Chapter 11 Flowers bloom in January and red in February
The Zhang family obviously had some experience with this, a small soldier used a bayonet to pry open the throat of the corpse, Qi Tiezui stepped forward to observe, and saw that there were indeed dense counter-beating cow hair needles in the throat, and the tip of the needle was aimed at the inside of the throat, if anything in the throat came out, it would be stuck in these cow hair needles.
He lifted his glasses, asked his soldiers to bring a vice, pulled off the outermost one, and put it under the gas lamp to take a closer look.
The needle is made of red iron, and although there are rusty spots on it, the edge is still very sharp. The part of the needle body that is not rusty is blue, and it should be highly toxic.
The degree of decay at the end of the needle is not high, Qi Tiezui thought for a while, lowered his head to the neck of the corpse, and sure enough, there were many subtle needles, which showed that these needles were stabbed into the corpse by later generations from outside the neck, and the stabbing was very rough, not like it was done when it was buried, but more like the desecration of the corpse by tomb robbers.
It is possible that the first tomb robbers who made this whistle coffin set it up in this way, which means that they found something in the body of the corpse at that time, but there was no way to deal with the contents of the corpse, so they had to trap it with a needle.
This can also explain why such a large coffin, with nothing in the mouth of the corpse, should have been taken away at that time.
The soldiers took an iron fence from the kitchen, put it on the head of the ancient corpse, and then struck the corpse on the chest, throat and abdomen with the butt of a rifle for a long time. Several people stared at the corpse's throat, but nothing came out of the throat. The corpse's chest and abdomen did not fluctuate.
"Disemboweled." Zhang Qishan glanced at Adjutant Zhang, Adjutant Zhang nodded, turned over and stepped on the two edges of the coffin with both feet, pulled out a short dagger, and began to cut open the ancient corpse from the back, the appearance of the corpse had dried up, but the adjutant went down with a dagger, and he could feel that there was still moisture inside.
The adjutant was very careful to untie the ancient corpse from the back to the waist, and it was full of asphalt-like stuff, with only a little water, like porridge that was about to dry. The corners of Zhang Qishan's eyebrows twitched, and he found that all the organs in the ancient corpse were hollowed out holes. Although this ancient corpse was normal on the outside, its body was the same as the corpses of the Japanese spies they had seen in the train car, full of holes, like the inside of termite-eaten wood.
"Buddha, there are no living creatures." The adjutant explores the ancient corpse with a dagger.
Zhang Qishan and Qi Tiezui glanced at each other, if there was no living thing, then the little soldier who had broken his hand before might have been overfrightened and mistook the needle prick for an insect bite, but the existence of the iron needle showed that there must have been something inside the corpse, and the inside of this ancient corpse was so similar to the corpse of those Japanese spies, probably because during the train transportation, the bumps forced the living creatures out of the coffin, killing the entire train, and the train lost control and crashed into Changsha. Looking at the state of this ancient corpse and the death of the Japanese, this living creature may be a kind of worm that can spin silk.
There are many ancient parasites on the corpses in the ancient tombs, many of which have become extinct, and many tomb robbers have not died well, all because they are infected with ancient diseases or parasites, and these things are extinct because of natural enemies along with their extinction, and once they see the light of day, it will be a catastrophe.
"Find someone to use a flamethrower and spray the whole inside of the train. Pay attention to hospitals near the train station, post notices, and report the deceased immediately if there is such a condition. Zhang Qishan patted the coffin: "This coffin cleared the coffin for me, and all things, including the coffin, were buried in the stone alkali." The corpse was filled with stone alkali, and it was salted and then examined. "War readiness is approaching, and if there is a plague in the city, there is no need to fight this battle. The Japanese are moving in an ancient tomb with strange insects, and they can figure out what they want to do with their toes.
"Buddha." This time, the adjutant did not come down to do errands, but squatted down, as if he had found something: "Buddha, look what this is." ”
Saying that, the adjutant used a dagger to pick out a piece of black asphalt in the body of the ancient corpse, and the personal soldiers on the side took out a basin to wash the dirt on the thing and handed it to Zhang Qishan
It was a blackened ring, Qi Tiezui thought it was a ring at first sight, but after starting it, he found out that it was not, this thing is not an ornament, it has practical value, this is a "thimble".
When the thimble was used for needlework in ancient times, it was put on the second finger of the middle finger to protect the embroidery needle so that it could pierce thick clothes, and would not pierce the body because of the uncontrollable force. This thimble has a peculiar shape, obviously not a crude handwork, and the black silver spots have become very thick to form many pits, and a "rhododendron" is engraved on it.
Qi Tiezui's heart moved, this is not a very ancient thing, the style of this material, although I can't say the specific year, but from a family of antiques since childhood, Qi Tiezui can keenly feel that the year of this thing is not old, at most it is something that is nearly fifty years old. Qi Tiezui took out the cow hair iron needle just now, and he knew that these steel needles and this thimble were a set of things. All belong to the tomb robbers who first melted the coffin of this whistle.
And what made him sweat the most was the azalea above. Thimbles are common, but azaleas have an unusual status in Changsha Laojiumen.
"January blooms and February is red, and February is red and there is no father. The azalea is also called February red, this is the second master's thing, how can it be in the ancient corpse? Qi Tiezui is a little tight, February Red Jiumen ranks second, listen to this ballad, you know how fierce the February Red family was in the early years of murder and annihilation, and in recent generations, it has been low-key for a long time and has not heard the news, but the reputation is outside, and people in the industry are not willing to touch the eyebrows of this family. If their thimble appears in the coffin, it means that this coffin was the first to be sealed with molten iron. Changsha nine gates and nine directions, the territory is clearly divided, it has not changed for decades, if they move the coffin on the second master's territory, this matter can be big or small.
"Buddha, the second master's family itself is good for the south and the north, several generations are everyone, this coffin is the southern dynasty, and now this thimble appears in the coffin again, this iron needle sealing the corpse may be one of the ancestral crafts of the second master's family. It is estimated that the second master knows a little bit about this. ”
In February, the red spectrum flower was originally a red daffodil, and later because the red daffodils were too special, they were very ostentatious on the body, and the rhododendrons were changed in February, and the red daffodils were planted in the inner house in February, and there were azalea trees in the outer house, which had been a hundred years, and the flowers were full of flowers when they bloomed, which was very beautiful. From this habit, it can be seen that the character of this family is very fine, and the whistle coffin is originally a lost craft, but the February Red family is a real old-school sand shop, and many ancestral crafts are unknown to outsiders.
Zhang Qishan frowned, this matter was full of suspicions, and it became more and more mysterious, he thought for a moment, and asked Qi Tiezui: "Where is the second master today, do you know." ”