Chapter 16: If the coffin is placed vertically, the descendants will be great
Although Zhao Yang doesn't know which way Shan Laosan is going for the time being, he is definitely not touching Jinmen.
He lit the candles simply to illuminate the entire main burial chamber.
After some rest, the pain on Zhao Yang's body slowly eased and recovered, and at the same time, as the candles lit up the entire main tomb, he fixed his eyes on the surroundings.
This main burial chamber is about fifty or sixty square meters, which is relatively large in the specifications of Tang Dynasty tombs.
There are eight bluestones as support pillars in the whole tomb, which is also said, in ancient times, except for the emperor, ordinary people could not use the number 'nine', so eight pillars were used, that is, these eight pillars firmly supported the main frame of the entire tomb, so that Zhao Yang and the people avoided being buried alive.
In addition to these eight pillars, there is nothing special about the entire main burial chamber, with murals carved on the four walls, and some fragmentary funerary goods in the southwest corner.
If you want to say the most special, it is the dark coffin in the middle.
It was a wooden coffin, surrounded by dozens of nails, and it was tightly sealed.
Zhao Yang and the four of them came to the coffin, staring at the coffin in front of them carefully, with a serious expression, frowning, and a lot of doubts.
Chen Fuwang seemed to see the confusion on the faces of Zhao Yang and Shan Laosan, and he suddenly pointed to the vertical coffin in front of him and shouted: "I know, I know why this coffin is placed vertically!" ”
Zhao Yang raised his eyebrows, his expression was surprised, Chen Fuwang, a layman, actually understands this?
Shan Laosan glanced back at Chen Fuwang, sold him a little face, and said with a light smile: "Brother Chen, then tell me, why is this coffin placed vertically?" ”
Chen Fuwang said seriously: "Haven't you heard an old saying? If the coffin is placed vertically, the descendants must be great! ”
Burst...... Zhao Yang looked at Chen Fuwang's serious expression, and couldn't help laughing.
'If the coffin is placed vertically, the descendants will be great' This is a nonsense sentence, even the three-year-old children in the village often use it as a slip of mouth, and Chen Fuwang actually believes it.
No matter from any academic discipline, there is no such sentence at all.
However, it is not uncommon for the coffin to be placed upright, and it is a burial method according to the local customs......
What made Zhao Yang puzzled was not the coffin placed vertically, but that the coffin was a little wrong with the material.
In the Tang Dynasty for more than 1,000 years, in terms of tomb style, the general bureaucrats and above used sarcophagi, and very few had copper coffins, and only the commoners and low-level officials used wooden coffins.
How could such a large tomb as the 'Golden Armor General' given by the Tang King back then still use a wooden coffin?
Besides, the material of this wooden coffin intuitively looks like willow wood, and there is no trace of decay under the weathering of more than 1,000 years.
Shan Laosan should also be very puzzled by this.
But this is indeed the tomb of the Tang Dynasty Jinjia General, and there is nothing wrong with it.
"Baosheng, prepare to open the coffin!"
Shan Laosan raised his eyebrows and said a word at Baosheng.
The doubts in my heart are unsolvable, but I will know all when I open this coffin.
"Hmm!"
Bao Sheng didn't say much, and immediately took out a bundle of hemp rope and tied a slipknot buckle skillfully tied to the vertical wooden coffin, and then tied the other end to the stone pillar, and carefully placed the heavy coffin on the ground with the help of skill.
After laying the coffin flat, Baosheng took out the black fold and lifted the coffin board little by little.
After the coffin board was completely cocked, Chen Fuwang and Baosheng gritted their teeth and carefully moved the coffin lid with brute force.
Zhao Yang and Shan Laosan all widened their eyes, staring at the coffin in front of them, without blinking, and at the same time tensing their nerves, ready for the possibility of defrauding the corpse at any time.
After all, this is a tomb that makes many tomb robbers change their color and avoid retreating!
Thundered......
Zhao Yang held the hooves of the black donkey in one hand, and when the coffin board was completely removed, a disgusting corpse smell came to his face in an instant, which was disgusting, but as a professional tomb robber, he was used to this disgusting corpse smell, and he was even immune, so only Chen Fuwang vomited out all the big meals he ate at noon with a 'wow'.
Zhao Yang covered his nose with his hand and looked towards the wooden coffin.
Inside the coffin lay a completely decomposed corpse, covered with a shroud that had been decomposed black by the corpse water.
Although the entire corpse has been corrupted, the black corpse water has not been completely weathered, so it looks like the entire skeleton is pitch black, which is very terrifying.
Seeing this scene in front of him, Zhao Yang's hand holding the hooves of the black donkey relaxed slightly, the corpse in this coffin is now only a handful of bone residues, not even a dry corpse, let alone any fraudulent corpses and zongzi.
"This is the legendary gold-armored general who made great achievements for the Tang Dynasty, fought on the battlefield, and fought horses for half his life? After his death, he was posthumously crowned the Duke of Jingguo by the King of Tang? ”
Zhao Yang muttered to himself in his heart, with deep doubts in his eyes.
Anyway, this is completely different from what Zhao Yang imagined, such an awesome Tang Dynasty tomb is in the feng shui treasure of 'Nine Phoenix Laiyi', how can the coffin be so shabby.
Most importantly, how could the Tang Dynasty have the custom of wearing shrouds to be buried?
Shrouds only gradually appeared and implemented after the Ming and Qing dynasties! Why did it wear it on the body of the Tang Dynasty general?
Under all kinds of doubts, Zhao Yang endured the unpleasant smell of corpses and put his hand into the wooden coffin.
Next to the corpse there was a small amount of gold and silver funerary goods, as well as a brush, an inkstone, and a stack of books.
At the same time, Shan Laosan, who had not made a sound, but was also full of surprise and doubt, stretched out his hand to Zhao Yang one step faster, took a book from the wooden coffin and opened it to look at it, then his face changed greatly, and he exclaimed: "No! This tomb is not right, the coffin is not right, this is not the tomb of the golden armor general we are looking for! ”
"Huh?" Chen Fuwang and Bao Sheng's eyes widened at the same time when they heard this, and they exclaimed, "This is not the tomb of the Golden Armor General we are looking for?" So what kind of tomb is this? ”
At this time, Zhao Yang looked at the brushes and inkstones placed in the wooden coffin, and said: "This is indeed not the tomb of General Jinjia we are looking for, this is the tomb of Liu Linhong, the champion of the Qing Dynasty in the eighteen-mile slope!" ”
Although Zhao Yang didn't look at the content of the book in Shan Laosan's hand, everything here can specify that this is not the tomb of the Golden Armor General he is looking for.
First of all, it is impossible for the official eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty to use such shabby wooden coffins, at least they are bluestone coffins.
Moreover, there were no shrouds in the Tang Dynasty at all, and judging from the degree of decay of the corpses in the coffin, it was only a few decades.
Coupled with the funeral goods of this brush and inkstone, Zhao Yang can't help but think of Liu Linhong, the Qing champion who died young!