Chapter 65: Human Face

Looking around at the weird tomb chamber he was in, even Fatty, who had always cared about nothing, started to get scared, and Fatty asked me, “Old Hu what kind of place is this?”

I glanced at him and said, “If you ask me, who am I going to ask. I remember clearly, we jumped down from the robber’s hole in the middle of the ancient tomb’s underworld hall, it should be a not too high vertical shaft that connects to the sloping robber’s hole below, how did we get here?”

Dajinya sipped his teeth and said: “That there is a mistake, the floor of the Underground Hall on the ground is such a thief hole, in the center of the virtual position, next to the coffin should be the owner of the tomb, we are in the Underground Hall of the whole circle three times, in addition to the thief hole, where on the ground there are other passages. This can …… really hit a ghost hitting the wall.”

I waved my hand to the two of them, it’s useless to be suspicious now, and this is by no means as simple as a ghost laying a wall, the Tang Dynasty tomb of the Underworld Hall appeared in the Western Zhou’s stone coffins, is it possible that this chamber we are now in, is also the Western Zhou’s? Look at the petroglyphs on the wall of the tomb, all of them are human faces with strange expressions, this narrow chamber, or the tomb passage or something, must have some connection with the human-faced stone coffins in the Underworld Hall.

After we entered the Tang Tomb Underworld Hall, in order to save energy, three flashlights, only one of the big gold teeth on, this time the big gold teeth gave the flashlight to me, I lit a candle in place, playing flashlight to observe the nearby environment.

What we are in should be a tomb passage, both sides painted with red ancient rock paintings, the color of the strokes of those drawings, crimson like blood, bright as new, if this tomb passage is from the Western Zhou period, even if it is well preserved, it is impossible to achieve such an effect, these petroglyphs are only one or two hundred years old at most.

Not only is the petroglyphs, including the rock that is built into the tomb passage, there are no traces of age-old peeling, although it does not look like it was just completed, but it is by no means thousands of years ago when it was built, and in some places there is still gray stubble exposed.

Tomb Road is about a few meters wide, its ends are straight down, look at the end, the tomb brick are huge rock, simple and heavy, not like the luxury of the Tang Tomb exquisite, but there is another heavy and stable king of the air.

Dajinya knew that I was familiar with the configuration and layout of ancient tombs, so he asked me about the details of this tomb passage.

I shook my head and said to Dajinya: “I’m not sure now, if the stone coffin we found in the Underworld Hall is indeed, as you said, a Western Zhou antiquity, then it’s very likely that this tomb passage and the stone coffin is a matching set of Jackie Chan, all Western Zhou things, especially the patterns painted on the tomb wall, more than a few similarities with the stone coffin. ”

Fatty said, “I bet, absolutely a yard, fuck, that big face, look at a glance can remember a lifetime, that seem to smile, cold and weird expression, simply a mold keyed out.”

I said to Fatty, “Fatty you have a point, but you didn’t look carefully, the stone coffin we saw in the Underworld Hall, there were a total of five stone carved faces on it, all with the same expression, if you take a closer look at the petroglyphs in the tomb passage, the expression is not so singular.”

What is shown on the rock paintings on the tomb wall is a slightly distorted human face, not all of them are like the one on the stone coffin in the Underworld Hall, the five human faces on the stone coffin are all expressionless, with a hint of grotesqueness in their indifference, while every human face on the tomb wall is slightly different, with joy, sadness, grief, anger, shock, and hurt, but no matter which expression, it’s all different from a normal person.

Fatty borrowed the light of the candle, looked at a few tomb wall of the human face, said to me and the big gold teeth: “Old Hu, I look carefully, think these faces how so wrong it, no matter what expression, are …… how to say it, I understand in my heart which is not right, but can not describe it, these faces of the expression are permeated with so …… so ……”

I also see the face of those unusual place, see fat man can not hold out, then said out for him: “are so fake, seem insincere, whether it is happy or angry, are fucking look fake, like is pretending, not from the heart and born.”

When I said that, Dajinya and Fatty both agreed, Fatty said, “That’s right, it’s fake, Old Hu or your eyes are poisonous, in fact, I also see it, but there are too many words in my stomach, stuck, and I didn’t think of it for a while.”

Dajinya said: “Indeed it is so, smile through the treacherous evil, anger through the mockery, we do business with the guests usually bargaining, we have to pretend to be sincere, pretending to hollow out the heart, I think that we were that expression on the fake, but compared with the face painted on the wall of the tomb, it is simply a small thing to see a big thing, this expression reveals a false modeling of the demeanor of the fake things …… simply …… heel is not something humans can do.”

Dajinya’s last sentence, make me feel a chill in my heart, looking at those murals on the human face, said to the fat man and Dajinya: “I also have this feeling, I just can’t figure out, what kind of human’s expression will be so weird? The opera singers also don’t have such faces ah, I feel that the situation we are facing now has something to do with these faces, but …… what do these faces symbolize?”

