When the torture technique said the porcelain coffin, except for Xie Meng, the rest of the people were confused.

Although we all know what a porcelain coffin means, that is, a porcelain coffin, but I have never heard of it? Even if you have seen it before, it is a modern craft, and it cannot be the size of a normal coffin.

Xie Meng shook his head and said, "It doesn't have to be a porcelain coffin, right?" Maybe it's because of the light, there's a layer of glaze on the surface. ”

Torture also nodded slightly.

Wei Chi hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"The coffin is generally divided into three types: stone, wood, and metal, of which wood is the most common, first of all, wood is easy to make, light weight, stone is carved on the spot, not easy to perish, as for metal, it is a special case, although porcelain is also durable, can be put for a long time, but first of all, it is very difficult to fire, and secondly, it is fragile." ”

Xie Meng added: "There is another key issue, the concept of people is that the house they lived in when they were alive was made of wood or stone, so they should live like this after death, and no one would live in porcelain. ”

There are porcelain urns and coffin-shaped porcelain urns, but normal coffin-sized ones were almost non-existent in ancient times, and no one did such a thing.

Torture was the first to walk through the door: "You have to go in and have a look." ”

After the torture technique entered first, the rest of the people immediately followed, and Yun Jian, who had been broken, stood there and hesitated, then looked behind him, and then walked in, but he was reluctant to leave the stone door, for fear that the stone door would suddenly close.

After Xingshu and Xie Meng walked in, they immediately approached the porcelain coffin closest to the door, looked at it closely, and took out a magnifying glass to observe.

Sima Qing, Hou Wan and Wei Chiran didn't understand this, so they could only stand by and watch, watching the two of them finish reading the first coffin, and then the second and third coffins, and it took half an hour to look at it.

In the past half an hour, the two of them did not say a word, and the expressions on their faces were puzzled and shocked.

Xingshu got up, picked up his magnifying glass and said, "It's a porcelain coffin, a real porcelain coffin." ”

Xie Meng shook his head and said, "How is it possible?" How can there be a porcelain coffin? Who will make a porcelain coffin here? ”

Wei Chi looked around: "It's not just the porcelain coffin, you look at the walls and ceilings. ”

After Wei Chi finished speaking, Xie Meng and Xingshu noticed that in this room, the four walls, ceiling and even the floor were porcelain surfaces, which were smooth to the touch, but walking on the floor would not make people feel slippery.

Hou Wan asked, "Can you know the age?" ”

Xie Meng said: "Judging from the glaze and ornamentation, the porcelain coffin should be from the Qianlong period. ”

Xingshu frowned and said, "The firing technique is from Jingdezhen. ”

The words of the torture technique surprised everyone, and Xie Meng asked, "Do you know who did it?" ”

Xingshu squatted down and looked at the porcelain coffin in front of him: "I should be right, this is the Huang family in Jingdezhen, the Huang family is the only porcelain family in Jingdezhen that has fired porcelain coffins, but unfortunately, the last generation of the Huang family has died." ”

After the torture was finished, he stroked the coffin lid, then gently groped the edge, squatted down and looked carefully, and then pointed there and said: "You come and touch it, there is a live buckle here, you must know that it is very difficult to make a mechanism on porcelain, and it is impossible to fire it first, but the Huang family did it back then, I went to Jingdezhen with my father when I was a teenager, and I saw the last generation of the Huang family, and I also saw a small porcelain coffin he made at that time, with that craftsmanship alone, it is worth a fortune. ”

Wei Chiran stepped forward and touched it, and sure enough, there was a live buckle, and asked, "What does this live buckle mean?" ”

Yun Jian stood at the door and asked, "Is the coffin lid still locked?" ”

Torture said: "Yes, the coffin lid is also locked, only porcelain coffins will be like this, ordinary wooden coffins, you can directly nail them with coffin nails." ”

Yun Jian was still puzzled: "No, I mean, since the coffin is covered, there is no reason to open it, right?" ”

Xingshu nodded: "That's true, but some coffins are designed like this, such as the coffin used to make people immortals." ”

Everyone was surprised again, and Wei Chi asked, "There is also a coffin that has made people immortals?" ”

The torture thought for a while, organized the language, and said: "Let's put it this way, according to common sense, everyone knows, there is a process of becoming an immortal, that is, the catastrophe, in fact, the catastrophe is to put it bluntly, that is, you have to die once, even if you don't die completely, it has to be half dead, in short, you have to go through a life ordeal, but before that, the psychological level of people must first change, otherwise you can't go to the step of the catastrophe, of course, these are the so-called legends, I even once regarded this as a folk rumor, and the Huang family was in the Ming Dynasty, The reason for making a porcelain coffin for the first time is because there are immortals who give a dream to the Huang family, saying that if they want to become immortals, they will burn the porcelain coffin first. ”

When the torture technique was telling, Xie Meng still carefully inspected the surrounding walls, looking very carefully, and seemed not interested in what the torture technique was saying.

Wei Chi Ran felt that this place was too strange, the original door disappeared, and a stone door reappeared at the end, and the original stone door turned into a dark grain wooden board after being touched, in short, all this gave people the feeling of not only mysterious, but completely clueless.

