Seeing those lifelike puppets, Fatty yelled angrily: "Bah! I didn't expect that Fatty, who has been famous all his life, would be scared to death by such a puppet. If word of this gets out, how can Fatty still hang out in Panjiayuan in the future?"

"Damn, I guess those black figures on the shore just now are not lonely ghosts."

When I heard the fat man complaining like a little train, I felt anxious and quickly covered the fat man's mouth.

This damn fat guy doesn't even look at where we are now. If the ghost ship in front of us is disturbed, how can the three of us find the Kitchen God Temple?

Unexpectedly, I just stopped the fat man's mouth when I heard a rustling sound coming from the ghost ship. The sound was fast and urgent, as if there was a big animal stepping on it.

It's like the deck is scurrying around.

No, there is something on the boat!

I immediately gave Wang Yuanchao a wink, and Wang Yuanchao was already ready. He swam forward for several meters with a splash in the water, and then climbed onto the ghost ship in twos and twos.

Fatty and I didn't care about being exposed at this time and followed Wang Yuanchao on to the boat.

The thing on the boat seemed to know that the three of us were going to catch it, so it chirped a few times and blew out all the green lanterns on the boat.

In an instant, the entire ghost ship fell into extreme darkness.

"What the hell is this? It disappeared in a swish." The fat man said as he walked to the boys and girls and fiddled with the lanterns in their hands, as if he wanted to see if they could light them up again.

"Stop working blindly, we didn't bring a lighter." I said with a smile, shining the flashlight over.

"No!" The fat man suddenly said while holding the big lantern in his hand: "Dingdang, come here and take a look. This lantern doesn't seem to be filled with candles."

I suddenly became curious. Aren't ancient lanterns lit by candles? Could they also be equipped with a light bulb? If it were really a light bulb, my jaw would really drop.

With a look of curiosity on my face, I slowly walked over to the fat man. The fat man directly handed the lantern over and let me see it myself.

When I saw the lantern in my hand, I was stunned. To be honest, I had never seen such a lantern. The entire lantern was made of woven bamboo strips and covered with a layer of delicate green gauze. I held it in my hand.

It's like an immature little pumpkin, but what's inside the lantern is not candle oil, but a green stone.

I touched it carefully with my fingers, and there was still residual warmth on the stone.

What's going on?

Could it be that the lantern that was so bright just now was shining because of this green stone?

Just when the fat man and I were looking at the stone and thinking hard, Wang Yuanchao came back panting. He inserted the paratrooper knife back into his waistband, shook his head and said: "That thing was so fast, it was gone in the blink of an eye.

But I can tell that the thing is definitely not a human being, we have to be careful next, this ship is too dangerous!"

Wang Yuanchao finished speaking in one breath. Seeing that none of us paid any attention to him, some monks suddenly felt confused.

I smiled bitterly and handed the lantern in my hand to Wang Yuanchao: "Brother Yuanchao, do you know the green stone in this lantern? There is no candle in the lantern at all, but it can shine brightly with a stone. This ship will not really

Heading to the underworld, right?"

Wang Yuanchao seriously pried off the stone with a paratrooper knife, then put it under his nose and smelled it. Finally he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You are overthinking it. This thing is called green phosphorus."

"Green phosphorus?" I blinked. I had only heard of white phosphorus, but not green phosphorus, so I asked Wang Yuanchao to clarify.

Wang Yuanchao picked up the green stone in his hand and said: "Generally speaking, what we commonly see is white phosphorus. Everyone knows that white phosphorus has a very low ignition point and will spontaneously ignite at room temperature. But green phosphorus is different. Its ignition point is higher than white phosphorus.

Much more, and the fire that burns is bigger and brighter than white phosphorus. We brought a lot of these lighting things with us when we marched and fought..."

"So that's it." I nodded in understanding.

Wang Yuanchao continued: "Although green phosphorus is easy to preserve, it is rarely formed naturally. It is all chemically refined. How come there is green phosphorus on this ship? And you can see that there seems to be a word engraved on the back of this piece of green phosphorus.

"

"What word?" I quickly shined the flashlight over, and following Wang Yuanchao's finger, I found a word engraved on the back of the green phosphorus. The word was straight and clear, and it looked very comfortable.

.

I didn't know much about ancient characters, so I asked the fat man to identify them. The fat man just glanced at them and suddenly slapped his head and said, "Do you know what the character is? It's a big word 'Wei', and the font is the same as that time."

The regular script used exclusively by the Wei State."

"Regular script." I asked anxiously, "Are you sure?"

"Nonsense! Fatty, I have been fooled by this stuff many times in Panjiayuan. I learned a lot from the experience, and I know how to beat it to death. It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei, Shu and Wu divided the world, and Cao Cao had a big man.

The calligrapher is called Zhong Yao. This Zhong Yao is not only handsome, but also a great person. He created a new type of calligraphy called regular script. Cao Cao liked it very much after seeing it and said it was so damn beautiful! He asked the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to follow him.

After learning regular script, regular script gradually became popular, and Zhong Yao became famous because of it. Together with Wang Xizhi of later generations, he was called the two great calligraphy saints in ancient times."

"And the regular script of Wei is different from the regular script of later generations. Do you see this radical? Cao Cao likes round characters, so he asked Zhong Yao to change the regular script to be more round."

Following the fat man's introduction, I fell into a brief thought: "Cao Wei, Cao Wei..."

After a while, I cried out: "Fat man, do you think this is possible? Whether it is Zuo'er Village or the legend of Kitchen God, they are all related to the tomb we are looking for! Everything on this ghost ship is also

They are all in that tomb, and this boat is the only means of transportation connecting the tomb to the outside world."

"No way?" Before I could finish my words, the fat man knocked on the colorful boys and girls beside the boat and said, "If they were from the tomb, how could there be puppets with such fine workmanship, and they could also laugh?"

Grandma's voice scared the fat man."

Seeing that the fat man didn't seem to understand the history of puppets, I said: "On the contrary, the wisdom of ancient people is often better than that of modern people. In the distant Zhou Dynasty, there are records of puppet people. It is said that a skilled craftsman dedicated

The king made a puppet, pat the puppet's head, and the puppet will sing, shake the puppet's hand, and the puppet will dance. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang even created something called a wooden cow and a flowing horse, which could travel back and forth on mountain roads.

Transporting military rations shocked the enemies. They took apart a wooden ox and a horse that they desperately grabbed in public to see what kind of trick Zhuge Liang was playing, but they found that it was all made of wood. So several puppets appeared in the tomb of Wei State.

It's normal here..."

Having said this, I touched the faces of the boys and girls with my hands and said, "Look, these puppets have all been embalmed and oiled on the outside. It's not surprising that they can be preserved for thousands of years."

"Grandma, why are these puppets so broken and not falling apart? They've all been embalmed," the fat man said.

When Wang Yuanchao saw that Fatty and I both believed that this ghost ship came from an ancient tomb, he asked: "I don't know what you are talking about, but during the Three Kingdoms period, such exquisite puppets were used to accompany the burials. I am afraid that ordinary princes and ministers do not have this ability."

Bar?"

"Yes, this is definitely an imperial tomb." I nodded.

"What should we do now?" the fat man asked.
Chapter completed!