Chapter 35 Chapter 34: Trumpet Urn

Along the way, after thinking about it, Zhang Guozhong felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the whole thing. First of all, the Huang Xianliu poem said that if he found the whereabouts of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunqi, he could find Su Tieli's body. , Zhu Yunqi's final whereabouts are related to the cold bone cave, that is to say, if you find the cold bone cave, you can find Zhu Yunqi, and you can find Su Tieli's body.But judging from the current situation, Hangu Cave, Zhu Yunqi, and Su Tieli seem to have nothing to do with each other. First of all, there is no ancient tomb and no house in the small mountain col. Where is Zhu Yunqi?Could it be that he also became a feather in the cold bone cave?Unless there is no cold bone cave at the bottom of the small mountain col.

Secondly, regardless of whether there is a cold bone cave under the small mountain col, there is no reason for Su Tieli's body to appear in Hubei. Who would transport the body of an ordinary person across provinces when they are full and have nothing to do?What is the purpose?What is the purpose? The more he thought about it, the more confused Zhang Guozhong's head became. It seemed that he had to dig out the small mountain to find out. Wudang Mountain, Fuzhen concept. Daoist Chen Guang was also very embarrassed to see Zhang Guozhong, because until now, there was no news about the so-called cold bone cave.I heard that Zhang Guozhong himself found a place that is suspected to be a cold bone cave. Priest Chen Guang didn't believe it, but it's okay to believe it or not. It's better to find some clues than you didn't find anything at all, right?

Hearing that Zhang Guozhong wanted to borrow a decent guy to explore the suspected cold bone cave, Daoist Chen Guang also had a sad expression on his face.Throughout the ages, there are not a few masters in Wudang Mountains who have magical weapons, but according to the rules of Wudang Mountain, when these masters become immortals, their weapons must be buried with their golden bodies, unless the immortal master has The legacy of passing on the sword to future generations, otherwise if the future generations want to make a powerful guy, they can only rely on their own efforts.Especially in modern society, Taoists rarely have such things as sabers on them. Even if they have them, they are just decorations, and they have never even opened their blades.

"Daoist Chen Guang, actually, you don't need any famous ancient blades, just passable ones!" Zhang Guozhong didn't have any hope of borrowing a guy of Juque's level, "Anyone who can preside over ordinary religious affairs is fine." According to Zhang Guozhong's It is estimated that although this cold bone cave is said to be miraculous, it is definitely not on the same level as the terrible places like Bashan Treasure Cave or Dianchi that I have been to in the past. At best, it is similar to a certain town in Bashan. I have entered the Treasure Cave with a butcher's knife, and now my experience and cultivation have improved qualitatively compared to when I went to Bashan. There is no need to bring Juque in the next cold bone cave.Of course, it would be best to have such artifacts. If not, even ordinary killing blades should be able to deal with it.

"Well," Zhang Guozhong said, Chen Guang's old Taoist face seemed to be even more uneasy, "Master Zhang, to tell you the truth, it is really..." "Your place isn't all wood, is it?" Zhang Guozhong frowned. It is more or less the ancestral home of Wudang. Although it was ransacked by the Red Guards back then, it is not impossible to find a real one, right?It seems that I can only go back to Tianjin to pick up the guy. I don’t care about the train fare, the key is that it’s too much trouble, and Brother Allen is still lying on the bed. "This..." Daoist Chen Guang frowned, "I can't say that I don't have it, I kept a handful before, I'm afraid... I'm afraid that Zhang Zhang will dislike you!"

"Hey, where did you go, Master Chenguang?" Zhang Guozhong was quite happy when he heard that the old Taoist Chenguang really had it in stock. , as long as it’s not made of wood!” "In this case, please come with me as the head teacher!" Chen Guang said, got up, and brought Zhang Guozhong to his room.As soon as he entered the room, Zhang Guozhong was completely shocked. Apart from a single bed, there was a large color TV, an air conditioner, a stereo, and even a DVD player. The whole room was like a hotel. The simple style I had when I came here a few years ago was completely different. I couldn’t tell that Chen Guang Lao Daoist looked quite orthodox on the outside, but he turned out to be an old joke in his heart.

