Chapter 81: Yin-Yang Stone
However, regardless of whether this jewel is the legendary Suihou Zhu or not, Wu Liang has already developed a huge interest in it.
Since he decided to conduct archaeological research in this era, he would have to go in and out of the tomb in the future, and lighting would be a problem that had to be overcome.
In this era, although torches, oil lamps, and even candles worth thousands of dollars can be used for lighting, the stability and illumination range of these lighting devices are very limited, and sometimes in special environments, it may cause fires, and this orb can replace flashlights and cold fire sticks becomes particularly crucial.
"Brother Dian Wei, please help me take off the orb in the candle dragon's mouth, I want this thing."
Thinking like this, Wu Liang immediately smiled at Dian Wei.
This candle dragon hangs on the dome, the distance between the orb and the ground is nearly three meters, which is equivalent to the height of a basketball hoop, Wu Liang's current body is only about one meter eight high, even if he straightens his arms and jumps up, it is relatively reluctant.
But Dian Wei has risen nearly two meters, and he is a famous player with amazing strength, so it should not be difficult to think about it.
"Well said."
Hearing this, Dian Wei nodded, turned around and jumped up, stretched out his hand and gently fished out the orb from the mouth of the candle dragon, and put it in front of Wu Liang with both hands.
"It's worthy of Brother Dian Wei, good skills."
Wu Liang praised and reached out to take the orb.
This jewel is as warm and smooth as jade, and it feels quite good, and it looks like the material should be a very special fluorite, as for whether there are other characteristics besides lighting, it remains to be investigated in the future.
For the time being, though, he doesn't plan to wrap the orb up, as the tomb will need to be illuminated with it.
Holding the jewel in the palm of his hand, Wu Liang continued to investigate the other furnishings in the inner room.
This inner chamber is not so much a burial chamber as a royal residence built in equal proportions.
Indoor beds, food tables, book cases, object cases, screens are all available, all of them are furniture for normal life, and the production process is also very fine, almost every piece of furniture is engraved with exquisite animal patterns and cloud patterns.
It's just that these pieces of furniture are probably carved out of more precious solid stone in order not to be damaged for a long time.
This is probably also the experience summed up by Guangchuan Wang Liu after going to rob the tomb many times, even if the material used in wooden furniture is good, there will always be a day of decay, but the stone can be preserved forever.
Just like the "Tomb Robbery Notes" that Wu Liang was going to write, in order to be able to keep it for future generations, he also planned to use stone slab seals, is this what the "heroes" see in the same way?
Above or inside these furniture, there are some more daily living utensils, whether they are gold, jade or bronze, and they are all rare and precious cultural relics in later generations.
On the generous bookcase, Wu Liang also saw a jade artifact recorded in historical documents:
It was a fist-sized jade toad, smooth and smooth with a hollow abdomen, and there were still some dried ink stains left in it, which was said to be the burial object of Jin Linggong.
When Liu went to rob the Jinling Cemetery, almost all the burial goods in the tomb were rotten and unrecognizable, only this jade toad was brand new and bright, and Liu Qu plundered it to be a tool for storing water and grinding ink.
Unexpectedly, after Liu Qu died, he also brought it into the tomb.
However, Wu Liang picked up this jade toad and observed it carefully for a long time, and he didn't see anything special.
Take a closer look at the furniture and utensils.
Except for asking Dian Wei to put away some gold artifacts with sufficient weights, he didn't find anything particularly worth starting.
Finally, Wu Liang finally focused his attention on the bed behind another small moire painted screen.
It was a four-legged flat bed with horn teeth that had just begun to appear in the Han Dynasty, and the four corners of the bed were decorated with teeth, and on the left and right sides of the bed sat two women who were also not at all.
However, unlike those young women in the outer room, these women are very plump, and their height and body are not inferior to men, and they are estimated to be at least 200 pounds before their deaths......
Even if he didn't look at the mural this time, through the physical characteristics of these four women, Wu Liang could roughly guess their use.
