Chapter 80: The Queen's Funeral
On that day, March 15, the queen was buried.
The dark coin is like snow, and the white practice covers the sky.
A group of people wear linen and filial piety, step on white shoes, and are full of white flowers. From the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, it should be plain white.
Before dawn, the ceremony began. When the emperor burned three incense sticks in front of the spirit tablet, bowed down and bowed, the coffin was officially raised.
The mourners are outside the Foguang Temple in the inner palace and have been assembled for a long time. At this moment, the official "opening and initiation", waiting for the funeral procession to march to the palace gate, all the foreign ministers at the palace gate "hooves" - in order to follow the queue.
From the palace to the mausoleum, the distance is nearly 100 miles, all on foot. However, "Lu Hall" will be set up along the way for the funeral procession to rest.
The whole team, there are Yinbo people in front, there is a Lubo honor guard in the second, then there is a barman who carries the coffin and the Zizi Palace, and then there are fully armed guards.
After the guards, there are funeral relatives and vassals who start with the emperor's dragon and the emperor's relatives.
At the end of the queue were a large number of monks and Taoist priests.
A rough estimate is that there are more than 1,500 people, which has to be called a huge shock!
……
A hundred miles on foot!
At this time, I really want to have an electric balance car.
I walked through the line, trying to find out where Nian Yi'an was. But everyone was dressed the same, and their faces were half covered in the sackcloth. This made me look back several times, but to no avail.
The road was really devastating, and the soles of my feet were smoking, and my eyes were black. Even if you take a break in Ludian several times, the "convenience" of queuing takes up most of the time.
After walking on the road for an hour, you can hear the sound of a young lady and a young man, tired and sighing.
But no one knows anyone in this dress, and who complains so much, everyone listens to the right to be happy.
Later, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I had to make a plan and faint on the ground by pretending to be physically exhausted. Then I was finally saved, and several sturdy eunuchs took turns carrying me on my back for the second half of the road.
I'll just lie on the broad shoulders of others and just close my eyes and recuperate.
Since getting up at the end of the fifth watch (three o'clock in the middle of the night), the team officially set off, and the team went straight to the beginning of the afternoon before entering the boundary of the mausoleum.
The person carrying me patted me: "Little dodder, wake up, it's coming." ”
Hey? How is it the voice of Nian Yi'an?
I looked over his shoulder at the side of his face, sleepy-eyed. Is it really......
I was delighted and curious: "Why are you?" ”
Although he was tired, his tone was gentle: "I looked behind me and saw that there was a person in front of me who was probably physically exhausted, who had been carried for a long time, and saw that he was thin and small, and he always felt like you!" When I was just resting in the Lu Temple, I found that you were resting on a bench in the corner, and you slept so soundly! ”
I laughed, "Anyway, it's impossible to be thrown on the road, I'll just sleep mine." ”
He continued: "So, after the rest is over, I will take the position of the eunuch and take care of you myself. The team is already in disarray, and people are standing everywhere, whoa—"
He raised his chin and motioned for me to look forward: "See, these are all learning from you." ”
I've been smiling silently, and when I wake up, the people I care about come back to me, full of sweetness.
Feng Yi, the female master of ceremonies began to clean up the team, I got off his back and asked him silently: "You said in the letter that it is not appropriate to come here, why?" ”
He tugged at my sleeve: "It's not good to say it in the crowd, and besides, the crazy woman's words are intermittent, and I just infer it." ”
I looked ahead, but everything was obscured except for the white guard of honor. Listen to the mourning music, and you will know that the ceremony will begin.
Entering the stone archway, the queue is changing, and according to the rules of the ceremony, they are divided into different areas and re-queued.
At this moment, the tall mound suddenly appeared in front of me!
Beneath the mound is a magnificent underground palace. The door of this underground palace is wide open, at this moment by the monk and Taoist priest to open the way, the first to enter, and then twenty-four barmen carry the coffin inside, followed by part of the honor guard, followed by all the royal relatives and dependents, officials and attendants.
I was secretly shocked that we still had to go in......
It's terrifying! What if the gate of the dungeon accidentally falls?
The scene of the tomb robbery movie is vivid in my mind at this moment. Can I pretend to faint again? Or sneak into the queue that doesn't have to enter the dungeon......
The emperor has also gotten off the dragon, supported by Cui Changshi, and strides towards the underground palace, so he has to make me wait to keep up.
When I entered the gate of the underground palace, I felt that the yin wind was gusting and the yin qi was coming.
