Qin Official

In the dark tomb, the fifteen damp stone steps sloping downwards seem to be the road of no return leading to the underworld, or the broad road to wealth...

What stood in front of the tomb robbers was the tomb-suppressing beast named Fang Xiangshi, which was used to drive away the legendary evil beast The Elephant that specializes in eating the corpses of the dead. Unexpectedly, hundreds of years later, The ghosts didn't wait, but several tomb robbers arrived.

The remaining people had little experience and had never seen this thing before, so they all backed away in fear. Only Chang was not afraid. He walked closer and patted the two beast heads of Fang Xiangshi carved into shape-shifting dragon faces. He also touched the four antlers of Quan Ya, and said regretfully: It's a pity that it's a stone. Yes, if it’s copper, it can be moved away and melted.”

Chang couldn't figure out the identity of the owner of this tomb. Not only were there many burials around, but there were people, carriages and horses surrounding this big tomb like stars holding the moon. It also had such high-standard tomb steps and extremely rare The tomb guard guards the town. This stone beast is exquisitely carved and lifelike. It is definitely not something that ordinary nobles can possess.

He simply shook his head, no longer thinking about the problem, and urged the five people to work together to move the tombstone beast pressing against the entrance of the tomb chamber little by little. Then he smashed it with a shovel and a pry strap. After a while of tossing, he pushed a gap in the stone coffin chamber...

Cold air poured into the coffin room, and a stale aura also spread out, choking several people and retreating.

Don't block the way! Chang pushed the other five people away, leaned forward, lay on the ground, and shined a torch inside!

Hahaha, I'm rich!

Looking at the piles of funerary objects inside the coffin room, he laughed openly.

Others also came over and looked inside under the firelight. The first thing they saw in the coffin room was rows of neatly arranged exquisite lacquerware. Although they couldn't see clearly further inside, they could vaguely recognize them. Come out, that is the outline of a set of chimes, a tripod, and a gui...

The price of good lacquerware is comparable to that of gold and silver, and those bronzes can be sold at even higher prices - of course, not as antiques, but as copper materials.

Finally, all those days of hard work were not in vain.

Everyone was overjoyed, and then asked one person to look at the torches and weapons outside, while they continued to push the coffin room open. Pushing it to the point where one person can enter, he hung a torch in again, repeated several times, and when it no longer went out, he urged:

Xing, hurry in!

Xing is the name of the half-grown child. He did not put on the clothes dug out from the grave like the others. He was standing aside with his arms folded, shivering from the cold.

Hearing that Chang forced him to go down to the tomb again, Xing showed a mournful expression. Unlike others, he was forced to do this business. The tomb robbers needed a thin young man who could sneak into the tomb, so they tricked him from Chu land...

Xing is very afraid of ghosts, and he often has nightmares recently, dreaming that the tomb owners whose grave goods he has removed are lining up to kill him. But he also knew that begging would be fruitless, and if he didn't obey, what was waiting for him would be punches and kicks.

The villain standing in front of him was far scarier than the illusory ghost. Xing could only bite the bullet and crouch down at the steps cautiously. He grabbed the rope, tested his feet, and carefully descended into the coffin room...

Click, a crisp sound sounded. Xingdun looked down at the fire above his head and was immediately frightened out of his wits!

It's human bones! A skeleton wearing a woman's dark clothes was leaning at his feet! Xing just stepped on its hand and broke it off!

ah!

Xing screamed and jumped away, but unexpectedly turned around and saw an even bigger skeleton: this time it was the rugged skeletons of four horses, lying quietly together, with a military chariot pulled behind them. The wheels have decayed, leaving only the bronze chariot carriage. There is also a human skeleton, wearing a set of Chu-style leather armor, sitting on the chariot with his head tilted...

These people, chariots and horses, are all the burial objects of the tomb owner.

Stop screaming! Hold on to the torch!

There was an angry voice outside, and then a torch was put down. Xing had to carefully avoid the bones of the victims, took the torch, and inserted it into the ground.

At this time, he almost saw the entire coffin room clearly. The coffin room was large and made of stone, with a coffin placed in the middle and surrounded by densely packed burial objects.

