These people mentioned in the altar are hidden in the terracotta figurines. Now that the upper body of the terracotta figurines is shattered and falling, these people have revealed their true faces. It is thought that it was placed in the figurines before they were made, and it has gone through thousands of years. They were all dressed in armor, their eyes closed, and their faces were blue. Their bodies were not dried corpses like the two lieutenants, nor did they decompose, but were very well preserved, as if they had just died.

"Are there really corpses hidden in these figurines?" Professor Jin said in disbelief, "Even the terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang are just ordinary terracotta figurines!" His face was flushed and he was very excited.

"Why did you put the corpses of these soldiers in terracotta figurines?" Jiang Jie asked, "Didn't the funeral system be abolished during the Qin Dynasty?" ”

At this time, Professor Jin's emotions slowly calmed down. He explained to Jiang Jie: "Martyrdom represents the power and hierarchical status of the tomb owner, so the higher the status and the greater the power, the more people have to be martyred. However, the corpses here are all preserved in terracotta figurines, and they are so well preserved, I think these figurines are not for burial, but for guarding. ”

"Guards?" Jiang Jie asked, "It's like the Terracotta Army guarding the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang?" ”

Professor Jin said, "That's right! ”

Uncle Xu said: "That means that these figurines are guarding the people in the bronze coffin?" ”

Professor Jin nodded and said, "It should be like this!" ”

"It seems that the status of the dead man in this bronze coffin is extraordinary!" Uncle Xu said.

Tanzi and I walked up to one of the figurines and took a closer look at the corpses that emerged from the figurines. Suddenly, I felt as if I had stepped on water under my feet, so I looked down and saw that there was a pool of silver-gray water on the ground around the terracotta figurines.

"Is this water on the ground mercury?" I screamed. Hearing my call, the big guy immediately noticed this: "Where did this mercury come from?" What about just yet? ”

As soon as the words came out, we made a new discovery—mercury flowed out of the terracotta figurines. In other words, both the mercury and the corpse were hidden in the terracotta figurines, and because the terracotta figurines were broken, they were able to see the light of day.

Professor Jin circled around the corpse again and again: "It seems that these mercury are really used for embalming." ”

"Professor, how did you get these things into the figurines?" Jiang Jie asked, pointing to the corpse and mercury.

Professor Jin said: "I have really seen relevant records of this, but it is not an official history, but in ancient anecdotes. According to the records, these figurines are called figurines and must be made in the cold winter. ”

"Rheumatoid figurines? Can this terracotta figurine also get rheumatism and rheumatoid? It is estimated that I have lived in this humid place for a long time. As soon as Tanzi said a word, he was slapped by Jiang Jie.

"Why in the cold winter?" Jiang Jie asked Professor Jin.

"Because it freezes in winter!" Professor Jin said. They didn't understand what it meant, so he went on to say: "Ordinary living figurines are actually wrapped in cloth and clay on the outside of the living person, and then fired, which is an ancient punishment. When the terracotta warriors and horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang were just unearthed, because of the different demeanors of the terracotta warriors, people thought that they were fired by living people. But later, after expert identification, it was found that those terracotta warriors were not fired by humans. ”

"As for this corpse, I said that it should be made in the winter because it needs to put people in water and freeze them into ice cubes first. After roughly chiseling out the human figure, the outside of the ice cube is smeared with clay and fired. When the clay outside began to harden, the ice inside also turned into water, and the corpses thawed. Then take out the figurine, open a hole from the top of the head and other places, pour out the water in the figurine, so that there is a space between the corpse and the figurines, and then pour mercury into the figurines along the small hole until it is filled, and finally seal the hole with clay, so that a figurines are completed...... All terracotta figurines made in this way have the corpses inside that do not decay for a long time and can be preserved for more than a thousand years...... Originally, I only listened to these as stories, but I didn't expect to see the real figurines today......"

Mo Ji clapped his hands and said, "Following Professor Jin along the way, I have really gained a lot of knowledge!" ”

At this time, I noticed a strange phenomenon: "You say it's strange, why didn't the bodies of those two lieutenants be preserved with mercury, but these ordinary soldiers were put in mercury?" ”

The jar said, "Maybe there's not enough mercury, right?" ”