Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Surprised to see the Yellow River Dragon
The old man glanced at me as if he was questioning me, I shook my head and said I had never seen such a thing.The old man pressed the dot lightly with the handle of the rabbit gun in his hand, and it seemed that it was difficult to be pressed. The old man finally exerted all his strength, and finally, with a "pop", something seemed to pop out. up.But the dot seemed to be only pushed in about two fingers deep, and there was no other reaction. Just when I was puzzled, the old man pushed me up and pouted at me. I looked up and my whole body was shaking Goosebumps all over.From the shoulders, hip bones, ankles, and hands of the corpse, golden nails the size of fingers protruded from the bones.These nails were originally hidden in the bones, and when they came out, they showed the cross-section of the bones, and there were traces of black traces inside.
The old man couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "It's a living murder, it's really vicious!"
"What? A living murder? What is that?" The old man ignored my question, and lightly fiddled with a few bones between the hip bones of the corpse, and a particularly thick silver nail fell out of it with a clang. When I came out, I discovered that, except for the five yellow nails on the mask that nailed his head, his body was firmly nailed into the coffin with nine nails.
"This is by no means a normal burial, this is more like a vicious curse!" After experiencing the curse array in the Han tomb, I seem to be a little nervous, and I think about the curse when I see everything.
"We Chinese have this problem. We like to symbolize everything. Is it possible to nail people's limbs and five bodies with nails and cover their heads with soul lockers, so that they won't be afraid of people becoming evil spirits?" The old man laughed. For a moment, "It's like touching the statue of Avalokitesvara if you are infertile. If you touch it frequently, you won't be able to grow good food even if the land is not good!"
After all, it was the old clapper, and the metaphor he used was rather vulgar, but I still understood. He meant that the person in the coffin was murdered to death. Head, but what does this have to do with living murder?
"This man was nailed into the coffin alive!" The old man stared at the corpse intently, sighed, as if responding, and began to feel a bit of coolness slowly overflowing.
"How do you know it's a live nail?" I still haven't figured it out.
The old man pointed to the copper nails on the ankles: "His feet were kicked and broken by himself!" It was only then that I noticed that the two copper nails were not hidden in the ankle to nail the ankle, but corresponded to the position of the ankle. , The bones of the ankle become irregularly broken.
"You mean, he was nailed alive in this sarcophagus, and then kicked the sarcophagus cover so hard that he broke his feet?" The result of this reasoning makes people feel a little miserable.
Mr. Liu didn't even raise his head: "If you don't believe me, look at the coffin lid we removed just now. There must be black blood or kick marks on it."
The two of us worked together to turn over the sarcophagus lid. Surprisingly, not only were there black bloodstains, a layer of stone skin was kicked off a large area corresponding to the feet.
I looked back at the big man lying in the sarcophagus, and swallowed hard: "Mother, how much strength this buddy must have when he is alive!"
"The Lishi, one of the four guardians, is not in vain. I believe it must have taken a lot of effort to get him in!" The old man seemed to see something, sighed quietly, clapped his hands and said, "It seems that we Today is not ordinary good luck, the entrance of the underground palace seems to be right in front of us!"
"What?" I was going crazy, why are we still outside the underground palace?Lao Tzu, I descended nearly ten meters into the sweet potato cellar, then climbed non-stop to the one-storey tomb, and then sealed it in a small room like a mouse in a mouse cage, but this old man actually said that we Haven't touched the door of the underground palace yet.
"Isn't this the underground palace?" I was a little anxious, pointing around and wanting to curse.The old man shook his head.
"Tell me, what is the underground palace like?" I felt like punching someone.
"The ground is made of gold bricks, the walls are made of white jade, the sun and moon are made of bright pearls, guarded by river gods and mountain spirits, and four beasts parade around the nine dragons. This is the real underground palace." He also gave me a picture of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum.
"Tch, grandpa, are you sleepwalking? You call this place the Golden Brick?" I looked at him with disdain.But what he gave me next left my mouth open.
He had already quietly pulled out the remaining eight copper nails on the body of the corpse, and gently moved the corpse aside. I noticed that he didn't dare to touch the mask.
Just under the corpse, there is a giant snake-headed tortoise, with sharp claws, sharp teeth in the snake's mouth, and a ferocious aura, but on this huge stone tortoise, there is a human head bound The cloud chain made by the skeleton tightly held down the neck and limbs of the giant tortoise.
"Northern Xuanwu, the main soldier will kill." I muttered about some things that Lao Zhong had made up for me.Facing this thing, I suddenly felt a little absent-minded, as if something was oppressing me and I couldn't breathe.And the ferocious face of this giant tortoise seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the powerful oppressive force lay in front of me like a wall.It seems that after removing the nine copper nails, the huge murderous aura brought by the basalt giant tortoise below is like a cola that opens the lid and spews out immediately, hitting the heart and lungs of the person.
The old man also seemed to have noticed my gaffe, and hurried over to see me, grasping my pulse with his hand, I gasped like a fish out of water.
"You have the physique of Guiyang Tibetan Yin?" The old man frowned, "No wonder you are so hard to breathe by Xuanwu!"
"What? What does my physique have to do with this big turtle?" Instinctively, I thought the old man was talking nonsense.
