The Secret Realm of the River Chapter 7 The Strange Coffin
The three of us had nothing to do, first followed Professor Ning, watched him fiddle with those instruments, looked at the large amount of data he recorded, and then wrote and calculated there, which really didn't understand at all.
Simply came to Nangong Xinyue's side, followed her around, we came to the matching hall where the coffin of the bones was found, I heard Zhou Tianzuo say that the eight matching halls should be the coffins of Chen Youliang's favorite concubine, but only this one has bones in the coffin.
We entered the side hall and found a white jade coffin, the head and tail were made of gold in the shape of a phoenix, the coffin lid had been opened and put aside, we took a closer look, the coffin was a pool of clear water, there was nothing at all.
There happened to be Feng Biao in our team, and when he saw an acquaintance, Xiong Dali said to him: Feng Biao, lend me your ordnance shovel to use, and I'll fish here to see what treasures there are, and if you catch it, you will be counted.
Feng Biao came over and said: No need to fish, we have already salvaged before, there are no funeral goods, the main tomb and eight side halls have a total of nine coffins, which are full of clear water, and you can see the bottom at a glance. Only this one had a dry skeleton fished out of it, and placed it there, pointing to the corner of the side as he spoke.
Sure enough, there was a skeleton about one meter there, which was put together and placed on the ground.
Xiong Dali leaned over and touched his chin and pondered for a while and said, Well, I know.
Nangong Xinyue asked him: What do you see?
Chen Youliang has a heteromorphism, you see that such a small skeleton must be a child, is it still a dwarf, if it is a dwarf, it is a dwarf.
Phew, the dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth, Nangong Xinyue said angrily.
Seeing that this cold joke not only did not amuse the beauty, but was also angered by the beautiful professor, the bear stuck out his tongue vigorously and shrank his head to the side.
I also leaned over to observe the dry bones, and looked at the proportions of the body, which was indeed the same as Xiong Dali said, the appearance of a child. But I observed a strange place, so I said to Nangong Xinyue: Professor Nangong, you see, her two foot bones seem to be different from ordinary people, they are connected together, is it possible that they have been deformed by blisters?
Nangong Xinyue was reminded by me and noticed this, and asked the team members next to her to bring a portable X-ray machine, measured the bone age, and found that the owner of the skeleton was between eighteen and twenty years old when he died, which was an adult in ancient times.
Nangong Xinyue looked at each other as I did, could it really be that this Han Xiong guessed correctly, this favorite concubine is a deformity, and the two of us couldn't help but shudder at the same time.
At this time, I heard the bear shouting vigorously on the other side of the coffin, come and see, this has two holes.
The two of us walked over again, lay down next to the coffin and looked inside, only to see that there was a hole the size of a bowl in the upper and lower corners of the coffin, and there was clear spring water flowing into it from one hole, and the other hole was draining outside, so the water in the coffin was always so much that it would not overflow.
Xiong Dali said: I also heard the sound of cooing and cooing just now, and I found out when I looked inside, this coffin is interesting, why is it so like a fish tank, and there is an automatic water change system.
I asked Feng Biao, are the other side halls like this?
Yes, it's exactly the same as here, and the décor is nothing wrong. Feng Biao returned.
We found a set of frescoes on the walls of the main burial chamber, which seemed to depict the life of the tomb owner, which may be helpful in understanding his history.
Nangong Xinyue said excitedly: Take me there quickly. Then he rushed out without saying anything.
We walked quickly to the main hall, the first hall is the Wenhua Palace, inside is a large number of calligraphy and painting porcelain, antique cultural toys, exquisite workmanship, not those tattered goods in the ear holes outside can be compared.
Xiong's saliva is about to flow out, these are all things that can be used as treasures in the store, touch this, look at that, I want to put it in my backpack.
Vigorously, go quickly, the things here can't run, Zhou Tianzuo said, the things here will be distributed to us in the future, why are you in a hurry.
Xiong vigorously endured the desire in his heart and followed us into the second hall, the Tianbao Palace. The gold, silver, jade and various colored pearls and gemstones are scattered everywhere, and under the illumination of the light, the jewels are dazzling and dazzling.
Although these things are not as precious as calligraphy, painting and porcelain, but they can arouse the desire of human beings for money, I have an indifferent personality, for money has always been enough to spend, for these jewels are just surprised, but not obsessed with it, Miaoqing is still a child, and has been practicing in Taoism, for money and other mundane things do not care, special combat members are firm people. I didn't expect Nangong Xinyue, a little girl in her twenties, to resist the charm of jewelry, and she was not interested in catching a glance.
It was Xiong Dali, who was a bear, completely lost his mind this time, and screamed, and was about to rush up and pounce into the pile of gold, silver and jewelry, but was pulled by Feng Biao. Word by word, they said to him: It will be very miserable.
