In the face of the mad snake, the probability of two people surviving is always much lower than that of a group of people, and the head of the family also knows this truth.

So, even if Chen Yina just ran away, they won't refuse to let us flee with us because of this.

"Damn, you two better be careful, wait for Lao Tzu to slaughter this snake and settle accounts with you!"

"Master, it's too early to say this, let's find a way to solve the current crisis first!"

"Hmph, isn't it just a snake, Miao Gen, you leave it behind, and kill him for me!" After speaking, the head suddenly stopped Miao Gen beside him, Miao Gen looked pale, as if facing a great enemy, and said hesitantly, "Master, don't, I don't want to die yet!" ”

"What's the matter, hurry up!" As he spoke, the head kicked Miao Gen's leg, "Give it to me!" ”

I didn't expect the head to regard the lives of his subordinates as grass mustard and let Miao Gen be a substitute for the dead. Poor Miao Gen had no choice but to face the giant python head-on.

The end left for him can be imagined.

However, he himself would not have thought that the end of his life would not be to die from the bloody jaw of a python, but - the muzzle of his own comrades. The head saw that the giant python was entangled in Miao Gen, so he had a chance to breathe, and several guns were immediately aimed at Miao Gen and the giant python, and a wild sweep was carried out, and when the sound of bullets stopped, Miao Gen had fallen in a pool of blood with the giant python.

"You're so cold-blooded."

"Cold-blooded?" The head snorted coldly, "Doing us in such a business, didn't the cold-blooded know the rules when you entered the industry?" ”

We didn't know where we were. It didn't take long for a cloister to appear in front of it. Panting, the boss ordered a halt to rest and lit a fire at the edge of the cloister.

"You go check it out." The boss said coldly to me, "I don't feel safe in this place. ”

"Okay." I nodded.

I looked around and made sure there were no signs of other snakes. From the cloister to the master, I saw that he was plastering the walls with charcoal from the campfire, as if he wanted to rub something. I asked him what he was doing, and he pointed to the stone next to him: "I just found it." ”

The walls were blackened in large chunks, and I blew them with my mouth and found that the stone walls had reliefs that had been almost smoothed out.

"It's basically invisible under the light, and only when you apply charcoal powder, there will be shadows and you can distinguish it." He said, picking another piece from the campfire and smearing it.

The black charcoal black smeared the rock, the light and shadow changed, I shook it for a moment, found a suitable position, and the relief on the stone appeared. At first glance, I saw a large number of birds, it was difficult to distinguish, the light and shadow were crowded, and the patterns of these birds fluttered as if they were alive.

The head continued to paint, and we saw ancient reliefs appear on the rocks here, and after so many years, they are still full of shapes and spirits, and they emerge like magic under the smearing of the master.

"What is this talking about?"

"I can't understand it all at once." He said, "You see, you have to think slowly." ”

I moved around to find the best angle and took a closer look.

Looking at them one by one, I don't know what they mean, I don't know what they mean, there are many things expressed on the reliefs, some seem to be sacrifices, some seem to be a ritual, and I really can't say anything.

I looked at it half-guessingly, and I felt that there were a few pictures that seemed to say that the ancestors of this place worshipped these birds, and they used them as totems. There are sacrifices presiding over the ceremony, and many people kneel around.

"Do the people here regard birds as gods?"

"This is not unusual, bird worship is very common, the ancients envied the phoenix, regarded birds as gods, there are many Chinese ethnic minorities worship birds, but I wonder that this place is a Qin Dynasty tomb, how can people at that time still have bird worship?"

"That's not supposed to be a totem!"

So, I continued to move my figure, and the relief on the side was a lot of figures with spears, fighting with soldiers dressed up, and many people's bodies were pierced by spears, it seemed to be a war.

The battle seemed to be unfavorable to the side of the tomb owner, as they were clearly much smaller in number than the other side. The owners of the tomb are all infantry, and cavalry can be seen in the opposing team. The enemy commander was at the back of the line, sitting in an eight-horse cart. The figure of the owner of the tomb is not visible in the relief. All the reliefs are exquisitely shaped, and even the facial features are meticulously pondered, vivid, and obviously come from the craftsmanship of top craftsmen.

"This is, war ......," muttered the head.

"It seems that the place where the owner of this tomb is located has been invaded, and the other party

It is a relatively strong army. I touched the commander in command of the chariot with my hand and frowned.

Suddenly, the head of the house raised his hand and pointed at the enemy leader, and said to me, "I know who this man is." ”

"Huh?" I was stunned for a moment. The heart said: You know him, he is your second uncle?

The head then said something, and I immediately realized that I had misunderstood, and he said, "These eight horses...... This man is the Son of Heaven. ”

"Son of Heaven?! Could it be Qin Shi Huang? ”

"The chariot of these eight horses can only be used by the Son of Heaven."

