Chapter 113: Blood
We were like the human figurines in that cave at the moment, suspended upside down from the tree trunk by the safety rope, the morning light from the jungle shone in our eyes, only to see a dark red object revealed in the cracked tree, rectangular in shape, with the top two edges being rounded off.
The sunlight shone through the gap in the tree, emitting a faint purple halo, what the fuck is this thing? I struggled to use a mountaineering pickaxe to hang on to the tree, climbed back to the canopy, and then Shirley Yang also pulled up, the fat man has a fear of heights, hanging in the tree ten meters from the ground, but also do not dare to have a big movement, scared stiff, I want to put him on the ground with a safety rope, but the fat man did not agree to anything: “Old Hu, you’re better off pulling me up to the tree, this thing I have to take a good look, I think 80% can be worth a large sum of silver.”
I had to use all my strength with Shirley Yang, pulling the safety rope, to assist the fat man climbed back to the canopy, at this time the sky has been bright, standing more than twenty meters high in the old banyan tree canopy, look down, really a little like an abyss, such as the feeling of repeated thin ice.
This time we learned a good boy, each scattered, no longer gathered to the same tree branches, around the tree body from the object revealed to watch, fat man asked me: “This is a coffin? Jade or crystal? Why is it such an odd color? I see this is somewhat like us in Panjiayuan, pouring the pieces of chicken blood stone.”
I did not answer the words of the fat man, this matter is unexpected, just staring to see, only to see the old banyan tree in the middle, revealing more than half like jade like crystal transparent coffin, light and moist incomparable, was translucent, the outer thin layer like cicada wings, is milky white, inside began to gradually become red, the more to the inside of the more deep color, as if the internal storage is full of red blood, most of the shell by the tree within the scattered bark, as well as all kinds of Most of the shell is wrapped in the bark scattered inside the tree, as well as the vines of various parasitic plants, making it difficult to get a full view.
We have never seen such a material, and then a closer look, found that this is a piece of translucent jade into, there is a layer of crystal plate stone wrapped, and then there is a large number of red liquid, those liquids are just like blood, from the appearance alone, this is a rare jade coffin.
Shirley Yang saw this strange jade coffin, also can’t help but wonder: “This is clearly the coffins and coffins of the convergence of the dead, look at the material is the Tibetan heavenly jade, rather than Yunnan near the production of Burmese jade, but …… how would the tree have such a large coffin of jade? By the way …… after the Chalong Mountain is already the scope of the dedication of the king’s tomb, this coffin is likely to be the main tomb of the accompanying mausoleum, just why the coffin grew into the tree?”
Fatty said, “You’ll have to ask Old Hu about this, doesn’t he always brag that there’s no graveyard coffin in all of China that he doesn’t know about, let him explain.”
I shook my head and said: “This you can be difficult for me, since ancient times to build tombs, all pay attention to the sealing of the tree, the tree is as a symbol of the grave, built in front of the sealing of the mound, so that the mausoleum pattern of the image of the shade of blessed descendants, but have never seen someone put the coffin into the tree, which is not in good taste ah.”
China since the Shang Zhou era, there is a feng shui theory, burial of the dead, always pay attention to the “negative yang hold yin, according to the mountain with water”, there is no reason to hang in the tree, and this old tree is located in the jungle after the “Chalong Mountain”, that “Chalong Mountain”, although the mountain, the “Chalong Mountain”, the “Chalong Mountain”, the “Chalong Mountain”. Shade Dragon Mountain” although the top of the mountain clouds and fog, can not see the mountain range clearly, but from the mountain can be seen, the mountain only single ridge peaks, is a single dragon, “sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret art” in the search for the dragon know-how to understand: the dragon is afraid of loneliness point afraid of the cold, should not be really Kansan danger, a single mountain dragon can not be safe, and the certainty of the hard and difficult to see.
Although the terrain here is high in the east and low in the west, however, its leaning too isolated, its look peeled off the fall, is a deep basin, so this area is by no means what is suitable for placement of the mausoleum site.
What’s more, the old tree is the first of the five evils of the yin house, the burial room near the old tree, the only mountain, broken flow, bald ridge, rocky, all the potential evil shape bad, never bury people: there is an old tree is robbing the wind to take the gas, there is a single mountain is less wrapped around the protection of the main no integration without a knot, the yin and yang are bound to collide; there is a break in the flow of the main veins of the bitter soil wither, water veins are broken, the life is also cut off; there is a messy stone suddenly angry, rocky, the Lord of the fierce gas, and more than the evil of the earth’s gas scourge; there is the bald ridge is The bald ridge is said to be a lifeless place.
However, these sites are not evil places, perhaps it is more appropriate to establish temples and ancestral halls, which will play a role in harmonizing the situation, but as a netherworld burial of the dead, it is not appropriate.
So not to mention the tree as a grave, which completely violates the theory of feng shui situation, what the gas vein, Mingtang, water mouth, what the dragon, point, sand, water, direction, etc., I have never seen such, but this transparent jade coffin is really rare, inside the liquid is what exactly is it? Is it really blood is not? That will be whose blood?
