Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 768 Curse (4000)

Lu Zuo is also Jiang Ziya's most gifted direct descendant of spells, and he is even better than blue, so he should be proficient in most of Lu's spellcasting.

Both Qiu Mugong and Qi Aigong are the core members of Lu Qi's royal family, and some of the spells and instruments that appeared in their tombs should also be related to Lu's spells.

Therefore, Wu Liang has reason to believe that, as a descendant of Lu Zuo in the Wa Kingdom, the witch Hu, if she inherits some of Lu Zuo's techniques and related records, it may be possible to help him interpret those unsolved mysteries so far. And this is also a surprise for Wu Liang.

"The ancestors did leave something behind."

The witch nodded and admitted, "It's a pity that most of the ancestor's spells have been lost, and most of them are biographical records. If Wu Taishi is interested... I can only say sorry, because these are not my family. No matter what, I will not reveal the secret to outsiders."

"Since Miss Hu has said so, naturally I can't force others to do what they want."

Wu Liang smiled frankly, "Actually, I didn't ask these questions to pry into the secrets of your clan. It's just that I have entered two ancient Qi mausoleums by chance before, and one of them is the one that Miss Hu just mentioned. The Duke of Qiumu, Lu Yin, who has a lot to do with your ancestor Lu Zuo, and the other one is the Duke of Qi Ai, Lu Buchen. I want to ask Miss Hu to take a look, maybe it can help me solve these puzzles."

"Wu Taishi ever went to Duke Mu's tomb?"

The maiden was quite surprised when she heard the words. After all, Duke Qiu Mu was no stranger to the descendants of Lu Zuo's lineage, and later Duke Ai of Qi, Lu Buchen, had nothing to do with them.

at the same time.

Witch Hu felt some criticism in her heart, because Wu Liang's "coincidence" was really far-fetched.

Mausoleum is such a place?
That is a shady place where the dead are buried. Normal people would try to stay away from this kind of place, so as not to provoke dirty things, not to mention "coincidence" that they entered two tombs, and they were both from the Lu Qi royal family. mausoleum.

This priestess has to wonder whether Wu Liang has any personal enmity with the royal family of Lu Qi, otherwise how could he have such a relationship with the tomb of the royal family of Lu Qi, as if staring at the ancestral tomb of the royal family of Lu Qi?
Thinking of this, the witch couldn't help recalling Wu Liang's professional methods of disposing of bones and relics just now, as well as the kind of shovel-like weapons used by the Huren Army, and the various "professional" utensils on Wu Liang...

At this moment, Miko Hu finally had some doubts about Wu Liang's profession.

"good."

Wu Liang nodded slightly.

The witch withdrew her thoughts, and then asked curiously: "I don't know what Wu Taishi got from the tombs of Duke Mugong and Duke Qiai?"

"These things can't be explained clearly in one or two sentences. After returning to Chenliu, if Miss Hu decides to help me, it won't be too late for me to take Miss Hu to check."

Wu Liang deliberately betrayed Guan Zidao.

This is not to prevaricate the witch, after all, Wu Liang has no way to accurately describe what he does not understand, so it is safer to teach the witch to look at the real thing.

Wu Liang was not afraid of revealing any secrets.

Anyway, he would definitely not give those things to Miko Hu, but just taught her to look at them for help, and after that, Miko Hu should return to Wa Kingdom with the Wa Kingdom Mission, and I am afraid that he will never have the chance to set foot in the Celestial Dynasty again in this life .

But at the moment, it is still necessary to deal with the immediate matter first and figure out the root cause of the anomaly in the "Taigong Seal".

"Wu Taishi trusts me so much, so naturally I can't take Wu Taishi's face off, but the ugly words still need to be said first, and I'm not sure if I can help Wu Taishi. At that time, Wu Taishi can't blame me."

Sure enough, the witch answered.

"Don't worry, girl, am I that unreasonable person?"

Wu Liang grinned.

"..."

Witch Hu didn't answer this time, but just gave him a meaningful look. Silence speaks louder here.

……

The work efficiency of the soldiers of the Huren Army is very high.

It only took less than an hour to completely cut open the rather spectacular tree root, and finally found a wooden box at the center of the bottom of the tree root.

