Volume 1: The Candle Dragon of the South China Sea Chapter 42: The Secret in the Ear Chamber (2)
I turned to the fat man and said, "Okay, it's not a child, what do we two adults have to be angry about." ”
The fat man suddenly ran towards me, hugged me in front of me, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, what's the relationship between our brothers?" That's brothers who were born and died together! Why don't we follow the example of Liu Guanzhang and the three of them to marry Jin Lan here today, how about Taoyuan's righteousness. ”
I was overwhelmed by the fat man's body, and Lian Sheng said: "Okay, okay, fat man, I have received your heart, and the matter of Taoyuan Righteousness will be talked about after we go out." ”
Chen Haoyue and the little brother in black saw us two big men hugging each other, staring at us stupidly, and I was very embarrassed to see that I had to push the fat man away and said, "Enough, let's find the location of the exit first." ”
The little man in black pointed to a wall and said, "I just found out that there are some words on this wall, which should record the story of the tomb owner's life." ”
I took a closer look with the fat man, this is indeed the wall I saw before, the wall is smooth and neat, and there are a lot of words carved on it, I looked closely, and it turned out to be line characters.
Xingti, also known as Xingshu, began in the Han Dynasty and is a font between regular script and cursive script. The gestures are not scribbled like cursive, nor are they required to be as upright as regular script.
"What are these words? It's crooked, and I can't understand it after watching it for a long time. Chen Haoyue scratched her head and said with a frown.
"This is a line character, which began in the late Han Dynasty, and it seems that this tomb should be a tomb after the end of the Han Dynasty." I walked up behind Chen Haoyue and said.
"So what is written on it? There may be a clue to the exit. Chen Haoyue blinked, looked at me and asked.
I nodded, let the fat man shine a miner's lamp on the text on the wall, and began to observe carefully, I still know a lot about fonts, because I was a liberal arts student in college, and I am very proficient in classical Chinese and language.
"Generally, the ear chamber or the apse of the side hall in the tomb, if there is a written record, it should be the deeds experienced by the tomb owner during his lifetime, if you can recognize these words, maybe you can explain why the tomb owner has become a monster with a human face and a bird body."
I was looking at the words when the fat man said to me.
"These texts do describe the deeds of the tomb owner during his lifetime, which happened during the Jin Dynasty, and the tomb owner was once a princess of the Jin Dynasty, which records the tragic experience of her life." I say.
"Tragic experience? What's written on it? Chen Haoyue asked.
The story takes place during the Jin Dynasty, and there was once a concubine who was deeply favored by the emperor, and one night. The emperor came to the concubine's bedroom, but the two did not have that.
After the next day, the concubine suddenly felt uncomfortable in her stomach, so she asked the imperial doctor to take a look, and the imperial doctor checked the pulse again and again, and finally determined that the concubine was pregnant, which surprised and delighted the concubine for a while, but finally deceived the emperor and told him that the child was his.
But the emperor has every opportunity, and he will go to a different dormitory every night to spend the night, where he will remember what happened that night, so he asked the concubine to return to the dormitory to recuperate, and by the way, he sent a lot of tonic products to nourish the body.
Ten months have passed unconsciously, and the concubine can feel the abnormality in her stomach every day, and finally the pain can't stand it, so she asks the midwives to come and deliver the baby.
Strange things happened at this time, the princess was just born without breathing, the midwife urgently invited the imperial doctor, and when the imperial doctors came to check, the little princess had become a dead baby, if you want to bring the dead back to life, unless you ask the gods in the sky to help, the concubine couldn't believe it when she saw this scene, and she was so frightened that she fainted on the spot.
Just as the imperial doctors in the palace sighed, I don't know when, a bird flew outside the window, the bird finch had bright red feathers, a pair of sharp and bright eyes, and stood by the window with a long tail, looking at the body of the little princess.
The imperial doctor and the midwife both shook their heads when they saw it, and they were also very curious, because this kind of bird resembled the legendary phoenix bird.
The bird flew to the belly of the little princess, and struck a few times towards the little princess's chest, and something strange happened, the little princess actually came to life on the spot, which shocked the imperial doctor and the midwife, and immediately told the good news to the concubine, and the concubine heard that her daughter was alive again, and gradually came to her senses, and took the little princess in her arms, and gave the imperial doctor and the midwife a lot of money, so that they could keep the secret.
Since then, the little princess has grown up slowly, and her body is also very healthy and very smart, and the concubine and the emperor are very satisfied when they see it, thinking that the little princess will definitely do something in the future.
The little princess gradually grew up sensible, and slowly did not like to play with other children, often took a lot of rice grains to the back garden to feed the birds, and played the guzheng and musical instruments in the back garden every morning, which often attracted a large group of birds, and the birds happily flapped their wings and fell on the shoulders of the little princess, without fear at all, but liked the little princess in front of them very much.
But slowly things began to go wrong, the little princess's body gradually changed, the little princess's hands always gave birth to a lot of delicate feathers for no reason, I thought it was in the back garden when playing accidentally stuck to the bird's feathers, the concubine didn't care, so let the little princess stay at home honestly, and don't let the back garden play with the birds.
As the days passed, the little princess's hands were already covered with feathers, and they turned into a pair of wings, and her feet began to change, becoming a pair of bird's claws.
