"It shouldn't be!"

Song Siyuan looked down at the corpse in Jin Sinan's coffin, it was not surprising that it was lifelike, after all, all nobles have a method of embalming corpses, which can make the corpse maintain its appearance as much as possible, or delay the decay and preserve the whole corpse as much as possible.

What surprised her was that the corpse looked like a sleeping concubine rather than a dead person, and if you added the flush of her face, it was closer to sleep than death.

"Shouldn't it be?"

Yue Guanchao looked at the corpse and asked.

"We have indeed seen corpses that do not decay before, but those mostly use the art to parasitize the body, which is why the body cannot decay, but the outside is definitely completely different from the living, and even, because the art changes some characteristics of the corpse, it makes the corpse present a more terrifying feeling."

"Look at this thousand-year-old corpse."

She changed her words: "The corpse of a nobleman like this, more mercury dansha is used to embalm, without the use of the art of the body, it is already the limit to keep the corpse incorruptible, even if the body is not decaying, the skin has become pale and light green, covered with mercury marks, these are indeed the price paid by the ancients for the corpse not to decay." ”

Song Siyuan paused and continued to explain her curiosity: "Since this corpse was buried in the late Northern Song Dynasty until now, it can be said that it has been 800 to nearly 1,000 years, even if mercury is used for embalming, most of them will appear like corpse spots, and the current situation is definitely not normal." ”

"Could it be that this corpse never died?"

When Sun Tianqi mentioned this, everyone couldn't help but stand up on their backs, and they all looked at such a bright female corpse.

Yue Guanchao pulled out the silk thread on his clothes and placed it near the nostrils of the corpse, telling everyone to hold their breath and test the corpse's snort reaction, and after a long time, he didn't see the silk thread fluttering and trembling, so he was sure that the corpse had no snort and was not a sleeping living person.

"Whew!"

Everyone exhaled in unison, and seeing that the silk thread was not fluttering, they calmed down for the time being.

"Could it be that what kind of Zhuyan Pill or corpse jade was used to fix the face of the corpse."

Sun Tianqi walked the rivers and lakes, and also heard the story of the Yandan River and the corpse jade.

Let's talk about Yan Dan first!

According to the classics, this kind of Zhuyan Dan is made of a stone from outside the sky, which looks as red as pigeon's blood and as transparent as Zhuyu, and first appeared in the history of Zhiweiye in the Han Dynasty.

It is rumored that after the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Lady Li, Emperor Wu asked the world's scholars to find a panacea for resurrection, and promised that as long as Mrs. Li could be resurrected, he would reward the marquis of a thousand households.

With this benefit, the people who practice all over the world are moved by the wind, and they all want to find a panacea, so that they can ascend to the sky and become rich and noble, for them, instead of pursuing the ethereal path of seeking immortals, it is better to enjoy the bliss and wealth of the world first, and there are countless folk alchemists for a while.

It's just that treasures are easy to obtain, elixirs are hard to find, no one has ever seen this medicine of resurrection, of course, no one can take over the emperor's list, even if some Fang Shi really took the pill into the palace, they could only try their luck with ordinary pills, and they were mostly driven out by Emperor Wu's entourage, and even, because they bragged about it, they were directly cut off by Emperor Wu.

Among the countless fake and shoddy elixirs, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not find anything really effective, but one of the extraterrestrial stones offered by Fang Shijin helped him to some extent, although this extraneous stone could not bring the dead back to life, but it could make Mrs. Li's corpse look eternal, and even, more beautiful than when she was alive.

After Emperor Wu's wish to bring Mrs. Li back to life was shattered, he began to accept the reality and decided to use this alien stone to maintain Mrs. Li's appearance as before her death.

With the help of skilled craftsmen, the craftsmen used the Outer Heaven Stone to create red beads the size of eyeballs, which were sent into the mouth of Mrs. Lee, known as the mouth of the coffin.

After this red bead was included in Mrs. Li's mouth, her appearance, which had died of illness, began to gradually return to normal under the influence of the bead, and it seemed that not only did she not have the feeling of weakness of dying of illness, but she had a little more roundness and jade.

Later, Emperor Wu named this bead Dingzhu Dan and buried it in the tomb with Mrs. Li's coffin.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to maintain Mrs. Li's appearance, in addition to remembering his beloved concubine, he also had his own selfishness, Mrs. Li was his favorite concubine, and when he was about to be buried a hundred years later, he also wanted to continue his relationship with Mrs. Li, so that she and many concubines would be buried with him, in order to avoid the corruption of Mrs. Li's body, she could only be embalmed in advance.

As a result, this Zhuyan Dan was also taken into the coffin by Mrs. Li, and it has not been found since then.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty died of old age, when the new emperor Liu Fuling built an underground palace for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he decided to move Mrs. Li's coffin out, he didn't believe that Zhu Yan Dan could really make the corpse look like life after death, he only thought that those Fang Shi deceived Emperor Wu's words, until he saw the coffin opened, Mrs. Li's face was really like life, and he believed that Zhu Yan Dan really had such a miraculous effect.

It's just that Liu Fuling was selfish, he took the beads out of Mrs. Li's corpse, and transferred the beads to the dead Mrs. Gouyi, so as to pay tribute to the dead biological mother and make Mrs. Gouyi's body return to normal.

This story was later recorded in the wild history and became a strange story through the ages, and the name of Zhu Yan Dan was handed down.

