Chapter 145: The Perverted "Incense Sutra"! (4000 second shift)
"Well done!"
Wu Liang immediately laughed, and personally went into battle to carefully inspect the medicine cabinet.
It didn't take long for him to discover some clues, it turned out that in the middle of the medicine cabinet and the wall, there were several extremely secret metal mechanisms similar to hinges.
In this way, the half-sided medicine cabinet can be opened like a normal hinged door.
Wu Liang tried to push or pull half of the medicine cabinet, but the medicine cabinet only shook twice, and there seemed to be something like a deadbolt inside.
"Master, do you want me to come?"
Seeing this, Dian Wei immediately rolled up his sleeves and walked up.
"Don't worry, I'll come."
Wu Liang said with a smile.
A mere wooden cabinet, if Dian Wei is asked to get his hands on it, it is a matter of minutes to tear it down with his bare hands, how can he block their way.
However, as a last resort, Wu Liang will try his best to put an end to this violent demolition of tomb robbing.
After all, the person who set up this secret door must often enter and exit, so he must have set up a small mechanism to easily open and close the door, which is the "black technology" mastered by the ancients, if it is demolished, it may not be able to be restored, and he will not be able to see the real face.
As he spoke, Wu Liang took Hou Zhu and came closer, and looked inside through the tiny gap in the middle of the medicine cabinet.
Really.
In the middle of the gap, you can faintly see a beam the thickness of an arm.
This thing is supposed to be what holds the medicine cabinet in place, and only by opening it can the door be opened without destroying the medicine cabinet.
Of course.
It is also possible that the beam can only be opened from the outside.
When the person who set up this secret door entered the tomb, he opened the cork and opened the door to enter.
When leaving the tomb, plug the cork to prevent the people or living creatures inside from going out.
But such a gadget is not difficult for Wu Liang.
After seeing what was blocking the door, Wu Liang decisively pulled out the copper dagger pinned to the back of his waist, and inserted the slender blade into the gap, which was not long or short enough to touch the beam.
Then he snapped the blade of the brass dagger slightly into the beam and pulled it a little to the left.
Motionless.
and pulled slightly to the right.
It's moving!
Perfect!
Wu Liang immediately found a way, so he kept using the copper dagger to pull the beam to the right, as long as the beam could be completely pulled apart, the door could be easily opened.
At the same time as Wu Liang's actions.
His ears heard some slight noises, as if something metal was rubbing gently.
The noise came from the door of the half disguised as a medicine cabinet.
Wu Liang pulled the beam and turned his head sideways to check.
"Huh?"
I saw that a drawer near the middle of the medicine cabinet was slowly pushing out a little bit at this moment with his application.
This......
Wu Liang was stunned, this drawer can't be a switch, right?
Wu Liang immediately pulled the copper dagger out of the gap, turned around and came to the front of the drawer, and pulled it open with a slight force.
"Click!"
There was a noise from behind the medicine cabinet.
The door of this half of the medicine cabinet disguised as a medicine cabinet opened!
"It's kind of interesting......"
Wu Liang's heart was happy, but he was not in a hurry to enter the door, but lowered his head to carefully check the settings in this drawer.
It turns out that there is also a hidden mechanism under the spices of this drawer.
It was a metal strip that was directly attached to the pull tab, and one end of the metal strip ran directly through the drawer to the back of the medicine cabinet......
Wu Liang came to the back of the medicine cabinet to check again.
I saw that on the door panel at the back of the medicine cabinet, several small metal collars were also set up, and some metal strips of different lengths were placed in the collars, so that it seemed to be connected to the bolt wood behind the door after going around a circle.
In this way, whether you pull the cork or pull the drawer, both will move accordingly.
This secret door can be easily opened inside and outside.
This seems to be a small linkage mechanism that is not very clever in later generations, and when it is linked, it cannot protect the mechanism from detection.
However, this is the first time that Wu Liang has found a mechanism that can be called a mechanism in the mausoleum, and he is a little surprised in his heart.
Moreover, Wu Liang believes that more and more exquisite mechanisms will be discovered when robbing tombs in the future, and this is just the beginning.
After all, this is an era when there have been "geodynamic instruments" and "armillary spheres", and there are countless myths and legends before that, Master Luban and the Mojia organs.
