Night Lights

Chapter 88

When there is a funeral at home, the person dies suddenly, and the corpse is not allowed to be kept at home, and the body cannot be groomed, for fear of being sickened by hostility and dying of resentment; the deceased must be covered with a white shroud, not dyed red, and the corpse should be placed in a wooden coffin. Save the temple for burial; wait for a good day and auspicious day, quickly burn the ashes, collect the ashes, and choose a place for burial. They cannot be buried in the graveyard to show the difference; this name is: solitary grave funeral. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Whoa!
Bai Shibao lit the candle in his hand, and scanned the tomb by the light of the candle.

"This is... the tomb group buried with him?"

Facing the stone gate, there is a step, which is made of soil and shaped like an ink fountain. On the step, seven coffins are buried, arranged in the shape of petals, with the heads of the coffins facing outward and the bottoms of the coffins facing each other.

"Could it be the wrong place?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself: Didn't Li Cha say that there were twelve coffins buried in the tomb of Emperor Tongzhi?Why are there only seven coffins now?And there is no red coffin with the posthumous title of Emperor Tongzhi written on it!
Bai Shibao was about to step forward to see what happened, but he stopped suddenly, and looked around vigilantly!
"Almost forgot, Li Cha said 'Ten tombs and nine poisons, traps everywhere', I am not sure where I will shoot two poisonous arrows, or my feet will collapse, and I will fall into a deep pit trap and be fed Shekou!"

While Bai Shibao was hesitating, he only heard the crackling sound of tsk tsk coming from behind him.

Looking back, it turned out to be Li Cha, who also got in from the hole under the stone gate.

Li Cha shook the dirt on his lapel, and said to Bai Shibao: "Ma Wuye is worried about your safety, so he insists on getting in to accompany you! There is no other way, I have to find an excuse to keep him outside, I will come in and have a look!"

Bai Shibao smiled and said, "Brother, thank you!"

Li Cha replied: "Brother, you are welcome, have you found the coffin of Emperor Tongzhi?"

Bai Shibao pointed to the seven coffins in front of him and said, "Strange! There is no red coffin as you mentioned here, and these are not the twelve coffins you mentioned. Isn't this the tomb of Emperor Tongzhi?"

Li Cha stared around, then pointed to the steps in front of him, and said, "That's right! This step is familiar to me. When it was being repaired, this step was built later, only in the tomb of Emperor Tongzhi! ... You must know that the building materials of the imperial mausoleum are all brought in from other places. First, you can use high-quality materials that are not available in the capital; It was shipped from Shandong, so I remember it very clearly!"

"But why is there no red coffin you mentioned?"

Li Cha said: "Actually, Emperor Tongzhi's coffin was not made of mahogany, but was painted with camel blood. It is said that camel blood can seal the air, and when it solidifies, it looks like glue. ...Could it be that it has been placed here for a long time, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated, so the color cannot be seen clearly?"

Bai Shibao said: "Wiping off the floating dust can make it clear, but I always feel as if someone is watching from the dark. It feels weird! Could it be that some agency is 'staring' at us?"

Li Cha pointed to the wall on the left and said, "Have you seen the dragon statue carved on the wall?"

Bai Shibao shone the candle over there, and vaguely saw a giant dragon statue engraved on the wall. The scales were as big as the mouth of a bowl, but they were discolored and corroded. You couldn't see the details, only the outline.

Bai Shibao said: "It seems that there is a dragon engraved on it..."

"There are two poisonous arrows hidden in the eye holes of the dragon, and the trigger mechanism is on the third step in front of you! Just step on it lightly, and the poisonous arrows will fly out!"

Bai Shibao swallowed.

Li Cha smiled, and said again: "But everything here has changed, maybe the mechanism has already failed! I'll try..."

"Wait!" Bai Shibao hastily stopped Li Cha, and shouted, "If this mechanism is not changed, or a secret door is newly set up elsewhere, wouldn't you be going to die?"

Li Cha shrugged and said: "Then what should we do? These seven coffins can't distinguish between the primary and secondary, and the directions are different. If you don't go closer and have a look, I'm afraid there is no other way to distinguish!"

Bai Shibao asked, "How are you going to try?"

"The traps are all arranged by someone first. As long as no one touches it, it won't take effect. I'm afraid the only way to crack it is to bypass it, but the premise is that you must be familiar with the distribution of all the traps here..."

Bai Shibao asked, "So?"

Li Cha smiled and said, "So, I plan to wade over there..."

"Walk over?"

Li Cha pointed to the coffin and said: "I will strive to touch all seven coffins with my hands before I die. If you see a red coffin here, it is the coffin of Emperor Tongzhi! Then you don't want to Collect the corpse for me, get out immediately, tell everyone the location, and lead everyone to escape..."

Bai Shibao said in shock, "Aren't you using yourself as a bait to trigger those mechanisms?"

Li Cha chuckled and said, "This is the only way to do it now. It's worth using my life to pay back everyone's life!"

Bai Shibao bowed his head in silence, his head was thinking rapidly...

Li Cha looked up to the sky and sighed: "Ma Wuye has shown me kindness, and I can only repay it with death! Of course, being buried in such a luxurious place as the imperial mausoleum, is this considered a blessing?"

"and many more!"

