I said to Da Jinya: "Master Jin, aren't you degrading me?
If I knew what the characteristics were, I would need to ask you for advice."
Da Jinya said: "Oh, look at my mouth, I have become accustomed to it.
No matter what I say, it is all the same rhetoric that talks about antiques, pretending to be high-minded, so as to make the buyer faint and convince. " The fat man said from the side: "Yes, Lao Jin, you are really capable.
Don't look at what time it is now.
In this situation, let's not talk about it.
Let's say one thing and two things.
Let's tell the truth."
Da Jinya repeatedly said yes, and then continued our conversation: "I am not an archeologist, and I am not so sure about anything else, but the characteristics of this Western Zhou human face are very obvious.
I once visited the Luoyang Museum After reading the introduction, I was very impressed, so I can definitely say that the stone coffin with a human face is from the Western Zhou Dynasty.”
The biggest feature of the Western Zhou human face carvings and decorations is that the facial lines are smooth and smooth, with no gender characteristics.
Only the ears are larger than ordinary people, but no gender or age can be seen from the face.
Moreover, only the Western Zhou Dynasty in all Chinese dynasties advocated thunder patterns.
In the Hades Hall, you can see that the bottom of the stone coffin is decorated with thunder patterns layer by layer.
This can be said to be the best proof.
On the other hand, before the Western Zhou Dynasty, some of the cultural relics unearthed during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, many of which were equipped with facial carvings or patterns, looked vigorous and simple, but not smooth and smooth, and had obvious gender characteristics, such as silk-like eyebrows, round eyes, and big noses and wide mouths.
For men, this is based on the legend of the Four Faces of the Yellow Emperor.
The facial patterns and carvings after the Han Dynasty have more obvious facial features, and men have beards on their faces.
I understood the meaning of the big gold tooth.
Since the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there has been the carving and casting process of human faces.
Only in the Western Zhou Dynasty, a strange genderless face shape suddenly appeared.
After that, the aesthetics and craftsmanship returned to the previous one. style, I asked Da Jinya: "Why did this change occur in the Western Zhou Dynasty alone?"
Da Jinya said that it was not clear, and he had to ask an expert.
Although he could tell that the face carvings on the stone coffin belonged to the craftsmanship of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he could not explain the reason for carving such strange stone faces. and background.
I asked Da Jinya: "What does the legend of the Yellow Emperor on all sides refer to?"
This legend is widely circulated, and most people who study history and early antiques know something about it.
Da Jinya replied: "As the name suggests, it means that the Yellow Emperor has four faces, one on the front, one on the left, one on the left, and one on each side, looking in different directions. ; Another theory is that the Yellow Emperor sent four envoys to inspect the four directions. " I said: "I see, but this seems to have nothing to do with the stone coffin in the Palace of Hades.
There are five human faces on the stone coffin.
One of the faces on the coffin cover is facing upward.
Could it be the shape of that face?
It’s related to the tomb owner.”
I know that asking is in vain.
The three of us are now in a fog, and we can't tell the north, south, east, and west.
Judging from what Big Jinya said, it is not necessarily possible to confirm that the stone coffin and these strange tomb walls are products of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Seeing that I was dubious, Da Jinya added a few words: "If some cauldrons or places with inscriptions can be found nearby, it will be further confirmed."
The fat man asked: "Old Jin, you still know about inscriptions.
I haven't heard you talk about it before.
I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable.
Your hairstyle doesn't match the knowledge you have in your belly.
You really can't tell a person by his appearance."
Big Gold Teeth has a slicked-back hair, and he puts a lot of hair oil on it every day.
He has been teased by the fat man.
At this time, when he saw the fat man talking about his hair style again, he remembered that he had not taken care of his hair for a long time, and quickly spat into the palm of his hand. , wiped his hair back, bared his gold teeth and said, "I don't dare to take it seriously, but if I find the inscription, I can tell if it's from the Western Zhou Dynasty if I take a quick look at it."
The three of them discussed for a long time, but they couldn't come up with any idea.
Both sides of the tomb passage in front of them could be passed, but they didn't know where it connected.
