Chapter 4: A husband is a pass, and the evil will come to guard the spirit palace
By this time, it was completely dark. It was supposed to be a bright moon and a bright late autumn night, but somehow, a dark "hairy moon" rose tonight. The moon is surrounded by gray clouds, making it impossible to see the outline of the moon at all, only a white cloud.
Qiao Erzi looked up at the moon, and secretly beat a drum in his heart. Because people who do their grave digging business care most about "providence". In their view, natural celestial phenomena such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the moon and stars are rare, all belong to heaven's will. Now that this fluffy "hairy moon" is actually rising in the sky, does it mean that God is unwilling to pave the way for their behavior this time, does it mean that God is not willing to bless them?
Thirty soldiers of the tiger and leopard rode heard the call and rushed to Qiao Er's son's side, the hammer was coiled with a large bundle of thick rope ladders, it seemed that the more four or five zhang long, Qiao Er's two sons saw it, and immediately took the rope ladder off the hammer and threw it into the hole. Two more soldiers were ordered and said, "You two stay and guard the entrance to the cave, and no idle people are allowed to enter until we come up!" The others come down with me!
After Qiao Erzi finished speaking, he walked to the edge of the grave pit, Yu Bingzhong followed behind Qiao Erzi and was preparing to go to the tomb with Qiao Erzi.
Seeing this, Qiao Erzi and his two sons persuaded Yu Bingzhong and said: General Yu, this tomb is not as good as the outside, especially this thousand-year-old tomb, there are any harmful things that are not clean inside, you have a noble status, why go down and take risks!
Yu Bingzhong disdained to talk too much with Qiao Er's sons, but he was so arrogant that he took out the "prison army" waist card given by Cao Cao from his arms, held it in front of Qiao Er's sons, and said coldly: The prime minister has an order, and he will supervise the army and escort Yujia back to the camp.
When Qiao Erzi and his son were about to say something, they saw Xiao Feiying also hurrying over and wanted to go down to the tomb with Qiao Erzi.
Qiao Erzi turned back, looked at the little flying warbler and said: You stay on it! Don't come down!
Xiao Feiying retorted: "So many of you go down to the tomb, if there is no doctor with you, if there is any poison in the tomb, won't the whole army be wiped out?"
Qiao Erzi said: In the early years, Iron Hammer and I did a lot of digging graves and eating smelly things, and the two of them were still able to get out of the way, not to mention that this time there are so many tigers and leopards riding masters to protect them. You stay.
At this time, Qiao Erzi glanced around, and then approached Xiao Feiying's side and said softly in a low voice: This is a thousand-year-old tomb, and it is "not clean" inside!
As soon as Xiao Feiying heard this, she pushed Qiao Erzi away: she said angrily: If this is the case, then I will have to follow! If I don't go, what if there's something down there!
Qiao Erzi saw that he couldn't move the little flying warbler, so he said to the two soldiers guarding the pit: In the tomb, the yin qi is strong. Women belong to the yin, so among the ancient tombs, it is especially taboo for women to enter! Stop her, don't let her go down and provoke the evil spirits! lest the yin spirit haunt and hurt General Yu!
At this time, the hammer pushed Qiao Er and the two sons away and said angrily: What are you talking nonsense! What to provoke the Yin Spirit! How can you say that, little sister!
At this time, Qiao Erzi secretly grabbed the hammer arm, squeezed out of his teeth in a low voice, and said: I am for her good!
Iron Hammer retorted in a low voice: Then you can't say that!
Qiao Erzi no longer took care of the hammer, but shouted to the guards soldiers: What are you waiting for, pull her back!
Two soldiers riding tigers and leopards then ran to pull the little warbler.
The little warbler said categorically: Don't touch me! I'll go myself!
After speaking, the little flying warbler turned and left the hole.
Yu Bingzhong no longer spoke, but stretched out his arm, pointed to the entrance of the cave, and made a gesture of invitation to Qiao Erzi. Qiao Erzi grabbed the rope ladder and walked into the tomb.
The hammer followed, and Yu Bingzhong, the underworld guards and 28 tiger and leopard knights also entered the tomb one after another after the hammer went down.
The tomb passage is perpendicular to the burial chamber, about four zhang deep and about four feet wide, only enough for one person to pass down, and there is no extra place to turn around.
Qiao Erzi was at the bottom of the rope ladder, he grabbed the rope ladder while looking back, wanting to see if there was a fork in the tomb, but at this time it was dark in the tomb, and Qiao Erzi could only bite the bullet and walk down the rope ladder.
After a long time, Qiao Erzi's feet finally touched the ground, and he immediately jumped down the rope ladder and stepped on the ground.
The others also descended from the rope ladder one after another, and after everyone stood still, they quickly took out their torches and lit them, and began to look around. It was seen that the burial chamber was roughly circular, and it was connected with the upper end of the tomb in the shape of a gall bottle. On each side there is a large pit for sacrificial livestock, symmetrical to each other. It was full of bones of pigs, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, and finches.
Qiao Erzi and his two sons held a torch in one hand and a compass in the other, and after proofreading the meridians, they said to everyone: This tomb hall sits on the hill and leaves, and it is also a meridian. Although it is in the right position in the tomb, it is in the place where the tomb road enters, there is nothing to lean on in front and there is protection in the back, which is the position of the guardian of the soul. I'm afraid that there will be evil here, everyone be careful!
