Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 283 Weird Bronze Mirror (4000)

"Mister, I leave it to you."

Wu Liang looked back at Yu Ji, pointed to the bamboo slips in the alcove and said, "Just look through the "History of Qi", if it is the same as the "History of Qi" we discovered earlier, then put it aside and focus on studying it." The following "Biography of Mu Gong", now we are in the tomb, if we can find some key information from it, we can avoid missing important objects."

"Leave it to the old man."

Yu Ji nodded immediately and stepped forward to check.

The weaving thread of these bamboo slips has also been seriously aged, and some bamboo pieces have been scattered. However, Yu Ji has been helping Wu Liang to study and sort out "History of Qi" before. He is already very experienced in dealing with such bamboo slips, and there is basically nothing to deal with. Question, by the way, I can sort it out.

"Yang Wanli, you stay and fight for the old man."

Wu Liang left Yang Wanli here to guard again, and then took other people to continue to investigate.

Then something of value finally appeared in the tomb.

Mainly gold utensils, such as utensils, spoons, plates, bowls, boats and other daily utensils.

It is worth noting that there are still some peach, plum, plum, apricot, and jujube pits that have dried up and become empty shells in several containers.

This is also relatively common in archaeological discoveries of later generations. In the "Book of Rites", these five kinds of fruits were listed as the "five fruits" in the sacrificial offerings. The situation is also very common.

However, there are not too many of these gold utensils, and they only occupy a niche in total. It is estimated that a few dozen catties would be good...

In addition, there are a small amount of jade.

After careful identification by Wu Liang, these jade wares are mainly jade huang, there are only a few pieces, and the rest are some jade pendants.

The carving technique is also based on the intaglio of the Spring and Autumn Period, with some expressive techniques such as openwork and relief, and some patterns are added to the outer edge of the outline for decoration.

As for the graphics, dragon, tiger, beast and bird patterns are the main ones.

These have been discovered in the archaeological world of later generations, and there is no place that Wu Liang needs to focus on.

……

After nearly an hour like this, Wu Liang finally checked all the niches in the tomb carefully.

Finally, he finally led the crowd to the front of the coffin stored in the center of the tomb's main seat.

The coffin was placed in a square pool one foot below the ground. There was no water in the pool, and there was no trace of drying up. It should have been dug out specially to place the coffin.

This set of coffins is also sealed in the "three long and two short" binding method.

Overall, it looks much smaller than the coffins seen in the "Qi Ai Cemetery" before. Based on this, it can be speculated that the "Four Coffins and One Coffin" used by Chu Mugong should not be the "Four Coffins and One Coffin" that only princes like "Qi Ai Gong" are qualified to use. "Coffin", which is likely to be the "two coffins and one coffin" used by the scholar-bureaucrats who are one level lower.

If this is the case, this Duke Mu and his descendants can be regarded as very dutiful.

As the actual controllers and managers of Qi State in the early stage, their people have always regarded themselves as "auxiliary ministers", and there has been no record of offside behavior in history, which can be called first-class loyal ministers in any era .

However, this can only be judged after Wu Liang opens the coffin.

Maybe Qiu Mugong can only be small, so the coffin used is also relatively small?
"Dianwei..."

After observing carefully at such a distance, Wu Liang didn't find anything that needed special attention, so he held the "Suihou Pearl" and walked into the pool where the coffin was placed, and asked Dian Wei to come over and prepare to open the coffin.

Just at this time.

"?!"

Wu Liang's eyes were suddenly flickered by a flash of light.

This ray of light came from the dome directly above the coffin, Wu Liang was startled immediately, and quickly stopped to look.

After seeing this, Wu Liang found out.

It turned out that there was a round bronze mirror hanging on the dome directly above the coffin.

Due to the age of the bronze mirror, some rough rust has appeared on the edge, but the mirror surface is quite well preserved and still looks smooth as water.

Just now, it just happened to be at the right angle, and the light reflected from the "Suihou Pearl" on the mirror just happened to hit Wu Liang's eyes.

Why hang a bronze mirror in this place?
Wu Liang was somewhat puzzled.

He knew that there was indeed such a custom in later generations to hang a bronze mirror on the coffin of the dead, which was said to be able to guide the way or ward off evil spirits.

But this era may not have such a custom.

