Vol 2 Chapter 13: Ghost blow lamp

The three of us rushed back to the ancient tomb in Yerengou, and we were almost done. After a few cuts with the engineer shovel, a large hole was broken in the wall of the tomb. I took a flashlight and the space inside was not small. There is a drop of more than one meter from the ground of the tomb. The fat man is overjoyed. He rolled up his sleeves and wanted to go in. I grabbed him: "You are dead. Go, grab a few sparrows. Put the sparrows in the bird cage first. Here, put it in the tomb to measure the air quality. "
Sparrows are easy to grasp in the woods, unlike the densely populated areas, they are fine. Using the simplest trap, sprinkle a few grains of millet, and the cooking pot we cooked upside down is supported. People hide in the distance and see the sparrows go under the pot to eat rice. A string pulls the wood of the branch pot down. Buckle it down and grab it.
I grabbed three of them at once. I put one of them in a bird cage first, tied a rope to the cage and threw it into the depth of the tomb below, smoked two cigarettes. It was estimated that it was almost time to touch the cage. When he came up, the little sparrow rolled his eyes.
This tomb was closed underground for hundreds of years. The air inside was not circulating. The corpse must be inflated and full of corpse gas before it rots. Then the flesh and organs begin to rot from the inside out. Although the tomb is not in the real sense The vacuum environment, but if it is not ventilated, the odor of the carrion inside will still be held in it, even if it is separated by hundreds of years, it will not be exhausted, even if there is no corpse gas, it is just air that has not flowed for hundreds of years. Poisonous gas that is harmful to the human body will be formed. Once a person inhales this toxic gas, it will dizzy and dizzy at light weight, and poisoned at death unless it is equipped with a gas mask. At this point, a little careless.
It seems that it takes a while for the tomb to blow away the poisonous gas in the tomb. So we went back to the hillside and ate some dried food and dried meat. I did n’t sleep yesterday night, and I did a lot of work today. I was very tired, but I remembered The licensed goods in the tomb were swept away. This is the first time we have started, it is best to sort out some valuable things. In the past, my understanding of tomb robbing only stayed at the theoretical stage. Today's practice is really not difficult. Of course, this is also related to the goal we choose. At that time, the Jurchens belonged to the uncivilized barbarians. The tomb they built almost completely copied the form of the Northern Song Dynasty. The scale was very small. It is estimated that they were also built by the Song Dynasty artisans who were captured. After all, the Baolong fire glazed roof craft was very complicated. Yes, it ’s difficult to get it out without superb craftsmanship. If there is a slight deviation, people who burn graves will be burned to death.
After eating the dry food, it was not too early to see the sky. The air in the tomb was almost changed. We were worried that we would be attacked by monsters in the underground cave at night. He went down to the valley of Savage Ditch again.
This time I still put the sparrow in first, and after seeing the sparrow was still alive, it seemed to be okay. I took a few sips of shochu with the fat man to be bold. Wearing a mask and gloves, a gold charm on his neck, a black donkey hoof and glutinous rice in his arms, a flashlight, an engineer shovel in his waist, he would leave for the ancient tomb.
Seeing this, Yingzi hurriedly held me and said, "Take me in and see, too. I haven't seen what it looks like in the tomb when I'm so old."
I said: "There is nothing else in the ancient tomb, there are ancient corpses and funerary items, there is nothing to see, in fact, I am also the eldest girl once on the sedan chair, never went in before. Besides, are you afraid of dead people? Why are you not afraid now? "
Yingzi is very curious. It seems that my fat guy and I have made mysterious things. It is even more itchy, and we have to go in. I thought, anyway, this barren mountain and wilderness, no need to let people out (few tomb robbers are usually alone, usually three people, one digging, because there is no pile of soil outside the pit, so there is a special go Scattered soil, and another to let go of the wind in the distance), let her go in and visit it is no big deal. I also asked Yingzi to put on a mask, and told her to take a few words. Do n’t take off the mask after entering. The air quality in the first is not good; the breath of the second living person cannot be left in the tomb, bad luck. ; Third, you can't exhale to the ancient corpse, in case the corpse is cheated, it's in trouble. Although these are superstitious legends, these rules have been passed from thousands of years ago to today. Anyway, there is a certain truth. We are not too careful, everything is just as usual.
The fat man has been anxious for a long time: "Hu Bayi, when have you become such a mother-in-law, do you dare to go down, let the fat grandfather go by yourself, you just wait to count the money."
I said go to your mother, you may not even find the coffin, and come on, let's not stumble, the sky is getting dark, and work quickly.
