"This is Mr. Qu. He is the tombkeeper of the tomb in the back mountain."
"Oh?" I looked at the old man Qu in surprise. He had a haggard face, no trace of blood on his face, and his hair was sparse and he was half a man. "So it was you who knocked us out? You were also the one who got that flying corpse out. of?"
"That's right." Old Uncle Qu nodded. There was no smile on his face. When he spoke, he felt as if he was about to fall down. He was completely sick. "The Qu family has guarded Fu Jianzheng's mausoleum for generations."
"So you also live in this village?" I asked.
"The old man is a scavenger."
Lin Xiaoyu added: "Uncle Qu has lived in this village for generations. If you want to tell the whole story, I think he has to tell you."
I looked at Old Man Qu suspiciously. Although my body had recovered a little at this moment, I was still in a daze. What was happening in front of me made me even more confused.
"I believe you must already know who is lying inside this real dragon, right?"
"Fu Ping, an imperial eunuch in the Qing Dynasty."
"Yes, this matter will start after Fuping resigned and returned to his hometown." Old man Qu coughed, found a stool to sit down, and said: "Shortly after Fuping resigned and settled in Shaoxing, he started to build something for himself. The mausoleum, because he is from Qin Tianjian, he is familiar with the Five Elements and Yili, and he is obsessed with things after death, so he took great pains to his tomb."
I nodded and said, "We have seen all this before. Not only is the tomb built magnificently and uniquely, but the mechanisms inside are even more dangerous."
"Yes, in order to prevent anyone from disturbing him after his death, he hired countless skilled craftsmen to arrange traps and messages. He even hired a mysterious figure to keep blood corpses and evil spirits in his tomb to keep vigil for him."
"Are you talking about a mysterious man? Did that mysterious man help him raise these things in the tomb?" I became excited after hearing this.
"That's right, this person didn't know his name. He claimed to be a Taoist priest from Linqiong. He came from a wandering place. One day, he passed by Fu's house. He saw auspicious clouds hanging over Fu's house, so he came in to visit. He said some mysterious and witty words, and he was favored by Fu. Ping Yin was a guest and asked him to be responsible for building his own mausoleum."
"But when we entered, we found that the mausoleum was not actually completed. It was done hastily outside. Did something happen to it later?"
"What the young man said is absolutely right." Old Man Qu sighed, "Fuping trusted this Linqiong Taoist priest very much and gave him full authority to build his tomb, but he himself also knew that raising blood corpses was a risky business. It was so big that it was very secretive and almost no one knew about it. But after all, the fire could not be covered by paper, and the incident still came to light."
Uncle Qu confessed that one day he went to the mausoleum to check the construction schedule, but saw no one in the tomb, but there was still no movement in the construction work. He was very puzzled and went inside to find the Linqiong Taoist priest. But when he entered, the sight before him completely frightened him.
I saw a large pool dug in one of the tombs. The pool was filled with red blood, and a dozen naked pregnant women were soaked in it. Those pregnant women all looked ferocious, with green faces and fangs, and they were baring their teeth and claws in the blood pool. Fuping was so frightened that he ran out quickly. But he never expected that when he turned around and ran into another tomb, the situation inside was still shocking.
Dozens of bloody people were tied to pillars and allowed to be crawled around by snakes, insects, rats and ants. Each of them had red eyes open, which made people shudder.
"Corpse Gu?" I blurted out.
"That's right, it's the same group of things you met just now."
"After Fuping saw this, he felt uneasy, so he secretly conveyed news to our ancestor Qu Jingde and told him what was done in the tomb of Linqiong Taoist priest." As he spoke, Mr. Qu took out a Inside the cloth bag was a sword hilt made of white jade, "Look what this is?"
"This is the sword hilt?" I took it and looked at it carefully. The hilt was made of white jade and was divided into five sections. Each section was made of silver tapestry. There was a long and thin hole at one end of the hilt. , should be embedded into the sword body. I looked at the hilt and seemed to remember something, so I wondered: "Could this hilt belong to that ancient bronze sword?"
Lin Xiaoyu immediately laughed, "That's right, isn't this the hilt of that ancient bronze sword?"
"Ancestor Qu Jingde was in Qintian Prison with Fuping, and he and Fuping were close friends. After learning about the incident, he immediately rushed from the capital to Shaoxing. But he had just arrived at Fuping's house, and Fuping had already passed away."
"Dead?" I said in surprise, "This is too unbelievable."
"That night, my ancestor received the news from Fu Ping a few days ago. He said that he might be about to be killed. He knew that he had made a big mistake and angered the sky. He hoped that the ancestor could save his face for the sake of his best friend. , keep it a secret.”
Qu Jingde immediately thought that the Linqiong Taoist priest might have killed someone because he learned that the conspiracy was exposed, so he rushed to Fuzhai late at night to find out.
