Well of Mystery

Li Ranqiu, a famous general of the state of Zhang, an important minister of Jingdi Jiang Han, died at the age of seventy and was buried in the imperial mausoleum.

Counting it, the master builder of the Tailing Mausoleum was also Emperor Jing's nearest neighbor in the Yin Mansion.

After leaving the Burial Pit Museum, Su Zi greeted the group members to get on another battery car, and drove towards Li Ranqiu's cemetery - Jingtang.

Bai Xiuqi noticed that during the two rides, Su Zi talked and laughed happily with the park staff who were in charge of driving, and even handed cigarettes when getting off the car, which seemed to be an extraordinary relationship.

It's true, as a black tour guide who doesn't even have an ID card, he can get along here like a duck to water, how can he do it without two brushes.

In less than two or three minutes, Jingtang arrived.

This is a high-standard cemetery with Xiangtang, tombs and gardens, named after Li Ranqiu's posthumous title - Jingzhong.In fact, Jingtang should be the highest standard burial tomb in Tailing Park.

Perhaps in order to avoid the hidden danger of foreign relatives interfering in politics, Emperor Jing did not have a queen in his life.Even Mrs. Wu, who gave birth to the prince for him, was pursued by her son as queen after her death.

From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand that modern people will have rumors about "male pets".

Here, Su Zi has led the group members into Li Ranqiu's hall.

Although Jingtang is now the property of the state and placed under the care of the Zhangling Research Institute, the descendants of the Li family have always had the custom of coming to Jingtang to worship during the Qingming and Winter Solstice.

It is precisely because of the continuous burning of incense that the statues, utensils and murals in Jingtang have already been repaired, destroyed, and then repaired. After several iterations, there is almost no research value left.

Even though Su Zi had already been "vaccinated", as soon as she stepped over the threshold, the little girl who was full of imagination just now let out a cry of extreme disappointment.

The clay sculpture sitting in the shrine in the center of Xiangtang is Li Ranqiu himself.With a flushed face and a stiff curled mane, he looked like a portrait of Zhang Fei who had gone to the wrong place, and there was no trace of a handsome and handsome boy.

"The Eighteen Changes of the Male University... Could this be the reason why he was sent here to repair the Tailing Mausoleum?"

The little girl is still deceiving herself to realize her dream, and Bai Xiuqi has followed Su Zi to observe the murals around Xiangtang.

The mural depicts the thrilling escape more than [-] years ago - Li Ranqiu and Zhang Guo's dead soldiers guarding Emperor Jing who was still a proton at that time.A group of people hurriedly walked in the dangerous barren mountains and wild forests.Followed by Qian Guo's chasing soldiers, the scene is very contagious, making the viewers nervous involuntarily.

"Hey. The painting is really good. There is also a bandit hiding here, bending his bow and setting up an arrow to launch a sneak attack."

A sharp-eyed group member pointed out a figure with only half of his body exposed in the forest, holding a bow and arrow in his hand.It seems to be engaging in a sneak attack.

"Ah, it wasn't like this before." Su Zi came over.He explained lightly: "When Jingtang was built, the person pictured here was not an ambush soldier of Qian Guo, but a diner of Gongzi Han's family. This diner was shot by an arrow. In order not to drag others down, he left alone. He ended up dying in the woods."

A member of the group asked: "Then why did you paint it as an ambush later?"

"Probably because... no one remembers the story of this diner anymore. The descendants of later generations can't understand the content of the mural, and only feel that the behavior of fleeing the battle is disgusting. So the painter painted the diner as a thief soldier... …generation after generation, it became what you see now.”

The group member asked again: "No one remembers. How do you know?"

"Of course I know." Su Zi smiled as a matter of course: "Every tour guide has his own little secret."

Having said that, he took the initiative to change the subject.

"There are still a lot of good things to see in the future, everyone hurry up. Students surnamed Li can pay respects. General Zhang Guo blesses your fortune and safety. The toilet is on the left, and the canteen is on the right. Everyone gather at the door in 10 minutes. .”

The group members dispersed in a huff.Bai Xiuqi was about to continue studying the mural, but was stopped by Su Zi.

"Go, I'll take you to see my old friend."

He led Bai Xiuqi through Xiangtang, walked through the 50-meter-long tomb passage lined with stone beasts, horses and stones on both sides, and came to Li Ranqiu's tomb.

Different from the "mantou-style" tombs that are common today, the above-ground part of Li Ranqiu's tomb is an exquisite wooden hut, with the seals of the research institute on the windows and the door, and the iron general guarding the door.

"Brother Li, I'm here to see you again. This is my new friend, Xiaobai."

With that said, Su Zi took out a bottle of sweet-scented osmanthus wine in a 125ml pure water bottle from the bag, unscrewed the bottle cap and poured the wine on the bluestone board at the door.Bai Xiuqi followed suit and bowed, but still couldn't help asking: "It's been so many years, has he already been reincarnated?"

"Of course." Su Zi nodded: "I saw him when the Li family worshiped their ancestors the year before last. It's just that there are some things, once you get used to it, you can't change it."

Bai Xiuqi asked again: "What's the inside of this hut?"

"You'll know if you go and see for yourself."

So Bai Xiuqi stepped forward two steps to the front of the hut, and looked inside through the crack of the door.