Even if the conditions and production process were limited at this time, Wu Liang did not dare to doubt the wisdom and hands-on ability of the ancients.
……
After checking this small mechanism, Wu Liang finally satisfied the curiosity in his heart.
Then lead the other three into the secret room behind the door.
The materials used in this chamber are not much different from those of the burial chamber, except that the interior is much more comfortable than the burial chamber.
The most eye-catching thing is a large carved wooden bed, covered with luxurious quilts and mattresses, and hung with delicate bed curtains, the front of the bed curtains and quilts are used in Shu embroidery that only real princes and nobles can use.
The rest of the furniture is also readily available, and the workmanship is quite exquisite.
There is even a large wooden barrel in the dark room, this wooden barrel is the bath barrel used for bathing at this time, and it is only used by the rich and powerful scholars, ordinary people usually find a small river and stream that is not easy to be seen to wash simply, and even do not bathe for several months in winter.
And at this time, ordinary women, if they really want to take a bath and it is inconvenient to go out, they will boil a small basin of hot water and wipe it carefully, and when no one is waiting, who will use this time-consuming and laborious large wooden barrel to take a bath?
Don't ask Wu Liang how he knows...... Asking is guessing, pure blind guessing!
In addition, the related living utensils are also extremely rich, such as copper mirrors, copper basins, tripods, boxes, pots, urns, pots, bowls, ...... And so on, as long as it is something that can be used in daily life, there are almost all of them here.
Therefore, this dark room is not really used to bury the dead, but to live in the living.
There are even many places where traces of human life can be clearly seen, which should not be seen in all the mausoleums where the dead are buried.
"It seems that this Fang Shi named Lian Shi is really pretending to be martyred, but he is actually occupying the magpie's nest for the dove?"
Wu Liang even suspected that the cause of death of Liu He, the first Marquis of Haidu, was also worthy of speculation.
After all, Liu He was only 33 years old when he died, and this age cannot be regarded as old age even during the Western Han Dynasty, at most it can only be said to be middle-aged, which should be regarded as a relatively early death.
And at that time, people were in vogue for thick burials.
It is very likely that this Fang Shi named Lian Shi had already taken a fancy to Liu He's family property when he was preparing to build a mausoleum for Liu He, so he built a dark room in advance when building the mausoleum, and was ready to take his funeral property for himself after Liu He died and was buried.
After all, this mausoleum has just been built, and Liu He unfortunately died of illness in the same year, such a coincidence is a suspicion that cannot be ignored.
But if it's just for property, it doesn't seem like there's any need for such trouble, right?
Obviously, he only needs to leave a secret passage leading to the mausoleum, and after Liu He is buried, his funeral property will naturally be taken and requested, so why do you need to deliberately perform such a grief-stricken drama to bury your master, and there is no need to live underground all the time, this underground world that does not see the light of day, right?
So.
This alchemist named Lian Shi must have a reason to "disappear", and he also needs a place where no one suspects and no one will find out to complete some unknown things.
That's all there is to it.
can be connected with the objects and creatures in the tomb that are not recorded in the "Tomb Building", as well as the many corpses of young girls.
As for what this unknown thing is......
Wu Liang bypassed some of the furniture in the dark room, and finally saw a low desk.
Next to this low desk was a dry corpse sitting on a kneeling position, with its head resting on the table.
The clothes of this dried corpse are still extraordinary, and just by wearing it, it can be determined that it is 100% a male corpse!
This is the only male corpse found in the mausoleum except for the owner of the tomb in the coffin, Wu Liang and others.
Could it be that this person is the Lian Shi recorded in the "Tomb Building"?
With such a question, Wu Liang came to the side of the male corpse to take a closer look.
His death was very strange, just lying on the table, holding a brush in his right hand, even though he had been dead for a long time, and his hand had turned into dry bones.
On the left hand side is a celadon porcelain vase that has just appeared in the Western Han Dynasty.
The porcelain vase is oval in shape, and the volume is not large, which is about the same as a duck egg.
"Is it suicide by taking poison?"
Wu Liang picked up the small porcelain vase and found that it was empty at the moment, but it exuded a very strange smell, which did not smell good at all, and even made people feel uncomfortable with chest tightness.
