Qiao Erzi stood outside the tomb, silently looking in: what appeared in front of Qiao Erzi was a slightly empty tomb, the decoration of the tomb was not luxurious, but there was a self-evident deterrence and aura. The burial chamber is actually an artificially excavated dome grotto, which is about three zhang deep and more than seven zhang wide at the point. On all sides of the tomb, there is a stone pillar carved with a tiger pounceing on the mountain and a unicorn leaping down. Each one is meticulously carved and vivid, and you can see the effort and thought of the craftsman on it.

The front wall of the tomb is inlaid with some exquisite jade and bronze wall bottles, wine bottles and other utensils, which can be seen to be the beloved objects of the tomb owner during his lifetime. On both sides of the wall of the burial chamber, there were two long pits two feet square, still symmetrical to each other, but this time the pits were no longer filled with horses and livestock, but white human bones.

These bones are of all shapes and postures. Some have long mouths, twisted waists, and raised their hands above their heads, as if praying and calling for help to the heavens. Some of them knelt on the ground, buried their heads deep in the backs of their crooked hands, to whom did he pray when he died? Some even grabbed the edge of the pit with their hands, but their bodies were like saws, lying backwards, their mouths were wide open, and they tried their best to grin outward, and their expressions were very weird.

It stands to reason that human martyrdom is to kill people and then put them in the tomb owner's grave for burial. The reason for this is to enable the souls of these people to catch up with their deceased owners as soon as possible, and to prevent the martyrs from escaping together in the tomb and destroying the tomb owner's tomb. The ancient Chinese, whether it was digging for the dead to live in the yin house or building for the living to live in the yang house, but where the ground was moved, they were extremely particular about the integrity of feng shui and the earth's leylines. Therefore, for the "auspicious land of ten thousand years" such as the tomb, it is even more important to "hide the wind and gather the water, and the heavens can receive the public opinion", how can they leave a living mouth for these slaves who were martyred as people!

But if there is no living mouth, then how can we explain the strange death of these people's bones?

Thinking of this, Qiao Erzi couldn't help but sigh, it turned out that the master was right! Heaven and earth are indeed unkind, and all things are used as dogs. , at the mercy of it, it eats all the people in this world with absolute power. But despite the fact that human beings are so pitiful, there is still oppression and killing among this poor people. These full of people are in the pit of martyrdom! Every skeleton in it was once a living being! It is a life that can cry, laugh, and be moved by warmth and fear of death! Flower sedan chair, people carry people! We're all human! The owner of the tomb has great achievements, but who knows how many white bones are hidden in this great military exploits! These people who have become white bones, why did they come here in this life?

Perhaps, as long as poor people like Qiao Erzi and his sons can understand the pity of these people. How could Qiao Erzi himself not be like this?

Qiao's two sons were born in a farming family, and later the world was in chaos. Qiao and his two sons were forced to be helpless, and they started digging graves and eating stinks. In order to feed this mouth, in order to fill their stomachs, Qiao Erzi picked up the grave, opened the coffin, touched the dead body, stretched out his hand in the coffin, and asked for money for death, isn't it just a way to live? But now, Qiao and his two sons are forced to rob the tomb in order to live! In the final analysis, it is just a pawn in the hands of others, and it is impossible to control yourself where to go.

The human bones of the white flowers filled the eyes of Qiao Erzi and his sons in an instant, it was like frost and snow in the dust of the field, which made Qiao Erzi's hearts cold for a while, so cold that they were blocked, and they were painful.

The hammer saw that Qiao Er's mood was wrong, but he gently persuaded: Okay, Qiao Er! We've been digging graves and eating stinks over the years, have we seen fewer corpses? How many years have you been crying, aren't you crying when you move someone else's coffin to your own home? Silly you!

The hammer said and gently punched Qiao Erzi in the chest, which was an illustrative action of Qiao Erzi and Iron Hammer encouraging and comforting each other. Hammer is like that, he doesn't seem to care about anything. But Qiao Erzi knew that he couldn't afford to care, so he could only choose to be broad-hearted. He's not stupid, and he's not ruthless. But, as Hammer said, over the years, have they seen fewer corpses?

But somehow, hearing this, Qiao Erzi and his son actually felt a little regretful and declining in their hearts. Seeing more corpses, should the heart and eyes be accustomed to it, and should they be numb?

Qiao Erzi didn't pay attention to the hammer anymore, but walked towards the tomb like a mourner, and approached these poor bones step by step, this mourning hall that sealed the eternal.

When Qiao Erzi walked into it, he found that under his feet were charcoal crumbs, burned and unfinished charcoal branches. Qiao Erzi looked around, and saw that there was black ash as high as a bed surrounded by a person sticking to the wall of this tomb. Qiao Erzi scraped his fingernails, exposing the stone of the wall, and a groove more than half an inch thick appeared.

Seeing this, Iron Hammer teased and said: Qiao Er, what do you say about this tomb owner, what is the matter with burying the charcoal cellar, why is there so much charcoal ash here?

Hammer doesn't understand! But in this way, Qiao Erzi and his sons finally understood the reason why these people died in such a strange and miserable state.

