Chapter 85

c The tomb is dark, with two bronze figures standing next to the huge white coffin. This scene is strange in style and makes anyone feel uncomfortable after watching it.

At this time, the boss was surprised and said: "The owner of this tomb really doesn't follow common sense. He doesn't stay in the main tomb properly. He has to hide himself in this corner. What is he doing? The key is that there are no burial objects. At first glance, I thought these two bronze figures were terracotta warriors and horses." He shined his flashlight on the bronze figures.

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

After speaking, he took out a folded small steel shovel from his bag. The shovel was not large in size and was similar to an engineer shovel. It could not only dig soil, but also pry coffin boards.

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

In the past, when making tombs in ancient times, both commoners and nobles would deliberately leave a small opening in the tomb. The same was true for the coffin. The opening was very small, which meant that the soul of the person in the coffin could ascend to heaven. This small opening is called the patio.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, the patio was renamed a wooden well, and finally in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was renamed a living mouth. In fact, it was a property of changing the soup without changing the medicine.

I don’t know why, but the temperature in the secret room where the tomb owner’s coffin is placed is very low, very cold, almost below freezing.

"Found it!" 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. The third child said that this hole is the so-called patio.

The principle of the coffin is actually very easy to understand. It is what people often call matryoshka dolls nowadays. Large ones are nested inside small ones, layer by layer. If you want to pry them apart, you can only do it one layer at a time.

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

The emperor had four-layered coffins, the princes and kings had three-layered coffins, and the scholar-bureaucrats had one-layered coffins. After the death of people from lower classes, only coffins were allowed to be used, not coffins. The coffins are all made of mortise and tenon structure without a single nail.

After thousands of years, the mortise and tenon structure has become very fragile. I used a shovel to pry hard, and sure enough, the outermost layer of the coffin became 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. The two were veterans working together for many years and opened the first layer of the coffin in less than half an hour.

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

Under this layer of white clam coffin, there is actually a layer of black metal coffin.