In just a few days, the little princess turned from a little girl into a monster with a human face and a bird body, and the concubine was very scared when she knew about it, but it was her own daughter, and she couldn't see it with her feet wearing bigger shoes, but what should she do with the eye-catching wings? If you cut off this pair of wings, it is equivalent to cutting off the hands of your own daughter, and if you don't cut it, you won't see anyone at all.
So the concubine had to hide the little princess in the house, and came to deliver some meals in person every day, and no one found out after a month, but although the little princess could still maintain her sanity, her body gradually became a monster.
After a long time, in the face of the little princess's sudden disappearance, it couldn't help but arouse the suspicion of other concubines, so the concubine had to lie that the little princess was seriously ill and lay in bed to recuperate.
Staying in an empty room all day, dull and boring, for more than a month, the little princess misses the birds in the back garden very much, although her mother repeatedly told her not to leave the room for half a step, let alone go out to play, but the little princess is in childhood, it is the nature of children to play and be curious, so she wants to secretly go to the back garden tomorrow to see the birds.
So, the next day, the little princess woke up early, quietly opened the door, and ran out secretly.
When she arrived in the back garden, the little princess did not see the birds, and was a little disappointed, and when she was about to go back, she was seen by several concubines, who thought they were frightened to see the monster, but the little princess explained to them that she was not a monster, but had a strange disease, and the concubine did not pay attention to her after hearing this, and fled in a hurry.
After the little princess returned to the concubine's bedroom, these concubines secretly discussed the matter behind their backs, but none of them dared to go to the emperor to report it, because the concubine was a celebrity around the emperor, the emperor's favorite concubine, if anyone dared to say a bad word, as long as the concubine complained in the emperor's ear, then wait to be beaten into the cold palace.
can be passed on to ten, ten to hundred, this matter slowly spread to the civil and military officials, although the concubine has some status in the harem, but in front of the civil and military officials, it is just a weak woman.
The ministers of the court and the central government also quietly discussed this matter, and the emperor gradually learned about it, and he also felt a little curious, how could his own daughter become a monster with a human face and a bird body? pinched his fingers, he hadn't seen the little princess for more than a month, and when the concubine was not out, he secretly ran to the concubine's bedroom to have a look.
The emperor pushed the door, but it was still locked, and after a while, the voice of the little princess came from the room
"I'm sick and can't see anyone, so please come back."
When the emperor heard this, it seemed that his daughter was really sick, and he was busy reviewing Zhou Zhang's daily affairs these days, but he didn't expect the little princess to be so sick, so he hurriedly pushed the door hard and said
"I'm your father, my father hasn't seen you these days, and I don't know if you're sick, so let my father go in and see you."
After the emperor finished speaking, the little princess in the house was overjoyed, and thought that the emperor knew that he had this strange disease, so he hurriedly opened the door lock and came out to greet his father.
The door was gradually pushed open, and as soon as the emperor stepped into the room, a pair of delicate hands covered the emperor's eyes, and the emperor touched the hands, like bird feathers, and thought that the concubine had added a dress made of feathers to the little princess.
When the little princess withdrew her hands, the emperor saw that the little princess in front of him was covered with feathers, her hands had become a pair of wings, and her feet had become a pair of bird claws.
Since then, the emperor was so frightened that he did not go to the court for several days, and invited a folk feng shui master to come to the palace to see feng shui.
In the end, the concubine was beaten into the cold palace, and the little princess was also buried alive.
On the day the little princess died, many birds flew in the sky, standing in front of the little princess's tomb to say goodbye, and finally a large flock of birds flew into the tomb to bury the little princess. The imperial doctor and the midwife in the palace also regretted that the little princess's life was given by the birds, and now that she is dead, these birds are still willing to accompany her with their lives.
When the story comes to this, there is no follow-up, Chen Haoyue, the fat man and the little brother in black have been silent, although the strange baby just now is terrible, I didn't expect her life experience to be so miserable, it seems that we stumbled into the tomb of this little princess by mistake.
The fat man sighed and said: "The little princess in this main tomb was innocent and kind before she was born, and she must have suffered the resentment of being buried alive after her death, and she has cultivated into a climate all year round, and finally really turned into a monster with a human face and a bird body, if you want to get out of here, the only way is to influence her, let her remember the memories of the past, and let her be reincarnated as a human as soon as possible, which is the only thing we can help her." ”
I'm a little confused.,Isn't this just a story.,Although the little princess was innocent and cute when she was alive.,But after death, she has turned into a ghost monster.,The fat man means that he wants us to talk about the conditions.,Let the ghost restore the memories of the past.,How to think about it, I feel a little funny.。
The little brother in black walked over, patted the fat man on the shoulder, and said: "I also agree with the fat man's opinion, just now we were attacked by a flock of birds, those flocks of birds should have flown in from the forest outside, if you want to know the location of the exit, only the flock of birds knows, if you can really influence the little princess and let her order the birds to guide us to the exit, then we can also get out of here." ”
"It's... This... Impossible. Chen Haoyue said with a puzzled expression.
It seems that only Chen Haoyue knows that what the fat man said is completely superstitious and hearsay, and dead people can make him say that he is alive, and there is no scientific principle at all. If in the old society, if he would have been shot for talking these things nonsense, I would have waited to see how he made a fool of himself.