The three of us rushed back to the ancient tomb of the savage ditch, the work was almost done, the sapper shovel cut a few times, the tomb wall was broken out of a big hole, I used a flashlight to shine it, the space inside is not small, this hole is more than a meter away from the ground of the tomb, the fat man is overjoyed, he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to go in, I pulled him up: "You don't want to die." Go, grab a few sparrows, put them in a bird cage first, and put them in the tomb to measure the air quality. "
Sparrows are easy to catch in the woods, unlike densely populated places, where they are fine. Using the simplest trap, sprinkle a few grains of millet, and put the pot on which we cook upside down, the man hid in the distance, saw the sparrow come under the pot to eat rice, pulled the rope to pull down the wood of the pot, and the pot buckled, and grabbed it.
I caught three of them at once, and I put one of them in the cage, tied a rope to the cage and threw it into the depths of the burial chamber below, smoked two cigarettes, and when I thought the time was almost up, I pulled the cage up, and when I saw that the little sparrow rolled its eyes, it was no longer possible.
This tomb has been closed underground for hundreds of years, the air inside is not circulated, the corpse must first expand before decaying, full of corpse gas, and then the skin and flesh and internal organs begin to decay from the inside out, although the tomb does not have a vacuum environment in the real sense, but if it is not ventilated, the stench of the rotting corpse inside will still be held in it, even if it is separated by hundreds of years, it will not be dissipated, even if there is no corpse gas, just the air that has not flowed for hundreds of years, it will also form a poisonous gas harmful to the human body, once people inhale this toxic gas, It can range from dizziness to poisoning unless equipped with a gas mask. In this link, there is no carelessness.
It seems that it will take some time for the tomb to be blown away by the mountain wind, so we went back to the hillside and ate some dry food and jerky, we didn't sleep all night yesterday, and today we have done a lot of work, and we are very tired, but when we think of the licensed goods in the tomb, the tiredness is swept away. This is the first time we've done it, and it's better to get something of value out there. In the past, my understanding of tomb robbing was only at the theoretical stage, but today's practice is really not difficult, of course, it is also related to the goal we have chosen. The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom belonged to the uncivilized barbarians at that time, and the tomb they built was almost completely copied from the form of the Northern Song Dynasty, the scale was very small, and it is estimated that it was also built by the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty who came captive, after all, the Baolong Fire glazed top process was very complicated that day, and it was difficult to build it without superb craftsmanship, and the slightest deviation would burn the people who repaired the tomb inside.
After eating the dry food, seeing that it was not early, and thinking that the air in the tomb had almost changed, we were all worried about being attacked by the monsters in the underground cave again at night, so we were anxious to take our things and leave earlier, so we took our equipment and went down to the valley of the savage ditch again.
This time, I still let the sparrow in first, and seeing that the sparrow was still alive after being taken out, it seemed that there was no problem, and I drank a few sips of soju with the fat man to strengthen my courage. Putting on a mask and gloves, a gold talisman around his neck, a black donkey's hooves and glutinous rice in his arms, a flashlight, and a sapper shovel on his waist to set off into the ancient tomb.
Seeing this, Yingzi hurriedly grabbed me and said, "Take me in and have a look, I haven't seen what it's like in the ancient tomb when I'm so old." "
I said: "There is nothing else in the ancient tomb, just ancient corpses and burial goods, what is there to see, in fact, I am also the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair, and I have never been in it before." Besides, aren't you afraid of the dead? Why aren't you afraid now? "
Yingzi is very curious, and seeing that I and the fat man are quite mysterious, I am even more itchy, and I have to go in. I thought about it, anyway, in this barren mountain and wilderness, there is no need for people to let the wind (tomb robbers rarely work alone, usually in groups of three, one digs the soil, because the soil cannot be piled up outside the pit, so there is another one to scatter the soil, and the other is to let the wind in the distance), and it is not a big deal to let her go in and visit. I found a pair of masks for Yingzi to bring on, and told her a few words, don't take off the mask after entering, the air quality inside is not good; Second, the breath of a living person cannot remain in the tomb, which is unlucky; Third, you can't exhale at the ancient corpse, in case you cheat the corpse, it will be very troublesome. Although these are all superstitious legends, these rules have been passed down from thousands of years ago to today, no matter what, there is a certain amount of truth, let's be careful, everything is according to the old routine.
The fat man had already become anxious: "Hu Bayi, when did you become such a mother-in-law, do you dare to go down, let the fat man and I go by myself, you just wait to count the money." "
I said fuck you, you may not even be able to find the coffin when you go down, come on, let's stop stumbling, it's getting dark, hurry up and work.
The hole in the tomb wall that we dug was only nearly a meter from the floor of the tomb, and I could go down without a rope, and I couldn't help but feel a little nervous as soon as my feet hit the ground.
