Chapter 421: The Coffin of the Pond
Hou Zhenbang didn't attack He Changqing, I don't know if it was because he took care of Wei Chiran's pistol, or because Wei Chiran felt wrong, or Hou Zhenbang knew that he was not He Changqing's opponent, so after he guided He Changqing to his side, he immediately pointed down and said, "Uncle Shi, look below." ”
Of course, He Changqing heard the shout of the previous lieutenant, and naturally raised his vigilance, but he did not keep a distance from Hou Zhenbang, but instead looked down next to him closely.
From where they were, they had to jump into the pool of water if they went down, otherwise, even if they had to land on the stone platform, they would be thrown to their deaths.
"If there is Li Yinfeng's coffin below, then why is there a cave on the other side?" He Changqing used a flashlight to illuminate the opposite side, "This is very strange." ”
Hou Zhenbang said: "Uncle Shi, according to the records, there must be a pond in the deepest part of the torture cave where the coffin is placed, and this should be the deepest part, right?" ”
The so-called underground pool is a deep pit with water in an underground cave, and if there is no natural pool, then the person who built the torture hole has to dig one by himself. First of all, the depth and width of the deceased's birthday should be strictly calculated, and after digging, the deep pit should be filled with "Tianshui", the so-called Tianshui refers to rainwater. Therefore, it is necessary for people to transport buckets from the ground into the cave to fill the deep pit, artificially creating a pool.
Of course, the artificially created pond will greatly weaken the role of the torture hole.
He Changqing checked the surroundings, there was no place around to fix the rope, so someone had to take the risk of jumping down, but he thought of the previous lieutenant and asked him to be careful, so he deliberately said: "I don't know the authenticity of the coffin below, maybe it's dangerous." Zhenbang, you lead Wei Chi Ran here first, and I'll go down to explore the way. ”
As he spoke, He Changqing was about to jump into the pool below, knowing that Hou Zhenbang would definitely stop him.
Sure enough, Hou Zhenbang stopped him and said, "Uncle Shi, it's too dangerous, it's better to let Tuxingsun go." ”
Tuxingsun lay on Hou Zhenbang's head and nodded towards He Changqing.
He Changqing hesitated: "Is he okay?" ”
Hou Zhenbang said with a smile: "Tuxingsun is a monkey after all, and he is much more flexible than us. ”
He Changqing said: "Okay, let Tuxingsun explore the way." ”
Hou Zhenbang picked up Tuxingsun and put it on the edge below, Tuxingsun grabbed the stone protruding from the cave wall below, and climbed down lightly, and used a scorpion crawl, that is, the head down, feet up climbing method, this kind of climbing method is generally not possible.
He Changqing looked at it for a while and said, "I'll pick up the captain and come over late." ”
As he spoke, He Changqing got up and walked out of the corridor with his eyes closed, and at the moment when he was about to walk to Wei Chiran, Tu Xingsun had already jumped into the pool below, and soon his head came out again, and he grinned and shouted.
This voice is a signal, which means that the pool is very deep, and Hou Zhenbang jumped directly from the edge when he heard the sound.
Wei Chiran saw Hou Zhenbang jumping down, and hurriedly greeted him and said to He Changqing: "Master, Hou Zhenbang has gone down!" ”
He Changqing slowly opened his eyes: "I know, he will definitely go down, and his order is to find the Ding Jia pot before us." ”
Wei Chiran asked, "Then why did you let him go so easily?" ”
He Changqing turned to look at the end of the corridor: "Do you think that the Iron Cloak Gate will be so simple for others to find the Ding Jia pot?" ”
Wei Chiran asked: "But since Hou Zhenbang has a secret order from the secret hall, they will naturally tell him where he is and how he should get it." ”
He Changqing asked, "Don't you still understand?" He wasn't receiving orders from the Secret Hall. ”
Wei was stunned for a moment, and between the lightning and flint, he understood: "Master, do you mean that Hou Zhenbang is a lone person?" ”
He Changqing nodded and said: "Yes, he may not be a disciple of the lone army, but he must have been bought by the lone army, because his behavior is too weird, the iron clothes gate really doesn't want us to find the Ding Jia pot, so they can give a death order to transfer Hou Zhenbang away, or let him find an excuse not to help us, but Hou Zhenbang took the initiative to ask to go with us at the beginning, and later wanted to get rid of us." ”
Wei Chi asked: "So, when he was at the entrance of the ground, the reason why he wanted to show up was because he felt that he was weak and could not go so far on his own?" ”
"And that's not all." He Changqing's face became very serious, "There must be other reasons, Hou Zhenbang may have been tempted or coerced by the lonely army." ”
The reason why He Changqing said this was because he still remembered the look of guilt on Hou Zhenbang's face when he appeared on the ground, which was definitely not pretended.
Wei Chiran asked, "Master, what should we do now?" ”
He Changqing looked at the cylinder on the outside of the corridor in front of him: "Look around, there must be some mechanism that can stop the rotation, we can't take the risk of jumping down like this, and the torture hole is deep, more than this distance, there is a road ahead, he dives his waterhole, let's go our way." ”
Wei Chiran understood at this time that He Changqing deliberately used this to get rid of Hou Zhenbang and take a step ahead of him. Since Hou Zhenbang made a mistake in judgment, let him be wrong to the end, so that he can also buy time for them.
