Chapter 41 The Cannon Temple
I was shocked. I didn't expect that the Earth Immortal Feng Shigu would be so blasphemous. Even Guandi Temple dared to make a false statement, but I didn't know that it was the temple of the evil god. It was completely different from the previous solemn atmosphere. The difference between the right and the evil is huge. It's really
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It is difficult to determine good or bad luck when crows and magpies are with each other, and I am afraid it is not a good place.
I thought to myself and hurriedly grabbed the fat man who was prying the door hard: Don’t touch the door, there are evil spirits here, it is definitely not the True Lord of Subduing Demons. Be careful that there are ambushing devices on the wall of the door.
Then everyone stood still and shone the flashlight around the hall. They found that it was not only the main statue in the shrine, but also Zhou Cang and Guanping, who were standing on both sides of the Martial Saint, had become ghost messes in the underworld. They were covered in red robes, with a braid on their heads, and their faces were panicked.
We still thought we had read it wrong. When we rubbed our eyes and looked at it carefully, it turned out that the previous mud statue was covered with a layer of cloth tent lacquer shell. At this time, they were pulled up by the fine rope hidden behind the shrine, hanging at the height of the palace beam, and the mystery revealed the true body of the evil god in the temple.
Just now, our attention was attracted by the strange signs in the coffin mountain, and no one paid attention to the movements in the temple.
In fact, before coming in, I had already checked that there were no machine-selling machines on the outside of this building, but I didn't expect that the Guandi Temple Fair was a trap. Although I was very careful in advance, I still couldn't help but find a tragic temple that was completely out of common sense.
There was a dead silence in the hall.
But there is no longer any mechanism to make a branch, but the atmosphere seems very wrong.
I feel more and more unfamiliar.
I must get out as soon as possible, and use the tactical light beam to look around. Seeing the cold and heavy Qinglong Yanyue Sword, which was still on the cloud platform, I couldn't help but have an idea and a thought came to my mind.
In the old Chinese society, the style of worshiping the ancestors of civil and military saints has been passed down since ancient times. If the Guandi Temple is large in scale, there will often be a separate sword hall set up in the side wing to provide the Guangong sword; a small temple can be carried by Zhou Cang or placed flat on the Jinyun bracket.
I saw that Guan Gong's knife was extremely heavy and thought that there were organic stakes in the palace gate. Although it was easy to break out, it might be a move to dig a grave. Why not use this heavy force of dozens of kilograms of heavy force as a wall-breaking lock and breaking through the wall and going out? So I immediately called the fat man to come forward and raise the knife.
As everyone had just walked closer, they saw a wooden plaque behind the evil god clay statue, with gold characters on black background, and three big words "Cannon Temple" written on it.
The youngest girl seemed to know this thing and kept saying it was bad.
Not only the doors, windows and walls in this hall, but even the roofs and beams and pillars covered with glazed tiles cannot be touched. There must be fireworks hidden inside. Once triggered, the entire temple will be burned and everyone will be blown into powder.
The fat man originally relied on his impetus to sneak into the Feng family's old house and make money. At this time, he saw that he was unfavorable to go out and complained about his unluckyness. He probably forgot to burn incense for his ancestor before going out.
I shook my head helplessly and said, "It's not that we're leaving behind, but that the landlord class is too cunning, but I have never heard of the deficit world. Is the disaster hall a big powder keg? Is it really a desperate family who can't get in and out?"
Shirley Yang also asked Yaomei'er: "What is the Cannon God Temple? How can we determine that there are floor-standing fireworks hidden in the temple?"
After hearing what the youngest girl said, we understood what was going on.
It turns out that the folk custom of worshiping cannon gods originated from Qingxi, Wushan.
Initially, it was because the earth-made explosives were used when digging the Wuyan Mining veins. Because the conditions were extremely primitive and simple, the mine slaves were often killed, so the people secretly built the Cannon God Temple.