The hole we dug in the wall of the tomb was only one meter away from the ground of the tomb. Without rope, I could go straight down. As soon as my foot fell, I felt nervous.
The area of ​​the tomb is not large, at most 30 square meters, it seems to be designed according to the living house, there are main room, back room, two ear rooms. The place we came in just happened to be an ear room, and the tomb owner's coffin stopped in the middle of the main room.
There was no tomb bed, a shallow pit was dug in the middle of the main room, and the black casket was placed in the pit, half exposed above. This is a tomb in a tomb.
There are several bones piled in the corner of the main room. The skull is hollowed and cracked, and there are obvious traces of blunt knocks. They may be all the captives or servants of wives and concubines. We do n’t archaeologically, so we do n’t want to pay attention to it.
Yingzi suddenly took my arm: "Brother Hu, look at this wall, there are paintings."
I took photos with flashlights on the tomb wall that Yingzi said. Sure enough, I used embossed pictures to paint the paintings. The characters in the paintings are simple and lifelike. Although the color is still bright for a long time, as the flowing air enters the tomb, these murals will fade soon.
The fat man exclaimed: "It seems that the dead in this tomb may have been a painter in ancient times."
I said, don't you know how to pretend and do something. During the Tang and Song dynasties, most of the tombs of the princes had murals to describe the important deeds of the tomb's life. Let's see what characters are buried here.
There are a total of eight murals, and we looked at them in order. Some of these paintings depict scenes of shooting in the forest, some are drinking with friends in the palace, some are scenes of expeditions, some are scenes of captive detention, and the last scene is a scene of a lord, each mural. There is a man wearing a fox and fur, which should be the tomb owner buried in the tomb. It seems that this is a general tomb, at least a million households.
At that time, Jin Bing went south to destroy Song, and actually plundered a large amount of gold and silver treasures. This gold general might have brought some of his loot into the ground, anyway, it is also the treasure of our Han people, then we do n’t You're welcome.
The three of them turned around in the tomb first. The two ear chambers were made of pots and pots like porcelain pots. The back chamber had four horse bones and some armor weapons. Besides, there was nothing extra. I am somewhat disappointed that people are not buried. Light a candle in the southeast corner, and the three of them came to the coffin in the main room together.
The tomb owner's coffin is not small in size, and is made of mahogany and black lacquer, with golden ornaments painted on it. The color and shape are very strange, which should be related to the national totems of the Jurchens. I touched the coffin board. It was very thick. The poor people couldn't afford such a thick coffin. It would be nice to have a thin coffin. If they got confused again, they would sweep the grass and bury it in the ground.
The top grade in the coffin is the stubble of the gloomy wood, that is, the heart of the tree. It takes at least a few thousand years for a gloomy wood to grow into timber and then be buried in the ground. To enjoy. The corpse is buried in the ground in the shady wood and buried in the ground. The body will never rot. It is more valuable than the anti-corrosion coffin made of crystal, and it is more useful than the fresh-keeping function of the refrigerator. The second is linden mahogany and thousand-year-old cypress. The thicker the tree, the more valuable it is. The first is to prevent the corpses from rotting, and the second is to prevent the worms from biting, which can effectively prevent maggots and ants from biting. Insect worms are rotten, and no tomb owner wants his dead body to be eaten by insects. That kind of situation is disgusting, so the nobles' coffin wood has strict requirements.
The wood of the coffin in front of us, although not as good as the royal family, is considered extravagant. I used an engineer shovel to insert it into the gap of the coffin board, and pryed it hard. I didn't expect the nail to be firm. I didn't pry it even after applying two times of force.
The fat man also pulled out the guy to come up to help. The two of them worked together. The coffin made a "creaking" sound, and finally pryed a big slit, and we changed positions again, prying all the coffin nails one by one.
The tomb is very dry, the wall of the tomb is very waterproof, and the glazed tiles on the head do not seep. In addition, most of the rainwater in Yerengou is absorbed by the deciduous layer, so there is a lot of dust in the coffin. This movement made the dust fly. Although we were wearing big masks, we were still choked and kept coughing. When we went back to say something, we had to prepare a few gas masks, or we might get choked sooner or later.
The fat man wanted to push open the lid of the coffin. I suddenly wanted to scare him and do some pranks, so he grabbed his arm and said, "Fat man, guess what's in this coffin?"
The fat man said, "Why don't I know, the things inside can be exchanged for renminbi ... and can also be exchanged for national food stamps."
