Chapter 141: Archaeology of the Yellow River

Early that morning, Yang Ying and the fat man received a call from Professor Ye. The two of them were very excited, packed up their things, said goodbye to Sister Yu, and went straight to the place agreed with Professor Ye.

As soon as they arrived, they saw more than a dozen people waiting there, as well as several off-road vehicles parked, all loaded with equipment and tools needed for archaeology.

Professor Ye and Ye Shan were talking to someone, and Yang Ying and the fat man walked straight to them.

"Professor Ye, we're here!" The fat man rushed in front of the two of them in three or two steps, startling them both.

Ye Shan stretched out his hand and punched a fat man, "You dead fat man, you scared me to death!" ”

The fat man laughed, not careless, and Yang Ying also walked quickly in front of a few people.

Professor Ye pulled the people on the side and introduced Yang Ying and the others, "Xiao Yang, Xiao Chubby, this is my apprentice, Xu Huairen." ”

Yang Ying looked at the white-looking young man with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, smiled and stretched out his hand, and said to him, "Hello, fortunately." ”

Xu Huairen's face was very surprised, he looked at the two of them and smiled slightly, held Yang Ying's hand and said, "I didn't expect the gentleman in the teacher's mouth to be so young, fortunately." ”

The fat man also shook his hand, which was considered to have been said hello.

"We'll leave in a moment, and we guess we'll be there about tomorrow afternoon." Professor Ye looked up at the sky, "Today's weather is good, let's set off in a while." ”

It didn't take long for everyone to get into the car, and the car slowly drove towards its destination.

The group was not irritable at all during the day on the road, listening to jokes, chattering about idle days, eating snacks and passing in a flash.

The next day, everyone arrived at their destination, Heigou Cliff in Xiaye Town, lower reaches of the Yellow River.

It turned out that it was here that the famous strange transparent coffin in history was found.

[The following is the legend of the transparent coffin]

In the 80s, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River had to be desilted every year. Nearby residents (mainly farmers) had to go out to work on the river. That is, each family has a prime-age laborer, of course, the elderly can also go to boil water and cook something, if not, they have to pay.

This happened on a certain section of the Yellow River. In winter, there is basically no water in the Yellow River, everyone dug up silt at the bottom of the river to strengthen the embankment next to it, suddenly, a person roared, the sound was extremely miserable, and then all the people at the bottom of the river began to roar, the people who cooked on the bank were very surprised, and after a while everyone stopped and continued to work. When I was eating, when I asked them, no one knew that they had ever made such a sound, that is, the memory of those few minutes, the people at the bottom of the river were gone. However, the oddities are not over yet.

When they returned to their lodgings in the evening, it was sleet, and some of the young people suggested that they go to sleep in a new yard next door, and that they could have a fire or something. That yard is very new, with more than 10 new tiled houses. The courtyard walls are all fences made of tree branches, and the head of the village said that you can live casually. So some people rushed to bring the bunks to the new house, which was nice, and made a fire in the middle of the house to keep it warm.

An old man who was cooking came in with him, and he looked around and told the boys to move out at once. Do you know what the old man saw? There are 7 knife marks on the front beam of the house! There is a local custom that if someone hangs themselves in the house, they must cut a mark on the beam. This house is the best in the murderous house: a family of 7 hanged themselves in the house. Among them was a newlywed. The family lived quite harmoniously, and this happened within a few days of moving in. No one knows why. Friends in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River should know about this kind of thing. Something strange happens every time the Yellow River is dredged, and it's not the first time that hundreds of people who want to raise it up roaring together is not the first time it has happened.

Later, after three or four days, everyone was already discouraged and strongly demanded to stop work, and the old people always felt that things were too strange. Imagine where a family hanged themselves? Besides, everyone is from a nearby village, and they have never heard of such a thing here. Newlyweds have a strong ability to block evil, and it is rare for things like being haunted by ghosts when they get married, otherwise there is no such thing as chongxi. How could such a thing happen in a place like this that hanged ghosts were afraid to avoid?

The above (county) specially sent a folklore expert to check and reassure the people by the way. The peasants spontaneously organized some goddesses and old people to perform dojo-like pacification rituals. As a result, strange things still happened, and on the afternoon of the day when the folklore experts arrived, news came out of the river: a transparent coffin was dug up!

Transparent coffin? When the old people rushed over, there were already a lot of onlookers, very strange coffin, just dug out of the top cover, the mud on it has been wiped off, people can clearly see that there are many small fish swimming around the corpse, but you can't see the appearance of the corpse, only the general outline, wearing a double layer of shroud, you can judge that there is no child before death (local custom). It is common sense that it is impossible for a fish to survive in a closed coffin for a long time. So the airtightness of this coffin is definitely not good, but if this is the case, the shroud should have been gone a long time ago, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even leave the bones, because, the old people have not heard of what will be buried in a transparent coffin, not to mention, this is the bottom of the river, it was submerged after the diversion of the Yellow River, and the strange thing is that this coffin was not washed away, because of local customs, the depth of the burial is only about 3 meters.

The funeral custom there is that if there are no children alive, all funeral goods are doubled. Except, of course, coffins. With gold in his mouth, he wears silver in his left hand, and he holds a dog cake in his right hand. Dog crackers are corn tortillas steamed with cornmeal and hair stubble, and there are vicious dogs blocking the road in the underworld to deal with them. The coffin is divided into three, six, nine and so on. The thin coffin is a 3-inch board, which is estimated to rot in two or three years, and the good one is a 9-inch board, and it is made of hard wood such as camphor wood and sandalwood. Then put a poplar coffin on the outside, which is called a poplar coffin.

