Tomb Raider

Chapter 29 Zhao Gao's Tomb (2)
Divine Phoenix!I staggered and almost fell to the ground. It is a big taboo to engrave a phoenix inside the coffin. The phoenix is ​​a divine bird in mythology. Although it is a myth, it is not groundless. To be called a divine bird must have its own extraordinary .

Now that Zhao Gao carved the phoenix inside the sarcophagus, I am a little shocked.There are basically two explanations for this. One is that the owner of the tomb cannot fully control the phoenix, and is very likely to die.Another possibility is that this person pretends to be on par with immortals and gods.

Because this is Zhao Gao's tomb, he is an eunuch so naturally he has no heirs, so the purpose of his engraving the divine bird in the coffin is to regard himself as the real dragon emperor...

Unexpectedly, a crazy idea suppresses the second inference. In ancient times, the phoenix was reborn from nirvana. Could it be that Zhao Gao wanted to take advantage of the power of the phoenix to regain his life?
At this time, I began to shake the identity of the owner of the tomb, but Liu Qi was more direct than me. He gently lifted the head of the female corpse in the coffin, and took out a stone pillow from under the neck.I asked him what he was going to do, and he replied: "The owner of the tomb will basically write his own life in the pillow. Now it is difficult for us to guess whether this is Zhao Gao's tomb. Maybe we can find some clues in this stone pillow." !"

As soon as I heard what he said, I also agreed with him, and hurriedly asked him to take out the things in the stone pillow.Liu Qi nodded, reached in and took out a roll of bamboo slips, and spread them out carefully. The writing on it was extremely concise. I read it for a long time but couldn't understand what was written, but I vaguely saw some very sensitive words. Vocabulary, such as the first emperor, mausoleum...

Liu Qi obviously didn't know much about these ancient texts. When he was studying the bamboo scrolls, I kept looking at the special features of the two stone-carved phoenixes, but I didn't see anything special after reading them for half an hour.I sighed and turned around to ask Liu Qi what he found.He stared at Zhujuan intently and didn't hear my voice because he was too absorbed. I saw that he was so careful and didn't want to disturb him, so I leaned on the stone table behind me and took out Laohu's half pack of cigarettes from his backpack. He took a deep breath.

This is Liu Qi. I don’t know whether he finished reading it or smelled the smoke, turned his head and asked for one, leaned against me, took a deep breath and said, “This is indeed Zhao Gao’s tomb!”

After hearing this, I mechanically turned my head and asked him what was written on it. Liu Qi roughly explained that the bamboo scroll did not record Zhao Gao’s past events, but only began when he became prime minister. The events were almost the same as those recorded in historical books. It's just that there are some things that are not recorded in the history books.

When Qin Shihuang built the imperial mausoleum, Zhao Gao quietly designed an underground palace for himself because of his status as a prime minister with a man under one man and over ten thousand people. At that time, the labor force from all over the country had been mobilized by Li Si For the construction of the imperial mausoleum, Zhao Gao found Li Si as a matter of course. At first Li Si disagreed and wanted to report the matter in front of Qin Shihuang, but he did not pursue the matter anymore after Zhao Gao's repeated blunt remarks.But one day Zhao Gao mysteriously found Li Si and went to brothels with him several times, Li Si didn't know why he quietly recruited [-] craftsmen to Zhao Gao to help him build the tomb.

After hearing that, I looked at Liu Qi and thought for a while in doubt, and finally asked: "You said that if people other than the emperor built the tomb, their heads would be beheaded. Why did Li Si take the risk to help Zhao Gao? It seems that there is no record that their relationship has reached the point of mutual adversity, right?"

Liu Qi knew that I had a lot of doubts about his explanation, so he didn't bother to explain too much now. After asking me for a cigarette, he said: "You didn't listen to me quietly. In fact, there is nothing else. Think about it." , What did they do from Li Si's refusal to agreeing?"

"What did you do?" I pondered for a while, and suddenly slapped my thigh. Because the wound hadn't healed, I grinned and cried out in pain. When the pain stopped, I hurriedly said, "Zhao Gao is not a eunuch." Why? Why do you still go to that kind of place? Could it be that he and Li Si have..."

"Who said Zhao Gao was a eunuch?" Liu Qi interrupted me and said, "It's normal for him to go in and out of that kind of place!"

"Isn't that what was said in history? Zhao Gao was the eunuch next to Qin Shihuang..." I looked at Liu Qi in bewilderment. Is there something wrong with this history?

"Historical records are in the hands of the strong, and later generations misunderstood Zhao Gao as an eunuch in some places!" Liu Qi seemed to reject such a topic, glanced at me, and shifted the topic and said: " Only by knowing what he and Li Si did or said in that place, can we know why Li Si helped Zhao Gao. By the way, if you were Zhao Gao, what would you do?"

I was so bluffed by him that I didn't even think about it: "I will use the emperor's position to seduce him!"

Liu Qi waved his hand and said, "No, Li Si was loyal to Qin Shihuang at that time, so it was impossible for Li Si to come up with such an idea."

"Then kill him?" I tentatively asked.

He still shook his head, and when I was racking my brains to accompany Liu Qi to guess, he saw the two stone-carved phoenixes in a flash, and muttered in his heart, could they be related to this phoenix?

(End of this chapter)