Chapter 65: Going to the Underground Palace
Zhao Linger invited us to have supper, and on the way back, I asked for the specific remuneration and wanted to get some of it in advance.
Chen Xue glanced at me with disdain and asked me if I was short of money.
Although there are more than one million in the family now, but after building a small house, the rest is only seven or eight hundred thousand. The important thing is that it is not common to have the opportunity to make so much money at one time, and without the fat man, it is difficult for Li Lin and I to find such an opportunity.
After learning about the training methods of Xuanmen disciples from Du Jiang's mouth, it can be imagined that every time he works in the future, it will be a tiger's mouth.
The important thing is that I don't get the money in advance now, as soon as the people from the Heavenly Master's Mansion come tomorrow, we will be excluded, and it will be a little difficult to ask Zhao Ling'er to take the money when the time comes.
Chen Xue despised it, Zhao Ling'er didn't care, and said that Li Lin and I would get the money early tomorrow morning, and each of them would pay 100,000 yuan in advance.
I didn't say it, but I still felt that the money was a bit excessive, and if the Zhao family was in trouble in the future, I could do it for free.
It was already past one o'clock in the morning when they arrived at Zhao Ling'er's house, and several people were not sleepy, chatting about Xixia.
Zhao Ling'er has been abroad, but he is no stranger to these things, telling us that Western Xia is just the name of the Song Dynasty, the Liao State calls it the Bangni Dingguo, and the party members call themselves the Great White Gaoguo.
Most of the Dangxiang people live in the Loess Plateau, with the Yellow River as their main source of water. As soon as I heard that there was direct contact with the Yellow River, it was not surprising that they fished something out of the Yellow River.
Zhao Ling'er mentioned the Great White High Kingdom, and also talked about an interesting thing, Li Tianhao suddenly issued a national decree after the emperor established the Great White High Kingdom: Bald Order.
The decree stipulates that all party members must shave their hair so that the nation can be recognized. At that time, the party people have always been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, and even the writing is Hanzi, and the Western Xia language is after the establishment of the Great White Gaoguo, Li Yuanhao ordered that the close minister Ye Li Renrong supervised the creation, referring to the writing system established by the Hanzi.
Regarding the history of Western Xia, I am a little uninterested, but I am more curious about the bald order, in ancient times, there was a saying that the parents of the body hair and skin were affected, since the Great White Gaoguo was greatly influenced by the Central Plains, why would such an order suddenly be issued?
It is understandable to make the nation recognizable and cohesive, but it does not have to be so. And Zhao Ling'er said that the promulgation of the baldness order requires all party members to be bald overnight, which is a bit strange.
I couldn't tell what was strange about it, so I asked when the baldness decree was issued, and the time she told me was surprisingly consistent with the time Professor Shen told me that the Tanguts fished things out of the Yellow River.
There seems to be a mysterious connection between the two.
It's a pity that the antiquities of the Yellow River have been artificially erased and become a historical mystery.
But whether it is the bald order of the party item, or the party item person built twelve coffins to avoid the sky, which were later transferred to the shaman and wizard, and then transported to the Song Dynasty, all the things involved in the Xuanmen are involved, and it can be seen that the things that are fished up in the Yellow River are not ordinary antiquities.
Xuan culture runs through the entire Yanhuang civilization, which is mysterious, how many people can solve it?
We can say that the ancients were ignorant, and even deny, and even so, no one could erase the traces of its existence. No political regime or system can erase the heavy ink left by it in thousands of years of civilization.
The more I learned, the more confused and curious I became, and I couldn't wait to unveil this past.
After nightfall, we went back to the room to sleep, and there were two hairs guarding, and we slept more steadily.
Li Lin and I got up at eight o'clock the next day, washed up and stared at Zhao Ling'er to withdraw money, and went to a military store by the way. It may be that business is rare, and the county seat is not far from the provincial capital, and the things we want arrived last night.
In addition to the lightweight stab-proof vest, there is also a gas mask used by Ergouzi or something, try it, Ermao is reluctant to cover his face with something, scratch it very much, I don't want it, and the place we go to will not use these.
Zhao Linger wanted to pay, but I rushed to pay. I walked around the store, pulled the owner aside, and quietly asked him if he had any guys.
He didn't dare to sell guns or something, but knives and daggers or something, I guess he had. The boss took one look at me, pulled out a box from under a pile of clothes, and inside was a few delicate daggers, and he introduced: "These are all forged from cold steel, and they are not reflective!" ”
Li Lin was idle, and when he saw that the boss was blowing in the sky, he took out the chisel and cut it with a cold steel dagger, but a gap appeared on the dagger, but the chisel was intact.
The boss's face turned white at once, and he didn't know what to say with a dagger.
I was also very disappointed at first glance, not that the boss's knife was bad, compared to the kitchen knife hoe used at home, this knife steel fire was dozens of times better.
But what we have to fight is either an old zombie or a "Teng Snake", and he really doesn't need this thing.
The kind of thing like a dragon dagger is ridiculously expensive.
In the end, I lost 100 yuan to the boss, and I didn't ask for his dagger, after all, I can't cut things, and it is a burden to carry it on my body.
