Chapter Twenty-Four: The Coffin

But seeing what the shroud looked like after it turned into powder, it turned out that the mummy was a female corpse, and her hair was as smooth as a living person, and it was not intertwined, but pressed under the corpse along the shoulders of the female corpse, and it seemed that this female corpse must have been a beautiful woman before her death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And this female corpse is directly the shape of a mummy, and the rotten cloth wrapped around the female corpse is the reason why she has kept it for so many years without decay but only drying, plus some special embalming treatments, the face of this female corpse is relatively red, and it should be smeared with cinnabar or other preservatives.

This female corpse looks very young, she must have been a young and beautiful woman before she died, her eyes were tightly closed, as if she had just fallen asleep, the corners of her mouth were raised, and she was smiling, and her body was relatively petite, she looked no more than one hundred and sixty centimeters at most, with long hair and shawls, if she lived, she would definitely be the object sought after by thousands of young people.

And among the coffins of the trees that have been hollowed out, there are many brocade cloth segments, as well as some small jewelry. But it doesn't look so noble, but it looks a little simple, as if it is deliberately arranged in this way, looking at the smile of the female corpse in front of me, I suddenly feel a little dizzy in my head, as if there is a hallucination, I only feel that my eyes are black.

After the master took back the halberd in his hand, he said: "This is the woman used by Lop Nur to accompany the funeral, and the most popular thing in the ancient country of Loulan is to use beautiful women to bury the king." ”

After I heard the voice of the master, I suddenly came back to my senses, and looked blankly at the female corpse in the coffin, I didn't even know what happened just now, but said to them: "I really wanted to be fascinated by this female corpse just now!" ”

"No wonder I can't help you!" Abu said from the side.

"Don't you smell the scent of this woman's corpse?" Suddenly, Qianyu walked to the middle, glanced at the female corpse, and said solemnly.

We didn't notice this detail at first, and we all thought that the smell might be from the trees, and it was not excluded that some people used sandalwood to make coffins in ancient times, but the smell was only a little close to the smell of sandalwood.

The sapwood of sandalwood is not fragrant, only the core material has a taste, if it is just cut down sandalwood, if it is closer, it will smell a pungent smell and fishy smell, but if it is sandalwood that has been stored for hundreds of years, then its taste will be relatively warm and mellow, that is the best of the best.

The smell of sandalwood is warm and mellow, long-lasting, but not obvious, I tried my best to control myself not in the aroma of not knowing anything in front of the coffin, took out the knife and was about to scrape it on the coffin, but I was just about to squat down, I was stopped by the master, and asked me: "Ji Ming, what are you going to do!" ”

Of course, I had already thought about what I was going to do, and replied, "I'll see if this wood is sandalwood!" ”

The master didn't seem to understand this thing very well, and he looked at me again, and the others also looked at me in a daze, not knowing what they were thinking, but after the master let me squat down, he asked again: "Do you want to see if this fragrance comes from the tree coffin?" ”

"Yes!" I nodded, saying that I had scraped the knife on the coffin, although this seems to outsiders to be a practice of damaging cultural relics, but we can't manage so many things in the bucket, we can figure it out if we can figure it out, and this smell is really a bit bone-chilling, although the smell smells a little like sandalwood, but it still can't rule out the smell of other things.

"What are you going to do, young man?" The old lady also asked.

While scraping the coffin, I replied: "If sandalwood is scraped with a knife, the smell will be stronger, and compared with the pungent fragrance of camphor and fragrant nan, the sandalwood fragrance is slightly lighter and natural." ”

"Yes, then you can take a look." The old lady replied.

I was still carefully scraping the edge of the coffin, and the dry core material was showing inside, when suddenly a burst of fragrance rushed over, and I said excitedly, "This is sandalwood!" It's just that it seems to have been soaked in some kind of potion, so the smell will be a little disturbing, and it is even stronger, it seems that many things in this tomb have been soaked in this potion, but I don't know what kind of potion. ”

The aroma of this coffin is extremely penetrating, and even the above layer of pigment paint does not stop its aroma from spreading, but few people use sandalwood as a coffin, most of them are nanmu, camphor wood and paulownia wood. As for what this Loulan people think, we can't say clearly.

And the temperature in this desert is relatively high, and the sandalwood is not suitable for high temperature places, so how did the Loulan people keep this sandalwood in the tomb without rotting, which may be due to the soaked potion, the main fragrance is really a bit strong.

"Don't look at it, get up!" At this time, the master said to me. I had no choice but to stand up again, saying that this was indeed an ordinary female corpse, and that it did not have any effect on us except that the scent disturbed our nerves a little. As soon as we were sure that the scent was coming from the coffin, we did not stop at the corpse, but shifted more attention to the open space in front of the coffin, behind each corridor, there was usually a burial chamber, and this burial chamber seemed to be specially prepared for this female corpse.

At this time, Wang Dashan was already a little unable to hold back, took a step first, and the crows also followed, only to see that when they walked to the front, there were seven or eight sand piles in the open space, if we didn't use a flashlight to shine a few times, maybe we would have stepped on it directly, and these sand piles did not fall from above, but seemed to be deliberately piled here, if nothing else, it should be something from the tomb, or there is some treasure buried under the sand pile.

When Wang Dashan saw the sand pile, his expression changed slightly, and he poked it on the sand pile with a shovel, which was not discussed with anyone, and the crow also thought that there should be some treasure under the sand pile, and took an ordnance shovel and dug it up with Wang Dashan, but seeing the young master's thoughtful appearance, I was a little skeptical that there would be any scorpions or something under the sand pile.

The old lady and Zhang Yuntian didn't move, anyway, these two people are big tyrants, except for some special weapons, they won't be moved at all, so they just stand aside and watch.

I wonder what kind of treasure is buried in that sand pile, and I need to cover it with so much sand! After a while, even Abu went over with a shovel and dug up with them, and when Abu saw the treasure, he could simply forget about the affairs of the second uncle.

Just after Wang Dashan and the crow shoveled a few shovels there, the sand seemed to be taking care of them, and it collapsed to both sides, and there was no need to move the shovel at all.

At this time, the master seemed to notice that something was wrong, and suddenly shouted: "Not good!" I saw black beetles crawling out of the sand pile.