Notes on Tomb Raiders of Liu Bowen's Descendants

Chapter 24 Confidential (2)
"Where's Guo Laosi and Tsui Hark?" Liu Ji asked, Chang Sheng pouted towards the place where the two of them were unconscious because Tsui Hark had attacked Liu Ji unexpectedly.Liu Ji glanced at them, both of them were still in a coma, sighed slightly, pushed Chang Sheng away and asked, "Where are we?" Immediately, his expression became strange, and he saw the Of the two portraits, I recognized that the commoner one was the portrait of the ancestor hanging in the grandfather's room.

According to the rules handed down by the Liu family, Liu Ji walked a few steps forward, then knelt down beside the case, and kowtowed four times in the four directions of east, west, north and south. For the matter of ordering the dragon, after death, the descendants are asked to worship the heaven and the earth in all directions, which can reduce their guilt.

In the end, he solemnly looked at the portrait of his ancestor, and solemnly kowtowed three times.

Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly heard a few "dong dong" sounds behind him. Liu Ji turned around in surprise, only to find that it was Chang Sheng. Seeing Liu Ji doing this, he himself knelt on the ground. really.

While kowtowing, Chang Sheng was still muttering, "I don't know why you kowtow, anyway, it's not a bad thing, I'll kowtow a few times too, don't look for me if you have any bad things." Liu Ji thought it was funny, and pulled him up.The two were going to look for a way out here, and after discussing it, they decided that one person would be responsible for the two walls.

When the voice fell, they heard the sound of "creaking and creaking". The two of them looked back and found that a piece of the wall between the two portraits gradually protruded, and then slowly outward, it turned out to be a person with a pull track. organ.

What protruded was a hollow stone, a bit like a common drawer at home.In that "drawer", there is an earth-colored thing, round, with a flat top, and around the edges are kneaded pillars one by one. The craftsmanship is very simple.Liu Ji stretched out his hand and slowly took out the thing, while Chang Sheng paid close attention to whether any hidden weapons were triggered.

Fortunately, everything was calm, until the things were completely taken out of the drawer, the two let out a long breath.

"There's more inside!" Chang Sheng suddenly shouted in surprise.Liu Ji looked inside again, and there were more than a dozen clay dolls under the round object.Chang Sheng grinned, slapped Liu Ji and said, "Why do I think these are so similar to the clay figurine you begged for in Panjiayuan?"

After Liu Jijing reminded him, he suddenly remembered that the thing was indeed somewhat similar to the doll he had begged for except for the clothes.He excitedly pinched his thigh and grinned his teeth in pain, only to be sure that it wasn't a dream, but he still felt dizzy, and he couldn't believe that he could see Piyong here.In Panjiayuan, I just had a fluke mentality and didn't want to let go of that opportunity, but the chance was as slim as one in a million, probably not much more likely than picking up a lottery ticket on the street and winning the Mark Six lottery.

But who knew that it was such a coincidence that this thing was found in this cemetery that had gone so hard to get to this point.At this time, Liu Ji couldn't care about his own situation, how to go out is something later, seeing Piyong is the most urgent thing.

He stretched out his hand and took out the puppets one by one and put them on the ground, and then put Piyong upright. Liu Jixian found the emperor inside the puppets, the one with the tall jade crown on his head, according to the instructions on Piyong. Spots were placed in the middle position in comparison, and then came down one by one. They were the king, general, and a dozen civilians and students, which filled the entire Biyong position. There was only one place left, and one person was missing. I.

I took out the puppet wrapped in several layers from the bag, and saw that the spot hidden under the foot was exactly opposite to the spot at that position, Liu Ji was so happy that he slapped his thigh, "It's done!"

At this time, Piyong also slowly changed.The emperor above turned around by himself, and the legendary subset of classics and history did not appear, but he brought the group of puppets to face the wall of the two portraits.The portrait has been rolled up at this time, and on the back of Liu Bowen's portrait, there are eight large characters written: "Ten steps into the cave, the bones hide secrets."

