Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Bloodhead Lice

Seeing that Lao Miao has basically stabilized, Lao Zhong and I decided to find a way to leave the tomb as soon as possible and return to the ground, so we can rest in place.Seeing that it was the last tomb, there might not be any surprises when I came down, so I followed the old Zhong's words to understand what blood head lice are. Old Zhong wiped off his sweat, smiled, and said, "It all started when your grandfather and I met the headless general's corpse in the General's Tomb in Luoyang." Just after saying this, Lao Zhong frowned, as if in pain, he rubbed his left shoulder vigorously, and sighed softly, "I'm afraid it's going to rain on the ground now. Decades of problems are still so effective, as long as the weather is cloudy, my shoulder will not stop hurting!"

As soon as I heard this sentence, I hurriedly leaned forward obsequiously and squeezed my shoulders.In order to listen to the story, I really bear the burden of humiliation!Who knew that as soon as I put my hand on his shoulder, I felt a hard object, and Old Zhong took a breath in pain: "Your hand is poisonous!" Old Zhong wondered why my hand was on his Afterwards, his shoulders were burning with pain. My God, it feels like my hands have touched a thick layer of horny layer, like a horn. What is this?Did Lao Zhong wear shoulder pads on his shoulders?I asked Lao Zhong curiously, and he silently wiped off the clothes on his shoulders, revealing his old shoulders, with muscles drooping obviously, but one can imagine how strong Lao Zhong was back then.Just on the shoulder, a black handprint was displayed in front of my eyes.That handprint is like a layer of horny dura, like carbonized skin.

"What is this?" I was a little horrified, the visual impact brought by this handprint made me feel a bit chilly, this handprint was like a burnt mark. "Is it a burn?" Old Zhong smiled wryly: "What kind of burn? It's a ghost pat on the shoulder!" "Ghost pat shoulder?" This new word gave me endless imagination. "This is the gift given to me by the headless general in that general's tomb in Luoyang!" Lao Zhong rolled Lao Miao's eyelids again, checked his pulse, and after confirming Lao Miao's state, his thoughts drifted back to Luoyang decades ago.

Since ancient times, Luoyang has been a concentrated place of tombs. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "there is no idle land on the top of Mang Mountain, and it is full of tombs of emperors and generals". If there are more tombs, there will be more tomb robbers. Captain Jin, and some of them are official tomb robbers by order. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the wind of cultural relics protection was strong. In order to protect some cultural relics, Lao Zhong and other experts conducted rescue excavations on some stolen tombs that were riddled with holes.After arriving in Luoyang, I heard about the strange headless general's tomb.

There is a famous large tomb in the mound in the northwest of Yanshi County, Luoyang. Although there are many robbery holes, there have never been tomb robbers. Legend has it that there is a headless general guarding the tomb, and all the tomb robbers who go down to the tomb will not be spared. Many daring tomb robbers didn't believe in this evil, and after offering sacrifices to their ancestors, they opened up the robbery hole and went down to the big tomb, but they never returned.Legend has it that before liberation, a group of tomb robbers belonging to the Kaifeng shadow puppet Pan's family accidentally entered the tomb of the headless general, but never came out again. The partner guarding the mausoleum was anxious and informed the family.As a result, nearly a dozen professional tomb robbers arrived. After hearing the introduction from his partner, the lead candle holder sighed and said that he might have encountered the Tomb of Zhashou. Stop staring at the artifacts in the tomb, and quickly pull up the body of the person we folded inside to see if it is dead or alive.

After hearing what the candle holder said, everyone agreed that it was reasonable, so a group of tomb robbers spent a lot of trouble on the top of a tomb for the first time not for the artifacts in the tomb.On the second night, the gray-bearded candle holder watched the two shadow puppets and the two great boys go down the robbery hole, and then there was no sound. Only then did they realize that the things in the tomb were not accessible to ordinary people. However, three members of the Pan family have already descended into the tomb. If ordinary tomb robbers would have been scared away, but this family has a stubbornness——I won’t steal your tomb, but I have to bring mine. Walk.

