Chapter 5 Causes

Not to mention tofu, even I have a twitch in my heart, and anyone who knows that there is a coffin under their house, I am afraid they will not treat it indifferently. I turned the light on the coffin, and although I didn't get closer, my eyesight was not bad, and I could see at a glance that it was a not very good cypress coffin, with a full arc top, which looked very new, and obviously had not been buried in the earth.

The coffin seems to have been specially made to hold something.

What can be in a coffin? Naturally, it's dead.

My heart sank, and I said to Tofu, you are guarding outside, beware of anyone coming in, I will go down and take a look. “

Tofu nodded, climbed out of the cellar to let the wind outside, and for a moment, I was the only one left in the dark cellar facing the coffin below. After Tofu left, I didn't delay much and walked down the wooden staircase of the earthen chamber below. Since there are stairs, there must be people who walk around a lot, could it be that grandpa used to come to this place often?

At this moment, there was a desk and a cabinet behind me, and the coffin in front of me, and I didn't rush to move the coffin, but began to check the contents of the desk and cabinet.

My grandfather didn't read in his early years, and he only learned it after Bai Laosi, but at that time, he was old and learned to write and write more slowly, so it was rare to see him reading books, and I didn't expect there to be a desk here. The surface of the desk was empty, nothing was placed, and under the desk, there were three drawers, and when I reached out and pulled, the drawers were opened, and the first thing that caught my eye was a pile of old photos.

The first photo is a thin middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and a straw hat, this is when my grandfather was young, his skin was darker, and the most special thing is that there is a black pen pinned to the front pocket of the shirt. In those days, it was a great thing to be able to use a fountain pen, representing culture and status.

I immediately realized that this was supposed to be a photo of my grandfather when he was still working on the archaeological team.

On closer inspection, there is a hill in the background, and there are some people walking in the back, which looks like a work site.

I said in my heart: No wonder there are no previous photos at home, it turns out that my grandfather has collected them in this place. Then, I took out the photo and began to scroll down carefully. In the photo, I saw some acquaintances, such as Professor Lin when he was young, such as Chen Ci when he was young. These photos are older than the one Zhao Erye showed me before.

At that time, Chen Ci was still a teenager, facing the camera, sitting on the high ground of an excavation site, with a faint expression, pursing his lips and staring at the busy staff in the grave.

There are a lot of photos in this stack, all of which are relatively large in size, and at that time, taking pictures seemed to be a luxury, and if it weren't for my grandfather's work in the archaeological team, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to leave so many photos.

Then, underneath the pile of photos, I found a notebook wrapped in the same skin as the one my grandfather had left me. My heart jumped, and I quickly opened the notebook, which was full of dense notes, and I forcibly suppressed the excitement in my heart, and carefully read the contents of this notebook.

It was a long story, but it brought me a very important piece of news, and it wasn't until I closed my laptop that I felt like my heart was beating like a drum.

This diary records the origin of this basement and this coffin, and this coffin, to be exact, the person in the coffin, hides a thrilling past behind it.

This incident, in terms of time, happened 20 years ago, when I should have been eight years old, and Chen Ci had already died in the tomb of the Giant Ear King.

Eight years ago, his son disappeared, and his grandfather noticed that something had happened to Chen Ci, at that time, he was wandering in whether to look for Chen Ci, because his grandfather didn't know that Chen Ci later came out of the tomb of King Giant Ear alive, and handed over a silk book to Zhao Erye, so at that time, Grandpa thought that Chen Ci died in the tomb of King Giant Ear, and to find Chen Ci's body, he must enter the ancient tomb.

Back then, Bai Laosi found the clue of the face of the ghost in the tomb of the Giant Ear King, and transferred the curse to his grandfather. Later, my grandfather once ventured into the tomb of the Giant Ear King, but who knew that it was so dangerous that he couldn't even approach the center of the ancient tomb, so he broke his leg. It is precisely because of this that the grandfather can no longer fight in the later period, and Chen Ci will later enter the tomb of the Giant Ear King alone in order to find the curse of the face of the ghost.

In a certain way, Chenci is technically better than blue, because Grandpa didn't get anything when he went, but Chenci got a silk book.

Obviously, this silk book is the key clue to unlock the face of the ghost concubine of ten thousand demons, but that damn old man Zhao actually threw me a sentence and stole something.

At that time, Grandpa didn't know these inside information, his foot was injured, and it was impossible to break into the tomb of the Giant Ear King again, but at the same time, Chen Ci may die inside, or Chen Ci may be trapped, and these thoughts are waiting for someone to rescue, in Grandpa's mind, who can abandon his offspring?

Of course grandpa can't, what's more, the statement is his pride.

But grandpa knew in his heart that he was just going to die.

