I have heard of a strange burial pattern, which can be regarded as a type of suspicious tomb, called the Styx Tomb.
This is probably one of the earliest suspicious tombs, which appeared more than two thousand years ago. From a technical perspective, it is certainly not as mature as Cao Cao's 72 suspicious tombs. That person is a master of playing with people's hearts and tricks. If he really deceives the world, it is naturally easy to catch. The Styx Tomb cannot be as good as him, but there is an interesting story that is not well known.
Legend has it that after the Zhou emperor lost power, the princes split up and China entered the chaotic era of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. However, the princes at that time still paid attention to some gentlemanly etiquette and left some room for fighting. But since the Three Families Divided Jin and entered the Warring States Period, the princes have completely torn their faces, fighting with blood flowing into rivers and corpses piled up like mountains.
In troubled times, people were living in poverty. Once people could not survive, they would dare to do anything. Tomb robbing was rampant in that period. Perhaps because they had seen too many cases of living people bullying the dead, the princes and nobles were terrified and began to think about ways to protect themselves after death. Tomb mechanisms emerged one after another, and the Styx Tomb appeared at that time.
This was first thought up by a man named Ji Bo in Wei State. He knew that tomb robbers would basically not touch the secondary burial pits in order to pursue speed. Anyway, there would be no good things, and they would basically go straight to the main tomb. So he put an insignificant person in the main tomb chamber, and buried the real tomb owner in the secondary burial pit to protect the body of the tomb owner from being harmed by tomb robbers. To put it bluntly, he found a substitute and put up a cover on the surface for everyone to toss around. He was playing the trick of repairing the plank road in the open and crossing Chencang in secret.
Of course, in order to ensure the quality of life of the tomb owner after death, the secondary burial pit for the tomb owner must be built extremely luxuriously, and the regulations must even be higher than the main tomb!
Regardless of whether this method is stupid or not, the princes and nobles who were tormented by tomb robbers at that time really believed in his lies. A general of the Wei State buried his father in this way. As a result, not long after the burial, both the scapegoat and his father came back from the underworld, which made the general tormented. In anger, the general killed Ji Bo with a sword. In the end, he invited the ritual officer from the Zhou Emperor in Luoyi to come back and make major changes to the tomb, and then settled the matter.
Because it involved my ancestors, this matter was mentioned in some of my family's notes.
Even some ritual officers commented on this matter, saying that tombs must be consistent with the Yin-Yang Heavenly Dao. Putting aside the good or bad pattern of the tomb, the first point is to distinguish the primary from the secondary!
The father must be buried before the son. If the son rides on the father's neck, who is the father and who is the son?
The tomb owner is the tomb owner, so he must be buried in the main tomb. What's the matter with burying him in the secondary burial pit?
If the priorities are reversed, the yin and yang will also be reversed. If the yin and yang are messed up, the tomb is not a tomb for resting souls, but a ghost-raising cave!
Therefore, the people behind figuratively called this ridiculous tomb a Styx tomb, which is no different from a ghost-raising bureau.
"But I think that this tomb is an application of the Styx tomb method. However, the person who arranged this tomb should be a master. He knows that the Styx tomb is no different from a ghost-raising cave, and uses this to achieve some goals."
I thought about it and finally made such a judgment.
From the saddle and bronze sword in the pastoral area, it can be seen that the person buried in the main tomb should be a general of high status. He is worthy of the main tomb and can represent the entire Donghu. Therefore, he was simply buried in the main tomb to protect the people who went far away to Wuhuan Mountain and Xianbei Mountain.
However, the king of Donghu should be buried in one of the four secondary burial pits!
That secondary burial pit is our real target. It is definitely not simple. There may be a huge secret hidden in it. The old fox has gone through so much trouble just to prevent us from peeping into that secret. He even abducted a large number of young and middle-aged people in the pastoral area for this matter!
In this way, they can help their people who went far away to foreign lands and hide their secrets. Why not?
The only disadvantage is that the people buried in the tomb will not be at peace. However, for a nation whose country has been destroyed and whose family has been ruined, it seems that things after death are really not considered.
"Why, they all want to become ghosts?"
Lao Bai heard this and said, "They couldn't defeat Maodun Chanyu during their lifetime, so they want to become ghosts after death to seek revenge?"
"It can't be that simple. When the old Russians dug the grave, it was trampled by the ghost soldiers, which means that the souls of the Donghu survivors have always been here!"
I shook my head and sighed, "I guessed before that an important person might have died unexpectedly after coming here, so they had to stop and hastily build the grave. Now it seems that this idea is totally wrong. They should have deliberately chosen this place and collectively sacrificed their lives for the country!!
Tell me, what is the biggest wish of a group of people whose country has been destroyed and whose families have been ruined? Of course, it is to restore the country!
So, I guess that this tomb may contain their hope of restoring the country!!
But how to restore the country and what secrets are hidden in the tomb are not something I can guess with just my mouth and my head. I have to dig up the tomb to see the truth!"
In fact, it is very simple to judge whether this tomb uses a layout similar to the Styx Tomb to reverse the yin and yang.
In order to trap us, the old fox dug up Wucai soil from somewhere else to cover it up. It is not easy to find several tombs in Daxinganling. The best way is to dig Wucai soil from the secondary burial pits!
