Volume 6 Ancient Doubts Chapter 533 Seven Bronze Dings

Ding Sicheng once said that Qin Shi Huang built a total of nine tombs in order to prevent people from discovering his true tomb. Eight of them are clothed mounds, and only one is a true emperor's mausoleum.

So Bai Yang blurted out this sentence, but Ding Sicheng shook his head and said, "It's hard to say! The few clothed mounds we found before are not such gorgeous and extravagant on such a scale, so I'm not sure!"

He smiled when he said this, and said, "Maybe it's just that I'm guessing wrong, or maybe Qin Shi Huang likes to paint his coffin with patterns that only women like?"

Bai Yang didn't think that Ding Sicheng would make a mistake in speculation, but at this time he had nothing to say, so he still followed Ding Sicheng's instructions, used a few fingers to pick the small corner of the dislocation between the wooden coffin cover and the coffin, and slowly lifted it up vigorously.

A burst of emerald green light immediately came into view, and if you look closely, there is a jade sarcophagus in front of you, the jade is emerald green, but it is not the same as jadeite.

It is not as warm and clear as jadeite, but it is more delicate than jadeite.

"What kind of jade is this?" Bai Yang couldn't help but ask.

Ding Sicheng showed a look of surprise on his face, approached the coffin and carefully investigated, and said for a long time: "This should be the best Lantian jade! The princes and nobles of the pre-Qin period mostly used Lantian jade as accessories, resulting in the best Lantian jade mine being almost excavated! I have only found Lantian jade of this texture in a few ancient tombs, but it is the first time that the finest Lantian jade is so huge and actually carved into a whole coffin!"

While he was overjoyed, he approached the lid of the jade coffin to look at the exquisite reliefs on it, shook his head for a long time, and said: "It's still the same, the pattern on this top shouldn't be for the emperor, or even for men!"

"Then open it and keep looking inside!" said Poplar.

Ding Sicheng nodded, first moved the lid of the black lacquered wooden coffin further out with Bai Yang, and carefully put it on the ground.

Looking at the Lantian jade coffin inside, there is a large gap between the coffin lid and the tube body, which is far less tightly covered than the coffin cover of the outermost white marble.

So the two of them used their fingers to pick the big gap between the coffin lid and the coffin, and slowly lifted it up.

There is still a wooden coffin inside, but the wooden coffin has not been painted black, revealing the color and pattern of the wood itself.

"There seems to have been varnish on this coffin, was there varnish at that time?" asked Poplar.

Ding Sicheng didn't answer, but stretched out his finger and gently stroked the surface of the coffin lid, nodded and said: "It is true that varnish has been applied, it seems that varnish first appeared, and it actually started from the Qin Dynasty!"

"Could it be that I've been instructed by aliens again?" Poplar asked again.

"It's hard to say!" Ding Sicheng shook his head as he leaned closer to see the texture of the coffin lid.

"This must be made of rosewood, right? It smells good!" said Poplar.

"Yes, and it is made of small-leaved rosewood! This is the most precious wood in the world, and it can't grow too thick and too tall, so the value of making such a coffin is also immeasurable! But this fragrance ......" Ding Sicheng sniffed hard, and shook his head with some doubts, "This fragrance is a little different from small-leaved rosewood, it seems to be mixed with other fragrances, it should be placed in this wooden coffin, there are other spices!"

When he said this, he frowned more and more, and said: "This should be the last inner coffin, this is by no means like the specifications of the emperor, and these patterns are not like it! But why is this happening? Could it be that such a gorgeous underground palace is really a well-dressed mound?"

Later, he began to talk to himself.

Bai Yang opened his mouth and said: "Anyway, there is only this last layer left, let's just open it completely and take a look! And Uncle Ding, you see, this layer of coffin lid is covered more casually, I can open it with a light twist!"

"Then let's take a look at whether there is a corpse of Qin Shi Huang in this wooden coffin!" Ding Sicheng said.

Poplar agreed, reached into the coffin several layers, grabbed a gap under the lid of the innermost wooden coffin with his fingers, and lifted it up with his hand.

Ding Sicheng helped a hand, and the two of them lifted the lid of the wooden coffin and placed it horizontally on the outermost white marble coffin, and then looked at the inside of the coffin, but Ding Sicheng couldn't help but exhale softly.

"Sure enough, it's a woman! But what's going on, it's been more than 2,000 years, why is this woman still not completely rotten, and there is no smell of rot at all? Even the clothes on this woman's body are so well preserved?"

He exclaimed and excited.