I went to the near place, with the finger touched the jade coffin, touch the cool lubrication, really is a rare piece of jade, even more rare is the body flawless, and so big, even if it is the palace is not easy to find out so good jade, the jade coffin is placed horizontally in the middle of the old banyan tree in the tree, due to the tree entangled in the growth of the accumulation of pressure, coupled with a part of the tree body to support it fall off, so that originally placed in the tree in the jade coffin slightly tilted. tilted.
The downward sloping lid and the coffin, there are a few small cracks, I do not know was crashed by the wreckage of the C-type transport aircraft, or by the twisted growth of the old tree for a long time extrusion and produced, the coffin that is full of blood like liquid slowly seeped down the cracks to the outside, dripping da-da-da fell on the jade coffin under the jade tomb bed.
Until this moment, we realized, because the fat man for the first time on the tree, the weight is too big, making the tree in the jade coffin slightly tilted, the coffin dark red like blood like liquid from the cracks seeped out, fell on the lower side of the tomb bed, due to the cracks in the jade coffin there are three or four, the location of the near and far, plus the tree was originally closed, so the dripping sound of water has a short and long, and the sound seems dull, but also be listened to as a A string of signaling code.
After the level of the red liquid in the coffin, below the crack, that signaling sound naturally suddenly stopped, the second time the tree trunk broke, the crown of the C-type transporter wreckage fell to the ground, so hard to bring, that the jade coffin tilted a little angle, so the coffin of the dark red liquid, continued to ooze out, we have preconceived notions, has been the sound as a signal, as the so-called is a cup of snakes and snakes, too much skepticism.
However, I then had a feeling of awe in my heart, would it really be that coincidental? If it’s just a coincidence, then it’s not a good sign. I hope that nothing serious will happen to us on this trip.
Just when I was thinking, Shirley Yang with parachute knife peeled off the plant roots on the lid of the jade coffin, put on gloves, swept a few sweeps on the lid of the jade coffin, the top of the jade coffin, immediately revealing a lot of carefully carved patterns, the whole layer, are carved with ducks and geese, foxes, rabbits, deer, deer, elephants and so on to symbolize the auspiciousness and the spirit of the birds and beasts, the four corners of the different forms, to do the symmetrical arrangement of a variety of flowers and grasses The four corners of the jade coffin are also decorated with flowers and plants in various forms and symmetrical arrangements.
The jade coffin is surrounded by carving full of lotus petals, decorated with Ling-shaped Lonicera relief, each side of the center of a realistic small parrot, the parrot mouth holding a Ganoderma lucidum.
Shirley Yang look, raised his head to me and said: “these jade coffins on the relief, modeling peaceful and gentle, although the demeanor is slightly stagnant, but the knife craft is simple and bright, gorgeous and not lose the depth, this has a high degree of artistic coverage of the form of expression, is very close to the Qin-Han period of the ancient and simple style, which should be the dedication of the tomb of the king’s mausoleum, there will be no error. ”
Fatty in the side impatient, rubbing his palms and said: “What he is the king of, this jade coffin since we teach us to run into, is our destiny, the first pour open to see what there is inside the Ming ware did not, now the day is also bright, not afraid of what happens inside the necropolis.”
I stopped the fat man and said: “Do not be anxious, this jade coffin is not looking for, it is not possible to grow into the tree for no reason, and you see here so much red liquid, and blood is no different, who dare to guarantee that open it will not happen.”
Shirley Yang with the tip of the parachute knife, dipped a little from the jade coffin seeped out of the dark red liquid, and then their own nose a sniff, didn’t say to me and the fat man: “There is no bloody flavor, but there is a very thick gas, like traditional Chinese medicine, I look at the jade coffin itself, there is nothing too special, inside the red accumulation of liquid may be antiseptic, the blame is in the coffin born in the tree ……”
The fat man said: “What is worth fussing about, may be the tree seeds grow in the crypt under, the tree grows bigger and bigger, and finally the tomb of the top of the rammed earth broken, the inside of the coffin top out, so this coffin is in the top of the tree, not I say you, what brain ah, a little bit of matter can not understand, but also have the nerve to run all the way to the bucket.”
I shook my head and said: “small fat said this possibility is not big, I suddenly thought, this jade coffin is not like a common product, maybe inside the convergence is a bit in the Taoist door, those outside the art of people, think not in the five elements, do not have to follow the world to choose the path of the Yin House, from the coffin have to welcome and send, if you get heavy locks, then all the gas gathered in the wall, maybe he is intentional, these two husband and wife old Tree, is the coffin of the jade coffin, and inside the loaded is a sorcerer, or cultivation of immortality to seek Taoist people, we previously found in the tree on the tree hole, I think it is very likely that this tree is the coffin of the Mingtang cave eye, is to take the essence of heaven and earth’s golden well. Legend has it that the tomb of King Xian is a unique “water dragon halo”, and the general cave of the immortals, where we have not yet seen with our own eyes, if it is really the same as the legend, the mausoleum should be one of the several stars around the main cave, so you can not be solely on the situation around the old tree.”