He is not a reckless person, when Bai Laosi brought so many people in, in the end, he was the only one who came out alive, and he almost died, although the name of the ghost king Chen Siyuan is well-known on the road, but grandpa understands that this is just a person on the road, and he is too far behind the master Bai Laosi.

Bai Laosi almost died in it, and he had personally experienced the horrors of the tomb of the Giant Ear King, so even if his grandfather's heart was like a knife, he could only calm down and think carefully about the countermeasures, and he had to think of a perfect way, how to enter the tomb of the Giant Ear King?

Who is buried in the tomb? This qiē is an unknown, that year, I happened to be born, it is estimated that Chen Ci went with the determination to die, left a descendant for the Chen family, and went to the tomb of the giant ear king to adventure. As soon as he died, the grandfather thought about it, and if something happened to him, what would the grandson do?

The things in the tomb of the Giant Ear King can be said to be the key to unlocking the curse of the ghost face, and now that I think about it, the silk book stolen by Chen Ci is likely to be the key to entering the tomb of the Giant Ear King. How dangerous the tomb is, the notes don't mention it, but what can make the flying knife Bai Laosi, the ghost king Chen Siyuan, and Chen Ci break one after another, just thinking about it, you know how powerful it is.

After weighing it repeatedly, the grandfather finally sighed, knowing that he could not leave his grandson behind, nor would he have the opportunity to enter the tomb of the Giant Ear King. He is half-crippled in one leg, and he is also old, and it is even more fantastical to go to the tomb of the Giant Ear King, and only by thoroughly understanding the origin of this tomb can it be possible to find Chen, or his body, and it is possible to break the curse.

From there, Grandpa began to collect information related to the tomb of the Giant Ear King.

Time is eight years in a flash, that is, 20 years ago, when I was eight years old, my grandfather entrusted me to Uncle Ge to take care of, and I only went out to do errands, and it was two months in a flash. I remember this, when my grandfather left, I was very unaccustomed, at that time I didn't know that my grandfather was a native master, so I cried for a long time, and two months later, with my grandfather, there was a thin old man.

The old man had long sparse hair and a bun, and seemed to be a Taoist priest in his forties, but he was not wearing a Taoist robe, and when he came, he also brought me a book of books, pens, paper, and snacks as gifts, and my grandfather asked me to call him Grandpa Ma, and left after living in our house for a while.

What did Grandpa do in those two months? That experience is recorded in this notebook.

It turned out that at that time, grandpa inquired about the clues of the tomb of the giant ear king.

The Tomb of the Giant Ear King, located in the reckless mountains of western Yunnan, after years of unremitting exploration, Grandpa speculated some information about the owner of the Giant Ear King Tomb. Since ancient times, Yunnan has been a gathering place for many ethnic groups, and the geographical shape shì from the plateau to the deep valley is all included, and this land has also derived countless ancient civilizations, and about the giant ear king, it comes from a mysterious ancient country, and the history books record it as the country of mourning.

Ailao Kingdom, the "Daguang Kingdom" recorded in the Dai historical books, is said to be a tribal alliance country established by the ancestors of the Dai people in the valley from the Nu River to the Lancang River.

The earliest king of the Daguang Kingdom who had contact with the Han Dynasty was called "Ailao", so the historians of the Han Dynasty called the Daguang Kingdom "Ailao Country". Because the people in the Daguang area are good at riding elephants, and the living environment is similar to the Yue people in the south of the Han Dynasty, they were mistaken for a branch of the Yue people by the Han Dynasty, and the Daguang Kingdom is also called "Yunnan Yue Elephant Country".

Nowadays, historians are more accustomed to calling it the Ailao State or the Yunnan Yue Kingdom.

There are many ethnic groups in Yunnan, the ancient Ailao country is a native country after the development of local civilization, before the annexation into the Han Dynasty, it is said to be a gem everywhere, rich and troubled place, in the history of the Yunnan land, and the famous Nanzhao is famous, but with the Ailao and Han, the history, humanity and customs of Ailao have gradually faded away, this ancient country, finally in an invisible attitude, slowly disappeared in the long river of history,

But it is worth mentioning that the ancient Ailao country and the Han Dynasty were not smooth, in the area in the middle of the Nu River, in that stretching mountains, there was a group of people who adhered to their own civilization, and they eventually became the guardians of the Ailao civilization, but in less than a hundred years, they mysteriously disappeared.

About the ancient Ailao country, there have been records since the beginning of history, and descendants have also added, grandpa once went to the tomb of the giant ear king, that is the specifications of the royal tomb, combined with the region and history, grandpa speculated at the time, the owner of the tomb, is likely to be an ancient king in Yunnan, after more than eight years of tracking, grandpa finally locked his eyes on the Ailao country.

Following this clue, I found clues about the tomb of the Giant Ear King.