Night Lights

Chapter 85 Si Tianjian Tongzhi Moves the Coffin

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Jade Emperor ordered an urgent order to drink Xuanwu people, with hair and feet, a golden armor and a black robe, and the command of Dingjia; the heavenly stems and earthly branches, Dingjia six, are worth talismans, summoned to pray for blessings and exorcise ghosts, but for the Taoist school A group of gods and generals; they can be used to burn incense and play, and after listening to talismans, they can be dispatched; this name is Liuding Liujia. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

……

Si Tianjian is an institution in charge of observing astronomy and calculating calendars.

Go back to the Sitianjian, respond to the celestial phenomena, look down on the earth, and take charge of the official position of the royal family's geomantic omen.

In the third year of Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang merged "Sitianjian" and "Huihui Sitianjian" and collectively called it "Qintianjian", which was also called "Qintianjian" in Qing Dynasty.At that time, Emperor Kangxi cited Tang Ruowang, a German missionary, as the post of Qin Tianjian, which was divided into: Tidian, Shaojian, Judge, Professor, Sitian Guangou and other positions.Among them, the predecessor of "Sitian Guangou" was "Huihui Sitianjian", and later generations called it "Sitianjian", and it has continued to this day.

The fifth son of Li who said he worked in the 'Sitianjian' was originally named Li Cha.

His life was very hard, his parents died at a young age, and his family's livelihood depended on him working as a clerk in a painting shop in Dongdaemun to support him and his young sister.Later, he met a romantic woman, one with a heart, the other with an intention, the two hit it off and lived together as a concubine, living a dewy couple, relying on the "butcher's money" of the romantic woman, life has improved a little...

Unexpectedly, one day, Fengyue woman said to him: "There is a prince in the capital who wants to take care of me, will you let me go?" Although Li Cha was sad, he also knew the truth of "Fengyue can't be kept", so he nodded agree to come down.A few days later, the woman Fengyue came back to him and said that she begged the prince to find a job for him in the "Sitianjian" in the capital, hoping that he could take the job and live by it.This Li Cha had no choice but to take care of his younger sister, so he had no choice but to wear an invisible 'green hat' and take up a position in the Sitian Supervisor.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he was recommended by others and joined the revolution.

At this time, Ma Wuye said in surprise: "I almost forgot! You have been in the Tianjian of the old Qing Dynasty for three years!"

Bai Shibao looked at Li Cha and asked in surprise, "Don't tell me you know astrology and Feng Shui?"

Li Cha blushed, and lied: "I don't understand, I just spent some money to buy a position, and I'm just running errands with the young prison officer..."

Bai Shibao said: "Since you work in Sitianjian, you believe you know the structure of this imperial tomb?"

Li Cha replied: "Before Lafayette passed away, we had already started searching for caves in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty! The Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty is divided into two parts, with Changrui Mountain as the boundary, and it was built forty kilometers to the south. Inside the wall is the mausoleum, which is called "Qianwei", and to the north is the so-called "Houlong" Fengshui forbidden area, but where there is a silver mine, if there is a "point acupuncture point", silver mines will definitely be dug , the taboo in the Feng Shui area is that you cannot open silver.

So we had to find another place, ten miles to the east of "Houlong", the young supervisor of Sitianjian measured the acupuncture points with a compass, and said that the "sand in the cave" was "sand water in the dragon's cave". place!So he ordered us to dig a round hole the size of a millstone on the acupuncture point, which is called "breaking the earth!"Then put a big wooden box on the pit so that the soil in the pit could not see the three lights of the sun, moon and stars, and then we started to build a shed and break ground! "

"Dragon Cave Sand Water?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself, could it be that the place where Lafayette was buried was the place where master Zhang Ah Short said 'the dragon's mouth spits water'?
After thinking about it, Bai Shibao asked again: "Can you find Lafayette's tomb?"

Li Cha bowed his head and pondered for a moment, then said: "I remember it seems to be ten miles to the east of Tongzhi Emperor Hui's Mausoleum! Through these two dragon pillars, I can tell that this is the Tongzhi Emperor's mausoleum. We just need to go further east, believe We will definitely find..."

After hearing this, everyone was ecstatic, thinking that they could finally escape from this place where 'the birds don't shit, the ghosts hug their nests'.

Ma Wuye said: "The direction we are facing is east, let's keep going!"

Li Cha shook his head and stopped him: "At that time when we were repairing the Huiling and erecting the dragon pillars, we found that the terrain of the Huiling was a bit slanted!"

"evil?"

"It's a bit inclined! When Huiling was built to avoid rocks, the orientation was a bit skewed. This place is not due east, but tilted to the north. If you continue to go forward, you will be farther and farther away from the east..."

Ma Wuye said in surprise: "What should we do? Didn't we walk all the way just now?"

Bai Shibao bent down, touched the soil under his feet, and found that the soil here was all wet. According to Zhang Ah's method, he couldn't tell which direction was right.

"what happened?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself: "With this method, there are no mistakes along the way, and we have also reached the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty. Why doesn't it work here?"

At this time, I only heard Li Cha say to everyone: "When the two dragon pillars were erected in the Tongzhi Emperor Huiling, we found that the coffin of the Tongzhi Emperor's Empress Arut was opened, her clothes were stripped, and even her belly was covered. It was cut open, and her intestines flowed all over the floor... I heard that she swallowed gold and died, I think the grave robbers might want to cut open her belly to find gold nuggets!"