The huge Fu Mansion was deserted with its doors and courtyards closed. As soon as Qu Jingde opened the door, a sudden gust of cold wind blew in his face. There was a tense atmosphere in the yard, and fallen leaves were flying all over the ground. There were many pieces of yellow and white paper scattered on the ground, mixed among the fallen leaves, and blowing in the wind. Looking into the main hall, I saw a big word "Dian", which looked like I was entering a haunted house.
Qu Jingde's father was the former supervisor of the Qintian Prison. He had grown up in the Qintian Prison. He was used to seeing monsters and monsters in this world. The sight before him immediately made him alert. He pulled the lace around his waist with his left hand, and the backpack on his back immediately slid off, revealing a white jade sword hilt.
With a "crack" sound, the ancient sword was unsheathed. The ancient bronze sword had a cold light. The blade was decorated with black rhombus geometric dark patterns. The front and back sides of the sword were inlaid with blue colored glaze and turquoise respectively. The sword's head was rolled up to form a hoop, with an extremely inlaid inlay. Fifteen fine concentric circles.
Qu Jingde's sword has quite a lot of background. When Qu's father was young, he traveled around northern Shaanxi. To put it nicely, he traveled all over the country, but to put it badly, he just made a living. He accidentally walked into a deserted village, and every house was closed. He was hungry and thirsty, so he broke into a temple and ate the tributes enshrined in the temple.
The offended villagers rushed out and wanted to sacrifice him to the gods. In desperation, he made up a lie about a deity descending to earth and promised to fulfill the villagers' wish. After questioning, he found out that there were ghosts in this village, and they often appeared in the cemetery behind the mountain. There are will-o'-the-wisps. After hearing this, Qu's father went to the cemetery alone and stayed there for three days and three nights. Finally, the sword returned to the village.
"I heard from my ancestors that this sword was originally the host of a evil spirit. Later, the evil spirit was destroyed by my ancestor's father, so he took this sword as a family heirloom." Old Man Qu said, "My ancestor was in Fu Mansion at that time. He searched all the rooms but found no clues. When he saw that Fuping's body was presented in the hall, but no one was taking care of it, he planned to take care of his funeral, but he didn't know that Fuping had already been poisoned by corpse poison and would die soon. It will become a stalemate.”
"Could it be that Linqiong Taoist priests caused Fuping to become a zombie?"
Old Man Qu nodded, "This Linqiong Taoist priest is very scheming and has sinister intentions. When he saw what happened, he came up with such a conspiracy to kill people and frame them up. Only when the ancestors saw the scene in front of them did they understand Fu Pingxin What is going on."
"In order to suppress the poison in the corpse and prevent Fu Ping from becoming stiff, our ancestors put the ancient bronze sword into the sarcophagus and used iron ropes to lift the sarcophagus to prevent moisture from entering."
"I can't believe that this is what happened!" I seemed to have my head straightened out, and I became more energetic. "What happened next?"
"Although our ancestors have temporarily suppressed the corpse poison, no one can predict what will happen a hundred years from now. In addition, if the things in the tomb come out and harm people, it will be unimaginable, so our ancestors moved the tribe here to keep vigil for generations. We also dug a passage in the virtual tomb in the back mountain that leads directly to the main coffin chamber. Only members of the Qu family know this road, in order to prevent such a day from happening."
Lin Xiaoyu and I looked at each other and smiled, "I didn't expect that the two of us would get into trouble in the end."
"It's not your fault. I know you came here for that copper box, right?"
"You even know this?"
"A flash flood washed away the empty tomb in the back mountain, and I knew that this matter could no longer be hidden." Old Man Qu sighed, "The old man lives here alone, and he has long been used to seeing things in this world. From now on, more and more people will come to the mountains, and it will be a matter of time before the truth comes out."
Lin Xiaoyu took out the photo of the copper-cast box from her mobile phone, and took out the one bought by Da Bing from her backpack, handed it to Old Man Qu, and asked, "Look, these two boxes are from Fuping and your ancestors at that time." Is it for delivering messages?”
Old Man Qu just glanced at it, put it on the table, sighed and said, "The one that was originally opened must have been picked up by the little soldier boy in the village, right?"
"Exactly."
"As for the girl, the one in your phone must have been opened not long ago, right?"
"Indeed."
"Did you find anything in there?"
Lin Xiaoyu didn't know what was going on and looked at me. I nodded and said, "I heard from my friend that there is a Tianbao chess game record in it, but we don't understand what it means."
"That's right." Old Uncle Qu smiled. His smile could still only be discerned from his voice, and the muscles on his face seemed to be unable to move. "It was the time of the Taiping Rebellion, and Fuping and his ancestors were using it. This kind of code word on the Tianbao chess game is used to convey news. In order to deceive others, some deeds of the Taiping Army were specially written on the back. Even if they were discovered, they would just think that they were conveying the news of treason and could not contact the gods and ghosts. On top of things."
"So that's it." Lin Xiaoyu's doubts were cleared, and she suddenly felt relieved, "It's really unexpected!"
