Chapter 57: Where Does the Coffin Return?
Bailuyuan, Tang Dynasty tomb, underground palace.
In the depths of the tomb, Ah You vaguely saw two figures emerging behind the group of tomb robbers......
It is a head taller than ordinary people, and it is a hideous statue, with two beards erected, huge nostrils, and eyes like copper bells. They wore Tang Dynasty helmets, the left and right ear guards were rolled upwards, the shawls on their shoulders were like a pair of dragon heads, and the breastplate was divided into left and right, like two bright mirrors. The submandibular longitudinal girdle is tied, and the cuirass is intersected by a ring and a transverse band. The upper part of the belt is half exposed to the round abdomen, and the fish-scale abdominal armor is clearly recognizable.
The upper body, they are Tang Dynasty Mingguang armored warriors, but the lower body is a fierce beast. It looks like a tiger or a lion, with four thick and powerful legs and a flaming tail standing up from the back of its buttocks.
Tomb Beast?
Everything happened at a fraction of a second, just as the tomb robbers were about to shoot and kill the three intruding assassins, the two Bright Light Armored Samurai Tomb Beasts behind them suddenly activated.
Ah Yu silently watched the two samurai, holding up a pair of nine-section steel whips on the left and a pair of four-edged double maces on the right, chopping off the heads of the tomb robbers from behind.
Shots rang out, bullets flew around the tomb and bounced on the faces of the mural figures......
The three Assassins had already sought concealment and escaped.
The Tomb Beast's legs run wildly, grabbing the fleeing tomb robbers and blasting their heads with a steel whip. Someone shot at the Mingguang armored samurai, and the bullet hit the armor uselessly, and in an instant it was split in two by the double mace.
In the flash of light, there were more than a dozen corpses on the ground......
The last one, the bald one-eyed leader of the tomb robbers, was forced into the corner of the tomb chamber and was chopped to pulp by two tomb beasts.
Then, one to the left and one to the right, the Tomb Beast turned to the last living people in the tomb - the three Assassins, and Ah Yu.
Ah You felt that the two of them were a little familiar, like ...... The door god posted by the rural people?
A Qin Qiong! A Wei Chi Gong!
The names of the two door gods were about to come out, and the assassin father, who had just picked up a life, whispered: "Legend has it that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, has killed countless people, and he can't sleep at night, and there are often unjust spirits who come to ask for his life. He ordered two generals under his command, Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Gong, to wear armor and weapons every night to guard the gate of the dormitory, which really shocked the ghosts of the Quartet. Tang Taizong ordered people to draw portraits of the two generals and hang them on both sides of the palace gate, and since then the people have the custom of posting the door gods. ”
"Journey to the West says the same thing." The assassin Ah Hai actually remembered, "One phoenix eye is afraid of the stars, and the other eyes reflect the electric moonlight." ”
"Tomb Beast of Door God Town?"
Wu Zetian entered the Daming Palace at the age of fourteen and became the favorite concubine of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and was given the name Wu Mei. The elderly Tang Taizong and the young girl Wu Meiniang enjoyed the clouds and rain on the dragon bed, and it was these two door gods who were attached to the palace gate. It is not unreasonable for people to say that this Bailuyuan Tomb is the key to open the Qianling Tomb of Wu Zetian, and the tomb beasts of Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong appeared.
The two Door God Town Tomb Beasts once again raised their nine-section steel whips and four-edged double maces, treating the assassins as tomb robbers, and eight beast legs rushed to destroy them all.
The three of them ran out together, fortunately, there were too many corpses underground, and there were some altars and jars with burial goods, which hindered the speed of the two tomb beasts.
"Protect the master!"
At Daddy's order, the assassins gathered in front of Ah You, fearing that they would die with their fifteen-year-old master.
Tuhuan shook his head helplessly: "I really regret not bringing the burden of 'Dungeon Road', there is my horse head qin in it!" ”
Between life and death, Ah You opened the wooden door of the little prince's coffin, and the breach was split by the warlord, revealing the true body of Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County.
In an instant, a golden light shot out of the coffin, like a screening port in a dark movie theater, and like a spotlight on the stage, shrouded in the heads of the two gate gods and tomb beasts.
Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong, like two wild horses on the loose, suddenly stopped on the edge of the cliff. The famous general stared at the little prince in the coffin. Perhaps, they saw the face of the teenager? It does not rot for thousands of years, sleeps in the glory of eternity, and lets the original flowers of the white deer bloom and fall......
The door god town tomb beast, put down their respective blades, knelt on the ground on the little prince's knees, crouched on the beast's legs, and kowtowed.
They met the owner of the tomb, just like in front of the Daming Palace in Chang'an, guarding the elderly Tang Taizong and the cardamom girl Wu Mei, who will not be exhausted after eternity.
