Master is not married yet

Chapter 39 Tomb Raiding for Tracing 【3】

Under the illumination of the lanterns, I finally saw clearly that it was a huge painted statue of Bodhisattva.

The figure of the Bodhisattva is plump and lifelike, with twisting waist and limbs.The costumes of the stone carvings are gorgeous in color, surrounded by silk, and the jewelry is delicate and exquisite. However, its full face, curved eyebrows, plump neck, and delicate features make it look quite solemn and kind.

Just because the lights were not on just now, that beautiful face looked eerie in the dark, which really scared me.

I looked up again, and the second senior brother had already stepped down the bodhisattva statue's bun, and jumped to our side after a while. He was slightly relieved to see that we were all right, but immediately stared at me again: " Where did you learn the qinggong? How can you still fall from such a small height?"

"It happened so suddenly, it's too late to react," I retorted.

The third senior brother slowly got up, looked at the face of the Bodhisattva with lingering fear and said, "Are we really going to stay here tonight?"

The elder brother shook his head and said, "No, we have to go down again. Just now, the potato stepped on the soil on the statue's bun. I think it's because the mortise and tenon on the top of the tomb are rotten and can't support the extra weight. It has collapsed, and now the earth and rocks may fall again at any time, it is not safe to stay here."

I looked at the top, and it turned out that the protruding short stone just now was the top of the topknot of the Bodhisattva statue, and there were indeed many thick wooden bars supporting it, but now the joint of one of the wooden bars is just like what the elder brother said , has been soaked by the grass soil, and the damp is quite serious. The wooden strips are concave and may crack at any time.

I swallowed my saliva, walked to the top of the finger of the Bodhisattva statue and looked down. I really don't know whether I should say I am a lucky star or I should not die. I just fell into the hand of the Bodhisattva statue. Move a little bit, and I guess with my eyes that I should review our short life together with my third senior brother at the Wangxiang Terrace in the underworld.

"It's time to go, jump down along the silk of this statue, it will reach the ground soon, I'll go down and light the lamp first," said the elder brother, who took down a lantern from the stone wall, and jumped down first with the lamp.

The second senior brother looked at me and the third senior brother who was pretending to be calm, sighed, and said to the third senior brother, "Chuchu, you will follow me closely later," then he walked up to me and knelt down, motioning for me to climb on his back, "You come up, it's faster this way."

I will definitely not refuse if I have a big brother to take me, not to mention that my waist still hurts, so I climbed onto the back of the second senior brother, and then he took me and the third senior brother to climb the protruding silk all the way. Stepping down, I jumped into the place where the lanterns could not illuminate, and after a while I heard the sound of the black leather boots of the second and third senior brothers stepping on the ground, it seemed that they had reached the bottom.

But there was darkness in front of his eyes, and the senior brother's lantern was not even a shadow.

"Senior Brother Baibai, why hasn't Senior Brother Luo lit the lamp yet?" The trembling voice of the third senior brother echoed in the air.

"How could my mother know," the second senior brother replied, shouting around, "Luo Bi! Where did you die—?"

There was an indistinct voice from the senior brother in the distance, I blinked, and saw that there seemed to be small clusters of lights burning in the distance, so I patted the second senior brother on the shoulder and said: "Second senior brother, third senior brother, look over there!" , there seems to be a light?"

"Huh?" The second senior brother seemed to have noticed it too, and when we were talking, the number of those lights lit up became more and more. Only then did I realize that those lights were actually seat-style boneless lanterns, standing neatly on a red wall. On the long bridge, the lit fire illuminated the road in front of us.

The elder brother came to us with a lantern. It seems that he started lighting the lantern from a distance and came all the way.

"Crossing the bridge we will come to the entrance of the tomb," he said.

I looked around and saw that the bridge in front of me was so long that it couldn’t see the end. Apart from the huge statue of Bodhisattva behind us, there were endless cliffs all around. I couldn’t help but wonder how big this catacomb is. Too ostentatious, too dignified.

The first senior brother turned back to the route he had just walked, and walked in front to guide us, while the second senior brother put me down, like a hen leading its cubs, always paying attention to the third senior brother and me who were following behind him.

"Eldest brother, you said you lived here with Master for two or three years, so how do you manage to eat?" I asked as I walked.

He replied: "When I first came here, Master would regularly take some silk from the tomb to exchange for food. The route to go out was the same as we just came down, but after we moved out of here, Master sealed the hole. so I just couldn't find it."

I looked back at the Bodhisattva statue and asked, "Isn't it true that every time Master goes out, he always climbs that Bodhisattva statue?"

"Because there is no other way here," Eldest Brother turned to look at me, "After all, this is a cemetery."

I always feel that there is something strange.

"Then you said that when you first came here, Master used silk to exchange for food. What happened later?"

"There will always be a day when the silk and copper coins are used up, so one day Master Tian brought me, who had not yet learned the lightness kung fu, to the top of that Bodhisattva just now, and kicked me off from it," he paused, and continued, "He directed me from above. I yelled to let me use light work quickly, otherwise it would be ugly for me to die like this. I realized it in a hurry. After that, I crawled out to hunt the animals outside as food. Later, there was a wandering The merchant saw the animal skins I hunted, and exchanged them with me for copper coins, and in the next few years, I made money to buy food in this way.”

While talking, the senior brother stopped in front of us, raised the lantern, and shone on a bronze gate.

"That's it, I haven't been back for a long time, I miss it a bit," he laughed.Then, the senior brother handed the lantern to the third senior brother, turned around and said to the second senior brother, "Ah Jing, help me."

The second senior brother nodded slightly, and stood in front of the bronze door together with the senior senior brother, and saw the two of them standing on either side, pulling on the dragon-shaped copper ring with all their strength, their faces flushed, and you could see the veins on the back of their hands bulging , finally pulled out a gap.

When I saw this scene, I didn't know why I suddenly wanted to applaud, so I couldn't help clapping my hands.

The second brother rolled my eyes, but his hand slipped, and the bronze door closed again.

"What are you doing filming there, why don't you get out of here with Chu Chu!" Seeing this, he yelled angrily, pulling on the door vigorously.

I yelled yes, shrank my body and pulled the third senior brother to get in quickly through the gap between the doors——

"Wait a minute—! There's a mechanism inside!" The senior brother suddenly shouted.

But it was too late.

I felt as if I stepped on a loose brick, and then I heard the sound of the mechanism operating, and the door slowly closed in front of us. Seeing this, the third senior brother and I immediately pushed the door with all our strength, but no matter whether the two senior brothers were outside How to pull, how my third senior brother and I pushed inside the door, the door still closed inward according to the track, and finally there was a bang in front of my third senior brother and me, the bronze door stood tightly in front of our eyes, separating us and the two The brothers are separated.

(End of this chapter)