Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 563 Stone Eunuch

At this moment, Yazai and Professor Xu are standing under a stone statue to study, while the group leader Lin and others behind him keep a distance, maintaining a vigilant posture.

As for Kumbu, his expression was even more strange, as if he was looking at someone through the stone statue.

I swept them around first, and then began to look at the stone statues.

This stone statue is very weird, and it is no wonder that it will surprise the boy: the stone statue is about as tall as me, with its head drooped, almost parallel to the shoulders, its two hands raised flat, pointing straight at us, but its feet are standing very straight.The depiction of the facial features is imprecise, the ears, nose, and mouth are all random, but excluding the eyes, this pair of eyes is portrayed like the eyes of a real person. The black pupils match the whites of the eyes to look lifelike.

What is this?
After looking at it, this sentence first came to my mind. Although I knew it was a stone statue, I always ignored the fact that it was a stone statue after watching it.

"This, isn't this a zombie?" Datou suddenly shouted.

I turned my head and looked at him. His expression was a little scared, but more of a surprise.Said that he had seen records of zombies before, except that the head was not drooping, everything else was almost exactly the same.

Lao Yan shook his head, saying no, the eyes of zombies are not exactly the same as those of normal people.

He said it seriously, but he didn't expect his words to cause an uproar!First, the big head took a few steps back, ah, he didn't say a few words, and then Captain Lin cast a reproachful glance at Lao Yan.

Before Lao Yan could react, one of them had already yelled out: "Really, are there really zombies?"

Only then did Lao Yan slowly come to his senses, and explained: "No, I also read the records."

The yelling soldier patted his chest in shock, saying that he was scared to death, but the big head looked at Lao Yan suspiciously, apparently not believing Lao Yan's words.Lao Yan shrugged his shoulders, and I looked at him with a funny face, this is indeed an unavoidable thing, when a group of us speak together, it is inevitable that we will slip up.

"Don't make jokes, Lao Yan, take a look, does this stone statue look like an eunuch?" Professor Xu raised his head and pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, looking at Lao Yan with a hint of pleading for help.

No, it can't be said to be asking for help, but most of them are puzzled, probably because he doesn't understand why a eunuch's stone statue is so weird?
Lao Yan no longer cared about Captain Lin whispering to him not to talk nonsense, and directly pushed aside the crowd and stood beside Professor Xu. After watching for a while, he nodded solemnly: "It should be, look at the lower body of this statue, It's clearly missing a piece."

I rolled my eyes, there are simple trousers engraved under the statue, how did he see that one piece was missing?

But Professor Xu looked at it seriously for a minute, then looked at all the men present strangely, and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, if there are many, the direction of this line should be a little bit more biased, no It should come straight down like this."

I listened to Lao Yan and Professor Xu having a long discussion on whether there is a piece missing there, and I can only admire their spirit.The faces of the others were more or less weird, Captain Lin even smiled awkwardly, and punched Lao Yan on the shoulder with his fist, telling him not to discuss any more, but it's just a stone statue, let's get over it , Don't waste your time.

Lao Yan rolled his eyes at him and said, "You don't understand that, do you? Everywhere that leads to the tomb is likely to be a mechanism. It's always right to be careful."

"Cheng Chengcheng, be careful, I'll take them first." Captain Lin said angrily.

Lao Yan ignored him, and as soon as Captain Lin waved his hand, he led Lao Mao and the others forward.

At this time, I noticed a detail, that is, when Captain Lin was about to cross the stone statue, Kumbu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he was staring at the movements of Captain Lin.

"Oh no, Lao Yan, are you trying to trick me into giving you thunder? I don't think so, hurry up, have you researched anything? I don't know how long the road ahead is." He raised one foot, and when he was about to step over, he suddenly retracted it.

Kunbu's eyes dimmed again immediately, and then he looked to the side to cover up, and after colliding with my suspicious eyes, he unexpectedly turned his head away.

My doubts deepened. Ever since he saw the stone statue, his eyes were not right, and now it looks even weirder!

This side hasn't figured out why yet, but Lao Yan has already opened his mouth, but his tone is heavy, it can't be a joke: "It won't be long, the road ahead won't be very long."

Ok?
I shifted my researching gaze from Kumbu to Lao Yan, the road to the tomb is not long, shouldn't I be happy?What a sad look.

"This is not an eunuch." Professor Xu continued Lao Yan's words, slowly put his hand on the stone statue, and touched it lightly, with a bit of sympathy and a bit of disdain, in short, his expression was very complicated.

Professor Xu explained slowly, saying that this statue is an ancient sacrificial ceremony, used to replace living people.Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Yingming I, disdained the old system of burial after his death, so he chose to use stone statues instead of living people to be buried with him. It is said that there were countless such stone statues when he was buried. But only one stone statue is different from the others.

This stone statue was placed at the entrance of Empress Changsun's tomb, representing Taizong himself. Because husband and wife could not be buried together, Taizong wanted to accompany the empress in this way.

I was dumbfounded after hearing this. Could this weird stone statue with its head bowed be Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty?
The unearthed statues of emperors of all dynasties are all tall and mighty. Who would want their statues to become such flattering little eunuchs?

And I have also learned about the history of the Tang Dynasty. Didn't Emperor Taizong of Tang set a precedent for the joint burial of emperors and empresses?

Why did Professor Xu say that the two of them were not buried together?

Professor Xu sighed and said that it was recorded in history that Tang Taizong and Empress Changsun had a very close relationship. Tang Taizong was even willing to be buried with Empress Changsun together, but this idea was not in line with the etiquette system at that time, so he had to give up, and in the end he had to find the empress. A place with particularly good geomantic omen like Jiuyi Mountain and Empress Changsun were buried on two adjacent hills, which can be regarded as a joint burial.

In order to protect Empress Changsun, Emperor Taizong of Tang specially ordered a stone statue in front of him to be made and placed in front of Empress Changsun's tomb.

"Are you kidding? If anyone dares to carve a stone statue like this, he won't be afraid of being beheaded by the emperor?" Yazai said in a disbelieving tone.To be honest, I don't believe it either, who is so impatient that he turned the emperor's stone statue into a person, ghost or ghost, and even made future generations wonder if it belonged to an eunuch?
(End of this chapter)