Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 16 Prevent Heavy Doors
Chen and Luo heard that the sappers over there were in a mess, saying that they had dug up "human heads and watermelons", and when they knew that there was a difference, they led the crowd to check. At this time, the sky will be bright, the heavy rain has stopped overnight, the gate is in the shade of the mountain, the terrain is high and dry, the flowing water is circling, after the rain stops, there will be no stagnant water and then gushing over, but the ground is dug by the sappers to the potholes, in addition to the thin mud is the sewage, bypassing several construction ditches, Chen Blind Man separated the crowd and looked inside, he was also very surprised, he couldn't help but "huh", and secretly said "weird".
It turns out that in the place more than ten feet deep underground, there are many watermelon-like things, and there are also branches and vine leaves, but they are all buried in the soil, and the concave and convex melon skin is like a human face, and the face is dotted with bloodstains.
Luo Lao crooked stepped on one with his foot, and the melon pulp inside was as red as blood, splashing a lot of red juice, and it was not like an ordinary watermelon pulp, so he whispered to Chen Blind: "Mr. Chen, my brother has been sending corpses to traffickers in Xiangxi for a while, although there are many strange things in the mountains, but I have never seen this thing, and now I don't know if it is auspicious or evil?" Although he is a murderous warlord leader, accustomed to deceptive business and deceptive deeds, after all, he is from the bottom of the old society, and he is still a little afraid of things in the dark, and he feels that digging out a melon like a human head is by no means a good sign, so he asked.
Chen Blind picked up a melon from the soil, looked at it for a long time, and then said: "Brothers, I don't know, there are only winter melons, watermelons, and pumpkins in the world, but why are there no pumpkins?" In fact, it is not true that there is none, but few people know about it. Because the pumpkin is only born in the poor mountains and bad water of Yidong, it is also called a corpse barbarian, which is the resentment of the dead, often produced from the ground, and is never seen in the world. ”
In the early years, there was a kind of saying that the ghosts of all the people who died would go down, such as in the ground under the feet of the hanged ghosts, there would be a piece of black coal; The corpse with the head cut off will give birth to a human head melon underground, which is a resentment before death that is difficult to extinguish, and it is formed into a thing, which is generally found in the execution ground and the ancient battlefield, but it is rare to see this thing when digging graves. Chen Blind Man knows all the things in the world, although he recognizes it, it is difficult to judge the good and the bad. However, the vicinity of Bottle Mountain is an ancient battlefield, the Miao people of Seventy-two Caves have been slaughtered countless times, and the souls of the dead under the Bottle Mountain must be resentful, so it is not strange to dig out the corpses in the ground, but it shows that the foot of the mountain is deeply yin, and it is not far from the tomb door.
Although Luo Lao is an illiterate and brutal warlord, he also knows that sometimes he can't speak with the head of the gun alone, and now those sappers are terrified when they see the digging of foreign objects, and they must stabilize the morale of the army, so as not to desert more and more deserters. He rolled his eyes twice, and then moved a head melon out of the mud pit, and said in his mouth: "The bridge returns to the bridge, and the road returns to the road...... The clothes belong to the pawnshop, and the East China Sea is not afraid of anything...... I'm most afraid of the young man guarding the empty room...... "He wants to use the set of spells he learned as a corpse delivery worker back then, and fake a few words to overtake the grievances, so that the sappers can have more peace of mind and don't delay the big event of tomb robbing."
Those sockets have not been used for many years, and they have long been unfamiliar, so they have to talk nonsense, but Luo Lao Crooked just said a few words, and the corpse he was holding was brute, as if he was alive, suddenly rolled down from his hand, and then rolled up the dirt slope.
