Chapter 68: Shadow Corpse
"Chief Jiang, the coffin nails have all come out, can we open the coffin" Mr. Yu wiped the sweat on his forehead and asked the master, I found that this Mr. Yu is real, from the morning when I came to see him to the present, he has been sweating without stopping.
"Did you buy the red cloth I asked you to buy?" Master asked Mr. Yu.
"I bought it, I bought it all, and there are a lot of things you asked me to buy," Mr. Yu hurriedly replied to Master's words.
"Cover the top of the coffin with a red cloth first, so that the sun will not burn the bones when the coffin is lifted, if I guess correctly, the body of your ancestor is not decomposing, and it is still the same as before the burial," the master said to the gentleman thoughtfully.
"No" Mr. Yu didn't believe what the master said, he felt that the corpse had been buried for more than three hundred years, how could it not be decomposed, if there was a pile of bones left, he would believe it.
"I won't say more, you can open it and you'll know," Master said, pointing to the yellow pine coffin.
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to lift the coffin" After Mr. Yu said this, he arranged for the descendants of the Yu family to cover the top of the pine coffin with a red cloth first, and let those people around the yellow pine coffin open the coffin.
"Wait a minute," those people were just about to open the coffin, but Master stopped them.
The master turned around and returned to the table of the eight immortals, picked up three sticks of incense and lit them and walked over, he walked to the ancestral grave of the Yu family and inserted the three sticks of incense in front of the yellow pine coffin half a meter away, "Senior, because your resting place is occupied by the government, you have to open the coffin and raise the grave, if the juniors disturb you today, please forgive the juniors" When the master finished speaking, he bowed three times to the yellow pine coffin.
"Stinky boy, why are you standing stupidly, hurry up and bow," the master said to me angrily after bowing.
"Oh," I sighed, and bowed reverently to the yellow pine coffin.
"When the coffin is opened after a while, except for the person who turns around and the person who opens the coffin, the rest of the people will all kneel on the ground, kowtowing and shouting that the ancestor has opened the coffin," the master commanded to everyone with a serious face.
"Yes" everyone responded to the Master in unison, now what the Master asks them to do, I think these people are quite funny, how the Master rectifies them, how they listen.
"It's time to open the coffin," Master said to the people gathered around Huang Song's coffin, who nodded to Master and prepared to lift the lid of the coffin.
"One, two, three, up" Xiao Wu shouted the slogan to everyone, when Xiao Wu shouted three, those people shouted and lifted the lid of the yellow pine coffin and gently put it on the side of the coffin, the lid of the yellow pine coffin was nine inches thick, a little heavy.
"The ancestor opened the coffin, the ancestor opened the coffin" The children of the Yu family kowtowed their heads while chattering, which made me think that the most funny person was Mr. Yu, he was fat, kneeling on the ground like a lump of fat on the ground, he pouted his ass and knocked his head on the ground "Bang Bang", these people kowtowed the most sincere to him.
"Poof", I finally couldn't hold back my laughter.
"Be serious, not at all," Master glared at me and said angrily.
"I know, Master," I said, and I covered my mouth with my hand and snickered, I was afraid that I would laugh out loud again in such a serious occasion.
"Master, you are really powerful" I looked at the corpse in the coffin and gave a thumbs up to the master, as the master said before, the body of the ancestor of the Yu family in the coffin did not decompose at all, the corpse still retains the appearance of the dead, the corpse's face was pale and covered with age spots, this corpse was relatively thin when he died, his cheekbones were bulging high, his eyes were closed, his mouth was slightly open, I saw that he had a green bead in his mouth, it should be made of jade, and the beard on the lips of the corpse was shorter, The beard on the lower forehead is long, the beard is snow-white, and the corpse has a round official hat on its head, and the official hat is inlaid with a sapphire, which is a symbol of the status of the third-grade official, and it seems that what Mr. Yu just told me is true.
According to the etiquette of the Qing Dynasty: the first grade of officials used rubies, the second grade used coral, the third grade used sapphires, the fourth rank used lapis lazuli, the fifth grade used crystal, the sixth grade used clams, the seventh grade used plain gold, the eighth grade used Yin Wen carved gold, and the ninth grade Yang Wen carved gold.
The corpse wears a string of pearls around its neck, the material of the pearls is made of amber, you can see when you see the palace opera, when the ministers go to the court, from the emperor to the ministers must bring the pearls, this is the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the ancients pay more attention than the current people, they feel that it is better to wear round beads on the body, there are three idioms can be reflected, respectively, "jewelry", "pearls round and jade", "beads are combined" and said.
The upper body of the corpse wears a yellow vest made of fine silk, and those who can wear the yellow jacket in the Qing Dynasty are all meritorious officials, and the yellow jacket is not something that anyone can wear casually, and the value of this yellow coat alone is very great. The corpse was wearing red silk trousers and a pair of black long-waisted deerskin riding boots on its feet.
On one side of the corpse lay two rolls of yellow silk cloth, and I saw that on the back of the two rolls of yellow silk cloth were embroidered with the words "Holy Decree" in traditional Chinese with blue thread. On the right side of the corpse is sixteen gold ingots, the weight of each gold ingot is not clear, if these sixteen gold ingots are taken out and sold, they will definitely be sold for a lot of money, if these sixteen ingots are sold as gold, they are not as valuable as antiques, and now a silver ingot can be sold for hundreds of thousands, not to mention the sixteen gold ingots, I stood on the side and watched a little dry, if I was given a gold ingot, I could really fight for ten years less.
"Mr. Yu, you can stand up and pay homage to the remains of your ancestors," Master said to Mr. Yu and the descendants of the Yu family who were kneeling on the ground.
When the old gentleman got up from the ground and looked into the coffin, he was stunned, he didn't expect that what the master said before was not wrong at all, the corpse of their ancestor did not decompose at all, not to mention the fact that it still maintained its pre-death appearance, and it looked more like it was asleep.
"The body of the ancestor did not rot......."
"There are gold ingots in the coffin, and now we have made a fortune......."
"The ancestor is still wearing a yellow coat.......
"The jewels on the ancestors' hats must be very valuable.......
".......I like the string of beads that the ancestor worn" Everyone looked at the ancestor in the coffin and discussed, everyone's eyes were not on the corpse at all, but were deeply attracted by the sixteen gold ingots in the coffin.
"Jiang Daochang is really a god and a man, and I sincerely admire him," Mr. Yu bowed to the master and said respectfully.
"Mr. Yu, I don't know if I should say it," the master said, looking at the corpse, to Mr.
"Chief Jiang Dao, please say it directly" When Mr. Yu said this, his eyes were only staring at the sixteen gold ingots in the coffin.
"Your ancestor's body does not rot because he has become a shadow corpse, when the corpse becomes a shadow corpse, his mouth will open wide, which is quite unfavorable to your future generations, the shadow corpse will eat up your descendants when he opens his mouth, it stands to reason that your descendants of the Yu family should not be so prosperous, the reason why the children of your Yu family are in a group is because the jade bead in the mouth of the shadow corpse transforms the evil qi of the shadow corpse, I suggest that you close the lid of the coffin and continue to bury your ancestors here, this shadow corpse should still be used by your descendants for two hundred years, Once you dig it out, the feng shui will be destroyed," the master said to the master with a serious face.