"There are several types of pupils. I guess you have ghost eyes. You have ghost eyes and a Yin physique at the same time. You should be a ghost official, a soldier of the underworld, and Xuanwu is the great god of the north, a righteous god, full of fire, and yang." Full of energy, this person lying here should be Yingshi Xuanwu, when these copper nails are pulled out, heroic energy is overflowing, so you feel uncomfortable!" When the old man said these words, he seemed to be showing off his supernatural powers. The nonsensical magic stick.
"Yuanshi Xuanwu?" I thought in my heart, why don't you say that you are the real man, you are more powerful than Lao Zhong, I despise you!
"Folk legend, when the world is in chaos and dynasties change, there will be a real dragon lord, that is, Ziweixing, who will rescue the people from the fire and water. They will move in response to the times and be reincarnated, and they will generally become the emperor's guard generals or effective advisers. Although many people dismiss this statement, it seems that the change of dynasty still coincides with this statement. If my guess is correct, This person is Xuanwu who was reincarnated in the world, and is also the so-called Four Guardians!" The old man still had a very godlike expression.I was at a loss when I saw him frothing at the mouth, bit my lip hard, and warned myself: Now is not the time for storytelling.
This is definitely not the yang energy of a righteous god!There must be something odd about it.I stroked my chest lightly, recalling the feeling just now. It was like the feeling of forcing my chest after diving into a deep pool. When I looked up, I saw that Yinglong's head was facing my front face. , I suddenly remembered the earthy gas just now, could it be that gas just now?Before I could think about it, I heard the old man's startled voice: "Boy, what do you think is that?"
I saw pieces of cloud-cracked tortoise shells on the back of the stone turtle, which reflected bright and dark lights under the flickering of the flashlight, as if a few shining gems were inlaid on the back of the cloud-patterned tortoise. Looking at it, it looks plain and unremarkable.I held the flashlight for a long time, and found that as long as the light of the flashlight is tilted to one side or the side behind the light, there will be bright lights with twinkling stars.We simply turned off the flashlight, and it was dark in the small room. After a while, we saw a few patches of light glowing faintly on the back of the turtle, and they lighted up gently in sequence until our eyes got used to the darkness. Only then did I discover that there were several pieces of tortoise shells glowing blue and white on the back of the turtle in the dark, and there were exactly seven pieces of tortoise shells, and the order of the shells was just in accordance with the shape of the Big Dipper.
After turning on the flashlight again, we were stunned. Could it be that these tortoise shells arranged into a big dipper are not an eye-catching mechanism?I suddenly remembered the cursed tomb array. Could it be that this is also a mysterious array?I lightly pressed the tortoise shell with the handy flashlight in my hand, but as soon as I touched it, the tortoise shell the size of a ping-pong ball sank in, and the next few tortoise shells also sunk in immediately, and then a few tortoise shells Immediately a plane appeared, I counted, three up and four down, what does this mean?I looked up at the old man in confusion.The old man looked at me with a pale face, exactly behind me.
When I looked back, my heart almost didn't jump out, and I saw a person standing behind me, a person who was bleeding from all seven orifices and was tightly bound by chains. His face was covered with an ugly brass mask, and two holes were inserted into the mask's eyes. There are two copper nails, and there is also a copper nail at the ear position, and blood is dripping from the places where these copper nails are inserted.
The old man and I looked at each other. Although the old man was pale, he still had a steady mind. He pulled the iron bolt of the rabbit gun without hesitation, and there was a loud "bang", and the pungent black gunpowder smell disappeared instantly. Surprisingly, after the gunpowder smoke passed, the man still stood in the distance without moving a bit.
The old man was quick, loaded the ammunition and was about to fire the second shot, I hurriedly stopped him.Something is wrong, there must be something wrong, the old man looked at me suspiciously, and put down the gun in his hand.
I'm not as nervous as I was just now, but it wouldn't be pleasant for anyone to suddenly see a bloody person behind him.Carefully holding the flashlight tightly, I walked forward until I got close to that person. I breathed a sigh of relief when I got close. Under the strong light of the extended flashlight, this mysterious "person" finally showed his original shape. , It turned out to be just a painting, a too realistic painting, cinnabar for blood, ocher for skin, and some fluorite materials seemed to be added to the paint, and the radiance seems to have a flowing feeling.
The painting is so good, except that the picture is too bloody, it can be said to be a masterpiece of art.But why didn't we discover this painting just now?Who is in this painting?What does it have to do with the man lying in the sarcophagus?A series of questions made me turn my attention to old man Liu again.I thought that the old man's nervousness would calm down after seeing this painting, but who knew that he would become even more nervous after seeing this painting, and he sighed sadly and said, "It's over, this time, we really can't get out. Well, this is a dead end situation, not to mention organizing people to dig it, even if we use explosives to blow it up, it may be difficult to get us out!"
"Ah, no way?" I looked at him in surprise, how could I say such a thing?
Without saying a word, the old man turned around and walked in front of the stone tortoise, turned off the light, and there were still seven tortoise shells glowing with fluorescence in the darkness. The old man gently pressed one of them, and saw The glowing figure behind us faded gently into the darkness, and everything seemed to be restored again.I quickly turned on the light and looked at the wall behind, it was still a flat brick wall.