The paper-pasted window lattice has a certain degree of light transmission, so the room is not completely dark.He saw that the floor was covered with large gray square bricks, and in the center was a vermilion confession case.On the table are wax flowers, fruits and silk flowers for Li Ranqiu's tablet.At the back of the case is a central pillar, which is somewhat similar to the one Bai Xiuqi had seen in the Sea God Temple on the Wandering Island before.

Presumably the inside of this pillar was also hollowed out, and the entrance to the catacomb was hidden inside.

Bai Xiuqi wanted to have a more comprehensive view of the hut, so he turned to the side and peeked in through the window lattice, but unexpectedly saw a pottery tomb-slayer squatting on the left and right sides of the column.He looked carefully, and suddenly realized that these two pottery beasts were exactly the same as the one in his pot of heaven in appearance!

Could it be that these two statues can also move? !

Bai Xiuqi warned himself not to draw conclusions, calm down and try to perceive whether there is an unusual aura on Tao Beast.However, to his disappointment, these two tomb-slayer beasts seemed to be just ordinary decorations, with a lot of rustic appearance, but no aura at all.

But it is rare to have a high degree of similarity in shape.There must be some reason, right?So Bai Xiuqi asked Su Zi about their origins.

Su Zi said that pottery beasts of this shape are not only found here in Li Ranqiu, but also occasionally found in several other accompanying tombs.Experts say that it should be the work of Ming ware craftsmen in the middle of the Zhang Dynasty—it is estimated that Jingtang was repaired at that time, and a batch of new decorations needed to be imported.The supervisor in charge of purchasing thought these things were good, so he took a pair and put them on display.

This may be able to explain why a pair of pottery beasts in the middle period appeared in the cemetery in the early Zhang Dynasty; but how to explain their appearance in the underground palace of the Tailing Mausoleum?

Was it secretly put in?

Besides, if the thing in Tailing is really a dragon vein nail.What a bold person again.Will he sneak into the tomb of the emperor's ancestors and do such a thing when the Zhang Dynasty is in full swing?

All kinds of contradictions and doubts intertwine and collide with each other.Instead, Bai Xiuqi found it interesting.

The 10-minute free activity ended soon, and the group members reassembled at the gate, and headed for the next destination—Tailing Museum.

Since the Tailing Underground Palace itself is not open to the public, the museum can be said to be the highlight of the Tailing tour.This not only faithfully restores the whole picture of the Tailing Mausoleum according to the ratio of 1:1.There are also many precious cultural relics unearthed from the underground palace and nearby burial tombs.

The electric sightseeing car drove towards the west for about 2 minutes, and came to the Shinto on the central axis of Tailing Mausoleum.

30s.Due to the Japanese bombing, the central part of Shinto suffered irreversible damage.The east and west branches of the Tailing Museum are built on both sides of this destroyed Shinto. Walking on the glass bridge connecting the east and west branches, you can see the trauma of war on human civilization when you look down.

In order to ensure the openness and completeness of the field of vision.The main part of the Tailing Museum is a sunken building, with only a light yellow top about one and a half stories high exposed on the ground, which looks a bit like a dead bone buried in the soil.

The entrance to the exhibition hall is in the east building.After passing the security check hall and continuing forward, you will find the entrance to the restored underground palace - a series of steep and deep stone steps.Leading straight to the deep underground world.

The number of tourists in the off-season is limited, and they were allowed to enter the underground palace without waiting.

Although this is just an imitation environment of the research institute, regardless of the depth of the underground palace or the building materials, it restores the original appearance as much as possible.

The further down you go, the dimmer the light becomes.Su Zi explained in a low voice, and the group members listened carefully, and the atmosphere suddenly became mysterious and quiet.

The feathered figures drawn on the tall stone walls descended among the crowd accompanied by clouds and flowers, and the royal guard of honor led by the giant dragon walked along the way, finally leading the visitors to a white marble gate.

Su Zi lowered her voice and said, "Here is the underground palace of the Tailing Mausoleum."

Bai Xiuqi had just visited the mural exhibition of the Tailing Mausoleum, so he ignored the gorgeous decorations around him with peace of mind and walked straight to the main tomb.

The archaeologically restored main tomb is more crowded than the mural exhibition.

Except for Jiang Han's coffin, there are also a wide variety of treasure chests and utensils piled up all around, which reminds Bai Xiuqi of the Hutian big warehouse in Jiangcheng Road at home.

He lowered his head and carefully searched among all these sundries, slowly walked around the coffin, and finally found it in the northeast corner of the tomb—it was the tomb-suppressing pottery beast, which was crouching alone in the corner On the base, like a misfit bystander.

No, this is definitely not the key location of the tomb.

Jiang Chenglu had taught Bai Xiuqi some common sense of feng shui. The northeast is the gate of ghosts. It seems normal to place a pottery beast here to suppress evil spirits.

If the emperor's mausoleum is really an important node on the dragon vein, then the best way to suppress the dragon vein is to place this pottery beast in the emperor's catalpa, on the upper body of Emperor Jing's body.

There is a square hole under the coffin there, which is a "well" that communicates with heaven and earth.To suppress this "well" is to truly suppress the dragon's energy.

Just as Bai Xiuqi was thinking of this, he heard the footsteps of the group members approaching this way, followed by Su Zi's explanation.

"Please move forward, the next thing we will see is the coffin of Jingdi Jianghan."

ps: Not all the past can be remembered by people.Not all truths survive to this day.That night, the young man who cut the lantern has been buried in the tomb of time.Only a few people still know his story...