Chapter 10: The Old Coffin of Oracle Bones

At the same time, Zhang Qishan was also thinking about the ins and outs of this matter, and his mood was even more complicated, because his intuition told him that in the year when the Japanese soldiers were in the city, such a thing must not be so simple behind it.

When Qi Tiezui was resting, the coffins and corpses in the train had all been unloaded, the coffins had all gone into the Zhang family's warehouse, and the corpses had gone to the military hospital. These things were all handled by Adjutant Zhang, Qi Tiezui only slept for half an hour, and several things were done in an orderly manner, Zhang Qishan couldn't help but settle down in his heart.

Displaced all the way from the northeast, if it weren't for the people around me to help him, I am afraid that the situation would be much more embarrassing. Born in the Zhang family, fortunately but unfortunately, all because of this surname.

When his hand entered the coffin, he found the ancient corpse lying in the coffin, twisted the head of the corpse and poked in, and found that the corpse's throat was nailed with thirty-seven steel needles that were beaten back.

Two-finger caving is to take out the burial jewelry from the corpse's mouth as quickly as possible in the case of the corpse's corpse, so as not to be bitten by the contents of the coffin. Punching a steel needle in the throat is generally highly toxic. It is a special anti-theft measure.

The corpse may have shown signs of necrosis in its early years, but it has now "dried up". When the soldier touched the corpse, he put his finger back into the corpse's mouth, feeling affected. Mistaking these steel needles for the black hair growing from the corpse, he was nervous and was hit by the poison on the steel needles. But the soldier didn't admit it, he said that the corpse had something in its throat that could move, and that he had been bitten by it.

Very few tomb owners are afraid that others will steal the ancient jade in their mouths and set up a steel needle in their throat, which is too ruthless and desecrate the corpse, and the cow hair needle in the throat is more like being afraid that something will crawl out of the esophagus, this little soldier's words made Zhang Qishan a little concerned.

Zhang Qishan pressed the steel needle with three fingers of his own, and the other two fingers probed into the throat of the corpse, and touched this piece of armor, which hung on the needle inside, and did not feel what Xiao Bing said would bite. However, he still felt that something was wrong, and pressed the corpse's jaw and twisted the neck off, just waiting to open the coffin to see what was going on. The only clue now is this scale armor.

In ancient times, there was a difference between scales and nails, one side was thin and the other was thick, the middle was thick and the surrounding was thin, this piece was the thickest in the middle, slightly thicker on one side, and very thin on the other, with a strange fishy smell. The nail piece is black and white, with a pattern that looks like an oracle bone character, and the oracle bone character is very vague and cannot distinguish the meaning. The doubts in his mind were even greater. The strangest thing to him was that although the scale armor had dried, it seemed to be new, not a fossil.

Thinking about it, I saw Qi Tiezui silently touching behind him, he had been tired of this guy for a day, but the situation forced him, there were only a few in the nine doors that could help him, and the eighth child was docile and quick-witted, so he could only continue to wronged him. Then he asked, "I slept well, I slept enough to help me palm my eyes, what the hell is this?" ”

"I've had a lot of nightmares." Qi Tiezui said honestly, "I'm afraid I'll have more nightmares this month." As he spoke, he took the armor piece: "Buddha, your eyesight is the best of the nine gates, isn't it a joke for me to help you palm your eyes?" ”

"No matter how many beautiful things are said, I can't see it or I can't see it. Don't say a word that doesn't work. Zhang Qishan got up and came to the window, the curtain was enclosed below, the soldiers were opening the coffin, and the flames of the gas cut were shining from time to time, and the iron whistle and iron paste were integrated into the coffin fiber, which was very strong, and it seemed that it would take some time.

