The Land of Yoro Chapter 26 The Wooden Box (I)
I watched them wait for about half a cigarette and didn't find anything out of the ordinary, so it's weird, is there some mechanism in that hole? Or maybe the coffin itself is a mechanism.
Thinking of this, I slowly squatted down and studied this humanoid coffin, along the coffin lid half a foot down, there was a very obvious gap, this coffin actually did not have a coffin seal? This is a bit unreasonable, the normal coffin seal or with animal skin, or with glutinous rice milk, the worst also have to use Guanyin soil or white plaster mud to make do, I have heard the second master say idly, the Tuxing grandson who specializes in eating open coffin rice has a special utensils to deal with the coffin, it seems to be a kind of thing similar to an iron claw, can scrape and hook, extremely sharp, and the iron chain is connected, it is very convenient to use.
But no matter what, the side must be sealed, after all, the coffin is not an ordinary person, the nobles of the kings and grandchildren, the businessmen and the rich are very attached to the afterlife, after all, no matter how noble they were in life, they can't escape the day of the end of their lives, in the concept of the ancients dying like a life, the scenery of the funeral not only represents the end of this life, but also means the beginning of a new life, so the big and small affairs at the funeral can not be perfunctory, so such an important and conventional link can never be forgotten, then there are only two possibilities, one of them, It is the custom of their nation that the coffin is not sealed, and secondly, this is not a coffin at all, but a coffin.
The first point I think is unlikely, since the burial method of the coffin is followed, then it is meaningless to ignore the coffin seal, depending on the situation, it can only be the second article.
But no matter which one, the first task is to open it first, of course, if it is the second one, I will be easier, after all, I am also the first time to open the coffin, and I can open one less one.
I stared at the coffin lid for a long time, and gradually realized what it means to have more than enough heart and insufficient strength, this kind of sterling silver coffin is not on the coffin nail, first of all, it can't be smashed in, and secondly, it is really not necessary, I knocked on the coffin lid gently, there is no echo at all, I can't help but be speechless, the material is too sincere, such a big one, and so thick, not to mention that there must be a hundred or ten pounds, such a heavy coffin lid, there are no four or five stick guys, it is said that a few years ago, when Sun Jun robbed the tomb of Donglin Cixi at night, It is said that Cixi's coffin lid weighed hundreds of catties, and more than a dozen soldiers were busy for a long time and couldn't move half a minute, and finally it was split with a knife and axe.
I threw away the fishskin knife in my hand, looked at the coffin lid at a loss, tried to insert both hands into the crack, angry dantian, two arms competed, gritted my teeth and lifted it up, sure enough, the coffin lid did not move at all, I tried to push it back, the top of the wrist hurt, and I didn't move it at all, panting, leaning on the coffin, sitting weakly on the ground, why didn't the ancients leave a way back when they cast the coffin, and those white-robed female corpses, since they wanted me to open the coffin, they didn't come to help, it's really not righteous.
Immediately amused by his ridiculous thoughts, how could anyone still think that he would be opened a second time before his death, especially these rich and powerful people, who did everything possible to set up a secret channel in the tomb, for fear that one day someone would open the coffin and destroy the corpse, besides, if those female corpses can really help me open the coffin together, they will not go to great lengths to get on one by one.
What's in there? What is the relationship between those female corpses and the owner of this coffin? If these female corpses have an enmity with the tomb owner, how can they be in the tomb, and judging from the candles and braziers in their hands, their status in life may not be as unattainable as the wizards and the like mentioned by Yuan Mei, no matter how you look at it, they are like servant maids and maids who serve people, if they are enemies, why do we have to go to the second master before we enter the cave, and even put us to death.