So, I asked Lao Bai and Zhang Xinya to go and check the soil quality at the locations of the four secondary burial pits.
The secondary burial pits of this tomb are located in the four corners of the east, west, south and north, almost surrounding the mountain. As a foothold, the distance is quite far. Lao Bai and his team really spent a lot of effort to return.
"It's amazing. The soil in the burial pit has really been moved. Although it was covered with fallen leaves, it can still be seen if you look closely!"
Lao Bai panted and laughed: "Only the burial pit in the west has not been moved!"
"That's right. The Donghu is in the east and the Xiongnu are in the west. The burial pit is placed in the west, which is to look at their enemies from afar!"
I laughed and said: "It seems that all our speculations are true. The layout of the Styx Tomb is indeed used here to reverse the yin and yang. The real owner is buried in the burial pit, which hides the biggest secret of the Donghu survivors. The old fox is afraid of ruining the pattern and affecting their plan to restore the country, so he dare not touch the five-colored soil outside the burial pit!"
"It feels a bit like a heavenly official."
Lao Bai gave me a thumbs up and said: "Shall we use the shovel now? It's time to teach that old fox a lesson. It's too insidious!"
"Let's take a rest for a night?"
Brother Yaozi looked at the sky and said, "Let's find a place to stay for the night. Jingzhe is also injured and needs to rest."
Lao Bai thought about it and decided that since he had found the key point, he was no longer in a hurry and nodded in agreement.
Brother Yaozi took out a flag from his backpack. On one side of the flag was a yin-yang Tai Chi diagram, and on the other side was the word "Tao". It was sonorous and powerful, but it was stained with a lot of blood and even had a few holes.
Brother Yaozi used a straight branch to pick up the flag, and it unfolded with a "clatter" and inserted it in the middle of our camp.
When Lao Bai saw this object, his eyes were straight and he kept saying "Wow wow wow".
He said that this flag was a treasure of Qingwei Dao and was related to the decline of Zhenwu Temple.
In the past, the Zhenwu Temple was once very popular and had many disciples. Its decline began in modern times. It is said that an old Taoist priest with great achievements led many disciples out of the mountain gate to resist foreign invaders. He never came back. Only my master brought back this Taoist flag, which was stained with the blood of his master and fellow disciples.
"I have heard of this Zhenwu flag for a long time!"
Lao Bai said: "It is stained with the blood of many disciples of Qingwei Dao. Their heroic spirits are placed on it. It has become a very powerful magic weapon. When Mr. Zhang was in Xiangbei, the flag was unfurled, and a heroic spirit killed the evil spirit and became famous in one battle. From then on, when talking about Zhang Daoxuan, everyone had to give a thumbs up. Even if there was only one person left in Qingwei Dao, no one dared to underestimate him!"
I was stunned when I heard it, and my blood boiled just thinking about it.
Obviously, my master was worried that something would happen to us, so he even brought out the Zhenwu flag.
Brother Yaozi was worried that the things in the tomb would not be quiet at night, so he asked for the Zhenwu flag to protect our safety.
I couldn't calm down for a long time. After nightfall, we got into our sleeping bags and grilled the dried beef we brought with us around the campfire. I asked about some things about the Zhenwu Temple and my master.
Unfortunately, whether it was Lao Bai, Brother Yaozi, or Zhang Xinya, none of them could explain it. They only knew that my master had been wandering in the martial arts world for a long time and had done many earth-shaking things, but that was something on another level, and they didn't know much about it.
The burns on my face were burning and painful, and I had no sleepiness, so I pulled them to ask about some rumors and anecdotes in the martial arts world.
Just as we were talking, a strange laugh suddenly came from afar. The laugh was quite honest, but in this desolate mountain, no matter how honest the laugh was, it felt extremely gloomy.
"What the hell!"
Master Qi shouted, holding a hard bow, and immediately stood up. He looked for a moment and hesitated, "It seems to be a beast?"
The laughter disturbed the hearts of several of us, and we all stood up and looked at the vastness behind us.
A black shadow slowly walked out of the forest. When we saw its appearance, we couldn't help laughing.
"It turned out to be a silly roe deer."
Master Qi opened his bow while he was talking: "Just right to shoot it for drinking!"
Unexpectedly, when Master Qi opened his bow, the silly roe deer in the forest did not run away, but stood up, raised its two hooves high, made a gesture of surrender, and then laughed silly again.
"Interesting."
Lao Bai stretched out his hand to hold down Master Qi's bow: "This silly roe deer has become a spirit."
After saying that, he waved at the silly roe deer.
The other party really walked towards us, always maintaining a surrender posture, with very slow steps. When we got closer, we could see clearly that there was a huge cloth bag hanging around his neck.
"Hehehe..."
The silly roe deer grinned again, revealing two big teeth. He was not afraid of us at all. He sat down in front of us like a human, took off the cloth bag with great effort, and spread it out in front of us. There were some wild fruits and fresh raw meat inside.
It gestured back and forth with its two hooves, and laughed silly "hehehe", as if it wanted to express something. The weirdest thing was that we really understood what it meant.
For a while, several of us looked at each other.
Finally, Brother Yaozi asked in doubt: "Are you saying that someone asked you to send these here as a treat?"
The silly roe deer immediately nodded, bared his big teeth, and laughed silly "hehehe"...