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There was a gap at the top, and above it was the Hades Hall where the giant coffin with a human face was parked.
I said to Da Jinya and Fatty: "Our current situation is so embarrassing that we can't even figure out where we are.
But if this tomb passage is really the Western Zhou Dynasty building that Da Jinya mentioned, then I can tell where it is.
The general layout of the ancient tombs of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties was not as luxurious as that of the Tang Dynasty, but it was larger in scale and divided into main halls with large stone walls.
It is built in several layers and is not a flat structure.
As soon as we entered the Robber's Cave, we were blocked by a large stone wall.
That thick and large stone wall was probably the outer wall of the Western Zhou Tomb, which was about 30 meters away from the main tomb.
Some distance away.
But I still don’t understand how it suddenly appeared.
Damn it, it’s really hard to get out this time.”
The fat man said: "Old Hu, I don't think you should even think about it.
This is something we can't figure out.
Originally, I thought that the combination of the three of us could basically settle any ancient tomb.
If we have the skills you have, You need experience like Lao Jin, and you need strength.
I’m not bragging, I can at least stand up to you two.”
Da Jinya interjected and said: "We are all lacking in technology, experience and strength, but we are lacking in brains."
The fat man said: "Lao Jin, haven't you heard that three cobblers can rival Zhuge Liang?
Aren't the three of us much better than the cobblers?"
I said to Fatty and Da Jinya: "I think we are both lacking in technical experience and physical strength, but we still lack a goddess, a goddess of luck.
Our luck is so bad.
We have to find a way to change our luck when we go back." .
Let’s not mess around with this.
The more I think about it, the more stupid I am.
If this is the structure of the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the tomb passage on the bottom floor leads to the secondary burial pit.
There will be no exit.
I think it’s better to go back first.
Go to the Hades Palace on the upper floor and look for the exit of the Thief Cave."
The fat man said: "Wait a minute, there should be some treasures in the burial pit.
Why don't you drop by and pick up two items before going back to find the robber's cave?
It's not our style to come back empty-handed, otherwise it will be a waste of time."
Da Jinya said: "Forget it, Fatty.
Your thick arms are so tiring.
My legs are filled with lead.
Let's not make trouble.
According to what Mr.
Hu said, we should go back to find the robber's cave."
It’s a good idea.
Besides, this place is so weird.
Who can guarantee that there are no traps in this tomb passage?
It will be too late for us to regret it.”
The fat man saw that Big Jinya and I were determined to climb back to the upper level.
In desperation, he had no choice but to lead two geese to join us.
He suddenly said: "Hey, let me tell you, do we have to pry open the stone coffin?
Let's see.
Look at the dead man there.
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He has such a weird face.
He might have a mask or something.
It would be valuable if it were gold. " Neither Big Jinya nor I paid attention to him.
How could we be in such a mood under such circumstances?
I supported Big Jinya and pushed him up to the Hades Hall on the tomb passage.
Fatty and I also climbed up one after another.
There was no change in the Hades Palace.
The big stone coffin with the strange human face carved on it was still parked quietly in the corner.
We turned on all three flashlights and searched for the entrance to the cave on the ground.
The entire Hades Hall is empty except for the six stone shelves prepared to display six jade and the stone coffin in the corner.
There is nothing superfluous.
It is unimaginable that there is a Western Zhou Dynasty statue in the Hades Hall of the Tang Dynasty. of stone coffins.
The fat man pointed to the place where we just climbed out and said: "Where are the other exits here?
The place where we just climbed out is the same robbery cave as before."
I turned on the flashlight and looked down at my feet.
It was indeed the thief's cave we crawled into first.
However, I didn't allow me to think about how to jump down to the tomb passage.
Big Jinya also discovered something: "Master Hu, look at that stone coffin."
Next to it, there is an extra step.”
The fat man and I looked in the direction mentioned by Big Gold Tooth.
Sure enough, next to the stone coffin, a stone staircase appeared unnoticed and went upward.
The stone steps were wide, and each level was made of large stone strips.
Become.
I walked downstairs and looked up.
