Chapter 63: The Crystal Coffin
By the time I went over there to talk, Uncle Zheng and Zheng Wen had already gathered around Princess Tongchang's coffin, discussing how to open the coffin.
The huge layer of thousand-year-old ice outside was a huge challenge, and it was impossible to move it away, and I didn't dare to touch it with my hands, as long as I touched it, it was very likely that my hands would get frostbitten.
"Kong Sanye, are there any rules, such as lighting candles or something, doesn't it mean that the rooster can't touch the gold when the candle is extinguished?" I asked with some curiosity towards Kong Sanye.
Kong Sanye turned around and smiled at me and said, "That's the rule of touching Captain Jin, but we don't have that rule." However, our faction of earth rats also has some rules, such as only moving the underworld weapon, not the corpse; Only take external objects, not personal objects. ”
Only move the dead weapon, not the corpse. I understand this, only take the burial goods and do not move the bones themselves. The latter sentence was a little incomprehensible, so Kong Sanye continued to explain: "Only taking foreign objects refers to the funeral goods that can only be placed outside the corpse, and those that are carried by the corpse if you don't take them close to the body are absolutely not touched." For example, the gesture of the corpse, the jade pendant and other things, absolutely do not take it. ”
I nodded to Kong Sanye, indicating that I understood. The big head also nodded on the side, and it seemed that he heard it clearly. The question now is how to open the coffin.
According to Kong Sanye, it is enough for us to only open this coffin, as long as the coffin inside will not move. The coffin should contain the body of Princess Tongchang, no matter which one it is, it will not touch the body.
Uncle Zheng looked around the coffin for a long time, limping around, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "It seems that someone has to climb over and tie the rope to the lid of the coffin, if there is no thousand-year-old ice, it would be good if it wasn't cold." ”
As soon as the words fell, I saw everyone looking at me, and it seemed that they all knew that I was not afraid of cold and heat now, and I should be insensitive to this cold ice.
"I'd better go." Crooked Mouth stepped forward and smiled, pulling the rope out of his backpack. Only then did everyone remember that the crooked mouth was the same as me, and they didn't know whether it was hot or cold. It's just that because he usually doesn't talk much and is relatively silent, it's easy for people to forget his existence.
But when I saw the crooked mouth come out, everyone's hearts were a little more sure. Although his crooked mouth is relatively silent, his flexible skills are something everyone has seen.
Kong Sanye and Uncle Zheng handed him a few more ropes, pulled him aside and taught him how to tie the ropes to the lid of the coffin, and after a while, after seeing that the crooked mouth had completely mastered it, the two let him go.
With a crooked mouth and a few ropes on his shoulders, he deftly crawled in the direction of the coffin. He was fast, and it didn't take long for him to climb to the top of the coffin.
Several of us were sweating for him on the side, especially the big tuans and big heads, they could really feel how cold the thousand-year-old ice was.
Crooked his mouth to the coffin, took the rope off his shoulder, and tied the rope to the lid of the coffin according to the method taught by Kong Sanye and Uncle Zheng. After tying it tightly, I pulled it hard a few times, and after feeling it getting tighter and tighter, I threw the other end of the rope down.
Fortunately, Uncle Zheng, the quality of these ropes when they came in was good, otherwise if they took the one in my backpack, they would have to freeze to death.
After Crooked Mouth threw down a few ropes, he also deftly climbed back from there. I saw that the crooked hands had been frozen, and Datuan immediately took out the medicine in the backpack to help treat the wounds.
Over there, Kong Sanye and Uncle Zheng had already tied a few ropes together to form one, and pulled them up hard. After the big group here had healed the wound on the crooked mouth, the three of us joined them.
There are seven of us in total, and the combined force that can pull is definitely more than a thousand pounds. And the place where Kong Sanye and Uncle Zheng handed over to the crooked mouth to tie just now was the most labor-saving place, so the seven of us dealt with it at the same time, and easily pulled down the lid of the coffin.
There was a loud bang, and the lid of the coffin fell into the huge ice cube, smashing it and splashing it everywhere. And the lid of the coffin was laid right there, providing a very good way for us to cross the ice from here.
A few of us looked at each other, and the big head took the lead. This time, I was also at the forefront with the big head, and I don't know why, but I always felt that there might be something I was looking forward to.
Although the lid of the coffin was large, it was still quite crowded for the seven of us to stand on it. Datou and I climbed to the edge of the coffin, only to find that the coffin was more than two meters high, and the space inside was relatively large, which could fully accommodate a few of us.
But as soon as I climbed to the top, I was attracted by the things inside, and the big head was the same as me, with his eyes wide open, looking at the picture inside the coffin in disbelief.
I saw a crystal coffin in the middle of the coffin, and a beautiful woman sleeping in the coffin, the reason why she used the word sleep without lying down to describe it was because her face felt tight as if she was asleep, and her eyes seemed to be open at any time. The eyebrows were slightly frowned, and the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed, as if he was in a small temper.
This beauty is the woman on the mural, judging from the gorgeous costumes she is wearing, she should be Princess Tongchang. I didn't expect that after being dead for more than a thousand years, it would still remain so lifelike.