If it weren't for Xie Meng and the two of them who were not present, it is estimated that they would be even more difficult to move an inch, and they would not even understand the most basic things.

At this time, Xie Meng suddenly turned his head and asked, "Tell me the story of the Huang family." ”

It turned out that Xie Meng had been listening, and the torture technique looked at Xie Meng, and Xie Meng turned his head to look at the wall again, looking carefully with a magnifying glass.

The torture said: "The Huang family was not originally a well-known porcelain family in Jingdezhen, their family was born in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, when the ancestor of the Huang family was named Huang Fu, born in poverty, born as a farmer, and was sent to learn the craft at the age of 6, because he learned quickly, and he was practical, and was deeply loved by the master, so the master changed the name to Huang Fu Huang Chengzhi, as the name suggests, is to hope that he can inherit his mantle and ambition. ”

In the collection of porcelain in later generations, the porcelain made in the Yongle year is also called the Yongle model, which means the porcelain of the official kiln in Jingdezhen during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The inner bottom, waist or neck of the official kiln porcelain of this period are engraved or stamped with the four-character paragraph of "Yongle Period".

Wei Chiran asked: "What is the difference between the official kiln and the private kiln?" ”

Xingshu explains: "The saying of the official kiln originated in the Tang Dynasty, which means tribute and official factory. Tribute refers to the fact that the government supervises the firing of private porcelain kilns, and the porcelain fired out is selected from ten out of a thousand, and one out of a hundred, and the meaning of the official factory refers to the porcelain kiln established by the government, but at that time, there were very few official factories, and they all took the way of official supervision and private burning. ”

At that time, the Tang Dynasty also set up a secretary in Jingdezhen, specializing in firing porcelain, and in the Song Dynasty, there were similar departments, and later the Yuan Dynasty also set up.

In a broad sense, private kilns refer to porcelain kilns that are not commercially produced by the government.

The history of the kiln is much earlier than the official kiln, at that time Huang Chengzhi's master was responsible for the firing of the official kiln, but he also had a private kiln, but according to the rules, he must not use the way of firing the official kiln to fire the porcelain kiln, in the final analysis, it is to distinguish the class, how can the officials and nobles use the same thing as the common people?

This is also the reason why Huang Chengzhi's master changed his name, that is, he hopes that he can inherit his craftsmanship and not eat the rice of the official kiln in the future, because the limitations are too great.

Although eating official kiln rice was an iron rice bowl for that time, because of the many rules, Huang Chengzhi really didn't like it, he liked to study and ponder, and fire the porcelain he wanted to fire, rather than according to the so-called rules.

It was because of Huang Chengzhi's character that he fell into a catastrophe.

Huang Chengzhi fired a batch of porcelain one day, but it was discovered that he was using the technology of the official kiln, which was tantamount to committing a capital crime and directly throwing him and his master into prison.

Huang Chengzhi's master was very calm, as if he had known that there would be such a day, and told Huang Chengzhi in prison that in his early years, an immortal had told him that there would be such a calamity, but in fact, this calamity could be escaped, but he couldn't do it.

Huang Chengzhi was puzzled, why couldn't Master do it? And what did the immortal tell him to do?

The master told him that the immortals asked him to burn the porcelain coffin.

Master said the word "porcelain coffin", and Huang Chengzhi understood, don't say Master, no one can do it here? First of all, the master is in charge of the official kiln, you burn a coffin in the official kiln, don't say whether you can do it or not, you are doing this is a big rebellion.

If Huang Chengzhi's master did it, his fate would be worse than now, and it is estimated that he would have to be executed by Ling Chi to exterminate the Nine Clans.

But Huang Chengzhi didn't understand, what kind of immortal did the master see? There's always a way out, right?

But the master said that he didn't know either, but he had dreams about the immortals for several days in a row, and the immortals kept telling him to do that, as long as he did it, he could avoid the calamity, and if he didn't do it, he would be imprisoned sooner or later, and the imprisonment was still caused by his apprentice.

Now it seems that what the immortals said is true.

If Master Huang Chengzhi's experience were to be put now, I am afraid that it would be regarded as a fantasy story, thinking that his master was insane, but at that time, people believed in this kind of thing.

But now that it's come to this, what else can it do? Huang Chengzhi kowtowed to his master and admitted his mistake, saying that he would repay his master's kindness in the next life, after all, the two would be escorted to the execution ground every other day and cut off their heads directly.

But that night, Huang Chengzhi really saw the immortal that the master called.

When he slept in a daze, he found that someone was calling his name, and it was very clear, and when he woke up, he opened his eyes to find that although he was still lying in the cell, he was surrounded by white smoke, and it was faintly visible that there were many people standing outside the cell.

Huang Chengzhi was frightened at the time, and he woke up in an instant, and in a state of absolute lucidity, he knew that he was not dreaming.

He didn't dare to say anything, so he had to huddle in the corner and look at the shaking figures outside the cell door.

One of the figures told Huang Chengzhi that if he wanted to escape from this catastrophe, then he should find a way to burn the porcelain coffin within half a year, otherwise he and his master would die.

Huang Chengzhi said boldly, he is powerless now, he is already in prison, he can't get out, how to burn the porcelain coffin?

And the figure told him that if he promised, he would wake up tomorrow, and he would still be the same person he used to be, not guilty.