Chapter 41: The Stone Gate of the Underground Palace
The ancient temple and underground palace in front of Zhao Qingshan was far from being as simple as he imagined. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At first, the passage of the underground palace was straight, but after about a few dozen steps, it began to slope downward, and while it was getting farther and farther away from the ground, the air became more and more stuffy, and the secret passage began to corner, collapse, and even some sections were still seeping.
I don't know how many roads I have walked after, the blue brick earthwork road at the foot of Zhao Qingshan is suddenly gone, replaced by irregular large stone caves and humid air.
The dampness of this cave is unusually high, and the rocks on the walls of the cave are covered with dew, as if they have just been fished out of the river, and every step feels like a slide, and if you are not careful, you may be cut by the sharp stones.
Among the four people of Zhao Qingshan, there was a woman and a half-blind man, and the speed of walking was naturally not as fast as there, and as they went deeper, they found that the cave was getting colder and colder, and even gradually became cloudy.
The decrease in body temperature made everyone even more uncomfortable, and everyone's lips were purple, and they were extremely bleak under the demon-green fluorescent lanterns.
At this time, Yin Nineteen suddenly shouted to stop everyone, and then took out a small metallic and blood-stained kettle from his body.
The kettle was not big, but it was full of scratch scars, and Yin Nineteen unscrewed the kettle, and suddenly the smell of wine wafted into the air.
Smelling the smell, Lei Aniu, who was born as a ruffian, immediately spoke: "This is, the mountain (harmony) Donghuang! Oh, such a cold place, but it is a life-saving thing!"
"Hmph!" Yin Jiu snorted coldly at Ah Niu, who was not the same, then bypassed him, handed the rice wine to Zhao Qingshan and said, "Brother Zhao, take a sip to warm up your body, something that saves your life." ”
Zhao Qingshan took the wine bottle, did not rush to drink it, but first looked at the miserable eyes of the wine bottle, shook his head slightly and said: "Miss Yin, this thing is shabby enough, and rice wine is not like something that everyone's daughter should bring, right?"
Listening to Zhao Qingshan's words, Yin Nineteen sighed slightly: "That's right, this is a classmate of mine, he was miserable when he died, he was stabbed seven times by the devil, and he was a martyr of resistance against Japan." This is a relic of the martyrs......"
"Oh, then I'll have to cherish it. Zhao Qingshan sighed and nodded, then took a sip of the liquor in the metal wine jug, and then turned around and handed it to Lei Aniu.
After the wine jug turned around in people's hands, it returned to Yin Nineteen's hand, she put away the small jug, smiled slightly at Zhao Qingshan meaningfully, and the four of them went on the road again.
With the protection of rice wine, this time it was warmer than before, and with this heater, a group of people groped for the damp stone and walked out a few hundred meters away, and suddenly came to a wide space.
The space was regular, it was dug by hand, and there was a delicate masonry Shinto underneath, which was wide enough for seven or eight people to advance side by side, and deep enough to see the front at a glance.
On both sides of the underground space, there are also some vague humanoid stone statues, which are actually monsters with humanoid beast heads.
Everyone looked intently, and Fang found that those monsters were like people of human size, all of them were pigs, cows, and dragon heads "wrestlers", and they were still holding blades in their hands, and at the same time turned their heads and looked in the direction where the four people came, as if they were greeting them.
The eerie stone statue was tall and mighty, emitting a green bevel under the light of the firefly lantern, and in silence, it seemed to be watching the souls of the four people, and it seemed to be guarding something important.
Even Wu, who was half-blind and could barely see anything, shrugged his shoulders and said, "How do I feel that something is staring at us......?"
Wu's half-blind words inadvertently strengthened everyone's sense of urgency, and even made everyone move forward cautiously like thieves, looking back and forth at every step, lest they step on some mechanism and calculate.
After grinding and grinding, everyone walked out of the unknown number of steps, the passage suddenly narrowed again, and a stone door appeared in the narrowing place, inlaid in the middle of the stone wall of the underground palace.
Looking at the stone gate, everyone was stunned, and their expressions became shocked and surprised.
Because, although the stone door was closed and dead, the huge stone slab still showed a gap, but anyone with good eyesight could see that a dazzling blue light was revealed in the gap, although the light was not bright, but it could also illuminate the hazy face of a person ten meters away.
The stone door, the blue light, all this made Zhao Qingshan's heart mutter, he stretched out his hand and pushed the door, and found that the door panel was extremely heavy, and it couldn't be opened at all with manpower.
In desperation, Zhao Qingshan asked Wu Half-Blind: "Old Wu, you have good ears, can you hear what is behind that door?"
Wu was half-blind and listened to Zhao Qingshan's guidance, and after a minute or two, he suddenly nodded and said, "There is water and wind behind the door, it is likely to be an exit." ”
"But how did the blue light come from!" Lei Aniu was puzzled: "When we came down, it was still the first half of the night, and we didn't want to have the sun, and the moon didn't shine so brightly." ”
"Don't think about these Raushes!" Yin Jiu pouted, "It would be nice if I could get out, but this door is so heavy, I'm afraid it's hard to open." ”
As he spoke, Yin Nineteen stretched out his little hand, grabbed Zhao Qingshan and asked, "Brother Zhao, you have great powers, do you have a way to open this door?"
Zhao Qingshan was complimented, and he felt itchy in his heart, in order to avoid embarrassment, he brushed aside Yin Nineteen's hand, and then said I will do my best, before squatting at the feet of a pig-headed wrestler and slowly thinking about the solution.
But how easy is that?
The stone door is inlaid in a natural stone layer, and it is completely natural, except for the gap in the middle, there is no room for any mechanism or mechanism.
In the boring waiting and groping, Lei Ah Niu was first discouraged, he sighed, and then said: "This door is not good is just two stone strips blocking the tomb road, and the ancients never thought of opening it at all. ”
"No!" With the light from the fireflies and the cracks in the door, Zhao Qingshan keenly observed the structure of the underground passage and the stone man, and said casually: "I have counted, this passage has nine bricks, five stones and eight golems, this kind of road is called the Divine Straight Road, which is the 'right way' for ancient Shinto Christians to worship gods and ghosts, and the tomb road is seven bricks and six stones, and four spirit statues, called "Ghost Gate Road", which is for ghosts to walk, and the shape is different. ”
Based on this, Zhao Qingshan concluded that in the past, this was definitely a sacrificial passage where believers of a certain religion often came and went, and the specifications were very high.
Zhao Qingshan has great ability, but he is also a cook, and he suddenly said such a thing, which was a bit surprising at that time.
Lei Aniu couldn't help but stretch out his thumb and said: "I said Second Brother Zhao, you are a cook, and you also know feng shui, admire and admire." ”
In the face of praise, this Zhao Haiqing was unyielding, and he then spoke: "I don't understand Feng Shui, but I know something about Zhou Li and Zhou Yi, which is the biggest difference between the chef of the Confucius Hall of our Five Organs Temple and the other three halls." (To be continued.) )