Volume 2 Chapter 197 The Great Secret

The tomb is about four meters wide, and the height is not high, only about two meters, and Du Lin can reach the top with his hand. The four of them walked about a hundred meters in front of each other before entering the main burial chamber.

Normally, the scale of the tomb of the five officials of the Qing Dynasty should not be small. However, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the national power gradually declined, and after the death of many officials, the level of tombs dropped significantly.

Take this Imperial Physician Cheng Yu as an example, as a close minister of the emperor's side, even if he was killed by Cixi, he still has to do enough work on the surface, as a close minister of the emperor's side, there should be some funeral goods given by the emperor anyway.

However, according to ancient records, when Cheng Yu was buried, there were only a few utensils that he used all year round, and there were no burial items.

Then again, if there really was an object given by the emperor, it is estimated that his grave would have been dug up a long time ago, and it would not have been patronized by tomb robbers and archaeologists until now.

The main burial chamber is not too big, about 30 square meters, and there is a high platform more than half a meter high in the middle, on which a black coffin is placed.

Originally, the coffin of an official of this level should have been purple lacquer as the base and black gold letters, but a hundred years have passed, coupled with the inflow of fresh air, the pattern on the surface of the coffin has quickly oxidized, and some places have begun to weathered and peel off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Luo Fuan rushed forward, picked up the camera, and quickly took pictures of the coffin from multiple angles, although he knew that the flash would hurt these patterns more, but if he didn't take pictures immediately, there would be nothing in a while, anyway, the result would be the same, it was better to take a few more photos now.

"Captain," Ge Wei asked weakly, "do we need to light a candle in the southeast corner?"

"Did you go to college in vain? Or did you watch the Internet and fall into obsession? You still lit candles? You didn't prepare a black donkey's hooves? Do you also believe in feudal superstition?" Luo Fuan reprimanded.

"But......" Ge Wei just wanted to distinguish between two sentences, but saw a point of light suddenly light up in the corner of the tomb, "Captain...... You see......"

Luo Fuan looked in the direction of Ge Wei's finger, and also saw the point of light, and was so frightened that his voice split, "What's it?"

As mentioned earlier, when people are extremely afraid of something, they are angry, and when they see something they are extremely afraid of, people often use loud words and shouts to give themselves courage, and Luo Fuan at this time is in this state.

Seeing a figure coming from the direction of the point of light, Luo Fuan and Ge Wei were so frightened that they shrunk into a ball, they didn't dare to move, and they didn't even dare to take a picture of the figure with the flashlight in their hands, and Luo Fuan screamed like a pig waiting to be slaughtered.

"It's me!Dorin!" the figure spoke, and it turned out that Dührin had just gone to the southeast corner of the tomb and lit a candle.

"It's you making trouble again," Luo Fu'an saw that it was Du Lin, and immediately resumed the tone of the leader, as if it wasn't him who was "screaming" just now, "I just said, all actions are under my command, and you act without permission, and I will kick you out of our archaeological team again!"

"Whatever you want, I don't want to care about your bad things anyway, I came with my sister, and I didn't invite you. Durin said indifferently.

"That's it, if you say so, then I'll go too, and my aunt won't play with you. He Wenwen, who had been watching jokes on the side just now, also immediately expressed her position.

"Brother Luo, I think Dr. Du is very powerful, you better accommodate him. Ge Wei also persuaded.

Luo Fuan felt that he was really a bad captain as the captain, but Ge Wei was right, Du Lin was indeed very powerful, both in experience and adaptability were stronger than himself, it was better to let him stay in the team, anyway, he was not a person in this archaeological circle, and the credit for this tomb was still his own after it was excavated.

"Okay, as the captain, I can't be tolerant, forget it this time, and I'll give you another authorization, in this ancient tomb, you can do anything except not touch the burial goods, but the others still have to obey my command, understand?"

"Cut!" He Wenwen said disdainfully, "What do my fifth brother do and still need your authorization?

Luo Fu'an's face was blue with anger, he felt that he had made a huge concession, but the other party still refused to accept the management and did not listen to the command, this captain could not be the captain!

