Chapter 173: A True Dream
After a while, the scene in front of everyone's eyes slowly became blurred, and everyone's thoughts gradually became blank, and then they all fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but everyone was pushed awake, and when they opened their eyes, they found that they were all sitting against the wall of the cave, and their limbs were still weak. The people who woke them up were also dressed very specially, all of them were Hanfu. Professor Chen looked at everything in front of him, thought about it, and felt that everything in front of him was a little unreal, so he thought that this was a dream, and the dream was relatively real.
In front of me, a group of people are in front of a stone mold, constantly pouring water into it, and they seem to be conducting some kind of experiment. After a while, an old man with a gray beard came, with his hands behind his back, and slowly walked to the group of people to take a look, and after a while, patted one of them, and the two walked to the side together, muttering something, and then the old man left.
After a while, a few people came in carrying the box, and when they opened it, there was a golden cake shining with golden light. After sending a few points to those people, those people went back to work. During the whole process, no one seemed to care about Professor Chen's existence, as if they were just air, which made Professor Chen feel that this was a dream.
Soon, the scene came to night, and in front of the two nine-branch lamps, the old man with a gray beard was writing something on several cases, sometimes sighing, sometimes looking up in contemplation, and finally, drawing something on the dull yellow paper, and then after changing the paper, he wrote a few more words. Professor Chen saw this clearly, he just drew a map of mountains and rivers, and the words "The Tao has changed and the sky has changed, and the old and the new have been renewed" in Lishu writing.
After a while, the old man picked up the wine cup on the side again, drank it all, and then chanted: "Therefore, thousands of miles away, thinking about the dry day, the yellow sand covers the sky, the war horses neigh, the soldiers roar, and the blood is sprinkled on the hot land; Looking at the deep mountains, guarding the water's edge, burning the lamps and withering, insects and beasts as companions, all the righteous people, moving the mountains together, attracting the divine water, planting fire trees, what is the feeling, my heart is uneasy; Gather around, look at the gold mountain, the book is yesterday, the dust falls, the blood and wine are drunk, and the territory is difficult to return. ”
Then the old man poured another glass of wine, and after drinking it all, he went into the distance and said something again. In Professor Chen's opinion, this person should be the real owner of this place, that is, the legendary Taishou, and at the same time, he also feels that he is a little depressed.
Soon their eyes went dark, and the scene changed again. A few people walked in the cave well, and a sudden fire burned inexplicably, and several people were burned, and after wailing for a while, they fell into the fire one after another, and there was nothing burned to them. It was a dream-like scene, and Professor Chen seemed to have actually smelled the disgusting smell of the charred corpse.
The scene continued to change, and the gray-bearded old man stood in front of a pile of boxes, watching as boxes of things were carried by two people and thrown into the pool, and at the same time, a few tears flowed from his eyes.
After this scene, everyone's eyes went dark again, and then they slowly lost consciousness and fell asleep.
When they woke up again, the two nine-branch lamps in front of the wooden collapse had been lit, red sparks, shining with a strange light. Looking at everything in front of him, it had returned to the way it had been when he came in, and the boy and the girl were gone.
Professor Chen tried and wanted to stand up, but unfortunately he couldn't, and he was still weak. The others also tried, and the results were all the same, so Professor Chen said: "Don't move, let's rest again, recuperate our strength, we must have hit the Tao again just now, who lit this lamp just now?" ”
Zhang Gong said: "I had a dream just now, and in the dream an old man was writing under the lamp. ”
Professor Chen chuckled in his heart, and suddenly felt that the scene just now was not a dream, but real, so he asked, "What did you see in your dream?" ”
"The old man is writing and drawing, those are not important, the key is that he is still drinking, the wine is quite fragrant, you say it's annoying."
As soon as Zhang Gong finished speaking, Situ Fang said: "How is it the same as my dream?" Alas, that's weird. ”
Professor Chen said weakly: "It wasn't a dream just now, someone should have invited us to watch a play." ”
Situ Fang asked puzzledly: "How can it be a play?" And who arranged it? ”
"All of us dream of the same thing, then it's not a dream, it can only be explained that it is watching a play, as for who arranged it, there is no doubt that it is the group of tomb keepers behind the stone gate."
"But why do we want to go to the theater? Why are we so weak? ”
"Before we fell asleep, the boy and the girl must have been playing tricks again, and they did it again, throwing something containing narcotics into the air, and we were mesmerized by breathing, and as for why we were going to the play, I think it's a hint."
"Hinting that there is fire ahead? Something is also sinking into a pool? ”
"There may be both, maybe one more may be what Zhang Gong said earlier, he doesn't want us to see his sadness, but now we really see it."
"Sad? Tomb owner? By the way, if we talk about acting, then they really burned people? If it really burned here, there should be traces, right? ”
"It must be the owner of the tomb, the one who burned the people, it won't really burn, but one thing is certain, where this hole should be hidden, there should be a secret room, or some other hidden passage, this lamp must have been lit when we were asleep, or when they were acting."
"Just go out and ask the people guarding it in a while, if no one comes down from above, then there must be a dark room or passage here."
"Well, it looks like we're going to end up like this today."
Zheng Suo's physique was a little worse, and after listening to Professor Chen's discussion just now, he didn't interject, and seeing that the topic had shifted now, he said weakly: "It's still early, arrange someone to clean up here in the afternoon, these bamboo slips and other things are exposed to the circulating air, I'm afraid that there will be damage, and then these murals are too, hurry up and take pictures." ”
As soon as he said bamboo slips, Zhang Gong turned his head to look at the bookshelf, and the bookshelf was still full of bamboo slips before falling asleep, but now it was empty, and he immediately shouted: "It's enough of a thief!" After speaking, he laughed and said: "Lao Chen, it's interesting, that brother moved this just now, it seems that there is some information on this bamboo slip that they don't want us to know." ”
Professor Chen looked around and said, "Well, it's okay, there will always be clues, take your time." ”
After sitting like this for more than ten minutes, Situ Fang tried again and was finally able to stand up. After he fed a few other people some water, everyone was slowly able to move.