Xixia dead book

Chapter 58: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (58)
"Is this possible? No, I still can't believe it." Han Jiang shook his head, feeling confused.

"I agree with Lao Ma's opinion. It is entirely possible. Think about it, there was originally a large-scale monumental building outside Shiwai, but we can't see it today. Only some broken bricks are left. Wat. And the stone chamber doesn’t have a solid gate. If there are important treasures here, how can there be no gate? So I judge that this is the Blackhead Stone Chamber, but it may have been looted in history. Burn down the monumental building outside the stone chamber, which is what we see today!" Xu Renyu's deduction seems reasonable.

Tang Feng lost his mind for a while, he searched the entire stone room, but found nothing.When he and Xu Renyu came to a corner of the stone room, they smelled a fishy smell. Tang Feng checked the corner vigilantly and concluded: "This is probably a lair of the owner of the mysterious paw print!"

"In this way, isn't it dangerous for us to stay here? I originally planned to spend the night here tonight!" Xu Renyu said.

"If the owner of that paw print is indeed a ferocious beast like a snow leopard, then it is really dangerous for us to stay here, but we can't leave now, the task is not completed yet!" Tang Feng said firmly.

"Not finished yet? We have worked so hard to come to the mysterious area C and found the legendary black head stone room, but there is nothing here. Our task is to find the jade screen, and we should have completed the task now. Here is Let the archaeologists do the work!" Xu Renyu advised Tang Feng.

"It is precisely because we have worked so hard to find this place that we cannot easily withdraw." Tang Feng walked to the center of the stone room while talking.

Standing in the middle of the stone room, Tang Feng fell into deep thought. Has the stone room been ransacked?Or was there nothing at all?No!Don't draw conclusions hastily, and don't end this expedition hastily!No matter what, there are bound to be clues left here.

Han Jiang, Lao Ma and Xu Renyu gathered around. Tang Feng thought for a long time before expressing his thoughts to everyone: "Everyone! First of all, I want to correct a misunderstanding. You may have always thought that the black-headed stone chamber we are looking for is There must be many rare treasures inside, but it is not the case, I have never thought so. The legend said by the great lama only said that the second jade screen is hidden here, and did not say that there are any rare treasures here , so there is no 'looting' that you just mentioned."

"Even if there are no rare treasures, what about the jade screen that the great lama mentioned? I haven't seen it here either." Han Jiang asked back.

"I don't know about this, but I think, since the group of men in black didn't come here ahead of us, and the big lama's words are true, then it is very likely that the jade screen is stored here, but We haven't found it yet." Tang Feng explained while walking slowly to a stone wall.The crack above the stone wall was dripping water down the stone wall, and the water droplets soaked the entire stone wall.Tang Feng stopped in front of this stone wall for a long time, staring at the stone wall in front of him, his eyes slowly began to blur...

"What's wrong with me..." Tang Feng was secretly surprised. Maybe it was because he was too tired and hadn't had a good rest for a few days; maybe it was because the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the stone room was too big, and he couldn't adapt for a while... Tang Feng thought over and over in his heart Admonish yourself, to persist, to hold on!With one hand propped on the stone wall, he rubbed his eyes vigorously with the other hand. Slowly, slowly, his eyes became clear again. He was suddenly surprised to find that there seemed to be writing on the stone wall in front of him.Yes!There are words!And it is the "dead" party text!

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"There are words on this stone wall!" Tang Feng finally exclaimed excitedly.

"Writing?!" Han Jiang and the others focused their gazes on the stone wall.

"Get me some snow!" Tang Feng said suddenly without thinking.

Han Jiang didn't understand what he meant, but he still brought a large cloud of snow to Tang Feng from outside the stone room.Tang Feng wiped the snow evenly on the stone wall, and the pure white snowflakes melted into crystal water droplets little by little in Tang Feng's hot palm, and the words on the stone wall slowly revealed their true appearance under the soaking of water.

