Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 737 Soft Pottery (4000)

"Wu Taishi, what's wrong?"

The witch didn't know what was going on, seeing Wu Liang avoiding the door of the stone house quickly, she didn't dare to approach easily, she just asked with a strange face.

"There's a strange stench in there."

Wu Liang didn't hide it from her, and said seriously, "I smell like the smell of a corpse, but it's not exactly that. Further investigation is needed."

The witch wrinkled her nose and sniffed.

The smell in the stone room has now drifted out, and soon she also smelled a faint stench.

Then she took a closer look at the stone room and analyzed: "The stone bricks used in this stone house should be the same thing as the stone bricks used in Tian Heng's mansion. There are no windows for ventilation on the wall. The gap was also filled with sand, so you only need to close the door, and this is a secret room with little contact with the outside world. If a part of the smell is preserved in it, it may also be able to preserve some clues left by the predecessors."

"It's best not to smell the unknown gas too much. It's better for us to go in and check after the smell dissipates."

Wu Liang nodded slightly.

He had already checked the charcoal bags of the gas mask that he carried with him. The charcoal bags that were underwater before were all wet, so naturally they could no longer be used.

And even burning wood to make charcoal bags in situ is not feasible.

His time for this trip was limited, and he didn't carry a Yangsui with him, so he had to use the method of drilling wood to make fire, which would consume a lot of time, and he couldn't afford to delay it.

"But I'm curious, why Wu Taishi is so sensitive to the smell of corpses, did he often deal with corpses before?"

The witch asked again.

"Under the chaos of war, the people are struggling to survive, and there are starving dead bodies everywhere, what's so strange?"

Wu Liang said something expressionless, and then walked to several small stone houses next to him, and opened the wooden doors of those stone houses one by one to check.

In this way, Wu Liang discovered that every stone house here was emitting the same stench.

That is to say, the situation in these stone houses should be similar...

That's good too, just to spread the flavor together.

But soon Wu Liang discovered another noteworthy detail. The wooden door latches and handles of these stone houses are all set on the outside, which means that people outside can close the wooden doors and then insert the latches so that they cannot be opened. People can only go in and out freely without opening the door.

Wu Liang immediately realized something, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that these stone houses are not dormitories, but prisons?"

"What did you say?"

The witch Hu followed to help, and subconsciously asked after hearing Wu Liang's words.

"If it was a normal house for living, the door would definitely not be designed like this."

Wu Liang pointed to the door latch and said to the witch.

"I just discovered this problem."

The witch said, "There are many such doors in our country, and the houses with this kind of doors are usually used by human animals. Perhaps the craftsmen who were brought here were all human animals. Just to prevent them from escaping."

Although the current Wa country has been divided into countries, in fact, many places are tribal systems, and they are still in the era of slavery.

This is reflected in the list of contributions prepared by the Japanese mission for the Han emperor.

Except for some dried fish, there are hundreds of human sacrifices.

However, today’s dynasty has abolished slavery long ago. Only a few prisoners of war and sinners will be reduced to slavery, and the vast majority of the remaining people will not be of high social status, even if they sometimes have to live like a human sacrifice, or even some hard-working people. It is still inevitable to suffer the fate of being sold, gifted and enslaved as personal items, but at least the official level does not support this kind of thing, so at least most people in the Celestial Dynasty are human beings even if they starve to death, not human sacrifices.

"Makes sense..."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, and opened a few more doors in this way.

Then let these small stone houses of the same size smell for a while, and I took the priestess Hu and the old macaque king to check the stone houses behind, hoping to find a few different ones from among the stone houses for investigation.

When we got to the last row like this, Wu Liang really found it.

There are only three stone houses in this row. From the outside, the size of these three stone houses is obviously slightly larger than the others, and the door bolts and handles are not set outside.

"Squeak!"

With a soft sound, Wu Liang first pushed open the wooden door of the first stone house on the right.

The stench that was suspected to be a corpse did not waft from this stone house, but was replaced by the peculiar smell of dust and sand.

