"This is Uncle Qu, he is the tomb keeper of the Houshan Tomb."

"Oh?" I looked at the old man Qu in amazement, his face was withered, his face was not half bloody, his hair was sparse and he was a half-leper, "So you stunned us?" You got that flying corpse out too? ”

"Not bad." Uncle Qu nodded, there was no smile on his face, and when he spoke, the whole person seemed to be about to fall, full of sickness, "The Qu family has guarded the mausoleum of Fu Jian Zheng for generations. ”

"Then you also live in this village?" I asked.

"The old man is a scavenger."

Lin Xiaoyu added: "Uncle Qu has lived in this village for generations, and if you want to tell you the ins and outs of the whole thing, I think he has to tell you. ”

I looked at Uncle Qu suspiciously, although my body had recovered a little at the moment, I was still in a trance, and what was happening in front of me at the moment made me even more confused.

"I'm sure you already know who is lying inside this real dragon, right?"

"Fuping, a Qintian supervisor in the Qing Dynasty."

"Yes, this matter has to start after Fuping returns to his hometown." Uncle Qu coughed, found a stool to sit down, and said: "Soon after Fuping resigned and settled in Shaoxing, he began to build a mausoleum for himself, because he was born from Qin Tianjian and knew the five elements of Yili, and he was even more obsessed with the afterlife, so he took great pains to find his tomb. ”

I nodded and said, "We've all seen this, not only is the tomb magnificent and unique, but the mechanism inside is even more dangerous. ”

"Yes, in order to prevent anyone from disturbing him after death, he invited countless skilled craftsmen to arrange the news of the mechanism, and he even invited a mysterious figure to keep blood corpses and evil spirits in captivity in his mausoleum to guard his spirit."

"You mean a mystery man? Was it the mysterious man who helped him keep these things in the tomb? "I heard this and unconsciously refreshed.

"Yes, this person does not know the name, he calls himself a Taoist priest of Linqiong, he travels to come, one day through the Fu House, he sees the auspicious clouds above the Fu Mansion and enters the door to visit, and says some mysterious and witty words, and if he likes it, he was introduced by Fuping as a guest, and let him be responsible for building a mausoleum for himself."

"But when we went in, we found that this mausoleum was actually not completed, and something was done hastily outside, did we encounter something wrong later?"

"The lad is right." Old Uncle Qu sighed and said, "Fuping has a lot of trust in this Linqiong Taoist priest and gives him full authority to repair the tomb for himself, but he himself knows that this matter of raising blood corpses is a matter of disapproval from the world, so it is very secretive, and almost no one knows about it. But after all, the paper can't contain the fire, or the east window incident. ”

Uncle Qu confessed that one day he went to the mausoleum to check the construction period, but saw that there was no one in the tomb to chat, but the project never moved, so he was very puzzled and went inside to find the Taoist priest of Linqiong. But when he entered, the sight before him completely frightened him.

I saw a large pool dug in one of the tombs, filled with red blood water, soaked in a dozen naked pregnant women. Those pregnant women all had hideous faces, green faces and fangs, and they were dancing their teeth and claws in the pool of blood, so frightened that Fuping hurriedly ran out. But he never expected that when he turned around and ran into another tomb, the situation inside was still shocking.

Dozens of fleshy people were tied to pillars and allowed snakes, insects, rats and ants to crawl and bite them. One by one, their red eyes were open, and it was chilling.

"Corpse Gu?" I blurted out.

"That's right, it's the same bunch of things you just encountered."

"After Fuping saw this, he felt uneasy, so he secretly passed on the news to our ancestor Qu Jingde, and told him what the Taoist priest Linqiong had done in this tomb." As he spoke, Uncle Qu took out a cloth bag from his arms, which contained a sword hilt made of white jade, "What do you see what this is?" ”

"Is this—the hilt of the sword?" I took it and took a closer look, the hilt of the sword was made of white jade, divided into five sections, each section was made of silver silk, and there was a slender and long hole at one end of the hilt, which should be embedded in the sword body. I looked at the hilt of this sword, as if I remembered something, and wondered, "Could it be that this hilt belongs to the bronze ancient sword?" ”

Lin Xiaoyu immediately laughed, "That's right, isn't this the hilt of that bronze ancient sword?" ”

"Ancestor Qu Jingde and Fuping were in Qintianjian together, and Fuping was close friends, and immediately rushed to Shaoxing from the capital after learning of this. But he had just come to the Fu Mansion, and Fu Ping had already passed away. ”

"Passed away?" I was surprised, "This is too unbelievable." ”

"That night, the ancestor received the news from Fuping a few days ago, he said that he might be about to be killed, knowing that he had made a big mistake and angered the sky, and hoped that the ancestor could save his face and keep the secret for the sake of his best friends."

Qu Jingde immediately thought that the Taoist priest of Linqiong might kill people because he learned that the conspiracy was exposed, so he rushed to the Fu Mansion late at night to find out.

