Chapter 7: Weeping Dragon's Blood Jade
"My God, Xiao Gang, you are Xiao Zhuge , you can pinch and calculate, if we don't come back just now, I think we will all become a hornet's nest now", Lao Hu saw all kinds of darts and bows and crossbows on the ground, and felt that Yan Wenbin was too powerful, as if he had already known what would happen here, and had the ability to predict the future.
The sarcophagus was pulled back to its original position by them, and the surroundings were quiet, quiet and terrifying, except for the sound of machinery running.
"Xiao Yan, are you still going over?" Lao Hu looked at Yan Wenbin and said.
"Go, why don't you go, don't you hear the mechanism still running? When the mechanism stops, we can't open the sarcophagus by our strength, I'll go, you wait and don't move, because there are some mechanisms that you don't know how they work."
After Yan Wenbin finished speaking, he stepped forward directly, Lao Hu watched Yan Wenbin walk on the high platform very casually, in fact, how did he know that Yan Wenbin was very cautious in every step, because there are stone slabs on the ground that can be stepped on, and Yan Wenbin often goes up the mountain to hunt and has seen animal traps, so he walks much lighter than others.
He knew that if he wanted to open the sarcophagus, he could only use four chains and a gravity device to hang the coffin cover, otherwise there would be no way to open the sarcophagus.
Sure enough, Yan Wenbin didn't do anything wrong, the boulder on the top moved down to a certain distance and no longer moved, but slowly returned to its original position, and the four tomb beasts above the ground were also moving down, and the stones that had sunk around the stone platform just now were also returning to their original positions.
This is a series of gravity-activated devices, the purpose of which is to use gravity-activated devices to lift the sarcophagus lid, otherwise it would be impossible for human power to open the coffin.
"Xiao Gang, are these ancients full of food and have nothing to do, hanging the sarcophagus in such a way, it really makes me unimaginable" Lao Hu admired the wisdom of the ancients and was able to design such a beautiful mechanism.
"Some of the things in this coffin are gone, if there are really evil spirits in the coffin, then there are other things in the sarcophagus, don't look at it, this is a modern mechanism, the previous people are not as strong as the current one, this is designed by later generations, less than ten years" Yan Wenbin looked at Lao Hu and said, because there is already a lot of engine oil on the ground, this thing was not available in ancient times.
Sure enough, after the sarcophagus was opened, there was still a golden silk nanmu coffin inside, and a strange charm was carved on the surface.
"Corpse Talisman, no wonder I have a bad premonition, it turns out that it all comes from this Corpse Talisman." Yan Wenbin was very surprised.
The anti-corpse talisman is generally drawn with cinnabar, mostly used on yellow paper, used to calm the corpse, afraid that the corpse will be transformed due to the rush. In general, there is a text in the imperial decree that the general will come to the town".
The general of the imperial decree refers to Zhong Kui, because Zhong Kui specializes in catching ghosts, and can use this charm to eliminate disasters and take refuge, the Taoist Fu faction will entitle him as "the holy king of the town house", protect the blessing and dispel the evil charm to bless peace, and the uncle of Yan Wenbin is a Taoist priest, so he is no stranger to the town of corpses.
"Xiao Gang, you said that this coffin is golden silk nanmu, so won't we get rich?" Lao Hu smiled so much that his mouth couldn't close it, and the golden silk nanmu was the wood he was most familiar with.
In the late Ming Dynasty, Xie mentioned in Hangzhou's "Five Miscellaneous Works": Nanmu was born in Chu Shu, the deep mountains and poor valleys do not know the age, a hundred zhang of dry, half-buried sand, so it is cut off as a coffin, called a sand board. There is a texture in the good plate solution, which is as hard as iron. Those who try it, make a box with the month, and hold the raw meat after several sustains, and the color remains the same.
Golden silk nanmu has been widely used in the production of court furniture, and has become the furniture material favored by the royal family. Important buildings such as Wenyuan Pavilion, Le Shou Tang, Taihe Palace, Changling and other important buildings have nanmu decoration and furniture, and are often used in conjunction with red sandalwood.
It is often mentioned in the literature of the Ming Dynasty that Nanmu is a good material for making furniture. It is often used to make chests, cabinets and bookshelves, and can also be used to decorate cabinet doors or make stationery utensils. In addition, Nanmu has a lot of "full of grapes" galls, and its patterns are fine and magnificent, and they are exquisite.
Most of the gall wood used in prominent parts of Ming-style furniture is this kind of Nanmu gall. "Essentials of the Museum": "Sic cypress Nanmu out of the West Shu Mahu Mansion, the texture is not straight, there are landscape figures and other flowers with high prices, Sichuan is also rare, also known as the stock of Bo Nan, now the vulgar cloud fighting Bo Nan.
Golden silk nanmu is insect-proof, corrosion-resistant, and not easy to deform, so the golden silk nanmu bracelet is not easy to be damp and mildew, but also insect repellent, and durable and easy to maintain, after the death of princes and nobles are also mostly used to create coffins.
