father and brother was not avenged, and the minister swore an oath with the deceased brother that day: the elder brother took death as filial piety, and the minister took revenge as filial piety; Chen Ken asked the king to agree: Xu Chen dug up the king's corpse, opened the coffin and beheaded! In this way, I can vent my hatred! ”

He took revenge for the soldiers as filial piety, so he allowed it.

The soldiers took their henchman Yue Peng and a few guards, dressed in civilian clothes, and went out of the city to inquire about the location of King Ping's mausoleum.

Because King Ping killed his brother to win the country, and killed Zhongliang and appointed ministers, he knew that he had made a lot of enemies, so he still took a lot of thought about his future affairs, and did not build his mausoleum in the place of his ancestral tomb.

When King Ping was in power, he secretly sent his henchmen to supervise the construction of his own mausoleum. In order to prevent the enemies from being unfavorable to him after his death, King Ping was tight-lipped about the construction of the mausoleum, and the details were basically unknown to outsiders. Later, after King Ping died of illness and was buried, the people knew little about the tomb of King Ping. After visiting for a long time, the soldiers also learned that the name of a place where they were probably buried was Liaotai Lake.

This Liaotai Lake is located thirty miles outside the east gate of Yingdu, and there is a village here called Pingbingzhuang. In front of the village is this huge Liaotai Lake. This Liaotai Lake is also a little strange, on the east shore of the lake deep into the lake water built a stone platform, so it is named Liaotai. The soldiers visited really, and the tomb of King Naping was around this Liaotai Lake.

I saw that the water of Liaotai Lake was vast, the water was rippling, and the grass was desolate outside the sun. Flocks of white waterfowl stand in the winter lake looking for fish and shrimp, and the water of this southern country is desolate and remote.

Yue Peng couldn't see why, and wondered: "This is also strange, the place that Mr. inquired about is a lake, and this mausoleum can't be built in the lake?" ”

The soldiers also thought it was strange. So I took a closer look at the lake. Ask the people around you, and no one has heard of any tombs here.

The soldier was also very puzzled, and sighed: "I have always been good at divination, and during this visit, I also asked some elders who knew a little bit about the inside story, as well as an old friend of mine; According to their identification and the results of my divination, the tomb of the king of Chu should be around this Liaotai Lake. But what I can't understand is that this place is a lake, how can it be a mausoleum? Could it be that the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes?! ”

Yue Peng saw that the soldiers were especially unrelenting, and suggested: "It is better to send more soldiers to search and dig along the shore of the lake." Just look closely. There should be something to gain. ”

The soldiers ordered Yue Peng to go back and transfer the military horses of the headquarters and search around along the shore of Liaotai Lake. More than 1,000 soldiers searched for several days, but there were still no clues to the tomb of the king of Chu.

The Wu army searched for tombs along the lake, which naturally alarmed the residents of the Chu State who lived here.

A few days later, Wu's army still did not make any progress. The soldiers couldn't calm down. Beat his chest and pause, and shouted to the sky: "The sky is above!" Our soldiers are burdened with a sea of blood. Bear the grievances of the whole door. The head of the enemy, God! Oh my God? "So sad and unstoppable.

Suddenly, there was an old man in the crowd who walked out of the crowd and looked at the mournful soldiers on the Liao platform, his lips moved, and he wanted to speak and stopped.

Seeing this, Yue Peng greeted him. asked slowly: "Dare to ask the old man if he has anything to say?" ”

The old man didn't answer, but asked Yue Peng: "General, who is the mourner?" Could it be the son of my Chu Zhi's 'Slaying Dragon Yuan' before? ”

When Wu Yuan was young, he was in the land of Chu State, because he bravely killed the water monster with the sword of the 'Seven Star Dragon Yuan'. In order to praise the courage of the soldiers, the local people renamed the place where the soldiers killed the water monster as 'Slaying the Dragon Yuan'. It seems that this old man has come to the homeland of the soldiers.

Yue Peng nodded yes. The old man wept and said: "It's a pity that the Wu family was killed by traitors, and the first king lost his way, this is the will of heaven!" So he asked for an interview with the soldiers.

