Chapter 176: The Remains of the Ancestors
My master flicked Liu Shangang's head with displeasure on his face, and reprimanded: "I've told you a few times, don't talk nonsense after entering the tomb, it's easy to attract evil spirits." ”
Liu Shangang hurriedly covered his mouth, but his eyes were still staring at the fox fire in the lantern.
Originally, I thought that he had been with Senior Brother Bao for more than a year, and he had seen the world, and he had also experienced life and death, and his temperament should have changed, but I didn't expect him to be the same as before.
But in retrospect, that seems like a good idea.
When I turned my eyes to Huang Changsheng and them, I found that except for Liang Houzai, everyone was staring at the lantern in Xian'er's hand.
Obviously, they could all see the fox fire in the lantern, but everyone seemed to be the same as Liu Shangang, who didn't notice the existence of Xian'er.
Until my master walked up to Huang Changsheng and said to him, "Try to see if the compass can be used." ”
Huang Changsheng came back to his senses, he took out the compass, and I saw from a distance that the magnetic needle on the compass was spinning like crazy.
After a moment, Huang Changsheng put away the compass and shook his head at my master.
Master frowned helplessly, turned his head and said to me, "There is a way, sense where the anger is coming from. ”
Ever since entering the tomb, the air has been filled with anger, but it is so faint that it is difficult to detect it unless you look closely.
Master can also sense this kind of breath, but why did he let me ...... As I thought this, Master sat down on the ground, and there was a tiredness on his face that I had never seen before.
Since coming to Huangjiazhuang, the master doesn't seem to have slept a single night, although the master usually sleeps very little, but never like this time, often for two or three days in a row almost sleepless all night, the master's body is not iron, after a period of time, he is also a little unable to resist.
I asked Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang to take care of Master before walking around the tomb.
The aura was too weak, and the chamber was filled with a large amount of yin and corpse qi, so I could only keep changing my position in an attempt to find the area where the qi was relatively strongest.
When I went down to the grave, I had already opened the Eye of Heaven, and it was not too difficult for me to find the source of my anger.
When I walked near the coffin in the middle of the burial chamber, I could feel a breeze blowing through the cracks in the lid, and the entrainment seemed to be heavier than in other places.
Originally, I wanted Master to rest for a while, but Master probably saw that I had been in front of the black coffin for a long time, so he asked me from afar, "Found it?" ”
I nodded to Master, who asked me again, "Is there any corpse gas in the coffin?" ”
I said, "There are some, but they're thin, thinner than the corpses in the burial chamber." ”
Master pondered for a moment and waved his hand at me: "Open." ”
The wind blowing in the coffin means that the space in the coffin is much larger than from the outside, and I guess there should be a passage connected to the bottom of the coffin.
But this is just my guess, as for what is inside the coffin, no one can say without opening the lid.
I was a little more careful, holding the green steel sword upside down in one hand, and the other hand was on the coffin lid, and pushed it hard, the top cover on the coffin was not too heavy, and suddenly a gap half a foot wide opened, and I immediately retreated, and opened a distance from the black coffin.
I was mainly afraid that there would be evil things in the coffin, and as soon as the museum opened, the contents of the coffin might break and hurt people.
But my actions made the people present nervous, Huang Yulian probably really thought that I saw something dirty in the coffin, and immediately took out two oval things from the backpack.
I only saw Huang Yulian's movements with my peripheral vision, and I didn't see what was in her hand, but when she rushed towards the black coffin, I grabbed her and shook my head at her.
Huang Yulian retreated behind me.
I walked up to the coffin again, pressed the hilt of the green steel sword against the lid, and slowly pushed it away, and with a long "snort" sound, the lid slashed off the coffin and fell heavily to the ground, stirring up a large handful of dust.
I raised my chin towards Xian'er: "Xian'er, look at what's in the coffin." ”
Xian'er sighed helplessly, and muttered, "Good things never think of me." ”
When Master asked me to open the coffin before, I thought that as long as the lid of the coffin could be opened normally, I must let Xian'er explore the wind first, she was a ghost, even if there was something in the coffin, it couldn't hurt her.
Although Xian'er complained, she had already floated above the coffin when she spoke, and she took the lantern to shine into the coffin, and turned her head to me, "There is a secret passage under the coffin." ”
When I was talking to Xian'er, Liu Shangang and the people of the Lao Huang family had very frightened expressions, they couldn't see Xian'er, but they probably knew that the thing talking to me at this time was a ghost.
I leaned over to the coffin, glanced inside, and by the fox fire, I saw a very regular round hole at the bottom of the coffin, and on the other side of the round hole, there was a dark passage that extended diagonally downward, and under the light of the fox fire, I could clearly see the stone steps in the dark passage.
