[Tomb Raider] Escape

Early the next morning, everyone gathered in the lobby.

Except for Nangong Gousheng, everyone didn't know where they were going, so they got into the jeep in a daze.She Snake was still driving, this time Nangong Gousheng kicked Yu Yu to the front row, and squeezed himself into the back seat with Li Yaoyao, Su Yi, and Qiao Yu.

He threw a map to She She, and the circle with a pencil mark on the map was the destination.

Li Yaoyao asked blankly, "Where are we going?"

Nangong Gousheng said with a smile, didn't he promise you a long time ago to see the Xixia King's Tomb?

Everyone immediately became excited.Xiao Qiao said expectantly and tremblingly: "Well, if it's a major site, it's better for us not to destroy it?"

Nangong Gousheng opened his long and narrow eyes, and promised: "No destruction, I swear to the party and the people, absolutely no destruction! Let's see."

So, the six people really arrived at the Xixia King's Mausoleum.

She She parked the car at the entrance of the scenic spot, turned her head expressionlessly, and asked Nangong Gousheng with her eyes.

Gou left the car and bought six tickets, and took Qiao Yu to greet everyone: "Let's go, let's go and see the real Xixia Royal Tomb."

Everyone was speechless.

However, since they came to Ningxia, people who majored in history still had a lot of interest in the Western Xia Royal Tombs. Although they were fooled by Comrade Gousheng, it was not a loss.

After entering the scenic spot, I first looked at several exhibition halls. The exhibitions were all cultural relics of the ancient Xixia Kingdom, most of which came from the Xixia Royal Tombs.

Su Yi and Qiao Yu looked at each showcase carefully, Qiao Yu turned on the camera to take pictures from time to time, and Su Yi took out a sketchbook to copy pictures.

"Huh?" Yu Yu threw himself in front of a stone tablet that was cordoned off, and was about to touch it, but before the nearby security rushed up, She She had already dragged him back.

Yu Yu rubbed his nose resentfully: "The engravings are all some ghostly symbols, I thought they were Chinese characters."

Nangong Gousheng stepped forward with his hands behind his back: "This is Xixia Wen."

Xixia characters are very similar to Chinese characters in length, and they are all square characters.However, compared with Chinese characters, most of the Xixia characters are composed of apostrophes, and seldom appear horizontally and vertically.And from the font point of view, Xixia script is also much more complex than Chinese characters.

Nangong Gousheng just wanted to explain, opened his mouth and closed it again, and patted Qiao Yu's shoulder with a smile: "Little Qiao, did the Xixia script imitate Chinese characters?"

Li Yaoyao rolled her eyes so much that she could hardly find the black eyes.

Qiao Yu hurriedly said: "That's right. Xixia Wen was created by Xia Jingzong Li Yuanhao's minister Yeli Renrong to imitate Chinese characters. There are more than 5000 characters in total. The shape is as square as Chinese characters, and the strokes are more complicated than Chinese characters. Most of them are composite characters, similar to Chinese characters. The radicals. Before the creation of Xixia characters, the Dangxiang people did not have their own characters and always used Chinese characters."

Yu Yu sneered: "Isn't this a toss-up, imitating Chinese characters to create such a complicated character, it takes a lot of effort to learn and popularize it."

Nangong Gousheng said with emotion: "This is the pride of the nation. Apart from his ambition, Li Yuanhao still has a lot of backbone." Then he grabbed Xiao Qiao's shoulder, gave a thumbs up and said, "Comrades who engage in archaeology understand It’s more than enough!”

Qiao Yu blushed: "No, no, I, I just study this, I just know the superficial."

So Comrade Gou Zong brazenly boasted that Comrade Xiao Qiao is really humble.

There are also many architectural decorations unearthed from the royal tombs in the exhibition hall, including red pottery or glazed statues of Kalavinka, gray pottery, glazed animal faces or flower Tuwadang, pottery kisses, and stone seats for portraits.

Su Yi held the sketchbook and kept drawing the shapes and patterns of these things. Li Yaoyao was by his side, and after a while, he opened a large distance from the others.

Li Yaoyao said impatiently, "What's so good about these things?"

Su Yi glanced at him sideways, and said nonchalantly, "Are you in a hurry?"

Yaha!Li Yaoyao raised her eyebrows: "You are very troublesome!"

Su Yi withdrew his gaze indifferently, and continued to outline the patterns on Kalavinka's body: "I didn't ask you to accompany me."

