Chapter Seventy-Two: The Corpse
"I'm afraid the white girl misunderstood, I just wanted to see the remains of the tomb owner out of courtesy, I came here, and I also accepted the gift of the tomb owner, after all, I want to say hello, otherwise it would be rude."
Wu Liang said with a smile.
"Opening a coffin can also have something to do with etiquette? It's shameless for you to say this kind of thing, I'm sorry! ”
Bai Jingjing immediately glared at a pair of apricot eyes and said.
"Well, just take a look at it and make sure not to disturb the purity of the tomb owner."
Wu Liang was not angry at all, and still said with a hippie smile.
"Don't think!"
Bai Jingjing resolutely straightened her chest and glared at Wu Liang in front of the bronze coffin, as if the coffin was open and I died in the coffin.
What kind of fame are these little couples doing?
Cao Yu and the others were inexplicable on the sidelines, because they didn't know Bai Jingjing's identity, they always had a feeling of eating dog food in their hearts.
"Less nonsense, this is not up to you!"
Wu Liang's face turned cold, and he suddenly pulled the rope in his hand.
"Ah......h
Bai Jingjing was arguing with him with her chest, so she was naturally less guarded, and while letting out an exclamation, she was pulled and flashed, and involuntarily crashed into Wu Liang's arms.
"You! You despicable and filthy scoundrel! ”
Bai Jingjing immediately blushed, and hurriedly twisted her body and retreated, scolding angrily, as if she was going to eat him alive.
"You bumped into it yourself, what do you have to do with me?"
Wu Liang smiled, lifted the hemp rope that slipped around the back of Bai Jingjing's neck, and looked back at Cao Yu and the others who were watching the play with envy on their faces, "Brother Anmin, why are you still watching the play, and you ordered someone to open the coffin?" ”
"Oh...... Come on, come on! Let's go! ”
Cao Yu came back to his senses and hurriedly beckoned the rest of the people to walk towards the bronze coffin.
The last time in the tomb of King Liang Xiao, there was no need to open the coffin at all, and the Chen Jinshui people who finally entered the main tomb are now all in Wu Liang's house, so it can be said that everyone on the scene is doing this kind of thing for the first time, so naturally everyone needs to go together to be brave.
Seeing this, Bai Jingjing couldn't take care of the shyness just now, and immediately struggled to shout to everyone:
"Aren't you afraid of retribution when you do such things?"
"I'm telling you to stop!"
"Stop!"
“……”
But no matter how Bai Jingjing shouted or screamed, Cao Yu and the others turned a deaf ear, and just used their swords and sappers to shovel the leather strips tied to the bronze coffin.
Yes, this bronze coffin was not sealed with nails.
Instead, a relatively ancient way of sealing the coffin was used, and the coffin was tied together with the coffin lid with a special leather strip, with three horizontal and two longitudinal lines, with a long longitudinal plank and a short horizontal plank, from which the idiom "three long and two short" came from.
This method of sealing the coffin has been around for a long time, and it is still used by people even in later generations.
As far as Wu Liang knows, there is also a folk saying about this way of sealing the coffin, saying that it is a nail to lock the soul, similar to a spell, which will make the tomb owner unable to reincarnate.
A moment later, in Bai Jingjing's fainter and fainter scolding, the five horizontal and vertical strips of leather had all been cut off.
Cao Yu and the others looked back at Wu Liang, this was to ask for his opinion.
"Let's go!"
Wu Liang nodded.
The three soldiers immediately inserted the sapper shovel into the gap between the lid and the coffin, and then pulled back in unison.
Just listen to a loud "bang".
The heavy bronze lid fell to the ground, shaking the dust on the floor of countless halls.
After the dust cleared a little, Wu Liang also took out the copper dagger behind his waist, and came to the bronze coffin more cautiously, looking inward behind him.
Only after this look did I find that the so-called "Guangchuan Immortal King" actually only has a "coffin" and no "coffin".
The so-called "coffin" is actually two things.
The "coffin" is the coffin that holds the body of the tomb owner, and the "coffin" is a protective coat on the outside of the coffin.
Previously, Wu Liang saw that the bronze hall was not small, so he naturally thought that this was also a set of "coffins", which had to be opened in two layers.
But the scene before him told him that things were not as he thought.
After only opening one floor, he could already see the lying body of the tomb owner.
Unlike the wives and concubines and subordinates outside, the corpse of the tomb owner turned out to be a purple-black and even somewhat shiny "tanned corpse"!
The focus of the so-called "tanned corpse" is on the word "tanning".
The production method is somewhat similar to the process of tanning leather, the corpse is soaked in a special acidic substance, and the corpse will begin to be leatherized after soaking for a long time, and then taken out and then dried after the leather is completed, and a "tanned corpse" is made that is as shiny as leather and is not easily eroded by moisture.
However, the preservation of such corpses is only relatively long, and it does not last forever.
Therefore, the "tanned corpse" found in the archaeological community in later generations is very rare, and the earliest is only a male "tanned corpse" found in a joint burial tomb of a husband and wife in the Yuan Dynasty.
"This is the corpse of Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan?"
Wu Liang took out a multi-layered linen cloth prepared in advance and covered his face to resist the pungent sour smell, came to the head of the bronze hall, and then carefully took out a jade seal placed on the right side of the corpse's head.
Turning over the jade seal, six small characters in seal style appeared in front of him - "Guangchuan King Liu Quxi".
You can't be wrong now.
Even if the archaeology of later generations, the seal in the coffin is also an important basis for judging the identity of the tomb owner, as long as the seal is found, the identity can be basically determined.
Only those ancient tombs that cannot find the jade seal will be inferred based on some of the documentary materials left in the tombs.
So......
The tanned corpse in front of him is Liu Qu?
Wu Liang couldn't help but be a little stunned.
Psychologically, he still refuses to believe that this is true, Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan who has stolen countless treasures in history, was buried secretly after his death, and even arranged for a tomb keeper to guard here, but there was only this little battle in the tomb?
There is no yellow intestine problem!
There is no golden jade clothes!
Rare treasures are not!
Even the coffin has a coffin without a coffin!
How could Wu Liang be so willing, and subconsciously glanced back at Bai Jingjing.
At this time, the coffin had been opened, and Bai Jingjing stopped shouting as if she had accepted her fate, but when she saw him, she immediately glared at her beautiful eyes and said, "Shameless, now that the coffin has been opened and the owner of the tomb has also seen it, what else do you want?" ”
It was also this that made Wu Liang have a flash of inspiration, and suddenly remembered a detail recorded in "Xijing Miscellaneous Records"!
"Xijing Miscellaneous Records" mentions that Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan, once injured his left foot due to the theft of Luan's book mound, and said that his "foot is swollen, painful and sore, and it is not bad until death." In other words, Liu Qu's left foot should have a wound.
It just so happened that the tanned corpse in front of him had preserved its skin intact, which became one of the important bases for verifying the identity of this corpse in addition to removing the seal!