"My precious apprentice bought this for me, and I don't usually read it." Daoist Chen Guang seemed to see Zhang Guozhong's astonishment, and kept explaining, "Master Zhang, to tell you the truth, back then my master once There is a decent guy called Chang Qing Jian. During the Anti-Japanese War, the devils went up the mountain and used a bastard box without a firing pin to forcefully replace my uncle’s sword. My master was afraid that the devil would also snatch the sword, so he He hid the sword under the glazed tiles of the main hall. As a result, he was forgotten until the old man became immortal and the battle was not over. It was not until the main hall was rebuilt not long ago that the sword was still hidden under the tiles. Underneath, it has been exposed to wind and rain for many years, and it is already rusted." While talking, Taoist Chen Guang pulled out a cardboard box for air conditioners from under the bed.

"The Sword of Eternal Love is in Wudang?" Zhang Guozhong was taken aback. When he was supplementing the history of the Ming Dynasty, he once read an ancient novel about the secret history of the royal family called "Da Nei Miscellaneous". The author was a eunuch named Zhang Shuangjin. In this book It is recorded in the book that in his later years, Emperor Chengzu ordered Yang Guyun, a very famous swordsmith at that time, to forge a divine sword for the crown prince's enthronement.Unexpectedly, Yang Guyun fell ill and died just after casting half of the sword. The second half of the sword was cast by Yang Guyun's wife, Yang Mengshi, for her husband.Because the sword was considered unlucky, Emperor Chengzu did not use the sword for the crown prince, but gave the sword to Yang Mengshi, and named the sword "Long Love" to affirm that Yang Mengshi made the sword for her husband loyalty.At this time, Taoist Master Chen Guang mentioned the Long Love Sword, and Zhang Guozhong immediately thought of the Long Love Sword mentioned in "Da Nei Miscellaneous Things".

"Why, Master Zhang, have you heard of that sword?" Daoist Chen Guang opened the air-conditioning box, and saw a rusty iron sword lying among the piles of waste newspapers, and the wood of the hilt was very bad It's not in shape, and the spike of the sword is gone. The blade seems to be wider and thicker than ordinary swords. The blade has rusted to yellow and black, and there are even rusted cracks in some places. It seems that a daughter-in-law is a daughter-in-law after all. The fire control of sword casting and the anti-corrosion and anti-oxidation technology of the sword body in the later stage are still not very good.If the sword had been cast by Yang Guyun himself from beginning to end, it would not have rusted like this after only a few decades of wind and rain erosion.

"This sword has traveled with my master for more than 30 years. Although it is not comparable to Zhanlu and Juque, and the steel mouth is not so good, it is still a good sword." Chen Guang took out the iron sword from the cardboard box and took it casually. Wipe the hilt and blade of the sword with a rag, "If you really don't dislike Zhang Zhang, why don't you give it to Zhang Zhang, and it will not be in vain for you to clear the wrong for senior Yun Lingzi." "This..." Zhang Guozhong took the iron sword, weighed it in his hand, and it fit well. He touched the blade with his hand, and a large piece of rusty skin was taken off. The entire blade seemed to be completely rusted. . "I'm just borrowing it, the Taoist priest doesn't have to be so polite."

