Volume 2 The Eye of the Deep Chapter 51
The second uncle pointed to the things on the top of the tomb and said: "The three things on it are the most common in the mausoleum sacrificial hall, namely: Yuntai, Panlong Cloud Pattern Ding, and Merit Tablet. Judging from the placement of these three things in the tomb alone, it is indeed a common pattern of large-scale mausoleum construction in the Central Plains between the Warring States Period and the end of the Qin Dynasty, but if this is the pattern of the Central Plains, then those bronze lamp slave costumes look a little out of place. The second uncle frowned and sighed, "How did this tomb become a mix and match style, it was not descriptive, and it was also the handiwork of the Qin Dynasty court!" The strangest thing is to drop these three things on the top of the tomb, and I'm a fucking eye-opener today! ”
Wen Mo, who was next to the second uncle, suddenly said, "I think this place should have been altered." ”
"Altered?" Listening to Wen Mo's words, the second uncle also looked at him with some surprise.
Wen Mo didn't speak, just nodded.
I'm even more curious, if this place has been altered, why are these things hanging upside down? Maybe the answer really lies there.
So I asked the second uncle, "Second uncle, how can we go up?" ”
The second uncle looked at the three things hanging on the top, and then looked at the side, which happened to be the one in the middle of the nine stone pillars, not far from these things on the top of the tomb.
The second uncle took out the flying claw from his bag and pointed to the stone pillar next to him, "Climb to the top from here first, hook the moire ding with the flying claw, and then fix the other end on the stone pillar, and then climb over." ”
After listening to the introduction of the second uncle, my heart sank, I'll go! That's a lot of difficulty! You have to have the skills of an acrobat!
And the person who did this fell on Wen Mo without any suspense. In terms of skill, coupled with the attainments of inverted buckets, Wenmo is undoubtedly the best candidate.
Wenmo's body is vigorous, like a tanuki, and the patterns on the stone pillar are very rich, and there are many points that can be borrowed, so after three times and two clicks, Wenmo climbed to the top of the stone pillar.
And I was attracted by the patterns on the stone pillars, from just now, I felt that there was something wrong with the patterns on these stone pillars, it seemed that these were not just ordinary patterns, but more like some kind of record, but I didn't understand it for a while, besides, at this time, I paid more attention to the text and ink on the top of the tomb.
At this time, Wenmo has used the flying claw to connect the moire tripod and the stone pillar, this kind of flying claw is made of pure steel, there is a mechanism inside, the more you pull, the tighter the steel claw grasps, including the flying claw chain behind is also pure steel, not honest and strong.
Wen Mo grabbed the flying claw chain with both hands, swung it over in a few clicks, and landed steadily on the cloud pattern ding. Wen Mo first stabilized his body, then confirmed that there was nothing abnormal around him, and then began to observe the moire tripod and stone tablet next to him.
Wen Mo first took a closer look at the body and interior, and then looked at the top of the stele, and we could clearly see the changes on Wen Mo's face below, and at this time his face showed a puzzled look.
This expression surprised us a little, and we didn't know what else Wen Mo couldn't understand.
Lantern Xiao shouted softly below: "Hey! Boss, what did you find? ”
Wenmo waved his hand and motioned for us not to speak. He grabbed the bronze chain on the moire tripod with his hand, and then bounced his body out as fast as he could, bringing himself closer to the stele.
And with this action, he pressed more power on the moire ding, making the bronze chains connected to the top of the tomb crunch. Although these chains are at least the thickness of a calf, I was really afraid that they would suddenly break, and the moire tripod would shoot it directly, and I couldn't help but take two steps back at the thought of this.
The moire tripod began to shake under the action of Wen Mo, suddenly, with a click, the moire tripod suddenly slammed, and then suddenly sank downward, at the same time, under the illumination of the flashlight, we suddenly nervously found that the connection between the bronze chain and the top of the tomb suddenly floated out a puff of white smoke.
We were taken aback and hurriedly reminded Wenmo. Wen Mo reacted quickly, hurriedly withdrawing his body, and at the same time grabbed the flying claw with one hand like lightning and pressed the tension spring.
This press down, the flying claw unloaded, let go of the cloud pattern ding, Wen Mo grabbed the flying claw, swung back to the stone pillar in the blink of an eye, untied the flying claw, and returned to the ground in a few clicks.
Wenmo's series of actions were completed in one go, and he dodged the attack of those white smoke in time, I thought to myself, this is Wenmo, and if anyone else present, I am afraid that they will be hit.
Wisps of white smoke drifted from the top of the tomb, and soon we smelled a strange smell, some strange, but some fishy. Fearing poisoning, we hurriedly retreated until we reached the side of another stone pillar.
We stared at the changes on the top of the tomb, but apart from a few wisps of white smoke and a slight swaying of the moire ding, there was no other change.