The group of thieves and the soldiers were all shocked, and Luo Lao was even more startled, and sat down in the muddy water on the spot. The blind man Chen on the side was fast, and he had already swung out the small divine blade in his hand, and cut the corpse in half with a knife, it turned out that there was a black centipede in the melon, greedy for shade and residing in the melon, and at this moment it had been cut into two under the sharp blade. There are dozens of pearls the size of a fingernail in the body of the centipede, this thing is called centipede beads, not close to the mouth and nose, but there is a scabies poisonous scab on the body, and it is used to rub it repeatedly on the affected area, which can pull out the poison, which is a rare medicinal material.
Luo Lao crookedly thought it was the pearl of the night, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to dig out all the corpses in the ground, and cut them one by one to test, but there was nothing to gain, he couldn't help but lose his temper, and he didn't have the heart to do his dojo anymore, so he ordered the sappers to start work, and if he didn't dig out the tomb door of the ancient tomb in Bottle Mountain today, his grandmother was not allowed to stop and rest.
Most of the soldiers of the sapper digging battalion were big smokers, and after digging all night, they were already exhausted and yawning for days, and a few of them could not support their addiction to smoking, and they collapsed on the ground on the spot, and were immediately dragged to the forest to die. This method of killing one to make an example of a hundred really worked, and the rest had to continue to dig with a big shovel and a big hoe.
If there is a word, it will be long, and if there is no word, it will be short, and this digging will be dug until noon, and sure enough, in the depths of the underground where there are corpses, a magnificent stone gate will be dug up.
It turned out that it happened that yesterday night, the wind, rain, thunder and lightning were intertwined, and Chen Blind's method of listening to the wind and thunder was being used, and he could hear the underground echoes in the thunderstorm, and concluded that the tomb gate was at the foot of the mountain, but it was buried very deep, and there would be something to be gained by digging all the way. If ordinary tomb robbers didn't have the ability to listen to the cave and find the hidden, otherwise even if hundreds of sappers were tired and vomited blood, it would be impossible to dig up the tomb door so quickly.
Luo Lao was overjoyed and ordered the sappers who dug up the stone gate to be rewarded with two taels of high-quality Fushou ointment. As he spoke, he and Chen Blind led a group of thieves to go over, pushing away the tired sappers, only to see that the dark blue stone gate was divided into two doors, both of which were more than three people high, and the horizontal part was also very wide, like a closed city gate. The stone door buried deep in the ground is extremely heavy, I am afraid that it is not less than three or five thousand catties, and the lead water and iron juice poured in the gap between the door cracks are poured tightly, and there is no place to pry with a steel drill. The ancient cemetery is very large, although there is no jewelry and jade in the side hall, but according to local legends, the rare things that Emperor Daojun worshiped the gods were hidden in a deep well in the main hall, Luo Lao was crooked and greedy, thinking of this, he only felt that his throat was dry, and he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.
At this time, there are sharp-eyed thieves who found that there are ancient characters chiseled on the stone door, and they look at the soil, but they don't recognize that the thieves in the mountains are all green forest horses, although there are some of them with ink in their stomachs, but after all, they are shallow in their knowledge and can't recognize what ancient seals are carved. But this curiosity is shared by everyone, the more I can't understand it, the more I want to know what it is, in the past, I have stolen a lot of ancient tombs, and I have never seen the words on the tomb door, which is not suitable for the burial system.
In this group, only the thief Chen Blind is a well-educated person, and often thinks that he is full of allusions, and he is invited to the front by the group of thieves to see the ancient seal on the stone door. With just one glance, Chen's blind man's heart was like fifteen buckets fetching water, moving seven up and eight down. It turned out that a line of big characters on the tomb door was not a stele engraved seal book, but a curse from the tomb owner to the people who touched the gold in the mound of hair. Although the tomb is buried by the Mongols, the tomb robbers have always been Han people, so these words are carved with Chinese characters, which is the seal on the stele, but not the ancient seal, and the content is to the tomb robbers who dare to move this yin house, and have done a lot of resentful and evil curses.
