"Well, you should be Ba Guafu Qing, it has been more than 3,000 years since the Qin Dynasty..." I looked at the woman in front of me and frowned slightly.
This Guafu Qing seemed to be a little confused. She slapped her forehead vigorously and said, "Did I lose? Did I really lose?"
This Ba Guafu Qing actually kept saying that she lost, and she looked like a psychopath. I asked, "That Ba Guafu Qing..." I didn't know what to say next. Oh my god, who would have thought that robbing a tomb and doing archaeological research could reveal the owner of the tomb? What else can I say to her now? Talk about love? Pick her up? None of that is realistic.
"Call me Qin Qing." Guafu Ba Qing, no, it should be Qin Qing. She sighed, looked at the mercury above her head, and said blankly: "I didn't expect that I really lived for three thousand years." Then she stood up from the coffin. She was wet all over and only wearing a red robe. Under normal circumstances, she would look really attractive, but I don't have the mind to think about it now.
"What's your name?" Qin Qing glanced at me calmly. I thought about it and said, "Wu Jiu."
Qin Qing nodded and said, "Wu Jiu, do you want to live for thousands of years? Or even ten thousand years!"
"What do you mean?" I asked Qin Qing.
Qin Qing laughed and said, "I need your help, I think you can help me."
"Are you so sure that I will help you?" Seeing Qin Qing smiling confidently, I also frowned. I don't think that Qin Qing asked me for help because I was a genius or too handsome.
Qin Qing touched her forehead and looked at me and said, "I am a smart woman. Since you can come here to do archaeology, you should know about my previous business in Qin. I am not stupid. Although I don't know whether Qin still rules the world three thousand years later, I know nothing about the outside world. Naturally, I have to find someone to help me."
"Then what?" I looked at Qin Qing and started thinking. Why did she ask me for help
"Let me tell you a story first. After I finish, you will naturally know what I want you to help me with." Qin Qing smiled, walked out of the coffin, and sat directly on the ground. I watched her sit down, so I sat on the ground too.
Qin Qing began to speak, "This story begins when I was old. I can feel that my skin is very vibrant now, but at that time, I was already in my seventies. I did business in my early years, and I saw the business opportunity to refine cinnabar, which made me the richest man in the Qin Dynasty. Even the mercury and cinnabar in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum were provided by me." Qin Qing's face showed some pride when she said this, but in my eyes this is quite normal. After all, a woman in that era relied on her own abilities to struggle to become the richest man in Qin, just like Bill Gates in the past.
"There's not much to say about my business in the past. The real story begins when I was taken into the palace to live in my later years. At that time, I met a man in the palace named Peng Lan. You may not know this person because he is very mysterious. Even many people in the palace at that time did not know him."
"Peng Lan is a man who is proficient in the art of health preservation. The First Emperor told me that he was a descendant of Peng Zu. At that time, Peng Lan said that he was the most trusted sorcerer around the First Emperor and made elixirs for him."
"It must have failed in the end." I smiled and said, "If it had succeeded, Qin Shi Huang would not have died."
“No!” Qin Qing smiled and said, “At that time, he made an elixir, but he didn’t let the First Emperor eat it. He said that the elixir had great side effects, but the First Emperor didn’t believe it and insisted on eating it. Later, Princess Tuan, who had just been recruited into the palace, secretly ate it (the story of Yu Ji and Meng Yi, the elixir that turned Yu Ji into a zombie). In the end, the First Emperor was furious, but Peng Lan said that it was fortunate that the First Emperor didn’t eat the elixir, because that elixir turned people into a monster that was neither human nor ghost (there should have been no such thing as zombies at that time), and it was not a true way to immortality.”
"But I didn't believe in these things at the time. Although I produced cinnabar and even knew about the existence of ghosts and monsters in the world, and I had seen many evil things, I still didn't believe that a person could live for hundreds or even thousands of years. Peng Lan told me that he had researched two ways to achieve longevity."
"The first method is to achieve immortality. By mixing gold and jade powder into the elixir, a person can also have the immortality of gold and jade. However, this method prevents the soul from leaving the body. Although the soul is immortal for ten thousand years, it will lose its life in three or four hundred years at most."
"The second method is to occupy someone else's body and abandon the old body. However, this method also has great disadvantages. You have to use another body to revive once every 60 or 70 years, and it is also extremely risky."
"At the time, this was just Peng Lan's statement, and no one could prove it for him. I made a bet with him at the time!"
"What are you betting on?" I also became interested. Although the two methods Qin Qing mentioned didn't sound very reliable, it was still quite interesting to come up with these methods at that time.
"When I was in the palace, Peng Lan always wanted to invite me to go to a place called Eternity with him. He said that there would be eternal immortality there, and asked me to go with him. I felt that what he said was too mysterious, so I didn't agree. I made a bet with him that he would make me sleep for thousands of years and then wake up. At that time, I was already in my seventies and was about to die, so I made this bet with him in secret, and then I returned to my hometown and built this tomb here. Then he used a secret method to make me faint, and then I woke up and it was now."
Qin Qing looked at her hands and said, "It's really amazing. My hands were full of wrinkles before, but now they look the same as when I was twenty years old."
"So you want to go to that place called eternity?" I looked at Qin Qing and asked, "Are you so sure that I will help you?"
"No one can resist the temptation of immortality, and I am no exception. I just had doubts about Peng Lan before, but I didn't expect all this to be true, hahahaha." Qin Qing said and laughed.
"Actually, it's hard for others to say, but I should be the person who is least interested in that place called eternity." I smiled. From the very beginning when Qiuxiang asked me to go to that place called eternity, I had a feeling of resistance in my heart. Besides, didn't Qiuxiang ask me to go to this place called eternity with her on December 21, 2012