Bai Yi was a little excited when he heard this. He really gained something from the auspicious points in the bamboo forest: "Master, you really gained something in the bamboo forest at that time?"
"That's right, when we went down the Robber's Cave, we found a large tomb. There were many inscribed water vessels, toilet bowls, Lupans, etc. The most important thing is that some bronzes were engraved with inscriptions about Xu Guoxu.
King's inscription." He Baosheng was deeply impressed by that experience and remembered some details clearly.
"Xu Guo." Bai Yi murmured, "Master, you went to Yin Cao after you got down?" Bai Yi actually had no idea about Yin Cao, so he could only ask He Baosheng for all the clues about Yin Cao.
"No, things are far more complicated than you think." He Baosheng said: "After we went down, we found that the tomb below was two hundred square meters in size, with forty-nine coffins on several sides."
Forty-nine, this number has an extraordinary meaning in ancient China. The ancients practiced the cycle, and seven, seven, forty-nine constituted a cycle, or nine, nine, eighty-one, etc. In the customs of many areas in China, from the time a person dies to the time he is buried
Burial requires seven or forty-nine days of sacrifice, and the ever-burning lamp must be lit continuously for forty-nine days. There will be a big sacrifice ceremony every seven days. What kind of ancient tomb is this? There are so many coffins!
"Bai Yi, you may not imagine that when these coffins are opened, the same type of melon seeds remain in each coffin, and they are in an undigested state." He Baosheng's expression was a bit exaggerated.
Bai Yi said: "This means at least two things. First, these people died in the summer when the melons and fruits were ripe and ate the highly poisonous cantaloupe. Second, these people may have died at the same time, and they were
After falling asleep."
"That's right, Bai Yi, you are still as good at analysis as before." He Baosheng nodded appreciatively: "Guess what else is different in these forty-nine coffins?"
"Don't tell me that all forty-nine coffins are empty, Master." Bai Yi had completely returned to the state of chatting with Master back then.
"Oh, just opening these forty-nine coffins made Xiaogui and I very tired. The result is really annoying. These forty-nine coffins are filled with the corpses of women!" He Baosheng closed his eyes,
It seems that they are recalling the scene at that time: "Their posture is also very strange. They are lying on the right side, with their left leg on the right leg, and their right hand rests on their head, as if they are sleeping comfortably. Such movements are obviously not natural.
The state of death was deliberately placed during burial."
"Naked burial?" Bai Yi said: "Master, are these forty-nine coffins made of whole logs and divided into two halves from the middle?"
"How do you know?" He Baosheng was shocked.
"This is the custom of naked burial." Bai Yi said: "The deceased is buried naked without a blanket or coffin. It is called a naked burial. It is an ancient burial method of the Han people. Until the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of naked burial was still maintained.
After a person dies, they take off their clothes and wrap them in deerskin, or place them in a full-length log coffin in order to maintain the integrity of the soul."
"Not bad, Bai Yi, your knowledge and experience have increased a lot over the years." He Baosheng praised: "I am still no match for you, an old man."
"Where is it?" Bai Yi said: "Master, you are more amusing than before. By the way, Master, do you know the identities of the corpses in the tomb?"
"Well." He Baosheng said: "At that time, we inferred based on the inscriptions that these people were people from 2,500 years ago. At that time, the only people in Jiangxi were the Ganyue people and the Yangyue people. Xu Guo was in the Western Zhou Dynasty
As the largest country in the Dongyi Group, I think it is nothing more than one of these two types of people."
"That's right, but Master, when it comes to this, it's just a matter in the underground palace, that underworld." Bai Yi met He Baosheng's eyes, a little embarrassed: "Master, I know I am too impatient, but, you know
, Tang Sancheng and the others outside will run in soon, and it will be difficult for us to talk. Master, before these troublesome people come back, you can keep the story short."
"Okay, we went down to the underground palace where the naked body was buried, and we didn't find any particularly valuable artifacts. You also know that we followed Mr. Guan, and we didn't see any rare artifacts. At that time, the artifacts in the underground palace were not found.
The weapon could not penetrate our eyes at all, and for a while, Xiaogui and I were a little disappointed."
Just when He Baosheng was disappointed, he saw a light coming from the wall. He asked Xiaogui if he had seen it. Xiaogui looked at the wall doubtfully and shook his head: "No, senior brother, are you blind?"
Already?"
He Baosheng also thought that he was dazzled, because the light was not an open flame or a lighting device, but just like a fleeting hallucination. He began to walk around the tomb, trying to find other bright objects. Xiaogui
Then he packed up the discovered artifacts. Although they were not eye-catching, they were valuable after all. Don't go up empty-handed after coming down. He Baosheng saw a little light again, which was faintly coming from the stone wall of the tomb chamber.
The ground was like a will-o'-the-wisp that suddenly appeared, flickering at He Baosheng.
This time, He Baosheng didn't ask Xiaogui if he could see it. He walked towards the wall in a strange way. When Bai Yi heard this, he saw an unusual look on He Baosheng's face, knowing that the light was definitely not simple.
…
It was indeed not simple. When He Baosheng walked to the wall, the light disappeared again. This time, He Baosheng stopped going to other places and just stayed there waiting. He had a feeling that the light would still be there.
Next, just five seconds after He Baosheng thought this, the light flickered in the wall again. He Baosheng saw the right opportunity this time and stretched out a hand to touch the light...
He Baosheng suddenly stopped talking at this point, and Bai Yi was very anxious now: "Master, what happened next? If you want to sell it, you can't sell it here!"
"It's not that I don't want to talk about it, it's just that I can't use words to describe the scene and feelings at that time." The expression on He Baosheng's face was a little confused: "Apprentice, I thought about it countless times afterwards to find out what happened at that time.
But I only remember that there was light wrapping around my body, a very soft light, and then what happened next, I seemed to have lost my memory."
He Baosheng continued: "It's not that your master is being pretentious. There is really no way to describe what happened in that moment. I can only remember that feeling in my heart. What is that?"
"It can only be understood, not expressed in words." Bai Yi understood.