Looking at the hand that stretched out from the ground, Xing hesitated a little, it was clearly not their group, but the attackers.

The voice was a little impatient: "No, I'm going to seal the tomb so that you can stay with the dead forever inside......"

As he spoke, the hand was about to be withdrawn.

"I'm on, I'm on!"

Xing glanced at the dead man's hand bones on the ground that were crushed by himself, and made a choice, he didn't want to continue to accompany the corpse in the gloomy tomb, no matter how he said it, it was also a human being.

He jumped up and grabbed the man's hand, and then he felt himself being pulled up by a huge force......

After waiting for Xing to be pulled out of the coffin, before he could catch his breath and congratulate himself on coming out alive, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

In the moonlight, the ground was in shambles.

He was pulled up by a black man in leather armor, wearing a red silk on his head, and holding a bloody sword, who was looking him up and down.

There were also two people, a young man who was on the ground looking for scattered arrows; A thin man in armor and a spear, looking at several tomb robbers, always had a tense face, as if someone owed him money.

Xing's accomplices consisted of five, and except for one lying on the ground, bleeding from his chest and motionless, the other four, including their leader, were all tied up. And all of them were colored, either with an arrow in the leg or a sword in the back......

Before he could figure out what was going on, he was immediately grabbed by someone's arm!

"It turned out to be a thief, hey, you scared Naigong just now."

The one who pressed him down was the "ghost" with flying sideburns just now, he was not wearing armor, he had two halberds stuck in his waist, and he was looking for a rope to tie Xing up.

The black man on the side said, "It's just a little man, leopard, don't hurt him." ”

"Yes, yes."

It turned out that the four people who suddenly attacked the tomb robbers were none other than Huyang Pavilion Heifu and others!

An hour earlier, after they had left the pavilion, they had gone southwest in the location described by the Gongshi.

Before reaching the morning sun, they cautiously extinguished the torches and crept towards the wilderness. Fortunately, the moon in the middle of the month will be round and reflected in all directions, which is enough for them to distinguish the direction and discern the road ahead.

When they got to the area, it was even easier, because the torches of the tomb robbers revealed their location from a distance.

After Heifu's order, everyone slowed down and quietly touched over. Just as the tomb robbers were busy carrying the artifacts in the tomb and their precautions were lax, Heifu motioned to the little Taola to shoot an arrow, and an arrow was put on the sentry thief! The other three also swarmed up!

The thieves' reaction was still fast, and they all picked up the weapons on the ground to resist, especially the red-faced thief wearing the deep clothes of the dead, and immediately picked up the crossbow in his hand and aimed at the black man!

After the sword buckle sounded, the crossbow bolt burst through the air, and Heifu only felt that the wooden shield he was holding was hit by a huge force, and it was almost broken......

"It's good that I have a shield."

Seeing the power of the crossbow machine, Heifu was overjoyed, his arm was numb, he simply abandoned the shield, stepped forward with his left hand, and stabbed his sword at the open, so that he could not fire the crossbow again.

When he stepped back to change weapons, Hefu kicked him to the ground again, holding his sword to his throat.

The rest of the people saw the leader fall, and after a little resistance, they chose to flee.

But the person who ran the fastest was thrown over by Dongmen Leopard's halberd, hit the vest, and died directly on the ground......

The other three thieves were so frightened that they could only kneel and beg for mercy after being stopped by Xiao Tao's bow and arrows and Liham's spear.

In this way, in less than half a moment, Heifu and the others captured all these tomb robbers with only a slight injury to the Dongmen leopard.

"Among these people, except for the red-faced thief who led the way, they have not undergone much training, otherwise it would be so easy."

Heifu breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the blood off the sword, and put it in the sheath, in the final analysis, tomb robbers are tomb robbers, and their art specializations are different, far less fierce than bandits who kill people and oversell goods.

In this way, they can be regarded as having gained a lot of money, and Heifu has begun to count the number of thieves, looking forward to the reward he can get......

"It's still Heifu who commanded it properly, and let us attack suddenly, so easily."

Dongmen Leopard laughed, and like a chicken, lifted the young man up and threw it beside his accomplices. Then he excitedly walked over to the pile of lacquerware and bronze ware, and looked at it with a torch.

