Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 30 Gold Thread Clothes

Since the three of us, the master and the apprentice, stayed together all day long, the tacit understanding was quite high. The journey was safe and sound, and we finally came to the black coffin.

A gust of icy yin qi rushed towards the face, and the strong breath of death wrapped the coffin, making one's heart beat faster.

We sat down on the coffin and rested for a while.

The bronze chains bear a lot of weight. I estimate that the black coffin weighs hundreds of catties, and the weight of the three of us is almost a thousand catties, but the four bronze chains are completely motionless.

The gangsters urged impatiently below: "Hey! You guys don't dawdle, open the coffin quickly!"

"Bandits" is what I call those strong men. In my eyes, these people behave like bandits.

I spit and cursed angrily: "Damn! I really want to abolish those grandchildren!"

Professor Ye said: "Don't do stupid things. A man must know how to bend and stretch. There is a huge gap between the enemy and us. We can only outsmart them, not fight hard! Come on, let's open the coffin!"

"Wait!" Gu Meidi suddenly said, "The edge of the coffin seems to be sealed with wax!"

Professor Ye and I looked at the edge of the coffin and found that the place where the coffin lid meets the coffin body has indeed been filled with wax to seal the coffin.It's no wonder that this coffin was put into the water. If there was no sealing paint to seal the coffin, the river water would soak into the coffin from the gap, and the coffin inside must have been soaked long ago.

We took off the engineer shovel, and along the edge of the coffin, picked out all the wax in the gap, revealing a thin gap, enough for the sharp edge of the engineer shovel to insert.

Gu Mei Di retreated to the bronze chain in the east, and Professor Ye and I retreated to the bronze chain in the north and south directions.There was no place to stand, so we could only hang upside down on the chain again, took off the engineering shovel from behind, aimed at the gap, and inserted the sharp shovel edge into the gap between the front and back of the coffin.At this time, Gu Meidi also took off the engineering shovel, and inserted it into the gap in the coffin from the side.

The three of us once again shouted the slogan "one two one" and pried up the coffin lid with all our strength.In fact, the coffin lid is not very heavy, it's just that we are hanging upside down in mid-air and it is difficult to use our strength, so it feels strenuous.

With our joint efforts, the coffin lid was slowly lifted.

The three of us shouted almost at the same time, and there was a squeak, the coffin lid was pried up, turned around in the west direction, and plunged straight into the pool below, making a loud crash, splashing Lao Gao. splashes.

While the water was splashing, the gangsters standing on the shore actually cheered happily.

Gu Mei Dixiang scolded dripping with sweat: "We are working hard here, but those guys are sitting on the shore enjoying their success. I really wish I could reward each of them with a slap in the face!"

I said: "A big ear scraper will not relieve the anger at all. I really want to take off their clothes, kick them into this icy pool, and turn them into quick-frozen human meat dumplings!"

We moved to the edge of the coffin and found that there was a gap of about five centimeters between the coffin and the coffin. The gap was filled with bright red blood, exuding a strong bloody smell, which made us unable to open our eyes.

In fact, the so-called inner and outer coffins are set coffins, that is, the outer coffins that are placed outside the coffin. It is like a protective clothing that is placed on the outside of the coffin. erosion from the outside world.At the same time, the coffin also symbolizes the identity of the deceased. In feudal society, ordinary people did not have a coffin for burial, and at most there was only one coffin.Only when rich families or princes and generals are buried, have the economic conditions and status to enjoy the rich burial in the coffin.

After following Professor Ye for so many years, I have naturally seen many coffins, but as far as I know, there are at most not very precious funerary objects placed in the gap between the coffin and the coffin. The cracks in the hole are filled with blood, what is the purpose of this?

Professor Ye said: "Don't look at me, it's the first time I've seen such a weird coffin, please be careful!"

We nodded, held our breath, resisted the desire to vomit, and inserted the engineering shovel into the crack.I fiddled with the blood for a while, but found nothing.So we scooped out some bloody water with a shovel, and the coffin soaked in the bloody water was revealed.

The moment we saw the coffin, Gu Meidi and I couldn't help exclaiming at the same time: "Yin wood coffin!"

That's right!

Inside this coffin, there is a precious yin wood coffin!

Yin wood coffin!

See also Yinmu coffin!

I looked up at Gu Mei Di, Gu Mei Di looked at Professor Ye, and Professor Ye looked back at me.None of the three of us spoke, but I knew that at this moment, we must be thinking about the same problem.

