Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 52 Jade Figures
After a short rest, Professor Ye lit the third torch, and the light drove away the darkness. Professor Ye waved to us: "Time waits for no one, let's go!"

Gu Meidi and I stood up, followed Professor Ye, and walked in slowly.

This is a tomb with an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters. The tomb is dead silent, like a completely isolated dark world.

A row of niches are chiseled on the walls around the tomb, about half a person's height above the ground, and there are more than ten in total.Inside each niche is a copper lamp in the shape of lotus petals.Professor Ye walked around the tomb and lit all the copper lamps.More than a dozen copper lamps lit up together, exuding a strange blue light, like more than a dozen devil's eyes, staring at us coldly, making people feel chills down the spine.

The eerie blue light reflected on the walls of the tomb chamber, giving off an indescribably weird feeling.These niches are like show windows, and in each show window are various antiques besides copper lamps.In some niches there are tablets engraved with Xixia characters; in some niches there are scriptures inlaid with gold threads; These things became funeral objects after his death.

Gu Meidi said: "In the ancient tombs we explored before, the funerary objects were randomly piled up in the tomb. It was the first time I saw someone arrange the funerary objects so neatly. If we don't say that this is a tomb, I really thought I entered a Xixia Museum.”

Professor Ye pointed to the top of the tomb: "The guy surnamed Wan above must have often descended into this ancient tomb!"

"How do you know?" I asked curiously.

Professor Ye said: "It's very simple. When I was in the cellar just now, I found that the soil was very soft, and it was obviously a sign of frequent turning. Besides, look at these funerary objects. After so many years, there is no dust on them. .Especially the tablet, it is as bright as new. What does this mean? It means that people often enter the tomb to clean it!"

"Good eyesight!" I sincerely admire Professor Ye's observation ability.

Gu Meidi said: "It's strange, this ancient tomb is under Wan Juncheng's villa, could it be that Wan Juncheng built it secretly? But it seems that it doesn't make sense, how to explain the thousand-year-old wax corpse outside the tomb ?”

I said: "Then there is only one possibility. This Xixia ancient tomb was not built by Wan Juncheng, but built thousands of years ago. As a descendant of Yipintang, Wan Juncheng should know this ancient tomb, so it is called After transforming it into a villa area, he deliberately chose this villa built on top of the ancient tomb!"

"En!" Professor Ye nodded: "It seems that this ancient tomb has a great relationship with Xixia Yipin Hall!"

After we glanced around in the tomb, we turned our eyes to the center of the tomb.There is a sunken square pool in the center of the tomb. Surprisingly, the water in the pool is blood-red, with a strong smell of blood floating around.In the center of the blood pool, there is a black sarcophagus.The body of the coffin was soaked in blood, only the dark coffin lid was exposed, which looked ghostly.

"Why is the water in it red?" I asked suspiciously.

Professor Ye said: "This is a pool of blood, these are not water at all, but blood!"

blood? !
I couldn't help shivering. The side length of this blood pool is at least 20 meters. How much blood is needed to fill this pool?I smelled the choking smell of blood in my nose, and I only felt nausea.

Gu Meidi asked Professor Ye for advice: "Why did they soak the coffin in blood? I have never seen such a weird way of burial!"

Professor Ye stared at the pool of blood in front of him with a torch, squinted his eyes and asked, "Do you think this sarcophagus looks familiar?"

"Aha!" Gu Meidi was the first to react: "This sarcophagus is almost exactly the same as the hanging sarcophagus we found in the Yellow River Fish Bone Temple!"

Professor Ye nodded, with an unconcealable excitement on the corner of his mouth: "The sarcophagus of the Fishbone Temple contains the bones of the master of Yipintang Dizitang, so this same sarcophagus..."

"The one buried is also the bones of the hall master!" Before Professor Ye could finish speaking, I had already answered.After a pause, I thought about seeing the eyeball tattoo on the back of Wan Juncheng’s neck before I fell into a coma, and then said: “It’s the bones of the head of the Tianzitang! Didn’t Wan Juncheng say it before? The eyeball tattoo of the Tianzitang is red, Wan Juncheng There are red eyeball tattoos on the back of Juncheng's neck. Since Wan Juncheng wants to guard this ancient tomb, it must be the tomb of Tianzitang!"

"Tuobagu, pass me the Luoyang shovel in your hand!" Professor Ye said.

"Professor, what are you going to do?" I asked suspiciously.

Professor Ye gritted his teeth, and two words popped out between his teeth: "Open the coffin!"

"What?! You...you want to open the coffin?!" I looked at Professor Ye in astonishment, not understanding why he made this decision.

Gu Meidi also felt that something was wrong: "If... if we rashly open the coffin, if an old rice dumpling crawls out of it, we... may not be able to clean it up..."

