Master Archaeologist

On the archaeological base, there is no professional advanced laboratory equipment.

This thing has to be sent to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the capital.

It will be in a while, and it is estimated that the result will not be available for the time being.

In the archaeological laboratory, the dialogue with Liu He with the help of the relics is still going on.

After extracting the two boxes deeply embedded in the coffin, there are only two cultural relics that are difficult to extract on the coffin.

One is a piece of glazed glass that has been glued to the coffin and has been severely decayed.

These glazed pieces were supposed to cover the body of the owner of the tomb, but because the coffin collapsed, they stuck to the coffin.

Liu He didn't get the treatment of the jade clothes with golden strands, so he could only use the colored glaze sheets as a comfort.

Because of the severe decay and adhesion of these glazed flakes, if they are extracted in a conventional way, all the glazed flakes may be scattered and it is difficult to do it.

And the second place is a jade belt hook deeply embedded in the coffin. Because this belt hook is long, and half of the body is embedded in the coffin.

Compared with the round and square boxes, this jade belt hook like Ruyi is difficult to extract manually, and it may break into several pieces with a slight movement, so you must be careful when extracting it.

For archaeologists, the premise of extracting cultural relics is to ensure the safety of cultural relics first.

Therefore, after carefully inspecting the two cultural relics, Kong Jianwen discussed with Director Wen, and decided to make a decision after determining a foolproof plan.

Therefore, the work of extracting the cultural relics inside the coffin lid can come to an end for the time being.

However, Chen Han and the others don't mean to relax. The next step is to move the army to the inner coffin and launch an offensive on the more complicated inner coffin!
Extract the cultural relics in the coffin, starting from the broken paint chips.

As Marquis of Haihun, Liu He's inner coffin naturally contained all kinds of lacquer boxes.

However, due to the collapse of the coffin, the round lacquer box was crushed into many pieces.

These shattered paint flakes are the primary targets of extraction.

Holding tweezers made of bamboo slices and wearing white gloves, Chen Han and the others bent down and lay down next to the inner coffin, carefully picked up pieces of paint, and put them on the specially placed plastic board.

However, when extracting lacquer flakes, there are also skills, not random extraction.

During the extraction process, the fragments must be extracted and placed in sequence in strict accordance with the location of the fragments.

Simply put, it's like putting together a puzzle.

How these lacquer flakes were broken in the coffin, they must be what they are when they are extracted, and the position must not be wrong.

Therefore, the shape of a round lacquer box can still be vaguely seen from the paint flakes placed on the plastic board.

Afterwards, after extracting these scattered paint flakes, what will be extracted is a rectangular lacquer box.

In fact, lacquer boxes can be seen everywhere in the coffin.

Inside these lacquer boxes are Liu He's most important treasures that must be brought underground.

The method of extracting the lacquer box is still the same as that taught by Kong Jianwen.

Insert a bamboo stick similar to a popsicle stick, rub it carefully to break off the sticky things between the paint box and other places in the coffin, and then pry it up.

Just after Chen Han had inserted four or five bamboo sticks, Kong Jianwen came over to look at the situation, frowned, and stopped Chen Han's movements.

"No, this is not made of bamboo."

"Look, the pattern on this part is plain, but the bottom part is twill. These are two different things!"

"This piece has nothing to do with the box, it shouldn't be pried from here."

It turned out that the place where Chen Han inserted the bamboo stick was a rectangular lacquer sheet with a slightly different pattern from the lacquer box.

Although this lacquer piece is next to the lacquer box, if you look carefully, you will find that the texture on the lacquer piece is different from the texture of the lacquer box, and it should be two different objects.

What Kong Jianwen said was correct, but Chen Han naturally had his reasons for doing so.

He nodded and explained: "But this piece is completely glued to the lacquer box. If you want to extract the lacquer box, you have to extract this piece of paint as a whole."

It turned out that this piece of lacquer was pressed against another lacquer box below, and then connected with the lacquer box above.

Therefore, if you want to extract, you must extract this piece of paint together with the paint box above, so that you can continue to extract the paint below.

Kong Jianwen nodded after investigating deeply.

Chen Han's judgment was indeed correct.

He patted Chen Han on the shoulder with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go on."

Chen Han was unmoved, and all his attention was focused on his hands.

With the continuous insertion and friction of his bamboo stick, the lacquer box has loosened.

After the last bamboo stick was inserted, the lacquer box was finally completely disconnected from other items in the coffin.

Chen Han held the protruding parts on both sides of the lacquer box with both hands, twisted left and right, lifted, twisted, lifted.

"Out!"

The lacquer box that had been flattened to a width of only two or three centimeters was completely extracted by him, and stored in a cultural relic box next to it.

During the extraction process, Chen Han also collected all the fragments that fell from the lacquer box and put them in the cultural relic box together.

Holding the cultural relic box, Chen Han turned around and took it to the experimental table next to him.

Under the illumination of two searchlights, he took the lacquer box out of the cultural relic box again.

Flipping to the back, small white insects, no bigger than sesame seeds, were moving densely on the lacquer box.

These white bugs can be seen everywhere in the inner coffin.

In fact, the archaeological team's judgment was wrong.

The oxygen barrier effect of this inner coffin is not good.

At least the appearance of this kind of small insects shows that in the past thousands of years, the wood in the inner coffin has become a breeding ground for these small creatures to multiply.

But fortunately, although these little bugs kept turning, they didn't seem to feed on wood, and there were no signs of being eaten on the lacquer box.

Turning the lacquer box back to the front again, Wei Lai was about to open the box.

He was still holding a bamboo stick, but this time it was round, and pried it in from a corner of the lacquer box. While muttering: "There must be good things", he carefully pried open the corner of the lacquer box.

Standing behind him, Zhuang Yunpeng who came to watch hurriedly bent down and looked at the pry open corner: "Maybe there is something really good!"

However, the situation in the box was beyond their expectations.

"Is there another cover?"

"Is this a box within a box?"

"A small box inside a big box?"

It turned out that after prying off the lid of the box, what appeared in the box was a smaller lacquered wooden box.

The small lacquer box was crushed even worse, completely deflated, and the shape of the box could no longer be seen.

However, Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng were all excited.

A small box wrapped in a big box, the cultural relics contained in it are definitely not simple!
This must be something very important to Liu He, which is why he is so solemn.

"Hey, this is still a heavy coffin." Zhuang Yunpeng teased with winking eyebrows.

Chen Han also smiled.

"Let's take a picture first."