Chapter 36: Family Tombs
The fat man and I stood not far from the stone wall, staring intently at the short man who was the first to try to open the mechanism, and after he inserted the first stone bar, there was no movement in the dim stone room. He breathed a sigh of relief, and with trembling hands, he thrust another slightly longer stone into the hole at the rear.
As a result, in an instant, there was a flash of cold light in the dimness, and I clearly saw a thin blade flashing, and then the short man in front of the stone wall covered his right hand and let out a wail like killing a pig. The red and dazzling blood sprayed on the cold stone wall, and at this time, the two stone strips that had been inserted into the hole in the stone wall were pushed out and fell to the ground with a click, which made everyone startled.
Seeing that his companion was injured, the black man and his group hurriedly took out trauma medicine and gauze to bandage the short man, and I saw that the five fingers on the thin man's right hand were gone, leaving only the bare half of the palm.
The fat man standing next to me grinned and muttered in a low voice that didn't matter to himself, "This guy is really unlucky, there is still half a chance left, I don't know what the luck of the Liu brothers is?" ”
There were few people left in the Liu brothers' group, and everyone decided to draw a lot of life and death, and those who won the lottery must obey unconditionally.
Liu Da, who had a matchmaker, took out a box of matches, pulled out five matches, lit a match head and blew it out instantly, and then held all five matches upside down in his hand and asked everyone to draw lots.
As a result, the death lottery was drawn by Liu Da's nephew, and the seventeen or eighteen-year-old child who didn't understand anything suddenly turned green. Staring at a pair of big eyes, he looked at the Liu brothers with tears in his eyes.
Seeing this, Liu Er gritted his teeth and snatched the match away. Said "I'll come".
I admire Liu Er in my heart for being a man, he is not as treacherous as his eldest brother, and his personality is quite bold, but he has a stinky temper that is above the top and looks down on people.
Liu Er picked up a set of stone bars from the ground, and then cautiously walked to the stone wall, and he first inserted one of the stone bars into the square hole. Then take a few steps back, pinching the remaining stone bar with the fingers of your right hand, and aim for the square jack on the stone wall in front of you. Throwing it forward, it took an inch of force, and the stone bar was inserted into the hole in the air.
Everyone couldn't help but secretly scream in their hearts, thinking that this would prevent the blade from cutting off their fingers. Who knew that the two stone bars in the square hole suddenly popped out again. At the same time, more than a dozen long needles flew out of the square hole, all of which shot at Liu Er's chest, who couldn't dodge.
It happened too suddenly, and in an instant, Liu Er was already foaming at the mouth and fell straight to the ground.
Liu Da screamed "second brother" bitterly, and immediately pounced on Liu Er's body to check, and just wanted to reach out and pull out the long needle, he was immediately grabbed by Liu Eryi, who was foaming at the mouth. "Poisonous". Then he closed his eyes and stopped breathing.
Liu Er's nephew was completely dumbfounded. Standing next to Liu Er's corpse in a daze, a hot current flowed down his pants, and he was scared to pee his pants. And his expression couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing, and it was estimated that his spirit was hit by Yan zhòng, and he was already a little confused.
Seeing this, I frowned and looked at the two remaining stone bars on the ground, and now it was our turn. Although I am confident in my own inferences, the tombs are even more bizarre and varied, and often people are not as good as the heavens, and people are deeply in danger. Looking at the stiff corpse of Liu Er lying on the ground, my original confidence began to tilt, and it was likely to collapse at any time.
At this time, the fat man next to me stood up, and I immediately reflexively pulled him back, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
I took the fat man's arm and trembled like a leaf in the wind, the beads of sweat on my forehead broke free of my skin one after another, and my lips trembled.
When the fat man saw that I was extremely nervous, he smiled very calmly, patted my hand and teased: "Lao Zheng, why is your nervous enteritis sick again?" ”
I tugged at his sleeve and said, "I'll go with you." After speaking, he wanted to stand up, but his legs couldn't exert any strength, and he couldn't help but scold himself angrily in his heart for not being angry, and his legs were weak and dropped the chain at the critical moment.
The fat man wanted to tear my hand away, but I dragged him to the ground and didn't let go, maybe this let go, and then life and death parted. My faith was swallowed up by the dark and closed stone chamber, and now all that was left in my heart was a lingering fear.
As a result, just as we were pulling each other, we heard a rumbling sound, and the stone wall with the alcove opened upwards. The cigarette man was holding a burning cigarette in his mouth, standing near the open stone wall, quietly watching me and the fat man.
The fat man said to me angrily: "Lao Zheng, it's all your fault." Let him succeed as a hero. ”
I looked at the stone wall that was opened safely, took a deep breath, all the strength in my body seemed to be taken away, and I almost sat on the ground limply, at this time, all the nervous feelings on my body were all taken away by the open stone door, and my brain buzzed into a blank at once. In the face of the fear of death, sanity is the least difficult thing to maintain.
