Xiang Daimo asked suspiciously: "There are dragons and phoenixes on the jade pendant, and there are similar patterns on this stone gate." Professors, is this implying something? ”

"Lao Jin is right, this is a joint burial tomb for husband and wife, and it is an emperor-level mausoleum."

"Two professors, why do you want to set up two doors? Why are the two doors different? ”

"The first door should be a sealing stone, which plays the role of blocking, separated by yin and yang, with yang outside the door and yin inside the door."

"The second door is the door of the tomb, the ancients had a saying that death is like life, and the tomb is the home of the deceased in the underworld, so the construction of the tomb is mostly modeled after the sun; Moreover, there is a doorway stone behind the first door, and most of the second door has a doorpost behind the door—the doorpost should be a long stone. Professor Jin said.

"You see, there is a long stone." Linghu Yunfei found a long stone that was broken into three pieces under a stone door.

Xiang Daimo walked through the second door.

It was still Xiang Daimo's eyes: "Team Zhao, there is a groove behind the stone door to put the door post." ”

He picked up a long piece of stone from the ground and slowly lowered it into the groove behind a stone door, and it was just the right size.

Zhao Zimeng, Professor Nie and Professor Jin walked through the second stone gate.

Before entering the second stone gate, Professor Nie took a lot of photos of the tomb and the stone gate, and he was attracted by the tomb and the tomb door.

Xiang Daimo and Ling Hu Yunfei raised the lamp.

In front of me is a circular space, about 30 meters in diameter, with two very thick, symmetrical stone pillars in the middle, and several flying dragons with teeth and claws carved on the stone pillars.

Ling Hu Yunfei slowly turned around with the lamp, and there was a round stone door on each side of the east and west, the stone door was completely open, and the door was carved with some exquisite patterns.

Directly ahead, there are two arched stone doors—two each, and the stone door on the left is ajar—only one is hidden, and the other lies on the ground; The stone door on the right is fully open.

There are also some motifs on this door, and around the stone pillars there are several high platforms carved in stone, the height of which is about fifty centimeters, and there are several equally beautifully carved high platforms on the side of the stone walls.

Professor Nie counted that there were three stone carved platforms around the stone pillars, and twelve stone carved platforms next to the stone walls.

He said silently in his heart: Three and three are six, and then twelve is eighteen, and two hundred and eighteen, nine is the extreme number, one person is nine, and two people are eighteen.

The five men had mud under their feet that had not covered the uppers of their shoes, and Xiang Daimo illuminated the top with a lamp—the top was in the shape of a yurt roof and a combination of large stones.

The stones fit together perfectly, and there are some beautiful reliefs on them. Water was still dripping from the cracks in the stones.

Professor Nie took the lamp from Xiang Daimo's hand and swept it at the top and the surrounding walls several times: "Professor Jin, you see, all the patterns seem to be related to religious culture. ”

Professor Jin looked at it for a while: "Captain Zhao, you have observed very carefully, these stone reliefs are all related to religion, which is in line with the characteristics of the emperors of the late Ming Dynasty."

Religion is related to the gods, and in the late Ming Dynasty, the rulers wanted to use the power of the Buddha - or the power of the gods to save the decline, and they also wanted to become gods after death - or be with the gods. ”

"Two professors, as far as I know, since Emperor Yongle, the other Ming emperors have been sitting in the Dragon Court in Beijing, why did they put their tombs in the west of Beijing?" Xiang Daimo still knows some historical knowledge.

"There are a total of sixteen emperors in the Ming Dynasty, the last one is Chongzhen, after Emperor Chongzhen, aren't there still a few Southern Ming Emperors who are not recognized by the official history." Professor Nie said.

"Xiang Daimo, don't make an axe in front of the two experts." Linghu Yunfei said.

"Comrade Xiao Xiang said very well, I didn't expect that you would engage in criminal investigation work and study history, which is very rare! If there is something unclear, just ask, as long as we know, we must know everything," Professor Nie said.

"Professor Nie, why are there so many doors?" As soon as he was praised by the professor, Xiang Daimo knocked on the bell.

"Inside the two stone doors on the front should be the place where the coffin is placed. There are two round doors on the left and right, let's go in and take a look. ”

"Two professors, what do these stone carved platforms do?" Linghu Yunfei said.

The professors didn't answer Ling Yunfei's question, and they walked up to a few high platforms to take a look.

Professor Jin also took out a tape measure from his pocket and measured it.

The high platform is 90 centimeters long and 60 centimeters wide, and all the high platforms are the same size.

"Captain Zhao, these high platforms are placed in bronze, and most of them have left green patina on them, you see-"

Professor Nie pointed to a few stone-carved platforms, "You can tell from the green patina left by the bronzes whether they have feet or not, and how many feet they have," Professor Nie walked to a stone-carved platform in front of the right pillar.

"You see, there is a green patina on the four corners of this high platform, and these four green patinas indicate that the vessel has four legs, and the large vessel with four legs is a bronze tripod."

"In this way, these high platforms are filled with priceless treasures." Xiang Daimo said.

