Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 267: Burning Sacrifice and Burning Sacrifice, Life-saving Needle

Is there a ghost around me?

Could that ghost be Huang Ziming?

I was about to call Huang Ziming, but then I felt it was not right.

With Huang Ziming's talkative personality, he would definitely take the initiative to speak if he were nearby.

But it's just a ghost, it shouldn't be able to hurt me.

After all, the Buddha's relics have helped me block dangers many times.

I relaxed and asked, "Do you know what Ma Si is planning?"

“Ma, Ma Si…He wants…Ah!”

"Headache!"

Su Tiansheng let out a miserable wail.

He had a headache and kept banging his head against the ground.

There were two loud bangs and a pool of blood appeared behind his head.

Then his head tilted and he became completely motionless.

"Su Tiansheng?!"

"Speak, speak!"

I wanted to hold his head.

But blood was oozing out from the back of his head, and I was afraid that moving would worsen the injury.

After calling out twice and getting no response, I reached out to check his breath.

I couldn't feel any breath flowing through my fingers.

Su Tiansheng is dead!

His eyes were wide open.

He looked like he was dying with his eyes open.

The Su family members died one after another, which made me feel indescribable pain.

"farewell."

"I hope to be born into a good family in my next life."

I muttered softly and reached out to help Su Tiansheng close his eyes.

Her hands brushed across his eyes.

The eyelids then closed.

But the moment I withdrew my hand, my closed eyelids opened again!

Is he trying to fake his own death? !

hiss!

I gasped.

He jumped up from Su Tiansheng as if he had been electrocuted.

Swish!

Bright light shone over.

Everything in front of my eyes suddenly went white.

Then Cui Hao shouted, "Brother, I found your emergency light."

I squinted my eyes hard.

Gradually adapt to bright light.

Cui Hao limped over carrying an emergency light.

Gnashing his teeth, he raised his foot and kicked Su Tiansheng's body: "This coward almost strangled me to death!"

"I'll let you pinch me!"

I quickly grabbed Cui Hao and pulled him back a few steps.

"Brother, let me kick you a few more times to vent my anger!"

"Look into his eyes," I whispered.

Only then did Cui Hao notice Su Tiansheng's wide eyes.

"Hold!"

"You're not closing your eyes even after you die?!"

"Is he going to die with his eyes open?"

I shook my head and said, "I just closed his eyelids, but as soon as I took my hand away, his eyes opened again."

"This is more terrifying than dying with eyes open."

Cui Hao shuddered all over.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Burn him!"

"Grandpa Camel said that if you encounter something weird, the best solution is to burn it."

"If we burn him to ashes, we won't have to worry about him coming back to life!"

You burn incense when you pray to gods and burn paper to commemorate the dead.

Burning is a culture passed down from prehistoric tribal times.

To this day, it has been engraved in the blood of the Chinese people.

After the ancients mastered the use of fire, they discovered that combustion would produce smoke rising upwards.

It is believed that the rising smoke can reach the ears of heaven.

It can convey your wishes to the gods and seek their protection.

This gave rise to the burning sacrifices and the scorching offerings.

The original purpose of the fire sacrifice was to burn wood as a sacrifice to the heavens, praying for a good harvest when hunting in the forest.

When the tribes developed into the agricultural period, the burning sacrifice became a rain-praying ritual, usually involving burning slaves or wizards who failed to pray for rain.

In the oracle inscriptions of the late Shang Dynasty, the word "烄" appears very frequently.

This indicates that it was a drought period and many ceremonial offerings were performed to pray for rain and alleviate the drought.

The custom of fighting the drought demon and burning its body during droughts in the Ming and Qing dynasties originated from the烄祭.

The burning sacrifice is to burn jade, silk, livestock, etc. on firewood to offer sacrifice to ancestors.

Initially, the ancients believed that only by burning sacrifices could the smoke floating into the sky be smelled by the ascended souls of ancestors.

The remaining ashes after burning are buried in the ground, where they will be enjoyed by the souls of ancestors sleeping in the ground.

As the tradition progressed, the burning sacrifice evolved into the custom of burning paper money, burning gold ingots, burning paper people, paper horses and paper clothes.

Later, I was sent by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to work in Sanxingdui.

A large number of burn marks were found on the soil and objects at the bottom of the pit.

It is speculated that a large-scale burning sacrifice ceremony was carried out in the sacrificial pit.

Later discoveries also confirmed my speculation.

Relevant experts also wrote papers based on this.

Let’s get back to the present.

I also want to burn Su Tiansheng's body to avoid any trouble.

So he nodded and said, "Then..."

Before I even uttered the word "burn", I was stunned.

Because I found that the direction Su Tiansheng was staring at was exactly at Taoist Master Zhang.

Is it a coincidence?!

Or a hint?

I looked at Taoist Master Zhang and started to murmur in my heart.

Before, Ma Si disguised himself as Taoist Zhang, but I shot him dead with one shot, and his body was eaten by red-blooded bats without leaving any residue.

The Taoist priest Zhang in front of him was seriously injured, and his finger bones were almost bitten off.

There is unlikely to be a problem.

You're overthinking it, definitely overthinking it.

I shook my head vigorously and looked at Cui Hao.

Seeing that there were no obvious external injuries on his body, he ordered: "Burn Su Tiansheng's body."

"I'm going to see Lao Zhang."

"Okay!" Cui Hao took out matches from his bag.

When the matches arrived, they were wrapped in three layers of oil paper inside and three layers outside, so they were not wet.

Chila!

Cui Hao put the lit match under the corner of Su Tiansheng's clothes.

Flames ignited at the corners of his clothes and quickly spread around.

Soon the flames completely covered the corpse, and there was a crackling sound of grease exploding.

The rising smoke carried the aroma of slightly burnt meat.

I glanced at Su Tiansheng's burning body.

In the flickering flames, he still stared at Taoist Master Zhang with wide eyes...

"Cough cough."

Taoist Master Zhang started coughing.

He breathed faintly, "Time is pressing."

"You must get in before Ma Si."

"It's too late, it's too late!"

"Over there, there's a pile of rocks."

"Under the pile of rocks, down there, that's... that's where Ma Si is going to enter."

"Everything you got before was very useful."

"Don't lose it, it's lost."

Taoist Master Zhang raised his left hand tremblingly and gently pressed the back of my right hand.

"Use a needle to prick my Baihui point."

"The needle is in my arms."

My nose felt sore, and I held back my tears and said, "Okay, I'll give you an injection."

He took out the needle bag from his arms, opened it and pulled out a needle.

Then she pressed her finger on the top of his head: "Is this the Baihui acupoint?"

"Yes, but not straight."

"Two centimeters forward, in the direction of my face, insert the needle horizontally."

The Baihui point is located in the center of the top of the head, below which is the suture of the skull.

An uninformed acupuncturist who practices by himself may take it for granted to insert the needle vertically when piercing the Baihui acupoint, but this is actually a big mistake.

When piercing the Baihui acupoint, insert the needle two or three centimeters in front of the acupoint, and insert it horizontally or slightly at an angle along the scalp to reach the Baihui acupoint.

I held my breath and inserted the needle.

I stopped when I felt the needle penetrate the Baihui acupoint where my finger touched.

"Is it okay to pierce it?"

Taoist Master Zhang nodded slightly, and his expression looked much better than before.

"This is a life-saving needle."

"It can temporarily stimulate vitality."

"I'll get up slowly."

As he spoke incoherently, I felt an indescribable strange feeling in my heart.

But I can't tell what's so strange about it.

At this moment, Cui Hao suddenly muttered, "Strange."

"Why can't the fire burn Su Tiansheng's head?"