At least so far he has stolen some Han tombs and an ancient tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period. Although many bronze mirrors have been found in these tombs, those bronze mirrors were used as ordinary offerings for burial, and they were placed in the There has never been a similar situation among the various ear chambers and niches.

And this bronze mirror hanging in such a place is obviously not an ordinary burial, it always feels like it is to play some unknown special role.

Or...

What unknown miraculous effect does this bronze mirror itself have?

Bronze mirrors have been an important ritual vessel since ancient times, and they are also valuable items that can only be enjoyed by princes and nobles. There are countless allusions related to this in the history of the Chinese Dynasty.

For example: the Xuanyuan mirror that can distinguish the true and false of the emperor, the Qinhuang bone mirror that can see through the internal organs, the six-nosed mirror that has clairvoyance and the ability to predict the future, the disease-free mirror that can cure all diseases, the sea mirror, the malarial mirror, the demon mirror... …Etc., etc.

Most of the miraculous ancient mirrors mentioned above are well documented, and some are even recorded in the official history discovered by later generations, which is amazing.

However, later generations have not found the whereabouts of these bronze mirrors, so whether they really exist is still doubtful.

"My lord, is there something wrong with the bronze mirror?"

Noticing Wu Liang's anomaly, Dian Wei followed Wu Liang's gaze and found the bronze mirror, and then asked quite cautiously in front of Wu Liang.

"Being here is the biggest problem."

Wu Liang said intently.

"Why don't I take down this bronze mirror before opening the coffin? To avoid any accidents due to it..."

Dian Wei said again.

The floor space of this tomb is about three meters. With Dian Wei's height, if he stepped on the coffin to remove it, it shouldn't take too much effort.

"I think... in order to avoid any accidents, it's better for us not to touch this bronze mirror."

Wu Liang thought for a while, then finally shook his head and said.

If this bronze mirror really has the effect of "warding off evil spirits", it means that there may be some unpredictable dangers in the coffin. This bronze mirror may also have a certain suppressive effect. If it is removed, it will be equivalent to Unlocking some kind of seal is not good.

Of course, this is still just Wu Liang's conjecture, mainly based on the folk customs of later generations... It is better to believe that there is something than nothing.

"That……"

Dian Wei frowned slightly.

After hearing Wu Liang and Dian Wei's words, the others also became nervous, secretly guessing the function of the bronze mirror and the unknown things that might exist in the coffin.

"Let's open the coffin first, and be more careful."

Wu Liang pondered for a while, and then brought Dian Wei to the side of the coffin.

Dian Wei already had experience in opening coffins for many times. After receiving Wu Liang's approval, he used an engineer shovel to easily cut off the rotten leather strips used to tie up the coffin, and then followed the joint of the outermost layer of animal skin with extreme skill. Take it apart.

The coffin placed on the inner layer of the animal skin coffin is a black lacquered coffin made of basswood.

There are not too many decorative layers and patterns on the coffin, and there is no filling in the gap between the coffin and the coffin. "Qi Ai Cemetery" is filled with pearls in the interlayer of the coffin.

Compared with the tomb owners of the two local tyrants, the Chumu Cemetery is obviously much shabby.

Seeing that there was nothing on the first floor, Wu Liang nodded to Dian Wei after confirming that there was nothing abnormal: "Go on."

After a moment.

The lid of this basswood coffin was also lifted to one side, revealing a smaller catalpa coffin inside.

The exterior of this catalpa coffin is also coated with a layer of black paint, the difference is that some gold powder paint is used to draw some beautiful knob patterns on the corners of the coffin, which finally looks relatively advanced.

However, no filler was placed in the gap between the basswood coffin and the catalpa coffin, and no funerary objects were found.

And Wu Liang judged by the size and material of the catalpa coffin.

The inner and outer coffins of Duke Mu of Qiu should be the scholar-official standard of "two coffins and one outer coffin".

Because the material of the coffin of "Qi Ai Gong" from the outside to the inside is: animal skin coffin, basswood coffin, basswood coffin, catalpa coffin, catalpa coffin.

However, Qiu Mugong's coffin was already the best catalpa coffin in the Zhou system's coffin standard when it reached the third floor.

"Open it again, this time you have to be extra careful, if you miss a gap, you will back away immediately, and I will proceed to the next step after careful confirmation."

Afraid of the weird bronze mirror on top of his head, Wu Liang was more cautious than usual, and said to Dian Wei in a serious tone.

"promise!"

