Chapter 50: The Coffin Charm
After listening to what Huang Yixian said, the cheap asked suspiciously: "But isn't there a stone door on the outer wall of this tomb?" If what we just found was the mechanism that opened the stone door, wouldn't we be able to get out? ”
Huang Yixian smiled and said, "I think, it should just be a fake door used to confuse the tomb robbers." ”
"Mr. Huang, what should we do now?" Professor Dong asked Huang Yixian.
Huang Yixian thought for a moment, then turned his head and asked, "How long can this oxygen cylinder last?" ”
Liu Chengwu hurriedly replied: "This is a ten-liter oxygen cylinder, which can be used continuously for about fifteen to twenty hours. ”
Huang Yixian looked at his watch and said, "In this way, we have at least twelve hours left, since we have finally opened the tomb door to the inner layer, we might as well go in and have a look." ”
Professor Dong and the others immediately agreed, but the two of us were a little reluctant, and I said worriedly: "But Uncle Shi, what if after we go in, the tomb turns around again, and we can't find the exit inside?" ”
"Don't worry! As long as we figure out the operation of the entire mausoleum, it is not difficult to leave, but the more we go into the mausoleum, the more dangerous it will be. ”
After some advice, Huang Yixian took the lead in stepping into the stone gate, and Professor Dong, Seabeard and others also followed in, although I and the cheap didn't want to go in anymore, but there was no way, because now I couldn't leave at all, so I had to follow helplessly.
The group entered a new burial chamber.
The overall structure of this burial chamber is not much different from the outer two, and it is still fan-shaped. However, the area is obviously a little smaller, which is what I expected, because the outer circle will be larger than the inner circle, so the inner layer of the Tiangan tomb will naturally be smaller than the outer layer of the earthly branch tomb.
At first glance, this tomb seems to have four stone doors, the stone door we enter is located in the middle of the outer arc wall of the tomb, and on both sides of the fan-shaped tomb and in the center of the inner arc wall, there is also a closed stone door, the stone doors on both sides should be connected with the other Tiangan tombs on the second floor of the mausoleum, as for the stone door on the inner arc wall, it should lead to the inner layer of the mausoleum, of course, it may be just a false door to hide people's eyes.
Then again, if the whole mausoleum is really divided into three layers, inner and outer as Huang Yixian said, then the inner layer is the main burial chamber of the mausoleum, that is, where Shao Yuanjie's tomb is located. The thought of us suddenly being so close to the heart of the mausoleum made me feel a little excited, but in fact, I had no interest in antiques, and I didn't know what to be excited about.
Look at the furnishings in this tomb again, compared with the outer layer of the ground branch tomb is much less, only in the center of the tomb, neatly placed more than a dozen red lacquered wooden boxes, the size of the wooden box is very large, about half a meter high, the side length is close to one meter, carved with dark gold patterns, it looks very exquisite, the wooden box has a lock, but it is not locked, and I don't know what it contains.
In addition to these dozen large red lacquered wooden boxes, in front of the inner arc wall of the tomb, there is also a cyan sarcophagus. The sarcophagus is about one meter tall and two meters long. Because of the existence of this sarcophagus, the atmosphere became a little tense.
After calming down, Liu Chengwu asked in a low voice: "You say, could it be Shao Yuanjie lying in this sarcophagus?" ”
Professor Dong shook his head: "Not really, this is definitely not where the main tomb of the mausoleum is located, I guess it should be Shao Yuanjie's entourage or cronies." ”
"Let's go! Check it out! Huang Yixian led everyone towards the sarcophagus, and after getting closer, I saw clearly that the entire sarcophagus was actually engraved with dense words, and these were not ordinary words, a bit like the script specially used to write talismans.
Liu Chengwu muttered suspiciously: "It's really strange, how could someone engrave the epitaph on the coffin?" ”
Professor Dong turned his head and asked him, "How can you tell that this is an epitaph?" ”
Liu Chengwu scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "Hehe, I guessed blindly." But what would it be if it wasn't an epitaph? ”
"I don't think it's like an epitaph. Mr. Huang, what do you think? Professor Dong turned his head and asked Huang Yixian.
Huang Yixian didn't answer immediately, his brows furrowed, as if he was thinking about something, and after a long while, he said slowly: "This is indeed not an epitaph, I'm afraid it's a coffin talisman." ”
Professor Dong was slightly stunned: "What is the coffin talisman?" ”
"The coffin charm is a kind of talisman drawn on the coffin board, which belongs to the fierce talisman, if a coffin is drawn when the coffin is buried, even if it is buried in the treasure land of feng shui, it will have a great disadvantage to future generations. However, the general coffin charm is relatively simple, and it is often drawn in a hidden place, such as the inside of the coffin, so as not to be discovered. I've never seen such complex runes. Or carved on the coffin, I don't know what the purpose is. ”
"Why don't we open this sarcophagus and take a look?" Seabeard suggested.
