Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 354 It must hold a grudge, landslide

A crypt, literally, is a pit deep underground.

Plots about exploring underground caves often appear in storytelling.

For example, in the Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Cheng Yaojin explored the underground cave in Wagangzhai and obtained treasures such as an apricot-yellow dragon robe and a jade belt.

In The Yang's Clan Generals, Mu Guiying's future daughter-in-law Wang Lanying fell into an underground hot spring and transformed from an ugly girl into a beautiful young lady.

In The Romance of Yue Fei, Yue Fei's second son Yue Lei explored a cave and obtained the Eight Treasures Dragon Spear.

The authenticity of storytelling plots is difficult to verify.

However, this kind of plot is often used in storytelling, and it has a lot to do with the act of hiding things in cells.

In times of chaos or special circumstances, dignitaries often bury valuables underground.

This buried treasure is called a hoard.

Cellars are usually buried deep.

Even special caves were dug for burial.

Later I came across a cellar dug in an L shape underground.

After digging the hole vertically, they did not bury the treasure directly at the bottom of the hole, but instead dug horizontally to the side.

The pottery jar filled with valuables was placed into the horizontally excavated hole, and then filled with soil to seal it.

When I dug, I found nothing and I thought I was digging in the wrong place...

But the underground cave that Uncle Chen mentioned is a Feng Shui term.

Liao Yu, a geomancer in the early Northern Song Dynasty, proposed the "Three Forces to Determine the Aperture" method.

The three postures are standing posture (heavenly acupoint), sitting posture (human acupoint), and sleeping posture (earthly acupoint).

"Jin Bi Xuan Wen" records: When sleeping, the body is upward and the breath falls downward, and this is the case in a cave underground.

This means that the underground cave is formed where the mountain is like a lying person, and the vital energy flows downward.

But the crypt doesn't mean it's bad.

On the contrary, underground caves represent wealth, sky caves represent nobility, and human caves represent both richness and nobility.

The Feng Shui master nurtured earth dragons in the cave of the rich, setting up a Feng Shui layout that would definitely bring prosperity to the gambling king's family.

Today, earth dragons have become popular.

The gambling king's family also embarked on a road to glory and became the dominant force in Ao Island.

This feng shui arrangement can be said to be half successful.

Let’s get back to the present.

At this moment, most of the earthworm had drilled into the burrow, leaving only a palm-long section outside.

I raised the golden nail and stabbed it into the part of the earthworm outside.

But the earthworm had learned its lesson after being pricked just now, and it twisted its body left and right in an S shape.

It twisted like that.

He narrowly avoided it by just brushing the edge of the nail head.

Snapped!

The nail head pierced the female corpse's lumbar vertebrae, breaking the lumbar vertebrae in half.

The earthworm took advantage of the situation and shrank back suddenly.

The palm-length body left outside shrank to only half the length of a palm, twisting and squeezing into the dungeon.

Just as I was about to continue stabbing the earthworm, I heard a thud.

"Catch the Earth Dragon!"

Uncle Chen didn't even bother to untie the rope around his waist. He stretched out his hands and pounced directly on the earthworm.

He thought catching earthworms was too easy.

Ordinary earthworms can indeed be caught by hand.

But it is difficult to catch such a big earthworm with hands alone.

Because earthworms secrete very slippery mucus on the surface of their bodies.

If you don't hold it tightly enough, the earthworm will slip out of your hand.

If you use too much force, you may break the earthworm's body.

At that time, the earthworm will split into two, and the part that burrows into the ground will be difficult to catch.

So I just kept nailing it with gold nails.

It is easier to control the earthworm by pinning it down and then grabbing it with your hands.

Uncle Chen rushed forward without caring about his manners.

Kneeling on one knee in the mud, he grabbed the last bit of the earthworm's tail sticking out of the burrow with both hands.

“Luckily I caught it… huh?!”

Before he could finish his words, the earthworm slipped out of his hand.

One of them turned around and disappeared into the dungeon.

