Who is my upstairs

Chapter 52 Tomb Raiders

Moreover, in the heavy rain, the corpse had no head, only the bones below the neck remained.

It seemed that someone had deliberately chopped off his head, and in order to escape legal sanctions, the bones were quietly buried in the garden of Li's ancestral home.

"White bones...here...how can there be dead people's bones here?"

Although Yang Xiaofan knew that there might have been many horrific and bizarre murders in the Li family's ancestral house, but when there was a dead body in front of his eyes, he was extremely frightened.

All the flesh on this dead body was rotten, at least it must have been dead for more than half a year.

"I don't know, maybe it was buried by someone from the past. During the Republic of China, someone from my ancestors worked in the Metropolitan Police Department. The file room on the second floor should have recorded the case of missing persons near the Li family's ancestral house. , Go in and check, maybe you can track down his identity."

Li Shaohuang took Yang Xiaofan's hand, and the two of them slowly approached the place very close to the gate of the house. When they approached the bone, they found that there were many large centipedes that had drowned under and near the bone.

These big centipedes probably lived near the corpses and lived by sucking the breath of the corpses. The heavy rain came so suddenly that they drowned before they could escape.

Next to the body, a corner of an iron box was exposed.

The iron box was not big, with a diameter of less than ten centimeters. From the corner washed out by the rain, it could be seen that the iron was rotten and almost turned into iron slag.

Touch it with your hand, and a piece of iron slag on the surface immediately flows into the nearby potholes along the rainwater.

Li Shaohuang held the umbrella, Yang Xiaofan stretched out two white hands tacitly and took out the iron box bit by bit.

I don't know how long the box was buried before it was discovered. The iron was already brittle and unrecognizable. When it was taken out, the contents of the box had fallen to the ground.

As soon as these things fell on the watery ground, Li Shaohuang couldn't help picking one up and playing with it in his hand.

What he held in his hand was a gold seal the size of a soybean. You had to use a magnifying glass to see the exquisitely carved words on the seal.

Don’t ask why people in ancient times had to engrave words on such a small seal. Because of the limited smelting technology in ancient times, “gold” is not pure gold, but some relatively precious alloys. It is not easy to get a piece of seal as a seal.

Secondly, the engravers of the ancients were really amazing, and engraving characters on such a small seal is also a technical job, which is enough to show the superb skills of the craftsmen.

The rest are scattered with some ancient jade articles, including two leaf-shaped jade pieces, a jade carving in the shape of a jade cicada, a palm-sized jade bi and a lifelike carved jade pig.

These few pieces of jade, even a layman like Yang Xiaofan, who knows nothing about it, find it rare.

The whole body of the jade is white and lustrous, exquisite and translucent, especially the carving and polishing skills are top-notch, the surface of the jade bi and the jade slices reflect the light.

There is also the jade cicada, although it is only the size of an index finger, the carving is exquisite to the extreme.

Just as Yang Xiaofan wanted to reach out and put one in his hand to have a look, Li Shaohuang firmly grabbed his wrist.

Li Shaohuang's grasp seemed very nervous, as if Yang Xiaofan was going to touch the jade stones on the ground, even the seal in his hand was thrown on the ground, and he was busy holding Yang Xiaofan's hand stretched towards the jade stones on the ground.

"These jade stones were dug out from ancient tombs, and they still smell like corpses. They can't be touched with bare hands." Li Shaohuang said while clamping the handle of the umbrella with his neck, and took out a rubber glove from his pocket to give it to him. Yang Xiaofan put it on.

The rubber gloves were slightly bigger than Yang Xiaofan's hands, probably bought according to the size of Li Shaohuang's hands.

There is just one thing that makes Yang Xiaofan feel strange, Li Shaohuang seems to know that he will touch these ancient jades, a big man, he even wears rubber gloves with him.

and many more……

How could he be able to tell at a glance that these pieces of jade were artifacts taken out of the tomb.

You know, from the time when Li Shaohuang discovered the contents of the iron box to when Li Shaohuang discovered that these objects were artifacts, the time must not exceed 5 minutes.

In such a short period of time, Li Shaohuang was able to judge these things, it seems that he is really an expert in antiques.

Yang Xiaofan picked up two leaf-shaped jade pieces on the ground with his rubber-gloved hand, and found that the two leaf-shaped jade pieces were only about 0.3mm thick, and there was a curvature in the middle.

As long as the craftsmanship of this craftsman is even a little bit worse, this thin piece of jade will be broken.

What's even more rare is that the jade surface has been polished and polished. The rainy sky can still refract the skylight. One can imagine how smooth the jade surface is.

"How does this size feel like the size of a human eye... It can be used as a blindfold when it is placed on the eye. The ancient people would not be so advanced, but the design is a bit unreasonable. When sleeping, it will fall off the eye as long as you move it. Come down." Yang Xiaofan took the jade piece in his hand, looked at it for a while, and expressed his emotion.

Li Shaohuang took out the napkin from his pocket, put the jade on the ground into the napkin one by one, and wrapped them layer by layer with the napkin.

He said with a wicked smile on his face, "If it's a dead person's blindfold, you don't have to worry about it falling off your eyes when you turn over, right? Miss Xiaofan?"

Yang Xiaofan has been timid since he was a child, even though he has seen many scary things in the house, he still avoids things used by dead people.Thinking that the two pieces of jade in his hand were something that a dead man could use to cover his eyes, he felt a chill, and wanted to throw them away, so as not to see them again.

But he was afraid that this thing was expensive, so he followed Li Shaohuang's example and protected the two pieces of jade in layers of napkins.

"Then...the other jade wares were also excavated from ancient tombs, right?" Yang Xiaofan looked at the jade wares with layers of napkins in Li Shaohuang's hands, and asked uncertainly.

Li Shaohuang nodded, "The jade pig you saw, despite its naive appearance, is very cute. It is actually a jade pillow under the head of a dead person. There is also that piece of jade, which should be the favorite of the tomb owner during his lifetime. One of the utensils, so it is usually held in the arms. There is also the jade cicada. In the Han Dynasty, the jade cicada represented rebirth after breaking the shell, so the general nobles would hold a jade cicada in their hands after death. These should be the same A burial object accompanied by the coffin of the owner of the tomb."

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the two of them walked into the living room of the house side by side without caring about the bones on the ground.

Li Shaohuang put away his umbrella, put down the underworld vessel wrapped in a napkin in his hand, and went into the kitchen to make a cup of ginger tea for the two of them.

Yang Xiaofan also followed into the kitchen and asked Li Shaohuang how to deal with this matter.

Li Shaohuang put two cups of brewed ginger tea on the stove, smiled and said to Yang Xiaofan: "Miss Xiaofan, don't be afraid, that dead bone should be left by a tomb robber, and the iron box next to him should contain The treasures he dug out from the ancient tomb, but before they could enjoy them, they were murdered by his companions and buried in the garden. This matter should be handed over to the police. As for those jades, they should belong to the state. It’s good to hand it over to the country.”

After taking a sip of the ginger tea made by Li Shaohuang, Yang Xiaofan felt the chill in his body eased a lot. Looking at Li Shaohuang's gentle smile, he couldn't help questioning: "How do you know that he is a tomb robber? And how could the tomb robber be killed?" Buried in your garden? If you don’t explain this clearly, if the police investigate you..."

(End of this chapter)