"Makes sense!" I immediately continued to look at the reliefs, and the next painting made me gasp, and I saw that the invaders' army had entered a palace, and many women and children appeared in the picture, and they were carried into a prison cart by the invaders.

Seeing this, I vaguely felt that this ancient tomb may have an extraordinary relationship with Qin Shi Huang. At least, if the aggressor is really Qin Shi Huang, the owner of the tomb can still enjoy such a standard of funeral after his death, which is definitely not an ordinary person.

Looking further back, the more we look, the more consistent it is with our inference. The concept of this place gradually became clear in my mind. As I was in the dark, my gaze stopped and I saw the most central part of the stone wall, where the relief was a large circular pattern, which was obviously the central part of the composition of the whole rock carving. It is carved with a scene of a huge bird, like a phoenix, surrounded by many small birds, fighting each other. The large bird perched on a large tree, and the other small birds were wrapped around it like ornamental patterns.

"Is this two birds fighting?" "It seems that the owner of this tomb likes to study birds, and is an expert in birds, and this large bird may be the natural enemy of these small birds." ”

I touched the stone carving, shook my head and said, "No, it's copulation." ”

"Copulation?" The boss was stunned for a moment, a little incomprehensible, and after thinking about it, he understood what I meant, "You mean, these little birds are mating with this big bird?" However, these are two completely different birds, and their body sizes are so different, how can they mate? ”

"Do you know what a bustard is?"

"Bustard?" The boss was inexplicable and asked me why I suddenly said this, "The old bustard is the one who runs a brothel." ”

"That's a kind of joking name, the bustard is actually a kind of bird, in ancient times, some people found that the bustard, this kind of bird, only female, no male, they want to reproduce, can mate with any other species of birds, for the wife of ten thousand birds, so people use 'bustard' to call the prostitute who is as good as possible." I said lightly, "However, in fact, what the ancients said about the bustard is completely wrong. Bustards actually have males, but this kind of bird, their male and female differences are too great, and the male bird is several times larger than the female, so it is mistaken for two different birds. ”

The head understood my words and immediately understood what it meant: "So, you think that these two birds are actually one kind of bird, but the two sexes have two body shapes, so which one do you say is a male bird and which one is a female bird?" ”

"In terms of numbers, the small ones should be males, and the big ones should be females, but it is possible to do the opposite." I touched the surface of the rock, to touch the pattern of the giant tree that the two-scaled python was wrapping around, "Strange. ”

"What's wrong?" The boss also touched it, but he couldn't figure it out, so he looked at me.

I frowned, took a few steps back, picked up the charcoal, and painted the unpainted parts of the relief above and below.

Soon the relief on the entire stone wall was revealed, and the moment I saw the panorama, I opened my mouth wide and froze.

"Look, what are these words?"

The boss glanced at me and said, "I don't know this, you say, what is this word?" ”

In an instant, such a sentence flashed in my mind, and I was very surprised that the head of the house said this sentence casually, "A tomb robber doesn't even know Qin Zhen?" ”

I don't think that's possible, unless, he's not a tomb robber at all. It is impossible for the Red Cloud Society to cultivate such an incompetent leader.

"The Empress Dowager!" I looked a little stunned, "This could be a huge discovery in history, archaeology." ”

"The Empress Dowager? Who? The head was also stunned.

"Zhao Ji!"

"Zhao Ji? Do you mean to say that this ancient tomb is the mausoleum of Zhao Ji, the biological mother of Qin Shi Huang? ”

"Can't be wrong!" I wanted to get some more information from it, but after reading it a few times, I found that there were so few details that I could discern carefully, and I didn't get anything out of it. There are no reliefs on the stone walls on the side.

"Zhao Ji's tomb?" A hint of excitement flashed in the boss's eyes, "So to speak."

, only one step away from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? ”

"You're also looking for Emperor Qin's Mausoleum?" I chuckled in my heart, "How could the Red Cloud Society, which met on a narrow road, also look for the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum?" This doesn't make sense, I just thought they happened to come here at first, but I didn't expect him to be looking for Emperor Qin's mausoleum! ”

When the head of the family was asked by me, he immediately hid in the mountains of eyes and said, "This is ...... What does this have to do with you, what mausoleum Lao Tzu wants to find is my own decision, and no one can influence it! ”

"Okay." I took my mind back, and only then did I hear the voice of the master's subordinates coming from a distance, "Master, what are you two doing with me?" ”

"What are you talking about!"

"Do you want to eat?"

When I saw that there was no more clue, my stomach cried, and my appetite overcame my thirst for knowledge, so I had to pause.

