The years when I was Captain Jin

Chapter 23 The face of a woman

I don't know how long it took, but the light of the flashlight flickered again.

The same situation occurs again.

Only this time, we all saw the shadow clearly. It was indeed a person tied to a cross, but with a rectangular cabinet on his back and his head crooked.

I really have the heart to cry, where did this shadow come from?

But at this moment, the old Jintou seemed to have discovered something, he called to Chen Tuozi who was holding the emergency light: "Take a light on the top of your head."

Chen Tuozi hurriedly raised the emergency light, and a beam of dazzling light shone through.

We found that a huge bluestone slab was stuck on the top of the tomb at an angle of 45 degrees.I was taken aback. This stone slab weighed at least a thousand catties, and it was hanging above our heads. If this thing was a mechanism, we would all be turned into meatloaf once it fell down.

"Brighten up the tricks and take a look."

Old Jintou frowned and said.

This time, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the shadow did not appear again.Just when we were a little sleepy, suddenly, I saw a pale woman's face protruding from behind the bluestone slab!

I don't know what treatment method was used. This face is very well preserved, but the face is white, the hair is loose, and only two black eye sockets are left, just like Sadako in Japanese ghost movies.

I just had my eyeballs fixed on that face, and in an instant, almost half of my body went numb.

"Oh my god, female ghost!"

Unable to control himself, the fat man pulled the trigger violently, and several bullets pierced through the woman's face. The bullets passed through the woman's face and hit the stone wall behind, bursting out a series of sparks.

"Little fat man who lost his children and grandchildren, are you trying to kill us?"

Lao Jin's face turned black all of a sudden, and he kicked the fat man's pistol away.I was secretly startled when I saw it, the old man seemed to be in a daze, but after the few moves just now, I knew if there was any. The team that my grandfather led back then were all fierce men.

At the same time, the woman's face also revealed her whole body.

This is actually a coffin, to be precise, it should be a coffin wrapped with a female corpse.The two hands of the female corpse protruded from the two holes in the coffin, and a long iron chain was dragging on her head, like a big turtle.

The weird shadow we saw just now is this thing!

I felt chills all over my body, what kind of punishment is this?
Since ancient times, China has always advocated that it is safe to be buried in the soil. This woman was not only made into a mummified body after her death, but also put on iron chains and made it look like a cross just like the crucifixion of Jesus.

"This is a hanging coffin. It seems that there was no such custom in the Warring States period?" Chen Tuozi frowned.

"What is a hanging coffin?" I asked.

"In ancient China, reincarnation was advocated. After death, people had to go to the earth for peace, because only when the soul rested, could they be reincarnated as human beings. Therefore, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, in order to punish prisoners, a special torture was invented, which was to lock the dead in shackles and pretend to be Hanging in the coffin, so that the coffin will never touch the soil, and the dead will never be reincarnated. However, this kind of torture only appeared a few times for a short time, and there is no record after that. How could this method appear in Li Si's tomb? "

Chen Tuozi seems to be very familiar with this aspect of history, and he explained it in detail.

The circulation of ancient culture was extremely inconvenient, especially after several dynasties, the differences in national customs were even greater.Thousands of years have passed since the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Qin Dynasty. Logically speaking, Li Si didn't know what a hanging coffin was at all. It is indeed a bit jaw-dropping to see such a handwriting at this moment.

"And there is something wrong with this female corpse. It's almost unheard of for a face to be preserved so well! I'm afraid it's a zongzi."

Old Jintou squinted his eyes and said, he was staring at the shaking hanging coffin with some anxiety.

A normal corpse, no matter how well-preserved it was, would have shriveled and festered in the past thousands of years.Unless this corpse has mutated, it is the zongzi that Tu Fuzi fears most!

I gave the fat man a hard look, no wonder the old Jintou wanted to scold his mother just now, if this thing is really a rice dumpling, the few shots just now would definitely cause a big mess.