"Hey," Daoist Chen Guang frowned, "Headmaster Zhang, if you like it, accept it. Why are you so out of touch?" "Hey, I..." Zhang Guozhong was also taken aback, when did he say he liked it? "Daoist Chen Guang, you misunderstood." "To be honest, I have always had this sword in my place, and it has always been a problem of mine. If I can give it to someone like Zhang Zhangyou for collection, it's nothing on my mind. Zhang Zhang, you Don't refuse!" Chen Guangdao held Zhang Guozhong's hand earnestly and earnestly. When it comes to this point, Zhang Guozhong is not easy to refuse. If he refuses again, he will obviously look down on him.To be honest, theoretically speaking, a sword that has been sharpened is definitely a controlled knife, but this Changqing sword is definitely an exception. Even if it is swaggeringly carried on the back, it is no wonder that it is not regarded as a waste collector. Holding the long love sword, Zhang Guozhong and Yang Zhou returned to Lijiawan. At this time, Li Laoer had prepared the rope and flashlight according to Zhang Guozhong's arrangement, and contacted several strong boys in the same village.Zhang Guozhong didn't delay, and brought his people to the small col again that day. After a while of busy work, a hole was dug under the previous gravel, about half a meter square, barely enough for one person to go down.There is an iron fence about two or three meters down from the entrance of the cave. The rust should not be a modern thing. Under the fence, it is dark and bottomless. When you poke your hand into the cave, you can only feel the cold inside the cave, which makes people shudder. a feeling of. "Zhang Banxian, do you really want to go down?" Squatting at the entrance of the cave, Li Er Er seemed a little worried, "Do you want me to find someone to touch some decent guys for you?" "Why, do you have a way to get a good weapon?" Zhang Guozhong was also moved when he heard that Li Laoer could find a decent guy.To be honest, Zhang Guozhong didn't have much confidence in this rusty long love sword, and it might not be as good as the butcher's knife that Qin Ge used when he went down to the treasure cave in Bashan. "My brother-in-law is a man of the Tao, do you want me to ask him to get you a musket?" Li Er Er put his mouth under Zhang Guozhong's ear, "If you want it, I can call and I can deliver it in an hour .” "Well, forget it!" Zhang Guozhong was also helpless, thinking that he was not going to rob and kidnap people, and holding a musket is for a fart! "If I can't get out in two hours, call the police!" After pulling out the iron fence with a hemp rope, Zhang Guozhong tied the hemp rope around his waist, and before going down the cave, he left his mobile phone with Li Lao Er. "No matter what you do, don't come down, and don't pull up the rope!" After going down more than ten meters, Zhang Guozhong suddenly found that the space around him was getting bigger and bigger. When he first came down, the diameter of the hole was less than one meter at most, but now it is more than two meters.Looking down with a flashlight, I found that the wall of the cave is slanted downwards, and it becomes wider as it goes down, like an inverted horn shape with a narrow top and a wide bottom. "Trumpet urn?" Zhang Guozhong's heart moved. In Taoism, it is called trumpet urn, which is a theory of yin and yang layout reversely deduced from the principle of tombs in the Warring States period. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty declined, and more than a hundred small countries in the Central Plains were independent and self-sufficient, and their lives were extremely happy.It was also at this time that the royal families of some small countries that had enough food, clothing and thoughts of lust began to believe in the impact of burials on future generations and even the rise and fall of the country, and began to blindly pin their hopes for national prosperity on the tombs of princes, and spent a lot of money to hire Some talented folks participated in the design and construction of tombs, and many folk warlocks made a fortune as a result. Some of them were treasury killers. Many small countries were wiped out by other countries because of the empty treasury caused by the construction of large tombs. The tombs of the kings in the early Spring and Autumn period were mostly box tombs, that is, the tombs were surrounded by straight up and down, like a box, and the weight of the sealing soil above the entire tomb was borne by the wooden pillars in the tomb. Qi, to ensure that the body of the tomb owner will not rot, but it will easily collapse after a long time, let alone an earthquake.In the late Spring and Autumn Period, Bian Ji, a native of the state of Chen, invented a kind of bucket tomb, which covers an area similar to that of a box tomb, but the walls of the tomb chamber are inclined downward, and the entire tomb chamber is like a bucket for scooping rice.Compared with box tombs, the load-bearing design of bucket tombs has changed from pillars to wooden frame structures, which have been qualitatively improved in load-bearing capacity, corrosion resistance, and earthquake resistance, and the construction volume is small and the cost is low.In addition, the fighting tomb has a feature that the box tomb does not have, that is, it can quickly dissipate the resentment of the deceased