Chapter 227: Bronze Swallow
Looking at the group of relatives in front of him, and then turning his head to look at the Moon Shadow Fuxian beside him, Wu Zhiyuan felt as if he was in a dream, and he happily pulled the Moon Shadow Fuxian and ran towards the crowd.
Everyone had a smile on their faces, surrounding Wu Zhiyuan in the middle, everyone looked at each other, no one said a word, and the smile on their faces already represented everything.
Zhang Zefang walked to Wu Zhiyuan's side, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, with an approving look in his eyes, Gu Shen sat on the stool on the side, crossed Erlang's legs and played with the wine gourd in his hand, Xue'er pushed aside the crowd and came to Wu Zhiyuan's side, holding his hand tightly, his eyes were moist, and he was silent. For a while, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly felt the beauty of life, as long as he lived, happiness would come to him sooner or later.
The Wu couple pulled Wu Zhiyuan to the round table, Wu Zhiyuan saw that the table was full of wine and delicacies, all of which were his favorite home-cooked dishes, Wu Chengxi smiled and nodded to Wu Zhiyuan, signaling him to eat quickly. Looking at the table of wine and food, Wu Zhiyuan remembered that he hadn't eaten for two or three days, and the hunger instantly hit his heart, so he grabbed a chicken leg on the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.
Everyone looked at Wu Zhiyuan's gobbling up, nodded their heads, and let out bursts of knowing laughter.
"Brother Zhiyuan! What are you doing? Stop! Suddenly, there was an urgent call in his ears, Wu Zhiyuan heard this voice, as if he had been beaten in the face, and suddenly his heart was shocked, and when he looked up, there was no crowd around, his parents and master had long since disappeared, and he was not in the shade of any blue sky and white clouds and big willow trees at all, he was still in the tomb where the wooden figurines and crystal coffins were placed before.
Suddenly, a figure stepped forward, grabbed Wu Zhiyuan's hand, and scolded angrily: "What are you eating stones for?" ”
Wu Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, his spirit was slightly in a trance, he hurriedly blinked his eyes, and then took a closer look, it turned out that the person who grabbed his wrist was actually Moon Shadow Fuxian, and he actually grabbed a piece of stone that was broken by the "Taishan Stone Dare to Be" slate in his hand.
Looking at the strange eyes of the Moon Shadow Fuxian, Wu Zhiyuan instantly understood, the scene he saw just now was all his own hallucination, and the chicken leg he was about to stuff into his mouth was actually the stone in his hand.
Wu Zhiyuan looked at the stone in his hand, his face puzzled, and he thought to himself, how could he do such a move, could it be that he had fallen into evil?
"What's wrong with me?" Wu Zhiyuan muttered in his mouth.
"Don't worry about this for now, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, I've found the exit to the tomb, come with me." Moon Shadow Fuxian pulled Wu Zhiyuan up and walked to the thief cave on the stone wall, jumped and grabbed the edge of the cave entrance, and then climbed into the thief cave lightly. After entering the cave, she lowered her arm and pulled Wu Zhiyuan up.
The two returned the same way as they had been in the cave, and soon returned to the blue and white porcelain burial room before.
Wu Zhiyuan took a look and found that the blue and white porcelain in this tomb was no longer neatly placed next to the stone wall as before, but scattered all over the ground, presumably the Moon Shadow Fuxian had carefully inspected it here.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the Moon Shadow Fuxian walk to an inconspicuous corner, bend down and grab a porcelain similar to a spittoon-shaped, and turn it hard, and then the "click" sound sounded, and a square hole appeared in the center of the ground of the tomb.
"When you entered the arched stone door, I never saw you on the other side of the tomb, so I knew that something was wrong, so I pushed open the stone door and went in, but when I went in, I found that it was another unrelated tomb, and you were not in it at all. I was afraid that you would be in danger, so I kept pushing open the stone door, and walked down one by one, and the last one to walk in was this one, and when I was inspecting these blue and white porcelain, I accidentally discovered this secret passage. Moon Shadow Fuxian said as he stood at the entrance of the underground cave.
Wu Zhiyuan leaned over and looked into the secret passage, and found that there were dots of light around the cave wall, which seemed to be the fluorescence emitted by those snail carapaces, and there was a stone step at the entrance of the cave, all the way straight down, I don't know where it leads.
"It's unlikely that there is an exit underneath this secret passage." Wu Zhiyuan pondered for a moment and asserted, "The scale of this Yan Imperial Mausoleum far exceeds our imagination, its momentum is not majestic, but the layout is obviously guided by the masters, so the tomb and the tomb are closely connected, but it is a formation, we have walked so many tombs, most of the tombs are placed in the empty sarcophagus, this is very likely to be the deliberate arrangement of the masters who set up the formation." ”
"I heard that some emperors in ancient times would arrange for more than a dozen coffins to be secretly transported out of the palace at the same time and transported to all directions, so as to confuse the eyes and ears of the world, so that tomb robbers in the world could not find where his true body was. Could it be that the sarcophagus here also serves such a purpose? Moon Shadow said after a deep groan.
Hearing this inference, Wu Zhiyuan also felt that it was very possible, but the layout of this imperial tomb was unusual, and thinking of the wooden figurines burial room and the crystal coffin in the stone wall, it was really difficult to make any guesses, but one thing was certain, the exit of this imperial tomb should not be so easy to find.
Regardless of whether it is the exit of the imperial tomb or not, the secret passage under the feet has become the only way out for the two of them, and now there is no other choice, so Wu Zhiyuan took the lead in going down to the secret passage.
The secret passage sloped straight down, without any corners in the middle, and the two of them carefully climbed the stairs and walked until there was a cup of tea, and the two of them went down to the end of the secret passage.
At the end of the secret passage is a very small stone room, which is a bit far-fetched, because the space in this stone room is not large, about three feet square, and the two of them look very cramped when they stand in the stone room.
"It's a dead end." Moon Shadow Fuxian looked at the stone wall at the end, and his tone showed disappointment.
Wu Zhiyuan didn't answer, but carefully looked at the surrounding stone walls, if there were other hidden passages here, maybe he could see some clues from them.
The stone wall in the stone room is blue gray in color, and it is not artificially built, but hollowed out from the mountain stone, although this stone room is small, it is not easy to carve out such a space on a boulder, and it must have a certain use. Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan looked carefully again, and suddenly found a groove at the bottom of the stone wall that rushed straight to the secret passage.
The shape of this groove is extremely familiar, Wu Zhiyuan knew at a glance that he had seen it, and he remembered where there was such the same groove after a little thought.
That was when he had just descended from the Gu Raising Coffin on the ground to the cave, there was such a groove on each side of the stone wall around the octagonal clearing, and in each groove there was a bronze swallow holding the stomach under its paws.
Squatting down and touching the groove at the bottom of the stone wall, Wu Zhiyuan took a long breath, this groove was actually empty!
Just when he was puzzled, he saw that the Moon Shadow Fuxian on the side also squatted down, holding something in his hand and stuffing it into the groove, Wu Zhiyuan fixed his eyes and saw that it was the bronze swallow he brought out!