Mountain and Sea Demon Tomb Chapter 21 Python Belly Ascending Coffin (1)

This house is different from the other houses I have seen before, this house is paved with snow-white stones, white floors, white walls, and there are no pillars in the house. Around the room was a circle of coffins, forming a circle, with a snow-white raised stone on the ground in the middle. On top of that, the other wall of this room does not have a door like the previous one, that is, this room is already at the end.

Mr. Chen and Lao Chen, who had caught up, were very excited when they saw this room, and Lao Chen said in a hoarse voice: "Mr. Chen, I'm afraid this is the last room, maybe the jade plum blossom note will appear soon." Mr. Chen nodded, his eyes full of frenzy. When I saw the formation of this room, I was also a little confused, in the past, the thieves paid attention to what kind of tomb and other specifications, but this Chen family tomb was extremely strange from the beginning, and now the coffin was placed in a whole room, which looked even weirder than the room with nine black corpses I saw before.

The fat man stabbed me and said, "Old Hu, don't be stunned, hurry up to the coffin, find the jade plum blossom note and save Yang Shen quickly." I nodded, handed Shirley Young to the fat man, and walked over to a coffin that looked the most pleasing to the eye. The fat man carried Shirley Yang on his back and followed me closely. When Mr. Chen and Mr. Chen saw that I was going to act, they also hurriedly followed. I can see that although this Mr. Chen is scheming and has good kung fu, he is really a layman for this coffin thief, so he asked me and the fat man to help him take the lead and help him find the jade plum blossom note.

I walked over to the pleasing looking coffin and took a closer look. The coffins are all made of white marble, which seems to blend in with the floor and walls. I asked the fat man to put Shirley Young down and lean against a coffin, and with his free hand he opened the coffin with me. Lao Chen and Mr. Chen seemed to be fighting for the first time, and they were both inexplicably excited when they saw that we were going to lift the coffin. I handed Chen a large candle and told him to light it in the southeast corner of the room, and watch the flame not to go out. Lao Chen was reluctant. Mr. Chen said: "Lao Chen, go and light it, this is the rule of touching the gold captain, as the saying goes, 'the rooster cries and the lamp goes out and does not touch the gold', if this candle is extinguished, I'm afraid we will all be buried here." ā€

When Mr. Chen heard this, he took the candle and went to the southeast corner to light it. I worked hard with the fat man and Mr. Chen to push off the lid of the coffin. The lid of this coffin is designed with a chute, so it is easy to open. When opened, the coffin inside was revealed. I don't know what kind of wood this coffin is made of, the wood color is snow-white, the texture is delicate, and it sounds crisp but mellow when you tap it, and it is a good wood that is rare to see in a hundred years.

When the fat man saw that this coffin board was absolutely extraordinary, he immediately burst into joy, and was busy going to his backpack to rummage through the sapper shovel and prepare to pry the coffin. I took a closer look at the structure of the coffin, and said to the fat man: "Don't look for a sapper shovel, this coffin lid is not nailed at all, it is completely hidden on it." ā€

The fat man was amazed at what I said, for he had never seen anything like this before. The fat man and I hurriedly found a pair of gloves to put on, and instructed Mr. Chen not to touch the corpse with his hands when we opened the coffin, so as to prevent the corpse from suddenly coming into contact with the yang qi and deceiving the corpse. Each of the three of us tore off a piece of the corner of our clothes and plugged our nostrils to prevent inhaling the corpse gas and getting poisoned. Ready for a qiē, I secretly held the black donkey's hooves in my hand, Mr. Chen held a handful of glutinous rice in his hand, and the fat man took the corpse rope, and as soon as the three of them worked hard, the coffin lid fell to the ground.

