Chapter 10: A Moment to Witness History
Follow the eldest sister to the anatomy laboratory.
The old man who opened the door was still the old man who was dying last night, and he squinted his eyes and asked me, "Little cub, did you sleep well last night?" ”
I smiled back and said, "I've never slept so well, thank you for your kindness!" ”
On the way here, the eldest sister told me about the origin of this old man.
He is an old teacher who takes care of the experimental building, and everyone calls him "Xu Lao".
When his grandfather and grandfather were alive, Mr. Xu was just a small follower, helping with chores, and he didn't have access to core secrets.
With the departure of the older generation, only the old Xu is now the highest, the most qualified, and the most knowledgeable.
There are really no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king......
I walked in the door.
At a glance, I saw the bronze coffin placed on the stone platform.
The whole body presents a cold navy blue color, and the texture of the dragon and phoenix on it is natural, and the dense underworld is like a scar imprinted in the depths of the years, desolate into the soul.
Just this glance made me involuntarily wipe the cold sweat from my forehead, although I didn't really sweat.
Actually, it was there when I came in last night, but with a white cloth on it, how could I have thought they would carry the coffin into the lab!
"Haven't you always wanted to see the bronze coffin, go over and have a look!"
The eldest sister winked at me.
I stood still, just looked at it from afar, and said, "I want to see the bone flute." ”
As soon as these words came out, my brother, the brothers and sisters of the Wang family, and everyone including Xun Qianling were laughing.
Xun Qianling sneered: "Jumping clown." ”
I could see that they weren't slandering me too much or driving me away because the other half of the score was in my hands.
They need me.
No matter how much they hate me in their hearts, they have to give me some smiles.
Hehe......
The marriage contract made by the ancestors back then, only on the night of the candles in the cave room, can the music score be combined into one.
Xun Qianling is half, and I am half.
Now that I have ruined my marriage contract, I still want my music score, and I am a fool of dreams.
They don't keep the wishes of their ancestors, and I have to do it!
The eldest sister persuaded again: "Dongyang, you just go over and have a look!" ”
"You tell me first, and then I'll go over." I still stood still, because their expressions were so weird, and it would not be good for me to take a look.
The elder brother said a little impatiently: "If you don't let you come, you secretly follow you, let you look at you and don't look at you, what do you want to do?" ”
"You tricked me into the corpse last night, and now you want to lie to me, am I stupid? Just say no to me! ”
I looked at my eldest sister and waited for her to tell me what had happened.
At this time, Xu Lao suddenly walked to the bronze coffin, stroked the dark text pattern on the coffin wall with his old hand, and said slowly: "Little cub, do you know the legend of the bone flute?" ”
I want to say that I probably know more than you do.
But before I could speak, he asked himself and answered:
"I have studied bronze coffins for 50 years, consulted a large number of ancient inscriptions, and can also use analogy to find the most reasonable explanation for some academically unresearchable inscriptions, such as this row of ......."
Xu Lao touched the row of strange patterns at the bottom of the coffin wall and said:
"Although this row of inscriptions cannot be compared with a model, their ending direction can be compared to the sacrificial inscriptions of earlier periods, such as the Shang Dynasty bronzes unearthed in Yinxu have similar patterns, which means to sacrifice the heavens with blood, the earth with white bones, and the flesh to sacrifice all creatures that we have eaten......"
"Don't you say it, can't I see it myself?" I don't understand what he's pretending to be.
It's not that I don't respect the elderly, it's that his quality is too low, last night I not only scolded but also scolded my grandfather, I was very annoyed from the first time I saw him.
I walked to the bronze coffin and saw that there was a crack in the lid of the coffin, which must have been opened by them in some way, and I didn't think much about it, so I lifted it vigorously with the crack.
It's really easy to open.
The mysterious and strange aura on the outside seemed to be just an illusion, and when I actually touched it and opened it, I didn't feel it at all, as if I had opened an ordinary box.
However, what I saw made me feel like I was dreaming.
It's really a bone flute!
Although it is not as crystal clear as white jade as the legend, it is indeed a flute made of human bones.
The nine long bones, with sound holes carved on them, look quite exquisite, and they are finely crafted works of art, not scary at all.
I don't know how to describe my feelings.
Surprise?
