Tomb?!

I keenly captured the key point in Brother Yaozi's words.

Digging along the snake hole, we entered another tomb?

Is this a coincidence or inevitable?

I closed my eyes and carefully reviewed the places we passed, trying to guess where we were now.

If I remember correctly, when a few of us were walking through the snake cave not long ago, some of us slipped backwards for a while because of the ice and slippage in the cave...

This shows that we are actually climbing upward!!

"Brother Jingzhe..."

Xiaozhi pushed me gently and timidly reminded me: "Brother Yaozi and sister Xinya have gone out..."

When I came back to my senses, if nothing unexpected happened, I had probably guessed where we were now.

The tomb chamber under the stone well is just a secondary burial pit, and the place where we are now should be the real main tomb of this ancient tomb!

Under the extreme cold, every minute and every second became extremely unbearable. In addition, the frozen soil was difficult to dig, which made our advancement very slow. It even felt like we had dug far away. In fact,

We have only dug out less than a mile, and now we should be under the big mound in Mingtiao Gang!!

Brother Yaozi and Zhang Xinya had already crawled out of the snake hole. They were silent. I could only see the flashlights in their hands shaking. The places where the beams passed by reflected a colorful halo. There was actually a kind of halo.

The feeling of beauty is not as gloomy as that of the tomb, but rather it has the ethereal feel of an immortal family.

"This is a colorful tomb..."

I muttered to myself, propped up my body with my elbows that were already numb from the cold, and crawled forward little by little.

The exit was close to the ground, because I had been drilling in the hole for so long that I forgot how to stand up for a while. I only knew that I was lying on the smooth ice, breathing heavily and taking a rest.

After a while, I got up little by little, and I could hear the lumbar spine and leg joints making a "click, click, click" sound, so that I was cautious when I stood up, as if my bones were frozen, and if I moved too much

, if you are not careful, your body bones will be scrapped and fall apart.

Brother Yaozi and Zhang Xinya stood around the snake cave like General Hengha. The two of them were motionless, as if they had turned into clay and stone sculptures. Only the flashlight in their hands was shaking back and forth, and wherever the beam of light pointed, their eyes pointed.

change.

No wonder they were like this. When I really started to look at this tomb, my performance was not much better than theirs. My head went blank for a while.

This is not because of a witchcraft, but - I didn’t expect that there really are such tombs in the world!!

In front of me...it's a world of ice!!

The tomb chamber is not big, at most it is about the same size as the courtyard in the old quadrangle. However, whether it is the dome or the four walls, they are all made of solid ice, and the colors of the ice are different, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The flashlight scans

, the halo is hazy and dreamlike, if it weren’t for the temperature, I’m afraid we would all think it was a gem!

There are various things scattered around, including spiritual flags, etc. Many of them are used for burials. These things are all wrapped in ice and are still intact even now. Brother Yaozi is probably

After seeing these things, I concluded that this was a tomb.

The most astonishing thing is that in the center of the tomb, a horse with its front hooves raised is sealed in giant ice.

This is not a sculpture or a work of art. It is really a horse of flesh and blood, completely preserved from ancient times. The horse is equipped with a vest. From this, it can be seen that it is a war horse, its neck, head,

There were blood holes everywhere on his body, which were arrow wounds.

"It's not the main tomb, but the place where funerary objects are placed."

I walked back and forth around the horse in the center of the tomb, and said softly: "It seems that the owner of the tomb should be an ancient general or a distinguished noble. If there is no accident, he should have died in battle. This horse is

Otherwise, his mount would not be qualified to enter the tomb. The horse and man were equipped with the equipment, and the horse was shot into a sieve, let alone the human being?"

I looked at the place directly opposite the snake cave. There was a huge tomb door there. The tomb door was also made of solid ice. Its thickness and weight were probably very, very shocking. I couldn't see the scene behind the door through this giant ice.

