() Just when Yan Haolei was helpless, one of his subordinates came up with an idea. Luo Huailiang has no wife and no children, and his money is squandered, if he wants to make a living, he will definitely return to his old business and rob tombs again. Although there are many state cities to the west of Guzhou, fortunately, they are all within the sphere of influence of King Guangxing. Further west, Shenglong County is now the territory of demon beasts, and it is estimated that Luo Huailiang does not have the courage to go. In this way, as long as you thoroughly investigate the state towns and villages in the west of Guzhou, you will definitely find Luo Huailiang's traces.

Yan Haolei nodded frequently after listening, this is indeed the most effective method at the moment. Since Luo Huailiang had only recently left Guzhou, it was not too late that a search should be launched immediately to prevent him from going in other directions.

As soon as the order of the eldest prince of Guangxing came out, all the city lords of the state city west of Guzhou did not dare to slack off, and thoroughly investigated all the inns, restaurants, brothels, gambling houses and other places in the city, and in addition to sending people to search the villages and towns near the state city, looking for the whereabouts of a person with a thin body and sharp beak and monkey cheeks.

Unfortunately, all this was in vain. Where does Luo Huailiang have the money to go to a place of pleasure again? He is now walking on the snow-covered mountain road one foot deeper, one foot shallow, and he does not know that he has become the target that half of Qianlong County is looking for.

With a "creaking" sound, the snow was stepped on by Luo Huailiang one by one deep footprints. Looking ahead, the snow-covered mountains are dazzling in the sunlight, and when you look back, there are only one line of meandering tracks. "It's really cold this day......" He took a deep breath of cold air and continued to walk down the mountain.

The snow is so thick, Luo Huailiang's ability to "listen to the sound and visit the tomb" cannot be used, but fortunately, he has been prepared. As he walked, he looked to the right side of the mountain road, as if looking for something.

"Ah, this is it!" Luo Huailiang suddenly snorted softly, his face beaming with joy. Not far ahead, there was a cyan stone, showing a few inches of snow, and there were three white spots on the top of the stone. After rounding the stones, he walked to the right and left the mountain road.

The white dot on the bluestone is the mark left by Luo Huailiang before, when it meets the stone, turn right.

The slope of this non-mountain road was a little steep, but it had no effect on the light Luo Huailiang, who almost trotted all the way down the slope to the back of the mountain.

After walking for about ten miles, another piece of bluestone was exposed in the snow, and this time there were only two white spots on the surface of the bluestone. Luo Huailiang skirted the boulder and turned to the mountain again. It was even steeper, so he had to hunch his body, use his hands and feet, and grasp the trunk or boulder and climb up slowly.

After another half an hour, he climbed to the side of a rock. The mountain rock protrudes from the snow surface and has a clear white spot on it.

Luo Huailiang sat on the mountain rock panting, opened the burden on his back, took out a piece of dry food and nibbled it. His mouth was dry and difficult to swallow, so he grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, and the cold stimulation turned into a cool stream in his mouth and flowed into his abdomen. "That old woman is really ruthless...... The woman too, who refused to admit that she had stolen my money, was sure ...... "The most poisonous woman's heart" Thinking about what happened in the brothel, he cursed in his mouth, got up and walked to the right side of the mountain rock.

After walking for about a moment, a bamboo pole suddenly emerged from the snow in the distance. Seeing the bamboo pole, Luo Huailiang's eyes showed unconcealed joy, he walked quickly to the bamboo pole, took out a small shovel from the baggage, and began to shovel the snow hard about three steps behind the bamboo pole. As the shovel waved, the snow fell, and soon, the brownish-yellow ground was revealed. Luo Huailiang changed directions, dug forward, cleared out a small open space, and then pulled out the bamboo pole behind him, and stabbed it vigorously into the clearing.

He took out a rag from his baggage, broke off a branch from a tree next to him, wrapped it around it, took out a gourd from his baggage, poured the oil contained in it on the rag, lit it with a fire breaker, and made a torch. Luo Huailiang held the torch in one hand and the wall of the cave in the other, and slowly got in.

This hole is the one he used to dig for tomb robbery. The mark was left because this tomb was very different from other tombs that had been stolen in the past. Most of the tombs stolen in the past were buried by deceased dignitaries. Luo Huailiang has robbed tombs for many years, quite experienced, and generally has obvious tombs The tomb owner is at best an inferior and wealthy person, and the real rich and noble are all buried in the underground of the deep mountains and old forests, and there is no trace outside, which is to prevent the patronage of tomb robbers. The tombs of such rich and noble people must have been large and complex, and there must have been enough space for luxurious coffins and a large number of funerary goods. When the space is larger, the sound of walking on the surface will be different. Luo Huailiang's hearing was extremely sensitive, and even in a tomb two feet deep underground, he could recognize it from his footsteps.

