Volume 1 Chapter 8: The Six Stars of the Southern Dipper
This burial chamber was much larger than the one we had encountered before, surrounded by porcelain, and the six coffins were placed in a disorderly position, but each coffin was very exquisite.
I thought that the previous tomb was already the main room, after all, in the middle of the tomb, there was also a coffin that looked noble.
However, I never expected to come across a burial chamber that was even bigger than that one, and there were even six coffins here!
Second Brother and Master Cao already knew that there were six coffins here, so naturally they didn't have a big reaction. I looked at Bai Sha and found that he was not particularly surprised, but just looked at the six coffins very indifferently.
Bai Sha has always been a person who seems to have no emotions, but when he moves, his moves are always with a strong wind.
Among the six coffins, one has already been opened by the second brother, and the bloody corpse just now is in this coffin.
The second brother rubbed his hands, his eyes were shining, and he said, "It's a pity, these coffins may be full of bloody corpses, otherwise this time it would be really rich....."
Excluding these coffins, the burial chamber is made up of worthless porcelain. In my old understanding, I thought that the main chamber of every ancient tomb would be filled with all the treasures of the tomb owner's life, but now it seems that this is not the case.
I asked Master Cao, "Master Cao, this tomb is the main tomb, right?" ”
"Yes, but this is the first time I've seen six coffins in a main chamber..... Whether it is from the perspective of feng shui or the position of identity, how can there be no such situation, this tomb is really weird, I went out and told those old guys on the road, I guess no one believed it. ”
The second brother sighed and said slowly: "This trip is planted, and I broke a lot of brothers, not to mention, and I didn't catch any of my mother,!" ”
At this time, Bai Sha stepped forward and touched the coffins, and circled around the six coffins, and was soon taken out of his bag and lit by a few candles.
The second brother's face suddenly changed, and he said, "Brother, are you planning to open the coffin?" You also saw that a bloody corpse came out of the coffin just now, and no one can say what was in the remaining five coffins. ”
Although I didn't learn about tomb robbing since I was a child, after all, I was born in a family of tomb robbers, so I naturally know some common sense about tomb robbing.
In the faction of the school captain who touches the gold, it is important to light candles before the opening of the museum. As the saying goes, "When the rooster cries and the lights go out, you don't touch the gold." People light candles, ghosts blow out lamps, and the eight characters are not hard, don't go forward".
It means that if a candle is lit in front of the coffin, if the candle is extinguished, the bucket will not fall, and the person who has fallen into the coffin must respectfully kowtow three times to the tomb and then return the same way. Folklore has it that if the candle is extinguished and the tomb is moved, it will offend the owner of the tomb and invite death.
Of course, since my grandfather's generation, he didn't believe in this statement, lighting candles is just a bad habit passed down from his ancestors, even if the candle is extinguished, it doesn't mean anything.
Bai Sha didn't think so, and said to the second brother: "No, there will definitely be no bloody corpses in the remaining five coffins." ”
Master Cao sneered: "Hou Sheng, don't say it so absolutely, what reason do you have to conclude that there will be no bloody corpses in the remaining coffins?" ”
Bai Sha lit and pulled, then pointed to the six coffins and gave his reasons.
Everyone knows the Big Dipper, but few people know the Big Dipper. In the Qimen gossip, there is the saying of the Seven Star Array, since ancient times, the emperor and the general also believe in this doctrine, it is rumored that the emperor put his coffin in the tomb according to the direction of the Seven Star Array, commonly known as the Seven Star Coffin.
And the six coffins in front of us are very similar to the seven-star coffin, but one less is called the six-star coffin. The six-star coffin also has the same source as the seven-star coffin, corresponding to the six stars of the Southern Dipper.
The six stars of the Southern Dipper are: Tianfu Star, Tianliang Star, Tianji Star, Tiantong Star, Tianxiang Star, and Seven Killing Stars. According to Bai Sha, the location of the coffin that my second brother opened for the first time corresponds to the seven killing stars among the six stars, which is the same as its name, it is the killing star, that is, the evil star.
The ancients often believed that the six stars of the Southern Dipper, the longevity of the Lord Son of Heaven, also lived in the position of Xiang Juelu. In a certain myth, there is also a saying that "the Lord of the North Dipper dies, and the Lord of the South Dipper lives".
Even in Taoism, the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper is the master of life. On the first day of the palace, he was the star king; the next day, Xianggong, for Silu Xingjun; On the third day, Liang Palace is the longevity star monarch; On the fourth day, in the same palace, it is the star monarch of Yisuan; On the fifth day, the palace is the star monarch of Doom; The sixth heavenly machine palace is the star monarch of the upper life.
It can be seen from these six-star positions that it means prolonging life and relieving misfortune, wealth and wealth. Among them, the seven killing stars directly control life and death, and the people who should be this star can be generals, and they are destined to go through a lot of hardships in their early years, and they must be blessed by nobles, and they are the only dangerous stars in the six stars of the Southern Dipper.
Therefore, it is natural that there is a great evil in this coffin.
After listening to Baisha's explanation, we couldn't help but be surprised, but we didn't expect that there was such a statement.