Uncle Chen slowly lowered his head.

Staring blankly at his hands covered in slime.

"How did it slip out?"

"Earthworms secrete mucus, so they're very slippery when you hold them in your hands. It's normal for them to slip out."

After comforting him, I asked, "The half of the earth dragon that escaped was seriously injured. It shouldn't come back in my dreams, right?"

This is also due to the mentality of taking chances.

I think that if half an earthworm runs away, there won't be any serious consequences.

Uncle Chen sighed.

He shook his head and said, "Even if it doesn't appear in my dreams now, it will definitely hold a grudge."

"It's hard to say what will happen in the future."

"Shizi, please take the trouble to dig further down the cave."

Uncle Chen's face was full of reluctance.

He clenched his teeth as if he was going to dig deep into the ground to find the earthworm.

I looked at the golden nail in my hand silently.

The golden nail has eight facets, and the front four are engraved with Taoist runes.

The Big Dipper is engraved on the four back sides.

Although I don't know Taoist runes, I know the meaning of the Big Dipper in Taoism.

It is recorded in the "Tai Shang Xuan Ling Bei Dou Ben Ming Yan Sheng Zhen Jing": The Big Dipper is the key to creation, the ruler of humans and gods, and has the power to bring back the dead.

To put it simply, the meaning of this passage is that the Big Dipper can bring the dead back to life and grant the living immortality.

Therefore, in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang would set up the Seven Star Formation before his death to pray for longevity.

Zhang Sanfeng even wrote a poem: Wearing a lotus on my head and facing the Big Dipper, the star god grants me immortality.

It means that if I wear a lotus crown and worship Beidou, the Beidou Star God will write immortality for me in the immortal book.

I guess the runes on the golden nails may be related to immortality.

It is a great irony that the golden nail engraved with runes related to immortality was nailed to the body of an unjustly dead woman.

Uncle Chen saw that I didn't move, so he bent down to pick up the shovel and said, "Shizi, I know you're upset."

"I didn't expect it to be a Earth Dragon Bureau before."

"I thought I could handle it with Master Zhang's Five Thunder Talismans."

"It ended up getting you into big trouble."

"Don't worry, your efforts won't be in vain. I'll have Ye Han give you a generous gift later."

Uncle Chen is a fox spirit transformed from a thousand-year-old fox.

He could tell at a glance that I was standing there motionless.

I express my dissatisfaction through silence.

The grave was dug.

The body was right in front of me.

I have done everything I promised him, but what about him?

The lack of clear understanding of the risks before dragged me into such a dangerous situation.

No matter what, we have to get his attitude now.

Uncle Chen is quite single.

Instead of throwing a tantrum due to his status and position, he tactfully admitted his mistakes.

For a man of his status, what he said was quite enough.

I said seriously, "Earthworms burrow very quickly. Human power is impossible to catch them. Catching them is as difficult as climbing to the sky."

Uncle Chen looked up at the sky and said, "I've told fortunes before."

"It's like reaching the end of the road, but when you're feeling down, you'll find a new way out."

"If we dig up the underground cave, we might find a new way out."

"This is also about doing one's best and leaving the rest to fate."

"Don't worry, whether we can catch the earth dragon or not, all the consequences will be borne by Ye Han and me."

"It has nothing to do with you and Boss Dong."

This old fox has made another big promise.

I don't know if he will bear all the consequences.

But when he mentioned Boss Dong...it sounded more or less threatening.

Boss Dong treats me very well.

We cannot let him be implicated because of our own dissatisfaction.

I took the shovel from Uncle Chen and started digging.

They dug down more than half a meter.

Suddenly I heard a rustling sound under my feet.

It sounded like the sound of loose soil collapsing.

I was alert.

Just as he was about to jump up, the soil under his feet collapsed.

It must be the underground cavity that collapsed!

"Hold!"

The moment I felt weightless, I yelled and reached out to Uncle Chen: "Hurry and pull me up!"