Old Bingzhu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Hurry up and go to Taiyuan, and invite someone from the Lu family to dig Zimen, and say that I am willing to put our family's incense burner under his furnace." Putting the censer under someone else's censer and offering one more stick of incense means that the Pan family in Kaifeng, who were originally of the same generation, voluntarily bowed down and recognized Du Zimen as their senior. The Lu family in Juzimen, Shanxi is the most unbelieving family of tomb robbers. All the tombs targeted by them will not be spared, but the Lu family follows the oldest rules of the tomb robbers, not destroying corpses, and not seizing ritual objects. , only take floating wealth, the so-called floating wealth in the tomb is the things that the rich and wealthy tomb owners left in the tomb to show off, it is useless to keep it, and it is harmless to take it.Quzimen can be regarded as a classic school in the tomb robbery business. Although the distribution is ill-gotten wealth, it has a very good reputation and has always been said to be bold, righteous, and considerate.

The people from the Pan family brought their own copper censer, but the Lu family politely sent them back with the censer.The lantern bearer said that although it is a shady business, they all worship the same patriarch. This kind of help should be helped. I hope that after Lai Yuan, the Pan family can send a humanoid shadow puppet to the Lu family. child playing.The Pan family in Kaifeng used human-shaped shadow puppetry to rob the tomb. The human-shaped shadow puppet is a secret, but in order to save people, the Pan family Bingzhu gritted his teeth and agreed. Following the Pan family's call for help, two people came back, an old man and a half-year-old boy in his fifteenth or sixteenth year. Both of them were skinny and looked like hungry and consumptive ghosts.The two men sacrificed to the ancestor of the tomb robber on the top of the tomb, and then began to take off their clothes. Under the watchful eyes of a group of elders, the two men stripped naked, and then took out balls of yellow grease from the small can , looked like something like tallow.In this way, the two began to smear each other's bodies, except for the eyes and ears of the face, which were thickly smeared with grease. After a layer of butter, a thin layer of cowhide was applied. A total of three layers were applied. It is tightly wrapped with three layers of elastic and thin cowhide. It is said that this kind of cowhide is kneaded by a special method, which is as thin as paper and stretches like tendons.

After the two people were fully equipped, they began to shake their shoulders constantly, muttering words, and twisted in a strange posture.Under the eyes of the Pan family's luminous eyes, the two men's bodies kept shrinking and shrinking, as if they suddenly turned into two thin sticks.The bones of the whole person seem to have been opened and reorganized, and the whole body has been tightly bound together beyond imagination. Originally thinking that these two people had shrunk to this point, they could almost only move, and they couldn't do anything else.Unexpectedly, the two picked up two small shovels that looked like frying spoons and began to dig the hole again according to the position they had surveyed, and the hole was not too big or small, so they dug according to the diameter of the two people.

All the climbers of Pan's family held their breath, and watched with astonished expressions as the two of them slipped into the cave with a special flame candle in their mouths. On the top of the tomb, there was only a group of Pan family members left in a daze.The moonlight was shining, and there was silence all around. A group of people just watched the father and his wife wriggled like silkworms into the robbery hole that was only the size of a large plate. After a bag of cigarettes, a person's head popped out of the robbery hole originally dug by the Pan family in Kaifeng, and the crowd waiting quietly became excited, and someone whispered: "It's the third uncle, the first to go down." Third Uncle." People hurriedly put their hands on their shoulders and dragged them out, but halfway through the dragging, the joy was gone, people were already cold, and everything was gone from the waist down, the lower body was broken and incomplete, and there were teeth biting Bite marks.Immediately after that, another person appeared, it was one of the two young men who went down last night, his eyes were closed tightly, his face was like gold paper, his breath was as thin as gossamer, his clothes seemed to be torn by a sharp weapon , hanging on the body broken.

