Chapter 6 Tomb Murals
Digging a hole is a very boring process, and although I am already very proficient, it still takes a lot of time, and my godfather will occasionally grab the soil I have dug up and examine it carefully, and then give me directions and angles.
Digging and digging, I felt that my hand was tight, and I felt that I had touched a hard object, which was a stone wall. I stopped digging and quit the cave as my godfather told me to tell him about the inside of the cave.
My godfather asked me to take a break, put a flashlight in my mouth, and climbed into the hole with an iron chisel. It didn't take long for him to retreat, looking excited.
"You dug well, and you just missed the sealing brick, which saved a lot of trouble." The godfather patted the soil on his body and said approvingly: "Judging from the scale, it is a big tomb, you should be careful when you go in, pay attention to follow me, no one should have touched it inside, and there will be nothing strange." ”
I didn't say anything but nodded, but I was a little nervous, so I helped my godfather pack up the equipment for entering the cave and crawled behind him into the cave.
The stone wall inside has been pried out of a big hole, the godfather climbed to the entrance of the cave, and was not in a hurry to go down, but first took out two pieces of yellow paper and lit them, and after reciting a few words in his mouth, he threw them into the hole. When the yellow paper slowly burned out in the passage, I jumped into the graveyard with my godfather.
It's a wide passage, significantly wider than when I first met my godfather.
"Obediently, looking at this posture, it should be a nobleman, right?" I sighed as I fired my flashlight.
Instead of answering my question, my godfather studied the murals on the walls of the tomb.
"The ancients used to engrave their lives on stone tablets or murals, Qingwa, come and see." This one depicts a group of people kneeling on the ground, and a noble leader in the middle holds a child in his hands, which should record the situation when the owner of the tomb was just born. ”
"Look at this again, in a courtyard, a child wielding a knife, and his leader, his father, teaching lovingly. Probably tells the story of his father's teaching him martial arts. ”
"And what does it mean that he throws a flower at his feet?" "I noticed a discarded flower carved at the child's feet and asked my godfather.
"Well...... "My godfather was stunned by my question. He also took a flashlight to shine on the next stone carving. "Yes, you see a group of people in the painting surrounding a woman in a long skirt who is arranging her headband, probably holding a coming-of-age ceremony, right?" It turns out that the owner of the tomb is a woman, which is a bit interesting. ”
I continued to look along the mural, and the next one showed the girl standing on the side of the road and looking at a young man on horseback, the corners of the boy's mouth turned up, and his face smiling. The stone carvings are very fine, and even the patterns on the leather collar gown and waist knife worn by the young man are vividly painted, and at first glance he is a person of noble status.
I looked at it as I walked, the content of the mural was very rich, and the back was engraved with the young man holding a bracelet and wearing it on the girl's hand, the girl was full of affection, and the image was extremely high.
Then down is the scene of the wedding of the girl and the boy, the mural shows two people dressed in costumes, many people are killing pigs and sheep, toasting and celebrating, the background of the picture, is a big flag, the flag is painted with a big "plan" character.
"Bang......" I was watching intently, and accidentally bumped into my godfather's back, which scared me. It turned out that he somehow stood still, staring blankly at the mural in front of him. I followed his gaze, and the painting depicted a boy writing in front of the desk, and the girl wiping his armor behind him.
Nothing out of the ordinary, huh? I'm wondering. I saw my godfather approaching the mural, stretching out his hand and tremblingly stroking an ancient lamp on the desk in the mural, and muttered incoherently: "No...... That's right...... That's it, finally let me find a ......"
In the painting is a peculiar lamp, the base is engraved with a seven-star pattern, a strange snake on the lamp wall winds up, the position of the strange snake spitting out the letter is the lamp head, the shape is very weird. Although I have never seen the seven-star lamp, I guessed eight or nine when I saw the excited appearance of my godfather.
The godfather participated in the research in front of the ancient lamp portrait for a long time, and his excitement was still difficult to calm down, so he excitedly picked up the flashlight and said, "Let's continue to walk and see if there is anything found inside." ”
Next, the mural is engraved with rows of slaughtering troops, only to see the big banner in the team hunting and fluttering in the wind, the young man wearing armor standing in front of the horse to say goodbye to the woman, the woman according to the state of farewell jumped in the painting.
"I'm afraid this man is going to go on a campaign. "I thought about looking down at the next picture, but the next picture was beyond my expectations, only to see the woman lying alone on the bed with a painful expression, and a hideous-looking monster was depicted in the shadow behind her, which opened its teeth and claws, as if it was about to devour the woman in the painting.
"Huh? "I was secretly surprised, and I was trying to find out that this was the last mural.
Seeing that I was puzzled, my godfather explained: "This may be because the owner of the tomb has some incurable disease, the ancients were ignorant, and when they encountered something incomprehensible, they thought it was a ghost or a god." Then he pointed to the two stone doors in front of the tomb with a flashlight and said: "The front is the ear room, where the ancients stacked the burial goods, we looked carefully separately, and the seven-star lamp may be inside." With that, he entered one of the chambers.
I shook my head and stopped thinking about the mural. Turning into the ear chamber, the first thing you see is a row of white cow skulls on a decaying wooden frame, and a lot of ancient coins and some clay pots and bronze utensils are scattered on the ground. I searched carefully, but I found no trace of the ancient lamp inside.
At this time, something caught my attention, I picked it up and looked at it, it was a bronze mirror, the strange thing was that the other bronzes in the room were stained with patina because of too much time, but this bronze mirror was as if it had been wiped by someone and there was no patina at all.
I couldn't help but think of the woman on the mural, and I thought, she should have been a beauty lover when she was alive, right?
I speculated, my eyes casually glancing in the mirror.
This sight scared me away.
There was a faint back on the bronze mirror. I rubbed my eyes vigorously, yes, there was a back, and the terrible thing was that the back was slowly turning its head, although it was a little blurry, but I could see that it was somewhat similar to the woman in the mural.
I thought that I had to put the mirror down quickly, but suddenly I found that my hands and neck were not obedient, and I couldn't even blink my eyes, so I looked directly at the face of the woman who turned around, and when the woman completely turned to meet my eyes, an unbearable pain made my mind dizzy for a moment.
In a trance, suddenly a flame-like thing flashed through my mind, and then I felt that my whole body was wrapped in a warm current, and I woke up a lot, and found that my hands and feet were already able to move, and hurriedly threw the bronze mirror on the ground.
When I came back to my senses, I was scared for a while, I felt that my palms were full of sweat, and I was hesitating to go next door to find my godfather, when I suddenly heard a sharp scream outside·······