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That was a few months ago.

Luo Huailiang happened to pass through this mountainous area, and after a little ventilation and water, he found that there should be a good treasure near the top of the mountain, so he found a route to climb up. It was the height of summer and there was no snow on the surface. He walked around the place several times, and from time to time tapped the ground with a bamboo pole, but to his disappointment, he did not hear the echo of the catacombs.

Luo Huailiang, who did not give up, simply stomped on the ground, and when he was about to give up, his ears finally caught an extremely slight echo. He was overjoyed, ordinary people couldn't even hear the echo of an ordinary tomb, but Luo Huailiang could easily hear it, and the echo of this hard stamping was so light that it was estimated that the depth of the tomb was three or four zhang, to say the least. It may not be easy to bury such a deep tomb.

Luo Huailiang immediately began to dig the tomb robbery hole, and dug day and night for three days, and the tomb buried four zhang underground revealed the blue bricks on the surface. But Luo Huailiang, who should have been ecstatic, was dumbfounded at this time, and the brick joints of the green bricks were wiped with mortar, and he couldn't dig them with the shovel in his hand alone.

Luo Huailiang's eyes rolled and he thought of a way. He crawled out of the grave robbery cave, cut some branches and put them at the mouth of the cave, and covered them with a thin layer of earth. When he had finished covering up, he hurried down the hill to the nearest town and bought hammers and chisels from a stonemason.

No matter how strong the bricks are, they can't withstand the hammer and chisel. Luo Huailiang did not dare to dig the tomb during the day, for fear that the sound of the chiseling would attract people who went up the mountain to cut firewood and hunt. So, during the day he slept in an inn in the city below the mountain, and at night he unknowingly touched the mountain and chiseled the green bricks little by little.

After three more days of chiseling, Luo Huailiang finally chiseled through the dome of the tomb. After breaking through a man-sized hole in the dome, he plunged into it.

As soon as he entered the tomb, he felt something strange, buried deep in the ground, there should have been a strong musty smell, but the air in this tomb was very fresh, as if after the rain. Worried about some mechanism, Luo Huailiang held a torch in one hand and kept knocking on the ground in front of him and the walls on both sides with a bamboo pole in the other. Fortunately, he was not in any danger.

To his surprise, the path of this tomb was twisting and turning, and he couldn't see the end. The more complex the tomb, the more likely it is that there will be precious funerary goods, and he walked to the depths of the tomb with excitement.

After turning a sharp corner, Luo Huailiang was taken aback, and was suddenly frightened by the scene in front of him, he actually saw two vague figures in the darkness in the distance!

Who are those two people? Could it be other tomb robbers? Impossible, Luo Huailiang dug the tomb for three nights in a row before entering, how could someone be the first to climb the tomb? Could it be that the tomb owner? It is even more impossible, those two figures are clearly standing!

"Isn't it...... Wild ghosts?" After this thought flashed in his mind, Luo Huailiang was scared into a cold sweat, after robbing the tomb for so many years, is it really alive or not?

Ordinary people have long been frightened and fled, but after all, Luo Huailiang has been robbing tombs for many years, and his courage is much greater than that of ordinary people, driven by the greed for gold and silver treasures, he settled down and shouted tremblingly: "Who is the person in front?"

A trembling voice echoed through the tomb, but the two figures did not respond. Luo Huailiang squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and found that the two figures had not moved at all, not like living creatures.

"Could it be that the owner of the tomb is playing tricks in order to scare the tomb robbers?" Luo Huai guessed in his conscience. It was too far away to see clearly, so he walked slowly with a torch. When he got closer, he finally saw the true faces of the two figures.

It turned out to be two lifelike stone sculptures!

The size of the stone sculpture is no different from that of a real person, and the face, demeanor, posture, and outfit are all vivid, no wonder they are mistaken for two living people in the distance.

After making up his mind, Luo Huailiang observed the stone carvings with great interest.

The statue on the right is a man in armor, and the copper plates covered with the armor are meticulously carved. This person wore a war helmet on his head, the tassels at the tip of the helmet and the cloak behind him were all fluttering backwards, and under the helmet was a resolute face with angry eyebrows, revealing incomparable majesty. His left hand held the scabbard at his waist, and his right hand was drawing his sword, and his feet were open, clearly the image of a general who was about to fight bravely to kill the enemy!