Before he could put it in place, the young man from Juzimen, Shanxi also got out. The cowhide had been scratched off his body, and five distinct finger marks were scratched on his back.His face was covered with sweat, his eyes were filled with tears, his mouth seemed to be stuffed, and he was gesticulating. In the blink of an eye, everyone looked at the robbery hole again, and the old man at Juzimen also appeared, with a tense expression on his face, he stretched out his hands vigorously, and struggled hard to get out of the hole. Seeing that his upper body had already climbed out of the hole, he saw A black withered claw popped out from the old man's back, grabbed the old man who was climbing up, and dragged the old man back with a swipe. Everyone was stunned by the sudden attack. The old man struggled like this and was grabbed back into the tomb alive by the black withered claw behind him. Under the moonlight, a group of stunned people and a young man weeping silently stared at the gloomy burrow. The old man Bingzhu immediately grabbed the young man who wanted to go back to the robbery hole again. Who knew that the young man looked thin, but his strength was amazing, and he threw the boss of the Pan family's tomb robber away by a dozen. away, and then quickly rushed towards the entrance of the cave. Lao Pan shouted anxiously: "Stop him." A few young men from the family of shadow puppetry jumped up and held down the little guy who wanted to get into the hole. The young man coughed a few times, coughing out a piece of hair like a ball of wool, and immediately burst into tears, but he just opened his mouth, but there was no sound, and tears fell down.According to the rules of tomb robbery, people don't say anything when they don't leave the tomb, for fear that their anger will collide with the soul of the deceased.Although the young man has left the tomb, the old man is still in the tomb, and there is also a person from the Pan family in Kaifeng.That's all the meaning of the Pan family's shadow puppets, but this young man from the Lu family is unwilling and insists on saving the old man.After inquiring carefully, Lao Pan found out that the young man who felt emotional was the young master of the Digzimen, no wonder the old Lu family sent him here, and the old man just rescued the young man first after his death. This young man is not heartless. Although this old man is not from the Lu family, he is still from his old family and treats him like an uncle. Now that the old man broke in to save him, he naturally cannot ignore him. I was curious to listen to Lao Zhong's storytelling, generally recounting historical jokes he had heard from others.This guy just has this ability. Once any ordinary story is told in his mouth, it will immediately become legendary, although the truth of it is worthy of attention. "What happened next?" I asked curiously. Lao Zhong seemed to be trying to whet my appetite, and carefully inspected Lao Miao lying next to the backpack.Seeing that Lao Miao was breathing steadily and everything was normal, he didn't say anything, but carefully observed his surroundings and frowned. On the wall next to it, there are murals one after another. In fact, we saw all these murals when they first came out, but we didn’t look at them carefully. Each and every one of the court ladies is vivid, and there are crystal teardrops hanging on the faces of the ladies at this moment. "No, there shouldn't be this here, unless it can flow!" Old Zhong looked at the dewdrops on the wall in surprise, and Walnut had an unhappy look on his face. "What's wrong?" I asked him curiously.It seems that he has discovered something from the surroundings. Could it be that he has discovered some new clues?In fact, I also know that the chances of us getting out of the tomb are very small at present, but unless it is a last resort, we must never use the directional explosives in the backpack, although these explosives can squeeze out a diameter in an instant after the explosive point is placed. A passage of 50 centimeters and a length of about ten meters can reach the ground almost directly, but in this way, the structure of the tomb will be completely destroyed. Lao Zhong and Lao Miao are definitely not willing, but in order to survive Not so much anymore. Old Zhong obviously didn't think that I was thinking about how to destroy the tomb. Obviously he misunderstood. Seeing me clenched my fists and gestured a little divinely, Lao Zhong wanted to get my attention back. "Fortunately, today we just met Sophora worm. This kind of worm is said to be bred and cultivated with human blood. It is sealed in the human skull and solidified with wax made of human oil. It is said that the person parasitized by this kind of worm can inherit the blood of that person. The memory and physical behavior will be affected and controlled by this lice, but compared with the blood head lice, this guy has two advantages." Old Zhong paused, and continued to glance at the wall with a little worry. of dew. "This kind of bug has advantages? What advantages?" Old