We walked over and saw that it was a ball of black cloth, and the outline under the black cloth looked like a person.
Alxa has a year-long drought and little rain, and the sand is highly absorbent. The fabric was so dry in the sealed space that it was almost weathered. I stretched out my hand and pulled it forward. The fabric was as brittle as tofu and broke when I touched it.
Suddenly seeing what was covered, Xiaoxuan exclaimed and covered her mouth.
It turned out to be a mummy.
What’s even more weird is that this is a mummy with a big belly.
I have seen many white bones, but this is the first time I have seen such a corpse.
The skin on the surface of the corpse was shriveled and collapsed, the facial features were shrunken, and there were a few sparse hairs on the top of the head. Judging from the length of the hair, the mummy should have been a woman during life.
After calming down and observing carefully, he pointed his head at the mummy and said, "Look at the belly of the corpse."
I nodded and said, "I also noticed the head. The belly of the mummy was not collapsed but was very swollen. Maybe she was pregnant before her death?"
"No way," Dou Sprout said, "Even if she was pregnant, she wouldn't be this big. The embryo would have dried and shrunk long ago. I think there's something weird in this mummy's belly."
In fact, what Bean Sprout said makes sense. If the embryo is several months old, it will definitely dry out once it is dehydrated. The dry body will shrink and will not bulge outward like the belly of the corpse in front of you.
Baotou and Qin Xingping looked at each other and said, "I don't know much about Xixia funeral customs. Most people in Xixia are Dangxiang people, and Dangxiang people are descendants of the ancient Qiang people. There are not many people in China who study the ancient Qiang people. Yunfeng."
"I know the clue."
Taking a deep breath, I took out my dagger and stepped forward.
Xiaoxuan and Douyazai looked at me nervously. Anyone who wasn't stupid knew what I was going to do next.
I silently muttered, "I'm sorry, madam," and then started to cut.
The knife was very sharp, and it felt a bit like cutting bacon. The body was so shrunken that the skin and flesh were no longer separated. I cut it down little by little.
"Ouch!" Xiaoxuan couldn't help but turned her back and didn't dare to look.
"What is so hard?" I felt the knife in my hand hit something as hard as an iron block.
Holding back my nausea, I reached in and took it out. Soon, I felt a hard touch, and I touched a triangular hard object.
When this thing was taken out, everyone present was surprised.
The thing in the belly of the mummy is a black iron tower twenty or thirty centimeters high. What I touched just now is the top of the tower, which happens to be triangular in shape.
Dou Sprout raised his eyes and said, "Hey, dear, why do people have the pagoda of the King of Pagodas hidden in their stomachs?"
We started researching this thing.
The 30-centimeter-high iron tower is divided into six sections. Each section of the tower has doors and windows. On both sides of the door are engraved small Xixia characters that are more complicated than seal script strokes. There are four cornices on both sides of the top of the tower.
There are two copper bells the size of fingernails hanging on it. There should have been four hanging on them, but I don’t know where the two have gone.
A nine-petal lotus is carved around the base of the pagoda, and a circle of small Buddha statues is carved in three-dimensional relief. Some of these small protruding Buddha statues have backlights, and some do not.
This is a pagoda.
I could clearly hear my heartbeat, pounding.
Intuition tells me that this thing is not simple.
In ancient times, there were indeed people who specialized in making iron pagodas, but there were only a few varieties. For example, the pure gold gratitude pagoda made by Qianlong for his biological mother, and the Wenchang pagoda, a soul pagoda placed under the coffin of the dead (made of porcelain clay, similar to a soul bottle).
Here is the pagoda. Among the pagodas, there is a kind of pagoda that is even rarer and more precious. Some people call this type of pagoda uniformly:
