This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then his expression changed again and again.He couldn't continue to keep a straight face for the smiling face in his arms, but at this moment he had the nerve to discuss how to hug comfortably. "Can't you be more serious when I ask you something serious?"

"Be serious? Master Zhan, are you sure you want me to be serious with you?"

While speaking, Yan Buzhou had already landed on his feet, and tilted his head to look at Zhan Zhao with his smile unchanged, "Master Zhan, you have to think about this matter before nodding."

Only when you are stupid will you nod.

"You." Zhan Zhao pinched his nose helplessly, "If you feel any discomfort, you must tell me in time."

Yan Buzhou nodded obediently with an assuring obedient face. As for how obedient she is, even the BMW Fei Xiong, who was looking at the luggage by the tree, knew it was difficult to say.

Although Yan Buzhou's health is not serious, but the three of them have been busy in Mangdang Mountain for a month or two, so they should take a good rest.They simply camped near the tomb for a few days, just in time to observe and confirm whether the bronze floor of the tomb really stopped.

After all, the things in the tomb were not completely cleaned up.The matter about the drought in Zeshui Village will not be settled until the capable person is invited to pry open the bronze ground and find out the situation under the ground.

"Brother Xu Qing can ask for help in opening up the bronze ground. This year he may stay in Bianjing for the New Year. As long as he has time, he will agree to take a trip to Mount Mangdang."

Previously, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had exchanged letters.In the letter, Bai Yutang mentioned that the third elder brother Chuanshanshu took over the work in the north, so Xu Qing would be alone during the New Year's Eve. If Zhan Zhao is in Bianjing, please take care of Xu Qing.

Calculate the time, leave Mangdang Mountain and return to Zeshui Village first to confirm whether Zhou Hua's petition has been answered, and then return to Bianjing. It should be about two or three days before New Year's Eve.

At that time, it happened to meet Xu Qing who came back from the north.Mountain mouse Xu Qing was born as a blacksmith, and he was able to explore eighteen holes in the mountain, so he should have a way to safely open the bronze floor in the tomb.

Both Yan Buzhou and Zhu Ming felt that it was feasible, and then tried to seal the gap that was knocked out by the strange insect, and even covered the entrance of the robber's hole in the tomb.

One cast a talisman spell, and the other cast a tomb-covering method to temporarily seal up the Yin and Shang sacrificial cemetery, and then the three stepped up and left Mount Mangdang.

Another New Year's Eve is approaching, and the door to door is full of firecrackers.

It was the 28th of the twelfth lunar month when they returned to Beijing, and each of the three had their own things to do.

Yan Buzhou confirmed that Zhou Hua had fulfilled the curse, and his blackened appearance had completely disappeared. In addition, the sudden death of Ji's father and son meant that the equivalent exchange of the petition and curse that night was completed.

This retrieved the shattered wooden amulet, which may be traced to determine whether the high priest is the bearer of the spell, and thus trace her and the gang of grave robbers.

The sooner this case is cleared up, the better.Whether it is to let the high priest who sacrificed himself rest in peace, or to kill the evil deeds of stealing and humiliating corpses, this matter will be listed as one of the key cases.

However, Yan Buzhou knew that the difficulty of investigating this case was not low.

Even if the high priest gets a ray of yang energy, it is difficult to move flexibly like a living person.It is also difficult to judge how she will avenge the tomb robber without knowing how the tomb robber will deal with the corpse.

Besides the group of tomb robbers who rushed into the sacrificial place, Zhu Ming will try his best to mobilize all the contacts he can use to find clues.

But the tomb robbery is kept secret, and the group of people who violated the taboo rules are probably experienced veterans.If you want to catch them all in one go, I'm afraid you have to pray for two more luck.

So far, the semen-stained silk handkerchief is the only useful clue.

On the one hand, the approximate location of its owner can be determined through practice.Even if tracking Buzhen like last winter, this can only draw a rough boundary, but it is better than searching without a clue, and it also narrows the scope of the search for Zhu Ming.

Yan Buzhou was sure that the leader of the corpse humiliating gang was on Jinghu North Road, where she had killed the Feathered Snake, but she was in a hurry and didn't go deep into it.

Just talking about Jinghu North Road, it may be difficult for people to have an intuitive association, but when it comes to the land of Xiangxi within its borders, the word "drive the corpse" will appear in the minds of people in the Jianghu.

"The leader of the humiliating corpse is good at digging graves and doesn't care about the corpse change. It is confirmed that he is in western Hunan. I have to wonder if this person knows the secret method of disposing of corpses."

After returning to Beijing, Yan Buzhou didn't delay for a moment, determined the leader's location with magic, and immediately went to Taoist Lin Yuan to inquire about the situation of expelling corpses in Xiangxi.