It was already half past nine when I came out of the store, and Director Shen called, it seems that the people from the Heavenly Master's Mansion have not yet come, in this case, we still have to deal with the fake snake.
It just so happens that in this way, taking Zhao Ling'er's 100,000 yuan can be regarded as flattening, after all, 100,000 yuan is given to other people, and no one may have the courage to go down.
On the way to the construction site, I showed Li Lin the picture I brought out from Director Shen and explained it to him by the way.
When we arrived at the construction site, Du Jiang was already waiting, and because of my suspicion of him, Li Lin and I were a lot colder. Our experience is not yet able to show joy and anger, likes and dislikes, are written on the face.
Du Jiang didn't seem to feel it, what to do or what to do.
It's okay like this, so as not to embarrass everyone, after all, the people from the Heavenly Master's Mansion have not come, and the matter in front of us still needs to be dealt with together.
Zhao Ling'er reminded me and Li Lin that we should be careful of Du Jiang's black hands after we go down.
Chen Xue listened and said: "Don't worry about this, there are so many pairs of eyes staring, not to mention Du Jiang, even the Du family doesn't have the guts." ”
With Chen Xue's words, Li Lin and I were a lot more relieved.
One night, Professor Shen and the others transferred a lot of equipment, and the formation became bigger and bigger, but they each performed their respective duties, and I didn't take the time to understand those things.
Du Jiang can understand Director Shen's measurement map, so I also leaned over to take a look, and compared it with the map that Director Shen drew for me, it didn't feel difficult.
Li Lin looked around and asked Du Jiangzhong where Da Niu had gone, why he hadn't come yet.
Du Jiang said helplessly: "I was scared last night, that kid said that he wouldn't come this morning!" ”
Director Shen said: "It's okay, we have colleagues who will open it!" ”
Director Shen said and arranged for someone to move the excavator, and we also began to prepare, Li Lin gave me some realgar to sprinkle on my body, and I also sprinkled some on Ermao's small clothes, checked the new stab-proof clothing, and after making sure that it was worn, I took a few wooden talismans from Li Lin.
After finishing, Du Jiang gestured to the people in the museum, lifted the bucket of the excavator, stretched down a few water pipes, and emptied the stagnant water inside in a few minutes.
Snakes are afraid of these things, so they throw them down in advance to prevent us from being attacked before we go down.
The bucket of the excavator was lowered, the rope was tied to it, and Du Jiang was the first to be hung down, and when he landed, he put a strong flashlight all around, and at the same time pasted a charm on it.
In the land of evil, electronics are the most susceptible. Although Ermao is highly alert, light is also very important to us.
Li Lin went down the second, and Ermao and I were at the end.
The three of them landed back to back, turned on a few moisture-proof flashlights, and threw them towards a few dead corners in the distance, and after a while, the space of more than 100 square meters was illuminated.
The fifteen pillars below took up most of the space, and the hair in the water seemed to melt, only the heads of the people on the pillars still hung some, alternating black and white, indescribably scary.
There's no way I'm going to light the lights here, because no one wants to be surrounded by that stuff.
After a few steps forward, my mind was highly concentrated, and my eyes were also looking at the voids and corners, searching for the serpent's traces.
Seeing that I was empty-handed, Du Jiang handed me a throwing stick and said, "That thing is a living thing, and ordinary swords can't work, but this stick still has some effect." ”
I was a little weak because I didn't have anything in my hand, and I was not polite when I saw him hand over the stick, and with a guy, I was a lot more confident.
Du Jiang is doing well, but it won't change our determination to report him. It is the best choice to leave the truth to the Heavenly Master's Mansion to investigate, after all, it is a harmonious society now, and it will not help for Li Lin and I to arrest him and beat him, but will cause trouble for ourselves.
The ground is damp, and after the hair growth disappears, there is only a thin layer of floating mud on the ground, which shows that the water before is very clean.
But as long as there is floating mud, the fake snake will leave traces on it. Du Jiang, we looked for almost five pillars, but we still didn't find them, and Ermao was surprisingly quiet.
"Find it separately! Don't fight alone when you see that thing! Du Jiang made arrangements. Li Lin and I didn't say anything, and dispersed.
Ermao and I walked in the southeast direction, more than 100 square meters, and the three of us searched it in a while.
After the convergence, they all shook their heads and didn't find it.
I scraped the ground with my foot, and there was a stone slab underneath, and there was no other exit in the whole space. Could it be that the fake snake disappeared out of thin air, just like those hair growths?
Li Lin pointed to a pillar and said, "We haven't checked it yet." ”
Du Jiang and I both shuddered, and our whole bodies became uncomfortable.
It is not very clear to see from above, but now that it is close at hand, it can be seen very clearly, the human head is not tied to the top pillar, but the stone pillar has a protruding stone stick, and the human head is worn on it, layer upon layer.
I complained, "I sprinkled too much sulfur and realgar, and Ermao's nose was out of order, otherwise it would be so troublesome." ”
Du Jiang said: "If you don't sprinkle so much, Lao Tzu will be dragged away by that thing when he comes down." ”
We had no choice but to go and check the pillars one by one.