Looking at the appearance of Princess Tongchang, the big head fell directly. When I saw the big head go down, I jumped down with it. Uncle Zheng in the back saw that we had gone down, so they also climbed up.
I clearly heard the exclamations of the large group of people above, and it seemed that I was also shocked by the beauty of Princess Tongchang. After the big head went down, he walked straight to the crystal coffin of Princess Tongchang, and stretched out his hand to touch it.
"Big head, stop." Kong Sanye, who had not yet come down behind him, shouted loudly at the big head, the big head was startled, woke up, and quickly withdrew the outstretched hand.
Over there, Uncle Zheng and Kong Sanye both didn't have a good leg on their legs, and it was not easy to get down from a height of two meters now, so Datuan and Crooked Mouth tied Uncle Zheng and Kong Sanye to the rope and put them down one by one.
After they all came down, we gathered around the crystal coffin to see Princess Tongchang. This Princess Tongchang is a few points more beautiful than what is recorded in the book, and a few percent more beautiful than what is painted in the painting outside.
Looking at this Princess Tongchang, I remembered the words of the woman in my dream again: "Find her, don't hurt her." "Could it be that the woman is talking about this Princess Tongchang, she is reminding us not to hurt Princess Tongchang, it is very possible.
"Everyone is only allowed to pick one and take it, and then we have to hurry away, and no one is allowed to touch this crystal coffin." It was Kong Sanye who spoke, and Uncle Zheng also nodded when he heard Kong Sanye speak over there.
After hearing Kong Sanye say this, we remembered that the real purpose of entering here was those burial goods, not specifically for the worshipper Princess Tongchang.
When I took my eyes off the crystal coffin of Princess Tongchang, I found that there were really a lot of things here, including gold and silver jewelry, porcelain and jade pendants.
Uncle Zheng was holding a vase-like thing, looked at it carefully, and muttered, "This turned out to be Tang Sancai." Hearing Uncle Zheng's words, I looked carefully at the vase in Uncle Zheng's hand. Tang Sancai is a national treasure-level thing, which can only be exhibited in museums outside, and few people dare to resell it.
The big head also knew that Tang Sancai was valuable, so he also picked up a vase from Uncle Zheng and stuffed it into his backpack. Kong Sanye couldn't see it, and directly patted the big head's head and said: "You kid take something else, this thing is too fragile, maybe it will be broken before it goes out, let's put it here and wait for those archaeologists to excavate it." ”
What Kong Sanye said makes sense, this ancient tomb is indeed quite dangerous, and if you go out with a porcelain vase that is more than a thousand years old, it is very likely that it will be broken if you touch it slightly.
The big head reluctantly put down the vase in his hand, picked out a jade bracelet over there and looked at it again and again, and then looked at Kong Sanye with inquiring eyes, as if asking Kong Sanye if the jade bracelet was worth anything. Kong Sanye said angrily: "The things in here are all antiques from thousands of years ago, even if they were not worth it back then, they are worth now, not to mention the things that Princess Tongchang has worn." ”
I heard that it was something that Princess Tongchang had wore, so the big head hurriedly stuffed the jade bracelet into his backpack, and looked at Princess Tongchang in the crystal coffin when he stuffed it.
Over there, Zheng Wen and Datuan have also finished choosing, and one of them took one. Uncle Zheng and Kong Sanye also picked one at random, but it may just be that I feel that they picked it casually, but the eyes of the two of them are very poisonous, even if they pick casually, it is estimated that it is worth more than the sum of us.
Now is not the time to worry about these things, now that you have them, now is the time to go out. Crooked mouth three or two times and flexibly climbed up, and then pulled Datuan and Zheng Wen up, and I and Datou tied Uncle Zheng and Kong Sanye below, and slowly pulled them up with a rope.
Finally, Datou and I glanced at Princess Tongchang lying in the crystal coffin over there, and seeing Datou's reluctant look, I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, she has been dead for more than a thousand years, and it is impossible to wake up." ”
The big head turned around and looked at me for a long time, and I didn't know what he was looking at, and I felt a little hairy in my heart when I saw it. After a long time, he nodded and said, "Let's go." Then he grabbed the hand that was stretched out by the big group, and went up in three or two strokes. I followed him, grabbed the crooked hand, and went up.
When he was frightened of the tomb, the big head wanted to close the lid of the coffin, but it was quite difficult to take the lid off and put it on, so he had no choice but to give up.
The inside of this tomb is still quite cold, and the thousand-year-old ice cube still exudes coldness, and the bones of Princess Tongchang are not bad, and the thousand-year-old ice may have played a certain role.
A few of us walked outside to the burial chamber and felt better. When Kong Sanye and Uncle Zheng saw that we had all come out, they signaled to rest first and had something to say, so we all sat there and waited for them to speak.
"Now let's finish the last bite of food and start looking for our way out." This is something we already knew, but we didn't say it explicitly, and now that we say it, everyone doesn't have any abnormal reactions, they just think it's normal.
Instead of sitting on the floor, I stood there leaning against the wall, looking at the mural on the wall, and watching the woman in the painting blink her eyes and smile mischievously at the corners of her mouth, and I felt warm in my heart.
The big head was also beside me, looking at the mural as I did. But he didn't show that smirk at this time, but a look of reluctance. I sighed, after this time, I definitely won't come again.