Li Yaoyao was choked by the little sheep, and couldn't help feeling angry. Seeing Qiao Yu being dragged into the next exhibition hall by Nangong Gousheng in a daze, she stepped forward and circled Su Yi from behind, and stretched her hand in. Su Yi grasped his lifeline in his pants pocket, gritted his teeth and whispered in his ear: "Damn it, believe it or not, I am here to rape you!"

Su Yi snorted, bent down a little, turned his head to look at him, and said in a still calm tone: "I dare not follow, take off the clothes and put them on the ground and do it?"

Li Yaoyao froze for a moment, felt that the words sounded familiar, and suddenly changed her expression: "Damn it, that bastard Qiao Yu showed you my text message?"

Su Yi just looked at him calmly.

Li Yaoyao took out her hand resentfully, squatted aside and said dejectedly: "Draw, draw slowly."

Jialing Pinga is a transliteration of Sanskrit, meaning "wonderful sound bird", which is a kind of divine bird in Buddhism.Its image is a human head and a bird body, that is, a bodhisattva with folded hands has an extra pair of bird wings, which is similar to the angels in the West.Jialing Pinga first appeared on the stone carvings of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Li Yaoyao watched Su Yi draw the image of a Kalavinka in just a few minutes, and even the wrinkles on the bird feathers were almost exactly the same as the statue. He admired him and couldn't help asking: "Hey, Who did you learn to draw from?"

Su Yi closed his sketchbook and walked to another exhibition hall: "When I was in junior high school, I enrolled in a sketching class. I studied it for two years." He paused, turned his head and glanced at Li Yaoyao: "Nine years ago I I fell in love with someone, and every time I saw him, I would secretly take a lot of photos of him, copying one after another, and became proficient after a few years.”

Li Yaoyao had heard Su Yi say that he had been secretly in love with him for eight years before they were together, so he smiled, straightened his back again, and swaggered to follow Su Yi to the next exhibition hall.

Su Yi asked: "Have you seen this kind of stone carving before?"

Li Yaoyao said: "You mean the bird man? I have seen similar ones in the cultural relics brought back by Master before. It seems to be from the Northern Wei Dynasty."

Su Yi said thoughtfully: "It is rumored that the Dangxiang clan in Xixia is the descendant of the Tuoba clan in the Northern Wei Dynasty... The Tuoba clan is a Xianbei clan, but the Dangxiang clan is a branch of the Qiang clan..."

Li Yaoyao said casually: "Why do you care about this, who knows who is mixed, and the blood of 56 ethnic groups is still flowing in my body. Let's go after painting. Let's go to see the royal tomb."

The six people came to the Xixia King's Mausoleum in a tourist bus in the scenic area.

Thousands of years ago, there was a small moon city with red walls in front of this mausoleum. , sea lions and other decorations.There is a stele pavilion on the east side, which is the place where the stele of the owner of the mausoleum is erected. The rammed earth platform is covered with green bricks.There are two rows of stone statues on the royal road, including stone carvings of civil servants and generals, auspicious beasts such as unicorns and white elephants.Walking along the royal road, there is a sacrifice hall with three rooms wide and three rooms deep, which is the place of worship in the mausoleum.The deepest building in the mausoleum is the pagoda mausoleum, a pagoda-style building with red bricks and black tiles, seven floors and octagonal dense eaves, which fully reflects the religious belief of the Western Xia Kingdom.

However, it is a pity that all these beautiful descriptions are about the mausoleum of the Xixia Kingdom thousands of years ago before its subjugation.

"In 1226, Genghis Khan personally led the Mongolian soldiers to crusade against Xixia. The Mongolian soldiers drove straight to the foot of Helan Mountain, burned the Xixia Mausoleum, pavilions, platforms, and dedicated halls, and dug up the mausoleum to expose the corpses..." said the tourist brochure.

So, now, only ugly loess bags are left in front of everyone's eyes.

"In fact, these buildings used to be very beautiful. The Mongols destroyed all the shapes of the buildings. The brick walls were demolished, leaving only earthen bumps. Even so, the Xixia Royal Tomb is still called the 'Pyramid of the East'. " Xiao Qiao said regretfully.

