Chapter 227 Opening the coffin in the middle of the night
Putting my hands together, I said to the rotten coffin in front of me: "Is the master in there? I want to ask for some money and flowers. No wonder, I will burn more paper for the master in the future."
"Brother Yu, please press it, but I can't open it. The coffin board is deformed."
"Okay, I'll do it."
As he spoke, Brother Yu took the crowbar and rolled up his sleeves.
In the old coffins in the past, once the coffin board deformed, it could not be pushed open. In the movies, the tomb robbers who directly pushed open the coffins were all fake. In the early years, they mainly used crowbars, but now they use electric saws, so many tomb robbery scenes are now discovered.
, there is a square cutout on the coffin.
The bean sprout man was lying on the female coffin with a happy and contented expression, and he didn't show any nervousness at all, and he kept urging us to work faster.
It was late at night, and a bright flashlight was swinging around in the main tomb chamber, which was more than 30 square meters.
When Brother Yu pried the coffin open, he made a squeaking sound, a bit like a mouse.
After prying it open, I immediately held up my flashlight and looked into the coffin.
The first thing that comes into view is a pile of human bones. The mud has dried into a black solid, and several ring-shaped jade objects on the surface are buried in the black mud.
I looked at it and frowned and said, "Look, this man was not old when he died. He was very young, no more than thirty years old.
"What's this?"
"Yuhuang or Yuhuan?"
I used a stick to gently push the skull of the tomb owner aside and picked out a round object from the mud.
I thought it was jade, but it turned out to be cold to the touch, with a metallic texture and a whitish color.
After wiping it with my sleeve, I saw clearly that the front of this thing was a bulging relief pattern. I couldn't tell what the pattern was. It looked like a dragon and a snake. The back was sunken inward. The overall size was about five centimeters and it was very heavy.
Press hands.
What's even more strange is that on the reverse side, there is a circle of English letters, with a box in the middle, and the word "小" written in the box.
It's said to be the buttons on the tomb owner's clothes. They are too big. How could someone wear such buttons on his clothes? What a big button? Also, this thing is from the Han Dynasty, why is there English on the back?
"Look at this strange head. What is this? It's not jade, it seems to be silver."
"Let me see."
After holding it in my hand and looking at it carefully for a minute, a smile suddenly appeared on my head and face.
"Yunfeng, this should be a Shaofu coin from the Han Dynasty. Very few of them are willing to be buried with it, so it is rare."
I was puzzled and asked: "What is a Shaofu coin? A coin? Why are there English letters on the back of this thing?"
The boss explained: "This is not English, it is a mark of anti-counterfeiting nature. Shaofu coin is what people in the industry call it. Among the people, this thing is also called Silver Dragon coin."
"Silver Dragon Coin?"
An idea flashed in my mind.
"Botou, is this the third grade platinum??"
Nod your head.
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Then the owner of this tomb must be a rich man! Maybe he is the son of a high-ranking official in the Han Dynasty!
Platinum Sanpin is a kind of Han Dynasty silver coin, which is not popular among the people. I guess the material is silver-tin alloy, and there are three types: dragon coin, Malaysian coin and turtle coin.
Dragon coins are round, like big buttons.
The Malaysian Ringgit is square with a horse on the front, while the Turtle Coin is oval like a turtle shell.
At that time, a platinum dragon coin weighed eight taels and could be used as three thousand five-baht coins. The ringgit weighed six taels and could be used as five hundred five-baht coins. The turtle coin was the cheapest and could be exchanged for two hundred five-baht coins.
money.
This thing is not pure silver, and the value is high, so there were many counterfeit coins in those days. It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty killed more than 100,000 people who stole coins and kept trying. This led to the people later not recognizing this kind of money.
, so the casting period ended in a very short time.
I put this thing in my trouser pocket, washed it, and studied it carefully.
At this time, the head said: "Look quickly, there is a high probability of dragon coins, turtle coins and ringgit coins. If the three platinum grades are put together as a set, the price can triple."
I nodded and was about to continue rummaging through the coffin for ringgit and turtle coins. At this moment, Brother Yu suddenly held me down.
We looked up at the same time.
"Zi la la. Zhi la la!"
Suddenly there was a loud noise above, as if the bed was being moved.
Immediately afterwards, some gravel and loose soil continued to fall from the top of the tomb, and they all fell on our heads.
Douyazai said blankly: "Look! The stones on the vault are all cracked! This won't suddenly collapse!"
After five minutes, the sound of moving the bed disappeared and the vault stopped falling. I breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, we dug out a lot of good things from the man's coffin, found other ringgit coins and turtle coins, and put together a complete set of three-grade platinum coins from the Han Dynasty.
In addition, we also found a jade ring, a sapphire pendant, a gilt belt plate, and a turtle-twist white jade identity seal engraved with the name of the tomb owner. There were two seal script characters written on it. After careful identification, it should be "Zhang Wu".
Therefore, the name of this tomb owner is Zhang Wu.
The identity seal is not big, just about the size of the thumbnail of our adult thumb. The seal is thick, jade-like, warm and moist, and it is small and exquisite.
Almost all jade identity seals from the Han Dynasty are this big. If you see a big identity seal, it is 100% fake.
In addition to these, there are two small stone figures, placed on the left and right hands of the tomb owner.
The face of this small stone sculpture was covered in mud. If you wipe it off, you can see that it depicts a woman.
This one is placed on the left hand side of the tomb owner. A stone figurine, holding an unknown object in both hands, putting it to his mouth as if to blow.
The one on the right side of the tomb owner is holding a guqin in his hand. The figurine is wearing loose clothes and trousers with trumpet-shaped trouser legs. This design conforms to mechanics and is very stable when placed on the ground and will not fall easily.
Brother Yu shook his head and said: "This young master from the Han Dynasty knew how to enjoy himself. When he died, he not only had to have his wife by his side, but he also had two maids placed in the coffin to serve him."
Brother Yu is right, these two little stone carvings are the "figurines of skilled women who play taro and play the piano" from the Han Dynasty. These skilled women are not what modern people call chicken girls. In ancient times, they were real performers who did not sell their bodies.
I turned my head and looked at the female coffin, feeling a little more excited.
It is not difficult to see that the owner of this Han tomb was a man who lived a prosperous life and loved music very much. Then would his wife's coffin be buried with musical instruments from the Han Dynasty? For example, there were things like chimes.
This type of ancient musical instrument is extremely valuable. In many cases, a small item sells for more than a bronze tripod! Ordinary people don't know that many domestic celebrities love to collect such things and are willing to pay a lot of money to buy them on the black market.
I emptied out the men's coffin and put the coffin lid hastily back to its original place. I asked Dou Sprout to go up to let the wind blow, and Xiaoxuan came down to "sit on the men's coffin".
Xiaoxuan refused to do it after she came down because she thought the coffin was dirty.
I begged: "Sister-in-law, just go up and sit down! You are the only woman here! We dare not break the old rules in the industry! Breaking the rules can easily cause trouble!"
After much persuasion, Xiaoxuan sat on the coffin with an unhappy expression.
Seeing this, I looked at the female coffin in front of me, rubbed my hands and said half-jokingly: "Ya Zai, watch carefully! I'm going to take advantage of your wife!"
Dou Sprout didn't reply. I looked back and realized that Dou Sprout had gone up to let him go.