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Chapter 194 The Urn Coffin
"Er Yang, what's wrong with you? I've noticed that you've been depressed since the day, what's on your mind?" Yang Lei said, took out a cigarette and lit it.

"Give me one."

"What? You've been quitting for several years. Stop smoking soon. It's hard to quit smoking. You've persisted for so long and you've quit completely. Don't relapse."

"Give me one, I feel annoyed." Yang Lei handed the cigarette he was lighting to Chen Ziyang, and then lit another one for himself.

"What else can we brothers not say, tell me, what's going on? Is it because of the jars we dug up during the day? What are those? I've always wanted to ask, but I'm not ashamed to ask."

Chen Ziyang shook his head and said: "Those things are actually nothing magical. These jars are urn coffins, that is, coffins that are buckled up and down with two large urns. Two large urn coffins were found in XJ and Hebei before. Tombs.

The most used urn coffins were in the Ming Dynasty. The urn coffins in the Ming Dynasty were very large, much larger than this one. They were more than one meter high and large in size. They were octagonal, with a mother-in-law mouth, round shoulders and abdomen, and a flat bottom. The coffin was painted with yellow-brown glaze.The decoration is divided into three layers, and the painting on each layer is different.

The upper layer generally draws phoenix birds, musical instruments, calligraphy and painting, etc.; the middle layer paints three groups of figures and phoenix birds, weeping willows, and emerald bamboo; the lower layer paints Yanglian.The cover is in the shape of an octagonal pagoda, and besides a group of decorative figures, it is generally painted with patterns such as phoenix birds, flowers, weeping willows, and emerald bamboos.

The number of these urn coffins we dug up is also very large, it seems that this is also a group of urn coffin tombs.I have never heard of a discovery in Inner Mongolia before. I guess it is precisely because these urn coffins are buried underground that the soil in the gaps between the urn coffins is relatively soft, causing the ground in that place to collapse.

This kind of small urn coffin can't hold an adult. Generally speaking, there are only two uses. One is to bury babies who died young and children who died prematurely. Because they are not yet adults, there is no need to use a coffin. Appropriate, another use is to use it when transferring corpses.

A coffin that has been buried is worse than a still one. Even if the feng shui of the burial place is very ordinary, the grave is rarely moved. If it is necessary to move the grave, and the body of the buried person has already decayed, only the bones are left At this time, you need to use the urn coffin.

The coffin is usually not moved when the grave is moved, because the original coffin is almost rotten. At this time, it is necessary to pick out the remaining bones of the person and put them in the urn coffin. into the coffin, or directly put the urn coffin into the coffin.

In addition, there is another deformation of the urn coffin called the soul bottle, which is used to hold funerary objects.Many things are used by people when they are alive, and they want to take them to the underworld to continue to enjoy them, which is the reason why the soul bottle was created.The earliest soul bottles were similar in style to urn coffins, usually filled with five grains, but soul bottles had many more styles than urn coffins, and there were some decorations on them.

In fact, the reason why I am worried is not because we dug up these urn coffins. For some reason, since I came here, I always have a feeling of restlessness.It was a weird feeling, like I always had the feeling that something really bad was going to happen.

We have gone through a lot of dangers together, and even our lives were hanging by a thread several times, but even when I fell from the broken bridge in the Bohai Underground Palace and thought that I would definitely die, I didn't feel this way.I'm not going to lie, this place is not right, very wrong, probably much more dangerous than any place we have been to before. "

Yang Lei and Chen Ziyang are always laughing and joking when they are together.At this time, Yang Lei saw Chen Ziyang talking to him so solemnly for the first time, and Yang Lei knew that Chen Ziyang was definitely not playing tricks.

Only at this time did the two realize that Ushishishuai and Niss had already woken up, lying on the ground beside them, covering them with sheepskins, looking at them and listening to their conversation.Obviously, they had all heard the conversation between the two of them. Just like Chen Ziyang, the two of them also had dignified faces.

