The large, dark coffin was placed randomly at an angle, and there were many small tools used for making brackets, hoisting, sliding, shouldering, etc., which seemed to be used to transport the coffin.
"Someone came here a long time ago." Wu Xiaoxie analyzed,
"It should be something left by the archaeological team in the late 1970s." The fat man looked around the coffin and hissed.
"This big coffin seems to have been carried here from somewhere. Are they trying to transport this thing out of the ancient building?" After another look, I found that the coffin was placed upside down, and the lid was buckled underneath. He cursed: "Damn it, why can't I find the seam in the coffin? Damn it, it turned out to be the other way around. These turtles are really disrespectful." Zhang Zhuxun put the little brother aside and let him fall asleep, and left. He went to the coffin, knelt down, looked at it, and then said: "No, they just lifted this coffin from one place to make room for the coffin they got themselves."
"You know?" Wu Xiaoxie was a little surprised,
"Then whose coffin is this?"
"They think this is the coffin of the first generation Zhang Qiling." Zhang Zhuxun said calmly. The coffin placed on the white marble coffin bed in the cave water should be this one. Although the person buried inside is also Zhang Qiling, it will definitely not be the first generation Zhang Qiling. However, his identity must be special, and he is likely to be the person to lead the family. Zhang Qiling, the person who supervised the construction of this place.
As for where the first generation Zhang Qiling went, Zhang Zhuxun felt that it should be related to the thing behind the corpse forest deeper below.
"What do they think? To make room?" Wu Xiaoxie frowned, combined with what he had said before, he thought carefully for a while,
"You mean that the archaeological team came here with the purpose of finding this coffin that is suspected to be the 'first generation Zhang Qiling', or in other words, they wanted to find the place where this coffin was placed."
"They want to move a coffin that does not belong to the Zhang family to this place." Zhang Zhuxun smiled lightly and said.
"Yes, the archaeological team on the surface is actually a funeral procession."
"So... where is the coffin? Have they transported it to that place?" Wu Xiaoxie was a little anxious. He had a hunch that if he could see the coffin, all the most critical clues and secrets would be connected together.
"No." Zhang Zhuxun raised his hand and gently touched the dark coffin.
"The coffin was intercepted by the second archaeological team and the burial failed. Your third uncle knows where the body inside ended up." Wu Xiaoxie was startled.
"My third uncle? Was he also in the archaeological team back then?" Zhang Zhu hummed,
"At first, your third uncle also belonged to the Chen Qing faction, but he escaped early and did not participate in the funeral. And the Zhang family who had been hiding in the mountains to sneak attack on us belonged to the passive faction in the team." Wu Xiaoxie suddenly understood, no wonder The ghostly figure, that is, the one with slumped shoulders, suddenly appeared on his own initiative after seeing his face wearing the third uncle's face. He looked like he was an old acquaintance of the third uncle and asked him which side he was on now.
"But the man with the slumped shoulders said that he was also Zhang Qiling." He still doubted that man's words.
when
Have the three words "Zhang Qiling" become a piece of cabbage that can be bought by a pound? So far, he has met four Zhang Qilings, one live brother, two dead boxers, and one who doesn't know whether it is true or not and may be a big liar.
When the ghost revealed that he was also Zhang Qiling, he was as shocked as if he had jumped off a cliff and done two somersaults, only to find that he had become Sun Wukong standing on a somersault cloud.
At that time, he used his invincible rhetorical questioning method and frightenedly extracted a bunch of messy clues from the ghostly man's mouth, but it seemed that Muyu knew more than this.
After listening to Wu Xiaoxie repeating the tit-for-tat exchange between him and Tushou, Zhang Zhuoxun chuckled.
"He didn't lie to you on this point. He is indeed Zhang Qiling, but just a Zhang Qiling with a false name."
"Because if you want to send the coffin here, you must have Zhang Qiling. No one can change this process. This is the most critical step. They are also afraid that if this step is missing, the subsequent events will become beyond expectation, so they themselves A Zhang Qiling was selected.”
"To put it bluntly, that deformed person is just a fake." Fatty summed it up sharply. Wu Xiaoxie let out a light sigh,
"So that's it." The fat man groped his chin and thought: "What kind of big shot is in that coffin? It's worth their troubles and requires all the people from the nine sects to bury him. Besides, could this place be some special treasure land for cultivating immortals?" , is there any reason why they think they must send the coffin here."
