Chapter 67: The Palace

Gui Qu looked at the two lonely oil lamps on the ground, and then said to his master, "Didn't you say that there are seven lamps left?" How do you count the two lights left? Also, what conditions did you just prescribe? ”

After a pause, he blinked his eyes and said, "After this matter is over, you go to find a hundred heads of cattle and sheep and sacrifice here." And then there are 100 taels of gold leaf, which are melted here. You don't have to worry about the rest."

When it came to a hundred cows and sheep, the brothers who returned home had wide eyes. After the gold leaf of one hundred taels was spoken, the two brothers' mouths couldn't close. Boss Gui lowered his head and muttered, "If there are so many things, do we still need to rob houses?" Not to mention gold leaf, even the cattle and sheep can only make up ten heads and eight heads at most" Seeing that Gui Gui's face was not good, Gui Lai explained with a bitter face: "Even if I take someone to rob it, then I have to have it." The big county town is not afraid to go, but the small village has two sheep."

Gui Wu waved his hand impatiently and said, "What are you afraid of, you have lived so long, you have saved up slowly and paid it back." It's not like you're going to take it out all at once," and after saying that, he stopped paying attention to his two great-grandsons. Then the old fellow relented, got up from the ground, and walked to the door, groping with his hands on the door. The two brothers muttered quietly behind him, and the second brother said first: "It can't be as simple as that, right? A few cows and sheep and a few taels of gold leaf sent Yan Aihou away? The king of a country, the first generous master has never seen the world? Boss Gui was worried that he would hear it, so he quickly stabbed his younger brother with his elbow and said in a very low voice: "Shut up - be careful when you go in later, and run away if you don't ...... wrong."

The two doors were like paper, and he pushed them open, revealing the interior of a huge underground palace inside. On the walls outside the palace, there are countless bronze oil lamps, and these oil lamps do not know what kind of grease is injected into them, and after the wind, they spontaneously combust for no reason, illuminating the vision as if it were daytime.

As far as the eye can see, everything is resplendent with gold. Between them and the palace was a small bridge made of wood, this wooden bridge was extremely beautifully made, although it was made of wood, but the bridge deck was paved with jade, although it was not made of a whole piece of jade, but in terms of condition, it was much better than the ground outside. Moreover, the bridge is also full of birds and beasts made of gold, jade and gemstones, and any one of them is enough to enjoy for several lifetimes.

Beneath this wooden bridge is a crystal clear underground river. Looking through the light of the oil lamps on the bridge, you can see schools of palm-sized fish swimming by from time to time. On the other side of the bridge is the main entrance of the palace, but the palace gate is closed, so you can't see what it looks like inside.

Who among these people has ever seen such a scene except for the non-returnee? One by one they were dumbfounded, and after a while, the two brothers who had seen a little bit of the world relieved themselves. The boss easily moved his eyes to the body of Gui Bugui, and said, "Is there a mistake?" No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the tomb of Yan Aihou. I went to the palace of Yan Kingdom several times in my early years, and it couldn't compare to it when it came to luxury."

When Gui Lai spoke, Gui Lai was still squinting his eyes, looking at the scene outside the palace. After the boss finished speaking, the old guy turned his face to look at his eldest apprentice and said, "Wrong? It is because of this here that it can be confirmed that Yan Aihou is in this underground palace......"

At this time, the eyes of all the minions were attracted by the words of no return. So far, there is no need to hide it from them, and the old guy has made the old mistake of being a teacher again, so he simply continued in front of all the minions: "The monarch of Yan Kingdom was originally a member of the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and before he was knighted, he was the heavenly official responsible for asking divination and sacrificing sacrifices. Even if he later became a prince, every day of sacrifice and other days, he had to return to the capital of the Zhou Dynasty to preside. Otherwise, there would be no such character as Yan Aihou in the future."

Speaking of this, Gui Wu paused for a moment, his gaze returned to the palace opposite, and he continued: "Yan Guo is not capable of building such a palace, but if it is Da Zhou's money and efforts, it will be different. If my guess is correct, this underground palace should have been built to hold some kind of blessing ceremony for the Great Zhou, but I don't know why it was built underground. The place where the Great Zhou can be sacrificed is naturally a blessed land that is unique in ten thousand. If it were me, I would also occupy the magpie's nest as a place of death."

As soon as he finished saying this, a sudden sound came from the direction of the palace. A cold voice sounded, and everyone was almost startled. When I followed the sound and looked over, I saw that the palace door that was closed just now was actually opened. But there was no light inside, and except for a faint sight that could be seen without returning, the rest of the people could only see a dark patch.

Just when everyone was surprised that the palace door opened by itself, a fire suddenly flashed inside, and just like when they first entered here, the oil lamps in the palace spontaneously combusted one after another. In a matter of moments, the palace became brightly lit.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the inside of the palace, and no one spoke for a long time. In the end, it was the little leader who couldn't help but say to Gui Wu: "Does this mean to let us in?" ”

The gate of the palace suddenly opened without warning, and nothing but the sight at the door could be perceived. Now his heart is beginning to have no bottom, but now these people treat him as an old immortal, and if they don't do much, they won't be able to come down this step.

"It's not easy to get in? Waiting for the minions who are called "returning or not returning" to carry the basket for him, first find another pen and ink in it, but this time the ink turned into bright red cinnabar. The old man walked to the edge of the wooden bridge with pen and ink, and after finding a vacant lot in the direction of the palace gate, he dipped a brush in cinnabar and drew a strange pattern on the ground.

First of all, he drew a circle without closing, and the position without closings was aimed at the direction of the palace gate. Then a series of words were written in this circle that no one recognized. After writing, he drew an animal around the circle. The old guy's painting level is really a bit unreasonable, and I can only roughly see that the painting is three beasts and one bird. But until he was done, no one could recognize what kind of birds and animals were depicted.

After writing and drawing, the old guy found a lilac incense in the basket. After lighting the incense, he saw a few more stones and fixed the incense in the center of the circle. I saw a wisp of green smoke slowly rising into the air, and the smoke had been gathering for a long time, rising into the air without end. After estimating that it was almost there, after returning to the mouth and muttering a few words, while the words landed, he stretched out his hand and gently swiped along the green smoke, and the green smoke actually changed direction in the air and floated sideways in the direction of the palace gate.

Seeing the wisps of green smoke drifting into the palace continuously, there was still an unfathomable smile on his face that began to return. But as time went by, seeing that this incense burned shorter and shorter, the palace was still quiet, and there was no movement. The old guy's smile was also fixed on his face.

Speaking of which, this set of formations is still not original, and the long incense stick is also made by himself from the items he procured. Originally, after a few moments of smoke being drawn to the palace, the smoke would reappear from inside, and it would be deduced from the changes in the smoke what was inside. In the past, this set of formations was everything, but now that the long incense is about to burn out, I haven't seen the smoke drift out. This is the first time the old guy has encountered such a situation, and now he can only grit his teeth and hold on, as long as there is a little smoke wafting out, he can know what to do next.

But the situation did not go in the direction of returning to the expected direction, until the incense was completely burned, and there was no trace of smoke floating out of the palace.

I don't know what's going on, and I just saw that the old fairy just made a casual stroke, and the smoke drifted into the palace one by one. Including the two brothers who returned home, all the minions next to them looked at them with reverence. Without waiting for the fairy to speak, the little leader who was a little stunned first said with a smiling face: "Old immortal, this incense is all burned." Now what? ”