The old demon of Montenegro wants to practice Taoism

In a blink of an eye, it was already the fourth day of Shanyangze's entry into the mountain.They had already entered the depths of the mountain thoroughly, and when they looked around, they were surrounded by the same scenery. If it weren't for the compass and Sinan, they wouldn't be able to tell where they came from.

This morning, the rut tracks they had tracked along the way changed again.On a slightly flatter piece of land, the wheel tracks disappeared.

Shan Yangze learned a lot of tracking skills in the field following the governor these few days, first came up to look at it, and said: "This is to unload the thing and let someone carry it in?"

The governor nodded approvingly, but Yan Chixia added later, "It's normal, the cliff ahead is steep, and there is no way for the wooden cart to go up."

Shan Yangze ignored him, and said: "Judging from the traces, the wooden cart is three-wheeled, and...it seems to have stopped for a long time, and there are traces of turning around here. It must be that they pulled it again after they came down from the mountain. The car is back."

"That's true." The Governor said: "From here on, you can no longer pull the cart, and the distance ahead will not be very far." He looked up at the steep slope in front of him, and said: "A group of twenty or so people, no matter how difficult it is. We have to step out of the jump path, let's go quickly."

As the Governor expected, the traces on the road were very obvious.This place is already considered a deep mountain and old forest. No matter who chose this cemetery at the beginning, they valued the rarity of people. Except for the sacrificial activities a few times a year, basically no one would come to this kind of place.Therefore, the traces left by human activities are particularly prominent.

On the night of the fourth day, they climbed to the top of the peak. Looking at the starlight, there was a north-south, somewhat narrow valley surrounded by mountains. It's a good treasure land, the key is secrecy.Because the road was dark and the road was difficult to walk, and the traces left by the predecessors could not be seen clearly, the few people planned to rest for a night and wait until the next morning to go down the mountain again.

The way down the mountain is more difficult than the way up the mountain, especially on this kind of steep slope, most of the energy is used to control myself to slow down and not fall down.But when they got down to the halfway up the mountain, everyone was overjoyed. At the bottom of the valley, there were gray ruins and ruined walls. It seemed that someone had lived there, and the old ancestral hall was inside.

It was already dark, and a few people finally reached the valley.

Just as soon as he came down, the governor felt something was wrong, "What's the smell?"

The mountain they had just climbed was extremely high, with white snow on the top, and the snow melted halfway down the mountain. When they entered the bottom of the valley, it was green and lush, like a scene of a paradise. Shan Yangze felt that he should be twenty degree.

It stands to reason that there is no one in this place, and it is full of trees. The air should be fresh, but everyone can smell a faint smell of corruption.

What is it?

Reminiscent of the purpose of their trip, "Could it be? They have arrived first!" The Governor exclaimed, and rushed towards the source of the stench.

The stench came from a room not far away. The room was about two feet long and one foot wide. There was a wide open door in the middle and windows on each side. There were four beds inside, close to the room. There is a lot of dry food piled up on the wall.

Now there are four dead people in this room, all three of them look and dress the same as the villagers they added in Zhoujia Village earlier, and one... looks like a foreigner.

The governor walked quickly to those corpses, stretched out his sleeves to cover his mouth and nose, pulled the sheet to cover his hands, and poked the corpses one by one, seeing the mucus oozing from the skin, he said: " We have been dead for at least two days, we are one step too late after all.”

While the Governor was inspecting the corpse, Shan Yangze went to the four beds and checked them one by one, "They all slept with someone." He went to the big table in the middle of the room to look at the four bowls, "There are only four bowls here. Three villagers, where did the other one go? Did they get tied up together, or did they go back to report the news?"

Yan Chixia said: "We didn't see anyone along the way, maybe we were tied up and led by these people?"

The governor shook his head and said, "It's not like that." He pointed at the dead foreigner and said, "Look at the knife in this man's hand, the blood on the tip of the knife, and the postures of these three people, it must be caused by sleep. But how did the murderer die? Naturally, the people who were with him would not kill him, so there is only the last villager. The villagers in this place must be more familiar than them. After killing one, they hide or It must be possible to report back.”

Shan Yangze agreed, "Although we didn't see anyone on the way here, since this place can be found, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to change the way back to the village."

"We have to hurry up." The governor's face was gloomy, "it took three days to get out of the village and find this place. If this villager goes back to report the news, it must take less time on the road than us. Maybe they will arrive tomorrow. .”

Shan Yangze looked at the corpse on the bed, and added, "I've been dead for two days. They must have prepared for this trip, and they may have entered the tomb by now."

At this time, something suddenly fell from the hand of the corpse that had just been poked and inspected by the governor, and it hit the ground with a bang, breaking the silence.

The governor used a cloth to get the thing, and said: "A person will become soft again after two days of death. At this time--" the voice stopped abruptly. He looked at the wooden sign in his hand and said in a low voice: "Jinyiwei!"