"Xiao Gang, if we take out this coffin and find a carpenter to make it into furniture, it can be exchanged for dozens of oceans, if my grandfather is here, he will definitely not let go of such a good thing," Lao Hu said very wealthy.
"I'm afraid that when the time comes, you won't be able to use the deceased's things, especially the coffin, like a bed that people sleep on for a long time, and you still want to take it out to make furniture, aren't you afraid that the deceased will strangle you at night", Yan Wenbin was amused by Lao Hu's words, only people like Lao Hu in the world would have such thoughts, but he didn't dare to use things that were contaminated with the breath of the dead.
"Xiao Gang, you see there are words under your feet", Lao Hu suddenly pointed to the stone slab on the ground and said.
Gaozu to the pavilion chief, for the county to send the disciple Li Mountain, the road to die, since the degree than to, all died, to Fengxize to stop drinking, the night is the solution to send the disciples, said: "The public and others are all gone! I'm gone." There are more than ten strong men in the disciples.
Gaozu was drunk in the night path, and ordered one person to go forward, and the former also reported: "There is a big snake in front of him, and he is willing to return." Gao Zu was drunk and said, "How can a strong man be afraid!" He drew his sword and struck the serpent, and the serpent was divided into two and went away.
After a few miles, drunk and lying, the descendants came to the snake place, and an old woman cried at night. Why do people cry? She said, "When a man kills my son, he weeps." They said, "What is the purpose of a woman?" The concubine said: "My son, the White Emperor, turned into a snake, and became the way, and now he is beheaded by the Red Emperor, so he cries." People regard their concubines as insincere, and they want to flog them, but they do not see them because they are overlooked.
Descendants to, Gao Zu Jue, descendants tell Gao Zu, Gao Zu is happy, conceited, and all the followers are increasingly afraid of it.
Qin Shi Huang tasted and said, "There is a son of heaven in the southeast." So because of the eastward travel to disgust, Gaozu doubted himself, disappeared, and hid among the rocks of Mangdang Mountain. Empress Lu asks for it with others and often gets it. Gao Zu asked strangely? Lu Hou said: "Where the season lives, there are often clouds, so the season is obtained from the past." Gao Zu is happy! Peizhong's children may hear it, and they want to be attached to it.
"What does this mean", Lao Hu said as he looked at Yan Wenbin.
"Don't you know how to read"? Yan Wenbin replied.
"I know, but it's all Chinese, I can't understand it", Lao Hu said speechless.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Gaozu escorted the apprentices to Lishan for Pei County as the pavilion chief, and many of the apprentices escaped halfway, and Gaozu estimated that they would all escape when they arrived in Lishan, so when they walked to Fengxi Daze, they stopped drinking and released all the servants at night.
More than a dozen strong men were willing to follow him, and Gaozu took advantage of the drunkenness to make a path through the swamp at night, and let one of the men who walked in front come back and reported: "There is a big snake in front of you, so let's go back."
Gao Zu was drunk and said, "What is so terrible when the eldest husband walks!" So he rushed to the front, drew his sword, and slew the serpent.
The serpent was cut in two, and the road was opened, and he went on a few miles, and when he was very drunk, he lay down on the ground, and when the people behind him came to the place where the serpent had been cut, they saw an old woman weeping in the darkness of the night.
When she was asked why she was crying, the old woman said, "Someone killed my child and I was crying for him."
Someone asked, "Why was your child killed?"
The old woman said, "My child is the son of the White Emperor, transformed into a snake, blocked in the middle of the road, and now he has been killed by the son of the Red Emperor, and I am crying for this."
Everyone thought that the old woman was lying and was about to beat her, but the old woman suddenly disappeared, and the people behind caught up with Gaozu, and Gaozu woke up. Those people told Gao Zu what had just happened, and Gao Zu was secretly happy in his heart, and he became more conceited, and those who followed him gradually became afraid of him.
"This is the text on the floor, the record of the Han Gaozu Liu Bang's beheading of the White Snake Uprising, why is there such a written record here", Yan Wenbin didn't know what the purpose was.
"Xiao Gang, there is still here", Lao Hu walked to the other side of the sarcophagus and also found that there were words on the ground.
According to the textual translation, Qin Shi Huang once said: "There is a cloud in the southeast that symbolizes the Son of Heaven", so he traveled to the east to suppress it.
Gao Zu suspected that he was carrying this cloud qi, so he fled outside to hide, hiding between the deep mountains and lakes in the area of Mangdang Mountain. Lu Hou went to look for him with others, and he was often found.
Gao Zu asked her strangely how she could find it, and Empress Lu said: "Where you are, there is often a cloud in the sky above, and if you look for it, you can often be found." Gao Zu's heart was even more happy, some of the young people in Pei County had heard about this, so many people were willing to attach themselves to him.
Yan Wenbin walked to the other side and also found the writing on the ground.
The snake was divided into two, Gaozu cut the snake, and Emperor Ping returned his life, although it was only a few simple words, but Yan Wenbin felt that these simple words contained an invisible pressure, which made him breathless.
