Zeng Ruoke looked dazed, without the slightest demeanor of an expert. Two dark eyes stared at me, only silent, and did not say anything, but obviously needed me to explain the ins and outs of the matter to him.

But to be honest, there really isn't much to say. He doesn't seem to know about it, but in our case it is something that almost every family of older people knows.

"Teacher Zeng, look, what kind of material is this?" I pointed to the quilt and asked Zeng Ruokedao.

Zeng Ruoke frowned, as if I had asked him a very low-level question, and he was silent for a long time before he said to me, "It's satin-faced, right?" I think it's quite like that. ”

"Yes, you know it's satin! That's not right! I shook my head.

Zeng Ruoke was still at a loss, "Why is that?" ”

The brain circuits of experts may be different from mine, and those of us who have no culture and grew up in the village have different points of importance than experts, such as: "satin, the homonym 'broken child'." Don't say that the princes and nobles are unwilling to use it, even if it is an ordinary person, as long as they have no great enmity with the deceased, they will not curse the other party in such a way casually. You know, sometimes curses can backfire. Black heart, naturally you will be retributed. ”

Zeng Ruoke suddenly realized at this time and said: "Oh, yes, yes, yes, I have seen this statement in some books about customs and human feelings before, maybe I didn't pay too much attention to it." ”

"It's also possible, but it's not usually seen." I said.

This point is indeed the truth, if you ask Zeng Ruoke what kind of things will appear in the tomb of what age, what kind of specifications will there be, he will probably say that it is like a river, and everything is the way. But if there is nothing in the tomb of any era, the scope is too wide, he doesn't know, and he can't think of it for a while, which is also an extenuating thing.

"And, speaking of which, I think the coffin ......" I thought about it, but I didn't recall it very really, and I had an idea in my heart that urgently needed to be verified, "Let's go back and look at the coffin, look at the coffin!" ”

Seeing that I agreed to see the coffin, Zeng Ruoke was immediately very happy, he nodded quickly, but he didn't forget to pack up his treasures first, and then took me back to the room where the coffin was parked.

When I got back to that room, the first thing I did was to see what the coffin was made of.

Generally speaking, the materials used in coffins are more particular.

Okay, you can use agarwood, and if you are a little worse, you can use long-lived trees such as pines and cypresses, but this coffin in front of you ......

I looked closely, but I couldn't see anything, so I asked Zeng Ruoke to help me push the coffin lid open.

Since the coffin had already been opened and exposed to the sun, I was relieved to open it boldly. But what I never expected was that the moment I pushed the lid of the coffin, a large smell of corpses still came to my nose.

Rao is that I often come into contact with corpses, and I can't help but be smoked into a strong sense of nausea. Holding back the urge to vomit, Zeng Ruoke and I put the coffin lid aside.

"Why is it so big? Didn't you say you had sunned? I covered my nose and stepped back and asked him.

People like me, who often come into contact with corpses, are choked enough, and Zeng Ruoke's reaction is even more predictable. In fact, I still have a lot of contact with rotting corpses, and most of the ones that I can touch are already rotten and only bones remain. Speaking of which, the taste is nowhere near as bad as what I was exposed to.

Besides, he's an expert, and it's not his turn to move the body. I have to carry and carry corpses at every turn. Even I can't stand it, it's just too normal for him to be unbearable.

He also took a few steps back, frowned at me, and said, "We're sunburned!" But this smell doesn't know why, it ...... It won't go away! That's what I'm curious about! Little coffin, you've carried a lot of coffins, you say, what's going on? ”

I wonder too!

With such a big smell, who wants to get closer?

Standing a little farther away, I looked at the coffin, and gradually, as if I realized that something was not right.

I stepped forward, got closer, and took a closer look. It took a long time before it dawned on me! slapped on the coffin, and my hand hurt and quickly withdrew my hand.

Zeng Ruoke saw my movements and had already rushed up.

He looked at the coffin with a distressed face on his face, and said to me, "Be careful! The coffin...... It's also quite valuable. ”

"It's valuable." I nodded in agreement, but what I was thinking was definitely different from what he was thinking. The coffin was relatively tall, and it was a little difficult for me to take a closer look inside, so I moved a bench over, half-squatted on it, and looked at the edge of the coffin, and sure enough, I could see the doorway.

"Teacher Zeng, come here!" I clicked on the edge of the coffin and motioned for Zeng Ruoke to take a closer look.

Zeng Ruoke stared at that position for a long time, but he didn't see anything. He said to me suspiciously, "What is this?" What do you see? I think it's normal! ”

"Normal?" I tried to estimate Zeng Ruoke's height and the position I saw, and frowned. In his heart, he probably didn't see it clearly. I rubbed my hand vigorously where I had just pointed out, wiped off all the excess unknown liquid, and then pointed it out to him, "Teacher Zeng, take a closer look!" It's really different here. ”

Zeng Ruoke looked at it again suspiciously, and after looking at it carefully for a few minutes, he finally saw the difference!

"This ...... This is ......," he said intermittently, "is this a sandwich coffin?" ”

A sandwich coffin, as the name suggests, is a normal coffin with a sandwich in the middle. But the mezzanine is often more expensive and unwilling to be seen by people calligraphy and paintings, etc., and this kind of mezzanine coffin, I have only heard of it, as for Zeng Ruoke, he may not have seen it with his own eyes. It's more likely that you've just heard of it.

"I don't know if it's a sandwich coffin." As I spoke, I looked closely at the different parts in the middle, which were so thin that it would have been almost impossible to spot if I hadn't deliberately stared at them. I really don't know if it's a sandwich coffin, but I'm more familiar with this material, "I think, this is willow wood, what did experts think?" ”

Zeng Ruoke wondered: "Why? ”

"I just think it's like." I said to Zeng Ruoke, "Before, we already knew that this coffin had a satin-covered futon inside. As I said, that's what it means to be a 'broken child'. What if it's not an accident? What if the person who buried him knew the meaning of 'satin' himself? Willow wood cannot be used as a coffin, because willow trees do not produce seeds, and in our place, it is also considered to mean 'cut off offspring'. Of course, I also think that this material is indeed similar to willow wood, Mr. Zeng, what do you think? ”

Zeng Ruoke didn't know much about this, he shook his head, and didn't object to my statement, but he also didn't agree with it. He said: "Since it is a sandwich coffin, it needs our detailed research. After all, there are very few such coffins unearthed, which is of great research significance. However, I can give you a quick answer to the material question you just mentioned, and there are research experts in our institute in this area, so I'll ask him to come and have a look! ”

I nodded, got off the bench, and felt like I could finally get some rest.