The tomb was dark, and there were two bronze figures standing next to the huge white coffin. This scene was so strange that anyone who saw it felt uncomfortable.
At this time, the boss was surprised and said: "The owner of this tomb really doesn't follow common sense. He doesn't want to wait in the main tomb. He has to hide himself in this corner. What is he doing? The key is that there are no burial objects, that's all.
The two bronze figures, at first glance I thought they were terracotta warriors and horses." He shined a flashlight on the bronze figures.
"It's possible that this corner is some kind of geomantic treasure. It's a coffin made of clams, tsk tsk," the third brother said in a deep voice, "The owner of this tomb is too rich. It's up to me. I'll open it for him."
After speaking, he took out a folded small steel shovel from his bag. The shovel was not large in size and was similar to an engineer shovel. It could not only dig soil, but also pry coffin boards.
The eldest brother used a flashlight to help with lighting, while the third brother walked around the coffin with a shovel. I knew he was looking for a patio.
When tombs were made in ancient times, both commoners and nobles would deliberately leave a small opening in the tomb. The same was true for the coffin. The opening was very small, and its meaning was to allow the soul of the person in the coffin to ascend to heaven. This small opening is called
Patio.
Later, during the Tang and Song dynasties, the patio was renamed Mujing, and finally during the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was renamed Huokou. In fact, it was a matter of changing the soup without changing the medicine.
I don’t know why, but the temperature in the secret room where the tomb owner’s coffin is placed is very low, very cold, almost below freezing.
"Found it!" The third brother's eyes lit up, and he stopped at the northwest corner of the coffin. There was a small rectangular hole in the coffin. The third brother said that this hole was the so-called patio.
The principle of the coffin is actually very easy to understand. It is what people often call matryoshka dolls. Large ones are nested inside small ones, layer by layer. If you want to pry them apart, you can only do it one layer at a time.
There are also rules for the number of layers in the coffin.
The emperor's four-layered coffin, the princes' three-layered coffin, the scholar-bureaucrat's one-layered coffin, and the lower classes were only allowed to use coffins after their death. They were not allowed to use coffins. The mortise and tenon structure was used between the coffins and the coffins, with a single nail.
nor.
After thousands of years, the mortise and tenon structure has become very fragile. I used a shovel to pry it hard. Sure enough, the outermost layer The coffin was somewhat loose.
As long as the seam is opened, the next step is simple, just peel off the skin.
The boss also went up to help. The two were veterans for many years and worked together tacitly. In less than half an hour, the first layer of the coffin was opened.
It doesn't matter if you look down, everyone is surprised.
Under this layer of white clam coffin, there is actually a layer of black metal coffin.
Sister Hong exclaimed after looking at it: "It's oxidized, it's silver!"
Silver coffin!
Were there any silverware in the Western Zhou Dynasty?
Yes! But the quantity is very small!
In the 1970s, the Shanxi archaeological team unearthed a silver coffin with the inscription "Mrs. Yueling" on it. This silver coffin is a national treasure and is permanently prohibited from being exhibited abroad.
But what we see in front of us is a silver coffin board several meters long and wide!
If you look closely, you can see that there are some patterns engraved on the silver coffin board that has been oxidized to black.
The third brother said excitedly: "It's an eye-opener, it's an eye-opener! This is really an eye-opener. The two layers of coffin boards alone are so powerful, so what else is there in the innermost coffin?"
Despite the weakness of the patio, it still took a lot of effort to open this silver coffin.
"It's about to fall! Be careful not to hit your feet, this thing is not light!"
"Wait a minute, third brother!"
"Look! There's water ahead!"
I saw a lot of black viscous liquid flowing out from the gaps in the silver coffin plates, and more and more liquid flowed out, and a fishy smell hit my face!
"Back off!" The Sun brothers stepped back.
The black water in the silver coffin plates continued to flow more and more, flowing all over the ground.
red
The sister covered her nose and said, "Is this black water the embalming fluid flowing out of the coffin?"
The eldest brother nodded and said: "It looks like it. Let's take a look after the drainage is clear. Judging from the previous situation, there is at least one layer of coffin inside."
"Huh? Something's not right, brother," I discovered something strange at this time.
"What's wrong Yunfeng?"
I pointed to the two bronze statues that looked like terracotta warriors and horses and said, "Is there a hole under these two bronze statues? Look at it, why all the coffin fluid has seeped down, along the feet of the bronze statues."
The elder brother frowned when he saw it.
As we got closer, we looked carefully with a flashlight and discovered something fishy.
It turns out that there are many small eyes around the foot of the bronze statue. The antiseptic coffin fluid flowing out of the silver coffin plate leaked down through these small holes at the foot of the bronze statue.
The boss raised his head and looked around the owner's tomb, and then he said: "Maybe this was deliberately designed by the previous owner of the tomb to prevent it from being damaged by rainwater."
"Okay, don't worry about this for now. I think the fluid in the coffin has almost drained out. Let's go up to the third brother and pry open the last layer of coffin boards for him!"
"Be careful," Sister Hong frowned and looked around. "My heart is pounding and I don't feel good."
"Hey, it's nothing, Xiaohong. You're freezing because it's too cold here."
The Sun brothers shoveled forward and backward, and soon they were able to pry open the coffin panels.
As the silver coffin plates fell off, in an instant.
A golden streak flashed before my eyes.
The innermost coffin board is made of pure gold.
It turned out to be a gold coffin and a silver coffin!
The flashlight was shining in front, and the golden reflection dazzled people's eyes.
Gold does not oxidize like silver It has been transformed for thousands of years and is still as bright as new. This layer of golden coffin is engraved with a large number of patterns, and the patterns are all lifelike.
The patterns on the gold plate include feathered figures and flying men. One of the patterns is the strangest.
This is a row of soldiers wearing armor. The strange thing is that they all have snake-like animals coiled on their heads.
No, if you look carefully with a flashlight, you can't call this a snake, we can only say it looks like it, because the carvings clearly show that these snakes have legs.
Looking at this pattern, Sister Hong looked solemn and lowered her head in thought.
Suddenly, she raised her head sharply and said in shock: "Boss and Lao San! An army with four-legged snakes on their heads! Isn't this the legend of the ancient Yue Kingdom!"
Golden light flashed across people's eyes, and the boss touched the golden coffin board and said solemnly: "That's just a legend, it can't be taken seriously. I didn't expect that the owner of this tomb is a believer of the ancient Yue black witch."
I didn't understand what it meant, so I asked.
At this time, Sister Hong explained: "There used to be a small country in the Southern Barbarians called Guyue. This Guyue was not the Yue country that later came to be known as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, but it was much earlier than that. Guyue in the Southern Barbarians was the originator of the Chu witch culture and was also the leader of Miao border poison. In the place of origin, it is said that there was a four-legged snake witch army in ancient Yue, which was invincible in attacking cities and conquering the ground. It is even said that as long as the four-legged snakes coiled on the soldiers' heads do not die, then these soldiers will not die, even if they are hit by arrows. Even if you get hit by a knife, you can still jump around and kill the enemy."
"No way. Sister Hong, this sounds unreliable," I didn't believe it.
Sister Hong nodded, "Don't say you don't believe it, I don't believe it either, but" she pointed at the four-legged snake patterns and said, "These four-legged snakes do exist, and there are quite a lot of them. Now their scientific name is Chinese skink, Hakka People and some places also call it Longpaizi. When I was a child, I killed one and fed it to my cat."
The third brother also nodded and agreed: "Xiaohong is right, there is nothing scary about this thing. In our place, it is called a bitch."
"All the children in the village were caught and thrown around for fun."