Yu Ren specializes in handling the corpses of emperors and royal relatives. Their skills vary from high to low. The ordinary ones can only ensure that the corpses will not rot before burial, but those with high skills can directly turn the corpses into "zombies" to achieve long-term incorruption. The effect of not rotting, this is somewhat similar to the method of making mummies, but the internal organs of the emperor must not be taken out. Instead, precious herbs will be used to "take" the corpse in order to absorb the moisture to the maximum extent. The corpse made in this way Just like the male corpse in the sapphire sarcophagus, the skin is gray and the skin and flesh are shriveled. However, the advantage is that it can be preserved for a long time, and it can be carried for at least ten or eight years. If the sapphire sarcophagus is cold in nature, then the male corpse in the coffin will It’s not surprising that his appearance has remained unchanged for hundreds of years.
The grim-faced Taoist priest was somewhat surprised to see the male corpse. He asked Xia Houyun curiously: "Senior said that there are also people captured and buried in the tombs to bury the dead. Is it like the situation in the coffin?"
Xia Houyun's expression was complicated. He pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then said: "This doesn't seem to be a tomb! Why does the person lying in the coffin seem to be the real owner?"
"What do you mean? This person is Shi Zhou Huozhu? Doesn't the historical data record that he died in his forties?" The grim-faced Taoist priest turned his head and looked at the male corpse in the coffin, and said doubtfully: "But this male corpse looks good. Are you in your sixties?"
"It's not Shi Zhou and Zhu Zhu, but Shi Le."
"Shi Le?!" The grim-faced Taoist priest and He Siniang both said in surprise: "Why did it involve Shi Le?"
Xia Houyun replied: "According to historical records, Shi Le was brave and good at fighting when he was young, and was known as the 'Desperate Saburo'. There is still a place named 'Sanlang Fort' in Liulin County, Luliang, Bingzhou, in his honor, and the title of 'Desperate Saburo' is There is another reason for this, because there are three scars running through Shi Le's left eye socket, all of which were caused by sabers. The scars were extremely obvious, so in the early days, some people called Shi Le the 'Three Scar Man'..."
When Xia Houyun said this, everyone couldn't help but look at the face of the male corpse. Sure enough, there were three scars on his withered face, which passed through the left eye socket like three raised gray worms. In addition, the male corpse's neck There are more or less scars on other exposed areas, but they are not as obvious as those on the eye sockets. However, it can be seen from these scars that the male corpse must have been a battle-hardened master during his lifetime.
He Siniang sighed and murmured: "There really are three scars. Could it be that this tomb actually belongs to Shi Le?"
"It's impossible, right? It's true that Shi Le was sixty years old when he died, but he was obviously buried in Gaopingling. This history has been read by a poor Taoist, and it's also recorded in the official history books. How could it be possible that his body was Will you come here?"
"But Taoist priest, look..." Xia Houyun said: "Except for the three scars on the eye sockets, the appearance of the male corpse is almost the same as that of Shi Le described in the history books, 'burly and strong, with thick eyebrows and red beard, and broad nose', that's what he said Isn't it the male corpse in the coffin? And the most important thing is the tufts of black hair in the ears of the male corpse..." Xia Houyun pointed at the ears of the male corpse and asked: "What did the Taoist priest remember?"
"Bang the drum in your ears!" The Taoist priest's eyes lit up with a grimace.
"Yes, it is said that when Shi Le was a slave, he could often hear the sound of drums and horns in his ears while working in the fields. It was even a legend among the slaves for a while. In fact, the reason for this phenomenon was that he had a long hair in his ears. This tuft of black hair appeared when it was blown and rubbed by the wind."
"Hair in the ears?" Luo Laoqi looked curiously: "Hey, there really are some. Hair in the buttocks is strange enough. There are also hairs in the ears. What's going on?"
"I think it's due to race. People in Suyi (the Middle East) often have hair in their ears, mainly because they have thick body hair. Shi Le may not be sure that he has some Suyi blood." Xia Houyun said and turned around. He said to the grim-faced Taoist priest: "Does the Taoist priest also feel that this person is Shi Le?"
"It looks similar, but if you look at the content recorded on the stone tablet, there is no way this tomb belongs to Shi Le!"
As soon as the grim-faced Taoist priest said this, everyone immediately fell silent again. He was indeed right. The epitaph clearly engraved the life of Shi Zhou Huozhu, and his son Shi Le basically didn’t mention it at all. How could it be possible that the owner of the tomb was from Lao Tzu? Became a son? Moreover, the process of building the mausoleum is also recorded in detail on the stone tablet. "Shi Zhouhezhu Yiguan Tomb" is written in red paint on a white background. In particular, the fact that Hebo Ning Palace is not suitable for burials is clearly written on the stone tablet. So Shi Lehui Don’t you know?
"What if Shi Le really doesn't know?" He Siniang said, "Or maybe he was already dead by then."
"What does that have to do with whether Shi Le is buried here? He has his own mausoleum, so it's not like he has no place to bury him."
"That's true... Various signs indicate that the tomb belongs to Shi Zhou and Zhu, and has nothing to do with Shi Le... But the corpse in the coffin is too strange. Is it just because the scapegoat we found looks very similar to Shi Le? This is too much of a coincidence, right? ?”
"In fact, it's not the case. The reason why we think the male corpse resembles Shi Le is because we know what Shi Le looks like, but we don't know what Shi Zhou Huozhu looks like at all. But they are father-in-law, so how different can their looks be? Who knows if the male corpse looks more like Shi Zhou and Zhu?"
"Is Shi Zhou Hezhu also called 'Sanscar Lang'?" Xia Houxiang interjected.
"It's come full circle." He Siniang sighed and said helplessly: "After all, the characteristics of the male corpse are too similar to Shi Le, which makes things so strange."
Everyone gathered around the sapphire sarcophagus. For a moment, their thoughts were trapped by the identity of the owner of the tomb. Luo Laoqi was the only one sitting leisurely at the end of the coffin. He touched the whole backpack, like a child getting candy. Same, there was no noise or fuss. While everyone was brainstorming, he stepped on the sarcophagus and sat at the end of the coffin. He poked the coffin with a mace and played with it. He poked the stick head with a clang sound, as if he had touched something buried with him. Taste.
When Luo Laoqi saw that there were funerary objects in the sapphire stone coffin, he immediately couldn't sit still. He jumped off the stone coffin and started rummaging at the end of the coffin. When the burial quilt was lifted, Mingqi didn't look at it, but he saw that under the feet of the male corpse, there was a half-sized stone slab, about half the length of an arm, with many small characters densely engraved on it. Luo Laoqi naturally saw all of them. He didn't recognize it, so he greeted the grim-faced Taoist priest: "Taoist Master, what do you think this is?"
Upon hearing this, the Taoist Priest with a grimace moved closer to the end of the coffin. When he saw a stone slab with writing on it under the legs of the male corpse, he asked Luo Laoqi to carefully pull out the slab.
Luo Laoqi used a mace to push open the male corpse's legs. He felt the thickness of the stone slab with his left hand, then held the edge and pulled it out. After pulling it out, the two of them were surprised to find that there was a stone sculpture attached to the bottom of the stone slab. , if you stand it up with the stone slab, it will look like a small tombstone.
