What Wang Roar showed me with a fluorescent light stick was a large stone table. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the table, there are many strange-shaped "pots and pans", probably because the air is dry and cold, those copper and iron clay pots have no traces of rust and dust, and in the bowls I can even see some kind of pasta similar to dim sum and dry unknown ingredients.

The cold and dry air dehydrates all the organic matter and preserves it.

In that air-dried mirror, and the weirdest thing is ...... Around the food, I actually saw at least seven or eight people sitting around the table, as if eating.

There's nothing like a sight like this to "refresh" me.

If it weren't for Wang Yao's vaccination, I would probably have jumped up from the ground or screamed a few times, but Wang Yao had told me before that there were a lot of dead people here, so I understood that these were dead people, right...... The man who died at the dinner table.

I turned my head to look at the early arrival king and shouted, "How many, you know?" ”

Wang He shook his head, and could only roughly answer me: "More than a dozen...... Twenty handfuls, very old, you are a cook, Momiji is an expert, you two will see, what dynasty is this 'zombie'. ”

Xian Hongye and I nodded, and after adjusting our mentality, we followed Wang Roar's flashlight and walked towards the banquet where those dead people were sitting.

The stone table was very long, all made of stalactites, and it was absolutely natural, but it must have been artificially polished to make it extremely smooth.

There were a lot of utensils on the table, but most of them were "eating utensils" that I had never seen before, and I couldn't name anything other than bowls and tripods.

Around the dazzling array of food utensils, corpses that had turned into dried corpses sat on stone chairs in a variety of ways. Some had fallen into a pile of pieces, and more remained as they had been when they died.

These people all wore hair buns before the Ming Dynasty, and they were dressed very plainly, although because of the long drying time, the color of their clothes and bodies turned into bark-like black and brown, it can still be judged from their appearance and hair that they are very old, and they are all bearded men.

Some of these dead people in various forms seem to be sleeping soundly on the table, while others have their eyes closed and their mouths open and their heads up. Some of them still held wine glasses and cutlery in their hands when they died, as if they were going to toast with food. Some of them frowned, looked pained, and crawled on the table to vomit.

I looked at these people who had been dead for unknown hundreds of years, and my heart suddenly felt heavy.

It is conceivable that these people met in such a huge cavern, drank and feasted, and then were ...... by some unknown force Lives were taken in an instant.

The whole process was so rapid that while they were still in the middle of the feast, they might just feel some pain and die with a whimper.

I don't really see anything else.

So, I turned my head and asked Hyun Hongye and said, "Yezi, do you know what era these people are?" ”

Xian Hongye nodded and said, "I guess they are people from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because some of these people have 'net scarves' on their heads, and net scarves are unique to men in the Ming Dynasty." ”

I nodded, and then continued, "Is there anything else you can see?" ”

Xian Hongye is not a student of literature and history, and she knows some materials and cultural relics in Chinese history very clearly, she stared at the table of banquets for a while, and suddenly said: "These tableware are extremely abnormal. It seems like...... It is the standard of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty! ”

"Eastern Zhou?" I was stunned and said, "Didn't you say that these people were from the Ming Dynasty?" How could you eat with the utensils of the Zhou Dynasty? ”

Although I don't know anything about literature and history, I also know that the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are two thousand years apart, and in the Ming Dynasty, the dining utensils were almost exactly the same as those of the modern era, even in the remote mountainous areas, no one would use this increasingly bulky "ancient" tableware.

Faced with such a peculiar "cultural" leap phenomenon, Xian Hongye also shook her head helplessly, she instructed: "I don't know why, but the tableware used by these dead people is all very ancient things, not to mention modern times, even in the Song and Ming dynasties seven or eight hundred years ago, almost all of them have been eliminated." But these people of the Ming Dynasty, why did they come to eat and drink......"

Xian Hongye told me that before the Zhou Dynasty, China's tableware was very different from now, and the pots and pans we eat today had not yet evolved completely. Even the chopsticks we use most often are not called chopsticks, but "chopsticks".

At that time, because of the feudal feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty, the requirements for food utensils were very strict, and some utensils could only be used by people with specific identities, such as the well-known Ding, Zun, and Gong utensils, which only Zhou Tianzi and the princes could use, while the lower class people mostly used very low-level utensils such as pots, pots, and plates to eat.

Because of the existence of rank, those eating utensils are made very complicated, and more often than not, they are not used for eating at all, but for sacrifices or ritual vessels that symbolize royal power.

Also because of this cumbersome, since the Zhou Dynasty, these strange shape of the food utensils gradually abandoned by the times, with the progress of cooking technology, people only use more simplified pots and pans and other things, in the later, the ancient food utensils before the Zhou Dynasty were gradually thrown into the dust of history, in addition to the Ding and other symbolic ritual vessels, in the dining table can not see the figure of these old antiques.

After Xian Hongye finished talking about these basic understandings, he turned around and pointed to the big table in front of us and said, "You see, the white-bearded old man has a pottery statue in his hand, which is used to heat wine. The man next to him had a bronze bean in his hand, which is usually used to hold cold dishes. Next to the headless man is a 'rope', which is used to keep warm. And ......"

With the introduction of Hyun Momiji, more utensils that ordinary people have never heard of are displayed in front of me one by one.

On that table, Guangxian Hongye and all I know, there are more than a dozen kinds of food utensils that often appeared before the Zhou Dynasty, such as ding, gui, rein, reed, bean, sku, ti, pot, cup, and squeeze, which often appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. Not to mention that there are many strange things that we have never seen before.

In the face of these discoveries, Hyun Hongye and I really felt as if we had entered an exhibition hall about ancient food, and saw the ancient food culture of our ancestors and the profound dining rituals, but at the same time, we were so inexplicable.......

Xian Hongye approached the dead and strange-shaped eating utensils, picked up a cup with some trepidation, and sighed: "These ancients may know the correct use of these things, their collective death is a great loss to the archaeological community, if they live, if they can leave descendants, they may be able to fill many archaeological gaps." ”

Xian Hongye is a girl with a literary character, but Wang Yan and I are not as elegant and complaining.

Wang Roar looked around and said, "What blank can I fill!" I looked at the eerie place, and these pots and pans were so weird, not like a place to eat, but more like a drug-making workshop. ”

"Poison workshop?!" Wang's roar suddenly gave me a flash of inspiration!