Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Cui Hao wrinkled his nose and sniffed hard.

"There's so much fragrance here, I can't even tell where it's coming from. Even a dog would probably be dizzy from the smell."

The concentration of the foreign fragrance is too high, and you can smell the strong fragrance when you take a breath.

It is indeed difficult to find the source by smell.

It seems that we still need to go into the tomb and search to see if we can find the secret passage.

I just walked into the tomb.

Cui Hao's exclamation suddenly came from behind.

"elder brother!"

"Look above your head!"

"Yes, there's someone up there!"

I was startled and looked up quickly.

There is a stone door in the middle of the top of the tomb.

The stone door was half open, and a head popped out from behind the door and looked at us.

Fuck!

There are ghosts!

I stepped back in panic.

When I retreated to the entrance of the tomb, I felt something was wrong.

Why is there a stone door on the top of the tomb?

Why didn’t the people behind the stone gate react at all when they saw us?

I took a deep breath to calm myself and looked at the top of the tomb again.

The top of the tomb is made of brick and stone.

There is indeed a stone gate in the middle.

Behind the slightly opened half stone door, a woman leaned half of her body out.

The woman had her hair in a high bun, a dignified oval face, and slightly dazed eyes. She was looking at us motionlessly.

Looking more closely, the woman was not human!

But it is carved on the stone gate.

"It's just a carving. I really thought there was someone on it just now." I said, patting my chest.

Cui Hao was also scared to death.

He came back to his senses after hearing what I said.

"Carved from stone?"

"Fuck! I was scared to death."

"Wang Chongyang put this thing on top of his bed... Could it be that he was lying on the bed looking at beautiful women to help him fall asleep?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" I stopped Cui Hao from talking nonsense.

In the tomb-robbing business, one must at least be virtuous in their speech.

Especially when you are in a tomb, you must not talk nonsense.

Cui Hao shrank his neck and said hastily, "No, no, no."

I continued to look at the stone gate.

This type of tomb door with a woman leaning out from behind the stone door was widely popular in tombs during the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties.

It is called the Picture of a Woman Opening the Door.

At that time, it was not only popular in tombs, but also used on pagodas and Shinto monuments.

And there is not only a picture of a woman opening the door.

According to the tomb owner's hobbies during his lifetime, there are also carvings of boy lovers and male servants opening the door.

There are many interpretations of the meaning of the picture of a woman opening a door.

One theory is that the person who opened the door was the maid of Queen Mother of the West, who led the tomb owner to the fairyland.

The second is that it represents the tomb owner's harem, where he can still enjoy happiness with many wives and concubines after his death.

Three believe it is used to scare away tomb robbers.

There are other explanations besides this, such as "woman" is a homophone of "rich man", which represents the tomb owner's wealthy family and fortune, but I think none of them are very reliable.

Because the picture of a woman opening the door has a long history.

There is a carving of a woman opening a door on a Han Dynasty stone coffin.

Therefore, guiding the tomb owner to the fairyland should be the most original meaning.

By the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, it may have been extended to other meanings.

Let’s go back to the stone gate at the top of the Tomb of the Living Dead.

The woman on the stone gate holds a round mirror in her hand, with her clothes fluttering behind her, giving her a fairy-like air.

It seems that when Wang Chongyang was practicing in seclusion here, he wanted to be led to the fairyland through this stone door.

Then, could the secret passage be behind the stone gate?

I was surprised by my own thoughts.

The top of the tomb is about three meters high from the bottom of the tomb chamber.

Even if you step on the half-meter-high stone bed, the distance to the stone door on the top of the tomb is still two and a half meters, and it is impossible to get up without a ladder.

"Brother, you don't want to go up, do you?" Cui Hao saw what I was thinking.

I nodded slightly.

"I wanted to go up and take a look, but it's too high."

"Step on my shoulders!"

Cui Hao took two steps and squatted down on the stone bed.

He patted himself on the shoulder.

"Come!"

I pursed my lips.

Walk over and step on Cui Hao's shoulder.

He held my legs with his hands.

Slowly stand up.

I could feel his whole body shaking as he struggled to stand.

"Rat, hold on!"

"I'm almost touching the stone door!"

"Oh shit! I can definitely hold on!" Cui Hao said gritting his teeth.

When he stood fully upright, my face was pressed against the stone door.

Just face to face with the stone fairy.

call!

A cool breeze blew over me.

The cool breeze was like the breath of a stone fairy blowing on my face!

I shuddered all over.

The hairs on my body stood up.

I suppressed my fear and looked closely at the stone fairy.

When I met the dazed eyes of the stone fairy, I felt dizzy.

It was as if the person in front of him was not a fairy.

But it was Zhang Nan who changed into ancient costume.

She was looking at me with an ambiguous expression, chuckled with her hands covering her mouth, and waved at me, as if saying, "Come on, come on..."

I couldn't help but reach out and touch her face.

When his fingers touched her face, she felt a chilling coldness.

Crunch!

The half-open stone door suddenly moved.

An unusually strong medicinal aroma hit me in the face.

The fairy seemed to come alive and retreated into the door shyly.

Only my outstretched finger was left hanging in the air.

"Don't leave!"

I hurriedly reached out to grab the fairy who had transformed into Zhang Nan.

But she disappeared too quickly.

I only grabbed the half-open stone door.

Crunch.

There is a mechanism behind the stone door that rotates and opens the stone door to the top of the tomb.

Because I was holding onto the stone door with both hands, I was lifted into the air and separated from Cui Hao.

Cui Hao looked up at me and said anxiously, "Brother, give me a hand and take me up with you!"

I smiled bitterly and said, "I don't have enough strength!"

His hands could hardly support his own weight, and he had no strength left to pull Cui Hao up.

"Then how do I get up there?"

Cui Hao was jumping back and forth anxiously below.

But he was not tall enough or had insufficient jumping ability, so no matter how much he jumped, he could not reach the ceiling of the tomb, let alone climb up the stone gate.

click!

The stone gate stopped.

I quickly used my abdominal muscles to lift my legs and placed my feet in the depressions carved into the stone door so that I could relieve the tension in my hands.

At this moment, I am like a big gecko lying on the stone gate.

He hung himself on the stone gate by relying on his limbs.

I looked up.

Above is a one-meter square passage with footsteps dug on the wall, probably to facilitate climbing up.

The passage goes straight up for more than one meter and then starts to slope to the left, becoming a steep slope.

I guess this is the mechanism that Menhulu was talking about.

The design is really clever. If you don’t climb up, you can’t open the mechanism at all.

What puzzles me is, where did the stone fairy go?

I didn't see any tracks or traction lines. Could such a huge stone fairy really move by itself?

"Rat, throw the rope up."

"Oh oh, yes, rope!"

Cui Hao quickly took out a bundle of ropes from his bag and threw it to me.

I climbed up to the stone gate and stepped on the pedals to climb up.

Climb into the ramp, lie half-way with your upper body at the bottom of the ramp, and use your feet to push against the top of the ramp to stabilize your body.

Then he tied one end of the rope around my waist and threw the other end down.

"Mouse, tie the rope around your waist and I'll pull you up."

"It's tied up!"

As Cui Hao shouted, I felt a sinking sensation on my waist.

That's the feeling of the rope being stressed.

Cui Hao climbed up holding the rope with both hands, and I also pulled the rope upwards with force.

After great effort, we finally got him up.

Cui Hao crawled into the cave, wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Brother, it smells even worse in here!"

"The elixir must be in there!"