"Er Yang, don't think so much. We're here to look for those grasshoppers. If we can find them, we'll look for them. If we can't find them, we'll evacuate. There shouldn't be anything dangerous. Hurry up and get some more sleep, let's find another day tomorrow and go back at night."

Hearing Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang nodded, yes, there are no graves here, and there are no blood corpses here, so what is he worried about?Chen Ziyang has never felt this way, as if somewhere in the dark this is his desperate place, no wonder when reading martial arts novels, old men often tell the protagonist that he can't go anywhere in this life, this may be the reason.

When the sky was slightly brightened, all four of them got up.It's not that they don't want to rest anymore, it's too cold to lie down at all, it's better to get up and move around to feel better.Thanks to Nice's mosquito repellent, several people were not bitten by mosquitoes that night, and the wolves they were worried about did not appear.

Nice picked up his sacks of bear dung, packed up the sheepskins, and hung them on the horse again.Then several people tied up their horses and prepared to look for clues of those pubic lice in another direction.Looking at seven or eight urn coffins that had been dug out in the distance, several people discussed and decided to ask Nice to report to the nearby villages and towns after the matter was over. These things are also considered cultural relics.

But it’s not enough to leave these things like this. Although there are few people around here, if they are not in order, there will occasionally be herdsmen or other tourists who come here, so these urn coffins should be buried. If they are taken away by someone If it is broken, or if it is accidentally damaged, it will be a loss.

Just do it.Everyone returned to the foot of the hill and began to move these urn coffins into the pit one by one, and then covered the outside with floating soil.This made Yang Lei very angry.

"Dig for a while, move it out for a while, move it in again after moving it, and then bury it. I asked you if you have nothing to do, and you have to compete with these jars."

Putting the urn coffin into the pit is much more difficult than lifting it out.When lifting it out, you only need to push it behind to prevent it from falling, and then move it out a little bit.But when putting it inside, the people who pick up the jars below should not only prevent the jars from falling directly and be damaged, but also move the urn coffin downwards. After only three or four moves, several people will be very tired.So Yang Lei leaned against a jar and rested for a while.

"Shushashasha..." A series of rustling sounds came from the jar, making Yang Lei's eyes widen in fright.

"Er Yang! Come quickly! Listen to the sound in this jar!" After hearing the strange noise in the jar, Yang Lei was so frightened that he stepped far away, staring at the urn coffin and tremblingly said.

"Are you tired and confused? The things in the jar have been dead for hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years. How could there be a sound? Did you touch the jar, and the bones in the jar dangled back and forth? You heard it wrong. "

"No! Absolutely not! I was resting on it just now, and I didn't shake it. I heard the sound of nails scratching the jar. I really didn't lie to you, and I wasn't too tired to be dizzy. Come and listen." Yang Lei was so frightened that his hair stood on end, and he said bitterly in a weeping voice, seeing a few people who didn't believe him, he stamped his feet anxiously.

Seeing Yang Lei's expression, Chen Ziyang knew he was not joking.So he crawled out of the pit and slowly approached the jar.First, I looked around the jar from the outside, and found no cracks on the jar. At the same time, it may be because of its age, and the combination of the two jars that made up the urn coffin was relatively good. The seams have been solidified by a thick layer of soil, and it seems that the jar is not damaged.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ziyang put his ear to the urn coffin, and listened carefully.But after listening for a long time, he didn't hear any sound coming from the jar.So Chen Ziyang raised his head and shook his head at Yang Lei.That meant he didn't hear any strange noises.

For more than a day, Chen Ziyang has been listless, and Yang Lei knows that he is not in the mood to play with him.It seemed that he really didn't hear anything. Could it be that he was really tired and had hallucinations?So Yang Lei walked over cautiously, still putting his ear on the urn and listening carefully.

