Chapter 39: Bronze Ding
"The tomb where the treasure is buried is the one on the far right, which means that the tomb of the sun on the far right is our destination if we look at it. Lowango said, pointing to the Sun Tomb on the far right, which looked noticeably smaller.
"Why is this ancient tomb one size smaller than the others?" Xu Zidao asked with puzzled eyes.
Lovango smiled and said, "Because this ancient tomb is not finished. ”
"It's not finished?, what's the explanation?" asked Xu Zidao, frowning slightly.
The rest of the people also looked at Lovange in confusion, waiting for the latter's answer.
Instead, the Holy Daughter Quuff looked uninterested, apparently not interested in these histories.
The third elder Luo Wange smiled and said: "Because this ancient tomb was built by the patriarch at that time for himself after death, it was only because the matter of monopolizing the treasure was revealed and he was executed, so it will be completed in the future, although the high priest at that time saw that he had led the clan to escape the catastrophe before to build his ancient tomb, but he asked that the ancient tomb of every high priest from him should be trimmed larger than this, and it was also from that time that our Yilan tribe had no patriarch, and the most powerful was the high priest." ”
"These ancient tombs next to ......," Ji Qianye asked.
Lowango said: "It is the ancient tomb of the high priests of the past dynasties. ”
"Since this ancient tomb was executed before it was completed, how could it be that the treasure was hidden in the ancient tomb until all these years? Could it be that you have not doubted this ancient tomb for so long?" Lin Taiping asked puzzled.
Bai Gap shook the folding fan in his hand and replied seemingly casually: "Maybe it's because it's dark under the lamp!" ”
Luo Wange shook his head, "No, no, no, this ancient tomb is really too cleverly designed, the tomb is a set of tombs, it is an extremely rare underground palace tomb, if it weren't for our luck to find a hollow stone chamber, in the direction of the underground palace tomb, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to detect it now, in fact, the treasure has been hidden under our noses." ”
"Underground Palace Tomb?" Lin Taiping looked at Luo Wange, as if he didn't know what the underground palace tomb in his mouth was.
Xu Zidao said with a smile: "The so-called underground palace tomb is actually a kind of tomb form, but it is more complex than the ordinary pit wooden coffin tomb, and it pays attention to building the tomb into a brick room, and the tomb is set in the tomb, psychedelic and treacherous, similar to a labyrinth and the like, so it is called the underground palace tomb, and this kind of tomb is generally very complex and dangerous." ”
"What Xu Shaoxia said is not bad!" Luo Wange nodded, looked at Xu Zidao meaningfully, and said.
"It turns out that there are so many twists and turns in the tombs, I always thought that the tombs were all the same!" Lin Taiping scratched his head a little embarrassed.
The others laughed, but no one laughed at him.
Soon, the crowd walked through the layers of logs to the front of the ancient tomb.
I saw an oval-shaped stone tomb made of huge thick mountain stones, with gaps glued together with poplar gum, and a human-high stone door closed on it.
Lowange winked, and two Elan warriors stepped forward and pushed the stone door open, and then stood at the stone door, one left and one right.
As soon as the stone door was opened, there was no rancid and unpleasant smell of ordinary tombs, but a strange fragrance wafted out, this fragrance was very light, but it smelled very good.
Xu Zidao shrugged his nose and said, "There will be a fragrance in this tomb, could it be that there are any spices placed in it?"
Immediately, he shook his head again and said, "No, it doesn't seem to be the fragrance of spices, but more like the fragrance of some kind of flowers and plants." ”
Luo Wange showed a wry smile on his face, and said: "We don't know this fragrance very well, and we don't know where the fragrance comes from, maybe Xu Shaoxia will find something when he enters the tomb." ”
"In that case, let's hurry up to the tomb!" Lin Taiping said with some excitement.
Seeing that the rest of the people were very interested, Lovange nodded and said to the two warriors on the side of the door, "You two stay outside, don't let anyone approach." ”
After saying that, he beckoned everyone and stepped into the tomb first.
The rest of the people glanced at each other and scrambled into the stone gate.
As the last person entered, the stone door slammed shut, and everyone was instantly plunged into darkness.
But the darkness lasted only a few breaths, and with the sound of flint and flint, a cloud of light suddenly lit up in the darkness.
It turned out that it was the Elan warriors under Lowange who lit the torches on the walls, and through the dim yellow firelight, everyone saw the original appearance of the ancient tomb.
They were now on a road, about two or three zhang long, and through the torches on the wall, they could faintly see that behind the corridor was a burial chamber, and the tomb was pitch black, and it was not very clear from here.
As he walked, Lowange introduced to everyone: "After passing through the tomb in front, you will not be far from the tomb where the treasure is hidden, but it is very dangerous in the middle, you should be careful." ”
After that, he also glanced at the Holy Daughter Quuff, whose meaning was self-evident, and the latter pursed his lips, but did not say anything, just nodded, and continued to walk forward.
Hearing Luo Wange's reminder, everyone mentioned that they were very careful, and they were vigilant around, because the ancient tomb wanted to prevent tomb robbers from coming to rob the tomb, so they would generally build some mechanisms inside, and they might die tragically if they were not careful.
Lin Taiping followed Xu Zidao's side, his glasses kept looking around, as if he was afraid that something terrible would happen, and Xu Zidao shook his head slightly.
Soon, the group crossed the corridor and stepped into the tomb at the back of the corridor, which was a slightly empty burial chamber, only a coffin bed was seen in the center of the burial chamber, but there was nothing on the coffin bed, and other than that, the burial chamber was empty.
Everyone didn't linger too long, just looked at it a few times and walked directly into the next burial chamber.
This burial chamber is smaller than the previous burial chamber, but there are many more things, in addition to a few bottles and cans in the four corners of the burial chamber, there is also a four-legged square tripod in the center of the burial chamber, and there are several bamboo slips in the ding.
The text on the bamboo slip is the ancient script of the Yilan tribe, and everyone can't understand it, and the third elder Luo Wange doesn't look like he wants to explain, so everyone doesn't pay too much attention to it, but Xu Zidao's gaze stays on the four-legged square tripod.
The text engraved on this four-legged square tripod is not the ancient script of the Ilan people, but a bit like the small seal script of the pre-Qin period, but how can the bronze tripod of the pre-Qin period appear in the ancient tombs of the Ilan people?
Luo Wange may have seen Xu Zidao's doubts, and said with a smile: "This bronze tripod was a gift from the Han Dynasty when Princess Loulan married the prince of the Han Dynasty at that time. ”
"I see!" Xu Zidao said.
"Actually, there is a legend about this ding?" said the Holy Daughter Quinthu suddenly.
"What legend?" Xu Zidao looked at the girl beside him.
Quuff smiled and said wistfully: "It is said that this tripod has some special power, and all lovers who make a wish to this tripod will eventually become married. ”
"Then does Her Highness believe this legend?" asked Xu Zidao with a smile.
"Don't you believe it?" Quuff asked rhetorically, instead of answering directly.
Xu Zidao smiled and said, "Her Royal Highness the Holy Maiden believes it, and she will believe it below, but the Holy Maiden doesn't believe it, and she doesn't believe it below." ”
Quuff rolled her eyes and said, "You're a talker!"
Xu Zidao smiled: "What I said below is the truth!"
Quuff giggled, but the look in his eyes at Xu Zidao became a little different.