Chapter 38: The Golden Silk Nanmu Coffin
"Why are you fighting with him," I asked Xia Wanting in confusion.
"In order to protect you" Xia Wanting disappeared after saying this, I had an indescribable feeling in my heart after listening to Xia Wanting's words, I stood in place for about ten minutes before walking back to the dormitory building, on the way back I kept thinking about Xia Wanting's last words, and I also thought that the red shadow that appeared behind me when I took the bus today should be Xia Wanting.
"I will always be by your side to protect you, and I will never give up," I had just walked out not far before Xia Wanting's body appeared, standing where I was standing before, looking at my back and said.
Of the four of us in the dormitory, I was the only one who had the habit of eating breakfast in the morning, and the other three brothers never ate breakfast, and most importantly because the three of them couldn't get up at all.
"Professor Liu, you are also eating here," I said as I walked over to Professor Liu's side with a plate.
"Yes, I'm a bit busy with the excavation, and I've been eating in your school cafeteria lately," Professor Liu said to me with a smile.
"Professor Liu, is that tomb really the tomb of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan?" I asked Professor Liu with a curious expression.
"Judging from the buried items, the owner of this tomb is the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da," Professor Liu first looked around and then whispered to me, listening to Professor Liu's words, I was a little excited in my heart.
Xu Da, the commander of the Ming Dynasty in China, was born in a peasant family, in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Da participated in the rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang, was cautious, good at governing the army, and established immortal feats throughout his life. He was the first hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. After his death, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Empire, posthumously named him the king of Zhongshan.
"This General Xu Da is the last official from a peasant background, and he is one of the ancient generals I admire, Professor Liu, can you take me to the archaeological site to have a look," I asked Professor Liu with a look of expectation.
"This .....," Professor Liu felt a little embarrassed by my request.
"Professor Liu, I still understand the rules of your archaeological team, I'm just going to take a look, and I won't say much," I said to Professor Liu again.
"Okay, I'll take you to see it, it's just like today," Professor Liu had to agree when he saw me say this.
"Thank you, Professor Liu," I said to Professor Liu with a grateful face.
So after the two of us had breakfast, Professor Liu led me to the archaeological site behind the boys' dormitory.
"This is my apprentice's work card, he didn't come today, you put this on, otherwise the armed police guarding the scene will not let you in," Professor Liu handed me a work card and said.
"Okay" I took Professor Liu's work card and hung it around my neck, and then I took out my phone and sent a WeChat message to Huang Tao, asking him to help me ask for leave from the teacher.
"When you enter the scene in a while, you just follow me, don't walk around, don't talk nonsense," Professor Liu turned back to me and instructed.
"Don't worry, Professor Liu, I won't make trouble for you," I nodded and promised Professor Liu.
When I walked to the excavation site, I first saw two weapons on the ground, one was a spear with rust, the other was a long knife with rust, and I also saw more than a dozen bottles and cans, as well as jade jewelry and other things.
Professor Liu took me to the giant sarcophagus and stopped, and I looked at the giant sarcophagus, which was flanked by two lifelike beast unicorns, and the lid of the sarcophagus was carved with two cranes running towards the sun.
"Professor Liu, what does the unicorn and crane carved on this sarcophagus mean?" I whispered to Professor Liu.
"The identity of this Rui beast unicorn is the coffin beast, the tomb owner who can carve the unicorn on the sarcophagus is either the prime minister or the prince, and the coffin beasts carved on the emperor's coffin are all five-clawed dragons, these patterns are symbols of identity, ordinary officials and ordinary people do not dare to carve dragons and unicorns on the coffin, because it is easy to lose their heads, this coffin lid is carved with two cranes running to the sun, which should imply the meaning of driving cranes to the west" Professor Liu explained to me on the side.
"Oh, I see," I said, nodding as I looked at the giant sarcophagus in front of me.
After 9 o'clock in the morning, a crane drove to the archaeological site, Professor Liu told me that this crane was used to open the coffin lid, and I visually inspected the coffin lid of the giant sarcophagus, which weighed at least three tons, and it was impossible to lift it by people, and it was only by cranes to lift it.
At about ten o'clock in the afternoon, the construction workers wrapped the wire rope around the coffin lid of the giant sarcophagus, and with the sound of Professor Liu, the coffin lid of the giant sarcophagus was hoisted up by a crane.
When I looked inside the sarcophagus, I saw a thick green fog hanging over the coffin, and I could smell a thick fishy smell.
"Young man, put on the mask," Professor Liu said as he handed me a disposable mask, I nodded, took the mask in Professor Liu's hand and put it on my face.
Professor Liu walked in the front, and I followed closely behind him, and when we walked to the giant sarcophagus, the green fog in the sarcophagus had completely dissipated, and then a wooden coffin appeared in front of all of us.
"Golden Silk Nanmu Pavilion," Professor Liu said in surprise as he looked at the wooden coffin in the sarcophagus.
Golden silk nanmu is a unique precious wood in our country, the wood has a fragrance, the texture is straight and the structure is fine, not easy to deform and crack, for the construction, high-grade furniture and other excellent wood. Historically, the wood was used exclusively for the construction and furniture of royal palaces and a few temples. Because the golden silk nanmu is not easy to decay, so in ancient times those dignitaries and nobles will choose to use the golden silk nanmu to make the coffin, it is said that the golden silk nanmu is used to make the coffin to put the corpse, the corpse is not easy to decay, the Qing Dynasty emperor, queen, concubines are all made of golden silk nanmu coffins after death.