Chapter 52: When I go to the tomb, I will look at it with a million eyes
When she fell into the hole, Xiangying curled up her body very experiencedly and protected her head.
She counted in her mind how many times it took to get from the entrance to the bottom of the cave.
This was taught to her by her captain in the last days.
After countless trainings, Xiangying can count accurately, one meter at a time.
Just now she fell down and counted eight.
In other words, the distance from the entrance to the bottom is at least eight meters.
Xiangying landed firmly on the ground and patted the dust off his body.
She looked around, using the faint light cast from her head to see the long, narrow corridor ahead.
Xiangying quickly took out the torch in the space and lit it, illuminating the mural on the wall of the corridor.
I don’t know how long this tomb has been in existence, but it must be more than a hundred years. Because the color of the murals faded greatly when exposed to oxygen.
Only strange words were engraved on it, which have been preserved with the ancient tomb to this day.
There was a thumping sound from the side, and Xiangying looked with phoenix eyes and saw that it was Jie Chen who jumped down after her.
She pursed her red lips slightly, knowing that Jie Chen would not let her walk alone.
Jie Chen patted the dust on his shoulders with a cold face and walked towards her: "How many times have you gone your own way? My patience is limited."
Xiangying ignored his temper, took his arm and pulled him to her side.
"Xie Chen, look at what words are engraved on the mural? Whose tomb is this?" Xiangying illuminated him with a torch.
Jie Chen's thin eyes glanced at the torch in her hand doubtfully.
Xiangying explained casually: "Oh, what I just picked up on the ground should be left by tomb robbers."
Jie Chen didn't ask any more questions and turned to look at the painting wall.
He frowned slightly: "Three hundred years ago, King Anping of Dai Kingdom suffered an old illness on his way back to his fiefdom and was buried here."
"He did many great achievements during his lifetime. When the Emperor of Dai learned about his death, he was extremely sad and arranged for two wizards, Cai and Wang, to ride on a thousand-mile horse and come here to handle his funeral affairs."
Xiangying's eyes lit up: "He is a prince, he must be very rich, and the burial objects should be very generous."
She couldn't wait to enter the tomb and take a look.
Jie Chen grabbed her, and his magnetic voice was low and sweet: "We'd better not disturb the resting place of others after death."
Xiangying shook her head decisively: "I'll just take a look and won't touch anything."
With that said, he threw off Jie Chen's shackles and entered the narrow and slender corridor.
Jie Chen's eyes were heavy and he followed behind her.
What Xiangying didn't expect was that the heavy tomb door didn't have any mechanism. She just pushed it twice and opened it.
The dust that hit her face fell, and she covered her mouth and nose, choking and coughing several times.
"Did King Anping not be valued by the then Emperor Daiguo? Why was the tomb so crudely built?"
There are no mechanisms, and there is no fire-glazed roof to prevent theft. The structure of the large tomb that Xiangying knew about does not exist here at all.
If it was such a simple tomb, then the previous wave of tomb robbers must have emptied everything.
Thinking of this, Xiangying couldn't help but frown.
Xie Chen behind him said: "King Anping is the brother of Emperor Dai. Although this tomb is not luxurious, it is not bad. It is just because he died suddenly that he was buried simply."
Suddenly, his voice changed: "It's just that the words engraved on the wall just now are unique to the royal family of Dai."
"If I remember correctly, the queen's ancestors are descendants of the state of Dai. Prince Xiangli is proficient in the philology of the state of Dai. How come you can't understand it at all?"
Xiangying's hand touching the door of the tomb paused slightly, and her long eyelashes covered the waves in her phoenix eyes.
"Isn't this normal? You often say that I am promiscuous. Am I a hard-working and studious person like my brother?" Her voice was calm, without any panic.
Xiangying completely believes in the memory of the original owner.
If the original owner has learned it, then she will definitely know it, just like when she sees someone's face, it will suddenly match a certain impression in her memory.
She couldn't understand the words just now, which meant that the original owner didn't learn!
Who could blame her?
Xiang Ying asked in return: "But you, since the writing is only available to the royal family of Dai, it should not be widely spread. How did you learn it?"
Her phoenix eyes were sparkling and sparkling. When she looked at Jie Chen, a relaxed mood lingered between her eyebrows, but her eyes were serious.
Xie Chen paused and turned his gaze slightly: "You are not qualified to ask." Xiang Ying did not care about him.
For someone like Xie Chen, who was hiding in the Western Zhou Palace as a spy, it wouldn't be surprising to learn a little bit about this.
She made sure there was no mechanism in the tomb and dragged Xie Chen inside.
After passing through a narrower passage, you can only pass sideways.
The real tomb door is right in front of you, with the lifelike carving of a maid looking out her head.
With the flickering light of the torch, the maid carved on the door seemed to be looking out from under the dark fountain.
Xiangying held up his hands and said, "I have offended you today. We, husband and wife, accidentally entered this place and took a look around. I promise not to damage the coffin and the body."
Xie Chen frowned: "What couple?"
Xiangying turned around and winked at him: "Cheat the ghost and ask King Anping not to embarrass us, can't you?"
Of course she was joking, just to tease Xie Chen.
Xiangying pushed open the tomb door and heard a creaking sound.
A ray of light suddenly flowed out from the tomb.
Those who didn’t know, thought there were people living inside.
Immediately afterwards, Xiangying frowned.
She smelled blood!
Naturally, Jie Chen also smelled it. He subconsciously tried to touch the sword hanging on his waist behind his hand.
However, after touching nothing, he remembered that the sword was lost when he fell into the water.
Both of them were very alert and walked in one after the other.
They were stunned almost at the same time.
It's not because the tomb is so luxurious, but rather it's extremely simple.
A circular tomb, with a tall golden nanmu coffin in the middle, and the surrounding walls were burning with shark oil that would not go out for millions of years.
But there were bones lying on the ground.
Especially there was a bone hanging on the coffin.
About seven people scattered here and there were buried here.
"They must be grave robbers who dug holes." Xiangying bent down to inspect their bones.
Their deaths were judged to be no more than twenty years.
The smell of blood just now was caused by the blood left on the ground, which had soaked into the ground for many years.
Jie Chen looked around and said calmly: "These people died of killing each other. Only the man lying on the coffin had greenish bones, as if he died of poisoning."
The whole environment looks like there is internal strife among the tomb robbers.
The person who goes to open the coffin should be the remaining survivor.
But he was also poisoned.
But the entire tomb was naturally ventilated, so where did the poison come from?
Xiangying walked to the coffin.
The coffin lid had been pushed halfway open and the bones inside were those of King Anping.
He was wearing an extremely gorgeous robe, and I don't know what was painted on it. The exquisite patterns on the clothes were still intact, and the color had not completely faded.
Wearing jade crowns and splendid clothes, holding beads in his mouth, the body was surrounded by gold.
He looked indeed wealthy, but Xiangying didn't want to take the contents of the coffin.
She was a little disappointed.
"I thought there could be something good in the tomb."
If the grave goods only existed in the coffin, she would not want them.
Suddenly, Jie Chen, who was standing at the end of the coffin, said: "Come over and take a look at this."
(End of chapter)