I saw that the slightly yellow cloth was covered with bright flowers and unknown birds. Stunned, Professor Chen first recovered his thoughts and immediately arranged: "Ma Kai, hurry up and take pictures!" Curator Feng, Lao Zhang, you immediately bagged and sealed this barren curtain! ”

In the quick response, the photo taking and bagging work was done quickly.

As the curtain was lifted, the red coffin below appeared in front of everyone.

Professor Chen looked at the barren curtain that was packed into the sealed bag and said with an intoxicated expression: "Comrades, this thing is really rare!" For so many years, there are only a few cases of ancient tomb excavations in the country, and they are all damaged, just now we excavated this barren curtain should be the size of 8 square meters, the pattern on it is still bright, and the ornament also shows that the person lying here may be a woman, that is, the general's wife, it seems that we are going to have a big harvest, let's open our eyes together! ”

Or the glasses that stole the hairpin, and asked timidly: "Professor, what is the barren curtain?" ”

Professor Chen smiled kindly and said: "To put it bluntly, the curtain is the cover of the coffin, which is imitating the curtain of the tomb owner during his lifetime, well, it can also be said that this is similar to what I have seen in the early years, that is, the cloth cover on the sleeping bed." ”

"Then Professor Chen, why are there so few barren curtains?"

"Factors such as age and water ingress in the tomb, these are rarely preserved, and even those found in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang are also damaged, and there are almost no pieces."

"Then there is no other covering in the coffin except the barren curtain?"

"It's basically barren curtains and silk paintings, and nothing else."

Seeing everyone's excited expressions, Zhang Gong quietly said to Professor Chen: "Hurry up and open the coffin, now the mood is high, victory is ahead, I can't wait!" ”

"Okay, old horse, please go down again, and open the coffin lid below."

As soon as the old horse, who was waiting for the order, pressed his hand on the coffin lid, the old horse felt that something was wrong, because his hand told him that the coffin was very light, and he was a little stunned and said to Professor Chen: "Professor, this coffin seems to be empty!" ”

Professor Chen was surprised and asked, "What?" How can you say that it will be empty? ”

Zhang Gong also didn't understand why the complete coffin would be empty, so he also asked: "Why do you say it's empty?" ”

"I didn't touch the coffin too hard just now, and the coffin moved its position, but I felt that there was nothing inside."

Professor Chen thought for a while, waved his hand at Zhang Gong to stop his words, and calmly said to Lao Ma: "This coffin is spliced with Nanmu planks, not the whole wood hollowed out, plus you have a lot of strength, so you feel lightweight, and this coffin is placed in the coffin, the bottom is smooth, so it moves when you touch it, now don't care about your feelings, open it first!" ”

After Lao Ma and another worker moved the coffin lid to the side, the surrounding people hurriedly looked over: inside the coffin lay a neatly dressed female corpse wearing a gold mask, and the clothes on her body were still bright.

Zhang Gong looked at the mask of the female corpse intently and said, "Lao Chen, there is something wrong with this corpse!" Look at this head, although wearing a mask, a few strands of hair cover both sides of the mask, but it is obvious that the problem of hair, it is not attached to the scalp, it feels more like it is put on, and then look at the hands, it is also impossible to see the fingers, the hands and feet should not be hidden inside, the most important thing is that this corpse is too full, the three-dimensional sense can be so good for so many years, too real. ”

Professor Chen nodded approvingly and said, "Maybe it's just a skeleton under this clothes!" ”

Feng Weiguo asked puzzledly: "How can the skeleton look so plump?" This body looks bumpy, shouldn't it? ”

"It is precisely because it is too concave and convex that I feel that there is a problem, this is not a coffin, so it may be a dry corpse, since it is a dry corpse, then it will naturally form a shriveled state, but this shape is not like that, so the underside of this clothing may be filled with cotton, etc.; Come on, let's invite her out by ourselves, she's been lying in there long enough, it's time to come out and breathe, she will know everything as soon as she comes out! Curator Feng, you go and get the container, it's not good that these clothes are in contact with the air too much, take a look at it for a while, and then quickly vacuum and store it. ”

After Ma Kai took the photo, Professor Chen said to Zhang Gong: "Lao Zhang, you see that the curly skirt worn here is silk, which belongs to the dignitaries at that time, although this deep coat is relatively wide, but the funeral will put the hands and feet of the deceased outside, almost no hidden clothes, you see this hand without fingers, feet without shoes, and you notice the smell, it seems that there is no unique smell after the corpse decomposes." ”

Zhang Gong slowly took off his mask and sniffed, nodded to Professor Chen, and then reached out and gently touched the female corpse: It is very soft underneath, and it is estimated that the situation is the same as Professor Chen's judgment.

Seeing that Feng Weiguo brought people to bring in plexiglass containers and vacuum pumps, Zhang Gong said to Professor Chen: "Lao Chen, let me and Lao Zhu get it, you watch from the side, I'm afraid there will be a situation below." ”

"It's okay, you tap to look at the cuffs first, and if you are sure that there is only a skeleton, untie the clothes and move the bones one by one, don't mess up."

Zhang Gong put on the mask again, slowly lifted the cuffs of his clothes, and before he lifted them, he felt that something slipped inside, so he gently lowered his sleeves again, and then gently touched his clothes with his fingers, and then opened the cuffs and looked at them and said with certainty: "There are bones inside!" ”

Zhu Gong untied the bent belt, and after opening the placket, there was a white silk heart coat inside, on which were embroidered with several large flowers. When Zhu Gong lifted a corner of his heart, he finally discovered the secret inside: as Professor Chen said, it was filled with cotton, and the cotton was still white and soft.

After rearranging his clothes, Zhu Gong said to Professor Chen: "Let's move the whole thing, there is a skeleton wrapped in cotton, and it can be moved as a whole." ”

"Okay, then a few of you can move it together with the base cloth underneath."

In this way, one person was in charge of the top, one was in charge of the middle, and one was in charge of the bottom, and the three men carried the skeleton out of the coffin and moved it into the prepared container.

A comrade from a local archaeology took advantage of the time to ask Professor Chen: "Professor Chen, why did you say that it might be a skeleton from the beginning?" ”

Professor Chen still said kindly: "When you see too much, you will judge these conditionally." ”

"Then why is it just a skeleton?"

"It should be the wife of the tomb owner who left early, and it was dug up and reburied here after many years."

"And what is the research value of this corpse's skeleton?"

"Haha, that's too much, this alone is actually rare in rescue excavations, because this bone belongs to organic matter, after a long period of humidity, especially buried in acidic soil, basically all of them are rotten, so the bones are not easy to find, so what if they are found? That's baby! After various chemical analyses, they are generally sealed, and then they are taken out for analysis after many years when the technology is more developed. The discovery of bones is indeed not much, under the current legal framework, all the ancient tombs are protected, not allowed to be excavated, and now the excavations are rescue excavations, that is, such as repairing the subway and engaging in real estate, etc., the ancient tombs have been dug up, so the ancient tombs will allow us to excavate, and often such ancient tombs are also easy to soak in water, so the organic things in them are often rarely unearthed. ”