Mountains and seas close at hand

Song Banyan raised his head when he heard the words, and asked with a surprised smile, "Dear Miss Bai, how did you guess that?"

Bai Xunhua smiled slightly: "It's just a guess."

Song Banyan nodded clearly, and while tightening his gloves, he told everyone: "Although a red heart shines in all directions, a strong dragon does not overwhelm a snake, and we do not bully people or ghosts. This haunted house is too terrific. After being locked up for hundreds of years, everyone has a temper. Xunhua, tie the collar of the little lynx so that it won't run into the owner. Xiao Pan, you have a light hand, stand back."

Pan Xiaohong just dragged his broken leg to the edge of the pit, and he was not very happy when he heard her words.But if he was really asked to stay where he was, he didn't dare, so he walked back and complained: "Hundreds of years are hundreds of years, 200 years are also hundreds of years, and 900 years are also hundreds of years. How light and casual."

Song Banyan picked up a piece of dirt and threw it on him: "The girl's family name is bigger than the sky, do you know that?"

Pan Xiaohong yelled, picked up the clod and threw it back: "Miss Bai, look at her. The girl's family name is as high as the sky, and she's playing with me here, so how decent is she?"

Bai Xunhua glanced at the two of them, put his hands on his shoulders and smiled lightly as if he was watching a show: "It's okay, you guys are friends playing in mud together."

Xiao Wu squatted aside, laughing loudly.

One minute was wasted, but everyone felt a lot easier because of it.Song Banyan ordered everyone to take their places, put on a gas mask and snakeskin gloves, and prepared to open the coffin to make a fortune.

The saying of opening the coffin to make a fortune is that the tomb robbers are looking for auspiciousness.The gas mask is a scientific protection. After the corpse rots in a sealed environment, it will inevitably form miasma and corpse poison.As for snakeskin gloves, "Feng Shui Guizang" says that snakes belong to Yin and can wander between the two worlds.In addition to the heart, the center of the eyebrows, the tip of the tongue, and the soles of the feet, the yang energy of the fingertips is the heaviest.Made of snakeskin, wearing it on the hand can isolate Yang Qi, so as not to disturb the corpse that still has soul consciousness.

Leaving aside whether it’s true or not, it’s just a psychological comfort.

Song Banyan carefully climbed onto the room-shaped sarcophagus, and stood firmly on the sloping roof with both feet.The left and right hands each hold a rope made of raw hemp. The rope hangs down in front of the sarcophagus door, and the other end is tied to the door knocker.

There is a saying in China that "wearing hemp and wearing filial piety".

The closest family members of the deceased should wear clothes made of raw linen, which is called "Zhan Shuai".According to etiquette, relatives and estrangements are distinguished by the difference in filial piety at funerals.This is of course echoing the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, but "Feng Shui Guizang" explains that because relatives are similar, they are most likely to be possessed by the dead, and raw hemp has the effect of isolating ghosts.

After everything was ready, Song Banyan squeezed the hemp rope tightly and raised his hands upwards.

Everyone's nerves also tensed up along with the two thin hemp ropes.

Song Banyan exerted strength with his arms, and the two stone rings on the door rose upwards as if they were weightless.

Song Banyan's heart was surprisingly calm, and she slowly opened her hands outward.

Bai Xunhua pursed the corners of his lips tightly, staring intently at the stone door of the coffin, and quietly opened the safe with his thumb.As long as there is something wrong, the bullets in the gun will pour out.

The door knocker was pulled to both sides, making a soft "snap".The voice echoed in the hall where needles could be heard, and everyone's hearts tightened when they heard it.

Song Banyan held his breath, his arms tensed, and he stretched them to the sides.

"—Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

A shrill scream swept from far and near in an instant.Song Banyan was startled suddenly, her feet were unsteady and she fell backwards, she hurriedly pushed her back forward.However, it was not easy to stand on the sloping roofs on both sides. She was not sure of her balance, her body swayed suddenly, and she fell forward suddenly.

Song Banyan hurriedly scratched with both hands, and happened to grab hold of the eaves.Seeing that his head was about to hit the ground, he kowtowed and broke his blood, but he almost stopped when he was only a little bit close.

For a split second, Song Banyan exhaled slowly, without fear or danger: "Huh..."

A horrible face was turned upon her.

Dry and rotten flesh wrapped around the skull, and two black hole eyes stared straight at Song Banyan. If the bridge of the nose hadn't been rotten, one person and one corpse would have just touched the tip of their noses.

Song Banyan only exhaled half of his breath, and suddenly choked into his lungs.

"..." She was holding her breath, and tried not to cough out, for fear that if she exhaled in one breath, she would disturb the owner of the coffin.

The sudden change took place in the blink of an eye, from when Song Banyan heard the exclamation to when she was staring at the owner of the sarcophagus, only three or four seconds had actually passed.

Seeing her fall, Bai Xunhua was so anxious that he hurried over.After taking a step, there seemed to be footsteps coming from the corridor behind him.The leather rope in her hand tightened, and the little lynx wanted to break free and rush out.

"and many more."

Bai Xunhua stopped the little lynx, and his thoughts turned sharply. He knew that most likely, it was just hiding behind the warrior stone figurines and secretly peeping at their "things".

Song Banyan just fell down, but the person who came was not kind.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Xunhua had weighed the situation.With a flick of his toes, the hem of his coat streaked across the air. Bai Xunhua clenched his fist tightly and turned around quickly.

The muzzle of the gun is facing the half-closed and half-open stone door, waiting for someone to come.

The hair of the little lynx in front of her stood on end, and it opened its mouth to reveal its sharp fangs.A pair of round eyes stared intently, and a threatening growl came out of his throat.

