With the order of the fourth master, I rubbed my palm, and then I saw him first grab the dagger in his hand, use the dagger as a chisel, and suddenly stick it into the gap on the side of the coffin wood.

After plunging in, the four masters did not pull it out, but relayed it very shrewdly, jumped with one foot, and then stepped on the handle of the dagger with one foot. He jumped up and smashed it with more than 100 pounds all over his body, and formed a kind of lever principle, just listening to "Bang! With a bang, the side of the coffin, the side where he plunged into the dagger, was directly pried open with a fist-wide opening.

The fourth master turned his head and smiled at me, pointing to a gap in the bottom of the coffin.

"Come on, you come too." The fourth master picked up his dagger and turned his head to make way for his seat.

The four masters are really professional players! I was slightly stunned in my heart, and quickly plunged the dagger into the gap, learning from what he had just done, I didn't jump up, but I kicked it violently while standing.

The gap in the coffin board grew bigger and bigger, and before I could even take a few feet, this side of the coffin was completely rotten.

At this time, the fourth master rubbed his hands, put his arm into the big gap in the coffin, and tinkered with his fingers for a while, and then I saw the four wooden wedges nailed into the coffin board and pushed it out.

I was stunned directly, this is a living coffin opening expert, and practice makes perfect to this point.

The fourth master smiled humorously, and immediately responded to me: "Ask Shan, don't look at me with that strange look, the fourth master I used to follow people to run the field of white things when I was young, and I have done a lot of this kind of thing." ”

I thought that the four masters were young and did a lot of fighting. I rubbed my head and smiled.

The fourth master asked me to stand opposite the coffin with him, and the two of them worked together to lift the heavy coffin board.

"Boom-" The coffin board fell to the ground, revealing the inside of the pitch-black coffin inside.

Liu Ruxiang beckoned in with a flashlight, and what caught her eye was the corpse of an old man.

The corpse was now black and shriveled, the hair on its head had fallen out a lot, and its entire face had been deformed, as if it were broken porcelain, and it had been dried alive in this coffin.

The white teeth were so different from the black-gray corpse, and there were some black age spots on the old face, and some mold that grew out of the unknown when.

I immediately covered my nose and looked at this horrible and ugly appearance, and I really wanted to retch.

"Four, four masters, how many years ago did this corpse be?" I pointed to the body inside the coffin and asked him.

The fourth master didn't reply to me at first, and observed for a while before smashing his mouth.

He reached out and gently touched the corpse.

My eyes widened when I watched him do this, wasn't he disgusting? In short, I am respectful of the hands of the four masters, and I don't want to be sloppy anymore in the future.

But where would I have thought that the fourth master poked like this, touched the dried corpse, and immediately pressed the bare chest into a pit.

The old man's body was covered with no clothes on his body.

That's where I wondered.

The fourth master observed for a while, then turned his head and asked Liu Ruxiang with a smile: "Xiaoxiang, your apprentice doesn't understand, tell me, what age is this corpse?" ”

Liu Ruxiang looked at it carefully, but she didn't exaggerate it so much.

"I—I don't think this corpse is very old, it should have been eighty to thirty years ago."

The fourth master nodded slightly.

"Of course, what you said is true, but it is not accurate enough." The fourth master said this, and then a sly light appeared in his eyes.

Liu Ruxiang also asked him: "Please ask the fourth uncle to explain my doubts and my apprentice." ”

"Hey, hey, Jiang is still old and spicy," the fourth master looked down at the old male corpse in the coffin, looked at it with a contemplative eye, and said, "This corpse died eighty to thirty years ago, which can be seen according to the appearance of the corpse." ”

When the fourth master said this, his words suddenly changed: "I think this corpse should have died forty years ago, or sixty years ago. ”

The time given by the four masters is almost very accurate, and the span is even a little large, which is very puzzling.

"Huh? Why? "I got to the bottom of it and continued to ask the four masters.

Only then did the fourth master start to ask me with a smile: "Xiaoxiang, ask Shan, I came to test your two juniors today, and I asked you, why did I touch this old man's corpse just now." ”

The fourth master's question directly confused me.

Is it possible to tell the age of the present based on the feel of this corpse?

It sounds a little incredible.