The area of the burial chamber is not large, at most 30 square meters, it seems to be designed according to the living house, there is a main room, a back room, and two ear rooms. The place where we came in happened to be an ear chamber, and the coffin of the tomb owner was parked in the middle of the main chamber.
There was no tomb bed, a shallow pit was dug in the middle of the main chamber, and the black coffin was placed in the pit, half exposed on the top, which was a tomb within a tomb.
In the corner of the main chamber were several skeletons, the skulls were dented and cracked, with obvious marks of blunt hammering, probably from prisoners or wives and concubines used for burial. If we don't archaeology, we don't want to pay attention to it.
Yingzi suddenly grabbed my arm: "Brother Hu, you see there are paintings on this wall." "
I used a flashlight to shine on the wall of the tomb that Yingzi said, and sure enough, there were pictures carved in colorful reliefs, and the characters in the paintings were simple and lifelike. The colors are still vibrant, but as the air enters the burial chamber, it doesn't take long for the frescoes to fade.
The fat man exclaimed: "It seems that the dead man in this tomb may have been a painter in ancient times." "
I said don't you know how to pretend to know, in the Tang and Song dynasties, most of the princely tombs have murals, used to record the major deeds of the tomb owner's life, let's see what kind of characters are buried here.
There are eight murals in total, and we looked at them in order. Some of these paintings depict scenes of hunting in the forest, some are drinking with friends in the palace, some are painted with the scene of going out to fight, some are depicting the situation of escorting prisoners, and the last one depicts the scene of the feudal marquis, and in each mural there is a man wearing a fox fur on his head, which should be the tomb owner buried in the tomb, it seems that this is a general's tomb, at least a marquis of ten thousand households.
When the Jin soldiers went south to destroy the Song Dynasty, they really looted a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and this Jin general may have brought some of his spoils into the ground, anyway, they are all treasures of our Han people, so we are welcome.
The three of them first went around the tomb, the two ear chambers are some porcelain pots and pots and other utensils, the back room has four horse bones and some armor and weapons, in addition to nothing superfluous, it seems that the golden man is not buried thickly, I am somewhat disappointed. A candle was lit in the southeast corner, and the three of them came to the coffin in the main room together.
The coffin of the tomb owner is not small, it is mahogany black lacquer, painted with gold ornamentation, the color and shape are very strange, which should be related to the national totem of the Jurchen people. I touched the coffin board, it was very thick, the average poor person could not afford such a thick coffin, it would be good to have a thin coffin, and if it was mixed again, it was swept away with grass and buried in the ground.
The best in the coffin is the gloomy wood of the tree, that is, the heart of the tree, a gloomy wood from the growth to the maturity and then buried in the ground to form, it takes at least thousands of years, this kind of superb can be encountered but not sought, only the royal family can enjoy. The corpse is buried in the ground in a gloomy wooden tree, and the body will never decay, which is more valuable than the embalming coffin made of crystal, and more effective than the preservation function of the refrigerator. The second is linden mahogany, millennium cypress, the thicker the heart of the tree, the more valuable, the first is to prevent the corpse from rotting, the second is not to give birth to insects, can effectively prevent maggots and ants from biting, unlike ordinary wood, it will not take long to be eaten by insects and ants, which tomb owner does not want his body to be eaten by insects after death, that situation is disgusting to think about, so the coffin wood of the nobles has strict requirements.
The wood of the coffin in front of us, although not as good as the royal family, can be regarded as extremely luxurious. I inserted a sapper shovel into the gap in the coffin board and pried it hard, but I didn't expect the nail to be so firm that I didn't even pry it open with two additional forces.
The fat man also pulled out the guy to help, and the two of them worked together, and the coffin made a "creaking" sound, and finally pried open a large crack, and we changed positions again, and pried up the coffin nails one by one.
The tomb is very dry, the tomb wall is very waterproof, the glazed tiles on the head are not seepage, and most of the rainwater in the savage ditch is absorbed by the leaf litter, so there is a lot of dust in the coffin. This movement caused dust to fly, and although we were wearing large masks, we were choked and coughed constantly, and we had to prepare a few gas masks when we went back to say anything, otherwise we would choke on something wrong sooner or later.
The fat man wanted to push the lid of the coffin, but I suddenly wanted to scare him and make some pranks, so I grabbed his arm and said, "Fatty, guess what's in this coffin?" "
The fat man said: "How do I know, anyway, the things inside can be exchanged for RMB when they are taken out... It can also be exchanged for national food stamps. "
I deliberately lowered my voice and said, "I used to hear my grandfather tell me a story in the Taiping Guangji, which also said that two tomb robbers, one fat and one thin, dug up a big coffin in the ancient tomb, no matter how they used knives and axes to chop, the coffin could not be opened. One of the fat tomb robbers would recite the Great Compassion Mantra, and he would recite a paragraph to the coffin, and the coffin lid would automatically open a crack... Out of it came an arm covered with green hair..."
