I fell off the sarcophagus and hit my wrist. I was so panicked that I couldn't care less about the pain, so I just wanted to get up and help.
Brother Yu was the only one left who couldn't hold down the sarcophagus. I saw a dark shadow quickly come out of the sarcophagus.
"Flashlight!" Brother Yu stepped back quickly and shouted at me.
I picked up the flashlight and shined it, and I caught this dark shadow.
His hair was long and messy, and he didn't know whether it was blood or oil smeared on his face. One of his eyes was completely blocked by the hair, and the exposed eye was red and bleeding. There was a large area of swelling around the eye socket. He needed some kind of ophthalmology surgery.
It looks like a disease and does not respond to the stimulation of hand flashlight.
I saw him.
One thing is certain, I have never seen this person before.
"Stop him!"
Brother Yu shouted, rushed over and punched him.
He seemed unable to see, but also seemed to be able to see, this man Kankan dodged a punch, directly hugged Brother Yu's waist, and pushed him against the wall!
This man has no skills, but he is very strong! He hugs his waist and pushes people away like a bulldozer!
Bang!
Brother Yu's back hit the brick wall of the main tomb!
In desperation, I picked up the clay pot on the ground and hit the man on the head!
Clay pots shattered.
I don't know if he was scared, but he suddenly let go of Brother Yu, turned around and ran away, running very fast, and in the blink of an eye he was out of the main tomb chamber.
"How about it, Brother Yu!"
Brother Yu gritted his teeth, held his lower back with one hand and gasped, "Mom... Damn, my waist is flashing."
"wait!"
I ran out of the main tomb and took a look. The man just now had disappeared.
At this time Brother Yu called me in and said don't chase me, I won't be able to catch up.
The identity of this person remains a mystery for the time being.
The tomb was very shabby and there were no valuable burial objects. Just when I was about to leave, Brother Yu accidentally discovered a stone tablet hidden in a hidden place in the corner.
The stone tablet is entirely embedded in the blue brick wall, and you can't even find it if you don't look carefully.
It's an epitaph.
During the Ming Dynasty, people with status were usually buried with an epitaph, which was similar to a living person's ID card. Tomb robbers generally did not want this thing.
In major domestic antique markets, epitaphs are basically not seen, because as soon as this thing is put on display, anyone who is not a fool will know that it was unearthed from a tomb. Epitaphs, like soul bottles and barns, will die in the light.
Two years ago, there was a bold businessman in Yuncheng who specialized in collecting epitaphs. Later, he was caught after working for more than half a year and was sentenced to seven and a half years.
Brother Yu helped me light it and asked me what was written on it.
The epitaph embedded in the brick wall has a total of two to three hundred words. Some parts are not very clear, but the general meaning is about the life and deeds of a military attache named Jin Along.
The epitaph says that he joined the army in the third year of Hongwu and lived until his death in the thirtieth year of Hongwu. In this year, Jin Along became the commander of the Northern Capital and became a third-rank official, similar to the current deputy minister of the Armed Logistics Department. He was mainly responsible for maintaining border military affairs.
Engineering and defense construction.
One year after Jin Along's death, that is, the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died, and Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson Emperor Jian began a short four-year reign. Four years later, the Jingnan Rebellion broke out in the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Yongle seized power.
Since then, the Ming Dynasty has gradually become more stable.
After reading the epitaph, I felt very strange.
Why do you say that.
Because this is Jin Along's own epitaph. In ancient times, epitaphs were only made after someone died.
But this isn't right...
On the archway outside the tomb, the stone bricks above the door are engraved with: "Jin Along's beloved daughter, the tomb of Jin Youzi."
Then where did this Jin Youzi go?
There is only one stone coffin in the main tomb, so it's not like the father and daughter died together and then lay in the same coffin, right?
This kind of situation exists, but it is an example. The couple buried in the same coffin were the noble couple of Wanyan family in Jin Dynasty. The actual situation was that the man died first, the woman drank poison, and then the woman took the initiative to lie down together.
In the coffin.
In addition, the tombs discovered in the past dynasties were all buried in separate coffins, not in the same coffin, not to mention that the relationship between Jin Along and Jin Youzi was father and daughter.
If the two of them were lying in the same coffin, it would be a violation of the social system and human ethics at that time, and they would be scolded.
Therefore, I directly ruled out the possibility of being buried in the same coffin.
So now there are only two possibilities left.
The first type is that the characters on the low arch are carved blindly without counting. This brick tomb in the early Ming Dynasty is the tomb of Jin Along, a third-rank official.
Second, there may be a tomb nearby, Jin Youmei's tomb.
If it is the second case.
Why was Jin Youzi’s name deliberately engraved on the low arch?
I can't figure this out yet, but I have a vague feeling that this place may hide some kind of secret, some kind of secret that no one knows.
"How's your waist, Brother Yu? Can you walk?" I supported him and slowly walked out.
Brother Yu took a deep breath: "The blow just now was too strong, I have to slow down, you let go first."
I let go of my hand and he tried to take a few steps. Although his expression was a little pained, it looked like he was fine.
I don’t know the name of the person lying in the coffin. I call him red eyes because of his eye problem.
He must have gotten in through the low arch, thanks to his eyesight problem, otherwise Brother Yu would have been discovered after he kicked the low arch to pieces. If that were the case, he would definitely not be in the mood to lie in the coffin and eat hawthorn candies.
I secretly guessed.
Could it be that the person with red eyes cannot see clearly? Or that he is simply blind and cannot see anything.
The red-eyed man disappeared, and there was nothing valuable in the tomb. We only took two things with us when we left.
In the coffin was a quilt from Yinchuan No. 3 School, and the short-handled Luoyang shovel broken in two.
Brother Yu ducked and couldn't walk fast. It took us an hour to chase him. When we went back, we walked for two and a half hours. It was already past midnight when we arrived at the camp. Bean Sprouts really didn't sleep this time. When we went back, he was digging a hole.
Digging.
"Fengzi, you are back, haven't you caught anyone?"
I shook my head and said no.
He then asked me where I picked up the quilt in my hand.
I didn't answer directly and asked him what he was digging the hole for.
"What else can you do?" Dou Sprout pointed behind him: "The old horse has already done that. Looking at it in the middle of the night would scare a person to death, so he should just bury it."
I didn't dare to look at Ma Deming's body, so I didn't stop him and went to see Liao Bo and Xiaomi.
Liao Xiaomi is really very timid, even timid than a little girl. When I looked at him, he was still in shock.
I threw the quilt over and said, "Uncle Liao Xiaomi, you can use it, it's too cold here at night."
Uncle Liao took the quilt and put it on Xiaomi's legs. Then he cast a grateful look at me and said thank you.
"You're welcome, that's right."
"Is it warmer?" I asked Liao Xiaomi.
I don't know if it was because of the heat or something else, but his face suddenly turned red. He buried his head in the quilt and didn't dare to look at me. His expression could even be said to be a bit shy.
Seeing him like this, I twitched the corner of my mouth.