Wu Liang observed cautiously for a moment before walking in.

This is a living room with a wooden couch, a wooden table, two futons made of hay, and a low wooden cabinet with double doors.

Compared with the furniture of the big families in the Han Dynasty, these furniture can only be regarded as semi-finished products. Although the surface is scraped very smooth with a plane, it is obviously not polished or painted for decoration, and the original and rough wood is maintained. surface.

In addition, there are no decorative patterns engraved on it, which makes it impossible for Wu Liang to deduce the dynasty of these furniture.

There is a full set of futons on the couch.

Although the quilt was covered with dust, there was no sign of decay for the time being, but it was neatly arranged. It could be seen that the person who lived here before was a person who paid more attention to the details of life.

Next to the couch is a pair of clogs.

Clogs are shoes from the early days of the Chinese dynasty, just like the Confucius clogs that Wu Liang had seen at Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.

Wu Liang walked closer and picked up the pair of clogs for a closer look.

The side and bottom of the clogs have very obvious wear marks, and these wear marks are also very old. In addition, the layer of dust on the clogs is comparable to the indoor environment, which shows that these clogs have not been worn for a long time, but How long it will be, Wu Liang is still unable to deduce.

After checking these.

Wu Liang turned around, only to see the witch Huzheng stretching her hand towards a clay pot on the table.

"stop!"

Wu Liang shouted immediately.

"!"

The witch was taken aback, quickly retracted her hand, and then looked at Wu Liang with a look of surprise.

"You only know a little about many things in our country. In order to prevent breaking the rules, you are not allowed to touch and take things without my permission from now on."

Wu Liang's tone softened slightly, and he said to her.

"It's just an ordinary clay pot..."

The witch said slightly aggrieved.

"It's not just an ordinary clay pot."

Wu Liang turned around and came to the front of the desk. While looking down at the clay pot carefully, he distractedly said to the witch, "If I'm not mistaken, this should have appeared after Qin unified the six kingdoms. A kind of pottery, and it is a relatively rare red pottery..."

"Dangdang!"

Having said that, Wu Liang tapped the clay pot twice with his fingernails, and continued to listen to the voice, "Besides, this is not something for living people at all."

"Isn't it something for living people?"

Witch Hoo was a little unhappy at first, but after hearing what Wu Liang said, the displeasure in her heart immediately dissipated, and she came over with an even more surprised face, staring at the clay pot carefully like Wu Liang, and asked, " How do you know that this is not something for living people?"

"The pottery of the Qin Dynasty is not only divided into gray pottery, red pottery and black pottery according to the color, but also divided into hard pottery and soft pottery in terms of texture. It is decorated with lacquer and is usually used for burial in mausoleums."

Wu Liang said patiently, "Look at this clay pot, here, here, and here, there are traces of painting in these places, but unfortunately it has faded so badly that the original pattern cannot be seen, and the sound of the knocking just now It verified my thinking, this is indeed soft pottery, this kind of pottery used for burial in mausoleums, do you think it is something used by living people?"

"..."

The witch Hu Wenyan responded silently, but it was not difficult to see from her eyes that Wu Liang's words really calmed her down, and made her admire the culture of the Celestial Dynasty and Wu Liang's knowledge.

After a moment of silence, the witch Hucai frowned and asked again: "Since it is for private use, why is it placed here? Isn't this place for living people to live?"

"This place should be used by living people. Those clogs and bedding should be used by living people."

Wu Liang said solemnly, "Besides, our country has always paid attention to the safety of burying in the soil. The mansion should be built on the ground, and the mansion should be built underground. If there are no special circumstances, no one will violate this rule, so I think that this clay pot should not belong here. , but was brought here by people who don't understand this or don't care about it and use it as a daily clay pot..."

Speaking of this, Wu Liang's tone suddenly slowed down, and he realized something that he had never thought of before.

