Chapter 143 Harem

Throne coiled a red jade dragon, with the “wolf eye” a light, the dragon body suddenly flowing colorful, there are rolling red light surging, it is full of mercury, but this “hollow mercury dragon” is not strange, the real attraction to our attention is the dragon’s front! The real attraction is the front half of the dragon.

Coil distance in the throne is only a small part of the dragon body, including the dragon’s tail, a head into the wall, the dragon’s tail and claws on the backrest of the throne above, appear to have a few points of laziness, the dragon’s body in front of the majority of the section, are concave and convex undulating inlaid in the back of the throne on the wall, and the temple wall of the colorful paintings into one, so that the whole set of murals show a strong sense of hierarchy, but there is not any feeling of outbursts of incongruity, and the idea of the strange, craftsmanship, are already to the state of the art! The essence of the conception, craftsmanship, have reached the state of perfection, the world often say: “the dragon see the head and not see the tail”, and the throne and the wall of the dragon, is to see the tail and not see the head, as if the hollow mercury jade dragon, is becoming alive, flying into the mural.

Combined with the body of the dragon in a large mural, is showing the king of the dedication to the immortal ascension to heaven, painting the immortal clouds like the sea, smoke, stretching peaks and palaces in the clouds appear to be hidden, the clouds and mountains light, are full of animation of the gas, the most prominent red jade dragon, the sea of clouds to the head up, the sky cracked open a red slit, half of the dragon’s head has been worn into which the dragon’s body and the “Lingyun Heavenly Palace” of the dragon body. The dragon’s body was connected to the throne in the “Lingyun Heavenly Palace”, and a king was stepping on the dragon’s body and slowly ascending to the sky, surrounded by his ministers.

This king is probably the “King of Consecration”, only to see that he is much taller than the average person, wearing a round neck and wide python robes, the waist tied with a jade belt, the head of the golden crown, the crown embedded with a bead, like a human eye, clearly is the “雮 dust beads” look.

The king kept three wisps of beard, can not see how old there are specific, the face is not very vicious, and we imagine beforehand is not quite the same, I always think that the tyrant should be full of flesh, gnarled beard Zhang look, and this Hian Wang’s portrait of the solemn and serene, I guess it is probably man-made embellishment.

At the top of the picture, there is an old man riding a crane, with white eyebrows and a smile, looking down with his head arched. Behind him there are countless other immortals in different postures, but with very respectful expressions, welcoming the King of Xian, who is stepping on the body of a dragon and stepping up to the heavenly court.

I see at first glance, the original so-called “sky collapse”, is that the immortal king witnessed the scene of immortality, rather than what outsiders can enter the Palace of the Underworld, I think this matter is extremely confidential, not to dedicate the king of the people who are close to, it is difficult to know.

In the center of the corner side of the large mural, there are two small paintings, are dedicated to the king of heaven when the sacrifice of the scene, in the bronze tripod filled with corpses burning, the situation is horrible to see, and did not look at it again.

Fatty said: “according to this mural depicted, that Xian Wang should have been on the sky when the immortal free to go, it seems that we pounced on the empty, the king’s tomb of the palace has long been empty, I think we might as well chiseled the dragon, and then a fire burned the Palace of the sky, go back to find a home before it is too late to find a next will be the jade dragon to sell, to make a fortune, and then the food, the drink. ”

Shirley Yang said, “No, this is just the wishful thinking of King Xian in his lifetime, how can this mortal become immortal in the world.”

I also agreed with Shirley Yang’s words, said to the two of them: “Already arrived at the top of the king’s tomb, there is no reason not to go into the underground palace to fight, not to mention that you have not seen, this painting on the painting of the King of Xian, he wore on his head the golden crown embedded in the, that is precisely to be able to save our lives of the phoenix gall bladder.”

Three people a little discussion, decided to first search this “Lingyun Palace”, and then explore the broken hole in the pool is the tomb of the Palace, and then do it overnight, no matter what, seeing is believing, only to the Palace of the Underworld in the Ming ware turn over all over the intervening time if you can’t find the “dust beads”, is not good luck, and then the “dust beads”, is not good luck, and then the “dust beads”, is not good luck, and then the “dust beads”, is not good luck, and then the “dust beads”, is not good luck. If you can’t find the “Dust Bead”, it is bad luck, and then do not be late, this is called to do everything possible, and heaven’s will.

Before the Qin Dynasty, the palace is a set of large-scale ritual activities and political rule in one of the core facilities, with a variety of functions, until the Qin Dynasty, only as a former dynasty after the bedding of the emperor’s residence, set up separately.

As for the emperor’s tomb on the bright building, its rear hall should be a sacrificial hall, not the bedchamber, which should have many songs of praise of the inscription mural for future generations to worship and admire.

We have not seen what the Qin Palace is like, but the “Lingyun Heavenly Palace”, should be similar to the Qin Dynasty “Afang Palace”, although the scale of the surely not on the March burning “Afang Palace”, but in the situation may be Lingyun Heavenly Palace. But in the situation may override it, think that Qin Shi Huang is also the ancient emperor, the most obsessive about alchemy cultivation of the first person, but I am afraid that the first emperor did not dream, his men will build a heavenly palace to do the tomb, can be much more prominent than his Qin tomb.

Our calculation has been finalized, then moved to turn to the back of the hall, I walked in the last, can not help but look back at the bronze man bronze beast in the middle of the hall, the heart still can not stop wondering uncertainty, always feel that there is where not quite right, there is an indescribable sense of incongruity.