Luo Huailiang kept smacking his lips while looking at it, from the degree of craftsmanship of this statue, he could know that it must be worth a lot, but the statue was too big, and it was connected with the side wall of the tomb, so it was really inconvenient to carry, otherwise, he would definitely have to dig it up and sell it to make a fortune.

After looking at the statue on the right, Luo Huailiang's eyes fell on another statue. In contrast to the mighty general on the right, the sculpture on the left depicts an elegant literati. He wore an official hat on his head, a long beard under his chin, frowned slightly, stared closely at the scroll he held in his left hand, and a pen in his right hand, as if he were writing something on the scroll. By the light of the fire, Luo Huailiang saw that there were really a few lines engraved on the book, but he didn't know a few big characters, so he recognized the word "person" in it.

"Left Wen and Right Wu, this tomb owner is quite exquisite!" Even a rough person like Luo Huailiang can see it, one article and one martial arts stand on both sides, and the one guarding it must be the tomb where the tomb owner's coffin is located.

Luo Huailiang glanced at the two statues that startled him one last time, and continued to walk forward. But he didn't take a few steps before he froze. The catacombs have come to an end.

At the end was a wall, and there was no tomb or coffin as expected. "What's going on?" Luo Huai's conscience was unwilling, and the tomb that he had only discovered with great effort turned out to be an empty tomb! Could it be that the owner of the tomb had not died, but had only built the tomb in advance? No, how could there be a reason for building a tomb without leaving an entrance, and smearing and sealing the cracks in the blue bricks. "There must be something ...... mechanism," he muttered, walking over to the wall.

The walls are not empty, but a large gate is carved in relief. There are lintels, door leaves, thresholds, and door knockers, just like the style of a large family. Does the door mean that there is something behind it? But the door is carved, how can you get in? Luo Huailiang was anxious, and touched the wall inch by inch with his hand, hoping to find some mechanism.

Sure enough, in dim light, vision is not as good as touch. Touching it so carefully, he really found a little bit of a doorway. Between the left and right doors, Luo Huailiang felt an extremely imperceptible slit, which was impossible to see at first glance. Isn't this the crack in the door? The hope in his heart was rekindled, there was a crack in the wall, and it was exactly where the crack in the door was, it seemed that there must be a mechanism!

But where is the mechanism? Luo Huailiang approached the torch and observed it carefully. Looking from top to bottom, he found nothing, and eventually, his gaze stopped on the two knockers.

If you want to enter someone's house, you must first knock on the knocker, but these two knockers are carved on the wall, and there is no way to knock on them. He touched the knocker with his hand, but didn't notice anything unusual.

"Damn! Big deal, I chiseled through the wall!" Luo Huai was anxious in his conscience, took out a hammer and chisel, aimed at the gap in the door, and smashed it hard. Suddenly, his hands were numb, and even the chisel fell to the ground, but there was no trace left on the wall.

"This broken wall is really hard!" Luo Huailiang complained as he shook his numb arm. But as soon as he finished speaking, he noticed something unusual: the knocker on the right seemed to be a little different from just now.

He hurriedly raised the torch and stared at the knocker carefully. In the knocker, a short black slit was revealed.

This gap is slightly thicker than the door crack, but it is less than two points, and it is difficult to notice unless you look closely. He touched it with his fingers, and a little dust fell out of the gap, and the gap actually grew a little longer!

Now Luo Huailiang can understand, it turns out that the gap has been deliberately filled with ash, and the moment he chiseled the wall just now, some ash was shaken off, so this hidden gap was exposed. But now he couldn't expect to cut the wall to shake off the dust, and he didn't have the right tools at hand, so he was worried again. Calculating the time, it was almost dawn, so he had to give up for a moment, return to the entrance he had hewn out, extinguish the torch, crawl out of the tomb with a hook, cover the entrance again, and go down the hill to the city by the light of the morning light.

Luo Huailiang didn't go to the inn to rest, he was thinking about the treasures in the tomb, where could he still sleep. He went straight to buy a few needles and brushes and returned to the tomb. Since it was already dawn, before entering the tomb this time, he specially covered the entrance of the tomb robbery cave with a tree branch.

Eager to come to the deepest wall of the tomb, Luo Huailiang inserted a needle into the gap on the door knocker, and began to pick out the dust little by little, while gently brushing the gap with a brush.