It was a shrine dedicated to mines. At first, it was only similar to the low land temples. The saltpeter gunpowder that exploded mountains and exploded was usually stored in such temples, and its function was similar to that of explosives warehouses.
Later, the trend gradually formed. In addition to the miners, even the firearm battalions in the officers and soldiers' army, including the red cannons introduced from the Red-Haiguo of Portugal, were worshipped by the god of artillery wherever gunpowder was involved.
Firearms began to develop in the Ming Dynasty, but their concepts were still relatively conservative and superstitious. The main red and barbarian flames used in the army were all given the title of general, such as "Shenwu, Shenwei, Zhenwei" general, etc.
The cannon cannot be recasted or decomposed after aging or damaged, but must be built and buried.
All of these are extended from the custom of worshiping the god of cannons.
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Later, because the Qing Dynasty's Taizu Nurhaci was injured by flames outside Ningyuan City and eventually died, the Qing Dynasty completely banned the Cannon God Temple. All the Cannon King's tombs and Cannon God Temple were demolished and damaged in different numbers. Some of them were secretly worshiping Cannon God at their birthplace. Most of the temple sites were built in underground caves, and people from other places were unable to know these things.
The people in Qingxi area make a living by starting a gun medicine, which is well known to everyone in the young and old.
Since it was a secret offering, Qingxi Cannon Temple was often disguised as other temples since the Qing Dynasty, mostly in the Medicine King Temple or Land Temple, but no one has ever seen anyone dare to use the Guandi Temple as a guise.
In addition, in the Honey Wo Mountain, which specializes in the production of selling equipment, there are many traditions of worshiping the gods of gunpowder because some gunpowder equipment are often made, such as the god crow flying fire, the fire dragon coming out of water, etc.
It is said that the image of the cannon god has different shapes, but he must have been holding a frank robe and a boy with red robe and fire clothes standing on both sides.
Franchis is the synonym for Western artillery in ancient times. Since Portuguese artillery was introduced to China during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, it has been named after it. It has always been the magic weapon of the cannon god.
Although Shirley and Yang and others didn't know about the God of Cannon, they also knew this thing. They have seen many old weapons maps in Panjiayuan, Beijing, which contain such firearms.
The firearms placed in the arms of the clay cannon statue are naturally fake, but there is a point here. The flame machines held by the cannon god worshipped by the people are all red, with the meaning of red clothes and red medicine; there is also a black flame machine, indicating that there are murderous fire items in the cannon temple, which are mostly five thunder fireworks, or fireworks to land on the ground.
Because this type of explosive mechanism is called Fire Pin in the Honey-Wo Mountain, the paint of the Fran machine held by the Cannon God is a secret code used by the box maker in the Honey-Wo Mountain. The difference is that outsiders never know the craftsmen who lay the cannon spring.
Although my youngest girl had learned these activities, she had never really seen them and lacked the necessary experience. She suddenly remembered this incident until she saw the black Franchise and the ancient plaque behind the mud statue.
In this cannon temple, there must be countless fire-fighting medicines. Fortunately, I didn’t break the door and tear down the wall just now, otherwise I would have touched the cannon and everyone would have been blown to pieces at this moment.
The thunder plungers in the temple are mostly hidden among the beams and pillars of the doors, doors, windows and pavilions, and they can be closed but not opened. If the four walls are subjected to heavy stress, it will cause explosives.
Although all buried are earth-made explosives hundreds of years ago, they may still explode in the place where wind and air gathering are hidden in Coffin Mountain. Once the fire is about to explode, it will never be able to resist by flesh and blood.
I think that gunpowder was one of the four great inventions in ancient times. By the time of the times, the application of gunpowder firearms had become more mature and perfect. Although the power of the original earth explosives was not as powerful as that of modern times, their lethality should not be underestimated.
The ground-based fireworks are similar to mother-sub-bullets. As the name suggests, after the cannon drug explodes, the iron nails and iron sheets hidden inside will cover the surroundings like a scattered flower of the goddess, while the five-thunder fireworks will explode continuously.