When I turned my head, see Shirley Yang is standing fixed waiting for me, look at her look, actually seems to think of a place with me, just for a moment did not notice exactly where it is not right, I shook my head at Shirley Yang, do not have to think about it for the time being, anyway, the boat to the end of the bridge naturally straight, and then went to the back of the hall side by side.

Through a short corridor, came to a more eerie darkness of the back of the palace hall, look at the corridor in the carving, the second half of this is called “on the true temple”, the temple in the monument, there are eight separate wall murals, the hall is deep, but due to the monument painting wall a lot of people, still seems a little bit short of, but the layout is quite reasonable, eight wall murals arranged into the shape of the nine palace eight trigrams, each wall is a big piece of wood. A wall is a block of large bricks, are white plus three-color painting.

In addition to some of the mural reflecting the war scenes, almost a brick a painting, or one or two characters, or two or three animals, buildings, equipment, covering the dedication of the King of the ancient Dian country’s politics, economy, culture, diplomacy, military, rituals, nationalities and other areas.

These may be for the study of the history of the scholars, is a priceless treasure, but for me this kind of gold inverted bucket, but not useful, only hope to find some information about the king’s graveyard palace situation, but for a moment, see the dazzle, and where to look at this many.

This eight mural wall of murals, no less than thousands of murals, and the temple in the combination of monument inscriptions, the whole is a Dian’s history of the book, I hold up the “wolf eye” flashlight, choose one of the large murals, roughly look at a few eyes, and Shirley Yang explained a few sentences, but also understand a eight or nine points.

The large murals are all war scrolls, recording the two wars commanded by King Xian during his lifetime, the first was with the “Yelang Kingdom”, “Yelang” and “Dian Guo” in the Han Dynasty were regarded as the southwest of the barbarians, the second war was with King Xian. The second war was the massacre of the local barbarians at the foot of the “Chalong Mountain” after King Xian broke away from the ruling system of the “Ancient Dian State”.

These two wars were both victorious, killed a lot of enemies, captured a large number of prisoners of war, seized a lot of goods, the two opponents at that time, the social form is still in the late stage of slave ownership, the means of production is extremely backward and primitive, the smelting of bronze technology is far inferior to the inheritance of the Qin means of Dian, so a touch of collapse, not the Dian’s rivals.

These war prisoners have a large number of slaves, this group of prisoners of war and slaves, became the main force in the construction of the King’s Tomb, mural paintings and inscriptions naturally on these feats greatly exaggerated.

But the murals for the king’s tomb of the underground palace still does not have any description, there is a wall of murals, all are rituals, including the invitation of mediums, divination, witching and other activities, the scene is bizarre and incomparable, Shirley Yang with a camera to these murals all photographed down, maybe later to crack the secret of the “雮 beads”, will be useful.

Fatty see this back temple all these things, suddenly tasteless, carrying a submachine gun with a flashlight, blindly around the inside, suddenly in the mural wall surrounded by the center found something, and hastily greeted me and Shirley Yang over to see.

The original hall in the middle of the ground, stood a six-legged tripod, tripod covered with a copper lid, each side of a huge copper ring, the six feet of the tripod, respectively, six half-kneeling beasts, modeling of the ancient, gnarled flesh and sinews, all over the body is full of scales, to make a hissing appearance, from the stylistic point of view, is very similar to the unicorn class.

This copper tripod is surprisingly large, for some reason, was painted all black color, without any pattern decoration, in the darkness of the palace, we only noticed those inscriptions and murals, until the fat man wandered into the middle, greeted us over to see, walked close to this only to see, otherwise it is not easy to find this and the darkness of the giant tripod mixed into one.

Fatty with M1A1 gun butt knocked the urn body, immediately issued a dull echo, asked me and Shirley Yang said: “is not buried with too many Ming ware, the palace can not put up, so the first temporary existence here? Open to take a look first also makes.”

Shirley Yang said, “This is probably the big tripod ready to cook the corpse in the festival, the tripod mouth is still sealed, which means that King Xian did not disintegrate into immortality, his bones are still in the coffins of the underground palace, otherwise there is no need to seal this huge tripod.”

I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: “ghosts know what this is for, if it is used to cook people cattle and sheep to do sacrifices sacrificial vessels, it should be used kettle rather than tripod, and then I’m afraid that this is not at all urns and tripods and so on, tripods and how there will be six-footed?”

The three people each argued, can not convince each other, they are ready to see the truth, this time we are here for a reason, in order to find the “雮 dust beads”, will not let go of any suspicious place, the black copper tripod within reach, I from the fat man’s backpack, took out the open casket with the probing claws, scrape open the sealing of the tripod mouth of the fire paint, see that the layer of paint on the seal, the pattern is a chained through the tripod, and the tripod, the tripod, the tripod, and the tripod, the tripod, and the tripod. The pattern is a criminal who was chained through the pipa bone, since there is a seal it means that it has never been opened.

After scraping the fire paint, with the inch needle on the top of the tan yin claw try, tripod mouth no longer have any connection to hinder the place, directly remove the tripod cover can be, then greeted the fat man over to help, the two grabbed the copper ring, the two bladders just called the force, will listen to the depths of the deadly palace, came a “cackle cackle, hey hey hey” laughter, listen to the voice is a Woman, but she is also treacherous and cold laughter, absolutely no good intentions, laughter like ice like frost, as if you can freeze the heart.