Chapter 144: The Scourge of Witchcraft

"Brother Zhao, have you observed anything?" Xiong Zhiqi himself was looking at the patterns on the steps, but he didn't have a clue, Xiong Zhiqi didn't know the things these patterns painted, let alone decompose the deep meaning. √∟,

"Don't worry, I'm wondering, do we want to be complicated, generally this kind of carving and carving, are some images of divine beasts or fierce beasts, such as the dragon giving birth to nine sons or some images in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but, here, it is completely blind painting, even if we are lonely and unheard, it is impossible to say that there are so many images here, but none of them can be recognized."

"Brother Zhao, do you mean that painting these things is actually deliberately telling us not to think too much, not to think about the meaning of these images?"

"That's right, in fact, maybe the meaning contained in this is very simple, come, let's compare, on the first layer of steps, there are thirty-seven different images, and on the second floor, there are also thirty-seven, which seem to be different, but we can try to see if there are any of the same in these two steps, let's take a closer look." Zhao Zhu waved at Xiong Zhiqi, "My spiritual power has been suppressed here, and now I can only distinguish it with the naked eye." ”

"Okay, I'll look for it too."

Zhao Zhu and Xiong Zhiqi began to patrol the first and second steps with their naked eyes and their own impressions, and after about five minutes, Xiong Zhiqi patted his head and said:

"Brother Zhao, this, and this, is it the same thing? They are all turtles, and they all have such a big king eight shells on their heads, and the inscriptions on this turtle shell are still exactly the same, that is, the perspective and orientation of the two turtles on the first and second steps are different. Xiong Zhiqi pointed to two patterns and said.

Zhao Zhu looked at it, and sure enough, although there are some differences between these two pictures, they are indeed the same kind of turtle creatures painted.

"Look at the third floor. There is no such turtle anymore. Zhao Zhu said to Xiong Zhiqi.

"Okay."

Zhao Zhu and Xiong Zhiqi started to look for it on the third floor of the steps again, and it didn't take long for Zhao Zhu to point to a pattern under his feet and say, "It's this one, the turtle's body is blocked by the pattern of clouds, but the turtle shell is still exposed, continue to look for it, the fourth layer!" ”

It didn't take long for the fourth floor to be found, followed by the fifth. All the way to the thirteenth floor, on each layer, there is this kind of turtle pattern, although the shape and action are different, but the inscription on the turtle shell is exactly the same, proving that this is indeed the same thing painted.

"Brother Zhao, they've all been found, what should I do next?"

"Step on the turtle shell on this level first. Then go up to the second layer, then step on the second layer of the turtle shell, go up to the third layer, and try to step on it. Get your feet wet. Zhao Zhu said after pondering.

"Oh, I'll do it first."

Xiong Zhiqi followed what Zhao Zhu said, first let one of his feet step on the turtle shell position on this layer, and then go up to the second layer. In the beginning, not much has changed, but. When Xiong Zhiqi ascended to the sixth layer in this way, Zhao Zhu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he saw that Xiong Zhiqi's figure, in front of him, had almost become translucent, as if he had gone to another space.

Sure enough, it worked.

When Xiong Zhiqi stepped on the turtle shell pattern on the thirteenth floor of the steps, Xiong Zhiqi's whole person disappeared in front of Zhao Zhu, and then, Zhao Zhu found the door of the main hall and shook it, as if someone had just walked over there.

Zhao Zhu didn't delay at the moment, he walked up according to the gourd painting scoop, and when he was halfway through, he felt that everything around him had become a little blurry, only the steps under his feet were still clear, until he walked up the thirteenth floor of steps, Zhao Zhu found that the surroundings had been completely blurred and distorted, and he could only vaguely see a door in front of him, he pushed the door open and walked in.

stepped on it, and Zhao Zhu's whole person fell down directly.

This is a ramp with a very steep slope, Zhao Zhu stepped on the air suddenly, and the whole person rolled down the ramp, but Zhao Zhu still relied on his mental power to slow down the speed halfway, the ramp was about 100 meters long, and then it was flat;

A hand, stretched out in front of Zhao Zhu, was Xiong Zhiqi's hand,

"Brother Zhao, haha, I just got off the ground too."

Holding Xiong Zhiqi's hand and standing up, Zhao Zhu patted the dust on his body and said, "Whew, it's a good place, it's a bit like Dunhuang." ”

Under the ramp, there is a road, but on both sides of the road, are sunken, and then there are sculptures placed in it, and there are tablets in front of the sculptures, which is not like worshipping the gods, this is worshipping the dead.

"How do I feel like a haunted house, the haunted houses in those amusement parks are also designed like this, a road, put some paper figures on both sides for you, and get some sound and lighting effects."

"You're thinking too much, are there all these things in the haunted house? It also serves as the spiritual seat of the Hou Wei and his wife. Zhao Zhu read the words on the ranking.

"Wei Yan, which one is it, I haven't heard of it." Xiong Zhiqi touched his head.