There are too many incredible things in this hole, I looked at the two of them who were stunned, sighed, clapped my hands and stood up, now is not the time to think about this, I carefully found a convenient place to step on the ground, carried the coffin lid with my shoulders, held my breath and tried my best to push forward, just when the eyes had begun to blacken, I suddenly felt that the coffin lid began to loosen a little bit, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly opened my eyes and took a few steps back, probably because there was a hole in the coffin lid, and there was no corpse gas rushing out, and I waited for a while, After making sure that there was no danger and relieving the pain on my body a little, I gritted my teeth and continued to push forward, once the coffin lid was loosened, it was easy to push down, and with all my might, I finally pushed the coffin lid open a gap half a person wide.
Because the coffin was too deep for the light to enter, and it was pitch black inside, I could only vaguely see something like brocade reflecting slightly, so I took out the last torch from my backpack, lit it, and shone it into the coffin.
Sure enough, the coffin was covered with a red brocade quilt that looked very heavy, and the quilt was not contaminated with moisture or soaked in corpse fluid, it was basically black, but you could vaguely see the pattern rusted out of gold thread on it, the top of the pattern was the sun emblem, and there was a person kneeling in Baiyun Mountain below, going straight to the sun emblem, and then down, a group of people wearing various clothes knelt on the ground, looking up at the sky, this picture is a bit like the old Qi shopkeeper when the funeral Lao Dao covered the immortal picture on his corpse, it is estimated that the meaning is similar.
The quilt is much larger than the coffin, and the bottom is tightly covered and does not leak.
I carefully picked up the quilt with the tip of the knife, there is actually a layer below, this quilt is more black, even the background color is already difficult to see, but it is the gold thread on it, still flashing a little golden light, clearly recognizable, densely embroidered with words, like ten thousand earthworms, this is probably the record of the life of the tomb owner, I squinted, stared for a long time, hoping to get some hints even if it was just a few words, but I have to admit that these words are stupid boys for me to look at the painting, the same one, I don't know why.
Pick up this layer of quilt, there is actually a bed of black and dirty quilt embroidered with earthworms, how afraid of the cold is this person, making so many quilts?
Looking at the thickness of the coffin, I don't know how many quilts there are below, so I simply put the knife against the wall of the coffin and inserted it down, about the thickness of two palms, put the knife on the side of the coffin, pried it hard, and pried up a thick layer, I was shocked, not counting the previous two beds, there were actually four or five quilts below, I was sure that this guy must have played cotton before his death.
After the quilt was lifted, the tomb owner finally revealed his true face, only to see that this person was not as tall as I thought, it is estimated that standing up will be at the position of my shoulder, I know that the dead man will shrink, but the silver armor he is wearing will not shrink, the mask of the ghost head, the appearance of the cape, sure enough, the previous hallucinations are purposeful, the problem must be on this tomb owner, even if it is not for those white-robed female corpses, just for them, I have to quickly find out the problem and solve it.
I first took a good look at the dead body from beginning to end, the long black hair was very well preserved, and after being buried for so long, it could still reflect the light of the torches, like a puddle of black water, with the head as the center, forming a regular circle.
The ghost-headed mask on his face, his eyebrows and eyes were twisted, his face was hideous, and his ears were cast with two silver dragons the size of small snakes, and his eyes and mouths were all black holes, and the degree of decay could not be seen.
There is a white fox more than a foot wide on his shoulders, the fox's eyes are inlaid with two red gems, with the movement of the torch, from time to time flashes a strange red light, shaking people's hearts can't help but tighten, this gem is obviously not the same grade as the so-called Nanhong on the head of those white-robed female corpses, although Nanhong is red, but not so translucent, in my opinion, nine times out of ten is the legendary ruby.
All the way down, the silver armor on the body is also carved dragon and carved phoenix, the chest is engraved with a vivid coiled dragon, the dragon head is in the chest position, this dragon is from the hands of the master, each dragon scale on it is clearly recognizable, open teeth and claws, revealing the terrifying fangs inside, the hair and whiskers are also distinct, the momentum is extraordinary, the fire flashes, as if alive, the most expressive is the dragon's eyes, as the saying goes, the dragon is not the eye, the dragon that is fine becomes a living dragon, if it is not the emperor's life of the Ninety-Five, ordinary people can't hold it at all, once the dragon is back, The master must have a bloody disaster, at least everything will not go well, and the wealth will be ruined again and again, and the family will be ruined, and there will be no corpse.