"It's the first time I've seen so many good things." He couldn't help but caress the fine lacquerware.

"Leopard, in other words, the stolen goods must be handed over to the government, don't do anything crooked."

Heifu sternly admonished the Dongmen leopard as he glanced at Liham.

The Qin State had strict requirements for officials, not only receiving a penny was a felony of bribery, but also an unforgivable crime of keeping stolen goods.

If anyone here is greedy and steals the stolen goods, if the others do not report it, they will also be guilty of the same crime.

In fact, if Leham was not there, it would be fine for the three of them to hide secretly, but now Leham is watching from the sidelines, after the anonymous letter incident, although this person has been convinced by Heifu, but Heifu does not fully trust him.

Li Xian didn't know Heifu's careful thoughts, he asked Xiao Tao to look at the tomb robbers, and walked over himself, picked up the three-legged tripod with a round mouth, ears, and a pattern on the outside, and frowned and looked at it.

The so-called Ding is a vessel used to cook large pieces of cold pork in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty. By the time of the Warring States period, it had gradually become a ritual instrument, and the commoners rarely used it, and only the nobles put it out together with the rice bowl when they used the feast and sacrifice, in order to show their ancient lineage and noble status......

Generally speaking, according to the provisions in the "Zhou Li", the Son of Heaven has nine tripods and eight tripods, the princes have seven tripods and six tripods, the doctors have five tripods and four tripods, and the scholars have three tripods and two tripods.

However, in the Warring States Period, the etiquette collapsed, and in the end, even the Zhou room was wiped out by Qin, and no one followed the old Zhou etiquette. The kings of the Seven Heroes have long begun to use the Son of Heaven to drive the rituals, and the feudal kings of various countries also regard themselves as princes......

The tripod in front of him is a symbol of the noble identity of the owner of this tomb.

Actually, in the eyes of a person like Heifu, who was a commoner in his past and present lives, isn't the so-called ritual vessel just pots and pans? Cook the big white meat and put the rice in the ding. If you put it in the homes of the common people, it is an ordinary thing in the kitchen, and if you put it in the homes of princes and nobles, it will become a tall thing?

The difference between the two is determined by bloodline?

Hefu disagreed, and as a modern man, he scoffed at the theory of descent.

However, the people of this era, although they experienced the baptism of the Warring States period that "the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent to the army", they still believe in the theory of blood, and the declining nobles hold their heads high and look down on anyone from a lowly background.

Even those civilian heroes, after achieving fame, have to be busy finding an ancestor of noble blood for themselves. or the princes and uncles in various places, or the doctors of the Qing clan who are in the middle of the family, as if they are not enough, it is not enough to justify their success.

But in fact, this is an era when ability is greater than blood, especially in the Qin State, where princes and grandsons cannot obtain fiefdoms without meritorious service.

"Ask for a thief, bring a torch and light ......"

On the other side, Lixian couldn't see the words clearly, so Dongmen Leopard reluctantly walked over to help him illuminate, and he peeked at it, but saw that the back of the tripod was densely engraved with golden seal characters, but it was very different from the small seal of Qin......

"Do you recognize these ghostly paintings?" The Dongmen leopard saw that his head was big.

"I don't recognize all of them, but I also know a few, my family was a Chu doctor a few decades ago, so when I worship my ancestors, the ancestors' spiritual thrones are also these Chu characters......"

With a hint of pride in his words, he spat and wiped the soil off the copper tripod with his sleeve, and after taking a closer look, his face couldn't help but change greatly, and he let out an exclamation!

"Oops!"

"What's wrong?" Heifu couldn't help but walk over and ask.

"This tripod is a ritual vessel used by the tomb owner during his lifetime, and it is engraved with the reason for casting, as well as his family line and official position."

Li Xian pointed to the bronze tripod with some excitement and said, "Pavilion Chief, if I guess correctly, this is actually the tomb of the Ruo Ao clan!" I really didn't expect that legend to be true! ”

Liham held the copper tripod and sighed, but Heifu listened with a blank face.

"Ruo Ao, what is that?"