Chapter 35: The Ghost Mark Code (I)
I'm completely blinded by Feijing's words now, Old Man Qi is Xiaohong, so who is Xiaohong?
Lu Tao and Huzi are also puzzled now, why an old man has such a feminine name.
Feijing saw that we were puzzled, and sat down against the coffin and slowly told the truth of the matter.
After listening to this, I thought to myself, if it weren't for the coincidence of the flying mirror, maybe I would never have known the truth of this case.
There is one thing that must not be overlooked in order to explain this case.
On the surface, this matter has nothing to do with the case, but it has a substantive relationship, after all, if this incident had not happened, there would have been nothing behind.
It was 1974, the last two years of the Cultural Revolution. The old man Qi's name is Qi Lianyu, a teacher in the county town (known as 'stinky old nine' at the time), this profession was not affected much at that time, so he took Qi Lijuan, who was eighteen years old at the time, back to the countryside to live, which is now the Li family.
The countryman is simple, and he didn't make too much trouble for this 'stinky old nine' who was driven out by the city people, and the village party secretary also repaired a house for him in the village. Life is quite passable.
After two years of such an ordinary life, Qi Lijuan was twenty years old, and she reached the age of talking about marriage. The village told her in-laws, and they were also from the village.
The day after the wedding, the local people have the custom of going to the ancestral grave to worship their ancestors, and the young couple set off early to go to the cemetery to burn paper, but at this time there was a sudden bang.
The sound was muffled, as if it were coming from underground.
The two of them were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything after running back to the village, because they were most afraid of strange things when they were newly married and worshiped their ancestors.
Qi Lijuan told her father about this. Qi Lianyu guessed that maybe there was an ancient tomb under the ancestral tomb, and I was afraid that the sound was the sound of tomb robbers blowing up things.
Unexpectedly, when this word reached his son-in-law, this young man from the countryside had a bad heart, remembering that there must be burial goods in the ancient tomb, and he might be rich if he fished out one or two pieces.
He told his father-in-law what he thought, and the old man Qi was also confused by money, so he went with him.
Old man Qi said that the two of them might not be able to do anything, so he asked Wang Dehai at that time to do this together.
After the three of them had discussed it, they took the tools they thought would work, and started it on a moonlit night.
After drinking wine to strengthen their courage, the three of them went to the graveyard and dug a hole in the largest grave, and perhaps by coincidence, they really dug it for them. Old man Qi often studied folk history, and was forced to know some Qimen Dunjia techniques, so he led the two people to the main tomb.
The process in the middle is certainly not so simple, but Feijing just mentioned it, I don't think that's the point, so I didn't ask.
When the three of them came to the main burial chamber, they saw that the coffin was a very ordinary sarcophagus, and they felt a lot of loss in their hearts. How could they know how to open the museum, take a hammer, a chisel, and go to break the coffin.
The three of them took turns to fight, and after a while, the coffin outside was really knocked open. There was also a layer of coffins inside, and at this time, Old Man Qi suddenly stopped.
The other two asked what was wrong, and Old Man Qi stammered and said that he had just seen a figure flash in the direction of the root of the wall.
His words immediately attracted the attention of the two people, Wang Dehai was more bold, so he took a wind lamp and shone it at the corner of the wall.
After this illumination, the corner of the wall became much clearer, and the three of them suddenly gasped. In the corner of the main burial chamber, standing straight with his back to them, stood tall.
The more they looked, the more terrified they became.
The man's body was pressed against the wall, so it wasn't weird. The three of them shook at the back of the man's head and legs, not knowing if this was a human or a ghost.
The man stood there straight and didn't move, like he was stupid. Old man Qi looked carefully and found that the person was inlaid on the wall. Seeing this, the three of them were crazy even if they were bold.
But it's all here, and you can't give up halfway just because a person dies here. The three of them gritted their teeth one last time, and let Old Man Qi stare at the man, and the other two went to pry open the coffin.
Old man Qi thought that maybe the owner of the tomb was here to scare the tomb robbers, so he slowly approached the person with his back to him to find out.
When he got closer, he found that the person was glued to the wall, and his body was a little flat, and he guessed the possibility of this death, this person should have been squeezed by two walls to death. Perhaps the victim was crammed inside when the mechanism was opened, dying between the two walls, and when the blood dried up, he stuck himself to one wall, and when the mechanism worked again, his body was brought here.
When he approached, he found that the dead man was holding a small jade box in his hand, and he knew that it must not be a mortal thing at a glance, so he boldly walked over and took it down from the dead man's hand and hid it in his arms. I thought I'd do some research when I got home.
Wang Dehai and the others had already pried open the coffin at this time. Old man Qi didn't care about anything else and ran over to take a look, and smiled.
I saw that there were gold artifacts in it, and there were a lot of jade artifacts, but the strange thing was that there were no corpses in it.
Although it was strange, the three of them were completely blinded by money at that time, how could they care so much, and took out the package they brought and put it inside.
Although there were many things in the coffin, they couldn't withstand the crazy robbery of these three people, and after a while, there was nothing in it except a copper tripod.
The bronze tripod was half the size of a fist and stood at the inside of the coffin. Wang Dehai just wanted to take it, but was stopped by Old Man Qi.
It turned out that there were several lines of handwriting on the inside of the sarcophagus leaning against the copper tripod.
This old man Qi recognized this ancient character, Wang Dehai asked what was written here?
Old man Qi carefully took a look at it with a wind lamp and said, what was written on it was [The name of this bronze tripod is 'Ghost Face Fang Ding', which was found in an ancient tomb. This Fang Ding recorded a shocking secret, and the owner of the tomb did not want this secret to be announced in the world at that time, so he chose to seal it in his own tomb. I hope that future generations will unlock this secret at the right time.
The meaning of the last sentence is addressed to the tomb robbers, and he said that he hopes that his descendants will unravel the secret after getting the money in the coffin, so that it will be revealed to the world. He also said that if you don't have absolute determination, you must not move this Fang Ding]
The words were written very sincerely, but the three of them were blinded by money at this time, how could they take care of so much. Reaching out to take it, but that Fang Ding seemed to grow in a coffin, he couldn't shake it in the slightest, and finally had no choice but to give up.
The three of them got the treasure, leaving only Fang Ding in the coffin.
After returning to the village the same way for several days, nothing happened, and the three of them felt that they were doing something unaware.
Old man Qi was worried about the contents of the jade box, and after returning home, he fiddled with it for a long time and couldn't open the lid. Finally, he gritted his teeth and smashed the box, and found that it was a fairly well-preserved silk book.
This old man Qi is very knowledgeable, and with what he has learned, he has unraveled what is written in the silk book.
The content recorded in this silk book is known as the Ghost Mark Code!