"Sealing the ghost wall?" I was a little confused, how could I come across such an exquisite mechanism in the underground palace? I once heard from my grandfather that the legendary Mozi once built the Qiqiaolinglong Wall. There is only one eye, no matter which mechanism is activated. Changes in this wall can be triggered.Both Gongshuban and Mozi are the masters of a generation of organs. Gongshuban is good at the development of offensive weapons and is good at attacking, while Mozi is good at defending. According to legend, he once defeated Gongshuban nine times in a simulated battle similar to a sand table. In the first offensive and defensive battle, Mozi used this mysterious and unpredictable ghost sealing wall to stop Gongshuban's continuous offensive like a tide.Gongshuban, a generation of craftsmen known as Lu Ban, the originator of carpenters in later generations, surrendered after being unable to attack for a long time.
"How is it possible?" I couldn't believe it. "It's just an underground palace, not an imperial tomb. How could it use a ghost wall to block tomb robbers? Besides, who was proficient in these mechanism techniques that have long been lost in the Warring States Period a thousand years ago?" ?”
The old man smiled wryly: "No matter who it is, we are already trapped here. People often say that the general who patrols the mountain is buried in the mountain. It looks really good. We, the old and the young, may not be able to get out! "
I was pacing around restlessly, holding up the flashlight to look around, and when the flashlight slid over my head, I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be murals on the top of the tomb.It was a map of the Big Dipper, which was not quite the same as usual. A large spoon-shaped star array was deliberately deformed, and a star on the handle of the spoon was particularly eye-catching.
The Big Dipper, this pattern appears in two places, one is the mural on the top of the head, and the other is the back of the giant basaltic tortoise. Is there any special significance?
A flash of inspiration came to my mind, could it be... I remembered the first time I saw the seven tortoise shells on the tortoise shell. The seven tortoise shells that flashed fluorescent light one after another were in order, although the order seemed awkward.
He turned off the flashlight again, and tightly covered the seven tortoise shells, so that the yunying stone inlaid on the tortoise shells could not absorb the light, then turned on the flashlight again, and immediately turned off again.
In the darkness, the seven fluorescent stones that had just absorbed the light from the flashlight reappeared in groups of blue-white light in different order.
Without asking the old man's opinion at all, I pressed my fingers in the order that the blue light appeared, and finally all seven stones sank into the tortoise shell, and none of them came out, but what I didn't expect was that , the mechanism mutation I expected did not happen, everything was as usual, so peaceful that it almost made people go crazy.
After waiting for half a day, I also began to feel a little discouraged. For the first time, I felt a kind of helplessness of being abandoned. It seemed that all luck had left me. I had been firmly grasped by a kind of fear in the dark Yes, this time I deeply felt the despair of those workers who were buried underground by the mine disaster.
Is this really a dead end?Maybe yes, because the owner of the tomb does not want the person who disturbs his peace to leave the tomb alive.I looked at the old man a little disappointed, and didn't know what to say for a while.
The old man also seemed to be very nervous, wringing his hands restlessly. His emotions infected me, making me feel a kind of abandoned despair.
"Ding Hai detains my soul." Looking at these words, I smiled wryly in my heart, thinking to his mother, it seems that we are really going to be detained this time.I caressed these words lightly, suddenly my heart moved, I pressed down hard, only heard two "clicks", several protruding characters were flattened into the head of the coffin, and the base The lower coffin moved slightly.The old man was also attracted by this change, and they leaned over to look together, only to find that the coffin and the base were not integrated, but had a gap.The old man knocked on the sarcophagus vigorously, and there was a "bang bang" sound from the urn.
It's empty!This discovery inspired Old Man Liu and I. We looked at each other and pushed the sarcophagus together.Something completely unexpected happened. This huge sarcophagus, which seemed to weigh a thousand kilograms, was pushed away by the two of us easily, as if there were wheels installed underneath.
Our guess is correct, there are indeed two chute-like tracks under the sarcophagus, and at the corresponding position of the basalt giant tortoise, there are seven concave and convex caves on the ground, which turned out to be a combination lock .
Damn, it's amazing, the ancients thousands of years ago actually used combination locks, if the seven tortoise shells were not pressed in a specific order, then the seven stone pillars at the bottom of the sarcophagus base would not rise, and the sarcophagus would be imprisoned It is firmly locked on the ground, and we can't push the sarcophagus at all, so we can't see the two stone doors below the sarcophagus with the portrait of Yazi.
Shimen, the old man and I are very excited. Although we don't know where this stone door will lead to, at least one thing is certain, that is, we may have found the passage leading to the legendary underground palace.
Although the old man and I have made full preparations, when we mentioned the two stone gates, the stale air rising from inside almost overwhelmed us both, but it was only a moment, and the inside The foul smell seemed to dissipate in the air outside quickly, and a faint black hole appeared in front of our eyes.
I turned on the handy flashlight and the extended flashlight together, and shone into the black door. This is a slanting staircase, wide and narrow enough for only one person to pass through, and the staircase slopes downward at a forty-five degree trend.Wet a piece of rag again with urine, stuck it firmly in front of the nose, and walked down ahead of the old man, because the hole was too narrow to fit the extended flashlight, so I had to turn off the long-barreled flashlight and hold the A miniature mini flashlight went down, and the other hand firmly grasped the "fierce" blade "to ward off evil spirits".Unexpectedly, after walking for about ten meters, the road ahead was suddenly blocked. Just when I was about to turn back, something came up from behind and rushed straight to the back of my head. After a burst of severe pain, It seems that someone followed, no, the old man did not follow, who is this?
