But even so, the man in this painting is still lifelike. He is wearing black patterned ancient clothes and a black ancient hat on his head. He is sitting on a large wooden Taishi chair, stroking the wood with his left hand.
The handle of the chair is naturally placed with the right hand under the chest.
Judging from this painting, this man should have been around forty years old when he was painted, with a handsome face and an evil spirit between his eyebrows. He had no beard and only had a slight smile on his face.
But this smile makes me look weird. It's the kind of smile that's both good and evil. It's hard to tell whether he's good or bad. His eyes are also very special. They're extremely sharp and cold.
, as if one can see through everything in the world, the most important thing is that this gaze gives me a very familiar feeling, as if I have seen it before somewhere.
I have to admit that this painting is really lifelike. It feels like the man in the painting in front of me is alive. He is looking at me with a very strange look. Why is his look so...
It's familiar, but I just can't remember where I've seen it before. It's so fucking bloody.
One thing I also admire is that this painting has been stored in the underground palace of this mountain for so many years, but the quality of the painting has not changed. It is really incredible. I intentionally reached out and touched it, and I was surprised again.
This is not drawn on paper, but on leather. It looks like it was painted on sheepskin. The painter's technique is really not simple. This is the first time I have seen such a realistic character painted on sheepskin.
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"It's a parchment painting. No wonder it has been stored for so many years." I said casually.
"Really?" Jenny reached out and touched it, "It's really leather. It's interesting. There is no body in a grave, but there is an extra portrait that shouldn't be there. What does this mean?"
"I don't know, Jenny, who is the man in this painting?" I asked Jenny, looking at the painting in front of me.
"Let me tell you, this man is the owner of this tomb. Look at the court clothes he is wearing. It is obviously the clothes of a eunuch in the Ming Dynasty. It is almost exactly the same as the court clothes in the coffin just now. If you look at his appearance again, is there any
It's very... very... how to put it..." Jenny seemed to be unable to find a more appropriate metaphor and didn't know how to express it.
"I understand what you mean, you're a bit girly, aren't you? When you said that, I also saw that the clothes he was wearing were really the eunuch's clothes. Damn it, there is no body in this coffin.
On the contrary, there is a portrait of him here, what does this mean?"
I smiled helplessly, what was going on? In the tomb of a cave, I found a coffin without a body, but at the very end I found an ancient painting that was almost life-size.
This thing is completely incomprehensible. Where did the body in the coffin go? Even if a tomb robber came in, who would steal a useless body? Besides, why is there a portrait here, or a portrait of a eunuch?
, I would like to ask which eunuch can have such great ability?
"Yeah, I can't figure it out either. There's no body here, but there's a painting... Hey Zhongyi, look, there seems to be writing underneath." Jenny knelt down and stared at the portrait in front of her, very surprised.
said.
"What word?"
I quickly squatted down and moved my flashlight over. Sure enough, there were a few words at the bottom of the right side of the painting, but these words were written in the shape of dragons and phoenixes. I couldn't understand them at all, and I couldn't tell them apart from the mess.
The number of them is similar to the so-called wild grass in modern times, even more sinister than that, they are all conjoined.
"What...what is written here? It's so messed up that I can't understand it at all." Actually, it's not that the calligraphy is not good. On the contrary, the calligraphy is very unusual and cannot be written by ordinary people. It's strange.
, we can only blame ourselves for our lack of talent and lack of knowledge.
"I have to take a closer look too." Jenny stared at these words carefully, mumbling not knowing what else to say.
After waiting for about a minute, I became a little anxious and said, "Do you understand? What is written here?"
Jenny turned to look at me and said, "You can see now, there are four words written on it."
"Which four words?" I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a little nervous.
"Da Ming, Liu Qian." Jenny said word by word, without any expression on her face.
"What? I understand the first part, but the second part is..." It sounds like it's a personal name to me.
"Liu Qian, Liu with the surname Liu, Qian Qian, this should be a personal name, it must be the name of the person in this painting." Jenny said and stood up.
"Then have you heard of this Eunuch Liu Qian?" I also stood up and turned off the flashlight. At this time, I needed to save energy, and the flashlight was a very important thing.
Jenny looked ugly and shook her head, expressing that she didn't know.
