The surroundings were frighteningly quiet, and the wind lanterns brought up to one side of the rock wall, intensifying the lighting, and the dim light shining on the rocks gave people a sense of ancient mystery.

The face of the mural is very vivid, with a lot of blood-like red sè, under the uncertain light source, flashing the brilliance of the glass, as if the whole rock is oozing blood, hidden under another layer of pigment The mural can be preserved so well, it is really incredible.

What really surprised us, however, was the content of the mural, and it's hard for me to put into words what it was depicted. The mural is divided into two parts, each describing different things, but when put together, it looks very complete and beautiful.

Monk Hua's eyes lit up, and he said to himself: "This should be the scene of the war between the Wannu Emperor of Eastern Xia and the Mongols, you look at this person, this person should be the Wannu King himself, this is likely to be the war that is said to have destroyed the country in the Middle Xia." ”

I know very little about Dongxia, and the others obviously don't know much, so they didn't speak, and listened to him continue.

He went back and forth in amazement, looked at the pattern on it, pointed to the side of the mural, a large number of soldiers wearing skins and armor, and said, "This is the army of the King of Wannu. He pointed to the cavalry on one side and said, "This is the army of the Mongols, you see, there are far more than the army of Eastern Xia, this is a war that overwhelms xìng." ”

I looked in the direction he was pointing and saw the arrows flying. The fat man looked at it, didn't know what he thought was strange, and asked, "Why are those people's faces like girls in Dongxia's army?" ”

I also think it's strange when I look at it, do the Dongxia people rely on women to fight? Then there is no reason for the country to die. Monk Hua said: "No, this is a feature of the murals in Dongxia, you see all the people, they are very delicate." I have also found some strange phenomena in allusions, it seems that all the people who deal with the Dongxia Kingdom say that in the Dongxia Kingdom, there are no old people, and all the people are very young. The Koreans say that the people of Dongxia maintained their youthful appearance even when they died. ”

The fat man frowned, as if he couldn't figure out why this was happening. I feel that this may have something to do with the customs of some ethnic minorities, and in some ethnic groups, the elderly are not allowed to meet guests. I didn't care, and the others continued to watch.

Monk Hua pointed to the second part of the mural and said, "This piece records the battle. You see, the Tangut people fought one against three, but they still gave the Mongols shè death one after another, and this war finally turned into a massacre. ”

The mural uses a lot of red sè to express the tragedy of the war, and the sense of substitution is very strong, I seem to see the Dongxia soldiers falling in a pool of blood one by one, and the Mongol iron horsemen stepping over their corpses and starting to burn houses and slaughter men.

The third part of the mural is pressed behind a huge stone, and we can't move away, but it is estimated that it should also be a continuation of the content here.

At this time, I felt puzzled and interrupted him: "No, the country of Dongxia was not destroyed by the Mongols a long time ago. I read the information that they have only existed for more than 70 years and have been fighting. If it is said that the Genting Heavenly Palace was built by them, under the circumstances at that time, how could such a small country have the ability to build such a large-scale mausoleum? ”

As soon as I said this, many people showed their approval of the gods. Dongxia was a regime that suddenly appeared in Jilin and Heilongjiang during the period when the Jurchens were destroyed, and I remember that its founding emperor, King Wannu, did not even have time to pass on the throne to the next generation, so he gave the Mongols a detour through Korea and was destroyed. At that time, Mongolia was extremely strong, and if the scene on the mural was really that decisive battle, it should be destroyed very completely in the case of the Mongols.

At that time, the productivity among the Jurchen tribes was still very low, and without a large number of laborers, even if the country was not destroyed, it was impossible to build such a huge mausoleum.

Chen Pi Ah Si said that there was really an emperor of Eastern Xia buried in the Genting Heavenly Palace, and it was impossible to think about it, because they didn't have the time and the strength.

There is no reason whatsoever, if we infer from what we see in the submarine tomb that this legendary mausoleum was built by Wang Zanghai, then the dynasty that built it should be the end of the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the Eastern Xia Kingdom had been destroyed for hundreds of years, and where would there be a Dongxia Emperor who could be used for burial.

We all set our eyes on Chen Pi Ah Si and said that it was he who was buried in the Genting Heavenly Palace, but now it seems that this is absolutely impossible.

