Chapter 7: The Vertical Cave Tomb
Grandpa was a cautious man, and the next day he found a high ground to watch the mountains and rivers. Grandpa doesn't know much about the funeral customs of the ancient Ailao country, because the late Ailao was strictly sinicized, and the tombs followed the funeral customs of the Han Dynasty.
The mountain gathers aura, the hill is out of the spirit, the grandfather looks at the mountain shape, and finds that this place is a good place, the mountains stretch into the Wolong, under the careful count, it is the state of the nine dragons, the dragon's head gathers into a group, each facing the sky, and the middle seems to be guarding something. The tomb of the Giant Ear King, far away from here, is separated by a dragon vein, and under the condition that there is no road at that time, it must have been formed for seven days and six nights. Grandpa stared at one of the dragon veins and thought: At the end of this mountain dragon is the tomb of the Giant Ear King, which is the place where the Nine Dragons are guarded.
Of course, this law does not necessarily refer to Feng Shui, in fact, Feng Shui Feng Shui covers two meanings, one is to look at the invisible wind from the perspective of metaphysics, to see the invisible qi, and the other is from the geographical point of view, for example, even people who do not understand Feng Shui know that people cannot live or bury people in sparse and damp places, which is the most basic prototype of Feng Shui.
Feng Shui, you must first learn to see the tangible, and then you can see the intangible.
Although I don't understand the funeral customs of the traditional mourning prison, but the ancient mourning prison is a multi-ethnic country, so it is also a multi-faith country, some people believe in Buddhism, and a large number of people believe in the local shaman, because the shaman is a primitive religion, so the form is different in various places, but in the funeral customs, it follows the practice of separating man and god.
Although the tomb of the Queen of the Treasure Elephant does not follow the Chinese Feng Shui, from a religious point of view, the tomb of the Giant Ear King is at the head of the dragon, so the tomb of the Queen of the Treasure Elephant is likely to be located in the tail of the dragon, and at this time, the tail of the dragon is faintly visible, just behind the mountain. Grandpa came to a conclusion, everyone immediately prepared dry food and fire, packed up and entered the mountain, the process does not need to be repeated, about two days, the four of them arrived at the tail of the dragon.
At this time, the art of watching the mountains and rivers and looking at the tomb is useless, so the traditional method of looking at the soil can only be used.
According to the soil and stone structure on the mountain, everyone roughly deduced several places suitable for tombs, and spent three days positioning with Luoyang shovels. Grandpa ran over to take a look, but saw that from the soil layer ten meters deep, countless pitch-black sawdust came out, and the sawdust was faintly red, and it seemed that there had been a lacquer color.
Grandpa didn't know how to do it, but Ma Popi knew it well, put the Luoyang shovel in front of his nose, closed his eyes and sniffed carefully, and when he opened his eyes again, he said: "The breath is depressed and the taste is stagnant, the color is red and black, and there is a tomb below, no less than 1,800 years." "As soon as it was calculated, it was about the same as the historical time of the Mourning Prison Country, and everyone cheered up and immediately began to fight the thief hole.
In this deep mountain, there is no need to do the earth, the four of them threw off their arms and did it, and the robbery hole ten meters deep was only a moment's work.
This tomb is a stone tomb, there are no tomb bricks, the top is sealed with a block of stones, everyone moved the stone, and a dark wind immediately blew up below, at that time the tomb robbery tools were still relatively primitive, grandpa took a look inside with a soft iron flashlight, and was suddenly startled, and said: "I have never seen such a tomb." But there was no burial chamber or burial passage below, but a deep cave that went straight down, and it was impossible to see to the end, and on the walls of the cave around it, there were many pieces of wood embedded in the stone walls, and at a glance, it was as if there were thorns on the cave walls.
After more than 1,800 years, some of the wood has been broken, some of it is complete, all in the shape of the four-four method, the closest to the grandfather, the upward side, under the light of the flashlight, faintly emitting a strange light. Grandpa was old, his old eyes were dizzy, and he couldn't see what was reflecting the light for a while, but he heard the thin chicken say in a trembling voice: "Ouch mom, it's a gem, the stake has a groove cut out of it, and it's full of gems!" "Listening to the voice, it's already exciting.
Grandpa was shocked, and said in his heart, according to legend, the ancient Ailao country is rich in gems, it seems that it is not fake, the queen of the treasure elephant has been buried in such a battle, and I don't know what kind of scene it will be in the depths of the tomb of the giant ear king.
Grandpa didn't pay much attention to money at that time, he was an honest man, when he robbed the tomb, he was also coerced by Bai Laosi, and then encountered the curse of the ghost's face, coupled with the suffering of relatives, grandma died, grandpa felt that it was the retribution of his tomb robbery, so he was determined not to fight again because of money, and he saw many gems at this time, although it was dazzling, but he was not moved.
