"There is a tomb here?"
Zhang Jinya looked at Yi Shiting in disbelief, and said slowly: "It's unlikely, right? Whose tomb is built in front of a wolf's den? Aren't you afraid that the wolves will dig a hole in it and eat the corpse when they are extremely hungry?"
"I'm not wrong."
Yi Shiting shook her head and said in a deep voice: "Cinnabar is mercury sulfide. As far as I know, this thing is not produced in the Western Regions. The cinnabar here is almost all transported from the Central Plains, and there are very few that can be used in the Western Regions. Basically, there are only two. One is for some alchemists who have learned Taoist alchemy to serve the nobles in the Western Regions; the other is to make the burial mound of the ancient tomb!"
Speaking of this, Yi Shiting looked at Zhang Jinya and said: "Minorities, especially some nomadic peoples, do not reject their corpses being eaten by some carnivorous animals. Even Mongolians will give their corpses to animals after death, because they believe that Mongolians have been eating meat all their lives, and they should give themselves to animals after death. Giving one's own flesh to nature and using one's own flesh to feed the animals of nature is the karma in the minds of the Mongolians, so they accept it calmly, and their way of burying themselves is the so-called sky burial! Of course, some nomadic nobles will still build mausoleums for themselves, but their mausoleums are different from those of us Han people. There will be no facilities to prevent animals from entering and eating corpses, so it is normal for ancient tombs to be built in front of wolf dens.
Even, many nomadic nobles will release a group of ferocious beasts near their mausoleums when their mausoleums are completed. These beasts will become the best anti-theft measures for their mausoleums, multiply from generation to generation, and can guard the mausoleums for them. These free-range beasts are also called spirit-guarding beasts! "
In general, Yi Shiting's statement is more to my taste. I haven't noticed the wall of the wolf's den just now. Now that she mentioned it, it really reminded me of a tomb structure!
This kind of tomb is called a cinnabar tomb.
In the history of our country, the rules for the burial of general tombs are basically the same - large tombs are generally padded with lime coffins, and then covered with plaster, which contains a certain amount of mercury, so it can be used for anti-corrosion, then red soil, and then raw soil ramming. The so-called raw soil is actually a jargon in the archaeological community, which is the original soil formed naturally after tens of thousands of years of accumulation in nature, also called dead soil, pure soil, it has uniform color, fine structure, compact texture, and pure. After the raw soil, the cooked soil is covered, and the process of burial is completed.
Cooked soil is soil that has been turned over by humans, also called living soil, flower soil, it has uneven color, uneven structure, loose texture, and mixed.
Using a Luoyang shovel to determine whether there is a tomb underground mainly depends on whether red soil or raw soil can be dug out! !
But not all tombs use this kind of burial structure, cinnabar tombs are one of them!
What is the burial structure of cinnabar tombs?
After the tomb is built, a layer of cooked soil is placed on top of the raw soil, followed by a layer of plaster and another layer of cooked soil, and then red soil and cinnabar are mixed to complete the final burial work!
It is said that the surface of the burial soil of this kind of tomb will present a particularly charming blood color, which will not fade after thousands of years. If it is built in a humid place, then when you touch the burial soil, your hands will be stained with a layer of sad and gorgeous red. The "Burial Sutra" says that this color is like the most vivid time when the sun sets in the west. If it rains, the entire ancient tomb will continue to seep out fine red water droplets, just like bleeding, which is extremely weird and terrifying!
Blood seeping in the tomb is a call for great misfortune, which will bring disaster to future generations and cause endless harm!
Therefore, cinnabar tombs rarely appear, and can even be said to be rare! !
Anyway, it seems that my ancestor who was a professional tomb robber seemed to have only encountered a cinnabar tomb once in his life, because this kind of tomb has its own special mission - to suppress evil!
In any cinnabar tomb, there are probably some unclean things in it, and there are bad signs before the deceased is buried. It may be that the corpse has risen, or the ghost has followed the corpse and does not want to leave, so it is simply buried in the tomb, so cinnabar is used to seal the soil to prevent the things inside from coming out...