with the help of the special structure with inclined walls.I don't know if Bian Ji is really advanced, or if he made a mistake out of the original intention of saving time and effort, but no matter what, in that era when there was no such thing as superseding, the advantage of letting go of grievances was undoubtedly a great advantage for the royal family. A great temptation.Since then, the box tombs that cost people and money were quickly eliminated, while the high-quality and cheap Dou tombs were popular until the later Han Dynasty. It is even said that tomb robbers in the Central Plains called themselves Daodou. In later generations, with the unification of the Central Plains, the improvement of the comprehensive national strength of all dynasties, the development of productivity, the development of architectural technology, and the final unification of Taoism and feng shui theories, the design concept of Dou Tomb gradually faded out of people's vision.But in Taoist circles, the function of Dou Tomb to disperse grievances has not been forgotten. Since the upper and lower structures can disperse grievances, can the upper and lower structures seal off injustice?According to legend, in the early Tang Dynasty, an ancient tomb was robbed in Ankang, Shaanxi. Because the site of the tomb was Juyin Pond, the unjust ghosts raged and no one could cure them. Later, a Taoist priest named Chai Fang instructed the people to transform the ancient tomb into an ancient tomb at noon. The Dou tomb was reversed, and a large number of yin ancient powder was placed at the bottom of the tomb, and the injustice did not appear again.Since then, many people have used the same method to cure injustices. Facts have proved that the reverse tomb fighting does have the opposite function.At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the Maoshan School formally compiled this method into the latest edition of "Maoshan Shuzhi" and named it the trumpet. Not many people actually adopted it.At this moment, this burrow visually has the structural characteristics of a trumpet urn, and the scale of this naturally formed inverted horn cave is much larger than that of man-made ones. s difference. "It seems that this is indeed a cold bone cave." Zhang Guozhong said to himself.From Zhang Guozhong's point of view, the reason why Zhang Sanfeng put Zhao Jinzhou's body in this cave was not because the cave was dark, but because the cave was a natural trumpet urn. The actual effect was first certified by the Maoshan School, and it seems that Zhang Sanfeng's recognition of the trumpet urn should be earlier than the Maoshan School. The rope continued to be lowered until the hole above the head became the size of a soybean grain, and the bottom of the hole appeared within the range of the flashlight.At this time, the stone cave can no longer be called a cave. Zhang Guozhong untied the rope around his waist and took a look around with a flashlight. He found that the area of ​​the surrounding space was 20 meters square, and the ground under his feet seemed to have been artificially built. However, it is much flatter than the surface of the col outside.The entire cave is filled with moisture, and you don’t need to ask to know that this cave is indeed connected with the underground water veins. It is exactly the same, but all of these are naturally formed. "Could it be that Su Tieli's body was also thrown in here?" Zhang Guozhong looked around at the sloping cave wall, and Zhang Guozhong was thinking wildly again. If Su Tieli's body was really thrown here, it would not be difficult to explain why the old man Liu Tou couldn't recruit his soul. In the middle of the bottom of the cave, Zhang Guozhong also found a stone bed. The whole stone bed was black and gray under the light of the flashlight, and it seemed that something had been burned. "What is this for? Light a fire to keep warm?" Zhang Guozhong walked around the stone bed a few times, and found that there was nothing on the stone bed except for some charcoal debris mixed with some gray-white strange powder. Searching around the surrounding stone walls, Zhang Guozhong found a small hole about four feet high, and the moisture seemed to come out of this hole, "Could it be connected to an underground river here?" Zhang Guozhong bent down, I took a photo of the cave with a flashlight, and saw that there was an iron fence in the cave, and there was a blackness outside the fence, "Could it be that Zhao Jinzhou's body, Zhu Yunqi's golden body, and Su Tieli's body are all inside?" As far as Zhang Guozhong is concerned, he is more curious than guilty. The two iron fences are made like a zoo. Could it be that Monkey King is pressing inside?To be honest, after experiencing the baptism of the Bashan Treasure Cave and the Pond, Zhang Guozhong is no longer surprised by such small scenes, "Damn it, how can you get a tiger cub if you don't enter the tiger's den?" Entering the small hole, he held the iron fence with one hand and struggled violently. Hearing a "crack", the rusted iron fence was dragged down together with the frame. He took two deep breaths, although he knew Su Tieli's body There is a 99.999% possibility that it is impossible to appear in this hole at all, but driven by curiosity, Zhang Guozhong still pulled out the long-love sword that was so rusty, leaned down and got into the small hole.