Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1021 Tomb Passage
The moment she jumped down, she felt pitch black and could not see anything. But after landing, she saw torches lit by the people who had jumped down before. The faint light barely illuminated the surroundings. Lu Xiao immediately recognized that this was a fairly large stone chamber.

It is a stretch to call it a stone chamber. In fact, it is just a stone cave, but it was obviously dug out by humans. Although the surrounding stone walls are not smooth, deep grooves can be seen, which are obviously traces left by axes.

However, they also understood that there must be more than just one cave here.

Lu Xiao looked up and saw that the person holding a torch in front of her had found a way out and was groping forward. The flickering flame illuminated the front, which was a corridor about one person tall and less than ten feet wide. Like this cave, it was also artificially excavated. The stone walls on both sides were covered with protruding and rugged rocks. In the light of the fire, it seemed as if ferocious beasts would jump out of the stone walls at any time, which was terrifying.

But at this point, even if there really were monsters on the stone wall, even if they were really afraid, they had to move forward.

So, two soldiers held torches high and led the way in front. Ashina Zhuxie took Lei Yu and Wang Shaoqiu behind him, and several soldiers walked on both sides. Lu Xiao and two young guards walked at the end. The group walked forward step by step along the seemingly bottomless corridor.

This oppressive and cramped feeling made it hard to breathe. Lei Yu looked around and couldn't help but frowned: "What on earth is this place?"

Ashina Zhuxie just looked ahead and said nothing.

He didn't know the customs and practices of the Central Plains. He only wanted to find the legendary Zuo Gong Tomb where countless treasures were buried. So for him, this place was probably just a cave where treasures were hidden. However, the soldiers who came with him and were looking forward to making a fortune like him said excitedly, "Is this the so-called tomb?"

“Is there a treasure ahead?”

"Great, go faster!"

Everyone was talking at once, and they were all walking forward cautiously. Wang Shaoqiu felt something was wrong. He took the torch from a soldier beside him, looked carefully at the dark corridor and the stone walls on both sides, and then said with some doubt: "This, this doesn't look like a tomb passage."

"Tomb passage?"

Ashina Zhuxie heard this and looked back at him: "Why?"

Wang Shaoqiu said, "If it is a tomb passage, someone must have transported the coffin down. Zuo Chen'an was the Duke of Xiaoshan County during his lifetime. He should have been buried with three coffins and one outer coffin. This tomb passage definitely cannot accommodate a coffin of this shape."

Upon hearing this, Lei Yu nodded.

She came from a family of officials, and although she was still young, she knew some funeral etiquette; for example, when buried, the emperor had five coffins and two outer coffins, princes had four coffins and one outer coffin, and Zuo Chen'an was a duke, so he could only have three coffins and one outer coffin according to etiquette. Even so, the coffins were very large, and this small tomb passage could barely fit them, and it was almost impossible to get people to carry them in.

She frowned and said, "You mean, this isn't where Zuo Chen'an was buried?"

If this is the case, and Zuo Gong’s tomb is not here, what can they do when they come down?
Hearing this, the people around him also showed hesitation, but Wang Shaoqiu immediately said: "It seems that it is not the case, but that 'Master Jia' should know the clues of Zuo Gong's suspected tomb, so he left without saying goodbye. We must find him, so that we can benefit. He can't go anywhere else, he must be in this cave."

Ashina Zhuxie also nodded: "We'll talk about it after we find him."

As they were talking, they had already walked forward more than ten feet. The distance was not far, but because it was pitch black and the corridor was extremely narrow, they had to walk very carefully.

Just as Ashina Zhuxie finished speaking, a Turkic soldier walking in front suddenly stopped.

The people behind him also hurriedly stopped and looked at him cautiously: "What's wrong?" The soldier listened carefully and said: "It seems like there is wind."

"wind?"

This is a cave underground without sunlight. Where does the wind come from?

Although everyone was confused, once they calmed down and even subconsciously held their breath, they did hear a slight whirring sound coming from the other end of the cave. Moreover, the torches in their hands were shaking slightly, obviously feeling the wind.

Is there another world on the other side of this cave?
A little hope arose in some people's hearts. Even if it was not Zuo Gong's suspected tomb, no one would dig a hole in the mountains for no reason. They might have some treasures hidden here.

Thinking of this, everyone urged each other to move forward, and Lu Xiao, who was walking at the end, subconsciously clenched her sleeves.

Just like what Wang Shaoqiu said, she realized as she walked here just now that this should not be the tomb passage of Zuo Chen'an, unless he didn't care about his own burial regulations at all and dealt with it hastily; but obviously not, since this person could set up so many suspicious tombs to protect himself, he would definitely not just use a thin-skinned coffin to get rid of his funeral affairs.

However, maybe it was a woman's intuition, she instinctively felt that this place seemed to be a tomb passage.

Because when the wind blew, it not only brought the dampness and earthy smell of the underground soil, but also an indescribable heavy smell of death. But if this was not Zuo Chenan’s burial place, then whose would it be?

Thinking of this, she became more nervous.

At this moment, the soldier walking in front suddenly stopped again: "Ouch!"

The people behind him were startled by him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Did you hear anything again?"

"Don't make a fuss."

The soldier stopped and looked down at his feet, saying, "What is this?"

Upon hearing his words, everyone subconsciously came forward. Someone lowered the torch a little, which immediately illuminated the ground under his feet. It turned out to be a pile of rotten wood piled in the corner of the corridor.

It looked like it had been chopped and repaired. There were not only wooden boards and sticks, but also some thin wood chips shaved off by a planer. I don't know how long it had been here, and most of it had rotted into powder.

How could there be something like this here?
Although it was not a dangerous thing, the more ordinary things appeared in strange places, the more weird they seemed. Everyone became more careful and took two steps forward. Suddenly, they felt a cool breeze blowing in front of them.

The torches in their hands suddenly burned fiercely, and everyone saw a flash before their eyes, and then everything became clear.

There is actually a huge stone chamber in front of us!