Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Jade Coffin and Gold Figurines

At the end of the tomb passage, the walls of this large earthen cave are all rammed earth, with a diameter of more than ten meters, neatly vertical, like a shaft. The long steps around the wall have been destroyed, leaving only some outwardly protruding earthen platforms. Dayan Dieer said: "Maybe Qin Shihuang dug through the yin and yang well of the dragon's veins and threw a duck down. It will swim into the Yellow River in a few days." I said: "That is purely baseless folklore. How do we know if it is the same duck? We feel that the cave is deep and large because the place is too dark. Except for a few meters in front of us, there is nothing in the distance. I can't see it either, it's like a blind man touching an elephant, but there are step marks left between the walls of the cave, there must be a place to go below."

Cheeky touched the earthen wall with his hands, and said, "It's so damn hard, I can't dig out even a grain of earth. Is this slate or rammed earth?" I said, "It's like the three-in-one rammed earth in an ancient tomb. This kind of soil gets stronger as it ages. It won't weather at all. You can't scrape a particle of powder with a shovel. It's as solid as a rock, and it's not afraid of water invasion." Big Yandie looked at it for a while, nodded and said, "That's right, it's Sanhe soil, a bowl of meat is exchanged for a bowl of soil!"

Cheeky asked: "Using meat to make soil is better than eating meat directly. How many bowls of meat do you need for such a big hole in the earth?" Big smoke dish said: "Whoever said that a bowl of meat can be made into a bowl of Sanhe soil. Your brother and I said that a bowl of meat can be exchanged for a bowl of Sanhe soil. That is to describe the difficulty of making this soil." Thick-skinned and unconvinced: "Soil is everywhere. How difficult is it to dig as much as you want?" Big Smoke Disc said: "Think about it, if you can just dig a bowl of soil and you can exchange it for meat, how could there be peasant uprisings in ancient times? Let me tell you, it is too difficult to make a three-in-one tomb soil. The fine and clean loess with impurities is mixed with fine river sand, silt from the bottom of the paddy field, and old wall mud according to the secret recipe. It is stirred repeatedly and turned over. It will crack when it is hot and humid, so you must not cut corners. Do you think it is easy to make Sanhe clay? This is not the end, you also need to add beaten egg whites, glutinous rice soup without rice grains, superstitious people even use boy's blood , so the older the Sanhe tomb soil is, the harder it is, and if I say that a bowl of meat is exchanged for a bowl of Sanhe soil, that’s all because it’s cheap.”

Cheeky said: "It's enough to be particular, but don't the ancients feel tired doing it like this?" Da Yandie said: "Of course it is hard work. Otherwise, why do so many people want to be emperors? No matter how tired they are, there are people who work hard to do it. The emperors and generals just die and lie down here." I said: "Who is buried in this ancient tomb, but it's hard to say. I think the underground palace has at least three caves, the upper, the middle, and the lower. The rammed earth caves are connected with each other. Maybe the main hall is from here."

Throwing the torch cheekily, it fell to the bottom of the cave, only a small light spot was faintly visible, at least tens of meters deep, we saw that there was no water below, and there was also a place to stay, so we had to go down to find a way out, so we brought the A long rope was connected, one end was tied to the top door stone, and the other end hung down from the cave. With a gun on my back, I slid down the long rope with a flashlight in my hand. It took me a long time to reach the bottom of the cave. But, it is located directly under the upper two-story hall, if the ground of the upper hall is not blasted, even the tomb passage below will not be found, and the lowermost main hall will not be seen, so I immediately waved the torch to draw a circle, When the three men saw the signal, they also grabbed the long rope and slipped down one after another.

I pointed to the front and said to the big cigarette tray: "This is the coffin chamber of the main hall, maybe the gold figurines and jade coffins are inside!" Just as I was about to go in, I suddenly saw Tian Muqing's shoulders trembling, her expression was terrified, and I asked her what she was afraid of, but she bowed her head and remained silent. Big Cigarette said to me and cheeky: "You must be worried that a dead body will happen here, let alone her, your brother, I think of the situation when the bandits opened the coffin in the front hall, and I still have lingering fears at the moment. Fortunately, I have taken the treasure belt from the female corpse and the deer's first step shaking crown. These two things are not ordinary things. If you take them back and exchange them for money, the three of us will not be able to eat them all in the next life. In my opinion, many One thing is worse than one thing less, who is the owner of the tomb has nothing to do with us? Find a way to leave this ancient tomb as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams, and in the end, the bamboo basket will be empty."

Cheeky said: "The deer took the first step to shake the crown and the gun broke it. In our hands, it is just a few gold leaves. How much is it worth? After passing this village, the shop is gone. Just do what you want." One ticket is big, not to mention that if you want to find a way out, you have to go into the coffin chamber of the main hall, so you can make a fortune easily." While talking, there is another arched doorway at the end of the tomb passage. The extremely thick stone door is tightly closed, and there is a circle of relief patterns on it. We pushed forward for a long time, all of them were in despair. The stone door of the main hall is as big as a hill Even if hundreds of catties of earth-made explosives are used, it will not be able to explode.