Xing trembled and knelt down on the ground, bowed to the dark and gloomy black coffin, and said that he was forced to have no choice. If he didn't do this, the people above would beat him, kill him, and abandon him. In the wilderness...

Then, Xingcai carefully picked up the beautiful lacquerware, which was painted red and black, and handed it to the person above.

After moving a few lacquer boxes and bottles, Chang asked him to move the tripod and Gui.

Looking at the torches on the ground, Xing saw that on the north side of the coffin room, there were indeed seven tripods and six gui placed neatly, and they became smaller in size from left to right.

Of course he didn't know that this was the standard for kingdom rituals within the Chu State, which was equivalent to that of princes. The largest tripods were half a person tall and too heavy for him to carry. He could only carry the smallest tripod and reluctantly handed it over...

When he was out of breath, he moved the smallest Gui and tried to pass it up, but after a long time, no one came to pick it up.

Ouch!

Above the ground, there was a scream!

It came from the person guarding the torches and weapons, followed by the heavy sound of falling to the ground, and the stern warning sounds from Chang and others...

Be careful, quickly defend against the enemy!

Defend the enemy? What happened?

Xing Zai didn't know anything below, and was a little scared. He slowly backed away holding the cold copper gui, but he accidentally stumbled and stamped out the torch stuck on the ground...

In the coffin room, it became dark in an instant!

It was as if a naughty ghost had pursed his lips and blew gently, extinguishing the only light...

Xing only felt that he was completely surrounded by darkness, and his hair stood on end.

It was dark all around, but when he lowered his head, he saw that the eye sockets of the skull of the female victim seemed to be shining with light green, staring at him, asking him why he wanted to disturb the deceased!

Help! The copper gui in his hand clinked to the ground, and Xing lay on the tomb wall and shouted, but no one paid attention to him.

At this moment, the ground above the coffin room was bustling with excitement, but torches were flashing randomly and various sounds were mixed together:

The tip of the spear collided with the blade of the sword, and the sharp metal scream echoed in the tomb; the hanging knife of the crossbow was pulled, and with an instigation sound, the crossbow arrow flew towards the target, but hit the wooden shield with a muffled sound; the bowstring The trembling sound immediately sounded, causing a scream of pain, and an arrow even hit the stone in the coffin room, sputtering out a trace of sparks.

A fierce fight was obviously taking place on the ground, but Xing thought that the person coming was not a human being.

The ghost is here, the ghost is here to punish us...

Xing thought of all the ghost stories he had heard since he was a child. Listeners said that the appearance of ghosts is very vicious. When sleeping, the body is folded in half, and when walking, the legs are close together. It looks like a one-legged monster jumping around. , the people in the countryside call it thorn ghost.

Xing also heard people claiming to have witnessed thorn ghosts more than once, saying that they use peaches as bows, thorns as arrow clusters, and chicken feathers as arrow feathers. They aim at the hearts of people who do bad things and shoot with perfect accuracy...

Now, those ghosts are here, outside!

Xing was so frightened that he squatted down, held his head tightly with both hands, closed his eyes, and in the dark coffin room, the child howled and cried...

Crying could not dispel the fear. The sound of killing outside continued to reach my ears. The cold and biting wind also poured in through the gaps in the coffin room, making a strange whine...

I don’t know how long it took, but the sound of fighting outside gradually stopped, and instead, the sound of people talking could be heard.

Xing quickly opened his eyes in surprise, walked to the exit of the coffin room, stood on tiptoe and looked out...

Without any warning, a face suddenly appeared in front of him, with sideburns on his cheeks, a red birthmark on his forehead, and blood on the tip of his nose and between his eyebrows!

Ghost! Xing was so frightened that he sat on the ground.

Unexpectedly, the people outside were also frightened by him. They backed away suddenly and cursed: Hei Fu, there is really a ghost in this tomb!

Don't talk nonsense, there's nothing wrong with it.

The sound of footsteps approached, and the torch shone into the coffin room, revealing Xing's thin body.

I told you, it turns out there is another one inside...

A thick hand reached out, his left hand.

Then a powerful voice sounded above the head: Young man, can't you come up?