"It's Xixia characters, Xixia characters!" Tang Feng excitedly recognized some characters on the stone wall, "'Wei Tian's Ritual Law...eight years,...year-old spring and May.' The beginning of these should be the time when this monument was engraved , the two characters after "Heaven's Rites" are unclear, but there is no doubt that it should be "Yanzuo", because "Heaven's Rites and Laws" is the year name used by Yuan Hao, the founding emperor of Xixia, after he proclaimed himself emperor. It can also be concluded that the characters on the stone wall were engraved in the era of King Hao."

"Such a long year name? Rare!" Xu Renyu said.

"Yes, many reign names used by Xixia are quite strange, different from the Central Plains Dynasty. Let's continue to look down, 'Bai Gao Da Xia was born with heroic martial arts, established laws and established rites. Sacrificial animal sacrifices, dare to announce to Changshengtian." "Shiwen Yingwu Xingfa Jianli Renxiao Emperor" is Yuan Hao. This sentence clearly shows that in the eighth year after he ascended the throne, Yuan Hao dispatched Wuzang Pang Come here to pay homage to the ancestors of the party members."

"But if I remember correctly, during Yuanhao's time, the territory of Xixia did not reach here at all, and the territory of Xixia never reached here in history." Xu Renyu's question made Tang Feng unable to answer.

Tang Feng tried to explain: "Yes! According to the historical books and documents that we can see now, since the Dangxiang Qiang people moved away from their hometown, the power of the Dangxiang people has never arrived here, even in the Western Xia Dynasty. A period of prosperity. Since the Qiang people from Dangxiang moved here, it has been the sphere of influence of the Tubo people. During Yuanhao’s reign, the people from Dangxiang and the Tubo nobles who ruled here have always been at odds, and wars have occurred from time to time. In this case It’s really hard to explain how Yuan Hao came here to worship his ancestors. But I think it’s also possible that the Tangxiang people came here to worship their ancestors when their relationship with Tubo was relatively good.”

"Don't worry about these things for now, let's quickly translate all these words." Han Jiang urged Tang Feng.

Tang Feng continued to translate intermittently: "'At the beginning of the ancestor's creation, the Baihe dark room, the prehistoric wilderness... the wild beasts were destroyed... until my ancestor Tuoba, who moved far away to Shuofang,...there were five states,...the boy Yuan Hao , to write, to open up borders, to shake the desert, and to be accepted by people from afar. The emperor of the Han family was the Huang Tianzi, the boy Jian Zuo, and he called himself the Qing Tianzi... The ancestral stone chamber was lost and could not be found... Naipan Luozhi gave the head, and the horns Hey Xinbai, the warriors of our party, drinking horses and snowfields... Sending envoys to sacrifice cattle and sheep to the stone chamber to show the light of the saints... The prosperity of the king's industry began with the emperor... the ancestors blessed, the country will be forever prosperous, and the children and grandchildren, Fu Lu You Tong. Shang Xiang!' The last is "Yu Xiaozi Bai Gao Da Xia Guo Wu Wei Ming Yuan Hao Dunshou." The last sentence is not only engraved in Xixia script, but also in Chinese characters."

"It's over?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng when he had finished speaking.

"The writing on the stone wall is finished!"

"Why is it intermittent?"

"Because the inscriptions on the stone wall were relatively shallow back then, after so many years, flowing water has eroded some of the inscriptions, and some of the inscriptions have become unrecognizable. There are also some Western Xia inscriptions, which I really don't know, so I have to ask Professor Luo. After the entire stone wall is excavated, and we can study it with Professor Luo when we go back, we may still be able to recognize some characters, but we obviously don’t have the conditions now!” Tang Feng said, spreading his hands.

"What do these messy words actually say?" Han Jiang was at a loss.

"It mainly describes the migration of party members, the difficulty of starting a business, and the prosperity of Xixia during the Yuanhao period. In fact, these are all clichés. In all dynasties, when emperors worshiped their ancestors, they would say things like how difficult it was to start a business back then. Yes, as we already know, the Heitou Stone Room is clearly mentioned in this sacrificial text, and it is said that this is the Heitou Stone Room." Tang Feng explained.

"Where is the jade screen? Didn't you mention the jade screen?" Han Jiang asked anxiously.

