Chapter 18: One Tomb and Two Masters
The passage became wider and wider the farther forward, perhaps because it was about to reach the place, and the apricot blossom eyes in front of him actually slowed down, turning on the flashlights and looking for something on both sides of the passage. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Soon after, Apricot Blossom walked straight towards the side of the tomb wall; At this time, I saw that there was a brazier with a bronze stand placed next to the wall of the tomb, and it was full of people who didn't know what to put it.
"Is this merman ointment?"
Lin Zi wiped a handful of his fingers in the brazier, then put it on his nose and sniffed, casting a questioning look at Xinghuayan.
"No!"
Xinghuayan shook her head gently, her eyes seemed to be confused, as if confused; I can't seem to say why.
"Maybe it's a well-being ointment......"
For a while, just when I thought that this apricot blossom eye was pretending to be a big head there, and just wanted to say something to hit it, this thing actually spoke!
"Well-being?"
Lin Zi's expression suddenly became a little cloudy, as if he had heard something unbelievable.
"I'm not sure, I've only seen it in a document!"
Xinghuayan clasped her hands in her arms, staring at the brazier with her eyes, as if she had thought of something.
"Linzi, what is this "mermaid grease"? What is this "well-being"? ”
To be honest, I really didn't understand the conversation between Lin Zi and Xinghuayan, but I couldn't suppress the doubts in my heart, so I had to ask Lin Zi.
"The merman grease comes from the black dace who lives in the deep sea, in fact, this black dace is what we usually call a mermaid; "Naturalist" records: There are shark people in the water of the South China Sea, and the water dwells like fish, and they do not waste weaving, and their eyes can cry beads. This means that the density of this merman grease is low, the ignition point is also very low, and because it lives in the deep sea, the merman grease is also very resistant to low temperatures; Therefore, the mermaid grease is very suitable for use as an everlasting lamp in the tomb, and it is said that this lamp will not be extinguished for thousands of years! As for "Ankang", it is a more valuable oil, I just heard the old man say, you can ask him specifically! After Lin Zi said this, he threw the question to the apricot blossom eyes beside him, and made a look of listening attentively, it seemed that he was also very curious about this "well-being".
Xinghuayan was not pretentious, and took Lin Zi's words and said:
"Ankang, like the merman, is also a fish in the deep sea; However, it is worth reminding that there are many varieties of "Ankang", but only the ointment made from the osmanthus Ankang of the seabed life can compare with the merman ointment; For the same lamp, if the merman's ointment can burn for ten years, then Ankang can burn for twenty years without extinguishing; It is precisely because of the scarcity of Ankang and the reason that it is extremely difficult to fish, coupled with the meaning of Ankang contained in his name and the yearning of ancient people to regard death as life, so Ankang ointment was only affordable by a few royal families in ancient times. That's all I see in the literature! ”
"That'...... Do you mean this is a royal tomb? ”
The story of Xinghuayan is not very exciting, but I heard a shocking news from it, Ankang ointment can only be used by the royal family, so isn't it ...... I don't dare to think about it anymore!
"Theoretically, you can say that!"
Xinghua said as she took out a lighter from her pocket and lit the lamp in the brazier.
"No, no, how can the royal tomb use a sarcophagus to make a coffin?"
As the lights turned on, Lin Zi's eyes stared straight ahead, his lips trembled slightly, and he didn't know if it was because of excitement or for some other reason; It's just that all of a sudden, like a different person, it has become a little strange to me.
"What a sarcophagus!"
Sure enough, as the light inside the brazier turned on, the burial chamber in front of us immediately appeared in front of us; I saw two sarcophagi of general size placed alone on both sides of the tomb, and the stone wall behind the sarcophagus was no longer a naturally formed cave, but a manually excavated corridor, and the inside of the corridor was pitch black and nothing could be seen in the cave before.
