Chapter 489 [Coffin]
Behind the small door is a downward step, folding back and turning, and I don’t know how long it is or where it leads. Su Le untied the rope and tied the rope to the bronze handrail of the stairs. The steps under his feet are all made of white marble. After walking six times, he has already entered the three floors below. Su Le never thought that there would be such a large project underground in the old house, but he didn’t know whether this project was built by his father or that it had existed here before he built the old house?
My father never mentioned the secret of the old house underground to himself before his death, but the first thing he mentioned in the first article of the will was this old house. Su Le still clearly remembers the content of the will-I gave the small building under my name No. 118 Xi Road, Shenjiang South, to my three children. It was the place where I married their mother, where I once enjoyed the happiest time in my life. I believe they will have more or less childhood memories of that place. However, I have a condition that no matter at any time, they will not be allowed to divide or resell the property. The three siblings have permanent residence, but they have no right to resell.
It seems that his father has been ready to bury the secret underground forever, and he has no intention of telling any of the three children about the secret.
A crisp sound was made under his feet. Su Le stepped on something. He looked down and saw a person's bones. The bones were leaning against the corner of the stairs in a sitting position, holding an iron hammer in his hand. When Su Le touched it, with a scattered white bones sprinkled all over the floor. The skull rolled down the steps like a ball, and the hammer in his hand also fell to the ground.
The stairs had reached the end, and the room was covered with corpses, which were lying everywhere. According to the skull, Su Le judged that there were at least nine corpses here. There were many tools scattered next to the corpses. Judging from these tools, the nine dead people should be craftsmen. Su Le couldn't help but feel heavy. He vaguely guessed that the death of these people was probably related to his father.
This round room has a small doorway locked with an iron lock.
Su Le picked up the hammer on the ground and hit it twice before smashing the iron lock open. Before entering this door, Su Le had already begun to guess how many bones there were, but when he really walked into it, he found that it was clean inside, not as shocking as the bones outside, with only a black coffin placed.
Su Le looked at the coffin, his heart pounding. Everything in front of him was too incredible. He thought that his father had told him all the secrets before his death, but he did not expect that there was such a big secret hidden under this old house, nine skeletons and one coffin. If the deaths of these people were related to their father, then his father could be called bloody.
Minglong's voice came from his ears again. He was worried that Su Le would encounter danger below, so he spoke again.
Su Le responded loudly, "I'm fine!" The inside of the stone chamber was very cold. The closer it was to the coffin, the colder it was. Su Le judged that the coldness came from the coffin. He stretched out his hand and touched the coffin with his palm. He discovered that the coffin was made of a whole piece of jade. The coldness was as cold as ice. The coffin was carved with exquisite reliefs. On the left was a long hovering dragon that was about to fly. The right was a phoenix that was flapping its wings and was about to fly. The carving was extremely exquisite and it was obvious that it was from the hand of a famous craftsman.
The front wall of the coffin is engraved with the patterns of sun, moon and stars, and the tail of the coffin is engraved with auspicious clouds. It seems that the owner of the jade coffin must be extraordinary. Not only is there a dragon and a phoenix, but the sun and moon are also on the head and auspicious clouds. The coffin is extremely tightly combined, and it looks like it is integrated. The gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body is not a straight line, but a wavy line is bitten together, which means that the jade coffin cannot be pushed open flat, so it can only lift the entire coffin lid.
Su Le was completely aroused by curiosity at this time. He bit the flashlight in his mouth, then used his arms to lift a gap in the lid of the coffin. The cold air rose from the jade coffin. Su Le was stimulated by the air conditioner and sneezes twice. He tried his best to remove the lid of the coffin. He looked into the coffin with the light of the flashlight, but he saw that the coffin was empty, but there were lines of words engraved at the bottom of the coffin, all of which were bronze inscriptions, and
The recipe that adopted mother Su Meihong left for him is the same font. In the past, Su Le would definitely not be able to recognize this line of characters, but later he met Li Jingru, who specializes in ancient characters, and Li Jingru helped him translate the entire recipe. During this period, Su Le actually knew a lot of bronze inscriptions based on the recipes and translations. So he said that he was not too skilled, and no one knew when the skills he learned would be used. Now Su Le’s bronze inscription knowledge comes in handy.
Su Le translated the recipe with curiosity before. After Li Jingru helped him translate, he realized that the recipe originally recorded the method of cultivation, but later he learned from the original method of twenty-seven styles of cultivation. Even so, he would not have thought that there was a tomb hidden under the old house, and a line of bronze inscriptions was engraved at the bottom of the coffin. Su Le held up a flashlight and studied one by one, but the bronze inscriptions were written on the bronze inscriptions.