The crying, the cheers, brought my mind back to reality anew. I hurriedly got up from the ground and said to the fat man excitedly, "Great, it worked." ”
The fat man first gave me a blank look, and then said to me very dissatisfied: "What happened to you?" ”
I said in my heart: How can you understand my complex psychological changes just now, it is the rhythm of almost parting with life and death, can I not be nervous?
I didn't explain it to the fat man, so I pulled him and ran towards the open stone wall.
When we stepped out of the closed stone room, the fat man couldn't help but exclaim, "His grandmother's has finally found the right owner." ”
In the middle of the stone chamber, there was a rotten coffin, and on the west side of the coffin, a long foot box was placed, but it was also so rotten that it was about to fall apart.
The state of preservation of the coffin in this Han Dynasty underground tomb can be described as a mess, and it is difficult for me to imagine such a tomb. Will there be a well-preserved coffin. Before I could take a good look at the environment inside the tomb, I heard a series of cheers from ahead.
It turned out that on the outside of this burial chamber. There is another burial chamber, like the previous empty stone chamber, with several tombs connected to each other, and here is a large underground family burial complex.
The fat man's eyes were straight, a pair of bull's eyes widened, and he scanned around like lightning, and then rushed forward like the wind. Disappeared without a trace.
In the blink of an eye, I was left alone in this burial chamber filled with rotten and filthy air, and I was not worried that the fat man would be in danger. The Liu brothers are probably all distributed in various tombs to search for burial goods, and the smoke man is probably also looking for the medical book, and I am idle. It's just the right time to take a good look at this huge Han Dynasty family tomb complex.
This burial chamber where I am now. It is a dark square stone chamber with ear chambers on the left and right, and two or three clay pots are placed in it. This gray clay pot has a loose texture, is fired at a low temperature, and has a set of stamps on the abdomen. One of the clay pots is decorated with a white coat with simple patterns in red, blue and black. This clay pot is not as beautiful as porcelain, and it is not worth much, so it cannot be seen by the inverted bucket craftsman at all.
But. For archaeologists, it still has considerable research value.
There are very few funerary goods displayed in the ear chamber. I quickly walked around the burial chamber and approached the rotting coffin. The wooden planks of this coffin have been rotted, and they have been lifted, revealing that the human bones inside are rotten and rotten, the head is facing north, the face is up, the lower limbs have been corrupted, and there is a thick layer of gray silt in the coffin, but there are no funeral goods, not even the most basic five baht coins.
I took a flashlight and looked at the footbox in front of me, the wooden footbox was about to fall apart, the lid on it was completely rotten and gone, and the box could still see specks of animal leather, wrapped in the inside of the wooden board, and a yellow-green lead-glazed pottery was placed inside, which was a "francium" (a wine jug with a square mouth and a big belly), and it seemed that the tomb owner lying here was a drunkard before his death.
This kind of lead-glazed pottery is also fired at a low temperature, the texture is loose, and the color is basically sauce color and yellow-green glaze, which is neither beautiful nor beautiful, nor valuable.
The level of pottery firing in the Han Dynasty was still very low, and there were generally few funerary goods in a tomb, and pots and pots almost did not coexist, because the extravagant style of thick burial was not very popular at that time.
I walked to another burial chamber that was adjoined, this stone chamber had no ear chamber, and the coffin in the middle had decayed to ashes, but the marks on the ground were very visible and recognizable. However, in the coffin that has decayed into dirt, the bones on display are in very poor condition, and they have been unrecognizable, and it can only be seen that the head is facing north, and the position of the bones can be vaguely identified. I looked around, and Liu Da, a group of authentic inverted fighting craftsmen, still respected the rules of inverted fighting very much, and did not wantonly destroy the tomb. However, there is really nothing of value in this dilapidated and decaying tomb that can be destroyed.
I stood up, flashlight and continued to walk forward, sighing in my heart: This underground tomb group of the Western Han Dynasty is really huge enough, since just now, I haven't heard the noise of those people in the Liu family anymore, it seems that they have all gone to a deeper place.
The next few burial chambers are all the same, most of the coffins are rotten to ashes, and the burial goods are mostly muddy gray and reddish-brown pots, lead-glazed pottery tripods, plates, ear cups, smokers and other practical utensils, as well as a few pieces of floor and stone grinding pottery, and there are no other valuable burial goods. I don't know if it was taken away by the people in front of me, or if there were only these shabby burial goods in the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty.
The more I went inside, the more strange I felt in my heart. There were obviously more than a dozen of the Liu brothers' gang left, but I didn't even meet any of them, and I didn't hear any sounds. The traces on the ground are also very scattered, not like a large number of people passing through, and the dark underground stone room seems to be the only one shuttling around.
Suddenly, the light of the flashlight seemed to shine on a dark shadow in front of me, and I was so frightened that I almost threw the flashlight out.
"Who? Who's in front? A slightly trembling voice barely came out between my teeth. (To be continued......)