Chapter 34: The Twin Corpses
Second, the people of Little Fusang rely on the power of Fuso wood, and when we left Little Fusang, we didn't bring Fuso wood out, so we naturally stayed in this area, and it can be said that we are at the same level as me.
The moment I dug out the skull from under the wall, the ghosts and whimpered in the entire tombway, and only the little boy got into the skull, and there was no more sound.
For a while, I couldn't figure out why this little ghost was the only one who hadn't been refined into a ghost, but it was a good thing for us, after all, the annoying ghost wall had finally disappeared. At that moment, I no longer looked at the clutter around me, and got up from the ground, far away from the corpse of the maggots, and looked behind the stone door with a flashlight.
I saw that behind the half-hidden stone door, there was a downward staircase, the width was about enough for two people to go side by side, dark and gloomy, it seemed that there was a dark wind blowing from the bottom, and when I leaned in, I felt cold all over my body.
There are large and large reliefs on both sides of this staircase, and at a cursory glance under the lights, they are some strange and strange beast shapes, like strange beasts that only exist in mythological stories, with different appearances, difficult to describe them all, lifelike, as if they want to jump out.
In addition to this, the stone walls on both sides, as well as recessed light troughs, the lamps inside condensed into black lumps, which were apparently unlit. I estimate the angle of the whole stone staircase to be about 70 degrees, and the stone stairs designed at this angle are very steep, and the lights go down, as if you are gazing into an abyss.
Where does such a deep stone staircase lead?
The Han tomb is buried deeply, but it is also about twelve or thirteen meters, and our original position is more than ten meters underground, and now this stone step extending down almost deepens the overall depth.
It was because it was so dark that at the end of the stone steps, the cold green light was particularly eye-catching, and I stared down, wondering what that green light was, it didn't drift like a ghostly fire, but it kept the same brightness, and it stopped quietly, but it didn't look like any danger.
I motioned to be cautious and walked down with the lights on.
The slope was almost right-angled, so I had to be cautious, so I walked slowly, and the further down I went, the greater the green light covered, and when I finally reached the end of the stone steps, I realized that it was actually a cold fire.
We didn't prepare such equipment as cold fireworks, so this thing was definitely not lost by Tan Blade, and eighty percent was left by Shui Yushuang's group. My eyes and I quickly moved our eyes away from the cold smoke and began to look at our surroundings.
At this glance, I realized that we were in a very strange place. It is a sunken octagonal platform, with a convex surface at the edge, forming a hexagram composed of yin and yang, and in the middle, it is polished with white jade and black jade to form a taiji.
On the whole, this ground is a gossip with Tai Chi appearance, this pattern is not uncommon, the general dojo palace can be seen, the tomb owner here is a fairy practitioner, vain to immortal as a god, in the ancient tomb these are not strange, but what really attracts our attention is that this Tai Chi pattern is yin and yang give birth to yang, yang in the yin, yin and yang together diagram.
The polar yin and polar yang parts that were born in the middle were raised and made into two jade pillars about two people hugging together. This jade pillar is only about one meter high, and on the two jade pillars, each sitting cross-legged is a person.
I was startled when I saw these two people at first glance, because there were not living people sitting on them, but dead people, and they were naturally stunned, and eighty percent of them were dead people, and their expressions did not change.
The reason why these two dead people frightened me was because their identities were obvious, and they were wearing the kind of colorful robes, gold and silver threads, with cranes and auspicious clouds on them, and some special patterns that I couldn't understand. This kind of robe was worn by people with more status among Taoist priests in the past, and those who cultivated the Tao were also divided into levels, such as ordinary Taoist priests, high meritors, real people, and so on.
These two Taoist priests are obviously high-level meritorious people with status in ancient times, and they are considered to be good among Taoist priests.
But strictly speaking, these two people are not Taoist priests, because Taoism was established in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, before which these people were called Fangshi, Immortals or Mages, and these robes are also obviously different from the later Taoist robes. These things, even if I can't think about them clearly, it's difficult, because Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian are branches of Taoism, and Sanziguan is a small Taoist temple.