Let's use an analogy, if there are two pieces of bacon, one for one year and one for five years, so that people can tell the year by touching it, is this possible? If you analyze the taste and aroma, you may be able to get a similar time range, but it is unlikely that you can tell the year just by pinching it like the four masters.

I didn't expect this question to be so difficult, even Liu Ruxiang was asked by the four masters.

The master pondered, but he didn't speak.

Although I was not sure of this answer, I still bravely said: "It must be to judge the year, and the year of this corpse can be judged by the texture, feel, and hardness of this corpse." ”

Unexpectedly, after I said it, the fourth master shook his head directly: "No, you didn't talk about it at all, you didn't say anything about it." ”

A sly light appeared on the face of the fourth master: "You juniors, you are still too tender." ”

I was puzzled, and suddenly I saw the four masters grabbing my hand.

"Ahh I looked at him dumbfounded.

Then I saw that the fourth master actually pinched my wrist, and in a posture that I couldn't resist at all, he suddenly took my hand and pressed it on the stomach of the corpse.

A few drops of bean-sized cold sweat broke out on my forehead.

"Ahh

The fourth master glared at me: "Shut up, touch it well." ”

As he spoke, the fourth master slammed the place where the bones connected to my wrist, and immediately there was a heart-piercing pain.

"Oh, I don't dare, I don't dare."

I endured the pain and groped with that hand on the old man's corpse, this feeling was particularly strange, as if it was air-dried meat skin, beef jerky and other things, and I could feel a very thick tenacity when my fingers pressed down.

The fourth master pressed my hand and took my hand from the stomach of the old man's corpse to his chest.

I immediately touched the skeleton in the body, and the real touch was extraordinarily terrifying.

I couldn't help but shudder in my mouth.

The fourth master glared at me: "I ask you, ask the mountain, have you found anything?" ”

"I, I'm ......" I stammered, I didn't expect how this touching of a corpse could be related to judging time.

The fourth master glanced at me: "I still think that our Liu family is the successor, pig brain, pig brain!" ”

The fourth master glanced at me with a look of hatred for iron and steel, and then turned his head to look at Liu Ruxiang.

Liu Ruxiang's frowning brows finally stretched slightly: "Fourth uncle, are you touching this person's bone age with your hands?" Or is it something different about his body, or a certain characteristic? ”

The fourth master finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

"You're finally half right."

The four masters finally solved the mystery.

"Actually, this touching the corpse has nothing to do with judging his age, but like Xiaoxiang said, touching the corpse is to judge his body shape and age."

"I touched this corpse, and the result was that this was actually a man in the prime of life, probably in his forties, and the appearance of such an old appearance on his face was entirely due to hunger!"

The fourth master continued: "The first time I opened the coffin, I saw a very important place, this man's body was undressed. ”

"Why don't you get dressed, ask the mountain for you."

I couldn't think of an answer for a while, and subconsciously said casually: "He's afraid of heat? ”

"Hahaha-" A bright smile appeared on the face of the fourth master.

Even Liu Ruxiang couldn't help laughing.

"Bastard thing, what, what kind of heat are corpses afraid of."

"You young people, one by two, the living conditions are too good, I don't know that in the past, it was normal for a person to not be able to eat enough all year round, and in the famine era, it was easy to eat, and there were batches of dead people!"

"In those days, if you were too poor, you would have a pair of pants at home, and whoever wanted to go out would wear them. At this time, suddenly a person died that day, if you were the master of the house, would you be willing to give up these pants and put them in the coffin for burial? ”

"So from this I can see that this person's family conditions are extremely poor. So when I observe, I go up and touch the corpse. By touching his corpse, I could feel that this man's body was completely skin and bones, without any oil or water, and he was a very common person who died of hunger. And you see, there are no external injuries to his body, so the chances of dying of starvation are even greater. ”

At this time, it dawned on me, and even the idea of what the four masters were about to say was understood.

"I know, because there were two great famines forty years ago and sixty years ago, so the fourth master, you can speculate that this person died forty or sixty years ago?"

The fourth master sighed comfortably: "Fortunately, your baby is not too stupid!" ”

"Forty years ago there was a great famine that lasted for two or three years. Sixty years ago, it was a great drought that led to famine. ”