Chapter 51 The Outer Coffin – The Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

The darkness of the chamber, with the two bronze men standing by the huge white coffin, was a scene of bizarre style that would make anyone uncomfortable who looked at it.

At this time, the boss wondered: “The owner of this tomb is really not in accordance with common sense, a good main chamber does not stay, but to hide themselves alone in this nook and cranny, what is this going to do? The key is not much of a burial object, just these two bronze men, I thought they were terracotta warriors at first glance.” He used his flashlight to illuminate the bronze men.

“It’s possible that this nook and cranny is some kind of feng shui treasure, right? A coffin made of giant clams, tsk tsk tsk,” Third Brother said in a deep voice: “The owner of this tomb is also too rich, look at me, I’ll give him the whole thing.”

After saying the words, he took out a small folded up steel shovel from his bag, which was small in size, similar to an engineer’s shovel, not only for digging, but also for prying coffin boards.

Big brother used a flashlight to help light the way, while third brother carried a shovel around the coffin, and I knew he was looking for the patio.

In the past, when doing burials in ancient times, no matter whether they were commoners or nobles, they would intentionally leave a small opening inside the tomb, and the coffin was the same; this opening was left very small, and its implication was that the souls of the people in the coffin could ascend to heaven. This small opening is called a patio.

Further to the Tang and Song dynasties, the patio and renamed the wooden well, and finally to the Ming and Qing dynasties and called the living mouth, in fact, are changing the soup is not a nature.

I don’t know what the reason was, but the temperature in this secret room where the tomb owner’s coffin was placed was very low, very cold, right below zero.

“Found it!” San’s eyes lit up as he stopped at the northwest corner of the coffin. There was a small rectangular hole here in the coffin, and Lao San said that the opening was the so-called patio.

The principle of the outer coffin is actually very well understood, is now often referred to as a set of children, big set of small, layer after layer, to pry open the words can only be one layer after another.

There are also rules for the number of layers in the outer coffin.

The son of heaven four outer coffins, the vassal kings three outer coffins, the scholar and the generals a layer of outer coffins, and then down the hierarchy of people died, only allowed to use the coffin, not allowed to use the outer coffin. Between the coffin and the coffin are mortise and tenon structure, a nail is not.

After thousands of years, the mortise and tenon structure has become very fragile, with a shovel pry hard, sure enough, the outermost layer of the

The coffin has loosened up a bit.

Once the seam is open, the next step is easy, just skin it.

The boss also went up to help, the two are years of veterans work well together, less than half an hour to open the first layer of the outer coffin.

It didn’t matter that everyone was shocked when they looked down.

Underneath this layer of the white giant clam’s coffin, there was actually a layer of black metal coffin.

Sister Hong looked at it and exclaimed, “It’s oxidized, it’s silver!”

Silver coffin!

Was there silverware during the Western Zhou period?

There are! But in very small numbers!

In the seventies, Shanxi archaeological team unearthed a with “Mrs. Yue Ling” inscription inscription of the silver coffin, this silver coffin is a national treasure, is permanently banned from exhibiting abroad.

But what we have in front of us is surprisingly a silver coffin plate that is several meters long and wide!

Upon closer inspection, the silver coffin plate oxidized to black seemed to have some patterns saved and engraved on it.

Third brother looked excited and said, “Eye opening, eye opening! This is really eye-opening, just these two layers of outer coffin plate is so powerful, that the innermost coffin, in the end, what other big goods!”

Despite the weakness of the patio, it took a lot of effort to open this layer of the silver coffin.

“It’s about to fall! Be careful not to hit your foot, this thing is not light!”

“Wait Sango!”

“Look, you guys! Water’s flowing up ahead!”

Only to see, along the gap of the silver coffin plate, a lot of black sticky liquid flowed out, and the more it flowed, a fishy odor came out!

“Back off!” The Sun brothers dodged back.

These black waters in the silver coffin plate continued to flow more and more, dripping all over the place.