Both Chang Sheng and Liu Ji looked at the square hole coming out of the stone drawer. It was probably less than one meter high and was dug out of the stone.If you want to go in, you can only go in by crawling. I don't know how to calculate the ten steps.

But if you don't follow your words, I'm afraid you won't be able to find another way. In this way, you won't be able to escape.Chang Sheng rolled his eyes and said: "Banxian, I'm afraid there is something weird about this cave. Why don't we go in first, wake up Tsui Hark or Guo Laosi, and let them fight first." Liu Ji shook his head, saying something to himself. The ancestors had great trust, and never believed that he would design harm, even if he couldn't figure out that the ones who came back were his own descendants. Secondly, if Guo Laosi or Xu Ke entered the cave and there was no mechanism in the cave, they could shut it down This channel, with Tsui Hark's character and hatred for the Liu family, he can do anything.

Liu Ji stood up without saying a word, walked to the wall, pushed the stone drawer out forcefully, then bent down and crawled in; Chang Sheng didn't hesitate any more, and followed him into the hole.

After advancing about eight meters, the space in the cave suddenly grew larger, as high as a person standing, with a width of more than a hundred square meters around, and densely packed bones everywhere.Thinking of those eight characters, Liu Ji stopped at the edge of the larger hole and pulled away the bones with his hand. After a while, his hand felt something hard and it was cold to the touch.Liu Ji knew that this must not be a skeleton, after groping, it looked like a rectangular jade box.

That jade is the best cold jade, the best for storing things, no matter whether it is water, fire, swords or soldiers, it cannot be invaded. Only the most important items will be stored with this kind of thing.Liu Ji called Chang Sheng, and the two of them couldn't turn around, so they could only retreat slowly. After about ten minutes, they exited the cave and returned to the high platform.

Liu Ji glanced at the jade box in his hand, and suddenly realized why before he was unconscious, he had to rely on his hands to watch objects on the high platform, but now it was like daylight here, he looked up and realized that he didn't know when, the high platform There is an almost transparent roof on it, which is probably made of colored glaze, with rays of light shooting out from it, it should be the most precious luminous pearl on the bottom of the sea.He couldn't help admiring the ingenious design of the ancients in his heart. He touched the gossip, broke the illusion array and triggered the mechanism. As for the jade box, no matter how clever a person is, he can only sit and wait for death.

With a little force, the jade box was opened, revealing a piece of white silk, which was densely written in tiny characters: "You must be a descendant of the Xu family to come here. Since the Ming Dynasty, I have been on good terms with Lingzu... ..."

Looking at the first sentence, Liu Ji can conclude that this word was not written by Xu Da, and the font is very familiar, which is no different from the ancestral precepts written by Liu Bowen himself at home.Liu Ji wondered, why is there a note written by my ancestors in the Xu family's ancestral tomb?

Continuing to read, Liu Ji was taken aback.

This ancient house has been a secret since the Ming Dynasty.It turns out that since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have so many capable ministers available. Many ministers used to be peddlers. They were wealthy at first glance, and when they encountered opportunities to make money, they were like hungry and green-eyed wolves. Meat, corruption and bribery Risheng, in order to reduce such things, Zhu Yuanzhang established a law, embezzling 100 silver and peeling off both.

Because this criminal law is so cruel, how many jailers and executioners who executed it vomited violently after the execution, and they did not want to execute the law again.

After all, under the torture, everyone was terrified, and there were many rumors that Zhu Yuanzhang was cruel and unkind, and he was a tyrant.

In order to quell this kind of argument, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to secretly find a place to deal with these corrupt officials, and chose Xu Da from among the veterans on the battlefield.Firstly, Xu Da is prudent and trustworthy; secondly, Xu Da has been a handsome man for many years, and he has seen many life and death fights, and he is not afraid of the cruelty of skinning.