A few of us went to push the stone gate of the main hall, but it was like a dragonfly shaking a pillar. We could only look at it and sigh. There are upper, middle and lower caves in the belly of the mountain, and there is no way to go to the bottom floor. Big Cigarette sat down in the tomb passage, and said: "I really can't move my legs, let's rest here for a while." We went from Yukui Cave to the gate of the underground palace, and only rested by Xiandun Lake for a while. We were all exhausted, tired and hungry, but we were too eagerly chased by Huang Foye's gang of robbers, and we were in a dangerous place. Not only was I hungry and exhausted, but when I came here to hear what the big cigarette dish said, I felt unbearable, and I also sat down on the ground.

I took out the dry food I found in the water snake's waist pack and distributed it to the three people. This dry food has enough calories and nutrition, but the taste is really not very good, but I am afraid of comparing everything. The goods have to be thrown away. Compared with the dry noodles and pancakes we ate before, the field rations are much more delicious, not to mention toilet paper and cigarettes. Cheeky and resentful, he said: "It's unreasonable, why does Huang Foye and his group eat so well?" Big Cigarette said: "No matter how good their food is, their heads have moved. We can still eat now, which shows that God can't starve to death."

Cheeky said: "That's nonsense, trapped in the tomb of Xiong'er Mountain and unable to get out, it's useless to eat dragon liver and phoenix gall." Big Yandie said: "Just put your mind to it, the three of us have a lot of lives, and we won't die anyway, so we won't fail this test." I ate some dry food, there was something in my stomach, and I felt that my brain was much better. I heard the big smoke dish and the cheeky talk about the stone gate of the main hall of the underground palace, so I used a flashlight to shine it on it to see if there was any place to dig into the coffin chamber. , the gap between the stone gate has been sealed by molten iron, there is really no gap to take advantage of, as soon as my eyes fell on the ground, thinking of prying up the tomb bricks on the ground, or digging a hole under the stone gate, I immediately picked up the mountain pick and chiseled the tomb bricks. Looking at the broken bricks, it was indeed the soil that filled the cracks at the bottom of the cave. Although it was compacted, it could still be dug. They took turns digging and pounding with picks and shovels, digging out a big hole under the stone gate of the hall.

When it was my turn to stop, I turned to look at Tian Muqing, and found that she was also looking at me. As soon as her eyes met, she lowered her head again, with long eyelashes drooping, as if she had something very serious on her mind. I was stunned Then, Xin said: "Why does she always look at me secretly? Is she interested in me? Or does she have a problem?" I think it's more likely that there is an opinion. Maybe it's because I usually talk nonsensically, so it's okay to let her choose the reasoning. But when I think about Tian Muqing's look at me carefully, there is something weird on my face that makes me laugh. She felt abnormal. When I had this thought, I was startled first, and asked Tian Muqing: "Is my complexion very bad?" Tian Muqing nodded and asked, "How long have you not slept?" I said: "No wonder you always stare at me. No one has cared about me so much since I was a child. I am so moved that I really want to plunge into your arms." Tian Muqing said: "You're already like this, why don't you speak properly?" I used to be cheeky and said that my eye sockets were sunken, and I was almost out of shape. In fact, I was like a mirror in my heart. It was because I saw a big mountain in the murals of the Liao tomb. There are many people around the mountain, and there is Sirius swallowing the moon on it. It is probably a nightmare that the Khitan female corpse had during her lifetime. It is almost the same as the legend of the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain. Ever since I saw the murals, it was like being cursed, and I often dreamed of it. The ghost in the coffin crawled out dragging its intestines, and the nightmare became more and more real every time. In the past few days, I dare not close my eyes, lest the ghost drag me away, but all of this is related to the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain. But if you enter the coffin chamber of the main hall behind the stone gate, you don't know what you will see, but it will definitely surprise you. At this time, Cheeky had already dug through the robber's hole under the stone gate. He lit a torch, took a shotgun and a snakeskin pocket, and went into the robber's hole first. I couldn't find the secret buried in the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain. Sooner or later, I would be haunted by evil spirits, so I had no choice but to ignore life and death and go to the main hall of the underground palace to find out. Big Cigarette said before that he would not dare to open the coffin to get treasure again, but he was a master who forgot to eat but not to fight. When he dug the robbery hole leading to the coffin chamber, he had already left the past