Chapter 1: Princess Yongtai (2)
The mural was restored to its original appearance, it turned out to be a mirage, and the experienced Tufu people slapped each other one after another, how could they fall into this kind of trick? The half-human, half-bird monster in front of them was also considered by them to be a hallucination, so they swaggered forward, only to hit the half-human, half-bird breast.
The girl's face became extremely vicious, like a corpse turned into a ghost, and the tomb robbers were terrified, only to know that she was not a hallucination, but a real monster in the ancient tomb.
Maybe it's - the Grave Beast?
She stretched out her slender hands and easily grabbed the neck of a tomb robber, and with a slight contraction of her fingers, she broke the cervical vertebrae, and her whole head drooped, and she died on the spot.
Amid the screams, the tomb robbers beckoned her with shovels and sticks. But this half-human, half-bird monster, like a bronze wall and iron bones, was not injured in the slightest, and raised its arm lightly, and smashed the Heavenly Spirit Cover of several people. In a few moments, the ground was covered with blood and corpses, as well as the arms and limbs of the paragraph.
The last tomb robber left, the old man with a white beard, who had dug more graves than he had eaten steamed buns in his life, took out a three-eyed gun from his sleeve - a firearm of the northern cavalry handed down from the late Ming Dynasty, which is now used in the countryside to set off firecrackers to ward off ghosts.
The old grave robber clung to the wooden handle, and the barrel had already been filled with gunpowder, steel balls, and crushed iron sand. Striking the fire cap violently, the three guns took turns shooting out iron sand, like the most primitive Gatling machine gun.
After three loud bangs, there was a pungent smell of gunpowder......
This Chinese New Year's Eve, there is finally an atmosphere of setting off firecrackers for the New Year.
A half-human, half-bird monster with three more holes in its chest. She looked down at her wound and let out an angry growl. The girl's scream almost shattered Qin Beiyang's eardrums. The problem with old Chinese firearms was that they were too slow to reload, and the old tomb robbers were scrambling to pound gunpowder and iron sand into the three-eyed guns, and before they could light the fire, their necks had been broken by the monster's hands.
This group of experienced grave robbers was wiped out.
Then, the half-human, half-bird monster saw Qin Beiyang.
She let out a menacing growl again, and her hands with sharp nails were about to puncture his carotid artery. At this time, the nine-colored antlers grew rapidly, just blocking her hands and sending out sparks of metal collision.
The young Qilin Town Tomb Beast spat out a glass fireball like a meteor missile and hit her in the stomach. Qin Beiyang looked a little distressed, as if he had hit the fetus in his womb.
No, she is the tomb beast, how can the tomb beast conceive and give birth to a child?
She began to fly wildly, constantly flapping her wings, and the maids on the murals in the front room of the underground palace showed sad looks for her. She couldn't understand why there was an alien tomb beast in this tomb.
Before the invasion of ancient tombs in China by civilizations in the twentieth century, the only natural enemy of the tomb beast was the tomb beast.
Nine Colors stabbed her mercilessly with her antlers, and she soared left and right in midair, like a bird, a bat, and a butterfly. She can perform a variety of difficult moves, even dodging glass fireballs, reminiscent of the Four-Winged Tomb Beast.
She also lost no time in attacking the Nine Colors, using the sharp edges of her wings and her knife-like fingernails to almost peel off the bronze scale armor of the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast.
At the same time as the decisive battle between beasts and beasts, Qin Beiyang saw the opportunity, brandished the Tang knife, flew and jumped, and used the "Five Bird Plays" to learn - one of them is a "bird play", imitating the movements of birds, light and elegant, like a goshawk hitting the palace, directly breaking through the defense line of half a man and half a bird, and splitting half of the wings.
A girl's terrible scream resounded throughout the huge dungeon, as if one of her arms had been removed. She fell on the floor tiles of the burial chamber, rolled and struggled, dodging the nine-colored glass fireballs and antlers, and quickly retreated into the back room of the dungeon.
Qin Beiyang gasped and squatted on the ground, holding the Tang knife in his backhand, and the blade was full of heat. Then stroke the half of the wings, the surface is full of bird feathers, but the inner skeleton is steel, and it seems to be a hollow steel pipe, so the weight is not heavy, otherwise it is difficult to fly.
