Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

"Look, there's something in that corner!"

Shi Ji suddenly made a sound and pointed at the pile of broken bottles and jars in the corner.

Tanxiao was not frightened by the tomb, but was frightened by the sudden sound he made.

As soon as he lifted the candle in his hand, Shi Ji had already thrown out the simple knife in his hand.

Throwing it forward, the Pu Dao was directly inserted into the stone wall in the corner with a bang, and the tail of the Pu Dao was still trembling.

Tanxiao and Shi Ji had already walked over.

As he got closer, he saw that what was nailed to death by the stone table with a simple knife was a small spotted snake.

He threw the knife very accurately and split the little snake into two halves from the middle of its head.

"Very powerful." Tanxiao praised.

Shi Ji was a little embarrassed. He thought he saw something, and a black shadow passed by in a flash, but he never thought...

"Just tell me if you have something, let's talk about it." Shi Ji pulled out his sword.

"Yes Yes Yes."

Tanxiao had already held up the candle in his hand and began to look at the pictures carved on the tomb wall on the right.

As long as it is a slightly larger tomb, there are often pictures in the tomb that record the life of the owner.

Tanxiao just took a few glances and got a rough idea.

"This tomb originally belonged to a big landowner. When this landowner made his fortune, he also relied on his clan and the large number of people in his branch. Then he gathered together, and when there was a natural disaster, he started to plunder the wealth of other villagers. ”

"After two generations of accumulation, by the third generation, the most skillful person among them will become the landlord."

Shi Ji also followed and watched. In his eyes, these patterns were just a bunch of messy little people.

Not to mention trying to figure out the content, Shi Ji couldn't even understand what they were doing. He just felt that they were fighting at one moment and still fighting at the next.

"Come on, there should have been a few funerary objects here, but they have all been removed. Let's go look elsewhere."

Tanxiao held up the candle, and took out a candle and flint from the bag he carried with him and gave it to the stone table in case of emergency.

Different from carrying a simple sword, Tanxiao held a small Liu Tianzi (iron hammer) in his hand.

In such a small tomb, the simple knife on the stone table is still too big and inconvenient to operate.

Coming out of this ear room, a circular corridor passed through them. They happened to be at the right corner of the corridor. Not far ahead of the corridor, there was a large stone chamber.

It is said to be a stone chamber, but from the outside it looks like a large sarcophagus.

"Is this the main tomb?"

Shi Ji could still understand a little bit, and after he understood it, he was a little eager to try.

This was his first time digging someone's grave.

Quite immoral.

He likes Shi Ji enough!

But Tanxiao didn't answer him immediately. Instead, he glanced at the compass in his hand, and then looked around the stone room in front of him.

"Let's go in and take a look first."

The main hall also has a door, just like a real room.

When walking through the corridor, there were waves of cold wind blowing from the ground. As the candlelight flickered, a ghostly face seemed to appear next to the candle, blowing gently.

Stepping into the main hall, the beating and swaying flames returned to normal.

The candlelight shone all around, and there were spider webs everywhere, and some soil seeped in from the rammed soil layer above, as well as some plant roots.

This tomb is obviously very old.

Of course, what really caught their attention first was the sarcophagus coffin located in the center of the stone chamber.

The coffin lid had already been opened and set aside.

"It seems that our seniors don't follow the rules very well. They opened the door to someone else's house and didn't close it when they left."

Tanxiao made a joke, which made Shi Ji feel a little creepy.

And the best way for him to face his fear is to face it head on.

So he carried a simple knife and walked directly to the coffin, stepping on the scattered soil on the ground.

With just one glance, even Shi Ji noticed a hint of doubt.

Not to mention talking and laughing.

"Taoist Master, these bones are a bit new."

Shi Ji had little experience in tomb robbing, but he was still very knowledgeable about killing people.

For example, he could tell at a glance that the stark white bones lying in the coffin must not have been dead for more than six years.

It has nothing to do with this tomb.

"It's true that the new one is a bit too much."

"Then he is not the owner of this tomb?"

