Chapter 490. Funerary goods

That Zhang Boyuan Captain Zhang obviously saw Lin Yi's stunned expression, and knew that he was frightened, so he comforted Lin Yi and said: "It's unimaginable, this situation is not common in ancient tombs, you know, the vicious bad habit of burial mostly appears in the ancient tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties, or in the tombs of some emperors, ordinary people can't see it." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Lin Yi knew that what Captain Zhang said was true, and the burials generally appeared in the Qin and Han dynasties, as well as earlier dynasties such as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, there was a "tomb robber king" --- Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan, who went to steal a high-level ancient tomb. One of them is the tomb of King Zhou You, the last emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.

The tomb of King Zhou You is very tall, after the tomb door is opened, it is all white soil down, this soil is actually a kind of carboniferous rock, more than one zhang thick. It took a lot of effort for Liu Qu's men to dig up the white soil. Further down was a large number of mica stones. Digging more than a foot deeper, I unexpectedly saw more than 100 corpses, criss-crossed, leaning against each other, and stacked on top of each other. There was only one man among them, and the rest were all women. Some sit, some lie down, some stand, and their clothes are the same as those worn by living people. Undoubtedly, that man was King Zhou You, and the other more than 100 women were martyred concubines and maids.

In fact, human martyrdom is a kind of funeral custom in ancient China, which is generally believed to have appeared in patrilineal society. The patriarchal family regards its wives and concubines, granddaughters, and servants as their own private property, and has the right to kill them. Since gold, jade and jewelry can be buried with them, it is inevitable that people will have such property.

After the Qin and Han dynasties, the rulers felt that this system was inhumane, so it was basically abolished, and it is incredible that later archaeologists found the white bones of many palace maids in the tomb of the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang had implemented the martyrdom system of the Qin and Han dynasties when he died. So, how did these burial concubines die?

According to the miscellaneous books that Lin Yi read, "After these concubines fell asleep, the eunuchs next to them cut a piece of their heads, and the executor held a copper spoon and poured mercury into the cut part, and after pouring a certain amount of mercury, the head was sewn with needle and thread, and after everything was done, there were no survivors of these buried concubines." ”

It was precisely because he knew these stories about "martyrdom" that Lin Yi was even more shocked by the identity of the owner of the tomb, who could be so ruthless and bury so many people.

Captain Zhang also said: "Not only are you curious, but we are even more curious, so I asked you to help--- come and see what is recorded on these ancient books." ”

Under the greeting of Captain Zhang, Lin Yi walked over, and Ye Qiu, a member of the archaeological team behind him, said: "These books are all broken, and some of them are even muddy, even the most powerful appraisers can't identify the contents of them...... Team Zhang, I've wasted our efforts again. "It means that I don't believe that Lin Yi can help.

Lin Yi ignored the cynicism of this Comrade Ye Qiu, squatted down, and went to look at those ancient books.

I saw that those ancient books should have been placed in the burial goods in the tomb, and there were some silver jewelry and other ancient daily necessities, and the wooden box that originally installed the ancient books had decayed. Because of the dampness of the tomb, it is impossible to see how many ancient books there are, because they are too broken, and some are mixed with mud, and it is impossible to distinguish which ones are yellow mud and which ones are yellow paper--- and it is estimated that even those ancient book restoration experts are helpless.

Captain Zhang looked at these precious written materials, sighed and said, "Look, it's all turned into dirt, how can it be repaired...... Our archaeological team didn't dare to move these things easily, if we carried out the whole mud with these belts, and we were afraid that we wouldn't be able to withstand the toss back and forth--- it was really worrying! ”

Of course, Lin Yi knew that these tattered ancient books couldn't help but withstand the second and third tosses, and they had even turned into dirt, and they were still tossing a fart.

However, for those restoration experts and archaeological masters, this kind of ancient books are irretrievably tattered, but for Lin Yi, they can be saved, don't forget, Lin Yi has the ability to use aura to repair ancient books.

Of course, Lin Yi would not use the aura to repair these ancient books in this kind of place, at this time and on this occasion, he is not a fool, what if he is caught and caught for experiments.

