Chapter 40: Tendon and Boneless (II)
After singing a bitter song, Duoling and Gu Chai cried again for a long time before the master's body was tidied up. Ruan Hei has nothing in his body, no inheritance, only a priceless Zhuyan pearl in his mouth, he has been poor all his life, and after his death, he has enjoyed the luxurious treatment that only the emperor will have, and the pearl diving has been buried for half his life, and he was finally buried in the green snail mussel carapace, and the mussel carapace is a dragon residence among the egg people, and it can be regarded as a well-deserved death.
But we searched for a long time among the mussel shells piled up into a hill, but we didn't find a mussel shell that was complete and huge enough to be used as a coffin. The courtyard surrounded by four walls is full of carved murals of the ancients slaughtering mussels and pearls, and there are thousands of empty shells of snail mussels, which must have been a place for scraping mussels. We once caught a clam at sea, its mussel shell is as crystal clear as snow, staggered and closed, like two shells like a solid armor, surrounded by no gaps, if you can find a nail similar to a man-eating mussel, that is the most suitable spiritual creature for a coffin.
I didn't give up, peeled off the upper layer of mussel shells, wanted to see if there were man-eating mussels buried in the depths, but unexpectedly, a few layers of mussel shells were opened, and a large copper plate was exposed, stroked off the fine clamshells and sediment on it, and the copper body was soaked in seawater for a long time, but the red spots on the surface of the copper plate were full of red marks, and you can see many naked ** female figures carved with their forms, all of which are frolicking and swimming in the sea, and their posture is enchanting and gorgeous.
We didn't expect to dig up such a thing, and we didn't know what this beautiful steel plate was, and why it was buried in a pile of mussel shells. There are two copper rings on the steel plate, it seems that this is a lid that can be removed, I want to say that this is probably a coffin with a corpse in the mouth, but after thinking about it, I feel that this pattern and shape are not like it, how can there be a copper ring cast on the lid of the coffin? So the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, because he didn't know how to open the copper plate without permission, and gestured to the fat man, and the two continued to clear the remains of the snail mussels around.
The fat man dug up the snail armor around it and exposed it as a whole, and it turned out that there was a pair of green snails as big as a water tank, and the screw mouth was sealed with copper plates. Look at the texture on the snail armor, naturally forming a woman's clothes with full patterns, fingers in her hands, navel on her abdomen, and beautiful eyebrows, all of which are cool like the living. It is often said that there is a naturally generated Arhat Guanyin statue in the mussel, and today I really see it with my own eyes, the shell water pattern is like a woman, and it is also a strange thing in the sea, it turns out that there is a rumor of a portrait in the mussel, not the empty nonsense of the egg people and fishermen.
I asked Uncle Ming to come over to take a look, and he didn't know what the snail shell sealed by the copper plate was for, and guessed that it was a snail coffin made by the ancient Hate Tian clan. I have heard of mussel coffins before, and there was indeed this kind of burial custom in ancient times, but most of them used mussels instead of old snails and green nails as thick as rice jars. Most of the people buried in the mussel coffin are fishermen, and all of them are men who have not found a wife, this rare and strange custom is probably due to the desire to marry the mussel essence.
The fat man said: "Then it must be right, otherwise how can there be so many women on this copper cover, and there is also a natural beauty figure on the snail armor." The person in this coffin must be a pervert marrying a daughter-in-law, it's not enough, look at how many of them are he going to do after his death? As he spoke, he went to count the number of women, but he didn't count them for a long time.
Uncle Ming heard us say that this may be a rare snail coffin, there is a coffin, there is a coffin, there is a bright vessel, how can you not be tempted? Immediately resorted to the method of agitation, and the fat man and I said: "How can the dirty custom of marrying with mussels and sperm in the countryside have anything to do with this snail shell coffin? I don't think this green snail is a mortal thing, the corpse in the coffin may not be a pervert, anyway, he has been dead for thousands of years, what kind of character did he have during his lifetime, how can our descendants tell the difference? ”
After hearing this, the fat man snorted his teeth and said, "Hey, I explain uncle, why don't you still believe in my fat eyes?" If the zongzi in the coffin has beads in its mouth, the corpse must not be rotten, if you don't believe it, let's make a bet, I say it must be a pervert, otherwise what are such hooligans doing with so many women on the coffin lid? The hair on the feet of the womanizer is black and long, which is a good proof. ”
I thought to myself: The hairs on the legs and feet of people who swim regularly are indeed thicker than those on the feet of people who once lived in the Coral Spiral Sea. The snail armor is impermeable, for the nobles who hate the kingdom of heaven, it is not a big deal to have a bead after death, maybe they have all the eyebrows, and even the hair on their bodies can be preserved to this day. The fat man is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and bet on whether there is hair on the feet of the dead man in the coffin, not only ingenious, but also has taken seventy percent of the winning side first, if the corpse is decomposed, then at most he will bet on a tie with Uncle Ming.
