"Brother, where are you going to play?"

"Handsome guy, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

From time to time, middle-aged aunts and uncles strolled up to the train station to chat and inquire. The early morning at Chengdu East Railway Station was already brewing amid the hustle and bustle, with the unique leisure atmosphere of old Chengdu.

The design of Rongcheng East Station is very distinctive, inspired by the Sanxingdui culture of Sichuan County in the Shang Dynasty. Four huge green bronze masks serve as pillars to support the main entrance of the train station.

Since I didn’t carry any luggage, I quickly passed the security check and walked to the waiting room.

For some reason, since arriving at Rongcheng East Railway Station, I always felt like someone was staring at me not far away, but every time I turned around to check, I didn't find anyone suspicious behind me except tourists like me.

"Are the Zhou family worried, or are they sending people to follow me?"

"But it doesn't matter if we follow. Once we get to Guocheng, it's the Zhang family's territory and they can't do anything." I thought to myself.

"Ding dong! Passengers heading to Guocheng, please note that ticket checking has begun for your train. Please line up and check in in an orderly manner."

After checking the ticket, I got on the bus. After a while, the train started running. Looking out the window at the low valleys and farmland vegetable fields unique to the Bashu region, I thought about my arrangements after arriving in Guocheng.

"The seal of the Salt Envoy is carved using yin and yang carving techniques, and there are two pagodas carved in total. One of the yang-carved pagodas can be determined to be the White Pagoda on Heming Mountain in Guocheng from the appearance and number of layers of the pagoda."

"But why is the other Yin-engraved tower engraved on the other side of the seal in an inverted and misaligned manner? Is there a similar tower under the White Tower?" I thought to myself.

"This is impossible and does not comply with the rules. In ancient times, underground palaces were usually built under pagodas. Depending on the level of the pagoda, the level of luxury of the underground palace would be different. Underground palaces usually placed some important Buddhist treasures, such as relics, scriptures and scripture pillars.

I have never seen a tower built underneath a tower."

"I'd better go to the White Tower first to see if there are any clues, and then I'll go to Zhangjia to pay my respects to the pier!" After I made up my mind, I closed my eyes and took a nap. It takes about two hours by train from Rongcheng to Guocheng.

about.

"Ding dong! Passengers, please note that we have arrived at Guocheng Station. Please take your belongings with you and get off the train in an orderly manner." The steward's voice came from the carriage broadcast.

Guocheng Station is not very big. Walk along the passage and you will be on the street in a few minutes.

A light rain fell in Guocheng. Pedestrians walked on the streets holding colorful umbrellas, and cars sped by, splashing a pool of water.

I covered my head with my hands, ran to the street, and hailed a taxi.

"Master, go to Baita Park!" I said.

"It's raining today, why go to Baita Park? There's nothing to do there!" the taxi driver, wearing a black peaked cap, with a fat round face and beard, asked me in Sichuan dialect

.

For some reason, maybe because the taxi driver was wearing a hat, I always felt like I couldn't see his facial features clearly.

"Go shopping and ask your girlfriend out. Wouldn't it be more romantic on a rainy day?" I made up a joke.

"You haven't been to Guocheng for a long time, haven't you?"

"Um...no, I work in Guocheng and I just came back from a business trip." I continued to make up. The strange thing was, how did the driver know that I hadn't been to Guocheng for a long time.

"Maybe I'm too sensitive." The car was driving on the Jialing River Bridge, and I looked out the window at the green river water and thought to myself.

However, according to the rules of the Tang family, hats are not allowed indoors, especially black or other dark-colored hats. From a Feng Shui perspective, wearing a hat indoors is considered a heavy hat, and usually only after death.

Wearing a hat indoors can easily attract ghosts and bring bad luck to yourself.

In order to avoid unlucky things, I no longer communicated with the taxi driver, but silently looked at the scenery outside the car. Unexpectedly, this land actually concealed clues to the Thousand Lanterns Tree.

"boom!"

After paying the fare and closing the door, I arrived at the foot of Heming Mountain.

"call!"

I took a deep breath. Heming Mountain is located on the bank of the Jialing River. Coupled with the misty rain and the river breeze blowing, the air is particularly fresh.

Looking up, the White Pagoda is looming in the white river mist surrounding Heming Mountain.

Maybe I arrived too early. As a tourist attraction, Baita Park has almost no tourists. I can only see a few old men and women who got up for exercise in the morning and walked on the steps leading to the top of the mountain.

The White Pagoda is located at the top of Heming Mountain. As I climbed the steps, I turned around and looked at the surrounding mountains and rivers, trying to find some clues from Feng Shui.

As the saying goes, pagodas can suppress river demons. Generally, wherever there are pagodas, they are to restrain some bad Feng Shui conditions. But Heming Mountain is like a gold ingot protruding from the riverside. The pagoda is built on the ingot, and opposite is the wide

On the Jialing River, apart from being a Feng Shui treasure land for the rich and powerful, there is no place where pagodas are needed, and looking around, there is no terrain that needs pagodas to control.

"It's strange. This clearly looks like a gold ingot, so why does it have a Taoist name, Heming Mountain? And there is a pagoda built on the mountain with the Taoist name." I wondered in my heart, feeling more and more like this place.

special.

"Huh?"

When I walked to the middle of Heming Mountain, a circular mound with a diameter of about six meters appeared on the mountainside. This kind of mound is very familiar to me. It is the sealing mound on a large tomb. This kind of circular mound

The sealing mounds only became popular during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, the bucket-shaped mounds, that is, the square mounds, were popular, and the more square the shape, the more noble the status. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the mounds for large tombs were all round.

"The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were buried on the top of the mountain; the tombs of the Qin and Han Dynasties were buried on the mountains; the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties were buried on the mountainside; the corpses of the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties were buried on the slopes." I muttered the lingo of the gang leader while walking towards the big tomb. This sentence was from the gang leader in the past.

The experience summarized by the predecessors was compiled into a jingle, so that the leader can quickly judge the age by the location of the tomb. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the emperor was respected in the world. The emperor was a god sent by heaven to take charge of all things in the world. After death, people

, the closer to the sky, the higher the status, so in some places in northern Hebei you can find many tall independent hillsides. These hillsides were called high platforms in the past and were used to place coffins and sacrifices. This was also the case in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

The reason why tombs can usually be found on mountain tops. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was popular to become immortals in caves. It was believed that as long as you lived in a cave like an immortal, you could become an immortal, so tombs were often buried in caves or stone caves in the mountains.

Similarly, during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, people buried tombs on the mountainside. Tombs from the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties were often found under the hillside. There were reasons for cultural changes behind them.

"Wang Ping's Tomb!" Right in front of the huge circular mound of earth was a stone tablet covered with moss and with slightly mottled writing.

"Wang Ping..." I searched quickly in my mind.

"Wang Ping, the general of the Shu Kingdom in the Eastern Han Dynasty! It is indeed a tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty!" I whispered to myself and laughed softly. A sense of satisfaction in answering the questions correctly filled my heart. This may be one of the joys of our profession.

"That's not right!" I suddenly discovered that on the circular mound of earth surrounding Wang Ping's tomb, the grass was drooping, and a vague mud footprint was left on the grass blades.
Chapter completed!