Chen Pi Ah Si knew what we were thinking, glanced at the mural expressionlessly, sneered, and then glanced at Monk Hua and said, "Since they don't believe it, monk, you can tell them." ”

Monk Hua agreed, turned his head to us and smiled: "I know what you are suspicious, I dare to say that you are all wrong." Most of the information you see about Dongxia is inferred from some incomplete ancient books, in fact, there is too little information left by Dongxia, and in foreign countries, it is not even recognized that such a country existed, so it is difficult to say how much of the information you are reading now is actually true. ”

The fat man said, "In that case, why do you say that your information is correct?" ”

Monk Hua said: "That's so, because our information is more direct. He pulled out a piece of white silk cloth from the pocket of his underwear and unfolded it in front of us. When I saw it, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart.

It turned out to be the snake-eyed copperfish at the auction!

How can it be in their hands, doesn't it mean that no one buys it? I frowned, suddenly realizing something.

Since no one buys it, and the fish is in the hands of Chen Pia Si, can it be said that Chen Pia Si is the seller of this fish?

I shook and tried my best to stabilize my body so that I didn't show too much surprise, but my heart was already in a mess, and countless questions exploded in my mind, and I didn't know whether I felt fear or excitement for a while, but I felt that my hands and feet were suddenly cold as if I had lost blood.

Monk Hua didn't pay attention to my expression, and continued: "This copper fish is a special form of a dragon, which was obtained by our old man by chance. I believe that it should have been made by a person who knew the internal affairs of Dongxia, and the strange thing is that he hid a top-secret message on the body of this copper fish through a very ingenious means, you see. ”

He put the bronze fish on the side of the wind lantern, and the gilded fish scales shè out of the golden sè, and shè on the mural shè with many thin spots of light. Monk Hua turned the body of the fish, and the spots began to change, and gradually, they turned into several spots in the style of words.

"The secret is here, there are a total of forty-seven Jurchen characters hidden in the scales of this fish."

I sighed in my heart, and my heart said that there was still such a skill, pinched the other two copper fish in my pocket, and asked him a little tremblingly, "Yes...... What is the content? ”

"I haven't deciphered it all because it's incomplete, but I'm sure the person who made the fish wanted to record something and didn't want others to find out. Here, the real history of Eastern Xia is recorded. Monk Hua said a little proudly, "Actually, long before I saw this thing, according to many clues, it has been inferred that the regime of the Eastern Xia Kingdom has always existed, but they retreated to the depths of the mountains, and they don't know what to rely on for hundreds of years, this extremely weak regime has survived between Mongolia on the one hand and Goryeo on the other." I have studied Goryeo Zhi, and until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were ginseng pickers who saw people wearing strange costumes in the snow-capped mountains here, and I think it should be some of the remaining inhabitants of the Eastern Xia Kingdom. ”

He pointed to the copper fish again and said, "The scattered records here prove my idea. After the decisive battle with the Mongols, the Eastern Xia Kingdom retreated to the border between Jilin and Korea, and has been secretly existing for hundreds of years, with a total of fourteen emperors, and the Mongols and Goryeo tried to destroy this small country more than once, but for a strange reason, all failed. ”

"What reason?" Pan Zi asked, "Monk, can you speak more quickly?" ”

Monk Hua shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know, the information on the fish is not complete, there must be other things that record some other parts." However, according to these words in my hand, I dare to say that the Dongxia Kingdom can exist, and there may be very bizarre things that have happened, and there will be no content later. We've been looking for a long time, but unfortunately our old man has been looking for many years and hasn't found anything else. He paused, and then said, "Do you know what the last sentence of these Jurchen characters means?" ”

Of course I didn't know, Ye Cheng took it and asked, "What?" ”

Monk Hua looked at us and said, "It said above that the kings of Wannu in the past dynasties were not human. ”

"It's not a person, what is it?" The fat man said.

