I don’t know how long it took, but the light of the flashlight flickered again.

The same situation occurs again.

But this time, we all saw the shadow clearly. It was indeed a man tied to the cross, but he was carrying a rectangular cabinet and his head was crooked.

I really feel like crying. Where did this shadow come from?

But at this moment, Lao Jintou seemed to have discovered something. He shouted to Chen Tuozi who was holding the emergency light: "Please shine the light above your head."

Chen Tuozi quickly raised the emergency light, and a dazzling bright light came over.

We found that there was a huge bluestone stuck on the top of the tomb at an angle of 45 degrees. I was shocked. The stone weighed at least a thousand pounds and was hanging above our heads. If this thing was a mechanism, it would

If it were smashed down, we would all turn into meatloaf.

"Highlight your moves and see."

Old Jintou said with a frown.

This time, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the shadow did not appear again. Just when we were feeling sleepy, suddenly, I saw a pale woman's face peeking out from behind the bluestone!

I don’t know what processing method was used, but this face is very well preserved, except that the face is completely white, the hair is disheveled, leaving only two black eye sockets, just like Sadako in a Japanese ghost movie.

My eyes just happened to be fixed on that face, and in an instant, almost half of my body was numb.

"Oh my god, female ghost!"

The fat man couldn't control himself and pulled the trigger fiercely. Several bullets immediately penetrated the woman's face. The bullets passed through the woman's face and hit the stone wall behind, bursting out a series of sparks.

"You little fat man who has no descendants, do you want to kill us?"

Lao Jintou's face suddenly turned dark, and he kicked the fat man's pistol away with a flying kick. I was secretly frightened. The old man looked confused, but after those few moves just now, I knew he was there.

, the team that my grandfather led back then was indeed a fierce one.

At the same time, the woman's face was also exposed.

This is actually a coffin. To be precise, it should be a coffin wrapped in a female corpse. The female corpse's two hands protruded from the two holes of the coffin, and a long iron chain was dragged around its head, looking like a big turtle.

This is the weird shadow we just saw!

I felt chills all over. What kind of punishment is this?

Since ancient times, China has advocated burial. Not only was this woman mummified after her death, she was also put in chains to look like a cross, just like the crucifixion of Jesus.

"This is a hanging coffin. There seems to be no such custom during the Warring States Period, right?" Chen Tuozi frowned.

"What is a hanging coffin?" I asked.

"In ancient China, reincarnation was advocated. After death, people had to rest in the grave, because only when the soul rests in peace can they be reincarnated as a human being. Therefore, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, in order to punish prisoners, a special torture was invented, which was to lock the deceased in shackles and pretend to be a human being.

Hanging in the coffin, so that the coffin never touches the soil, and the deceased can never be reincarnated. However, this kind of torture only appeared briefly a few times, and there are no records later. How could this technique appear in Li Si's tomb?

"

Chen Tuozi seemed to be very familiar with this aspect of history, and he explained it in detail.

The circulation of culture in ancient times was extremely inconvenient, especially when there were several dynasties apart, and the differences in national customs were even greater. Thousands of years passed between the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Qin Dynasty. Logically speaking, Li Si did not know what a hanging coffin was. Now this kind of thing appears

The handwriting is indeed a bit jaw-dropping.

"And there's something wrong with this female corpse. It's almost unheard of for a face to be so well preserved! I'm afraid it's a rice dumpling."

Lao Jintou said with squinted eyes at the side. He stared at the shaking hanging coffin with some uneasiness.

No matter how well-preserved a normal corpse is, it will have shriveled up and rotted away over thousands of years. Unless the corpse has mutated, it will be the zongzi that the native master fears the most!

I glared at the fat man fiercely. No wonder Lao Jintou wanted to scold me just now. If this thing was really a rice dumpling, those few shots just now would definitely cause big trouble.

