I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

Cui Tao immediately realized that the person Han Qi was talking about was Zhao Zongqing, and Zhao Zongqing was indeed similar to the Straw Sandal Boy in imitating others.But to question the royal relatives based on this point is still an old saying, and the evidence is not enough.

When Han Qi was thinking about how to open the coffin, Cui Tao and Wang Zhao led people to dig up the other seven graves in the cave.

When visiting the Lord's tomb earlier, Sun Zhixiao, the yamen servant, reported himself as brave.Cui Tao couldn't fully trust Sun Zhixiao, so he was stunned temporarily with a silver needle.Now that Sun Zhixiao has woken up, he was told that he suddenly fainted while exploring the tomb, and immediately went to apologize to Han Qi with an apologetic face, and even took the initiative to participate in the work of digging the tomb.

"Will we dig people's ancestral graves like this, will it harm the morality?" Sun Zhixiao whispered to the yamen servant beside him after digging the grave twice with a pickaxe.

"Damn it, how many innocent people have they killed in Tianji Pavilion, and how many brothers have we lost in Kaifeng Prefecture? What is there to sympathize with a few moldy bones of sinners? I can't wait to smash them into ashes, but you Do you still feel sorry for them?"

Li Cai was ordered by Wang Zhao to secretly stare at Sun Zhixiao.After hearing Sun Zhixiao's words, he couldn't help scolding him.

"That's right, why do you sympathize with everyone? The snake bit you and poisoned you. If you don't kill the snake, do you have to worry about whether the snake will break its teeth?" Li Yuan followed his brother Li Cai Said Sun knew.

When Li Cai said it at first, Sun Zhixiao just scratched his head twice in embarrassment, trying to get away with a sneer.Unexpectedly, Li Yuan talked about her again, and everyone followed suit.Sun Zhixiao quickly slapped himself on the face and apologized to everyone, saying that he had slipped his tongue and said the wrong thing just now.

Everyone glanced at Sun Zhixiao, and continued to dig the grave under Wang Zhao's urging, but they didn't have time to say anything about him.Sun Zhixiao was a little uncomfortable because everyone looked at him just now, and when he lowered the pickaxe to dig the soil, his expression was a little uneasy.

Cui Tao paid more attention to the grave with the newer stele, so he asked people to dig here first.

After the coffin was opened, a rancid smell permeated the air, everyone covered their mouths in disgust, and instinctively took a step back.

On the contrary, Cui Tao's eyes lit up, and the strong smell of putrefaction showed that the corpse had not yet fully ossified.The younger the body, the more clues there may be.Cui Tao immediately took a closer look, and saw that it was a highly decomposed corpse. The nails and hair had fallen off, and the fat excreted from the corpse during the Giant View period had formed emerald green 'wax'.

The rate of decay of the corpse in the coffin will vary due to the influence of various environmental conditions.

The climate in Quanzhou is very hot. The temperature inside the cave is much lower than outside, but the humidity is relatively high. Combined with the sealing of the coffin and the depth of burial, the death time of this corpse should be within half a year.

Covering his mouth and nose, Wang Zhao explored with Cui Tao, and found a bead-shaped thing the size of a thumbnail on the left hand side of the corpse. Because the surface of this thing was covered by emerald green corpse wax, it was difficult to see at a glance. what kind of stuff.As soon as he raised his finger, Sun Zhixiao immediately came over with a torch and hurried to help illuminate it.

"Stop, back!" Cui Tao shouted immediately.

Both Wang Zhao and Sun Zhixiao were stunned.

The moment Sun Zhixiao's hand paused, sparks from the torch fell on the corpse wax, instantly igniting the entire coffin.Seeing this, everyone hurriedly shouted to put out the fire.Sun Zhixiao was so frightened that he immediately dropped the torch, sat down on the ground, and kicked his legs back.

"Ah, it's haunted! We've got retribution for digging graves!"

Everyone listened to Cui Tao's suggestion and quickly raised soil to put out the fire.Although the fire was finally extinguished, the coffin was covered with dust and it was a mess.Not only was there not much flesh left in the corpse, it was burnt, and it was also mixed in the soil. It was hard to separate or distinguish anything, and the clothes were almost burned clean.I thought it was impossible to distinguish the material and embroidery work after cleaning the clothes.

Cui Tao originally thought that the bead-shaped thing that Wang Zhao was referring to was a pearl or gemstone, which was not afraid of fire, but he never thought it was wood.The beads have been completely burnt black, and when the surface is gently scratched with a fingernail, black ash will fall off.

Cui Tao put away the bead before looking at Sun Zhixiao.

Sun Zhixiao's previous screams had already caused panic among many people.The cave was dark and gloomy, and it was easy to hear echoes.He yelled like that just now, and the coffin suddenly caught fire, which immediately frightened many government servants who believed in ghosts and gods.All of them turned pale with fright, afraid of being possessed by ghosts.

"Corpse wax is flammable when exposed to fire."

Cui Tao took into account the need to hide her identity, so she only told Wang Zhao in a low voice and asked Wang Zhao to explain.

The reason why some things are frightening is that people can't understand the reason and are afraid of mystery.Now everyone understands what Wang Zhao explained, and the panic immediately calms down.

Everyone dispersed, and each continued to work. Sun Zhixiao was still sitting on the ground, a little dumbfounded.

Wang Zhao pulled him up from the ground and comforted him not to be afraid.

Sun Zhixiao was filled with guilt, "I took a torch and went there to illuminate...it's all my fault! Blame me!"

"You were originally a Cangcao yamen servant. You just transferred here not long ago. I didn't know that it is normal for corpse wax to be flammable. Let alone you, even those of us yamen servants who often survey the scene, not everyone knows that fire prevention is necessary." Wang Wang Zhao patted Sun Zhixiao on the shoulder, continuing that he doesn't need to blame himself.