behind. So Dayandieer, Tian Muqing and I followed the thick-skinned one by one into the main hall from the robbery hole. Behind the stone gate is a row of wooden doors. There are rotating shafts in the door, which can be opened and closed. The main hall is dark and spacious, with flashlights and torches , can only illuminate about ten steps, and there are copper lamps cast in the image of kneeling maids on the four walls, with fish paste and lamp oil in them, and the thick-skinned lamps are lit with torches, and the underground palace is much brighter. The stone bricks are decorated with patterns such as "clouds, tigers, leopards, and mountains", which are gorgeous and solemn, revealing a bit of immortality. At the end of the hall is a huge painted coffin, which is larger than usual and is locked by three copper chains. On the back of a stone beast, the armored figurines standing all around were illuminated by the torches, their faces glowed with a dim golden light, and their faces were frighteningly angry, like generals in charge of the palace. We looked at the armored figurines in front of us, and saw that these town hall figurines had high crowns on their heads, and their armor pieces were all made of jade pieces, but they were actually wearing jade armor. I know that there are many kinds of tomb figurines, such as the famous terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang, which are clay figurines buried in the burial pit. The human figurines next to the coffins of the underground palace are usually called town hall figurines or standing hall figurines, including warriors and slaves. In the main hall, there are golden figurines wearing jade armor, but this is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes, and I have never even heard of it before. Da Yandie was dumbfounded and marveled: "In ancient times, there was a superstitious belief that people have three souls and seven souls within the nine orifices. After death, the soul would fly from the nine orifices, and the corpse would rot. Eternal existence, this concept began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was passed down to the Han Dynasty. There were golden jade clothes, which were run through with gold threads and engraved with dragon patterns. Jade scorpion, you see the head of the Zhandian figurine is gold, and the body is covered with a jade scorpion, but you don’t know if the body is also gold, if the whole gold figurine is covered with jade clothes, it will be amazing." Cheeky lowered his head to look at the snakeskin bag in his hand, then raised his head to look at the figurine standing in the hall, the golden figurine was more than half a head taller than ordinary people, no matter how big the bag was, it couldn't fit in it, and there was more than one golden figurine, so it couldn't be carried and moved , It's like not being able to smell the fragrance, which is enough to make people worry. I told the thick-skinned not to touch the figurines that guard the palace. I have never heard of the gold figurines guarding the palace. Besides, jade guards were worn by emperors after their death. It was not until Cao Cao in the later Han Dynasty ordered that nothing be used, and the trend of burial of jade guards was completely cut off. Not to mention who the owner of the tomb in the coffin was, how could these things be worn on the body of the burial figurines? Cheeky said: "You haven't seen many, this jade guard is set on the gold figurines, what can you do with it? But then again, if the town hall figurines are all gold, we don't even know what to do with them." I can't move it..." As he spoke, he patted the head of the town hall figurine, but the figurine fell to the ground as soon as it touched the head, and made a "clang" sound, which sounded very heavy. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay: "Why did the head of the town hall figurine fall off? Could it be that the figurine head and the figurine body are not one?" Immediately, he smelled an inconspicuous smell of corpses. He raised the fire and looked closely. It turned out that the head of the terracotta statue in the town hall was a golden head, but the body wrapped in a jade guard was a mummified corpse. They were all cut off, and the body under the severed head had withered into corpse wax, and a golden head was put on the cavity, and the jade guard was to make the corpse immortal. Tian Muqing looked terrified, but I was full of doubts: "In the underground palace, there are clay figurines, stone figurines and jade figurines, but there are no human figurines whose heads are cut off and replaced with gold heads. Heads shouldn’t appear on these headless mummies, who are these headless mummies? For what reason were their heads chopped off?” Cheeky said: "The owner of the tomb probably thinks that the heads of these figurines standing in the hall are not high enough. It is generous enough to cut them off and replace them with gold heads." I can't think of why headless corpses are used as the town hall figurines, but it is definitely not what the cheeky said. There are too many strange things in the Xiong'ershan ancient tomb, and each one is difficult to understand. Cheeky said: "There are so many strange things that people can't figure out. When I