Chapter 23: Human Skin Screens
"Skinning is not for burial, so for what? There must be some way to say it, right? ”
Originally, Kang Jing thought that this was an ordinary ancient tomb, so he followed Professor Qian to go around, determine the age, and then report it to explain and it would be over, who knew that as soon as he came in, he found so many mysterious events, which made people confused. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Kang Jing, there are a few corpses in here that are still dripping with corpse oil, not like the old ones, you said they couldn't have been killed in recent years, right?"
Li Zonghyun wanted to vomit when he thought of the slimy thing dripping on his neck, and he couldn't see which corpse was dripping corpse oil through the dim light, and it was all dried and black.
"I don't know."
Kang Jing couldn't see why, after all, he was not as professional in forensics as Lao Chen, but as soon as Li Zonghyun said this, his sense of mission and responsibility immediately soared. Is there still such sensational things happening in today's society? No matter how many difficulties and hardships he has experienced as a people's policeman, he must bring such criminals to justice, but in recent years, it seems that no one has reported his disappearance.
"Don't talk about it, can we get out of here first?"
Fang Yang, who was originally arrogant, had already been trembling with fright, trembling, and hiding behind Kang Jing without being able to speak clearly, and asked cautiously.
"I remember that we rolled down a slope, and this slope should have other forks, otherwise Xiao Yang and Professor Qian would not have disappeared, I wonder if we can climb back to find it?"
Kang Jing said with a lamp looking for the place where they rolled down.
"But don't, don't look back when it's dark, it's not human to turn back, we can't go back."
Li Zonghyun said superstitiously, and frightened Fang Yang to shiver again.
"Then let's take a look."
This time Kang Jing did not object, there were so many things in the ancient tomb, his materialist worldview was completely destroyed, since there are rules, it is better to follow the rules than not to know anything, so he went straight forward step by step tentatively.
There are still rows of skinned corpses on the top of the head in front, and below is a hideous and terrifying Yaksha, maybe Kang Jing is too careful, and every step is very slow, so it seems that the entire tomb is huge, and the footsteps of the three people echo in the tomb, which makes people can't help but get goosebumps, especially Fang Yang, who is so frightened that he is about to cry.
"Someone looks like there's up ahead?"
Kang Jing held the lamp, and there seemed to be a figure standing there in the glow of the light.
"Ah, who, who?"
As soon as Kang Jing said this, Fang Yang behind him was so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground, and asked in a crying voice.
"Hey, don't cry, don't think you're a woman and cry, we really don't care about you if you cry again."
Li Zonghyun was most afraid of women crying, and wanted to scare Fang Yang by carrying out the singleton to the end, Fang Yang was frightened, and immediately gritted his teeth and held back his tears, that look is better than a ghost and can't see where to go, Li Zonghyun can't bear to see it: "Women are troublesome, what I told you before, you can't listen to a word, and what do you say about tearing zongzi, I see that you have a hard time tearing bread, okay, you hold my hand, let's go together." ”
"It doesn't seem to be moving, let's walk forward."
Kang Jing looked carefully for a while, made sure that there was no danger, and slowly walked a few steps forward, and then finally saw the figure clearly in the light.
It turned out that the figure was just a painting, a screen, to be exact.
"Screen, this screen is worth the old nose money, a long time ago, this was the emperor's exclusive product."
Lee Jong-hyun forgot about the pain after taking care of the scar, and when he saw that there was a beautiful screen, his eyes were immediately full of small stars.
He knew that the screen had a long history, and that it was originally designed specifically behind the emperor's throne, called the "axe". With wood as a frame, framed with silk and painted with an axe, it became a symbol of imperial power. It is also recorded in the "Historical Records": "The Son of Heaven stands on the screen." After a long period of development, the screen began to be popularized to the people, entered the homes of ordinary people, and became an important part of the interior decoration of the ancients. There are various forms of production of screens, mainly vertical screens, folding screens, etc. In ancient times, the princes and nobles were very particular about the production of screens, using mica, crystal, glass and other materials, and in the inlay process, using ivory, jade, enamel, jade, gold and silver and other valuables, which can be described as extremely luxurious.
Obviously, the folding screen in front of you is extremely luxurious, and the huge twelve screens do not have any crystal, glass, jade and other valuables on them, just a pair of extremely exquisite landscape figure paintings.