"Damn it, aren't you a history student? How come you don't even know this?" What kind of role is this great eunuch Liu Qian? How capable is he? Just by looking at this painting, you can tell that he should have been
Have a certain status.
"Please, there are so many eunuchs in this dynasty. How can I possibly know them all? Do you think I am an encyclopedia? Besides, why do I have to study eunuchs when I study history?" Jenny was a little reluctant.
Yes, he stared at me and said.
"Okay, okay, I made a mistake. Let me tell you, the look in this eunuch's eyes makes me feel like I've seen him somewhere before. He's very familiar, but I just can't remember where I've seen him before."
After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't remember it. The eunuch's sharp eyes gave me a feeling of déjà vu.
"That's nonsense. This person was from hundreds of years ago. How come you and he seem familiar? What kind of international joke are you making?" Jenny rolled her eyes at me, obviously doubting my words.
"Everything I said is true. Why should I lie to you? His eyes really feel very familiar to me. I'm not kidding."
In fact, even I don't want to believe it. Logically speaking, it is impossible for me to recognize a eunuch from hundreds of years ago. But with his familiar eyes, I have to admit that I have indeed seen him before, but I just can't remember it.
That’s all.
"Haha, he couldn't be your ancestor, right?" Jenny said lukewarmly.
"Come on, your ancestors were eunuchs, don't blame me." Then Zheng He was a eunuch, wasn't she? She was really slapping herself in the face.
"You..." Jenny pointed at me angrily, her face turning extremely ugly.
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this here. Just looking at this painting, I almost forgot about the real thing. I have to find another exit quickly, otherwise everything will be in vain."
The two of us continued to look around, but after searching a large circle, we didn't even see any hope. The entire underground palace was almost airtight, with nothing but cold stone walls on all sides. .
I even thoroughly checked all the places where the mechanism could be installed, but there was still nothing. I was almost discouraged. I had been busy for a long time, but in the end it was still in vain. There was no way out and I had to die.
After walking around in a big circle, the two of us returned to the painting. I stared at the painting in front of me and muttered, "Father-in-law, even if you want to keep us here with you, you Do you have to show up? Now you are not here, you just have this painting here, and you don’t want us to leave, what do you mean? "
"What are you mumbling here? I can talk about a painting for a long time. I really admire you." Jenny said next to me. She thought I was mentally ill.
I turned around and sat down on the ground, looking very tired and said, "I can't get out anyway, and being idle is idle. They say that there is no end to the road. I think this sentence is pure nonsense." .”
I am really tired. My whole body is exhausted. The pain in my body was tormenting me. After such a torment, my whole body has no strength. What can support me is the rest of it. A little more willpower.
This is Jenny who is still with me. If I am alone without her, I really don’t want to go through the trouble. Isn’t there no one in the coffin? I can just lie down in it and save the trouble. .
Jenny sat down next to me and said, "Zhongyi, are you tired?"
"I'm not tired, are you tired?" No matter how tired I am, I still have to tell lies, at least to make her feel less stressed.
"I'm okay, but what should I do now? How could there be no way out? Logically speaking, there should be other entrances to such a large underground palace. How come I can't find it?" Jenny was also a little anxious, and now she was really worried. Facing a life and death crisis.
"Haha, logically speaking, it should be there, but in fact, it is indeed not there. We have searched all over here and can't find it. Forget it, save your energy. If you want to die, you have to die quietly. "I closed my eyes and didn't want to think about anything anymore. There was no need to do this pointless struggle.
Jenny angrily slapped my brain with her hand, "Why are you like this? I didn't even say give up. You'd better give up on yourself first. It's easy to die but hard to live. If you really want to die, wait until you leave here. Just jump into the sea and commit suicide."
Her thoughts suddenly woke me up. She was right. Now is not the time to give up. If there is a glimmer of hope, I have to give it a try. Li Xin and Jiao Ba may still be waiting outside. As for us, we can't just give up.
My eyes caught the coffin opposite, and I stood up suddenly and said, "Coffin, that coffin, come on Jenny, push the coffin away and see if there is any mystery underneath." This is what I suddenly said. It occurred to me that since there was no body inside, there might be some secrets down there.