The pattern on the ground is indeed the bottom of the wild goose, with a pattern of two hands holding up, because the coffin is red, and the color of this pattern is black and brownish.

"You just said that this is for sacrifices?" Liang Zhesi pointed to the pattern on the ground, if the coffin in this cave is used to hold sacrifices, then when did the coffin in this cave begin? business?

"Yes," Yan Fei nodded, "However, this should only be a coffin containing sacrifices, and the real sacrificial venue is not here." ”

"A real sacrificial ground?" Liang Zhesi grew his mouth on the side, "What do you mean is that this is the Shang Dynasty, and the Gongbo family-"

"Maybe it's earlier than the time of the business," Mingjie added on the side, "Let's go out and talk, this group of people, for a while, can't find a clue." ”

The four of them put away the night pearl, carefully together, under the leadership of Yan Fei, to the exit of the top of the mountain, after the four of them came out of the cave, they each found a place to sit down in the open space.

The moon is shining tonight, and although the wind at the top of the mountain is a little cold, you can stand here and look down the mountain, and the scenery is beautiful. The outline of the surrounding mountains is very clear, and the surrounding area is full of undulating mountain forests, with a large flat land in the middle.

In the territory of Wu State, there are not many such mountains, and there is such terrain around the capital, which is a bit abrupt. Liang Zhesi didn't think it was strange in the past, but today he sat on the top of this mountain and looked down, the more he looked at it, the more awkward he became, and he always felt that something was not quite right.

"Here, this is the tribe of Shang, the first base area," Yan Fei was leaning against a boulder on the top of the mountain, and Liang Zhesi was sitting on the ground next to him, leaning against the stone, watching him look at the valley in a daze, so he explained to him.

"Mingjie, what else did you find?" From the end of this year to now, Yin Si has been busy, there are many suspicious points, and he doesn't have time to trace the places he wants to explore, so he called Mingjie over and asked him to investigate.

This cave full of coffins, Yin Si was very surprised when he first came in, and he also visited a lot of people and consulted a lot of information, all of which were local county records and the like.

In this place, there are not many records, and the exposition of the text is also very vague and perfunctory, all of which are said to be groundbreaking, and there is this custom, and the people who live in this place are all like this.

Why the coffin was made, why it was left in the cave, these reasons are not really mentioned. It's just that it's customs, and the word customs really represents everything.

Yin Si spent a long time on this, but the result was not as he wished, and finally returned to the totem and returned to the Gongbo family.

There are not many people he can trust, Mingjie is one, and Yan Fei is one, so let the two of them investigate in secret. This time, they came over to make a report, originally, these two people stayed in the Wei State and stayed in the secret base of Qingwan Pavilion.

"There are several kinds of totems alone," Ming Jie began to look through the monuments after receiving the task from Yin Si in the Wei State, not only looking at the books in the base, but also asking Qingwan Pavilion to go to the rivers and lakes to collect a lot of books on totems, and after turning over for a month, he finally found out something.

The totem of the Gongbo family is the wild goose, and this wild goose, on different occasions, has different matches. For example, in the house, it is the wild goose with the cloud pattern, and in the cemetery, it is the wild goose with the water pattern, and there is a lotus flower above the water pattern, as a carrier to cross to the Yellow Spring.

Mingjie searched a lot of books and looked at a lot of antiques, which are said to be things that only people from the Gongbo family will use. In the end, I realized that the bowls and incense burners related to the sacrifice, and the wild goose patterns on them, were all supported with both hands, so there was this speculation.

Yin Si copied the totem he saw in this cave to Mingjie, although it was not consistent, but according to Mingjie's judgment, it should be related to the sacrifice.

This time, he came here to see with his own eyes whether this totem is really a pattern that will only be used when the Gongbo family sacrifices. Sure enough, it really is.

"Fortunately, before I came, I asked Yan Fei to check the so-called sacrifice of the Zha Gongbo family," Ming Jie was too busy to check this information, so he asked Yan Fei to check it.

Although Yan Fei is a chivalrous warrior who breaks into the rivers and lakes, he himself is thoughtful and bright-minded, and he always notices ideas that others can't notice.

The wild goose is equipped with the pattern of lifting, which means to indicate the sacrifice, which Yan Fei can see.

The Gongbo family, participating in the sacrifice, there are sacrificial activities, mainly in Shang, there is a more than 500 years of Zhou in the middle, more than 100 years after the Zhou scuffle, and now the Three Kingdoms also have nearly 200 years of time, really to calculate, the recent sacrificial information, also 800 years ago.

When Zhou perished, the royal family of Zhou, when the city was finally broken, a torch burned the living people of the Gongbo clan, and there were no ashes left, let alone their mansions and documents.

Further back, when Zhou Jianguo was founded, the Gongbo clan itself burned a part, and after that, many things, after generations, no one passed them on, and even fewer people knew about it.

As far as the existing books are concerned, there is not much actual information about this sacrifice, which is also nonsense of strange forces. Yan Fei pondered for half a month on these scripts, and then he barely had some guesses and conclusions.