Frowning, Wu Liang hurriedly put down the small porcelain vase.
Then he called Dian Wei over, and the two of them used a sapper shovel to turn the dried corpse over from the desk.
The clothes on the corpse's body turned into fragments and powder almost at the slightest touch, revealing the dry bones wrapped inside, and although the bones of this corpse were somewhat yellowed, there was no sign of suicide by poisoning.
And what really caught Wu Liang's eyes was the unfinished bamboo slip that had been pressed by the corpse just now.
"Is it a diary?!"
This kind of thing that a serious person can't write at all is something that really has archaeological value.
Only it can help Wu Liang more intuitively understand what strange things have happened in this mausoleum, which in his eyes are far more precious than those gold and jade and other mundane things!
After removing the corpse.
Wu Liang immediately came to the side of the desk, and carefully spread out the bamboo slip that had been rolled up more than half of it little by little, starting from the front.
Only then did I realize that this thing was not a diary at all, but a research book.
Even on the outside of this book, there is a name written that is very atmospheric to pronounce - "The Book of Incense".
Here's what it reads:
There are many incense people in the world
Or the Quiet Man
Or pleasing to the eye
or manic
Make people overwhelmed
The Incense Sticker
Can be channeled
……
The writing of the Han Dynasty is quite concise, and the number of words that the bamboo slips can carry is not much, and it took about two moments of effort for Wu Liang to finish reading this "Incense Sutra", which was only partially written.
However, after reading it, he felt even tighter in his chest, and fell into complete silence.
When Wu Liang read the previous part of the theoretical chapters in this book, he only felt that this author was very ambitious, and even wanted to applaud his ideas several times:
"There are many aromas in the world.
Some can make people calm, some can make people happy, some can make people anxious, and some can make people excited, so the aroma must be able to calm people.
People also have their own unique aromas, although people are not aware of it, but many animals can distinguish different people by smell, and even can smell the specific aroma of the owner from a hundred miles away, and find the owner.
This particular aroma comes from the depths of the human soul and cannot be replaced.
And the same is true of the aroma in the world, the reason why it will have a different effect on people is because the aroma goes straight to the soul, and the nose is just a tool for the soul to breathe......"
And voila!
How level this idea is!
At least in this era, Wu Liang felt that people with this kind of thinking could already be called masters in this field, and they were much stronger than those who could only pretend to be gods and ghosts.
After all, even in later scientific research, it is recognized that different smells can have different effects on people's mood, and even directly affect a person's psychology.
But then, the style of painting began to change abruptly:
"Therefore, I believe that as long as I can refine a different fragrance from the world, I can use the fragrance to directly affect people's souls, make people submit to me, and bow down to me.
So I did my best to find all the precious spices I could find in the world, and I vowed to refine such a strange fragrance.
The preliminary preparations have been completed, I already have the wealth that I can't spend in this life, and I also have a workshop that will never be disturbed, and the next time is when I am shocked by Lianshi!
……”
"It's been five years, five whole years.
I have used hundreds of methods and refined thousands of different incense, but none of these visions have the effect I had hoped for, so I am ashamed that these methods have not been included in the "Book of Incense".
Could it be that I'm using the wrong method?
Or have I forgotten the most important introduction?
I heard that when the king was choosing a palace concubine, he always had to take off the girl's clothes and pants himself, and sniff the girl's private parts and armpits with his nose before deciding whether the girl would stay or not.
I also heard that Wang Mang, who usurped the throne in the Han Dynasty, also had a penchant for sniffing girls' desecrated clothes.
Everyone in the world says that girls have a unique body fragrance that can make people reluctant to smell it.
Perhaps this is the most important introduction to refining foreign fragrances!
……”
"It's so frustrating that I can't extract the fragrance from a girl's body.
Maybe I was using the wrong method, so I decided to try the most natural method, maybe that's the key to success.
I found a magical bug.
After eating the corpse of a young girl, this insect can produce some pure oil when it builds a nest, and maybe that's what I want.
I finally made it!
I have refined a strange fragrance that makes people stiffen and itch soon after smelling it, and this is undoubtedly a strange fragrance that can take away people's souls, and I would like to call it 'Lost Soul Incense'! ”