Following the fourth uncle's order, I rubbed my palms, and then I saw him first grasp the dagger in his hand, treating the dagger as a chisel, and suddenly inserted it into the gap on the side of the coffin wood.
After it was inserted, the fourth uncle did not pull it out. Instead, he made a very smart relay, jumped, and then stepped on the hilt of the dagger with one foot. He weighed more than 100 kilograms and jumped up and hit it, forming a leverage principle. With a "bang!", the side of the coffin, the side where he inserted the dagger, was directly pried open by a width of a fist. The big hole.
The fourth uncle turned his head and smiled at me, pointing to a gap at the bottom of the coffin.
"Come on, you do it too." The fourth uncle picked up his dagger, turned around and gave way to his seat.
The fourth uncle is indeed a professional player! I was slightly startled, and quickly inserted the dagger into the gap, imitating what he had just done, not jumping up, but kicking me while standing.
The gap in the coffin board was getting bigger and bigger, and even before I stepped down a few times, this side of the coffin was completely rotted.
At this time, the fourth uncle rubbed his hands, stretched his arms into the big gap in the coffin, and fiddled with his fingers for a while. Then I saw the four wooden wedges nailed into the coffin board and pushed them out.
I was stunned when I saw it. This was a living coffin-opening expert. Practice makes perfect.
The fourth uncle smiled humorously and responded to me immediately: "Wenshan, don't look at me with that strange look. When I was young, fourth uncle, I used to follow people around to have fun. I do this kind of thing." Much more.”
I thought the fourth uncle was a young man who was engaged in reverse fighting. I rubbed my head and smiled.
The fourth uncle asked him and me to stand opposite the coffin, and the two of us worked together to lift the heavy coffin board.
"Boom -" The coffin board fell to the ground, immediately revealing the dark interior of the coffin.
Liu Ruxiang called in with a flashlight, and what she saw was the corpse of an old man.
The corpse is now dark and shriveled, a lot of hair on the head has fallen off, and the entire face has been deformed, as if it were broken porcelain, placed in the coffin and dried alive like a human being.
The white teeth were so distinctive among the black and gray corpses. There were some black age spots on the old face, as well as some mold that grew out of nowhere.
I immediately covered my nose, looking at this terrifying and ugly appearance, I really wanted to retching.
"Four, fourth uncle, how many years ago are these corpses?" I asked him, pointing to the corpse in the coffin.
The fourth uncle didn’t reply to me at first. He observed me for a while before smacking his lips.
At this time, he reached out his hand and gently touched the body.
My eyes widened when I saw him doing this. Doesn't he find it disgusting? In short, I stay away from the hands of the fourth uncle, and I don’t want to have sloppy hands anymore.
But I never would have imagined that the fourth uncle would hit the mummy with such a poke, and immediately make a hole in the bare chest.
The corpse of this old man was completely naked.
This is where I'm more confused.
The Fourth Master observed it for a while, then turned around and asked Liu Ruxiang with a smile: "Xiaoxiang, your apprentice doesn't understand. Tell me, what era is this body from?"
Liu Ruxiang looked at it carefully, but she didn't touch it so exaggeratedly.
"I-I feel like this mummy is not very old. It should have been around this time eighty to thirty years ago."
The fourth uncle nodded slightly.
"Of course what you said is right, but it's not accurate enough." The fourth uncle said this, and then a sly light appeared in his eyes.
Liu Ruxiang didn't ask him for an explanation and said, "Please Fourth Uncle, please help me and my apprentice clear up our doubts."
"Hehehe, ginger is still hot when he is old," the fourth uncle looked down at the old man's corpse in the coffin, looked at it with a thoughtful eye, and said, "This corpse was between eighty and thirty. He died ten years ago, which can be seen based on the appearance of the corpse."
When the fourth uncle said this, he suddenly changed the topic: "I think this body should have died forty years ago, or sixty years ago."
The time given by the fourth uncle is almost very accurate, and the span is even a bit large, which is very puzzling.
"Ah? Why do you say that?" I asked for more details and continued to question the fourth uncle.
Only then did the fourth uncle start to ask me with a smile: "Xiaoxiang, Wenshan, I'm here to test you two juniors today. I ask you why I touched this old man's corpse just now."
The fourth uncle immediately confused me with this question.
Could it be possible to tell the year based on the feel of the corpse?
This sounds somewhat incredible.
