The Taoist priest with a grimace clicked his tongue twice and said: "I didn't expect that Hou Zhao was so deeply influenced by Han culture. Just looking at this tomb door, even a poor Taoist would believe it if it was a Han tomb."
"We Han people are used to putting door gods on the front doors of our houses, and this is also done in the tomb of Shi Zhou and Zhu. Doesn't it mean something?"
"Regarding death as life, it means that only when you enter this door can you truly arrive at Shi Zhou Huozhu's 'home'. The corridor you passed before is at most a trap to ambush thieves." The Taoist priest with a grimace said, be careful. After pushing open the tomb door, there was a strong smell of staleness inside the door. Several people stepped back and waited for a moment. They felt that the air circulation was OK, and then they began to enter the tomb door one after another.
Behind the door is a tomb chamber, which seems to be very large. With the light of the torch, it is impossible to see the ends in front and on both sides. The grim-faced Taoist priest walked a few steps deeper into the tomb chamber, and then a wave of light flashed in front of him, and the ground not far from his feet turned out to be... A pool appeared.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace came to the pool. Judging from the area reflected by the water waves, the pool was about three to four feet wide. He squatted down and found that the pool was dug out of the rock on the ground. It was filled with water, but the water quality had already changed. It was so turbid that it was impossible to see how deep the pool was.
At this time, everyone began to look around along the edge of the pool, and the full picture of the tomb gradually emerged - the entire space was not so much a tomb, but a shorter hall. The height of the hall was only about one foot, but it was horizontal from east to west. The width of the span is almost ten feet, and the depth of the temple is almost the same. There are still several stone pillars standing in the stone hall for support. This is very rare in cliff cave tombs. If the stone hall was not too large, there would be no need for it. So designed.
The pool in the stone hall is horizontally located in the center, forming a "hui" character with the stone hall. On the east and west sides of the pool, there are eight symmetrical dining tables placed close to the edge of the pool. There is a futon in front of each table. You can see many things placed on the dining table, red, white, black, and green under the light, as if the dishes and wine are all there, just waiting for the guests to take their seats.
Xia Houyun looked at the scene in the stone hall and exclaimed: "There is really a cave behind the door. Looking at the layout, it should be an imitation of the 'Guanchi Banquet', right?"
"What is the 'Guanchi Banquet'?" Luo Laoqi asked.
"It's a ridiculous thing from the Han Dynasty. It's okay not to talk about it."
"How come you don't speak half of what you say?" Luo Laoqi is most annoyed when others talk without starting or ending, so he turned around and asked the grim-faced Taoist priest: "Do you know, Taoist Master?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace knew Luo Laoqi's character, and he could ask endless questions without explaining it clearly to him, so he said: "It's an scandal done by Liu Xu, the king of Guangling in the Han Dynasty. He was the fourth son of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He was strong and strong. He was strong and capable of carrying cauldrons and loved to fight wild beasts. In addition, he had a lot of pleasure. Once, he summoned many guests to the house for a banquet. The banquet was set up around the bathing pool, and he was favored during the banquet. Two concubines, Guo Zhaojun and Zhao Zuojun, took more than a dozen beauties to swim naked in the pool. When any guest had a full drink, a beauty would burst out of water in front of him. Liu Xu even placed a bronze tripod in the field. , whoever can carry the bronze cauldron can jump into the pool and play with the beauties at will, even his favorite concubine. Of course, with the weight of the bronze cauldron, Liu Xu is the only one who can jump into the pool in the end. Just one person.”
"His grandma's..." Luo Laoqi said in shock after hearing this: "The Sa family can also afford the bronze tripod, but why don't they get this kind of treatment?!"
"You can jump into the coffin and play around as you like...we won't stop you."
"Go, go, go! Get into the coffin and play with mummies! The Sa family doesn't have that hobby."
The Taoist priest with a grimace smiled, and then changed the subject: "However, Senior Xiahou said that what we imitate here is the 'Guanchi Banquet', but their banquets are a bit too licentious, but they are lively at any rate, but this place is eerie and scary, and Look..." The grim-faced Taoist priest raised his hand and pointed forward. Opposite the bath, there was a vaguely placed food table. There was also a couch behind the table. The most terrifying thing was that there seemed to be a "person" lying on the couch. Leaning his head sideways and looking across the bath at the crowd, the Taoist priest with a grimace continued: "The real master over there is still staring at us. Whether it's a rice dumpling or a ghost, we have to be on guard (be careful)."
Everyone decided to go around to the other end of the bath to see what was on the couch. When passing by the food table on the side, the grimace Taoist priest found that there were indeed cups and saucers on it. Most of the dark things on the plates were rotten. Food, and the futons behind each table are placed two feet away from the table. This is called "listening to the sound" in the banquet rules. It is the step of listening to the speech of the host of the banquet and enjoying the dance music before eating. , guests cannot eat during this step, so the futon should be some distance away from the dining table.
Luo Laoqi looked at the exquisite utensils on the dining table and couldn't help but want to take away a few more. The Taoist priest with a grimace stopped him with a squinting look, indicating that business was more important, so everyone quickly walked to the opposite side of the bathing pool. They were six or seven meters away from the Hu couch. When I was walking a few steps away, I suddenly heard a "splash" in the bathtub behind me, as if something stirred the water.