Dian Wei responded, clasped his hands under the coffin lid, and made sure to confirm it before exerting his strength, "My lord, I'm going to open it."

"open."

Wu Liang also took a wrong step back and nodded slightly.

"Squeak—"

Accompanied by a rubbing sound, the coffin lid immediately moved a few inches to the side, and a gap that was not very wide was exposed in the coffin.

Then Dian Wei didn't hesitate at all, and jumped in front of Wu Liang again, holding an engineering shovel and staring at the gap in case something unexpected happened.

"Jingjing, have you heard anything?"

During this process, Wu Liang didn't hear any movement, so he asked Bai Jingjing first.

"No."

Bai Jingjing shook her head slightly.

"Can anyone smell a strange smell? Like a rancid smell."

Wu Liang asked again.

Under normal circumstances, if there is no obvious damage to the coffin, the coffin containing the dead body will emit a relatively strong rancid or rotten smell after it is reopened.

But after the coffin was opened, apart from the unique smell of Zimu, Wu Liang didn't smell anything different from it, so he asked this question.

"No smell."

Everyone still shook their heads.

Even Dian Wei shook his head, if there was any smell, he who was in charge of opening the coffin would undoubtedly be the easiest to smell it.

It seems that it is really tasteless.

How is this going?

Wu Liang immediately frowned.

Perhaps it was because the remains of Lord Chu Mu were re-encoffined during the migration process, and only rotten bones were left at that time?

If it's just dry bones, there will be no more decaying process, and naturally it won't produce any smell...

at this time.

Yu Ji ran over quickly with Yang Wanli, holding up a few bamboo slips while running and shouting in surprise: "My lord, my lord! I found a record related to Taigong seal in "Mu Gongzhuan"!"

"Oh? Let's listen first."

Seeing that there was no movement in the coffin, Wu Liang felt quite at ease, and wanted to hear what information Yu Ji had found from "The Biography of Mu Gong", which might be helpful for him to further explore the tomb, so he temporarily opened the coffin Putting things aside, I turned around and asked.

"It turns out that Taigong Jiang personally entrusted someone to make this Taigong seal. Although there is no record in the book who entrusted it to make it, it is stated that this seal is actually to prevent Lu's descendants from being harmed by Jiang Taigong's alchemy! "

Yu Ji said excitedly.

"Because of Jiang Taigong's alchemy?"

Wu Liang was taken aback when he heard this.

Why does this sound so contradictory?

Jiang Taigong's alchemy, even if it is to be passed on, it will definitely be passed on to his descendants first, so only the descendants of the Lu family will harm others, so why should we prevent the descendants of the Lu family from being harmed by others?
Unless, it is to prevent the descendants of the Lu family from killing each other?

"Not bad!"

Yu Ji went on to say, "The Biography of Duke Mu says that Taigong Jiang had thirteen sons in his lifetime, namely Lu Ji, Lu Ren, Lu Yin, Lu Fang, Lu Shao, Lu Luo, Lu Ming, Lu Qing, Lu Yi, and Lu Qi. , Lu Qi, Lu Nian, and Lu Zuo."

"Except for the eldest son Lu Ji who inherited Jiang Taigong's mantle and became Qi Dinggong, most of the remaining heirs are relatively mediocre and unknown all their lives, but... there are also two outliers among them."

"One is the third son, Lu Yin, who is Duke Mu of Qiu."

"The other one is No. 13 son Lu Zuo."

"These two have talents that are different from ordinary people in alchemy. They have learned the alchemy that Jiang Taigong has learned all his life at a young age, and they are even better than blue."

"Qiu Mugong and Lu Yin have a pure heart, but Na Lu Zuo has a wicked heart."

"Relying on his extraordinary talent, Lu Zuo refused to accept his eldest brother Lu Ji's succession to the throne, and used alchemy to assassinate Lu Ji and other brothers. Fortunately, Duke Qiu Mu and Lu Yin took action in time and saved Lu Ji's life, but several brothers still lost their lives because of this." killed."

"Later, Jiang Taigong, who was far away in Haojing, learned of this matter. Although he did not execute Lu Zuo, he tied him to a boat and dispatched him to the country of Wa, ordering him not to set foot in the Central Plains forever."

"As for Duke Mu of Qiu and Lu Yin, because of his meritorious service in this matter, he stayed in Qi to supervise the affairs of the state..."

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