Volume 6 Chapter 30 Hope After Despair
"Wait a minute. ”
Luo Changfeng stood in front of the painting and observed for a moment, and suddenly stopped the sapper's movements, he walked to the side, looked at the wall from the side, and said to himself: "Sure enough." ”
Chen Yulou and the others stepped forward for unknown reasons, made the same movements as Luo Changfeng, and finally saw clearly that the woman on the mural was protruding from the plane, as if there was a corpse under the portrait.
Chen Yulou also understood, and said, "I know, there was originally a hole in this wall, and this woman was built here and blocked this hole. ”
Luo Changfeng bowed his head and said: "That's right, so we don't need explosives at all." ”
With that, he raised his leg and kicked the woman in the mural in the abdomen.
"Boom"
As soon as Luo Changfeng stepped down, an obese female corpse broke away from the wall, flew into the tomb, fell to the ground, and remained motionless.
Since it is not the day of the year that is extremely cloudy, the corpse cave has not been activated, and the queen who was filled with Tai Sui's eyes in the original plot almost strangled Hu Bayi to death, and gave birth to many corpse moths did not move.
Sapper: "......"
Well, there's nothing to do with them again.
Luo Lao stroked the beard on his chin crookedly and said, "Grandma, this is really strange, who is this female corpse? How can it be embedded in the wall?"
Luo Changfeng said: "It should be the queen of the king, as for why it was used to fill the hole, I can only ask the king, let's go in! ”
The partridge whistle was in good spirits, and the first one bent down and went into the tomb, and Chen Yulou and the others rushed in.
On the left side of the burial chamber there is a trapezoidal bronze coffin with a small mouth, but it is small in size and has a peculiar shape, which is extremely strange.
This coffin is a mixture of wood and copper, the whole is brown and black, it is made of Zhennan wood, embedded with copper ornaments with complex structure, there are hollow miniature pavilions on all sides, there is a huge copper bird cast on the top, the coffin lid is not sealed, there is no corpse in it, only a set of "finch feather jade clothes".
This garment is of exquisite texture, all of which are made of gold wire, and there is nothing superfluous in the coffin except for this garment.
The partridge whistle scraped it with a dagger, and there was not even a corpse mud, it seems that this is indeed an empty coffin, if the corpse is completely decomposed, at least a thin layer of vermilion soil will be left.
Luo Lao crookedly ordered his subordinates to pack up the finch and jade clothes, and the partridge whistle thoughtfully walked in one direction, muttering to himself: "The coffin of the king should correspond to the position of the coffin of the shadow bone, so ......"
The partridge whistle slowly moved his steps according to the position of the shadow bone coffin in his memory, and everyone followed him step by step, moving to the east.
Eventually, Partridge Whistle stopped in an empty place, where there was only a slightly convex white stone that grew into the surrounding area, and there was no coffin.
Partridge Whistle's face was a little ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "It stands to reason that the coffin of the king should be placed here, but why...... Nothing?"
Luo Changfeng looked at the bulge on the ground, and said meaningfully: "It may not be nothing." ”
Everyone looked at him and didn't understand what he meant.
saw Luo Changfeng pointing to the raised white stone, and said to the swordsmen: "Use a steel drill to knock off this raised white stone." ”
"Yes. "The swordsmen don't ask why, they just do what they are told.
Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle were moved in their hearts, "Changfeng, do you mean that under this bulge is likely to be the coffin of the king?"
Luo Changfeng said: "It's just a guess, but this guess is probably right, just below this position is where the shadow bone coffin is placed, and there happens to be such a bulge here, why is it so coincidental?"
"Although this tomb is not big, it is not small, why is there no bulge elsewhere, but here?"
After listening to Luo Changfeng's explanation, Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle nodded involuntarily, and watched the swordsmen work with burning eyes at the moment, and the sound of "Ding Ding Ding" hammer hitting the steel drill sounded in the tomb.
Over time, after they knocked off the white stone, which was more than half a foot thick, a completely different color from the white stone was revealed.
Chen Yulou said with a little excitement: "There is really something inside, and the coffin of the king is really here." ”
Seeing that their work had borne fruit, the swordsmen were even more interested, and they sped up their speed, and soon, a human-shaped coffin was revealed, and Chen Yulou explained to everyone that this was a "jade-topped hairpin golden lintoe coffin".
There is a human head and two shoulders on the top of the coffin, and the seal is staggered and closed with four gold "lin toes", because the king intends to ascend to immortality after the autopsy, so the coffin lid has not been wedged.
Human-shaped coffins were rare in ancient China, and most of them were wooden coffins, and the most human-shaped coffins were used in Egypt, Maya and some European countries.
