Chapter 21: The Tomb of Zhu Chun

I didn't continue to discuss the matter of Makhuraja with the monk, because it was beyond my knowledge, but it was really happening in front of my eyes, so I had to accept it directly. This is a habit I have developed after doing this business, not completely denying everything, nor trying to get to the bottom of it, if I can analyze it and get to a conclusion, it is best to accept it directly if it is completely beyond my own understanding, it is not strange.

The monk took me slowly into the corridor, which was more than 20 meters long and a little scary.

In the ancient tomb, what I fear the most is the Yongdao, and I always feel that the narrow and dark space gives me a deep sense of depression and powerlessness. I once looked up such a situation on the Internet, and some foreigners call this cave phobia, which is manifested in the fear of staying in a dark and closed space.

However, my symptoms were relatively mild, and although I felt a little depressed, I restrained myself and slowly walked in with the monk, and when we reached the end of the corridor, we finally saw a tomb. There is no stone door in this tomb, and it is directly connected to the Yongdao.

The burial chamber is a large space, about 10 meters square and more than 5 meters high. The burial chamber is surrounded by dense Buddha statues, and in the center is a stone tablet. I approached the stele with the monk and found that it was a white marble stele carved in the shadows. This time, the stele is not the ancient Sanskrit, but the ancient characters of the Ming Dynasty.

I read the inscription carefully, but I was secretly surprised. I can vaguely read the inscription, and I won't say more about some official introductions and rhetoric here, but I will only select some important information to describe it.

The most important sentence in this is that this is the tomb of Zhu Chun, the king of Shuxian. When we were at the pier earlier, we found a suicide note left by Zhu Chun's subordinates on the underwater pillar, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang's eleventh son came to this site with his men in the second year after coming to the Sichuan Territory, and came to this small island with a boatload of people. He was the only one who came back, and although the rest of the story is not mentioned, I could easily surmise that the soldiers would eventually be killed as well.

From this incident, it is not difficult to see that Zhu Chun did everything to cover up a secret, but now we have found his tomb here. Could it be that Zhu Chun found that this is a treasure of feng shui? He spent so much time trying to cover up the secrets of this place, afraid that someone would reveal the situation here and invite tomb robbers?

As far as I know, the grave of his eldest son, Zhu Yuexi, has been found in Chengdu. Some so-called experts on the Internet said that the tomb was originally built for himself, but his eldest son was really not blessed, and died of illness at the age of 21. Because his son died too suddenly, it was too late to build a tomb, so Zhu Chun had to bury his son in a tomb built for himself.

If what these experts say is reliable, it seems that it is not so simple for Zhu Chun to give his tomb to his son. I read on to see what was so special about it that attracted a generation of Ming vassal kings to build their tombs here. Later, in addition to some singing praises, it began to say that this place is the place where the Buddha manifests his spirits, and is illuminated by the light of the Buddha for all ages. Zhu Chun was a disciple of the Buddha, and the tomb was built here to listen to the Buddha's teachings.

This is a bit nonsense, this Shu Xianwang's father was born as a monk, and he only started his ambition to dominate after being a monk for a few years. I think that Zhu Yuanzhang is by no means a good man and a woman, let alone a disciple of the Buddha. Unexpectedly, as a son, he inherited his mantle, and after his death, he still wanted to become a Buddha.

I looked at the monk and saw that he was watching me.

I looked at him and said, "What do you think I'm doing?" ”

The monk smiled and said, "Can you understand the text on this?" ”

I asked with some confusion: "This is the script of the Ming Dynasty, which is also very similar to our modern Chinese characters, so I naturally recognize it." Don't you know? ”

The monk shook his head and did not speak.

I looked at him a little strangely, this monk knows ancient Sanskrit and has stayed in the ocean, I thought that there is nothing in this world that can be difficult to defeat him, but I didn't expect this to be almost an entry thing, the monk actually didn't know, this is also the first time I feel that this monk is slowly becoming real, not as weird as before. I told the monk about the contents of the stele and my inferences, and the monk nodded slowly as he listened.

Seeing that there were no clues on the stele, we looked around and found that there was a side chamber on each side of the tomb, and the door was no longer known when it was opened. The main burial chamber is surrounded by Buddha statues, all of which are terracotta figurines. This is something I didn't think, because most of the funeral goods in the Ming Dynasty were mainly gold and jade, and even porcelain was mainly porcelain plates and bottles, and this terracotta figurines almost never appeared after the Song Dynasty.

