Chapter 21: The Hermit’s Coffin (Up)
Shirley Yang splashed the liquor on my shoulder, I was sweating from the pain, I wanted to scream, but at the moment I opened my mouth, I suddenly realized that there was a “person” at the end of the wooden beams, and I swallowed the “pain” at the edge of my mouth. Back, I was busy lifting up the “wolf eyes” to Professor Sun behind the light, Shirley Yang know that there is a difference, but also will be behind the back of the “Golden Steel Umbrella” removed.
Black beam fell into the deep stream after the suspension, is two walls covered with wet tires between the cliffs of ancient vines, space is extremely narrow, upward can see a line of hazy white light, not less than 1,000 feet high, down is a black haze of smoke and mist, listen to the sound of the water, seems to be in the depths of the feet of a few hundred meters, this area is not on the sky, not under the ground, in the human eye to adapt to the feeling of light around the said black, said bright, said bright, said not bright, from where I was located, just can not say black, said bright. From where I am, I can just see the craggy ancient vines, sitting behind a bearded old man, but only see its shape, not close to see not clear.
Professor Sun saw us staring at his side, hurriedly looked back, also saw hidden in the crevice of the cliff seems to be someone, ate a shock, hastily covered the head wound shrink back.
At the other end of the wooden beam of fat man, found to this situation, pull out the “pearl fast offspring” want to shoot, I hurriedly raised his hand to let him stop: “don’t do it, seems to be just a dead man, don’t know whether it’s the Feng leader, wait for me to go over to see and then say.”
This time the people no longer dare to gather in the black beam, each other spread out, try to make the wooden beam uniform force, I wrapped the wound, touched the black donkey hooves in the bag, sidestepped around Professor Sun, to get to the wall in front of the probe engineering shovel to set aside the vines, only to see the cracks in the rock there is a hanging coffin, the coffin is ancient pine wood texture, the pine bark as if it is a layer of the dragon scales waves.
The lid of the hanging coffin uncovered, the coffin body sat up, deep eye sockets, skin and flesh dry and waxy, but the ancient corpse of the spirit of the English face is not dispersed, the hair pulled a bamboo utensil, to thorns bundled as a hair crown, wearing a wide gray robe, embracing an ancient patterned long-handled bronze ancient sword, eyebrows and beard are all white, the long beard fluttering slightly.
The coffin of the old man, dead perhaps not less than a few thousand years, but in the “Coffin Gap” this hide the wind and gas of the good place, still vivid as if alive, clothes and appearance so far does not rot and immortal.
I held up the “wolf eye”, in that from the coffin sitting up the ancient corpse photographed a few photos, never seen a kind of immortal style of “dumplings”, to the eye in the see is from the doubt, only to hear behind the Sun Jiu master said: “This hanging coffin I’m afraid it’s the burial place of an ancient hermit.”
Although I saw the ancient corpse immortal style, but Professor Sun’s words are somewhat skeptical, with my “gold detector” eyesight, it is difficult to immediately recognize the identity of the ancient corpse, and how can he assert that it is the “ancient hermit”? Simply from the “lack of knowledge, superstition, delusion” and the subjective speculation, so asked him how to see?
Sun Jiuzi said with a taut face: “When have you ever seen me talking nonsense? This is not obvious – pine bark for the coffin, wattle and vine for the crown, this is the ancient hermit’s burial system, the history books are clearly documented ah, certainly not wrong.”
Bashu land of cliff burial hanging coffins, are made by the ancients, most of them have a history of several thousand years, according to the records of successive generations of Fangzhi, in addition to the Cubans, there are many cultivation of the Taoist hermits, hanging coffins on the burial of the unique, after the death of the burial in the deep valley of the cliffs of the gorges and valleys, to the ancient pines as the outer and inner coffins, the funeral goods are very simple, there are only some “bamboo slips, tortoise shells, copper sword” things, most of them are “bamboo slips, tortoise shells, copper sword” things. “Things, mostly even ancient grave robbers can not see the eyes of the simple” Ming”, not far from the Wushan Gorge, there is a “Book of War Gorge, Sword Gorge” a kind of place names, is found in the hanging coffins of the Ming named, but that The so-called “book of war, sword” in the end for what? Now there is no evidence.
We have seen in the “Coffin Gorge” in a large dense hanging coffins, all are rock pile type, that is, chiseled in the crag a few holes, and then inserted into the stake, the coffins on the horizontal frame, and in the Golden Swallow Cave below the “hermit” hanging coffins, is hiding in the Rock gap, the use of the cliffs on the natural narrow cave, people in which it is difficult to stand, the coffin sat up the ancient corpse, head has almost touched the top of the rock.
Prof. Sun saw the hanging coffins and tombs are natural, more sure of his own judgment, this ancient corpse even if it is not a hermit, but also most likely to know the Hetu Luoshu, know the mysteries of heaven and earth, but it is a pity that this tomb has been burglarized, otherwise the body in the coffin could not be sitting up on its own? It must have been pulled up from the coffin by the grave robbers with a rope.
Fatty, however, was impatient to listen to Prof. Sun’s talk about “hermits”, and couldn’t stop himself from asking me at the end of the wooden beam: “Old Hu, are there any artifacts inside the coffin? Can we take some small souvenirs back?”
I took the flashlight to set aside the ancient vines, half of my body into the rock crevice in the tomb, up and down, left and right to look all over, the tomb in addition to “a corpse, a coffin, a sword”, there are some ceramic tile fragments, carved on the rock wall of the Big Dipper several simple patterns, it can be seen that the owner of the tomb in life, it is very likely to be knowledgeable about the “” astronomy, metaphysics “”. Astronomy, metaphysics” and other exotic arts.
I also took a closer look at the pine coffin, the lid was uncovered on one side, the damage is relatively serious, and sitting in the coffin of the ancient corpse in the neck hanging a rope, really was patronized by the grave robbers, all these things are Sun Jiuji masters of anticipation, I understand, but also have to admire his eyesight, and turned his head to the wooden beams on the crowd, said: “Coffin has obviously been stolen and sent, and I see that the inverted Doo’s maneuver is very professional, it should be done by an expert.” Said I tried to pull out the bronze sword held in the arms of the ancient corpse, the sword in the sheath does not move, as if the dead still have knowledge, after thousands of years, but also refused to send away the bronze sword that accompanied the personal burial.
I entered the coffin gorge is something to come, the bronze sword is not interested in, just some curious why the thieves stole this hanging coffin, did not take the bronze sword? Did they steal something more important? Heart suspicion for a while, and would like to try the ancient corpse is stiff and dry, in order to have a specific understanding of the feng shui dragon qi in the coffin gorges, then put on gloves, want to gently put this immortal style of the corpse pour back into the coffin, but unexpectedly, it is a touch on the fall, the corpse is not half stiff.
Sun Jiuzi puzzled asked: “Hu Bayi, what are you doing moving that ancient corpse? Just take a look at it, don’t move it, there won’t be any funerary objects in the hanging coffin that you can see, turn around and report this discovery, your credit is not small.”