I saw that the middle-aged man in the coffin had delicate and elastic skin, a flowing beard under his nose, red lips and white teeth, as if he had just died.
This middle-aged man has a handsome and resolute appearance. Although he is not a first-class handsome man, he is definitely the kind of middle-aged handsome uncle who conforms to the public's aesthetics.
The man's mouth was very bulging. No need to ask, he must have something in his mouth.
Maybe it's that thing in his sky that makes him immortal for thousands of years.
In addition, this middle-aged man did not wear a hat on his head, but simply wore his hair in a bun, with a pure gold hairpin in the shape of a bow and arrow inserted in it.
He was wearing a set of long blood-red clothes and a green jade armor. He had his hands folded in front of his chest and held a silver knife in his hands.
The knife is very delicate, with seven agates inlaid on it.
Compared with his upper body, the middle-aged man's feet were relatively shabby. He didn't wear shoes. His feet were simply wrapped in a thick layer of white cloth, and there were embroidered pieces on the left and right sides of the white cloth. A horse and a cow, I don’t know what they are for.
The three of us looked at the middle-aged man in the coffin for a long time, but no one said anything.
But who would have thought that at this moment, Xiong Ming suddenly stretched out his big hand and grasped the middle-aged man's chin.
I was shocked: "What are you kid doing?"
Xiong Ming said: "After lying in this coffin for so long, the thing in his mouth must be a treasure. I want to see what it is?"
After speaking, Xiong Ming squeezed the joint of the middle-aged man's jaw with one hand, and the middle-aged man's mouth opened in response.
Immediately afterwards, a pale golden light emanated from the middle-aged man's mouth. Not only that, at this moment, I also faintly smelled a faint floral fragrance.
I don't know much about flowers, and I couldn't tell what kind of flower scent it was at the moment. I just knew that the smell was very special and nice.
Xiong Ming opened the middle-aged man's mouth, put the engineer shovel aside with his other hand, turned around and put his hand into the guy's mouth to fiddle with it.
It took a long time before Xiong Ming dug out a piece of jade the size of an egg yolk from the guy's mouth.
The piece of jade is round in shape as a whole, with hollow carvings in the shape of a dragon and a wild beast. The workmanship can be said to be first-rate and exquisite.
It has a color similar to gold as a whole, and the jade color flows like water, emitting a faint golden light from time to time in Xiong Ming's palm.
Perhaps it was because it had not been exposed to the outside air for too long. After more than ten seconds, the light on the ancient jade in Xiong Ming's hand began to dim a little, and the originally golden jade body began to turn into a lifeless one. dark brown.
The originally refreshing floral scent gradually turned into a chocolate scent.
Xiong Ming frowned slightly as he looked at the gradually changing color of the ancient jade in his hand, and said, "Grandma's! It's a good piece of jade, how could it suddenly become like this?"
After saying that, Xiong Ming was about to throw away the piece of jade in his hand with a look of disgust on his face, but was stopped by Hua Muling on the side.
Xiong Ming glanced at Hua Muling and said, "Fourth girl, what are you doing?"
Hua Muling turned over Xiong Ming's wrist, took the ancient jade over, and said, "Have you ever heard of something called Jinxiang Jade?"
Xiong Ming frowned slightly and said, "Gold inlaid with jade? Are you talking about the gold medal from the Beijing Olympics?"
Hua Muling rolled her eyes at Xiong Ming and said, "As the saying goes, you can't see gold and jade if you have eyes. This thing is rare in itself, and coupled with its special appearance, it is often thrown away as garbage by people like you. aside."
As she spoke, Hua Muling weighed the ancient jade in her hand twice, and then rubbed it vigorously with her palms. Suddenly, the faint floral fragrance came out again, and traces of it also emerged from the place where her palms had been rubbed. Golden light.
Hua Muling looked at the ancient jade in her hand and said: "Among the available information, this thing was first noticed by modern people during the Qianlong period. Ji Xiaolan, a bachelor during the Qianlong period, once wrote in the book "Notes of Yuewei Thatched Cottage" , also described a piece of golden fragrant jade collected by his family. I remember he once said that "Du Yang Zabian" records Li Fuguo's fragrant jade to ward off evil spirits, which is very strange, and it is ridiculous to be suspicious. However, there are fragrant jade in the world. My grandmother had a green jade fan pendant. The cloud is an old thing of Cao Huachun. It was stolen from the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty. It was made in a simple way. Its shape is like a tangled pair of chinchillas, with several spots of blood. The color is like a molten beetle. Rub it with your hands to heat it and smell it, and it will smell agarwood; if you don't rub it, If it is hot, it will not be fragrant. It is suspected that Li Fu’s jade is nothing more than this.”
Xiong Ming shook his head and said, "What's this all about? I can't understand one thing after another. Fourth girl, can we make it simpler?"
