Face

Looking around the strange tomb, even the fat man who had never cared about anything began to be scared. The fat man asked me: "Where is this place in Lao Hu?"

I glanced at him and said, "Ask me, who will I ask. I remember clearly that we jumped out of the thief hole in the middle of the ancient tomb and the underworld hall. It should be a not too high shaft connected to the slanted thief hole below. Why did we get here?"

Da Jinya sucked the teeth and said, "Is that wrong? There is only such a thief hole on the ground of the Nether Palace, right in the empty position in the middle. Next to it was the coffin of the tomb owner. We walked around the Nether Palace three times. In addition to the thief hole, there are no other passages on the ground. This... it really hit a ghost and hit a wall."

I waved my hands to the two of them. It is useless to be suspicious now. Moreover, this is definitely not as simple as ghost building walls. A stone coffin of the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared in the dark hall of the ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty. Could it be that the tomb chamber where we are now also from the Western Zhou Dynasty? Look at the rock paintings on the tomb wall, all of which are strange-looking human faces. This narrow tomb chamber, or tomb passage, must have a certain connection with the human face stone coffin in the dark hall.

After we entered the Tang Tomb and the Underworld Hall, in order to save energy, we only had one of the Big Gold Tooths on. At this time, the Big Gold Tooth handed the flashlight to me. I lit a candle in the original place and used the flashlight to observe the nearby environment.

We should be a tomb passage, with tomb passages painted with red ancient rock paintings on both sides. The strokes of the pictures are red like blood and bright as new. If this tomb passage was from the Western Zhou Dynasty, no matter how well it is preserved, it is impossible to achieve this effect. These rock paintings have only a history of one or two hundred years at most.

Not only the rock paintings, but also the rocks built into the tomb passage, there are no traces of peeling from the ages. Although they do not seem to have just been completed, they are definitely not built thousands of years ago. Some places also have gray stone stubbles.

The tomb passage is about a few meters wide, and both ends extend straightly, and there is no end. The tomb bricks are all huge rocks, simple and solemn, not like the luxurious and exquisiteness of the Tang tomb, but also have a thick and steady kingly aura.

Da Jinya knew that I was familiar with the configuration and layout of ancient tombs of all dynasties, so she asked me about the details of this tomb passage.

I shook my head and said to Dajinya: "I'm not sure yet. If the stone coffin we found in the Nether Hall is indeed an ancient object from the Western Zhou Dynasty as you said, then this tomb passage is very likely to be matched with the stone coffin, and it is all from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Especially the patterns painted on the tomb walls are mostly similar to that of the stone coffin."

The fat man said, "I bet it's definitely a matter of tricks. *******, that big face can be remembered for a lifetime by just a glance. That smile-like, cold and weird expression is simply cut out from the same mold."

I said to the fat man, "Little Pang, what you said makes sense, but you don't look carefully. The stone coffin we saw in the Nether Hall has five stone carvings on it, and the expressions are all the same. If you look at the rock paintings in the tomb passage carefully, the expressions are not that single."

The rock paintings on the tomb wall are slightly distorted human faces, not all like the stone coffin in the Nether Hall. The five faces on the stone coffin are all expressionless, and a hint of weirdness is revealed in the indifference. Each face on the tomb wall is slightly different, including joy, sorrow, sorrow, anger, shock, and hurt, but no matter which expression it is, it is different from a normal person.

The fat man looked at the faces on the tomb wall with the light of the candle and said to me and Da Jinya: "Old Hu, after a closer look, I felt that these faces were so wrong. No matter what expressions it was, I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't describe it. The expressions of these faces were so... so..."

I also saw the strangeness of those faces. Seeing that the fat man couldn't hold it out, I said it for him: "It's all so fake, it seems insincere. Whether it's joy or anger, it seems fake, as if it's pretending, not born from the heart."

After I said this, Big Gold Ya and Fatty both agreed. The Fatty said, "That's right, it's just fake. Lao Hu is still your vicious eyes. Actually, I can see it too, but there are too many words in my belly and it's stuck, and I didn't remember it for a while."

Da Jinya said: "That's true, with a smile showing evil and aggression showing mockery. We who do business usually bargain with customers, have to pretend to be sincere and heart-wrenching. I think our expression was fake at that time, but compared with the human faces painted on the tomb wall, it's simply a witch. The fake expression revealed in this expression... is simply... not something that humans can do."

