Chapter 5 Suspicious Tombs

As soon as everyone saw that the stone door was opened, they were about to rush in. Wang Shao hurriedly stopped: "Don't enter the district first, be careful that there are organs." As soon as he heard him, one of the soldiers who rushed to the front immediately stopped. "Young master, I'm advanced. The palm of the hand rushed over from behind and said.

"There's no hurry. The palm hat motioned to the soldiers behind him to take out the fire twist and light it, and threw it in, while loudly saying to the people behind him: "Collectively take three steps back." Sure enough, the people in the cave all took three steps back and were well-trained. The people at the door also stepped back, making way of a two-foot square clearing. The fire in the stone gate flickered, and then a puff of green smoke rose. After another half of the incense, the palm hat made people throw another fire twist into it. This time the fire was not immediately extinguished, but fell on the ground inside the door, and a bright spot flickered. Palms listened attentively, then turned back and nodded to Palms. It doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

Only then did the palm of the man let the palm of the man take a personal soldier, light two more torches, and go in first. Hearing the greeting inside, you can enter, so everyone can go in, and two pro-soldiers and two people from the Ministry of Engineering are still left outside the stone gate.

Inside the stone gate, there is a large stone room. Two more torches were lit, and four torches were inserted into the slots in the wall of the stone chamber. In the center of the stone chamber is a rectangular high platform, on which three black coffins are placed. On the ground beneath the high platform lay four bodies that were not decomposing. Palm Fox was just about to go over to check the corpse, but was stopped by Palm Hat: "Don't touch anything for the time being." ”

"Wang Cheng, Wang Cheng?" Zhang Li called twice, Wang Shao didn't answer, Yu Guang glanced at the two of them, feeling that they were standing there, as if they were stunned by the scene in front of them, and thought, I haven't seen a corpse, no wonder. Zhao spoke first: "Strange, there is no trace of tomb robbery here." ”

"No?" asked Palmata

"Yes, not really. At least not so far. Wang Shao said.

"I want to hear about it. ”

"First of all, the nails of this coffin are intact, and there is no sign of being opened. Second, the corpses were not dressed as tomb robbers. ”

"Maybe the treasure in the coffin was stolen and nailed as it was?" someone asked.

"Then this tomb robber is too clean. Someone in the Ministry of Industry said with a sneer.

"Young master, I'll go open the coffin and have a look. ”

"The deputy commander is careful. Or I'll go up with you. Zhao Qi said.

"You two must be careful. Get ready, everybody. Palm said. I saw that the soldiers in Luoyang took out cloth towels one after another, distributed them to the three people of the Ministry of Industry, asked them to seal their mouths and noses, and led them to retreat to the vicinity of the stone gate, holding weapons in their hands, and preparing for defense. Zhangqi also took out two cloth towels and handed one to Zhao Qi.

The palm hat did not use a cloth towel, but only covered his mouth and nose with his left hand. Wang Shao also covered his face with his sleeves.

I saw the two of them bypass the corpse and ascend to the high platform. The two circled around the three coffins, then nodded and looked at each other, chose the middle coffin, took out a short knife, and began to pry the coffin nail in one corner, Zhao Qi also took out a hand cone, and pried the coffin nail at the other end. Looking at the posture of the two, he knew that the coffin nails were a little difficult, so Wang Shao asked the three people from the Ministry of Engineering in the house to also go up to help them. The five of them worked together, and it took about a stick of incense to remove all the nails of the coffin in the middle. The people in the stone room stared at them and held their breath, and they also broke out in a sweat.

As the last coffin nail was removed, Zhangqiu turned his head and nodded to the two, and motioned for the three people from the Ministry of Engineering to retreat with Zhao Qi. Seeing that everyone had retreated to safety, Zhangli raised his left hand to everyone and made a gesture of three, two, and one, and the soldiers all bowed their bodies, drew their sabers and held them in their hands, and Zhangli also grabbed the long sword and stood in front of Wang Shao and Zhao Qi.

