Chapter 36 Sign

I remember that the oldest wine in China was unearthed in the late Shang Dynasty of Henan Province in 1980. It is currently in the Palace Museum and has a history of about 3,000 years. I heard that the fragrance of the wine immediately poured down several people after it was opened. I don’t know if these people had drunk it at that time. Otherwise, there would be a reference.

The fat man dipped a little with a knife and wanted to taste it, but I grabbed him: "You're deadly, expired food, be careful of food poisoning."

The fat man said, "You don't understand. The wine stored in the cellar will not break even after being stored for thousands of years. I heard that the wine can be immortal after eating it. Our ancestors fought over and some even went for the wine. It would be fine to taste the taste, and at most they would have a stomachache."

Before he finished speaking, Pan Zi came over and kicked the wine pool over with one kick. The black wine and the wine cup under the jar were all spread all over the floor. A strong fragrance suddenly came to his nose. The fat man was about to be furious, but Pan Zi said to him: "Don't get angry, look at what's inside the wine cup?"

The fat man and I turned to see that there were many dark red flocs in the black wine tank, like fragments of inferior quilts. We often see this kind of thing in the water-soaked coffin.

The fat man fiddled with a dagger and his face changed. When I leaned over and took a look, my scalp suddenly became numb, and I felt a violent disgust, and I almost vomited.

The red flocs are the corpse of a baby that has not yet been completely soaked. The flesh has completely melted into the wine, but the skin and bones are all there, so it forms a broken cotton floe ball.

Pan Zi looked at us stunned and squatted down and said, "This kind of wine is called 'monkey head roast'. This is not a human, this is a monkey under term, it is a wine from Guangxi. It may be the cellar wine paid by the Southern Song Dynasty when the Jurchens were still in its prime." As he said that, he patted the fat man, picked up the ball of "cotton wool" with a dagger, and made a gesture to use: "I don't know whether it can live forever, but I heard that the aphrodisiac is good, so don't be polite."

The fat man slapped it off with a knife disgustingly, cursed her mother, and asked Pan Zi: "How can you know clearly, how can you know? Have you drunk this wine?"

"I have seen this kind of clay pot in Nangong, Shanxi. At that time, Dakui and another of our friends took out a can. I always thought it was inappropriate and didn't touch it, but they didn't care. As a result, they found the things below when they saw it. Later, Dakui was lying in the hospital for two months because of this. " Speaking of Dakui, Pan Zi sighed again: "I'm really good to you. If you are willing to harm you, I'll wait for you to lick it and kick it over the jar, which is good to you."

The fat man's face was twitching, and he wanted to have an attack but had no excuses. He looked very funny.

At this time, the cold fireworks were all gone one after another, and darkness came. We turned on the flashlight again, and the atmosphere around us suddenly became depressed.

After resting for a while, the fat man wanted to return his baby rifle and then pulled the gun on the bolt. This was actually a habit of encouraging the courage of a person with a gun. He looked at the two tomb passages on both sides and asked in a low voice: "Walk there?"

We all settled down, and at this time Shunzi pointed to the left, "This is more stable."

Usually, Pan Zi and I answer this situation. Now Shunzi suddenly said, "Why?"

Shunzi shone the ground of the corridor on the left with a flashlight. We saw that in a very secret place on one side of the corridor, there was another symbol in foreign language engraved. "I saw it by chance just now. I think someone is leading you." He said to us.

I squatted down and tried to identify these strange foreign symbols again, but they were also fruitless. The lines were too messy. Although we could see the same word as what we saw at the entrance of the square cave just now, which letters were composed of and could not be disassembled. I even doubted whether this was in English.

The fat man was also very curious: "Are you sure this was not left by your third master?"

Pan Zi nodded and expressed his absolute certainty, "The Third Master is not so fancy. He wants to keep a mark, usually just knock out a hole. This is definitely not left by the Third Master. I think it's better to be careful, and the marks are not necessarily used to guide the way."

I understand what he means, if this mark is not a guide, it may be a dangerous warning.

However, after I saw the symbol in the underwater tomb, there were no dangerous things happening, and there were only two corridors, either one or the other. I was not sure about both, and it was the same to choose any one. It seemed meaningless to hesitate at this time.

It was the fat man who took the lead in front, and I followed the fat man and walked into the corridor.

The inside is very wide, enough to drive two Jiefang trucks side by side. As soon as the fat man entered, he said that this was a mule path inside, which was the path to the mule cart during construction. This is indeed possible, because I have never seen such a wide tomb passage, and the traces of the ruts from that year can be vaguely seen on the ground, but strangely, the corridor was actually very cold inside, and the temperature dropped by unknown degrees, and there was also a cold wind blowing from the inside, as if it was connected to the outside. We all know that no matter what ancient tomb is, sealing, where did the wind blow?

"This is a wind." Pan Zi infected the atmosphere and lowered his voice and said to me: "Our ancestors said this is called ghost breathing. There are often such things in large tombs, but there is no danger."

"Is there an explanation? How did it come about?" I asked.