At this moment, the wooden box was already rotten, and the top corners were cracked.

The soldiers of the Tuan Army knew Wu Liang's habits, so they did not move privately after discovering the wooden box, but immediately protected the scene and cleared Wu Liang over.

Wu Liang put on his gloves and came closer.

First, I took a peek inside through the cracked opening of the wooden box by the light of the torch, and saw that there seemed to be no mechanism or the like inside, then I took out the brush and carefully cleaned it off the surface of the wooden box. of sandy soil.

Soon the wooden box was completely presented in front of him.

It's a pity that this is just an extremely ordinary wooden box, with no locks, no metal hinges on it, and no pattern decorations that can prove the era.

The lid of the wooden box is just nailed up like a coffin with copper nails.

In fact, the shape of the wooden box itself is somewhat similar to the coffin, but the proportion is slightly shorter. If the genealogy of the Lu family is placed inside, it has some meaning that the Lu family will be completely ended here.

Checked it out like this.

After confirming that the wooden box had no archaeological value, Wu Liang finally took a military shovel, and with the assistance of Dian Wei and Yang Wanli, pried the wooden box's lid up as carefully as possible.

However, even so, the rotten wood of the wooden box was irreversibly damaged, and the lid and a side panel were completely broken.

But this is not important.

Wu Liang quickly cleaned up the pieces of wood and checked the contents of the wooden box.

What caught the eye was a piece that was comparable to the bottom of the wooden box...it should be a bronze plate, but this bronze plate also suffered a certain degree of corrosion, and some green rust on it had already integrated into pieces, mixed with the sand and soil that entered through the gaps in the wooden box. Taken together, it is impossible to see clearly the possible problems and patterns on it.

"..."

Seeing this scene, Wu Liang couldn't help feeling a little worried.

This level of corrosion is very likely that even after cleaning, the original content on it cannot be clearly displayed. If so, Wu Liang has no advanced repair methods in later generations, so he just got a useless bronze plate.

However, by comparing the position of the bronze plate with the height of the wooden box vertical board, it can be judged that there should be something under the bronze plate.

I hope that with the obstruction of this copper plate, the things below can be preserved intact...

Wu Liang thought in his heart that in order to prevent the things below from being related to the copper plate, moving it rashly might cause damage to the things below.

Therefore, he decided to remove the side panels of the useless wooden box on the outside first, and start with the side to get a preliminary understanding of the things under the bronze panel before proceeding to the next step of cleaning.

……

With the assistance of Dian Wei and Yang Wanli, the unpacking work was carried out in an orderly manner.

After completely removing the vertical boards on the four sides of the wooden box, Wu Liang finally saw what was placed under the bronze board—it was also a bronze board.

Including the severely corroded bronze plate on the top layer, there are a total of six bronze plates of the same specification stacked together.

And on one side of these bronze plates, Wu Liang also saw some leather residues, the leather was about a finger wide, and all of them had broken.

At the same time, Wu Liang also found some remnants of the same leather in the two small holes slightly thicker than fingers on the side of the top bronze plate.

Through this small detail, combined with the "Bronze Book" mentioned by Miko Hu.

Wu Liang immediately thought of the purpose of these leathers: those bronze plates stacked together are the pages of the book, and these leathers are the ropes for binding the pages. Through those two holes, all the bronze plates are tied together to form a book with The paper books of later generations are very similar to the bronze books!
"Yang Wanli, go get another piece of cloth to lay it out, and bring a few people to meet him outside the pit."

"Dianwei, move out these bronze plates with me, be careful, move them one by one, be sure to handle them with care, and don't miss them."

Assigning tasks to Dian Wei and Yang Wanli respectively, Wu Liang first tried to move the heavily corroded bronze plate on the top.

Each of these bronze plates is only 0.5 centimeters thick, and the area is equivalent to two A4 papers.

Any professional archaeologist should know that bronze is a copper-tin or copper-lead alloy. When such an alloy is buried deep underground, especially if it is not properly preserved, some chemical reactions other than oxidation will occur, resulting in the alloy's tin Or lead is gradually precipitated, so that in extremely small holes, these small holes may not be visible to the naked eye, but they will definitely make the texture of the bronze ware brittle.