Qiao Erzi and his son walked forward with torches and led everyone into the tomb. I saw that the tomb was full of bronze chariots and horses, weapons and armor, swords and halberds, axes and hooks. There is also an iron scroll engraved with a cloud dragon, and a bronze statue of Fan Zhulinhu. Among them, the magnificence and majesty are varied, and the shape and instrument degree are even more overflowing.
The walls of the tomb are painted with brightly colored murals, and the protagonist of the murals is a mighty general wearing a three-feather gluttonous bronze jacket, wearing a five-colored hook cloud rhino leather armor, lined with narrow sleeves and a gold coat, and a foot stool soap-colored cloud head and yellow clogs. What a Wake General! I saw that he was burly and well-built. The distance is as majestic as Mount Tai. Up close, it looks like a yellow bell. Step on a yellow horse with a tall head, neighing in the wind, in the prime of life, flying on all fours, leveling the mountains and rivers and waves; The two iron scimitar halberds in their hands are invincible and inappropriate. whirling left and right, killing the heavens and the earth and the ghosts.
This general drove horses and wielded halberds in the Yellow River, rushing against the nomadic barbarians. At the top of the green cliff again, he was already alone, slashing the Baiyi Elephant Team. Stepping on the head of 10,000 people, passing over the top, picking up the head of the enemy chieftain, so that tens of thousands of elephant soldiers, frightened, have surrendered before the war, it can be said that the soldiers are not bloody, without a stop but have killed the king, the city of people, occupy the land of people, attack the heart of people, it is really brave and very rare!
Seeing this, Qiao Erzi and his two sons couldn't help but sigh: With such a mighty general, I am afraid that even if Lu Bu and Dian Wei are resurrected, it will be difficult to win if they join forces to compete with him.
After Yu Bingzhong heard this, he couldn't help but be annoyed and said: When the captain was alive, he had a personal relationship with the general. Ben will personally see him return victorious in the battle against Lu Bu in Puyang. There was a proverb in the army back then: "There is a strong man under the tent who has a ruler, and he carries a pair of halberds and eighty pounds." As for the prime minister, he praised the captain as "the evil of the ancients". He...
Qiao Erzi suddenly seemed to remember something, his eyes widened, and he looked at Yu Bingzhong.
Yu Bingzhong also immediately understood, and carefully looked at the weapons in the hands of the generals on the mural and the place where he was fighting.
Qiao Erzi pointed to the mural and said: General Yu, as far as I know: the reason why the prime minister compared the captain to the "evil of the ancients" was because the weapon used by the captain was called the "Iron Halberd of Evil", and he himself was as brave as the evil, and he had repeatedly performed miraculous feats and had a deafening reputation. That's why it got the nickname of "Ancient Evil". Now the general of the spirit guard on this mural, the war barbarians are on the bank of the Yellow River, and the battle is on the top of the green cliff, this person is also holding two huge iron halberds, very brave, and buried in the tomb of the king of Xu, not really evil, who is it?!
It turned out that when Qiao and his two sons came here to rob the tomb, they had read a large number of ancient books and checked information about the king.
According to the book, Evil Lai was a close minister of the King of Zhou, and he served dutifully by the side of the King of Zhou all his life.
Every time the king went out to fight, he ordered the evil to be the guard of the army, so that the evil came to open the way as the vanguard of the army, and the evil came never lived up to the high expectations of the king, and every time he won the first battle, the morale of the army was greatly boosted. In the army, the evil came and the camp of the king of Zhou were often built next to each other, so as to protect the safety of the king.
If there is no war, the evil will listen to the announcement in front of the palace of the king. Go up and down with the king and protect the safety of the king.
Evil came from a general's family, and three generations have been in the army. In the royal family of the Shang Dynasty, he saw his cronies. When the king was young, he encountered the rebellion of his uncle and brother, and when the rebels and relatives left, only the evil came and Daji did not abandon him, and accompanied him. After that, the king became more suspicious, more anxious and insomnia. He has been on guard against all princes and nobles, but only for evil, he has reached the point of treating each other with all sincerity and putting his heart into his heart.
Because of the great achievements in his life, he was loyal, and he was trusted by the king. Therefore, when the king built the mausoleum after his pro-government, he ordered a division: in the royal tomb, a room was reserved for the evil and a coffin was placed. After a thousand years, let the evil come to enjoy the royal tomb, and still serve by the side of the king, guarding the spirit. It can be seen from this: to what extent does the king of the Xuan believe in evil!
Now the mural is here, the tomb of the king is here, and all the information in the tomb points to the evil of the king's personal general.
At this moment, whether it is Qiao Erzi or the two sons, Iron Hammer or the underworld guard, Yu Bingzhong and the twenty-eight tiger and leopard knights, their inner feelings should be very complicated. On the one hand, they did feel lucky, because Qiao Erzi and his two sons really found the tomb of King Xu, and the direction was correct. But at the same time, everyone is clear: the future is dangerous! Historically, the Emperor was known for his cruelty and tyranny, and the torture he developed was horrific and brutal. And in this royal tomb, there are Renjun and Mingjun who will still arrange many dangerous mechanisms to prevent theft, not to mention the king of Shang who takes pleasure in killing! Who knows what kind of mind he will use, to set up an unexpected and cruel mechanism to his burial place, to quickly kill the thieves who disturb the rest of his soul!
This trespass on the royal tomb to steal the treasure has already risked his life and has done it! What's more, what they want is not anything else, but the funeral clothes of the golden silk and jade armor worn by the king of Xu! So how cruel is the king, how can he "give it for nothing"!
Everyone couldn't help but look at each other when they thought of this, and each of them knew very well in their hearts that among them, there were many "dying people".