While Shi Ji was puzzled, Tanxiao bent down, put his hand into the coffin, pinched the skull of the bones, and turned it over gently.

The head fell straight off.

"He died with his neck broken. It seems that the person who killed him... was very strong." Shi Ji analyzed: "And Taoist priest, you just said that there is a ghost in this tomb. Could it be that one?" Demons kill people."

Looking at the Shiji who was getting more and more outrageous, Tanxiao retracted his hand and wiped it with an unknown animal skin, as if to get rid of the foul smell on it.

"This man is our senior. Most likely his accomplices took advantage of the wealth and divided the spoils unevenly, so they left him here to apologize to the owner of the tomb."

"What the Taoist priest means is, black and white?!"

Shi Ji's eyes lit up, he was familiar with this matter.

In his early years, when he was not an immortal yet and was still a rogue, he often did such immoral things.

"Ah."

"As for the original bones in this tomb, there are no bones underneath."

As Shi Ji spoke, he turned sideways and looked down.

"Don't worry."

After talking and joking, he stood up again and looked around. He held the candle and frowned slightly, waiting for him to finish looking around.

The frown relaxed.

The stone table is holding a simple knife, poking here and there.

"Taoist priest, there's nothing here. Did our trip go in vain? It's all been emptied."

Tanxiao said with a smile: "No, Pindao will take you to see the real good things."

"Ok?"

While Shi Ji was puzzled, Tan Xiao had already left the stone room holding the candle, and he hurriedly followed.

After coming out of the door and into the corridor, the dark wind blew and the fire started to sway again.

Talking and laughing, Liu Tianzi was inserted into his waist, guarding the candle with one hand, and walked along the corridor against the wind.

The stone table followed closely behind him, and when they came to the corner, the corridor became deeper, but the wind became even stronger.

Faintly, the flames poured down, as if they would be extinguished as they followed.

"Taoist Master, let me go ahead."

"also."

After Shi Ji walked forward, the wind suddenly became much lighter, and he had time to take stock of his surroundings while chatting and laughing.

This stone chamber was built with huge stone slabs. You can tell just by looking at the amount of work.

The status of the owner of this tomb is definitely not low.

"Taoist Priest, where are we going?" Shi Ji looked at the corner of the corridor and asked.

"The coffin up there is fake. It's a fake tomb. The real tomb is somewhere else." Tan Xiao told the whole story.

"what?"

Shi Ji was obviously a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he didn't ask Tanxiao how he knew about this.

Anyway, Taoist Tan knows, so that's not surprising.

It would be surprising if he didn't know.

"Right here, stop."

Chatting and laughing made Shi Ji stop, and the two of them were at another corner of the corridor.

In front of us, we were still surrounded by stone walls and there was no road.

Shi Ji didn't ask any more questions.

Talk to the Taoist priest and you will be able to find a solution.

Sure enough, after stopping, Tanxiao handed the candle to Shi Ji, and he took out Liu Tianzi from his waist.

A small hammer.

The mottled wear marks on it show the years it has gone through.

"Taoist Priest, where did you get into all these troubles?"

Shi Ji couldn't help but ask.

The two of them lived in the same town, so Shi Ji could naturally learn from his memory that Tanxiao was just a shortbread seller in his family.

Where do these things come from?

You can’t buy it now.

"Oh, this, Pindao brought over the old master's stuff."

"He is willing?"

"Is he willing to conflict with me?"

Shi Ji was speechless and could only give him a thumbs up.

Tanxiao kept tapping the stone wall with Liu Tianzi, as if looking for a location.

Shi Ji fell silent.

For a moment, only the sound of talking, laughing and banging on the stone wall echoed in the corridor.

"Boom-"

"咚咚-"

The sound is sometimes crisp and sometimes dull.

He knocked very fast, and often the last sound was still in the corridor and the echo was still there, but the next sound had already arrived. There were more and more noises, just when Shi Ji was getting a little upset.

Tanxiao suddenly slammed out the hammer in his hand
A huge dull sound came, followed by a "bang".

The two of them took a few steps back.