I deliberately lowered my voice and said: "I heard my grandfather tell me a story in" Taiping Guangji ", which also said that two tomb robbers, one fat and one thin, they dug a big coffin in the ancient tomb, No matter what methods they used to cut the sword, the coffin said nothing. One of the fat tomb thieves would read "The Great Compassion Mantra", he read a paragraph to the coffin, and the lid of the coffin was automatically opened. Slit ... a green hairy arm sticks out from the inside ... "
The fat man was not scared, but he scared Yingzi a little, hiding behind the fat man at once: "Brother Hu, don't bluff, don't look at this place, you want to scare people."
Apart from fear of heights, the fat man is really not afraid of anything. When he was fighting with other children at school, he was black. At this moment, the fat man didn't have any fear, and he was not moved by my intimidation. His expression was awe-inspiring. I ’m afraid of me, you let him continue.

I went on: "The arm with green hair and how long the fingernail is three inches long, grabbed the fat tomb thief who read the" Great Compassion Mantra "and pulled him into the coffin, and the coffin board closed immediately, only Hearing a scream from inside, the other tomb robber turned away and ran away ... "
The fat man grinned a few times and grinned a little. It was estimated that he also made a whisper in his heart, but he insisted on being a good guy and stepped forward to push the coffin with me. As a result, we used too much force and put the whole coffin at once Pushed to the ground, the things in the coffin were unobstructed.
A tall male corpse was lying inside. The water of his body had evaporated, leaving only the dried skin with purple sauce wrapped around the bone shelf, nearly a thousand years apart, which is considered to be relatively well preserved (like Hunan Mawangdui) The unearthed wet corpse is extremely rare, and there are no miles in it.) Although the facial features collapsed and the eyes and nose have turned into black holes, their faces are still faintly discernible. They are about forty or fifty years old, wearing a crown of heaven and wearing Red embroidered gold silk robe with blue border, wearing cloud boots, hands on chest.
Yingzi stretched his head from behind the fat man and glanced inside, screaming: "Oh, mother, old scary." Quickly looked away and dared not look at it again.
She screamed, and my scalp was numb, but the coffin was open. Can I turn around and run out? Put it on your head. I bowed my hands to the ancient corpse in the coffin for three times: "We are short of clothes and food, we have no choice but to borrow a few pieces of goods for some money, don't blame it. Anyway, you should already go to heaven and earth and go to the ground. , Wherever you should go. Dust to dust, soil to earth, money and jewelry are all things outside the body, not brought by life, not taken by death, you have little use to leave these things. We also have the way to steal, take After leaving, most of them will definitely be used to build bridges and pave the way to improve people's lives, learn from Lei Feng's good example, love and hate clearly, and keep a firm position ... "
I did n’t have time to say that the fat man could n’t help it anymore. I reached in and touched it in the coffin. I quickly reminded him,
Take care of your mother ’s hand and do n’t smash the body.

Where the fat man is willing to listen, he has not found anything valuable since he entered the tomb. Except for a few dilapidated altars and jars, they are the remains of humans and animals buried there. It took so much trouble to see what good things are in the tomb owner ’s coffin Too.
I don't see him persuading, and I don't have to bother to talk, just look at the objects in the coffin with him. The ancient corpses still have some porcelain. I did n’t know much about antiques at that time, especially porcelain. I have only seen a few pieces of blue and white porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty. I do n’t understand the history of the value of porcelain. I only know that gold has price and jade is priceless. When the jade came out, the porcelain was thrown aside. Seeing pity, I finally found two jade pieces in the hands of the ancient corpses. The green color was carved into two moths like butterflies and non-butterflies.
We looked at the pair of jade bi for a long time, and we couldn't tell what it was. I only knew that it might be jadeite. The things before the Northern Song Dynasty should be a good thing, otherwise the tomb owner would still hold it In hand. It is estimated that it can be worth tens of thousands. That was really a lot. At that time, there were few tens of thousands of households in the country. The exact value of the money had to be determined by experts such as Dajinya and contacted by Hong Kong businessmen and Taiwan compatriots.
The fat man didn't feel very satisfied, and wanted to break the mouth of the ancient corpse to see if there were any gold teeth. I said that it would be almost enough. Don't do too terrible things. Leave some for others. We picked the porcelain in the coffin again. Take out a few good-looking pieces and put those that have no color patterns back.
After taking things, I lifted the lid of the coffin back and put it back on again. This time I did n’t return as full as I expected, but I did n’t come back empty-handed. I said to them,
It ’s about time, let ’s go out and fill the tomb wall. When you're done, go back home. "After turning around, you want to go out, but suddenly you find that the candle in the corner has been silently extinguished somehow.