I swung my backhand, and the evil spirit warded off mixed with a gust of dark wind and went straight to the back. My wrist was tightened suddenly, and a big hand firmly grasped my forearm. A familiar voice immediately rang in my ears: "Little bastard!" It's me!" It was the voice of the old Liutou, and I put my heart into my stomach, and shone it with a flashlight. The old man held an iron plate in his hand, and the end of the iron plate was a chain, and the old man faintly He said calmly, "I just remembered that you just came in. I forgot to give you this!"
"What is this?" I looked curiously at the iron plate of the chain in his hand, but the old man hadn't shown it to me since he went down to the grave. Why did he suddenly give me such a chain now?I stepped back a little vigilantly, the old man's face was pale, and he stared straight at me: "This is a soul chain. We who dig graves must use soul chains to lock up our souls, so as not to lose our souls." If you lose it in the tomb, you won’t be able to come back.”
What more?I looked at the string of chains in his hand suspiciously, and then shone his face with the small flashlight in my hand. Facing the direct light, the old man's eyes didn't flicker, he was still smiling, and he was stunned. He stared at me intently, the corners of his mouth curled up rigidly.
I shone the flashlight on the chains again, and felt a "thump" in my heart. There was not an iron plate at the end of the chains, but a white skull with a human head. The style of the chains was exactly the same as the mural we saw just now.The old man was still muttering to himself: "You dig the grave, let's guard it here!" After saying these words, he buckled the chain around my waist.It was completely out of a subconscious reaction, I dodged the action of him putting chains on me, the old man jumped to nothing, but he didn't respond at all, he still turned around dumbfounded, muttering : "You dig the grave, we will guard!" Then he swooped again, this time the action was even more outrageous.The old man's movements were stiff and his figure was rigid. I almost hit the wall after being evasive. In the intersecting body shape, I suddenly saw that there were no pupils in the old man's eyes. !
I took a deep breath, held the dagger in front of my chest, closed my eyes, and thought to myself, if it was an old man, I would definitely not risk my life to pounce on it, if it was an evildoer, he deserved it.At this moment, I felt a sharp pain in the middle of the nose under the nose, penetrating to the bone marrow, as if my whole body was being pricked by needles. I opened my eyes suddenly, and saw a pair of green eyes staring at me without blinking. Me, just when I was startled, I just wanted to raise my hand to touch my personal dagger, but I found that I had no strength at all, my arms seemed to be heavy, and I couldn't lift them up, and those green eyes were still good. Staring at me like a pair of wolf eyes in the dark night.Just when I was inexplicably surprised, I heard a sound like a big bell echoing in my ears: "Boy, what's wrong with you?" It wasn't until I gradually got used to the light in front of my eyes and the voice in my ears that I realized it wasn't The sound was too loud, but there was something wrong with my own feeling. After a short time, part of the body gradually recovered the consciousness of autonomous control. When I looked up, I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and the buzzing sound in my head was endless.
I must have been sapped by this guy with green eyes, and then I recalled the scene where old man Liu sold me a soul chain. Could it be that old Liu was the murderer?What conspiracy does he have?
After a long while, my limbs began to move, and then I felt a large round lump on the back of my head, which seemed to be in a strange oval shape, and the bump was also uneven.Just as I was thinking wildly, another voice came from afar: "Boy, what's wrong with you? Why haven't you made a sound for a long time?" The voice came from the entrance of the cave I just entered.I was shocked suddenly, no, the old Liutou was still at the entrance of the cave, but I clearly saw the old man coming by my side just now.
If the old man flashed back to the entrance of the cave more than ten meters away just after sneak attacking me, then the old man's pace is too fast, but if the old man didn't follow at all, then what I just saw what is itI looked again for the green fluorescent eyes I saw just now, but the strange thing was that I couldn't find the shadows of those two eyes at all.
Fumbling around on the ground, I finally found the miniature flashlight that fell on the ground. I pushed the flashlight away. After half a circle, the light enveloped a person on my left side. It was a person in a black shirt, squatting. Sitting next to me, leaning against the brick wall next to me, looking very tired.I subconsciously thought it was Old Liutou, and I stretched out my hand to move his shoulder. The face I turned around almost scared me out of my soul. It was a black, shriveled corpse face, and there were no eyeballs in the two eye sockets. , there are only two black holes left, a jade tube in one mouth, messy hair mixed with black and white, and a braid like dry grass hanging behind his mummy head.The fact that the corpse can be dried like this is obviously formed through rapid dehydration.
This is the first time I have faced a dead corpse so close, especially when the distance between me and him was less than 50 centimeters, "he" actually spoke: "What are you looking at? I just called you for a long time Why are you silent?"
I almost didn't catch my breath, my head buzzed, and then I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Ah, mom, help!" Facts have proved that the words I blurted out at that time were so embarrassing that later, when Lao Zhong and his gang wanted to embarrass me, they squeezed their throats and shouted: "Ah, mom, Help!" Then I would want to bump my head in front of them.
The voice and hands belonged to Old Liu. It turned out that he had been waiting at the entrance of the cave for a long time but he didn’t see me turn around, and he got anxious when he didn’t see any echo. .
When he shone the electric light on me, I was "eye-to-eye" with the mummy sitting next to him. His first reaction was that I was "bewildered", and then he slapped my left shoulder with his palm. Knowing that I was frightened and stunned at the time, I thought the mummy had suddenly resurrected, so I yelled the words that made me feel ashamed for the rest of my life.
