Chapter 63: The Funeral Coffin
From the point of view of time, except for the statement, he hardly thinks about it. Just as I was observing the residue, I suddenly heard Tofu swallow like a spit in my ear, and the sound attracted my attention, but I saw Tofu staring nervously at the place not far from the residue.
The line between light and darkness in that arm, looking along the obscure light, there seemed to be something in that place. The silhouette vaguely resembles a human figure. I knew in my heart that it must be a dead man, and if it was a living man, how could I remain silent. To tell the truth, I'm not afraid of the dead, as long as there is no corpse, it's easy to say.
I immediately grabbed my lighter and walked towards it. When I got closer, it was a naked, frozen hard male corpse, and this corpse had a bun on its head, which was obviously an ancient corpse.
In an instant, I realized that the eighteenth corpse that disappeared from the bronze armor should be it.
Strange, how did it get here?
Could it be that it crawled here on its own? It's all frozen so hard, it's not easy to get a corpse up. I thought, my eyes on the ancient corpse, and when my eyes stopped on its legs, I saw a chilling scene.
The flesh on its legs was gone. There are only two dark red and blue skeletons left at the calves, and it can be seen from the remaining shelf meat that there are neat and uniform marks on them, like a layer of fish scales. With this appearance, you can see at a glance that the flesh on the legs of this ancient corpse has been cut off one by one with an extremely sharp knife.
Tofu looked at the calves that had been slipped by the corpse, and then at the remaining fuel pile not far away, swallowed his saliva, and said, "You say, what is the end of these meat cuts?" ”
I said lightly: "Barbecue human meat slices." ”
Tofu Dao: Can you not say it so disgusting? ”
I didn't say anything, in fact, the two human leg bones were already indicative of a qiē, and its flesh was sliced like a piece of sashimi. What I'm thinking about now is, who did this? First of all, the weapon, this corpse has been frozen as hard as a stone, and it is really not easy for this meat to be slipped down so neatly; Secondly, judging from the part that disappeared from the ancient corpse, there should not have been many people who ate it at that time; Coupled with the pile of old-fashioned fuel remains next to me, I can almost deduce that when Chen Ci first came here, there was a food crisis, so he pulled out an ancient corpse in bronze armor......
The thought of the scene of the expressionless grilled 'meat skewers' in this dark, gloomy and cold tomb with a fire and human flesh in the middle of the day, made me feel uncomfortable and disgusted.
Tofu also understood, stared at me like a monster, and said, "Lao Chen, your father is too heavy, this ...... What should I do if I want to throw up? ”
I was very angry and said, "It has nothing to do with me if you want to die." "At the same time, I remembered a scene in the tomb of Xu Fu, in the darkness, the mute eyes were cold and gloomy, instigating me to eat tofu that was about to die of weakness.
The scene in my mind coincided with the scene of the cliché kebab, and the guess that had been mentioned countless times by me and Tofu became clear again. Dumb is a cliché!
I've got to figure it out.
The two of us ignored the ancient corpses on the ground, shouting the names of Lu Su and the others, while relying on the faint light of the lighter to observe the surroundings. Walking down the samurai formation, there is a large ice cave with a small illuminated bird's nest inside. I put the lighter under the bird's nest, the light was refracted layer by layer, and it was infinitely magnified, and at this moment, the whole ice cave was as bright as day, and the moment my vision was clear, I saw that not far in front of us, there were two people standing!
I was startled at first, and then I realized that one of the ice walls of this ice cave was inlaid with a huge bronze mirror, and the two people I saw were the shadows reflected in the bronze mirror.
The bronze mirror is relatively blurry, and I and Tofu in the mirror are relatively blurry, and other than that, there is no other entrance and exit from the ice cave. Tofu said: "It seems that there are more ice holes in this ice, and we have to continue to adjust the route." ”
I said: "Don't worry, if it's too much, just ignore it, why is there such a bronze mirror?" ”
Tofu speculated: "Could it be that he is looking in the mirror of the dead man in the ice cave?" As soon as he said this, he suddenly reminded me, and at the same time, I found that there was a tiny black shadow in the lower right corner of the bronze mirror, and it was easy to ignore the past if I didn't pay attention.
Judging by the size and fuzziness of the bronze mirror, the shadow in the mirror should be in the upper right far away from us. I recalled my surroundings, and at this point, wasn't the shadow behind our heads on the right-hand side?
I immediately turned my head and looked diagonally towards the bronze mirror, and suddenly found a black wooden coffin hanging in the upper right corner of the ice cave.
A small platform was chiseled out above the ice wall, which served as a coffin bed, and the flat top cover of the coffin was faintly exposed on it, which was a typical Chinese material that saw the prism and line, but the separation was high and far, and the material could not be seen clearly.
