Chapter 30: The Bronze Coffin
The mermaid candle is made of the anointment of the mermaid in the deep sea, which can burn for more than 1,000 years, and was first used in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Mermaids live in the deep sea, very rare, will only appear on the reef when the moon is full and cry to the moon, the tears that flow out are pearls, which has the legend of "mermaid weeping pearls", which is basically extinct now, we can only glimpse their shadows through some legends, and use the mermaid's ointment to refine candles, it is even more luxurious, and it can even be said to be a tyrannical thing.
Mermaid candles are very rare, and I haven't seen them a few times in historical materials, so I didn't expect them to be everywhere here. Obediently, this is a mermaid candle, it is placed here like a street lamp, this level of luxury is not comparable to the ordinary imperial mausoleum at all, I am afraid that compared to the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, it is also more than that.
Lao Zhao has a few in his house, he doesn't know which imperial tomb to get out of, although this thing is extremely precious, but there is no market, one is because this mermaid candle is just a tool for lighting, but now is the era of electrification, every household has electric lights, no one should spend sky-high prices to buy these candles back for lighting.
Besides, this mermaid candle is no better than antique calligraphy and painting, there is really no ornamental value, and there are really not many people who know the goods now, and no one wants to believe that this can burn for thousands of years.
Although King Hao is said to be the Son of Heaven this week, he can only be regarded as a dilapidated nobleman, how can he be so luxurious, is it true that this is really the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and the one in Lishan is just a cover?
I turned around and looked at Lao Zhao suspiciously, and Lao Zhao shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
I put the mermaid candle back, and the three of us leaned together and walked down the graveyard.
We walked very slowly, so to speak, because we had to keep an eye on our feet at all times, for fear that if one accidentally stepped on the mechanism, a few poisonous arrows shot out of the tomb wall, just a little bit could kill us, so we walked for half an hour on the hundreds of meters long tomb road.
Fortunately, there were no traps along the way, and at the end of the cemetery, there was a three-way intersection.
"Which one to go?" Xiao Zhang and I looked at Lao Zhao at the same time. "You see, there's a mark next to the middle one." Lao Zhao's face was very solemn, marked? Could it be that this place has already been preempted by someone else?
"Holy! The benefits have been reaped by others! These damned grave robbers, if I see them, I'll make them return all the things they stole from them, and strangle them all one by one. Xiao Zhang scolded angrily, as if he had forgotten what he was doing.
I was so happy, "I said Xiao Zhang, after letting the family return the things, do you still have to bargain with the other family Zhou Hao Wang, collect some protection money or something." ā
"Don't be discouraged, both of you, look, there are markings next to these three forks." Lao Zhao stared at the three forks for a while, frowning before finally stretching out, we took a closer look, and sure enough, on the wall next to each fork, there was a mark, if this mausoleum was taken by other tomb robbers, there was no need for them to mark all three forks.
"Take a closer look." Lao Zhao said to us, "These three marks seem to be different. "We took a closer look, this mark turned out to be three patterns, painted with three dragons, fine workmanship, smooth brushwork, at first glance from the hands of master craftsmen, and old, must not be the work of tomb robbers, and these three dragons only the middle one is a five-clawed golden dragon, next to the two are four-clawed, and their demeanor also has subtle differences, which is absolutely impossible to see without careful look.
"It's like ...... This seems to be a change of formation in the Qimen Dunjia Array," Lao Zhao stared at the three dragons for a long time, and the brows that had just stretched out were wrinkled again, "This Qimen Dunjia Array has a total of four layers, each layer has three doors, and there are three doors in each door, secretly combining the number of nine nine and eighty-one, this formation looks simple, because there are only three doors on each layer, but it is mysterious, full of variables, if you accidentally stray into the door of death, I don't know what will happen!" ā
"Which one shall we go in, then?" I asked.
"This Qimen Dunjia array secretly combined the technique of yin and yang five elements gossip, when Fu Xi deduced the sixty-four trigrams of the innate gossip according to the Hetu Luoshu, and later was simplified into thirty-two trigrams by King Wen of Zhou, and then experienced hundreds of years of circulation, during which he also experienced the book burning pit of Confucianism, and when the Qin and Han dynasties handed over a fairy to Zhang Liang, there were only sixteen trigrams left, and now, there are only so many gossip left, and most of them are remnants, this week King Hao is in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Then it is very likely that the use of this is the thirty-two hexagrams simplified by King Wen of Zhou, to be honest, with my current feng shui attainments, I am afraid that even one-tenth of this formation will not be able to comprehend. Lao Zhao's brows became tighter and tighter, and in the end, he was so anxious that he straightened his teeth.
When I heard him say this, my heart was already half cold, and I encountered such a tricky problem when I just came in, so even if this formation can be broken, the next road will not be easy.
"Where is there such a hanging," Xiao Zhang was very unimpressed, "Didn't you see that only the mark in the middle was painted with a five-clawed golden dragon?" This five-clawed golden dragon has been a symbol of the Son of Heaven since ancient times, only the dragon robe of the Son of Heaven can be embroidered with such a pattern, and those who can only embroider four claws on the clothes of a big man, can not be called a dragon, can only be called a python, although King Hao finally died this week, but he has also been the Son of Heaven for so many decades, I think it is not bad to take the middle of this road. ā
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Lao Zhao shook his head.
"Then you say......," I said bitterly, "we've all come here, do we have to go back?" "Actually, I've been shouting loudly in my heart, Lao Zhao, retreat quickly, go back quickly.
"I mean, since we can't crack it, let's go through every road." Lao Zhao said with a smile.
"All over again?" Xiao Zhang and I asked in unison, "But if we enter the door of death, can we turn back?" ā
"It's not that let's go in," Lao Zhao laughed, untied his backpack, and took out a drone from inside, "Don't we have a drone, it's dedicated to tomb visits." ā
Lao Zhao, this kid is like this, he especially likes to pour cold water on us, and jumps out to pretend when we are all desperate, otherwise, why don't you take out this good thing in the morning?
Why do I carry it so much, how do I explain these two kings who pretend to be X, one by one, they like to pretend to be X so much.
Lao Zhao's drone can be assembled freely, water, land and air. He put wheels on the drone, turned on the front lights, took out a tablet from his bag, connected the drone, and switched to the camera.
"High-tech." Xiao Zhang smacked his lips and sighed.
Lao Zhao smiled lightly, took out the remote control, twisted a knob, and drove his drone, no, unmanned vehicle, into the middle of the cemetery.
The camera pixel of the unmanned car is not low, but this place is very dark, the range of light can be illuminated is very limited, and there are always some inexplicable clutter interference, so the picture we see jumps and jumps, and it is particularly blurry, but fortunately, we can see a rough look.
At the end of this fork in the road, there are not three forks as Lao Zhao said, but a burial chamber, which is very narrow, about 30 square meters, it seems to be an ear room, and there is no mermaid candle in it.
Lao Zhao controlled the unmanned car and walked around the tomb, where there were some bronzes, pottery and other burial goods in some order, and some murals were painted on the wall.
But what really caught our attention was that in the middle of this burial chamber stood a huge bronze coffin!