Although I often boast that he is an authentic gold inspector, but only to see the feng shui to find the dragon vein to find the treasure temple in this area of things in the line, followed by from the “sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret art” in the learning, the arrangement of the tombs of the dynasties is very familiar, but involves some cultural factors, historical background, cultural relics appraisal, are half-understanding, even if it is half-knowledge, but also half is based on their own presumption of guessing, not half a bit of the foundation! The

We now encountered these giant face stone coffin, as well as the tomb wall of this many odd expression of the human face petroglyphs, I have some intuitive feeling in addition to nothing, in this regard I am far less than the big gold teeth, although he is not a professional archaeologist, at least there are still immersed in the antique world of many years of experience.

I said to Dajinya and Fatty: “Little fat, Master Jin, I see that this tomb in the unthinkable things are very much, we are so chaotic walking around is not a way, if so chaotic, may also encounter what abnormalities, now we must think of some countermeasures.”

Fatty asked: “Old Hu you are not what way? To have to quickly say, do not sell the official okay, I also do not hide you, I fucking really a little scared now.”

I know that the fat man is not a person who speaks lightly of fear and trepidation, he has to say the word fear, that is because we are now facing the situation, there is no way to start, although the life is not threatened, but the nerves have been tormented by the collapse of the fast. So I said to the fat man: “I have not thought of any way to find out how to cope with the premise, is dependent on us to figure out what is going on, now it is like fighting on the battlefield, we have been ambushed, I am the enemy dark, only the passive part of the fight, there is no room to fight back. Because we don’t know what kind of situation we are facing.”

Fatty helplessly said: “Now we three, like three mice in the hands of others, was manipulated to dizzy, but still can not figure out what is going on, next time without weapons zha medicine, I will never enter the tomb again.”

I laughed bitterly, “If we can still have a next time to say it.” I also asked Dajinya: “Master Jin, I see that although we are in an odd environment, but for the time being there will not be any danger to life, as long as the clues, escape is not a problem. After all, you did not pour so many years in vain Ming ware, can see that the human face of the stone coffin is something of the Western Zhou Dynasty, you can specifically say it, we analyze the analysis, may be able to come up with some ways.”

Dajinya this time instead of like fat man so nervous, he and fat man is different, fat man is not afraid of wolves, tigers and leopards zongzi zombies, afraid of those things that do not focus on the place, to put it simply is afraid of brain, Dajinya is afraid of that kind of direct threat, this Tang Dynasty tomb, although a lot of Western Zhou out of thin air, just weird tight, and not very life-threatening, or can be said to be…. …not immediately fatal, so although Dajinya also felt nervous and fearful, but for the time being, he could still cope with this kind of spiritual pressure.

At this time, Dajinya listened to my question, a little thought, then said to me: “Hu master you know, we in Beijing pouring stuff, ordinary is the majority of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and then before, the value of the high, are privately traded, do not dare to get to the antique market resale, to the Tang and Song dynasty of the Ming dynasty, in our line, that has been a superb, and then before the Tang and Song dynasty, the old ancestral objects, basically the Tang and Song dynasty, the old ancestral objects, the old ancestral objects, the old ancestral objects, the old ancestral objects, and then the Tang and Song dynasty, the old ancestral objects. The old ancestors of the object, basically can be said to be a national treasure, buy and sell are to turn the head, I do this line for so long, the most ancient only handled a few small pieces of the Tang Dynasty.”

I see the big gold teeth net say something with no use, then asked again: “so you can’t eat that human face stone coffin is something of the Western Zhou Dynasty?”

Dajinya said: “Of course I have not handled so ancient medieval artifacts, this kind of Western Zhou stone coffin, to say the value of money, can be said to be worth a lot of money ah, the problem is that no one dares to buy, if we sell to the foreigners, we are the crime of collaboration and treason, so it is actually worthless to us, although I have not dumped the things of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but sometimes in order to long learning, long eyesight, I Often read books in this area, but also always go to visit the museum, improve the ability to improve the business, these antiquities, I am also considered half an expert, the stone coffin is something of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which I will not look away, on this point I can guarantee that the human face to do as a decorative object, in the period of Yin and Shang had prevailed for a while, a lot of important ceremonial objects, will be seen in the human face of the carvings.”

I wondered, “Didn’t you just say that the stone coffin with human face is from the Western Zhou, if I remember correctly, Yin Shang should be before the Western Zhou, is this stone coffin from the Western Zhou or Yin Shang?”

Dajinya said: “my master, you listen to me to finish the sentence ah, this kind of decoration, flourished in the Yin Shang, until the Three Kingdoms period are still in some important occasions on the artifacts to use, but the different times, it is different characteristics, we see that the stone coffins, there is a feature, you know what is the characteristic of it?”