When he was still in Juxian Building, there was a big ruffian in Shen Beicheng, named Shen San, who tattooed a green dragon on his back, and the tattooed man said that he didn't give him the finishing touch, saying that he couldn't hold back, he looked down on him when people looked down on him, and beat people up, threatening that he was the first tyrant in Shenbei City, he couldn't control it, no one could stop it, and the tattoo had no choice, so he had to use cinnabar to give him the eye, but he didn't think about it, I don't know whether it was retribution or fulfillment, Shen San picked up a small bag on the way home that day, and after opening it, it was a pair of mutton fat jade bracelets, Suddenly, the beautiful snot bubbles came out, and while scolding the tattoo to lie to him, he smiled and planned to take it home to honor his mother.
But his wife didn't even wear the bracelet hot, Shen San let people arrest the security team, the trial was not tried, and it was sent to the gendarmerie in the provincial capital overnight, and later I heard that the pair of jade bracelets was given to him by Commander Zhang An aunt, but suddenly one day, the aunt rolled up the belongings and ran away with someone, including this pair of bracelets, Zhang Dashuai wanted to save face, he didn't dare to say that he ran away, only said that he was killed, and the patrol house of the province was looking around, in fact, Zhang Dashuai also knew that he couldn't find it back, just acting a full set, which Cheng thought, this unlucky Shen San, was hitting the muzzle of the gun, heard that in the provincial capital, what was dressed in linen, skinned and asked, did not last a day, died in the gendarmerie, and then the patrol room issued a notice, saying that the aunt was killed by him for money, and now the stolen goods have been obtained, and the case is closed.
This matter was spread in Shenbei City at that time, everyone knew that Shen San didn't look at the shouting in Shen Beicheng, in fact, he hadn't even seen anything in the provincial capital, he was a big rat in the nest, if he dared to kill Commander Zhang's aunt, it would definitely lift him up to the sky, and what was even more strange was that later the people of the security team said that they received a call from the provincial gendarmerie that day, and asked them to go to Shen San's house to get people, as for how the provincial capital hundreds of kilometers away knew that the bracelet was in his house, it has become an unsolved mystery since then, Everyone said that it was the dragon that killed him, and I have remembered since then that the dragon must not be the eye.
But this coiled dragon not only nodded, but also inlaid with two green gemstones, these two gems are not inferior to the ruby on the white fox's eyes, although I don't know, but I guess it may be too much, if this is for the second master to see, it is estimated that the entire armor has been taken off for him.
On the armor of the arms, the two silver dragons have been wrapped around the straight shoulders from the wrists, but unfortunately the dragon head is covered by the white fox shawl, which is not real, but nine times out of ten it is also inlaid with gold and jade, and the dead body is wearing a skirt that has been unable to see the color clearly, and a section of trousers that should be bright red is exposed under the skirt, and a pair of sterling silver leggings are tied to the calvesOn his feet was a pair of leather boots decorated with round-toed silver spikes, and the main armor was tied to his body with yellow silk.
From head to toe, I looked back and forth several times, but I didn't find anything strange, could it be that the secret was hidden under the mask?
Thinking like this, I settled down and slowly stretched the tip of the knife towards the mask, and as soon as I touched the mask, I heard a "click", huh? How can there be a sound of wood? Looking down at the voice, it turned out that the dead corpse's subordinates pressed a rectangular black wooden box, because the wooden box was black, and the dead corpse pressed under the hands, so I never saw it, and when I saw this wooden box, I faintly had a pleasure in my heart to find the answer.