Nine colors didn't want to let her go, I'm afraid that because some tomb beasts have self-healing functions, they will be punished if they miss this opportunity. When it was about to chase after the back room where the owner of the tomb was, it was stopped by Qin Beiyang: "Wait a minute!" β
Qin Beiyang discovered the epitaph.
The Chinese character Lishu is engraved on a square stone tablet, and the first two lines of large characters -
Epitaph of Princess Yongtai of the Tang Dynasty
Taichang Shaoqing and Xiuguo Shichen Xu Yanbo wrote
Princess Yongtai?
Skimming through the red tape of the first few lines, look directly at the identity of the owner of the tomb -
"The princess is Xian Hui, the word Qinhui, the great-grandson of Emperor Gaozu Shenyao, the great-grandson of Emperor Taizong's Wenwu Sheng, the grandson of Emperor Gaozong, and the seventh daughter of the emperor."
Princess Yongtai, Li Xianhui, is also the granddaughter of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, and the "emperor" mentioned in the epitaph should be born to Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, the famous Empress Wei. She and the little prince in the Tang Dynasty tomb of Bailuyuan, Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, belong to the relationship of cousins and brothers, and they are both Wu Zetian's grandchildren.
When Princess Yongtai was fifteen years old, she married Wu Yanji, the son of Wu Chenghei. And this Wu Chenghei is Wu Zetian's nephew, and the princess and the concubine are also distant cousins. At this time, Wu Zetian favored the good-looking brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and the discipline was chaotic. Zhongzong's eldest son, Li Chongrun, and Yongtai's princess, Wu Yanji, privately complained a few words. Who knew that this private conversation was reported to Zhang Yizhi's brother by the secret agent, and then reached the ears of the empress.
The old and decrepit grandmother turned out to be an incomprehensible face control of beautiful men, and regardless of the affection of her grandchildren, she summoned her grandson Li Chongrun, her granddaughter Princess Yongtai, her grandson-in-law Wu Yanji, and three young boys and girls into the palace and died under the rod on the spot! Alas!
The Book of the New Tang Dynasty says that Princess Yongtai and her concubine were killed by her grandmother Wu Zetian, and the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty records that the empress handed over her three grandchildren to their father Li Xian for disposal. Li Xian, who used to be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was terrified under the obscenity of his mother, and actually strangled his son, daughter, and son-in-law to death with gritted teeth to save his life!
However, this epitaph reads like this-
"Since Jiao lost his male sage, Luan was sad and lonely, the fire of Huai had not moved, the cypress boat was empty, the pearl tire destroyed the moon, and there was no fragrance for ten miles; Qiongcalyx withered spring, the secret medicine of the twin children. The female lady bent and disappeared by the blue smoke; Make the sound of the jade flute, enter the colorful clouds and do not return. Alas! On September 4 of the first year of Dazu, there are seven out of ten in spring and autumn. β
The meaning is probably that the horse was killed first, Princess Yongtai was frightened, grief-stricken and prematurely born, and died of "pearl fetus ruining the moon", at the age of seventeen!
A few years later, the Shenlong coup d'Γ©tat, Zhongzong Li Xian was reinstated, and the brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were executed. Li Chongrun, who died in vain, was posthumously awarded the title of "Prince Yide", and Li Xianhui was posthumously awarded the title of "Princess Yongtai", and she became the first princess in Chinese history whose tomb was crowned as "Mausoleum", which is equivalent to the emperor.
Strictly speaking, this is not the tomb of Princess Yongtai, but the tomb of Princess Yongtai.
She is also the cousin of Li Longqi, the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, almost the same age - she is the little sister of the previous life?
With such complicated emotions, Qin Beiyang walked to the back room step by step, just like walking towards his own home. There are many brothers, sisters, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, as well as uncles, uncles, and even fathers and mothers......
The back rooms of the underground palace.
The nine-colored glass fireball was the first to illuminate the dome above the tomb. Qin Beiyang rubbed his eyes, and was shocked to see the starry sky, could it be that the underground palace was open into an open-air deep well?