The fat man provoked Uncle Ming with his words again, and Uncle Ming couldn't help but grit his teeth and gamble with him to see if this ancient corpse in the snail was a pervert. The bet on the fat man was the gold he had gotten, indicating that after his uncle went bankrupt, he had nothing of value on him, so he had to gamble on a Nanzhu that was given to him.
Rley Yang said to me, "Don't let them mess around, do you want to do it like this?" I said, "What's the matter?" Let's ...... Is it a scientific investigation, didn't Professor Chen also say that when dealing with science and truth, we must make bold assumptions and cautious verification? Whether the ancient corpse was very fond of women before his death is also an important topic in the field of academic research, I remember that there are many scholars who have studied and studied the big pervert of the level of King Hailing. If they are allowed to study, won't we be allowed to touch Captain Jin to study? Besides, if this green snail is really a coffin, just to bury the boss of the ship, Ruan Hei, he is also a single person, wouldn't it be more suitable to bury a hooligan pervert in ancient times? ”
I asked Gu Chai and Duoling if they agreed or not, and the two siblings had not experienced these things, and expressed their willingness to listen to the arrangement. So I immediately asked the fat man to remove the lid of the coffin, try not to damage it, and bury Ruan Hei later.
Rley Yang had no choice but to persuade Uncle Ming not to bet with the fat man. Uncle Ming said: "It's all already settled, how can there be any reason to regret it?" But Miss Yang, don't worry, who am my uncle? I can't count how many ancient corpses I have sold, I haven't seen the hair on the feet of the dead at all, and I can't save it, no matter whether the corpse is changed or blocked by the cold jade, the seven orifices cause the corpse to not leak out, and the total person dies, as long as a certain number of years pass, the corpse may still be lifelike in a special environment, but the hair on the legs and feet will definitely fall off. ”
Uncle Ming's smugness was overflowing, and he continued proudly: "Miss Yang, you see that their two decrepit boys have always been disrespectful, and they don't know how high the sky is, and how thick the sky is, but after all, they are inexperienced and tender, Jiang is old and spicy, and it is time for them to learn a lesson." ”
The fat man and I heard Uncle Ming claim to have won the battle, looked up at each other, and couldn't help but be angry in our hearts, secretly scolding Uncle Ming, the old thief is really cunning enough. I think about it carefully, I really don't remember which dumpling on the feet, I saw hairs on my feet, this time the gamble was in a hurry, but it was really a bit big. But I'm not worried, because I know what the fat man does, in addition to cutting the flesh, it hurts to spend money, and he doesn't take advantage of it, so he feels that he suffers, how can he let Uncle Ming, the old Hong Kong farmer, take a piece?
At this time, the fat man found the guy, put on his mask, waved at us, signaled everyone to step back a few steps, so as not to be swept away by the gloomy breath in the coffin, and then lit a mermaid candle on the pile of mussel shells. However, at this time, the southeast and northwest were not clear at all, just out of habit, they were indiscriminately on the Liangzi, so they started to pry the copper ring, and the dantian shouted, "Open", and the copper cover trapped in the mouth of the snail shell was lifted. I saw that the snail armor was indeed not empty, and there seemed to be a snail flesh, and the coffin lid was opened, and a white light rushed into the air, which seemed to have a treasure, but it was extremely fishy.
Everyone waited for the white gas to dissipate before they dared to come closer to see it, only to see that there was a corpse lying in the coffin, and the fat man and Uncle Ming and I couldn't care to see what the ancient corpse looked like, so we couldn't wait to see its feet first. The ancient corpse curled up in a snail shell like a water tank, its feet were white and greasy, but there was not half a black, thick hair.
Seeing this, Uncle Ming hurriedly said: "Why is there no hair on the feet, the ancient corpse is definitely not a pervert before his death, and the fat boy must ......admit it if he loses."