"Wei Yan, I haven't heard of it, but there are so many people in history, in fact, what we have heard is only a little part, and it is normal not to have heard of it, by the way, Changping Hou, this I think of a person surnamed Wei, who was also named Changping Hou."

"Who is it?"

"Wei Qing."

"I've heard of this, I've seen it in TV series before, and I married a princess, right?"

"His sister is still the queen of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, I'm guessing, this Wei Yan won't be Wei Qing's son, isn't it true that in ancient times, didn't all sons inherit their father's lordship, Wei Qing died, and his son inherited his title of Marquis of Changping, so it makes sense."

"There, there's a tablet there, it's called ...... Prime Minister Sun He's spiritual seat. Gongsun He, which one is it? Fuck, you can't get some familiar historical figures tablet out, where did they all dig out the rare characters, the ghost knows. ”

"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoowoo......"

As soon as Xiong Zhiqi's words fell, the wind suddenly rose.

"Don't talk nonsense, where the tablet is enshrined, there are spirits, if you don't taboo it, you will really attract those spirits to eat back." Zhao Zhu reminded Xiong Zhiqi.

"Is it really that spiritual?"

"Nonsense, or why do many families worship ancestral halls, do you really think it is a feudal superstitious activity?"

"Uh...... Well, I'm not going to talk nonsense, sin sin, sin, sin. Xiong Zhiqi folded his hands, bowed around, and then continued to ask, "Brother Zhao, which big man Gongsun He is, do you know?" ”

"How do I know, there are so many surnames Gongsun in ancient times, celebrities with surnames Gongsun in history books can be lined up in a book, in martial arts novels, as long as the surname Gongsun is either a beauty or a cow, there is no family surnamed Gongsun in fantasy novels, they are embarrassed to go out to meet people, and now suddenly a Gongsun He comes out, how can you tell me?" Zhao Zhu shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"That's right, then look at the next one, I don't believe it, and I don't know anyone...... My historical knowledge isn't that bad. Xiong Zhiqi continued to walk inside, then pointed to another sculpture and tablet and said, "The spiritual seat of the Han prince Liu Zhizhi!" This is a prince, Brother Zhao, do you know? ”

Zhao Zhu frowned, and said to himself: "If you ask me what the names of the emperors of the Han Dynasty are, I can tell them, you find a prince, and at first glance it is the crown prince who has not ascended the throne as an emperor, I really can't think of who he is." ”

"Uh...... This is really blind, no wonder tomb robbery or archaeology have to find a professional, it is estimated that people who specialize in this aspect of research will know who it is when they see a person's sculpture spiritual position, we have seen so much, and I don't know anyone. ”

"However, at least I know that this is a figure from the Han Dynasty."

"Well, that's fine." Xiong Zhiqi continued to walk forward, and then he saw a female sculpture beside him, pointed to the tablet and said, "Brother Zhao, okay, I know this, I definitely know it, the spiritual seat of Empress Wei Zifu of Han!" Wei Zifu, she is in several films of "The Son of Heaven", but the actress who played her at the beginning didn't seem to be very famous later, but she looks good, but it's a pity. ”

"Wei Zifu?" Zhao Zhu looked at the tablet, read the words on it silently again, and then turned his head, looked at the other tablets, his face showed a look of enlightenment, and said, "I think, I know which characters are enshrined here, Nobita, you go forward and see if it is the tablet of that official, that Hou, and those people?" ”

When Xiong Zhiqi heard this, he continued to walk forward for a while, looked at the tablet in front of each sculpture, and looked at more than a dozen in a row, and said, "Brother Zhao, it's really, they are all officials and lords, it sounds like the official titles are quite tigers, what kind of person is this helping?" Why are they enshrined here? ”

"Have you watched the last part of "The Son of Heaven"?" Zhao Zhu asked.

"I just watched the first two, it is said that there is a later one, but I was too lazy to watch it at that time."

"Then you shouldn't have seen it, the plot of the witch curse, that prime minister, should be the prime minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the crown prince Liu Ju should be the heir of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Wei Zifu, Wei Yan, who is considered the nephew of Wei Zifu, and the crown prince Liu Ju is a cousin, after all, Wei Qing is Liu Ju's uncle.

These people, these people, all the people enshrined here, all died in the witch Gu disaster in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not in good health in his later years, and his brain was a little dizzy, and our Mao ~ Grandpa was a bit similar in his later years, he was bewitched by the so-called traitors, and began to hunt and kill ministers and nobles on a large scale for the sake of witch Gu, and even his own prince wanted to kill.

Then the prince Liu Ju simply raised troops and wanted to come to the side of the Qingjun, but he didn't succeed, he was quickly flattened, and he ended up with a death, Wei Zifu, who committed suicide in the palace during that period. Tens of thousands of people were implicated in this witch plague and died, causing turmoil in the country, and it is also considered by history to be the turning point of the Western Han Dynasty from prosperity to decline. ”

"Then, what do these people have to do with Xu Fu? Brother Zhao, didn't you say that you saw Xu Fu in the ghost tide? ”

"That's right, Xu Fu, what does it matter." (To be continued......)