Chapter 56: The Sealing Stone

Chu Tianlu knew the curse of the Egyptian pharaoh that Yang Lao said, and when his father told him, he was still scaring the child, but now it seems that there is really something to do.

"Whoever disturbs Pharaoh's sleep, death will spread its wings and come upon his head." This is a curse engraved on the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. However, this spell did not stop the greedy treasure hunters.

British archaeologist Carter and his companion Carnavan came to the Pharaoh's tomb, ignoring Pharaoh's curses, believing them to be nothing more than a scare. In the years following their entry into the mausoleum and the theft of a large number of treasures, the two dozen or so people involved died mysteriously sooner or later, and the last one to die, Khovaith, wrote in his last words: "I have left this world because of the curse of the pharaohs."

These rumors have aroused a strong interest in the strange curses of ancient times, and more of a sense of fear.

There are also legends about the curse of destroying the country in ancient China, and during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qin Zhaoxiang Dynasty, the Qin State and the Chu State were the two most powerful states. King Zhaoxiang of Qin and King Huai of Chu were also two excellent kings, and legend has it that there was a saying that 'the king of Chu is the king of the vertical combination, and the emperor of the Qin is the emperor of the horizontal formation'.

During a negotiation between King Qin Zhaoxiang and King Huai of Chu, King Zhaoxiang of Qin forcibly detained King Huai of Chu in disregard of diplomatic etiquette and blackmailed the state of Chu to exchange city land for the king.

King Chu Huai refused to betray the interests of the country, so he was detained for three years and finally died in a foreign land.

When the coffin of King Chu Huai was transported back to Chu State, the people of Chu State felt deeply humiliated, among them there was a strange man named Nan Gong, on the eve of the burial of King Chu Huai, he did it at home to invite the resentful spirit to come up, and exchanged the rest of his life for the death of Qin, and bit his index finger, and wrote the spell of 'Chu although there are three households, and the death of Qin will be Chu' on a stone tablet. It means that even if there are only three families left in the Chu State, the one who destroys the Qin State must be the Chu people. Later, Qin Shi Huang swept away the Six Kingdoms and established the Qin Dynasty, and when Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu was the second emperor of Qin, he overthrew the rule of the Qin Dynasty.

Although there is a qualitative difference between the curse and the curse in the tomb, it also fully shows how evil the mysterious and strange product of the curse is, and it cannot but be intimidating.

Everyone was told by Yang Lao, and they all leaned forward to take a look, only the dumb turtle was not moved at all. After everyone finished reading it, Qiu Yu said tentatively: "Could it be caused by the cultural differences here thousands of years ago?" According to the time calculation, at that time, the Minyue area belonged to the barbarian land, and it was normal for them not to adopt the culture of the Central Plains. ”

Chu Tianlu thought about it and felt that what she said made sense, not to mention that thousands of years ago, even now many primitive tribes in the deep mountains still have their own culture.

Chu Tianlu felt that the pattern on the tombstone was a little familiar, but he just couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"Hey!! Master, look, there is a stone gate in front, come and see, the stone gate has been opened. Apparently the loach was not interested in any curse, so he walked a few steps forward, found a stone door not far from the stele, poked his head in, did not dare to enter, and quickly called everyone to come and see.

When everyone dropped the stone tablet and came to the stone gate, Chu Tianlu saw a very thick stone door, which was pushed open with a gap wide of one person.

On both sides of this stone door, there are two stone statues, the two stone statues look hideous, like two door gods, with protruding huge eyes and fiercely staring at the people at the door, as if to warn everyone, do not disturb the master who has been sleeping in the door for thousands of years, otherwise they will make unimaginable actions.

Under the influence of these two stone statues, the surrounding atmosphere became a little weird, and for a while, everyone fell silent, and they could all hear the heartbeat of their companions.

Yang Lao reacted first, took a few steps forward, squatted down and looked at it intently. "Ahem!" Coughing lightly, he attracted everyone's attention and said: "You see, this stone door will definitely not be the descendant of the tomb owner who left without closing, you see that the stone bar inside is the sealing stone of this door." ”

Chu Tianlu asked with some curiosity: "Old Yang, what is the use of this door sealing stone?" ”

Yang Lao was intently observing the door, trying to find some clues from it, but when he heard the words, he didn't see him turn back, and explained lightly: "This kind of thing has been used since the appearance of the cliff chamber tomb in the Han Dynasty, until the underground palace of the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty still uses this kind of tap stone.

The principle is to put an ashlar pillar behind the door, which slides naturally as the wooden door closes, and when the stone door is closed, it just gets stuck in the groove and cannot be pushed open from the outside. ”

"If it can't be opened from the outside, how can this open door be explained?" Qiu Yu was obviously curious about the principle of this door sealing stone, let go of Chu Tianlu's arm, walked to Yang Lao's side, squatted down and looked into the crack of the door for a while, and asked.

The question she asked was also what Chu Tianlu wanted to ask.

Yang Lao took the trouble to explain again: "Although the ancients tried their best to prevent tomb robbers from entering the tomb, they came up with a wonderful trick, but they still couldn't withstand the wisdom of later generations, and finally it was cleverly solved by the invention of "crutches". You see, there is an imperceptible gap under this stone door, and I guess this gap is where they took it out and used their nails. I think this should be what Xiao Chu's second uncle did. After speaking, Yang Lao glanced at Chu Tianlu intentionally or unintentionally.

Chu Tianlu saw the previous arrogance and disdain from Yang Lao's eyes, obviously he didn't look down on the second uncle from his heart. I thought, this is not necessarily my second uncle's doing, even if he did it, what does this have to do with me, what do you look at me with that kind of look.

The dumb turtle looked left and right, he really wanted to find something, and reminded everyone: "Inside, you see that there are footprints inside, and these footprints are obviously stepped out not long ago, which means that someone came in before us." Be careful, guys. ”

Just now, everyone was attracted by the sealing stone, and they didn't care about the tomb behind the sealing stone, and the dumb turtle didn't seem to care about these things, as if he knew more than Yang Lao, and he didn't bother to discuss it with everyone at all.

Chu Tianlu looked in the direction of the dumb turtle's fingers, and really saw a disorganized shoe print on the ground, judging from the traces of that footprint, it shouldn't be too long.

Seeing that everyone was coming, the loach became bolder, and without waiting for everyone, he turned sideways and entered the door.

Before Chu Tianlu entered the tomb, he heard the loach shout with surprise: "Master, look, this bronze tripod is really exciting!" The bronze incense burners we sell in the market are very valuable, and if this thing can be brought back, I think it can be sold for a lot of money. When the loach saw the good things, he directly ignored what Yang Lao said before entering the tomb. provoked Yang Bingyan to stare at him from behind.