Chapter 142: The Whole Picture
The biggest difference between men and women is that men only have ugliness and beauty in their eyes, while women are very good at observing more subtle things, especially other people's facial features. So that's why when women are together, the topic is always who must have plastic surgery, and men will just say: Hey, look at that old girl thief is beautiful.
Pudding squatted on the ground, staring intently at Uncle Lao Yang, if it wasn't for her reminder, none of us would have noticed Uncle Yang's strange changes. The old man was right, Uncle Yang's face ...... It's sharpened.
The more I looked at it, the more I wondered, and I was shocked, "What's going on?" ”
The old man said, "You ask me, where do I know?" ”
Pudding whispered, "Let's go, let's go over and have a look." ”
I nodded to the old man, so the two of us decided not to smoke for now, or it would be better to figure out Uncle Yang's problem first, otherwise no one would be sure. The three of us came to Uncle Yang's side, squatted down gently, remained silent, and carefully observed for a while. Uncle Lao Yang was very strange, because generally speaking, when the three of us squatted next to him and watched him pick the lock, he would at least raise his head and smile at us, which was his habitual action as a gentleman. But at this moment, Uncle Lao Yang didn't even look at us, just Mu Ne was working, and seemed to be very indifferent to everything in the outside world.
I asked him with concern: "Uncle Yang, don't you feel uncomfortable?" ”
Uncle Lao Yang raised his head when he heard me shouting at him, but when he raised his head, it really scared us, because the three of us clearly saw that Uncle Lao Yang was not only sharpened at this moment, but even his teeth were "bulging". How do I feel...... It feels like he's a little ...... Like a mouse?
At this moment, there was a crisp loud noise in the originally silent tomb, which I was all too familiar with, it was the sound of the large copper lock being opened. When the scattered people heard this voice, it was as if they had heard the "rallying call" of the team, and within a few seconds, they all gathered together.
Zhou Boren said happily: "Lao Yang, is the lock open?" ”
According to the general situation, Uncle Lao Yang usually answered very simply in the face of Zhou Boren's questioning, either "um", or showed a sunny smile of a male nurse in the obstetrics and gynecology department, and said sincerely and sonorously: "It's open!" If it was really inconvenient to speak, then he would at least nod his head. But at this moment, Uncle Yang's reaction was very strange, he stood aside with his head down, and didn't say anything to us, as if he didn't know us.
Zhou Boren was stunned for a moment, and then took a closer look, and naturally found the subtle and strange changes on his face, Zhou Boren frowned and said, "Lao Yang, what's wrong with your face?" How do I feel like you're a little wrong? ”
Uncle Lao Yang shook his head and said weakly, "No...... It's okay...... It's really okay...... It's just a little uncomfortable. ”
Zhou Boren pondered for a few seconds, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that there is a problem with the mouse just now......" He turned back to us and said: "In this way, let's quickly open the sealed door and see what is in the last layer, and then quickly withdraw after reading it, this kind of broken place is really uncomfortable to stay for a long time." ”
I said, "Then hurry up and open the door." ”
Because Uncle Lao Yang's body was unwell, we decided: speed up the progress of work.
Although we can't see clearly what happened to Uncle Yang in the dim tomb, his strange words and deeds are enough to show that he is no longer suitable to continue to work here. Feng Erbiao nodded, grabbed the doorknob of the last layer of sealing the door, and under his huge brute force, the heavy sealing door was pulled open by him. And at this time, Uncle Lao Yang suddenly had a violent cough, Gu Nianxia patted him on the back, frowned and said to Uncle Zhou: "Director, otherwise I'll take Uncle Lao Yang out first, he seems to be really uncomfortable." ”
Uncle Lao Yang waved his hand at Gu Nianxia and said, "It's okay...... I'm really fine...... Keep working...... Leave me alone......"
Zhou Boren saw that Uncle Lao Yang was resolute and unwilling to leave, so he had no choice but to nod, and no longer delayed time, and quickly ordered Feng Erbiao to be the "vanguard" and immediately lead the team into the last layer of the pagoda. After receiving the order, at this moment, our group of people, led by Feng Erbiao, Gu Nianxia finished, one by one, and jumped into the thirteenth floor of the pagoda!
On the last floor of the thirteen-story pagoda, there is a coffin made of golden silk nanmu in the middle, which is not big, at least compared to the "purple gold giant coffin" on the twelfth floor, it is small. We were divided into two groups, the old man took Pudding Mei and Gu Nianxia to inspect the murals, while I, Zhou Boren, and Feng Erbiao were responsible for opening the coffin.
This coffin is a wooden coffin, so it is very light, not to mention Feng Erbiao, even if it is me, Mo Laosan, I can move it away, after we opened the lid of the coffin, we found that there were no ancient corpses in the coffin, only a few monk's clothes. These clothes are neither valuable nor of any research value, we are a little disappointed, we did not expect that the last layer of the thirteen-story stupa is the most simple, and it can even be said that the simple ones are a little spicy.
I shouted at the other group, "Old man, there are only a few clothes in the coffin, there is nothing, let's leave!" ”
The old man shouted at us: "Sure enough, it's almost as I guessed, the last layer of this pagoda is the clothed mound of the monk Guixu!" ”
Clothed mound, is a special form of burial in ancient China, communication in ancient times is not as developed as in modern times, if a person dies in the field, or in the wilderness and other places, it is difficult to find, but the ancients paid the most attention to "falling leaves to the roots". It doesn't matter if you die, but you can't die outside, otherwise you will become a lonely ghost with "no roots". But what if the body can't be found? In this case, the "mound of clothes" has become a kind of emotional sustenance.
Generally speaking, when a person dies but cannot find the body, his family will still build a mausoleum for him, the layout and structure of this tomb is no different from the real tomb, the only difference is that there is no body in the tomb, only a few clothes worn by the deceased before his death, which is the "clothing mound". ”
The person Zi Buyu admired the most during his lifetime was a monk named "Guixu". In order to pay tribute to this monk, he built his mausoleum into the appearance of a "pagoda", and gave the thirteenth floor representing the "highest standard" to the monk Guixu, but he lived on top of him, which has the meaning of "guarding".
Zi Buyu's practice, in fact, we probably guessed it, but because the two were born in a long time apart, Zi Buyu couldn't get the real body of the monk who returned to the ruins, so he managed to get a few monk's clothes that he wore during his lifetime, and built this "clothes mound" as a memorial, which is the whole picture of the thirteen-story pagoda!
We were about to retreat, but we noticed that the old man on the other side was staring at a mural, so I asked him, "Old man, do you find anything else?" If not, we should withdraw! ”
The old man ignored me, but kept staring at the mural, and after a long time, his eagle-like eyes suddenly showed a touch of joy, and his chest rose and fell, and he looked very excited! Everyone stared at him in confusion, and at that moment, the huge thirteen-story pagoda was so quiet that even a thin needle could be heard very clearly. The old man turned his head in astonishment, his lips trembling, and said to us, "Guys, I have discovered something amazing......