It turns out that the nine colors are not the only guardian of the little prince?
didn't have time to think about it, Ah You walked up to the two tomb beasts, knelt down and kowtowed: "Little girl Ah You, escort the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty home!" I kindly ask you to let you go! ”
Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong bowed to Ah You. The two door gods town tomb beasts, stepped out of the eight beast legs, returned to their original positions, and turned into solidified statues again.
Ah You and Daddy entered the tomb with their hands and feet and cleaned up the corpses and stumps of tomb robbers all over the ground. The treasures here are mainly Tang Dynasty weapons, swords, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks...... Even the scattered books are military books such as "The Art of War" and "The Art of War".
However, there is no coffin bed, no gold well, and no items such as jade mourning books or epitaphs can be found.
"Not all burial chambers have coffins, many imperial tombs have several burial chambers, and only one is the one where the coffin is stored." Daddy has concluded, "This is not the real home of the little prince's coffin." ”
Ah You walked out of the tomb of the weapons and warriors, glanced at the two door gods and tomb beasts, and closed the door of the tomb again. Only then did I find that the two stone doors were carved with the images of the two door gods.
"I came here and passed several forks in the road. This tomb is like a labyrinth, where is the real tomb of the little prince? We don't know, I'm afraid it's much more than just two burial chambers. ”
"Daddy, is the Emperor's Mausoleum so complicated?"
"Generally speaking, although the tombs of emperors have multiple burial chambers, they are connected by corridors and are not far from each other. This burial chamber is connected to only one burial tunnel. The layout is extraordinary, the whole tomb is very large, and the labyrinthine tomb is divided into many branches, each of which may lead to a mysterious burial chamber. ”
Dad picked up an iron rod and drew a topographical map on the floor tiles - the tomb road was like a spider's web, a spiral, and a deer antler on a nine-colored head branched, and within a radius of dozens of miles below the ground, there might be countless burial chambers.
"Do these burial chambers belong to the same tomb?"
"Yes, because there is the same tomb crossing." Dad pointed to the coffin of the little prince behind him, "It's all built for him." ”
"Who made it for him?"
"Empress Wu Zetian." Dad looked at the top of his head with a solemn face, "According to historical records, the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, died young, and Wu Zetian was very sad and ordered to build a tomb for him in Bailuyuan. ”
"Can we still find his real burial chamber?"
"I'm afraid it's hard! If you look for the forks in the road, I am afraid that you may not be able to find them for several years. In these unknown tombs and burial chambers, there will be more dangers, and it is not that the tomb beasts of the Gate God Town are so easy to deal with. ”
The assassin Ah Hai couldn't help but ask: "But a year ago, why were the defeated soldiers of the Beiyang warlords able to dig up the tomb of the little prince?" He also stole out the coffin and the nine colors of the tomb beast. ”
"First, it may be a fate! Second, there is Xiao Mu in the tomb robber army - I think this person is not simple, he can establish some kind of special relationship with the little prince, and his fate is not an ordinary tomb robber. ”
"No wonder, all of us almost died at his hands!"
Dad was still observing the tomb road, looking at the murals and said: "The foundation of this tomb is very large, far exceeding the specifications of the prince's tomb, and even more than the emperor's tomb in the Tang Dynasty." Originally, I couldn't understand why, from Qianling to Bailuyuan, only the coffin of Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, was the key to unlocking the secret. Now I understand, because this tomb itself has endless secrets. ”
"Dad, there was no coffin in the tomb just now, why is there a tomb beast?"
"This tomb of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty surpasses all the specifications of Chinese mausoleums, I can't imagine what else there will be? These two door gods have neither coffins nor gold wells, and lack the soul of the tomb owner. Strictly speaking, it's a walking dead-level tomb beast. ”
"The Walking Dead?"
"Well, it's in the middle of the pseudo-town tomb beast and the real town tomb beast." It's still my dad who is proficient in this way, "As for the pseudo-tomb beast, it is a real clay sculpture and wood carving, a dead thing without any spirituality. Most of the tombs dug by the tomb robbers are this kind of pseudo-tomb beasts, at best, they are stone carvings and wood carvings. ”
"There are only nine colors, it is a tomb beast guarding the little prince's side, and the level is unique. Perhaps, second only to Wu Zetian, the tomb of the Son of Heaven under the Qianling Tomb. ”
"Don't talk so much, tell me, what should we do with the coffin of the little prince now?"
The Assassin Ahai brought them back to reality, which was indeed a tricky problem.
"At least, can't stay here! This tomb is extremely unsafe, and there will be tomb robbers coming in. ”
"What about the little prince?"
Bailuyuan Tang Dynasty Tomb, deep in the dark tomb, Ah You pointed to the top of his head.
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