"Open it quickly and see!" Zhao Zhen was also impatient. At this point, everyone is becoming more and more obsessed with the truth.
"To be honest, I don't care how much treasure can this business get in the end. The only thing that supports me is the desire to explore the truth." Yelu Qinghui echoed.
Hu Bing carefully took out a box placed in the dark grid. The box was rectangular, about 40 cm long and 10 cm wide. This box had been waiting here for more than two thousand years. When he first saw it, the surface color was still bright and dazzling because it was isolated from the oxygen outside, but when it was blown by the wind, it immediately turned into a thin layer of gray.
Even the wooden box outside becomes fragile, and if you are not careful, it may be damaged.
"You'd better come on." Hu Bing glanced at me and signaled me to open the wooden box.
I nodded and gently placed the wooden box on the ground. At this time, although the sound of impact outside was constantly falling and dust from above kept falling, everyone's breathing was calm, waiting quietly for the secret to be revealed.
I slowly removed the lock on the box, and after confirming that the box had no mechanism, I slowly opened the box, and the things inside finally appeared in front of us.
I saw that there was only a scroll with a black background and yellow edges in the box. The appearance of the scroll made me realize that the owner of the tomb must have something to say, otherwise she would not have hidden this dark box here.
"This may be an edict," I guessed, "You see the golden silk edging on it. Judging from the craftsmanship, it must be worthy of the royal family above the princes."
I slowly opened the scroll, and what I saw was dense and exquisite small seal script. The first two characters were larger, which were the two words "公司". From this we can see that I guess it was true, it was really an edict.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the orders of the king were called "order", "order", and "policy", and there was no specific format. Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, called the emperor, changed his order to a system, and ordered it to be an edict. From then on, the edict became a special document for the emperor to inform his subjects. After that, the "edict" appeared in the emperor's documents, indicating that this was the emperor's order.
"Is this the imperial edict of Qin Shihuang?" Yelu Qinghui said in surprise.
"Why should the imperial edict issued by Qin Shihuang to his biological mother be hidden in such a secret compartment?" Zhao Zhen questioned.
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, ended the separatist situation of the princes, and established the first unified feudal state in history. In order to consolidate the new regime, Qin Shihuang carried out a series of major reforms in politics, economy, and even cultural thought. Such as the unity of weights and measures, currency, and writing, as historical books say, "the car is the same track, the book is the same text."
Nearly two thousand years later, we can still see the imperial edict issued by Qin Shihuang at that time. Among them, the imperial edict of the Palace Museum, the 26th year of Qin Shihuang, is the most eye-catching.
The edict engraved in small characters in the 26th year of Qin Shihuang, the full text is: The emperor annexed all the princes in the world, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, so he made the name of the emperor. The traffic regulations and measurement units issued by the solitary are unquestionable. The minor ones are exiled and punished, and the serious ones are implicated.
The edict engraved in small characters in the 26th year of Qin Shihuang, the full text is: The military talisman for the army is mobilized, the right (represents the noble) is given to the king, and the left half is given to the general. Anyone who is mobilized with strong and stubborn sharpness, who is over fifty, must have both halves of military talismans in order to be mobilized. If there is no, it cannot be mobilized. Violators will be violated.
However, so far, no edict written on silk books during the Qin Shihuang period has been found.
"Maybe this is an edict written by the Empress Dowager himself." I was silent for a while and said.
"Written by yourself?" Chen Yina asked in confusion, "Is it a self-criticism?"
I nodded and said, "That's right, this is an edict of guilt."
"Self-blame edict?" Everyone gathered around, waiting for me to reveal the truth of the dusty history.
But I will
The scroll was put away, "It's not the time, I have to find a safe place first."
Everyone was so excited that they were pouring cold water on them all at once, and they all complained. However, when they heard the constant collisions outside, they didn't have to say much.
"It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. Brother Gao, do you know what other way out?" I said to Gao Yuhan.
Gao Yuhan nodded, "The main tomb chamber should be safe."
"Isn't the place we were just here the main tomb?" Hu Bing questioned.
"No!" Gao Yuhan shook his head, "The real main tomb is not there. It is just an empty tomb. It is set up for those who want treasures. When the tomb robbers arrive here, they will leave after they get the treasure, and will not disturb the purity of the tomb owner."
"Where is the main tomb?"
“It’s still a long way to go.”
"It seems that we have to solve the thing outside first!"
As soon as I finished speaking, Zhao Zhen suddenly said, "Listen, the sound of impact outside has stopped!"
"Are it pretending to be tired and going to rest?" Yelu Qinghui said foolishly.
Gao Yuhan immediately put his ear on the wall.
"What are you still listening to? There is no one outside." Yelu Qinghui said to Gao Yuhan.
Gao Yuhan ignored it and put his ear on the wall. After a while, Gao Yuhan turned his head and said to me, "Listen to me, is there any movement outside?"
I leaned my ear against the wall in confusion. After listening for a while, I found that the movement outside had indeed stopped.
"Did you really leave?" I turned my head and asked Gao Yuhan.
Gao Yuhan shook his head and said, "I don't know either." After that, Gao Yuhan sat back on the stone.
