Chapter 17: Accidents
Captain Zhang is a technical school, graduated from the famous History Department of Jilin University in the early years, and established the Department of Archaeology in the 70s, which has become the cradle of Chinese archaeology professionals. This person is also a person who is not encountered, and it is indeed a bit condescending to be assigned to Anxian County to be in charge of the protection of cultural relics, and any archaeological expert is very concerned and excited about the excavation of ancient tombs, which is like the police catching criminals, they have a natural enthusiasm and hobby.
"Judging from the appearance and the excavation of the ancient tomb at the site, this should be an early Ming Dynasty tomb, the specifications and shape can be inferred from the large family, you see that the lacquer process of this coffin is smooth and smooth, this is the lacquer surface that can be formed by going back and forth a full seven hundred and forty-nine lacquers, and this handicraft has now been lost. This phoenix is made of gold powder paint, beautiful in shape, elegant in technique, revealing a noble and luxurious life of the tomb owner during his lifetime, but the group of tomb robbers is so hateful that they actually hollowed out such a priceless coffin from the bottom, it is simply the anger of people and gods! ”
"Teacher Zhang, our colleagues are all here, are we ......?"
In the dim white light, a group of people gathered around the coffin and began to study where to open it, and no one noticed an elongated shadow in the corner of the room......
Cha Wenbin walked into the room, and under the leadership of Li Chenggong, he saw the coffin again. The exquisite lid of the coffin was placed aside, and inside was a red quilt embroidered with flowers, and many funerary goods such as gold, silver and jewelry had not yet been taken out, and a jade pillow was not inferior to the baby pillow in the Forbidden City, but the coffin was empty.
"What about people?" Cha Wenbin turned around and asked Li Chenggong, "I mean what about the corpse here?" ”
"Hey," Li Chenggong sighed and said, "Let's go, I'll take you over here to meet a few people." ”
In the conference room on the third floor, many comrades in uniform were coming in and out of the room, obviously taking notes with notebooks in their hands. There were seven or eight people sitting in the conference room, including women and women, a few of whom Cha Wenbin had seen tonight, and on the grave of the old grandmother, the man with red eyes was the Zhang team of the archaeological institute.
After opening up several policemen who handled the case, Cha Wenbin sat down, Li Chenggong pointed to Cha Wenbin and said: "This is Cha Wenbin, the coffin was dug up by him tonight, although Mr. Cha is a religious believer, but he has cooperated with us before, I can vouch for my personal reputation, Mr. Cha can be trusted, you can tell him anything." ”
Team Zhang never expected that the tomb robber in his mouth would come back again, and it seemed that he had to cooperate, so I still remember what happened just now......
"Don't be resistant," Li Chenggong said: "I didn't believe in gods and ghosts before, but there is no way to explain some supernatural phenomena after all, although Mr. Cha is a metaphysical person, he is loyal and upright, we have also investigated, all the things they found in the tomb during the day were handed over early in the morning, and there was no private hiding and stealing, although from a certain point of view he did destroy the cultural relics, but his starting point was not to rob the tomb." There are folk rules in this folk, and although the law is unreasonable, it will also take into account the scale and scope. ”
Cha Wenbin finally asked, "Captain Zhang, can you talk to me, I want to know where the female corpse is now?" ”
Captain Zhang looked at the person opposite, he was still wearing a Taoist robe, his messy hair and sunken eye sockets looked so haggard, and Li Chenggong's appearance as a celebrity vouched for himself, which also eased the struggle and hostility in his heart. Finally, his nerves, which had been tense all night, began to relax, and the tears kept flowing out.
At about nine o'clock, the coffin was opened, and there was a lifelike female corpse lying inside, this female corpse not only did not rot but also had a somewhat ruddy face, as if she was asleep, and the delicate skin and hair on the neck shocked the experts of this academic school.
"I think the unearthing of the female corpse of Mawangdui is already a miracle, although the age of this female corpse is not so early, but from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the present is hundreds of years, she is so alive, I realize that this is a great discovery, but also beyond my understanding, so I decided to save the corpse and immediately contact the competent unit at the next level."
Captain Zhang tried his best to hide the excitement in his heart at that time, he didn't know if the corpse would change in the next second, as described in the novel, once too much contact with the air, the skin would quickly dry up. A county-level cultural relics unit is not capable of dealing with such an astonishing discovery, and they simply do not have the conditions to preserve fresh corpses, so Captain Zhang immediately decided to send the corpses to the provincial capital overnight.
But this involved a serious matter, and he understood that only the right temperature, humidity, and the right bacteria in the air could stop the corpse from a scientific point of view. He desperately needed a car, and the best way to preserve the body was to soak it in formalin. Such a need was obviously not something he could do, and if it was soaked, it would mean removing the clothes and accessories from the body.