First of all, regarding this sacrifice, the geese are held up in the palms of the hands of the sacrifices, and they bow down facing the far north, and after the Dharma Protector has depicted the appearance of each person on the coffin, they will lie down in the chosen coffin.

This statement, almost all of the words mentioned in the book, after Yan Fei and Mingjie discussed with each other, they came to the conclusion that this totem actually means a sacrifice. The hands are the hands that represent the sacrifices.

The sacrifice of the Gongbo clan is said to bring people back to life and keep their faces forever. These people whose faces remain forever and who come back to life are the living who are sacrificed. Before entering the coffin, the sacrifices would kneel in the temple and bear the sins of all the living until they had received three hundred and sixty-two lashes, and then they would be hung from a tree.

After death, the body is hung on the city for three days and three nights, after which it is taken down to bathe and change clothes, wash off the filth, and then sealed and buried in a coffin.

After 7749 days, the coffins of these sacrifices are opened from the tomb, and if the scars on the sacrifices disappear and the whole person is intact and lifelike, then it means that this time, the gods have forgiven the country, all the people have committed mistakes, and this year, they will continue to bless the prosperity of the country.

The so-called resurrection from the dead and the appearance of immortality is actually a scam, a scam made of voodoo.

"So, these sacrifices are first raised with voodoo insects, and then tortured to death, and when they die, they will be hung outside for three days and three nights, and finally the bones and blood will be eaten by the insects, and only one skin will be left?" Liang Zhesi not only clenched his fists, "How often is the sacrifice of the Gongbo clan held, and how many sacrifices will be needed each time?" ”

"During the Taiping period, once a year, if you encounter a ceremony or something else to sacrifice, then this year, when there are more than ten times and eight times, when there are few, once or twice!" Yan Fei was on the side and answered his question:

"The sacrifices are all living people, one person from the Gongbo family, and ten ordinary people, and when there are more, hundreds or thousands of people, it is not too much."

"These coffins—" Liang Zhesi finally knew what they were used for.

"It's used to play dead." Yin Si finished all the unfinished words for him on the side.

"These sacrifices, not surprisingly, are also kept here," Yin Si looked at the valley in front of him, as well as the surrounding mountains, forests, basins, natural fences, and captive slaves and servants, which was the most suitable.

"Coffins, I'm afraid these people are also making their own," Yan Fei added, at that time, these slaves were all people from other tribes who were taken captive from other places when the founding of the country was first founded, and later, after the founding of the country, there were also some people who committed crimes in the country.

Voodoo, this thing, used to cultivate sacrifices, has to start from a young age, these slaves, including those who were forced to come, at the bottom of the Gongbo clan, they live a good life, can be imagined.

In order to get sacrifices, maybe they don't have love, but are forced to reproduce, and then, looking at these children, they have been raised by insects since they were young, and when they reach a certain age, they are killed and sacrificed, ground into powder, and then fed to the next child.

Cycle after cycle, such a cruel and inhumane crime, no wonder, the Gongbo family, the Shang country, will go to extinction.

"So, you're saying that this is the base camp of the Gongbo clan's sacrifice?" Liang Zhesi has already understood that this place is indeed the most suitable place for sacrifices and asking the heavens.

"The entrance to the mausoleum that the group of people found just now is the entrance to bury the sacrifices," Ming Jie nodded, "This entrance, there is a record, it is said that the oppressed part of the Gongbo clan, after assisting Shang Jianguo, buried the temple and the entrance of the mausoleum. ”

"Buried?" Yin Si immediately heard the deep meaning of the words.

"Buried," Mingjie nodded, it was indeed buried.

"So, this temple and mausoleum are all underground?" Liang Zhesi also understood, pointed to the soles of his feet, and then looked at the mountains and the flat land at the bottom.

In terms of topography, this cave full of coffins is the highest and the largest in area, and if there is really a temple and a mausoleum, it is the best under this cave.

"It's really underground," Yan Fei nodded at him with a smile, but his eyes looked at the flat ground at the bottom of the valley, "But not everything is underground, this temple is on the ground!" ”

"Are those stones?" Yin Si also noticed that there were some big rocks in the valley, which were chaotic, and there were many mountain people living here, and the bottom of the valley was such a good flat land, but no one dared to plant it, and only opened up land in the mountains. The forests at the bottom of the valley were very lush, and they were all places where the hunters loved to go.

"Originally, the Shang tribe developed and grew here, and after the Gongbo clan took refuge here, the base camp was naturally here," Yan Fei nodded, at that time, the people were not well fed, clothed warmly, and the houses were all built with stones.

The so-called shrine, naturally, is not in a cave that can be inhabited, and the flat land of this valley, where a few stones make do with it, is the best choice. In the end, even if the country is built, the capital can be modified, and it will require a lot of stones and manpower, and it is clear what the slaves used to do.

Temple? If you really want to fix it, you can't fix it at that time.