But you can probably guess that behind the door is the real main tomb. The owner of the tomb is a soldier, and he is buried with horses, armor, etc. This is a military ritual. A soldier rides with his horse all his life, and will be with him after death.

Not wives and concubines, but the weapons and war horses he used during his lifetime. This is actually the funeral custom of the northern nomads, especially the early nomads, such as the Huns, Turks, etc., who liked this kind of funeral the most. As for their

Wives and concubines have a very low status in the tombs. Sometimes they may be left directly in the burial pit or even stay with the slaves who died. Such funeral customs were gradually accepted by the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains through the continuous integration of ethnic groups.

, but only some of the soldiers and nobles were buried in this way.

Lao Bai and Wu Shuang also got into the tomb at this time. The situation was not good, they all looked like villagers who had just entered the city.

"A horse of flesh and blood has been completely preserved from ancient times to the present, without any sign of decay. This shows that it has been in a completely frozen state. As long as the ice here melts once, the body will be destroyed immediately..."

Lao Bai murmured to himself: "In other words, the ice in this tomb has never melted? Mom, I have been dealing with ancient tombs all my life, and I have never heard of such tombs. This is not an Antarctic glacier.

, nor Mount Everest, which is about to climb into the sky. How does this ice remain unchanged for thousands of years?"

The grandson was probably too frightened and turned into a complete lunatic. He pushed me hard and shouted: "Little Weizi, aren't your ceremonial officials responsible for building tombs? Can you build such a tomb?"

?”

"It can't be made..."

I honestly shook my head. This is indeed anti-scientific. Even a refrigerator can't do it. After a thousand years, who can guarantee that there will be no problems with their refrigerator? Those people's speeches are very nice, and they don't make drafts when they brag.

None of the refrigerator sellers dare to brag like this. As long as there is a little problem, we won't be able to see the scene in front of us!

"However, although my family cannot do it, it does not mean that such tombs have never appeared."

I changed the subject and said, "Have you ever heard of Cui Yuan?"

"You mean...that famous calligrapher from the Han Dynasty?"

Lao Bai asked me hesitantly, and when I nodded, he said: "Of course I know this person. There are still authentic works of his on the market. I once handled a pair, and they were all very expensive. Why, could it be that Cui

Is this what Yuan’s tomb looks like?”

"In the second year of Chenghua, Li Xian, a famous official of the Ming Dynasty, passed away and was buried by Zhu Jianshen. My ancestors built a tomb for him as usual. When choosing a site, they chose a geomantic treasure land. However, after the craftsmen started work, they accidentally discovered another tomb with a large scale.

It is very small, but it is exactly the same as here, completely frozen. From some ancient artifacts, we can roughly guess that this tomb belongs to Cui Yuan, a famous calligrapher in the Han Dynasty..."

I said: "The expression of our ancestor was similar to ours now. He looked like he had seen a ghost. He had never heard of this burial technology, so he resigned and went home, spending his whole life pursuing this technology without success.

The result, but... after many speculations and research, he thought of another person - Zhang Heng!!"

Zhang Xinya finally recovered from her shock. Her lips were purple from the cold, but her energy was frightening. She hurriedly asked: "The science sage among the Five Sages of Nanyang, the inventor of the armillary sphere and the seismometer, Zhang Heng?"

"That's right, it's Zhang Heng."

I nodded: "Cui Yuan and Zhang Heng were classmates during the Taixue period. They have a very good relationship. They can be said to be family friends. The ancestor of my family suspected that this technology came from Zhang Heng. Zhang Heng died three years earlier than Cui Yuan.

, Cui Yuan’s tomb should have been built for him by Zhang Heng’s descendants!!”

Several people also calmed down a little at this time. While moving around in the tomb, they rubbed their stiff bodies hard and listened to my speculations about the ancestor of my family.

There is actually a place similar to this in nature. This place is the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave in Ningwu!

This is one of the ice caves with the largest ice reserves in the world. It has only been developed to a depth of hundreds of meters, which is just the tip of the iceberg. The cause of the formation of this ice cave has always been a mystery!

