Chapter 32: The Light in the Tombway

This discovery is the most data-efficient, ad-free site for mobile phones. I now finally know why the builders of this ancient tomb used white plaster. It is clear that the owner of the tomb was very concerned about the scene of this section of the street, and it is clear that the decorative carvings and paintings did not meet his requirements. If it had been made of stone, it would have been a huge amount of work to excavate and inlay these wooden doors from the huge stones. White plaster clay has become the best choice.

This discovery, in addition to surprising us, was more of a curiosity, and I suddenly had the feeling of being at a tourist spot. Lantern Xiao and I began to look around with great interest, and every time we found a door, we would open it and take a look.

Just when I was having fun with Lantern Festival, and I almost didn't take pictures, we saw a door, the door itself was nothing special, the strange thing was that the nose of the two doors was tightly entangled by a wire.

This discovery made us a little puzzled, and Lantern Xiao touched the wire, "Hey, why are these two doors sealed?" ”

"yes!" I also checked, "Why can all the doors be opened at will, but only these two doors are sealed?" ”

"Could it be that there's something hidden behind this door?" Lantern Xiao looked at me and said suddenly, "Do you want to open it and have a look?" ”

Although I felt a little uneasy in my heart, I thought about it for a moment and nodded. Lantern Xiao handed me the flashlight in his hand, and then slowly unscrewed the wire tied to the door and nose with both hands.

It can be seen that Lantern Festival is also a little nervous, although we know that the people of the Zhuo family have come in this place for a hundred years, but after all, it is a tomb, and it should not be a place where the living should come, and the mood of the two of us at this moment is still extremely worried.

Lantern Xiao exhaled softly and slowly pushed open the wooden door. Lantern Xiao first glanced inside along the crack in the door, and was immediately stunned, I saw his expression change when I saw it next to me, I just wanted to ask him what was going on, but I didn't have time to speak, Lantern Xiao raised his head again, his expression froze, he screamed, and took two steps back.

I quickly asked, "How's that?" Are you okay? ”

Lantern Xiao's eyes were a little straight, and he raised his hand and pointed to the inside of the door, "You, you see for yourself!" ”

I walked to the door a little nervously, turned my head to look inside the door, and suddenly my scalp was numb. The inside of this door is still filled with dirt, but the difference is that a hand sticks out from the dirt inside the doorway. The hand was long since all that was left of the bones, and that wasn't what shocked us the most, what really frightened us was that there was still half a head peeking out of the dirt above the hand.

The corpse's posture looked painful, as if it was struggling to crawl out of the dirt. This scene made me and Lantern Xiao chill for a while.

Lantern Xiao looked at the dead corpse and said hesitantly, "How can there be a dead corpse in this door?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "It's not surprising, after all, this is an ancient tomb. It's normal to have dead people, maybe it's the craftsman who died here, maybe it's the burial of the owner of the tomb! "I tried to comfort myself with all sorts of seemingly indifferent reasons.

Lantern Xiao bit her lip and groaned, "But it's not right, even if there are dead people, they shouldn't be buried here casually, and there are no ...... in the doors we saw before."

Lantern Xiao suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly looked at me with wide eyes, "Could it be ......?"

Seeing the expression of Lantern Xiao, I was stunned for a moment, and then instantly understood the meaning of Lantern Festival, and a chill suddenly surged throughout the whole person, and I also looked at Lantern Xiao, "You mean, in these soil seals behind the door, there are actually buried people!" ”

Listening to my words, Lantern Xiao nodded with a pale face.

We initially thought that the place was excavated directly, then different doors were inlaid into the curtain wall, and finally reinforced with plaster. Now it seems that our initial idea did not seem right. These doors are not just for show, there was originally space behind these doors, but they were later buried with earth, and at the same time as they were buried, some people were buried inside! This makes people "live" behind every door, and also makes the street built by the owner of the tomb more worthy of its name! What worries us the most is that judging from the movement of the bones just now, these people are likely to be buried alive!

