Chapter 35: The Skeleton in the Cracks of the Stone
This stone crack is horizontal, oblique, and perpendicular in other places. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info I was so tired that my whole body was sore, and I couldn't help but scold, "It's so hard to get a road, it's almost twisted." That's how those dumplings got in?"
Diao Nan, who was at the forefront, turned around, "We seem to have deviated from the leader, whether to return now or take another walk, it is not good to take a shortcut, but it is very likely to reach a dead end." ”
I walked up to Diao Nan and didn't feel anything wrong, "How are you sure they didn't go this way." ”
Diao Nan didn't say much, and pointed to the foot pit in front of him, which had been almost filled with dust, and it was obvious that no one had stepped on it recently. If the Yu family and others passed by here, there was no reason not to step on a more comfortable position. Moreover, the stone crack is already in a vertical state here, and it is even more unreasonable not to step on the pit.
I glanced at Brother Qiang, and he spread his hands to say that he had no opinion. I said, "The pit was left by the craftsmen who built it, and it must be the road they used to walk." Outside, when they come in from the outside, they must pass through a lot of these stone crevices, and it is not a simple job to split mountains to build such a place, and it is normal for people to come and go, so they leave a foot pit that is convenient for walking, and then a place for rest and supplies, and there may be a road from the tomb to the place where they rest and supply, and they also need to run from time to time. ”
Diao Nan nodded, "The smart analysis does make sense, but have you ever thought that there is another possibility, that is, the escape route." Escape routes are usually built more secretively, and relatively speaking, they will be much rougher, as long as they can barely pass, otherwise they will arouse some people's suspicions. ”
I thought about it, but I still advocated continuing to walk, "The Yu family and the others seem to know some paths, we won't rush in front of them anyway, and when we follow their butts, we see that Smecta is estimated to have been stripped of his clothes." So I suggest that we keep going, and if we take a shortcut, we can still make some porridge money. If this is the way out, we don't have to regret it, it's too dangerous. If we come across something unclean, then we are unlucky, how about it?"
Brother Qiang agreed, Diao Nan did not object, and continued to walk forward for a while, and when the light flickered, I found a figure under the crack in the stone in the distance in front of me.
I suddenly became nervous, in this fight, I would not be good if I encountered a figure, and the worst could scare me.
Diao Nan and Brother Qiang also saw it, and the three flashlights shone past, and the figure did not move at all, sitting there, as if counting his fingers. I whispered, "Maybe this is another new breed of zongzi, I like to count my fingers." ”
Brother Qiang complained to me dissatisfiedly, "You know the zongzi, just how many times you say, and you are not afraid of what you think." I thought about the Dragon Boat Festival, so I have to wait for next year. ”
When he was ten meters away from the figure, he could see it clearly. A man wearing a small hat leaned against a few stones with his back to us. Diao Nan walked over from the side with a gun, and then hung the gun down, "It's a sub-bone shelf, look at the characters of the Ming and Qing dynasties." ”
I walked over and took one look at the skull and took off his hat, probably because I had exerted too much force, and the skull fell and rolled to the side, leaving a jaw bone that eventually fell deep into the crack.
I took a look at the hat in my hand and laughed dryly, "It's from the Qing Dynasty, you look at this hair, there is obviously no front half." ”
Brother Qiang kicked his jaw bone, "People have recruited you to provoke you, it's been so many years, and you won't leave a whole corpse." I think so, we should do good deeds and throw all these bones down, at least to reunite his parts. ”
One of the skeleton's hands rested on a coarse cloth bag, apparently even though it was extremely precious to death.
Brother Qiang's eyes lit up, "There won't be a bright weapon in the bag, right?"
It was too late for me to stop it, the coarse cloth bag had rotted after so many years, and although it was now in good condition, it turned into powder at the touch of my hand. Brother Qiang is careless, he is definitely not a person who does fine work, don't scratch the valuable things inside with a cold claw.
Indeed, as I expected, the coarse cloth bag seemed to have been exposed to the sun, leaving a clear handprint on it.
Diao Nan hurriedly said, "Don't move, there is a situation." "Grab it and gently peel off the coarse cloth. Underneath the coarse cloth are some bamboo tubes, copper boxes and other objects, obviously this is the utensils that touched the gold at that time and brought rice and water. The copper box was covered with patina, corroded to the point that the lid had rusted with the box. The bamboo tube has oxidized black and dark, and under the bamboo tube is a small inkstone.
Diao Nan picked up the inkstone, looked at it a few times and said that this is a good inkstone, and now it can be worth thousands of yuan.
I smiled and said, "Is this person a showman?" Xia Dou also carries the four treasures of the study. Seeing that he doesn't have the tools to fight at hand, he may be a layman. ”
Diao Nan disagreed, "Even a layman will always bring a kitchen knife, which must have been lost on the way, at that time, there was no backpack like ours now, if it was us, we would bring such a box of lunch, a bamboo tube of water." I'm afraid that if I can't get here, I'll be so hungry that I'll gnaw on the zongzi. ”
I picked up the bamboo tube, and there was no pattern carved on it, it was just an ordinary water container. I scraped it with my fingernails, and the black substance on it was like the carbon left behind by the fire, in the form of powder.
At the bottom of the cloth bag is a brush, and after so many years, the hair has gone.
I said to Diao Nan: "You said that this person is here to sketch with the four treasures of the study? If it's a sketch, it's missing a lot of things, such as a square table, otherwise where to write and draw. And one of the most crucial things is missing, and that is paper. As the old saying goes, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, now there are only two here, pen inkstone. Now there is neither paper nor ink, perhaps the ink block is picked up and weighed, and before he dies, he vents and plays with it. ”
Diao Nan tore open the corner of the coarse cloth bag, revealing some black powder, "This is ink, ink is not easy to preserve, and it will weathered into granular things after a long time." The paper is similar, and it can't pass through water, so you may have lost it along the way. ”
I looked at the copper lunch box and smiled, "How can you let the paper get wet, you can keep it in a bamboo tube or lunch box." Let's open it and take a look. ”
It is not very easy to open the lunch box in good condition, but it is very simple to crush the bamboo tube. We can't afford Brother Qiang's rough and strong hands, and we have to be meticulous Diao Nan to complete the lunch box, and I crushed the bamboo tube, but I was disappointed, there was nothing in it.
Now the only thing that may be valuable on hand is the copper lunch box, so try to open it without deforming it, otherwise it is easy to damage the contents inside.
Diao Nan tried for a long time, but the patina had been connected into a whole, and it couldn't be opened at all. He picked up his hands and shook them, and there was a rattling and rubbing sound.