It is known that sarcophagus burials originated in the Neolithic period. Since the appearance of bronze tombs in the Western Zhou Dynasty, sarcophagus tombs have disappeared from the royal tombs; But since there will be a bronze brazier and an ointment of health here, it means that the owner of the tomb must have belonged to the royal family and died after the Western Zhou Dynasty, but why did he use a sarcophagus instead of a bronze coffin? It's a bit unpredictable!
"No need to research, the truth can only be known by opening the coffin!"
Xinghuayan finally came out of the confusion, still with the same ancient and waveless expression, and walked towards a sarcophagus on the left.
There is no special mark on this sarcophagus, and there are no murals in the tomb to tell us some clues about the owner of the tomb.
"Here, take a hand! This coffin lid is not light! ”
While we were still thinking about the relationship in this tomb, Xinghuayan had already tried to push the lid of the coffin; It's a pity that even if he is the disciple of the Jieling Lux, he can't let this coffin lid move the slightest, and he still has to rely on our strength at the critical moment!
"I know you can't!" I despised Xinghuayan who asked us for help, and then walked to the side of the sarcophagus with Lin Zi and Da Kui, and stood in a row with Xinghuayan.
"One...... Two...... Three...... Push! ”
"......"
The result was unexpected, except for Da Kui trying his best to be popped out of a fart, the coffin lid did not move at all; Lin Zi and I looked at each other, what kind of stone is this, so that we can't move even a single bit with the strength of the four of us!
"Humph!"
Xinghua glanced at me, snorted lightly, and then walked around beside the sarcophagus, slapping her face naked! My face was red to the base of my neck, but I couldn't do anything about him!
"No, this sarcophagus is sealed!"
The alert Lin Zi quickly discovered the trick of this sarcophagus and pointed to the corner of the coffin and said to us;
Xinghuayan and I immediately looked towards the position pointed by Lin Zi, and sure enough, there was a boxy stone pillar inserted deep into the coffin at the corner of the coffin lid, and it was tightly sealed; Since the stone pillar is exactly the same color as the coffin, we didn't find it before.
"There should be somewhere else!" Xinghuayan said a word! Then he went to check elsewhere, and the fact was indeed as he said, there was a square stone pillar nailed to the inner wall of the coffin at each of the four corners of the sarcophagus, sealing the coffin.
After discovering the problem of the sarcophagus, Xinghuayan immediately took action and took off the backpack on her back, but she took out two steel pipes in the bag, and the steel pipes were only seven or eight inches long, so they didn't seem to take up space in the bag; Subsequently, Xinghuayan pulled a section of steel pipe in his hand, and the steel pipe was actually pulled by him to be more than a meter long, and a sharp corner was exposed at one end! Seeing me, a person who has never seen the world, stunned and full of disbelief.
Xinghuayan handed a steel pipe to Lin Zi, and the two stood at the two corners of the sarcophagus side, and poked the sharp corners of the steel pipe into the gap in the coffin lid. Da Kui and I worked with them to lift the lid of the coffin to the edge of the sarcophagus, it turned out that the lid was not heavy, but it was only because we didn't use the right force that we mistakenly thought it was heavy!
When I lifted the lid of the coffin, perhaps because I was worried that Xinghuayan would take advantage of our inattention, my two eyes stared at the coffin; But when I saw what was inside, I almost threw the lid of the coffin on the ground in fright.
A male corpse lay quietly in the coffin, his yellow hair scattered on his face, his whole face had already rotted and blurred, and the "maggots" crawled in and out of his hollow eyes. The bottom of the coffin was muddy, and the green corpse fluid was all over the bottom of the coffin, emitting a disgusting stench!
I couldn't resist the urge from my stomach anymore, so I quickly threw down the lid of the coffin and lay on the ground vomiting wildly, almost throwing out all the bitter gall.
After a while, I stood up holding my belly, which was still turning over the river and the sea, and saw that Lin Zi and Da Kui were also lying on the ground and vomiting, just like me; Only apricot blossom eyes, as if he was in the red light district, not only did people not see that he was disgusted at all, but stared at the coffin with green light in his hands, as if there was an insignificant beauty lying in the coffin, which made him want to immediately pounce in and knead it wantonly.