Suddenly he said: "In Handan, in Yongnian Smart Mountain, under a persimmon tree halfway up the mountain."
As he spoke, he raised his head and walked towards the mud coffin with a flashlight.
I quickly followed him.
The surface of the mud coffin is not ordinary yellow mud. Other mixtures may have been added, making the overall color yellow and white.
Although it is cracked like this, it is still basically intact, and it just sits there quietly for two thousand years.
Suddenly I had a feeling in my heart, the mystery of Gui Zai Ridge in Dao County, the tens of thousands of Gui Zai stone sculptures that have survived to this day, are they guarding this clay coffin?
The clay coffin is very large, and there are two pottery figurines lying upside down on the ground. Judging from their clothes and demeanor, they belong to a man and a woman, but they are very small.
There is a layer of white left on the face of the male pottery figurine, and the lips must have been painted with red paint before. It must be that the color of the red paint on the pottery figurine's lips has become much lighter due to the age.
I picked up the fallen clay figurine and looked at it. It was probably from the late Warring States Period.
I have seen a lot of this kind of pottery figurines, and I have come up with a trick when looking at these types of funerary figurines. The earlier the pottery figurines are, the shorter they are, the wider the sleeves of their clothes are, and the feet are wearing shoes.
The later the pottery figurines are, the more slender they are.
(Except for the Tang Dynasty, the pottery figurines with fat faces are basically from the Tang Dynasty).
By the Song Dynasty, the height of these burial figurines was higher than an adult's knees, while the height of these two clay coffins was only about 20 centimeters, indicating that they were much earlier than the Song Dynasty.
I didn't use much force, so I picked it up and moved it. The head of the clay figurine fell off and fell to the ground with a bang.
Throwing it aside casually, I frowned and asked, "Botou, you just said, have you seen this kind of mud coffin before?"
He knitted his head and brows.
He didn't say anything, but asked Xiaoxuan to bring her knife.
I deliberately selected a spot with serious cracks, took Xiaoxuan's knife with my head and started scraping it hard.
Layers of dried yellow mud fell down.
A small hole was quickly revealed under the cracked soil.
Putting down the knife, he raised his flashlight and looked into the small hole.
"That's right, that's it...Yunfeng, take a look." After saying this, he moved his head and moved away.
I looked in through the small hole.
Here...it seems to be red wood.
Wooden coffin from the Warring States Period?
I was shocked when I saw this red color. The humidity under the cave is so high that the wooden coffin has not rotted after thousands of years. This is very abnormal. The only reasonable explanation is that the seal of the seven anti-theft diamond doors, plus this layer of yellow mud
, isolate the air to the greatest extent, so that it can stay.
At this time, Ah Chun raised his head and said, "Wang Boss, the coffin is in the hole in the wall. How do we get up there?"
He said, "Look at this first, and I'll look at that later."
At the signal from the boss, Dou Sprout and I started smashing the mud with shovels.
Even though it is so dry and cracked, some places are still very strong. It took a lot of effort to completely break down the yellow mud.
The clods of earth fell down piece by piece, and the wooden coffin hidden inside was exposed in an increasingly larger area.
After stopping, use a flashlight to take a look.
This is a bright red, solid wood coffin that is very thick overall. The surface of the red coffin is painted with light gold. At a glance, the appearance is somewhat similar to the coffin unearthed from the Mawangdui Tomb. It has a bit of Chu lacquerware from the Warring States Period.
style of.
But when you take a closer look, it's completely different.
The surface of the red coffin in Mawangdui depicts a fairy flying into the sky. Because the tomb owner Xin Zhui is a woman, it means that the flying fairy leads the soul of the female tomb owner to heaven.
But this red coffin...
It depicts some scenes of killing, fighting, execution and hanging.
Especially the one about hanging people. I saw two slave-like villains with their hands tied and hung high. There was also a villain underneath holding a spear and stabbing people into the body. The style was mysterious and weird.
Now the tomb is very dark and extremely quiet, with only a few of us flashlights swinging around.
Because the yellow mud has a strong seal against the air, the coffin lid is still intact. Bean Sprouts circled around twice, picked up the shovel and prepared to pry it open. After trying it, he suddenly said: "Oh, that's not right, this seems to be...
Dead, in one piece."
I said it was nonsense. How could the coffin lid be integrated with the coffin? How would the dead person get in like that?
I tried it in disbelief, and was immediately surprised: "This... is really true. The lid of this coffin is integrated with the coffin. How did you make this?"
"Don't make any noise yet, listen carefully..."
Brother Yu suddenly put his ear close to the coffin and said, "There seems to be a sound inside this coffin."
I followed Brother Yu's example and listened closely with my ears.
As a result, I heard the sound of "crack...crack" inside the red coffin. Some sounded like the sound of dripping water, and some sounded like the sound of a person breaking chopsticks with his hands.
I asked Boutou to listen to it, but as soon as Boutou heard it, there was no such sound, which was very strange.
"Fuck!"
"Scared me!"
"When did you come from behind me!" Douyazai turned around and yelled at Xiaoxuan for scaring him.
Brother Yu and I looked at each other. Did I hear wrongly?
At this time, he suddenly ordered: "Yunfeng, Yazai, and Bin, all three of you, come and try to lift this head and see if you can lift it."
We nodded and said yes.
The three of us worked hard together, and Brother Yu even leaned half of his body forward. He was so heavy that he couldn't even move, let alone lift him up! This was a coffin, not a coffin. Even if there were a lot of funerary objects inside, it wouldn't be able to move.
It's so heavy and weighs so much that I guess even a small crane might not be able to lift it!
I wanted to see what was inside, so I suggested a way. He asked us to use a crutch needle to drill a hole just below the coffin lid.
We'll do it immediately.
Just after the eye surgery, there was a sudden flow of yellow water in the coffin, which flowed out along the eyes. It had no smell, and we immediately took a few steps back.
When it is opened, it is like a faucet. No wonder it is so heavy. It turns out that the coffin is full of water.
After watching the bleeding for more than 20 minutes, it was still flowing. In order to speed up the flow, we used the crutch needle to make two more small holes at the original position.
The three water outlets were draining out yellow water for almost an hour. Brother Yu frowned and said, "What's going on? This is endless. How long has it been? Even if the coffin is full of water, it should have been drained out long ago.
Also," Brother Yu turned around and looked around and said, "The ground here is so dry, why is there so much water in the coffin?"
The sound of the steady stream of water makes people feel nervous.
His head suddenly fell to the ground, his head was covered in sweat, his hands supported the ground, and he gasped for air.
"Head!"
"What's wrong with you! Get up!" I helped him up with both hands and touched his head and forehead. It was very hot. He had a low fever before, but now he may have a high fever.
He leaned his head in my arms. For some reason, he stared at the coffin with frightened eyes and gasped, "I heard it, you...did you hear it?"
What did you hear? Apart from the voices of a few of us, the only sound in the tomb is the sound of running water. There is no other sound.
The head turned pale and gasped loudly and said: "Crying...I heard the crying of many people in the coffin."
"There were men, women, and children. Some were crying, some were laughing, and some were whispering."