After all, cinnabar is very effective in suppressing evil. In some witchcraft, cinnabar is regarded as a substitute for blood. The talismans used by Taoist priests to catch ghosts and demons are usually drawn with this thing. It has a strong restraining effect on evil things. If this thing is used as a seal, unless there is something against the sky like Hanba in the tomb, it will definitely not come out! !
I know these things. As a descendant of tomb raiders, Yi Shiting cannot fail to understand what the cinnabar tomb means, so the expression on her face is particularly solemn.
"You say... Is it possible that this tomb is the tomb of Wusun Tianjiao Liejiaomi?"
At this time, Cao Yuan suddenly frowned and said: "Sister Yi Shiting just said that there are wild beasts raised to guard the tombs in the funeral of ethnic minorities. This reminds me, because I have read an ancient book before, which was written by a peddling merchant who traveled on the Silk Road. It records many legends about the Western Regions that he has heard. One of them is about the location of the burial place of Wusun Tianjiao Liejiaomi. What does the book say? Liejiaomi was a hero in his lifetime and conquered countless small countries in the Western Regions, but what he remembered most was the war against Yuezhi, so he hoped that after his death he could be buried in the place where he won the final victory in the war against Yuezhi. The place of victory, looking at the great Peacock River, and with the "wolf mother" who saved him with a mouthful of milk accompanying him and guarding his tomb, he can go with peace of mind! "
Speaking of this, Cao Yuan looked at the wolf den and said casually: "The location we are in now should be the place where Lie Jiaomi won the final victory over Yuezhi, not far from the ancient river channel of the Peacock River, and here we encountered the ancient dire wolf. So, based on all this, can I speculate that Lie Jiaomi's tomb is here? And it is the one in front of us! Because there are dire wolves guarding the tomb here! ! "
Ishiting and I looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes-Cao Yuan's statement is not unreasonable!
"The tomb is right in front of us, why are you still hesitating? Just go in and take a look!"
Zhang Jinya didn't know the depth of the Zhusha Tomb, and he shouted: "Since we are here, why not dig a hole to go in and take a look? Maybe the fat man is trapped in it? After all, with the character of the fat man, as long as there is a big tomb, he will definitely get involved. It is not impossible to get into this tomb!"
I think you want to go in and see if you can touch one or two treasures, right?
I glared at this guy angrily. It is normal for this guy who has to pick out a gold tooth from the mouth of a big zongzi to come to the shore to think about the treasure in the ancient tomb, so I ignored him and discussed with Qingyi and others. We decided to explore the wolf cave first.
We did it right away. Several of us continued to follow the hoof prints left by the dire wolf and chased in.
This wolf den is quite deep, more than 200 meters deep. We walked all the way to the end before we finally saw the dire wolf. It seemed to be really scared by us. When it saw us, it was timid and whined endlessly. We didn't attack it because it didn't intend to attack us. We also found that there were more than a dozen little dire wolves in the wolf den, which made us feel less guilty. With these little dire wolves, this ancient giant beast would not be completely extinct. Maybe it can be restored in the future.
We didn't find the water source we were looking for in the wolf den, which made us a little disappointed. In the end, in order to avoid angering the dire wolf and causing unnecessary conflicts, we simply retreated. After a discussion, several people decided to enter the ancient tomb! !
First of all, when the ancient tomb was built, Feng Shui was emphasized. Feng Shui is called Feng Shui when there is wind and water. There is wind here, but no water. Maybe it is groundwater or on the other side of the ancient tomb. In short, we may find the water source we need most after entering the ancient tomb.
Secondly, Zhang Jinya was right about one thing. Fatty would go into any tomb he saw. We might be able to find him here, although the chances are not high and it's all luck.
In short, we have nowhere else to go now. Even though we know this ancient tomb is dangerous, we have to go in and give it a try!