So Lin Yi just took a general look at the fragments of those ancient books, it seems that these are some books that the tomb owner likes, but unfortunately they are so rotten that he can only see a few simple handwritings sporadically.

Lin Yi was a little anxious, and couldn't help but want to reach out to touch those ancient books, but Captain Zhang next to him hurriedly said, "Don't." "Stopped him.

So Lin Yi asked people to help, took the special brushes and small tweezers for archaeology, cleaned up some sand, gravel and soil, and then used tweezers to sort out some relatively "complete" fragments.

Finally, Lin Yi saw some of the words on it clearly--- "Yushi Yang Jian's side ......."

After reading the words on it, Lin Yi first saw the word "Yang Jian".

Yang Jian has had two celebrities in Chinese history, to be precise, one of them is an immortal, that is, Yang Jian, the god of Erlang, "Fengshen Bang" captured the Seven Demons of Meishan, captured Tuxing Sun, and lived in Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West".

The other Yang Jian was a eunuch in the Song Dynasty, and Tong Guan controlled the government with one article and one martial arts, which became a kind of sorrow in the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, Lin Yi remembered clearly that there were many stories about this eunuch Yang Jian circulating among the people, but they were all ironic and ridiculous. For example, in the novelist Ling Mengchu's "The Surprise of the Second Moment of Shooting", there is a erotic short story about the fact that there are many concubines and singers in Yang Jian's mansion, they are young and young, and Yang Jian is a eunuch, and it is difficult to keep the empty boudoir, so he tries to leave a young man who is a guest in the museum in the inner room. Later, Yang Jian discovered the secret and captured the man and brutally castrated him. Yang Jian did a very good job of castration. It can be seen that what you do not want to do to others. In "Golden Vase Plum", Ximen Qing also relied on Yang Jian's majesty in the fish and meat town; There is also his shadow in "Dream of the Golden House".

In addition, Yang Jian did do the imperial history of the Song Dynasty during the Song Huizong period, so Lin Yi concluded that this imperial history Yang Jian was the eunuch Yang Jian. And this book is most likely about the period of Song Huizong.

With this general direction, Lin Yi continued to use tweezers to take those who could be judged to see the handwriting, and soon, intermittently, half-guessing and half-reading, he was able to make up some words---

"Emperor Gu Gao Yu and others said: I am the Son of Heaven, rich from all over the world, and listen to ...... at the right time";

"I didn't feel that the copper kettle was draining, and the corner report was even more remnant, and I was surprised that Gao Yu and Yang Jian were ......";

"If Your Majesty swings Luanyu, then the police will go in, speak left and right, and the market will be cleared...";

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Time passes slowly.

Lin Yi didn't know that he had been squatting in place for almost an hour in order to understand these words.

He was immersed in text archaeology, and the people around him, including Captain Zhang, were embarrassed to disturb him.

Ye Qiu, a member of the archaeological team, felt that Lin Yi was inevitably a little "pretended", and even the restoration experts couldn't help this pile of broken ancient books, and what could he identify. Damn, pretend, who wouldn't.

The light in the tomb is getting darker and darker, because it is far away from the village, and there is no lighting tool on the canopy at this end of the tomb, but some fluorescent lamps with batteries are placed in the tomb, as the weather turns dark, these fluorescent lamps are limited after all, and they cannot illuminate the entire tomb, so that the originally dark and damp tomb looks even more eerie.

Captain Zhang and his group, although they were used to dealing with the dead and treating the ancient tomb as their own home, couldn't help the dozen or so white bones around them, so they were a little frightened.

Especially the team member Ye Qiu, after all, he is young and has little experience, and he can still endure pretending to talk and laugh with the big guy at first, especially when he sees that Lin Yi is still studying those ancient books, and he doesn't look scared at all, so he doesn't admit defeat and holds on.

But gradually, he didn't know which direction the wind blew in the tomb, and a faint ghost cry made his stomach drum, his eyes rolled, and the others became a little suspicious.

Captain Zhang was experienced and knew that it was best to let everyone leave and release him at this time, so he was ready to urge Lin Yi and ask him how the situation was going.

Who knows, before he could speak, he heard a snap, Lin Yi stood up suddenly--- in the dim light, I saw a weird smile on his face, and said happily: "I know what this is!" (To be continued.) )