After the two searched, they didn't find any mechanism outside, but Jiang was still old and spicy, He Changqing found that the ever-bright lights in the corridor were a little strange, and each ever-bright lamp seemed to be able to twist, so he and Wei Chiran turned the ever-bright lights on both sides of the corridor one by one.
After all the lanterns were twisted, the cylinder on the surface of the corridor stopped turning clockwise, and began to turn upside down, counterclockwise, and while turning, the two were surprised to find that the cylinder was moving slowly towards the opposite entrance, and the position at the end slowly began to dock with the opposite hole.
Wei Chiran was very surprised, he didn't expect that people of that era, or people of different ways, could use this method to combine the roads at both ends of the cliff.
At this time, Hou Zhenbang was diving into the water, looking around, because he knew very well that in order to open the coffin in the torture cave, he had to go down from the stone platform to find the mechanism. And on the stone coffin, Tu Xingsun looked up at the cylinder that was turning towards the other end, and screamed anxiously.
Hou Zhenbang in the water couldn't hear Tuxingsun's scream at all, he was carefully looking at the stone pillar used to support the stone platform in the water, the stone pillar was carved with a hideous monster, and the monster had many loose places on its body, and it felt like a mechanism, and it should be possible to open the coffin on it after pressing it in a certain order.
But Hou Zhenbang had no clue at all, he had to surface, and as soon as he came out, he saw Tuxingsun raising his head and screaming, he also looked up, and found that after the cylinder was docked with the other end, he secretly screamed that it was not good, and quickly climbed onto the stone platform.
But it's easy to come down and hard to go up, even if Hou Zhenbang climbs up the cliff at this time, it will take a lot of time, and during this time, maybe it will be enough for He Changqing and Wei to get rid of him.
Although Hou Zhenbang began to doubt his judgment, he could only be a dead horse doctor at this time, he could only continue to look for it below, and open the mechanism no matter what, in case this is Li Yinfeng's coffin, what if there is a Ding Jia pot hidden in it?
Besides, after He Changqing and Wei Chiran entered the cave opposite through the corridor, they saw a smooth stone wall, the turquoise stone wall was translucent, and there seemed to be something in it.
Wei Chiran touched the stone wall: "Master, how can these words be hidden in the stone wall?" ”
He Changqing put his headlamp close to the stone wall, looked at it carefully, from left to right, for more than an hour, and Wei Chiran couldn't understand the strange words inside, because those were not only classical Chinese, but also mixed with a lot of iron-clad secrets.
When He Changqing finally finished reading, he took out the kettle and drank it, his face looking ugly.
Wei Chi stepped forward and asked, "Master, what is written on this?" ”
He Changqing replied for a long time: "This is a wall of prophecy, some people used to call this called Tianyanshu, which is the combined name of prophecy and weft book, according to the explanation in the "Summary of the Four Libraries of the Whole Book", that is, the prophecy is self-prophecy, the weft is from the weft, and it is not a class. The prophecy is a hidden word, and the good and evil are predicted. The weft, the tributaries of the meridians, and the side branches. Gradually mixed with the words of mathematics, that is, I don't know who the author is, because it is attached to God's words. ”
Wei Chiran didn't understand everything, so he had to shake his head.
In "Shuowen Jie Zi", the explanation of prophecy is - prophecy, verification. There is a book of signs, and the book published by Heluo says. Zhang Heng, a scholar of the Han Dynasty, believed: "The words are in the front, and the signs are in the back, so the wise man is noble, and it is called the book of prophecies." So, prophecy refers to certain fulfilled languages. In ancient China, the mysterious language or objects that predicted the development of social personnel originated from Fangshi, who were also considered to be people who could contact the gods or spokesmen of the gods at that time.
The earliest recorded proverb is the five words about the fall of the Qin Dynasty - Hu Ye, the deceased of Qin.
Wei Chi understood and asked, "Then what is the Weishu?" ”
He Changqing explained: "It is a kind of mysterious interpretation of the scriptures, from a modern point of view, after verification, most of them can be regarded as conspiracy theories, which can be summarized as a kind of conspiracy theory." ”
It was later classified as a discipline that is now recognized as flourishing in the Han Dynasty. The reason for the rise is because after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this kind of thought began to expand with the promotion of modern literature and classics, after all, the source of the thought of Wei Wei is the induction of heaven and man, this kind of thought will link personnel, the mandate of heaven and some natural phenomena at that time, and believe that the activities of the monarch and ministers will lead to changes in the natural world, which is the so-called disaster and auspiciousness. Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also admired Wei very much, he sought longevity, liked Fangshi, asked the gods to ask the immortals, and carried out many superstitious activities related to Wei Wei.
Wei Chiran said: "So, later found a strip of cloth from the belly of the fish, as well as the slogan of the Yellow Turban Army during the Three Kingdoms period, 'The sky is dead, the yellow sky is local, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious', these are all within the scope of the proverb?" ”
He Changqing nodded and said: "Yes, almost, but it happened to be in the period of the Three Kingdoms Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the study of Wei Wei began to decline, after all, there were many good prophecies in the Han Dynasty, and later it was comprehensively questioned by years of war, division and separation, Sun Quan, Cao Cao These people did not believe in Wei Wei, and later came to the period of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, and even regarded Wei Wei as an evil way, therefore, there are detailed records about Wei Wei were also burned a lot in that era. ”
Wei Chiran asked, "Then what is written on this wall?" ”
He Changqing said: "What is written is about Li Yinfeng's life and prediction of the future. ”