Thinking of this, Qiao Erzi couldn't help but shout: What a ruthless heart!

Qiao Erzi smiled bitterly and said to himself: Everyone knows: people can live with one breath. He relied on one breath and one breath to maintain the life and vitality of his internal organs. If there is no air in the tomb, or if the air is full of poison, if a person is here, he will surely die.

The hammer was startled, and quickly pushed Qiao Er's arms and asked Qiao Er's son: Qiao Er! Joe Er! Who do you say, who are you talking to, you can't be seeing a ghost, are you?

Qiao Erzi said to the hammer: These people in the pit of martyrdom are indeed buried here when they are alive! They were tortured and killed!

After hearing this, Iron Hammer asked Qiao Erzi and his son: Why have so many people been killed! When they saw that they were killed, why didn't they run around? Look outside this pit, there is not a single skeleton!

Qiao Erzi replied: Sometimes, killing people doesn't have to be bloody. You don't have to use a knife to kill yourself! In order to make them die quickly, the builder of this large tomb piled hundreds of catties of charcoal in the tomb. As soon as he left the tomb, he poured some wine or oil on the top charcoal, threw the fire fold on the charcoal, and then closed the last tomb door. People will not be burned to death, but they will be choked to death. Moreover, after the charcoal is burned, the oxygen in the burial chamber is burned out, and the water is also evaporated with the charcoal burning. This can trap the martyrdom and protect the corpses of the people in the tomb from moisture and decay, which is really the best of both worlds. It's just that what makes Qiao Erzi and his sons puzzled is: why did they search for a long time, but they still couldn't find the coffin or bones of the tomb owner?

After hearing this, Iron Hammer also said with emotion: Oh my God, Qiao Er! According to you, is he still a human being of these tomb-makers? Choking so many people here! You don't know! If you really stab them in the neck, you won't be able to breathe for a while, and you'll die! But if he is choked to death, that person can be afraid of death just by being afraid! This damn thing, I'm going to have to torture someone else until I die! It's so bad!

At this time, Yu Bingzhong and the underworld guards were still indifferent to themselves. He pulled out the wrong gold sword on his waist sharply, put it on the neck of Qiao Erzi and his son again, and said viciously to Qiao Erzi: How did these cheap slaves die, I will not pay attention to it! What you have to do now is to take us to the tomb of the King of Ring! Walk!

The underworld keeper shook off the dust and did not say anything. Hammer said angrily: "Ah! I said General Yu, this is all in the tomb, you are still so arrogant! If your subordinates don't pay attention and kill Qiao Er, not to mention that you can't enter the tomb of King Xu, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even get out!

Yu Bingzhong suddenly moved his sword at this time, put it on the neck of the hammer, and said fiercely: Qiao Er is useful, and he can't kill him. But you have to be clear: I, a sergeant of the Tiger and Par Cavalry, can carry the Ding in every strength, and I have unique skills, if you compare with them, you will be a waste! Ben will kill a wasted person, and it will not prevent the prime minister from doing great things!

Seeing this, Qiao Erzi and his two sons hurriedly raised their hands and said to Yu Bingzhong: General Yu! Although there are many capable people in the tiger and leopard riding, but in terms of tacit cooperation and partner coordination, it has to be me and the hammer! You have always taken the overall situation into account, and you hope that your subordinates will be merciful!

After Qiao Erzi finished speaking, he walked forward timidly. At this time, Qiao Erzi passed by a wall, and the wall was divided into two by a vertical metal object, and Qiao Erzi couldn't help but be curious. Thinking about what kind of special decoration this was in the Shang Dynasty, but when Qiao Erzi and the two looked at it, they couldn't help but have their hairs standing on end, so that they trembled all over.

It turned out that this metal object standing in the wall was not a decorative thing, but a copper coffin placed vertically! The material of the copper coffin is thick and the carcass is huge. Moreover, the proportion of copper in the materials used is very high, so that the color of the copper coffin carcass has now turned into a pitch-black color under the action of thousands of years of sour corpse gas. This black copper coffin, about four feet wide and one zhang long, is silver and silver throughout the coffin, and the wrong gold is curly grass. The four corners of the coffin are embossed with the pattern of the tiger's head swallowing the mouth, the tiger's head is outlined with gold thread, with a pair of egg-sized hanging eyes, the eyeballs are shining fluorescent, and at a glance it is a priceless luminous pearl. With a wide open mouth, white forehead and silver teeth.

The grass pattern was dotted with red flowers. Take a closer look: the petals of the safflower were originally made of fine blood-colored coral patches, and the core wrapped in the petals was a red gemstone the size of a quail egg! Other than that, there are no other trivial lines. Its style is more simple and simple, but it is also delicate and gorgeous.

It doesn't matter if it is any other jewelry, but when it comes to the material of this coffin, it can be seen that it is expensive. You must know that copper can be minted in ancient China, and this copper coin is not a unified minting place by the central government, but can be minted separately. Therefore, any government in ancient China had a headache about the private minting of copper coins. Whether it is Qin Banliang or Han Wubaht, it is weighed and priced, and it is necessary to use so much copper to build a coffin, what a prominent and noble person!