But transparent coffins are unheard of. No wonder everyone is so curious. At the same time, there is also a faint chill in the bottom of my heart. At this time, it has been divided into two groups, led by some old people, insisting on not digging again, and burying the exposed cover on it, for fear of harming children and grandchildren. The young people insisted on seeing what was going on, and if they didn't believe in evil, maybe they would dig up some gold and silver treasures, and then they would make a fortune. Folklore experts also have a curious attitude and let them continue digging.

So the old people burned incense and prayed beside them, saying that some children are ignorant, please bear with me, and so on. The boys dug up the mud around the coffin and carried it away, one by one. The coffin is 1 meter exposed, and there is still no end below. It is said that the coffin is about 1 meter high at best, and the atmosphere is gradually solemn, and what is even more strange is that the coffin lid and the coffin seem to be connected together, without any gaps. Everyone pinned their hopes on the coffin that could be opened at the bottom, but which coffin was opened at the bottom? Inexplicable fear spreads in the bottom of my heart, perhaps, it is right not to dig.

Everyone continued to dig, while digging, while getting the muddy water out, in the river, there has been a pit 2 meters deep, 40 meters in diameter, the coffin has been exposed 1.5 meters, still not seen to the end. The mud dug out is already cement, that is, it is more difficult to dig down, everyone has been very strange, the small fish can see so clearly, why the others can't see clearly? How tall is this coffin and what kind of coffin is it? No one spoke, and the only sound was the sound of shovels digging in the mud, accompanied by the occasional sound of a coffin. It doesn't feel like glass, probably because of winter, it's very cool to the touch, although it's daytime, the sun is very good, and the temperature is in the mid-10s. There was still a chill. Can anyone understand that texture? Not as slippery as glass, hard, transparent, jade? No kidding, how can there be such a transparent jade? Still that thick?

Someone couldn't hold his breath anymore, and summoned more than a dozen people to stand on the side of the coffin and push hard, trying to make the coffin move, but the coffin did not move at all, indicating that the part buried in the mud was far deeper than people thought.

Dig! What the hell can you see under the bright sun? What's there? Isn't it just a coffin? Dig! How deep can it be? Then dig it, it's strange that such a big coffin can be pushed by filling it with water, don't be cranky, keep digging! Someone is agitating, this is indeed a laborious job, and the digging has changed people three times! The part of the coffin that protrudes from the ground is already taller than a person, and the light green light reflects in the sun. What's even more strange is that people see the corpse inside floating in the middle, always in the middle. He was 50cm out when he dug 1 meter, and 1 meter above the ground when he was 2 meters! What's really inside? It's not like water, but it's not water, how can fish swim in it? It seems that this question can only be answered if it is completely dug up. Someone offered to try it with an iron rod to see how deep it was below.

At this time, someone invited the most famous local feng shui master. This feng shui gentleman has a high reputation, and the fortune teller is handed down from his ancestors, and the eldest son and eldest grandson pass it on like this. His first fortune telling was when he was 15 years old. Setting up a stall in the market, there is a local who doesn't believe it, who has ever seen such a young gentleman? I asked him to show it, but the gentleman didn't look at it, but just said: "Your life is too hard, you were forced to be born, and you didn't cry when you were born." "This person was disgraced at the time, because he was born without crying, and later he cried with green onions and white, and at most 3 people knew about it, Wen Po, his mother, and later his mother told him.

Kan Feng Shui is even more powerful. Including yin house and yang house. He would never do the kind of thing that people crack for profit, such as asking 100 yuan for a bag of cinnabar (fortune tellers often do) and so on. So it's very respectable. It is said that his father is more divine, and he can pull a grass on the grave to know the gender of the deceased inside, whether the age is a good death, etc. )

In the local area, Feng Shui also has the role of finding ancestral graves for people. Before liberation, there were often people who went out at the age of 16 to break into the eastern part of the country, and when they came back, their parents had passed away and their kind neighbors were buried. As a result, when the four olds were broken and the feudal superstitions were broken, the grave was flattened; In some cases, due to economic development, widening of roads, and changes in cultivated land, some of the symbols that used to be symbols (large trees, temples, etc.) have disappeared. The old man only has the general orientation that remains in his memory. If your children and grandchildren want to be buried again, they must ask a feng shui master to help them find the ancestral grave. Mr. Feng Shui holds an iron rod in his hand, about half the thickness of his little finger, and according to the direction, he can find the ancestral grave. And the orientation of the head and feet can be determined, and the specific operation is not clear. Generally speaking, the burials are buried in the north and south, with the head north and the feet south, and a clay pot will be buried at the head of the tomb. This is basically the reason why everyone invites Mr. Feng Shui.

Mr. Feng Shui came to the coffin, very surprised, but did not speak, and looked at the coffin carefully. There was no handmade iron rod at all. After looking at it for half an hour, he then asked the folklore expert (at the scene, he was the biggest leader, from the county): "Do you have to dig it?" "Dig!" Folklore experts have been indulged in the joy of archaeological discoveries. Of course, he did not forget to ask, "Will it do any harm?" "He didn't believe that the fortune teller would know this Rausch." No," the fortune teller said lightly, "but according to this digging method, I'm afraid I won't be able to dig it out for a month!" "People stopped. The fortune teller stepped aside, whispering something to the local village chief and some old people. After a while, the old man came and said, "All those who belong to dragons, and those who are not dragons, but who were born in December, leave the bottom of the river and go to the shore." ”

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