"This incident makes us think that even though we are in a low-level world, we dare not forget our country because of our humble status. Doing what we can can be considered as an answer to our conscience."
When Luo Laoqi heard this, he said with disdain: "Hey! We are the ones who are afraid of making efforts, and the ones who enjoy the blessings are the grandsons in the court. A little work with the surname Liu is better than anything else. Let's not worry about things that cannot be achieved with eight poles." , the right way is to fish for treasure quickly."
Everyone was distracted by the scene in the pool and was delayed for nearly half an hour. After the circular platform on the water surface rose, there was no other movement. It seemed to be just a part of the scene of "watching the pool and drinking and banquet" created by Shi Zhou Hezhu. The Taoist priest looked at it with a grimace. There were three white female corpses. Thinking of the Shi Xinpo and the freak in the corridor, he said: "I am a little scared when I see the zombies now. I really can't worry if I don't burn them clean, but these three What should I do with the tools? They are so far away and out of reach."
Luo Laoqi replied: "Even if they are pretending to be corpses, can they still swim over? If they have that ability, let's not touch the treasure. Carrying it out for them will definitely be worth more than the treasure."
"Yes, the Taoist priest is overly worried." Xia Houyun also said: "Zombies are unconscious dead things after all. They will sink to the bottom when they fall into the water. They are unlikely to cause us any trouble."
"Then we won't care about the zombies. Let's check around Shidian first."
Several people walked separately in response. There were four ear chambers carved in each corner of the stone hall. The ear chamber in the northeast corner was filled with cooking utensils. This was a kitchen arranged according to the layout of a Yangzhai. In ancient times, people would place the kitchen in the house. From the perspective of Feng Shui, the northeast corner of the house belongs to fire, and the kitchen also belongs to fire. Adding fire to fire will naturally cause conflicts, while the northeast corner belongs to earth. It is auspicious for fire to produce earth. If it is explained from the climate, the south side faces the sun and gets plenty of sunshine. , food is easy to rot when the temperature is high, and the northeast corner is shady and easy to preserve food, so the kitchen was often called "East Room" or "East Kitchen" in ancient times.
Similar to the principle of the kitchen, the ear room in the southeast corner of the stone hall is the toilet. The toilet belongs to water, and water can produce wood, so it should be built in the southeast corner of the wooden position. Sufficient sunlight can also keep the toilet dry, and the land of China The north wind prevails all year round, so if it is built in the south, the wind will not blow the smell to the house. From these aspects, it can be seen that the Feng Shui science established by the ancients is not just a mysticism. Among them, the top should follow the celestial phenomena and the bottom should follow nature. Things can be practically applied to life. The so-called "adapt to local conditions", these four words are the best embodiment of Feng Shui in life.
One more thing to say about the kitchen and toilet. People often call the two "kitchen" and "toilet" respectively. In the concept of direction, north is up and south is down. Although the kitchen is located in the north, the door is facing south. The door opens from the south, so it is called "going to the kitchen". Similarly, the toilet door faces north, so it is called "going to the toilet".
Of course, these are all the Feng Shui requirements of Yangzhai. Shi Zhou and Zhu only laid out the underground palace according to the concept of treating death as life. Most of the utensils placed in the ear room have symbolic meanings. For example, in the toilet, there is a decent Set "huzi" for the "guests" attending the banquet.
"Huzi" is a kind of toilet, which consists of a backrest, a seat board, an armrest and a footrest. It was first invented in the early Han Dynasty. It was inspired by the words of Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, "use the crown of a Confucian scholar as a drowning device". It was specially designed for the royal family. The toilet made was only a prototype at that time, which was basically a chamber pot with a seat added on top. Later, Li Guang, the "Flying General" of the Han Dynasty, shot a tiger to death during a hunting trip. To show his bravery and contempt for tigers, he ordered someone to cast a tiger-shaped drowning device out of pure copper, which was given to the royal family. After the second inspiration, the toilet "Tiger" improved with an animal-shaped appearance was born.
"Huzi" is an utensil that can only be used by the royal family and the powerful. Common people do not have the same treatment. Moreover, before the invention of "huzi" in the Han Dynasty, going to the toilet was still a very dangerous thing. The famous Ji Yan, also known as Jin Jinggong, fell into it. Drowned in a manure pit.
In the pre-Qin Dynasty, the toilet was called "圂". It was a simple wooden house built on top of a pigsty, with two boards under the feet. It was convenient for people to sit on top and the pigs were built underneath. Jin Jinggong once had a stomachache after eating new wheat. When he was going to the toilet, his foot suddenly slipped and he fell directly into the pit and drowned. With his lesson, various countries began to improve the toilet environment. The royal family later adopted the "urn toilet" appeared, and Mozi, the founder of the Mohist Guild, benefited the people even more. He invented a public toilet built inside the house, with a sink in the middle and rows of sitting pits on both sides, providing convenience for the people at the bottom to go out. condition.
There are tiger cubs placed in the ear room of the stone palace, which proves that Shi Zhou Hezhu attaches great importance to the guests at the Guanchi banquet, otherwise it would be fine to just dig a hole. However, he was not very popular during his lifetime, and there are all empty seats around the pond. , there is not even a single hair on his head. I don’t know what Shi Zhou and Zhu under the ground should think when he sees this situation.