Who knew that the old man didn't laugh at my gaffe, but was surprised when he saw this mummy with a jade pipe in his mouth: "Yellow River Dragon?"
After being frightened for a long time, I also came back to my soul. The words of the old man made me stunned, "What Yellow River Dragon?"
"Didn't you hear your grandfather say 'Mobei birds, Jiangnan fish, and Yellow River dragons can't beat the Central Plains insects'?" The old man had an incredulous expression on his face.
I shook my head: "I don't know!" I said in my heart that I've heard Lao Zhong say it, it's like a martial arts novel.But this time I learned to be smart and didn't show it.
"He was a well-known tomb robber on the north and south banks of the Yellow River in the late Republic of China. He was withdrawn and independent by nature. He once guarded the tomb of the warlord with several big tomb robber families. So people use the dragon to see the head but not the tail to compare him, and call him the Yellow River Dragon." The old man seemed to have seen an old friend, and suddenly opened up the chatterbox. "This person was once very close to your great-grandfather, because he has two points in common with your great-grandfather. First, he opposes tomb robbery. Second, he is fond of various tricks."
"Against tomb robbery?" I shone my flashlight on the mummy's little black braid, and my feelings were still that of a Manchu Qing old man. "Then he is still called a tomb robber?"
The old man sighed sadly: "He is an outlier among tomb robbers. He has loved all kinds of technical mechanisms all his life. He takes pleasure in studying and cracking the formations and mechanisms left by various skilled craftsmen. There are more than a thousand seats, and they have never been missed. According to legend, there are nineteen hidden rooms in Qianling Mausoleum, which are unknown to the world, but this person excavated them all. The mausoleums were all excavated, and they all retreated."
Oh my God, any one of these tombs mentioned by the old man can shock the world. Although many of them have been looted repeatedly in history, according to him, this person can actually enter those hidden rooms that are not even recorded in history books .I began to look at this withered and dry corpse with respect, and the crooked head still seemed to be stubbornly telling its own brilliance.
The old man seemed to think that these deeds did not shock me enough, and he said: "He is not only proficient in organ numbering, but also intensively studies Zhouyi and gossip, innate five elements, Fengshui fixed acupoints, and is a rare genius among tomb robbers. Someone once said that he Wandering around Mount Li for more than ten days and nights, entered the Zulong Mountain Mausoleum, inspected the nine tripods and eighteen chambers, and then left empty-handed."
"He found the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang?" Facing this mummy, I can only admire it at the moment. It's too awesome. You know, even today, modern people even use satellites, but they still can't accurately locate the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. And this elder brother unexpectedly came in and out as easily as his own house.
"At that time, warlords were everywhere, the world was in chaos, and everyone was in danger. Who cares about these things, but there is a kind of person who is born with a single tendon, that is, the mausoleum guards who are ridiculed as old people. The five mountain patrolling generals of the tomb chased him for three years, but he still escaped. Later, he participated in the battle of guarding the tomb at the age of 60, but he miraculously disappeared when the Japanese army broke the tomb. There is no news." When the old man told this story, he unconsciously took on the color of looking up, making the atmosphere suddenly tragic.
Later, Grandpa added the real reason for the tomb-robbing of a scholar named Huang Yuqing in the late Qing Dynasty.It turned out that he, a senior high school student in mathematics, was proficient in the art of Gewu (that is, mechanism physics, called Gewu in ancient times). Things that changed his life: first, the emperor fell, and the Qing Dynasty was transformed into the Republic of China in an instant; second, his favorite young son, who recited a thousand words every day and articulated his words, suddenly became seriously ill and could no longer speak.It was the end of the Qing Dynasty, the autumn of troubled times, and Huang Juren took him to seek medical treatment up and down the Yellow River, but there was still no result. Later, I don’t know who said that a strange prescription was buried in the tomb of a famous doctor on Mangshan Mountain, which could save people’s lives. He visited the mausoleum of a famous doctor at night, but he was reported. At that time, the power of the Republic of China had not yet reached all parts of the country. The general who patrolled the mountain reported him to Luoyang. When the army arrived there, he was rescued, but his youngest son died of illness, and the family was already torn apart.After he was released from prison, he took pleasure in going in and out of the tombs, but his tomb robbery is different from those thieves who stare at the yellow and white things. One is to crack the various mechanisms in the tomb, and the other is to pick up the strange books buried in the tomb by the ancients. Fang, whenever he heard that there were buildings, underground palaces and tombs with strange designs, he would always try them out. Later, after the battle of guarding the tombs, he never heard from him again.
I squatted on the ground and carefully looked at this legendary mummy, and I kept sighing in my heart. Suddenly, I thought of a question: "Old man, how do you always know that he is the famous Ya thief?"
The old man didn't think the mummy was dirty, so he pulled out the jade pipe held in the mummy's mouth without hesitation: "Only by this, the Nine Dragons Jade Flute, it is said that he used this to subdue the guards in the water mausoleum of King Chu." Tomb kappa, since this thing is as unique as the Zhao family's animal taming whistle, I won't admit it wrong."
"Oh? But how do you know this is the Nine Dragons Jade Flute?" I still have doubts.