According to the bronze inscription, Le came to the tail of the coffin and stood at the end. After turning left, he walked forward three steps, then turned left and then went five more steps. He actually left the door and returned to the circular room outside. He stood in place and turned right, found the position at two o'clock, counted five wall bricks from the ground, and pushed them hard. With his full push, the wall bricks fell into the wall. It was indeed a hidden mechanism. At the same time, he heard a rumbling sound in the tomb room.
Su Le quickly returned to the front of the jade coffin, raised his hand lamp to shine it on it, and found that the stone slab at the bottom of the coffin had been removed, revealing a black rectangular hole.
The interlocking mechanisms have aroused Su Le's strong curiosity. Curiosity can even make a person forget and fear. At this time, Su Le decided to find out what kind of secrets are hidden under the old house?
Below the coffin is a narrow stone step. The material of this stone step is the same as that of the coffin. The lower the temperature goes down. Su Le looked at the flames from the lighter still burning, and there should be no shortage of oxygen inside.
After walking thirteen steps, we have reached the bottom. This is a square tomb, with ten steps in length and width. Above the tomb is a circular dome with sun, moon and stars carved on it. The four walls of the tomb are carved with mountains, rivers and mountains. A coffin is placed in the middle of the tomb.
Unlike the black jade coffin above, the coffin is made of crystal, and flowers are all over the coffin. Su Le was puzzled. How could the flowers here bloom so beautifully in the cold winter? When he got closer, he found that all these flowers were fake, with green branches and leaves carved from jade, and all the flowers of various colors were carved from various gems, because the carvings were exquisite, they were almost real.
A beautiful woman was quietly lying in the crystal coffin. She was wearing a white cheongsam, her hair was meticulously combed. She held a lily made of Hetian jade and jadeite in both hands, and placed it on her lower abdomen. Her face was gentle and peaceful. If Su Le didn't look at it, she almost fainted on the ground when she saw it. The beautiful woman in the coffin looked very much like his mother Shen Jiayin.
Su Le suppressed the excitement in his heart and carefully observed the beautiful woman in the coffin with the light of the hand lamp. He could almost conclude that the beautiful woman was Shen Jiayin, that is, his mother. Su Le's hand gently stroked the crystal coffin. Although he had never seen his mother, after all, mother and son were in love. When he really saw his mother, Su Le's feelings that had been suppressed for eighteen years filled his heart like a flood. His excited body trembled. Why did his father deceive himself? His mother's body was buried under the old house, but he told his three children that she was buried in Cuiqingshan Cemetery, and Su Le had been feeling guilty because his mother's ashes were stolen.
Zhuang Qiong's words suddenly sounded in his ears. Hearing is false and seeing is true. In fact, even if you see it with your own eyes, it may not be true.
Why did my father bury my mother here? His father obviously knew the answer, but he did not tell himself the answer. Now that he is separated from his own humans and ghosts, it is even more impossible to tell him anything. Su Le remembered the nine bones outside. Judging from the tools around the bones, they should be craftsmen who came to build this underground grave, but in the end they became burial objects of this grave, and there was only one person doing this.
Su Le suddenly felt a chill in his heart when he thought of his father's clear face. As the leader of Qianjimen, his father was indeed decisive and ruthless, but Su Le quickly found a reasonable explanation for his father. The reason he did this was to keep the secret of the underground grave. He didn't want his mother to be disturbed by outsiders. If it were him, he might have made such a choice. Su Le closed his eyes and thought of the white bones, but felt a little ashamed. After all, those were innocent craftsmen!
Taking advantage of the light of the hand lamp and looking at her mother's face, Su Le had an illusion that her mother was just asleep and she did not leave at all.
Su Le came to the crystal coffin, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to his mother three times, and said with tears in his eyes: "Mom, the child is unfilial, he is late!"
In the crystal coffin, Shen Jiayin didn't move, her face was still the same, but life had already left her, and all that was left here was a cold body.
There was a wooden box on the wall on the right side of the crystal coffin. Su Le came to the wooden box and took it off. After opening it, he saw a green bamboo stick in it, with the word "Dog Beat Stick" engraved on it. This stick is probably the treasure of the Beggars' Gang's gang, but the Dog Beat Stick was cut into two halves from beginning to end. It seems that there was a secret hidden in the Dog Beat Stick. The things in it have been taken away by someone, and the rest is the broken stick.
Chapter completed!