Lin Yuan said that exorcising corpses is a special use of magic, but corpse exorcising people in western Hunan are self-contained, and Taoists in other places rarely know their internal composition.

Yan Buzhou only learned from the old temple master of the Town God's Temple that there are roughly two schools of exorcising corpses, one is dedicated to returning the dead who died in a foreign land, and the other is dedicated to robbing graves.

"Regardless of which faction, those people have their own way of dealing with corpses. I'm afraid that even if the high priest gains a ray of yang energy, this era is no longer her era, and I'm afraid they won't be able to deal with the leader of the corpse humiliation."

Zhan Zhao found two clues. First, the embroidery material of that silk handkerchief was not ordinary silk thread. "The human body pattern on the silk handkerchief is white. I asked the master craftsman in the embroidery shop to inspect it carefully. It is a unique tin embroidery in Miaojiang."

Tin embroidery is unique to Southwest Miaojiang. It is embroidered on earthen cloth with metal tin wire, and it is mostly used to make local people's clothing.

Like the silk handkerchief left by the leader of the humiliating corpse, embroidered on the silk with smelted tin silk for highlighting, this kind of skill is extraordinary, and only embroiderers with outstanding embroidery skills can do it.

"Xiangxi is one of the places where the Miao people live. I think the master of tin embroidery must be related to that leader. Maybe he can follow the clues and find out the key thing."

Zhan Zhao knew that he might have to go deep into Xiangxi to get specific clues, so he had to mention another strange thing.

"Since the nightmare case was closed, Mr. Gongsun introduced Chunxiang to work as a helper in the shop of Daxiangguo Temple. On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the day Ji's father and son were struck to death by lightning, Chunxiang suddenly passed out for no reason. When she woke up, she talked about dreaming of a cottage. "

Chunxiang's sporadic memory once showed a deep mountain, and this time she was dreaming that she entered that deep mountain, ran all the way in a hurry and saw the cottage.

The people in the village were all wearing blue clothes, she couldn't hear what those people said, and couldn't see their specific faces clearly, but she felt that she was in a sacrificial altar.

"There is a three-foot-high bronze pillar in the center of the circular altar, and it is covered with strange half-text and half-pictures, but Chunxiang couldn't see it clearly. The only thing that is clearly remembered is the top disc, which is bigger than a human face. The larger one has a picture and text engraved on it alone. Chunxiang recognized it, and the watch strap has ugly characters."

When Zhan Zhao said this, he heard a knock on the gate outside the courtyard.Seeing that the sky is getting dark, it should be that the people or demons who came to eat the New Year's Eve dinner together have arrived.

After the new house was built, apart from setting up the house intermittently, the total number of days I lived in it could be counted on two hands.

Zhan Zhao was so busy that he didn't even have time to hold the Wenju banquet, so he took advantage of the New Year's Eve to invite all the friends who celebrated the New Year alone in Bianjing to gather together, so that he could relax and be alone in a foreign land. The loneliness of the stranger.

There is no need to worry about buying a table of good wine and good food. There are many restaurants in Bianjing City that order New Year's Eve dinners.Or directly invite a wave of professionals from the four divisions and six bureaus to handle everything from dishes to table setting.

This New Year's Eve, Zhan Zhao invited the latter, he just came back from the palace report this afternoon, so he really didn't have time to take care of too many trivial matters.

First went to the flower shop to pick up Yan Buzhou, and the two randomly chose a few shops that were still open along the way to buy the necessary necessities for the New Year.Before I had time to chat about other things, I drank a few sips of tea and talked about the case.

The first one to arrive was Gongsun Ce. He went to the Daxiangguo Temple to pay respects to the abbot and others, and took a look at Chunxiang's situation by the way.

Hearing that the two were talking about Chunxiang, they explained the matter in detail, "Except for the dream that night, Chunxiang didn't have any other abnormal perceptions. These days, she took the rubbing paper and thought about it repeatedly, but she still couldn't recognize it. More oracle bone inscriptions. However, it is quite certain that the word on the top of the bronze column is 'ugly'."

Before leaving Mount Mangdang, Yan Buzhou was afraid that there would be a time limit for the self-destruct of the tomb, so if the situation changed, he deliberately removed all the oracle bone inscriptions on the bronze ground.

Give this volume to Gongsun Ce, firstly to record a few more backups, and secondly to find out if there are any methods of interpreting oracle bone inscriptions that are not known to most people.

After all, from later generations to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the land of Huaxia experienced several wars.Maybe some ancient book happened to record the oracle bone inscriptions, and it happened to be destroyed in the war.

