Chapter 44: Ancient. Picture
The three of us sat around the fire, and Tianyu poured some water into the tin box of the can, and then set the tin box above the fire that was about to be extinguished. The fat man couldn't bear to go to the secret room for a long time, I stopped him, and resolutely disagreed with his reckless action, I said to him: "Brother Smoke has not woken up yet, and he can't be left here alone." And it was too dangerous to enter that strange dark room with him unconscious. It's better to wait for the cigarette boy to wake up and then discuss. ”
The fat man continued to play tricks, constantly shouting to go to the dark room to see, I asked for help to look at the rain, but she picked up the tin box of canned food on the fire, walked to the unconscious smoke man, and slowly fed the soup into the smoke man's mouth, she was very careful to ensure that the unconscious smoke man would not starve to death, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: women are more careful, will take care of people.
For the next few days, I stared at the fat man, afraid that he would not listen to me and run to the dark room. For some reason, I was very resistant to that dark room, and I rejected it from the bottom of my heart and didn't want to get closer.
The fat man's body has almost recovered, and the smoke man has also woken up when I am asleep, and I realized that I have always had a low-grade fever and snooze recently, I wonder if it has something to do with the wound healing. I was very happy that the smoke man was able to wake up, he didn't seem to remember the glow of his body at all, and just told us that the Sanskrit scriptures on his body were tattooed on him by his master to restrain the cold poison on his body, and he didn't know that it was still useful.
The smoke man listened to the fat man show off and finished telling the story about Tianyu, and the expression on his face did not change at all. After receiving the food handed to him by Tianyu, he ate it with relish, and the fat man pouted boringly. Sit to the side and sulk. This is the smoke man's consistent attitude towards anything, on the surface, he is indifferent and indifferent, but in fact, he already has some thoughts of his own in his heart, but he doesn't want people to know, so I don't care.
The smoke man probably ran out of energy before, so he kept falling asleep, and now his energy has completely recovered. A pair of eagle falcon eyes became very cold and compelling, exuding a dazzling essence.
Had dinner this morning. The fat man stood up abruptly and said loudly: "Since the little brother smoke boy is awake, let's go to the dark room to explore!" With that, he began to pack his backpack.
I don't know why I don't want to set foot in that darkroom again. But I can't think of a good reason to stop it. The smoke man didn't ask about the dark room, so he silently picked up his backpack and left, I had to follow behind them, but I couldn't understand why I was so resistant to entering that secret room? Maybe deep down, I feel very sorry for what Tianyu said about my evil spirit.
In the hidden stone room, there is indeed a huge coffin. The outermost copper coffin lid has been opened, is it really as Yanyu said: I slapped the copper coffin lid away with one palm? Then I'd have to have superhuman abilities. This copper coffin lid. Without large mechanical lifting tools, it is impossible to open it by human labor alone.
The fat man looked at the open coffin in surprise and said, "Why is the lid of this coffin not closed?" ”
I was afraid that he would be worried, so I lied to him: "I guess it was too heavy, and the craftsmen at that time couldn't move it." ”
The fat man was not suspicious, he was bold and broad-hearted by nature, and he didn't care about these trivial matters at all, but praised it: "It's better to open, so you don't have to open the coffin." With that, he immediately strode to the bronze coffin and stopped to look inward.
The inside of the copper coffin is a large red lacquered wooden coffin, with gold edges. Because the copper outer coffin on the first layer is too large, you have to climb in to open the wooden coffin inside.
The four of us turned into the copper outer coffin one after another, and the fat man couldn't wait to open the wooden coffin, and he still muttered, "Get promoted and get rich, don't be surprised." ”
The wooden coffin was not nailed or painted, and I wondered if this was a "well-dressed mound" (that is, the coffin that did not contain the remains, but only the clothes and burial goods of the tomb owner.) However, as a well-dressed mound, there is no need to make such a large copper coffin as an outer coffin, there should be some wonderful treasures hidden in it, right?
Thinking of this, I was also interested, so I pushed the lid of the wooden coffin with the fat man, and after the wooden pipe creaked, the cover was pushed open by the two of us through a narrow slit. I immediately took a flashlight and looked inside, but I saw that there was still a layer of inner coffin inside the red lacquered wooden pipe.
The fat man overturned the lid of the wooden coffin to the ground, and I realized that the inner coffin inside was actually a small children's coffin.
