At five or six o'clock in the evening, when the sky is dark, most of the villagers in Dafeng Village are setting fires to cook.
On the wasteland behind the bamboo forest of the Laoye Temple on the mountain, there was a one-meter-wide hole for no reason. Brother Yu squatted on the ground and watched the surroundings vigilantly.
At this time, in the thief's cave, I was curled up with my face facing up, and I was using a needle to dig into the large blue brick coffin in front of me, making a loud sound.
In ancient times, Sima Guang chiseled walls to borrow light, and today I, Xiang Yunfeng, will chisel coffins to borrow money.
When the Sanhe soil touches the hot vinegar juice, it will gradually soften in about ten minutes. After digging for a while, I dug a hole about 20 centimeters wide outside the brick coffin.
The next second, suddenly a stream of turbid yellow water slowly flowed out along the entrance of the cave.
The amount of water was not large, so I didn't care because it was a normal scene.
The space was cramped, the oxygen was insufficient, and the strenuous exercise I had done before made me panting.
After adjusting my posture, I held up the flashlight and looked into the cave.
A touch of "red" appears in front of you! The color is still extremely bright! Inside the brick coffin is a red lacquer coffin from the Southern Song Dynasty!
I bit down on the flashlight, carefully inserted the abductor needle, and punched a hole in the red coffin inside.
Unexpectedly, as soon as it was opened, a stream of water flowed out!
I had no time to escape and was showered all over my face.
Just like a faucet turned on, water flows out!
It was light yellow water at first, and then turned into clear water. This is the water vapor that has condensed and penetrated into the coffin over hundreds of years. Although the water is clear, it has a special smell! It is sweet, sour, and fishy! It tastes like getting angry.
Sprite was added to his urine.
There was no place to hide! I simply used the water to wash away the dirt on my face and neck.
The water flowed for about twenty minutes and gradually subsided. I used a small hacksaw to start sawing horizontally along the hole I made.
Because the coffin was rotten, not much effort was wasted.
This job is called "opening side windows", and sawing the coffin from directly above is called "opening skylights." The outer coffin of Haihunhou's tomb was also opened in this way by people from the north.
Not long after, I opened a rectangular opening thirty centimeters long and twenty centimeters wide on one side of the coffin, and then I stretched my arm directly in to retrieve something.
At first, everything I touched was wet and soft, and it felt like touching tofu.
I roughly guessed what it was, so I took it out with all my strength.
This is the silk quilt that was used to cover the body on the bed.
The silk quilt is yellowish brown in color, and you can see the hand-rusted brocade pattern on it. I originally thought I could pull it off, but I didn't expect it to grow longer the longer I pulled it!
I was very surprised, because this kind of silk fabric from the past is an organic material, and it can still be tough when preserved. This is very rare, at least it is the first time I have seen it. The ones I encountered before were like crumbled tofu and could not be picked up at all.
I didn't throw it away, but rolled it up and put it in a bucket. I could sell it for a lot of money if I disposed of it.
But that’s not what I want. What I want more is gold! Agate! Seal! Bronze and stuff like that!
I touched it again.
They are still silk fabrics, clothes, various styles of ancient clothes, one after another! These silk fabrics are well preserved, including waistcoats, wide sleeves, quilted shirts, jackets, trousers, abdominal girth, and other items worn by people in the past.
There is a pair of cloth shoes.
This kind of shoe is very special. Its shape is similar to the current high-top Martin boots. There are two ropes hanging from the top. There is no sole. The whole shoe is made of linen and satin.
This kind of shoes is not practical. In the past, it was only worn by the dead when they were buried.
The reason why these silk fabrics can be preserved
It is so good, probably because there is water in the coffin and the Sanhe soil completely seals it from the air.
After digging around for a long time, I found all kinds of silk and satin clothes, but no human bones were found. I thought to myself, damn, could this be a tomb from the past?
Not willing to give in, I turned around and opened another hole at the end of the coffin. What I took out this time overturned my previous suspicion.
I found two dark black bones, which seemed to be human hand bones and leg bones.
"Master, please don't blame me. I'm asking for a fortune. I'm sorry to bother you."
I stuffed the bones back into the coffin and dug them out.
Maybe God sees me as pitiful, but Huang Tian paid off, and I finally touched two hard objects at the end of the coffin.
It was a ring-shaped sapphire pendant, and a turtle-button white jade seal. There were eyes on the turtle-button, and it was tied with a hemp rope, and the hemp rope was not broken.
I wiped it, held up the flashlight and looked down at the printed text,
This is a portable seal. It used to be hung around the waist and was equivalent to an ancient ID card. It had a personal name engraved in nine-fold seal script.
"Qin Guangxi."
I didn't remember this person, so I decided to go back and check the books to see who the tomb owner was. If the tomb owner was not a famous person, this kind of small portable jade seal from the Southern Song Dynasty would not sell for much, maybe less than 10,000 yuan.
Although this brick coffin tomb is well preserved, it is really shabby. Apart from a lot of silk clothes, only two decent burial objects were found.
After climbing up, it was completely dark, so I called Brother Yu, who was still out for air, and quickly filled the hole.
In order not to be noticed by others, we moved some rocks over after backfilling and placed them on top.
Under the cover of darkness, Brother Yu and I quietly left Dafeng Village carrying a bucket and a sack.
After driving to a safe place, Brother Yu asked, "Yunfeng, why is there so much light in the bag?"
Fluttering? What is it?"
"Forget Brother Yu, I'm exhausted. Damn it, it's all clothes."
"Clothes? What do you do with clothes? Can you sell them for money?" Brother Yu was a little surprised.
"Yes, Brother Yu! You don't know, they are all high-quality silk and satin. Let's wash them when we go back and see if they can be processed. If they are processed well, I think one piece can be sold for at least tens of thousands of yuan. Keep this thing
Very few come down, but as long as it is complete, there will be no shortage of people."
After saying that, I opened the bag and took a look.
As a result, I discovered that the silk quilt on which I could still see the pattern just now was now so dark that I couldn’t see the pattern clearly!
Knowing that it was oxidized, I urged Brother Yu to drive faster.
We no longer live in the original hotel. We have rented a small three-bedroom courtyard in the north of the city with a secluded exterior. There is running water in the courtyard, the place is large, and our life is quite convenient.
I went back around nine o'clock in the evening and reported the afternoon's situation to the boss.
After taking a closer look at the blackened and rotten clothes I brought back, I said, "It's oxidized and it's not easy to deal with. Even if it can be cleaned, it won't take long before mold spots will form and the clothes will rot away."
He thought for a moment and then ordered each of us: "Wen Bin, drive to the drugstore quickly and buy five bottles of medical alcohol. You are also buying some cotton balls. Xiaoxuan, take a basin and soak them all, and then take them."
Turn on the water pipe and rinse it slowly with clean water."
"Dou Yazi, go outside and find some plastic sheets. Then go to the supermarket and buy a bucket of soybean oil, a few rolls of plastic wrap, and a hair dryer."
Dou Sprout immediately said, "Head! I see there are a lot of wooden boards in the backyard! Can't we use wooden boards?"
He immediately shook his head and said, "Woodboards are not good. They are not easy to separate after drying in the shade. Go quickly. If they are not taken care of by daybreak, these silk fabrics will rot into a pile of mud."