Chapter 44 Chair and Bucket
"Stop smoking, it's not safe, pinch the cigarette." He said.
Douyazai and I hurriedly pushed out the cigarette.
It is not unreasonable to worry about the head, but there are indeed hidden dangers. This box of illegally made old-fashioned detonators is unstable in nature. If it blows up, there is no need to clean up. In that case, the six of us will become sixty.
Brother Yu carefully covered the box tightly, put a waterproof bag on it, and stuffed it into the plastic bag.
After resting on site for two hours, we stood up and continued to walk into the cave.
"Look there, do you see?"
Stop, shine your head with a flashlight on the corner of the cave and said, "The traces of artificial excavation should be nearly a thousand years to see the weathering of the broken mouth."
The more you go in, the more frightened you are.
From time to time, you can see some human bones on the ground, scattered and broken, because the air here is very humid, and many of them have a layer of green hair on the surface, and no one converges, and it looks like they have been dead for a long time.
"Have you heard it?" Achun turned his head and looked around.
"What did you hear?" asked Brother Yu.
"Wrinkle, as if there are a lot of people whispering in your ear."
"No, it's so quiet here. Who did you hear it?" Brother Yu asked us again.
"No."
The three of us shook our heads and said nothing.
But sometimes I accidentally step on the bone and make a cracking sound.
Achun was not talking.
"Huh... I'm so disgusting."
As she walked, Xiaoxuan suddenly ran behind me and pointed at a place for me to see.
I moved the flashlight.
It is a joint bone of a human being. A few white insects crawled on it. I haven't seen it before. I don't know if it's dead. After the flashlight shines, it doesn't move. I guess it's a crooked or a cave horse-land thing.
As before, none of us saw a skull.
The atmosphere is very depressing.
"Head! Come and take a look! There is a hole!" Douyazai suddenly shouted.
This place is considered karst landforms, and caves of all sizes are not uncommon. Many of them are formed by erosion of water all year round. I have seen several places when I came here before. After getting in, the space is narrow and it is a dead end.
"well?"
"Is this flashlight water in?" The flashlight suddenly flickered and Douyazi patted hard.
The cave that Douyazi discovered was irregular in shape, more than one meter high, and it was very dark inside.
Let’s talk about your head in and take a look, be careful and pay attention to the lighting under your feet.
Bent over and walk into the hole.
"hiss....."
"Huh...it's so cold here." Brother Yu could see the white air as he spoke and breathed.
The few caves I have explored before are dead ends. This is different. The more I go deeper I get in. I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect. I feel the same as Brother Yu, and I feel very cold.
"Wait, there's something." Wave our heads and let us stop.
On the ground, I found a cloth shoe near the corner. It was very worn and there were several holes in the upper. It would reveal its toes when worn.
Douyazi plucked up the courage to pick it up and take a look, but it broke and weathered as soon as it touched. These were cloth shoes worn by ancient people in the past. Since shoes were found here, it proved that someone had come in before.
After walking for another five or six minutes, a turn appeared in front of us. After turning, the space suddenly became larger and people could stand up straight. What appeared in front of us was a secret room space.
In addition to being damp, the surrounding air seems to have a rotten smell.
"Look! What is it!"
“There are also here!”
"The chair? Iron? It doesn't look like it..."
There were some very strange things here, all of which were covered with thick layers of gray.
I saw a rusty iron chair, but when I looked closely, it was different from an ordinary chair. This rotten iron chair had three legs, the stool legs were very high, and there was a hole as big as a fist in the place where the butt was sitting.
If you are so bad, you must be an old guy. You just don’t know what to do. And your shape is very weird, very similar to... It looks like the high chairs placed on the bars in the early years. People can hold their feet up after they sit on it.
In addition to the iron chair, there are some strange things here.
There is a large iron bucket with a lid and a hole with a diameter of more than 20 cm on the iron sheet. I don’t know what to do.
In addition, there are also rusty iron chains and an old brush here.
After carefully looking at his head, he took a deep breath and suddenly said:
"I recognized it. This is a torture place, the torture room, which may be a secret room used to punish quarrymen in caves."
Turning his head around, pointing at the rusty iron bucket, continued, "Do you know what this thing is?"
I thought for a while: "It looks like it's for bathing, and Isn't it all the things I do on TV? But those are wood, and these are iron."
"Yunfeng, you are only half right."
He said, "This can be called a bathtub, but it was not used to take a bath before."
"I met a woman in the 1990s. The woman specially collected the torture instruments that had been tortured in the past. She wrote an ancient torture reference book and submitted it to Jiangsu Publishing House. Because the content was too bloody, she did not publish it. Later, she illegally printed a few books, and I read them."
"This thing happened in the early Qing Dynasty, and it was called a dirty bucket." Tell me the head.
"Dirty bucket? What does it mean?"
I couldn't understand, so I explained my head a few words.
It is said that the "dirty bucket" was invented by a man named Xu. At that time, the Qing army entered the pass and asked people to shave their hair and wear braids. "The body and hair are accepted by their parents," the order was strongly opposed, especially some scholars, who would rather be killed than keep braids.
The man surnamed Xu said, "I want to clean it? OK, then let you clean it." Later, he asked a blacksmith to make this kind of bucket.
First, let someone take off his clothes, lift the iron lid, let someone sit naked in the bucket, and then close the lid, because there are holes on the cover, the person's head will be exposed.
At this time, dip a brush with candy and honey and brush it on a person's face. In summer, sweet things will attract ants, mosquitoes, flies, etc. People sitting in the bucket will feel extremely itchy, but because only their heads are exposed, they cannot scratch them, and they will soon be bitten by the ants and mosquitoes.
During this period, I gave it a lot of food, so I could not eat it and it would be fused if I couldn't eat it. It would always be convenient if I had a big belly.
The big and small ones can only be easily accessible to the bucket. Gradually, more and more maggots are accumulated, and bacteria grow, and the smell is unbearable. Basically, they are infected and die.
Maybe thinking of a possible scene here, Xiaoxuan's "vomiting" cough and retching were far away from this bucket.
"Head, what is this for?" I asked again about the iron chair that looked like a bar stool. There was also a hole the size of a fist on the surface of the chair.
He hesitated for a few seconds and frowned and said, "This thing is called the flowering chair, also called the pear blossom chair. It existed briefly in the Ming Dynasty and rarely, and it was the first time I saw a real thing."
"Huh! Huh!" Douyazai blew the dust hard and coughed, "Pear Blossom Chair? This one sounds pretty good."
"What's nice?"
He shook his head and said, "Torturing confessions and torture people to speak, these are things that only ancient perverts would come up with."
I told my head how to use this thing. The first time I heard it, I only knew that there were tiger benches and handboards.
I'm afraid that someone is having a meal, so I try not to say that it's so disgusting. This thing is true.
"Blooming chair," can be used regardless of gender. The usage is to tie a person to a chair, take off his pants, and hang his legs in the air. Isn't there a hole the size of a fist on the chair?
At this time, the torturer crawled into the bottom, inserted a big pear with a stick, and stuffed the pear hard into it, which would hurt people to death.
After stuffing it in, it can't be pulled out. At this time, it keeps poking back and forth with a stick until the pear is rotten and blooms.
There are more stone sculptures in Guizai Ridge than Terracotta Warriors, so the amount of limestone used will be very large. I don’t know who looked at these stonemasons back then, but it can be seen through these torture instruments.
The man didn't know how many stonemasons he killed, and it was very likely that he could find this person in history books.
There is another thing that can be seen.
Chapter completed!