Chapter 104: The Golden Coffin Double-Headed Corpse
Feng Ghost Shou's eyes were firmly fixed on the stone coffin, and he said, "Don't move yet, this stone coffin seems to be wrong." As he spoke, he stepped back, gradually retreating to the edge of the Bodhisattva statue, as if something had happened.
Seeing that his behavior was very strange, I couldn't help but stop my movements, holding the rope in my hand, and didn't rush down.
Immediately afterwards, Feng Ghost Hand said again: "Listen, what is the sound inside the stone coffin?" At this moment, there was a dead silence in the entire cave, and with the sound of Feng Ghost Hand, I subconsciously pricked up my ears to listen to the movements around me.
There was silence all around, and there was no sound except the sound of his own breathing.
What trick does this surnamed Feng want to play? Where is there any sound?
As soon as this thought crossed my mind, I suddenly heard two thumping sounds in my ears. The sound was faint, but it was very abrupt in the silence of the cavern. If you look closely, the sound is coming from the stone coffin.
Tofu was startled, almost jumped to his feet, and lost his voice: "How can there be a sound in the stone coffin?" Could it be that the princess Geger in it has a corpse? We haven't done anything yet! I only heard that the voice was very weak, vaguely like something was knocking on the stone coffin, as if I wanted to push the stone coffin away.
For a while, everyone held their breath, and they didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere. Lu Su still had a smile on his lips, but it was not so obvious, he stared at the stone coffin above, and said to Tofu and me without looking back: "Two brothers, it seems that you can't leave for a while, I'm afraid there is something fierce in this stone coffin." ”
Tofu said nervously: "Then what should I do?" Do you still want to open the coffin and get something? ”
Hearing this, Feng Ghost Shou above sneered: "Of course you have to take the things, otherwise you can't eat this bowl of rice with such a little guts." After that, he said to me and Tofu: "This stone coffin is very heavy, just me and Brother Lu, I'm afraid we can't get it open, so the two of you still stay to help." "I was driven by Old Man Zhao to get the Eight Carp Doujiao Zhenhai Stone, at this time, I have to help if I don't help, even if I say to Tofu: "I'm not in a hurry at this time, it's better to look at the objects in the coffin first." ”
Tofu's eyes rolled, lowered his voice, and said: "The curse matter is important, Gu Da Beauty, we can only do our best, listen to the destiny of heaven, and see her own creation." I want to see if this princess Geger has three heads and six arms. With that, he rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the rope.
Except for the women of the Ren family who were tied up, all four of us quickly climbed onto the legs of the Bodhisattva statue. At a close look, this stone coffin is about two meters long, boxy, gray and white in color, exquisitely decorated, and the stone cover is very tightly sealed, just like a hair.
If you want to open this kind of stone coffin, you must first use a chisel to carve out a few small holes in the junction of the coffin lid and the coffin body, and then you can use a pry to pry the stone lid up. If it is directly a wooden coffin, it is better to do it, without the trouble of a prying, directly use the probe claw to hook the end of the wooden coffin lid, and the whole coffin lid will be lifted.
This thing is done by Feng Ghost's hands, his pair of machine hands are extremely dexterous, the holes he punched are not big or small, just four holes, the four of us each have a pry, and we are about to exert force, when we hear another muffled sound in the stone coffin. The sound was even more urgent, as if the contents of it couldn't wait to come out.
This voice made the four of us pause, and we all had an ominous premonition in our hearts, until Lu Su reminded us that we all worked together.
This stone coffin is very heavy, and it took a lot of effort for the four of us to open it.
As soon as the stone coffin was opened, we only felt that there was a dazzling array of eyes in front of us, and the golden light in the coffin was shining, and it was a charming eyeball. I saw that in this stone coffin, there was a wooden coffin with black gilt beast inscriptions. Since the inside of the coffin was sealed, the gilt pattern on it was still glittering, but it was only preserved for a moment. As soon as the stone coffin was opened, the gilt on the wooden coffin touched the air, and the light immediately dimmed, losing the eye-catching magnificence.
The corpse is a coffin, and the coffin is a coffin.
What is in this stone coffin is the golden coffin of Princess Geger that we are looking for. There are hundreds of birds and auspicious clouds on the golden coffin, carved with Xianqiao Yao Pond, Rui beasts playing, the shape is lifelike, and non-ordinary people can use it.
Strangely, as soon as the coffin was opened, the sound inside was gone, and the wooden coffin was quietly placed in front of us.
At this moment, Feng Ghost Hand began to light incense again, which was the third pillar of incense that needed to dig mushrooms upside down, that is, the incense burned to the tomb owner.