The two ear rooms in the west corner of the stone hall were generally as expected. One room contained ritual vessels and the other contained musical instruments, both of which were necessary for banquets. Luo Laoqi felt that there were no rare items, so he took a quick look at them. After a few glances, he turned around and returned to the palace.
In the middle of the north wall of the stone hall, there is a closed tomb door, which should be the path leading to the main tomb chamber. The Taoist Priest with a grimace saw that everyone had returned, and there was nothing else to search in the stone palace except the bathhouse, so he greeted everyone and opened the tomb door first.
As soon as the tomb door opened, there was a spiral staircase going down in front of him. The slope was very steep, spiraling downward around a blue stone pillar in the middle. Luo Laoqi followed in first, and when he saw it, he said: "That stone is quite sentimental. There is also a spiral staircase in the middle, so he is not afraid of getting dizzy before eating."
"There is a lot of wind in front of the door. I feel that the spiral staircase may be very deep. I don't know where to go. We may be the ones who faint later."
While the two were talking, He Siniang and others also arrived. Everyone briefly talked about the search situation, and then began to go down the spiral staircase.
As the Taoist Ghostface expected, the spiral staircase was dug down very deep. The Taoist Ghostface estimated that the vertical distance was at least twenty feet, but the spiral staircase still had no end. He Siniang couldn't help but ask behind him: "Tao Long, this spiral staircase is so deep, I’m afraid it doesn’t lead to the bottom of the mountain. It would be difficult to carve such a passage in the sand and slate, right?”
The Taoist priest with a grimace replied: "Yes, Shi Le has spent a lot of money for his father, but Pindao found that many parts of this tomb have adopted the construction method of taking advantage of the situation, which will save a lot of work, such as the path we took The spiral staircase may have originally been a natural shaft in the mountain."
"Oh? How do you say this?"
"Think about it. The tombstone records that there is a treasure cave in the mountain, which is shaped like a woman's uterus upside down. Although I don't understand the structure of the female body, I know Feng Shui fairly well. Any treasure cave must be carefully considered. Since there is a Ninggong, then There must also be a vulva, which is an organ that is integrated into one body, so is this vertical passage like..."
The grimace Taoist priest didn't say the last half of the sentence, but He Siniang already understood what he meant and said, "You still don't understand? Even the girl herself doesn't know as much as you do, right?"
"Didn't Pindao learn all this from Lao Qi? How can I understand it myself?"
"What are you two talking about in front of Sajia?" Luo Laoqi's ears were sharpest at this time, and he asked again: "When will this spiral staircase end? Sajia is almost confused."
The Taoist priest with a grimace replied: "I don't know when it will end. Just grit your teeth and keep going. As long as you use 10% of your efforts to find treasures, you won't complain."
"If I bite Sajia any more, all I'll be left with is yahuazi..."
Xia Houyun also spoke to reassure everyone at this time: "According to what I see, we should not be far from the exit. This is the Mother Tomb. The main tomb will not be lower than the accompanying tomb, nor much higher. It is basically on the same level." At a position slightly higher than the horizontal line, the stone palace just now is not far deep into the mountain, so we have to rely on this spiral staircase to vertically approach the main tomb chamber. If it is deeper, it will be under the mountain. For those of you who are stepping on plates near the tombs Judging from the situation, it is almost impossible that the main tomb chamber is located under the mountain.”
With Xia Houyun's words, everyone's anxiety subsided a little, and after walking for a while, the grimace Taoist priest at the front exclaimed and said happily: "It's finally over!"
At the end of the spiral staircase, there is a short corridor, which is only four or five steps away. When the tomb door in front of the corridor is opened, another tomb chamber comes into view.
This tomb is not big, and the whole thing can be seen clearly with the light of a torch. There is a bronze mirror leaning against the left wall of the tomb. The shape of the bronze mirror is very special. It is not round but square, and it is nearly ten feet high. It is so strange. The reason why the shape is called a bronze mirror and not something else is because the surface of the bronze mirror is very smooth. When you walk close to it, you can clearly see your own reflection. The Taoist priest with a grimace guessed that this thing should be a bronze mirror that can reflect the whole body. , used to give Shi Zhou Huozhu "correct appearance". Up the spiral staircase is the banquet living room. Before receiving guests, the host must tidy up his clothes to avoid being rude and undressed. Unexpectedly, Shi Zhou Huozhu was still a very beautiful host. In the tomb chamber There was such a big mirror. I wonder if he was the first to create the full-length mirror.
There was a sedan on the ground on the other side of the tomb. The spiral staircase was so high that the master couldn't climb it by himself. He had to let his servants carry it. There is a wooden chair beside the sedan chair, but nothing else. The function of the entire tomb is clear at a glance. It is a rest room for Shi Zhou and Zhu to make final preparations before receiving guests.
Everyone was not interested in wasting time here, and then entered the corridor at the back. There were two ear chambers on the left and right of the corridor. When they opened one of them, they saw that the tomb was filled with bottles and jars, most of which were pottery for burials. Porcelain only accounts for a small part. This kind of ear room for holding pottery is also an indispensable part of the burial system. Depending on the number and shape of the pottery, it can reflect the identity of the tomb owner. However, for Taoist priests with grim faces, this room is the least interesting. Unfortunately, bottles and jars take up space and are worthless. Many Mangzi could not find treasures during the process of filtering pits, and even smashed pottery to vent their anger. This is why many tombs in later generations were opened with broken pottery. .
