Chapter Seventy-Four: Collecting Lamp Oil
If only there were a few candles.
Xiao Yue's casual words made Li Huiyan's eyes light up at the same time, and the whole person became a little excited.
The candles Xiao Yue said naturally meant those I bought earlier in Lantian County.
At that time, outside the Lantian bus station, Master Chen, who was driving, told us that Guiyazi Mountain was haunted, so I went to buy some incense wax paper money and other things, and it was at that time that I met the old man of the Yang family who later gave me the ancient book of "Nine Characters Dragon Shaking Technique".
At that time, in the old man's small paper shop, I bought a lot of incense candles and paper money, in addition to the small candles, there was also a bag of white candles the thickness of the thumb, and the bag of candles was only used for two in the end, and I gave the rest to Xiao Yue after I arrived in Yaojia Village.
"Sister Xiao Yue, you can be regarded as to the point." After hearing Xiao Yue's words, even Li Huiyan, who had always been dignified and quiet, couldn't help but hug Xiao Yue fiercely and said excitedly.
I nodded again and again, if I wasn't afraid of being beaten, I would also want to go up and give Xiao Yue a big bear hug.
"Wait a minute, you two are almost confusing me, what the hell are you talking about, I can't understand a word. I've put all those candles from the rice cakes in the suitcase under the bed, so don't you want to run back and get them now? The appearance of me and Li Huiyan made Xiao Yue look confused, and her head couldn't turn around.
"It doesn't matter, you'll find out in a moment." Li Huiyan didn't say much, sold a pass, blinked and said.
The more Xiao Yue listened, the more confused she became, but fortunately, with her personality, she quickly shifted her attention and stopped dwelling on these things, and instead began to be interested in the murals on the walls of the tomb.
"I'm going to find a vessel for something." I said to Li Huiyan, and turned around and walked to the corner of the burial chamber where the burial goods were piled up.
When I walked to the corner of the tomb, Yang Yuqing was squatting on the ground, holding a black and red wooden lacquer bowl in his hand, and kept looking at it.
Seeing me coming, Yang Yuqing didn't get up, but still consciously moved a few steps to the side.
I didn't speak, but crouched down and began to rummage through the hill of funerary goods in front of me.
I ignored the burial goods that were too heavy and too large, and the ones that were too mutilated were not considered, and I was looking for the kind of funeral goods that were light and could hold things, such as some inconspicuous clay pots.
I rummaged through the pile of funeral goods in front of me, and several times I had found something satisfactory, but no sooner had I picked it up than they fell apart and shattered without warning.
After all, it had been too long, and the general's tomb was not a well-sealed tomb, and many of the burial goods had already become fragile after years of oxidation.
These funeral goods, when lying there quietly, do not see that there is anything wrong, but once they are affected by external forces, they will be destroyed in an instant.
Four or five clay pots were destroyed one after another, and I became a little impatient.
"What are you looking for?" Maybe it was my tossing and turning movements that made Yang Yuqing a little annoyed, she frowned and asked.
"Find a vessel that can hold something." I replied without raising my head, and continued to pound after speaking.
"What do you want?" Yang Yuqing asked again.
I thought about it, my eyes happened to fall on the lacquer bowl in Yang Yuqing's hand, and said, "It's like this in your hand." ”
"Take it quickly, so as not to be an eyesore to rummag around."
As soon as I finished speaking, Yang Yuqing handed the lacquer bowl in his hand to me and said coldly.
"Thank you." I took the lacquer bowl and didn't linger, and quickly returned to Li Huiyan.
When passing by the coffin, Yang Baichuan happened to look back at me, saw me holding a lacquer bowl like a treasure in my hand, and asked with a smile: "Why did the third brother go?" ”
"It's nothing, you wait here for a while, and we'll be back shortly." I said casually as I walked.
Back to Li Huiyan's side, she looked at the lacquer bowl I was holding in my hand and nodded slightly, looking like she was quite satisfied with what I had brought back.
The lacquered bowl in my hand has a mouth about the size of a football, and the size of the mouth and the bottom of the bowl is not much different, and it looks like a small cylindrical wooden jar.
Except for a small triangular notch at the mouth of the bowl, this lacquered bowl from the Qin Dynasty can be said to be quite well preserved.
"Let's go, go early and come back early." I said to Li Huiyan.
Li Huiyan hummed and took the lead to walk outside the tomb gate.
Xiao Yue, who was on the side, was a little anxious when he saw this, and he didn't know what the two of us were going to do.
"Sister Lizi, are you going to ...... Do you want to go for convenience? I...... I want to go too. Xiao Yuechang blushed and asked Li Huiyan.
Hearing this, I looked at Xiao Yue, and then at the lacquer bowl in my hand, the whole person was petrified in place, and Xiao Yue's imagination was too rich.