As for the other corpse jade, we have to start from the Western Regions.

The full name of the corpse jade, called Kunlun corpse jade, is a rare jade native to Kunlun Mountain, it is rumored that this jade is shaped like amber, the gold is translucent, and it has a very strange and strange natural pattern, just like the patterns on the tiger and the leopard, complex and bright.

It first appeared in the records of the Queen Mother of the West.

It is rumored that the Queen Mother of the West lives on the Kunlun Mountain, and the jade sheng she wears on her head is made of this jade with strange patterns, and it is also because of this thing that the Queen Mother of the West has always maintained a beautiful appearance, and her appearance has not changed for thousands of years.

Later, after King Zhou Mu went west to Kunlun, the Queen Mother of the West also sent a piece of this jade to King Zhou Mu, leaving the legend of King Zhou Mu and the Queen Mother of the West, which was recorded in the Biography of Zhou Tianzi's Journey to the West

The role of the corpse jade is not only limited to the dead, but also includes the living, as long as the corpse jade is carved into beads and held in the mouth, the appearance can be still, and no changes occur, as if the person's age and appearance are given by the corpse beads.

It's just that such a thing is just a legend in Zhou Tianzi's biography of Journey to the West, and the people of the Zhou Dynasty have not really discovered the Kunlun jade sent by the Queen Mother of the West, and it is unknown whether Zhou Tianzi has really gone to Kunlun Mountain to see the Queen Mother of the West.

"Just look at it."

Yue Guanchao took out cotton gloves, buckled the chin of the female corpse, the snow-white teeth were slightly closed, and a red bead appeared in the mouth.

"Could it be that the thing in this old lady's mouth is really Zhuyan Dan? Isn't this thing in Mrs. Hook's mouth? ”33

Song Siyuan took advantage of Sun Tianqi's curiosity and began to observe Concubine Hu's body, there was obviously something in her nose, she picked up a cotton cloth to wipe near her nose, and it could be seen that the silver liquid slowly stayed on the cotton cloth.

"Is this mercury?"

This silver flickering liquid is obviously mercury, Yue Guanchao nodded: "Could it be that if there is really mercury in the body, there will probably be mercury markings, but this corpse is clean, the mercury in the nose has come out, and there are no corpse spots." ”

Now that I think about it, it was probably the mercury in the corpse, which was thrown out of the nose by centrifugal force when the coffin was rotated just now, which made them notice the abnormality.

Song Siyuan walked to the side of the coffin lid of the golden silk nanmu, carefully touched the material in the coffin lid, and when she stretched out the gloves, she could clearly feel that there was an extra layer of translucent white paste on the gloves. ”

"In the real golden silk nanmu coffin, there is still an ice jade coffin."

She lifted the quilt wrapped around her, and it can be seen that there is indeed a translucent smaller coffin under the quilt, like an ice coffin made of a person's width, the whole body is exquisitely clear, and ice cracks can be seen in the translucent coffin, which looks like a coffin made of water condensation.

"Is there such a coffin in the world?"

Yue Guanchao looked at the ice jade coffin carefully, and his tone became puzzled.

"The ice jade coffin is actually a coffin made of colored glass."

Sun Tianqi explained: "During the Northern Song Dynasty, after the progress of brick-burning technology, the technology of firing glaze has become more and more mature, otherwise, they would not have made the glazed cover of the golden rainbow lantern, and the things made of glass are also called ice jade vessels, such as the glass cup is called the ice jade cup, the glass bowl is called the ice jade bowl, and the glass teapot is called the ice jade teapot." ”

"The technology of making raw materials for glass in ancient times was not developed, and the transparency of the glass was far from the current glass, a little close to the frosted texture, and even had water lines, which looked as if the water condensed, such things were more expensive than gold in ancient times, and I heard that a piece of glass was worth an inch of gold, and it was worth a lot."

"The coffin they made of ice glaze is, of course, called the ice jade coffin."

After Sun Tianqi finished speaking, Song Siyuan continued to explain: "Glass is originally an impermeable material, just now I saw that when you opened the lid of the golden silk nanmu coffin, there was yellow mud sealing wax, most of which was sealed after the lid was closed, and even the gaps that could penetrate the air were sealed by wax mud. ”

"To a certain extent, these practices form a two-layer coffin, which isolates the air from entering the coffin, forming a certain environment that is completely isolated from the outside world, and greatly delays the decomposition caused by the corpse in contact with the air."

With that, she showed off the translucent fat on the white gloves: "I smell this thing a bit like alcohol, this grease is largely mixed with animal fats that are mixed with alcohol, and although the concentration of these alcohols is not high, it can also play a role in sterilization and disinfection to some extent." ”

"The alcohol paste slowly melts and absorbs heat, which also provides convenience for the preservation of the body."

She coughed a few times and concluded: "In general, the two-layer inner coffin isolates the air, and at the same time, the alcohol is slowly released with a cream covered with alcohol, which plays a role in disinfection and sterilization, which maintains the corpse for nearly a thousand years and creates a unique thousand-year-old fresh corpse." ”

"As for the absence of mercury spots on the corpse, it is largely because there is less air, when the air inside becomes thinner, some microbial activities are slowed down, and it is not easy to produce mercury spots, and at the same time, the tomb itself is cold enough, which can be regarded as extending the preservation period of the corpse."

"In this state, it will be fine for another thousand years."

Some people died, but not completely......