"It looks like an oracle bone, but it looks like a natural pattern? I used to hear that some turtles will have a natural Luo Shu pattern on their backs, and the origin is unknown. This scale armor is not a tortoise's, nor is it an animal bone. Qi Tiezui took a piece of armor and looked at it for a long time, and shook his head: "The oldest qualification in oracle bone science is Luo Xuetang in Huai'an, Jiangsu, Luo Lao is now in Manzhou, he is a Xuxun, and he has followed the Japanese." Luo Xuetang runs the Eastern Literature Society, and there is a student for Wang Guowei, who is also a master of oracle bones, and in the sixteenth year of the Republic of China, he jumped into the lake in the Summer Palace and sank himself. Luo Laozhi's funeral. Now if you want to find, there is also a Mr. Dong Zuobin, who is now in Changsha, and I have a batch of oracle bones that happened to be sold to this gentleman, but he is about to leave for Kunming. But he doesn't like to be a soldier, so I can pay a visit for the Buddha. ”

"With the Japanese?" Zhang Qishan pondered for a moment, "You don't know oracle bones, but everyone is familiar with oracle bones." ”

Qi Tiezui stared at the oracle bones and muttered: "Buddha, don't laugh at me, the oracle bone divination is a family, and the oracle bones I collect are not less than the Buddha statues of your family." But Buddha, we can't be trapped in this pile of coffins now, do you think, what do the Japanese want to do with this train coffin, is it to steal treasures? ”

Zhang Qishan frowned, this is also the point he cares about, all the way south, Zhang Da Buddha started to dig so much sand, and the strange things have long made him strange, but these coffins are all from a big tomb, and the Japanese are operating in a problematic ancient tomb, which is the part that makes him the most headache. The Japanese entered the southwest gateway because they wanted to feed the war with war, their purpose was the minerals here, and the cultural plundering of the Japanese could also be rampant, but the theft and excavation of ancient tombs was very inconsistent at this time, which made people faintly feel that there must be hidden feelings.

The two of them sat on the sofa for a long time, Qi Tiezui persuaded him to rest several times, and suddenly the outside finally came to report, only to see that the iron sheet outside the coffin had finally been completely cut off. Two people out.

A few of his own soldiers went up, inserted a crowbar into the gap in the coffin, and lifted it vigorously. The huge coffin lid made the sound of wood cracking.

Qi Tiezui and Zhang Qishan have experienced a lot of such scenes, but at this time, the two of them still held their breath, and when they saw that the coffin cover was fully pried up, they pushed it aside with difficulty. It took half an hour to toss before the coffin inside was revealed. The coffin lid had already rotted together with the coffin cover, so it was uncovered together. When the gap appeared, Qi Tiezui's heart began to beat violently.

The coffin was red and black, like the skin of a poisonous tongue, with many figurines on it, and the coffin lid was flipped to the side, and finally fell to the ground with a clatter. The dust in the coffin was all washed into the air.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses, and the adjutant waved, holding gas lamps around the coffin on all sides, illuminating the inside of the coffin. Looking at the lines on the coffin skin, Qi Tiezui has roughly determined that this old coffin should be from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, because the coffin has two figurines and portraits, one beast and one face, which is a more common decoration in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Judging from the size of the coffin, this person must be a first-class dynasty or nobleman, at that time, there were years of war, such a burial system was already relatively extravagant, and it should have a high status, but because all the clothes were rotten, it was impossible to judge the details.

The whistle coffin has been punched holes in the coffin, so the inside of the coffin is very dry, Qi Tiezui leaned in, and saw that the coffin was full of cobwebs seen on the train. Covered like a quilt over the corpses and funerary goods in the coffin.

Zhang Qishan and Qi Tiezui glanced at each other, took the rifle of a pro-soldier, and picked up these spider webs, all of which were black and dry asphalt-like stains under the cobwebs, which should be dehydrated and rotten corpses and quilts, silk and other rotten things, a dried corpse wrapped in these stains, it can be seen that it is lying on its stomach, the angle of the head is very unnatural, it should be forcibly twisted by Zhang Qishan, and the jaw has been shattered. The corpse's expression was very hideous because it had no chin, and the corpse was tall and had a thin layer of black fluff.

The soldiers were accustomed to digging out the funeral goods, Zhang Qishan's face was cold, and he said: "Don't move anything, look at what is in its throat." ”