Chapter 72: The Jade Dragon of the Red Mountain (2)
The arm seemed to no longer belong to him, and he was dragged by the cold and shining Tang knife, slashing towards the seven inches of the tomb beast in Yulong Town.
It was as if it had broken the dragon's spine and cut open a hard, hot stone. Fortunately, it is An Lushan's Tang knife, if it was an ordinary blade, it would have been folded into several sections.
The jade dragon let out a scream......
Qin Beiyang heard the dragon's scream for the second time, this is an even more ancient dragon, the dragon of the northern grassland, the dragon of the ancestors.
The nine-colored glass fireball pierced through the jade dragon's neck, and the antlers pierced in, lifting the tomb beast high. The jade dragon had been cut into two pieces by Qin Beiyang, revealing two pieces of spirit stone that had been chopped.
Without waiting for Qin Beiyang to stop it, Jiu Se went crazy again, like a beast that loves to eat the heart of its prey, swallowing the spirit stone of the tomb beast of Jade Dragon Town.
Qin Beiyang looked a little scared, and said to Jiuse: "Take it easy, don't choke!" ”
He took off the real jade dragon that hung on the chest of the tomb beast in Jade Dragon Town—this is a treasure of China, I am afraid it is more than 5,000 years old, and it is likely to be the first dragon in China.
This is the true dragon emperor.
As for how it fell into the hands of the Khitan and why it became the funeral object of the princess, it is unknown...... Qin Beiyang knelt down in fear and kowtowed to this tomb beast that was killed by nine colors, if he hadn't been suffering from cancer and wanted to hide in the ancient tomb as soon as possible to continue his life, the Jade Dragon Town Tomb Beast would not have ended up like this.
He hid the jade dragon on his body, and it must not be taken by the Russians. Ivanov also understood his thoughts, waved his hand and said, "Qin, you are a brave warrior, St. Georgy of the dragon slayer. ”
"Interesting, my Russian name is Georgi."
"Heaven is destined, you killed this dragon and saved our lives, and you deserve the spoils of war. What's more, the Russians prefer gold and amber to Chinese jade. What I don't understand the most right now is ......"
The colonel pointed to the nine colors, and the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast was still wearing antlers.
"It's the grave beast you think about day and night." Qin Beiyang couldn't hide it anymore, "But the nine colors only belong to me, no one can command it, don't expect it to go to war with you in Russia." ”
"Qin, I won't force you to do anything. What I need is not a single Tomb Beast, but a legion of many Tomb Beasts. Nine colors are by your side to help you, which is equivalent to helping me. I'd like to go inside the tomb again. ”
With that, the White Russian colonel left the corpses of his companions all over the ground and walked into the back room of the dungeon again.
Qin Beiyang said in the ear of the pale-faced Wolfna: "Please don't tell anyone the secret you saw just now. ”
In the back room of the underground palace, the princess of the Khitan Yue Kingdom and her concubine are lying on the big bed, and the curtains can't block the air of the twentieth century.
Ivanov unveiled the golden mask, and the colt had been reduced to a skeleton, all that had rotted under the silver wire grid and that nothing but slag had been left of the bones.
Then there is the princess under the golden mask, revealing the face of eighteen.
She was beautiful, with a nose, eyebrows, and the corners of her mouth...... As if he had just fallen asleep, carrying the glory of eternity, he returned to the eternal netherworld. Is she a sleeping beauty? Waiting for some prince to come back and kiss her to wake her up?
Compared with the rotten horse next to her, the princess of Yue Guo was as pale as she was, and there was no sign of decay. The three thousand green silk is complete, the skin glows metallicly, maybe the body is filled with a large amount of mercury to prevent embalming?
Qin Beiyang remembered that he had read an ancient book when he was a child, the Khitan Rich Family, and after his death, he broke his abdomen with a knife, washed his stomach and intestines, pricked the skin with a sharp pen, drained the ointment and blood, and then filled it with fragrant medicine and salt alum, and then stitched it up. With gold and silver as masks, brocade his hands and feet. Someone has witnessed Yelu Deguang buried in this way, it is like a piece of bacon for the winter - Liao Taizong is the only emperor in Chinese history to be mummified.
On the big bed in front of me lies a mummified princess. He saw that next to the princess's belt, there was an eight-curved gold box, engraved with a pair of mandarin duck reliefs, lined with water patterns and daylilies......
Maybe it's getting too close to the corpse? The breath in Qin Beiyang's mouth gently sprayed onto the princess's face.
The vigorous yang energy of the twenty-year-old boy happened to merge with the yin energy of the ninety-hundred-year-old mummy princess, touching a certain fatal switch.
The princess opened her eyes.
A chill like dry ice forced out of her pupils. Ivanov fell in panic, Wolfna was too frightened to move, only Nine Colors went with snow-white antlers, and the last thing the tomb beast was afraid of was the corpse.
Qin Beiyang did not retreat, he had no way back, once the ancient tomb was transformed, any living person would quickly become a dead person.
Zombie ......