In order to completely dispel the doubts in Yang Lei's heart, Chen Ziyang also brought his ears closer, and the two faced each other, leaning against the outside of the urn coffin and listening carefully.Then Yang Lei roared, turned around suddenly, and ran out more than 20 meters away.

"Did you hear it? It's rustling, it seems that something is scratching the jar inside, you heard it! Did you hear it just now?" Yang Lei almost cried out these few words, look It looked like he was quite frightened, but this made Chen Ziyang even more confused.

Just now the two of them were leaning against the jar to listen together, but Chen Ziyang didn't hear anything.But Yang Lei's overreaction proves that he is not lying, which is really strange.One couldn't hear anything, and the other was scared to death.

When these jars were just dug up yesterday, Chen Ziyang had looked at them one by one, but he didn't find anything strange about them. That's why Chen Ziyang was always restless, but he was sure Ning's reasons have nothing to do with these jars.But Yang Lei's reaction aggravated his ominous premonition.

Shuai Shi and Nisi were also frightened by Yang Lei's actions, so the two of them also came over, and they both stuck to the urn coffin and listened carefully, but their reaction was the same as Chen Ziyang's, they couldn't hear it at all. to any sound.So the three of them looked at Yang Lei as if they were monsters, but Yang Lei didn't come over and listened without saying anything.

Taking out the compass from his body, Chen Ziyang looked at it carefully.The pointer of the compass was shaking slightly, and there was nothing special about it. There should be no evil things nearby.Even if there are some strange things in the jar, it is impossible that only Yang Lei can hear the voice in the jar.

"Zi Yang, I don't think this kid is joking. He is really scared. Why don't we break open this jar and take a look? If there is something inside, we can run quickly. If there is nothing Things can also dispel his doubts." Shuai Ushishi said a compromise.

But Chen Ziyang shook his head, the unease in his heart became more and more serious.So he said to Shanshi Shuai and Nisi: "Leave him alone, maybe he is stealing and playing tricks, and he doesn't want to work anymore. Let's not open this kind of urn coffin. If there are really things in it, maybe we will get into trouble and bury them. Wake up and nothing will happen."

So the three of them sped up their speed. In order to prevent Yang Lei from seeing these pots go crazy again, the three of them quickly moved all the remaining stalls back into the big pit, and at the same time dug out the surrounding area with two engineering shovels. The floating soil was filled back into the big pit.

Yang Lei was not in the mood to continue helping them find pubic lice, so the three asked Yang Lei to lead the horse and follow them far away.After changing several places, the three of them searched the grassland near Guihaopo, but found no clues of pubic lice.

Looking at the several hills of Guihaopo, Chen Ziyang thought that maybe his previous judgment was wrong, or else these pubic lice were in the hills of Guihaopo, not on the nearby grassland.But this doesn't make any sense at all. The sheep of the Nice family are infected with the kind of pubic lice because they ate the grass on the ghost howling slope, but there is no such thing in the grass nearby. It seems that there are pubic lice in the hills The possibility is not very high.

Because it was getting late and the journey was far away, everyone decided to go back home for the time being. After all, sleeping in the wild on the grassland is very uncomfortable, and at the same time, it is frightening. It is better to go back to the yurt and take a rest. good.

The happiest person right now is Yang Lei.Although he was also listless, he was finally able to stay away from those jars, which made him feel relieved a lot.Just when several people passed by the place where the urn coffin was buried, Yang Lei turned his head to look at the newly dug up soil, and glared bitterly.

By the time everyone returned to the yurt at Nice's house, it was already night.This time, because the three of them were no longer drunk, the three of them were arranged in a yurt.Chen Ziyang lay there tossing and turning, unable to sleep, just thinking about the reason for his restlessness.

After all, he was exhausted for two days, and at the same time, he didn't have a good rest the night before. Not long after, Chen Ziyang still fell into a drowsy sleep, but he didn't sleep well.

At night, the sudden uneasy feeling hit him strongly again.Chen Ziyang shuddered and sat up. After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he suddenly found that Yang Lei beside him had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)