20. Urn burial

"I'll never see you again......" I wanted to say too much, I could only secretly shout in my heart, hanging in the air I cried a lot, but I couldn't make a sound. The indescribable sadness wrenched my heart, my hands and heels trembled uncontrollably, and I didn't dare to stop to let people see something, and I slid down the rope clumsily.

This was too difficult, and it took me a long time to hide my feelings, and I slowly fell to the bottom under the continuous urging of the big head above, and after shaking a few steps, I collapsed and sat on the ground, saying to Zhang Xuan, "I'm a little dizzy", and then buried my head deep between the supported knees, not paying attention to the surroundings at all.

After a few minutes, the big head slipped down from above, and I didn't stand firm for a while, and I screamed "ouch", which woke me up from the state of lost soul, and I suddenly felt exhausted to the point that my legs and feet were sore, and I slowly stood up against the brick wall next to me, and suddenly saw a wide road built by hand leading straight ahead.

I told myself that I must forget about life and death for a while, and I worked hard to settle down and took the backpack hanging from the top of the contestant. At this time, Lao Wu on the side had been studying the brick wall for a long time, and said to himself: "Brick tomb road? It doesn't look like a stone tomb...... Like the way the tomb was built in the Central Plains during the Han and Jin dynasties......" he said and raised his eyes to look forward, "This scale is really not small." ”

Blind Chen had already taken off the cotton earmuffs, tilted his head and listened into the distance, and everyone didn't dare to make a sound for fear of disturbing him, until Blind Chen nodded slowly, and they all breathed a long sigh of relief. I didn't discuss it with everyone, and without saying a word, I took out my knife and held it in my hand, I guess it was useless but to use it to strengthen my courage, and I took the lead.

The big head muttered something, and chased after him in a few steps, Zhang Xuan picked up Chen Blind and followed behind, and loudly told me and the big head to be careful, I slowed down a little, and looked back to see Lao Wu walking left and right, excited like a child who had entered a museum, sighed lightly, and thought that no matter what happened, don't put a few of them into the pit.

The brick tomb road has been turned into stone walls again, but it is not like the mine tunnel dug according to the natural course of the ore veins as above, it has obviously been carved and polished, and the arch curve and the brick wall are seamlessly connected. The structure of Huer stone Huer bricks made Lao Wu secretly wondered, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Then carefully walked out of more than ten meters, the miner's light illuminated the end of the range, vaguely reflecting a stone room in front of me, I and Datou paused at the same time, Datou adjusted the aperture of the miner's lamp on his head, and said: "Will it be a tomb in front?" ”

If according to the style of the ancient tombs of the Central Plains in the Han and Jin dynasties, entering the tomb door used to close the mausoleum, one way to the end, passing through the front room, you can go directly to the final main tomb, but no one dares to consider the problem so simple. The blind man Chen behind him took a few steps forward, kept shaking his nose, tilted his head and muttered softly: "The smell of corpse oil is getting heavier and heavier, but there are still a few smells mixed and I can't smell it." ”

Although I have a certain death mentality, it does not mean that I can overcome my natural fear when something happens. tremblingly, he put the knife in front of him, and the two of them moved forward step by step, and the moment he stepped into the stone room, he was so nervous that he subconsciously bowed his body, and the beam of the miner's lamp swept, but he couldn't help but be surprised.

I saw that the stone chamber as a whole presents an elliptical shape, the front and back are long and the left and right are short, one in front and one behind the two passages, the left and right sides are full of stoneware vats, and there is nothing else to grow, the jar looks no different from the water tank used to store water, the mouth of the tank is completely sealed, and it is really surprising that it appears here inexplicably.

Lao Wu, who came up, touched his chin with one hand, paced to the front of a jar, and hissed, "Is it an urn burial?" ”

Zhang Xuan had already told Chen Blind at this time the general situation, Chen Blind nodded slightly, and said: "The pottery urn burial is usually used by the common people, and there will be no great valuable objects in the jar, appearing in the tomb of King Nan, it is very likely that these people have been martyred by the tomb owner." ”

I suddenly remembered which book mentioned that "urn burial" is to put the corpse of a person after death into a jar, which is also an ancient form of funeral, but I have never seen it with my own eyes, and I feel a little hairy in my heart, so I dare not touch it lightly, standing in the center of the stone room, counting left and right, and there are eight jars on each side of the symmetry, thinking that this is the sixteen lives that were unjustly killed.

With Lao Wu's experience in field archaeology for so many years, the "urn burial" must have seen it, and the table is naturally not as panicked as ordinary people, and he circled around a cylinder, and then took out a flat shovel from his backpack, pondered it in his hand for a while, and gently opened the yellow mud along the edge of the cylinder with a shovel.

The yellow mud stirred with water has a strong viscosity, the top of this tank is sealed with a thick layer, Lao Wu shovels very carefully and carefully, which makes people look a little anxious, but no one is embarrassed to urge, this is the professional habit of an archaeological expert. And Chen Blind is just the opposite, although he has cleared his identity, it is still difficult to change his temperament as a tomb robber, knowing that this is an urn burial without oil and water, it is difficult to mention any interest with an indifferent face.

A few minutes later, Lao Wu had finished dealing with the sealing mud at the mouth of the cylinder, revealing a round stone slab at the mouth of the clay jar, the slate was covered tightly, I and the big head saw this and went over to help, and the moment we lifted the slate, we vaguely saw a corpse sitting in the jar curled up, with long black and yellow dry hair coiled on the top of the head.

A slightly similar aroma of aged mahogany came to my face at the same time, and I and the big head invariably "huh", I was worried about the fishy smell of the ancient corpse, and I have been half-holding my breath, but I didn't expect that such a smell wafted out of the tank that had been sealed for I don't know how many years, my heart suddenly froze, and I quickly pulled the big head back a few steps, and asked, "It can't be poisonous gas, right?" ”

Blind Chen had already sniffed out the unusual smell, shook his head with a hesitant expression, and said, "How does this smell look like a good coffin?" ”

Lao Wu, who had been frowning, suddenly showed a sudden expression of realization, "This is Chen Xiang's mummy!" I really didn't expect to find this kind of ancient corpse here. ”

I and the big head were stunned in a daze, and Lao Wu then explained: "This kind of mummy, so far has not been found in China, the world has only been found in the ancient noble cemeteries of the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, and the Egyptian mummy is the same as the zuò, all in order to keep the body of the deceased from decaying, fantasizing that one day in the future can be reborn, it is said that the cost of making zuò was extremely expensive, and now the price of this ancient corpse on the international black market is ridiculously high." ”

As soon as the blind man heard that the price was ridiculously high, he immediately straightened his neck, and then probably reacted that he had washed his hands in a golden basin, and sighed, "This is the first time I've heard of this kind of dried corpse." ”

Lao Wu was so excited that he rubbed his hands left and right, looked down at the ancient corpse sitting in the jar with bent knees for a while, and ordered me and Datou to seal the lid immediately, and sighed again and again, "I didn't expect that there would be such a heavy discovery when such an ordinary burial urn coffin was opened just now." ”