Lantern Xiao said, "What's going on? There is a puff of white smoke and there is no follow-up, could it be that the organ has fallen into disrepair and has failed? ”
The second uncle nodded, "It's not impossible, in short, everyone should be very careful." The second uncle turned his head and asked Wenmo, "Did you find anything on it just now?" ”
Wen Mo shook his head, "It's strange, there's nothing on it!" ”
I didn't understand for a moment, "Nothing, what's so strange about that?" Those things are hanging upside down, and I can't put any things. ”
Wen Mo continued: "No, I didn't mean that, I mean, except for some simple lines on the moire ding, there is no carving on it, not even on the stone tablet, there is not half a word. ”
"That's how it is." Now we think it's incredible, it's a wordless tablet, could it be that before Wu Zetian, as early as the Qin Dynasty, someone had already started to play the wordless tablet? Even so, there can be only some simple moire on the moire ding, according to the life of the tomb owner, there must be some related carvings.
Otherwise, the scene here is so big, and such a boring thing as hanging a stone tablet on the top of the tomb has been done, but there is no carving on the tripod, which is too confusing.
I turned my head to look at the stone pillars next to me, because after listening to Wenmo's description, I felt more and more that there was something wrong with these stone pillars, and that there was nothing carved on the main stone tablets and moire ding, but on these stone pillars were carved with such complex patterns.
I think that since the people who built this place were able to use the nine stone pillars to give the illusion to the people who intruded into it, such a careful mind would never make such a low-level mistake.
I looked back at Wen Mo and found him looking at the moire ding on the top of the tomb, frowning thoughtfully. So I asked, "Wenmo, did you find anything else?" Speak up and listen. ”
"There are indeed others, but I'm not sure myself," Wen Mo muttered, "Just when the white smoke appeared and I was about to withdraw it, I turned my head and found a few words engraved on the bottom of the moire ding, I don't know if I was wrong in a trance, or if there really is." ”
When we heard this, we quickly asked, "What kind of words are you carved?" ”
Wen Mo said word by word: "The mirror is full of flowers and moons, and the font is a small seal commonly used in the Qin Dynasty." ”
We are a little puzzled when we hear it, the surface of the tripod is too lazy to carve something, but at the bottom of the tripod to engrave these four words.
Lantern Xiao guessed: "Is it possible that the northern tribes that occupy this place, due to insufficient resources at that time, robbed this tripod in the place of the nearby Han people, these four words engraved below may be the name of the workshop that made the tripod." ”
The second uncle shook his head, "This shouldn't be the case, it's far from the coast here, and it's inconvenient to rob." Moreover, it can be seen from those Hufu lamp slaves that these people have come here after careful preparation. ”
I almost didn't listen to the discussion of the second uncle, because when I heard the four words, a thought suddenly flashed through my mind. I began to replay in my head a series of strange things.
Soon, a thought appeared in my mind, the mirror flower water moon, expanded to say that it is the flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, what do they refer to? In an instant, two words popped into my mind: reflection.
Then I looked at the upside-down cloud platform, moire tripod and stone tablet hanging upside down on the top of the tomb, I felt that I had grasped the key to the matter, I turned my eyes again, the stone pillar next to it, no wonder I always thought that the pattern on the stone pillar was very strange. I bent down and turned my head upside down to look at the stone pillar, and suddenly I suddenly opened my mouth, and a clear narrative picture appeared in front of my eyes.
It turns out that the patterns and carvings on these stone pillars are all upside down!
I hurriedly told the others about this discovery, and they all turned upside down to look at the stone pillar, and it was exactly as I said.
We used this method to quickly re-look at each stone pillar, we wrote down the contents of the stone pillars and sorted them out in order, and just like that, an event buried in history resurfaced.
The incident carved on the stone pillar is still related to Xu Fu's eastward crossing. On the first stone pillar, there is the scene of Xu Fudong crossing to the sea, and there is a person in the bow of the boat with a long robe and scarf, which should be Xu Fu.
On the second stone pillar, there is the scene of landing on the island, and you can see something like an altar on the island, which coincides with the discovery in the tomb of the school captain that An Ye told us. For this altar, we have not seen it so far, which is also the part we are very interested in, this altar must be earlier than the Qin Dynasty, and there are not many relevant documents handed down from the pre-Qin period, so the pre-Qin culture is always covered with a veil of mystery.
On the third stone pillar, there is the scene of the construction of the mausoleum, many craftsmen are busy, some soldiers are guarding, and the person standing at the highest place is also Xu Fu.
On the fourth stone pillar, judging from the picture, the mausoleum has been completed, and Xu Fu and the craftsmen are surrounded by soldiers. We speculate that the soldiers were ordered to kill all the craftsmen who knew about it, so that the secrets of the mausoleum would not be revealed. This is also a common practice in many imperial tombs.
And when we saw the fifth stone pillar, we were stunned at once, and many people appeared from the depths of the mausoleum, but all of them had no faces!