The old man gave me a meaningful look: "The five great patrolling generals in the late Qing Dynasty all respected their seniors very much. In order to help them, the seniors in my family once captured this man with their own hands, but I regret that he is very capable and has a lot of respect. He never did any evil, so he let him go, and this is how the saying "the Yellow River dragon can't suppress the Central Plains worm" came into being." At that time, the old man's words did scare me, but after hearing the old man's words, my grandfather said it later. One sentence: "Shit, when the members of his Liu family went to arrest him, they were trapped in the underground palace together. If it wasn't for Huang Helong, their general would have become withered. Let's see what they have to say." Of course, this is all for later , and at that time I believed in the old man's words.
Just as we were packing up our bags and preparing to continue walking down, I suddenly discovered something on this mummy, which immediately aroused my cold fear. It was a chain, a chain connected to a skeleton iron. The chain of cards, an iron chain called the soul chain.The soul chain is hanging on the waist of the mummy, which is exactly the same as what I saw just now.
Seeing that something was wrong with me, the old man asked me what was going on, and I told what I saw just now. He carefully looked at the big bag behind my head with a flashlight, took a deep breath, and remained silent for a while, until I urged him again and again before he told me that I was injured by Feng Lingyin just now.
"What? Fenglingyin? You mean the Fenglingyin that is exactly the same as Zhang Laowa's adopted son?" I couldn't believe it.
"It's not exactly the same, the word on his body is a word 'seal', but on the back of your head is a word 'sleepy'!" The old man told me word by word, I must have had a dream after being knocked out by the organ , so I saw someone give me a soul lock chain.
"He must have regarded you as a tomb robber, so he wanted to tie you up too." The old man's cold voice made people tremble.
"Who? Who regarded me as a grave robber?" I was a little bit lacking in confidence.
"He!" The old man pushed the two flashlights away at the same time.Only then did I see that there was a tall statue in the corner of this long and narrow corridor. It was completely red and black, with two horns on its head, two fangs protruding from its lips, and it was full of gnarled muscles. It was me in the hand. The chain with the skeleton iron plate that I saw just now is right in the center of the iron plate, and a big "sleepy" character is engraved there.
I touched the handle of the gun lightly, only to find that it was made of pig iron, and as soon as I moved the flashlight away, I found two green eyeballs appeared in the air again. The first green eyeball is its own. Some kind of fluorescent ore must be used in the place of the eyeball, which can temporarily store light. Jumping ball is a truth.