If it hadn't been in a burial chamber, if its function could be left unconsidered, it was undeniably a rare work of art. But at this moment, no matter how noble, rare, and exquisite it is, I am afraid that the hearts of Qiao Er and the two sons will not be happy!

Because, since ancient times, bronze vessels have been sharp weapons for subduing demons. The demon mirror is bronze, the disgusting money is bronze, the demon pestle is bronze, and the tiger head bell is also bronze. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yellow Emperor made fifteen bronze mirrors to correspond to the number of full moons to ward off evil spirits and protect the land and the people.

It can be seen that as early as the Yellow Emperor period, the ancients found that copper had the function of suppressing evil and driving away evil spirits. And this coffin is buried vertically, Qiao Erzi and his sons have long heard the men who carry the coffin say that this coffin is the only way to suppress evil, because this person died unjustly, so he stood at the entrance of the tomb, always ready to welcome the arrival of the Yin Division judge, so as to complain to him about his suffering and seek justice. Therefore, anyone who stands in a coffin and is buried vertically must have a breath of yin qi in the body, plus the copper coffin to suppress evil, so that the yin spirit qi accumulates in the body for a long time.

As the saying goes: old things become fine. It's a tree, a copper plate after a hundred years, it will become a ghost, not to mention the dead corpse that has accumulated in this copper coffin!

Qiao Erzi held a trace of luck in his heart, and said to everyone: Avoid it, let's go!

Yu Bingzhong stood where he was and refused to leave, and said: This coffin is so inlaid with beads and treasures, maybe there will be other treasures inside, and the current military salary is tight. But Sun Liu Xiaoer has repeatedly provoked, and the prime minister has long wanted to recruit troops and buy horses, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Wouldn't it be nice if there was some money in it?

The underworld keeper retorted at this time: I heard that there are many mechanisms in the ancient tombs. At the moment, everything is centered on finding the king's funeral clothes and healing the prime minister's sick body. If the general wants to come here to get paid, it is best to wait until you and I find the mortuary clothes and return, and then it is not too late to get it.

Yu Bingzhong heard the underworld keeper say this, and he also felt a little reasonable, so he continued to walk forward.

At this time, the hammer at the end of the line began to move! Hammer has been begging for a long time, and knows too well how useful money is! He saw that the priceless gem was in front of him, how could he not be tempted! Not to mention the night pearl and ruby, but all the gold threads, silver wires, and iron hammers on them are eager to pull out and wrap them into gold and silver ingots for flowers. It's this whole copper coffin, and the hammer can't wait to carry it out and turn it into water, and cast it into a copper plate as a money maker!

In addition, he also heard just now: when they turn back, all the treasures in this coffin will be charged to the military salary. Therefore, the hammer has to scrape some oil and water as soon as possible!

Hammer glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw that everyone had gone away. He quickly took out an iron awl from his arms, stretched out his hand, and gritted his teeth to pry off a night pearl on the tiger's head in the upper right corner of the bronze coffin!

When the hammer was prying the night pearl, he couldn't help but struggle under his feet, but he didn't dare to scream, for fear of being discovered by Yu Bingzhong and the group of soldiers. Therefore, I can only arch my front legs, and my hind legs can be tensed, and my dantian can be held back to make dark energy. At this time, he stared at the green beads with black eyes, and all he thought about was gold and silver, where could he care about anything else? I saw him step on a copper palm-sized wizard mask, and the mask was trampled to the ground by a hammer, and the sound of a fountain suddenly came from the ground.

But soon, the sound of the spring water secretly gushing from the ground was drowned out by the loose "click" of the night pearl! Because this sound is what Hammer is really looking forward to!

As if the hammer was finished, he let out a sigh of relief, quickly took the night pearl in his hand, sighed on the bead, rubbed it on his clothes twice, and looked like he had picked up a big bargain.

Iron Hammer muttered at this time: This Qiao Er, if you don't take the ready-made treasure, your brain is pumping!

As he spoke, Iron Hammer took the Night Pearl into his arms, but he thought about it for a while and said, "Hey! Never mind! Who made us brothers!

After the hammer finished speaking, he went to pry the night pearl on the tiger's head on the other side, and the hammer said while exerting his strength: Pry off the ruby later, and make a necklace for the little junior sister, beautiful!

The hammer was excitedly prying the Night Pearl, not noticing a wisp of black smoke coming out of the hole in the Night Pearl, and the black smoke slid towards the bronze coffin, turning into a dripping black water as if it had condensed. The black water was dripping to the ground again.

It wasn't until suddenly there was a roaring sound like a tiger descending from the mountain in the bronze coffin that the hammer suddenly frightened a spirit!

When the hammer reacted and looked around for the figures of Qiao Erzi and his sons, he suddenly found that in the human martyrdom pit not far away, there was a black tide slowly surging towards the copper coffin. When he looked at it again, the hammer suddenly realized that it was not a black tide surging towards him, but a dense black monster the size of an egg yolk!

But wherever those strange insects crawled, whether it was stone or bronze, it would turn into a pool of sticky black water......