"Do you still remember the photo your second uncle gave you?" Zhang Zhuxun turned to look at Wu Xiaoxie,
"That person is apparently from the organization, but in fact he is from 'it'."
"Chen Wenjin and his Chen Qing faction belonged to the organization at first, but after the death of the leader, the team was secretly taken over by 'it'. What 'it' wanted was never to transport coffins, but in the name of transporting coffins. Get the Zhang family's deepest secret." After realizing this, Chen Wenjin and the others began to resist, and cooperated with Jiuye to rescue the little brother from the nursing home. The first step was to take over the past and find the solution.
The reason and truth behind "it" doing all this. But obviously, Chen Wenjin and the others failed, and they also became
"It's" guinea pig.
"Is that 'it' the people who were placed in the Huo family?" Wu Xiaoxie asked. Zhang Zhuoxun's tone was still calm,
"That's just a part of 'it', very little." Wu Xiaoxie became more and more confused. Judging from what Chen Wenjin said at the beginning, that
"It" seemed to be able to hide in the crowd when it was chasing them, but Muyu seemed to mean,
"It" doesn't just include those people, there are other things too
Within the implication of “it”. Zhang Zhuxun patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Okay, don't worry about these things. These are still too far away from us now. Now we only need to successfully take the little brother away from here, and it will be considered complete. "Wu Xiaoxie took a deep breath and threw all the messy thoughts behind her.
"You're right, let's go."
"Then just leave the coffin here and ignore it?" The fat man was a little anxious when he saw that Zhang Zhuxun had already walked over and picked up the little brother to leave.
"Don't open it," Zhang Zhuxun said angrily.
"It's not necessary, there will be big trouble inside." Upon hearing that there was big trouble, the fat man stopped thinking, but he was still a little curious.
"What big trouble? Could it be that the one inside has turned into a century-old meat dumpling?" But then I thought about it. The Zhang family was so difficult to deal with when they were alive. Wouldn't it be even harder to deal with them after they died and turned into rice dumplings? Maybe they have evolved. He has a suit of armor that is invulnerable. If he were to let it out, it would be great!
"Bye bye, Mr. Ultraman Zhang." The fat man said something funny and put on his backpack. The four of them found the stone door hidden behind the randomly placed wooden boxes. This stone door was hung from above. An animal head was carved on the door. The stone door was half open, and was supported by a jack underneath. It was very rusty and shaky, making it feel like it might break if touched.
The three of them took the little brother and went in. Behind them was a small stone hall, and on the stone platform in front of them was a very large sarcophagus for burial.
What is special is that this coffin is boxy, with basically the same length and width. The patterns carved on the side of the coffin are very simple. On the lid directly above is a pair of phoenix and phoenix touching each other.
There are no records such as epitaphs, only four large seal characters engraved on the head of the coffin,
"Blue sea and blue sky". The fat man said: "This is a couple's coffin. It can be seen that the Zhang family couple are very affectionate and they will be buried together." Zhang Chuxun suddenly thought of the coffin they saw on the flap door when they came in. The genealogy of the family tree was carved, and the two people at the top were named Zhang Bihai and Zhang Biqing. Unexpectedly, they were buried here.
He doesn't know
Which branch of the Zhang family does "Bi" belong to? The younger brother looked thoughtful at that time. However, they didn't dwell too much on it and walked around the coffin to the back without disturbing the senior who was sleeping inside.
After opening the third stone door, there was an upward corridor staircase behind them. They walked up quickly and found that in front of them was a three-story stone tower carved directly into the mountain wall.
On the left and right sides of the entrance of the stone tower, there is a stone beast as tall as a person, with a deer head and a red forehead, and two pairs of goat horns, one long and one short, standing there majesticly.
The fat man screamed at the sight of it,
"Damn, this bitch, looks weird, what is it? Is it a sika deer?" Then I thought about it, this is not right, where did the sika deer get such big wings, and this walking beast also has four claws, look. It looks weird, this thing is totally different.
"This is Bai Ze. He has the head of a deer, the body of a horse, the body of an animal, the feet of a fox, and has wings and horns. It must be Bai Ze." Wu Xiaoxie turned to Zhang Zhu and said,
"Hey Muyu, apart from Qilin and Qiongqi, do any of the Zhang family have Baize tattoos on their bodies?" Zhang Zhuxun shook his head.