"No! I didn't mention it, it's just a sacrificial article!" Tang Feng said helplessly.Immediately, he added, "However, this sacrificial text still reveals an important message, which has never been recorded in our history books. It is mentioned in the sacrificial text, 'The stone chamber of the ancestors is lost... Naipan Luozhi Awarded the head, Jiao Siluo Xinbai, our party's warriors, drinking horses and snowfields... Send envoys to sacrifice cattle and sheep to the stone chamber to show the glory of the saints. This shows that in the late Yuanhao's reign, the party's army had been fighting all the way here. 'Pan Luozhi' and 'Jiaosiluo' are both great chiefs of the Tubo tribe in Qinghai, and they have always been at odds with the Dangxiang people. Yuan Hao's grandfather Tuoba Jiqian was shot to death by Pan Luozhi with an arrow, so the Dangxiang people and the Dangxiang people The feud between Pan Luozhi and Jiaosiluo is as deep as the sea. According to the records of this sacrificial oration, the army of the party Xiang killed Pan Luozhi and defeated Jiaosiluo. And all the Dangxiang people worshiped the ancestors and prayed for the protection of the ancestors. This can also explain Dr. Xu's question just now. The Dangxiang people came here to worship the ancestors. It was not when they had a good relationship with Tubo, but they killed them all the way. Dangxiang people As expected of a brave and warlike nation! This discovery is a discovery that changes history!" Tang Feng explained excitedly.

Han Jiang stared blankly at Tang Feng, and when he finished speaking, Han Jiang asked sharply again: "I don't care about any historical discovery, what I'm asking about is Jade Chaping! Since you said this is the black-headed stone chamber, what about Jade Chaping?"

yes!What about the jade screen?The black head stone room was found, and the sacrificial text on the stone wall was deciphered, but there was no trace of the second jade screen that everyone was looking for.

[No.20 Four Seasons of Death on the Ice Field]

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The four people looked at each other in front of the stone wall, at a loss, the sky outside was completely dark, and it was snowing heavily again. "It seems that we can only take the risk of spending the night here tonight!" Xu Renyu said, unloading his backpack, and began to prepare sleeping bags.

Tang Feng was still not reconciled, he read the sacrificial text on the stone wall from the beginning to the end again, and when he saw the last sentence, he became puzzled, "I would like to say this to the boy Bai Gao Daxia Guowu Wei Ming Yuan Hao." The sentence was engraved once in Xixia script, why should it be engraved again in Chinese characters?Other characters are not engraved with Chinese characters.Tang Feng thought about it, and couldn't help stretching out his hand to stroke the Chinese characters lightly. He felt that the Chinese characters were engraved deeper than those of Xixia characters. Why is this so?Aren't these words engraved all at once?When his hand touched the word "Hao" of "Yuanhao" again, he had a strange feeling. These two characters were extremely cold, so cold that it went deep into the marrow of his bones. Tang Feng's eyes suddenly lit up. Could it be? yes……

"Captain, are you here?" Tang Feng called to Han Jiang.

"What? What did you find?" Han Jiang asked with concern.

"Captain, look at the word 'hao', do you see anything?" Tang Feng reminded Han Jiang.

Han Jiang was full of anxiety, and he didn't calm down to take a closer look. He looked at the word "hao" on the stone wall for a while, and then urged Tang Feng impatiently: "Don't fool me, what's the matter, tell me quickly!"

Tang Feng was not in a hurry to express his thoughts, he suddenly asked Han Jiang: "Where is the string of human bone rosary beads of the great lama? Show me."

"Why do you ask that?" Han Jiang was puzzled, but he still took out the string of human bone rosary beads from his arms and handed them to Tang Feng.

Tang Feng took the human bone rosary, carefully looked at each rosary on it, and then looked at the Xixia copper coin, and then there was an imperceptible confident smile on his face.Tang Feng pointed to the last line of Chinese characters in the sacrificial text, and explained to Han Jiang: "Look at this line of Chinese characters, the entire sacrificial text is carved in Xixia characters, why is the last sentence using Chinese characters? Look again, this line of Chinese characters is very obvious It is engraved deeper than those party items, what does that mean?"

"What? Say it!"

