The coffin all fell into the mud, and it took me more than half an hour to widen the entrance of the thief hole, and the tofu also came down at this time, and we followed the direction of the coffin in the mud on the left and right, and slowly excavated the soil.

At this time, you can't use a probe shovel, you have to use a small hand shovel to shovel the soil slowly. The two big men nested in this dark thief hole, the air was not circulated, not to mention cramped and cramped, in the hot day, it didn't take long for them to be covered in stinky sweat, gray faces, and uncomfortable.

But it didn't disappoint our busy work, and in an hour or so, the black coffin blocking the front was cleared. The coffin was just across us, and it was a little slanted. Although Tofu didn't know anything about this, he still saw the problem at a glance, and said with his head fished: "No, the coffin has to be placed upright, why is this coffin diagonally buried in the ground?" ”

The lid of the coffin is very tight, but one corner of it is missing, which I must have accidentally dug through the last time. By the light of the flashlight, the whole form of the black coffin is displayed in front of our eyes.

Judging from the location of the broken coffin, this is a thick coffin, and it looks like it is still a 'willow wood'. The so-called willow wood does not refer to the coffin made of willow trees, but to the coffin of Liuzhou, Guangxi. Due to the special geographical location, Liuzhou has always produced good wood, and the coffin making process is also very powerful, and there has always been a saying among the people, called: "Live in Hangzhou, wear in Suzhou, eat in Guangzhou, and die in Liuzhou." ”

The willow coffin has its own specifications, and it hasn't changed for hundreds of years, and I remember when I was a child, when cremation was not fashionable in the countryside. There was a rich man in our township, and when his father died, he used the willow wood he had prepared in his early years. According to the person who carried the coffin, the coffin looked similar to an ordinary coffin, but it was very heavy when lifted, and there was a burst of the smell of the coffin.

However, because the transportation was not very convenient in the past, if it was not in the local area, the willow wood could be used in other places, and the family would not be too bad.

The coffin in front of me is obviously willow wood, it seems that the person lying in the coffin must be the rich family of this place at that time, but what is the matter with this coffin obliquely? Could it be that this coffin has actually been moved?

At this moment, the coffin was completely exposed, accompanied by a muddy smell, and an indescribable strange smell, which did not smell very good. Tofu slapped his nose and said with a breath: "It's so fucking stinky, I said Lao Chen, what now?" Do we want to go around our thief hole? ”

Tofu is relatively small, so I had such a bad idea, I wanted to take a detour when I saw the coffin, although I wanted to be disgusted by the smell, but I couldn't help but have other ideas in my heart.

In recent decades, even if the common people are buried, they have no custom of accompanying the burial, so the graves of modern times cannot be dug up. But during the Republic of China, wealthy people still had the custom of putting funeral goods, and the coffin in front of me, looking at the corruption Cheng dù, at least for more than a hundred years, there were eight or nine burial goods in the coffin.

So I said to Tofu, "Excuse me, have you forgotten what we're here for?" We're here to dig mushrooms, what's the matter if we leave when we meet a coffin? As I spoke, I pointed to the coffin in front of me and said, "Have you seen it, it's been more than a hundred years, there must be burial goods in it, no matter how this coffin appears here, since it has been dug up, let's use it to practice." ”

Tofu had an expression of stepping on stinky dog shit, his expression was obviously a little afraid, he shrunk his neck, and smiled shyly: "It's not the first time for me, so I'm nervous?" As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he knows if there is one, and the younger brother has no experience. It's better to do it, you do it, I'll learn it from the side, and I'll be your helper in the future. With that, he shrunk to the side and motioned for me to do it myself.

I was angry and funny for a while, thinking that this kid is usually as bold as a mouse, if he really let him move the coffin to see the corpse, maybe he would be scared to pee his pants, or maybe this coffin will have a lid lifted, I'd better do it myself.

Immediately I put on gloves and a gas mask, this mask is a parallel import, a better gas mask is not easy to buy on the market, after wearing it is very depressed, although I can't smell strange, but my nose is full of plastic smell.

The coffin lid was almost rotten, and because of the cramped space here, it was impossible to remove the lid, so the coffin lid could only be broken. The probe shovel is steel and iron, and the force of smashing down is not small, only to hear a muffled bang, the front half of the coffin collapsed, and the coffin lid shattered and fell into the coffin, revealing a half-meter-long hole.

It is enough to have this hole, so that you can see the burial goods and corpses inside, I looked sideways at the tofu, this kid's face was already pale with fright, and the whole thing was cowardly, muttering Amitabha Buddha in his mouth.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of enemies like wolves, you are afraid of teammates like pigs, this kid is soft-hearted and timid, and he is really not suitable for this kind of business. I have been in business for many years and have made many friends. Those business partners, in order to make money, do all kinds of indiscriminate things.