Shirley Yang think my words are more reasonable: “dedication to the king advocate the way of witch and evil, only want to cultivate the immortal, so his side of the important ministers, more than one type of magician, according to this seems to accompany the mausoleum is an immortal coffin, but I do not know inside the master has become an immortal proof of the road, if there are really immortals in the world, this jade coffin should now be empty, inside the body of the immortal solution to the right. ”
Fatty said: “old Hu fast down the tree to take up the guy, I block the other side of the trunk cut, we look at what is in the coffin, is a fairy is a demon does not matter, the most important thing is to have a valuable artifacts, let’s first come to it an open door, I have seen Xian Wang that the old dumplings is not a good bird, to take the words of the blind man, this is the ill-gotten gains, there is no reason not to take it. ”
Shirley Yang also nodded and said, “Inside may find some secrets related to King Xian’s tomb, those information and clues, it will be of no small help to us.”
I see them all want to open the coffin, then down the tree to the gold miners open the coffin with the “probing yin claw” and “yin and yang mirror” and some other tools, are taken up, the rules of the game is dark to do it, the rooster stops, at this time the day has dawned, according to the rules of the “bright weapons”. “Ming ware” can not be moved, but the open coffin survey investigation or make, so this time will have to use the “yin and yang mirror”.
“Yin Yang mirror” is an antique handed down in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, that is a piece of copper mirror worn more serious, not round, but cast into a triangle, symbolizing the three talents of heaven, earth and man, positive for the sun, negative for the yin, behind the casting of the four seal characters “ascension (coffin) wealth”, using the When it is used, it is suspended in the air by a red string, with the front facing the sunlight and the seal characters on the back facing the mouth of the coffin.
Legend has it that this “yin and yang mirror” is specially used to open coffins that are exposed outside the sealing soil of the mound. Tomb robbers were most prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, and there is a poem that says: “Skeletons are half out of the ground, and white bones are strewn across the ground.” Described is the Tang Dynasty grave robbers swept through, the remaining miserable scene in the deserted graveyard, in that period, the most professional grave robbers, the means of action is also a method, the most popular way of fighting, not to play a hole to enter the underground palace, but in broad daylight, direct shovels to break the graves, digging open the sealing soil, with the rope to the coffin from the underground palace out of the drag, in the outside of the open casket, as much as possible to take the master of the tomb all the clothing, and then abandon the The “yin and yang mirror” is a necessary tool used by grave robbers in that era, and is not the only traditional tool of the gold-mining schoolmasters.
This “yin and yang mirror” is the relics of Elder Dust, its specific use and role in the hands of the “gold touching lieutenants”, so far has been largely lost, we only know that as a last resort, the need to open the coffin during the day, you can take the yin and yang mirror to shine on the mouth of the coffin, so as to avoid unclean and obscure air, and to avoid the “yin and yang mirror”. Clean yin and obscure qi, rushed the living body of the Samadhi true fire, go back to go back word.
Today we want to do things in the daytime, so use it, whether it works or not let’s give it a try, however, hang the yin and yang mirror, ready to start the coffin nails with the claws of the yin and yang, only to find that this jade coffin does not have coffin nails, but the drawer box type, as a coffin lid of the layer of jade plate, on both sides of the extremely tight slots.
So we find the mouth of the coffin, ready to draw the jade cover from the coffin, I and fat man just want to do it, but found that at this moment from the sky down the sunlight, shining on the crystal jade coffin, which reflects a tall human shadow, this shadow is very heavy and very black, with the head and shoulders, and the coffin of those red liquid in the sunlight to form a dark red, still looks very eye-catching, and the other shoulders of the shadow below looks a bit strange, very Wide, as if there are many other things in the coffin, but from the shape is not good to judge what exactly is what, may be accompanied by the jade coffin artifacts and so on.
I thought that since there are corpses inside, it seems that the dead did not become immortal, anyway, in broad daylight, not afraid of him turning into a zombie, unexpectedly at this time I do not know where suddenly floated a large thick black clouds, covering the daylight, the light around immediately darkened, the sky from time to time there is a strong sound of thunder, we were attracted by the sudden sound of thunder, all looked up to look at the sky, I cursed: “Damn place, dry thunder, not rain.” I secretly thought in my mind can not let the thunder to this old tree to split, then we will follow along with the paste, can not find a place to hide first, wait for the thunder to live and then do something.
Suddenly heard Shirley Yang in the jade coffin opposite said: “you come to see here, this coffin under the pressure of a dead man’s hand, I think that the signal, may be issued from this, rather than the jade coffin in the oozing liquid.”
I just want to turn to watch, but found that at this time has been too dark to see people, we who did not expect, this day said change, and become so fast, instantly, the sky is as dark as the bottom of the pot, the explosive thunder a ringing race a ……