These two people should be Fang Shi, wearing the robes of that time, sitting cross-legged, the body is straight and upright, after more than two thousand years, the robe on the body is still shining in the light, and the body is still not rotten, the light hit the face of the dead body, I saw these two people looking at each other, their cheeks were thin, and their complexion revealed a kind of green unique to dead people, which was a normal reaction after the blood stopped flowing and the capillary blood tube burst, almost every dead person is like this, and I am used to it.
But what makes me think about intangible cultural heritage is that these are not two ordinary corpses, but two ancient corpses, more than 2,000 years ago, why haven't they decayed?
Although I have seen a lot of such non-decaying ancient corpses, most of them are caused by the environment, such as the corpse of Xiao Fusang, located in the ice and snow, it is normal for it not to rot, and for example, those corpses in the jungle of Yunnan and Burma, because of the special environment, they were fermented and did not completely decay.
And the place we are in now, is there something special about it? Otherwise, how can these two corpses be the same as living people?
Zhou Xuanye is an expert in the study of corpses, and he told me that when you meet three kinds of corpses, you must not approach them: dead but not stiff, dead but not rotten, dead and laughing.
When the leaves fall, they turn to dust, people die, and corpses rot, which is normal, and those who are abnormal will become demons. No matter what method is used, the corpse is not stiff or not rotten, it is easiest to cheat the corpse, when encountering this kind of corpse, you must get close, let alone talk to the corpse, otherwise it is easy to rush to the sun, and the corpse that rushes to the sun, it is also possible to change the corpse instantly, on the contrary, the dead person who turns into white bones has no saying of chongyang.
And when some people die, they will smile at people very strangely, which is also a big taboo, commonly known as laughing and hooking the soul, and laughing at anyone means pulling that person to accompany him. This is rare, but once it does, it is almost 100% accurate, and the person who is laughed at often suffers soon after. If you encounter this kind of laughing corpse, it is best to leave quickly, ask for some charms to go home, or go to a Taoist temple or something like to stay for a while, and then go back after the first seven days of the deceased.
At this moment, the two corpses were sitting upright, but the robes on their bodies were extremely messy, as if they had been searched by someone.
I thought to myself: Could it be the people of Shuiyushuang? Those four people are too undisciplined, how can they not let go of a corpse when they see it? There are so many good things in the tomb, why don't you stare at the little thing on the corpse.
Why are these two dead bodies sitting cross-legged here?
How could these two corpses appear in the underground palace of the tomb owner?
At this time, Tian Tian suddenly said: "These two people are buried together." ”
Funeral? I heard him talk about animal and human martyrdom before, and I said, "Didn't you say that man died on the other side?" ”
Tian Du shook his head slightly and said, "It's a funeral, and martyrdom is not the same as a funeral." Then, he roughly told me about it, and I learned the difference between the two, that most of the people who were martyred were low-status slaves, servants, etc., and those who were buried were often of a noble status, and the bodies were naturally not piled up in the human martyrdom pit like those who were buried.
In ancient times, when the emperor died, there would be concubines to accompany the burial, so in many princely mausoleums, there are often many burial chambers, and there are quite a lot of coffins, which are either buried with concubines and concubines, or buried with close confidants and guards before death, or buried with the usual small servants, etc.
The two people in front of them are obviously different from those slaves in the burial pit, but if it is a normal burial, these two people should also be lying in the coffin burial chamber, but at this moment they are sitting cross-legged here, it is obviously not a normal burial, the owner of the tomb got them here, presumably there must be some purpose, naturally Du reminded me, we should not get close to the better.
I said, "Don't worry, naturally, I'm not interested in dealing with corpses." "As I looked away from them, I began to look around me. This place as a whole is not big, about four or five meters high, the position we came down from, just opposite the 'Qian' hexagram of Sanyang, outside the other seven trigrams, is a smooth blue brick and stone wall, it is a dead end, there is no passage around.
In the secret palace of the Feather Gate, I had already seen many mechanisms, so I immediately realized that there should be something like a secret passage in this place, and immediately motioned to the natural stay to search for the secret passage with me.
I found that it was actually quite easy, and in the center of the remaining seven brick walls, there was a special brick, with patterns on the brick surface, which formed a clear contrast with the surrounding green bricks, and I pressed it a little, and found that these bricks were all movable, but whether this was the mechanism of the secret passage, or the rest of the things, it is unknown.