"What? Are you scared?" Professor Ye looked at Gu Meidi, then at me, and said slowly: "What's the matter? You don't want to pursue it anymore? This matter has already started, and we are also being targeted. No one can stop. The bones of the head of the Tianzitang are placed in the coffin, maybe we can find some useful clues from the dead body? Now any clue is very important to us! What are you doing in a daze? Let's do it!"

I pursed my lips. What Professor Ye said was correct. At first we were just investigating the ancient corpse in the tortoise coffin out of curiosity, but unexpectedly, it involved the Xixia Dynasty and the mysterious Yipintang thousands of years ago. Now we are already riding a tiger. It was impossible to let go.The only way to survive is to continue to investigate, reveal all the secrets about Yipintang and the Xixia Dynasty, and fight bravely with the remaining forces of Yipintang.

Thinking of this, I nodded to Professor Ye: "Okay! I'll go with you and open the coffin together!"

"Hey! Wait!" Gu Meidi stopped us: "The blood in this pool looks terrible, it won't... it won't be poisonous?"

"Haha!" Professor Ye smiled casually: "We are already poisoned by the underworld flower, what kind of bird are we afraid of?"

Professor Ye, who has always been gentle and refined, suddenly burst out with a swear word, and such a free and easy heart suddenly aroused my pride.

"Yes! What kind of bird to be afraid of!" I roared and jumped into the pool of blood. The smelly blood splashed on my face. I shook my hair and said to Professor Ye, "Professor, let's go!"

"Tuobagu, you foolish person, you can just jump!" Gu Meidi looked at me worriedly. Although she was scolding me, it sounded like I was enjoying it.

I waved to her: "Xiao Nizi, don't come down, you just stand up and give us a guard!"

No one knows whether the muddy blood is fatal, let alone whether the dead body in the coffin will become an old rice dumpling. I let her stay on the blood pool to protect her safety.

thump!
Professor Ye also jumped into the blood pool, beckoned to me, and we walked towards the stone coffin in the center of the blood pool together.

The pool of blood was not too deep, and the blood probably covered half of our waists, so it was a little strenuous to walk.

The sarcophagus that has been sleeping for thousands of years exudes a cold atmosphere. Standing next to the sarcophagus, it seems that the surrounding temperature has dropped a lot.

Professor Ye and I walked around the sarcophagus, and Professor Ye gave me a wink: "Do it!"

I nodded, raised the Luoyang shovel, picked out the coffin sealing wax, and inserted the blade of the shovel into the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body.After almost half of the shovel blade was inserted, I took a deep breath, stretched my arms, and shouted loudly: "Get up!"

The heavy coffin lid was slowly pushed up by Luoyang shovel. Professor Ye quickly stepped forward to put his hands on it, grabbed the edge of the coffin lid and pushed it hard. High bloody spray.

When the coffin lid was removed, Professor Ye and I took a step back at the same time, in case some hidden mechanism would pop up inside the sarcophagus.

After waiting for a while and finding nothing unusual inside the sarcophagus, Professor Ye and I put down our guard and slowly approached.

The structure of this sarcophagus is exactly the same as the sarcophagus in the Fishbone Temple, with a black stone coffin on the outside and a rare black yin wood coffin inside, and the space between the coffin and the coffin is filled with blood.

Professor Ye and I glanced at each other, and now we are completely sure that the owner of this coffin is the head of the Tianzi Hall.

We worked together to open the Yinmu coffin, and a lifelike corpse of a Xixia warrior came into view.When the coffin was opened, Professor Ye and I let out low exclamations at the same time.The body of the master of the Dizi Hall of the Fishbone Temple was wearing a precious gold-thread robe, but the body of the master of the Tianzi Hall was actually wearing a jade robe.This kind of corpse is called jade figurine, which is extremely precious, and only the relatives of the emperor can enjoy the burial method.

I took a closer look at this jade figurine. The jade clothes on his body are made up of at least a hundred pieces of emerald green high-quality jade in series. The largest of those beautiful jades is as big as a person's palm, and the smallest one can be as delicate as a fingernail. The workmanship is extremely exquisite. , the body of the corpse was full of light, and the emerald green light poured out like flowing water, blending with the blood and water outside the coffin, projecting a strange luster.If this jade garment is passed down to the world, it will definitely be a priceless treasure.

Look at the corpse under the jade clothes again, it is lifelike, thousands of years have passed, it seems to be alive, and at a glance, it seems that he just closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully.

"Wow!" I couldn't help stretching out my hand, wanting to touch this expensive jade dress.

Suddenly, Professor Ye grabbed my wrist: "Don't move!"

(End of this chapter)