171. Mercury is found
Now the only way to do this is to wait until dawn to come back here and take a good look at the sunshine, what is written on it?
I always believe in my heart that the key clue to whether I and Wanru can get out this time must be on this bronze man!
There was still a lot to be done, so I didn't linger here long, but picked up my torch and began to march into the valley.
The valley has long been overgrown with barren grass, and in some places it is even taller than people, but the strange thing is that although it looks like a barren place everywhere, there are no mosquitoes, as if all the creatures have pulled the two bronze men there, and they have completely stopped.
Not only was the weeds barren in front of me, but many places looked completely rugged and narrow, with cliffs on either side and mounds in between, from which I first felt some burning on the soles of my feet, and then smelled a smell of sulfur and saltpeter on the tip of my nose.
But I soon realized that something was wrong, because there was not only the smell of sulfur and saltpeter, but more of an aura similar to death, that is, a state of complete life.
Mercury!
Mercury was a very precious thing in ancient times, mercury was metal mercury, and it was an indispensable material for those warlocks in ancient times when they were refining pills.
And those of us who study Feng Shui must also have a certain understanding of mercury, because there are too many places where mercury can be used.
In particular, in ancient times, Feng Shui masters would often pour mercury on the bodies of the martyrs.
This incident is by no means false, and there are very real records in many historical sources.
This ancient burial system is very cruel, and there are many young children who are also buried as burial objects, these children are really heart-wrenching to be poisoned at a young age, and it will be seen in the subsequent archaeological excavations that there are many martyrs who are very young, and they are all tied up before death, which is a forced burial.
According to research, many of the bodies of the martyrs showed a special posture after death, and the entire group of people who were buried also showed a special shape on the whole, and experts speculated that someone should have posed a certain shape after the death of the martyr.
The remains of a number of boys and girls were also found, and the bones were monitored to contain large amounts of mercury, which means that they must have been infused with mercury.
It must be inconvenient for these children to be filled with mercury after death, so they must have been forced into their mouths before they died, and what is even more cruel is that after filling with mercury, they have to dig a few holes in their bodies, and they have to wipe the corpses with mercury powder from beginning to end, so that the corpses do not decay after the operation.
Of course, the crown belongs to those children, and it is not without effect, that is, when they are dug up again, each one is as lifelike as it was when it was alive, but as soon as it is exposed to the air, it quickly oxidizes.
In Uncle Pan's place, I also saw a few pictures of children who had just been unearthed and had not been oxidized, these children who were buried were basically bought by the owner of the tomb from a poor family at that time, and the children were not as expensive as they are now in ancient times.
Especially in the war years, when people did not eat, there was even a phenomenon of molecular eating.
Of course, no one knew that mercury was poisonous in ancient times, so it was very versatile, and even very expensive gold, and the price of mercury was comparable to gold.
Therefore, many women with status and status even use mercury as a beauty product in order to keep their youth forever.
This is definitely not groundless.
The reason why I know so much is because these are also the jobs of many warlocks in the palace.
If it were placed in ancient times, it is estimated that my current identity is also a warlock, of course, I will definitely have a conscience as a warlock, and I will not be like those people.
In ancient times, there were so many beauties in the harem, how to stand out from the three thousand beauties was a question that all women were thinking about.
And the aesthetics of the ancient people are different from our now, everyone's aesthetics are changed with the emperor's aesthetics, there is a good saying, the king of Chu is so thin, and the harem is starving to death.
In other words, everyone will work hard to do what the king likes, which is why after the Tang Dynasty, obesity was the beauty.
For the definition of beauty, everyone has a different opinion, some people think that no makeup is beauty, some people think that what the eyes see is beauty, and there is what we call makeup removal death today.
Nowadays, beauties use cosmetics to beautify, but how did they beautify without cosmetics in ancient times? That's when we, the ancient warlocks, appeared.
After all, those warlocks in ancient times, one by one, said that they were alive, hundreds of years old, and they could keep their faces forever at hundreds of years old, and they must be able to be sought after by those harem beauties.
You may not believe it, but can you imagine what it would be like to wash your face with quicklime paste every day?
It's a scene that makes you feel horrible, but that's how the Sengoku girls enjoy it every day, mixing the ashes of the shells with water as their facial cleanser, because the shells are rich in alkaline substances, so they can wash their faces cleanly.
But in the Qin Dynasty, it was different, there was such a thing as cinnabar in the Qin Dynasty, and the sisters applied it to the lips and instantly became a charming girl, but the cinnabar has no stickiness and poor durability, and it is often eaten into the stomach, so this group of beauty-loving girls came up with a strange way to mix butter, lard and various animal oils and cinnabar together, which not only increases the durability of the lipstick, but also makes the lips look particularly bright.
As the saying goes, a white covers a hundred ugliness, the Han Dynasty sisters use lead powder to beautify, lead powder can make the sister paper very white, the damage of heavy metals is also very large, it will be poisoned after a long time, the women of the Han Dynasty are simply crazy.
The custom of girls in the Tang Dynasty to love beauty has quietly changed again.
The mask appeared......
That's right, it's a face mask!
There are many wild histories that record the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian's most beloved daughter, Princess Taiping, who prefers peach blossom masks, which is to dry the peach blossoms and then grind them into powder, and then add some chicken blood, which nourishes the skin and promotes metabolism.