The palm of the hand said that it was too late and that was fast, just as one of the fingers fell, I saw him fly up, volley up his right foot, kicked the coffin lid, and at the same time grabbed the corner of a protruding stone beam in the air, hanging upside down on the beam, with a sound of hitting the ground, the coffin lid flew open and landed, and everyone also stared wide-eyed, waiting for what monster or mechanism would fly out of the coffin.

But there was nothing, what was inside the coffin, only the position of the palm could be seen from above. He stared at the coffin for a moment, then flew down to the palm hat.

"What's in the coffin?" asked Wang Shao eagerly.

Palm shook his head: "Nothing." Oh no, there are no bones. Only one suit of armor. ”

"Armor?" everyone was stunned.

The palm of the hat pondered for a moment, and ordered the other two coffins to be opened. Again, as they had just done, they took off the nails of the two coffins. The palm also made everyone retreat, still kicking the two coffin lids in the air. In the coffin lid on the right, there is a large knife, and in the coffin lid on the left, there is a pair of bones, but it is definitely not a human skeleton, it looks like the bones of a horse.

"Is this just a well-dressed mound?" Zhao Qi looked at Wang Shao and said in surprise.

"But why did a well-dressed mound dig so deep and build such a large burial chamber? If these bodies are not tomb robbers, then who are they? Why did the mysterious Nether Ship dig a hole in such a big way?" Wang Shao's series of questions seemed to ask himself and everyone.

Palm looked around the stone chamber and looked at the corpses on the ground. Then he said to everyone, "That's it for today." Let's go back first and come back tomorrow. ”

The palm man ordered the stone door to be pressed up with an iron rod to prevent the mechanism from being touched and closed. Then everyone exited the tunnel. Zhangli roughly explained the situation inside and the head catcher in Shouyang County, and then ordered ten people to take turns guarding the entrance of the cave. This section of the mountain road is also temporarily closed by Shouyang County.

On the way back, Zhangli asked Wang Shao: "Wang Cheng saw the corpse for the first time, was he scared?"

"It's the first time I've seen it, but luckily I'm not too frightened. ”

"It's okay this time, compared to the battlefield and murder, the death is not tragic. ”

"The Palm Tooth General has also solved the case before?" asked Wang Shao.

"No, this is my first time on assignment. The palm replied.

"It turns out that the head of the tooth will also handle the case for the first time. I also wonder why the case is not to find Dali Temple, but to us. I wanted to ask my father about the reason before leaving, but I held back, lest he say I shouldn't know and don't ask. I thought it was because the palm tooth would handle the case richly, so I asked the Ministry of Engineering to cooperate in handling the case. Wang Shao said.

"yes, I'm wondering too. But since he is here, he must solve this case and not live up to the emperor's orders. Wang Shao also nodded.

After walking for a while, the two got acquainted with each other, and they started chatting. Zhangli asked casually: "Wang Cheng is a talent, but has he ever been married?" Wang Shao shook his head and said, "I don't have the intention of starting a family yet." The palm of the hat sighed: "It's better not to have a family, so as not to have many fetters." Wang Shao looked sideways at the palm hat, a little puzzled by his emotion.

Back at the county office, Zhangli asked Shouyang County to prepare more manpower and carriages tomorrow morning, and also instructed Song Cheng, who stayed in the county government today, to prepare and go to the cave for an autopsy tomorrow morning.

After dinner, he walked to the courtyard of the pavilion to breathe. I saw Wang Shao coming over with a tray with his entourage, and Wang Shao saw that the palm hat was in the courtyard, and said, "Palm tooth general, I was about to send it to you." This is a decoction that I ordered someone to prepare to clear the lungs and dispel evil spirits, please drink it. I've already made everyone who went into the cave today take it. He said, "Think it through." I didn't see that Wang Cheng still knew medical skills. Wang Cheng said: "Where do I understand, but a friend taught me." "Female friends?" Wang Shao blushed: "No, no." is a ... Pal. Thinking of this good friend, Wang Shao's eyes flashed with an imperceptible blurred smile.