Zhu Zi'an carefully compared the surrounding terrain with the map in his hand. I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart, and I always had a smug smile on the corner of my mouth.

As he looked around, the sun had sunset in the west, and the hillside was beginning to look gloomy.

It was too early to do it, so Zhu Zihua paced to a bluestone that looked quite clean and sat down. He pulled out the map from his bosom, pulled out a lighter, and lit it.

The flames on the map jumped high and low, and the orange-yellow flames, in Zhu Zihua's eyes, were simply a lump of gold.

When the map was about to be completely reduced to ashes, a gentle breeze blew through it, and the flames suddenly became much brighter. Zhu Zihua was stunned for a moment, and felt that the firelight had suddenly become a hideous skeleton.

Zhu Zihua was shocked in his heart, and at this time there was a sharp pain in his hand, and it was obvious that the map was about to burn out, burning his fingers.

Zhu Zihua reflexively threw out the last corner of the mutilated map in his hand, the flame had been extinguished, and the skull that suddenly appeared was no longer there.

Zhu Zihua was a little settled in his heart, and he couldn't help but start laughing at himself in his heart, and said to himself: "It's really a fist that doesn't leave his hand, and he can't leave his mouth." It's been several years since I've done tomb robbing, but this time I did another big deal, but I was so excited and nervous, and I saw a ghost. If there were ghosts in this world, the tomb robbers would have died long ago, hehe. ”

Zhu Zihua took out a pack of cigarettes, took out one, lit it and took a few puffs, his eyes vigilantly observing the movements around him.

Although according to common sense, at this time, it is impossible for pedestrians to appear on this wild mountain slope. Moreover, there is no road on this hillside at all, except for the occasional person who goes up the hill to cut wood, and almost no one usually comes to this small hill. Because this is a 'dead-end road', on the other side of the hill, there is a river.

But years of tomb robbing have allowed Zhu Zihua to cultivate a bold but cautious personality, and any disturbance will arouse his vigilance.

There was a miserable sound in the distance, although Zhu Zihua also seemed a little nervous, but it made him feel more relieved, because it was the voice of the owl from the road he came from, which was equivalent to telling him that the miserable but not irritable cry also proved that there was no one else on the hillside at this time except him.

The cautious Zhu Zihua was not in a hurry to do it at this time, but continued to light a cigarette, reminiscing about his tortuous experience of getting the tomb map and the heart-pounding legend recorded on it.

It turned out that this picture was secretly delivered to his son by Zhou Lihua's distant ancestor Mrs. Zhou on his deathbed in the Song Dynasty.

When Mrs. Zhou's son knelt in front of him, Mrs. Zhou dismissed everyone, called his son to his side, and whispered what happened after his death.

Old lady Zhou took out a brocade box, handed it to his son, and said: "Son, my father's life can be said to be a hero, and he has accumulated countless properties. It's a pity that my father has worked hard all his life, and he has never enjoyed the glory and wealth. Therefore, after the death of my father, I don't want to switch to life immediately. ”

Old Lady Zhou's son opened his mouth wide in surprise, not understanding what Old Lady Zhou meant by this.

Old lady Zhou coughed a few times, and then said slowly: "I regret it so much, I have accumulated so many jewels, but I didn't enjoy it properly, and I have provoked many people who hate me." When I die, there will be many people who will come to the tomb to steal the burial things. I don't want to be reincarnated, I just want to be able to enjoy all the jewels I got during my lifetime after I die, and at the same time guard my mausoleum, so that those who covet treasures will not take anything from my tomb, let alone let them invade my resting place. ”

Old lady Zhou was angry, and said intermittently, and after listening to it for a long time, his son understood.

It turned out that when Mrs. Zhou was alive, she recruited a team of nurses, took over those barren mountains, and surrounded those barren mountains, prohibiting anyone from going up the mountain.

The old lady Zhou set up a porridge tent in front of her village to help the hungry people who were displaced by the Song and Liao wars for many years, and for a while, she gained the reputation of a good man of Zhou.

Old lady Zhou recruited many young men from the hungry people, and promised that as long as everyone worked hard for him, not only did he have three meals a day, but he also gave him a penny of silver every day.

In the years when there was a lot of hunger and chaos, there was such a beautiful difference, of course, those hungry people were overjoyed, and they thanked the good people of Zhou for their kindness.