Zhong's words aroused my curiosity. "First, this kind of Sophora tumor can collect toxins in the blood. They feed on the toxins in the blood. After eating up the toxins in the blood, they will produce another toxin by themselves, but before their own toxins are produced , it is a very good purifier. This is why I was not in a hurry just now. Second, this kind of bug only appears one at a time, which is also a major advantage of it!" Old Zhong said to me solemnly . "What? Is this considered an advantage?" I suspect that his brain is showing off. "Yes, if compared with the blood head lice, it is indeed an advantage." After Lao Zhong said this, his eyes immediately became confused. Many people in the tomb robber circle were reluctant to mention that incident. The two famous tomb robber families in Kaifeng and Shanxi fell at the same time in Luoyang, which caught many tomb robbers by surprise.Because Juzimen and the shadow puppet Pan's family are so famous. Although the last two families were tight-lipped about the incident, there were still some details leaked out bit by bit.This is why other tomb robbers keep a respectful distance from that tomb. "What happened next?" I still had the same question. "Later, Juzimen didn't get the shadow puppet show of Lao Pan's family, and Lao Pan's family returned to Kaifeng in despair. The direct consequence of this incident is: Although the tomb was dug out countless holes, But it’s almost unheard of to really get something out of it.” When Lao Zhong and the others heard this story, they all thought it was a conjecture made by the local elders, and there were many exaggerated elements in it, hoping to use these mysterious legends to scare away the tomb robbers.The young and energetic old Zhong led his team to work day and night with great arrogance, digging non-stop, ignoring the story, and finally he paid the price for his contemptuous attitude. The excavation progress of Lao Zhong and the others was unbelievably fast, and the most exciting thing was that the legendary tomb that had been robbed turned out to be full of funerary objects.Encountering this kind of situation is the happiest thing for every archaeologist. Just imagine, the bride who was originally married was an ugly girl in the legend. After removing the hijab, it was discovered that the one who married home was a stunning beauty. How could this husband not be so excited? DC halazi ah. At the excavation site, Lao Zhong was just like the husband who had a lot of fun.Because there are too many good things unearthed on site.There are tripods, pots, plates, and gui, large objects in succession, and small ornaments are too numerous to enumerate.The most amazing thing is that there is no coffin in the coffin position of the main tomb, but a pair of armor, a pair of shining golden armor, is placed on the chair frame.This pair of armor aroused everyone's great thinking. Many people used this pair of armor to assert the true identity of the owner of the tomb, and the archaeological community began to question the claim that this was an alchemist's tomb.Facing this pair of national treasure-level armor, everyone started a vigorous discussion. However, at the excavation site, Lao Zhong discovered something else that surprised him.Not far from those treasures, he discovered the bones of tomb robbers of past dynasties.Some people still have the tomb robbers around them. The earliest tomb robbers can even be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was really an era of tomb robbers by order. Died in the passage not far from the main tomb.The bones of tomb robbers from various dynasties were scattered all over the place in a crooked manner. Some of these bones had broken vertebrae, while others were intact.These tomb robbers are almost one step away from these treasures, but they all died outside the tomb. If it is the current Lao Zhong, facing this situation, he must ask why, but where is Lao Zhong who was dazed by his huge achievements? Still caring about these, just urging everyone to clean up all the cultural relics as soon as possible. The armor was cleaned by Zhang Bin, the most prudent member of the archaeological team at that time. His love for cultural relics has reached a paranoid level. Desperately.But that armor was so shiny, it was almost like a sample just taken out of a weapons workshop.Wang Chen, a young man in the archaeological team, curiously took a helmet and put it on his head to test the size, but was discovered by Zhang Bin who accidentally entered the tent, and he severely reprimanded Wang Chen. Wang Chen was a little embarrassed and embarrassed He put the armor back on the shelf.But when he was putting it on, he found that "Those who touch it will die forever" written in seal script on the armor. This discovery did not calm Zhang Bin's anger. He almost pushed Wang Chen out of his tent. Almost everyone was used to Zhang Bin's neurotic behavior, so when he didn't show up the next day, they joked that Zhang Bin was too angry to get out of bed.It was not until noon that everyone learned from the gloomy