"I don't know, I haven't seen it before. This is most likely the tattoo symbol of Zhang Bihai and his branch." After that, he told Wu Xiaoxie and the others about the genealogy they had seen in the auxiliary building.
"Bai Ze is an auspicious beast. There shouldn't be any danger behind here. Shall we walk?" The fat man raised his chin towards the open tower door.
Zhang Zhuxun's expression was a little surprised. He carefully recalled the model of the ancient building in his mind, making sure that he was not taking the wrong path, and then nodded,
"Let's go in and take a look." The three-story stone pagoda seems to be just a shell on the outside, but on the inside it looks like an ancestral hall where incense is offered in an ancient temple.
Facing them was a bronze round tripod with three animal legs as thick as an oil drum. There was no gap between the belly of the tripod and the ground. There was a thick layer of cinnabar-like powder accumulated inside. They didn't know what it was, and they didn't dare to touch it. .
Small wooden boxes are hung on the criss-crossing large and small stone beams all around. Under each wooden box, there is a wooden sign hung with red silk thread, like a wind chime, extending to a high place above.
Wu Xiaoxie turned on the lamp and looked up.
"It seems that this is a place for hanging hand mounds." Zhang Zhu didn't comment and walked straight to the back of the bronze tripod. There was a mural extending from top to bottom. The pattern on the painting was exactly that of a tomb. The whole body is snow-white, and the white tops and feet of beasts are white.
In fact, Bai Ze's appearance is somewhere between a unicorn and a unicorn. He is covered with unicorn-like scales, which are diagonal, but under his four legs are claws similar to those of a unicorn, which are completely different from the unicorn's horse hooves.
When I got closer and shined a light on it, I discovered that the huge white scales on the mural were all inlaid with half-white pearls with round pearls. They were arranged very finely and glowed with a light yellow warmth like dragon scales. The light, even the center of the flame on its forehead, is inlaid with a red drop-shaped agate, beautiful and sacred.
The whole beast is moving upward along the top of Cangshan Mountain, leaving only a lonely and desolate back for the spectators below, which is trekking towards the black sea of fire in the upper left corner of the mural.
"Where is it going?" At some point, Wu Xiaoxie also stood beside him, looking up at the mural together and saying to himself,
"Could this black fire be the hell karma fire that Wang Zanghai mentioned in Snake Eyebrow Bronze Fish?"
"It's going deep into the snow-capped mountains." Zhang Zhuxun said softly,
"It's not Changbai Mountain, but another snow mountain." Wu Xiaoxie turned to look at him. For a moment, he felt that the sense of distance like the distant mountains and deep fog in Muyu appeared again.
Zhang Zhuoxun didn't say anything more. He turned around and put his brother down, then walked back to the mural, stared at the beads, and then reached up and touched them.
The moment he stretched out his hand and came closer, Wu Xiaoxie clearly saw something very small like white dust spontaneously spreading around the mural.
He still wanted to take a closer look, but Zhang Zhuxun frowned, stepped sideways to block the direction where the white dust spread, and pushed him back with his other hand.
"Stand away, there are bugs up here." Wu Xiaoxie said oh, and quickly walked to the back row to stand with the fat man.
Zhang Zhuxun turned around and took out an empty can from the fat man's backpack. He used the iron box to dig out a handful of red powder from the bronze tripod. Then he walked to the mural with half the box of powder and placed the can in the middle against the wall. I asked for another cigarette from Fatty, lit the end of the cotton filter, and stood it directly in the powder.
The fat man shook the cigarette box. There were two cigarettes left in it, so he asked if he wanted to light the remaining two cigarettes too.
"If you want to offer incense, you have to put three sticks together." Zhang Zhuxun raised his eyebrows and said confidently: "It's not about offering incense. Just wait and see." Then he walked to Wu Xiaoxie and the others and reminded them to hold their breath. Waited for a few seconds.
A series of clicking sounds sounded on the mountain wall, like the sound of a metal spoon hitting a glass. The sound spread from the bottom of the mural to the top.
Immediately, I saw that the white mural in front of me suddenly changed color as if it had passed through fog. Bai Ze, who originally had his head facing to the left, suddenly turned into a crimson fire-walking unicorn with his head facing to the right.
Thanks to [Dessert Shop Manager] [Hua Hua Guo Lai] and other big guys for the reward, and good night~ [Look at the series of pictures about the Zhangjia Ancient Building that the writer said were pinned to the top of the post]