Tofu muttered, "I'm pretending to be a ghost again." ”
Lu Su didn't mind, smiled slightly, lowered his head sideways and said to Tofu: "It's not all about pretending to be a ghost, some things can be passed down from generation to generation, and there is always a reason for it." Putting aside the perspective of superstition, there are two uses for lighting a stick of incense before opening the coffin, the first is to play a psychological role and give people courage, and second, if the corpse gas in the coffin is too heavy, it is easy to be poisoned by the corpse, and the ingredients in the incense can sense the corpse gas, if the corpse gas is too heavy, the incense will not burn. ”
Tofu showed a sudden realization, and a sycophant patted it and said, "Gao, connoisseurs are different." ”
Lu Su was quite capable of pretending, smiled slightly, showed eight white teeth, patted Tofu's shoulder, and didn't say anything more.
On the other end, Feng Ghost had already lit the third incense stick, which was inserted in the crack of the coffin in a regular manner, and the incense burned relatively normally, and there was nothing abnormal. But I always felt that something was wrong, and subconsciously remembered the three long and two short incense sticks in front of the tomb, and I felt a very unlucky feeling in my heart.
My instincts have saved me many times, both in the past and in the recent past. So I whispered to Tofu and said, "Open the coffin in a while, and you hide behind." ”
Tofu frowned and said, "Lao Tzu is not a girl, what are you doing behind it?" ”
I said, "I don't know if you're a, I just know that you're very troublesome, and I'm going to bother to save you if something happens, so you'd better not trouble me." ”
Tofu was hit by me, crying and silent, and obediently walked to the back. At this time, Feng Ghost gestured that there was no problem and let us open the coffin. We first pried open the coffin nails one by one, and the black coffin nails were nine inches long, and it took a lot of effort to pull them out one by one.
The specifications of folk coffin nails are not uniform, but there is a saying about nine-inch coffin nails. Because nine is the highest of all singular numbers, it is the highest number, so the emperors in the past are also known as the ninety-five honor, and the nine-inch coffin nail is not available to anyone.
After the eighteen coffin nails were pulled out, we took out the gloves we had prepared in advance and brought the gas masks and other things.
Because the coffin has been closed for hundreds of years, there will definitely be a lot of deadly germs inside, if you accidentally inhale it, the lucky one will have a serious illness at most, and the unlucky one may die. It is said that the ancestors who dug mushrooms in ancient times, when there were no gas masks, when they opened the coffin, they would have a secret medicinal ginger under their tongues.
Folk also use ginger to cure diseases, that is, cut a ginger slice, soak it in different potions for seven days, and then dry it, if there is a headache and brain fever in the family, it can be cured with a piece of pre-dried medicinal ginger under the tongue. Of course, there are very few people who use this method now, only some remote villages still use it, and only some elderly people know about it, and young people like me have only heard of it, but have never seen it.
The medicinal ginger made by the mushroom digger is almost the same, but the secret recipe of the potion has long been lost, not to mention that in modern times, the gas mask is much more reliable than the medicinal ginger.
After we put on our gas masks, we all started to push the coffin.
The coffin was opened, only to feel a gloomy atmosphere in the coffin, although the gas mask could not smell, but it can also be imagined that the smell is certainly no worse than the smell in the burial pit.
This obscurity lingered for a long time, and for a while, the qiē in the coffin was obscure, and only a humanoid thing was faintly seen. A few of us hurriedly fanned with our hands, and after a while, the bad breath dissipated, and every qiē in the coffin became clear. As soon as our eyes fell on the corpse in the coffin, Tofu exclaimed in a trembling voice: "This, this Princess Geger, she really has three heads and six arms!" ”
It is not accurate to say that there are three heads and six arms, the body in the coffin, dressed in a funeral robe with gold and silver threads, and a brocade quilt on the body, the quilt has already faded and become a bunch of gray things, but the quilt is bulging under it, and there are obviously a lot of things to accompany the burial. But these are secondary, what really makes us feel that our scalp is fried, and the cold hair stands on end, but it is this princess who has two heads!
I said, "It's all your crow's mouth, next time I dig mushrooms, I'll have to find something to plug your mouth." ”
In Chinese funeral customs, there is a habit of covering the deceased with a fig leaf, that is, when the coffin is kept, a yellow cloth is put on the face of the corpse to cover the shame, one is to prevent the living from seeing the face of the dead to avoid being frightened, and the other is to cover the meaning of the shameful things done before death. Generally, people put together a yellow cloth to finish their work, but princes and generals or wealthy families generally use masks to cover the face of the deceased. Depending on the status and economic conditions, the specifications of the masks also vary.
The corpse in this coffin is lying on its back, all the qiē is covered under the brocade quilt, and it is impossible to see, only two heads, which makes it difficult to look away, and the strange double head makes people shudder.
I can't help but think, could it be that this Princess Geger is actually a two-headed person? In fact, there are also modern cases of two-headed people, according to scientific explanations, it is due to the embryo in the process of development, so that the two embryos develop together, which is commonly known as conjoined babies or parasitic fetuses.
Tofu obviously also thought of something with me, shuddered, and said: "No wonder this Tatar princess is not favored after marrying, how can this emperor talk when he sees it, two heads, which one of them is also stunned." ”