Poplar looked carefully into the coffin, and it was true that there were no imaginary white bones in the coffin, but a woman lying down.

The woman's face was withered, and her complexion had turned dark and blue, a bit like the appearance of Gongsun Xia who had been poisoned by the "Immortal Pill" she had refined.

But there was an unpleasant smell on Gongsun Xia's body, and not only did this woman not smell bad, but there was a faint fragrance wafting out.

And the clothes on her body are indeed very well preserved, with bright colors and delicate textures.

Silk fabrics are one of the most difficult items to preserve, and so far, there are only a few ancient silk fabrics found in the world.

Moreover, most of these silk fabrics have also been seriously corrupted. It's hard to imagine that this well-preserved costume worn by the woman in front of her has existed for more than 2,000 years.

Poplar's heart moved, and he exclaimed, "I know what's going on?"

"What's going on?" Ding Sicheng immediately looked back at Bai Yang, but before Bai Yang could say anything, he followed up again, "Yes, you once saw a woman who was as alive in Yuan Tiangang's underground palace!"

After Bai Yang returned to Xi'an from Yuan Tiangang's underground palace, he had already made a detailed report to Ding Sicheng on all the situations in Yuan Tiangang's underground palace.

So Poplar nodded and said, "Yes! After we opened the coffin, the woman who was originally alive began to decay rapidly, according to the words of the Red Gate Master, the reason why the woman was able to remain alive for more than a thousand years was because the spice in the coffin had an antiseptic effect! But when we opened the lid of the coffin, the spices were lost, so the woman would soon decompose into ashes! We were so frightened that we quickly closed the lid of the coffin, so that we didn't even pay close attention to the clothes that the woman was wearing! But it's certain that the woman's clothes are also in good condition!"

Ding Sicheng nodded, carefully looked at the clothes worn by the woman, and said: "This dress is indeed the style of the Qin Dynasty, as you said, the reason why this dress has not been corrupted is probably because of this magical spice! But now that the coffin lid has been opened by the man in black for several months, not only is this woman's body rapidly decomposing, but this dress may not be preserved for long!"

"Then when we go out later, can we take this corpse that has not yet completely decomposed, along with this clothes? Maybe we can also study what this miraculous spice is from this corpse, and that will be a great advance for our country's medicine and biology!" said Poplar.

"I'm afraid it's difficult!" Ding Sicheng stood up straight, he was afraid that the droplets from speaking would corrode the clothes on the woman's body, so he kept his hand on his mouth when he spoke, "We don't know the composition of this spice, if we move this woman out of this tomb, but there is a chemical reaction with the mercury volatiles in the tomb outside, then we will regret it!"

Bai Yang was dumbfounded, and said hatefully: "It's that hateful man in black, who destroyed such a peerless national treasure......! Why, inside Qin Shi Huang's coffin, there is a woman's corpse?"

"I'm as strange as you!" Ding Sicheng smiled bitterly and continued to look into the coffin, "Judging from the phoenix crown on this woman's head and the clothing and accessories on her body, she should be Qin Shi Huang's favorite concubine, and this coffin can also be worthy of her identity......!

When Ding Sicheng said this, he frowned and thought secretly.

Bai Yang naturally had already seen that the woman in the coffin was wearing an extremely exquisite phoenix crown on her head, and her body was full of gold beads and jade pendants, so she couldn't help but say again: "We can't take this female corpse, so let's take this phoenix crown out, so it won't come in for nothing!"

"How could it be a trip for nothing?" Ding Sicheng glanced at him, "Although this underground palace is still not the real mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, this woman's identity must be extremely important, otherwise Qin Shi Huang would not have been able to build such a complex underground palace for her, let alone give her seven bronze tripods! Let's study the paintings on the four walls and see if we can find relevant clues that show this woman's identity!"

He beckoned Poplar to cover the coffin lid layer by layer, but Poplar couldn't help but ask: "Then this phoenix crown, let it still be placed in the coffin?"

"Put it inside!" Ding Sicheng looked around, "Look at how many treasures are in this underground palace, this is a museum in itself during the Qin Dynasty!

Poplar naturally obeyed the instructions completely, so the two of them worked together and carefully covered the lid of the four-layer coffin layer by layer.

After that, the two people jumped off the white marble platform, but did not immediately go to the four sides to study the murals, but first circled along the high platform.

The four walls of the high platform are also carved with many exquisite reliefs, and Ding Sicheng bent down and looked down at those reliefs carefully.

Poplar walked ahead in a hurry, but he didn't expect to find a wall full of words he didn't recognize on the south side of the high platform.

(See Chapter 534 "Flying Love")