I asked the fat man to help me climb up the bluestone slab to take a closer look at the hanging coffin. This coffin was hung by three iron chains, two on the coffin lid and one on the neck of the female corpse.

Moreover, there seemed to be a dark staircase behind the coffin, and gusts of cold wind blew out of the staircase from time to time, causing the hanging coffin to shake.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a stone tablet, and I quickly called Fatty and the others to come up.

This stone tablet is very small, with small seal characters written on the top: Tomb of Beloved Wife Cai.

At this moment, we were all stunned. This ancient torture was supposed to be used on heinous sinners, so that they would never be reincarnated after death. But at this moment, the corpse in the coffin was the beloved wife of the tomb owner. This was no matter what.

It's incomprehensible.

"Is Li Si really a lunatic? He killed his own wife. What on earth did he want to do?" Chen Tuozi's face looked ugly.

To be honest, what a native master is most afraid of encountering in a fight is this kind of lunatic who doesn't play by the rules. This kind of person has no taboos at all. In order to ensure the safety of his tomb, he may do many unexpected things.

of organs.

Just like before, a gang of tomb robbers dug up the tomb of the Qing Dynasty minister Suo'etu in Hubei. When the coffin was opened and the loot was collectively divided, no one knew who pulled the necklace around the corpse's neck and immediately hid it in the corpse's belly.

Several crossbow arrows were fired, smashing the people around him to pieces.

There are really few people in history who can be so cruel to their own corpses.

"I'm talking about his grandma, what's going on with Li Si? Don't the history books say that this guy is a humble gentleman and a pillar of the country? It doesn't say that he is a madman." The fat man became more and more hairy as he thought about it.

"There are some words below, let me read them first."

I frowned and said, there are many small words densely packed on this stone tablet. I turned the emergency light to the brightest, then lay there and studied the words carefully.

What makes me feel strange is that I can't understand many of the small seal characters on this stone tablet. Judging from the overall arrangement of these characters, the small seal characters should be correct, but I, who specializes in antique business, can't recognize them at all.

Even Chen Tuozi looked at it and shook his head.

"It's strange. Hasn't the archaeological community produced a dictionary of Xiaozhuan? Moreover, Xiaozhuan is considered the most readable among ancient fonts. Why can't I see it as a famous font?"

Chen Tuozi shook his head and said.

I took out my camera and took a photo of the stone tablet, but Lao Jintou behind me suddenly said:

"Not only here, but also in other places. We found this kind of incomprehensible small seal characters in several tomb chambers back then! A calligraphy master in the team said that these small seal characters have been encrypted. It is probably

Li Si was afraid that someone would discover this tomb and what could he learn from these words."

I nodded, this statement is very possible.

Li Si was originally a great calligrapher, and he even carved the jade seal of Qin Shihuang. In order to prevent anyone from making fakes, he deliberately changed the last stroke of the word 'chang' in the word 'chang' in the word 'ordained by heaven, and he will live long and prosperous'.

, which makes it impossible for counterfeiters to imitate these eight characters.

"I can only understand half of these words. The general meaning is that Li Si's first wife accidentally stumbled upon his secret. In order to prevent the secret from being leaked, Li Si reluctantly killed his wife who had been with him for decades. After his death, he also killed his wife.

Put her body into a hanging coffin and bury it here, so that her soul will always be imprisoned in the coffin and she will never tell the secret again..."

Chen Tuozi was a little hesitant in translating, and he probably guessed a lot of the meaning himself.

I suddenly remembered my grandfather’s fascination with the Qingyang Bottle before he died. Could the Qingyang Bottle be related to that secret?

It was not the bronze that attracted my grandfather, but the secret of the tomb itself that attracted him!

You must know that even if the Qingyang bottle is a national treasure, it will not reach the height of priceless value if sold.

Also, I asked Uncle Ming, how do you know that what I got back was a real Qingyang bottle? But he showed a mysterious and confident expression.
Chapter completed!