Master Cao was very interested in this, and after thinking about it for a while, he suddenly said: "I did see the Southern Dipper Six Stars in ancient books, but at that time I thought it was really nonsense and didn't look closely, I didn't expect this thing to really exist!" ”
After listening to Bai Sha's explanation, the second brother's face quickly showed joy again, it seems that he has mostly believed it, which means that we can open the coffin and get the treasure again.
But the second brother is a veteran after all, and he will not lose his mind because of Bai Sha's words, he said to Bai Sha: "I suggest that you find the exit first, and then come back to open the coffin after finding it, even if the bloody corpse is opened in the end, we can exit immediately." ”
Master Cao also agreed.
And I'm more inclined to the second brother's proposal, after all, even if we touch countless priceless artifacts now, if we can't find an exit, it will be in vain.
Bai Sha nodded, dispelling the idea of opening the coffin immediately.
At this time, Master Cao lowered his head and stared at the patterns on the coffin, then picked up one and grabbed it, walked to the edge of the tomb wall, and looked at the patterns on the tomb wall.
Dawu, like me, doesn't know anything about these tomb robberies, only knows some fur, and his duty is to be a thug to help my second brother deal with the places where force needs to be used in the tomb.
The second brother, Master Cao, and Bai Sha were looking around in the tomb, as if they wanted to find useful information through the patterns on the coffin and the patterns on the tomb wall, while I sat with Dawu on the porcelain on the side to rest.
"Dawu, you are different from those ordinary guys, right, is it the most capable cadre under my second brother?"
Da Wu smiled and replied: "Naturally, since I became the hall master of the martial arts hall since I arrived under the second master, as long as I am a brother of the martial arts, I have to call me a martial brother." ”
"Wutang? What is that? ”
Dawu knew that I had been in prison for five years, and then explained to me what happened to my second brother when I was in prison all these years.
After my father and I were imprisoned, the second brother quickly recovered the remaining forces of our Zhang family. Because we are all in Shaanxi prison, the second brother moved most of the Zhang family's family business from Hunan to Shaanxi, relying on the original reputation of the Zhang family, coupled with his skills, he poured several fights in Shaanxi, and soon became famous on this side of the road.
The second brother changed the original style of our family and set up different halls, each of which was dedicated to their specific direction, no longer like when my father was alive, each guy was proficient in all aspects of the inverted bucket technique, so that none of them were proficient.
As a result, the martial arts hall, the touch gold hall, the logistics hall, and the dark hall were established.
Wutang is a hall that specializes in cultivating thugs, and the most people who come to each inverted fight are the people of Wutang, these guys have their own skills, and there are many guys who have excellent skills.
Touching the Golden Hall is like Master Cao, who is proficient in feng shui, and Master Cao is also the master of the Touching Golden Hall.
The logistics hall is specially responsible for the equipment needed for the inverted bucket, and will also train some brothers who put cards.
Dark Tang, I can't say what Dawu is doing, and the second brother hasn't explained it to him, it is the most mysterious hall in the Zhang family at present. According to the second brother, the dark hall was not established by him in the real sense, and there was this hall very early when my father was alive, but it was not called the dark hall.
After learning this, I couldn't help but be stunned and looked at my second brother in surprise.
It's hard for me to imagine that this is the second brother who has played with me since I was a child, and the second brother is only three years older than me, but I didn't expect him to carry the Zhang family alone.
Of course, what I can't understand the most is that Dawu looks like he is in his thirties, and the guys who came with him all look older than me and my second brother, how can they be willing to call my second brother "second master".
I asked Dawu about this, but Dawu just smiled faintly and replied, "Third Master Qiu, you just got out of prison and don't have much contact with Second Master..... When we go out this time, you will live with the second master, and you will know why our brothers are willing to call him the second master....."
Just when I was chatting with Dawu, Master Cao suddenly patted his head and exclaimed, "I understand!" I get it! ”
All of us looked at Master Cao, and Master Cao's excited expression couldn't help but jump up.
"Master Cao, have you found anything?" Dawu asked.
Master Cao nodded, beckoned to us, and pointed to the coffin, motioning for us to come over and look.
Walking to the edge of the coffin, Master Cao pointed to the patterns on the coffin and said: "I just carefully looked at the patterns on these coffins, and according to the style and depiction of these patterns, I judged that this should be the carving style of carpenters in the Song Dynasty.....
I was a little speechless: "It's just that I found the problem of the dynasty, is it necessary to shout so much .... In fact, according to some of the construction specifications of this tomb and some murals on the tomb wall, the dynasty of the ancient tomb can be inferred long ago. ”
Master Cao shook his head at me and smiled mysteriously: "Third Master Qiu, you have smiled... Which dynasty this tomb belongs to, my Master Cao can see it from a moment. ”
"And what do you mean?"
"This coffin was carved by the coffin craftsman of the Song Dynasty, and the coffin craftsman of the Song Dynasty paid great attention to the ceremony, and he would finish it by himself after receiving an order, and he would not use other people to help, and these six coffins were obviously not made by one person."