Chapter 8: A Hole in a Cave
It can be more than a month, and the sun and moon teaching method of stone carving has been practiced, and he is not yet proficient.
I have to practice and hunt all day long, although there are countless scars all over my body, I feel that my martial arts and strength are not comparable to before. He was grateful for the skeleton, and he had always been haunted by his last wishes, and felt that he should do his best to fulfill it for him. So he bowed under the skeleton and said, "Cave Master senior, I will try to bury you according to your last wishes now, please forgive you for touching your Dharma body, if you accidentally make a mistake, please don't blame." β
So the start of work, first move the two short stone slabs to the southeast corner of the hole, and try to move the long stone slabs, but how can not move, the original standing stone slabs are really under the force, the hanging stone slabs are estimated to be only a small part, and the groove is slightly larger, and rely on the three standing stone slabs for the column support, embedded with the position of the top is just right, an inlay and a brace just keep the level, if there is no pillar that the horizontal stone slab will slip down. The three standing stone slabs themselves are very heavy, and they hold up to the hanging stone slabs above and a skeleton, so you can imagine it, so you have to start from above first. I really don't understand why he expects others to help him, and why he designs it like this, it's really human.
He moved the stone table and stepped on it, wanting to remove the whole skull, but the skeleton had no tendons, the skeleton had been scattered, it was not easy to move it as a whole, and it was disrespectful to the deceased to move it in pieces.
If there is a thin plate or the like, you can slowly stuff it to the bottom of the dry bones until it is all supported and then transferred down, but this is a barren mountain and wild forest, how can there be that kind of thin plate? There is no shortage of trees outside, but there are no relevant tools, only a sword, even if a small piece of wood can not be spliced into a large sheet, if you want to make a thin board long and wide enough, you have to cut a large trunk, and you are not a carpenter, and the labor and energy consumption is immeasurable.
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to chop some logs. There are many species of trees in the mountains and forests, and it is not difficult to find some straight wood like a birch tree.
Every time he chooses a tree, he just uses his sword luck to cut down the wood, and the trunk with the thickness of his ankle can be cut off in three or two strokes. After more than an hour's work, a pile of trees has been cut down and moved into the cave after minor repairs.
After the three are cut according to the need, they are beveled into the corners of the suspended and upright stone slabs, like slides, to unload the force. The rest of the trees are cut into more than one meter and spread from the stone slabs to the southeast of the cave like railway sleepers, which are used for rolling wood to carry the stone slabs.
He stepped on the stone table, slowly moving the skeleton forward and flattening, gently trying to keep it in its original form, for fear that the dry bones would fall apart when he moved the stone slab, which was just long enough to hang out.
After the preparations were made, he grabbed the back of the hanging stone slab, first grinding it from side to side, and then slowly pumping it out as he grinded, without feeling that it was very laborious. Seeing that the slate had all been pulled out of the trough and slowly resting on the standing slate, he had felt the weight of the slate, and it was gradually difficult to hold it with both hands, so he changed to shoulder it and was careful.
When the front of the flat stone slab "walked" past the last standing stone slab, it really slid down the three logs, and the slide was very fast, Liu Weifeng had to slowly bend his knees and retreat and force his front top to control the speed of the slide. Until he retreated to the edge of the stone table, he slowly stepped down and continued to control, and when the stone slab was very low, he changed it to support the stone with both hands, stretched out his foot and kicked the stone table to the left side, and finally made the stone slab slowly and firmly moored on the rolling wood, and the dry bones did not shake and fall apart at all.
He let out a sigh, touched the sweat on his forehead, and secretly praised himself: "It's really witty like me!" β
I couldn't see the things on the hanging plate when I looked up before, and there was a rusty dagger next to the dry bones, some ancient money, broken silver, etc., which were probably placed on the body back then, and the clothes were scattered on the stone slab after they were corrupted.
Liu Weifeng suddenly found that there were open strip-shaped grooves on the inner four sides of the stone slab with dry bones, and the width of the groove seemed to be about the same as the thickness of the slate. He understood that it must be the sarcophagus designed by this person before his death, this stone slab was originally used as the bottom of the coffin, and the rest of the pieces should have grooves except for two short ones.
The next work does not have to worry about the skeleton will fall apart, even if it takes a little effort, I feel that it is relatively easy to do. Roll the stone slab and the dry bones to the southeast corner, slowly remove the rolling wood and fix the position of the bottom of the coffin, and then carry the other stone slabs.
Without the pressure from above, the standing stone slabs were easily laid flat and carried, and there were indeed grooves on the inside. After the second piece is transported, it first leans against the south wall of the cave, and it has to wait for two or three pieces to support each other before it can stand on its side, and it will fall into the coffin and hit the dry bones if it is not careful, which is unimaginable.
The two short pieces are separated at two ends, respectively against the east wall and the south wall, because they are relatively light, and they are convenient to assemble at any time.
The third long stone slab could not be fixed after being embedded in the bottom groove on its side, so Liu Weifeng had to hold it with his legs, fix it with one hand, pull the short stone slab with the other hand, and finally lift it into the groove with both hands. After the three stone slabs are put into the bottom groove, the short board is embedded in the groove of the two long boards, which has been fixed, and there is no longer a need for hand support.
The last stone slab is the coffin lid, and I didn't care about the other stone slabs blocking it before, but it was bigger than the first two, and one was embedded in the underground of the cave! In this way, when the three stones are flush when they stand side by side, they must be artificially made in advance.