After hearing this, everyone felt helpless. As soon as the gate of the temple opened, the entire temple would probably be blown up to the sky, but if they didn't find a way out, they would be unable to escape even if they had wings.
Thinking of the surroundings of cannons, it makes people feel confused, like crickets on the hot ground, and they can't stand firm for a moment.
I couldn't help but feel anxious and calmed down and thought that I came to Qingxi to find the ancient tomb of Dixian Village.
Almost every step is far from what was expected, and this is all due to Professor Sun's refusal to reveal the truth, so he finally dragged everyone into a desperate situation. However, it is useless to blame anyone now. The only meaningful thing is to do everything possible to cope with the current crisis.
I was about to discuss with Shirley Yang whether it was feasible to take the risk of removing the cannon gutter, but when Master Sun Jiu was standing by, he suddenly said: "I almost forgot that the Dixian Village is full of Yin and Yang Houses!"
We did not understand this, and we said strangely: "What is a Yin-Yang House? Isn't Dixian Village an ancient tomb yin house?" Sun Jiuye said: "No, there are too many things happening today. I was confused and ignored this section. I remember that I heard from my brother that all the houses in Dixian Village are Yin-Yang Houses." The so-called Yang House is the residence of living people, while Yin-Yang House is the tomb for burying dead people. Feng Shi of Dixian Village was addicted to collecting treasures from ancient tombs, and there was also a quirk, not only the rare and unique artifacts buried in the tomb, but also the coffin.
Ancient corpse.
Tomb bricks.
Murals and other objects should also be taken as your own, and treated as your own property, life and life.
When he built Dixian Village in the Coffin Mountain, he built all the ancient tombs stolen by Guanshan Taibao on the ground as they were, with the upper part being a yang house and the lower part being a yin house. All the houses and courtyards on the lower floors are real tombs.
The types of tombs range from the third generation to the Yuan and Ming dynasties.
All inclusive, the tomb chambers also have their own portals and tomb passages below, which is as unique as the streets of Yin and Yang houses, but no one knows why he did this.
There will definitely be a cellar-like tomb underground in this Cannon Temple. From the tomb passage, it can lead to the Feng family’s old house. I wonder if there will be ground-based fireworks hidden under the ground.
It shouldn't be true, because the Earth Immortal Feng Shigu would never easily destroy the cemetery, but it is said that the hidden weapons in the tomb chamber are all set according to the old method. If you walk from the tomb passage, you must find a way to deal with the various mechanisms in the ancient tombs of all dynasties.
The so-called "doubt to doubt people," and "do not doubt people." After Professor Sun made a poisonous oath in the name of his own ancestors and ancestors in the heavenly spirit, and with the confirmation of everything, I had temporarily dispelled my doubts about him at this time, otherwise I would have been unable to move forward. I immediately agreed and said, "This is a solution, always as if I were trapped here and endured. There is a saying that there are only heroes who drive away tigers and leopards, and there are no heroes who are afraid of bears and cranes. What kind of tombs do you dare not enter a craftsman who touches gold and fights?"
The temple of Cannon God seemed silent, but in fact it was full of dangers. With no way to advance and retreat, everyone immediately decided to take a gamble and prepare to escape from the catacomb passage. However, the secrets passed down from generation to generation in Professor Sun's family were not sure that they were true. It is still hard to say whether there was an ancient tomb underground in the temple.
So the five people lined up in a row, carefully pried open the floor tiles with engineer shovels and fine steel Emei thorns, and found that there were cannon pins on the floor beside the wall in the hall, and rows of hidden laying were densely packed.
The five thunder fireworks were not mines, so there was no way to remove the fuses, so I could only try to avoid them. There was only a circle around the mud statue of the Cannon God in the entire temple, and no hidden weapons were buried.