Huang Yixian immediately waved his hand to stop: "Absolutely not!" The deceased has passed away, and it is a great disrespect for the deceased to enter the tomb, and if the coffin is opened to disturb its peace, we are afraid of attracting God's curse. Moreover, since the owner of the tomb knows how to set up the tomb of the Tianzhi God, it means that he is proficient in the art of organs, and maybe there are deadly hidden weapons in this sarcophagus, so it is better to be cautious. ”
Hearing Huang Yixian say this, everyone hurriedly took two steps back, and Seabeard didn't dare to fight the sarcophagus anymore.
Who knew that at this moment, there was a sudden "creaking" sound of opening the wooden box from behind us, everyone's hearts were tight, and they hurriedly turned their heads to see, it turned out that Xia Longsheng opened one of the wooden boxes, he just glanced at the wooden box, and suddenly it was as if he had discovered a new world, his mouth was wide open, his eyes were straight, and the whole person was completely frozen.
Professor Dong hurriedly asked, "Xiao Xia! What's wrong? ”
"Yes...... It's yellow...... Golden ......" Xia Longsheng was so excited that he was almost speechless.
Everyone immediately ran over and looked into the wooden box, and they were all stunned, only to see a big box full of yellow gold ingots!
After being stunned for a moment, Professor Dong turned his head to Li Song and said, "Xiao Li, hurry up and check if these are real gold ingots!?" ”
Li Song reacted at this time, and immediately took out the portable spectrometer from his backpack, measured the gold ingots in the wooden box, and after a while, he raised his head and said: "It's really a gold ingot, with a gold content of between 75% and 80%. ”
Professor Dong was suddenly excited: "Sure enough, Shao Yuanjie instigated Emperor Jiajing to spend a lot of national and financial resources to promote Taoism, and he took the opportunity to fill his pockets and looted a huge amount of money, which eventually became his funeral goods. ”
Xia Longsheng said angrily: "It's all this guy who caused the Ming Dynasty to decline, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would not have been overthrown by foreigners." ”
Seabeard glanced at him, "What do you mean?" What a foreigner! When did Lao Tzu become a foreigner? ”
Only then did we know that Seabeard was a Manchu.
Xia Longsheng hurriedly explained: "I...... I'm not talking about you, I'm standing in the position of the Ming Dynasty, so ...... At that time, the Manchus were ...... It's a foreigner. ”
"You still want to engage in feudal restoration! Also standing on the side of the Ming Dynasty! ”
Seeing that the two of them were arguing, Professor Dong hurriedly said, "Okay, okay!" Don't argue with the two of you, you can only say that everything is the fate of history, whether there is a person Shao Yuanjie or not, the feudal Zhuanzhi society will eventually decline, this is an indisputable fact. Then open the other wooden chests and see if they are all gold ingots. ”
Seabeard and the others immediately opened the other dozen or so wooden boxes one by one, and Huang Yixian was busy reminding them to be careful. However, they were excited, and they didn't take Huang Yixian's words to heart at all.
The boxes were opened one by one, and everyone found that in fact, the boxes were not all gold ingots, but also silver ingots, and, except for two of the boxes containing gold ingots, the other boxes were filled with silver ingots, of course, whether it was gold or silver, such a large amount, in the Ming Dynasty Jiajing period may be regarded as a huge wealth, not to mention that there are many tombs in the entire mausoleum, and I don't know how many gold and silver treasures are hidden in total.
Everyone was sighing, but suddenly they only heard Li Song let out a miserable scream of "ah", and then they saw him fall to the ground and roll, looking very painful.
Everyone was taken aback by this sudden situation, Huang Yixian hurriedly stepped forward and held down Li Song, who was struggling desperately, everyone walked over to take a look, only to see that his entire right arm was actually full of blisters, and his skin had turned gray-black.
Huang Yixian glanced at the wooden box that Li Song had just opened, and immediately understood what was going on, frowned, and said, "Not good!" He's poisoned! ”
"Poisoned!? He...... How could he have been poisoned? Xia Longsheng asked with a puzzled expression.
Huang Yixian didn't care to explain, and pinched Li Song's arm with his hand to prevent the poisonous gas from spreading with the flow of his blood. And raised his head and said to me, "Yu'er, quickly take out the glutinous rice flour!" ”
I hurriedly took out a bag of glutinous rice flour from my shoulder bag and handed it over, Huang Yixian grabbed a handful of glutinous rice flour from the bag and quickly applied it to Li Song's arm that was attacked by poisonous gas.
Professor Dong asked on the side, "Mr. Huang, can this glutinous rice flour detoxify?" ”
Huang Yixian said with a solemn expression: "Glutinous rice flour can detoxify corpses, and it also has a certain effect on general poison, but I don't know what kind of poison he has, and I am not absolutely sure, so I can only try it." ”