My heart was beating wildly. I remember that Professor Ye once analyzed that what we are looking for may be an ancient Xixia tomb near the bank of the Yellow River or buried under water, and the owner of the tomb is most likely It is a royal noble or general or prince of Xixia.

The coffin in front of us now fully complies with all the elements analyzed by Professor Ye. Could this be the ancient tomb of Xixia that we are looking for?
Our gazes all turned to the yin wooden coffin. As long as we open the coffin, maybe all the mysteries will be revealed.

I looked up at Professor Ye, and Professor Ye nodded at me. He and I inserted the engineering shovel into the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin body one after another, and with a loud cry, the yin wooden coffin lid creaked open.We couldn't wait to look into the coffin, and after two seconds of silence, we all let out an exclamation at the same time.

I saw the corpse of a Western Xia warrior laying quietly inside the coffin. Like the two ancient corpses I saw before, this ancient corpse was also lifelike. It seemed that it had just fallen asleep instead of being dead for many years. It can be seen that the Xixia people are quite proficient in embalming corpses.However, the dress of this Xixia warrior is slightly different from the Xixia warriors we have seen before. The clothes of this Xixia warrior are more gorgeous and noble. It does not look like an ordinary warrior, but a general.

The body of the ancient corpse was wrapped in a precious and peculiar gold silk robe, and the thin golden threads were densely woven into a net, which looked like a golden spider web, shining brightly.

Gu Meidi exclaimed: "This is the golden-threaded garment! This is the legendary golden-threaded garment!"

The earliest records about the golden thread garment can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, the material for making the golden thread garment is not gold thread, but dragon tendon. Nature is a very luxurious treasure.Of course, this is just a legend. In fact, making a gold hazel garment is a very delicate job. First, the gold is melted, and then the melted gold is pulled into silk with special tools.After the gold threads have cooled, they are woven into clothes.

This ancient corpse was wearing a precious gold-thread garment, which shows that this ancient corpse must have had a high status in the Xixia Dynasty during his lifetime.In addition to this shining gold-threaded garment, there are also many funerary objects hidden on the sides and under the body of the ancient corpse, most of which are some gold and silver vessels and jade jewelry, and each treasure is priceless.

Gu Meidi said sadly: "I don't want to watch these treasures fall into the hands of those barbarians!"

I sighed and said, "I don't want to either, but there's no other way. Now grandpa is also held hostage by them, alas!"

Professor Ye put on sterile gloves and carefully lifted the head of the ancient corpse.We looked down, and as expected, there was an eyeball tattoo on the back neck of the ancient corpse.I paid special attention to the color of this eyeball tattoo, and found that this eyeball tattoo is turquoise, which is the same color as the eyeball tattoo on the back neck of the turtle coffin warrior.

Professor Ye said: "Now I am almost sure that this water cave is the ancient tomb of Xixia that we have been looking for. The ancient corpse in front of us should be the owner of this ancient tomb. I don't know what he thinks , actually built a fishbone temple on top of his tomb, does he want to become the Dragon King after his death?"

Chu Chu Chu!Chu Chu Chu!
With the roar of the motor, a fishing boat came under the coffin.

We looked down and saw Mr. Goat coming by boat with more than a dozen strong men.

Mr. Goat squinted his eyes and asked: "How is it? Have you found the treasure? You put the treasure in a bag and send it down to us!" After a pause, he said: "I can warn you, don't take it at this juncture. No matter what kind of tricks you play, not a single treasure is allowed to fall. If I find out that you are dishonest, you know what the consequences will be!"

I looked up to the shore, and saw two strong men tied grandpa's hands behind their backs, put a waist knife on grandpa's neck, and looked at us confidently, with cold smiles on their faces.

While greeting the eighteen generations of Mr. Goat’s ancestors in my heart, I took off the backpack and put the funerary objects in the coffin into the backpack one by one, and the backpack was quickly filled.Then we tied a climbing rope to the backpack and slowly lowered the backpack full of treasures.

The two strong men immediately stepped forward to take off the backpack, put the backpack on the deck, and opened it impatiently.

Colorful brilliance flowed out, and all those barbarians surrounded him.They had never seen these treasures before, and they couldn't close their mouths with joy, with greedy expressions on their faces, and shouted happily: "We're getting rich! Wahaha, we're getting rich!"

Professor Ye suddenly turned his head and said to the barbarians below: "Let me tell you, judging by my professional eyes, that emerald luminous cup is the most precious treasure!"

Gu Meidi and I didn't understand Professor Ye's intention: "Why did you tell them?"

Professor Ye showed an inscrutable smile on his face: "This is our best chance to fight back, just wait and see!"

(End of this chapter)