The huge blessed house, the courtyard is closed, and there is no one. As soon as Qu Jingde pushed open the door, a cold wind suddenly blew in his face. The yard was tight, and the leaves were flying all over the ground. There were a lot of yellow and white pieces of paper scattered on the ground, mixed with fallen leaves, and they were also blown by the wind. Looking into the main hall, I saw a big word "Dien", which broke into the eyes of people, like entering a haunted house.

Qu Jingde's father was the former supervisor of Qintianjian, and he grew up in Qintianjian since he was a child, so he was used to seeing the ghosts and ghosts in this world, and the scene in front of him immediately alerted him. He pulled his left hand on the strap around his waist, and the rucksack on his back immediately slipped down, revealing a white jade hilt.

With a "poof", the ancient sword came out of its sheath. The bronze ancient sword is cold and dignified, the sword body is decorated with a black diamond-shaped geometric dark pattern, the front and back of the sword grid are also inlaid with blue glass and turquoise respectively, and the sword head is rolled into a round hoop to the shape, and there are extremely fine fifteen concentric circles cast inside.

Qu Jingde's sword is not small. When Qu's father was young, he traveled around northern Shaanxi, and if it was good, it was called traveling in all directions, and if it was not good, it was mixed rice and eat. He was hungry and thirsty, so he broke into a temple and ate the tribute offered in the temple.

The enraged villagers rushed out to pay homage to the gods, and he was in a hurry to make up a deception about the gods descending to earth, and promised to fulfill a wish of the villagers. After hearing this, Qu's father went to the cemetery alone, where he stayed for three days and three nights, and finally the sword returned to the village.

"I heard from my ancestors that this sword was originally the host of a demon, and then the ancestor was destroyed by his father, so he took this sword as a family heirloom." Uncle Qu said, "The ancestor searched all the rooms in the Fu Mansion at that time, but found no clues. He saw that Fuping was in the corpse hall and there was no one to take care of it, so he planned to finish the funeral for him, but he knew that Fuping had been poisoned by the corpse at this time, and he would become stiff in a few days. ”

"Could it be that Fuping turned into a zombie is also a ghost made by Taoist priests in Linqiong?"

Uncle Qu nodded, "This Linqiong Taoist priest is scheming and sinister, and when he saw that the matter was exposed, he thought of such a conspiracy to kill people and plant blame. When the ancestors saw the scene in front of them, they understood what Fuhei said in the letter. ”

"In order to suppress the corpse poison and prevent Fuping from becoming stiff, the ancestor put the bronze ancient sword into the sarcophagus, and hoisted the sarcophagus with iron cables to prevent moisture from entering."

"I can't believe things are like this!" I seemed to have a clear idea, and my whole body was in good spirits, "What about then?" ”

"Although the ancestors temporarily suppressed the corpse poison, no one can predict what will happen after a hundred years, and once those things in the tomb come out, it is even more unimaginable to harm people, so the ancestors moved the clansmen here to guard the spirits for generations, and dug a passage in the empty mound in the back mountain to lead directly to the main coffin, this road is only known to the Qu family, in order to prevent such a day."

Lin Xiaoyu and I looked at each other and smiled, "I didn't expect that in the end, the two of me were disturbed." ”

"I don't blame you two, I know you're here for that bronze box, right?"

"You even know that?"

"A flash flood washed away the empty mound in the back mountain, and I knew that this matter could not be hidden." Uncle Qu sighed and said, "The old man lives here alone, and he has long been accustomed to seeing the things of this world, and since then, there have been more and more people coming to the mountains, and it will be a matter of time before the truth is revealed." ”

Lin Xiaoyu took out the photo of the bronze box from his mobile phone, took out the one bought by the soldier from his backpack, handed it to Uncle Qu, and asked, "Look, were these two boxes used by Fuping and your ancestors to deliver messages at that time?" ”

Uncle Qu just glanced at it, then put it on the table, sighed and said, "This one that was originally opened should have been picked up by the little boy from the village soldier, right?" ”

"Exactly."

"As for the girl, this one in your phone should have been opened not long ago, right?"

"That's true."

"Did you find anything in there?"

Lin Xiaoyu didn't know what was going on and looked at me. I nodded and said, "I heard my friend say that there is a game of Tianbao chess game in it, and we don't understand what it means. ”

"That's right." Uncle Qu smiled, his smile could only be discerned from his voice, and the muscles on his face seemed to be unable to move, "At that time, it was the rebellion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Fuping and the ancestors used this kind of secret language on the Tianbao chess game to transmit the news, and in order to hide people's eyes, they also deliberately wrote some deeds of the Taiping Army on the back, even if they were discovered, they only felt that they were transmitting the news of rebellion and could not contact the gods and ghosts." ”

"I see." The doubts in Lin Xiaoyu's heart were solved, and his mood suddenly relaxed, "It's really unexpected!" ”