"It shows that this line of Chinese characters was not engraved at the same time as the sacrificial text, and it also shows that this line of Chinese characters was engraved after the sacrificial text, which is later than the engraving of the sacrificial text. Think about it, if the legend said by the great lama is true, at least So far, we have continuously verified the legend, so who is most likely to engrave this line of Chinese characters?"

Han Jiang frowned, and suddenly, he said in a low voice, "You mean...you mean this line of Chinese characters, which were engraved by those Dangxiang survivors who migrated back to the northwest of Sichuan after the fall of Xixia!"

"This is the most likely possibility! Assuming it was carved by the survivors of the party, why would they engrave this seemingly meaningless line of Chinese characters on the way to escape?" Tang Feng inspired Han Jiang.

"Of course they won't engrave meaningless words! From this point of view, if it was carved by those remnants of the party, this line of Chinese characters must have their intentions. The question is... what is their intention?"

"What is the intention? In that legend, it is only mentioned that they did a meaningful thing here."

"You mean Jade Chaping? You mean this line of Chinese characters is related to Jade Chaping!" Han Jiang was astonished.

"That's right, that's what I thought. Look here again." Tang Feng pointed to the word "Hao" on the stone wall and asked Han Jiang, "Don't you think the word 'Hao' is a bit strange?"

Han Jiang stared at the word "hao" for a long time, and Tang Feng reminded him: "Look at the '日' in the upper part of the word 'hao'."

After being reminded by Tang Feng, Han Jiang suddenly discovered that the "日" in the upper part of the word "Hao" on the stone wall was engraved in a strange circle, with a square protruding part in the middle. There are irregular "days", but if you look carefully, you will find the mystery.Han Jiang asked Tang Feng in surprise: "You mean, this 'day' is engraved like... like a copper coin?"

"Well! From this, we can speculate that when the group of Dangxiang survivors who traveled thousands of miles to escape the Mongolian army came here, they were blocked by the snow-capped mountains and had to cross the snow-capped mountains-they probably took a relatively gentle 1 No. Glacier——When crossing the snow-capped mountains, they were suddenly hit by a snowstorm and saw that their people were about to freeze to death. Inadvertently, they found this black-headed stone room. The black-headed stone room helped them escape the snowstorm, and the boy in white was rescued from the hands of the Mongols. The jade screen that was snatched back should be stored in the Heitou Stone Room, so they..."

Before Tang Feng finished speaking, Han Jiang couldn't wait to interrupt him, saying: "So, they put the jade screen in the Heitou stone room! Now we know that the second jade screen is hidden in the Heitou stone room." In the stone room, the last line of Chinese characters on the stone wall was carved by the survivors of Dangxiang, and the upper half of the word "Hao" was engraved in the shape of a copper coin, and there was a Xixia copper coin on the ancestral human bone rosary handed down by the Great Lama. , all this shows that we have found the key to unlock the treasure!"

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Tang Feng stopped talking. He glanced at Han Jiang, took the copper coin from the human bone rosary, and then stuffed the copper coin into the upper half of the word "Hao", and it fit perfectly without any deviation. , everything is as Tang Feng expected.Tang Feng looked at the stone wall in front of him again, there was no change, his heart began to speed up, and he felt that his right hand did not belong to him at all.Tang Feng stretched out his right hand tremblingly, and gently moved the copper coin clockwise. When the copper coin moved, the magical "day" also moved, but the stone wall in front of Tang Feng still remained unchanged.

After the copper coin spun a full circle, it stopped, and Tang Feng felt his heart was about to pop out.He flipped the copper coin again, and made another turn, but the stone wall still remained unchanged.After another lap, Tang Feng could no longer control his right hand.After three laps, he still wanted to turn the copper coin, but the copper coin could not be turned, and the stone wall in front of him remained the same. What's going on?

"Turn back?" Han Jiang suddenly suggested.

So, Tang Feng turned around counterclockwise. This time, Tang Feng soon heard a muffled sound of "ga", a miracle really happened!The stone wall in front of Tang Feng and Han Jiang turned slowly, and with the rising dust and smoke, a secret room appeared in front of everyone...

(End of this chapter)