The flashlight beam seemed to have been swallowed up by darkness.
It was full of black holes more than ten meters away, and I couldn't see what was going on above.
I couldn't calm down anymore, so I said to the fat man and Da Jinya: "Damn it, this ancient tomb is haunted by ghosts.
The robbery cave became the tomb passage, and the stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared in the underworld hall of the Tang tomb.
Now this stone staircase appeared again.
Seeing that we are willing to go all out, the robbery cave will definitely be inaccessible if we go all the way.
If this is an ancient tomb in the Western Zhou Dynasty, then this staircase next to the stone coffin should lead to the top floor of the ancient tomb.
The road is connected, maybe we can get out."
The fat man said: "Then what are you waiting for?
I'll go up first and you two will follow."
Before he finished speaking, he went up the stairs and took two steps.
Then he suddenly remembered something and turned around and asked me: "Old Hu, what are you doing?"
What was the purpose of what I just said?"
Da Jinya and I also stepped up the stairs.
As we walked, I said to the fat man: "The embedded tunnel is, to put it bluntly, a tunnel.
To build an ancient tomb, don't you have to hollow out the mountain?
All the soil and stones that are dug out are moved out of the embedded tunnel."
After the tomb owner was buried, the tunnel was sealed and the craftsmen and slaves who repaired the tomb were buried alive inside.
If you were lucky, you might be able to find the secret passage secretly left by the craftsmen.
Get out of this damn place."
The three of them were talking and walking.
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After walking for about five minutes, I suddenly realized that something was wrong.
When I first walked up the stone steps, I noticed that there was a crescent-shaped gap on the edge of the second stone step.
It might have been knocked during construction.
However, every time we walked up twenty or thirty steps, we would find the same crescent-shaped gap.
At first we didn't pay much attention to it, but later we counted carefully and found that there was one every twenty-three steps.
This was definitely not a coincidence.
We were probably going in circles.
I hurriedly called out to Big Gold Tooth and Fatty to stop going up.
If we climbed up like this, we might be exhausted and never reach the end.
The three of us hurriedly turned down, but the road below seemed to have no end.
We walked down the steps very quickly and effortlessly, but we walked for a long time, far longer than the time it took us to go up, but we couldn't walk at all.
No more going back to Hades.
The three of them were already out of breath from exhaustion.
Da Jinya was not in good health.
At this time, he was so tired that his breathing was rough and rapid, and he was wheezing like a broken bellows.
I saw that if I went further, I would have to let the fat man carry the big gold tooth on his back.
It was not easy to carry someone down the stone steps.
Besides, I didn’t know if I could still walk back to the Hades Palace.
It wouldn’t be a problem if I continued walking like this.
Let Big Gold Tooth and Fatty rest where they are.
The fat man sat down on the ground, wiped the sweat from his head, and said to me: "Oh my God, Old Hu, if we keep going like this, in a few hours at most, we will starve to death in this damn place." ” When we came to the Fish Bone Temple, we brought a lot of food, including wine and meat.
However, in order to carry the treasures in the ancient tomb and bring some simple equipment for use, we put all the food in the Fish Bone Temple.
With them, each person only carried a bottle of water.
Although they had eaten and drank before going into the robber's cave, after struggling for such a long time, their stomachs began to pound.
At this moment, when the fat man mentioned the word "hungry", the stomachs of the three of them began to growl at the same time.
The current situation is even more dangerous.
I rushed up the stone steps rashly and was trapped on the steps like a ghost circle wall.
I couldn't reach both the top and bottom.
I might as well find another way in the Hades Palace.
But it really fulfilled what Big Gold Tooth said before.
As you said, it will be too late to regret it by then.
I sighed and secretly cursed myself for being too reckless and impulsive.
If I hadn't had this problem when I was in the army, I wouldn't be a self-employed person now.
I really wanted to slap myself twice.
The fat man said to me: "Old Hu, it's useless to blame yourself now.
Even if we don't go up this step, we will still be trapped somewhere else.
Save your energy and think about whether there is anything else you can do."
I thought for a while and said: "This staircase seems to be repeated every twenty-three steps, up and down.
