Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 721 The Source of Cold Qi (4000)

"..."

No one could answer Wu Liang's question, even Wu Liang himself had no clue.

At least science can’t explain it. If it’s a cellar or an underground palace, it’s justified, but this is a natural area on the ground. The air can exchange freely with the outside world, and at least half of the day can receive sunlight. Exposure, this is very unreasonable.

Wu Liang stood in place and looked around.

Soon he found a long pit a few feet away, so he led everyone up to check it out.

"The old people said that this kind of earthen pit was originally the tomb where the corpses of Tian Heng's disciples were buried. Later, the decomposed corpses of those disciples somehow crawled out of the tomb, leaving many such earthen pits."

Jin Wei took the initiative to introduce Wu Liang.

"Before, I heard from your father that after the corpses of those doormen climbed out of the grave, they walked around Yuzhou Mountain like living people. When they saw someone approaching here, they would take the initiative to attack. Then what happened later? Do you know what happened later? Where did the corpses of those disciples go?"

Wu Liang asked in a deep voice while looking into the pit.

"I don't know... that happened hundreds of years ago. My father also heard it from the old people in the county, and the old people in the county also heard it from their ancestors in Qu County. Whether it's my father or not, It doesn’t matter whether it’s the old people in the county, no one has ever seen the corpses of those disciples, so it’s hard to say whether this is true or not, and no one can tell what happened afterwards.”

Jin Wei is more like an atheist who was extremely rare in the Eastern Han Dynasty, expressing his doubts and views on this legend in his words... This also explains why he dared to go against his father's warning and bring people into this city in Qu County. Quite a famous haunted house to live in for one night.

"Has anyone in Qu County counted how many graves there are in total, and how many graves like this pit?"

Wu Liang then asked.

"This villain knows about it, and even counted it himself after he landed on the island."

Jin Wei said proudly, "There are a total of 480 six tombs without steles here, instead of the rumored 140. Among them, there are a total of [-] tombs that have become such pits."

"Then have you verified whether the remaining 340 or four intact tombs really contain the corpses of disciples?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"This……"

Jin Wei was stunned for a long time before looking at Wu Liang with a strange expression of "I suspect you are fishing for law enforcement", and then clarified repeatedly, "Wu Taishi, although the villain can't read a few words, he also knows Digging a grave is a felony for the owl, even if you have the guts, you wouldn't dare to do such an outrageous thing."

The Han Dynasty did have such an express law: Stealing hair graves is the same crime as wounding and maiming, blackmail, murder, and human trafficking.

This "powder punishment" is not as simple as ordinary beheading.

Although the purpose of execution is also the same, the execution process of "Zun Xun" is "cut the flesh and bones first, then cut off the limbs, and finally cut the throat". After this set of procedures, it is almost the same as Ling Chi. Before dying, he endured unbearable pain and torture.

It seems that thick burials were popular in the Han Dynasty, and the ruling class such as the Han royal family and the gentry were the main groups of rich burials. They really put a lot of effort into the work of popularizing the law in this area. A fisherman in Lianqu County, a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away It has been popularized... But it is reasonable to think about it. After all, this is to protect the interests of the ruling class. It is about the affairs of the elders themselves. How can they not care?
"..."

After hearing Jin Wei's words, everyone in the Tuan army fell silent collectively.

We are outlaws who always do this kind of thing...

"Cough cough."

Wu Liang cleared his throat quickly, and changed the topic, "In this case, let's go into the mansion first to see if we can find any different clues."

……

Said it was a mansion.

In fact, this is a cluster of stone houses.

The stone houses in the middle are taller, and the surrounding stone houses are lower, so they are clustered together to form a not too spectacular building complex, and there are still some stone paths for people to walk in the middle of the building complex.

The doors of these stone houses have long since disappeared.

No trace of any furniture that might have existed in it had disappeared.

Only one empty stone house after another was left, which looked like a gloomy prison after another.

The accompanying Tuan army was left outside, Wu Liang took the backbone of the Tuan army and Jin Wei into these stone houses one by one, but found nothing.

Finally, they finally came to the door of the stone house, which was the tallest and closest to the mountain in the building.