For the first time, I saw a sinister corpse with my own eyes, not a living person who woke up after eating the elixir of immortality. The princess's upper body was raised, and without the help of her hands, the vertebrae automatically had strength, completely contrary to human body mechanics.
She saw Qin Beiyang, and also saw a pair of Russian men and women, she is the real "Khitan" in Russian.
The corpse mutant has a fierce look in her eyes, she has seen everyone, and she will not spare a living creature. She stretched out her sharp nails and pierced through the silver wire grid, like ten daggers, stabbing straight into Qin Beiyang's throat.
But instead of retreating, he stopped the Nine Colors' attempt to fight. He didn't want the glass fireball to burn the princess's mummy, and he didn't want the antlers to pierce her body.
Qin Beiyang remembered the jade pendant in his trouser pocket - in the ice cave of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, Han Xingde, a Khitan Han man nine hundred years ago, entrusted him to transfer this jade pendant to the soul of the princess of Yue.
So, he took out a green jade pendant carved with a cross-necked mandarin duck pattern and dangled it in front of the eighteen-year-old mummy princess.
The princess recognized it.
The terrifying nails stopped growing, reverted to slender jade hands, and even took this jade pendant - this is her favorite mandarin duck ornament, which has been hung by her side since she was a child, and she personally gave it to her first love, the Han guards in front of the emperor's palace tent. But she was the daughter of Emperor Da Liao, and according to the rules of the Khitan royal family, Yelu could only intermarry with Xiao. Han Derang, a Han who is a very popular minister, can only be the secret lover of the Empress Dowager Xiao Yanyan. The mandarin duck also had a share of the day, Han Xingde was ordered by the emperor to explore the North Pole, and she married the queen's nephew. She soon became a widow and became terminally ill. And he was never heard from, and died in the land of reindeer in the ice and snow. The princess is dead. At the age of eighteen, with a grudge against life, he misses Han Xingde, a Han person. The man lying beside her had long since turned into dry bones. She is the only one who maintains her youthful appearance, sticks to the dungeon for thousands of years, sleeps with the colt and has different dreams, waiting for another soul to return......
The princess was quiet, and she returned the jade pendant that Han Xingde gave her—a jade pendant that had been to the North Pole for nine hundred years, had seen a white bear in the Arctic thousands of miles away, and had fallen into the ice cave of the prehistoric monster mammoth, and gently swallowed it into her mouth.
She closed her eyes and lay down on the big bed again, falling into a deep sleep for ten thousand years. The arm that was originally attached to the colt was placed on his chest. Only Qin Beiyang understands that it is not only the jade pendant that she swallows in her belly, but the soul of the young man who fell in love for the first time, and finally lives forever and will never be separated, and be a pair of cross-necked mandarin ducks in another world.
Only envy the mandarin duck and not the immortal - this is a fairy tale of the Chinese, how can the Russians understand?
Qin Beiyang glanced back at Wolfna and smiled indifferently: "It's all over!" Let's go. ”
Ivanov was so stunned by the corpse that he had no room to speak, although he also coveted the room full of treasures. The three of them left the tomb quickly, dragging away the corpses of the White Russians by the way, how could these robbers be in the same room with the princess?
The remains of the Jade Dragon Town Tomb Beast remained in the front room, and its spirit stone had been devoured by the Nine Colors, and it was impossible to repair or transform it.
When he arrived at the door of the tomb, Qin Beiyang asked Ivanov to go out to take a look, and it was estimated that the sandstorm was not over yet.
In fact, he wanted to stay in the tomb for a while longer, to kill as many cancer cells as possible, and to be active for a longer time after going out.
Qin Beiyang and Jiuse guarded for a day and a night, even if it was to stand guard for the princess. It wasn't until Ivanov came back to inform him that the sandstorm had passed, that the expedition had restocked its horses, and that it was ready to go again.
Qin Beiyang, whose chest was full of the aura of the Khitan tomb, was like the soul possession of countless ancients, and he walked out of the tomb entrance with great vigor and was resealed. Seeing the blue sky and white clouds on the grassland again, the palace tent of the Khitan Emperor nine hundred years ago seems to be close at hand.
For the night, the expedition team stayed overnight at the mound. Qin Beiyang quietly buried the jade dragon brought out of the Khitan tomb in the ground. The tomb of the princess of Yue Guo has been excavated, and there is a high possibility that it will be stolen and excavated in the future. And the cultural relics value of this ancient jade far exceed all the treasures in the princess's tomb. If you take the jade dragon with you, or spread it to the world, I am afraid that it will attract bloody and even greedy foreigners. Let's bury it in another place and leave it for future generations to discover......
The jade dragon buried by Qin Beiyang has been sleeping in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia for fifty years. In 1971, it was excavated by a farmer and handed over to the state. According to the identification of archaeologists, the jade dragon belongs to the Hongshan culture 5,000 years ago, a combination of nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization in northern China. The Red Mountain Jade Dragon is recognized as the first dragon in China and is now stored in the National Museum of China, which can be called the treasure of the town hall and the important weapon of the country.