Hua Muling said: "There is a man named Li Fuguo. He has a piece of golden fragrant jade in his hand, which he said can have the effect of bringing the dead back to life. Ji Xiaolan does not agree. In Ji Xiaolan's view, although this golden fragrant jade is a rare gem in the world, it only has a unique shape. The aroma is just charming.”
"But if that's all, then there's a problem." I suddenly interrupted the two of them, shook off the dark brown liquid on my hands, and then continued: "I just turned over this coffin for a long time. , there is nothing in it, is it possible that General Hu Yiquan spent so much effort just for this golden jade?"
Hearing what I said, Xiong Ming couldn't help but ask loudly: "What? There is nothing in this coffin except this guy?"
I nodded and said, "Of course! Can I still lie to you? The only valuable object is the piece of golden jade you pulled out of his mouth."
"Grandma's!" Xiong Ming touched his head and said loudly: "Since there is nothing, why did General Hu Yiquan spend so much effort to get it here? Is this coffin valuable? Or is it the water in the coffin? valuable?"
"Or..." Hua Muling suddenly paused in the middle of her words, causing Xiong Ming and I to look at her in unison.
After a while, Hua Muling said slowly: "Or perhaps General Hu Yiquan is only after this person."
"Is it for this person?" Xiong Ming and I said almost at the same time.
Hua Muling nodded and said, "This may be the only reasonable explanation at present."
Xiong Ming asked: "Who could this guy be?"
"Yes! Who is this guy? Where did General Hu Yiquan get this coffin on this plateau?"
The question Xiong Ming asked was also what I was thinking at this time.
But at this moment, the middle-aged man who had been lying quietly in the coffin suddenly moved.
Its movement didn't matter, but it frightened the three of us.
Xiong Ming screamed and jumped up to half a man's height, and cursed loudly: "You're cheating! Be careful with the rice dumplings!"
After saying that, he jumped more than two meters away.
As for Hua Muling and I, we naturally raised our hands and were ready.
Regardless of how nervous the three of us were, let’s just talk about the ancient corpse in the coffin.
I saw its body twitching continuously. The originally elastic and rosy skin seemed to have lost all its luster in an instant, becoming wrinkled and even showing a terrifying death gray color.
Not only that, while its skin lost moisture and luster, the muscles all over its body also began to atrophy, and its hair also changed from dark black to a charcoal gray. Its original height of nearly 1.80 meters shrunk by ten in the blink of an eye. A few centimeters later, it turned into a veritable mummy.
All these changes, although slow to say the least, actually happened within a second or two.
Looking at the mummy in front of us, the three of us couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. After all, with the physical strength of the three of us now, if this guy really turned into a zombie, even the lowest-level Mao Zong would be enough. A few of us drank a pot.
Seeing that the guy in the coffin was just a mummy with wretched muscles, I couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, then pointed at the ancient jade in Hua Muling's hand and said, "It seems that this thing has an antiseptic effect. The corpse left this ancient jade." Jade, so it didn’t take long to become like this.”
Seeing what I said, Xiong Ming looked at the ancient jade in Hua Muling's hand and said, "Fourth girl, you should keep this thing! Go back to the city tomorrow and resell it for a good price. Brother Xiong, I will also have it." It’s your wife’s fortune. I’m telling you! Don’t lose it this time.”
Hua Muling didn't speak, just smiled and carefully put the ancient jade in her arms into her arms.
After putting away the ancient jade, Hua Muling turned her head and looked at me and asked, "What should we do now?"
I thought for a while and said: "There are still two doors that have not been opened! Let's go see what's inside that iron door?"
After saying that, I no longer cared about the body in the coffin, turned around and strode out of the copper door, heading straight for the iron door next to it.
The lock on the iron door is still a yin-yang lock. After I gently turned it a few times, the iron door opened with a "click".
Compared with the previous three gates, there are no unusual objects behind the iron gate, just some ordinary swords, guns and sticks. It seems that most of the things used by General Hu Yiquan are stored here.
I walked around the house and found that most of the weapons inside were rusty. Only occasionally one or two long swords and simple knives could still see the original steel mouth.
I pulled out a plain knife from the weapons rack and weighed it twice in my hand. The weight was just right, so I simply held it in my hand for self-defense.
There was nothing special behind the iron gate, so the three of us didn't stay long.
After the iron gate, the three of us went straight to the tin gate next to it.
The tin door is the last door in the whole place and the last hope for the three of us, so when we walked to it, we couldn't help but be very nervous.
I didn't say anything, just turned my head and glanced at the two of them.
Xiong Ming and Hua Muling didn't speak, and looked at me nervously.
I swallowed and slowly put my hand on the yin-yang lock. My palms were already covered with sweat.