When the weather is cold, they will surround the owner and use their bodies to resist the cold for the master, which is called "meat screen".
In a bed surrounded by four "meat screens".
Wu Liang finally saw a set of golden jade clothes lying flat.
This should be the real body of Guangchuan King Liu, probably because he still wanted to live a free life after he died, or he didn't want to accept the fact that he was dead, he didn't use a coffin, nor did he use a yellow intestine to make up, but only used a jade robe that could "keep the body immortal".
However, this corpse is obviously no longer able to be examined like the tanned corpse above.
Because he had completely turned into dry bones, the golden jade robe had collapsed as a result, leaving only some yellow-brown traces of decay on the jade pieces and the bed near the jade robe......
As for the mouth, eye cover, nasal plug, shengzhi cover box and gang door stopper placed on the corpse.
Wu Liang was not interested at all, so he didn't plan to open the golden jade clothes to check it.
"It seems that this is all there is, ready to withdraw...... Wait a minute! ”
Wu Liang himself probed around the golden jade clothes, but did not find anything worth starting, and finally decided to stop there.
It was at this moment that a white pebble similar in shape and size to soap at the head of the bed caught his attention.
It's a very inconspicuous oval pebble, but it's also so inconspicuous that it's even more strange to be placed in such a place that is almost close to Liu.
Wu Liang carefully held this pebble in his hand, only to find that there was an inscription on its back - "Yin and Yang Stone".
"Isn't this the kind of magical stone recorded in the "Notes on the Water Classic?"
Wu Liang was stunned.
According to the "Notes on the Book of Water", Yin-Yang Stone is a strange stone that can predict the weather, and it usually looks like an ordinary white stone, but if it rains on any day, the stone will turn dark in advance, which is more accurate than the weather forecast of later generations.
Later scientific research institutions have also confirmed the authenticity of yin-yang stone.
It is speculated that the main ingredient of this stone should be calcium carbonate, but it also contains some other unknown strange components, on sunny days the air humidity is low, this strange stone will appear white, and on rainy days the air humidity is high, this strange stone will become dark because of the moisture in the air.
"If it's really a yin-yang stone, it's also a very practical thing, so take it."
Although there is no way to verify the authenticity of this "Yin Yang Stone" for the time being, this does not prevent Wu Liang from taking it to study it slowly, so he hid it in Dian Wei's arms.
lest you go out and be discovered by Bai Jingjing for a while......
……
This time I can really leave, and the trip went unusually well.
A mysterious orb for lighting and a yin-yang stone that can predict the weather are all artifacts for future archaeological research, and Wu Liang is very satisfied with such a harvest.
But when he and Dian Wei walked out of the inner room satisfied, they immediately encountered a suspicious situation!
"Huh? What about Bai Jingjing? ”
Wu Liang was stunned.
I saw that outside the inner room, Bai Jingjing, who had fallen to the ground, had disappeared, leaving only a pile of shriveled clothes that still maintained her human form!
It's as if it has evaporated in place!
"Could it be that you woke up and went out early?"
Dian Wei asked subconsciously.
"Impossible, the dirty clothes are all here, do you want to go out and run naked?"
Wu Liang picked up a small red belly pocket with body temperature from his clothes, and said with great certainty, "What's more, we are still here, she wants to stay and supervise me, and there is no reason to leave on her own." ”
"How ...... that?"
Dian Wei looked puzzled, not knowing how to explain.
"It's hard to say."
Wu Liang was the same, looked around the empty tomb, frowned and said: "If you don't take her out with you, the tomb keeper will definitely not give up, a bloody battle is inevitable, but here is such a place, where can she go?" ”
While speaking, Wu Liang suddenly regretted a little in his heart, regretting that he shouldn't have left Bai Jingjing outside just now, and even regretted that he shouldn't have loosened Bai Jingjing's ties before coming in for the second time.
After seeing the coffin in the tomb of King Liang Xiao, how strange or terrifying things appeared in the tomb were already within the scope of his psychological acceptance.