"Wu Taishi, this is the place where the three brothers of the Lu family had an accident. Although the rumors are very evil, I took people there to avoid the rain all night, but nothing strange happened. It's just that even if there is a fire, the inside is still cold. People tremble."

Jin Wei added in a timely manner.

"Ah."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, and walked in under the guard of Dian Wei and Yang Wanli.

As soon as I entered, a chill hit my face.

The temperature here is obviously a few degrees lower than those of the previous stone houses, but it is not the kind of cold that the human body cannot bear. Maybe it is because today is a sunny day, which is different from the rainy day when Jin Wei entered before?

Tightening the clothes on his body, Wu Liang continued to go deeper.

The situation here is no different from other stone houses, the inside is empty and not even a piece of wood or a leftover utensil can be seen, Wu Liang only saw a pile of very thin ashes in a corner.

"Is that where you started the fire?"

Wu Liang asked, pointing to the pile of ashes.

"Exactly."

Jin Wei nodded and said, "At that time, there were seventeen of us, and it was not warm enough to light such a fire. Unfortunately, it was hard to find dry firewood during the rainy day, so we could only huddle together to barely survive the night."

"When you came, did this place look like it does now?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"Yes, after so long, there is still no change here."

Jin Wei nodded again.

Wu Liang didn't ask any more questions, and continued to observe the situation of the stone house.

The layout of this stone house is like a small living room, if the guess is correct, Tian Heng should discuss matters with those disciples here.

Of course, this stone house may also be a court hall.

After all, although Tian Heng only brought five hundred disciples here at the beginning, he had already established himself as the king of Qi at that time, and he still had to have the pomp and face that a prince should have.

It is worth mentioning that.

Tian Heng was also the last king of Qi in the history of the Celestial Dynasty, known as "Qi Wang Heng" in history.

Although Qin Shihuang had already destroyed the Qi State when Qin Shihuang unified the world, he did not drive out all the nobles of the Qi State. Tian Heng is a descendant of the Qi King's family, and his political legitimacy can even be traced back to the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty. At the beginning, Jiang Ziya, Jiang Taigong, the first prince of Qi State.

Well known.

The Qi State in history is actually divided into two major stages, the first half is Lu Qi, and the second half is Tian Qi.

During the Lu Qi period, as the name suggests, the descendants of Jiang Taigong Lu Shang were in power.

Tian Qi is after the "Tian Clan Replacing Qi" incident, the Tian family, the descendants of King Chen who had already destroyed the country, took charge of the Qi State.

after that.

The Tian family has always been the person in charge of the Qi State. It has been passed down from generation to generation until Qin Shihuang destroyed the Qi State. Stand on your own as king of Qi.

In this way, when Tian Heng came here, he also experienced seven generations of Qi kings. Finally, with Tian Heng's death, the Qi country was finally completely destroyed...

"This stone room has the heaviest cold air. Could it be the source of this weird cold air?"

Feeling the chill in the stone room, Wu Liang murmured.

"Young master, although the old man felt the cold air rushing towards his face when he came in, he didn't feel any air current when he was inside. I'm afraid it's hard to say."

Yu Ji wrinkled his face aside and said.

"When I came in, I felt the cold air rushing towards my face. It was because of the temperature difference between here and outside, which is understandable..."

Wu Liang was still analyzing on his own.

Zhuge Liang suggested at the right time: "Brother talented, why don't we use our old method to check?"

"Well, you can give it a try."

Wu Liang nodded slightly.

"Then I'll go."

Zhuge Liang responded, and quickly ran out of the house.

Tau Renjun knew the "old method" well, but Jin Wei looked at Zhuge Liang's back with a puzzled look on his face, unable to understand the secret words between Wu Liang and Zhuge Liang.

A moment later, when Zhuge Liang came back, he already had some of the softest chicken feathers in his hands.

In front of Jin Wei.

Zhuge Liang came to every corner of the stone house, lifted the chicken feather high, and then let it fall, doing the same thing many times.

result……

Although there was no sign of gas flow in the stone house, everyone could tell that it was a normal gas flow, and no obvious and regular air flow was found anywhere.