Time was pressing, and while they urgently contacted their superiors and made preparations, it occurred to someone that they could borrow a crystal coffin from the funeral home, which could keep the body fresh to a certain extent by electrifying it. So, the funeral home's car drove over, the body was put in the coffin, and tonight it was about to be sent to the provincial capital, where experts were already waiting overnight for a miracle to happen from northwest Zhejiang.
The younger generation no longer likes to do archaeology, this work requires all year round field work, which is hard and no oil and water, and the career prospects are also bleak, so they waited for three years before finally assigned a college student named Zhu Zichen. This young man is said to be an alumnus of Captain Zhang and a native of Anxian County, and Captain Zhang regards him as his successor and does his best to cultivate him.
Zhu Zichen is indeed a good seedling, he works hard and works hard, and his popularity is good, Captain Zhang simply introduced his daughter to him, and the two have already begun to talk about marriage. That night, after carrying the coffin to the car, Captain Zhang had a selfish intention, he felt that Zhu Zichen could not follow in his footsteps and should contact a broader world, the discovery of this female corpse felt sensational, if he could go to the province to participate in the research, then it would be of great help to his future development.
So Zhu Zichen was selected as the candidate to accompany the coffin into the provincial capital, and at the same time responsible for reporting the entire work, Captain Zhang deliberately arranged this to give him a chance, but he didn't expect to let him die!
The car is from the funeral home, and the driver is naturally too, he is reluctant to do this kind of work, there is no red envelope and no oil and water, and the owner of the funeral family has to give a few packs of cigarettes. But the leader above explained, saying that this is an important cultural relic, Zhu Zichen sat in the co-pilot, and the two of them roared on the 11th provincial highway at ten o'clock in the night, which is the only way from Anxian County to the county seat.
In the 80s, the traffic in Anxian County was relatively closed, although it was bordered by the provincial capital, but before the ghost tunnel was opened, all the vehicles needed to wind the mountain, and the mountain road had only one single lane, and the wrong car needed to find a good place to go back and forth. On one side of the highway is the abyss, from the foot of the mountain up and down, the whole process of the old driver has to walk for more than half an hour, at that time the agenda of building a ghost tunnel has been put on the agenda.
The car of the funeral home is a small passenger car that is about to be scrapped, the seats in the back are all removed, and a concave steel plate is placed in the middle, and the coffin is placed in the steel plate, and it has to be connected to the power supply of the car. The driver, Lao Zhong, is a member of the She ethnic group, in his forties, who used to work in the army as a car soldier, and was placed in a funeral home after recovery.
The rhythm of Lao Zhong's driving is one word: fast! Who sees a funeral home's car on the road on weekdays and can't give way? No one wants to touch that moldy head, this kind of car is even better than the privileged car, just because it pulls dead people!
The car overturned at the highest point of the winding mountain road, and the workers who built the ghost tunnel saw the process of a car falling from the cliff, and the headlights were still on until the bottom of the valley, and they fell on the lowest layer of the winding mountain road impartially.
After receiving the alarm, the people from the county public security bureau immediately dispatched, the car was unrecognizable, and the drivers in the front row, Lao Zhong and Zhu Zichen, were killed on the spot, but coincidentally, the expressions on their faces when they died were extremely hideous, as if they were greatly frightened. Although this road is steep, it was late at night when the accident occurred, and cars were rare in those days, and the probability of such an accident with the technology of the old clock can be said to be extremely low.
And the most strange thing is that the coffin behind the car that originally contained the corpse was as empty as night, the cover of the crystal coffin was overturned to the ground, and the forensic doctors saw an obvious layer of palm prints on the crystal coffin, and it was still inside! What does this result mean? Could it be that the corpse in the coffin came to life, pushed open the crystal coffin by itself, and crawled away?
The location of the accident is very close to the ghost tunnel construction site, and the contractor at that time was also a state-owned enterprise, and everyone can testify to each other that no one has ever touched the coffin, and a piece of emerald green cloth was found on the glass of the car window, and this cloth strip was identified by Captain Zhang as belonging to the female corpse!
Then the relevant departments immediately began to investigate, the matter was very important, and the investigation found that there was a Taoist priest named Cha Wenbin who said early on that there was a problem with the coffin, and the people of the Cultural Relics Bureau should be careful. Who is Cha Wenbin? He Captain Zhang doesn't know, but those people with heads and faces in Anxian County know very well, and now it is more difficult to invite him to his home to be a guest than to ascend to the sky, and everyone calls him a living immortal in private, which is a character with real skills. And the forensic doctors also found it strange that, judging from experience alone, the blood vessels of these two people burst in the eyeballs, their mouths were in the shape of "O", their hands were in the shape of chicken claws, and their facial expressions were stiff, which seemed to be more consistent with the performance of being frightened to death......