There should be a vent in the depths of the tunnel, and when I leaned against the coffin, I could faintly hear a very frantic sound of wind at the bottom of the coffin, and some miscellaneous winds blowing out of the round hole, and the mixed life was much stronger than in the tomb.
I turned my head, beckoned to the master, and then jumped into the hole, and Xian'er followed me down, and the secret passage was very spacious, and Xian'er ran in front of me and helped me hold the lamp.
The first part of the tunnel is a stone staircase that slopes downward, and after walking through the stone steps, there is a straight tomb path.
On the wall of the tomb, there is a large mural painted with colored paint, but this tomb has obviously been greatly shaken, the walls on both sides and the top of the tomb have large traces of cracks, and the painted paint of the mural is also a large piece of peeling off, and the content of the mural can no longer be recognized.
Not long after I entered the tomb, Liang Houzai and Master also went down the stone steps, and then Liu Shangang and the old Huang family were there.
When Master came behind me, he specifically instructed me, "My anger is getting stronger, be careful." ”
I nodded and continued walking.
The light emitted by the fox fire is not too strong, but the irradiation range can reach a hundred meters away, but this tomb road is extremely long, and it is still pitch black in places where the fox fire cannot reach.
As we went deeper, the cracks in the walls and the top of the tomb became denser, and as far as I could see, a corpse appeared.
From afar, it was a man sitting by the graveyard, but I knew very well that the chance of encountering a living person in such a place was very low.
I motioned for everyone to be careful, and then cautiously approached the corpse, which was not very strong in the graveyard, but I was still worried that it was an evil corpse.
It wasn't until I was only a dozen paces away that I could see clearly that it was not a corpse, but a skeleton without flesh and skin, and it was wearing a tattered horse coat, which I had seen on TV, as if it was a unique costume of the Qing Dynasty, and next to the dry hand bones of the corpse, there was a rusty foreign gun, which was inlaid with red and blue gems, which looked very precious.
After thinking about it, I also know that the owner of this skeleton should have died here when he went to the tomb with Su Santong.
Master crouched down, looked at the skeleton closely, and then pointed to the skull of the corpse and said, "Suicide." ”
Only then did I notice a hole the size of an egg in the side of my skull, and I could figure out how he had died, thinking of the gun in his hand.
At this time, Huang Changsheng and the old lady also came over, and the old lady saw that it was the remains of the ancestors, and hurriedly bowed three times to the skeleton.
But after bowing, the old lady actually put the foreign gun in the corpse's hand into his arms.
It is estimated that the old lady dug too many graves in his early years and has become a habitual offender, and the nature of Tufuzi is so deeply ingrained in him that he does not even let go of the things of his ancestors.
The master cast a helpless look at the old lady and said to him, "The dead are the greatest, so don't take the things of the ancestors, right?" ”
The old lady smiled awkwardly: "Alas, after more than 50 years of washing his hands, he still can't get rid of this problem." Master Chai is right, the dead are the greatest. ”
As he spoke, he took out the foreign gun, but the expression on his face was clearly reluctant, and when my master reached out to take the gun, the old lady's eyes were fixed on the gem on the foreign gun, and he refused to hand it over to my master.
My master probably couldn't stand it anymore, so he directly reached out to grab the gun, but Mrs. Huang suddenly put the foreign gun back.
The expression on the master's face became a little angry, but the old lady stared at the gun at this time and blurted out: "No, no!" ”
As he spoke, the old lady flipped the gun over and glanced at the bottom of the butt, and then he suddenly threw the gun, rushed to the corpse, and took out an old pocket watch with a silver shell from the pocket of the corpse.
Old lady Huang's behavior made me feel very strange, and when he ran to the corpse, he reached directly to the pocket containing the pocket watch, as if he knew there was something inside.
After the old lady took out the pocket watch, the hand he held the pocket watch began to tremble.
"Old lady?" My master called out to him with some concern, but he kept staring at the pocket watch and didn't respond.
After a long time, Old Lady Huang turned her head, pointed to the corpse and said tremblingly: "Third Master, this is the bones of the Third Master!" ”
Su three links? How could his body end up in this place?
Didn't Mrs. Huang say that Su Santong disappeared when he returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, could it be that he was not missing at that time, but quietly sneaked back to this place?
At this time, Mrs. Huang grabbed the foreign gun on the ground and pointed the bottom of the butt towards me and Master.
I saw three small characters crookedly engraved on the butt of the gun: Huang Qixiao.
Isn't Huang Qixiao the name of the old lady?
The old lady pointed to the foreign gun, the corners of his mouth twitched, and after a long time, he squeezed out a few words from his throat: "I carved it." ”
As if he was afraid that we wouldn't be able to understand what he meant, he calmed down and said in a hurried tone: "These three words were engraved when I was a child, and this is the third master's gun!" ”