Chapter 423 The sarcophagus in a fishbone
In an instant, a fire rose into the sky, and the light of the fire dispelled the darkness in the front hall, and the four walls of the shaking were as bright as day. Pinshu.com
Maybe it was the angle just now, or Ma Chengfeng didn't pay attention to it, but with the firelight, he immediately saw that the middle of the dry giant fish skull seemed to be wrapped in a black outline. He covered his face with his hands to resist the heat of the fire, and stepped forward to take a look, only to see that there was a huge sarcophagus in the middle of the fish skull!
"Huh?" He was startled and shouted.
"Is there really a coffin? That...... Is this a temple or a tomb? Xiao Man also asked in surprise.
"If there is a coffin, it can't be called a temple, the temple should be dedicated to the gods and Buddhas, how can there be a reason to worship the coffin?"
Xiao Man said: "What if the dead body in this coffin is an immortal on the bank of the Hanshui River? Her guess was very bold, and even Ma Chengfeng didn't think that there was such a meaning.
The two of them grabbed the turbid wave and got through the gap behind the fishbone statue, that is, at the back end of the fish's neck. This is a complete coffin, the coffin is in the shape of a fish, engraved with fish inscriptions all around, I don't know how many years it has been here, the coffin lid has long been with the coffin box below. Directly in front of it is a stone monument with an epitaph crookedly carved on it. Looking at the style of the text, it should be from the Han and Han dynasties.
The name of the owner of the tomb is "Li Kai". There is a large paragraph of text left, but it is all ancient Chinese. Chang Xiaoman and Ma Chengfeng usually have average academic performance, especially these mouthless ancient texts, although they recognize them, they are difficult to understand their meanings.
"Li Kai? During the Han Dynasty, I haven't heard of such a big man in any vassal state? Ma Chengfeng said strangely.
"If we can go out, maybe we can find his name in the Lingzhou County Chronicle, and we'll know when the time comes." Xiao Man said.
The main hall is surrounded by a lot of tripod vessels along the four walls, in addition to those strange aquarium carvings on the copper tripod, there are many ancient rune marks, Ma Chengfeng and Xiao Man turned around and compared, one of the symbols caught Ma Chengfeng's attention, he quickly took out the small notebook hidden in his chest, and compared, the symbol on the top was very similar to the symbol on the parchment scroll hidden in the box of Huang Xiangu.
This belongs to an ancient Humin hieroglyph, like a ghost symbol.
"Xiao Man, look, it's almost identical!"
"It's strange, Lingzhou has been the boundary of the Central Plains since ancient times, how can there be such characters used by the Hu people?" Xiao Man compared them in turn, and there were several bronze tripods with this kind of symbol, which was very similar to a ghost talisman, but it was a little different from the one left by Huang Xiangu, but it could be seen that they were all characters from the same period.
"I think we may have misunderstood, this symbol is not Gu Xianbeiwen, it is likely to come from the Central Plains, and I dare to say that these copper tripods are not complete. The ancients may have found a shocking secret from some mysterious area, and then wrote this secret in ancient script on the bronze tripod. Ma Chengfeng guessed.
"But we'd better not waste too much energy here now, let's look for it and see if there are any secret doors or mechanisms." Xiao Man held a flashlight and circled around the main hall.
If this place itself is an ancient river temple swallowed by river mud, since it is a temple, there is an apse, and there is a front hall, so the pilgrims who come in to worship the river god must always pass the door, right? What about the temple gate?
There is a door, there is a heavy big copper door on the east side of the ancient temple, this copper door stands on the top of the sky, it is more than five meters high, it is divided into two left and right, the small cracks in the middle are all patina, not only that, the bottom is also connected with the bottom of the rock, the upper side is against the beam, not to mention pushing, looking at it feels heavy, manpower can not open it at all. If there is a chance, then the Shenxing Taibao will not be trapped here, right?
In the end, the two returned in vain, so they could only focus on Li Kai's coffin.
"Both horizontal and vertical are dead, it's better to get out of the way and see who this Li Kai is! We can't be fools when we die, can we? Ma Chengfeng said.
"But it's nearly a thousand years old ancient coffin, this stone slab pressed stone box, the middle is like a long death, can it be opened? Even if your seven-star blade can cut through the paraffin, the lid of the stone coffin on it weighs a ton of weight? Xiao Man said with a frown.
"Don't underestimate the Seven Star Blade, that old immortal will give me such a fun thing in this life, I'll try it!" Ma Chengfeng waved the Seven Star Blade, and first scraped down the paraffin wax in the gap between the coffin lid along the periphery of the stone coffin.
The paraffin wax on the periphery of this coffin is divided into two layers, the first layer is paraffin, and the second layer is poured with molten iron. That Shenxing Taibao is a peerless student, and in the end, in this temple, what is missing is actually an indestructible weapon.
After scraping off the paraffin wax and molten iron, Ma Chengfeng tried it, and tried to eat milk, the coffin lid did not move at all, it is estimated that it weighs two tons, Ma Chengfeng has not practiced internal strength, he is long and thin, and he is stronger than his feet, but he has no brute force. Xiao Man is a weak woman again, and the two together are useless.
If you can't try another way, Ma Chengfeng slashed on the stone coffin one after another, and the hard ancient stone was cut into uneven size like tofu and fell down, and soon, the head of the coffin lid was cut off, and the coffin coffin was divided into the coffin and the outer coffin, and the coffin and the coffin were stored between the coffin.
Ma Chengfeng thought that there should be burial treasures in the coffin, but when he poked his head and looked inside, the coffin was empty, and there was not even a single hair.
"Hey...... Make more money! Otherwise, we will have to end up like this when we die in the future, and we don't even have any decent funeral goods, it's so pitiful! ”
"Yo, you're only 17 and you're starting to think about what happened to you? Isn't it too precocious? Xiao Man quipped.
"But now I think I'm afraid it's over, if we die here, only this sarcophagus will be used as a burial."
"Phew! Don't talk about discouragement, you haven't lived enough! Xiao Man glared at him.
She said that only from the coffin whether there are valuable burial goods can not judge the identity of the person, in ancient times, not everyone can have a coffin, more than a thousand years ago after years of war and chaos of the national strength is the weakest, ordinary people after death if there is a thin coffin burial is good. In addition, the funeral system of feudal society is also divided into hierarchies, ordinary people are buried, there can be no coffins, and the size of the tomb also has strict requirements.
You see, this person can be buried in the fish bone temple and protect the river god, which shows that this person is not small in Lingzhou, otherwise the believers who believed in the river god back then would not allow it. In addition, judging from the current situation, this entire magnificent river temple has become his underworld, and this person's identity cannot be underestimated. There will be burial goods in the coffin!