Chapter 1126: The Bronze Monkey
"It's not." Lady Na shook her head confusedly: "I don't even know what you're talking about." ”
"It's not you, is it him?" The fat man was suddenly shocked, and then quickly quickened his pace, for fear that his chat would be heard by Zhang Meng.
In ancient China, there were several types of coffins, the most common being wooden coffins. The stone, bronze, and white marble coffins are used to hold people with prominent status, wooden coffins are easy to rot, and after decay, the resentment of the corpse in the coffin will be dispersed, and the bronze coffin is different, it will not decay for thousands of years, and a grudge is always stuck in the mouth of the corpse, which is very easy to become zongzi.
According to common sense, no one will touch the inner wall of the bronze coffin lightly.
Unexpectedly, under the mistake of the fat man, he found a tomb under the bronze coffin.
This sudden situation really surprised and delighted several people.
Under the leadership of Ye Jiu, everyone quickly entered the tomb under the bronze coffin.
This tomb road is very different from the tomb roads found before, if you compare, it can only be said that the tomb roads you have walked through are more like robbery holes, and even the box rooms equipped with each of the four corridors are not as good as this tomb road under the bronze coffin.
On both sides of this tomb are not only a row of bronze monkeys with their backs squatted and grinning, but also a huge wick the thickness of a human leg standing on the tail of each bronze monkey, and even the entire tomb is paved with gold bricks.
The fat man took advantage of everyone's inattention, bit it with his teeth, almost didn't break his big teeth, and shouted with tears: "I said how it looks different from the gold on it, it's all gold, but it's a pity that the color is not enough." But if you look at the large-scale gold brick tomb above our heads and under our feet, plus the gold we saw before, I guess it would take a mountain of gold to build this tomb! ”
"Not only is the scale of BRICS rare in the world, but also here." Xiao Lou pointed to the bronze monkeys on both sides of the tomb: "You see, these ever-bright lanterns are as thick as a man's legs, and they have been burned for so many years and have not been extinguished, which is much more powerful than the suffocating cats on the tomb wall we saw before." ”
"Yes, yes." After listening to Xiao Lou, the fat man hurriedly crossed his waist to look at these bronze monkeys, at first glance, it looked like the monkey's butt was on fire. The fat man looked greedy: "If this thing is going to be sold, it will definitely be worth a lot of money." Although this trip to the tomb is much more dangerous than before, with all kinds of twists and turns, the treasures are indeed piled up and worth the money! ”
"No matter how good it is, it's just human corpse wax." Lady snorted arrogantly at the fat man.
"Go, shut your crow's mouth." Although the fat man was unrelenting, he seemed to be reminded by Lady Na's words, secretly covered his nose, and took two steps back.
Seeing the fat man retreat, Ye Jiu quickly poked out two fingers, walked over the burning wick, put them on the tip of his nose and sniffed: "No, it's not corpse wax." ”
"It's not corpse wax, what's that?" Zhang Meng looked sideways at Ye Jiu.
"It's a merfolk." Ye Jiu said.
"My trough, is there really a mermaid? It can't be a black-scaled merman, right? The fat man was dumbfounded.
"It's not the mermaid as we usually understand it, and it's not the black shark man." Ye Jiu squatted in front of the bronze monkey and explained: "According to the records in ancient books, it is actually made of animal brain oil similar to giant salamanders or whales. ”
"I know that." After hearing Ye Jiu mention it, Lady Na also looked at the wick: "This kind of ever-bright lamp wax first appeared in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, according to the "Historical Records", the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang used mermaid paste as a candle for a long time. But that's the only record in history. When Chinese archaeologists excavated the tomb of Qin Shi Huang in 1974, because of the backward equipment, they accidentally destroyed the mermaid paste in the mausoleum, and then they never found the mermaid paste again, but they did not expect to find it here again. ”
"Why haven't I heard of it?" The fat man said: "Although I am careless, but such an important baby, I can't have heard of it?" ”
"This matter has been included in the classified file, and no one else knows about it except the person concerned." Lady Na rarely responded with a fat man.
"Although there were not many experts who had seen mermaid paste at that time, after many researches, I still found a little clue."
Without waiting for everyone to ask, Lady Na continued: "It's what Ye Jiu said about the giant salamander and whale brain oil. Because according to the description of books such as "Foreign Objects", the appearance of the mermaid is very similar to that of a baby fish, and it is recorded in the "Three Qin Records": the tomb of the first emperor...... Burn whale ointment as a lamp. In addition, this candle will burn for a long time, and in terms of quantity, only a candle made of whale brain oil is more consistent. Of course, I personally don't think this candle was made by a baby fish. ”
After listening to Lady Na's explanation, Zhang Meng looked at the burning flames: "We are now at the bottom of the sea, and it seems that whales are easier to catch." ”
After listening to everyone's discussion, only the fat man was interested: "Damn, the fat man is happy, I didn't expect this thing to be made of whale brain oil." I really don't know what these big people think, such a gold-paved tomb road is actually lit with a row of whale lamps and a few ugly bronze monkeys crying, which is really a fall. ”
"Do you really think that ancient fishing technology can be compared to modern ones?" Zhang Meng was speechless for a while: "You don't want to think about it, is such a big whale something that ordinary people can catch?" Even the princes and nobles may not be able to do it, right? ”
"Zhang Meng is right about this." Ye Jiu, who had been squatting next to the bronze monkey, looked at the end of the tomb with blazing eyes, and his tone was full of shock: "This is by no means an ordinary aristocratic tomb, it even far exceeds the specifications of the emperor's tomb, and the luxury here has reached a level that we can hardly imagine." ”
Looking at Ye Jiu, who had sharp eyes, Zhang Meng realized that Ye Jiu, who had awakened his potential, had seen the scene at the end of the tomb. However, what can make Ye Jiudu feel luxurious is probably beyond everyone's previous understanding.
"Leave it alone if it's extravagant or not." The fat man rubbed his hands with a cheap smile: "Brother, don't you know all about it when you go over and take a look?" ”