Everyone was afraid of touching the fire, so no one dared to use too much force. They slowly moved away the top few blue bricks. Under the bricks, there was a layer of rammed earth cleaned and rammed earth. After the work, the shovel was too short and the rammed earth was not enough to make it work. The rammed earth might have mixed glutinous rice and boy urine. The soil was dense and fine. We dug it with the shovel for a few times, and sweat was already coming out of our foreheads.
I had no choice but to carry Guan Gong's knife with the fat man, and according to the ancient formula of the cave in the "cut" left by the Taoist of Moving Mountain, I first poured some soy wine on the ground, soaked the rammed earth a little loosely, then turned the head of the knife and poked it hard on the ground with the three-edged cast iron knife.
This Guan Gong knife is like a shovel that weighs dozens of kilograms, and it is very skillful to chisel a hard layer of mud.
I poked this layer of rammed earth and dug it open. It was indeed a layer of paste mud that was more than one foot thick, and there was another layer of sleeper under the mud.
After digging here, it is enough to prove that there is indeed a tomb chamber under the temple. The wood used is probably from real ancient tombs. The square pillar-like wood is half-decayed, and it is very unlucky. After stabbing it with Guan Gong's knife a few times, the neatly arranged rotten wood sank from it, revealing a dark hole, and a cold wind whizzing inside.
The fat man said happily: "It seems that the militia have connected the authenticity of the village into one." Before he finished speaking, he heard the mud statue in the Cannon Temple roar.
It turned out that the sleepers underground had been soaked by groundwater at the original site and were overwhelmed by the rottenness. A wooden stake collapsed, which caused several nearby cross-border trees to break together.
Several sleepers that broke and collapsed were located at the bottom of the cannon god statue that was holding the Franchise.
The god shook, and the heavy mud seemed to hit the back wall, and the cannon god's head was knocked off on the spot, and his head fell to the ground with a bang. The back wall immediately made a strange sound.
Everyone's hearts suddenly sank, knowing that this was the pin spring that landed on the ground and fireworks. I quickly pushed Master Sun Jiu who was staying there: "Let's go, what are you waiting for?"
At this time, the sound of cannon springs moving between the beams and columns of the temple. While I greeted him, I didn't care about what was going on in the tomb. I pushed Professor Sun down with all my push and dragged him. Then the rest of the people jumped into the tomb. The fat man felt that Guan Gong's knife was heavy and solid, and it was easy to use. Although one person could definitely not swing it, he could just use it to chop the coffin. He couldn't bear to ignore it, and he didn't forget to drag the big knife in a hurry.
The space of this tomb, composed of hundreds of sleepers, is very narrow, and people can't stand up straight inside. There is also a large ancient wooden coffin. The last one I jumped in and landed on the wooden lid. Before the power to land disappeared, I heard the roar of thunder above my head, and the soil kept falling on my body.
In the temple above, the fireworks fell to the ground and exploded in the hall, and the nitrosulfur soil flew quietly. The ancient rotten wood in the tomb was impacted and broke one after another. For a moment, the bricks and wood collapsed. I fell to the ground in a thick dust and felt that the tomb would completely collapse at any time. I didn’t have time to get up. I rolled in the chaos and touched the tomb door. When I hit my companion, I couldn’t tell which one it was. I could only push him out desperately.
I couldn't tell in a panic, but I saw that there seemed to be a long and narrow tomb passage covered with blue bricks outside the wooden coffin chamber. I rushed out, my head covered with bricks and mud. When I saw that everyone around me was also there, only a fat man was hit by a wooden stake. Although he was wearing a helmet, he still made a hole in his face. He was not in charge, and he wiped it randomly, and could not tell whether it was mud or blood. Before I could check the situation of the others, the coffin chamber behind was completely buried by broken wood and mud, and he had to suffocate it half a step later. Just as everyone was still shocked, he suddenly saw the dark tomb passage wall. A cluster of bleak light like ghost fires lit up, which made people's face turn green.
Chapter completed!