Monk Hua put away the copper fish, "It says that they are all monsters crawling out of the ground!" ”

No way? I thought to myself. Everyone looked at each other, probably a little furious in their hearts, Ye Cheng asked: "Then you can't say that, could it be that the emperor is a dragon, not a human analogy?" ”

"I originally thought that he was referring to the metaphor of the true dragon Tianzi, but after researching, I found that this person should just want to record some secrets, and he should be more objective about the historical records of Eastern Xia, so he should not use such respectful language. And, if you say that, do you think someone will show the concept that the emperor is the true dragon emperor in such a way? Imagine if you congratulate the emperor on his birthday, you will say first, Your Majesty, you are really not human, I am afraid that you will be cut before the second sentence comes out. No one would write that. He smiled mysteriously: "Moreover, the latter sentence is written very clearly and very abruptly. I've always wondered if I could get another part, maybe I could decipher what it meant. ”

Both the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle knew that the other two copper fish were actually in my hands, but out of prudence, neither of them said anything. I grabbed the copperfish in my pocket, and suddenly I felt them become heavy.

For a while, I didn't know if I should take out these two fish, in fact, these two fish didn't mean anything to me, I didn't know the Jurchen text, and I couldn't understand it when I showed it, but if I handed it to them, I felt very inappropriate.

Pan Zi stared at the mural and said to himself, the person on the mural may be the King of Wannu, who looks like a human being, and does not seem to be a monster. The fat man patted him and said to Monk Hua: "Brother Scar, what did I say you decipher, we are real people, don't engage in intellectuals." When the time comes, when the coffin is opened, it will be clear whether it is a person or a dog. ”

Monk Hua smiled and said, "I mean, it's always better to know the other." ”

"But why did the person who painted this mural paint these things here?" The fat man asked, "Don't forget the hatred of the country and the family?" ”

Monk Hua shook his head, obviously not clear. I thought about it for a moment and said, "Maybe I want to pick the stone whole after painting the mural here, or I just paint it to kill time." You see it's so warm here, maybe the craftsmen of the time used it to rest. ”

No one convinced me, so Monk Hua began to photograph these things for information.

We rested enough, and the jīng god gradually recovered and began to take turns resting. Chen Pi Ah Si asked his men to take turns going out and staying outside, and if the snow stopped crawling in and calling us, we began to take turns sleeping.

When I woke up, Junko had already woken up and apologized to us. The fat man didn't bother to pay attention to him, I took something for him to eat, let him have a good rest, and we had to rely on him to continue to go up.

There was no rotation of rì months in it, and I don't know how long it was, but it was about two to three days, and the snow finally stopped. We climbed out of this crack one after another, and it was already clear outside, and everywhere was a vast white world.

Straighten out the equipment, and find that we have eaten too much in the past few days, and it is estimated that there are no supplies, and we will run out of food if we don't get to where we are. When asked if there was a way for Junko, he said that there was really nothing he could do above the snow line, either he would go back and come back, or he would not distribute food and eat as little as possible.

In the gaps, Chen Pia Si taught us a lot of tips on the snowy mountains, such as using sanitary napkins as insoles, which can absorb foot sweat, keep feet dry, and warm the whole body. We followed his method, and it was really good. However, I felt very awkward myself, thinking that if I entered the tomb and discarded these things, the archaeological team found out a few years later, what it would be like to see such things on the side of the coffin.

We used the rope to climb up the steep slope when we rolled down, and there were many new horseshoe prints on the ground, and the fat man crouched down to look at it, and said, "Aning's gang seems to have overtaken us and run ahead of us." ”

Without saying a word, we put on our goggles and set off immediately. Two hours later, we saw A-Ning's team on a hillside, they had obviously suffered very heavy losses, there were only about twenty of the thirty people left, and only half of the horses were numbered, and there was still no shadow of the third uncle among them.

We silently lurked and watched them. I saw Aning staring through a telescope in one direction, and I looked in the direction she was looking, and suddenly my eyelids jumped.

I didn't know if it was snow or clouds in the distance, a snow-covered mountain stood majestically, connected with other mountain ranges, and it seemed very abrupt. It was the mountain I saw in the submarine tomb, and its shape was almost exactly the same as in the picture.

"This is it." I said secretly in my heart, pointed to the mountain, turned my head and asked Junko, "What kind of mountain is there?" How do I get there? ”

Shun set up a pergola, looked at it, and said, "So you are going there?" Can't go there! ”