"Huh~~~, eerie!"
My whisper made Nian Yi'an laugh.
After passing through a few large stone gates, I came to the central square of the underground palace.
This underground palace can be regarded as moving the Zhaoqing Hall on the ground to the underground. Corner towers, front halls, storage rooms, burial chambers, and corridors, etc. In front of the main hall of the underground palace, the bright moon beads are hung high for the sun and the moon. The turtle oil ointment is a candle for the lamp, and it has begun to "grow bright" at this moment.
The gold and silver are wild geese, the jade is pine and cypress, and the dome of the tomb is painted with astronomical star maps. There are man-made lakes and canals that twist and turn underground—they are still vacant at the moment, and we just wait for the funeral to be over, and after we have withdrawn, we will be mechanically infused with mercury, symbolizing the rivers and seas, and the endless flow of water.
Nian Yi'an whispered to me: "This mausoleum was originally prepared for himself by the emperor of the previous dynasty thirty years ago. Halfway through the construction, the dynasty collapsed. So it was left empty, and the wind and rain have been blowing for decades, but it has not hurt the roots. ”
I was surprised: "Oh~, no wonder the Houling can be completed in less than three months, it turns out that this is the case." ”
The queue stopped, and the knocking and banging in front of me was heard, and the ritual of burial had begun.
The emperor at the front was in the tomb, and this queue was bustling to the place where I was standing, and I didn't even enter the main hall, just in the square outside.
I can't see what kind of god is dancing in front of me, and I can't let go of talking, boring tight.
After looking at the white for a long time, I felt my eyes sting, I lowered my head and unconsciously scratched the floor with my shoes.
Suddenly, I felt that the stone bricks under my feet were not the same~
As for what is not quite the same, it is not completely summarized at once. I just feel that the stone should be a hard and smooth surface, but when I step on this floor tile, there is a feeling of stepping on the ground. Some of the pimples are pimple, some are soft, and you can rub the skin vigorously with the tip of your shoe, and you can also rub off a layer of black-brown clay mud......
I called to Yi'an: "Look! What is it. ”
He lowered his head and learned from me to rub the ground with my toes, but there was more than just one layer of black mud, and the more I rubbed it, the more I dug a small hole.
We couldn't help but look at each other.
He bent down and pinched a little of the black mud, rubbed it, sniffed it, and frowned, "There is actually some rancid smell." ”
Ha?
I wondered, "Isn't this dungeon supposed to be made entirely of stone?" Fang De is not bad for 10,000 years. Even if it's dirt, it's black, soft and sticky, and it doesn't look like dirt......"
Looking at the stickiness on the upper of the shoe, it seemed to be about to pull out the silk, and I felt nauseous.
At this moment, one person knocked down the candlesticks on the side of the road, and seven or eight candles were scattered all over the ground.
It's nothing, but the sparks that splash on the ground don't go out for a long time, and the ground is like a combustible, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger!
The man who was going to step on the fire star was frightened and jumped up! One person is in turmoil, ten people are in a panic!
In a matter of moments, almost everyone around me was tap-dancing!! I felt the dungeon start shaking, but slightly, just a little dizzy.
Everyone was busy shouting, and the commotion was already boiling, and I dragged Nian Yi'an to run outside the underground palace.
He shook his head and shouted: "There are too many people, and the road is narrow, I'm afraid I can't squeeze out." ”
With that, he grabbed me under the armpit, picked me apart, and jumped me into the drain.
"This place must be the strongest, you stay first, you really can't find your way out along the canal, I'll go back to my father!"
With that, he turned around and ran.
"Hey, hey, hey! It's dangerous to go back! ”
He shouted, "Obedient! ”
In the middle of the square, where we had just stood, the flames were still swaying on the ground, twisting and twisting like several fire dragons, and they were so frightened that they had no masters! There was also a main hall, and the people in the tomb crowded out, rushing and bumping for a while, and making a mess.
Before the eyes were fixed, they only heard the boom, and the land collapsed like a fallen brick, like a landslide!
I was terrified......
The sound of heavy earth cracking, loud hysteria, and even the echo of the fall man in the hollow of the ground......
I can't believe it, I've seen it with my own eyes.
The opening of the ground was opened, slowing down the tearing speed little by little, and finally froze at the size of half the underground palace square.
The collapse stopped, and everyone was quiet.
At this moment, I didn't dare to move, I didn't dare to speak, for fear that if I breathed loudly, it would cause the next one to collapse......