The fat man was not afraid, but Yingzi was scared a lot, and he hid behind the fat man: "Brother Hu, don't talk nonsense, don't look at what place this is, you want to scare people to death." "
In addition to being afraid of heights, the fat man is really not afraid of anything, and when he fought with other children at school, he was black. At this time, the fat man's face was fearless, and he was not moved by my intimidation at all, with a righteous and awe-inspiring expression: "Sister Yingzi, don't listen to him, this kid just wants to scare me, and he doesn't look at who the fat man is, what the fuck I'm afraid of, you let him continue." "
I continued: "The arm covered with green hair, with fingernails more than three inches long, grabbed the fat tomb robber who was reciting the Great Compassion Mantra and pulled him into the coffin, and the coffin board was immediately closed, only to hear a scream from inside, which frightened the other tomb robber to turn around and run ...away."
The fat man grinned a few times, laughing a little reluctantly, and probably muttered in his heart, but he insisted on being a good man, and stepped forward to push the coffin board with me, but we used too much force, and pushed the coffin board to the ground at once, and the things in the coffin were unobstructed.
A tall male corpse is lying inside, the moisture of his corpse has evaporated, leaving only the purple dry skin wrapped in the bone frame, after nearly a thousand years, this is already relatively well preserved (like the wet corpse unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan is extremely rare, there is no one in a thousand miles), although the facial features are collapsed, the eyes and nose have become black holes, but the face is still vaguely recognizable, about forty or fifty years old, wearing a crown facing the sky, wearing a red gold silk embroidered robe with blue edges, wearing cloud boots on his feet, and his hands on his chest.
Yingzi stretched out her head from behind the fat man and looked inside, and exclaimed, "Oh mom, it's scary." "Quickly look away, don't dare to look again.
When she screamed like this, my scalp was numb, but the coffin was opened, could I still turn around and run out? Let's bite the bullet. I folded my hands and bowed to the ancient corpse in the coffin three times: "We lack food and clothing, so we have no choice but to borrow a few licensed goods in exchange for some small money, don't blame you for offending, anyway, you should have gone to heaven and heaven, you should go to the earth, and you should go wherever you want." Dust to dust, dust to earth, money and jewelry are all things outside the body, you don't bring them in life, you don't take them with you in death, and it is useless for you to leave these possessions. After we take it away, we will definitely use most of it to repair bridges and pave roads to improve people's lives, learn from Lei Feng's good example, distinguish between love and hate, and take a firm stand..."
I didn't have time to say half a word, but the fat man couldn't hold it anymore, and reached in and touched the coffin, and I quickly reminded him: "You fucking light, don't break the body." "
Where is the fat man willing to listen, since he entered the tomb, he has not found anything valuable, except for a few dilapidated altars and jars, which are the remains of people and animals who accompany the burial, and it takes so much trouble to see what good things are in the coffin of the tomb owner.
I saw that it was useless to persuade him, so I didn't bother to speak, and looked through the items in the coffin with him, and there were still some porcelain beside the ancient corpse. I didn't know much about antiques at that time, especially porcelain, I only saw a few pieces of blue and white porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty, and I didn't know anything about the value of porcelain, the history of craftsmanship, etc., I only knew that gold was priceless and jade was priceless. Seeing that the sky was pitiful, he finally found two pieces of jade in the hands of the ancient corpse, the color was emerald green, carved into the shape of two moths that looked like butterflies and were not butterflies.
We looked at this pair of jade for a long time, and we couldn't tell what it was, I only knew that it might be jadeite, something before the Northern Song Dynasty, it should be a good thing, otherwise how could the tomb owner still hold it in his hand when he was dying. I guess it's worth tens of thousands. That's really a lot, at that time, there were not tens of thousands of households in the country, and how much it was worth had to be appraised by the big gold tooth expert when I went back, and contacted a Hong Kong businessman or Taiwan compatriot to sell it.
The fat man felt not very satisfied, and wanted to open the mouth of the ancient corpse to see if there were any gold teeth, I said that it was almost enough, don't do too much, leave some for others, and we picked out a few beautiful pieces of porcelain in the coffin, and put those without color patterns back in their original places.
After taking the things, I lifted the lid of the coffin and closed it again, and although this time I did not return with a full load as I had expected, I finally did not return empty-handed, and I said to them, "Almost, let's go out quickly, and make up the wall of the tomb and go home." After saying that, he turned around and wanted to go out, but suddenly found that the candle in the corner had been quietly extinguished at some point.