An ordinary snake turned into a huge white python, and before Liu Bang cut the snake, the white python said: "The debt you owe will be repaid one day." If you cut off my head, I will usurp your head: cut off my tail, and I will usurp your tail. "
Liu Bang cut the white python into two sections from the middle with a sword, so the Western Han Dynasty passed to Emperor Ping, and the white snake reincarnated Wang Mang, poisoned Emperor Ping of Han, and usurped Han as a new one. Later, after Guangwu Zhongxing, Wang Mang was extinguished, and the Han family was restored and the Eastern Han Dynasty of the Liu family was established. And the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty happened to be passed down for more than 200 years.
"Lao Hu, go to the other side to see if there is such a text", but I didn't find it after looking for a long time.
"There is a coffin lid", Lao Hu's words made Yan Wenbin seem to have caught the last life-saving grass.
Hanchen Zhang Liang, the hometown of Gaozu Mangshan to cut the snake, rose three feet, and got the exquisite blood jade, Yan Wenbin looked at Lao Hu as if he had lost his soul and said.
"There is such a text, but there is also a text in the back, Shu Han Zhuge saw the war in Nanzhong, so he gave the barbarian with exquisite blood jade."
"That's right, that's right", Yan Wenbin has always wondered why such a text appeared, but now he understands.
"Got it, Xiao Gang, can you finish it all at once, are you going to kill me in a hurry?" Lao Hu was anxious, he wanted to know what Yan Wenbin wanted to say.
There are three exquisite jade stones in Chinese history, one is the founding jade of Qin Shi Huang of the Qin State, and the other is the bib.
Chuan Guo jade seal: referred to as "the seal of the country", is the Qin Dynasty Prime Minister Li Si by the order of the first emperor, its radius of four inches, on the New York hand over five dragons, the front engraved with Li Si's book "ordered in the sky, both longevity Yongchang" eight seal characters, as a token of "imperial power, orthodoxy and legitimacy", after Qin, the emperors of all dynasties have to get this seal as a symbol, if it is a treasure, the country's heavy weapon.
If you get it, it symbolizes that it is "ordered by the sky", and if you lose it, it shows that its "qi has been exhausted". Where to ascend the throne and do not have this seal, then ridiculed as the "white version of the emperor", appear to lack of confidence and be despised by the world, the past dynasties want to seek the throne of the emperor you fight for the Wen Bin to seize, resulting in the heirloom of the seal repeatedly changed its owner, in Shenzhou Chixian Fan more than 2,000 years, flickering and flickering, and finally disappeared, so far there is no trace, which makes people sigh.
He's Bi is a famous jade in Chinese history, in its circulation of hundreds of years, is regarded as a priceless treasure, according to legend, there is a person named Bian He in Chu who has a discerning eye for jade, one day in the valley found a stone with a different texture, judged to be beautiful jade, spent ten years to excavate the jade Pu.
He dedicated the jade pu to the king of Chu to serve the country, but due to the mediocrity and misdirection of the country and the short-sightedness of the faint king, not only did not offer the jade jade, but also was tortured by the two generations of Chu kings, but he was strong and unyielding and tenacious, and was finally accepted by the king of Chu Wen Yupu, named Heshi Bi, and hid in the palace.
After the Heshi Bi came out, it became the national treasure of the Chu State, and it was never easy to show people. In 283 BC, King Zhaoxiang of Qin heard that Zhao had a Heshi Bi, and proposed to exchange 15 cities, because Zhao was weak and Qin was strong, Zhao did not dare to slacken, but he was reluctant, so he sent the resourceful Lin Xiangru to make Qin, Lin Xiangru knew that there was a fraud, and secretly sent Heshi Bi back to Zhao.
The third is the weeping dragon blood jade in the coffin, no wonder Zhang Liang died after getting it, Zhuge Liang gave this piece of blood jade to the southern barbarian tribe against the Shu Han regime at that time, it seems that this is really the tomb of one of the kings of the Shuixi family, Yan Wenbin only now knew that this tomb was the Shuixi family.
"Then is the weeping dragon blood jade you said worth it?" Lao Hu doesn't know what's at stake, he only has value in his eyes, and the rest is nonsense.
Blood jade, refers to the white jade with a trace of red veins of jade, clearly visible in the sun, generally mostly jade bracelets, occasionally pendants and whole jade, for the jade is an extremely rare treasure, from the time of the formation of blood jade to take hundreds of years to form.
Legend has it that blood jade refers to the jade that has penetrated the blood, and some jade in the ancient jade will appear red after entering the soil, so some people call this kind of red jade blood, and many people call this kind of red jade blood, they think that the blood is made by the corpse rotting blood into the jade, so a blood jade can generally be regarded as one of the ancient burial goods.
This kind of thing often falls under the swallow of the skeleton, it is the most precious one of all the corpses jade plug, according to the quality of the price, as little as a few thousand, more than a million oceans, but the person who gets it will die, this blood jade is buried with a curse, called the jade blood curse.