Everyone hurriedly turned around and saw that a circle of ripples on the water was slowly spreading, but nothing could be seen in the water. At this time, there were two more clicks on the couch on the left front, and the Taoist priest with a grimace quickly turned back. He was so shocked that he couldn't help but take half a step back - the "person" lying on the couch actually sat up.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace instantly put the mechanism on his wrist crossbow and shouted: "Be careful!"
Several other people also quickly showed off their weapons, and Luo Laoqi cursed angrily: "Here he comes again! Today will never end!"
"Wait a minute! Taoist Master, please hold An Qingzi's (concealed weapon) down. Why does this old man feel that something is wrong with the 'person' on the couch?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace also noticed something unusual. Judging from the skin of the "person", it looked like a dummy carved from wood. He asked doubtfully: "Is it a dummy?"
Luo Laoqi interjected: "Isn't it more evil if the dummy can move?! Taoist priest, give it a shot quickly. It's better to strike first, then to plant the rice seedlings. If you wait for it to jump over later, it will be too late."
"Then you will suffer disaster if you start after calling." The Taoist priest with a grimace waved his hand and said to He Siniang: "Siniang, keep your eyes on the water. Pindao will go over and take a look first." As he said this, he walked carefully towards the couch.
The Taoist priest with a grimace raised his Long Ming Dao and approached the Hu couch. When he saw that the Long Ming Dao did not react, he felt confident. When he got closer, the situation on the Hu couch became clear at a glance. The person sitting on it was indeed a man. The dummy is carved from rosewood. The carving is very fine, and the color of the wood is similar to human skin, so it looks like a real person in the dark.
The appearance of the wooden dummy has obvious features of a barbarian, with deep eyes, a high nose, thick beard and thick lips, and the clothes carved on the body are also barbarian clothes. Just one look at this dummy, and you can think of a tall and ferocious grassland in your mind. Man, if you guessed correctly, the image of this dummy should be the owner of the tomb - Shi Zhou Huozhu.
After confirming that the couch was a dummy, the grimace Taoist priest's doubts did not recede at all. Just now he clearly saw that the "person" on the couch was lying down. Although there was a bath across the couch, he had extraordinary eyesight and was convinced That’s right, so why is this dummy sitting down at this time? And what were the noises in the bathtub and couch just now?
Xia Houyun also came over at this time, and the Taoist priest with a grimace asked about the situation in the bath. Xia Houyun shook his head and said that he found nothing, and then said: "The old man suspected that we accidentally touched some mechanism, which made Chi Zhong and Hu The couch has caused a chain reaction, otherwise this figure would not change its posture for no reason."
The Taoist priest with a grimace asked in confusion when he heard this: "Even if there is a mechanism, is it just to change the posture of the portrait? This doesn't make sense, right? Huh?" The Taoist priest with a grimace said and looked at the Hu couch in front of him. The shape of this Hu couch is very special and different. It is not the common short-legged couch, but a high couch with a backrest, and the shape is more like an improved dragon chair. The entire couch is made of stone. The backrest alone is as tall as a person, but the couch board is not high. It looks like a big chair with a small stool, which feels very awkward.
The Taoist priest with a grimace felt that the design of this couch was nondescript, inferior in terms of beauty and practicality, but why was it designed like this? It couldn't be because the owner of the tomb had a lack of aesthetics, right?
The Taoist priest with a grimace thought it couldn't be that simple. He stretched out his hand and shook the dummy. The dummy sat motionless on the stone couch. It seemed that it was fixed on it with something. The Taoist priest with a grimace murmured: "There is no wind or waves in the tomb. , I'm afraid the doll won't be blown away." At this moment, a sudden flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he hurriedly walked around to the back of the stone couch, and then the grim-faced Taoist priest discovered the expected scene at the back. The lying figure didn't know when After flipping to the back of the stone couch, the whole Hu couch was actually a turning mechanism. After the original floor was turned over, it became the backrest of the stone couch. The lying figure naturally turned to the back, and the ground around the stone couch also moved. It is not a whole. If you look closely, you can see that there is a small gap in the square ground around the couch. The mechanism that drives the stone couch to flip must be hidden underneath.
"It's really like that." The Taoist priest with a grimace said: "The two figures are fixed on the couch. It turns out that they are afraid of being thrown out when it is turned over."
Xia Houyun echoed: "Yes, this flipping mechanism is simple to say. It can be rotated by only one shaft. The water in the pool seems to be the key to driving the shaft, and the touch plate may be set on the road we walked by the pool. .”
"Well, we have experienced this kind of mechanism before in Hushenkan, but Pindao still can't figure it out. What is the use of Shi Zhouhezhu's mechanism? What else can it do besides scaring people?"
"Taoist Priest, your idea has reached a dead end. All hidden weapons are not just for hurting people. Each tomb owner has a different starting point and wants to use the mechanisms to achieve different goals. The tomb of Shi Zhouhezhu , the two rice dumplings and the evil spirits left in the tunnel are already sharp enough. There is no need to continue to worry about it in the underground palace. Just imagine, there are those who can fight through the tunnel, and they will be trapped in the underground palace. What?"
"I understand, this damn mechanism was actually designed for Shi Zhou and Zhu's bad taste. Before the banquet, he was lying on the couch to rest. When an attendant passes by a certain location, the mechanism will be triggered. This means that The banquet has started, so 'he' has also changed from lying down to sitting upright, right?"