Yue Peng invited the old man to meet the soldiers, and the soldiers gave their respects. The old man asked: "The general is an old minister of the Chu State, what do you mean if you want to get the tomb of King Ping today?" ”

Wu Yuan said: "For his own selfishness, King Ping listens to slander and does not distinguish between loyalty and treachery; chase the prince and take the daughter-in-law; Kill the loyal and good with the ministers; Destroy my Wu family, this revenge can't be avenged! I could not cut his neck when he was alive, and even if he died today, I should kill his corpse and behead him to avenge my father and brother's revenge in the ground! ”

The old man said for a long time: "King Ping knows that he has a lot of grievances, so he secretly asked people to build his tomb. Because he was worried that the tomb would be excavated by the enemy after his death, the tomb was built in the water of Liaotai Lake. ”

"Who is the old man? The lake is so wide, how do you know the exact location of its tomb? ”

"I am none other than a masonry who built the tomb at the time, so I know all about it."

"Since King Ping secretly built the tomb, why was the old man able to save his life?"

"At that time, King Ping sent a group of fifty of us masons to build the tomb. After the construction was completed, he was worried that the masons would reveal the secrets of the tomb, so he killed the masons in the tomb, and the old man was the only one who found the opportunity to escape alone, and later lived in seclusion. ”

The soldiers were still a little skeptical, but since what the old man said was so sure, he had no choice but to give it a try.

I saw that the old man climbed the Liao platform, pointed to a place in the east and said: "If the general wants to excavate the coffin of the king of Chu, he must drain the lake water to get it!"

The soldier looked in the direction pointed by the old man, and it was located in the east of Liaotai, but how to keep the vast lake clean?

Yue Peng called a soldier who was good at water, alias 'Water Ghost', and ordered him to follow the instructions of his husband and dive into the lake to find out carefully.

But he saw that the 'water ghost' had abandoned his armor, and a fierce man plunged into the water, and the lake turned out to be a wave, and soon it was as calm as ever.

Thousands of pairs of eyes stared at the water, and a long string of bubbles bubbled out of the surface of the lake. In a short time the water ghost emerged from the surface of the lake, holding a stone mound stained with silt.

The water ghost swam to the shore and replied, "General! There are indeed stone piers and stone outlines in the place where the old man guided, which should be where the tomb is located. After speaking, he showed the stone pier in his hand to the soldiers.

When the soldiers looked at the turtle pattern beast engraved on the stone pier, they had eight or nine points in their hearts. The tomb of King Ping should be here, and what the old man said is true.

For several days, the soldiers were still at a loss. Although the location of the tomb is accurate, what can be done about the water of the lake? This King Chuping is really an old and cunning guy, and it is not so easy to deal with after death.

After figuring out the tomb of King Ping, the soldiers and horses of their headquarters set up camp on the edge of Liaotai Lake, with the intention of being determined to win.

On that day, the soldiers and Yue Peng went out of camp and watched the sunset on the edge of Liaotai Lake for a while, seeing that the afterglow was about to end. Parents are calling their children home from playing outside. At this time, two boys were seen playing on a pile of sand, and using the wet sand to build the city in all its shapes: castles, watchtowers, and embankments......

The soldier looked at the masterpieces of the young children and suddenly realized, and said to Yue Peng beside him: "I saw these two boys building sand just now, I have a plan, I can use sand bags to build an embankment, block the lake, and get the coffin of the king of Chu!" ”

Yue Peng was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately sent an order: let each soldier fill a cloth bag with sand, and according to the old man's guidance, first use the sand bag to enclose an area of the tomb out, higher than the lake, and then order the soldier to sit in a small boat to draw water from the lake in the tomb area.

Thousands of soldiers carried sand bags on their backs to build embankments, and the layers of sand bags blocked the surrounding lake. The sergeants inside kept drawing water outside, but in a few days, in the area of the tomb, the stone outline at the bottom of the lake was revealed.

It was a square stone profile about three feet long. In the center of the stone profile there is a rectangular stone cover, on which are carved various animal patterns. The sergeants removed the heavy stone cover with long ropes and stakes, and only then did they see a huge stone coffin under the tomb.

The soldiers were overjoyed, it seems that such a hidden place must be where the tomb of King Ping is located.

The stone coffin is extremely heavy, and it seems that the thick coffin cover also weighs thousands of catties, and it is very tightly sealed, and there is still no gap after more than ten years.

Together with the soldiers, the soldiers themselves pried open the heavy stone cover with wedges, bound it with thick ropes, and then removed it with several wooden oxen (a group lifting device in the south). When everyone looked at it, they saw that there was no coffin in the stone coffin, only a few royal robes and clothes, and a pile of burial utensils such as iron and bronze tools.

The soldiers were disappointed when they saw this, it seems that this is just a suspicious tomb, and where is the real tomb of King Ping?

Just as I was wondering, a junior colonel came to report at this time: "The commander has a handwritten letter to the general." (To be continued......)