"Throw it away quickly. Are you a beggar carrying that thing to prepare for the New Year?" Liu Yushan glanced at the head.
"That's right, it's not a good thing," Mr. Liu threw it aside casually.
Researcher An had no head and his body was no longer moving. Although it was decapitation, what was puzzling was that there was not much blood on Researcher An's neck. When he looked closer, he found that there were faint signs of knotting in his wounds.
After looking at the small glass bottle, she obviously didn't believe it. She didn't believe that this medicine could make the corpse come back to life.
Mr. Zhao from Xiangxi was still grieving over the rope. He couldn't help but sigh: "Old Zhao's family has been eating the dead for generations. Unexpectedly, one day, the corpse-tying rope handed down from my ancestors was destroyed in my hands. I am unfilial, unfilial...
..”
Seeing him sighing uncontrollably, I couldn't help but said: "Master Zhao, it's not that I don't believe you, but what kind of rope do you think you have? What kind of rope is it for tying a corpse? It breaks as soon as you pull it. It's not strong at all! I don't think it can tie anything up.
live."
"Alas...junior, you don't understand, you don't understand." Mr. Zhao silently picked up the broken rope and stuffed it back into his bag.
"By the way, Miss Yao, were you not injured just now?"
"I'm fine, nothing serious."
"That's good, you take a rest." He looked at the big guy and said in a deep voice: "When things have come to this point, the end is about to happen. We can't just give up halfway. Yunfeng, keep digging."
Without saying anything, I picked up the tornado shovel and continued digging. I only dared to look at the ground under my feet, not daring to look at Researcher An, whose body and head were separated.
At this time Liu Yushan said: "Are you two tired? How about I ask my friends to come over and help?" I knew that the friends he was talking about must be those mandrills.
"No need, Brother Liu," I shook the cyclone shovel in my hand, "Your friends are probably not as tall as this shovel, so how can they dig the soil? We appreciate your kindness. The job of digging holes is our strength. Just look at it.
Enough."
Liu Yushan nodded and did not interrupt. On the contrary, Mr. Zhao, the exorcist, seemed to talk too much. He kept asking me how the medicine in the glass bottle was made, where it came from, what ingredients were in the medicine, etc.
The only ones who know the ingredients and production methods are Researcher An and the others. Now that all three of them are dead, where can I go?
I was a little impatient when he was asked, so I lied and told him that it was actually corpse oil, which is made from the bodies of dead people. Don't ask me about the specific method. I don't know. If you want to ask, Mr. Zhao.
Ask Liu Jiansheng and Xiao Tuantou, they will definitely know.
"Oh...that's it," the old man thought for a moment without saying anything.
The thief's hole went deeper and deeper, so Baotou and I jumped in to dig, and shovelfuls of soil were kept being thrown up.
"clang."
Suddenly, the cyclone shovel on his head hit some kind of metal object. Now no one else spoke, the surroundings were quiet, and the sound was very harsh.
"Is it shipped? What is it?" Sister Yu ran over and asked.
Scratching the dirt with his head, he pulled out a rusty bronze vessel from the pit. This bronze vessel had a strange shape. It stands to reason that I have seen many bronze vessels before, but this was the first time I saw one with this shape, and I didn’t recognize it.
what is it call.
This is an oblate bronze vessel with a lid. The lid is sealed, and some kind of animal pattern can be vaguely engraved on it.
Just looking at the shape of the device, this thing looks a lot like the kind of hand warmers that people use today when plugging in electricity. The state of preservation is not very good. I feel like it will fall apart if someone touches it lightly.
After carefully studying the outline of the pattern on the cover, he raised his head and said in surprise: "Could this painting be the pattern of a tomb-crushing beast? If you look carefully, does this pattern look a bit like the clam stone sculpture unearthed in Puyang, Henan decades ago?"
Yao Yumen couldn't help but nod after seeing it, "Don't tell me about the head, it's really similar. If I remember correctly, the site in Puyang was from the late Neolithic period, right? It was much earlier than the Western Zhou Dynasty."