In his hand is the waist card of Jin Yiwei, Shan Yangze is also very familiar with it, he has seen Zhang San's waist card back then, and later became familiar with Wantong, he even has the waist card of the commander of Jin Yiwei pinched.

"What does this mean?" Shan Yangze pondered, "Jin Yiwei will definitely not leave such clues in his work, is it a fake? Or--"

"Report!" The governor said: "If the queen mother really got involved, she would definitely not be able to do such a big thing with her youngest son as a subordinate of a feudal lord. Just look at the vassal king we came back from outside the pass to know, she Jin Yiwei must be used. But even if she can use Jin Yiwei, don't forget that the commander of Jin Yiwei is Lord Wan, and he is Concubine Wan Gui's younger brother. Concubine Wan Gui and the Queen Mother..."

The governor put away the wooden plaque in a white cloth, and Shan Yangze said: "That is to say, in the eyes of Concubine Wan Gui and the Queen Mother, if we are the ones who finally find the elixir of life, Concubine Wan Gui can share it from the emperor." One copy, if the Empress Dowager is the one who finds the item in the end, the emperor can have a copy, not sure about Concubine Wan Gui."

The Governor pursed his lips and nodded, and said, "You must know that I am His Majesty's man. But for Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and Concubine Wan Gui..."

The poor man who is mixed between mother-in-law and wife, Shan Yangze nodded clearly, patted the governor's shoulder sympathetically, and said, "Let's find something first."

A few people left the house, although the sky was already dark, but the stars were full of stars, and the moon was almost complete. In addition, they took oil lamps from the house to illuminate it, but they could also see the abandoned small village clearly. Chu.

At present, the few people found a slightly cleaner room, tidied up a little and went to sleep. Needless to say, Shan Yangze and Guo Qian were still vigilant.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, Shan Yangze pushed the few people awake.

According to the old man who sells noodles in Chang'an City, this town was deserted in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, at least 700 years ago. However, just relying on the only remaining ruins, one can imagine that the village was still there. How busy the time was.

A few people planned to go around the village first to see if there were any traces left by Jin Yiwei.

Although there are only some broken walls left in this village, the original scale can be vaguely seen. Although there are forty or fifty courtyards, the size and number of houses are much larger than the village where they stayed outside.

To trace the traces left by Jin Yiwei, the only way to do this is to rely on the governor.The more he looked, the tighter his brows were furrowed, why?There is no trace of leaving the village at all, are they still in here?

After searching around carefully, the sun had already risen to the highest position, the governor sighed and shook his head, "Not at all."

The two of them ate something and rested for a while, then turned around and searched for the center of the village, planning to find the old ancestral hall first.

The road was a little quiet, Shan Yangze said: "The tombs in the Western Zhou Dynasty are very different from those of today. At that time, they paid attention to not sealing or treeing. Even if this is an imperial tomb, it is large in scale and guarded, but it is still not very easy to find. Even if At that time, they dug up the mountain to build the mausoleum, and now there are no traces of it."

The Governor said: "It's around here after all. If Jin Yiwei really reported the news, there will definitely be clues left."

Shan Yangze gave a little reminder, and said: "Even if there are clues left, we still have to be careful. Most of the coffins in the Western Zhou Dynasty were made of bronze, and most of them were buried vertically. The basis for looking at Feng Shui is also different from what it is now.”

Yan Chixia followed suit and said, "That makes sense. Bronze coffins are used now to serve as seals. Vertical coffins are no longer used now. This kind of burial method will not bring peace after the death of the Lord."

At this time, Guo Qian, who hadn't spoken for a while, said, "Western Zhou... there were gods at that time."

As soon as the words fell, several people turned out from behind half of the wall. There was a large open space in front of them, and behind them was the only good house I saw after walking half of the village. The three animals and other things that haven't had time to pack up.

found it!

The wall around the old ancestral hall is already missing a piece in the east and a piece in the west, but the three tall stone houses in the middle are still intact, and of course there are locks on the doors.

Without saying a word, Yan Chixia took out her big sword and chopped off the copper lock on the front door.

The room was filled with smoke, and two huge sticks of incense were still burning.On the wall directly opposite the gate, there is a row of altars, and there are at least thirty or forty memorial tablets on it.

Shan Yangze was overjoyed, he must have found the right place this time.

But after a closer look, although the tablet on it looks old and old and new, there is something wrong. The surname Zhou is true, but the key problem is that the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty is not surnamed Zhou!

King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa, his father, King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, and the master of the famous Fenghuo opera princes, his name is Ji Gongnie, but looking at the thirty or forty tablets, there is no one with these names.

Is not it?

Shan Yangze felt that he was not calm anymore.The governor's expressionless face became more and more gloomy now, and he said: "Go and look elsewhere, there is no reason why they can find us and we can't find it!"

A few people left the ancestral hall and walked around the village again. This walk made Shan Yangze see something.Ever since they came out of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, the governor and Yan Chixia had been drowsy all day because of the need to cultivate. He and Guo Qianqian sometimes went out to inquire about news, but more time was spent in class.