He said to everyone: "This vertical cave tomb may be the tomb form of the ancient Ailao Kingdom, presumably the queen of treasure elephants should be placed at the bottom of this cave." ”
The thin chicken has a lot of eyes, looking down, the vertical hole is bottomless, black, like the open mouth of a monster, and a yin wind blows up from below. There is nothing to climb on the wall hole except for the wooden stake, although there is a rope, but it seems that the length of the rope is certainly not enough, if you want to go down to the depths, you must finally climb on the wooden stake with your bare hands, and if you are not careful, you will fall to pieces.
Rather than this, why not take all the gems from the nearby wooden stakes, that is, these gems, after being sold, ordinary people will not be able to spend them in a lifetime, why take that risk to go down to the bottom of the tomb again? As soon as he thought about it, he brought up the idea, and grandpa was not happy, if it was me, when I encountered that kind of situation, I would definitely kick the chicken away, let him roll as far as he wanted, don't shake people's hearts here, but grandpa is a kind person, and thought: What he said is right, if these three people are unwilling, I can only go down and find out by myself.
Although Ma Popi is a person who drills money, but aside from money, he is very righteous, and he has long learned that his grandfather is not only here for money, so he scolded his apprentice and said: "You are a liar, what kind of onion, dare to talk to your master and my brother like this, believe it or not, I will kick you down with one kick, and I will kill you now." ”
Qiu Da was stunned and was a good man, seeing the master scolding the junior brother, he hurriedly protected the thin chicken and said: "Master is angry, junior brother can't speak, don't be angry, let's go down, Uncle Chen wants to do something, me and my junior brother obey the instructions." When Ma Popi heard this, he was satisfied, and said to his grandfather: "Brother, children are not sensible, don't worry about them, let's go down." ”
Grandpa was moved and nodded, and the four of them fixed the rope, threw the rope into the hole, and immediately went down the rope.
This rope is twenty-five meters long, and it is enough in an ordinary tomb, but I didn't expect to encounter this vertical cave tomb, and it was suddenly a big shorter. Everyone went down more than 20 meters, seeing that the rope was at the end, but the hole below was still bottomless, grandpa's body swayed, his body swayed in the air, and he stepped on the wooden stake that stood out next to him, and found that the wooden stake was well preserved, and it was no problem to support a person, so he said: "We have to rely on our skills next, one by one, I will take the lead first." ”
After all, these three people accompanied themselves to Fan Danger, and Grandpa was a kind man, so he took the lead in front of the thunder, climbed the stakes, tossed and turned between the thorn-like stakes, and tried to find the strongest stakes, while Ma Popi and the others followed his route, and they were safe and sound for a while.
Carefully went down another ten meters or so, grandpa pinned a flashlight on his waist, faintly could already be seen, some gray-white things were revealed under the hole, it seemed to be about to end, who knew that at this moment, Qiu Da suddenly screamed, and the hoarse voice broke the peace of this thousand-year-old tomb, but he heard him say: "Master, there is a person there!" ”
Person?
Grandpa was startled, looked up, he had been thinking about the thunder before, so he was single-minded, and he didn't look around, but Qiu Da was stunned but had the time to look around, and found that on the wooden stake not far away, there was a black thing lying on his stomach, which looked like a child lying on his stomach.
As soon as Grandpa looked up, the lights were also gathered in one place, so he could see more clearly, and when he looked closely, it was indeed a child.
But the child is really terrifying, the whole person is tied to a stake, has become a dry corpse, there are no eyeballs in the eye sockets, but a pair of rubies inlaid in it, the mouth is wide open, and a ruby is also stuffed, ** On the corpse outside, there are gems falling here and there, which seems to be a child corpse used for burial.
Thousands of years ago, various tribes, countries, continents, some separated by mountains, some separated by rivers, some separated by the sea, and there was no contact, but in terms of tombs, it is strikingly similar, all of them are mostly tombs, most of them will have coffins, and the ancient magnates and princes want to be buried with the living, which is also amazingly similar.
It's a mystery that puzzles everyone.
Grandpa saw the corpse of the child stuffed with gems, sighed, felt pity for the child, and then remembered the grandson of the family, that is, me, for a while his heart was full of regret and love, just when this complex feelings were intertwined, in the dark hole, suddenly there was a squeak, but the wooden stakes under everyone's feet could not bear the weight for a long time, and there were signs of breakage.
Everyone was only concerned with observing the poor burial child's corpse, which stood for too long for a while, causing this disaster, and when they tried to react, where did it come, the wooden stake broke in an instant, and the bodies of the four fell in the air, and from time to time they were hit by the wooden stakes below. Fortunately, it was almost to the end, and there were wooden stakes as a buffer, although everyone fell from a height, they did not hurt their lives, but at the moment they landed, they still fell and fainted.