Strange Tale of Qingluan

Running to the end, it is not a fork, not a dead end, but a stone gate.

The two of them worked together to push open the heavy stone door, and illuminated it with torches. In the light of the torches, there were some ancient things, obviously funerary objects.

Large and small wooden boxes are everywhere, and seven-foot-high painted pottery figurines stand in front of the stone walls on the left and right sides. They look like eunuchs and servants, with their faces facing those boxes, as if guarding the sacrificial objects.

Su Zhongming was overjoyed: "There must be a treasure inside!" After saying that, he pulled out Qiu Xuejian, intending to pry open the lid of the box to find out.

Seeing this, Li Xuan quickly grabbed his right hand holding the sword, and persuaded him: "Bringing you in, you want to be a tomb robber instead? You can't steal the things of the ancestors, if you steal it, you will be disrespectful to them!"

Su Zhongming said helplessly: "I just took a look, and didn't say I want to take it. Besides, maybe the things in the box are worthless? Even if they are really valuable, if I ask the Queen Mother for the valuable things, I can get eight or nine of them." It's priceless, and you don't care about your ancestor's funeral objects at all!"

Li Xuan let go of his hands, crossed his arms and said, "Then please do as you please, anyway, if the dead souls of the ancestors get angry, I will be the one who will punish them by sending thunder."

Hearing this, Su Zhongming couldn't help laughing, and lightly bumped Li Xuan with his buttocks: "Don't curse yourself like this!" Immediately, he approached the box, picked one at random, inserted the point of the sword into the gap, and pried it open with all his strength. Cover, the dust bounced directly to his face, which really made him choke, coughed a few times, covered his mouth and nose, and flicked his sleeves desperately to disperse the dust flying in front of him.

After the dust dispersed, he looked down at the inside of the box, and there were some porcelain wares of different shapes and patterns. To be more specific, they were blue and white bowls, kettles, cups and mouthwash cups used by the owner of the tomb before his death. thing.

He opened another box, without exception, it was the tomb owner's clothes, brocade and silk, etc., but the color is still as new as it was made, and he didn't take care of it. It felt like flowing water in the mountains, very smooth .

Li Xuan stood beside him without saying a word, took a look, and suddenly opened his lips: "I heard that the court clothes of an ancient king were made of silk from millennia-old silkworms. I don't know if it's in it or not."

Su Zhongming was very interested in the court clothes woven with thousand-year-old silk. He searched one by one until he reached the bottom of the box, but he couldn't find this legendary court dress.

Li Xuan added: "Maybe it's not the court clothes of the former king?"

Su Zhongming stiffened his body, turned his head slightly to Li Xuan, and roared slightly: "Are you kidding me?!"

Li Xuan didn't refute at all, just put the lid on the box for him, then drew out his saber and long martial sword, and pried open another box for Su Zhongming, as if trying to curry favor with Su Zhongming.

After the lid was opened, the two looked at the bottom of the box, and there was nothing valuable inside, just a wooden box and a few neat cotton robes.Li Xuan opened the wooden box again, and inside was a rattan ball. It could be seen that it was used by the ruler when playing Cuju, and the robe inside the box was also worn when playing Cuju.

Su Zhongming glanced at Li Xuan, and couldn't help muttering: "Your ancestors loved this sport so much, but you don't know how to do it."

Li Xuan was serious, and only replied: "This thing is not a family business, and it's normal that I'm not interested."

Intentionally annoyed that he couldn't get angry, Su Zhongming pouted, then turned around, covered his mouth and nose with his cuffs, and pried open another box, and took a closer look inside, but there were two bronze mirrors, the size of a palm Eight figurines of figurines of wooden colored maids, one pillow stone, wooden comb with carved sandalwood and peony patterns...

It seems that the items in this box are used by women, and the status of women is not low, they are noble concubines or queens.

Su Zhongming knew very well in his heart that most of the things in the other boxes were used by the dead, so he no longer opened them one by one, but went deep, shining a torch all over the stone wall. Suddenly, the fire light swept across a stone door, and he couldn't help but Joyful, he and Li Xuan went straight up.

Where the firelight illuminates, there are reliefs of auspicious totems, and the faces of beasts like lions and tigers. Su Zhongming took a closer look and wondered: "This door, doesn't it look like a way out?"

Li Xuan replied: "When we walked all the way, the tombs we encountered all had totem reliefs on the stone gates. Behind this stone gate, it should be the tomb of a certain king."

Su Zhongming couldn't help wondering: "Then how do we leave? Should we go back?"

Li Xuan took a look around the room, building up his confidence: "There should be an exit here, let's look for it."

The two began to search for clues from the stone wall in the room, but after a long time, they did not find any clues.Su Zhongming became disappointed, ran to Li Xuan's side, and asked, "Did you find anything there?"

Li Xuan came up to meet him, regretfully said: "No, you don't have any either?"

Su Zhongming couldn't help being frustrated: "Could it be...really going to go back...?"

Li turned around, looked around, and looked at the faces of those pottery figurines. Suddenly, he made a new discovery—the eyes of these pottery figurines were mostly fixed on the box, but only the eyes of the third pottery figurine on the right The eyes are squinted.

He hurriedly approached, brought the fire light close to the face of the pottery figurine, and sure enough, he was right, so he called Su Zhongming: "Come and have a look! This pottery figurine is different from others!"

