37. The first mausoleum in the world

"That's the coffin spring...... silently opened his mouth and stopped after half a sentence, looking up at Gao Tong with a confused face, "The bottomless underground river that the old man said is the real coffin spring." ”

The expressions of the big head and Gu Guangming were ignorant, and they didn't understand what it meant, but I vaguely remembered that I had heard people mention that there was a tomb less than a hundred years old in our local area, and when the later generations moved the grave, they found that when the coffin was moved and the tomb was lifted, there was a clear spring the size of a watery palm under the coffin, and the water in the spring was crystal clear, not full or dry, and the water surface was not flooded at the bottom of the coffin. It is said that the best coffin spring is full of aura, and can even raise a goldfish that will not die for several years.

Putting aside the major of archaeology for the time being, Gao Tong is also a feng shui master, no one understands what a coffin spring is better than him, Gao Tong squatted on the ground, stroked his head with one hand, and squinted at the sky with his eyes, "Today is a long time for me to see...... The dragon carries the coffin, and the thousand-year-old immortal anaconda is the feng shui layout of the dragon carrying the coffin. ”

I don't know what the coffin spring has too much feng shui meaning and what the "dragon carries the coffin" refers to, but I can guess that it is not far from ten, it is extremely rare to have a spring under the coffin, and it is unheard of for the underground dark river to be used as a coffin spring, and the ancients usually regarded the giant python as a dragon before the transformation and ascension, compared with the spring that can raise goldfish, the wide and long underground dark river, the giant python that has not died for thousands of years, is a world of difference in momentum, and these are arranged in this coffin with the mountain as the coffin.

The wind on the top of the mountain is strong, and it is the season of late autumn, a chill makes me shiver, and my brain becomes more bright, this tomb is not simple, pointing to the mountain as a coffin, a valley of the dead in Youda as a sealed mound, hundreds of kilometers of mausoleum Shinto, that is even unimaginable magnificent, I am afraid it is a well-deserved "first mausoleum in the world".

If judging by the age of several archaeologists at that time, the tomb used the basic shape of the late Yuan Dynasty, then whose tomb is this? Kublai Khan? Even if the owner of the tomb is Kublai Khan, there will be no special secrets in the coffin that make Company Commander Zhang have to die? No wonder Zhang Yishan can't let go of the secret of this ancient tomb until he dies, for a feng shui person like him, it is a real pity to leave aside the legacy of the ancient family with the same qi and branches, and never see such a mausoleum in his life.

Gao Tong was stunned for a while, as if he suddenly remembered something, "Let's go, go back to find Lao Fang." ”

Halfway up the hill, the engineering and technical personnel of the unit were still busy in an orderly manner, and some of them greeted a few of us. Gao Tong was a little anxious, quickened his pace and went straight to the camp without stopping, and saw from a distance that the old man was talking to the head of the Jin regiment, Gao Tong was sweaty, and hurriedly dragged the head of the Jin group and the old man into the tent where we lived. The old man didn't know why, he had been at the mercy of Gao Tong, and several people crowded into the marching bed to sit down, Gao Tong couldn't wait to say: "Old Fang, you can talk carefully about the sarcophagus in the tomb back then." ”

"The sarcophagus?" Lao Fang frowned and thought for a long time, feeling a little unsure where to start, and coughed lightly, "Let's put it this way, I thought it was very special at first sight, the whole tomb was hard to dig out of the jade vein, and the plain sarcophagus was compared to ...... It looks slightly shabby, without any pattern decoration, pure white, and looks like ordinary white marble and the like. ”

After Lao Fang finished speaking, Gao Tong then asked: "I remember that when you said that you opened the coffin a few days ago, there was a very special smell around it. "My heart is pounding, does that smell mean that there is something hidden in the coffin that no one can see, leading to the final tragedy?

The old man looked embarrassed, probably the smell was difficult to describe accurately, and pondered for a while, "There is a unique smell of old wooden furniture, and there is a sweet fragrance...... I can't say it. Yes, when I lifted the lid of the coffin, I had touched the sarcophagus, there was no cold feeling, the temperature of the tentacles felt like touching a piece of wood, smooth and delicate like a well-polished stone, not rough at all. ”

Gao Tong saw a few of us who were quite puzzled, and suddenly said "oh", and explained: "The material of this sarcophagus has little to do with what is in the coffin, but I suspect that the sarcophagus is polished out of the legendary 'Tianji Jade', if this ancient tomb is from the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is consistent with the records in the history books." ”

"Tianji jade is a very special mineral, which is only produced under the water of the valley of Helan Mountain, which is quite difficult to find and difficult to preserve. The original color of Tianji jade was black, and once exposed to the air, it would oxidize rapidly and become pure white within a few days. The principle of Tianji jade is similar to that of tree fossils, but it was originally an extremely dense tree, and after the eruption, it was wrapped in magma and flowed into water to cool rapidly, and then after hundreds of millions of years of siliceous invasion in the buried soil, it transformed into a non-stone and non-jade mineral deposit. Its formation conditions are extremely harsh, the specific gravity and the sound of percussion are like metal, and the identity of the five elements of gold, wood, fire, water and earth is integrated, so it is also called 'Five Elements Stone'. The complete large piece is particularly rare, and it is said that the Western Xia Kingdom dug up a whole piece that year, and the Western Xia was finally destroyed by Meng Yuan, so it is not surprising that this piece of Tianji jade fell into the hands of the royal family of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

Gu Guangming nodded understandingly, "Tianji Jade was originally wooden, it was buried by fire, water, and earth, and it has the characteristics of metal, it does account for all the five elements, but what is the special meaning of being used as a coffin?" ”

Gao Tong said: "Tianji jade is rumored to be the best coffin raw material in the world. After the coffin is completely closed, the oxygen inside will react with the Tianji jade, the color of the Tianji jade will change from black to white, and all the oxygen will be quickly consumed in this process, in the relatively closed space in the coffin, the mildew phenomenon of the decay of the flesh will not occur, and the bacteria that must rely on oxygen to survive have no living environment, plus the fragrant smell of the trees that originally formed the Tianji jade has the characteristics of insect repellent and sterilization, and there is almost no microorganism in the closed coffin to survive. It is used to hold people's corpses, but it is truly incorruptible for 10,000 years. ”

"It is said that although Cao Cao's tomb is simply buried, it is a coffin made of Tianji jade, that is Cao Cao stolen a spliced Tianji jade coffin found in the tomb of his predecessors in the early years, and the four walls of the jade coffin were thinned before the burial, revealing the black inside and quickly sealing the burial to have the effect of embalming the corpse. The ancients accidentally discovered the characteristics of this Tianji jade, but they did not know the principle. ”