The sound of hurried footsteps approached quickly, and before everyone could think about it, a dirty and embarrassed figure stumbled in from the door.

"Ahhhh!"

Several flashlights shone on him, and the man covered his face in horror, screaming and begging for mercy: "Ahh! Help! No...help...don't!"

Bai Xunhua saw that the person coming was crazy, like a headless chicken, knowing that there must be something abnormal, she raised her hand and took out a tube of prepared anesthetic needles from her pocket.

Xiao Wu was also extremely clever, taking advantage of Bai Xunhua's inattention, he snatched an anesthetic needle from her hand.He pulled out the rubber sleeve in front of him, rushed to the back of the lunatic with light and fast steps, raised the needle with his hand and pressed his thumb down, and poured a tube of sedative into it.

Song Banyan struggled to get up from the coffin, only to see a person lying on the ground.The original color of the clothes could not be seen at all, the man was covered in dust, like a radish plucked from the ground.The place near the neck where the shoulder was bitten by the little lynx was bloody and bloody, and the blood stained a large area of ​​red, which mixed with the dust into dark brown.

"Wow!" Xiao Wu exclaimed, grabbed the man's arm, and shouted to everyone, "Look, this guy scared me to death."

I saw that this person was wearing a pair of strange leather gloves, with only four fingers, and they were of average length.

Song Banyan walked over: "Take it off and have a look."

Xiao Wu immediately pulled it out, and was immediately stunned.Under the glove, there are only four fingers, and they are almost the same length.

Bai Xunhua took a closer look: "This man's thumb was cut off."

Song Banyan recalled the description in the book, touched his cheek and said, "A person with long and slender fingers is suitable to be a thief, and needs to be smart. A person with long and thick fingers is suitable to be a carpenter, and needs to be strong."

Pan Xiaohong moved over slowly: "Could it be that this person's hand was cut off when the tomb was turned on?"

Everyone didn't speak, and they all agreed that he had a good idea this time.

At this moment, only Zhou Rao was squatting by the pit, looking curiously at the owner of the coffin, and was surprised to find: "Sister Song, you are right. His hairstyle doesn't look like a Mongolian, nor like a Han."

Everyone listened to him and turned their attention back to the room-shaped sarcophagus.

Everyone stood around the pit and looked at Song Banyan together, waiting for her to explain the ins and outs.

Song Banyan looked at the mummy and sighed: "Hundreds of years? 790 years. If I'm so aggrieved, I think I'm going to become a ghost."

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the front and back: "Sitting facing north and south is an honorable position, but look at his posture, with the top of his head facing south and his face facing up. Look at his legs, they are bent together. It is obvious that the back Facing south and north, kneeling in a haunted house."

Xiao Wu poked his head to look inside, and nodded: "Well, it's singing, it should have been knocked out when Sister Song opened the door."

Bai Xunhua raised his head and looked ahead, thinking in his heart: Further inside is the tomb of the master of the back room, this person is kneeling facing north, isn't he kneeling down to worship the owner of the tomb.The reason why Genghis Khan died here was because of the conquest of Xixia.

What the Mongols hate the most is of course the Xixia people.

The only one who is qualified to kneel in front of Genghis Khan is the King of Xixia.

"Lord Li Sui at the end of Xia." Song Banyan looked around the tomb and said thoughtfully, "If my deduction is not wrong, it should be like this."

At the beginning of 1226, Temujin stationed troops in the north of Suzhou, Xixia Kingdom, on the grounds of "not following the Western Expedition", and went out to loot everywhere.Xixia fought to the death, but couldn't stop the Mongolian cavalry.Tusha Prefecture, Tusu Prefecture, Tugan Prefecture... Heishui City, Xiliang Mansion, all fell into the hands of the Mongols.

In July, Li Dewang, the lord of Xixia, died of fear, and his temple name was Xianzong.His nephew Li Sui, king of Nanping, came to the throne.

The young king sat on the throne, frowning, looking out of the palace with a melancholy expression——

In August, the Mongolian army crossed Shatuo on the west road and seized the Jiudu of the Yellow River.

In October, the Mongolian East Route Army broke through Xiazhou.

In November, Lingzhou fell.

In December, Yanzhou defended to the death.

In the spring of 1227 AD, the Mongolian army besieged Zhongxing Mansion, the capital.

The subjects of Xixia are united as one, but the Zhongxing Mansion, which has been holding on for half a year, is now running out of food and assistance.The horses were hungry and the people were thin, the soldiers were too weak to fight, and they were hit by a violent earthquake, the houses collapsed, countless casualties, and plagues broke out everywhere.

In June, Li Wei, the lord of Xixia, went out of the city to ask for surrender.Offer maps, golden Buddhas, gold and silver treasures, ask for a grace period of one month, and settle the people before offering the city.

"During this period, Temujin died suddenly." Song Banyan pointed to the direction of the back room, "Mongols believe that the soul will leave the body after death, and the body should be buried as soon as possible. There must be no time to return to the grassland, and the sweat can't be buried." It was buried hastily. So this tomb was used directly.”

Following her train of thought, Bai Xunhua continued: "This is the tomb of a Han prince. The murals on the walls are all Han Chinese with long hair and crowns. Time is running out, so the Mongols simply altered the original murals. Let's come in Afterwards, the surface pigments gradually oxidize, exposing the underlying layer."

Zhou Rao suddenly realized: "The Mongols turned their anger on the Xixia people, killed the Xixia emperor, locked him in a haunted house, and knelt in front of Genghis Khan."

Song Banyan nodded slightly, but suddenly wondered: Is this the truth?

"--boom!"