Chen Blind is the leader of the Ridge, his life is dedicated to the ancient tombs and mounds in various places, and he has never believed in these nonsense words that tomb robbery will be retributed, but standing in front of the big stone gate of the tomb road, he actually felt that he was so strange, and a sense of foreboding arose, and he faintly felt that there was a huge danger buried in the darkness behind this door, and once he broke the door, what was waiting for everyone would be a nightmare. There is a saying that "the sky cannot be bullied, you have not thought about it before you move, everything will be rewarded in the end, and you only strive to come early and late", the tomb robbery has done a lot, even if it is a giant thief who is rampant in the world, it is inevitable that there will be a time when the heart is empty.
But how can there be a turning arrow when the bow is opened, hundreds of pairs of eyes are staring at the blind man, and he is not allowed to hesitate and fear, these thoughts are just a turn, he pointed to the tomb door and said to the group of thieves: "Try to read the tablet, it is the old Ying...... These are all the names of the tomb owner, and the inscription on the stone door is the custom of those Fanzi of the Western Regions, and we don't have to be less and more strange. ”
The group of thieves nodded again and again, and secretly gave a thumbs up in their hearts. Luo Lao smiled crookedly: "Sure enough, Mr. Chen has a lot of knowledge, and I can't recognize half of the bird characters of these ghost talismans." After speaking, he nodded and called the engineer battalion commander: "Come on, quickly prepare explosives for Lao Tzu, and knock down the ** door of this person!" ”
Since ancient times, the tomb robbery has been a long hoe and shovel, digging a tomb and destroying a tomb, never caring about anything, immediately leaving twenty or thirty sappers who know how to bury cannon holes, let them dig holes in the tomb door to blow up the door. The bluestone gate is hard and heavy, leaving only a white spot when a chisel goes down, this kind of work can not be completed in a moment, and the rest take the opportunity to eat and sleep in the forest, recuperate and wait for the tomb to be poured down.
In the afternoon, the blasting sound of the last few blast holes resounded through the mountains, and the tomb door of several thousand catties was finally blown open, only to see a lot of smoke rumbling out of the tomb door, only to stop until the jade rabbit rose eastward. The group of thieves expected that the bad luck in the tomb road had been blown away by the mountain wind, and they went in to explore it, and cried bitterly, it turned out that the depths of the tomb were blocked by stones, and those stones were surprisingly large, and the small ones were about two hundred catties. In the cemetery, it was not easy to use explosives to forcibly blast it, so I had to send sappers to dig out the nostrils of the ox in the stone, tie it with a thick rope, and drive the mule and horse to forcibly drag it outward.
This time is quite time-consuming, and it took a day and night of effort, so anxious that Luo Lao scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, but Chen Blind knew that this kind of "cutting the mountain for the coffin, wearing the stone to hide" The ancient tomb of the Yuan Dynasty should be like this, if it was not arranged like this, wouldn't it have been stolen by someone for hundreds of years? So he calmed down and commanded the group of thieves to excavate step by step, and when all the stones were transported out, a stone gate on the inner side was chiseled, and the long tomb road was exposed. Judging from the material structure of these huge stone tomb doors, they are all dismantling the Taoist temple on the bottle mountain, and blocking the tomb road with those stone steps and stone beams to prevent thieves, and the tomb road at the entrance of this section is still far from the underworld gate of the underground palace, I don't know how many portals there are, and some organs are indispensable in the middle of the arrangement.
A group of thieves lined up in front of the door, some carrying improvised bags of herbs and lime to deal with the poisonous insects and mirages lurking in the tomb; There are also those who drag a number of centipedes to hang mountain ladders, which are used to build ladders in the ancient cemetery palace and build bridges when encountering water; Each person in the front row carried a large bundle of straw, which contained nine layers of leather, all drenched in water, and the other group of thieves carried rattan plaques to shield the fire and arrows in the tomb; Luo Lao's troops also smoked enough smoke, and the guns were loaded with bullets, just waiting for the leader's order.
