Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

It was cold at night that winter.

Now the No. [-] Cotton Factory is across from the commercial street. There are many people at night, but there were none at that time. It was all wasteland. As long as the factory is not working, the surrounding area is very quiet.

If Brother Yu and I stood there without turning on the lights, no one would notice us.

Red Eye kicked down the tombstone and dug down with the shovel.

That's what we do. Digging graves is for eating. We can only do this, and we can't do anything else.

I didn't do anything because I knew Bai Tingli and Bai Xiqiong.

Brother Yu and Red Eye did it because they didn't know each other, it's as simple as that.

"Drip...drip...."

The deeper you dig, the stronger the response of the metal detector, and the more urgent the sound of Didi.

After digging down more than a meter along the tombstone, Brother Yu jumped into the pit with the flashlight in his mouth.

I searched the pit carefully, and found that there was a pile of nails buried in the soil, that is, big-headed iron nails for nailing wooden boards. The plastic bags were rotten, exposed outside, and there were many rusty spots.

After I saw it, I said, "Look, Brother Yu, am I right? It's just rotten iron waste. If the Iron Buddha is really buried in the ground, it will definitely be discovered when the coffin is buried. It would have caused a sensation."

"Drip.....drip..."

As soon as I finished speaking, the probe rod in Brother Yu's hand rang again.

Tian Sanjiu frowned and said, "Hit half a meter to the right and dig out the coffin."

Brother Yu started to do it.

In general burials, the coffins are buried 1.5 to 10 meters underground, and there are not many more than [-] meters. This depth is not difficult at all for professional geotechnical workers who often dig more than ten meters overnight. It can be dug in a few ten minutes.

Seeing loess and gravel being thrown up continuously, my eyelids twitched.

Too cruel.....

If Baiyanqiong sees this, I'll be blamed if she doesn't kill me.

"Slow down, I see the coffin," Brother Yu said, and I also saw the exposed nanmu coffin lid.

Tian Sanjiu said in a low voice: "Broaden, pry open the cover."

In ancient times, coffin nails were used for burial. Nowadays, many coffins are chute-style, just like sliding doors. I have seen many old and rotten coffins, and suddenly I saw such a brand-new coffin. To be honest, I felt a little conflicted. I don’t know why. .

After cleaning up the soil, Red Eyes grabbed one end of the coffin with one hand, and he pushed it hard, and most of it was pushed away with a clatter!

Unscrew the headlight lighting.

In the coffin, old man Bai had his eyes closed and was wearing a blue shroud with buttons tied around his neck. The old man's complexion was like a piece of white paper, and his eyelids and cheeks had begun to swell.

Because I asked someone to put on makeup when I was wearing the shroud, now the makeup on my face is smeared, like white|flour, it has accumulated around the corners of Laozi Bai's mouth.

It's like he took a big bite of cotton candy before he was alive, and it got all around his mouth without wiping his mouth. If it was in summer, he would definitely smell bad.

Tian Sanjiu squatted on the pit, looked at the old man Bai lying in the coffin, and said, "Brother Bai, I know that you have no whereabouts of Iron Buddha, but what are you hiding from me?"

"I, Tian Sanjiu, keep my word. Since I promised you that I would find the Tie Buddha, then I will definitely find it. It can be regarded as helping you, but my wish is fulfilled."

"Go down and help him up, search him." Tian Sanjiu turned to look at me.

I hesitated for a moment, gritted my teeth, and jumped into the pit.

I said silently in my heart: "I'm sorry for disturbing your rest, Mr. Bai, I will definitely burn paper and cigarettes for you later, and I will definitely burn two good cigarettes. No wonder."

"Death is heavy and death is heavy" refers to the fact that a dead person is too heavy. If the person weighed a hundred catties in life, he will weigh 130 catties after death.

I lifted the old man's body up and put his back against the coffin. In this position, the old man's head would be thrown back, so that the buttons around the neck of the shroud would snap open by themselves.