was in the Northwest, I heard people say that before liberation, grave robbers dug up an old grave. They didn't dig up gold, silver, pearls and jade, but dug out a few hundred. The woman who was buried alive years ago, the strange thing is that the woman is still alive, and the things that happened back then are very detailed, do you think it makes sense? You can’t think too much after eating our bowl of rice.” Big Yandie also said: "Brother, don't think about it too much. We don't know who is buried in the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain. It is useless to think about anything." I thought to myself that this statement was very true, and I looked up at the huge painted coffin at the end of the hall, the dead man lying in that coffin must have a lot of background. He said cheekily: "You may not know even if you lift the lid of the coffin, do you really expect the dead man in the coffin to speak?" Tian Muqing said: "Don't move the coffin in this hall, I'm worried that something will happen." I understand what she means, but if I don’t open the coffin and take a closer look, the nightmare in the murals of the Liao tomb will definitely haunt me, and I will die sooner or later, but I don’t want to hurt others, the main hall is humid and oppressive, and the terrain should be under the lake , Maybe it can lead to the surrounding mountains, I asked Da Yandie and others to find the way first, and I stayed by myself. Big Yandie said: "Brother, don't mention these words again. Don't look at your brother's usual cowardice. It's because nothing happened. You must not shrink back when something happens." Thick-skinned said to me: "I don't have any extra words, the big deal is that I will die with you." I said: "There are two brothers, I won't say much, we understand it." Cheeky said: "That's right, it's useless to say anything else. Why did you come all the way here? Isn't it just to rob graves? The things in the coffin in the main hall must be more powerful than a deer's first step to shake a crown. Let's just wait." Keep your eyes open." After Tian Muqing listened to these words, he still wanted to dissuade him, but we were unwilling to listen, so we immediately moved to the coffin. Although people are three-thirds afraid of ghosts and seven-tenths of ghosts, but knowing that there are many weird things in the ancient tomb of Xiong'er Mountain, no one dares to act recklessly. Examining the details of the coffin, we can see that the huge coffin is painted with red and black cloud patterns, and several dragon-patterned copper chains are wrapped around the outer coffin. The coffin body is placed on the back of a stone beast with a human head and a tiger body. The ring clasps the Jiao chain. There were coffins a long time ago, but most of them were wooden. Because of the age, the wooden boards have decayed into dust, so no one has seen what the coffins before the Western Zhou Dynasty looked like. The stone coffins can be preserved, but they are rare. It can be said that it has been millennium Once, the ancient tomb robbers dug up the stone coffins before the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to legend, the ancient coffins at that time were also fired with clay, shaped like giant urns, and painted with dark fish patterns. In the Han and Tang Dynasties, the coffins were made of gloomy materials Wood and Kunlun jade, but also rare. The big cigarette dish was startled and said: "It's so dark and so big, is it the coffin of golden nanmu?" I said: "It looks like a gloomy golden silk, and it may not be found in many imperial tombs. This coffin itself is already a priceless treasure!" Cheeky holding a pickaxe, he was about to dig open the coffin cover. Hearing this, he couldn't help asking: "I've seen nanmu too. It's nothing more than a coffin made of wooden boards. It's just surprisingly big. How can it be said that it is a coffin? A priceless treasure, more valuable than a deer's first step shaking a crown?" Big Cigarette said: "You don't know something, gold is ten thousand taels, not as good as ebony, and ebony refers to gloomy golden nanmu, so that's okay? In fact, ebony and nanmu are not rare, but gloomy golden nanmu is not. It's the same, it's also called Yinsha. There is a folk saying that "Yinsha has never been rare in the world, dare to compete with pearls and jade in the capital." It must be an ancient nanmu that grew in remote mountains and valleys hundreds of millions of years ago. I can't hold it together. This kind of ancient nanmu has long been extinct. It was buried under the shade of the mountain by mudslides and shrunk into ebony. Any such gloomy ebony is black and inconspicuous from the outside, but it is golden inside. Jade silk is as hard as iron, impenetrable by water and fire, and never bitten by insects. Someone once put fresh meat in a gloomy golden silk nanmu. The inner and outer coffins are like this kind of gloomy Jinshen, and they are not as big, but it is a pity that they cannot be moved back." Cheeky said: "Since we can't move it, let's not worry about it, just open the coffin lid and see what's inside." Tian Muqing said to me: "It turns out that the gloomy ebony takes millions of years to take shape, and how many years can a person live. Such a priceless treasure