The Taoism training master class has started again, this time teaching Zhouyi, 64 hexagrams.

Shan Yangze walked through the whole village, glanced at Guo Qian, and asked tentatively: "Why do you think the location of the houses in this village implies the 64 hexagram? If you can determine the location according to the 64 hexagram..."

Guo Qian also seemed to have reacted suddenly, paused, and said: "That's true, but..."

Needless to say, Shan Yangze can also understand that thousands of years have passed, the houses have been dilapidated, many have disappeared, and the hexagrams have long been incomplete.

At this time, Yan Chixia also took out the compass that returned to normal after leaving the Qinling Mausoleum from her backpack, and said, "Since no one can be found and there are no clues, I will also use the compass inherited from Longhu Mountain to determine the direction. "

At that moment, Shan Yangze and Yan Chixia went to work separately, Guo Qian found an open place in the middle of the village, and sat down, the governor looked around and decided to follow Guo Qian.

It’s just that Guo Qian closed his eyes after sitting down. Although these days he was speaking in a charismatic manner, the governor could also sense that Guo Qian was not human, so he couldn’t help asking, “Are you tired?”

Guo Qian shook his head, still closed his eyes and said: "Wait until it gets dark. I'm thinking about the 28 constellation map in the Qin Mausoleum, and when the Polaris comes out, I can look for the entrance of this mausoleum according to these two astrology pictures." .”

It turns out that this is the most powerful!The Governor was shocked. He knew that the astrology of the Qin Dynasty was different from what it is now, but King Wu of Zhou, the founder of the Western Zhou Dynasty, was also several hundred years behind the Qin Dynasty. Could he actually calculate the astrology of the Western Zhou Dynasty based on these differences?

Governor silently did not dare to disturb Guo Qian any more.

When the sun went down and the moon rose to the middle, the search for the entrance of the mausoleum was completed, but... the three positions were different.

What Yan Chixia found was a water well; what Shan Yangze found was an open space in the village with nothing on it; what Guo Qian found was an old ancestral hall, but unfortunately they had already been there once, and found all three houses , the main room in the middle is where the ranks are placed, and the rooms on both sides are utility rooms, and there is nothing suspicious about it.

Together, they decided to go to the well that Yan Chixia found first.

The well is built of stone, old and covered with moss.The derrick next to it looks quite new, and it should be a common water intake.The edge of the well also reached Shanyangze's waist, but it was quite high. It looked bottomless from the inside, and it seemed nothing unusual to hear the sound of falling water when you threw a stone into it.

"Someone has gone down here!" Shan Yangze was about to turn around when he heard the governor exclaim in surprise. He pointed to a scratch on the side of the well and said, "Look here, this is the mark left by the claw hook."

Shan Yangze took a closer look and saw that there were a lot of moss on the side of the well that had been rubbed off a lot. There were some thick scratches, which seemed to be caused by pulling the well rope, and there were many fine scratches. It was similar to the traces they left with hooks when they went to Qinling.And this trace is very new, the moss has been scraped off, revealing the gray stone inside.

Several people looked at each other, do you want to follow?

Shan Yangze thought for a while, and said: "The compass is a thing that only appeared in the Song Dynasty as an agent of Qizong. Use the things of the Song Dynasty to find the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty..." Although the principle is similar, it still feels awkward.

In fact, Yan Chixia was not very confident, besides, his compass had only malfunctioned once, so he said: "Let's go to the other two places to see first."

The place closer to the well is the ancestral hall, so everyone went back to the ancestral hall.

Strictly speaking, the ancestral hall is just a three-room stone house, nothing special, everyone searched twice, but still found no clues, but when Shanyangze turned to the third round, he suddenly discovered a strange thing.

The last wall is the wall where the ranks are arranged vertically, which is much thicker than the other three sides.There are two walls on the left and right of the gate, which are basically the thickness of about one person, but the wall behind it is about the thickness of three people no matter how you look at it. Shan Yangze was excited and said: "There is something hidden in the wall!"

So several people went in again, carefully cleared out all the memorial tablets, and removed the supplies. Shan Yangze went up to a hammer in the middle of the wall, the wall was cracked, and the inside was empty!

Shan Yangze's attack became faster and faster, and he cleared a big hole about one and a half feet square in a short while, he held up the lamp and shook it in!Inside is another layer of tablets, and the one in the middle seems to be engraved with the name of Zhou Wu Wang Jifa.

This time I really found the right place!

So several people started to move their hands with things, and quickly cleaned up the entire wall, and saw that there were hundreds of tablets densely packed inside. In the front were the tablets of 37 emperors of the Zhou Dynasty, and in the back were tablets. There is a layer of smaller tablets dedicated to the royal family.

Yan Chixia wiped off her sweat and said, "I found the right place, but where is the entrance? Are we really going to dig it down?"