Chapter 31: Concubine De

"Okay, come here, it's just a dried corpse, nothing to be afraid of!" After I finished speaking, Lin Bo and Qin Meng walked over, Qin Meng secretly glanced at it, "Mom, why is it so terrible, you see, there is still a talisman on her head, is it that she will still move if she uncovers it!"

"Well, it's theoretically possible, but I don't know what it will look like when it's removed, but I don't think you'll be okay with that piece of paper!" Hearing me say this, Qin Meng hurriedly hid far away, thinking that he must not touch her, but his attention was all on the dry corpse, he didn't pay attention to his feet, he didn't know what was mixed with something, and an upside-down green onion fell backwards, but Qin Meng was not a vegetarian, at the moment of falling, he turned around and fell sideways, thinking in his heart, fortunately he didn't fall to the back of his head, but after he lay on the ground, under the reflection of the torch, he saw a black face smiling at him less than ten centimeters away from his nose.

"Damn! hell!" Qin Meng got up at a speed that was almost beyond the reach of humans, so he got up and ran back, but he didn't run two steps before he saw the white bones in front of the broken door, hurriedly turned around and ran back, and finally hid behind me and began to shiver non-stop.

After such a toss, Lin Bo and I also became nervous, and hurriedly walked to the place where Qin Meng had fallen just now, and saw that there were two more female corpses in the same outfit placed on the ground in a T-shape, and there were also talismans on their heads.

"Ahh

This burial chamber is arranged in a traditional pattern, completely modeled after the form of a courtyard house, consisting of the front room, the back room, the ear room, the passage and other parts. The place where they were was was in the front room, with a blue brick structure and a vaulted roof, and frescoes all around. There were eight coffins on the left and right sides of the front room, all of which had now been opened, and the coffins were covered all over the ground, some of them were completely damaged, and the bodies in the coffins had also run outside, some standing and some upside down, but they all had a common feature, that is, there was a talisman attached to the door of the head. In addition to them, there were five or six white bones on the ground, and it seems that there was once a fierce battle between tomb robbers and dried corpses.

I walked to the coffin and carefully checked the picture and text engraved on the coffin, which turned out to be Maoshan's corpse mantra. The function of the corpse mantra is to gather the surrounding yin qi and preserve the aura of the corpse, which is usually used with the corpse exorcism array, so I inspected the ground of the entire front room, and it really depicts a corpse formation composed of sixty-four circular characters, eight coffins are parked in the rush position in the array, and on the row of floor tiles behind the second door, the activation charm of this large array is engraved, as long as the life with aura passes by, the entire large array will be launched, and the eight zombies in the coffin will follow the sixty-four points of the corpse exorcism array on the ground, constantly changing, attacking the invading body with aura, generally people and large animals。 The eight zombies in this array are also known as the eight protectors, and they must be killed by eight unbroken palace maids dressed in red costumes and poisoned, so that the zombies formed are powerful enough, as long as they are poked by their fingers, they will be poisoned to death immediately. This array is generally set up in the tombs of some royal nobles to prevent tomb robbers from destroying the tomb, so as to protect the safety of the owner of the tomb.

But judging from the messy scene now, a long time ago, there must have been a group of masters who knew the formation, and they had a tragic battle with the eight protectors who guarded the tomb here, and finally, all the eight zombies were fixed with the Tranquility Rune, but the tomb robbers also killed and injured many people, and paid a terrible price for it, I don't know if there are survivors who left alive. And these zombies left the coffin engraved with the corpse mantra, and soon became a dry corpse, I looked at the spell pasted on the top of the head of the dry corpse, the pen is vigorous, in one go, it seems that the person who drew the talisman is also a senior master, if they didn't come here first to break this array, with the three of us and the four talismans in the pocket, it is estimated that now we have already died in the hands of the eight protectors, thinking of this, I am very afraid, it seems that I am still too reckless and too confident, almost put the lives of two classmates.

At this time, Qin Meng had already developed a habitual mental immunity to these dried corpses, and when he saw that they were all lying there motionless, he was no longer afraid, on the contrary, he was very interested in the things left by the tomb robbers on the ground, and picked up a rusty steel knife and kept waving it.

In the center of the front room, there is a small wooden door, which has also been broken, and the inside of the wooden door is supposed to be the back room. I walked to the wooden door, shook it with a torch, and found that on the floor in the wooden door, there were several square pits, and when I got closer, it turned out to be a few flip triggers, and some bones could be faintly seen under the mechanism, it seems that those tomb robbers relaxed their vigilance after breaking the corpse trap with all their might, and fell into this flap mechanism, it seems that the owner of this tomb is really scheming for his own safety, and we must also pay attention to prevent any traps from being left. So I cautiously walked inside, shouting, "Xu Hu, are you inside?"

The back room of the burial chamber is much smaller than the front room, but it is resplendent and extravagant, and the walls are surrounded by colorful frescoes. In the center of the burial chamber is a large stone coffin with many inscriptions engraved with blessings. But by this time the lid of the coffin had been opened, and it seemed that the gang of tomb robbers had succeeded.