should not be damaged." He said cheekily, "Hey, Mr. Oda is so enlightened, I'm so ashamed that I'm too embarrassed to look at you." I said: "It's really not good to cut through the rare golden nanmu coffin. I see that the coffin is not nailed, but is bound with copper chains. The coffin can be opened by prying off the copper rings." Cheeky and eager to see the treasures in the coffin, he turned the pickaxe to pry the copper ring. The copper ring was as thick as an arm, and it was worn on both sides of the treasure bed with a human face and a tiger body. Although he had a strong arm, it took a long time I just pried one open. We only had a mountain pick, and we couldn’t get it in if we wanted to help, so we had to light it up for Cheeky Skin next to the coffin. Dozens of heads have grown, and each head has a mandrill-like mask, and each palm has a eye. Big Yandie stared blankly for a long time, then stretched out his fingers to count those heads with faces like mandrills, and suddenly asked me how many terracotta statues are there in the underground palace? I saw that he seemed to have thought of something, but I didn't pay attention to the number of those statues with golden heads and jade guards. I turned around and counted twice, and there were twenty-four in total, and there were twenty-four gods and monsters in relief on the top of the hall. Four heads, so what? As if afraid that the dead in the coffin would hear, Big Cigarette said in a low voice, "I know who is buried in the underground palace!" Tian Muqing and I looked at the big cigarette tray together, waiting for him to say, who is the dead body lying in the golden nanmu coffin? Dayan Dieer said: "I never thought that the one buried in the Xiong'er Mountain Ancient Tomb Palace is the Nuo King." I said: "The upper, middle and lower caves are used as underground palaces, and the coffins are made of gloomy golden nanmu. There are so many terracotta figurines with golden heads and jade guards. They are also princes who want to come to bury them. Princes? Brother Dier, how did you know that he is the Nuo King?" Da Yandie said: "Brother, I was just as confused as you, until I saw the many-headed monsters on the top of the temple, each with a mandrill-like mask on each head, and the figurines who cut off their heads and replaced them with gold heads. Two years ago, I went to Jiangxi to collect things. I saw some old masks made of tree bark. I asked them what they were used for. They said that they were Nuo faces. They were performed when searching for ghosts and exorcising evil spirits. Nuo faces were used at that time. Masks, I don’t think anyone recognizes them, so they don’t need them, but I’ve heard a lot of legends about the Nuo God Nuo King from the local population. Those mummified corpses wearing jade guards and whose heads were beheaded were Nuo generals during the Western Han Dynasty... ..." I remember spending the night under Caoxie Ridge the day before, and saw three zombies in coffins with bark masks, but they had sunk to the bottom of the lake for too many years, and the color patterns on the bark were gone. Later, I saw a deer head on the front hall. The corpse of the woman who is walking and shaking the crown has a mask shaped like a mandrill on her face. It turns out that this is a Nuo mask. Those figurines who guard the temple are Nuo generals. Da Yandie said: "Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, a big fat man, conquered the Xiongnu to pass through the Western Regions, opened up territories and expanded the land, and spread his prestige to all generations. You don't want to die either, do you?" Cheeky pried the copper ring on the coffin, and interjected, "I can't see it. In fact, no one wants to die if you don't become an emperor. Why don't you want to die? Drink more bastard soup, and you will live forever." Da Yandie said: "Whether Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty drank Wangba Tang, this... I don't know, anyway, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't want to die, so he was very superstitious about witches, ghosts, and monsters. A long time ago, there was a kingdom of Nuo by the Yellow River. It has survived in the form of a sect, such as Taoism or Buddhism, which is also a major sect. The believers still call the leader the Nuo King. In the Han Dynasty, the Nuo religion became very popular. Every year, the palace invites the gods to search for Nuo, also known as jumping mandrill. Nuo will wear a mandrill mask to scare ghosts on his face, hold a candle with a spear, step on the Tiangang Beidou, drive away evil spirits from door to room, and spread fire to Luoshui. In the story, there was a time when Sonuo broke into the Forbidden Palace. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty beheaded twenty-four Nuo generals in a rage. Ming, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty regretted and was afraid, so he had no choice but to build a temple to enshrine the gods, and named the twenty-four wronged souls as golden armored generals, so that they could protect the country and the people, and enjoy incense forever for thousands of years. The heads have been separated since then, and they are enshrined in the shrines of Nuo temples in various places. On the shrines, it is written that "serve the country and the people, praise yourself, wield the sword and kill the ghosts." , and there are places where there is only a body but no head." I said, "It's really appalling. The Nuo God enshrined in the temple is the head of a dead person? Does it still exist today?" Da Yandie said: "It's not a real human head, it's said that it's just a clay statue. According to legend, the place where the head is offered is called Nuo with open mouth. When searching for ghosts and catching demons, you have to recite mantras in your mouth. The place where headless corpses are worshiped is called Nuo with closed mouth. When jumping mandrills, there is no sound in the mouth. Nuo religion once flourished. For unknown reasons, later generations suddenly declined. Now in Guizhou, Jiangxi and other places in the southwest, some ancient customs of searching for ghosts and dancing Nuo are still preserved, but it has been passed down for thousands of years. , has become completely different from the previous Nuo." I asked Da Yandie: "Is it just a legend or is it true that the Nuo Sect's Weiyang Palace beheaded generals and enshrined gods?" Da Yandie said: "It's a folklore that Weiyang Palace beheaded generals and made gods. It's hard to say whether there is such a thing. As for the annual search for Nuo in the Han Dynasty palace to drive away ghosts, it really did. I think that since There are these town hall figurines in the underground palace, so the legend is also believable." I thought to myself: "People who worship the Nuo god live together around this mountain, and in the belly of the mountain is the resting place of the Nuo king. Thousands of years ago, the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed. The mountain sank to the bottom of the lake, and the Nuo religion suddenly declined. The matter cannot be separated, but knowing that the one buried in the ancient tomb is the Nuo king, what we have seen is just the tip of the iceberg. What is the reason for the Nuo king in the golden nanmu coffin? Died so badly? Why did the Nuo King appear in the nightmare in the murals of the Liao tomb? What is the meaning of the black dog swallowing the moon? Who is the corpse of the female buried with the head of a deer in the front hall and the piles of dead bones in the middle hall? ?” Big Smoke Disc said: "Brother, you have asked so many questions. I can't answer your brother, but you mentioned disembowelling. It is said that there is a very ancient Nuo custom called pumping intestines. Nowadays, when you search for Nuo and dance mandrills in the countryside, Someone dressed up as a Nuo general and a yellow ghost respectively, and the Nuo general searched out the yellow ghost, pressed it to the ground and ripped out its intestines." The more I listened, the more curious I became: "General Nuo disemboweled the captured yellow ghost? So the one in the coffin made of golden nanmu is not the Nuo king, but a yellow ghost? The yellow ghost...was a water ghost who drowned in the Yellow River?" Da Yandie said: "The custom of searching for Nuo has lasted for more than 3,000 years. It has been passed down to the present, and it is quite different from the ancient Nuo. Open the mouth to catch the yellow ghost and break the chest. This yellow ghost does not refer specifically to the ghost in the Yellow River. It is also a monster that brings drought and plague in folklore. The grievances of the dead have changed. In the countryside, Gods are invited to search for Nuo, and people are also dressed as Nuo generals, with camphor or bark masks on their heads, black faces, wide mouths, and protruding eyes. Torches are lit in the middle of the night, rattles are struck, and spells are drawn. , read the secret formula handed down by Yimai, from village to village, from house to house, jumping mandrills to fight wild cats, the form is simple and rough, and another person dressed as a yellow ghost, was chased and hid in Tibet, and finally caught by the Nuo general, In front of everyone, tie up the yellow ghost with five flowers, open it on the spot and pull out its intestines. Of course, the intestines are not real, and hemp rope is usually used instead. The people in the mountain village hold this ceremony to pray for good weather and no plague. But as I said before, the custom of searching for Nuo has been passed down for thousands of years, and much of the content has lost its truth, leaving only a form.” I understood the implication of the big smoke dish. In old age, there should be a search for Nuo and guts, but it may not be a person who can catch yellow ghosts. After death, he can lie in a gloomy golden nanmu coffin. Who will it be?The problem is that the Nuo King is the head of the Nuo Sect, how could he be disemboweled? Two years ago, Dayandie went to the countryside to collect things, and he saw the custom and legend of asking gods to search for Nuo with his own eyes. He talked about it logically, but he didn't know much about the ancient Nuo religion thousands of years ago, so he couldn't make any sense. on. We used the flashlight to shine on the top of the hall again, and repeatedly looked at the image of the many-headed Nuo God, only to see that the palm of the Nuo God cast his eyes on the back wall of the main hall. Following