Soon after, a long, flat annular slit was revealed. "What does this mean?" Luo Huailiang gently pressed the part in the crack of the ring, which seemed to be a little loose, but when he pressed hard, he couldn't push it again. So, he took out the chisel and hammer again, and chiseled hard at this position, and with a "poof", the part of the ring crack was pushed into the wall and disappeared, leaving only a small flat hole. "What does that mean?" he was puzzled. He felt like he was getting closer to the truth of the puzzle, but he couldn't grasp it.

After touching for a long time, Luo Huailiang didn't see the reason. Since the knocker on the right has a mystery, the one on the left should also have it. He simply didn't use the needle and brush, and directly aimed at the corresponding position and chiseled it down. There was another "poof", and a small hole was revealed in the knocker on the left, but unlike the one on the right, the shape of the hole was round.

Luo Huailiang sat on the ground and looked up at the two small holes in a daze. With great effort, I found these two small holes, but I didn't know what they were used for. A sense of disappointment filled his heart, and the tiredness that had accumulated over the past few days swept over him, and he lay on his back on the ground.

is lying like this, but it opens a door for Luo Huailiang, who is at a loss. As he fell on his back, he accidentally caught a glimpse of the backs of the two statues. The two statues are one literary and one martial, one official and one general, and two small holes, one left and one right, one round and one flat...... Luo Huailiang, who had already closed his eyes, suddenly had a thrill, and a thought popped up in his mind: "Could it be ......"

He got up from the ground, rushed to the statue of the civil official, and gently tugged at the brush that the statue was holding in his right hand, and the result made him very happy, and sure enough, as he thought, the brush was moving! He jerked hard, pulled out the whole brush, came to the statue of the general, and drew the long sword in his hand.

Taking these two things back to the stone wall, he inserted the brush into the small circular hole of the left door knocker, and inserted the long sword into the flat hole of the right door knocker, and after pushing to the end, "click", a crisp sound sounded, and then there was a deafening roar, and the stone wall in front of him, along the crack in the door, slowly moved to both sides!

A pitch-black corridor was revealed behind the stone wall, and Luo Huailiang took a deep breath and walked in with a torch. The passage was short, and soon led him to a burial chamber. In the middle of the chamber was a stone coffin, and nothing else.

did not find the expected gold and silver jewelry, Luo Huailiang couldn't help but be disappointed, the stone coffin with a coffin and a coffin was not easy to open. Besides, I have never heard of the practice of placing funerary goods in a coffin.

Luo Huailiang raised the torch and walked around the coffin for half a circle, but he found another thing.

Behind the coffin, there is a small stone platform with a copper box on the platform. "Isn't it jewelry?" Luo Huailiang was overjoyed, and hurriedly opened the lid of the box, and suddenly, a dazzling light came out of the box.

He looked at the box, and there were two fist-sized pearls of the night in the box! one glowing yellow and the other glowing white. "The sun and the moon shine together!" Luo Huailiang exclaimed. These two night pearls are the best treasures in the legend, and the general night pearls also emit a faint fluorescence at night, and the light emitted by these two night pearls can be seen in the daytime! The yellow "sun pearls" are produced in the core of the mountains, and the white "moon pearls" are obtained from the pearl shells on the bottom of the sea, because the two pearls are obtained by one person, and the size is the same, so it is named "the sun and the moon shine together". After that, the two night pearls changed hands several times, and finally disappeared, and it turned out to be hidden in this tomb!

"Rich, rich!hahaha!" Luo Huailiang laughed. He had just reached out to take it, but he suddenly retracted his hand as if he had been bitten by a snake, and a flash of fire ignited in the box out of thin air, and it was this sudden flame that burned his hand. "Ah......h

The fire burned for a while, and then extinguished itself, and what made Luo Huailiang feel a little relieved was that the two night pearls were still round and jade, crystal clear. This time he didn't dare to do it lightly, and gently hung down with a sweat towel to see if the strange flame would come out. Sure enough, the sweat towel suddenly burned before it touched the night pearl, and he quickly threw it away.

"What kind of organ is this?" Luo Huailiang was surprised, the organ that spontaneously burst into flames, he had never seen it in his life, and he had never heard of it.

Night Pearl couldn't hold it for the time being, and he began to carefully examine the situation in the box again. I have to say that although Luo Huailiang is a rough man and always does some shady things, his mind is very meticulous. It's no wonder that the tomb robbery industry is a battle of wits between the tomb robber and the tomb owner, and it is not beyond the minds and attention of ordinary people, so how can they eat well in this industry?

After some careful observation, Luo Huailiang found two more unusual things in the box.