We can't reach the end no matter we go up or down."
The fat man said: "Then it's over.
This is a ghost beating a wall.
It's absolutely true.
You can never get out.
You can only die here alive.
Just wait for the next group of thieves to come and collect the corpses for us."
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After hearing the fat man's words, Da Jinya felt sad and couldn't help but shed two tears of sadness: "I have pity on my eighty-year-old mother and my eighteen-year-old sweetheart.
I will never see them again in this life.
If only I could still have one."
In my next life, I will never do this again."
The fat man was upset by him and said to the big gold tooth: "What are you making a fuss about?
I regret it now.
What did you do earlier?
You will die like a man.
If you cry again, I will give you the gold tooth first."
Break it off."
Big Jinya regarded his gold tooth as a treasure, almost as important as his hair style.
Hearing that the fat man was about to break off his tooth, he quickly reached out and covered his mouth: "Fat man, I told you in advance, we are all As a dying man, you must leave a whole body for me, and don’t wait until I’m too hungry to move, and then take advantage of my danger to break off my golden tooth.”
I said to the two of them: "You two, stop talking nonsense, saying that we can't starve to death in this hellish place.
It's too useless to die like this.
If you want to die, you have to find a happy way to die."
The fat man said: "That's what I say, but it's not easy to die happily in this place."
Then he pulled out his paratrooper knife and said to me: "I think there are only two ways.
One is from He rolled down the stairs and fell to his death.
Anyway, there are no stairs.
At the end, maybe the four modernizations have been realized outside, and we haven't gotten to the bottom yet; another way is to cut your wrists.
If you can't do it, I will cut you both, and you will be close to death as soon as you bleed.
I think this is the happiest way."
The big gold tooth said to the fat man: "Fat Master, when did you become so honest?
Didn't you hear the meaning of Mr.
Hu's words?
If I understand him correctly, his subtext should be: We are not in a desperate situation yet, and we are not going to die yet."
Die."
He turned to me and asked, "Master Hu, is that what you just said?"
I said to Da Jinya: "What I just said was indeed angry, but now I seem to have suddenly found some clues.
Please be quiet and let me think about it."
Seeing that I had finally come up with some clues, Fatty and Da Jinya were afraid that if I interfered again, they would lose this chance of survival, they both stopped talking at the same time, not daring to breathe.
I said I would come up with a solution quickly, but that was just a perfunctory way to stop the two of them from arguing.
It became quiet at this time.
I replayed the scene from entering the Fish Bone Temple to being trapped on the stone steps in my mind like a movie.
It was complete and complete, trying not to miss every detail. .
I didn’t know how long I thought about it, and then I asked Da Jinya: “In this ancient tomb, it’s like running into a ghost wall.
No matter which way we go, something will pop up out of nowhere.
Lord Jin, have you heard that Have you ever had a ghost break into a wall?"
Da Jinya said: "I've heard of it, but I've never seen it.
There was a commotion on Di'anmen Street back then, so people nearby didn't dare to cross there at twelve o'clock in the evening, otherwise they would hang around until dawn. , and couldn't walk out of that road.
I also heard some rumors from other places, but what we encountered was probably not a ghost hitting the wall.
I heard that the ghost hitting the wall was just going around in circles.
How could it be so powerful?
Besides, we were wearing so many.
How can a magic weapon used to protect one's body be hit by a ghost?"
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The fat man also said: "Old Hu, you forgot, didn't you say that in a place with good Feng Shui, where the wind is hidden and Qi is gathered, there will be no ghosts that linger, and there will be no zombie rice dumplings or anything like that.
Why do you think of it again at this time?"
The ghost is coming" I shook my head and said: "I'm not saying that we encountered a ghost tampering with the wall, but I just wanted to confirm that the current situation is not a ghost tampering with the wall, then my analysis may be correct."
The fat man asked: "One person is short-term, and two people are long-term.
Then you tell me, and Lao Jin and I will help you analyze it."
I thought about it and said to Fatty and Big Gold Tooth: "I seem to already know what we encountered, but I want to tell you, so don't be afraid
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