That is to say.

There may not be a secret room in this stone house, even if there is a secret room, it is definitely not the source of this weird cold air.

"Is this chill inherent in the stone house?"

Everyone lost their direction for a moment.

"Born... Does the cold come from the stones that make up the stone house?"

Wu Liang thought of another possibility from everyone's doubts, and immediately went to the wall to carefully examine the stone bricks used in the wall.

These stone bricks don't seem to be any different, just the most common limestone.

And Wu Liang touched the surface of the stone bricks with his hands, but he didn't feel any obvious difference in temperature. They are obviously not the source of this weird chill...

Just at this time.

"My lord, there's something wrong with the aura emanating from something in your arms."

Prince Chamu suddenly stepped forward and whispered to Wu Liang.

"what?"

Wu Liang showed suspicion.

There are a lot of things in his arms, but there are only a few instruments that can emit aura, and only Prince Chamu can see this aura.

"Camel tomb jade pendant?"

Wu Liang pulled Prince Chamu aside and took out a small piece of jade.

"Not it."

Prince Chamu shook his head.

"Xi Dan?"

"No."

"Gangmao?"

"Not at all."

"Tai Gong Yin?"

"it's him!"

Wu Liang also took out the magic weapon that was stored next to him, and when he got the seal of Taigong, Prince Chamu finally nodded his head heavily.

The "Taigong Seal" previously discovered in the Qi Ai Cemetery is exactly the magic weapon left by Jiang Taigong Lv Shang. According to the documents found in the Qi Ai Cemetery, the main function of this seal is to deal with Lu Shang's passing on to his heirs. The witchcraft, to prevent the heirs from hurting each other in order to fight for power and profit, usually only every king of Qi can hold it, but in the generation of Duke Ai of Qi, a coup still occurred, so this seal was secretly buried by the family of Duke Ai of Qi He entered the secret tomb built for him, and has since been lost to the subsequent King Qi.

It is worth mentioning that when he got the "Taigong Seal", Wu Liang suspected that this thing was actually the "Faqiu Seal" held by Faqiu Zhonglang, who was talked about by people in later generations.

Because the eight characters "Blessed by the Taigong, no taboos" are engraved on this seal, which is only two characters different from the eight characters "Blessed by Heavenly Officials, No Taboos" engraved on the legendary "Faqiu Seal". The pronunciation of the two characters is still very detailed, and it is easy to cause ambiguity in the process of transmission.

Most importantly, the function of the "Taigong Seal" is very similar to the legendary "Faqiu Seal"...

There is another problem.

According to the legend, "Faqiu Seal" is the seal given by Boss Cao to Faqiu Zhonglang General, and Wu Liang has already become Zhonglang General. He was given a copper seal, which was also engraved with eight characters, which read, "One seal in hand, all requests will be answered". This seal gave Wu Liang the privilege of "Shang Fang's sword", but it was definitely not a law. device.

This made Wu Liang even more compelled to think that the "Taigong Seal" and "The Seal of Responsiveness" are the historical truth. Perhaps the combination of the two, the superposition of witchcraft and power, is the complete "Faqiu Youyin", "Faqiu Youyin" and "Faqiu Youyin". "Qiu Yin" does not refer to a certain side of the seal, but a combination of the two.

But now is obviously not the time to dwell on this issue, let’s get down to business.

"The aura of Tai Gongyin is not right?"

Wu Liang was puzzled, and asked subconsciously, "What kind of change has happened to the breath of this thing?"

"Although its aura was thick and heavy before, it was uniform and soft, giving people a calm and mature feeling, but now, its aura is wild and outward, and the aura stretches around like tongues of fire, which looks extremely unstable."

Prince Chamu said with some worry.

"..."

Wu Liang couldn't see the breath change described by Prince Chamu, he could only look at the plain copper seal in his hand and imagine what Prince Chamu said.

Could it be that this place is directly related to Jiang Ziya or Lu's descendants?
So ponder for a moment.

Wu Liang suddenly thought of an important historical event, which seemed to be related to it!

(End of this chapter)