The corpse in this coffin was a male corpse, burly, athletic, dressed in armor, and what was even more amazing was that the corpse did not decompose, but only had some water off and looked a little shriveled. The corpse stepped on a lotus flower carved from pink agate, the head rested on the white jade pillow of Hetian, and the sides of the body were stuffed with various styles of jewelry, which were all of the highest quality. When the fat man saw these jewels, he immediately smiled, and without saying a word, he picked up the corpse rope and wrapped it tightly around the corpse. This set of corpse cords is soaked in cinnabar, which has the effect of restraining corpse transformation. The fat man put down his backpack, ignored the rules, and desperately stuffed all kinds of bright utensils into his bag. Mr. Chen and I were intrigued by a book that lay squarely on the corpse's chest. I saw that there was nothing wrong with the fat man's nonsense, so I reached out and picked up the book.

The pages of this book have become so brittle over the centuries that it seems to be able to crumple them into powder with a slight force. I held the book carefully, not a word was written on the cover, and I had to turn inside to understand the contents of the book. There were countless valuable objects in this coffin, all piled on both sides of the corpse's body, but the book was held on the corpse's chest, which shows that it was of extraordinary importance. I opened the book gently, it was full of scribbled handwriting, I have never been very good at ancient Chinese research, usually we encounter things related to words, it is Shirley Yang who comes out to answer, and now Shirley Yang is unconscious, I am at a loss.

Mr. Chen took the book and said, "Let me see." Chen still knows a little about this ancient text. As he spoke, he flipped through carefully, and after turning a few pages, his color gradually became solemn. I saw that he seemed very surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Chen, what is this book talking about?" ā€

Mr. Chen said slowly: "It turns out that the person in this coffin is actually the ancestor of Chen Zhen, and this book is his handwriting, which is a record of the great secret of the Chen family. I was taken aback when I heard this, and the fat man who was hurriedly picking out the Ming utensils couldn't help but stop his movements and looked at us in surprise.

Mr. Chen walked to the coffin, knelt down with a "plop", solemnly kowtowed three times, and said loudly: "Chen Suqing, a descendant of the Chen family, greets the ancestors." Today's move is really helpless, because Su Qing feels the strangeness of the Chen clan's extinction overnight, and for the sake of fulfilling Chen Zhi's ancestor's wish to return to the Chen clan, he takes the liberty to disturb and asks the ancestor for forgiveness. After that, he got up and said to me and the fat man, "You two come here, and I'll tell you what this book is about." The fat man and I hurried over, thinking that we could finally uncover the mystery of the Chen family.

Mr. Chen slowly flipped through the book, translated it into the vernacular, and said carefully: "This book was probably written by Chen Zhen's ancestor before his death, so the handwriting is sloppy and not easy to read. It is written in this book that the Chen family has guarded a big secret for generations, and the foundation of the Chen family for hundreds of years has even been stored for this secret, and now that the fall of the Ming Dynasty has become a fixed form, this secret will also be buried in this tomb forever with the demise of the Chen family.

"Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ruled both civil and military, and was a rare generation of Ming monarchs. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he passed the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunwen, but Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was ambitious and led a large army into Beijing to snatch the emperor's throne. Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to flee Kyoto. Some of Zhu Yunwen's personal guards and eunuchs took advantage of the coastal situation and faked the news of Zhu Yunwen's southward movement, but in fact, Zhu Yunwen fled in the direction of Shanhaiguan with a few personal entourage, preparing to escape from the customs. Who knew that Zhu Yunwen couldn't afford to get sick at Shanhaiguan, and Zhu Di set up a heavy truck in Shanhaiguan to strictly check pedestrians, and Zhu Yunwen couldn't escape. After a retinue of Jian yƬ beside him, Zhu Yunwen decided to defect to the Chen family. The ancestor of Chen Qihou, an official of the Chen family at that time, was loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang during his reign, and although his official position was not very high, he was very appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang. So Zhu Yunwen fled to Chen's house overnight and knocked on the door of Chen's house. This Chen family is really loyal, and they showed their loyalty at that time, only recognizing Zhu Yunwen as the king of a country, Zhu Di is a chaotic minister and thief who seeks power and usurps the throne, vowing to help Zhu Yunwen regain the throne and settle Zhu Yunwen. Since then, Zhu Yunwen has secretly lived in the Chen family, and this residence is a lifetime, until the end of his life. ā€