Brother Yu used the detector to reach into the coffin, and first scanned the old man.

It's such a big place, and the results are coming soon.

The alarm sound of the detector actually came from a pillow under Bai Lao's head...

There is a saying that the pillows in the coffins of the dead are called longevity pillows. Woolen fabrics and any animal skin products cannot be used.

In the past, ancient people used porcelain pillows. It is said in the industry that if you see a kind of porcelain pillow with a hollow bottom and painted white flowers and villains, it was all placed under the heads of dead people in the past.

The kind used by living people cannot be hollowed out. This kind of hollowed out porcelain pillow with white flowers and soul bottle, like a barn, is a ghost vessel that only serves the dead. There are no handed down products, [-]% are dug out by grave robbers of.

I have seen several people wash the Han Dynasty barn and make wine. They don’t know what the barn is for. Some sellers lied that it was used for making wine before, which is very unlucky. This is really a big trick. .

The birthday pillows in the coffin are wrapped in different things in different regions. Some are wrapped with tea leaves and cassia seeds, and some are wrapped with charcoal and lime powder. The pillow used by Mr. Bai is made of cotton cloth, and Tian Sanjiu asked me to take it out.

As soon as I started, I felt something was wrong.

The portion is wrong.

It feels a little overwhelming.

"Give it to me, Yunfeng."

Brother Yu wanted to go there, so he cut it open with a sharp knife.

A lot of white eggs fell out of the birthday pillow, which were cotton seeds.

Brother Yu reached into the pillow and groped.

Soon a bunch of big bells came out!

Hidden in the middle of the cottonseed!

The iron bell is two rings bigger than the jujube. Although it is made of iron, it is completely black and the coating is shiny and oily.

This kind of patina is not plated out, but a black lacquer patina formed naturally after being placed for a long time. It is precisely because of the layer of black lacquer on the outside that the iron bell does not rust in a large area.

There are four bells in total, which are strung together with cotton rope, and a layer of bas-relief Buddhist patterns, such as lotus petals and scriptures, are engraved around them. One of the bells has an opening and two small characters are engraved.

"Linji."

What does Linji mean?

After a little thought, I understand.

The Dharma Lineage of Central Plains of Buddhism in Ming Dynasty!

Rinzai Sect!Iron Buddha Temple!

This bell is very likely to be the iron bell hanging on the iron tower brake of the Iron Buddha Temple lost in 58!

Why did he end up in old man Bai Tingli's birthday pillow!

"Etc., etc....."

"wrong...."

A scene picture suddenly flashed in my head, why do I feel like I have seen this bell before...

"What Yunfeng are you looking for?" Brother Yu asked.

I was wearing a padded jacket at night, and I wore a jacket under the padded jacket. I groped in my arms for a while, and found the flat iron box in the pocket of the jacket.

"Brother Yu, help me take care of it."

Opening the tin box, I found the third old photo I had seen before.

The person in the old photo has been smeared above the neck, so it is hard to see who it is. On the ground of the photo is an old horse lantern. This old-fashioned horse lantern has a hook for hanging on the wall or in a stable for convenience.

This time I saw it clearly. There was a spherical object hanging on the iron hook of the lantern. The old camera used to have low function, poor focus, and it was dark and hard to see clearly.

In contrast, the black ball hanging on the hook of the lantern seems to be an iron bell!

"Where did you get these pictures?"

Tian Sanjiu frowned and asked me after looking at them one by one.

I said I found it while helping the Bai family sort out the relics.

At this moment.

Old man Bai was still wearing his shroud and leaning against the coffin lid, his neck was thrown back, his head was turned back, and he was facing the sky.

The moon in the sky shone into the coffin, and the atmosphere was a little scary, as if old man Bai was still alive and looking up at the moon.

I can't tell what I feel in my heart, maybe it's an accident, and I'm afraid.

The person whose face was smeared out in the photo.

Is it the young old man Bai at that time?

If not who would he be, if...

Then who was it that took this photo?