Because the stone wall that Tan Xiao had knocked on suddenly collapsed, revealing a dark door.

"This……"

Shiji was a little surprised. Such a thick stone wall, did Taoist Tan just hit it a few times with a small hammer and break it open?
"The real tomb is behind this. It may be dangerous if you use your spiritual light."

"it is good!"

There is the unknown, there is crisis, there is adventure.

Shi Ji's originally dull heart suddenly became hot, and he stepped over the pile of rocks with a simple knife in hand.

Behind the rocks is a long and narrow stone chamber filled with stone sculptures.

The shape is quite strange. It is not a human or an animal, but a carved door.

They are all stone gates.

The partition door consists of a lattice core and a skirt board, with stone reliefs on it and many human heads carved in the openwork.

There are also square doors with four straight sides, equal width from top to bottom, usually one door in a pair.

There are arched doors with an arched upper part and a right-angled or beveled lower part.

In addition, there are also wall-mounted doors, hanging flower doors, barbarian doors, etc. on the other side.

The two of them walked through the doors.

"What's going on with this man? Why are he buried with so many doors? Did he have too many doors stolen by others during his lifetime?"

Shi Ji looked at it and muttered.

Tanxiao held the half-burned candle in his hand and looked at the stone doors on both sides. At the same time, he said: "After getting down to the tomb, try not to talk nonsense, especially not to say anything disrespectful to the owner of the tomb."

"Is this also a rule?"

"The rules that our predecessors found out with their lives."

Shi Ji shut up immediately.

The two of them passed the funerary room without any danger, passed through the side door, and came to another stone chamber. Different from the funerary room next to it... this tomb was a little strange.

The size is similar to the previous funerary room, but the things placed inside are wooden shelves.

After a rough scan of Tanxiao, there were two columns, nine in each, for a total of eighteen.

Moreover, there are clothes hanging on each shelf. Even though they have been separated for a long time, it may be because they were stored in this underground stone room.

The damage to these clothes was not serious. Even at a glance, one could tell that these clothes were worn by women.

From the innermost bellyband to the outermost outer shirt.

"Do you feel that these clothes hanging here are like the wives and concubines of the owner of this tomb." Tan Xiao suddenly said.

Shi Ji straightened up in an instant and replied: "Master Taoist, can't you see? These are the wives and concubines who were buried with them. Look, that one is still smiling at you."

He pointed to the penultimate item of clothing in the column on the left and said.

Talking and laughing "haha".

He naturally knew that Shi Ji was joking, "I guess all the valuable things are in the main tomb, there is nothing here."

"Let's go."

After saying this, he held up the candle and was about to walk through the tomb.

But a sudden sound made both of them stop.

"Taoist Master, did you hear that?"

Shi Ji, who was walking behind, asked.

"Ah."

Tanxiao nodded, because just now he heard the sound of opening the door. Not only him, Shi Ji also heard it.

The sound came from behind, and the funeral room that I passed earlier did indeed have doors.

But those are all models of stone doors. Under normal circumstances, it is completely impossible to open or close them.

Not to mention the sound of a door closing.

So...there's something weird about it.

"If you think something is weird in a place like this, you must go and see what's going on for yourself. Otherwise, the thing will always linger in your heart like a shadow, making you restless."

While Tanxiao was explaining to Shi Ji, he took out his hammer.

Shi Ji followed closely behind.

The two returned to the funerary room full of stone doors. As expected, all the stone doors were intact.

Not to mention it was opened, it didn't even move at all.

But above the square door, there was a chubby mountain rat lying on its stomach.

Just when the two of them were a little confused, the mountain mouse suddenly raised its nose, opened its mouth, and made a "squeaking" sound. It was a bit hoarse, but it sounded exactly like the sound of opening an old wooden door.

"Right, so most of the time I'm scaring myself."

It's fun to talk and laugh.

But Shi Ji couldn't look away. He threw out the simple knife in his hand again and directly stabbed the mountain rat to death on the wall.

"What the hell, you dare to scare me, Shi Ji?!"