For example, if there are two pieces of bacon, one is aged for one year and the other is aged for five years, is it possible for someone to tell the year by touching them? If you analyze the taste and aroma, you may be able to get a similar time range. However, it is unlikely that you can tell the year just by pinching it like the fourth uncle did.
I didn't expect this question to be so difficult. Even Liu Ruxiang was asked by the Fourth Master.
The master was deep in thought and did not speak no matter how hard he thought about it.
Although I was not sure about the answer, I bravely said: "It must be to judge the year. You can judge the age of the corpse by its texture, feel and hardness."
Unexpectedly, after I said it, the fourth uncle shook his head: "No, you didn't say it at all, not even a little bit."
A sly light appeared on the fourth uncle's face: "You juniors are still too young."
I was puzzled, and suddenly I saw these four uncles grabbing my hand.
"Ah." I looked at him blankly.
Then I saw that the fourth uncle actually pinched my wrist, and in a gesture that I couldn't resist at all, he suddenly took my hand and pressed it on the belly of the corpse.
Several drops of cold sweat broke out on my forehead.
"Ah - fourth uncle, you, what are you doing?"
The fourth uncle glared at me: "Shut up and touch me properly."
As he said that, the fourth uncle suddenly pinched the joint between the bones in my wrist, and a heartbreaking pain immediately appeared.
"Oh, I don't dare anymore. I don't dare anymore."
I endured the pain and groped with my hand on the old man's corpse. The feeling was particularly strange, like dried meat skin, beef jerky or something like that. I could feel it by pressing down hard with my fingers. Feel a very strong tenacity.
The fourth uncle pressed my hand and took my hand from the belly of the old man's corpse to his chest.
He immediately touched the skeleton inside the body, and the real touch was particularly terrifying.
I couldn't help but tremble in my mouth.
The fourth uncle glared at me: "Let me ask you, Wen Shan, have you discovered anything?"
"I, I..." I stuttered, and I didn't expect how touching the corpse could be related to judging time.
The fourth uncle rolled his eyes at me: "Too bad I thought our Liu family had successors, pig brains, pig brains!"
The fourth uncle looked at me with a look of hatred, and then turned to look at Liu Ruxiang.
Liu Ruxiang's frown finally relaxed slightly at this time: "Fourth uncle, are you trying to feel this person's bone age? Or are you feeling the differences or some characteristics of his body?"
The fourth uncle finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time.
"What you said is finally half right."
The fourth uncle finally solved the mystery.
"Actually, touching the body has nothing to do with judging age. Instead, as Xiaoxiang said, touching the body is to judge his size and age."
"I touched the corpse and found out that it was actually a man in his prime, probably in his forties. The old look on his face was entirely due to hunger!"
The fourth uncle continued: "The first thing I saw when I opened the coffin was a very important place. This man's body was not wearing clothes."
"Why don't you wear clothes? Ask Shan and you can tell me."
I couldn't think of an answer for a while, so I subconsciously said casually: "Is he afraid of heat?"
"Hahaha——" A bright smile appeared on the fourth uncle's face.
Even Liu Ruxiang couldn't help laughing.
"You bastard, what nonsense are you talking about? The corpse is afraid of getting hot."
"You young people, one or two, have very good living conditions. I don't know that in the past, it was normal for a person to not have enough to eat all year round. In times of famine, it was like exchanging food for food, and eating in batches. Lots of dead people!"
"In those days, if you were too poor, you would only have one pair of trousers at home, and whoever wanted to go out would wear the trousers. Suddenly someone died that day. If you were the master of the house, you would be willing to give up these trousers and put them in the coffin. Are you going to be buried with him?"
"So from this I can see that this person's family conditions are extremely poor. So when I observe, I will touch the body. By touching his body, I can feel that this person's The body is completely skin and bones, with no oil or water at all, which is a very common appearance of someone who has starved to death. And you see, there are no external injuries on his body, so the chance of starving to death is even greater."
It suddenly dawned on me at this moment that I even understood what the Fourth Master was about to say.
"I understand, because there were two great famines 40 years ago and 60 years ago, so Fourth Master, you deduce that this person died forty years ago or sixty years ago?"
The fourth uncle sighed happily: "Fortunately, you kid is not too stupid!"
"Forty years ago, there was a major famine that lasted for two or three years. Sixty years ago, there was also a major drought that led to famine."
