Chapter 278: A big box with a small box
On the side of the archaeological base, there is no professional and advanced laboratory equipment.
This thing has to be sent to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the capital.
It will be for a while, and it is estimated that it will not be able to get results for the time being.
In the archaeological laboratory, the dialogue with Liu He with the help of relics continues.
After extracting the two boxes that were deeply embedded in the coffin, there were two artifacts left on the coffin that were difficult to extract.
One is the glass piece that has been adhered to the coffin and has been seriously decayed.
These glass pieces were originally supposed to be covered on the tomb owner, but because the coffin collapsed, they were glued to the coffin.
Liu He didn't get the treatment of the golden jade clothes, so he could only use the glazed pieces to chat and send comfort.
Because of the serious decay and serious adhesion of these glass pieces, extracting them in a conventional way may make all the glass pieces scattered, making it difficult to get started.
And the second place is a jade belt hook deeply embedded in the coffin, because this belt hook is long, and half of the body is embedded in the coffin.
Compared with round and square boxes, this is similar to the Ruyi jade belt hook, which is difficult to extract manually, and it may be broken into several pieces if you move slightly, so you should be cautious in extracting.
For archaeologists, the premise of extracting cultural relics is to ensure the safety of cultural relics first.
Therefore, after carefully inspecting these two cultural relics, Kong Jianwen discussed with Director Wen and decided to consider it after determining a foolproof plan.
Therefore, the work of extracting the cultural relics on the inside of the coffin lid plate can be temporarily over.
However, Chen Han and they don't mean to be relaxed, and the next step is to move the army to the inner coffin and launch an offensive against the more complex inner coffin!
The extraction of the artifacts inside the coffin begins with the broken pieces of lacquer.
As the Marquis of Haidu, Liu He's inner coffin will naturally not be missing all kinds of lacquer boxes.
However, due to the collapse of the coffin, the round lacquer box was crushed into many pieces.
These pieces of lacquer that are broken into pieces are the first target of everyone's extraction.
Holding tweezers made of bamboo pieces and putting on white gloves, Chen Han and the others bent down next to the inner coffin, carefully picked up pieces of lacquer, and put them on the plastic plates specially held.
However, when extracting lacquer pieces, there is also skill, not random extraction.
In the process of extraction, it is necessary to extract the fragments in turn and place them in order strictly according to the location where they are located.
To put it simply, it's like a jigsaw puzzle.
What these pieces of lacquer break into in the coffin, and when they are extracted, they must be what they are, and the position must not be wrong.
Therefore, the shape of a round lacquer box can still be vaguely seen on the lacquer piece placed on the plastic plate.
After extracting the scattered pieces of lacquer, what will be extracted is a rectangular lacquer box.
In fact, lacquer boxes can be found everywhere inside the coffin.
Inside these lacquer boxes are the most important treasures that Liu He must bring to the ground.
The method of extracting the lacquer box is still the same as that taught by Kong Jianwen.
Insert a bamboo skewer similar to a popsicle stick, carefully rub it, and break off the sticking between the lacquer box and the rest of the coffin, and then pry it up.
Just after Chen Han had already inserted four or five bamboo sticks, Kong Jianwen came over to look at the situation, frowned, and stopped Chen Han's movements.
"No, it's not made of bamboo."
"You see, the texture of this part is plain, but the bottom is twill, these are two different things!"
"This piece has nothing to do with the box, it shouldn't be pry from here."
It turned out that the place where Chen Han inserted the bamboo skewer was a rectangular piece of lacquer with a pattern that was somewhat different from the lacquer box.
Although this piece of lacquer is next to the lacquer box, if you look closely, you will find that the texture on the lacquer piece is different from the texture of the lacquer box, and it should be two different objects.
Kong Jianwen is right, but Chen Han naturally has his reasons for doing this.
He nodded and explained: "But this piece is completely glued to the lacquer box, and if you want to extract the lacquer box, you have to extract this lacquer piece as a whole." ”
It turned out that this piece of lacquer was pressed against another lacquer box underneath, and then connected to the lacquer box above
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Therefore, if you want to extract it, you must extract this lacquer piece together with the lacquer box above, so that you can continue to extract the lacquer sheet below.
Kong Jianwen probed deeply and nodded.
Chen Han's judgment was indeed correct.
He patted Chen Han's shoulder with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go on." ”
Chen Han was unmoved, and all his attention was focused on his hands.
As his bamboo skewers continued to be inserted and rubbed, the lacquer box had come loose.
After the last bamboo skewer was inserted, the lacquer box was finally completely disconnected from the other items in the coffin.
Chen Han held the protruding parts on both sides of the lacquer box with both hands, twisting left and right, lifting up, twisting, and lifting.
"It's out!"
The lacquer box, which had been flattened into only two or three centimeters wide, was completely extracted by him and put into the cultural relics box next to it for preservation.
In the process of extraction, Chen Han also collected all the fragments that fell from the lacquer box and received them in the cultural relics box.
Holding the cultural relics box, as soon as Chen Han turned around, he took it to the experimental table next to him.
Illuminated by two searchlights, he took the lacquer box out of the artifact box again.
Turning to the back, the white worms, which are no bigger than sesame seeds, move densely on the lacquer box.
These small white insects can be seen everywhere in the inner coffin.
In fact, the archaeological team was wrong in their judgment.
The oxygen isolation effect of this inner coffin is not good.
At least the appearance of this small insect shows that in the past few thousand years, these wood in the inner coffin have become a breeding ground for these small creatures.
Fortunately, although these small insects are constantly turning, they do not seem to feed on wood, and there are no signs of gnawing on the lacquer box.
Turning the lacquer box back to the front again, Wei Lai was about to open the box.
Still holding a bamboo stick, but this time it was round, and he prying it in from the corner of the lacquer box, and while chanting: "There must be something good", he carefully pried open the corner of the lacquer box.
Standing behind him, Zhuang Yunpeng, who came to watch, hurriedly bent down and looked at the corner that was pried open: "Maybe there is really something good!" ”
However, the situation in the box was beyond their expectations.
"And a lid?"
"Is this a box-in-box?"
"A big box with a small box in it?"
It turned out that after prying open the lid of the box, what appeared in the box was a smaller lacquered wooden box.
The small lacquer box was pressed even more miserably, completely deflated, and the shape of the box could no longer be seen.
However, Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng were all excited.
The small box with a large box, the cultural relics contained there, is definitely not simple!
This must be something very important to Liu He, so it will be so solemn.
"Yo, this is still a heavy coffin." Zhuang Yunpeng teased with squeezing his eyebrows.
Chen Han also smiled.
"Let's take a photo first."
Chapter 278: A big box with a small box