The last sentence of Big Gold Teeth made me feel a chill in my heart. Looking at the faces on the murals, I said to Fatty and Big Gold Teeth: "I also have this feeling, and I can't think of who has such a strange expression? The actors who sing opera do not have such faces. I think the situation we are facing now has a certain relationship with these faces, but... what do these faces symbolize?"

Although I often claim to be an authentic lieutenant, I am only aware of the matter of looking at Feng Shui and searching for dragon veins and treasure halls. Secondly, I learned from the "Sixteen-character Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" and was very familiar with the arrangement of tombs in all dynasties. However, when it comes to some cultural factors, historical background, and cultural relics identification, I have only a little understanding. Even if I have only a little understanding, I still guess it based on my own speculation and no foundation.

I know nothing except for some intuitive feelings about these giant stone coffins we are facing now, as well as the many strange faces and rock paintings on the tomb walls. I am far inferior to Dajinya in this regard. Although he is not a professional archaeologist, he has at least many years of experience immersed in the antique world.

I said to Da Jinya and Fatty, "Little Pang, Master Jin, I see that there are many incredible things in this ancient tomb. It is not a solution for us to walk around so randomly. If we break through so randomly, we might encounter some strange situations. Now we must think of some countermeasures."

The fat man asked, "Old Hu, do you have any solutions? If you want to have one, just say it quickly. Can you stop selling official positions? I won't hide it from you. I'm really a little scared now."

I know that Fatty is not a person who is timid and panic. He wants to say the word "fear" because we are facing now, and there is no way to start. Although our lives are not threatened, our nerves are almost tortured and collapsed. So I said to Fatty: "I haven't thought of any solution yet. The preface to finding a solution depends on us to figure out what's going on. Now it's like fighting on the battlefield, we are ambushed. I have an open and secret enemy, and I can only be beaten passively and have no room for fight back. Because we don't know what the situation is."

The fat man said helplessly: "Now the three of us are like three little mice that fall into the hands of others. They are dizzy at the mercy of others, but they still can't figure out what's going on. Next time, I will never go to the ancient tomb without weapons and medicine."

I smiled bitterly and said, "If we can talk about it next time." I asked Da Jinya again: "Mr. Jin, I think we are in a strange environment now, but there is no danger of life for the time being. As long as we clarify our clues, it is not a problem to escape. After all, you have not been in vain for so many years. Can you tell that the human-faced stone coffin is something from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Can you tell me specifically? Let's analyze and maybe you can come up with some solutions."

At this time, Big Gold Teeth was not as nervous as Fatty. He was different from Fatty. Fatty was not afraid of wolf, insect, tiger, leopard, rice dumpling, zombies, and only feared those things that were not focused. To put it simply, it was afraid of using the brain. Big Gold Teeth was most afraid of the direct threat. Although many Western Zhou things emerged out of thin air from this ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty, they were just weird and tight, not very fatal, or they could say... they were not fatal immediately. So although Big Gold Teeth also felt nervous and fearful, they could still cope with this mental pressure for the time being.

At this time, Da Jinya heard my question, thought for a while, and said to me, "You know that the things we buy in Beijing are mostly from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Going to the past, the value is higher. They are all private transactions and dare not take them to the antique market to transfer. When it comes to the Ming utensils of the Tang and Song Dynasties, they are already the best in our industry. If you go to the ancestors before the Tang and Song Dynasties, you can basically be said to be a national treasure. If you buy and sell, you will turn around. I have been doing this industry for so long, and the oldest ones are just handling a few small pieces from the Tang Dynasty."

When I saw Da Jinyajing say something that was not needed, I asked again: "You can't even eat the human face stone coffin that is from the Western Zhou Dynasty?"

Da Jinya said: "Of course I have never handled such an ancient underworld weapon. Is this kind of stone coffin of the Western Zhou Dynasty valuable? It can be said that it is priceless. The problem is that no one dares to buy it. If it is sold to foreigners, we will be a crime of treason. So for us it is actually worthless. Although I have never bought anything from the Western Zhou Dynasty, sometimes in order to learn and gain eyes, I often read books on this aspect, and always visit museums to improve my business capabilities. For these antiquities, I am a half expert. This stone coffin is something from the Western Zhou Dynasty. I will not be mistaken for this. I can guarantee this and use human faces as decorations. It was once very prosperous during the Shang Dynasty. Many important ritual instruments will be carved with human faces."

I said wonderingly: "Didn't you just say that the man-faced stone coffin belongs to the Western Zhou Dynasty? If I remember correctly, the Shang Dynasty should have been before the Western Zhou Dynasty. Is this stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty or the Shang Dynasty?"
Chapter completed!