The fat man said to Uncle Ming with a sincere face: "No hair on your feet doesn't necessarily mean that you are not a pervert, no hair explains...... Illustrate...... It shows that this guy is a sexual pervert and can be hated more than a fucking hooligan. Besides, what we gambled on was not whether it had black hair on its feet, but whether the ancient corpse was a womanizer before his death, of course it was no problem if you always wanted me to admit defeat, but at least we had to come up with evidence that the corpse was not lustful. "He is obviously strong, but he is irrefutable.
Uncle Ming fell into the fat man's trap again, and almost regretted his stomach, and wanted to go to Shirley Yang to give a comment. At this time, Shirley Yang was inspecting the ancient corpse in the conch shell, and she said to everyone: "Don't argue, this snail armor is not a coffin for the deceased at all, if this mountain full of caves and stone halls is the ancient tomb of the Hate Tian clan, I think this snail armor may be used to seal the burial goods, this patio is a side hall for burial." ”
I was stunned when I heard this, although the prototype of Feng Shui Yili began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, since the ancient times of the Yin Shang Dynasty, whether it is the city where the living live or the tomb where the dead are buried, there have been certain guidelines. For example, the shape of the middle, square, and straight, as well as the orientation of "sitting in the north and facing the south", in fact, these are the prototypes of the Tao of Feng Shui, such as "the north is yin, the south is yang, the north of the mountain is the water, the south is the yin, the south of the mountain is the yang", as early as the tombs of the Yin Shang, it can be seen that the principle of yin and yang is earlier than the way of the five elements of Shengke. However, it is indeed difficult to understand that this mountain dedicated to the bronze statue of the sun-shooting god is an ancient tomb. Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was impossible to have such a magnificent hall in the tomb.
I reckon Shirley Yang should also be aware of these things, and she must have a reason for saying so. I saw Shirley Yang put on gloves and gently pulled out the corpse from the snail shell. The limbs of this corpse were paralyzed and soft in her hands, and the skin and flesh were like water satin, and they seemed to be as soft as a boneless empty skin bag, but the eyebrows, mouth and nose were all on the head, and there was no shortage of green silk, and there was no shortage of a thousand beads on the body. With bare feet and hands on top of the fishbone crown, it turned out to be a woman.
Just now, we only looked at the feet of the ancient corpse, but we didn't expect it to be a female corpse, and I couldn't help but feel ashamed, but I saw that Shirley Yang dared to take the boneless female corpse out of the snail shell and said: "This also makes it?" Let go and watch out for the corpses! ”
Rley Young said she was going to look for a map of the conch in the ruins. The female corpse was as soft as mud, and there were no visible remains in the corpse, and it is said that King Xu Yan in ancient times1 was a man with muscles and bones, and he couldn't imagine that there was such a corpse. The reason why it is said that the snail is full of funerary goods or buried valuable secret weapons is because the female corpse does not seem to be the coffin owner buried in it, it is more like a mysterious collectible, and there are many strange things in the snail shell. As she spoke, she put the female corpse on the copper cover of the conch shell that had been pried off, and took out a pair of pitch-black bronze swords from the empty snail, a turtle jade plate, several mermaid candles, and a simple black jade bottle, the mouth of the bottle was sealed very tightly, and the bottle was heavy, as if it was filled with something.
Shirley Yang and I were equally curious about what all these strange things in the snail shells were used for. I was about to take a closer look at them one by one, but I saw that Uncle Ming and the Duoling siblings were staring at the female corpse with no muscles and bones, without blinking, and the muscles on their faces seemed to be twitching, so I hurriedly asked, "Uncle Ming, what's the matter?" ”
Uncle Ming seemed to be shocked by an invisible pressure, panting, and his throat seemed to be choked, and he even struggled to speak: "That's not ...... It's not a woman's body, it's ...... Mustache 2! ”
1. The name of King Xu Yan was born in the thirty-sixth year of King Zhao of Zhou. In history, King Xu Yan "was born and did not die, thinking that it was ominous and abandoned the waterfront". When he was born, his clothes were not torn, like a meat ball, and his family thought it was an ominous thing, so he abandoned it.
After being born, King Xu Yan recorded that "there are muscles but no bones" according to the "Corpse". It may be that its body is more flexible than if it has no bones.
2 sonic mè I is the same as "charm", which is explained in the "Sayings" as "the old man and the essence of things." ”