In just three days, Gongsun Ce failed to find any corresponding ancient books. Unexpectedly, Chunxiang recognized the oracle bone inscriptions.

In fact, the word 'knowledge' cannot be used.Chunxiang suffers from severe memory loss. She can be sure that she has learned oracle bone inscriptions, but she was very young and could not read much, except for the word 'ugly'.

The ugly character, standing on the top of the central pillar of the altar, is probably a totem symbol of a tribe.

"The ancestors of that mysterious cottage most likely had an ugly surname or surname, or someone with an ugly name had a profound influence on them and was the savior of their entire tribe."

Gongsun Ce searched for the origin of the ugly surname, and there are six in total, five of which were formed in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and only one came from ancient times without historical records.

It is derived from the surname Feng, which is Nuwa, the younger sister of Taihao Fuxi's family.

When it comes to the surname Feng Tongfeng, there is a deep relationship between Nusnail and Fengniao.Therefore, the Shang Dynasty believed that its ancestors were born of Xuanniao, and it was also said that they were blessed by the divine power of the female snail.

"Yin Shang is worshiped by many gods. It is possible to ask the power of the sun to bless one aspect and the power of the moon to bless another aspect."

Gongsun Ce waved his hand, he couldn't figure out how many gods Yin Shang worshiped. "Leaving aside those things, the point of this meeting is that there is a descendant who has the power of the female snail called the Nv Chou family. During the evolution of surnames, the female characters were removed and the ugly characters were left alone, which became the later Chou family."

When Yan Buzhou heard that the teacup was put down here, the word 'Corpse of the Ugly Woman' popped up in his mind.It appeared three times in Shan Hai Jing, but it was mentioned in one stroke.

"Da Huang Dong Jing" records "There are two people in the sea, named female ugly. Female ugly has big crabs."

"Dahuangxijing" records: "There is a man who wears green clothes and covers his face with a coat of arms. He is called the corpse of a female ugly."

Finally, in the "Overseas Western Classics", it is said that "the corpse of a female ugliness is burned and killed for ten days. In the north of her husband, use her right hand to cover her face. Ten days live on the top, and the female ugliness lives on the mountain."

These three records are actually somewhat vague.

However, posterity can still interpret a few points.There are more than one female clown. Sometimes when they hold a big crab, wear green clothes and cover their faces with their hands, they are called the corpses of female clowns.

In another case, the corpse of the female ugly also covered her face with her hands, and appeared in the north of Husband Mountain with ten suns, but was heated to death by the ten suns.

In the pre-Qin period and beyond, corpses are not the same as corpses.

A corpse is the corpse of a dead person.Corpse, on the other hand, has a very special meaning. Standing up a corpse is a vital ritual in ancient rituals.

To erect a corpse is to select a person with a special status, and accept people's sacrifices with the "corpse" as a symbol of the sacrifice.

It is not difficult to understand the records in the "Book of Rites", once a person is selected as a "corpse", he will enjoy extremely high courtesy.If it is chosen as the corpse of the monarch, the doctors and gentry will get out of the car and stand in silence to show their respect when they meet halfway.

The etiquette and custom of erecting corpses like gods lasted until the Warring States period, and the Yin and Shang dynasties must have attached more importance to ghosts and gods.

"From this point of view, the corpse of the female ugly does not necessarily simply refer to the corpse of the female ugly. They are named as corpses, and they perform the same sacrificial duties as the king of the country. Covering their faces in green clothes may be a sacrificial ceremony. , in order to eliminate the drought.”

Yan Buzhou refers to the fact that the ten suns in the records killed Nv Chou from heat. "Whether Nv Chou inherits Nu Wa's divine power or not, they are all very likely to be witches with profound magic powers, and they have special skills to cure drought."

Perhaps, this will be the origin of the identity of the high priest in the tomb of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Gongsun Ce nodded in agreement, and then thought about it a little more. "There is a theory in later generations that the Xia Dynasty was the virtue of wood, and it was green. Jin conquered wood, and the Shang took Xia and replaced it. The Yin and Shang Dynasties were gold, and white.

The Yin Shang cemetery you found was built during the Tang Dynasty of Shang Dynasty, that is, just after the end of Xia Dynasty.The high priest in the tomb is dressed in white, and Chunxiang sees the Chou surnamed cottage wearing green clothes. It is hard to say what happened to the Nv Chou clan in the past. "

As the knock on the door sounded again, Chen Zhibai brought Nian Fei back, and Xu Qing and others also came one after another.

Sitting around a table, the New Year's Eve dinner stopped talking about dead bodies.All the people held up their wine glasses and laughed together to wish them a happy and happy New Year.