This ice cave is located in Guanjuan Mountain, not far from the Demon Tomb. Lao Bai and the others have all been there. The altitude is indeed not low, but it will not prevent the ice from melting for thousands of years. In midsummer, the inside of the ice cave is covered with ice and snow, and the outside is covered with ice and snow.

The flowers are red and the willows are green, and the most interesting thing is that this ice cave is on a volcano!

The situation is exactly the same as that of Cui Yuan’s tomb and the ice tomb in front of us!!

Zhang Heng's grandfather, Zhang Kan, was a general during the reign of Emperor Guangwu. He once served as a prefect in Yuyang and defeated thousands of Xiongnu cavalry with thousands of cavalry. In the era when this man was wielding arms and riding horses, he was active from the present capital to the vicinity of Ningwuguan in Shanxi.

, it is said that he reined in his horse in front of the Wannian Ice Cave. In his later years, Zhang Heng once visited his grandfather’s hometown and came to the Wannian Ice Cave. He was immediately attracted by this strange place and went deep into it. He stayed there for three or four months.

come out!!

The world only knows that Zhang Heng invented the armillary sphere and the seismometer. He had a very profound understanding of astronomy and geography, and he also left behind the astronomical book "Lingxian". But they don't know that when Zhang Heng invented the armillary sphere, he also wrote another book

Unfortunately, the full text of this work has been lost and has been completely lost.

After many searches, the ancestor of my family learned a secret - after Zhang Heng deeply explored the ten thousand year ice cave, he extensively revised the lost book.

After he came out of the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave, whenever anyone asked him about it, he never mentioned it. He just looked downcast and immediately resigned from the then Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty. However, Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty asked him to do it very strangely.

It is an unsolved historical mystery as to whether he served as minister. Why Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty asked him to serve as minister is also a mystery. Anyway, less than a year after that incident, Zhang Heng passed away suddenly.

"You mean... Zhang Heng is very likely to have cracked the mystery of the ten-thousand-year ice cave. Modern scientists have conducted countless investigations to no avail, but he knew the cause of the ten-thousand-year ice cave, and in another of his books

Mentioned that this work seems to have been lost, but in fact it has always been in the hands of his heirs?"

After hearing this, Lao Bai frowned and said: "And because his descendants understood the cause of the ten thousand year ice cave, they artificially copied this miraculous work of nature, and built an ice tomb to bury Zhang Heng's good friend Cui Yuan.

?And now, the ice tomb in front of us is most likely the work of Zhang Heng’s descendants?”

"Nine times out of ten, this is what happened. After my ancestors saw the ice tomb, they immediately thought of Ningwu's Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave. To say that the technology of this ice tomb has nothing to do with the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave, I'm afraid

No one would believe that the two were so similar, but he checked all the interpersonal relationships of Cui Yuan and found that only Zhang Heng had been to the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave. However, this man was such a great scientist and was familiar with astronomy.

Geography, we are fully qualified to decipher the secret of the ten thousand year ice cave!"

I sighed: "In order to obtain this technology, my ancestors tried every possible means to investigate the ultimate future of all Zhang Heng's descendants, and found that his second son was the most talented and the most mysterious. The book Zhang Heng left behind, ten

Eighty-nine of them ended up in the hands of his second son. However, the descendants of this lineage were all evil. They completely inherited Zhang Heng's intelligence and had high scientific attainments. They became emperors and guests of nobles, which was similar to worship.

The same existence, the characters of this lineage are also somewhat interesting. They only choose one master in their life. When the master they serve dies, they will be buried with him, so as to make their will clear and prevent others from getting any tips from them.

.So, all the emperors and nobles who can be recognized by them are proud of it and make them their confidants. And their masters are not cowardly, they are all amazing and talented characters.

This is like a strange circle. People of this lineage have been passed down for two thousand years and have always lived like this!"
To be continued...