Chapter 41: The Yellow Intestine Question

Lao Zhong and I were like a chicken steak that was slapped into the hole, and our bodies were suddenly pressed to the hard wall of the hole.

"Ahem" I touched my head, and the back of my head was swollen like a steamed bun.

"Why is this soil so hard? Grandma's! Lao Zhong also had a big bag on his forehead, and he touched his head and cursed against the wall.

I looked up just in time to see the corpse python hitting the hole hard, how the hole is too small, at this time it just stuck its head no matter how hard it can not squeeze in, the huge eyes are like two huge red lanterns, but only half of them are outside and the other half is inside, the red eyes have half of the pupils of the fire, the strange pupils continue to shrink as if to suck the soul of a person in, it can be seen that it is in a rage, it will definitely not be willing to enter like this, I think it just wanted to swallow me and the old clock, But because of the lack of distance, they crashed into the two of us.

"Uhh Woo······ Woo····· Woo..."

The body of the corpse python retracted, but it slammed into the hole again.

"Bang", "Bang La" This guy was so strong that he suddenly opened a hole in the hole, and then struggled to get in more than half of his head, which scared me and Lao Zhong and turned around and ran away, but saw that it still couldn't get in, and couldn't help but feel a little relieved

Old Zhong stared at the shadow of the corpse python and was shocked, and shouted at me: "Go inside, this guy will definitely not give up, he is going to release the cubs"

"I'm Cao, how can this guy give birth to cubs?" I saw that the corpse python saw that it couldn't get in, so it spit out a small snake from its mouth, the little snake was only the thickness of an arm, but it also had two blood-red eyes, a total of eight small corpse pythons were like a miniature version of the Tongtian corpse python, spitting out letters one by one, swimming towards us.

"Brother Zhu, do you have that blue vortex again last time?"

"Do you think I don't want to, I almost didn't release the preparation for half a day last time, and I haven't recovered yet, you count on me for this emergency? I don't even believe in myself."

Lao Zhong shook his head, took the Chiyan Sword with a look of annoyance, and kept shouting at the little corpse python: "You guys stand back for me, otherwise Lao Tzu will be polite!" And the fact is that we keep retreating, and the little corpse python is pressing on our footsteps, but they seem to be a little afraid of the Chiyan Sword, after all, the Chiyan Sword can't kill the Tongtian Corpse Python, but the lethality to them should not be underestimated.

I kept retreating, so nervous that I couldn't do it, the sweat in my palms had already flowed, and the flashlights were wet.

"Poof"

A black thing fell from the cave wall, almost hit me, but after the thing fell to the ground but did not make any sound, I felt bad in my heart, and wanted to kick it up to see what it was, but I was pulled by the old bell violently, and I jumped away at once.

I saw that after the mass fell to the ground, it slowly loosened, and I shone it with a flashlight, and immediately shouted: "Corpse mantis? ”

I've seen this guy, last time in the broken temple these insects in front of me in a few seconds to eat a big living person, I didn't expect to see it here again, I stammered a little to the old bell and said: "Hurry up and get out of here, these insects live in groups, every time they come out of the hole, there are tens of thousands, and there will definitely not be only these more than 100." ”

But I saw that a few little corpse pythons and the group of corpse mantis have been fighting together, the little corpse python has a corpse mantis, but it was also crawled on the body by a few corpse mantises, and began to bite up, the little corpse python was bitten out of a few holes in its back, but there was no blood flowing out, the little corpse python was extremely fierce, and the hundreds of corpse mantis on the ground were devoured and wiped out, and their eyes were staring at us again.

Scarface and I hurriedly ran inside, when the sound of rustling on the top of our heads was heard, and our scalps tingled for a while. Everywhere my flashlight reached, corpse mantis crawled out one by one, spreading downward from the top of my head, pouring down like a stream of water. One rushed towards us, the other at the corpse python.

"It turns out that this is the nest of these corpse mantis," I couldn't help but feel nervous.

"I drip mother" I followed the old bell and didn't dare to let go of a fart just to run inside, only hated myself for missing a leg, all the way through a square passage, found a stone door half-closed from top to bottom, I and the old bell hurriedly rushed in, the old bell stabbed with a sword at the upper left of the stone door.

"Woo Dong"

I saw the stone gate fall from the sky and close it all at once

I shine a flashlight on the wall, how can there be yellow heart wood on the wall? Isn't this natural, but artificial?