"Yes, a good horse with a good saddle, with such a fine saddle, where will the horse go, if my judgment is correct, these stone carved platforms are carved from white marble. The stones in this should be white marble. ”

When the five of them approached the two arches, Professor Nie stopped.

On both sides of the arch there is a stone carved platform, there is no green patina on the high platform, there is a layer of black mud on the right platform, and there are water traces on the left platform in addition to a layer of black mud.

When Professor Nie and Professor Jin looked up, a drop of water happened to fall from the top, dripping onto the high platform, and the place where the water fell revealed the original color of white marble.

What are the things on these two platforms?

"Only these two platforms don't have green patina." Professor Jin said.

Professor Nie was speechless for a moment.

The only thing known about what was placed on these two platforms was the tomb robbers.

"This is supposed to be the vestibule. These two arched stone doors are supposed to be burial chambers. Professor Jin said while taking pictures.

The group wanted to see the situation inside the two burial chambers first, and then find out the situation inside the two round doors in the east and west.

Professor Nie kept his camera in his hand, and he took pictures of all the stone reliefs on the top and walls one by one.

Zhao Zimeng couldn't understand the content of the carvings on the wall and the top, so he humbly asked Professor Jin for advice: "Professor Jin, what are these carvings?" ”

"The content of these stone carvings is related to Buddhism, which shows that the deceased was dedicated to Buddhism during his lifetime. I suspect that after his death, he also wanted to be with the Buddha. ”

About two meters in front of the two arched doors, there are two stone Buddhas, one of which fell to the ground.

Two lamps are aimed at the two stone Buddhas at the same time. These two Buddhas are (from left to right) Guanyin Buddha and Shakyamuni Buddha. The one who fell to the ground was Guanyin Buddha.

Zhao Zimeng fixed his eyes and saw that Guanyin Buddha's right arm was gone. He searched the ground for a while, but couldn't find the right arm.

The two professors observed that the fracture in the arm of the Buddha was new.

Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo did not find anything left by the tomb robbers in the front hall.

When Linghu Yunfei walked to the back of Guanyin Buddha, he used the lamp to scan the half-hidden stone gate on the left from top to bottom, the stone gate was about 180 centimeters high and wide, and there were also reliefs on the door.

When the light swept under the stone gate, he suddenly said loudly: "Team Zhao, come and see-"

Zhao Zimeng and Xiang Daimo quickly surrounded him.

The two professors also saw a corpse lying in the doorway of the left burial chamber, with its feet facing outwards and its head facing inward, one of the deceased's feet outside the threshold, and the part of the body above the foot inside the threshold.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei walked into the tomb, and the two of them looked at each other for a moment: under the light, the face of the deceased was smashed! It is impossible to make out what it looks like.

Zhao Zimeng asked Xiang Daimo to call Lin Di down. A few photos will be taken before the autopsy.

After a while, Xiang Daimo led Lin Di over.

"Team Zhao, the space in this tomb is quite large." Lin Di Dao.

"Kobayashi, take a picture of this corpse".

"Okay" After saying that, Lin Di began to work skillfully.

After Lin Di took the photo, Ling Hu Yunfei and Zhao Zimeng conducted autopsies, and Xiang Daimo was also responsible for writing the autopsy report.

The deceased was male and his age was to be determined, as the deceased's face was smashed by a heavy object. Zhao Zimeng couldn't help but sigh secretly: The murderer is too cruel.

The height of the deceased, one meter sixty-nine; Overweight; He wears a pair of suede shoes and a pair of dark blue nylon socks, and wears three pants underneath, including gray kaki pants on the outside, a pair of gray autumn pants with black vertical stripes on the inside, and a pair of black boxer pants with dark flowers on the inside.

The belt is a cowhide belt that can't see any brand, and the workmanship is relatively high-end.

The deceased wore two clothes on his upper body, a sheepskin vest on the outside and a yellow shirt on the inside, the first button was unbuttoned and the two sleeves were rolled up.

As for any special marks on the deceased's body, the body should be returned to the forensic medical examiner for additional autopsy.

Zhao Zimeng saw a stone carved arm about fifty centimeters away from the deceased's head, and the murderer should have smashed the victim's head with this stone arm.

Needless to say, the stone carved arm is the right arm that was broken off from the body of Guanyin Buddha.

The cruelty of the murderer far exceeded Zhao Zimeng's initial judgment, when Ling Hu Yunfei turned the back of the corpse up, Zhao Zimeng found a chestnut-sized circular hole in the back of the deceased's head, which was either caused by a steel drill or the tip of a pickaxe.

Zhao Zimeng tested the depth of the hole with tweezers, and it was about five centimeters, which should be the source of death.

The murderer was supposed to be a surprise attack on the deceased from behind with a steel chisel, or the pointed part of a pickaxe.

Zhao Zimeng analyzed: The murderer's purpose in destroying the face of the deceased with the stone Buddha's arm should be to worry that someone would recognize the deceased. This is the same purpose as the murderer who cut off the head of the first deceased.