Yu Yute said disdainfully: "The Mongols know how to destroy, so what if they fight all the way to Europe, they don't even have a home. In the Yuan Dynasty, after the Mongols finished fighting in the west, they went back to the Central Plains to grab a pass and get rich. Just keep fighting. It’s like a fighting machine, what’s the reason.” After finishing speaking, he laughed straight, “So they have strong limbs and simple minds. Have you ever seen a ruler steal money from the people? rob, but people rob in a polite way, only the Mongols rushed into people's houses to rob."

Xiao Qiao was amused by him, and said: "Actually, the Mongols hate Xixia very much, because Genghis Khan died of illness when he attacked Xixia. As soon as Li Wei surrendered, the Mongols rushed into Xixia and slaughtered one city after another. Dang Xiang The family has since disappeared from history.”

Yu Yu squatted on the ground, picked up a handful of soil, twirled it, and sneered, "Fortunately, there are so many men, so they didn't kill them all."

Nangong Gousheng squatted down next to him and said, "Do you know why there is no grass growing here?" There are patches of lush green grass near the mausoleum area, but the strange thing is that the surface of the mausoleum area is as barren as Gobi.

Yu Yu squinted at him.

Nangong Gousheng said: "In order to prevent weeds from overgrown here a hundred years later and destroying the magnificence of the cemetery, the people of Xixia steamed glutinous rice into slurry and watered the land, and all the grass seeds were killed."

Yu Yu raised her eyebrows, stood up and continued walking in, Qiao Yu couldn't help but sighed, "Mr. Nangong, you know a lot."

Nangong Gousheng laughed and laughed, "No way, I've heard people talking nonsense, Comrade Xiao Qiao is the best, he knows everything!"

Going forward, Xia Jingzong and Li Yuanhao's altar is on the west side of the central axis. Nangong Gousheng asked Xiao Qiao with a pure face, "Why is this?"

Qiao Yu hurriedly explained: "People in Xixia believe in Buddhism. They think that this way they can get closer to the Buddha, and they can move a little west to make way for passing gods."

Gou Sheng gave a thumbs up: "You have learned a lot, Comrade Xiao Qiao is really knowledgeable!"

Under the sun, Qiao Yu's fair cheeks were slightly flushed.

When everyone approached the mausoleum tower, Yu Yu and Li Yaoyao saw a stone tablet with the word "tomb path" written on it, and jumped on it screaming.

The tomb passage was tens of meters in front of the mausoleum, and the exit on the ground was covered with a piece of safety glass. Yu Yu and Li Yaoyao fought to get their heads closer to look, their faces almost touching the glass.

The tomb was patronized by the Mongols thousands of years ago, and there is nothing left inside.Nangong Gousheng walked up to the two apprentices and said with a smile: "Actually, the underground palace is 15 meters in front of the tower mausoleum. This is the burial custom of the Xixia people, remember?"

The two nodded their heads: "Remember!"

Li Yaoyao got up and patted the dirt on her body: "Master, do you really have a relic to take us there?"

Nangong Gousheng nodded and said yes, I didn't lie to you, it's really a royal tomb.Don't worry, play for a few days first.

Then she lowered her voice and whispered in Li Yaoyao's ear: "Let me cultivate and develop a relationship with your teacher's wife first."

Li Yaoyao proudly patted her chest and promised: "No problem, I will help you!"

Back at the hotel at night, Nangong Gousheng suggested to go for a walk. He didn't know how to greet Yu Yu and She She before, but they disappeared after walking.

Nangong Gousheng sighed while shaking his head: "A pair of playful little bastards."

After walking for a while, Comrade Gousheng gave the little apprentice a wink, so the sensible little apprentice Sangou slowly moved closer to Su Yi, and suddenly grabbed his hand.

Su Yi's heart tightened suddenly, and she looked back at him in surprise, but Li Yaoyao walked without looking sideways, and gradually slowed down her pace.

Qiao Yu noticed that Su Yi was getting farther and farther away from her, so she couldn't help turning her head to look. When she saw Li Yaoyao and Su Yi's handshake, she frowned suddenly, feeling as bad as a knife had been stabbed in her heart.

In the night, Su Yi lowered his eyes, avoiding his gaze.

Qiao Yu turned her head, feeling infinitely desolate, Nangong Gousheng didn't listen to what Nangong Gousheng said.There is a battle between heaven and man in his mind, because his cowardly personality prevents him from actively fighting for it.And he knew clearly that if Su Yi and Li Yaoyao really reconciled this time, he would have no chance again.

When he finally plucked up the courage to turn his head again, where was the shadow of Li Yaoyao and Su Yi in the bustling crowd behind him?