Chapter Twenty-Eight: The White Jade Mural
It is rumored that Suihou Zhu is a rare treasure, bright and bright can be a candle room, but the bead in the hand of Tian Ji is dim, and it is far from the rumors.
"Is this Suihou Zhu?" Tian Ji looked a little unconvinced. "I almost put my life on the line, and I got this? Gold is not gold, silver is not silver, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a piece of glass, and this thing is worth a few dollars. ”
"A piece of He's Bi can be exchanged for fifteen cities, and Hou Zhu and He's Bi are called Spring and Autumn Double Treasures, and you say it's worth a few dollars." I gave him a blank look and replied angrily.
"But the He's Bi is also a good piece of white jade, but this bead ......" the palace lord is not called Suihou Zhu, obviously he doesn't believe it either. Could it be a mistake? ”
Tian Ji probably thought that this bead had a special effect, and put it back in the hands of Ji Qu, who had become a dry corpse, without any change, I was also a little shaken by their questioning, and took the pearl and looked at it carefully for a long time, the pearl is pure white, the whole body is transparent, not to mention that the light is like a bright moon, and there is no trace of luster.
What was the reason why Ji Qu's body that had been kept for thousands of years withered and dried up in an instant, and the only change was that Tian Ji took the Suihou Zhu in Ji Qu's hand, but he didn't react when he returned it.
The clues in the Chongming ring suggest that Sui Hou Zhu is hiding here, and Ji Qu refuses to let go of the beads until he dies, it stands to reason that it should be Sui Hou Zhu.
"Show me why this bead is called the Spring and Autumn Double Treasure." Gong Jue said.
I handed over the Hou Zhu, just put it in the hands of the Gong Jue, suddenly the bead began to slowly brighten, emitting a brilliant and dazzling light, the Gong Jue was startled, and his hand shook and fell into the coffin with the Hou Zhu.
As soon as the dried corpse inside touched the shiny Suihou Zhu, the shriveled corpse immediately regained its previous lifelike freshness, and the three of us watched in shock at what was happening in front of us.
"My good ...... It's a real treasure. Tian Ji smiled happily and stretched out his hand to pick up Sui Hou Zhu, but the strange thing is that as soon as the bead left the corpse, Ji Qu immediately withered and turned into a dry corpse, and the pearl that was still shining before was instantly dim.
The hand of the palace lord seems to be full of some kind of magic, and only in his hand will the Hou Zhu re-emit a bright light, and I immediately lose the light when I touch the field chicken, and the longer the palace lord holds it in his hand, the brighter the shining light of the Hou Zhu, and in the end, the small bead illuminates the entire spacious tomb as if it were day.
"It's over, this Suihou bead is no matter how expensive it is, and it is only useful if you hold it, and others will hold a broken bead, who will buy it, you better keep it yourself, and you don't need to bring torches to the tomb in the future." Tian Ji patted his head heavily, rubbed his face a few times, and said to the palace lord with a wry smile.
Gong Jue was already speechless in surprise, and it seemed that he didn't know why this was happening, and I suddenly found that on the ground around the coffin, there were lights shining in the flickering light, and the more intense the light on the ground became, the light on the ground seemed to be resonated, and it became brighter.
I walked around the coffin, and vaguely found that there were lines in the white marble on the ground, but they loomed in the firelight, and I hurriedly asked Tian Ji and Gong Jue to extinguish all the fires in the tomb.
After the fire was extinguished, we returned to the coffin, and the lines on the ground gradually began to appear clearly, presumably these white marble were inlaid with light-absorbing night pearls, and began to flash after absorbing the light of the Hou Zhu, and those lines were carved under the white marble, and these lines could not be seen without light.
We waited for a moment, and the lines gradually became coherent, drawing seven patterns in the white marble beneath our feet.
The first pattern is full of words, but unfortunately it is a golden text, I can't understand it at all, Tian Ji took off his coat, and the palace lord used a stone to stain the human blood dripping from the tomb above, and transcribed the golden text on the ground, I put it away and planned to go back and let Ye Zhiqiu translate.
In the second pattern, a pearl is presented to a man dressed as a king on top of the high hall, and the flag fluttering outside the high hall has clear inscriptions.
The pearl should be the Suihou Zhu that the palace lord is holding in his hand now, and the king on the high hall should be Ji Qu, which is the real origin of Suihou Zhu, so it can be seen that the first owner of Suihou Zhu is not Ji Qu.
In the third image, in a rolling mountain, a man dressed as a king leads a large army at the foot of the mountain, and the king and another person stand somewhere in the mountain, and the pearl held in the king's hands shines brightly.
"In the second picture, there is no light in Sui Hou Zhu, but the third picture is as bright as the moon...... "The palace lord frowned, looked at the bright Sui Hou Zhu in his hand, and asked in surprise. What is the reason for this? ”
"Suihou beads don't shine in the palace, but shine in the mountains, does it mean that this bead has to be outdoors to have an effect?" Tian Ji replied seriously.
