Chapter Seventy-One: The One-Armed King's Apprentice
Li Huiyan didn't answer my question immediately, she squatted down lightly, and carefully observed in front of the coffin.
"Maybe this coffin has nothing to do with the tomb door at the back, but if my guess is correct, there is another tomb door hidden in this coffin that no one knows." Li Huiyan circled the coffin for a full week before she stood up and said to me.
"What! And that kind of thing. Li Huiyan's words stunned me for a moment.
Not only me, but the Yang family brothers and sisters and Xiao Yue were also stunned for a moment after hearing Li Huiyan's words, obviously feeling that Li Huiyan's words were a bit like gibberish.
The brothers and sisters of the Yang family, as the heirs of the family, failed to see the abnormality of this coffin, how did Li Huiyan see it, and they were still so confident.
We already knew that the orientation of this coffin was reversed, that is, a rare inverted coffin.
But even if it was an upside-down coffin, it might have been moved by a tomb robber who had entered the tomb, and I really didn't see a tomb door hidden in this coffin.
"Sister Lizi, you're not kidding, what's the door here." Xiao Yue said.
Although the Yang brothers and sisters and I didn't speak, we had similar thoughts to Xiao Yue.
This inverted coffin is unremarkable, but it is actually an extremely ordinary cypress coffin, and I can't see anything special at all.
If there is anything special, it may be that there is a terrifying and infiltrating green-haired zongzi lying in the main coffin, and the hidden tomb door that Li Huiyan said should be hidden under the green-haired zongzi.
I shudder at the thought of this, if that's the case, then it's a bit of a problem.
Yang Baichuan said before that the green-haired zongzi lying in the main coffin may come back to life at any time, if the tomb door that Li Huiyan was referring to is really in the main coffin, it will become troublesome.
"Secrets are naturally hidden in the shadows." Li Huiyan smiled slightly, and then said: "I won't hide it from you now, I used to read a book that specifically recorded the secret doors of various tombs in ancient times, and one of them talked about pouring coffins. ”
"Is it the same as the coffin in this burial chamber?" I asked.
"It's almost, it's all upside down, and some of the coffins are even upside down." Li Huiyan said.
Hearing Li Huiyan's answer, I was almost certain that this coffin was not accidentally placed wrong, but that someone deliberately made it like this.
As for whether it was the carpenter in charge of the general's tomb back then, or the tomb keeper of this general's tomb, or the tomb robbers who entered here in a certain era, it is unknown.
"Look at this carefully." Li Huiyan squatted down again and said to us.
Li Huiyan held a flashlight in her right hand, and pointed to the edge of the small stone platform where the coffin was placed with her left hand. I looked along where Li Huiyan was pointing, and saw that there was a four- or five-inch-long arc-shaped scratch on the stone slab at her fingertips.
The scratch looked fresh, barely a little bit of dust on it, and it was certain that the scratch had only appeared in the last two days.
Because all our attention was attracted by the coffin in front of us and the green-haired zongzi in the main coffin, we didn't notice that there was such a thing on the small stone platform.
I took a few careful glances at the small stone platform where the coffin was placed, and found that it was an extremely standard circular stone platform, made of some half-foot-thick stone slabs, and the diameter of the entire small stone platform was about a meter longer than that of the coffin.
The tomb is square, the small stone platform is round, and the coffin is in the sky, which coincides with the idea of the ancients that the sky is round and the place is round.
"There are scratches here, too." Xiao Yue's eyes were rolling, and he soon saw that there was also a scratch in another place on the small stone platform.
"There's one over there." Yang Baichuan walked a few steps around the coffin, and then stopped and said.
While Yang Baichuan was speaking, I also happened to see a scratch on the stone platform. As we found scratches that were half a meter long and a few inches short, a graphic pattern gradually took shape in my mind.
If we connect the scratches we found in the middle of the fracture, it is a large circle with a diameter of about two meters. What's more, the diameter of this large circle is almost the same as the length of the coffin in the middle of the small platform, and the dot happens to be the very center of the coffin.
"What kind of person is so boring, he has nothing to do and came here to draw circles, is he going to draw a circle and curse us?" Xiao Yue only glanced at the curved scratches on the stone platform for a few moments before losing interest, and said to us instead.
"You can be careful when you speak, in case you are really cursed to become an old woman, there is no place to cry." I scared her.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, if this big beauty really becomes an old woman, you have to call me grandma for rice cakes." Xiao Yue obviously didn't eat my set, stuck out his tongue and said.
I ignored her no more, hesitated for a moment, walked up to the stone platform, stretched out my hand and pushed the tail of the coffin hard.
Although this coffin was made of cypress wood, I don't know if it was made of cypress wood, but after some special treatment, it was extremely heavy, and I couldn't push the coffin even a little with great effort.
"Do you think, who made the traces on this stone platform, could it be Liu Laoqi and them?" I stood up and asked Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue.
"I don't know, but it's likely, but it's possible that someone else." Li Huiyan said. I nodded.