Pan Zi shook his head, "Most of them have only one statement. No one has studied it, and it is best not to study this matter."

I thought to myself that in that era, tomb robbery was for food and clothing, and as long as we knew that danger was not dangerous, we really had no time to care about how all kinds of strange phenomena occurred.

The first section of the corridor was quite flat, but later it began to be discovered that the ground was broken. Many black stone slabs were pried up from the ground, causing the ground to rise and fall. This is a natural damage caused by the movement of the earth's crust. There are reinforced arch beams on both sides of the corridor at any distance, with single dragon columns carved on them, and many of them were cracked. I think if there were no reinforcement measures, the corridor would have collapsed long ago.

There was nothing to say along the way. Several people walked quietly for seventy or eighty meters. The fat man suddenly stopped and said in front: "Door?"

We all stopped, and the flashlight shone in front, and saw the end of the corridor. A black stone tomb door appeared. The eaves and tiles on the door were carved with cloud dragons, grass dragons and double lions playing balls. The door roll seemed to be metal, and a sheep was carved on the left door. Another unknown thing was carved on the right door. When we approached, we saw that the stone door was closed tightly, and the cracks and the door bolt were sealed with copper paste, but on the door on the left, a hole in the ground of the sheep's belly exploded, and the cold wind blew out from here.

"This is not a door." I pushed: "If you can't open it, it's not a door. This is a sealing stone. It is built with large pieces of black stone, and then sealed and frozen with copper water to form a whole to make the door. The fat man said right, this corridor is a mule path, and it is built so wide to facilitate the mule to drag these stones."

The fat man squatted down and looked at the hole in the tomb door: "There is a sealing stone in the tomb passage. It seems that this tomb passage should be very important. It can lead to the center of the underground palace. The road is ok, and the mark seems to be a guide for us. And the holes are opened. They have already entered." As he said that, he reached into half of his head, and put the flashlight in to see the situation inside.

We asked him how it was, what was inside?

He said: "It's still the tomb passage, there is a sealed stone inside. It seems that Emperor Wannu has lacked a sense of security since he was a child."

I said, "Bad, your door is still three insurances. There are at least three sealed stones, three thousand worlds, do you understand?"

The fat man didn't hear what I said, so he put the flashlight inside, shrank and rushed into the hole in the door, and went to the opposite side of the sealing stone. I heard him stuttering and said to himself: "Fuck it, it's so cold."

Pan Zi handed him the gun in and followed him into the cave. I followed behind the palace and the back of Shunzi, and they all climbed into the cave. The fruit was still on the tomb passage, and the temperature was lower than the other side. The people immediately felt tightened. There was still a sealing stone in front, but this one was relatively simple and there was no flying eaves outside. A hole was also blown up on the sealing stone, which was bigger than the one just now.

We didn't stop and continued to climb over. The next one was the same. The tomb passage continued, and there was a sealed stone in front of us and a hole in it.

"Fuck, it's not over yet." The fat man muttered.

I said, "This is normal. Generally, sealing stones weigh seven or eight tons. A longer tomb passage will have six or seven levels of sealing stones. These are good, and the thickness may be only half. Our ancestors did not have explosives, so there was no way to use this ancient tomb that sealed stones and blocked the road."

While we were talking, we passed through the last stone seal, and an intersection appeared in front of us, and another tomb passage that crossed the corridor where we were, passing through us. This crossing tomb passage was half wider than the corridor where we were, and the height was much higher.

We walked to the middle of the intersection one after another and found that the tomb passage was not the black one just now, but a red red piece. There were a large number of bright long scrolls of murals, almost connected together, covering the area where the flashlight could not be illuminated. Even the top of the tomb passage was full of colorful murals.

I exclaimed, "This must be the main tomb passage, which leads directly to the straight path of the coffin hall and the central axis of the entire underground Xuan Palace, otherwise it would not have been decorated so gorgeously."

"Don't sigh, are we thieves or old questions? Where can we go?" the fat man asked, "Look for it quickly, are there any signs for guiding the way nearby?"

After several times of crossing through the narrow tunnel, we have already lost our sense of direction. We have to distinguish which end leads to the center of the underground palace and which end leads to the main tomb gate. We can only rely on reminders from our predecessors, otherwise we can only guess by throwing coins.

Our flashlight spots were slid around the tomb passage, looking for that kind of symbol. The red murals emitted a light that made people feel very unsafe. The murals here were the styles we saw in the gaps of the hot springs before entering the mountain. They were all in the fairy carriages and ladies in Tengyun. They seemed to have no special meaning. Of course, if archaeologists were asked to say something, they could still tell them some of them, but in our opinion, murals without narrative nature were purely decorative and we could not understand the symbolic meaning.

After searching for a while, Pan Zi on the side suddenly said "um" and called us over.

We leaned over and found another symbol, which was carved on one side of the tomb passage.

"This is a waste of trouble. I have met Comrade Lei Feng from the Fighting World." said the fat man. "Let's just go along the way."
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