"Is this a yellow intestine question?"

"Didn't you say that there were only in the Zhou Dynasty and the early Western Han Dynasty? Could this be a tomb from this period? ”

"The fourth master said this is a Han tomb, fuck! The old Liu family of the Western Han Dynasty does not have a good thing, the last time a Han tomb was dug up and the corpse python died so many people, this time it is another one, or a thicker and bigger one, Lao Tzu almost finished playing this time, does the descendants of Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty like to raise pets, monsters? Legend has it that Shanglin Yuan is specially used by the Liu family to raise rare and exotic beasts, so shouldn't they all be made into dead creatures like corpse pythons? Lao Zhong looked at the patchwork of yellow intestine soil, which was difficult to dig with a shovel, and scolded and scolded.

I looked at the solid soil in front of me, was it just blocked?

As mentioned in the book, the "yellow intestine inscription" is the coffin room used by the emperor at the first level, and the grade is the highest. That is, the coffin chamber is a frame-shaped structure made of cypress fangs (i.e., square wood) around the perimeter.

I can't help but think, no wonder this mountain is planted with cypress, and there are many ancient cypresses, cypress trees grow very slowly, some have been hundreds of years or thousands of years, some may be longer, want to come here cypress forests have been more than a thousand years.

There is a record in the history books that the so-called "yellow intestine", Yan Shigu quoted Su Lin's statement that the cypress of the yellow heart is the cypress wood after peeling, that is, the cypress wood used in the coffin room, and the heart is yellow. The wood used for the theme is a cypress (rafter) with the bark stripped of the tree, and it is named after the pale yellow color of the wood.

According to the literature, the "inscription" structure in the tomb has appeared at the latest in the Warring States period, but there is no physical evidence. From the existing archaeological materials of the Han Dynasty, it can be seen that the basic characteristics of the structure of "inscription" are: first, layer by layer, layer by layer, stacking, generally do not use mortise and tenon joints; The second is that "the wood is inward-looking", that is, the fir wood (or wooden strips) built by the four walls of the inscription are all perpendicular to the wall panel of the coffin chamber on the same side, if you look at it from the inside, the four walls are only seen at the end of the fir wood, and the name of the inscription is derived from this specific way.

In the past, the "yellow intestine inscription" was found in the vertical pit wooden coffin tomb. It is rumored that the No. 1 tomb of Elephant Trunk Mouth in Changsha and the No. 1 tomb of Dabaotai in Beijing all used yellow intestine inscriptions. "Yellow intestine inscription" refers to the frame-shaped structure formed by piling up cypress trees around the coffin room of the Western Han Emperor's mausoleum. The coffin was surrounded by a wall of wood and covered with a roof, like a house, with a toilet outside. Princes, doctors, and scholars below the Son of Heaven can also use questions. However, in general, cypress wood should not be used, but pine wood and miscellaneous wood.

Yellow intestine inscription is not ordinary people can use it, in addition to the emperor must be authorized by the Son of Heaven, the favored princes and kings and important ministers can also use the yellow intestine inscription after death, such as Han Huo Guang died, Emperor Xuan of Han "gave Zi Palace, bedroom, yellow intestine inscription each one".

But as I just saw, this is a coffin room, and even the walls around this cave are made into a structure of inscriptions, and the yellow cypress wood is built layer by layer, and the entire labyrinth is actually made of cypress wood.

"This ······ This ·····" Looking up, the cypress trees on both sides of the cave are stacked on top of each other, how much manpower and material resources will be wasted!

It is very clear to know that it is the yellow intestine inscription, and from the murals and inscriptions on this wall, it is not difficult to infer that this tomb must be a high-standard tomb of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and there are so many monsters in it, who would raise so many creatures?

It is rumored that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty expanded the Shanglin Garden in the pre-Qin period, so this Han tomb directly or indirectly points to Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, could it be that he set up a bureau in the second time?

"In later generations, it was rumored that Wang Mang's usurpation of power was deliberately done by the people of the Liu family, in order to use the soul of an emperor to inject a giant python into the body of the old Liu family's ancestral tomb to guard the spirit, could it be that Wang Mang's death was to refine the Tongtian corpse python? The descendants of their Liu family used Wang Mang's soul to inject into the Tongtian python to refine it? Old Zhong Nini muttered about this private secret, and her face changed wildly.

"Could it be that the corpse python outside is an animal body, a human soul?" I couldn't help but shudder in my heart.