Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 796 Tomb Raiders
"Oh? So, is the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor really here?" Li Yu asked in surprise.

The old man Zhang shook his head and said: "The old man doesn't know if the imperial mausoleum is here." After a pause, the old man Zhang continued: "Maybe someone knew about it before, but those people have already been buried in the loess."

Li Yu wanted to ask something, but Li Canghai stopped him with a look.

Li Canghai coughed and said, "Old man, why are there so few people in this village?"

The old man Zhang sighed, and said: "Young Master, I don't know. In recent years, natural disasters have continued, crops have failed, and villagers have died and fled. Who wants to stay and wait for death?"

"Then why didn't the old man leave?" Li Yu asked.

The old man Zhang shook his head, and said with a sad expression, "Where can the old man escape to when he is old? Besides, this is a village passed down from the ancestors, so it can't be left unattended!"

"I wonder how many people are left in the village?" Li Canghai asked.

"It's less than twenty." The old man Zhang covered his face with tears and said with a sob: "When the village was the most prosperous, there were more than 200 people, but now there are less than 20 people left. Shouling Village has already existed in name only!"

"Since you guard the tomb of Qin Shihuang, you must know where the tomb is, right? It is said that there are many rare treasures hidden in the tomb. Why don't you open the tomb? Even if you take out an ancient object from it, it will be enough for you to live. Is it necessary?" Li Yu asked puzzled.

The old man Zhang wiped his tears and sighed: "To be honest, my lord, as guardians of the tomb, it is our responsibility to guard the imperial tomb. How can we guard and steal from ourselves? But these years, the life of the villagers has become more and more poor, and some people can't bear it." Living in poverty, I have indeed attracted the attention of the emperor's tomb."

"Oh? What happened later? Has the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor been opened?" Li Yu asked impatiently.

The old man Zhang shook his head and said, "Those are a few young men from the village. They didn't listen to the advice and insisted on going to the imperial mausoleum to hunt for treasures. In the end, they all disappeared in Lishan Mountain. No one has seen them since then."

Several people looked at each other when they heard the words, Di Qing said in surprise: "Could it be that they opened the imperial tomb and fled privately with their treasure?"

The old man Zhang also had a blank look on his face, and said: "This... the old man doesn't know either. But they are all filial people, and they insisted on going to the imperial tomb to search for treasures to help the villagers tide over their difficulties. If they find the imperial tomb , should not escape privately."

Speaking of this, the old man Zhang sighed, and said: "Actually, the villagers know it well. The reason why they didn't come back may have already passed away."

"Why does the old man think so?" Li Yu asked while rubbing the bridge of his nose.

The old man Zhang sighed: "For thousands of years, I don't know how many people have come to look for the imperial tomb, but no one has ever found the whereabouts of the imperial tomb. What's more, there are many organs in the imperial tomb. Even if you find the imperial tomb and enter the imperial tomb, There will also be death and no life."

Li Yu groaned, he pondered for a moment, and then asked: "As the guardians of the tomb, don't you know where the imperial tomb is?"

The old man Zhang shook his head: "No one has ever known the location of the imperial mausoleum. But it has been said in the village since ancient times that anyone who dares to offend the first emperor will be cursed!"

Li Yu suddenly laughed when he heard the words: "The curse talk is pure nonsense. The reason why I say this is just to scare people."

The old man Zhang said seriously: "My lord, you can't talk nonsense about this. If Emperor Shi Huang finds out about it, disaster will surely come!"

Li Yu said disapprovingly: "Emperor Shi Huang has been dead for 1000 years, the corpse may have already turned into a pile of dry bones, what is there to be afraid of?"

When the old man Zhang heard this, his face instantly became ugly.

He hurriedly put down the biscuits in his hand, stretched out his hand to cover Li Yu's mouth, and at the same time stretched out his finger to make a hissing gesture, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I would rather believe it or not! This curse, but The old man saw it with his own eyes!"

"Oh? Have you seen the curse?" Li Yu pushed old man Zhang's hand away and asked in surprise.

The old man Zhang looked around and said cautiously: "When the old man was young, there was a man named Zhang Liang in the village who had a very good friendship with the old man. Zhang Liang has always been bold and fearless of ghosts and gods. Back then, he fell in love with a woman from a neighboring village. , but Nai He’s family was poor and he couldn’t afford a bride price. So he wanted to go to the imperial mausoleum to pick up some treasures, and he left for seven days. But after seven days, he was found in Lishan Mountain. The villagers took him back to the village In the midst of it, he took care of him for more than a month before he woke up. After waking up, he suddenly became crazy and yelled that there was a ghost all day long."

"There is a ghost? Could it be that he went to explore the treasure and accidentally found hell?" Li Yu half-jokingly said.

The old man Zhang said seriously: "Young Master, that is not hell. It is even scarier than hell!"

Pausing for a while, and eating a mouthful of sesame seed cakes, the old man Zhang continued: "Because he was very friendly with the old man, the old man went to visit him. At that time, he no longer knew anyone, but he still remembered the old man. When he saw the old man, he Pulling the old man's arm, shouting that there are ghosts! The old man naturally didn't believe in ghosts at that time, so he asked him what happened. Fortunately, the situation of Zhang Liang's insanity was up and down at that time, and when the old man went, he was just in a bad mood. Somewhat stable, he told the old man about his experience."

"Oh, tell me, what did he encounter?" Li Yu was even more curious and asked impatiently.

What the old man Zhang said next shocked them.

It turned out that when Zhang Liang went to search for treasures, he searched on Mount Li for three days but failed to find the entrance to the tomb. Just when he was about to give up, he accidentally fell into a cave.

The entrance of the cave is straight up and down, several feet deep, and there are traces of chiseling all around, it seems that it was excavated manually.

Zhang Liang accidentally fell into the entrance of the cave, and was thrown into a mess.

Fortunately, Zhang Liang had practiced kung fu with the people in the village for a few years, and his body was strong, so he got up quickly.

After getting up, he lit a torch and began to observe around.

Seeing this, he was immediately excited.

It turned out that the space I was in turned out to be a tomb.

On the walls around the tomb, there are ancient murals.

Although those murals have fallen off, judging from their traces, they should be painted in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

In addition, there are many pottery pots and bronze weapons that have already decayed in the tomb.

This made Zhang Liang very excited. He knew that the tomb he was in was probably a part of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum!

Zhang Liang looked up at the hole above his head, knowing that it was the work of the tomb robbers, and he was even more grateful to the tomb robbers.

If the tomb robber hadn't dug a hole, he wouldn't have found the tomb by accident.

Thinking that he would soon be able to find the treasure, Zhang Liang immediately lifted his spirits.

The tomb was made of huge stones, and the door of the tomb was a huge stone door, if Zhang Liang alone, it would be difficult to push it.

(End of this chapter)