Accidentally?
Or is it disappointment?
Anyway, I'm not that excited.
Since I was a child, I have listened to the legend of Baigupo, and that sense of mystery has long been rooted in my genes, and now that I see the real thing, there will definitely be a gap in my heart.
Xu Lao spoke again: "Just now I talked about sacrifice, this bronze coffin needs to be sacrificed with human blood, flesh, and bone at the same time in the texture of the top, and the internal structure is naturally corrupted......"
"You ......" I want to say that the story you tell is more than the movie, and it's hard to convince me.
But Xu Lao spoke very devotedly and said very deeply: "Thanks to Ling'er, it is she who contributed her own blood, flesh and bones, so that everyone can witness this historic moment!" ”
I glanced at Xun Qianling, she had bandages wrapped around her arms and legs, but she was in good spirits and didn't look in any pain.
The eldest sister came over and said, "Okay, now you can see it, be satisfied, the legends are exaggerated, you can't take it seriously!" ”
The elder brother said with a smile: "By the way, when Xu Lao cleans the bone flute, let's play a song according to the score, how about it?" ”
Everyone nodded their heads and said they had a good idea!
I didn't want to say anything, so I followed them out of the lab and home in silence.
On the way back, I asked them to go first, and I deliberately took a long detour around the campus.
I remember last night the security guard told me that there was a bell tower in the east, west, and northwest, and I did see three other bell towers that did not collapse.
I can still remember the door I entered that was labeled "Do not enter the dangerous building", and the roaring sirens were deafening, like the demons of hell roaring.
But now, they're gone!
Where the bell tower should have stood, it was either an open space or a new building.
Among them, the location of the bell tower on the west side turned out to be a girls' dormitory building, and according to my impression, the location coincided with the same.
I can't figure out why.
Why did everything else I see prove to be true, but those three bell towers don't exist?
It shouldn't exist because of reason.
As the eldest sister said, only one bell tower stood tall under the Japanese bombing, and it was impossible to build multiple bell towers on the same lot.
My gut tells me that things are far from that simple.
But I can't put it into words.
Because I always feel that they are deceiving themselves for some purpose, and one day they will have to pay it back.
……
Back to the eldest sister's house.
After a busy night, everyone was washing, and the air was filled with the smell of fragrance.
The eldest sister came out of the bedroom wrapped in a bath towel and was about to go to the bathroom, when she saw me enter the door, she smiled and said, "Do you want to wash?" ”
I was thinking about something, and somehow I heard it as "Do you want to be together?" ”
Shocked.
even replied to her very painfully: "I'm not embarrassed......"
The eldest sister said speechlessly: "It's not a glass door, who can see you, what's so embarrassing?" ”
Only then did I realize what she had just said, and I was particularly embarrassed and perfunctory: "I'll rest for a while." Then he went headlong into the bedroom.
Charge your phone.
I immediately called Wu Yejing, wanting to ask where she was, and ask her what the hell she was doing last night!
It didn't get through.
This time the prompt is that the phone is turned off.
For people like Wu Yejing, who are in the night scene, the mobile phone will generally not be turned off, and there is a high probability that the battery is out and cannot be charged.
I wondered, she wouldn't still be in school, would she?
But she's so elusive that I can't find her unless she comes to me on her own initiative.
Thinking of Wu Yejing, I suddenly remembered the corpse I saw in the basement, with the name of the "Fifth Army" written on the sign.
I asked my eldest sister through the bathroom door: "Sister, can you find the files of the donated bodies in your hospital?" It's the donor's life profile. ”
The eldest sister asked, "Why are you asking this?" ”
Then he said: "Of course, there is a strict process for body donation, and the information of the deceased and his family must be registered, and the name of the person who has made a contribution must be recorded." ”
"How much detail can you look up?" I asked.
"It's going to be different from person to person, what do you want to do?"
"You have time to check someone for me, the name is the Fifth Army."
I don't know why I'm so interested in the Fifth Army, but he gives me the impression that it's full of suspicions.
After a while, the eldest sister came out.
The wet hair shook me all over the water, and I didn't know how to wipe it, so I directly picked up my charging phone and said to me: "Private information, don't leak it!" ”
I don't know if she's talking about photo albums, or the archives of the Fifth Army......