Chapter 53: Narrative Wall Painting

The brightness of the cold light stick is not strong, and it is not weak when it is weak.

We walked through the gap in the stone gate, cautiously scanning our surroundings with our flashlights.

The interior of the stone gate was much more open than I had imagined, with unlit bronze lamps standing on both sides, and a continuous corridor of flying overhead.

The corridor is a piece of cornice, carved with some nine-legged flying dragons is very gorgeous, the corridor has a total of six rows, each row is half a meter wide, there is a certain spacing in the middle. There are many bronze chains hanging on it, and I wonder a little, what are so many chains used for, are they decorative?

Qian Nose on the side swallowed his saliva and stammered: "My grandfather, how big a coffin does such a big corridor have to be used to hang?" Is the coffin of the King of Prudence five meters wide? ”

Hanging coffin? I heard Qian Bi say this, and I knew the purpose of this flying corridor, which is not only a decoration, but also a facility for burying large coffins.

Looking at all kinds of things in the huge underground palace, I can't help but wonder how much manpower and material resources it takes to build such a large tomb, how long it takes, many emperors have started to repair tombs since they ascended the throne, generally speaking, the scale of the tomb is large enough for more than 20 years, but this tomb is hundreds of meters deep underground, and hollowed out the entire mountain to build a thousand dragons to ascend to heaven.

Such a huge project would have taken hundreds of years to complete.

Could it be that this King of Prudence really lived for hundreds of years? Is that still human? Could it be that the elixir of immortality really exists?

If this elixir really exists, then why build such a huge mausoleum? Instead of living forever?

I was looking at the buildings around me intently, when I suddenly heard a lame man not far away calling me and Qian Nose: "Look at these murals on the wall!" ”

"Isn't it a mural? It's all over the place, what's so strange? Qian Nose said disappreciatively.

"You show me carefully, these murals are different from what I saw before, this is a narrative mural!"

"Narrative mural?!" My eyes widened when I heard that.

What is a Narrative Mural? Narrative murals are an important means of describing the life of the tomb owner, and even some secrets! Many archaeological excavations have paid particular attention to the content of this fresco!

Through these frescoes, together with some documents and some simple accounts in the tomb, one can learn a lot about what happened at that time.

We have been in this tomb for so long, and it is the first time we have seen this kind of mural, so it is no wonder that Wei Cripple is so excited.

I hurried over to see what was on the mural.

Under the light of the flashlight, I could clearly see what was on the mural.

The first depicts a scene of countless warriors felling trees, which are dragged into the river by a huge dragon-like creature and transported down the river through the current.

These huge logs were cut down the water and carried down to a cave, where they were salvaged and processed by many slaves.

I couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom of the ancients, and continued to look down.

The second depicts a large fish being hunted by many captives into a cave pool, and some warriors riding on a strange fish with torches in their hands and harpoons in their hands.

"Isn't this just some of the record murals that built this cave?" Qian Nose said.

We walked forward quickly, taking a cursory glance at the mural.

The picture passes by one by one, presenting the scene of the cautious people entering the underground life thousands of years ago in front of us.

The next picture seems to be somewhat familiar, very similar to the picture that Qian Bi and Wei Cripple saw in the cave before, and the content of the painting is the scene of King Su Shen accepting tribute.

"It is understandable that this king of Su Shen accepts virgins, why does he accept virgins? Could it be that this Prudent King is as good as Longyang? Qian Nose was speechless.

Wei Cripple and I knew that Qian Nose didn't have anything serious in his mouth, and we didn't pay attention to him, but Wei Cripple seemed to be a little puzzled: "Don't you two think it's weird?" Since there is a flying mythical bird like a human-faced bird, why do the people of Su Shen move to live underground? ”

"Hey, you're just rare and weird, what's so strange about cave dwellings, in ancient times, people didn't build houses, living in caves was warm in winter and cool in summer, so how easy it was?" Qian Nose replied triumphantly.

"No, according to the ruins of Yinggeling, at that time, the ancient kingdom of Sushen had close contacts with the Qin Dynasty, and a large number of buildings had already appeared in the ruins of Yinggeling, so there was no reason to live in the crypt anymore." I frowned and denied the idea of the money nose.

Qian Nose said: "Maybe the retro style was popular at that time, who stipulated that housing could not be diversified at that time?" ”

I don't know how to refute it, I just think it's not as simple as Qian Nose said.

As we continue to look down, the next mural seems to be the scene of Su Shen's envoy to the Qin Dynasty, and the scene is very grand, with a huge amount of gorgeous leather and countless jewels and treasures being transported out of Changbai Mountain......

The next few murals are a little unclear, which makes us very depressed, after all, the murals are such things, no matter how well preserved, there is a possibility of fading and disappearing, so we have no choice but to continue to look down helplessly......

The team that came back from the envoy was much larger, and there were a large number of Qin people wearing Taoist clothes mixed in, looking at the style of the clothes, it seemed to be a monk! And in the ranks of these monks carried some square bronze vessels, and many horses were pulled, which seemed extremely heavy.

Behind these huge bronze artifacts were many Taoist children, holding some gold objects, and there were even many faced birds accompanying them, as if they were escorting.

"This Wang Bahao is familiar, it seems that he has seen it somewhere!" Qian Nose pointed to one of the huge bronze vessels.

"This is called Xuanwu, don't call it a king, it's not a shame." Wei lame scolded.

But he pointed to it. I also saw that this bronze box with a turtle shell was the bronze Dan furnace that we saw in the underground Xuangong and placed in the position of the main tomb as a set!

"These things are really not discreet things! But in the Qin Dynasty, whether it was Fangshi or bronze, mercury, and gold, they were all extremely scarce items, so what ability could this Su Shen have to get back so much? "I was almost driven crazy by these questions. I wanted to know more and more about what was painted on the previous few wall paintings of Qin, so I took the cold light stick and turned it back to take a good look.

Just as I had not taken two steps back, I suddenly heard Qian Nose shouting exaggeratedly: "Damn! No way!? Could it be that I really got it right! This prudent king can fly! ”

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