The grimace Taoist told He Siniang and Luo Laoqi about his doubts. The three of them stood in front of the stone wall and took a moment to think about it. They felt that they should find a way to get behind the stone wall before making a conclusion. However, the hardness of this kind of mountain rock is not low. , it is impossible to cut through with just the tools carried by three people, and the tomb passage is full of sewage, so if you want to go through, you can only make a hole in the brick wall of the tomb passage and go around the stone wall. .
The three of them did as they were told. The grim-faced Taoist priest drew a range against the stone wall on the right side of the tomb wall, and planned to dig a hole from here. He was worried that there were other mechanisms hidden in the tomb wall, so he didn't let Luo Laoqi get started. He picked up the shovel and carefully pried open the tomb bricks. In a short time, he had pried out a hole as wide as one person.
Immediately behind the tomb bricks is a thick layer of plaster. This plaster is made of yellow mud mixed with glutinous rice slurry and rammed. When the entire underground palace was built, the outline was dug and used to shape it, so the hardness of the soil layer can be seen. One spot, but this did not bother Taoist Ghost Face. Although the plaster soil was hard, he was only afraid of acid. When they came, the three of them also prepared rice vinegar. At this time, Taoist Ghost Face asked Luo Laoqi to pass the rice vinegar to him, and then Apply a layer of rice vinegar to the plaster layer and shovel a layer of soil. After about one stick of incense, the three-foot-thick plaster layer was broken through by the grim-faced Taoist priest.
Behind the plaster layer is the ordinary loess layer. For the Taoist priest with a grimace, it takes no effort to dig this kind of soil, and there is no need to worry about traps, so he picks up the shovel and digs it out, but the more he moves, the harder it will be. The grimacing Taoist priest felt more and more strange that he had been digging the hole close to the stone wall, but after digging for almost three feet, he still could not find the end of the stone wall. The only thing that had changed was that the surface of the stone wall was no longer there. Smooth. Compared with the wall in the tomb passage, the surface of the stone wall in front of me can be described as uneven.
When the grim-faced Taoist priest saw this, he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart, and said secretly: The thieves dug the hole so deep and still couldn't see the stone wall, but the traces of artificial carving were gone. How could the poor Taoist feel that what was lying in front of him was not a stone wall? , but a stone mountain?
At this time, Luo Laoqi poked his head at the entrance of the cave and asked, "Hasn't the Taoist dug to the end yet? If you dig a little longer, you will probably reach Tianshui."
The grim-faced Taoist priest said nothing when he heard the words. He leaned against the cave wall and looked at the stone wall and began to think deeply. He quickly outlined the layout of the entire tomb passage and stone wall in his mind, and then discovered several unexplainable doubts. The first was the stone in front of him. Judging from the existing length of the excavation, the stone wall is no less than four feet wide. This is because the edge has not been dug and the left side of the tomb passage has not been taken into account. If such a huge stone wall was installed by manpower, then it is simply impossible. It's a fantasy. The only possibility is that the stone wall was originally here. It's just that the craftsmen who built the mausoleum carved a smooth wall according to local conditions and hid a mechanism on top to serve as a barrier. But this explanation I made another professional mistake, that is, no matter how blocked an underground palace is later, there must be a living door before the tomb owner is buried. Otherwise, how can the coffin of the tomb owner get in? The tomb passage is called the "spirit door" in the burial system, and it must be connected to the entrance of the underground palace. But at the end of this tomb passage is a stone wall, where is the entrance to the underground palace?
There is another doubt that Taoist Ghostface has been thinking about before. If the bones in the tomb passage are really Di people, there is no reason for them to be abandoned here and ignored. In order to avoid disaster, the Di people went into the valley and made the entire tomb area into a palace. The city that defended the enemy might even have rebuilt the golden palace. This shows that there were a lot of Di people who entered the valley at that time. It was impossible to just watch dozens of people die in the tomb passage and ignore it. At least they should have been there. After Shimen is restored, the bones can be taken out and buried properly. The grimace Taoist guessed that the Di people were very afraid of this tomb passage for some reason at that time, so they left the corpses of their own people alone, and the reason was probably the mechanism of the serial crossbow.