Liu Weifeng sighed that the main worker of this cave is scheming, but why is it so cumbersome?
He was stunned after putting down the lid of the coffin! The light in the cave is weak, the stone wall on the east side is dark, and the place where the coffin lid was originally leaning is even darker. He leaned in to take a closer look, and oh my God, there was a hole in the back! The design of the cave owner's painstaking efforts and efforts seems to be a superfluous move but is actually to cover up this hole, and there must be material in this hole!
The cave was so dark that he was terrified, and he decided to seal the sarcophagus lid before going to find out.
With the help of rolling wood, it is no longer difficult to transport the coffin lid in the past, as it is concocted. But the lid is almost a pure force work, the coffin lid is too heavy, directly use brute force to go first, and then slowly slide over Although there is this ability, I am afraid that the coffin that is buckled together by the groove will be dispersed due to heavy pressure or uneven force, and the destructive force is great, not to mention the previous efforts, the bones of the cave master will be smashed into powder, miserable.
After thinking about it for a long time, he decided to find some vines, bark, and the like to make ropes, and tie the coffin horizontally to fix it. Most of the birch trees that had been cut down before were cut too short, and only a few longer barks were peeled, and then they went out and cut some of them, mixed with some soft rattan, and began to weave thick ropes in a ponytail style. This rope is simple and easy to make, stronger than two strands, and can be reknitted at any time when each strand is used up.
It took nearly an hour to basically use up the rope, and he wrapped it down along the edge of the coffin, and the length of the rope was more than enough to circle around the coffin, tighten it and tie the knot. He tried to break and press, and sure enough, it was firm.
He glanced at the dry bones at the bottom of the coffin, and made a gesture, and really wanted to seal it as a farewell ceremony, and did not use his dagger, money, etc., which was considered a funeral item, and was regarded as a respect for the cave owner, but the sword was borrowed for a long time.
He moved the stone table behind the sarcophagus, leaving a gap of about half a meter. There are three logs on the stone table, the height of the connecting wood is slightly higher than the sarcophagus, and the three logs spread out with even gaps. He lifted the head of the coffin lid with great difficulty, first placed it on the west edge of the stone table, then moved it up from the side of the coffin lid, and finally jumped onto the stone table and twisted the lid from side to side, so that the angle of inclination gradually increased.
When the part that rises above the stone table reaches his vision, he presses the head of the coffin lid, the tail is cocked, and then continues to press down to a certain angle, and he himself descends from the gap to the ground, and slowly controls the coffin lid so that it gradually lays flat on the log of the stone table. Then pull the lid flat to slide forward, and when the front touches your body, it comes out of the gap, and controls it to move forward on the north side.
After the first log rolled out of the gap, the front of the coffin lid was already on the coffin mouth, so he stood behind the coffin, pressed the tail of the coffin lid with the log as a fulcrum, raised the front again, and then pushed forward. As the lid moved forward, the arm of the press became shorter, and it became more and more difficult for him to hold the weight in front of him, and the second log was about to fall.
So he loosened his head on the coffin, wiped his sweat, and then lifted the tail of the coffin lid to separate it from the log, resisted it with his shoulder, first turned the log back to half of the stone table with his hands, and then pushed the stone table forward so that it slowly leaned against the tail of the coffin, and then put down the tail of the coffin lid and press it forward.
This is easier, and when he can't hold it down again, the coffin lid has basically covered the coffin mouth, he moved the stone table, fastened the coffin lid according to the groove, and sighed that the cave master is still an excellent stonemason.
Liu Weifeng untied the rope, removed the stone table, and after clearing out the logs, he admired his "work", "Perfect!" "He praised! There is a sense of accomplishment in my heart. Finally helped the cave master fulfill his last wish, and in the following days, he felt at ease in the cave to practice martial arts and stay.
In this wilderness and forest without technology, relying on the primitive productivity alone, it took a lot of effort to assemble the sarcophagus into a body, it is hard to imagine how the cave owner quarried stone slabs, slotted and transported, and inlaid the bottom of the coffin in the two-meter-high stone wall, it is really strange!
This labor cost him a lot of energy, he barbecued something to eat, and walked towards the hole in the hole with a flashlight.
This cave is about one-third the size of the outside, and the surrounding circle is densely packed with stone carvings, and there is a sword standing on the inside of the cave door, nothing else, and I don't see anything special about this cave.
"Could it be that the mystery that the cave master wants to hide is in these stone carvings?" He thought to himself, and hit the light on the wall of the cave, trying to see some clues from it. After a general look around, I found that the large part of the cave was relatively neat and orderly, and there were a few lines of words on the left side of the cave door that were more isolated and casual:
"However, the enemies are all old and dead, and I know that the years have passed, and the world has changed, woo hoo and mourn! Negative hatred lived for half a life, fortunately relieved at dusk, and returned to the cave to ascend to heaven. Those who are destined to enter this cave, intelligent and affectionate, can get my mantle, do not slack off, when the sword chops the stone like mud to go out of the mountain, give you Qingyin, when the stone carvings inside and outside are destroyed, do not suffer from treachery. Be quiet and promote goodness, avoid doing evil, be brave and ruthless, know that there are mountains outside the mountain, the Tao is natural, and do nothing and do nothing. βSong Huangshang.