He took a few steps over and pulled out the Pu Dao.

"scare!"

As soon as he lowered his head, he was startled by the situation under his feet.

"What's wrong?" Tanxiao walked over in a few steps.

"Taoist Master, look, why are there so many bones here?!"

Shi Ji pointed to the back of the square door and said with a rather surprised expression.

Tanxiao walked over, and by the candlelight, he could see clearly that there was indeed a pile of white bones on the ground behind the door, and judging from the shape and size of the bones, they were probably small animals in the mountains, for example The long-tailed rabbit that Shi Ji had just stabbed to death.

"Whatever, a few rats died, it's normal, let's go."

The conversation and laughter seemed to be very entertaining, so he turned around and left.

Although Shi Ji also had some doubts in his heart, it was hard to say anything. If he said too much, he would appear guilty and scared.

The two of them passed through the stone door and came to the stone room where the woman's clothes were placed.

But when they got here, they were chatting and laughing with a relaxed expression, but suddenly they stopped, their faces were full of caution, and their brows were even furrowed.

"Ok?"

Shi Ji noticed something strange about him and tightened the knife in his hand, "What's wrong?"

Tanxiao glanced at the shelves with clothes, then reached out and pointed to the second-to-last piece of clothing on the left and the third-to-last piece of clothing on the right, and said, "These two sets of clothes have just changed positions."

"what?"

Shi Ji looked around and couldn't remember what happened to the two clothes just now.

"Taoist Master, are you sure?!"

Shi Ji said that he had already picked up the Pu Dao and was about to go up and hit it a few times, but Tan Xiao stretched out his hand to stop him.

"This ghost seems to be really around us." Tanxiao said in a determined tone.

"where?"

"I don't know."

While chatting and laughing, he handed the candle in his hand to Shi Ji, and he took out a writing brush dipped in scarlet cinnabar from the pouch on his back. He painted directly on his clothes, like outlining. Got a talisman.

"turn around."

He asked Shi Ji to turn around and drew a few sketchy strokes on his back.

"Taoist priest, what are you doing?"

Tanxiao put the cinnabar soft pen back into the bag, "I just tried it. This ghost is so weird that I can't find any trace of it, so I can only wait for it to show up on its own."

"Let's go first."

After saying that, Tanxiao turned around and left the tomb. After passing through the door, what he saw was no longer a tomb, but an ear chamber similar to the one the two of them had just entered.

What is placed here is no longer the burial objects, but two sarcophagi.

This side chamber is not big, only about half the size of the two previous burial chambers.

Apart from these two sarcophagi, there was nothing else in the ear chamber.

"After fucking this for so long, it's finally time to ship." Shi Ji stepped forward and said eagerly.

He walked to the middle of the two sarcophagi with his sword in hand and looked around, "Taoist Priest, I will open whichever one you say."

Talking and laughing about seeing these two sarcophagi, there was no joy as when they were shipped.

He just felt a little strange. If there were people buried with him, then the coffin of the person buried with him should not be placed in this ear room.

"What, can't it be opened?"

Shi Ji saw the conversation and laughed without saying anything, so he asked again.

"No."

Tanxiao looked around, and finally pointed to the coffin on the left and said, "Open this one."

"okay!"

Shi Ji immediately inserted the simple knife aside, then lowered his body slightly, put his hands on the edge of the sarcophagus lid, and immediately roared and exerted force.

The coffin lid, which originally required several people to push, was gradually pushed out of a gap under the force of the stone table.

There was only the sound of friction and collision between stones, and the gaps became wider and wider.

Shi Ji also gradually saw the situation inside the coffin clearly, but as soon as he saw it clearly, he was stunned.

"Taoist Priest, the one inside...is a stone man!"

"Stone man?!"

Tanxiao also came over with a candle in his hand, but as soon as he got close, he didn't have time to see clearly what was inside the coffin.

The candle flame...went out.

Inside the ear chamber, it suddenly became pitch black.

While talking and laughing, he felt a chill on his neck, as if a cold little hand was pinching his Adam's apple. (End of chapter)