Chapter 55: Nine-Star Lotus Terrace
Walking out of the tomb, I glanced back at the mandala flower, the blood red is still bewitching, it seems that this kind of thing is only suitable for growing on Huangquan Road.
Highly poisonous things are not shallow, and inhaling pollen tightly can cause the mind to be confused and make people lose their minds. So if the flowers bloom on the ground for a thousand years, how many innocent souls will die tragically.
After everyone came out, after finding the switch outside, closed the door of Huangquan Road. We don't know whether Princess Tongchang will come and go on the Huangquan Road built especially for her, but we have walked on her Huangquan Road.
Fortunately, it is not the real Huangquan Road, and there is no danger except for the poison of the mandala flower. But the next trip is even more difficult, because Uncle Zheng said that after crossing Huangquan Road, it will be a netherworld.
I started to feel a little dizzy and tired. In this damp and cold underground, although I don't feel the heat or pain, I am shirtless when my sleeves are torn off, and the clothes on my body are wet. It is inevitable that there will be some abnormalities in the body, and it is reasonable.
"Big head, are you cold?" I asked the big head walking beside me, trying to determine what kind of environment I was in.
The big head turned to look at me and said, "Don't you know hot and cold?" I also felt cold. This place is fucking uncomfortable, although it is not as cold as the place where the living corpse is, but it is dry and cold here, and the wind blows like a knife on the face, and it hurts. ”
There was wind here, no wonder I felt something was wrong as soon as I came in, turned around and looked behind, except for the crooked mouth and I almost didn't have the slightest reaction, Uncle Zheng and they all wrapped themselves tightly. It seems that this wind is really cold.
I stepped up my pace to get out of here, and although I didn't feel the cold, my body could feel uncomfortable, and my nose was already starting to runny. It's really not a good thing to be sick in this cold tomb.
For me to suddenly speed up the pace, the people behind me didn't say anything, just followed. Besides, my head was a little dizzy, and even if the pace had picked up a bit, it wasn't much at all.
The tomb is not very long, and in about ten minutes, I came across a stone gate, which appeared without warning. It's like telling a wall to suddenly appear in the middle of a running railroad track.
After seeing the stone gate, we had to stop and check if there was any trap in the stone gate. Now it has become a must to check the stone gate trap every time you encounter the stone gate, and in this ancient tomb, no matter what you do, you must put safety first.
"Ye Qiang, don't look at it, the stone door is fine, just open it." Uncle Zheng sat on the ground and shouted to me, who was checking the stone gate trap.
I turned to look at Uncle Zheng, and he continued: "This stone gate should have been added by the people behind it, and I don't know what the purpose is. This stone gate is indeed safe, and there will be no traps. But what will happen behind the stone door, I don't know, just open it, be careful after opening. ”
I believe in Uncle Zheng's ability very much. When I was with them before, if it weren't for Uncle Zheng's knowledge, I might have been buried in this ancient tomb a long time ago.
Without continuing to check whether there was a trap, or looking for the mechanism to open the stone gate, I crashed into the stone gate with Datou, Datuan, Crooked Mouth, and Zheng Wen.
After only one collision, the stone door was knocked open. Behind the stone gate is still the tomb road, which is no different from the section we walked before, so it is not clear what the real intention of the person who made this stone gate is.
There wasn't much time to worry about, and after the stone door opened, a few of us entered the tomb again. It's just that the tomb is darker, and the wind blows in the tomb, and the sound formed is a little eerie, which makes people shudder when they hear it.
"Big head, Ye Qiang, stop and go back." As I was walking forward quickly, I heard Uncle Zheng behind me suddenly shouting eagerly at me and Datou.
When Datou and I heard Uncle Zheng's shouting, we stopped and turned around to look, only to see Uncle Zheng on Zheng Wen's back with a very eager expression and continued to shout to me and Datou: "Hurry up, you two take a few steps back." ”
That's when I realized that I and Datou had separated from them about ten meters away. Since Uncle Zheng asked us to go back, I believed that he would definitely not harm me, so I pulled up my head and ran back a few steps.
I had just run a few steps when I heard a loud "bump" behind me, followed by two vibrations on the ground, and I almost fell to the ground without standing firmly.
After standing up and glancing at the back, he immediately ran a few steps in the direction of Uncle Zheng. I didn't expect the ground behind me to have sunken, and I just happened to be standing on the edge and looking back, and now I am still a little scared.
The pit was not deep, nor was it very big, but it was full of sharpened pillars, and if you fell down, you would definitely be pierced to the heart.
Now that I think about it, it was really dangerous, we had already reached the center of the big crater, and if we had been a second late, we might have fallen.
I wiped the cold sweat from my head, came to Uncle Zheng's side and said to him, "Thank you just now, I almost died here." But Uncle Zheng, what should we do next, this road can't be taken. ”
Uncle Zheng smiled, stroked his goatee, and said to me, "You ran too fast just now, and you didn't hear me when I shouted to stop." In fact, there is another secret door in this tomb, and it is there. ”
He pointed his hand at the wall of the tomb. I admire Uncle Zheng's ability very much, the escape route that Wang Xuanling designed for himself can be dug out of the wall by him, not to mention that there is a secret door in this wall.