I asked the fat man to help me climb up the bluestone slab, and wanted to take a closer look at the hanging coffin. This coffin was hung by three iron chains, two were on the coffin lid, and one was on the neck of the female corpse.

Moreover, there seemed to be a dark staircase behind the coffin, and there were gusts of cold wind blowing from the stairs from time to time, which caused the hanging coffin to shake.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a stone tablet, and I hurriedly called Fatty and the others to come up.

This stone tablet is very small, and on the top is written in Xiaozhuan: Tomb of Beloved Wife Cai.

We were all stunned for a moment. This kind of ancient torture should have been used on the heinous sinners, so that they could never be reborn after death.But the body in the coffin at this moment is the beloved wife of the owner of the tomb, which is incomprehensible anyway.

"Is Li Si really a lunatic? Killed his own wife, what on earth does he want to do?" Chen Tuozi's expression was ugly.

To be honest, the Tufuzi would be most afraid of encountering this kind of lunatic who doesn't follow the routine when he fights.This kind of person has no taboos at all. In order to ensure the safety of his tomb, he may make many unexpected tricks.

Just like a group of tomb robbers before, they dug up the tomb of Suo'etu, a minister of the Qing Dynasty in Hubei. When the coffin was opened and the spoils were shared collectively, no one knew who pulled the necklace around the corpse's neck and immediately hid it in the corpse's stomach All the crossbow arrows shot out, smashing the surrounding people to pieces.

There are very few people in history who can be so cruel to their own corpses.

"I'm talking about his grandma. What's going on with Li Si? In the history books, don't they say that this guy is a modest gentleman and a pillar of the country? They also don't say that he is a lunatic." The more the fat man thought about it, the more hairy he became.

"There are still words below, let me take a look first."

I frowned and said, there are still many densely packed small characters on this stone tablet. I turned the emergency light to the brightest, and then lay down there and carefully read those characters.

And what makes me feel strange is that I can't understand many small seal characters on this stone tablet. Judging from the overall arrangement of these characters, there should be nothing wrong with the small seal characters, but I can't recognize them at all as I specialize in antique business.

Even Chen Tuozi watched and shook his head.

"Strange, isn't there a dictionary of Xiaozhuan in the world of archaeology? Besides, Xiaozhuan is one of the most readable ancient fonts. I don't see why it is so famous."

Chen Tuozi shook his head and said.

I took out my camera and took a picture of the stele, but the old Jintou behind me suddenly said:
"Not only here, but also in other places. We found this kind of incomprehensible Xiaozhuan characters in several tombs back then! A master character in the team said that these Xiaozhuan scripts have been encrypted. Li Si is afraid that someone will discover this tomb and know something from these writings."

I nodded, this statement is very likely.

Li Si was originally a great calligrapher, and he even carved the jade seal of Qin Shihuang.In order to prevent people from making fakes, he deliberately changed the traces of his calligraphy in the last stroke of the word "Chang" in the word "Ordered by the Heavens, and Shou Yongchang", which made it impossible for counterfeiters to imitate these eight characters.

"I can only understand a fraction of these words. It probably means that Li Si's first wife accidentally ran into his secret. In order to prevent the secret from being leaked, Li Si reluctantly killed his wife who had been with him for decades. After his death, his wife Put her body into a hanging coffin and bury her here, so that her soul will be imprisoned in the coffin forever, and she will never tell her secrets..."

Chen Tuozi hesitated in translating, probably guessing many of the meanings by himself.

I suddenly remembered my grandfather's fascination with the Qingyang bottle before he died. Could the Qingyang bottle be related to that secret?

It wasn't a piece of bronze that attracted my grandfather, but the secret of the tomb itself!
You must know that even if the Qingyang bottle is a national treasure, if it is sold, it will not reach the priceless height.

And I asked Uncle Ming, how do you know that what I brought back is the real Qingyang bottle?He showed a mysterious confident expression.

Perhaps what they are looking for is the secret hidden in this tomb!

(End of this chapter)