"What should we do now? Should we go out?" Zhao Zhen asked.
Gao Yuhan shook his head and said, "What we have to do now is wait."
"Wait, when will you wait?" Yelu Qinghui asked from the side.
Gao Yuhan glanced at Yelu Qinghui with a squinted look and said, "Wait until the outside is completely safe."
"Then how do we know if the things outside have left or have not left?" Yelu Qinghui murmured in a low voice.
Although his voice was very small, Gao Yuhan's ears seemed to be very good. He turned his head to look at him, and the corners of his mouth moved, and in the end he didn't say anything.
After waiting for about a few dozen minutes, I lay on the wall and listened, and found that there was no movement outside. I turned my head and said to Gao Yuhan: "There is no movement outside. I guess they have left. Should we go out?"
Gao Yuhan nodded at me, and saw Gao Yuhan walking to the stone wall, touching the stone wall with his hand, and the stone wall opened with a click.
Looking at the situation outside, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
A corpse was left on the ground.
This is a special corpse.
Zhao Zhen walked into the special corpse and looked at it, almost scaring him to death. Zhao Zhen pointed to this thing and asked, "Is this the corpse leader?"
Gao Yuhan nodded and said, "Look at what that kind of thing is for, be careful not to eat later."
Zhao Zhen frowned, said nothing, took out a cigarette from his pocket and started smoking.
Seeing Zhao Zhen smoking, Yelu Qinghui ran over and said, "Give me one."
"Why don't you buy it yourself?" Zhao Zhen said jokingly.
After hearing Zhao Zhen's words, Yelu Qinghui's face changed for a moment, and then smiled and said, "You don't have money."
Zhao Zhen coughed twice, took out a cigarette box and handed it to his hand, then turned around and walked towards Gao Yuhan and me.
"What do you two think? Isn't this corpse leader very awesome? Why are you burping yourself out?"
"It should have triggered the defense system of this ancient tomb
It is killed by itself.” I analyzed.
"What?" Zhao Zhen was puzzled.
"Look at this place." I pointed to the holes in the surrounding walls. "These small holes did not appear before. They should have been deliberately left by the person who built the tomb. This layer of mechanism is not easy to trigger and is completely sealed in the wall. Only when the walls are damaged will these small holes appear."
"Just just now, the corpse leader hit the wall, cracks appeared on the wall, mud and dust also fell down, these small holes appeared, I think the small hole contained poisonous gas, which could poison the corpse leader to death!"
Zhao Zhen and Yelu Qinghui nodded, "Then are poisonous gases if they are not dead here?"
"The owner of the tomb designed this mechanism to prevent the corpse leader. These poisonous gases will not cause any harm to the human body, but the corpse leader will die immediately."
"No matter what, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time. It's better to go to the main tomb room as soon as possible." Hu Bing suggested.
Everyone nodded in agreement, because everyone wanted to see what the secret was written in the edict earlier.
Gao Yuhan and I were walking in the front. No one spoke at the beginning, but I could see that Gao Yuhan had something to say, but I didn't know where to start.
"Who are you?" I asked softly in Gao Yuhan's ear, taking the lead in breaking this lifeless atmosphere.
Gao Yuhan looked at me in confusion and asked, "What do you mean by this sentence?"
I smiled and said, "You don't have to pretend anymore, I've seen it."
"What did you see?"
"Actually, since you promised to work with me, I have doubted your identity. Even if you didn't say that at that time, we were actually tacit." Seeing Gao Yuhan ignored me, I continued, "I know you feel guilty about this matter today. You actually don't want Qiu Yanyan to get involved, right?"
"It's already obvious, is it necessary to say it?"
"You haven't answered my question yet."
"That's right." Gao Yuhan said lightly.
"Li Dongjie is dead, I don't want you to follow in his footsteps."
Gao Yuhan suddenly laughed, shook his head, and said, "It turns out that he is a contractor of gods and ghosts. You can see this. At first I thought that you were just guessing it, and you probably didn't know my identity. It seems that you knew it a long time ago."
"Li Dongjie, you should have been involved halfway, right?"
Gao Yuhan was stunned for a moment, "I didn't expect you to see this."
I shook my head and said, "Just guess."
Gao Yuhan waved his hand and said, "It's not the time to tell you. I'll tell you after you unravel the secret of the edict."
I shrugged and said, "Okay, but you should tell me your identity, right?"
"You are right. I am a magnificent person. Li Dongjie has a tattoo on his body, which is the beauty of their clan." Gao Yuhan said, "I also have a similar tattoo on my body, but I am not a tattoo on my body."
After saying that, Li Dongjie took off his clothes and exposed his upper body. He saw a red bird on his back, almost exactly the same as the bird totem in the corridor.
"Are you a descendant of Zhao Ji?" I said in surprise.
"I can't be considered a descendant. I'm just a descendant of the Huling people. According to legend, the tattoo on our body is a brothel, which is a satire of our tribe. Maybe it's the Empress Dowager who looked back on her own experiences in her later years, criticized and evaluated herself."
"It seems that your tribe members have not guarded this place for generations."
Chapter completed!