The person who once lived in this stone house must be a colleague, right?
After all, people before the Eastern Han Dynasty were usually more superstitious about ghosts and gods, so ordinary people would never come into contact with dead people or things related to tombs. Unclean things.

And those who dare to touch this kind of thing, without exception, are almost all colleagues of the Huan army, and they are also desperadoes in the eyes of the world.

Especially this kind of person who dares to take the sacrificial objects and use them as daily utensils is a madman who is not afraid of anything.

of course.

Another possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, this clay pot was obtained by accident, and the person who got it was ignorant, and had no idea that it was actually a funeral object of a dead person, so he threw it away without mercy. Used it as a daily tool.

If so...

This matter is even more worthy of further study.

As Wu Liang said before, this clay pot should be a sacrificial vessel of the Qin Dynasty, which means that the people who once lived in this stone house may have inadvertently come into contact with a tomb of the Qin Dynasty. Where is the mausoleum, and who is the owner of the tomb...

Wu Liang lightly picked up the clay pot and checked it carefully, especially checked the bottom of the pot, but he didn't find any words that could prove the origin of the pot.

That is to say, it is impossible to know whose tomb this pot came from.

But it cannot be ruled out that the mausoleum is somewhere on the island.

After all, according to the current known situation, this magical island will only be opened every ten years. If the people who come in do not go out in time, they may have to wait at least ten years. This will lead to people here and the outside world. There are very few chances of contact, and very few people will deliberately bring a clay pot that is not a necessity of life when they venture to this place...

Therefore, Wu Liang has reason to speculate that this clay pot may have been produced on this island.

In other words, there may be an unknown ancient tomb on this island, and this ancient tomb may have been exposed for some reason, which made the clay pot buried in the ground as a sacrificial object accidentally fall into someone else's body. hand.

And the identity of the owner of the tomb may not be simple.

After all, this kind of soft pottery specially used for burial is also a relatively rare red pottery. Even in the Han Dynasty, it was necessary to spend money to find a special craftsman to customize it. Ordinary people simply cannot afford this spare money.

Is there really an ancient tomb on this island?

As soon as this speculation appeared, Wu Liang's DNA moved.

In any era of archaeology, ancient tombs must be the most fascinating, not only because ancient tombs are like opening blind boxes, they can always bring unexpected surprises to people, but also because the cultural relics and written materials in ancient tombs have the most chance to be complete Preserve it, so as to restore the history more completely, unlike those ruins, the better ones leave a foundation that can only be supplemented by people's imagination, and the worse ones don't even leave the foundation, only according to the history Records and some local soil components to infer the authenticity of the site.

But Wu Liang did not lose his rationality because of this.

He knew very well how much time he had left now, even if there was an ancient tomb in this town, the remaining time might not be enough for him to find the ancient tomb and try to enter the ancient tomb for archaeology.

"Although the Japanese state also has a saying that burial is safe, they only bury the corpses in the ground without burial utensils. Most of the time, they do not put sacrificial objects in the tomb."

The witch said concentratingly.

"It is undeniable that rich burials are not necessarily a good thing, especially in an era of insufficient productivity. It is a waste of a lot of manpower and material resources. It is indeed not worth advocating."

Wu Liang nodded, but then said again, "However, it is not because you know how to be frugal that rich burials are not popular in Japan, but because you are already living in poverty, even the royal family and nobles are the same, and you cannot afford rich burials. There is no comparison between the two. "

At least this is the case in Japan now.

Even because of this, many heinous bad customs have been formulated in the history of the Japanese country, and some bad customs have even continued into modern times, such as the long-standing culture of abandoning the old in the movie "Narayama Festival", and some marriage customs that have never appeared in the Chinese dynasty , Any content written casually will be eaten by the beast.

"you!"

The witch exhaled for a moment, and stared at Wu Liang for a long time with her beautiful eyes, before teasing with displeasure on her face, "Wu Taishi is really outspoken."

"Miao Zan, I'm not as good as Miss Hu said."

Wu Liang smiled.

(End of this chapter)