Hearing Feng Biao's words, I carefully observed these jewels again, and found that they all showed colorful halos under the illumination of the light, this is the problem, gold should be gold, silver reflects silver light, jewelry and diamonds can refract colorful brilliance, should not be so consistent.
It's hard to get all these jewels ...... Halfway through my words, Feng Biao nodded and said: That's right, it is coated with highly poisonous, and it is a neurotoxin, poisoned people will hallucinate, and there will be the most desired or fearful scenes in the illusion, and they will sink to death in a sweet dream or be scared to death in fear.
Xiong Dali shrunk his neck in fright, is it so terrifying?
You haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig run? Although you haven't been to an ancient tomb, you have been in the antique circle for so long, and you haven't read less TV novels about tomb robbing, right? I also know that there are many dangers here, and I really think we are here for sightseeing! I don't have the anger to teach Xiong Dali.
Yes, yes, all listen to you, Xiong Dali was scared enough, revealing the essence of the bear.
But don't panic, these toxins are not spreading, as long as we don't touch them with bare skin, we won't be poisoned, saying that Feng Biao kicked aside a golden bowl that was blocking the road with his foot.
The front is the main hall, but also the main tomb - the dragon hall, we walked into the dragon hall, a giant coffin raised by nine golden dragons appeared in our field of vision, the coffin is carved from a whole piece of green jade, the nine golden dragons are also made of pure gold, the dragon's eye position is inlaid with two rubies, as if alive under the illumination of the spotlight, want to soar above the nine heavens.
The lid of the coffin was also opened, and when I looked inside, there was a pool of clear water, and I could see to the end at a glance, and there was nothing. Sure enough, there are many murals around, and the murals that have been preserved in the darkness of the ground for six or seven hundred years have quickly faded in color under the light of modern spotlights, and many of them have been blurred.
Nangong Xinyue was heartbroken when she saw these faded murals, but there was no way, who made the family powerful, so she could only take out her camera and want to take pictures of the murals.
Feng Biao saw Nangong Xinyue take out his camera, walked over and said, "Professor Nangong, we have already rubbed these murals, and we don't need you to take these blurry murals again, so he took out a stack of rubbing paper from the partner next to him and handed it to Nangong Xinyue.
Why didn't you say it earlier, Nangong Xinyue said slightly angrily, didn't she want to give others a chance to speak?
Several of us focused our eyes on the rubbing painting in Nangong Xinyue's hand.
The first picture shows a child fishing by the lake and gets a book from the belly of the fish; the second picture shows the child growing up to become a general, commanding thousands of troops and horses to fight; the third picture shows the general returning from a great victory, ascending the throne and becoming the emperor, and being worshiped by ten thousand people; the fifth picture shows the emperor kneeling down to an old man, who gave him two elixirs, which the emperor treasured in a brocade box; the sixth picture shows 10,000 craftsmen building a city by a long river; the seventh picture shows an old man directing craftsmen to build a bronze gate and place it in the middle of the castle; the eighth picture shows a mountain falling from the sky and pressing the built castle into the groundThe ninth picture shows the emperor being shot with a bow and arrow while commanding a battle, and a military general running back to the palace with his body. The tenth picture shows the general carrying the body of the emperor and eight women through the cave to the underground castle. The eleventh picture shows the general taking out a pill from the brocade box and stuffing it into the mouth of the emperor's corpse, and then taking out another pill and putting it in the cup, and the eight women drank it separately. The twelfth painting depicts a dragon flying out of a golden coffin, and eight phoenixes flying out of a phoenix coffin, surrounding the golden dragon and flying into the ethereal fairy world.
A total of these twelve pictures, the first four pictures are easy to understand, that is, Chen Youliang was born in a small fishing village, the divine grace of heaven was born in the fish belly god book, and led the army to shock the Quartet until he became the emperor, Nangong Xinyue said: But the latter pictures are a little strange, all emperors will package themselves with some mythological colors, but why do you want to create an old Taoist priest?
Some of the paintings are real, such as the ancient tomb castle we are in, and the nine coffins of the dragon, eight phoenixes, and the bronze gate, if it is like the picture drawn, this underground palace should only be the first half now, and half of it is in the inside of the bronze door. I spoke my mind.
The last picture is a dragon and nine phoenixes flying into the fairy world from the coffin, does it mean that Chen Youliang and his eight concubines entered the world behind the bronze gate after being resurrected in the coffin?
Xiong Dali stretched out his head again and said: It's not Bafeng, it's Qifeng, and there is a foot cramp that didn't fly, and he drowned in the coffin.
Could it really be that there is such an elixir that brings people back to life and soars into immortals? Could it be that the Zhou Group spent so much effort to find this elixir?
This set of murals does not provide much valuable information, but it also shows us a way, and the answer should lie in the bronze gate, the flying mountain, the mysterious old road, and the missing Chen Youliang, all of which aroused my enthusiasm for secret exploration.