Besides, even if Li Huiyan wants to go there, she won't ask me to go with her, why doesn't she even understand this.
"Silly girl, what do you think, we're going to get lamp oil." Li Huiyan was also a little embarrassed when she heard Xiao Yue's words, and continued.
Li Huiyan is right, we are indeed going to get lamp oil, to be precise, to get the remaining fish oil from the ever-bright lamps in the cemetery.
The lack of power in Li Huiyan's hand made me feel the crisis I might face next, and what Xiao Yue said before made me and Li Huiyan think of the everlasting lights in the tomb at the same time.
Although we don't have candles around us, we can use the oil of the ever-bright lamp to make torches instead of candles and flashlights that run out of power at any time.
With the degree of burn resistance of these lamp oils, they are much better than ordinary candles, and although it is an exaggeration to burn continuously for thousands of years, it is still possible to collect some residual lamp oil and use it to make torches to burn for a few hours or even days.
"Oh, I turned out to get lamp oil, then I won't go, I'll wait here for you to come back." Xiao Yue realized how brainless what he had just said, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, and ran back to the tomb after saying this.
I was a little speechless, and I didn't say much, and walked out of the tomb with Li Huiyan.
I have roughly counted the sixteen permanent lamps in this cemetery just now, and five of them have been extinguished, presumably because there is no lamp oil in them.
I thought to myself, if all the oil in the remaining eleven lanterns was collected, it should be used for a while.
Li Huiyan and I went to the place where the first lantern was lit, handed the lacquer bowl in our hand to Li Huiyan, and at the same time reached out and took down the lantern hanging on the stone wall.
But then, something happened that made me extremely dumbfounded.
After removing the lantern, the first thing I had to do was, of course, not to scrape off the oil, but to blow out the flame of the lantern that was burning.
The most dumbfounded thing is here, I hold the everlasting lamp in my hand, and I have wasted all my strength, no matter how I blow the faint fire of this everlasting lamp, it can't be extinguished.
I tried my best, and my cheeks swelled up, but I still couldn't blow out the flame of the ever-bright lamp.
Looking at the ever-bright light that was so faint that it seemed to be extinguished at any time, I felt a little big.
"This ...... How can it not be blown out? "In the end, I had no choice but to cast a look at Li Huiyan for help.
When Li Huiyan heard this, she frowned slightly, obviously it was the first time she had encountered such a thing.
If we can't blow out the lamp, it means that we can't get the oil from the lamp.
In desperation, our search for lamp oil had to be temporarily stopped, after all, we did not have any tools in our hands, and we had to use our hands to get rid of the lamp oil in the lamp.
In case the fingers stained with mermaid oil are also ignited by the firelight, it is no joke.
"Find a way to pull the wick out." Li Huiyan glanced at the ever-bright lamp a few times and spoke.
Hearing this, I patted my forehead hard, I didn't expect such a simple way. It doesn't matter what kind of long-term or short-term light you have, as long as there is no wick, it depends on how you burn.
At this time, I can't help but think of the scene in the movie Journey to the West, if the Buddha's sun and moon lamps can't be lit without a wick, let alone these ever-bright lights.
I told Li Huiyan to wait where she was for a while, and then I ran back to the tomb again and found a bronze sword that had been rusted in two.
After a while, I used these two broken swords as chopsticks, and finally pulled out the wick of the first everlasting lamp.
Even if it was pulled out and thrown on the ground, the wick soaked in lamp oil was still burning slowly, and there was no intention of extinguishing it at all.
Li Huiyan held the lacquer bowl in her hand with one hand, and shone the flashlight with the other, while I began to use the bronze broken sword I had just brought back from the tomb, carefully scraping the lamp oil in the ever-bright lamp.
These lamp oils are extremely rare, and I am extremely careful to waste a single one.
I know very well that as long as our only flashlight runs out, it will be our only light for a long time, even before we leave the tomb.
The oil in the first lantern was successfully scavenged, and we continued to paint the gourd in the same way and continue to tinker with the remaining ten lanterns.
After about fifteen minutes, Li Huiyan and I put all the lamp oil we could get into a lacquered bowl.
The lanterns are not too big, and I don't know how long these lamps have been burning in the tomb, and the lamp oil has long been left.
After doing this, Li Huiyan and I turned around and walked in the direction of the tomb.
For some reason, I am always a little uneasy about the Yang family brothers and sisters, to be precise, I am not very at ease with Yang Baichuan.
Yang Baichuan has been staring at the coffin just now, I am worried that he will take advantage of our absence to secretly open the lid of the coffin, this guy is extremely curious, and it is possible to do anything.
"Ah......" Li Huiyan and I had just walked to a place more than ten meters away from the tomb gate, and Xiao Yue's exclamation came from the tomb.