When I walked to the stove, I could already smell the smell of meat that I hadn't seen for a long time. The one named Jin Rong used a basin as a pot and hung it on the bonfire to barbecue.

The head deliberately did not eat with me, but had a secret conversation with a few of his subordinates. And I was able to take this opportunity to tell Hu Bing and them about this important clue.

The appearance of Zhao Ji's tomb confirms an important conjecture, and the clue may really point to Qin Shi Huang. And as the biological mother of Qin Shi Huang, especially a woman with great controversy in history, the clues hidden in this ancient tomb must be quite amazing.

Zhao Ji is also the biological mother of Qin Shi Huang, the wife of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, born in Handan, Zhao State. Her real name has been lost, Zhao refers to her birthplace Zhao State, Ji is the identity and title, also called "Zhao Nu", calling her "Zhao Ji" began in the long history "Eastern Zhou Dynasty Chronicles", so historians call her "Zhao Ji".

Zhao Ji was originally Lü Buwei's concubine, and was later sacrificed to the Qin State Proton Inhuman. When Qin attacked Handan, Yiren and Lü Buwei fled back to Qin, and Zhao Ji and his son Yingzheng were placed under house arrest by Zhao. After Qin and Zhao reconciled, Zhao Ji's mother and son finally returned to Qin.

After Yingzheng ascended the throne, Zhao Ji became the queen mother. Zhao Ji was unwilling to be lonely in the palace and had an affair with Lü Buwei and Chang Yu. With the support of Zhao Ji, Chang Yu formed a confrontation with Lü Buwei. In 238 B.C., Chang Yu rebelled, fled after defeat, and Zhao Ji was imprisoned in Yongcheng and later returned to Xianyang. In 228 BC, Zhao Ji died, was posthumously honored as the empress dowager, and was buried in Zhiyang with King Xiang of Qinzhuang.

During the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the State of Qin sent the son of the crown prince Yingzhu, Yingyiren, who was later renamed Yingzi Chu, to the State of Zhao as a hostage. An Guojun has more than 20 sons, Ying Yiren is a concubine, ranked in the middle, and his mother Xia Ji is not favored, and her body is like duckweed and cannot be autonomous. At that time, there were conflicts between Qin and Zhao, so Zhao did not treat Ying Yiren politely, and he lived in embarrassment and had little future. Just when he was depressed, he met Lü Buwei, a businessman with political vision. Lü Buwei shrewdly realized that it was more profitable to bet on this unambitious prince than to buy and sell jewelry.

Lü Buwei first tried to bribe the guards who supervised Ying Yiren to achieve the purpose of facilitating his friendship with Ying Yiren. Of course, the most important thing is to gain the trust of Ying Yiren, which is not too difficult, because Yiren is in a foreign land, without relatives, there is someone who is willing to listen to him tell his suffering, and imagine the future political path for him, he is really grateful, and soon regards Lü Buwei as a confidant. Lü Buwei first bought Mrs. Huayang's sister and Mrs. Huayang's younger brother, because Mrs. Huayang was An Guojun's favorite concubine, but she had no heirs, so Mrs. Huayang's sister and younger brother persuaded Mrs. Huayang to accept a stranger as a righteous son, and blew the pillow wind in An Guojun's place, saying how to be filial and accomplished, Ying Yiren should be made the prince. An Guojun agreed to Mrs. Huayang's request, and in this way, Lü Buwei took the first step.

Zhao Ji is Lü Buwei's concubine, beautiful and good at dancing, Yingyiren saw her at the banquet in Lü Buwei's house and liked her very much, so he asked Lü Buwei to dedicate this Ji to him, and Lü Buwei dedicated Zhao Ji to Yingyiren. In the forty-eighth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Zhao Ji gave birth to a son, named Zheng, which is the reign of Qin Shi Huang.

In the forty-eighth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Yingzheng was born in Handan. At this time, the "Battle of Changping" between Qin and Zhao had just ended. He was born in the midst of war and chaos. Because Zhao lost more than 400,000 soldiers, Zhao hated Qin's protons, so Yingzheng's family did not have a good time in Zhao.

In the fiftieth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the Qin army attacked Handan, and the troops came to the city, and Zhao decided to execute the hostages of Qin and his whole family. Under the extreme urgency of the situation, Lü Buwei bribed the guards of Zhao State with a lot of money, and escaped from Handan City with Ying Yiren, entered the Qin army camp, and was escorted back to Xianyang. Zhao Ji and Ying Zheng, who was only three years old, were left in Handan City, dying nine times and facing the danger of being killed many times. Fortunately, Zhao Ji was the daughter of a wealthy family, so she was able to hide, so the mother and son had to live. He was spared death, but was also placed under house arrest by the Zhao royal family.

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