Su Zhongming hurriedly took a closer look, and blurted out: "His eyes! His eyes are looking at the tomb! But..." He couldn't help but glanced back at the stone door, wondering slightly, "Are we going to go into the tomb where the dead are buried? Is it exported..."

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xuan came to his own opinion: "From this position, the eyes are looking at the tomb, but if it is facing the tomb...let's try to turn his direction."

Su Zhongming couldn't think of any other way, so he had to follow Li Xuan to do it together, and worked together to turn the terracotta figurine to the right.

The moment the terracotta figurines faced the tomb, the stone door hidden on the right rotated out.

Su Zhongming was overjoyed: "Great! We found the exit!" He hurriedly dragged Li Xuan through the stone gate.In an instant, the stone door closed again, and the terracotta figurines turned back to their original positions by themselves.

After walking for a certain distance, they went down twelve stone steps, and after another passage, at the end, there was another tomb room. The two pushed open the stone gate, stepped in, and met two seven-foot pottery figurines, but their hands were empty. Holding a sword, he stands facing the stone gate with angry eyes, very similar to a palace guard. Behind the terracotta figurines, four large boxes are placed in the four directions of east, west, south, north, respectively, implying the stability of the country. The eight medium boxes in the center are arranged in a row. The eight trigrams array, implying peace and happiness.

Su Zhongming said happily: "For such a formation, there should be treasures here, such as the court dress you just mentioned!" As soon as he took a step, Jing Xiang was caught by Li Xuan's arm and pulled back.

Li Xuan said solemnly: "I think you look like a Taoist tomb thief, don't waste time, we have to find the exit quickly, and get there before the woman reaches the No.18 tomb!"

Su Zhongming said helplessly: "When we come in here, we have to find the exit carefully! Besides, you are strangling me like this, how can we find the exit!"

Li Xuan let him go immediately.

Su Zhongming looked at the terracotta figurines on the left and right, and couldn't help saying: "I don't know what is hidden in the box here. The terracotta figurines in charge are holding swords and glaring angrily..."

Hearing this, Li Xuan knew that he was hooking, so he just replied: "If you want to see it, you can only open a box and look at it once. After reading it, we have to find the exit."

Su Zhongming couldn't help being overjoyed, ran to one of the boxes, pulled out the Qiuxue sword, pried open the cover, looked at it, then turned around happily and said, "Come and have a look! There are some calligraphy, paintings, books, and old bamboo slips too." !"

Li Xuanben stood on the spot with his hips on his hips. Hearing this, he immediately stepped forward, took a look at the bottom of the box, then rummaged through it, and picked it up to have a look at it. He completely lost his original intention.

Su Zhongming couldn't help laughing: "What did you say just now? Don't you care more about the contents of this box than I do now? But I think there may only be some ordinary calligraphy, paintings and gossip here. How can there be unofficial history?"

While flipping through things, Li Xuan replied: "If what I'm looking for is not an unofficial history, but a map of a village palace, would you believe me?" Said, "Hey! There really are, Longyang Eighteen Forms!"

Su Zhongming opened the second box and was about to look at the bottom of the box. When he heard what he said, he turned his head and saw a pair of calligraphy and painting flying towards him. He glanced halfway, and saw the scorching posture of the two young masters, Chi Luo, half-body sitting together in the old ink, and his cheeks flushed instantly.

Li Xuan said like picking beans: "I'll give it to you and take it back to practice on the bed!"

Su Zhongming was ashamed and angry at once, rolled up the painting, threw it back ruthlessly, and hummed: "Hmph, I didn't keep it like you!" Then he looked down at the bottom of the box in front of him, and saw silk and bamboo instruments, stringed instruments, and bongos.

Li Xuan put the scroll back into the box and continued to rummage through it. After a while, he closed the lid of the box and said with regret: "It seems that even though there are all books here, there are no books I want to read. Perhaps, the most valuable things are also hidden in the No.18 tomb."

Su Zhongming turned his head and asked curiously, "What are you looking for? It can't really be unofficial history, can it?"

Li Xuan replied: "It seems to be the national treasure of the Shaole Kingdom, called "Nine Sans of Shaohua". A music score should be placed in the same place as an ancient black pipa."

Su Zhongming said: "There are musical instruments hidden here, maybe they are here?"

Li Xuan shook his head lightly, and said with certainty: "The ancient black pipa and the old music score are both precious belongings of Shaoyue, and they will not be placed in an ordinary tomb."

Su Zhongming thought for a while, and suggested: "Then, let's go to the No.18 tomb first and look for it. If you can't find it there, come back here and look for it!"

Li Xuan wanted to nod at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help saying: "No! How do I feel that you helped me become a Taoist tomb thief?"

Su Zhongming closed the lid of the box and replied: "I don't think it matters, anyway, it's something from your house, so there's nothing wrong with you taking it out."

Li Xuan replied: "Okay, if the ancestors are punished by lightning, I will say that it was your idea."

Hearing this, Su Zhongming immediately threw the Qiuxue sword in his hand at Li Xuan: "Damn Li Xuan! I'm kind enough to comfort you, but you are good, drag me into the water!"

Li Xuan grasped the hilt of the sword sensitively, and persuaded: "Don't throw the sword around, if you kill me, you will have to find the exit by yourself and go to the No.18 tomb."

Su Zhongming blurted out: "I can't kill you! You can rest easy!"

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