his eyes, there was a square hole in the middle of the back wall, which was blocked with a stone. Now, I know that it is the golden well in the underground palace. The golden well in the coffin chamber runs through, and the dead body is wrapped in jade. It is called "golden well and jade burial". The word "death" will not completely seal the main hall. This underground palace of the Nuo King is a three-story Hades hall with upper, middle and lower floors. The golden well is cut horizontally on the wall, which is unique. The reason is, just waiting to check in the past, the brazen rings that hold the coffin have been cut open. Big Yandie and I stepped forward immediately, and we pushed aside the half-meter-thick coffin lid together. The gloomy golden nanmu was surprisingly heavy. Leaning on the side of the treasure bed of stone beasts, the inner coffin is wrapped in the outer coffin of golden nanmu, and in the gap under the coffin cover, mica with a thickness of about a foot has grown, a large piece of it, and it grows to death. It covered the jade coffin below. The ancients believed that mica was the root of clouds, hence the name. The growth of mica in the inner and outer coffins is also a great miracle. I heard that there were people who robbed the tomb and opened the coffin. Mica, there has never been a convincing argument. Some say that lime and jade are placed in the coffin to prevent the corpse from decaying and changing over time. It looks like mica, but it is not real mica. Wooden dragon slough grows very slowly. Anyway, everyone has their own opinions. Before liberation, this thing was also very valuable. At that time, people believed that this thing could be eaten, but now no one recognizes it. We were patient, and dug out the layer of mica with a shovel, and then we saw the jade coffin below. When we looked closely, we felt a chill on our face, knowing that the nature of jade was cold. Ming, the jade coffin in the outer coffin had a strange luster, it was actually flawless white jade like suet. Big Yandie was amazed again: "This kind of white jade is only produced in the far west, and a small piece is usually worth a lot of money. If you didn't see it with your own eyes, how would you expect someone to use such a big piece of white jade to make jade?" coffin, but only such an inner coffin is worthy of the gloomy ebony outer outer one." Cheeky and can't wait to say: "The jade coffin that can't be moved away, what's so interesting, hurry up and see if there is any treasure inside, the double is all dependent on it." Big Cigarette said: "You have a poor temper and can't wait for the dawn. This is not a job in a hurry. You can do it after you understand it." I took a picture with the flashlight, and I could vaguely see the outline of the corpse lying in the translucent jade coffin. It was two heads taller than ordinary people. Seeing something in the jade coffin crawling quickly beside the corpse, I rubbed my eyes and looked again, but there was nothing. I thought it was my eyesight. The lights and candles in the hall were uncertain, and there was another layer of jade coffin, and the beam of the flashlight It is not uncommon to see the shadows inside by accident. I saw that Tian Muqing who was standing next to him looked nervous, as if he was afraid that there might be zombies in the jade coffin, he was trembling with the flashlight, he closed his eyes and dared not look at it, so he said, "Whether we believe it or not, the ebony scented coffin in the front hall The female corpse in the picture really has a ghost upper body, but it’s not impossible to deal with it. It can’t move if its head is knocked off. The ghost is also afraid of the yang energy of the living. Four living people can’t take care of a dead person. It’s not good. worried." Big Cigarette Dish could not stop nodding, there was sealing wax on the edge of the jade coffin, so they could scrape off this layer of wax first, the two of them put on their gloves and pried the coffin lid together. As soon as the coffin lid was lifted, everyone noticed the stagnant corpse smell in the jade coffin, they hurriedly covered their mouths and noses and retreated a few steps, the lamps and candles in the hall suddenly dimmed, and it took a while before they stepped forward to push the coffin open cover. I put the bullets in the chamber, and if there is a zombie in the jade coffin, I will blow its head off with one shot. If it is a ghost, then it must be dark and must be afraid of gunpowder. I believe that there must be something in the palace related to the nightmare of the murals, most of which are in the coffin of the Nuo king, the big cigarette dish and the thick-skinned two people, thinking about the treasures buried in the jade coffin, we all stretched our necks towards the jade coffin. Looking from inside the coffin, his body is like an arrow on a string, tense, ready to close the coffin lid immediately if something happens, suddenly he feels chilly on his body, the cold sweat has soaked his clothes before he knew it. But I saw that the coffin was facing up to the sky, holding an ancient corpse wearing a dragon jade guard. It was tall and different from ordinary people. The jade clothes were all connected with gold thread. Put golden jujubes, bright pearls, corals and other things on the side, and a long sword. The bright pearls and jade discs emit auspicious colors under the light of the flashlight. I stood there and looked straight, and after a while, I came back to my senses, thinking that of course there was more than one Nuo king. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, there should be many Nuo kings buried in the Xiongershan ancient tomb. Are there so many rare treasures buried with him? Cheeky and excited, he took out the snakeskin pocket from his backpack, reached in and took the golden jujube beside Nuo Wang. Big Smoke Disc said: "Don't be short-sighted, there is nothing in the jade coffin that is more valuable than golden dates, remember, pearls come first, then jade..." Before he could finish speaking, a gunshot suddenly broke through the thousand-year-old silence in the underground palace. The big smoke dish swayed and immediately fell forward. Cheeky and I hurriedly dragged Tian Muqing down, but heard two more gunshots behind us. The bullets grazed the top of our heads and hit the gloomy ebony outer coffin. On the other side of the outer outer coffin, hiding behind the figurines of the town hall, someone shouted loudly at the door of the hall: "You idiots, don't you think grandpa is alive?" It was Huang Foye who heard the voice, he let the collapsed rocks block the hall before, but he was killed, and let him and the other four or five bandits dig out the soil and escape, and followed all the way here. We were all focused on the coffin of King Nuo, and we didn't realize that Huang Foye and others had entered the main hall. I saw that the big cigarette dish was shot in the back. Thanks to the earthen shotgun, it is not very powerful if it is far away. , He was not killed on the spot, but he was also seriously injured, leaving a long bloodstain on the ground. I saw that Cheeky took out the lead bullets from the wound of Da Yandie'er, and pressed a torch on him to stop the bleeding. Tian Muqing tore off the cloth strips to help bandage him. I don't know if Da Yandie'er's life can be saved. Anxious and angry, he shouted at Huang Foye: "Yan Wangye must have thought that such a death would be cheap for you, and let you save your life before being shoveled by me. You should really burn incense." Seeing that the jade coffin in the main hall had been opened, Huang Foye's group of bandits surrounded them with a crowd, their eyes were like wolves. Cheeky and I don't have much ammunition, our lives and our lives are at stake, we want to hide behind the figurines and bring them closer before we fight. But I saw a group of robbers going straight to the jade coffin, Huang Foye yelled and cursed and told his men to come down to deal with us, but those robbers were like him, their eyes fell on the treasures in the jade coffin and they couldn't take them away, they all wanted to take advantage of the chaos . Huang Foye shook out a rope, put it around the neck of the ancient corpse wearing a dragon jade guard, pulled the corpse up with all his strength, and reached for the golden staff, suddenly many black spiders came out from the gaps in the dead man's jade guard, with heads Like a shovel, with black hair on its body, shaped like a jujube, with a shell as hard as iron, it climbed onto Huang Foye's arm in a blink of an eye. I was dumbfounded when I saw it: "There are so many living spiders in the jade coffin?" Then I thought: "Fortunately, I am not the one who reached out to grab the treasure..." Huang Foye was taken aback, he shook his left arm and quickly patted it with his right hand. Unexpectedly, he didn't kill the spider, but in an instant, the spider bit a big hole through the back of his hand and climbed up to Huang Foye along his right arm. Huang Foye was opening his mouth and screaming, and several spiders got into his mouth in the blink of an eye. I don't know how these spiders bit him, and instantly bit a few holes in his body, crawling in and out from the inside out. ，黄佛爷整个人血肉模糊，他喉咙被咬穿了，嘴里发不出声，趴在玉棺上，两手在头脸处乱抓。 此时玉棺中爬出的蜘蛛越来越多，黑压压的不下数百，看得人头皮子发麻，其余几个盗匪全吓呆了，一转眼身上都爬满了蜘蛛，有人被啃噬入脑，当即毙命，也有人一时不死，哀嚎声中倒在地上不住翻滚，不到十几秒，包括黄佛爷在内的六名盗墓贼，全部横尸就地，一个个死尸身上满是窟窿。 我们躲在镇殿俑后，看黄佛爷等人转眼间死于非命，又见那些蜘蛛仅有六足，心中骇怖至极，我想起故老相传，六脚虫是土蜘蛛，不会吐丝，却有一肚子浓酸，别说血肉之躯，铜皮铁甲也能啃穿，莫不是那种怪虫？但在棺椁里封了上千年，它们怎么还能活动？ 分神这么一会儿，那些从玉棺古尸中爬出的土蜘蛛，吃过活人血肉，好似发了狂，我和厚脸皮连开几枪，却根本阻拦不住。 三个人脸上变色，慌忙拖着大烟碟儿往后退，可身后已是大殿尽头，只有个被条石堵死的金井，即便没堵死，那狭小的孔洞也钻不进人。 我见无路可退，叫道：“二皮脸，快点火把！” 厚脸皮说：“火把全用完了，火柴还有两包，划火柴行不行？” 我心知大势已去，刚才亲眼看见黄佛爷等人死状之惨，倒不如给自己来个痛快的，可那土制猎枪的枪管很长，无法朝自己开枪。 厚脸皮急道：“没辙了，咱先打死那俩人，然后我一枪打死你，你再一枪打死我。” 我说：“你先告诉告诉我，我怎样才能被你打死之后再打死你？” 此时田慕青想推倒了墙下的铜灯台，以火势阻挡大群土蜘蛛，那宫人形状的铜灯十分沉重，而且边缘锋利，她推了两下推不动，还把自己的手划了一道口子，立时流出血来。 田慕青虽然没有推倒铜灯，却提醒了我和厚脸皮，立即将铜灯推倒，怎知土蜘蛛太多，潮水般从四面八方而来，又哪里抵挡得住。 原以为要死在这了，怎知成群的土蜘蛛到了身前两三步开外，突然间掉头四散，我和厚脸皮正在推动身旁另一盏宫人铜灯阻敌，忽见那些土蜘蛛纷纷逃散，均是暗道一声“侥幸”，心下却不明白发生了什么？此事好没来由，似乎有什么东西吓走了玉棺中的土蜘蛛？ 我心想：“人生在世，好比八仙过海，各有其能，生旦净末丑所扮演的角色不同，一人有一个人的出身，一人有一人的本事，乃至形貌脾气，是善是恶，每个人都不一样，可以说是千差万别，但是血肉之躯，大抵相同，谁不是俩肩膀顶一个脑袋一肚子肝胆肺腑？玉棺中的土蜘蛛为什么咬死了黄佛爷等盗匪，却将我们几个人放过？” 我四下一看，也不见何处有异，只有田慕青的手割破了，鲜血滴落在地，我心头大震：“难道是她的血将土蜘蛛吓跑了？她到底是什么人？” 我心中刚转过这么一个念头，又发觉欲待推倒的铜灯好似生了根一样，顺势一扳，竟原地转了半圈，同时在正殿金井下的浮雕墙壁处，“轰隆”开了一个大洞，原来那里有道隐秘的石门，正是殿顶傩神俯窥之处。 我们三人一时怔住了，耳听阴森的大殿中，忽然传来一阵“叽叽咯咯”的怪响，那身穿玉柙的死人，从棺椁中爬了出来，玉柙已被挣裂，身子仍是朝上，全身滴血，露出白花花的肠子，脑袋和手脚反转过来，昏暗的灯烛下更看不清楚面目，只是方面大耳，脸色极白，随着脖子扭转，垂下披散的长发，脑后竟是另一张脸，但见两目莹绿，巨口过腮，霎时间尸气弥漫。