I couldn't understand what they meant, so I asked Sister Yu what this clam sculpture was.
Sister Yu told me that this thing has the tail of a monkey and the head of a pig. No one knew it when it was dug out. Later, some scholars discovered that the prototype of this thing is very similar to an animal called clam sculpture in the ancient Book of Mountains and Seas. So it was
With this word, people in the industry thought that the one in Puyang was an orphan, but they did not expect that there was a bronze with the same pattern here.
"Oh, that's it. It's really precious, but it's a pity that it's all black and rusty and rotten." I sighed, expressing my pity for this precious bronze.
Black dry rust is a term used in the tomb robbing industry. This kind of rust is the least popular among people in the industry, because almost all bronzes with this kind of rust color come from dirty pits. Things in dirty pits have the lowest prices and are not in good quality.
By the way, let me tell you more. People in the industry divide the rust colors of bronze casings from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Warring States period into four types. Jade can be identified by looking at the skin, and bronzes can also be priced by looking at the rust.
These types are dry green rust, also called flat rust, which is the kind of rust that is green all over. It is common in the northern areas of Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. The second type of rust is mercury rust, which refers specifically to things fished out of the water.
, this kind of rust is a white layer and is poisonous. Bronzeware with mercury rust must be treated before you dare to play with it, otherwise it will be poisonous.
Now it’s red and blue anti-lead rust. This type of rust sells at the highest price in the industry. Mr. Sun once told me that if you encounter large-scale red and blue anti-lead rust, don’t wash it with the method of killing it. If you wash it, the price will be greatly reduced.
.
The last one is the black dry rust on the bronze vessel in front of you. The black dry rust growing on the bronze vessel indicates that there have been dirty pits underneath. Dirty pits refer to dirty places such as manure piles, latrines, pig pens and sheep pens.
He picked up the head and smelled the bronze vessel, frowned and said, "Indeed, it smells like feces and urine." Real tomb robbers have very good noses and are experienced with their heads, so naturally we will not doubt his words.
Continuing to dig deeper, two more bronze vessels with black dry rust were unearthed one after another. The last two unearthed were also quite strange in shape. Each one was different. One cover had a swimming figure engraved on it.
Little man, this little man is covered in fish scales and is tumbling in the water.
The last one is even weirder. It looks like a monster with one leg and a tiger head. There is a four-legged snake wrapped around the tiger head and neck.
"Are these...these other two items the ancient totem gods worshiped by the ancient Yue Kingdom?" Sister Hong said in surprise after looking at them.
"Xiao Hong, what do you know?" asked the head.
Sister Hong nodded and confirmed: "That's right, these are those two things. I used to be interested in paleontological legends. I have read the old version of Shan Hai Jing more than once. This, this little man with fish scales swimming in the water
It’s called Zuoyu, the thing with the legs and the tiger’s head is called Zuqi, and the first one dug out is indeed called the clam sculpture.”
"These patterns were once worshiped as totems by the ancient Yue people. Head, Yunfeng, if you continue to dig deeper, I doubt you can dig out anything else."
Sister Hong held her chin and thought: "Yunfeng, do you still remember the patterns on the gold coffin and silver coffin?"
I said of course I remembered that there were soldiers engraved on the gold and silver coffins, and there were four-legged snakes coiled above the heads of those soldiers.
"That's right," Sister Hong nodded and said, "The ancient Yue soldiers had four-legged snakes on their heads, and their prototypes should be this Zuqi."
She looked at the crowd and said solemnly: "The clues are connected. This mustard is not only a great nobleman of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but may also be a descendant of a certain branch of the ancient Yue people in the ancient Yue Kingdom. Otherwise, it would be impossible for mustard to bring these totem elements into
tomb."
"Totems and ancestor gods, these patterns are not only patterns, but also a type of characters thousands of years ago. This is a pictorial type of characters of the ancient Yue people. No one can decipher it now, and no one knows the meaning of these animal patterns. However.
....A late old professor once published a note before his death, in which he thought..."
"These ancient patterns...may be the origin of oracle bones."