The operating principle of the serial crossbow has been explained by He Siniang just now. It can be said that the design is exquisite, mostly by the hands of famous artists. Even the return of the stone gate has been taken into consideration. But since the designer has thought so carefully, he must also have thought of the crossbow. The question is, how can we say that decay means decay? What's more, the triggered concealed crossbow that hit He Siniang is still very sharp. Why is that one not decayed? Could it be that the initial thinking of the three of them was wrong? The crossbow arrows were not destroyed, but were shot. The Di people actually managed to save their own people back then, but they were attacked by a steady stream of dark crossbows and were unable to do anything. So They had no choice but to give up, but coincidentally, when Di Ren gave up, the arrows in the crossbow had been exhausted, which was why the three of them encountered such a scene today.
Thinking of this grim-faced Taoist priest, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind, he slapped his thigh suddenly, and said in a voiceless voice: "I know, I know!"
The two people outside the cave entrance heard the sound and poked their heads up and down. They couldn't understand why the grimacing Taoist priest was digging the hole, and they said in unison: "What does the Taoist priest know?"
The grim-faced Taoist priest hurriedly picked up his tools and crawled back to the entrance of the cave, and then said: "I know where this place is. This is not the underground palace of the royal tomb at all, but a mysterious tomb!"
"Suspicious Tomb?!" He Siniang was a little surprised and asked doubtfully: "Why did the Taoist Master say this?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace waved his hand and motioned for the two of them to get out of the way of the cave. He then jumped back into the tomb passage and pulled the two of them towards the entrance of the tomb passage. When they walked outside the hanging stone door, the Taoist priest with a grimace said, "You can't speak well inside. Come on, this section of the tomb passage is outside the stone gate, just out of the rain, so it’s the right place to talk.”
The grim-faced Taoist priest explained his analysis to the two of them in detail, and then added: "The poor Taoist looked at the stone wall, and found that it was actually a stone mountain, but it was carved into a wall in the middle, and the entire tomb passage was completely blocked. The purpose of his death is to attract people to trigger the mechanism so that Zhao Jiuxiang can be buried with him. If we dig here, I'm afraid there will be no results until dawn."
After Taoist Ghost Face finished speaking, He Siniang couldn't help but think deeply. Although she was smart, she was not very scheming. She was able to adapt to situations. She was a little shorter in thinking about problems than Taoist Ghost Face. At this time, after Taoist Ghost Face analyzed it, she suddenly felt It made perfect sense, so he said: "According to what the Taoist Master said, there are indeed many doubts here, but according to the layout of the mausoleum area, it is very reasonable for the underground palace to be built here."
"Since it is a suspicious tomb to lure enemies, it must be built in a reasonable place, otherwise the fish will take the bait?"
"Then where will the real underground palace be? There are traps buried all over the tomb of King Hui, and there is something weird everywhere. Could it be that the underground palace is also located in a place that ordinary people would never think of?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded and replied: "It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to think of it, but what kind of person is a poor Taoist? Looking at the entire Southern Dynasty, taking out his brains and comparing them on the scale, the poor Taoist must be at least in the top three, just sticking his butt out in the robbery cave While climbing, Pindao accidentally farted, and it was this fart that gave Pindao a sudden enlightenment, and he immediately figured out where the underground palace was."
"Sajia thought Beng's feces and urine were flowing everywhere." Luo Laoqi seized the opportunity and quickly interjected. He Siniang glared at the two of them sideways and said angrily: "How long have you been in this poverty?" ? Please tell me where the underground palace is, Taoist priest."
The grim-faced Taoist priest grinned, and then replied: "We were actually misled by the scale of the mausoleum area this time. We always thought that the underground palace was in the valley, but we ignored an important clue, that is, Qingyao The high cliff ferry that my brother saw when he entered the mountain for the second time, and combined with the legend from Linnan in Qiuchi Mountain, we can see that there is indeed a 'fairy cave' on the back of the chair where the king is leaning. Mr. Zhao Buxiang must also know about this. , do you think he used the dove to occupy the magpie's nest and turned the fairy cave into his own royal mausoleum and underground palace?"
Before the grimace Taoist priest finished speaking, He Siniang had already covered her mouth in surprise. She indeed ignored this important information. When Meng Qingyao entered the mountain for the second time, he saw the Huangquan Ferry behind the valley. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, "burials on cliffs" were popular. Because of constant wars, people were accustomed to building mausoleums on high cliffs that were difficult for ordinary people to reach. This is the origin of the saying "burying on the top of the mountain during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods." Zhao Buxiang most likely put the tombs on the cliffs. The Immortal Cave was transformed into an underground palace, which not only kept the secret, but also did not break away from the great Feng Shui that the king relied on. It was really a good idea and a good idea.