At this time, Bai Shibao seemed to think of something, fixed his eyes on Li Cha and asked, "Since this is the tomb of Emperor Tongzhi, why didn't you see any sacrificial objects? I'm afraid it's too poor?"

Li Cha said: "Huang Taiji once issued an imperial decree that no funerary objects are allowed under the tombs of the royal family!"

Bai Shibao asked puzzledly, "Why?"

Li Cha said: "When the ancestral grave was dug in the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji thought it was 'money and wealth', so he ordered that the royal family be prohibited from placing sacrificial objects in the tomb, so as to avoid being dug up! But this did not happen. To prevent the dragon veins from being destroyed, the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty were broken three times!"

Bai Shibao asked in surprise, "Three times?"

Li Cha nodded and said: "At the end of Ming Dynasty, the common people were afraid of the Houjin who killed Hachi, so they asked some Fengshui masters to find out the dragon veins of Houjin, and sent people to dig the ancestral grave of the Jinren in Fangshan, Hebei! Later, Huang Taiji The master of Taoism, relocated the dragon vein to the capital, and saved the energy of the dragon vein... This is the first time!"

"The second time was during Emperor Shunzhi's reign. The "Tiandihui" who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty cut off the dragon's veins and extinguished the dragon's energy. As a result, the country was about to be shaken, and it was in danger! In desperation, Emperor Shunzhi had no choice but to convert to Buddhism, borrowing the power of Buddhism, It was only then that the remaining dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty were stabilized... Later Emperor Yongzheng and Emperor Qianlong successively went to repair the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty. On the surface, they worshiped the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty. Go to the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty to consolidate the dragon veins!"

Bai Shibao listened carefully, but he didn't know there was such a thing!

Li Cha continued: "There are records in Si Tianjian's 'Tianji Emperor Book'! Needless to say, this last time is because Lafayette did not listen to the ancestors' instructions and hid a lot of jewels when he was buried. It will arouse the covetousness of the tomb robbers, causing the dragon veins to break for the third time, this time is also the most serious, and directly led to the demise of the old Qing Dynasty..."

Speaking of this, Li Cha added another sentence: "From Emperor Shunzhi to Lafayette, grave-diggers and grave-robbers did not lose their minds on imperial mausoleums. Only three times!"

Bai Shibao sighed: "This time it was broken cleanly..."

Li Cha paused and said: "If the world changes hands, there will be a year of peace! When our great event is accomplished, the world will surely be peaceful!...Of course! Before the great event is accomplished, we must not be trapped here to death, so no matter what, I You have to risk your life!"

Bai Shibao suddenly shouted: "You said that the tomb room was rearranged by the imperial guards. Didn't they find out that Emperor Tongzhi's coffin was moved by the tomb robbers? If they found out, they must help him straighten it. Can the inner and outer coffins still have the orientation of 'head east, feet west'?"

Li Cha replied: "Except for our Si Tianjian, no one dares to move the emperor's coffin casually..."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Shibao laughed loudly and said, "I like the word 'Taiping' you said! Brother, stand where you are and see clearly, I'll touch the coffin!" At the same time, Bai Shibao jumped forward and Step out!

Li Cha secretly said: Brother Bai Shibao talked to me just now to stabilize me. It turns out that he had already planned to 'sacrifice his life for righteousness'!He was one step faster than me.

At this moment, Bai Shibao gritted his teeth, he didn't care about the traps and traps, and rushed straight to the coffin in the tomb!Just as he stepped on the steps, he felt his feet sinking, and Bai Shibao jumped forward...

Only a muffled sound was heard!
boom!
Li Cha hurriedly glanced at the wall on the left!
The giant dragon statue carved on the wall actually sprayed water from its mouth!
Li Cha was shocked and said, "Ah...how could this be?"

At this time, Bai Shibao didn't have time to look back, he had already flew onto a coffin, swept the coffin with his hand, and swept away the dust, revealing the true color of the coffin: like charcoal.

Then to the second coffin, the third coffin, the fourth coffin...

The seven coffins were all swept, but they were all black like ink, and none of them were red.

Bai Shibao was startled and said, "What's going on?" Then, Bai Shibao came to his senses and touched his body with his hands, and there was no damage!

Only then did I look back and see water gushing from the wall.

I only heard Li Cha stay where he was, and shouted: "Water is the blood of the dragon, and the qi outside the acupoint, when the water converges, the dragon's qi will be exhausted, when the water meets, the dragon's qi will stop, and when the water flies, the dragon's qi will disperse... This is 'Dragon spit water' in the dragon's lair?"

Bai Shibao suddenly remembered the words of Master Zhang Ah Short: "Go find an image of 'Dragon's Mouth Spitting Water', that is the secret to open the 'Gate of Life' and decipher the 'Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation', and it is also the mechanism to help you escape !"

Bai Shibao thought to himself: "Didn't Li Cha say that there is 'Dragon's Cave Sand Water' in Lafayette's tomb? Could it be that 'Dragon's Cave Sand Water' and 'Dragon's Mouth Spit Water' are two different things?" After thinking about it, Bai Shibao looked down again The coffins beside him said in surprise, "Then who will be buried in these coffins..."

Thinking of this, Bai Shibao put his hand on the coffin lid and pushed it hard!
creak!
The coffin lid was pushed loose by Bai Shibao!

no seals...

(End of this chapter)