"Liu Ding Liujia trapped dragon lock, I didn't expect that we have seen three, there should be three more." The old man took a big flashlight to check the iron man, and I was attracted by the mummy on the ground. He is the envy of all the teenagers. With unique skills, he floats out of dangerous situations just for the bamboo slips and books in the tomb. He is simply an ancient knight-errant with a refined air.Just when I looked him up and down again, I found an iron nail dropped in front of him. I picked up the iron nail. The iron nail was rusty, but the tip of the iron nail had been smoothed .When I was studying this inconspicuous thing carefully, the old man took a look and understood what it was for. He pressed the flashlight against the brick wall. Under the three-dimensional rendering of the shadow, I could clearly see that it was the mummy On the brick wall in front of him, a large area of characters were densely carved. Due to the long time interval, the scratches were not very obvious, and these writings could only be seen by hitting it with light.
It is a very large piece of characters, and it is written in classical Chinese style. After reading a few sentences, I can’t read it anymore. As expected, I was born in Wenju in the late Qing Dynasty.就为这点可怜的古文功底，我被老柳头狠狠地鄙视了一把，顺便又数落了一顿我的大学老师，依然是跟老钟一样的论调：“不知道你们现在大学里的老师都教的什么，老祖宗的东西都忘完了吗？”
我心里替所有的大学老师抱歉，不是你们的错哦，你们也不容易，都是混口饭吃，被这些平白认为“师者，传道授业解惑”崇高使命感的老家伙给狠狠地误解了一把，他们不知道现在的大学都已经商业化了，现在的大学跟街上卖豆腐的没什么区别了，只要学生不把孩子生在课堂上，哪里还管我们学不学老祖宗的东西啊。
我只好赔着笑脸听老头儿逐字讲解砖壁上的内容。原来，这是那个飘零一生、传奇一生的黄河龙最后的遗书，他详细地回忆了一生的经历，对于十年寒窗苦读最后却盗坟掘墓十分不齿，但是，他也详述了在此间得到的乐趣，他读过汉武的文章，看过唐宋的诗词，与元大帝擦肩而过，抚过无弦焦尾琴，也面见过祖龙始皇帝，这其中的乐趣无人能体味。
听到这里，我有点无言，一个受过巨大伤害的奇才，竟然以盗墓来逃避纷乱的现实社会，真是莫大的讽刺。
很快，他就说到了正题，原来他久慕秋稷寺地陵，无缘得见，机缘巧合下，于镇陵龟首入地陵。怎么会是从镇陵龟首进入的呢？我有点不明白。
接下来他描述的情景更是让我吃惊——这个地陵一共有六个入口！还没等我问老柳头都哪六个入口时，描述到这里就戛然而止，再下面完全就是风马牛不相及的东西，老头儿时而脸色兴奋，时而悲苦，到后来干脆也不给我翻译他都看到了什么，只是趴在砖壁上一个劲地研究这些个东西，直到我拽他，他才长舒了一口气，目光迷离地看着我。
我有点担心，老头儿是不是看得多了，这会有点魔怔了？谁知道他好像潜水好久一样长出了一口气：“印证了我的想法，这里的确不是一个简单的墓葬，准确地来说，是一处王陵，可是这个王陵又不是一个王陵。”老头儿绕口令似的一番话把我弄晕了。
什么叫王陵又不是王陵啊？到底你在讲什么？就算不懂也不要装懂啊！你这个老头儿明显就是野路子，跟人家老钟和老苗那种职业神棍一看就有差距，人家老钟解释的时候总是一脸的神圣，就算我知道他是在胡扯，心里还是不由自主地去相信真有其事。
老柳头给我讲的故事带有明显的传奇色彩，而且颠覆了大家所熟知的历史。原来黄河龙在墙上写就了一个惊天的大秘密，这里真的是一个困龙局，准确地说是一个风水大阵，为的是锁住地脉，困住龙气。而起因竟然是一次无稽的迷信活动，但是这次活动的结局却是惨烈的，乃至令人发指。
北宋哲宗年间，司天监夜观天象，突然发现紫微星暗淡，并偏离了原来的位置，而且旁边竟然有一颗若明若暗的星星出现，立即密报了皇帝。当时的宋哲宗为之震惊。古人认为紫微星动，象征着改朝换代，紫微星旁有贼星出现，象征又有应世命主乱世争权。
乱世星象动，天罡地煞应劫而出，山土移，风水动，据风水师的说法，紫微星动以后，一个身负龙命的人也就随即降生在人世间，按照星象而言，明明这个真龙命主应该降生在汴梁，降生在皇家，但出人意料的是，九九重阳之夜，人皆见斗大的星辰雨降落在东京西南，民间纷纷传说有真龙降生，随即护驾的天罡地煞也纷纷转世于龙凤呈祥之地，随时候命，辅佐龙主以取天下。就在皇帝惊疑之际，大相国寺四处游访的大和尚无意中曾对弟子说起，说在岭南归来途中，见一处地方水土丰美，人物毓秀，路上奔走的孩子皆是将相之姿，几个村落里夜间紫气冲天而照，应有大富贵之人诞出。