I approached the terracotta figurines and looked at them, and these terracotta figurines turned out to be Tang Sancai. How is this possible? Zhu Yuanzhang's son can find so many Tang Sancai? Here I want to introduce Zhu Yuanzhang and his person, Zhu Yuanzhang is a relatively perverted person, especially after he became the emperor.

Anyone who has read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" may know that when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he was very strong in fighting corruption. For example, there is a national leader that I admire very much, and one of the first people in China's modern anti-corruption campaign, who is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang. Perhaps their family was born to punish corrupt officials. But the FΓΌhrer's backlash would have been nothing compared to that of his ancestors.

Having said so much, all I have to say is that although Zhu Chun is a vassal king, he will definitely not be able to make up this room of Tang Sancai, and in my eyes, these can definitely be called the best of the best, even at that time, they can be regarded as the best of the best. Where did Zhu Chun find so many precious Tang Sancai?

Looking around, I found that these terracotta figurines are all statues of the Buddha, of different sizes and shapes, but all of them are fine. To be honest, when I saw these terracotta figurines, I had an urge to pick two small ones and stuff them into my arms first. Thankfully, I didn't do that, otherwise I would have been buried here for a long time.

As I observed the figurines, I spotted the monk walking into the side room on the right. This guy doesn't always go with me, has he seen the origin of these figurines, or does he know that they don't have any clues? But thinking that the two side chambers couldn't run away from there, I decided to look at the terracotta figurines first and see if I could see anything.

The statues of the Buddha are all images of various Buddhas, but I didn't recognize any of them. These Buddhas are images that I haven't seen before, it's impossible. Even if I don't know much about Buddhism, I have been working on wall strings for nearly 20 years, and I have handled hundreds of Buddhist objects, and I dare not say that I am familiar with the images of various Buddhas. But I didn't even recognize a single one of the figurines out there, so weren't these Buddha statues shaped according to the traditional Buddhist scriptures?

Just as I was indulging in these Buddha statues, I heard a sound of footsteps. When I turned around, I saw the monk's back slowly walking towards the side room on the left. It seems that the monk has finished checking the side room on the right, and this guy is quite fast, I don't know if he has found anything. I examined them again for a while, but I didn't find anything else.

Just as I was about to get up and go to the side room on the left to look for the monk, there was a sound of footsteps in the side room on the right, and I turned around in shock. When I turned around, I saw the monk slowly walking through the side room on the right. I looked at the monk in amazement and began to slowly step back.

How can there be two monks? Is this one in front of me real or fake? If this is true, who is the person in the side room on the left? However, the person before did walk through the side room on the right, if he was fake, didn't the monk find out that there was another person there in the side room on the right at all?

As I stepped back, I said to the monk, "Monk, you can recite the Great Compassion Mantra to listen to it." ”

If this monk is something unclean, I wonder if he will die by reciting the mantra himself? I don't know why such a strange thought suddenly occurred to me.

The monk looked at me with a frown and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I looked at the monk vigilantly and said to him, "Didn't you go into the side room on the left?" Why did you come out of the right again? ”

The monk saw that I didn't talk like a joke, and ignored me and rushed directly to the side room on the left. Seeing the monk walk into the side room on the left, I struggled outside, and now that Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque are inside, do I want to go in and have a look? I'm a little scared, but if I don't go in now, what if the one who comes out in a moment is a six-eared macaque?

As I was thinking about it, I suddenly noticed that since the monk entered the side room, there had been no movement coming from inside. Could it be that the monk was killed in seconds as soon as he entered? If that's the case, should I go in? With my strength, I don't even have one-ten-thousandth of the monk's strength, and I have almost no resistance to enter.

I looked at the corridor, do you want to just run out now? Although this road seems a little scary, I was still able to overcome my fear and run out, and then call the big white girls and them to save the monk. Just as I was about to run out, a monk's scream came from the side room on the left, and then immediately fell silent.

Hearing that scream, I couldn't care about anything else, and ran straight into the side room on the left. But when I ran in, I was instantly stunned.

Even if there are two monks in this side room, or if there is an extra demon and a monster, I will not be so surprised. However, there was no one in this side room, and the two monks were gone. But I obviously saw two monks walking in one after the other, could it be that there is some mechanism here? There were only four stone walls in this side room, and there were not even a few burial goods, so I searched everywhere but found no mechanism. How did these two monks evaporate from the world right under my nose?