The two of us were taken aback by our own reasoning, and Lantern Xiao couldn't help but curse: "Damn, this tomb owner is simply a pervert, and he buried so many people alive at once!" He deserves to have his grave stolen! ”

Although the situation in front of me was indeed very consistent with our thoughts, I still had a slight doubt, "But what is the purpose of the tomb owner doing this, taking such a lot of pains?" Is it just because of a playful idea? ”

Lantern Xiao shook his head, "What's so strange about this, many rulers in ancient times regarded human life as a mustard. Do you know, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was an emperor named Liu Yu in the Southern Song Dynasty, this person's plundering and killing was simply outrageous, according to historical records, once he smelled the smell of garlic in the mouth of one of his ministers, and guessed whether this person ate garlic, in order to verify his thoughts, he actually killed the minister, and personally cut open his stomach to see if there was garlic in it! You say that if the owner of this tomb is such a person, it is not too possible to bury people alive and be martyred! Moreover, the craftsmen who built the mausoleum in ancient times were themselves very dangerous, and once the mausoleum was built, there was a chance that they would not survive. It is said that when the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was built, tens of thousands of craftsmen and guards were killed inside! ”

Lantern Xiao's words were right, I nodded, "What you said makes sense, if you say this, I don't know how many bones are buried behind these doors!" ”

We glanced around us in horror into the darkness, and we knew that there were many doors hidden in the darkness, and behind those doors we didn't know how many unjust spirits were wandering!

When we think about this, we immediately feel that our surroundings have become a lot stranger, and even the temperature seems to drop quite a bit. Lantern Xiao shuddered, "Let's stop staying here, why do I think this place is suddenly so gloomy!" ”

In fact, I also felt this way in my heart, so we decided to leave quickly, but we had just turned around and walked a few steps, when Lantern Xiao suddenly ran back and wrapped the door with wire again, "I'd better restore it to the original state, otherwise I won't worry." ”

We continued along the road, and soon we realized that there were too many forks in the middle of the route, and although we could discern the general direction, we were a little confused about where we were.

At this time, in order to save electricity, we only left one of our two flashlights. The weaker the light, the more obvious the oppression of the surrounding darkness is on us.

We walked in the direction of the sensation in our brains for a while, and after turning a corner, the Lantern Festival walking in front suddenly made a "huh". I hurried over and asked him what he had found?

Lantern Xiao pointed to the place not far in front and said, "Look at whether there is light there!" ”

Lantern Xiao's statement shocked me, and quickly asked him to turn off the flashlight, I looked in that direction, and was immediately startled, not far ahead, there was indeed a ray of light!

The two of us were immediately confused, how could there be lights in such a place! Could it be Ma Jun?

Lantern Xiao and I took out the sushi knife and slowly leaned over, and the place where the light came out were two gates. There are still some faint vermilion remnants on the gate, these two gates are the two largest we have seen since entering this ancient tomb, and there is a plaque hanging above the gate, I tried my best to hold up a handicap to carefully identify it, but I could only see the last three words clearly: Niangniang Temple.

This makes it clear to me that there is a temple built here, and it should be written on it: So-and-so Niangniang Temple. But I don't know which god and Buddha are enshrined.

And the ray of light we see shines through the crack in the door.

We tightened our grips on the knives and pressed them to the door. We looked at each other, nodded, and with a shard of our shoulders, we quietly pushed open the two doors. While pushing the door, my eyes kept falling on the door shafts on both sides of the door, I was worried that this door would fall into disrepair due to disrepair, once the door shaft was broken, such a big door would be enough for the two of us!

Fortunately, the door shafts on both sides are still very strong, and there is no sound even when they turn, which is even stronger than modern technology!

We cautiously went sideways and saw that the back of the door was still filled with sealed earth, but a passage had been dug out in the middle of the sealed earth. Due to the long time and the cave wall has long since dried out, at least with my eyesight, I can't see whether this passage was deliberately left when the ancient tomb was built, or was dug up by our Zhuo family when it was discovered.

The light came from the back of the passage, so we dimmed our flashlights and walked along the passage.

Walking out of the passage, we were surprised to find that the space here turned out to be the main hall of this temple, I didn't expect that there really was such a building with space in this place. I don't know if it's because it's a lot of space, or because it's set up as a temple, so out of awe, it's not buried like we've seen before, behind the door.

In the middle of the main hall are several very thick pillars. Despite this, the top floor above the main hall still collapsed, and a large amount of earth poured down from it, filling about half of the space of the main hall, and even the Buddha statue on the shrine in the middle of the main hall was mostly covered by the collapsed earth.

In the corner of the shrine, there is a candle, and the dim flame is dancing, and it seems that the light we just saw is emitted by this candlelight.