The fat man looked at the Tong coffin and smacked his tongue disdainfully: "Lao Zheng, isn't this bucket from the Han Dynasty?" Why is this coffin inside a modern product? ”
I was shocked, and I said: Why didn't I see that this children's coffin is a modern product? Puzzled, he asked the fat man, "Where did you see that this inner coffin is a modern product?" ”
The fat man stretched out his hand and pointed into the coffin, and said with a disdainful face: "Look at this white coffin, isn't it made of plastic?" ”
When I heard this, I immediately burst out laughing, and said sarcastically to the fat man, "You've seen anyone lying in a plastic coffin." You elm head to see clearly, this is a pair of ivory pavilions? ”
The fat man looked at the ivory coffin that looked like plastic in disbelief, and then sneered and said, "How is that possible? ”
I smiled and explained to him, "There's nothing wrong with this being an ivory coffin. It is a coffin made by soaking ivory in potion and then weaving it into a bamboo basket. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong once paid tribute to an ivory mat for the emperor to sit on when he played chess, and the Kangxi Emperor often sat on it at that time. As a result, the following year, Guangdong intensified, and within a year, six or seven "ivory mats" were paid to the imperial palace. At this time, Kangxi felt that things were strict, and this extravagance could not be long, so he issued a decree prohibiting Guangdong from paying tribute to the imperial palace ivory mats, and the holy decree also explicitly ordered the craftsmen who weaved ivory mats to change to other industries. Ancient China began to advocate ivory products a long time ago, not only in China V, foreign aristocrats, but also began to love to collect ivory products a long time ago, and the craftsmanship at that time was first-class. ”
After I finished speaking, Tianyu behind me suddenly whispered: "The ancients did not have the concept of caring for animals, and only one sentence from the emperor prevented their extinction." ”
I was shocked, Tianyu's thoughts were very far-reaching, and I couldn't help but admire her a little. The purpose of Emperor Kangxi's edict is this, just because Emperor Kangxi Shengming, this move is to protect elephants and prevent excessive hunting. I didn't break this meaning directly, but I didn't expect Tianyu to understand the reason, and I couldn't help but admire her intelligence more and more.
The fat man didn't have these far-reaching concepts of protecting animals, he heard that the coffin was made of ivory, and immediately stared at the coffin with golden eyes: "Good v, such a good coffin, what kind of treasure must be contained in it?" After saying that, I couldn't help but want to open the coffin.
I was worried that there was a mechanism in the coffin, so I reached out to stop him, but after half a beat, the fat man suddenly opened the lid of the ivory coffin.
Everyone looked at the coffin together, the ivory coffin was the last layer of the coffin, and the body was not buried inside, but at the bottom of the snow-white coffin, a white tiger skin was spread, and an ancient scroll was placed on it. The white tiger skin is as shiny as new, and the old hair scrolls are intact.
The fat man's hands were quick, and in a blink of an eye, he had already picked up the scroll on the tiger skin, pulled the rope, and opened the ancient painting scroll with a bang. The light of the flashlight shone in unison on the unfolded scroll, a picture scroll with an ancient man depicted on it, and a few words written in the upper right corner.
I looked at the ancient man on the scroll, and my brain was buzzing like thunder. The man in the painting looks exactly like himself, removing the bun tied with a headband on the top of his head, and then cutting his long hair short, and living like he is now. At the beginning, I had seen my doppelganger once in the Tang Gu evil tomb in my hometown in the northeast, and the characters in this picture scroll were very similar to them, could it be the same person?
However, the strange underground tomb that I mistakenly broke into in my hometown in the Northeast is obviously a tomb of the Tang Dynasty, and the tomb I am in now is indeed a tomb group of the Han Dynasty. This is too bizarre to be incomprehensible!
And then look at the ancient scroll on the upper right corner of the sentence of a few sentences, even more made me gasp, on the top is in the Han Dynasty Lishu written a verse "seven and a half, end to end, ancient secret art in between; People love ghosts, graves are born, only envy mandarin ducks and not immortals; Half of yin, half of yang, this life wanders the two worlds; Whether you live or die, the thousand-year-old dream is shattered. ”
I couldn't be more familiar with these words, when I was looking for Yue'er in the Tang Ancient Evil Tomb in the Northeast, I was once in a strange tomb with three coffins, when I was unconscious, in a trance, in my mind, there was an old man who kept repeating these words, at that time I thought it was a Gu poison attack and auditory hallucinations, but now it seems that the voice has really appeared.
I stared at the scroll with straight eyes, wondering what I had to do with the characters in it.
I stared intently at the scroll while the others stared at me, and suddenly, I saw a white dot light up in the middle of the scroll, and then in the blink of an eye, the white dot turned into a flame, and then the scroll immediately caught fire in the middle. At the same time, my head buzzed inexplicably, my eyes blackened, my heels were unsteady, and my mind became very unconscious.
At this time, the sad woman's voice suddenly reappeared, saying the same inexplicable words: "You are here, I have finally waited for you, you made me wait so hard?" (To be continued......)