"What do you mean?"

"The point is that these grave robbers helped us secretly! You don't know that the coffin of Emperor Tongzhi has also been moved. It's a coincidence that the coffin after the move has its head facing east and feet facing west! "

"Tongzhi moved the coffin?"

Bai Shibao understood what he heard, and said excitedly: "So, as long as we find the coffin of Emperor Tongzhi in Huiling, we can tell the direction of Zhengdong?"

Li Cha nodded and said, "Exactly!"

Everyone was very excited after hearing this.

Li Cha pointed to the second dragon pillar and said: "In the direction of the dragon's head of the second dragon pillar, go straight ahead for about a stick of incense, and you will see a tomb. There are twelve coffins, and there is a crimson coffin engraved with the engraved "Emperor Suyi, Emperor Zhicheng, filial, respectful, respectful, broad, and Suyi" inscribed on it!"

Bai Shibao sighed, "Is this the posthumous title of Emperor Tongzhi?"

Li Cha nodded, and replied: "Those who work in Sitianjian must keep these posthumous titles firmly in mind, and a wrong word is the crime of beheading..."

At this time, someone ran to the second dragon pillar to have a look, then pointed to the left with his hand, and shouted: "The dragon's head is pointing over there!"

So everyone ran to the cave over there...

At this time, Bai Shibao leaned over to Li Cha's side and said with admiration: "Thanks to brother, otherwise we might not be able to get out!"

Li Cha shook his head and said: "If I hadn't worked in Sitianjian, how would I know this! Fortunately, Lafayette was buried in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty. If she was buried in the Western Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, we would still be here in circles." ! Isn’t this God looking after us?”

After hearing this, Bai Shibao hesitated and said, "Brother, why is there something in this imperial mausoleum?"

Li Cha said with a smile: "If this matter had been told at the time, it would have been a crime of beheading, but it's okay to bring it up now! Do you know who ordered the construction of the Western Tomb of the Qing Dynasty?"

"Who?"

"Emperor Yongzheng!"

"Why isn't he buried in this Eastern Qing Tomb? Instead, build another Qing Western Tomb?"

"I heard that Emperor Yongzheng's succession to the throne was not right. He asked the eunuch in charge to add two strokes to the posthumous photo left by Emperor Kangxi before his death, and asked the eunuch in charge to add two strokes, changing it to "pass to the fourth son", and Yongzheng happened to be the fourth son. , So he became the emperor! He felt guilty, worried that he would be punished by Emperor Kangxi after his death, so he decided to stay away from his ancestors, and built a new Qingxi Mausoleum in Yi County, a hundred miles away..."

Bai Shibao nodded and sighed, "For the sake of fame and fortune, you actually turned your back on your ancestors."

At this time, suddenly someone in front of him said in amazement: "Why is there a stone gate?"

Bai Shibao and Li Cha hurried forward, and saw a stone gate lying in front of everyone, blocking their way.

Several people tried to bump into it, but Shimen didn't move at all.

"I remember that there was no such stone gate when Huiling was restored..." Li Chazhan touched the stone gate with his hand, thought for a while and suddenly said in shock: "Could it be placed by the Imperial Guard after killing the burial person? The people from the Sitianjian cannot participate in this matter, it has always been the work of the Imperial Guard!"

I saw Ma Wuye lying on the ground, stretched out his hand to feel under the stone door, and said happily: "There is a gap!"

Bai Shibao stepped on the soil under the stone gate and found that it was soft!

Ma Wuye said with a smile: "God bless us! Hurry up! Let's dig a hole under this stone gate, and then get in to see which direction the emperor's coffin is facing..."

So everyone dug the soil with their hands, and in a short while, they really dug a body hole, the size of which was only the width of one person's shoulders.

Ma Wuye said: "Brothers are waiting here, I'll go in first and have a look!"

"and many more!"

Li Cha stepped forward and stopped Ma Wuye, and said: "In order to prevent thieves, there are hidden traps in the tombs of the emperor's tomb, and poison traps are everywhere. If you accidentally touch it, you will fall into a deep pit and be pierced by a bamboo tip. , is to be suffocated to death by poisonous gas, so don't be careless... Ma Wuye! You are not as familiar with this tomb as I am, why don't you let me come!"

Bai Shibao asked from the side: "Brother, you don't even know that there is a stone gate here, which means that after you rebuilt this mausoleum, those imperial guards must have come here, I am afraid that the mechanism inside has also been changed by them..."

Li Cha thought for a while and said, "It's okay! At least I'm more familiar with this place than you!"

Bai Shibao shook his head and said, "It's because you are more familiar with this place than us, so you must stay outside so that you can take everyone out together... Let me see! I'd better get in!"

Ma Wuye said in shock: "Brother Bai Shibao! You..."

Bai Shibao smiled and said, "I'm a shady person, I don't even dare to drill into a grave, wouldn't it be a joke if it was spread?"

After finishing speaking, Bai Shibao loosened his shoulders, lay down on the ground, and burrowed into the body hole...

Li Cha squatted on the ground and shouted to Bai Shibao: "Brother! When you see the coffin, come out as soon as you know the direction! Don't stay inside for too long!"

Ma Wuye looked at the crowd and said: "You guys are waiting here, I will go with Brother Bai Shibao to take a look, if there is any problem, we can take care of each other!"

But Li Cha stopped Fifth Master Ma and shook his head...

(End of this chapter)