Sun Zhixiao nodded obediently.

"Look at your face, are you frightened? Go outside and take a rest." Wang Zhao asked Sun Zhixiao to check the number of captured villagers in Anding Village.

Sun Zhixiao wanted to speak again, but Wang Zhao suddenly patted his shoulder.

"Age, age, and name, you have to make a clear statistics."

Sun Zhixiao had no choice but to agree to go.

The coffins of the remaining six tombs were successfully opened. There are six sets of bones, three men and three women. The clothes were obviously decayed in different degrees. Judging from the decay of the clothes on the outside, the latest bones are at least 30 to [-] years old. .

The clothing worn by the corpse is silk, but it is not particularly expensive, and it is easier to buy in the market, and it is not as good as the clothing of the rotting corpse that was burned before.The clothing of the rotting corpse looked like a tribute at first glance, but it was burned before it could be inspected.

After Wang Zhao sent Li Cai to continue monitoring Sun Zhixiao, he came over to ask Cui Tao what clues he had.

"Judging from the rotten clothes in the coffins, they all died within nearly a hundred years, but not in the same period. The previous guess is probably correct. These people should all be descendants of the men in black in the murals."

Wang Zhao agreed.

"There are no funerary objects in the six coffins, and even the women don't have any jewelry. They only use hair bands to tie their hair." Cui Tao said.

"This is a bit strange. Judging by the ostentation in this cave, they should not be short of things to be buried with." This is the first time Wang Zhao has encountered such a situation. Generally, when people are buried, they will more or less have something to be buried with. If you are poor, you must always have one or two pieces of cheap pottery buried with you.

"The main tomb is also empty, and there are no burial objects. This place echoes the situation in the main tomb. It should be related to the customs passed down by their family." Cui Tao speculated.

Wang Zhao immediately agreed: "That's right! The dark guards or dead soldiers who are really fast in training will not wear jewelry when performing tasks, but carry identifiable things with them. When they are buried, they should also keep this a habit."

"From this point of view, the newly decomposed corpse is particularly special. Not only is the clothing the most luxurious, but he is the only one among the seven graves that has a funeral object, a wooden bead."

"It's weird to say that! It's a pity that they were all burned, leaving no clues. It's all because of that Sun Zhixiao. I think he just set the fire on purpose."

"It is indeed very suspicious." Cui Tao seconded.

"Then why the official Han Tui didn't let me arrest him immediately, and only let Li Cai look at him? Just now, he let him succeed by inattentiveness, and we lost important evidence." Wang Zhao regretted endlessly.

"It's hard to try a dead man, and it's easy to reverse the confession. It's better to go fishing with a long line. The situation just now happened suddenly, but there are gains only when there are losses. It's not necessarily all bad things."

Cui Tao advised Wang Zhao to calm down.

"Fortunately, Mrs. Cui knocked him out before entering the main tomb. If he pushes us when we crack the mechanism, then our lives will be over!"

Wang Zhao couldn't help complaining again, he hated secret agents and traitors too much.

Han Qi encountered more trouble here. There was only one entrance and exit to the main tomb, and there were many traps, and the ground could not be walked, otherwise more dangerous traps would be triggered.If you choose not to trigger the mechanism, you can step on the head of the stone statue without touching the ground, but this can only be done by people with good lightness skills.It would be impossible to lift the sarcophagus out by manpower, because the sarcophagus is too big and heavy.

After holding his hands behind his back for a while, Han Qi thought of a way to transport the sarcophagus out.

But then there are more complicated problems. After the sealed sarcophagus is opened, what dangers may it face?In this regard, I have to ask the brothers of the Yu family who have rich experience in tomb robbery.

The two brothers quickly told Han Qi that hidden weapons, poisonous water, poisonous gas and poisonous insects were basically impossible to escape from these four things.

The brothers checked it out, and there was only one mechanism under the coffin. This mechanism had already been opened by Han Qi and Cui Tao, and the hidden compartment on the ground could be opened by pressing the beads on the surface of the coffin.Other than that, there are no other connections.

If the coffin is not opened like this, and the sarcophagus is only moved, there will be no mechanism problems.

"The biggest problem is how to open the coffin safely?" The Yu family brothers told Han Qi that judging from the number of ruthless traps in the cave, the sealed sarcophagus will definitely kill people.If their brothers came here to rob the tomb, they would definitely not choose to open it.

As long as the poisonous water and gas are effectively protected and not touched or smelled, there is basically no problem.I don't know that the range of hidden weapons in the coffin is limited, and it is easy to crack, so you can avoid it.

"...Among them, only poisonous insects are the most troublesome. They are diverse and hard to guard against. There are many types that we brothers have never even heard of. Looking at the sealing of the sarcophagus, coupled with the grand construction of the tomb, I guess this is the most likely It's poisonous insects."

The Yu family brothers are most afraid of this.

"It just so happens that I have only one way to deal with poisonous insects." Han Qi called Zhang Chang to mutter, and ordered him to prepare something immediately.

The Yu family brothers couldn't believe it, and emphasized to Han Qi again: "To tell you the truth, Han Tuiguan, we have met many friends who robbed the tomb, and it was because they encountered poisonous insects and died in the tomb during the tomb robbery. Those insects were either swords or torches. It can be prevented, they remain in a state of suspended animation in a sealed state, and once they are unsealed, they will be resurrected immediately, and there will be tens of thousands of floods, I am afraid that only the Da Luo Immortal can resist it!"

"Then I'm afraid you will call me Da Luo Immortal." Han Qi said calmly.