Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

The tomb was dark, and there were two bronze figures standing beside the huge white coffin. This scene had a strange style, and anyone who saw it felt uncomfortable.

At this time, the boss was surprised and said: "The owner of this tomb really didn't play cards according to common sense. He didn't stay in the main tomb, so he hid himself in this corner alone. What is he doing? The key is that there are no funeral objects, just I thought these two bronze figures were terracotta warriors and horses." He shone a flashlight on the bronze figures.

"It's possible that this corner is some kind of geomantic treasure. The coffin is made of giant clams, tsk tsk," said the third brother in a deep voice, "The owner of this tomb is too rich. Look at me. I'll open it up for him."

After speaking, he took out a folded small steel shovel from his bag. This shovel is not big, similar to an engineer shovel. It can not only dig soil, but also pry coffin boards.

The eldest brother used a flashlight to help illuminate, and the third brother walked around the coffin with a shovel. I knew he was looking for the patio.

In the past, when burials were made in ancient times, whether it was a commoner or an aristocrat, they would deliberately leave a small opening in the tomb, and the coffin was the same.This small opening is called the patio.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, the courtyard was renamed Mujing, and finally in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was renamed Huokou.

For some reason, the temperature in the secret room where the tomb owner's coffin was placed was very low, very cold, almost below zero.

"Found it!" The third brother's eyes lit up, and he stopped at the northwest corner of the coffin.There is a small rectangular hole in the coffin, and the third child said that this hole is the so-called patio.

The principle of the outer coffin is actually very easy to understand. It is the nesting dolls that people often say now, the big one nests the small ones, one layer inside the other. If you want to pry it open, you can only do it layer by layer.

There are also rules for the number of layers of the coffin.

There are four layers of coffins for the son of heaven, three layers of coffins for princes and kings, and one layer for scholars and bureaucrats. After the death of people in the lower class, only coffins are allowed to be used, and no coffins are allowed.The mortise and tenon structure is used between the outer coffin and the outer coffin, without a single nail.

After thousands of years, the mortise and tenon structure has become very fragile. I pried it hard with a shovel. Sure enough, the outermost coffin was loose.

As long as the seam is opened, the next step is simple, just peel off the skin.

The boss also went up to help, and the two had cooperated tacitly with each other for many years, and the first coffin was opened in less than half an hour.

It doesn't matter if you look down, everyone is taken aback.

Under the layer of white giant clams, there is actually a black metal outer layer.

Sister Hong exclaimed after seeing it: "It's oxidized, it's silver!"

Silver coffin!

Were there silver wares in the Western Zhou Dynasty?

have!But very few!

In the 70s, the Shanxi archaeological team unearthed a silver coffin with the inscription "Mrs. Yueling". This silver coffin is a national treasure, and it is the kind that is permanently prohibited from being exhibited abroad.

But what we saw in front of us turned out to be a silver coffin board several meters long and wide!

Upon closer inspection, some patterns seem to be engraved on the oxidized black silver coffin board.

The third brother said excitedly: "Open your eyes, open your eyes! This is really an eye-opening, the two coffins alone are so powerful, what is there in the innermost coffin!"

Despite the weakness of the courtyard, it took a lot of effort to open the silver coffin.

"It's about to fall! Be careful not to hit your feet, this thing is not light!"

"Wait, third brother!"

"Look! There's water running ahead!"

I saw that a lot of black viscous liquid flowed out along the gaps of the silver coffin boards, and more and more flowed out, and a stench of fishy smell hit the face!

"Back!" The Sun brothers stepped back.

The black water in the silver coffin slabs continued to flow more and more, dripping all over the ground.

Sister Hong covered her nose and said, "This black water...is it the embalming fluid that flowed out of the coffin?"

The eldest brother nodded and said: "It looks like, let's take a look after the drain is clean. According to the previous situation, there is at least one layer of coffin inside."

"Huh? Something's not right, brother," at this moment I discovered a strange thing.

"What's wrong, Yunfeng?"

I pointed to the two bronze statues of terracotta warriors and horses and said, "Is there a pit under these two bronze statues? You can see why the coffin fluid has seeped down, along the feet of the bronze statues."

The eldest brother frowned when he saw it.

When we got closer, we took a closer look with our flashlights, and only then did we discover what was tricky.

It turned out that there were many small eyes around the bronze statue's feet, and the antiseptic coffin liquid flowing out of the silver coffin boards leaked down these small eyes at the bronze statue's feet.

The boss looked up and looked around the main tomb, and then he said: "Maybe this was deliberately designed by the previous owner of the tomb, the purpose is to waterproof, fearing that the rain will damage the place."

"Okay, don't worry about this for now, I think the liquid in the coffin is about to flow out, the third child, let's go up and pry open the last coffin board for him!"

"Be careful," Sister Hong frowned and looked around, "My heart is pounding, I don't feel very good."

"Hey, it's okay, Xiaohong. You were frozen because it's too cold here."

The Sun brothers shoveled back and forth, and they pried open the inner coffin board in a short while.

With the falling of the silver coffin board, in an instant.

A streak of gold flashed before my eyes.

The innermost coffin board...is pure gold...

It turned out to be a gold coffin and a silver coffin!

The flashlight hit the front, and the golden reflection dazzled people's eyes.

Gold will not oxidize like silver, and it is still as bright as new after thousands of years. There are a lot of patterns engraved on this layer of gold coffin, and the patterns are all lifelike.

The patterns on the gold plate include feathered figures and flying apsaras, among which the pattern in one scene is the strangest.

This is a row of soldiers in armor, and the strange thing is that they all have a snake-like animal coiled around their heads.

No, take a closer look with the flashlight, it can't be called a snake, it can only be called like, because it is obvious that these snakes have legs.

Looking at this pattern, Sister Hong had a solemn expression, and lowered her head in thought.

Suddenly, she raised her head abruptly, and said in shock: "Boss and third! An army with four-legged snakes coiled around their heads! Isn't this the legend of the Ancient Yue Kingdom!"

The golden light flashed across people's eyes, the boss touched the golden coffin board and said in a deep voice: "That's just a legend, it can't be taken as true. Unexpectedly, the owner of this tomb is also a believer of the Ancient Yue Black Witch."

I didn't understand what it meant, so I asked.

At this time, Sister Hong explained: "In the past, there was a small country in the Nanman area called Guyue. This Guyue is not the Yue country that was later in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States. The place of origin, there is a legend that there was a four-legged snake witch army in ancient Yue, which was invincible in attacking cities and conquering land. What's more, it is said that as long as the four-legged snakes coiled on the soldiers' heads don't die, then these soldiers will not die, even if they are hit by arrows Even if you get hit by a knife, you can kill the enemy alive and kicking."

"No way... Sister Hong, no matter how it sounds, this is unreliable," I couldn't believe it.

Sister Hong nodded, "Don't say you don't believe it, I don't believe it either, but..." She pointed to the four-legged snake patterns and said: "These four-legged snakes do exist, and there are quite a few of them. Chinese skink, Hakka people and some places also call it dragon crawler, I even killed one when I was a child, and fed it to my cat."

The third brother also nodded and said in agreement: "Xiaohong is right, there is nothing terrible about this thing, it is called a bitch in our place."

"The children in the village are all caught and played with."