There is a vortex carved on the top of this humanoid coffin, the shape of the vortex almost covers the entire jade top, the vortex is similar to the eyeball, and it turns out to be a curved phoenix when you look closely, and the shape of the swirl is formed, and the pupil is the head of the phoenix.
As soon as the three brothers and sisters of Partridge Whistle saw this pattern, they couldn't stop getting excited, Chen Yulou smiled slightly when he saw this, and waved his hand: "What are you waiting for, brothers? Open the coffin and take the dust beads." ”
The swordsmen lifted the jade lid of the coffin and set it aside, revealing the corpse of the king wearing a black python-patterned jade armor robe and a purple gold belt around his waist.
However, when they saw the face of the king, everyone shuddered a little, the body of the king had no face.
Perhaps this is not an appropriate description, but it would be more accurate to say that the facial features of the corpse of the king have become blurred and distorted, leaving only a few traces.
The mouth, nose and eyes are almost indistinguishable, as if they have melted on the face, making the human head smooth and weird, as if wearing a mask of jade skin.
And the coffin was clear at a glance, and there was not even a burial vessel, Luo Lao hesitated and said, "What is this...... It can't be a dummy, right?"
Partridge Whistle's face changed slightly, and as soon as he grasped the arm of the king, he rolled up the sleeves of the python-patterned robe, but saw that his five fingers were clenched, and he was obviously holding a bright weapon in his hand.
Look at the skin of the corpse's hand, it is not a dummy, the partridge whistle pinched it with his hand on the corpse of the king, and it was even a little elastic, and it was extremely well preserved, and then pinched it on the corpse's face, but the tentacles were hard, and it seemed to have been completely jaded.
What is the real "dust bead", Partridge Whistle has never seen it, he has only seen pictures and texts, and he doesn't know the size of the real dust bead, whether he can just hold it in his hand.
But no matter what, offering the king is their last hope to move the mountain, the partridge whistle forcefully broke the finger of the king, and when he saw the things in his palm, his heart was cold.
In the left hand of the corpse of the king, he was holding a spoiled peach pit, which was unexpected, but it was not surprising.
Chinese people have a special feeling for "peach", and regard it as a kind of sacred object to ward off evil, avoid disasters and increase longevity, so there are many utensils in the shape of peach in ancient handicrafts.
According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the longest reigning emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and the emperor wanted to be a god after a long time, so he often mobilized the people to go to the three mountains and five mountains to worship, and also sent people to various places to search for the elixir of immortality.
This painstaking work finally moved the Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun Mountain, and on the night of Qixi in the first year of Yuanfeng, she came to Weiyang Palace to meet Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the night of Qixi in the first year of Yuanfeng.
On the occasion of the feast, the Queen Mother of the West gave Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che four peaches, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty felt that the taste was luscious, the aroma was abnormal, and it was very different from the things in the world, so he planned to leave the peach pit to be planted in the world.
As a result, he learned that this kind of divine product was difficult to survive in the world, and he couldn't help but be disappointed, and later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty still failed to realize his wish for immortality after all.
But people who lived to be in their seventies were also very rare in that era, perhaps because they ate fairy peaches that they lived to be seventy years old.
Of course, this is just a folklore, but after the death of the emperor, the wind of holding the peach pit in his hand has a long history, as early as the time of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was very common, but the peach pit is a plant, the easiest to decompose, so it is difficult to see the coffin in later generations.
The panic in the heart of the partridge whistle at this time was even stronger, Chen Yulou and Luo Laowei and the others all frowned, they had a touch of sympathy for the partridge whistle in their hearts, and they didn't know how to comfort him, so they had to be silent, silently watching him touch the body of the king from head to toe.
The right hand of the king was also tightly clenched, which was already the last hope of the partridge whistle, but after it was broken, the partridge whistle was like a basin of cold water poured on its head.
In the right hand of the king of Xian, there are a lot of black jade rings, and there are no beads at all, not only on the king of Xian, but also in the coffin.
The partridge whistle staggered back a few steps, and at this moment he only felt that his eyes were black, and his heart was full of hope.
It's not that he hasn't experienced disappointment, but this time is really the most hopeful, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and the disappointment that erupts at this moment becomes despair.
At this moment, Luo Changfeng suddenly spoke: "Brother Partridge Whistle, don't be busy despairing, don't you think that the head of this king is a little too strange?"
The partridge whistle's eyes regained their brilliance, and he looked at Luo Changfeng with hope, only to hear Luo Changfeng say slowly: "You say...... Could it be that the king of Xian took the dust beads in his mouth?"
"Therefore, according to legend, the dust bead is a phoenix gall, which helps people to cultivate the effect of immortals, and it must contain a very special power. ”
"Maybe it's because King Xian took the dust beads in his mouth that the head of this corpse became so strange. ”