Zong Tomb: Starting from Huangpizi Tomb

Chapter 98 The boys and girls in the side palace

When Bai Jing heard what the fat man said, he said indifferently: "Don't worry, we have reached the middle hall now. The main hall is behind it. The tomb owner's coffin must be in the back hall."

When the fat man heard this, he suppressed his anxiety. Suddenly, the fat man seemed to have discovered something and pointed at the stone door of the underground palace and said: "Look at these two poodles who are guarding the door of the tomb owner. What are they carrying?" thing?"

Hearing this, Bai Jing also looked at the 'poodle' that the fat man called. When he saw the so-called 'poodle' clearly, he couldn't help but feel happy.

Bai Qi also said helplessly: "Fat man, your uneducated appearance really impresses me."

Immediately afterwards, I heard Bai Qi explain: "The curly-haired beast carrying the treasure is a lion, not a poodle. To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such a thing. There is actually a lion carrying the treasure in front of the Changsheng Hall of the Liao Cemetery Palace. , this should mean that there are priceless burial objects around the tomb owner."

Hearing this, Lu Jun also said excitedly: "Oh? Really? Does this mean there is a good treasure in the tomb?"

Bai Jing nodded and said: "My brother is right, and this just proves our previous guess. The tomb is of extremely high standards. In the entire history of the Liao Dynasty, except for the imperial tombs, there are only It’s the tomb of Queen Mother Xiao.”

Bai Jing seemed to have thought of something. He glanced at the side halls on both sides and said, "Let's go to the side halls on both sides to see if there is anything recorded about this Empress Dowager Xiao."

When everyone heard this, they thought it was reasonable, and they immediately entered the side hall to the west of the central hall.

As a result, when they went in, everyone was a little dumbfounded. The side hall was completely empty.

And it was definitely not emptied out. Just looking at the marks on the ground, you can tell that the side hall has been empty since the tomb was built.

The fat man couldn't help complaining: "I think these ancient feudal aristocrats are sick, right? They built such a big hall in the mountain, but ended up not putting anything in it. Is it just for the purpose of setting up this score? Is it because the mother is so full? ?”

No wonder the fat man had such doubts.

The ancient burial system emphasized the importance of death as life. The underground palace in this tomb used to be called "Xuan Palace". In the Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid tabooing the name of Kang Mazi, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, the name was changed to the underground palace. .

Later, after the Republic of China, there were no longer such taboos, and naturally the name could be anything. In short, under normal circumstances, it would be the same as the palace of the tomb owner during his lifetime.

If it cannot be completely consistent, then it must at least maintain a basic similarity in layout. The excavated tomb chamber is also divided into three main halls, front, middle and back. Just like a serious residential house, there are side halls on both sides, although they are not necessarily useful. , but at least there must be.

Moreover, the arch of the side hall means that this is the Warrant Hall. Since it is the Warrant Hall, it should be the place where books are stored.

But why was this hall so empty? Bai Jing was a little confused.

After scanning around, Bai Jing found nothing. The next moment he inadvertently raised his head, through his night eyes, Bai Jing discovered that there were about a dozen buried boys and girls high up in the hall, all nailed to the wall.

Each of these boys and girls held a burning lamp in their hands, and their clothes and headdresses were all torn. Their faces were distorted and their faces were dark. It was obvious that these boys and girls must have been in great pain before they died.

And Bai Jing couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat when he suddenly saw a dozen or so people in the tomb.

Seemingly noticing something was wrong with Bai Jing's gaze, Bai Qi and others also looked upward.

As a girl, Jian Guo suddenly trembled all over and turned pale.

Even Hazel felt his body tremble, and then clenched his fists. The burial system of the Liao Dynasty was roughly similar to that of the Central Plains Dynasty at the same time, but it was slightly different. The boys and girls who were buried were usually skinned, nailed to wooden stakes, and dressed in human form. This kind of thing Known as human stakes.

Before Bai Jing entered the tomb, he had guessed that there would be such a scene, but what Bai Jing didn't expect was that there were so many children buried in the tomb.

The most important thing is that this is only the west side hall of a central hall. If nothing else happens, the east side hall should be in the same situation.

Jianguo and Hazel hid behind Bai Jing and the others, not daring to look any further, while Bai Jing and a few other men stepped forward and took photos of the boys and girls with their flashlights.

Bai Jing knew all the things in the tombs very well, and he could naturally tell that these were boys and girls who died alive.

These boys and girls who were martyred all had their heads cut and skinned before they were alive, and then covered on wooden figurines. Afterwards, these children were painted on their eyebrows and applied blush while they were in extreme pain.

The wooden figurines are made of camphor wood. Even if they are kept in ancient tombs for thousands of years, they can still be immortal and invulnerable to insects and ants.

As for these children who died like this, you don't need to think about how huge their grievances must be.

There are more than a dozen boys and girls in the west hall. These boys and girls were skinned in front of them, and now they are nailed to the wall. They hold bright lamps in their hands and lower their heads to stand on the top of the tomb. This is obviously a ceremony for the owner of the tomb.

This is not difficult to understand, but because the soul of the deceased tomb owner is about to ascend to heaven, all the boys and girls buried in sacrifice were nailed to a high place, more than ten feet away from the ground. In this case, there will be messengers to guide the tomb owner when he ascends to heaven.

Just at this moment, the body of one of the girls suddenly fell from a height. I don't know whether the nails that were fixed were weak or something happened.

The fat man was just below the girl's body. During the fall of the body, because his arms stretched forward, his arms touched the fat man's shoulders when they landed just behind the fat man.

To the fat man, it felt like someone tapped him on the shoulder.

The fat man glanced at Bai Jing, Bai Qi, Jun Jun, Jianguo, and Hazelnut, and found that there were not many of them, and his face instantly became extremely pale.

At the same time, the fat man's body started to tremble.

Immediately afterwards, I heard the fat man ask in a trembling voice: "Did one of you pat me on the shoulder?"

Bai Jing and the others shook their heads. Now, the fat man's face turned even paler.

Moreover, looking at his expression, he was almost crying.

Bai Jing didn't mean to scare the fat man. He immediately pointed his finger behind the fat man and said, "Don't worry, it's not a ghost. It's a corpse that fell down and hit you."

Hearing this, the fat man first breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt as if he had been insulted. He immediately jumped to the side of everyone, and then looked at where he was standing just now.

Sure enough, it was the body of a girl, and the body obviously fell down because the nails on it were in disrepair and could no longer be hung.

(End of this chapter)