Chapter 38
"Six coffin nails?"
"Third brother, be careful, don't get too close. If it's six coffin nails, I'm afraid it's five."
A mole patted his chest and muttered: "It's okay, it doesn't have to be five."
I later learned a little about this statement.
Ancient funeral customs have been evolving, but there have been few changes over thousands of years. For example, when people are buried in a coffin, they are placed in a coffin, and the coffin nails seal the material to separate Yin and Yang.
When a coffin is covered with six or seven nails, it is normal, but if there are less than six nails, it is not good.
Those with five nails are called soul-sealing nails, and those with four nails are called soul-soothing nails. According to traditional culture, these are unlucky for both the dead and the living.
Sun Laosan is very courageous. After all, he has been a earthworker for many years. He has seen so many coffins. I don’t think he is afraid of these things at all.
The crowbar was shoved into the coffin, and the nails that sealed the coffin had rotted. He used a little force to open it.
"What is the third child inside?" A mole asked in a low voice.
"There's not much, just an inch-long gold thread and a pile of white chocolate. Come and have a look." He waved us over to take a look.
We walked over and took a look, and it was true that there were no burial objects in the coffin. Except for two short pieces of gold wire, there were only some scattered dead people's bones. The white chocolate he was talking about was these scattered dead people's bones. bone.
There's just a little bit of gold thread, so it's definitely not the remnants of the gold-lined jade garment.
Boss Sun shook his head after looking at it, "It seems that the conditions down here are good. It has been more than 2,600 years, and the bones are still there. If this kind of pit is placed in the north, it would be good if there are only one or two teeth left."
"Excuse me, please lift your leg." As he spoke, Boss Sun picked up a dead man's leg bone and threw it to the head of the coffin.
"Huh? What is this?"
After removing the bones, he used a small crowbar to pull at them, and a large black ball-shaped object was exposed.
Upon closer inspection, it looks like a round stone covered with mud. The surface of the ball is also stained with some seeds that have not rotted away.
"This... these seem to be melon seeds, right?" A mole frowned.
"It's really melon seeds. It's bad luck. I know what this thing is." Sun Laosan threw away the pebble ball and kept wiping his hands on his clothes.
"This is the Houqiao Pearl. In ancient times, it was used to torture people. If the owner of the tomb is really a mustard, then he is not a good person."
Then Boss Sun pointed to the bones of the dead man in the coffin and told us his guess.
The system of slave burial was actually abolished when the Western Zhou Dynasty was first established. However, the Emperor of Zhou enfeoffed the vassals. At that time, there were many princes and kings in remote areas. Some stubborn vassal states still continued the practice of human sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty. This bad habit.
At that time, unlike now, women's social status was not high. Among the victims, women accounted for a very large proportion. The pile of bones in the coffin in front of me must also be a woman.
Third brother, this is how he restored his guess.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, three thousand years ago, it was summer and the weather was very hot. The female weavers employed by the family took a break from work, and they all sat together and had a short chat.
Suddenly, the owner was kind-hearted and brought a cart of cantaloupe for everyone to eat on this hot summer day, tricking the female workers into eating melons to relieve the heat.
Unexpectedly, these melons were drugged with sweat-inducing drugs, and everyone fainted after eating the melons.
At this time, the host brought stone balls and stuffed them directly into the female workers' posterior orifices. Some of them might wake up from the pain, but it was no use. The coffin lid was nailed directly to the coffin, and they died of pain inside the coffin.
This cruel and painful burial method actually originated from the custom of the ancient Yue Kingdom.
Not only are beads stuffed into the back of the orifice, but the mouth must also be sewn with gold thread. The implication of this is that one cannot go in or out, and can serve the master with peace of mind.
The small amount of gold thread that remained was used to sew the mouth of the female martyr.
After all this was done, a considerable number of women were still alive, but because their mouths were sewn shut with gold thread, they could not scream or open their mouths in the coffin.
A few days later, he died in the dark.
Extremely miserable.