Chen Blind saw hundreds of men standing in front of the tomb, and couldn't help but feel proud, although this formation was not as good as the hundreds of thousands of troops digging the imperial tomb of the Han Dynasty, it was also considerable. Seeing that the thieves who have fallen into the sunset of the West Mountain, now under their own leadership, they seem to have the image of Zhongxing, and the pride in their chests suddenly became angry, so they said loudly to everyone: "We are not born to be horse thieves, just because of the chaos in today's world, instead of suffering in the dire straits, it is better to go to the green forest road to be a hero and make some moves to make a move, so as to teach the world to be impressed." The underground palace behind this tomb is full of gold and silver treasures of the burial, are these Ming artifacts really the ancient corpses in the tomb? Which one did they not loot from the people? He was used in life, and after he died, he had to rot together with him, did he really think that the old man on his head had no eyes? Now it is the cycle of the Heavenly Dao, and we take it for the Heavenly Dao, which is called a retribution and a retribution. Brothers, those who can do extraordinary things must be heroes, as the saying goes, the bold can win the world, be careful and difficult to move an inch, let go of the courage to fight with me! ”
The group of thieves responded and followed the thieves into the tomb, Luo Lao also pulled out his gun, and added a few words for Chen Blind as he walked, shouting: "Everyone who moves forward is rewarded, and those who retreat are ...... It is inevitable to eat Lao Tzu's gun. I'm cāo his grandmother, don't keep any of those **-like Ming utensils, and let Lao Tzu move back to Shuaifu! ”
Chen Blind is good at reading people's faces, and knows that although Luo Lao is an acute living Hades, he is also mixed up on the green forest road, and he is very righteous, and he has to count on Chen Blind to rob tombs in the future, and he will not do anything against the water. At this time, he, the warlord leader who is addicted to tomb robbery and has a habit of peeking at corpses, wants to follow him to the underground palace, which naturally does not matter, but some of the pistol and even soldiers guarding outside the tomb gate are commanded by an adjutant of Luo Laocrook, although it is his cronies, it is not very reassuring. He was scheming, so he ordered the red girl to stay with a group of unloading thieves to avoid sudden changes.
The group of thieves covered their faces with black cloth and rushed into the tomb. In the front row were the thieves holding long bundles of straw and pigeon coops hanging from their waists, and in the back there were special lanterns, candles, and lanterns. This tomb road was originally the dome road in front of the alchemy immortal hall, the ancient road is wide and smooth, can pass the carriage, every ten steps on both sides, there are Huabiao-like stone pillars, about one person is high, originally placed for the purpose of lighting.
Recently, there has been a lot of rain in the mountains, and there is a slight seepage of water in the tombway, and in the silent and dark distance, there is a ticking sound. The door of the tomb has been closed for a long time, and it is difficult to get rid of the bad luck, and everyone is worried that there are poisonous insects in this section of the tomb, so they advance very slowly. At each point, they left a lamp on the lamppost by the wall, and if they saw a crack in the wall, they immediately plugged it with lime.
After walking three or four hundred steps, the tomb road gradually widened, but there were many thieves, and they still couldn't help but feel that their breathing was cramped and depressed, and the lights were very dim because of the bad air. At the end of the road is a vermilion brick wall, which is like a city wall, and there is no roof, and there is a round arched gate hole below, and the two gates with copper nails are not tightly closed, but the door knocker is locked by iron chains. The mute Kunlun Moeller picked up the axe, and with a few axes, he broke the chains.
Blind Chen raised his finger and pointed to the front, and ordered someone to use a centipede to hang on the top of the mountain ladder to open the copper nail door, several thieves poked out four long ladders, and the front end was pushed to the door, and the two doors were slowly pushed open with the rusty sound of creaking. The thieves held their breath, staring at the tomb door, not knowing what was going on inside. But as soon as the door of this tomb opened, I heard a woman's terrible scream inside, and the woman's screams sounded particularly thrilling in the tomb passage, and the brains of the thieves were numb.