Before meeting the Yang brothers and sisters, I may not agree with Li Huiyan's words.
But now it's different, since Liu Laoqi and the Yang family brothers and sisters will enter this general's tomb, it is not excluded that other people also have this ability.
"Who are you talking about Liu Laoqi?" Yang Baichuan said curiously when he heard this.
"It's the head of a tomb robber, and he's in this tomb now, so if you run into them, don't have any conflicts." I felt the need to give Yang Baichuan a preventive shot, so he said.
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Yang Yuqing leaning into Yang Baichuan's ear and saying a few words, and then I saw Yang Baichuan gradually show a sudden expression.
"It turned out to be him, I saw him a few times when I was a child when I practiced beside the old man, and I haven't seen him again, and it was almost ten years ago." Yang Baichuan said slowly.
"Oh, that's a pity, so you and Liu Laoqi are still old acquaintances." I replied a little absent-mindedly, and then asked, "The old man you are talking about should be the elder of your family, right?" ”
"No, that man was a bandit before liberation, and after liberation, he became a tomb robber because he was lazy, and finally lost an arm in the tomb when he robbed the tomb, and he did save a lot of belongings for decades by robbing the tomb, so he washed his hands in a golden basin. He is also half of my sister's master, and my sister's kung fu is taught by him. Yang Baichuan was silent for a moment before he said.
Yang Baichuan's words immediately aroused my interest, how powerful Yang Yuqing's kung fu is, I have seen it with my own eyes.
A person who can train an apprentice of this level must not be far behind.
"What, does Brother Three want to get to know our master? Speaking of which, my master also has a very funny name, the one-armed king. Seeing that I was asking more than one question, Yang Baichuan said with a smile.
"Independence...... The one-armed king? Really? Yang Baichuan's words scared me enough, thinking that I had heard it wrong, and hurriedly confirmed it with him again.
"Hey, what's wrong with the third brother, have you also seen my master?" Yang Baichuan sighed lightly and said.
"Nope." I hurriedly shook my head, and then added, "I just think it sounds pretty powerful." ”
It's over! While saying this, I couldn't help but sigh to myself, this is too unlucky.
After listening to Yang Baichuan's words, at this time, I can already be 100% sure that the master of the Yang family brothers and sisters is the one-armed king, that is, the tomb robber with a missing arm who Li Huiyan asked me to pretend to be his apprentice before and used it to deceive Liu Laoqi.
Now in this situation, it's really the Monkey King who has met the Fake Monkey King, and the Monkey King has two more at once, so how can I, the Fake Monkey King, fight?
I found an excuse to get out of Yang Baichuan, and then pretended to walk in front of Li Huiyan inadvertently, at this time Li Huiyan was looking intently at the coffin on the stone platform.
"Colonel Flower, I have something important to tell you." The matter is urgent, and I can't care so much at this time, so I leaned directly into Li Huiyan's ear and whispered.
My sudden voice startled Li Huiyan, who was concentrating, and she was about to scream, but I quickly covered her mouth with my hand.
"Shhhhh......hh
"Zhang Sansan, you seem to be a little wrong, something has happened." After regaining her footing on the back of the coffin, Li Huiyan raised her head to look at me and said with a frown.
Looking at Li Huiyan's appearance, it seems that she didn't hear what Yang Baichuan and I said before.
"The brothers and sisters of the Yang family are the apprentices of the one-armed king, you should think of countermeasures." Fearing that staying long after the coffin would arouse suspicion, I had to make a long story short and say to Li Huiyan.
"What one-armed king's apprentice?" Li Huiyan didn't react for a while, she seemed to have completely forgotten what happened earlier.
I was speechless, so I had to remind her a few more words, and Li Huiyan remembered what happened at the bottom of the pool before.
After thinking of all this, Li Huiyan's expression instantly became a little solemn. Even if she was as smart as she was, she couldn't have predicted that things would turn out the way they were.
We casually told a lie in the name of the One-Armed King, and we happened to meet the apprentice of the One-Armed King, and I really don't know whether to say that it was good luck or bad luck.
"Or, I'm going to tell Yang Baichuan the truth?" I said.
I thought about it very seriously, and felt that it would be better to explain this matter clearly as soon as possible, in case we met Liu Laoqi and the others again in the tomb at that time, then we would change from active to passive.
Of course, the reason why I want to do this is actually because I have more confidence in the character of the Yang family brothers and sisters, especially Yang Baichuan.
Ever since he met the Yang family brothers and sisters, Yang Baichuan has always been arrogant and doesn't care about anything. And it is estimated that with Yang Yuqing's cold character, if I told her about this matter, her answer would probably be four words "It's about my".
"What we should be most worried about now is not what will happen to the Yang family brothers and sisters, but how Liu Laoqi will deal with us if he knows that we have deceived him. These tomb robbers are outlaws, and what they hate most in their lives is the deception and betrayal of others. Li Huiyan said softly.