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Chapter 73 Funeral Goods

"Hurry up and throw it away, beggar, are you carrying that thing to prepare for the New Year?" Liu Yushan glanced at the head.

"Yes, it's not a good thing," Mr. Liu threw it aside.

Researcher An lost his head and his body would not move. Although it was a beheading, what is confusing is that Researcher An did not shed much blood on his neck. When he looked closer, he found that there were signs of tangling in his wound.

After looking at the small glass bottle, she obviously didn't believe it. She didn't believe that this medicine could make the corpse come alive.

Mr. Zhao from Xiangxi was still heartbroken at the rope. He couldn't help but sigh: "The old Zhao family has been eating food for generations. Unexpectedly, one day, the corpse-bound rope passed down by his ancestors was destroyed in my hands. I am unfilial, unfilial."

Seeing him sighing uncontrollably, I couldn't help but say, "Master Zhao, it's not that I don't believe you. What kind of rope do you say you are? The corpse-bound rope is broken as soon as you pull it, and it's not strong at all! I can't tie anything up."

"Oh, you don't understand, don't understand." Mr. Zhao silently picked up the broken rope and stuffed it back into his bag.

"After that being said, Miss Yao, you were not injured just now, were you?"

"I'm fine, nothing serious."

"That's good, you have a rest," he said in a deep voice at the guy, "It's time to get to this point, and you're about to get off the ground. You can't just give up halfway, Yunfeng, continue digging."

Without saying anything, I picked up the whirlwind shovel and continued to dig. I only dared to look at the ground beneath my feet, not to look at Researcher An who was separated from his body and head.



At this time, Liu Yushan spoke, "Are you tired? Why don't I ask my friends to come and help?" I knew that the friends he was talking about must be those monts.

"No need for Brother Liu," I shook the whirlwind shovel in my hand. "Your friends probably aren't as tall as the shovel, so how can you dig the soil? We have the kindness of being aware of it. The job of thieving holes is our strength, just look at it."

Liu Yushan nodded and stopped interrupting, but Zhao, who was driving the corpse, seemed to have spoken a lot. He kept asking me how the medicine in the glass bottle was made, where it came from, what ingredients were included in the medicine, etc.

The only one who knows the ingredients and the production method is Researcher An and the others. Now that all three of them are dead, how can I go there?

I was a little impatient when asked, so I lied to him and told him that it was actually corpse oil, which was refined from dead people. Don’t ask me the specific method. I don’t know. If you want to ask, Mr. Zhao, go ask Liu Jiansheng and Xiaolangtou, they must know.

"Oh, that's it," the old man thought for a while, not saying anything.

The thief hole was getting deeper and deeper, and my head and I jumped in and dug, and shovels of soil were constantly thrown up.

"clang."

Suddenly, the whirlwind shovel on the head was shoveled to some kind of metal object. Now, no one else spoke, the surroundings were quiet. The sound was very harsh.

"Shipmented? What?" Sister Yu ran over and asked.

He pulled the head and pulled the soil, and he brought up a rusty bronze from the pit. This bronze ware has a strange shape. Logically speaking, I have seen many bronze ware before, but this is the first time I have seen such a shape, and I don’t know what it is.

This is a flat and round bronze ware with a cover, and the cover is sealed, and you can vaguely see some animal pattern engraved.

Just looking at the type of device, this thing is very similar to the hand warmer that people use today to plug in. The storage condition is not very good, and I feel that when a person touches this thing, he will be divided.

After carefully studying the pattern outline on the guer, he said in surprise: "Is this painting a pattern of tomb-guarding animals? If you look carefully, is this pattern a bit like a clam sculpture unearthed from Puyang, Henan decades ago?"

Yao Yumen nodded after seeing it, "Don't say anything, it's really similar. If I remember correctly, the site in Puyang was from the late Neolithic period, right? It's much earlier than the Western Zhou Dynasty."

I couldn't understand what they meant, so I asked Sister Yu what this clam sculpture was.

Sister Yu told me that this thing has a monkey-tailed pig head. No one knew it when it was dug out. Later, some scholars discovered that the prototype of this thing is very similar to an animal called clam sculpture in the ancient Shanhaijing. So with this word, people in the industry think that the one in Puyang is an orphan, but they didn't expect that there was a bronze ware with the same pattern here.

"Oh, that's so precious, but it's a pity that it's all black dry rust and rotten." I sighed and expressed regret for this precious bronze ware.

Black dry rust is the saying in tomb robbers. This kind of rust is the least popular among the people in the industry because almost all of this rust-colored bronze ware comes from dirty pits, and the things in dirty pits have the lowest price and are of poor quality.

By the way, people in the industry divided the rust color of bronze ware from the Shang and Zhou dynasties into four types. Jades include viewing skin and understanding jade, and bronze ware also has the sayings of viewing rust and pricing.

These types of rust are dry blue rust, also known as flat rust, which is the kind of rust that is full of green. It is common in the northern region of Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia. The second type of rust is mercury rust, which specifically refers to things caught in the water. This rust is a white layer and is toxic. Bronze ware with mercury rust must be processed before it can be played with, otherwise it will be poisoned.

There is red and blue anti-lead rust, which sells the highest prices in this kind of rust. Boss Sun once told me that if you encounter large red and blue anti-lead rust, don’t use the method of cleaning to wash it. If you wash it, the price will be greatly reduced.

The last one is the black dry rust on the bronze ware in front of you. The black dry rust grew on the bronze ware, which means there were dirty pits underneath. The dirty pits refer to dirty places such as manure piles, thatched pits, pigpens and sheep pens.

He held up his head and smelled the bronze ware, frowned and said, "It's true, it smells of shit and urine." The real tomb robber has a very good nose, and he is an old man on his head. We naturally wouldn't doubt his words.

I continued to dig down, but I dug out two bronze ware with black dry rust one after another. The two pieces dug out were also strange in shape, each one was different. A swimming man was carved on the cover, and the man was covered with fish scales and was churning in the water.

The last one is even more strange, and it is a monster with eight legs and tiger heads. There is a four-legged snake wrapped around the tiger head.

"Are these other two pieces the ancient totem gods worshipped by the ancient Yue Kingdom?" Sister Hong said in surprise after seeing it.

"Xiaohong, what do you know?" asked.

Sister Hong nodded and confirmed: "That's right, these are those two things. I was interested in ancient biology legends before. I have seen the old version of Shanhai Jing more than once. This, the little man who swims in the water with fish scales is called Zuo Yu, the thing with eight-legged tiger head is called Zuo Qi, and the first one dug out is indeed called clamshu."

"These patterns were once worshipped by the totem culture of the ancient Yue people. Keep digging down, Yunfeng, I suspect that I can dig out something else."

Sister Hong held her chin and thought, "Yunfeng, do you still remember the pattern on the golden coffin and silver coffin?"

I said of course I remember that there were soldiers engraved on the golden coffin and silver coffins, and the soldiers also had four-legged snakes on their heads.

"That's right," Sister Hong nodded and said, "There are four-legged snakes on the head of the soldiers of the Gu Yue Kingdom, and their prototype should be this foot."

She looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "The clues are connected. This mustard is not only a great nobleman from the Western Zhou Dynasty, but also a descendant of a certain branch of the ancient Yue people in the ancient Yue Kingdom. Otherwise, the mustard cannot bring these totem elements into the tomb."

"Totem and the ancestor god, these patterns are not only patterns, but also text thousands of years ago. This is a kind of graphic text of the ancient Yue people. Now no one can crack it, and no one knows the meaning of these animal patterns. However, an old professor who passed away published a note before his death, which he believed in the notes."
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