A large number of burial goods were placed in the coffin, mostly made of gold, silver, jade, and precious materials such as agate, amber, and pearls. There are dragon gold kua belt, chisel flower gold needle cylinder, gilt silver crown, carved gold purse, any one of them can cause a lot of sensation in the antique market alone.

The corpse wrapped in silver silk has a golden flower and silver pillow under its head, wearing a silver silk mesh burial robe, wearing gold and silver boots on its feet, wearing an amber jade on its chest, holding an amber handshake, and the strangest thing is that the lizard mask on the face is forged from gold, and the two edges have been integrated with the corpse's face, as if they grew out of their own extremely fit.

I don't know about these strange burial customs, and I don't know if the owner of this tomb is the god Jinpira or the imperial nobles as the herdsmen call it, but I was completely blown away by the resplendor that greeted my eyes.

As a native of Inner Mongolia, Professor Yang naturally turned over many tombs under the vast grassland, so I asked him if there was a custom of wearing a mask for burial in Inner Mongolia.

Professor Yang raised his eyes and looked at the dazzling array of burial goods in front of him, a little stunned, his expression had already told me that even he, a man from the side of the country who was regarded as the "ancestor master", had never seen such a large number of ancient tombs with such a large number of burial goods.

Qiangzi swallowed the clouds and took a few puffs of cigarette, and the smoke spilled into Professor Yang's nose and caused him to cough dryly, which made him come back to his senses and answer my words.

Professor Yang said that the unique burial method of covering the face with utensils is likely to originate from the early Khitan people, who have lived in pursuit of water and grass since ancient times, and have been deeply affected by the natural environment for fishing, hunting, clothing, food, housing and transportation. Over time, people developed a reverence for nature, so the Khitan people developed a unique funeral custom - tree burial.

Tree burial refers to the fact that people are not buried immediately after death, but put the body on a tree and let it weather naturally, and after the body is dried, the bones are picked up again and sewn into a silver silk burial garment for burial. The so-called silver silk burial clothes are a bit similar to the golden jade clothes in the Han tombs, which can only be enjoyed by the nobles, because the Khitan people worship witch culture very much, so they also need to carry out sacrificial activities at a specific time, and wearing a mask can make the deceased look more majestic.

Later, when the Khitan was founded, as the Khitan iron hooves stepped into the Central Plains, they began to integrate the culture of their own nation with the Central Plains culture, and the funeral customs gradually integrated the elements of the Central Plains, so that it evolved into a burial method that built a large tomb, but the custom of covering the face of tree burial was also continued.

"That means that the Khitan people have begun to worship the god Jinpira, otherwise it would be impossible to wear a lizard head mask, and it seems that the existence time of the Jinpira civilization has to go forward." Listening to Professor Yang's explanation, I speculated.

Due to the time it has taken for the mask to merge with the corpse, we can't open it to see if it's a human skull underneath, but can only get in touch with the organization in time to report on this momentous discovery.

Although there are a lot of burial vessels in it, the purpose of our trip is to help Lao Tong investigate not to fight backwards, and he has already received his 20,000 beautiful sons, and the ill-gotten wealth of theft is naturally not takable, I suggest that we still find a way to close the coffin lid and let the state take over.

"Huazi, we can mix so many things for a few years, and just give them to the public?" Qiangzi was unwilling, and he had to hand over all the things he saw before he could touch them.

"Why don't we split it up together? Anyway, Teacher Tong is gone, so we don't think anything happened? Zhao Xudong couldn't help but put a silkworm chrysalis-shaped amber ornament into his jacket pocket and expressed his thoughts.

Seeing his thief-like ugliness, I immediately laughed: "With your ideological consciousness, you can still enter the archaeological team, your father is at least a cadre above the department level, and he opened the back door for you." ”

When Qiangzi saw that Zhao Xudong took it, he also put a small piece into his pocket: "The leader of this little thing will not care about me." ”

I was about to criticize him, but Chen Laogou diverted: "Look at this! ”

I saw him reach into the coffin and turn the body over on its side, revealing a fist-sized dark grid, and in the dark grid was a bronze vessel similar in shape to my hexagonal pattern king mirror.

Chen Laogou stretched out two fingers and pinched them out in the dark grid and handed them to me: "Compare and see if it is a flower blooming on a vine." ”

I turned it out of the bag and compared it carefully, I saw the difference, my original face was engraved with the king character pattern, and this side was engraved with the mountain character pattern, but other than that, there was no difference.

The hexagonal pattern king mirror opened the stone door of the immeasurable Zhuzhuliuli Temple, so what kind of mechanism did this bronze mirror with the mountain pattern open? It's a pity that the second half of the Huanyang book no longer exists, otherwise you might be able to find some clues in it.

In a moment, mercury suddenly gushed out of the dark compartment like a spring of mercury and rose along the entire sarcophagus, and the gold vessels that had spread to the mercury began to melt and turn white, like a long silver snake gradually devouring the burial vessels and the lizard-faced corpses.

Qiangzi was so anxious to see so many rare items annihilated by mercury that he slapped his thigh, knowing that it was better to take more.

The mercury soon overflowed from the sarcophagus, and quickly converged along the mercury groove to form a circle of mercury and continued to spread to the periphery, and we rushed to the stone bridge, but so much mercury gushed out from the secret, and after volatilization, we must be poisoned, and we can only find the exit quickly.

The slit behind the stone bridge can only allow the white-fronted tarantula to squeeze in, but we don't know how to shrink the bones and can't get out anyway, but there is no other way out of the lower floor, and the two forks are one of the ear chambers and the other is the organ room, and it is a waste of time to increase the danger when you go in.

I asked Professor Yang what he had in mind at this time after robbing so many tombs, and that there should always be a kaleidoscopic escape strategy. Professor Yang pondered for a moment, deducing every method of exiting the tomb in his mind, and finally his eyes lit up and he only said "Yes".

I asked Professor Yang with a smile on his face what good idea he had come up with or found a mechanism to get out, and he pointed to the bottom of the stone bridge and said, "Jump down."

The professor must have been crazy in this way, and when he looked down from the bridge, it was pitch black and bottomless, and if he jumped off the bridge, he would definitely fall to pieces.

"You're making a big joke, and we're not swallows who can't be torn apart." Qiangzi thinks that Professor Yang is teasing him.

Professor Yang saw that we didn't believe us, so he asked the strong son for a shovel and threw it under the bridge, and before we could look down, the sound of the shovel falling to the ground was heard, and it was at most two seconds from throwing the shovel to falling to the ground, which meant that the seemingly deep bottom of the cliff was actually not so high.

"All the mechanisms in the tomb are designed to be critical, but no human bones have been found. There are two possibilities: one is that we have not entered the inverted bucket before, and naturally will not die in it accidentally, from the hanging coffin on the lower floor to the sarcophagus of the tomb hall, there is no sign of being opened, indicating that no one has come in at all, then there is only the second possibility, at that time, the person who built the tomb for the tomb owner left an extremely hidden retreat, and even the tomb owner was deceived in the past. ”

Although it was pitch black under the bridge, it was only a subjective visual belief that this was the cause of the huge height drop, but we forgot the most important factor, which was the black paint on the ground.

"What about Huazi? Do you want to listen to this old Yang's nonsense? The strong son stepped up with one foot and looked down, but then retracted.

At this time, the mercury was about to overflow to the edge of the bridge, and Professor Yang jumped down with a loud cry, if he waited for the mercury to flow down, there would really be no way to escape.

Seeing Professor Yang leap down with his two feet over the stone bridge, Tong Xiaowan and I looked at each other for a moment and then jumped down.