Tofu hissed, stretched his neck to look, and said, "What kind of coffin is this, what are you doing so high?" Do you think it will be a coffin of ordinary people? ”
I said: "If it is a coffin of Puzhen, it will inevitably be a little cold, and it is not commensurate with the structure of this Xuanbing Ancient Tomb, I don't think it is eighty percent." ”
Tofu said, "Shall we go up and have a look?" ”
I wondered why he had suddenly become bolder. Tofu said that he summed up an experience, that is, this place is too cold, the corpses are frozen into iron lumps, there is no way to get up the corpse, as long as the corpse is not up, and the dumplings are not changed, there is nothing to be afraid of. Although he summed it up by himself, he was also crooked, because in Yang Fang's notes, there was an introduction to the corpse: the cold and heat are better than the corpse. In other words, a place that is too cold will freeze the corpse, and at the same time freeze the movement of corpse qi; In places that are too hot, the corpse will decay quickly, and without the support of flesh and skin, the bone rack cannot store the corpse qi, so the corpse will not rise.
Tofu was so instigated, and I also had the idea of opening the coffin. The heart said: This Puzhen is just a tomb repairer, and he is not a royal nobleman, there is such a good Futian Cave after death, which is already jealous, not to mention that there are eighteen martial corpses Gong Wei, and now there is a burial coffin, what is his ability?
Who is buried in this coffin? Will there be any information about Puzhen inside?
Thinking about it, I didn't object to tofu, and the two of us went under the ice wall. The ice wall in front of me is not vertical, and there are many protruding ice picks on the surface, which are easier to climb, so Tofu and I climbed up along these ice picks, and after a while, we went up to the ice bed.
Looking at the coffin up close, I immediately saw that the coffin had been passive. The coffin nails had been pulled out, and the lid was not closed. The place was very bright because of the reflection of the light from the bird's nest, and through the thin slits of the coffin, it could be seen that the black wooden coffin was very dry. It's not the first time that Tofu and I have opened the coffin, we each have an i, push the coffin lid open, and in an instant, a jaw-dropping thing was revealed in the coffin.
There was indeed a person lying in the coffin, but it was a dummy.
The dummy was made of grain, dressed plainly, covered with several layers of quilts, and covered it thickly over the dummy, revealing only the dummy's face.
It's weird, I've never seen a dummy in a coffin.
At this moment, I found that the outermost green quilt was embroidered with some words, and when I looked closely, it was a birthday eight characters, and the name of Puzhen was written on the place where the eight characters of the birthday were written.
I thought of a method of bringing death in ancient times, such as cutting hair instead of dying, filial piety 7 clouds: body hair and skin, the parents of the recipients, the ancients regarded hair very seriously, and breaking hair was a very strict punishment. Similar to death, there is also the so-called 'blocking evil' of the Yin and Yang family. The ancients were superstitious about the four-pillar eight-character fortune-telling, and the eight-character birth represents a person. If it is calculated that someone has a calamity, the master will borrow some fake things and paste them with the eight characters of his birthday to block the evil, so that all the bad luck will be replaced by the fake things.
The dummy in front of him who made five grains was criticizing Puzhen's birthday, as if he was bringing death, that is to say, when this Xuanbing tomb was built, Puzhen was alive!
What's going on?
And to go to this dummy, he was also placed in a thin wooden burial coffin, which means that he was buried with Puzhen. In this way, this Puzhen is actually not the real tomb owner of this Xuanbing Tomb, so who is buried in this place?
I immediately removed the green cloth from the surface and began to rummage through the layers of quilts. The quilt is also known as the quilt, and the poor people in ancient times often covered the corpse with a layer of old and thin quilts. If you have a little richer, you will buy a new quilt, and those who are officials or go up are even more terrible, and those who embroider dragons and phoenixes with gold and silver threads, and those who embroider the ghosts of the heavenly palace, and so on, which will also embroider some heavy deeds of the deceased during his lifetime.
The quilt is well preserved, but it has been frozen by the cold and has a rubber-like touch, so it is not easy to unfold. I pulled open the first layer and immediately saw the embroidery on the quilt.
I saw a person holding a compass on the first layer of the quilt, and the public trial was listening to a samurai speech, judging from the dress, it should be a certain ethnic minority.
I guess that this person holding the compass should be Puzhen, and the background is a palace-shaped garden, and there is an elephant next to the garden.
The appearance on the second layer of quilt was much more than my surprise to Tofu and me, and on this layer of quilt, it was Pu Zhen who took a big bowl.
I know this bowl, it is exactly the same as the bowl that my grandfather made in the tomb of Queen Treasure Elephant, and I estimate that it is still the same eighty percent.