Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 143 Human Martyrdom (Part [-])
It was a strange device somewhat similar to a hamburger.

Counting from top to bottom, there are a total of four round stone slabs pressed together, and between each stone slab, there is a layer of unknown black dry mud-like substance, which looks like a beef with several layers. Pie Super Burger.

Besides.

There are also two wooden bars fixed horizontally on the upper and lower ends of the "Super Burger", and the two ends of the two wooden bars are tied with ropes, like a huge shelf holding the "Super Burger".

And judging from the traces left on the wooden bar, this thing should be able to continue to increase the clamping force by adding ropes.

And at the lower end of this device, there is a... big funnel made of bronze?

The inside of the big funnel was polished very smooth, if any liquid dripped on it, it would immediately slide down.

Below the big funnel.

On the other hand, there is a small jade bowl neatly placed...

At this moment, the layers of black dry mud-like substance sandwiched between the round stone slabs have shown serious signs of decay, and the intentional parts have become viscous, and mottled mold and pili have grown, and some sticky Thick black liquid seeps from it.

The black liquid then slides down the "Super Burger".

Just caught by that huge bronze loophole.

Then slide into the smallest jade bowl.

After so many years, the capacity of the small jade bowl is obviously not enough, and a large black dry mark has been left under it, and only the part that overflowed recently is still moist.

Even say.

Now the peak period of those "black liquids" oozing out has long passed, and what is still oozing out is only the degenerate substances produced by the mold of the unknown black powder.

"What is this..."

Wu Liang put a gas mask on his face to resist the strong smell that choked his nostrils.

Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing and Yu Ji quickly followed suit.

Breathing is really easier.

Although the strange fragrance that can be smelled by doing this is still very strong, at least it relieves the soreness in the nasal cavity, so that I can't help but want to sneeze, and even the tear glands start to twitch.

"What the hell is this?"

Under the gas mask, Bai Jingjing let out a husky sound.

"If I'm not mistaken, this may be a set of oil extraction tools."

Wu Liang said intently.

In fact, vegetable edible oil had already appeared in the Han Dynasty. When Zhang Qian returned from his mission to the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty, a large number of new species were introduced to the Central Plains, including flax (sesame), the later raw material for oil extraction.

Therefore, the most primitive vegetable oil pressing process is gradually produced.

However, this thing is still very, very unpopular in this era. Except for those top princes and nobles who can enjoy limited access to sesame oil, ordinary people have never seen it, let alone understand the craftsmanship.

The device in front of me has a similar principle to the "thousand catty pendant pressing method" that only appeared in the records during the Northern Wei Dynasty.

It's just that the craftsmanship is obviously more backward.

Wu Liang came to such a guess based on this.

But obviously.

The raw materials contained in this set of tools are not flax or other things that can be squeezed into vegetable oil, otherwise neither the taste nor the oozing liquid will look like this.

As for what exactly?
Wu Liang suspected that it was a mixture of spices...could it be made of incense?

This possibility is not small!

It should be known that incense was used more in the Han Dynasty. Not only did Xun Yu, who Wu Liang had seen, like incense, but also a lot of spices and incense utensils were found in the tomb of Mrs. Xinzhui in Mawangdui excavated by later generations.

Besides.

There are also a lot of related records, "Zhao Feiyan's Biography" has a cloud: "After bathing in Wuyun Qixiang soup, squatting in the fragrance and sinking water, sitting in Liaoyang to descend the spirit of Baiyunxiang, Jieyu bathed in cardamom soup, Fu Luhua Baiying powder. "

What I'm talking about here is the beautiful picture of the concubine in the palace taking a fragrant bath, incense, and rubbing the fragrance.

It can be seen that, leaving out many ordinary people who can't even eat enough, the use of incense among the royal family has become a common practice.

But even so, there are still some things that make Wu Liang puzzled.

Whether it is taking a fragrant bath, or incense, or rubbing incense, these are just relatively common usages, and it seems that there is no need to use a process similar to "oil pressing" to process spices.

At least there has never been such a record in historical documents.

In addition, as far as Wu Liang knows, this kind of craftsmanship is a bit like the method of extracting essence when making perfume in later generations, although the craftsmanship between the two is still very far behind, and the purity of the extracted essence is completely incomparable... …

"Tools for extracting oil?"

Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing, and Yu Ji all looked puzzled, obviously they couldn't immediately understand even this kind of tool, isn't the oil obtained by roasting fat?
"Check it out first."

Wu Liang was not in the mood to explain to them in detail at the moment, and continued to walk into the tomb.

Soon he found a millstone not far from this extremely primitive oil-pressing tool. Some thoroughly dried spices were piled up on the millstone, and there were more than a dozen small oval hairballs in it.

Wu Liang knew that this thing was musk!
Under the grinding disc, a part of the black dry mud-like substance similar to the "Super Burger" has been ground out.

This further confirmed Wu Liang's guess.

"Patriarch, there are corpses over there, but not one!"

Bai Jingjing suddenly pointed to a niche with iron bars not far away and said that she still remembered what Wu Liang said before that "a person was buried alive in the tomb".

"Ah."

Wu Liang nodded.

Still inspecting the millstone carefully, and finding nothing unusual, he finally came to the front of the alcove.

Under normal circumstances, the niche in the tomb will not be equipped with a door, let alone such an iron fence. After all, this is the place where the owner of the tomb lives and lives after death. It is inconvenient and unlucky, and it does not serve any purpose of protection or concealment.

Through the iron fence, Wu Liang saw more than a dozen dead bones in the niche.

It seems that these dead bones have not been touched for many years. Although the clothes on their bodies have been corrupted and faded, they still maintain their original appearance to a certain extent.

"These should be clothes worn by women, right?"

After a brief glance, Wu Liang turned to Bai Jingjing and asked.

"It should be, and they should not be very old."

Bai Jingjing nodded, and then added, "Pants like this are only worn when I was young, and the clothes are not roomy enough. No matter how you look at them, they are the clothes of a little girl, maybe only in her early ten years old at most."

"That's weird..."

Wu Liang frowned slightly.

At this time, human sacrifices have long been out of fashion, and there is no record of human sacrifices in "Zhu Tomb Records".

It stands to reason that even the sacrificed animals are recorded in detail, and there is no reason why human sacrifices with a higher status than animals should not be recorded.

(End of this chapter)