Volume 3 The Ghost Boat of the Sand Sea Chapter 7 Dried Corpses and Wine
I looked at Yu Laoshi coldly from behind, and when I saw him turn around and walk back, I said to him coldly: "Uncle Yu, you see, even a young man like Jinhua is afraid to get down, but you are quite calm, and you seem to be quite familiar with the road?" ”
"Hehe, young man, it's normal to be inexperienced." Yu honestly smiled.
"So you're experienced?" I asked him rhetorically.
"I'm not very experienced, but when I was younger, I also did some digging and picking up goods...... Yu honestly admitted.
"You're pretty honest, and you don't hide it......" I said.
"So what is there to hide? It's all peers, who doesn't know who? "Yu honestly. I know that he listened to the words shouted by the altar just now, and misunderstood that the two of us were also tomb robbers, so he did not hide it, and his intention was also to show that he was also an expert, so let's not treat him as a chick who doesn't know how to do it, it seems that he has made up his mind to get a piece of the pie.
"The old rules, there are many capable people, and those who see have a share!" The door of the tomb has not yet opened, and I don't know what will be inside, but Yu Honestly has already negotiated with us outside about the distribution of goods.
"Deal! Do as you say! "It seems that Yu Laoshi is an old oilman, anyway, we didn't come specifically for the things in the tomb, so I will directly make decisions for Tanzi and Fang Jinhua in this matter.
The door of the tomb was not difficult to open, and the four of us opened it in a few clicks.
The tomb was quite simple, a burial chamber, empty, with only a coffin in the middle. However, this did not extinguish the honest heightened mood in the slightest.
"Take a hand, lift the lid of this coffin, the good goods are in the coffin!" Yu Laoshi held the coffin nail himself and told us to get started.
Now that they're all here, it's obviously inappropriate not to do it. Of course, the altar also held the idea of being able to make a fortune here, which helped Yu Laoshi. Although there is some money, who will have too much money, the more the merrier. And Fang Jinhua was still a little scared at first, but now when he saw the altar and Yu Laoshi starting to open the coffin, he was even more frightened and didn't dare to step forward. The jar cheered him up vigorously: "Don't be afraid, what's there to be afraid of, it's been a year since I looked at this tomb, and the people inside were all left with bone shelves, so I should go to the laboratory to see the specimens." Once there is something good here, it will be distributed to you, and you will be able to work for several years. Under the encouragement of the drum of the altar, Fang Jinhua also slowly stepped forward and started to fight.
I walked around the burial chamber. This is a tomb made of bluestone, the area is not small, but the scale is not large. I walked around the burial chamber, and I didn't find any holes, but the yellow skin obviously got down, but it was gone, where did it go?
While I was pondering, the altar called to me, "Don't be idle there, come and work!" ”
The coffin lid "clattered" and was pushed aside by us. But the four of us poked our heads into the coffin, and we were all disappointed. The coffin contained neither funerary goods nor bones, only a tablet and a mask. The mask was made of stone, and it looked quite vicious, but unfortunately it had been shattered in half. And that tablet looks like it's rotten a lot. The altar picked up the tablet, because the wood is better, and the words are carved deeper, so some of the words on it are barely recognizable, it seems to be "the god of the immortal master Xu Fu", there is a column of small characters below, and you can only see "Haiwan...... Gong Li", the words are engraved crookedly.
"I'll go, Xu Fu has been canonized here?" When the altar looked at it, he said, "It seems that the worship of him is not a little bit." ”
I also said, "I really don't know the identity of the person who buried this tablet here...... and before I finished speaking, the stone wall inside suddenly "rumbled" and turned around.
"Since there are still organs?" The jar was very surprised. Everyone's eyes were focused on the rotating wall, and the altar casually threw the tablet in his hand to the ground. The tablet is estimated to be old, and as soon as it fell to the ground, it broke into two, I looked down, but this look was attracted by the tablet again. The tablet turned out to be hollow, and a corner of white was exposed. Seeing that none of the three of them noticed this, I hurriedly crouched down and dragged the white one out. I didn't look closely, I just put it in my pocket, but it felt like a piece of cloth in my hand.
The stone wall has been completely turned around, and what appears in front of us is a stone platform. There are five jars under the stone platform, on which sit five dried corpses, arranged in an inverted triangle and next to each other. The five dried corpses were all covered in gray linen, and their heads were also covered in the linen, looking very much like the cloak of the Western Grim Reaper.
"Out, out!" Fang Jinhua said tremblingly.
"Don't be afraid, aren't you just a few dead people?" The jar comforted him and said.
Yu Laoshi is a veteran after all, he was shocked to see so many dried corpses at first, but then returned to normal. He set his eyes on the several jars in front of the stone platform: "What is placed here must be yellow goods!" He stepped forward and picked up an altar, and found that the mouth of the altar was sealed and very tight. He held the jar in one hand and poked it directly with the other. As soon as his hand entered the jar, the expression on his face immediately drooped, and it seemed that he had not touched the good thing as expected. And when he pulled his hand out of the jar, he brought out a great deal of water.
"What's in there? Rotten? Jarzi asked.
Yu honestly put his hand close to his nose and sniffed it, and then his face moved, and he put his hand directly in his mouth and sighed: "Good wine!" "It turned out that the jars were filled with wine. This is very strange to us.
In fact, there are not a few examples of storing fine wine in tombs in ancient times, and several jars of thousand-year-old wine have been unearthed in a Liao tomb discovered in 1974. According to historical records, Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan in the Han Dynasty, had a habit of digging ancient tombs, "all domestic tombs are excavated". One of Liu's favorite things to do when he excavated the ancient tomb was to loot the wine in the tomb, and all the fine wine in the tomb as burial objects was brought back to the palace by him and enjoyed by himself. Another ancient book "Bo Yizhi" records that some tomb robbers saw a silver bottle full of fine wine in front of the coffin, so they competed to drink it, "sweet and fragrant like the taste of the bottle in the world". Therefore, there are many people who think that the wine hidden in the tomb is mostly fine wine, with a mellow taste and a rare occurrence; In addition, the concept of "wine is the fragrance of aging" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the taste of wine hidden in the tomb for a hundred years or even a thousand years can naturally be imagined.