old Zhong that Zhang Bin had been sent to the hospital. In the morning, when someone entered Zhang Bin's tent, they found Zhang Bin lying on the camp bed with white foam overflowing from his mouth. , Exhaled more air, inhaled less air, after inspection, it was found that there was a black handprint on his chest, and that handprint was like a skeleton hand without flesh, pressing heavily on Zhang Bin's chest. This news was like a bucket of cold water to the team members who were cleaning up cultural relics in full swing, and everyone's enthusiasm was extinguished at once.As a result, various versions of legends began to circulate on the archaeological site again. Some people said that the ancient Egyptian mysterious pharaoh cursed, some people said about the head, and some said about the curse, and some people said that it was headless. General or something. With his extraordinary prestige, Lao Zhong quickly quelled all kinds of rumors, and appointed another young man named Wu Jun to clean the armor. The young man happily accepted this task. Also can't put it down.Of course, he also discovered the four seal characters written on the armor, but he didn't take this warning seriously, and devoted as much enthusiasm to cleaning and researching this armor as Zhang Bin did.Since the armor was still stored in Zhang Bin's tent, Wu Jun always went to Zhang Bin's work from his own tent.One night, he accidentally left one of his belongings at the work site, so he went to Zhang Bin's tent in the middle of the night to get it. As soon as he entered the tent, he saw that the golden armor was not in its original position. He hurried to look for it, and saw a withered hand slowly buckle the armor on his body at the position where the camp bed was placed in the tent, and that person, It is a headless man. When Wu Jun was found the next morning, he had been lying in Zhang Bin's tent with his mouth crooked and his eyes slanted for several hours. The saliva in his mouth flowed all over his chest, as if he had a stroke, and he whimpered and said Unable to understand the words, Lao Zhong leaned close to his mouth and struggled to hear two vague words: "Headless!" His eyes were fixed on the golden armor on the shelf.Coincidentally, on his neck and the back of his head, there is a black handprint of dry bones, exactly the same as Zhang Bin's. Two people fell down one after another, and they were both injured by the same strange handprint. The archaeological team was like pouring cold water into a hot oil pan, and it exploded in one fell swoop.Many people's faces were full of panic, and many young and timid female workers had begun to dare not touch those cultural relics, and some local people also responded to this atmosphere, saying that they saw a ghost on a horse at night. On the top sits a headless general to take people's lives.For a while, the archaeological site was filled with wind and rain, and there was a scene of panic. For safety reasons, regardless of whether it was true or not, Lao Zhong first sealed up the suit of armor, ordered all work to be suspended, and the resident staff were not allowed to go out unless there was an emergency.He personally guarded the armor for two days and two nights, but to his disappointment, nothing happened, not to mention the headless general, not even a headless fly. Just when Lao Zhong was in a state of desperation, his hometown also added fuel to the fire. It turned out that one of the most senior clan uncles in the family had a heart attack and asked him to use his connections to arrange for him to be sent to a Beijing hospital.Lao Zhong had no choice but to hurry back to his hometown. Who knew that the old man would let go before seeing the uncle of the clan, but during the filial piety, he accidentally met a person. I introduced this person formally to Lao Zhong.He is the descendant of Huanghehuo Luban, who is well-known up and down the Yellow River and once made pangolins break their heads. That person, his surname is Lou. When Lao Zhong talked about this, he gave me a meaningful look, wanting to see my reaction at this time. In fact, from the time he started talking about going home, I had already guessed that the next person who would appear on the stage might be my old and disrespectful grandfather, but what I didn't expect was that my grandfather had such a deep relationship with their Zhong family.Even so, I still showed a look of astonishment, which matched the atmosphere of Lao Zhong's storytelling. Lao Zhong glanced at me triumphantly, very satisfied with my expression.I thought to myself what happened to Huanghehuo Luban, you grandson and grandson both came to help me in the end. Lao Zhong’s clan uncle has a close relationship with my grandfather, and my grandfather has been wandering all his life, basically making friends with some maverick strangers, or some strange people with secret doors. Could it be that Lao Zhong’s clan uncle used to be a tomb robber? thief?If that's the case, it's really a bit of fun.It's ironic that the mountain-turner is a general who patrols the tomb.