I've known Tofu for many years, but I've never pulled him into my former circle of friends, not because I dislike him and make mistakes, but in today's society, there are very few people like him who are pure and have no bad intentions, and subconsciously, I don't want to block him.

Although my grandfather left a lot of experience in the work notes, I remember it by heart, but this kind of thing of opening someone's coffin is the first time after all. It would be a lie to say that I was not nervous, and it was good to have him muttering and chanting the scriptures next to me, which gave me some confidence, so I turned on the flashlight and came to the edge of the hole that I smashed out.

Wearing a gas mask, I didn't smell anything strange when I leaned over, and by the dim glow of the flashlight, I looked into the coffin and couldn't help but be stunned. According to my thoughts, the first thing I see should be a white skeleton, or a draped one.

In the past, when the dead were buried, they were not directly put into the coffin, but also paid attention to draping.

It is called differently in different places, but in short, it is to put something like a quilt in a coffin and wrap the body, as if making a bed for a dead body. So it stands to reason that I should have seen some rotten quilts, but the qiē in front of me was completely different from what I thought, and what I saw was a pool of black water.

How can there be water in a coffin?

The black water was illuminated by a flashlight, reflecting a ghostly light, and there seemed to be something faintly under the water.

I couldn't help but lean forward, and because of the cramped place, the upper body of the whole person was pressed against the edge of the coffin. I didn't think that this coffin was old for a long time, and the inside was completely ruined. As soon as I pressed it down, I felt bad, and I only heard the creaking under my body, and the whole coffin under my chest suddenly broke a large piece. I was caught off guard, and because of this inertia, I planted down, and in an instant, the upper body of the whole person was buried in the black water of the coffin.

The tofu next to him exclaimed in surprise and said hurriedly: "Lao Chen, what are you doing here, why did you suddenly pounce!" Could it be that the dead body inside is still a woman? You can't do something like that! "Come and tug at my collar at once.

I threw my whole upper body into the black water, and I felt that the water was slippery and cold, like an expired, somewhat hydrated jelly, and I felt very disgusting when I touched my skin.

Fortunately, Tofu's reaction was fast enough, and he immediately dragged me up, and my gas mask was full of black water, which obstructed my vision, and there was a black hemp in front of me, so that I had to take off the mask.

At this pick, I immediately smelled a strong foul smell, which came from the coffin.

At this time, due to the opening of the coffin, the black liquid inside was flowing outward, and the hole became like a stinky ditch, and the stench was unstoppable. As the liquid inside became less and less, I immediately saw a pair of black, straight dead feet in the coffin.

Tofu gasped, swallowed his saliva and said, "Why isn't this corpse rotten?." ”

The situation in front of me was much beyond my expectations, in the coffin more than a hundred years ago, the corpse had not yet seen the bones? I've seen non-rotting corpses on TV, but I've heard from those experts that it's all about the geological environment and the structure of the tomb.

And the corpse in front of me, the coffin is broken, and it has been put into the ground at will, where is there any structure to speak of, and it has not yet decayed.

I suddenly realized, could it be related to the water inside this coffin? It is said that in ancient times, there were many secret techniques of embalming, which could be used to keep the corpses of the dead from decaying, including the practice of soaking some medicinal liquids in coffins. It's just that these antiseptic secret techniques consume money and energy, and people who are not rich and noble cannot do it. What is the origin of the owner of this coffin in front of me? Not only is willow wood used, but there is also antiseptic coffin liquid in the coffin?

But if the owner of the coffin was really rich and wealthy during his lifetime, why would he be buried in such a sloppy way after death?

I had too little experience to know why, but I figured out why the corpse didn't rot, and when I saw the pair of straight legs, I wasn't so scared. So he patted Tofu on the shoulder and motioned for him to move a position. I smashed it in the wrong direction just now, and the funeral goods are generally put down from the top down, and I just smashed the end of my foot, which was empty, and it seems that I have to smash it again.

Once born, two times cooked, smashed the first time, the second time I was not ambiguous, picked up the probe shovel and smashed it a few times, the entire coffin lid was completely broken, revealing the intact old corpse in the coffin.

I thought it would be the coffin of a big landlord, but I was shocked when I saw the corpse inside, because the corpse inside was actually wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty.

Although the ancient corpse was not rotten, it had no moisture and looked very shriveled. The wide official uniform was infected with the coffin liquid, and the original color could not be seen, and it was wet and sticking to the corpse.

The thin corpse and the wide funeral clothes formed a strange contrast, and I moved my gaze upwards to see the corpse's face. Sunken eye sockets, closed mouth, and only a layer of black skin on the face, reflecting a kind of oily shine in the light.