The Taoist Priest with a grimace looked angry when he saw this, and said angrily: "Can you stop being so damn irritable? This mausoleum is very weird. If there is a concealed crossbow with a pin in the door, won't your life be lost?"
"Sajia just pushed it casually. Who knew that the bird door lock was not locked..."
The grim-faced Taoist priest was too lazy to pay attention to him, and quickly came to the door. He felt a stale smell coming from the temple. It seemed that the door of the temple had not been opened for many years. He raised the torch and shined a light into the temple, and saw nothing but paint. The red pillars were all empty. The grim-faced Taoist priest let out a curious sound. If this golden palace was a public hall, there would be no reason for it to be empty. It should at least be filled with sacrificial vessels and memorial tablets. He felt that the hall might be too deep and his torch could not shine inside, so he stepped into the hall and began to walk carefully into the depths of the hall.
Sure enough, after walking more than ten steps inside, the torch illuminated something else. There were several steps at the end of the hall. There was a throne alone on the steps. The back of the throne was carved with a five-clawed golden dragon. The firelight immediately revealed golden light everywhere. It seemed that the entire throne was made of gold or covered with gold foil, but the grimace Taoist priest was surprised that the throne actually had four legs, which meant that it was a real dragon chair.
Why was the Taoist priest with a grimace so surprised when he saw the dragon chair? First, it was because this thing was seriously inconsistent with the identity of Hui King Zhao Jiuxiang. Although Zhao Jiuxiang was named king after his death, it was limited to the specifications of the mausoleum and the posthumous title. Qin Mugong did not know it at all. It is possible that a golden palace was built for Zhao Buxiang in the mausoleum area, and a dragon chair was placed in it to look like he was going to court. Everyone knows that the architecture in the mausoleum area was about treating death as life. Doesn't this design mean that Zhao Buxiang Are you on equal footing with Qin Mu when you are alive?
Another thing is that this dragon chair is the same as the plaque on the palace door. It is impossible to appear in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The earliest dragon chair was improved from the Hu bed that was introduced to the Central Plains in the late Han Dynasty. Before that, various The dynasties all paid attention to kneeling and sitting, with a mat underneath as a seat, which is the origin of the term "sitting on the floor". However, the princes and kings of the pre-Qin Dynasty and the emperors of Qin and Han Dynasties would sit on a higher level, which was a shorter and narrower couch than a bed. It is a dragon couch. This kind of dragon couch can have a backrest and armrests, but it will never have legs. Therefore, the dragon chair in front of you should not appear in a pre-Qin tomb area. It has been repaired in later dynasties. , or it has been visited by others, but who would go to the mausoleum area to get a dragon chair?
He Siniang also followed over at this time, pointed to the back wall behind the dragon chair and said, "Taoist Priest, look, there is also an eye pattern on that wall."
The grim-faced Taoist priest came back to his senses. He had been focusing on the dragon chair just now, but he didn't see the pattern on the wall behind him. He saw that the pattern of the eyes was exactly the same as the one on the plaque on the palace door, but it was larger. He asked curiously: "What do these eye patterns mean? Is this really the tomb of King Hui? Why does Pindao look like a golden palace for the emperor?"
"I find it strange, but there are Shinto and stone statues outside, which proves that this place is indeed a mausoleum. Taoist Master, have you ever heard of any customs about eyes in the pre-Qin Dynasty?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace thought for a while and replied: "I have never heard of this poor Taoist, but when it comes to eye worship, I think of a race, Si Niang, the legend of Linnan from Qiu Chi Kingdom that you mentioned before Do you remember?"
He Siniang nodded, and the Taoist priest with a grimace continued: "The Qiuchi country where Lin Nan is located was established by a race called Di people. The ancestors of these Di people worshiped the eye totem."
The Di people can be traced back to the Huangdi period. They are one of the oldest ethnic groups in China. There are also records of the Di people in the "Book of Mountains and Seas". It is said that there is a Di people in Qiuchi Mountain in Longnan. They have three eyes in life. The earth is capable of anything. Let’s not talk about whether the Di people can go to heaven and earth, but the fact that people in the tribe have three eyes is mentioned in many historical materials. Even on the streets of Chengdu in the former Shu Han Dynasty, there were Di people with three eyes who were watched while walking on the street. record.
However, Di Ren’s third eye is not real, but a fake eyeball that was inserted into his forehead through a cut in his forehead since he was a child. This habit stems from Di Ren’s special eye worship. Di Ren has always believed that his own The ancestors were a tribe with three eyes. The famous Erlang Zhenjun was born from the Di tribe. However, because the third eye was not protected by eyelids and was soaked by rain, it was easy to get sick and die, so this tribe slowly degenerated into The appearance of ordinary people, this special eye worship is regarded as truth among the Di people, so most people will put fake eyeballs on their foreheads since childhood to mark their status as orthodox Di people.
These Di people have been living near Qiuchi Mountain since ancient times. It happens to be not far from here. Pindao feels that the appearance of these eye patterns in Zhongping Temple in the mausoleum area is definitely not a coincidence. Do you think it is this Huiwang Mausoleum that was visited by the Di people? Even invaded?
"Occupying?" He Siniang asked doubtfully: "Why did the Taoist Master use this word? Shouldn't it be stealing hair?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace shook his head and replied: "Looking for treasures and collecting money is considered stealing, but if it is to avoid disaster, isn't this place a fortified city?"
Hearing the words of the grim-faced Taoist priest, He Siniang instantly understood his thoughts and said, "What the Taoist priest means is that the Di people changed the mausoleum of King Hui into a city wall to defend against enemies?"
"It is extremely possible. Si Niang, look at the dragon chair in the Golden Palace. It only appeared in the late Han Dynasty. It must have been built or brought in by later generations. Pindao will make an assumption now. From the late Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms During this period, wars continued in Longdi. Could it be that a group of Di clan people accidentally discovered this valley in order to avoid disaster, so they took the tomb of King Hui as their own, and massively stationed troops in the city tower, as if they had made it their home. A fortified city?"
He Siniang thought for a while and said, "Then this golden palace was also built by Di people?"
"Maybe it was built, maybe it was modified on the original Xiangtang."
"Why build this golden palace? How can these people live in the city to avoid disaster? There is a deadly poisonous miasma in the valley, and what do they eat?"
"Just like the hunters in Yangliu Village, we go out hunting, and we don't know when the miasma in the valley appeared. Over the past hundreds of years, many things can only be guessed. Pindao also hopes that this statement is wrong, otherwise The treasures in the underground palace may have been wiped out by these people long ago."
"Taoist Priest heard what you said, and the Sa family was a little panicked." Luo Laoqi heard the baby and immediately came over. Pointing to the dragon chair in front of him, he said: "The material of this bird seat, and the gold leather covering the pillars outside. , isn’t it all the gold that was destroyed by the treasure in the tomb? If this happens, the Sa family will have to be carried away by the dragon chair.”
"I'm not sure whether it will work, so I'd better go find the underground palace as soon as possible. I'm really worried if I haven't seen his mother with my own eyes."
