With this thought, Mr. Cat picked up the flashlight and shined it on the gauze curtains around them.
The light shines on the surface of the gauze curtain. The gauze curtain, which is originally ordinary and looks like hazy yellow gauze, emits gorgeous light spots, like colorful iridescence rippling on the surface of a shell.
It feels light and weightless in the hand, soft and flexible. It feels completely different from ordinary fabrics. The touch is closer to the skin, as if you are touching a woman!
It would be okay if this touch was really a woman. Combined with the phantom of the red skirt that was seen just now, the gauze curtain immediately added a touch of weirdness, which made the two people's backs numb with shock.
Mr. Cat took it in his hand and smelled it, then cut it open with a dagger and looked at the cross section. His expression became worse and worse:
"The old man said that this dog emperor is not a thing. It is worse than the empty city plan. This thing is not a gauze curtain at all, but a human skin."
After hearing what Master Mao said, Yue Guanchao's brows jumped in disgust, and he quickly let go of the soft gauze curtain: "Human skin?"
"Yes, has Xiaoyou Yue ever heard of Xiangshifusha!"
Yue Guanchao had never heard of this thing. Master Mao shined a flashlight on the complicated layers of gauze curtains, and the disgust in his eyes was overflowing.
Xiangshifusha does not refer to silk fabrics, but gauze curtains made of human skin.
The ancients believed that the skin is the corpse's clothing. If the bones, organs, and body skin are incomplete, it will not be possible to enter the reincarnation. No matter who it is, once it dies, it must first ensure that the body is intact in order to avoid being disgraced.
Some nobles were even greedy for appearance, and would apply various secret medicines after death in order to keep the body incorruptible and lifelike. In order to keep the skin intact, they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find golden jade clothes, corpse-fixing beads, and incorruptible secret medicines.
Of course, it is only the power of the nobles to keep the body from decaying. Those slaves who serve the nobles are not so lucky.
Since the Xia, Shang and Wednesday dynasties, once a noble died, slaves would bury these carnivores according to etiquette. Being able to get the whole body was considered a blessing.
After the death of a noble, most slaves will be made into corpse soldiers, corpse attendants, corpse tables, corpse stools, corpse beds, etc., and their human bones will also be made into various utensils and entered into the underground palace mausoleums, surrounding the coffins of the nobles. .
The skins of those slaves would most likely be peeled off to make flag curtains, and the human skin gauze curtains were made from the backs of female slaves!
Human limbs may be long or short, and the body may be loose or flabby. If the skin on the body is peeled off without distinguishing between good and bad, it will not only be uneven but also wrinkled and difficult to deal with.
To make these curtains flat and smooth, they must use the smoothest piece of human skin, that is, the complete human skin from the shoulders to the back.
After the slaves die, the skin on their backs will be peeled off, wiped with secret medicine, and then soaked in the medicine. When the skin changes from yellow to slightly translucent, it means that the oil and dirt on the skin have been cleaned. clean.
Afterwards, these human skins were continuously rubbed, blown, stretched, curled, flattened and ironed by the hands of craftsmen, transforming from a hard skin into a soft skin.
After scraping off the loose skin, applying tung oil, and then sewing it together, a human skin gauze curtain is basically formed.
At this time, they are just as soft as cloth, but smell fishy and unpleasant. In order to reduce the rancid smell of human skin, craftsmen will feed human skin various spices, and wait until the smell of human skin gauze dissipates. Only when the strong fragrance is left is the production completed, which is specially named Xiangshifusha.
Living people are afraid of death and should stay away from anything that is tainted with the bad luck of death.
Such gauze curtains are naturally not for living people. They are mostly used as curtains in mausoleums in tombs. Because the grievances of slaves are attached to them, they can be protected from decay and beetles for thousands of years. They can be seen whenever the tomb is opened. This gauze curtain is as brand new as newly woven, it’s indescribable how amazing it is.
What's more important is its weird uses!
Once a tomb robber accidentally enters it, he will definitely be surrounded by the resentment of the slaves. A vague figure of a woman can be seen between the gauze curtains. She has a shape but no body. As long as she cannot get justice, she will be trapped in it to death in vain.
"It is rumored that the more innocent souls there are, the weirder the fragrant corpse gauze becomes. If such a big palace is all covered with gauze curtains, we two will not be able to get out even if we are extremely capable."
After Mr. Mao introduced the origin of the human skin gauze curtain, his face was filled with sorrow, and he no longer had any interest in moving forward.
"So, we are trapped in the gauze curtain!"
Yue Guanchao was about to cut off the gauze curtain with a knife, but Master Mao quickly pressed down his knife:
"I said Yue Xiaoyou, look at what's on the gauze curtain."
Relying on Master Mao's words, Yue Guanchao looked up and saw that most of the gauze curtains around them hung under the octagonal golden lintel sill, as if there was no end to the honeycombs stacked on top of each other. In each of these eight-sided honeycombs, there were obvious circles. Shaped metal pills embedded in it!
"This is?"
Mr. Cat nodded to him with serious eyes: "Yes, deadly corpse poison."
"The weight of these gauze curtains can ensure that the delicate mechanism of the golden sill does not activate. If we cut the golden gauze and make the downward force of the golden sill disappear, many pills will fall downwards, and the gods will not be able to save it."
