Chapter 67: Tendons without bones (above)
Duo Ling and Gu Cai both nodded their heads sadly, Gu Cai said to me, “Boss Hu, I believe you, Sister and Master fell into the sea, you saved them, so dangerous, you did not even blink, I’ve never seen a person like you.”
I heard him mention that I saved Ruan Hei and Duoling when they fell into the sea, so it turned out that he was trying to help us salvage the “Qin King’s Bone Mirror” from the shipwreck because he wanted to be thankful for his help, but I was too distracted and didn’t want to take the credit for it, so I immediately asked him and Duoling to prepare for Ruan Hei’s organization and find a mussel for his burial.
Duo Ling with Gu Chai to wrap the soft black white cloth unwrapped, with water to wipe off his face residual blood, and then in accordance with their customs to re-wrap the body, most people in the South Seas believe in Buddhism, the two hands together, praying for the dead, wishing him early Buddhahood, the thought of life together, treating them as their own father’s master Ruan Hei died, the future years will never see each other again, the world’s most painful thing than the Separation of life and death, can not help but once again tears, caressing the corpse, crying, crying for a long time, in the head of the dome of the sky like blood, sang Ruan Hei always hummed a song on the boat before his life, singing sorrowful and bitter, listening to others also want to fall in tears.
Shirley Yang and I are digging the mussel shells, heard this sorrowful song, although I do not understand what is being sung, but the heart seems to feel something, a burst of bewildered sadness, can not help but stop to listen to the ear, only Uncle Ming understand the meaning of this song, he sighed, whispered to tell us: “Eggs are sung by the egg pickers of the ancient times! –My God, save my bitter men, not afraid of blood sweat, only afraid of not going home ……”
A bitter song sung, Duo Ling and Gu Chai and cried for a long time, before finishing the master’s remains, Ruan Hei body nothing, no legacy, only in the mouth contains a value of even into the “face beads”, he was poor all his life, after his death is considered to enjoy a return to the luxury of the emperor and the generals only have the treatment of the beads for half a lifetime, and ultimately buried in the green snail mussel armor, the egg people in the egg people. Bengjia in the egg people is “dragon residence”, is also considered a good death.
But we piled up into a small mountain of mussel shells in the search for half a day, have not seen enough complete huge, can be used as the coffin of the screw armor, the four walls around the patio, everywhere you can see the ancient people butchering mussels to pick beads of the carving mural, and there are thousands of screw mussels empty shells, must have once been a place specializing in scraping mussels, mussel shells piled up into the tall hill of graves, we have been in the sea once captured a “giant clam We once caught a “giant clam” in the sea, its shells like white snow like crystal, staggered closed like the teeth of the two shells, such as the firm armor embrace, no gap can be thrown, if we can find similar to the “man-eating mussels” conch armor, that is the most suitable for making coffins of the spirit.
I do not give up, uncovered a layer of mussel shells, want to see the depths of the man-eating mussels buried, unexpectedly peeled off a few layers of mussel shells, inside the exposed a large piece of copper, stroked off the top of the broken mussel shells and silt, copper body by the seawater soaked panned for a long time, but the copper plate on the surface of the red stains, you can see the carving of a number of naked women human figure, the form of its are in the sea rest play swim, gesture voluptuous and colorful.
We did not expect to dig up this kind of thing, I do not know what this exquisite copper plate, and why it will be buried in the mussels, copper plate has two copper ring, it seems that this is a lid can be opened, I want to say that I am afraid that this is the mouth of the body of the coffin, but on second thought, and feel that the pattern and shape are not like, which has a coffin lid cast copper ring? So the words to the mouth and swallowed back, because of the unknown, did not dare to unauthorized open the copper plate, to the fat man gesture, the two continue to clear around the remains of snails and mussels.
The fat man dug around the conch armor, will be exposed as a whole, it turns out that here is buried in a large as a water tank of green conch armor, conch mouth is sealed by the copper plate, look at the texture on the conch armor, the natural formation of a woman, clothing lines are all complete, the hand has a finger, the abdomen has the umbilicus, the eyebrows of the good, all with the life of a cool Xiao, often heard that there are naturally occurring mussels Lohan statue of Goddess of Mercy, today I saw with my own eyes, the shell of the water lines shaped like a woman, is considered to be a piece of the sea in the bizarre! The thing, only to know the clam in the rumor that there are people like, is not the egg people fishermen empty cave nonsense.
I let Uncle Ming also come over to see, he also does not know this is sealed by the copper plate of the conch shell is what to do, guessing that the ancient hate day’s do the spiral armor coffin, I have heard of mussel coffins, the ancient times do have this burial custom, but most are with the mussels, and do not use like a rice bowl as thick as the old conch green armor, with mussel coffins burial of the majority of fishermen, and all are not to seek a wife of the man, this rare and bizarre customs, probably out of the want and the mussel spirit with the edge of the yin marriage, the mussel spirit with the edge of the mussels. This rare and bizarre custom is probably due to the desire to match with the mussel spirit of the yin marriage.
Fatty said: “that’s definitely right, otherwise this copper cover how there are so many women, screw armor also has a natural creation of the beauty of the figure, this conch coffin in the convergence, is definitely a colorful ghost, take a daughter-in-law is not enough, look at his posture after death is ready to engage in how many?” Said to count the number of women, counted half a day did not count clearly.
Uncle Ming heard us say that this may be a rare spiral armor coffin, there are coffins will have Ming ware, how can not be moved? Immediately make use of the magic trick, leaping fat man and I said: “the countryside and mussel spirit with the nasty custom of the marriage, how can and this shell coffin related to? I see this conch is not ordinary ah, the corpse in the coffin, may not be a colorful ghost, anyway, he has been dead for thousands of years, what he was born in our descendants and how can we tell?”
Fatty heard, a sip of teeth said: “Hey, I say uncle, how you still do not believe in fat master me this pair of eyes? If the dumplings in the coffin have beads in their mouths, the body must not have decayed, do not believe us to make a bet, I say it’s a colorful ghost, otherwise so rogue in the lid of the coffin to get so many women to do? Lustful people have a high libido, the hair on the feet is black and long, this is a very good evidence.”
I think often swimmer’s legs and feet on the sweat hair is indeed more developed, used to live in the “coral spiral” sea, the sweat hair on the feet is naturally dense, screw armor impermeable, to hate the nobles of the Kingdom of Heaven, after death, containing a bead is not a big deal, maybe the eyebrows and eyes, and even the hair on the body can be retained to this day, the fat man is not a light bulb. The fat man is not an oil lamp, to the coffin of the dead man’s feet have no hair to bet, not only novelty, and has first self-accounted for seventy percent of the chance to win, if the body rotted away, then at most and Uncle Ming bet a tie.
The fat man again took the words to provoke Uncle Ming, Uncle Ming can not help but gas, gritted his teeth and he bet to see if this snail in the ancient corpse in the end is not a ghost of color, to buy a fixed hand, the fat man’s bet is that he fished out of the gold watch, Uncle Ming after the bankruptcy of the body there is nothing worthwhile objects, had to gamble on the share of a South Pearl to him.