From the hungry people who signed up, Old Lady Zhou only selected those men who were alone and had no relatives, and then took them up the mountain, and built a few thatched huts on the mountain to settle them.

Old lady Zhou invited a few craftsmen and a Taoist priest from elsewhere and began to lead this group of selected hungry people to build his mausoleum. What puzzled many people at that time was that except for the two cronies and servants of Mrs. Zhou, the son of Mrs. Zhou was not allowed to enter the barren mountain, let alone inquire about the construction of the mausoleum.

Everything was quietly going on, and eight years later, the mausoleum was finally built. At this time, Mrs. Zhou was also sixty years old, which was already a high life expectancy at that time.

A sudden serious illness made Mrs. Zhou bedridden, and he knew that his life was about to end, so he made careful arrangements at the last moment of his life.

The old lady Zhou asked the Taoist priest to draw talismans for him, so that after his death, his soul would not be reborn, and he would enjoy the property he had obtained during his lifetime in the mausoleum. After the Taoist priest finished the law, he gave Mrs. Zhou a talisman made of gold leaf, and told Mrs. Zhou that this talisman could keep his soul resting in the mausoleum, and the mana on the talisman would not disappear until he was sixty generations later, and at that time, Mrs. Zhou's soul would be reincarnated as a human.

It is also strange to say that not long after, the Taoist priest and the craftsman and a large number of workers who built the mausoleum all disappeared mysteriously, and what is even more surprising is that the team of guards in charge of the family and the nursing home died violently overnight.

Mrs. Zhou told his son that after his death, the funeral was greatly handled at home, and a fake coffin was placed and buried in the fake tomb. His own body will be secretly carried into his real mausoleum by two close friends, Ding Zhouhao and Wang Liu, and no one will be allowed to know.

At the same time, Mrs. Zhou told her son that he didn't have to worry about the two family members revealing the secret, because after the incident, the two family members would go away and keep their mouths shut.

Old lady Zhou handed the brocade box sealed with fire wax to his son, and asked his son to swear that he would never open the brocade box in his lifetime, because it contained a map of the specific location of his mausoleum, as well as an auspicious plan for how he guarded the secret of his mausoleum.

After the son of the old lady Zhou made a poisonous oath, he carefully collected the brocade box, promising that the secret would be passed on from generation to generation until the sixtieth generation of grandchildren, after the reincarnation of the old lady Zhou, his descendants could take out the treasures in the mausoleum. Whoever breaks this oath will be cursed and killed.

In Zhou Lihua's generation, there is no male inheritance, and Zhou Lihua is only the fortieth generation grandson of Mrs. Zhou.

When Zhu Zi'an got the brocade box and opened it, he went to a piece of paper on the side of the map that Mrs. Zhou put in the brocade box, which recorded in detail the careful plan set up by Mrs. Zhou in order to protect his mausoleum, which made Zhu Zihua secretly frightened and greatly admired.

Although this plan was formulated by Mrs. Zhou during his lifetime, in the past few hundred years, the secret of this mausoleum has never been known to outsiders, and it is conceivable that after Mrs. Zhou's death, the development of things is all under the control of his plan during his lifetime.

The plan explains in detail that after the completion of the mausoleum of the old lady Zhou, he gathered all the workers and craftsmen involved in the construction of the mausoleum, including, of course, the Taoist priest who designed the mausoleum.

Just as everyone gathered together, drinking celebratory wine, and happily waiting for the reward of Old Lady Zhou, the thirty guardians who were in charge of guarding the mausoleum, holding sharp blades, rushed up.

When everyone was so shocked that they didn't react, the scene of the celebration banquet was already full of flesh and blood, and corpses were everywhere.

Old Lady Zhou instructed all the family members to carry all the corpses of those people into a large side room in his mausoleum and stack them inside.

After dealing with the craftsmen and Taoist priests and many workers, the old lady Zhou took out a basket of silver and prepared to reward it to the family, and at the same time set up three tables of sumptuous banquets in the thatched hut next to the mausoleum.

The people who got the silver reward did not doubt that he was there, and they all happily shouted and drank five or six fists and drinks, and in less than half an hour, there were bursts of screams at the scene.

It turned out that during the banquet, Zhou Hao and Wang Liu, the most intimate family members of Mrs. Zhou, had already quietly put poison into the wine and food.

The old lady Zhou instructed Zhou Hao and Wang Liu to move the corpses of the guards into the mausoleum.