Xu Da received the order, secretly liked it in his heart, and wanted to leave Nanjing, a place of right and wrong, as soon as possible.Because I liked King Yan's behavior in my heart, I built this house in the outskirts of Beijing. Whenever corrupt officials were sent, they would be executed in the underground ancestral hall. The instruments of torture that Liu Ji and the others saw there that day were A tool for skinning.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang began to purge the heroes because of the disturbance of Fengshui.Liu Bowen came to find Xu Da and talked about a secret matter, that is, during the war years, the two of them got two secret treasures from the Genghis Khan Mausoleum sent back to Mongolia by Kublai Khan’s dignitaries in Gansu, a parchment scroll map, and There is that jade pendant.

Xu Daben suggested handing it over to Zhu Yuanzhang, and use the power of the whole country to open the Chengling Mausoleum to take treasures and benefit the world.But Liu Bowen talked about feng shui, fearing that Zhu Yuanzhang would become more tyrannical in the future. Having this wealth may not benefit the world, and it may bring disaster to the world.

Liu Bowen suggested that he and Xu Da each keep one object. He calculated that he would have to wait hundreds of years before he and Xu Da's descendants went to open the Chengling Mausoleum.

After the two people divided the items, it didn't take long for Zhu Yuanzhang to send to Xu Da the heroes who were called corrupt but were actually purged, and many of them were former generals of Xu Da.Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that Xu Da couldn't bear to do it, so he must send imperial envoys to supervise every time he sent it.

As a result, Xu Da fell into a heart attack, knowing that his brothers and subordinates died unjustly, and gradually had the dream of them asking for their lives.Coupled with the fact that I was getting older and the ground was damp, I finally got back sores. I used this excuse to return to Nanjing, and I never wanted to continue this errand.

When Liu Bowen came to see him, Xu Da's condition had already improved. Those intentional rumors were that Xu Da wanted to take advantage of the evil spirits to claim his life, and he suffered from retribution to stimulate Zhu Yuanzhang so that he would restrain himself from killing the heroes. .

However, after all, because of his poor health, Xu Da's illness relapsed again.At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was tired of Xu Da's book about the evil ghost's death, and his inner demons arose. He wanted to kill Xu Da, but he was afraid that the officials would be restless.

Xu Da saw what he was thinking, seeing that he would suffer if he continued to live, so he secretly sent someone to tell Liu Bowen, praying that he would find a way to make him die quickly, not to implicate his descendants, and let Zhu Yuanzhang have some scruples and not kill old officials.

Liu Bowen admired Xu Da's sacrifice, so he took the risk to pretend to be "Song of Shaobing", and made the illusion of telling Zhu Yuanzhang to kill Xu Da in order to intercede for himself.

In order to fulfill Xu Da's wish, he said that Xu Daming's sores were caused by those skinned sinners who refused to accept their grievances. If he wanted not to hurt the emperor, he had to ask Xu Da and the officials in charge of this secret punishment to die. Put it into the coffin, carry the cross in the shape of a scarecrow, have no skin and be exposed to the rain and wind to protect these evil spirits from causing trouble again.

After being frightened by this, Zhu Yuanzhang really restrained a lot, thinking of Xu Da's past achievements, he did not attack his descendants again, and even gave silver to build the mausoleum.Liu Bowen was afraid that the design of the tomb would be rough, and that experts in tomb robbers or the family members of the skinned people would come in and destroy the tomb of his old friend, so he made the design drawing himself, and set up many traps, even sealing the earth dragon when Beijing was built. In this underground barrier well.

This Xu Da died in a hurry, and he will not have time to write everything down in the will in the future.Therefore, the descendants of the Xu family thought that Liu Bowen harmed Xu Da, and when Xu Da mentioned the parchment scroll in the tomb, he was also very cryptic, and he did not write down what happened hundreds of years later. What did Liu Ji do in the tomb, so he set up an instruction that when the descendants had children, they would choose someone to enter the tomb, but they didn't expect to put a huge burden on the descendants, and ended up in a situation where the descendants died tragically.

Although there have been people from the earth industry following in from generation to generation, they will definitely lose to the earth dragon and Zhu clam. Either their skin will be corroded, or they will be swallowed by Zhu clam.Only Tsui Hark's father, who was splashed with the green liquid, felt that something was wrong, so he escaped by himself, but also died at home.

(End of this chapter)