对于星象这回事，皇帝也许不是很相信，但是涉及自己的地位，就不由得不认真了，于是，当时的皇帝就派出了几支队伍四下打探。这些队伍都是由深谙风水之术的大师率领，在司天监的指引下，本来从东西南北四个地方出访寻找异姓龙脉风水的队伍都意外地在一个地方会合了。当一行人在这个地方见面以后全都无语，各个沉默，等登高远眺以后，都汗流浃背，原来此地水土已呈龙势，按照堪舆术来讲，几乎是铁定的帝王地，而且临近的地方凤凰几乎展翅，形似凤凰的大岭头部嘴喙几乎伸到了河边，只要一啄到水，连母仪天下的皇后就也孕育而出了。
要是在别的地方发现这种风水，他们肯定是迅速报告皇帝，然后破坏龙脉，可是在这里，一伙人却再三犹豫，最后还是商讨几天以后才敢报于皇帝。皇帝得知了这个地方以后也是惊得说不出话来，犹豫之后还是横下心来命人将风水悉数破坏。
“究竟是什么地方会让皇帝也前怕狼后怕虎，不敢果断地决断呢？”我的好奇心伴随着老头儿的描述而起。
老头儿指了指脚下：“这里就是汴梁西南、群星坠落之地，后周帝后四陵所葬之地！”
哦，这下我明白缘何宋朝的皇帝这么为难了，因为这天下本身就是人家的，现在竟然天命显示在人家的祖陵之地有龙脉出现，异象频生，夺了人家天下的老赵家自然心虚气短！
公元954年，后周皇帝郭威死葬新郑，临终前传位于养子柴荣，文韬武略的柴荣即位五年即崩，天下便落到了年仅七岁的儿子柴宗训身上，可惜小皇帝仅坐了龙椅八个月，就因为赵匡胤发动了著名“陈桥兵变”而被迫逊位。入宋，降为郑王。按说老赵拿了人家的天下应该就知足了，自己兄弟该干吗干吗去了，可是老赵家对柴家一直小心翼翼地提防着，本身这皇位来得就名不正言不顺，做贼心虚，听不得别人说哪里有龙气，听不得说柴家后人有龙相。柴宗训不到二十岁就卒了，历史记载柴宗训尚未成婚，也就是说没有后代，这下老赵家放心了，大张旗鼓把柴宗训又葬回了新郑，甚至连当时的皇帝赵匡胤都为这个曾经的侄子皇帝戴了十天孝，后周的遗脉似乎就这样结束了，赵匡胤甚至为了作秀还找来了柴宗训的几个远房亲戚给分封了一下，给予一定的待遇，由他及他的后人承担奉祀后周皇族之职。但是这位柴氏后人，应该是柴荣兄弟们的后代，已经与柴荣没有什么关系了。
故事似乎就这样结束了，可是历史就是喜欢与人开玩笑，在宋朝立国将近百年的时候，这里却突然冒出了龙脉，怎么不叫赵家老小都大吃一惊。
于是祥和平静的龙店镇附近突然出现了一群群道士与和尚，手里拿着罗盘等堪舆之物开始寻龙定穴，佛道两派在确定龙穴的位置上开始了无休止的争论和互相攻击，但是最后争论的结果却出奇的一致，龙首的位置竟然在秋稷寺所在陵岗，而唐时香火极盛的秋稷寺此刻却已大半都毁损于战火，初建时期的秋稷寺和其他的道观一样是没有地宫的，而就因为这次的斩断龙脉，破败不堪的秋稷寺在一个月之间大变模样，不仅修葺一新，而且有了官派的天师。
一个月后，凡是星斗坠落之夜诞生婴孩的家庭全部被官府以莫须有的罪名抓走，三天后，有人从秋稷寺附近的水井打水，水里竟然有丝丝血痕。而传说中柴宗训临幸过婢女而诞下的一个十岁大的男孩也不声不响地失去了踪影。紧接着，一位著名的建筑机关大师，自宋以来被能工巧匠们视为神一样的人物进驻了秋稷寺，开始了一项不为人知的浩大工程。
“神一样的人物？口气不小啊，谁比公输班大师还像神？”我心里愤愤不平。自从我知道太爷爷被誉为“黄河活鲁班”的时候心里美得是五彩斑斓，别人推崇我们家的机关数术的时候我虽然嘴上谦虚，但是俨然却以“黄河小鲁班”自居，虽然我连刨子长啥模样都不知道。现在突然冒出来这么一个“神一样的人物”，我是大大的不忿，自然要替老祖宗抢回这口气。
老头儿揶揄地看着我，嘴角满是狡猾的微笑，嘴巴只轻轻地蹦出来两个字，我当时就愣住了，看着周围坚若磐石的铁桶四壁，心里的悲凉就像是满墙的爬山虎瞬间缠满了身子。
因为老头儿轻轻说的那两个字是：“李诫！”
李诫，这两个字蹦进我耳朵里时就像冬天房檐上的一串冰凌串子砸进了脖颈里，顿时后背一片冰凉。
我看了看地上斜躺的这位高人前辈，心里不禁是满满的苦涩，怪不得这个一向挑战高难度连骊山祖龙陵寝都来去自如的人最后折在了这里，着实是一点都不冤，因为修造这里的这个人是百年不世出的建筑奇才，别人也许不知道这个人，但是只要家学稍微渊源一点的建筑世家都知道这个彪炳史册的奇人，就算是不知道这个人，也一定听说过他组织编纂的一本书，那本书叫做《营造法式》。
为了对得起家学，我曾经在老钟讲完家族故事之后恶补了建筑机关方面的知识，勉充内行，我记得在一本书上是这样介绍李诫和他的《营造法式》的：他通晓建筑及书画、地理、人物，博学多能。在“将作监”（主管全国建筑工程的政府机构）供职，前后达十三年之久，历任将作监主簿、监丞、少监和将作监，并主持营建了许多规模巨大的宫殿、王邸、太庙等工程，在建筑工程规划、组织、管理等方面，积累了丰富的实践经验。
李诫还奉旨编写《营造法式》一书，历时三十年并经过多次改编，到宋元符三年（公元1100年）定稿，崇宁二年（公元1103年）被批准颁布全国施行，成为当时官方建筑的规范。这是我国历史上第一部关于古代建筑规范的专著。此书的编成，是中国建筑史上一个划时代的创举。它首次统一了两千年来中国建筑的规格，明确了设计施工的制度，制定了估工算料的定额。《营造法式》的出现，标志着我国古代建筑技术已发展到一个新的水平。它不仅是研究我国建筑学发展的最详尽、最全面、最系统的科学宝库，也是当今世界上最重要的建筑学著作之一。
我记得当时在看这段文字的时候老钟刚好从我身后走过，看我认真学习还夸了两句：“好啊，知道补习一下了，这个人应该好好看看，他可是你们机关数术界的祖宗，当时人都叫他赛鲁班！”
“赛鲁班啊！”我有点悲愤地看着四面的砖壁，转头问老头儿：“你可看清楚了，这个干瘪老头儿写的到底是不是真的！”虽然这样问，我心里已经知道，这十有八九是真的，因为自我们一路走来，虽然只是不长的一段路程，但是历经的机关却都是匪夷所思，让人想破脑壳。
老头儿喟然长叹一声：“想来应该不错，可是这人在言语之间也有很多前后不对照，所以不是很准确，但是有一点可以肯定，那就是，此人是被活活饿死在这里的！”
我回头看了一眼站立在身后张牙舞爪的六丁神将之一，心中也是阵阵悲苦，所有怨念都化成一句话：“我还没有娶媳妇啊！”
“娶媳妇？”老头儿似乎灵光一闪，“对啊，你家是一脉单传吧，你爷爷好像就只有你爸爸一个儿子是吧，你爸爸也只有你一个孩子对不？那么说你爷爷只有你一个孙子是吧？”老头儿似乎激动得有点语无伦次。
我吃惊地看着他，怀疑老头儿是不是受打击过度，已经在意识上跟佛祖站在了一起，可是老头儿两眼精光四射，不像是被打击得痴呆了，他激动得有点失态：“快，快把阴阳鱼错拿出来，我们得救了！”
“什么阴阳鱼错啊？”我怀疑他是不是发烧了。
“别昏了，小子，你家的阴阳鱼错可是万术机关的钥匙！”老头儿指手画脚地比画了一通我才明白，原来机关万物万术都离不开金木水火土五行相生相克，而所有的机关数术其实都遵循了五行平衡的原理。也就是无论机关怎么繁复，怎么难以破解，都离不开阴阳平衡。
（第一卷《祝融神杯》完）