On the sixth mural after Shangguan Hong's official appointment, three people with special identities appeared. One of them had an eyeball drawn on his back, the other had a phoenix tattoo, and although the last one had no tattoo, he was wearing armor and looked extraordinary.
The three of them sat on the throne while Shangguan Hong was making a report. Not long after, the armored man handed a box and a white fox to Shangguan Hong and gave Shangguan Yi some instructions.
In the seventh mural, Shangguan Hong was sitting in the main seat, and below him were the entire family gathered by Shangguan Hong. The figures of these people could all be seen in the picture on the coffin lid. The woman holding the white fox was also among them.
Shangguan Hong handed a box to a man with his left hand and the white fox to the girl with his right hand. The rest of the people were waiting for Shangguan Hong's instructions.
Yang Yu looked at the three men, the white fox, and the box and couldn't help but ponder. The box was easy to understand, but why would they be so careful to give a white fox to Shangguan Hong, and then give it to a woman? No matter how they looked at it, it was a little strange.
Yang Yu, who couldn't figure it out, continued to look at the eighth mural. In the eighth mural, Shangguan Hong's family was divided into two groups. Shangguan Hong and his two sons were bidding farewell to the man who had received the box, the woman who was carrying the white fox, and seven or eight other people.
Seeing this, Yang Yu hurriedly looked at the ninth mural. He saw that the man with the box had brought his clansmen to a forest and built a village. On the tenth painting, there were more than ten unfamiliar men and women who had arrived at the village and were received by the man from the Shangguan family.
Yang Yu glanced at the dozen people and found the man with the eyeball tattoo, who had seen Shangguan Hong before, among them. The eight or nine-year-old woman holding the fox was actually sitting beside these people. Although she was ignorant, she was sitting on the side.
These people seemed to be discussing something. Then, in the 11th mural, the man stood in front of a mountain with a woman hugging a fox. The white fox was lying comfortably in the woman's arms. Yang Yu looked at the mountain in the mural and could only shake his head. He didn't know where it was. He looked at the twelfth mural.
In the twelfth mural, the man was sitting on the main seat. A few masked men were escorting a wooden coffin to the front of the Shangguan family. White banners were hung around the man and his surroundings. It was obvious that there was a funeral for an elder who had died.
Seeing this, Yang Yu couldn't help but think of Shangguan Hong. However, the official records did not indicate Shangguan Hong's burial place. At the same time, why would someone travel thousands of miles to send Shangguan Hong, who was far away in Jiangdu, here?
The thirteenth mural depicted Shangguan Hong's funeral. The burial place happened to be in the mountain where Yang Yu was. However, the coffin in the tomb was obviously not the one in front of Yang Yu. This was because the wooden coffin in the mural was clearly too different from the stone coffin in this tomb.
Just as Yang Yu was puzzled, the fourteenth mural appeared. A man with a qilin tattoo charged into the Shangguan family. The man with the qilin tattoo stood in front of the man with a knife.
The long knife was placed on the neck of the man from the Shangguan family. Surrounding him were people who had fallen to the ground and could not get up. The man from the Shangguan family was half-kneeling on the ground with a copper box in his hand. When Yang Yu saw this, he understood that the qilin tattooed man was here for the copper box.
However, the murals did not mention anything about what was in the copper box. Yang Yu also saw the figure of the white green-eyed fox in the 14th picture of the man offering the copper box. Yang Yu could not help but become even more curious about the use of the green-eyed fox.
Yang Yu looked back, but the murals had been completely destroyed. At this moment, Yang Yu suddenly woke up. There was something wrong with the murals in the Shangguan family's tomb.
According to normal tomb murals, this should record the life of the tomb owner, the most glorious events in his life, and the most proud things. At the very least, they should praise the tomb owner.
When Shangguan Hong was alive, he was appointed as a doctor of the Ministry of Rites and the deputy supervisor of Jiangdu Palace. If this tomb really belonged to Shangguan Hong, there should be murals of Shangguan Hong's official experience and achievements. However, the murals in this tomb only showed Shangguan Hong as a doctor of the Ministry of Competition. The rest were all related to the copper box.
The murals here seemed to be deliberately telling others that the copper box had long been taken away by the person with the qilin tattoo. The white fox was naturally something that could attract attention, but it had also appeared in the tomb. It was as if he had abandoned the white fox.
At this moment, Yang Yu recalled the records in the official history. After the Dragon Revolution of the Great Tang's Wuzhou, Shangguan Wan 'er became Emperor Zhaorong of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, her grandfather Shangguan Hong, her father Shangguan Yi, her uncle Shangguan Chun, and Shangguan Jin were restored to their titles and buried. However, no one knew where they were buried.
Thinking of this, Yang Yu suddenly had a strange idea about the rise and fall of the Shangguan family. Shangguan Hong was still fine, he died in the mutiny in Jiangdu. He was killed by the rebels or Yuwen Chengdu.
Shangguan Yi and Shangguan Chun had offended Empress Wu just because they had been ordered to draft the imperial edict, resulting in their deaths. However, there were so many people who drafted the imperial edict in history, so why were only the two people from the Shangguan family killed because of hatred?
Or was offending Empress Wu the reason why the entire Shangguan family was framed? The real reason was that the person behind the scenes wanted the box but could not get it. He was so angry that he used it as an excuse to destroy the Shangguan family.
Even Shangguan Wan 'er had no choice but to move the grave, abandon the white fox, and create murals. This was to tell the people in the industry that the Shangguan family had nothing to do with the copper box and the white fox.
Yang Yu thought for a moment, but he couldn't get a clear answer. He turned around and looked at the special group of people on the mural. Seeing the man with the Qilin tattoo, Yang Yu naturally thought of the Qilin Clan of the Zhang Clan in the northeast and the man who walked out of the Heavenly Lake of Mount Kunlun.
Yang Yu thought for a moment and denied it. Although he didn't know when the other two bloodline inheritors walked out of the Heaven Lake of Mount Kunlun, they were definitely not more than a thousand years old. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been unable to see the two cocoons at the bottom of the water.
However, the qilin tattooed man on the mural clearly did not have such a strong historical accumulation and did not have the vicissitudes of time. It could only be the descendant of the Qilin bloodline, the inheritor. The person with the phoenix tattoo and eye tattoo made Yang Yu think of the Wang family and Mountain Moving Taoist.
It couldn't be helped. Yang Yu, who had seen the stolen pen, had a deep memory of these two tattoos. However, Yang Yu couldn't guess who the armored man was.
Looking at the mural again, Yang Yu thought of the white green-eyed fox. A normal fox usually had a maximum lifespan of 14 years, but the white fox had obviously lived from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to this Jiaqing period. There was a span of nearly a thousand years in between. It was obviously impossible for an ordinary white fox to have such a lifespan.
After thinking for a moment, Yang Yu raised his sword and walked towards the huge tiger. Logically speaking, the tiger bones, tiger penis, and tiger meat were all top-notch items. Unfortunately, Yang Yu did not have any storage equipment, so he could only choose a small number of items that were convenient to carry with him.
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