The bronze plate of this standard is only more fragile. Although it is a metal place, in fact, it may break if it is dropped lightly, or broken with a little force, so you must be very careful.

"promise."

The two complied.

In this way, with the cooperation of the two, the bronze plates were taken out safely one by one, and finally they were all spread flat on the linen cloth that Yang Wanli ordered someone to lay in advance.

After lifting the top bronze plate, Wu Liang finally felt relieved.

Because he has already seen quite clear engraved characters on the copper plate below, that is to say, the bronze plates below have not been corroded too severely except for the edges.

However, during this process, Wu Liang really didn't have time to interpret the content, so he could only wait until the transportation work was completed and he went up to the top.

And when Wu Liang finally climbed up from the pit.

Yu Ji, who had already moved in front of the bronze plates, shouted at Wu Liang: "Master, this is indeed the genealogy of the Lu family. It records the names of every Qi king and his descendants from Jiang Taigong onwards. Qi Kanggong's generation should be right, it's just..."

"Just what?"

Wu Liang asked curiously as he walked this way.

"It's just that the content engraved on the back of the first bronze plate is very obscure. It looks like the prologue of the Lu family tree, but it doesn't look like it when you read it carefully. On the contrary, it looks more like a curse."

Yu Ji said not confidently.

"Wait a minute, I'll see and talk about it later."

While speaking, Wu Liang had already come to the front.

When carrying it just now, he had already noticed that the positive and negative sides of these bronze plates were engraved with words, which maximized the use of the space above.

Looking at it calmly now, the first thing Wu Liang noticed was Taigong Jiang's name engraved in the most obvious position: Jiang surname, Lu family, name Shang, word Ziya, name Feixiong.

Of course, there is no punctuation above, but there are some gaps, which makes sentence punctuation much easier.

Under Jiang Taigong's name, the names of the various heirs are listed from the chief to the youngest. Needless to say, Wu Liang has seen these names in "Mu Gongzhuan" before, and there is no difference.

The only thing missing is the name of No. 13 son Lu Zuo.

However, it seems that the name of this person was erased later, because in the area where his name should have been engraved, there is a very obvious trace of filling and polishing with copper water in the later period.

This detail is enough to prove that the genealogy in front of me is the most original genealogy of Lu's royal family, and it is completely fake.

Confirmed this.

Wu Liangcai finally looked at the first severely corroded bronze plate. At this moment, the corroded side was turned upside down, so that he could see the well-preserved engraved characters on the back.

There is indeed a large section of obscure content and words on it, which Yu Ji has no way to decipher, and Wu Liang naturally has difficulty understanding the meaning.

However, near the end of this text, Wu Liang saw a few more familiar words: heaven and earth cannot tolerate, humans and gods will punish each other, death has no place to die...

"This……"

Indeed, as Yu Ji said, if only a few words that ordinary people can understand are mentioned, this is indeed like a spell, not the prologue of a family tree.

"Wu Taishi, can I go up and watch?"

This time, Miko Hu learned a lot and didn't go forward privately. Instead, she didn't send an application to Wu Liang until now.

"come on."

Wu Liang nodded, and while making room for her, he asked casually, "By the way, in the records left by the ancestors of the Yi family, has this genealogy been mentioned, especially the text at the top of the genealogy?" What do you mean?"

"Let me see."

Then the witch came to the front, and stretched her neck to look at the bronze plate.

Like Wu Liang, she also took the lead in looking at the names of Jiang Taigong and the names of Jiang Taigong's descendants, and finally saw the area that should have belonged to Lu Zuo but had been filled and polished.

"..."

Miko Hu frowned slightly, and didn't say much, and then thought about the paragraph Wu Liang was referring to, which even Yu Ji couldn't fully decipher.

It looked like this for about 1 minute.

Miko Hu's complexion gradually became complicated, and she finally looked up at Wu Liang beside her, and said, "Wu Taishi, can you turn this bronze plate over and show me what is engraved on the back."

"That side is severely corroded, and it is unknown whether the writing on it has survived."

Wu Liang said, "But I can try to clean up the rust on it first, maybe I can see some clues."

(End of this chapter)