"Is it indoors or outdoors now?" I didn't have the courage to ask rhetorically.
Tian Ji spread his hands and said, "Then I don't understand." ”
"It should be said that Suihou Zhu will shine in a specific place, this mountain should be a certain place, and Ji Qu should have found a place where Suihou Zhu can play a role." I looked at the Suihou Zhu who was held in the hand of the palace lord, and I was still very surprised. "Or Sui Hou Zhu will also be effective in the hands of specific people."
In the fourth pattern, it depicts a very high-standard funeral, burying a coffin in the mausoleum, but the coffin is empty, and on the top of the mountain next to it, a person stands on the top of the mountain, witnessing the whole funeral process, and the person's hand is a crystal bright pearl.
I was taken aback when I saw this, the person standing on the top of the mountain was exactly the same as the previous king, that was Ji Qu, he was still holding the Suihou Pearl in his hand, the literature recorded Ji Qu's early death, it seems that Ji Qu was completely hiding people's eyes and ears, but I don't understand, what is the reason why a monarch would rather give up the throne and pretend to be dead, the supreme right can be abandoned, and why he refuses to give up the Suihou Pearl in his hand.
In the fifth pattern, on a majestic palace, there is a person dressed as an emperor standing on the top of the city tower, and the people below are worshipping with joy and sincerity, and the flags on both sides of the palace are impressively a Chinese character of a small seal.
In the distance of those worshipping Li people, only one person stood and did not worship, watching all this from a distance, and the pearl in his hand shone brightly, but compared to the previous paintings, the light of the pearl was much dimmer.
"Spring and Autumn...... Han dynasty! That was more than 700 years later! Tian Ji's voice was a little surprised, and it took a long time to say the next words. The person holding the Suihou bead is still Ji Qu, and his appearance has not changed, how can he ...... How so?! ”
"This ...... This Sui Hou Zhu can make him grow ...... Eternal life! Gong Jue was dumbfounded.
What is more important than rights, I finally think now, it is life, it is an inexhaustible life, no wonder Ji Qu is so convinced of resurrection, it turns out that he has already experienced immortality, which is also the reason why there is no funeral goods in his coffin, compared to immortality, wealth is nothing, not to mention that Ji Qu seems to be very sure that he will be able to be reborn.
At that time, the heroes rose together, with the weakness of the country, Ji Qu got Suihou Zhu, should have discovered the secret that can make him immortal, Ji Qu should be a very smart person, knowing that his immortality will be discovered sooner or later, the heroes are bound to follow, and it is a matter of time before the country dies.
Ji Qu was thoughtful, and most of the wealth he hid in advance before he faked his death for his future enjoyment, even if he was not the king, he still lived a rich and glorious life for 700 years.
In the sixth pattern, Ji Qu is standing on a mountain, next to someone is pointing out to him, and there are many people next to him who are digging and building the shell tomb where we are today.
"This is Beibi Mountain, and the place where they stand is the place where the Xuanwu seal is hung." I recognized the mountain in the pattern at a glance.
"The person next to Ji Qu should be the feng shui master who chose this place for him, and this mausoleum was also built by this person for Ji Qu." Tian Ji said.
"Did you find it, in the next few paintings, the light of Hou Zhu is getting fainter and weaker, and Ji Qu is also getting old, which is why he started to choose a place to build a mausoleum." The palace lord said with a cold face.
"Although this Sui Hou Zhu has the effect of immortality, it does not seem to be permanent, and the effect will fade over time, and Sui Hou Zhu should have other secrets." I say.
In the seventh pattern, Ji Qu is buried in the coffin of the mausoleum, as now, and the Suihou Zhu in his hand has completely lost its luster.
The eighth!
When we saw the eighth picture, we couldn't believe our eyes, it was still the mausoleum in the seventh painting, but above the mausoleum appeared a splendid golden boat, pulled by nine winged dragons, hovering above.
Moon Palace Nine Dragons Fang!
In the mausoleum, Ji Qu had already stood up from the coffin, he knelt down reverently, and the Suihou Zhu held up with both hands shining with dazzling light again.
I was completely speechless in astonishment, looking at Ji Qu in the coffin, who had dried up in the coffin, he mentioned in the scroll that ghosts and gods would make him reborn again, could it be that there were really immortals or gods and Buddhas on that bizarre Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat?
The palace lord next to me gently tugged at the corner of my clothes to interrupt my thoughts, he and Tian Ji both looked behind me, I hesitated, slowly turned my head, I had been concentrating on looking at these patterns on the ground, and when I looked behind me, I was shocked again.
Behind me, a white marble tomb wall projected a pattern of a double-winged, athletic, majestic dragon, I squirmed the Adam's apple, and slowly opened the necklace I had been wearing, the winged feathered dragon in the necklace was exactly the same as the one on the tomb wall.