Chapter 040: Who Is the Tomb Master?
As time went by, the movement of the river became louder and louder, but I didn't see anything coming out, and for a while I was a little unsure of what the situation was.
However, at this moment, Wang Wenwen seemed to suddenly discover something, pointed to the river bank under our feet, and said, "Look, this river is rising. ”
When everyone and I heard this, we looked down, and sure enough, we found that the river was slowly rising, and the most bizarre thing was that the water was like boiling water, and the river was constantly tumbling, stirring the dead fish inside. Wu Meng speculated in surprise and said, "Could it be that there is underground lava under this water?" ”
I couldn't help but shake my head, the situation in front of me at the moment is too weird, I can't blindly speculate for a while, Wang Wenwen thinks that the current situation is unclear, let's observe for a while better. Everyone retreated into the forest, only to see that the water level of the river had been rising for some reason, obviously, there must be something like an underground spring at the bottom of the river, and this spring had a large amount of water in an instant, otherwise the water level would not have risen so quickly.
After about twenty minutes, the entire river had risen by six or seven meters, and the water had already submerged our insteps. I found that there was something hidden in the dead fish in the river, and it disappeared in a flash, but I could clearly see that it was a human hand.
I couldn't help but take a breath and shouted, "Is there someone in the river? ”
After I reminded them like this, everyone took a step back, probably thinking of the yin corpse that Wu Meng shouted earlier.
"I'll go down and see!!"
As soon as Wang Wenwen finished speaking, he plunged into the water! There was a "poof" sound, and the water splashed everywhere. Everyone present was stunned by his actions, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, this guy's courage is not ordinary!
After more than a minute, Wang Wenwen, who went down, seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly burst out of the water, his face was pale, and he swam to the shore vigorously. He looked strange, and when he went ashore, he didn't say a word, he turned his head to the side and threw up, and he didn't bring the corpse or anything with him.
When Wang Wenwen finished crackling and vomiting, I couldn't help asking, "What's the matter?" ”
Wang Wenwen was dripping with water all over his body, and when he looked closely, it was actually black water, and there seemed to be something wrong with those black waters, he estimated that his body was itchy, and he began to itch after spitting up, and scolded while fishing: "Unlucky, there is more than one corpse in the water, there are many broken corpses." ”
"Broken corpses?" Zhou Yuting was shocked enough and said, "I have lived here for 19 years, and I have never heard of so many dead people in the river?" ”
Wang Wenwen took off his clothes and threw them aside, wiping the dripping black water, and said with a heavy expression: "There are all dried corpses inside, there is a spring in Jianglow, and it has been spraying water out, and all the squirting is black water." This black water is mixed with these dried corpses. I suspect that the spring is the entrance to the tomb, and that the dried corpses in the water are probably some living people who were buried, and that the structure of the tomb has been damaged by the river, so the corpses were brought out when the spring erupted. Eighty percent of these dead fish were polluted by the black water, so they all died. ”
Others found it incredulous and frequently looked into the water. As the river water rolled more and more violently, a lot of stumps and skulls in the water began to be mixed with the dead fish, rolling with the fish, the stench was unstoppable, and in the faint moonlight, countless severed limbs sank up and down in the boiling water, which looked very strange.
If the Yin corpses that Wu Meng and I encountered here last night were killed in the Battle of Yashan, then when did these dried corpses die now?
Although I didn't learn history well, I vaguely remember that there seemed to be no funeral system during the Song Dynasty, right?
I asked the people present what I thought, but looking at the rough men in front of me all shrunk their heads, I knew that none of them were good at history. After all, Zhou Yuting went to college, so she should know more than us, right? So I threw that question to her.
If college students are really different, she told us very clearly:
During the Han and Tang dynasties, the living burial system was abolished, and it was changed to accompanying burial, that is, near the imperial mausoleum, so that the emperor's relatives and high-ranking officials were buried in the imperial mausoleum after their deaths.
However, after the fall of the Song Dynasty, the Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian, and Manchu frontier ethnic groups have all entered the Central Plains, and they have always retained the tradition of human martyrdom, so the Central Plains human martyrdom has risen again. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, although there were no large-scale human martyrdoms, there were palace martyrs. That is, let the concubine or palace people and guards accompany the burial.
And the funeral, according to different dynasties, also has its own particularity.
For example, the palace people who were buried during the Ming Dynasty generally had two ways to die, the first was to hang themselves directly. The second is to put the person on a bed first, and at the head of the bed, there is a wooden box, and there is a hole in the wooden box, which just gets stuck in the person's neck. After the wooden box is filled with a person's head, and then the bed under the person is pulled open, naturally, the person's neck bone will be broken, and it feels creepy to think about.
Of course, in addition to the above, there is also the kind of suicide that is often seen in TV dramas......
However, Zhou Yong said that my grandfather told him that there was a female general of the Song Dynasty buried in the tomb, even if someone was really willing to bury her, it stands to reason that there were too many people, right? But at the moment, the broken corpses in the river are obviously beyond expectations, and this scale is no longer a funeral.
Who is this female general? How many people are to be martyred after death?
It was almost dawn at the moment, but the place we were in was lifeless. The waterfowl had already been frightened away, and there was not a single superfluous sound in the whole place, except for the sound of the wind and the rolling of the river, as if there were only ten of us left alive in heaven and earth. This is a very bad situation.
Suddenly, I felt a little change rise in my surroundings. At first, I didn't notice it, but it wasn't until a cool breeze blew that I suddenly realized that the stench had faded. From dead fish to corpses coming out, we are almost always enveloped in that stench, but at this moment, unconsciously, that stench has dissipated a lot, and I don't know what happened.
Sensing this change, I thought to myself, could it be that something has changed? Immediately after that, he raised his flashlight and looked at the river. At this moment, the sky was dark, everything was shrouded in the darkness before dawn, and when I looked at the light, I immediately saw that the water level was receding, and it was retreating very quickly, and in an instant it had gone down about two or three meters.
The place where the spring water used to gush in the river before began to absorb water again, as if a huge whirlpool had formed, and the corpses and dead fish in the water had been swept into this whirlpool, and most of them had disappeared.
At this moment, this huge whirlpool is like the eye of the sea, and the water level in the river is rapidly declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Until, everything is back to normal......
"Ten hours in total."
Wang Wenwen put a watch in his pocket and said to everyone: "The entrance to the tomb has been found, so I don't need to tell you where it is, right?" Now that it's filled with water, it's impossible to get in, unless anyone doesn't want to live. At about eight o'clock tonight, it is estimated that the water inside will still spew out, and that is a good opportunity for us to go to the tomb, but the time is limited, and after ten hours, that is, around five o'clock in the morning, the water will be poured back again, and if we don't come out in time, we will become one of the broken corpses. ”
In fact, we don't need to say it, we can see it......
This tomb is very dangerous......