Don't you know that in this team, except for himself, no one really treats him as a captain.

In addition to observing the color of the flame to detect whether there are toxic and harmful gases in the air, the candle lit by Du Lin also has a function of asking the attitude of the ghost, if the ghost of the tomb owner is not reincarnated, but has become a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, then naturally he will not agree to his tomb being invaded, if there is no ghost, then it will become an ownerless tomb and the coffin can be opened smoothly.

In fact, if you don't light this candle, it's okay, because the owner of the tomb is Cheng Yu, and Cheng Yu was personally sent to the underworld by Du Lin, and there will definitely be no ghosts in this tomb now.

Several people worked together to lift the lid of the coffin and carefully put it aside, if the tomb robbers came to open the coffin, it would be considered benevolent and righteous if the coffin lid was not broken for you.

There are really not many things in the coffin, the first thing I saw was naturally the corpse of Imperial Physician Cheng Yu, this is a dried corpse, wearing a five-grade civil official uniform sewn with white pheasant complements, I can't see the old and the new, the skin on the face is shriveled and weathered, the eye sockets are deep, the teeth and lips are half-open, and there is a mahogany medical box on the back of the head, it is estimated that this is one of Cheng Yu's relics before his death, there is a small package made of blue satin leather on the right hand, Du Lin reached out and picked it up, Luo Fuan just wanted to stop it, but was glared back by He Wenwen's eyes.

Durin opened the blue satin wrapped on the outside, revealing a very old cloth acupuncture bag, the fabric had aged very much, and it felt that the fabric would tear apart with a little exertion.

Du Lin carefully placed the acupuncture bag on the lid of the coffin, gently unfolded it, and took out a silver needle from it, I don't know what process this silver needle used, more than a hundred years later, it is still as bright as new, without any traces of rust.

Who said that there is no royal gift in Cheng Yu's tomb, this set of acupuncture needles must be produced by the royal family!

Du Lin restored the acupuncture bag to its original state, wrapped the blue satin on the outside, and put it back in the hand of Cheng Yu's corpse again.

Luo Fuan snorted in annoyance, he thought that Du Lin would take the acupuncture bag privately, and he planned to warn him about his private possession of cultural relics.

Cheng Yu placed a medical box at his feet, on which was placed a handkerchief embroidered with a lotus pattern, which means that the deceased "stepped on the lotus flower and ascended to bliss".

When they opened the bottle and can, they found that some of the medicines in it had deteriorated, and some had lost their moisture and became a pile of dry powder, Du Lin picked a piece down, twisted it on his fingers, and took off the breathing mask while they were not paying attention and smelled it, it seemed to be something like Jinchuang medicine, but it was very old, and Du Lin didn't smell the specific ingredients, otherwise he really wanted to see what the formula of the royal doctor's wound medicine was.

After putting down the jar, Durin lost interest in the other contents of the coffin and observed the structure of the chamber by himself.

As I just said, this tomb is not big, only more than 30 square meters, in order to maintain the stability of the roof, the tomb also has four stone pillars as support, the stone pillar and the tomb wall, the stone pillar and the stone pillar are the same arch structure as in the tomb, so the top of the whole square tomb chamber forms nine small domes arranged in the "nine square grid".

Thinking of this, Du Lin subconsciously moved the flashlight to the roof of the shed, and really saw a pattern of sealing in the center of each dome, and there were eight around, according to the direction of "Qian, Kun, Li, Kan, Dui, Zhen, Xun, Gen", and in the middle was a "Yin and Yang Fish".

Duhring's mind moved, along the edge of the tomb, measured the length with his footsteps, and found that the four edges of the tomb were the same length, that is, a square, but according to the burial habits at that time, the main tomb should be built in a rectangular shape in the direction of the tomb road.

Could it be ......

Du Lin walked to the tomb wall opposite the tomb road, knocked hard, and there was a false sound of "empty", which showed that there was still a lot of space behind the tomb wall!

Could this be the "big secret" that Cheng Yu said?