After listening to Uncle Zheng's words, I didn't say a word, and dug up there with the big head and the big group. After digging out a few tomb bricks over there, a stone door appeared, but I didn't know that this stone door would be sealed in the wall of the tomb road.
"Ye Qiang, you look for any traps on the stone gate, and then look for the mechanism that opens the stone gate." Even if Uncle Zheng doesn't say that, that's exactly what I plan.
The road over there is impassable, and we won't go back, so this stone gate is the only way we have now. After carefully searching, he didn't find any danger, so he activated the switch to open the stone door, and the stone door slowly opened.
Behind the stone gate, it was brightly lit, as bright as day. The big head went in at the front and exclaimed, "What a fucking bright hall." But then there was a fright: "Mom, people, alive, there are people." ”
The big head was a little incoherent and pointed in the direction of the lamp. I looked over and was also startled, and saw a row of beautiful women dressed in maid costumes standing there, as if they were alive, holding the oil lamp high above their heads, and the light came from the burning oil lamp.
"They are dead, and that is the lamp, and they are the primers of the lamp." In Uncle Zheng's words, there are a lot of helplessness and regret, and even some heartache.
Seeing that several of us were looking at him with puzzled eyes, Uncle Zheng explained to us: "At that time, the emperor's love for ordinary princesses was extraordinary, and this everlasting lantern that could only appear in the emperor's mausoleum came in handy. These are all maids who were martyred for Princess Tongchang, and they were made into introductions by special methods. ”
The next person to speak was Kong Sanye, and Kong Sanye continued Uncle Zheng's words and began to speak: "This method can not only keep the appearance of these maids from changing, and the flesh will not decay, but also the burning oil lamp burns the corpse oil in the bodies of these maids. I didn't expect that more than a thousand years later, this lamp is still on. It seems that the body of Princess Tongchang is not far from here. ”
I cautiously glanced at the lifelike maid, and even the mole on her face could be seen clearly. Thankfully, the maids' eyes were closed, and that was already a little creepy to me, and if all of them were open, I might not have the courage to stay here any longer.
Walking along the tomb to the inside, I counted the two halves of the maids, and there were about forty or fifty. The two maids at the front of the lead are obviously different from others in their costumes, and they look more noble.
Uncle Zheng stood in front of the maid on the left, stared at it tightly for a long time, and said, "You rest in peace", then walked forward in a somewhat depressed mood and stopped looking.
"Uncle Zheng, do you know that maid?" I looked at Uncle Zheng's movements a little strangely, and asked a question equivalent to asking in vain, this girl is thousands of years old, and Uncle Zheng is no more than seventy at most, how can they know each other.
However, Uncle Zheng's answer was a little unexpected to me: "I know, she is a member of our Zheng family in Xingyang." In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, our family began to decline, so this is why such a thing happened. It is recorded in the Zheng family tree, and I have seen her portrait in the Zheng family collection, so I can recognize it. I didn't expect to see it, hehe. ”
I don't know if Uncle Zheng laughed helplessly, whether he was laughing at the decline of the Zheng family in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, or laughing at the ignorance of that era and not taking human life seriously, or laughing at himself again.
In the center of the burial chamber, there is an offering platform, on which there is no tablet or portrait, but only a lotus platform.
"Nine Star Lotus Terrace?" Kong Sanye looked at the lotus platform that was only placed on the altar, and exclaimed with some surprise. We didn't really know what this thing was, so we all focused our eyes on Kong Sanye.
Kong Sanye looked at us all and began to explain. The Nine-Star Lotus Terrace, which can also be called the Nine-Star Lotus Terrace, is a Buddhist thing. Legend has it that after completing the practice, you can enter the Western Elysium and sit on the lotus platform. The grade of the lotus platform that sits on should be judged according to the depth of cultivation during his lifetime, and this nine-rank lotus platform is the highest grade.
I looked at the lotus platform and wondered why this thing was here. And it was still placed on the offering table, the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't figure it out, so I asked Uncle Zheng next to me: "Uncle Zheng, shouldn't there be a tablet or something on this offering table, how can there be things?" ”
Uncle Zheng looked at me and said, "We just came from Huangquan Road, so who in the Netherworld Mansion are qualified to sit on the Nine Star Lotus Terrace?" ”
In the Netherworld, there is really such a person who is worthy of this lotus platform. It is the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth who issued "All sentient beings are exhausted, the proof of Bodhi, the hell is not empty, and the vow is not to become a Buddha". It's just that I still don't understand a little bit, why is there a Jizo King Bodhisattva here, "Uncle Zheng, in this tomb of Princess Tongchang, how can it be offered to the Jizo King Bodhisattva?" ”