193. Chapter 193: 49 Funeral Corpses
"Gone?"
"No, that's all."
"The epitaphs should be mentioned by celebrities or princes and ministers at that time. Who wrote his epitaph?"
"This is also the key to your coming. I think you will be very interested in the identity of the owner of the tomb after hearing this." Nalanhong blew off a layer of floating matter on the surface of the epitaph and pointed to the bottom line of Manchu text about Wushuang.
said.
Wushuang's knowledge of old Manchu is not deep, but this name is not unfamiliar to him at all. "Aisin Gioro. Amin"!
"Holy shit, isn't it? Ezhen, a small tribe of his, actually had the inscription on his epitaph written by Emin? And judging from the year when he died, Amin Beile had prepared the epitaph for him in advance.
The last time was added later!" Wushuang looked very surprised.
"Your analysis is very accurate. I think this also confirms my previous guess. When your Hai family was at its most prosperous, you had personal relations with many small tribes of the Eight Banners. These small tribes also worked for the Hai family privately. As for doing
What, I’m afraid only you and I know it.”
At this time, a student in the tomb passage ran out in a panic. "Professor Zhang, take a look, there are important discoveries below." Professor Zhang is the leader of this archaeological excavation.
Professor Zhang, accompanied by Nalanhong and Wushuang, got into the tomb passage that had not been completely cleaned. In the tomb passage, Professor Zhang's students all stepped back step by step, with very frightened expressions on their faces.
"What's wrong?" asked the professor.
"Professor, there are... there are... dead bodies in the tomb passage!" His student panicked.
Is there a dead body in the tomb passage? This rarely happens. It is either left by tomb robbers or the servants of the tomb owner. However, the burial system was abolished in the Qing Dynasty, and judging from the completeness of the preservation of the tomb passage, there should be no tomb robbers.
Thief Wushuang and Nalanhong hesitated for a moment, also feeling something strange. They looked in the direction of the student's finger and couldn't help but take a breath.
A few meters ahead, there were many corpses lying scattered in the narrow tomb passage. Most of the corpses had rotted into bones, but their heads were all facing outwards, and their bone claws were desperately grabbing the ground, as if they were in great pain before death.
It was as if I was being chased by some kind of terrifying creature and wanted to run away in a hurry.
"Mr. Wushuang, Mr. Nalan, what do you think is going on?" Professor Zhang is well-informed, but he has never seen this formation.
Wushuang touched the stubble on his chin that had not yet been shaved and had a look of helplessness on his face. He could only go here and couldn't go any further. He had already washed his hands in the golden basin and did not hang up the golden talisman. If he went further in, he might be in trouble.
I have to break my original vow.
"Xiaolan, please help them take a look. I'll be waiting at the entrance of the tomb passage. If you need anything, just use the walkie-talkie to contact me. This tomb is not normal. You'd better be careful." After saying that, Wushuang turned around and walked out of the tomb passage, he vaguely said
It seems that I smell a yin gas in the tomb passage. This yin gas is not left by the corpse of the deceased, but an unclear smell.
Nalanhong and Nan Haiyue were in a harmonious relationship and respected each other as guests. They had always been a husband and a wife, and wherever a man went, his wife would accompany him. Nan Haiyue smiled at Wushuang and asked: "Brother Wushuang, why didn't you bring your sister-in-law with you this time?
"
"She has been misbehaving recently and it's all because of you. She was beaten by me at school a few days ago. She is reflecting on it!"
"Oh, it's rare. Are you willing to do it?"
"What can I be reluctant to part with? If I don't educate and educate this girl, she will have to live in the house. She is just a sister. If I don't care, who will be in charge?"
Nan Haiyue said: "There is something wrong with Mei Xi's life experience. Her father doesn't seem to care about her at all. Just imagine, their family is just an ordinary working-class family, and now their adopted daughter has made it to the top, so does the father occasionally let his daughter support him? But now not only does he
Isn’t it strange that Mei Xi is indifferent and doesn’t even make a phone call?”
"Well, you are right. I have sent people to investigate Mr. Lin. I suspect that Li Doutian has contact with him. So I have never dared to let Mei Xi go back."
At this time, Nalanhong's voice came from the intercom.
"Wushuang, I have done an inventory. There are a total of seventy-seven forty-nine corpses under the tomb passage. All of them are women. They were no more than 25 years old when they died."
"Xiaolan, can you find the cause of their death?"
"I'm afraid it's difficult. There are no obvious injuries on the surface of the bones, and there are no signs of poisoning. I suspect that they died of suffocation, and they should be the concubines and maids buried with them."
"Damn it, 49 young women were buried with them? This old thing is really pretty. Let the children clean out the bones first and see if there are any new discoveries."
The excavation of the entire tomb is progressing very slowly. Archeology is not like inversion. Inversion is to obtain the most valuable artifacts in the ancient tomb as quickly as possible, while archaeological excavation focuses on showing the original appearance of the ancient tomb intact.
, none of the funerary objects can be abandoned. Backbreaking is a night job, while archeology must be done during the day.
It is said that those who engage in archeology are atheists, but this is not the case. They are more superstitious than anyone else. They have an unwritten rule that you must come out of the tomb after the sun goes down, because at this time the Yin Qi begins to rise, and the ghosts in the ancient tombs
Gradually wake up, and those who enter inadvertently will be cursed.
The excavation work on the first day went very slowly. By the evening, only 49 corpses in the tomb passages had been cleaned up. There were not many valuable things, not even a copper coin. This also denied Wushuang's original idea.
Guess, those buried with him are definitely not from the family of the deceased. They are descendants of the Eight Banners. Which family doesn’t have thousands of taels of silver!
After Nalanhong came out, he said that there was a tomb door in the innermost part. The tomb door may have been blocked inside. According to archaeological practices, directional micro-blasting technology may be used tomorrow. Wushuang grinned when he heard this.
It will more or less destroy the original appearance of the ancient tomb. He has a way, but he is just a consultant invited, not a nationally certified archaeologist. There is no need to tell them the method left by the ancestor.
Dongzi and Boss Ma are responsible for guarding the ancient tomb in the middle of the night. This job is quite thankless. There is no way. This is a small-scale archeology, and there are not too many manpower assigned to it. The students brought by Professor Zhang are already exhausted from cleaning the tomb passage during the day.
I just found a few fellow villagers to stay overnight in the village.
"Young master, look...the boss and I haven't eaten yet. It's so dark in the middle of the night...and we won't be given any subsidies from above, so why bother?" Dongzi complained a little.
"Okay, okay, okay, can I give you two a subsidy? Yue Fujin went to the mountains to catch some game. We will barbecue here in the open air tonight. I won't go back. I will accompany you two, okay?" Wushuang still said to the servants.
Chapter completed!