The high mountains look up, the flowing water is murmuring, the ink is light and elegant, the arrangement of the mountains and the water is sparse and dense, the ink color is dry and wet at the same time, it is very rich in changes, gazing carefully, there is a kind of desolation and loneliness between the shades and shades, and the mysterious and quiet is to the infinite realm.
And the most eye-catching thing is the person in the last landscape painting, a woman dressed in white on the top of the inaccessible ice peak, standing in the wind.
The woman's skin is as white as jade, her phoenix eyes are long and narrow, her face is beautiful and elegant, she stands on the top of the mountain like that, her expression is flat, as if she is like a fairy on the clouds of the nine heavens, looking down at the red dust, camping all beings, and the picturesque rivers and mountains.
Kang Jing and Lee Jong-hyun looked at the woman in the painting and felt very small, looking up at her as if they were looking up at the starry sky.
"Have you seen enough? I'm scared. ”
Such a jade and snowy appearance, warm and charming, like a fairy woman, is like a fairy flying out of the mountains, delicate and delicate, not like everything in the world. Li Zonghyun and Kang Jing seemed to be stupid, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time, and they didn't blink their eyes.
Fang Yang forcibly suppressed his fear and asked in a low voice, Kang Jing and Li Zonghyun immediately sobered up, and they were in a cold sweat.
"What kind of painting is this, it seems to have magical power, Lao Tzu almost fell into the way."
The screen seemed to have a kind of magic, especially that woman, Kang Jing and Li Zonghyun felt that they couldn't take their eyes off just one look, as if their souls were deeply attracted, if it wasn't for Fang Yang shouting, he didn't know if he would really be sucked into the painting.
The two of them took a deep breath, no longer looked at the woman, and looked carefully with special vigilance, the screen was not silk, silk, gold or silver, but the material was as thin as cicada wings, as if translucent.
"Kang Jing, if you touch it, it seems to be elastic."
Li Zonghyun couldn't help but touch it with his hand, and there was actually an elasticity, as if it was ...... Before Lee Jong-hyun finished speaking, his face became ugly.
As soon as Li Zonghyun said, Kang Jing also touched it, his hand touched the screen, it was warm and elastic, and Kang Jing's face became ugly: "These are those human skins?" ”
Kang Jing also likes to watch some strange things when he is fine, one of the ten major tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the punishment of skinning does not only exist in China, for example, the horror story of the human skin lampshade during the Nazi period in Germany, it is said that in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the small leader of Hitler's SS set up a human skin supply station in the small town of Terhof on the border between Germany and Austria in southern Germany - specially for the detention of smooth and delicate young girls, these girls eat and drink well to enhance nutrition, do not need to serve labor, and then their fate is to be slaughtered, After his death, he was stripped of his skin at a Nazi leather factory and made into lampshades, scarves, handbags, and other beautiful ornaments.
One of the most famous stories is that shortly after World War II, two couples lived in a small German town. One day, a couple went to the house of another couple to visit, and the old lady suddenly saw a lampshade with a rose printed on it, and a small pit fell in the center of the rose, which happened to form the center of the flower. The hostess proudly introduced that this was made by taking advantage of her husband's work as a doctor in the army to obtain the human skin of the prisoner who was about to be executed. At that time, her husband injected a very special injection on the prisoner's body, so that after the prisoner's death, the prisoner's skin was still ruddy and fresh, but the cause of death was like sudden death from heart disease. She then made a lot of handicrafts out of the peeled human skin, and this rose lampshade was taken from the skin of an 18-year-old boy and was her proudest work.
When the woman heard this, she had lost her mind, back then, she personally tattooed roses on the back of her only son, when her son was 3 years old, he was accidentally burned to the back by fuel, and it happened to leave a small scar in the center of the rose, like a rose core... The hostess didn't notice the woman's strange appearance at all, and said triumphantly, the woman screamed and fainted, and then the man immediately understood what was happening, so he took out the injection from the medicine box and said, it is important to save people, and soon after a needle, the woman died, and the cause of death was heart disease.
Kang Jing looked back at the upside-down corpses, chills, he didn't expect that he would meet the legendary human skin handicrafts in this ancient tomb in his lifetime.