Holding the torch, I carefully walked around the flap and towards the coffin. The white stone coffin stood out under the illumination of the torches, forming a strong contrast with the surrounding darkness, like a white coffin hanging in the dark space, and there was no cover, which made people feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts.

As the distance narrowed, I saw from the edge of the stone coffin that there was a heavy coffin made of golden silk nanmu, and when I looked inside, I saw that the coffin was empty, and there was the body of the concubine there. I hurriedly shone a torch near the coffin, and there was no one's body on the ground except for the stone coffin and the lid of the coffin inside.

At this time, Lin Bo and Qin Meng also came in, and it was very strange to see that there was no body in the coffin, so they looked around.

"Come and see, there's a stele here!" Limbo found a stele in the southeast corner of the tomb, and immediately asked me to come and look at it.

"Oh, I'll see!" I said, I walked over, squatted down, lowered the torch, and carefully examined the stele: "This is the tomb inscription, which records the identity of the owner of the tomb and some deeds during his lifetime. ”

According to the record of the tomb inscription, it was originally buried here during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, the partial concubine of Emperor Zhu Youzhang of Xiaozong, she was deeply favored by the emperor at that time, but later the emperor Zhu Youzhang was addicted to Buddhism, and some Taoist priests said that Concubine De was the reincarnation of the demon, and her eyes were gouged out, and she could refine the elixir, so she listened to the slander, really gouged out her eyes, and imprisoned her in the dungeon, but then the emperor finally came to his senses, but then went to see the concubine De that he once loved, who had already died in the dungeon, in order to express his guilt, he decided to be buried in her, in addition to a lot of precious burial goods, he also put a pair of extremely precious green cat eyes into his eye sockets。

In addition, in order not to let the tomb robbers disturb her peace underground, she also invited the most famous lotus pond master at that time to design the entire dungeon into a tomb with heavy organs, and piled a dirt mountain on it as her tomb, this mountain is now Wanshou Mountain, and later there is the story of Qianlong Ye building the Buddha Xiang Pavilion.

After reading the introduction in the tomb inscription, everyone realized that this concubine was not as powerful as the legend, but the emperor built such a vicious tomb for her in order to express his guilt. Alas, it turns out that there is such a tragic historical story hidden in it!

"Look, there are words on the back of the stele!" After Qin Meng finished speaking, everyone went to the back of the tombstone together, and it turned out that the back recorded the valuables buried in the coffin, the most precious of which was the pearl group dragon robe and the eight phoenix golden crown and the golden hairpin worn by Concubine De. Among them, the pearl dragon robe is composed of 12,000 pearls of the same size, which is extremely precious.

Seeing that there were so many treasures recorded on it, Qin Meng's eyes straightened, and he hurriedly turned around and looked into the coffin, hoping that the thieves would leave something, but there was nothing inside.

"Alas, even if there is one thing left, we will send it! These thieves are really fucking desperate!" Qin Meng complained.

"Hehe," Lin Boyin laughed a few times, "It's not that I said you, but there is a treasure that you dare to take? Everything here can bring the ghosts here to your house, think about it, aren't you afraid of a female ghost standing next to your bed when you sleep?"

"Okay, okay, don't say it, I'm really afraid of you!" Hearing Lin Bo say this, Qin Meng felt as if there were ghosts surrounding him everywhere, and hurriedly said: "Okay, now that we are sure that Xu Hu and they are not here, let's go out quickly!"

So, the three of us carefully inspected the tomb again, and after making sure that Xu Hu and the others were not here, we walked out the same way.

Standing in the passage outside the tomb, the three of them let out a long breath, and their tense mood finally relaxed. After seeing the black dried corpses in the tomb, Qin Meng looked at the woman in the painting on the wall again, it was not so terrifying.

"I said it a long time ago, Xu Hu's kid definitely wouldn't dare to go in, you still haven't listened, you have to go in and have a look, if you had listened to me earlier, maybe we would have found them a long time ago!" Qin Meng complained as he walked.

"Hehe, let's go in and find out for a while, let's not go in in vain, don't forget that we are all studying history, this is a rare practical lesson!" Lin Bo said.

"Yes, and we are the first to discover the historical story recorded on the tombstone, this is not worth your joy, besides, the steel knife you are holding in your hand may still be a cultural relic, maybe it can be sold for a good price!" After I finished speaking, Qin Meng looked at the steel knife he took out from the tomb in his hand, smiled with satisfaction, and thought to himself that it seemed that there was still a harvest!

After a while, they came to the dark room just now, so they went out from the door to continue looking for Xu Hu and them. Due to the delay in the burial chamber for a while, there were only four torches left, so the three of them quickened their pace, and soon came to the next dark room, and as soon as they entered the door, there was a faint sound of footsteps from behind the door of the dark room.