Cat Gu Notes

seam, motioning to the skinny man to smash it with the butt of his gun.The thin man smashed it a few times as he said, causing stone chips to fly, and one-third of the blade was finally inserted into the sarcophagus.The two followed suit in several other places.

Xia Mingruo took the time to look at the leopard with a smile.

The leopard roared, "What are you looking at?"

Xia Mingruo said: "I have something to tell you, but I'm too lazy to tell laymen."

He pointed to a white mark on the stone wall and asked, "Do you know what that is?"

The leopard buzzed and asked, "What?"

"Calcium carbonate precipitation is the budding state of stalactites," Xia Mingruo said. "It takes at least 3000 years for calcium carbonate to deposit to this state, but the tomb beasts on the wall and the tomb inscriptions on the coffin lid are all remains of the Western Han Dynasty. We only have 2000 years."

Leopard said, "So what?"

Xia Mingruo smiled lightly, and suddenly put his pale face under the candlelight close to the leopard: "This shows that after our lady was buried for 1000 years, she still provoked the people at that time—the frontier officials—uncomfortable. Do not take drastic measures to calm her down."

The leopard took half a step back: "Why... what's wrong?"

"She is causing trouble," Xia Mingruo said slowly, pointing to the words "whoever opens the coffin will die", "This sentence is not a curse, but a reminder. Once the coffin is opened, you will die."

After observing Leopard's expression, Xia Mingruo said to Chu Haiyang, "Report to the commander in chief, this guy is strong on the outside but capable on the inside."

Commander-in-Chief's instruction: "Continue popularizing science."

The leopard became angry: "You lied to me?!"

"He didn't lie to you," Chu Haiyang said with a half-smile.

The leopard's face was blue and white, Chu Haiyang said: "Come on, open the coffin, all the wedges have been driven in."

Leopard paused, gritted his teeth, and stepped forward to push the coffin lid.

The uncle said: "Where do you push it? Push it vertically! There may be a tenon in the horizontal direction, and you will not be able to push it open for the rest of your life. Really, there is not even an iron braze."

Xia Mingruo also stepped forward to help, and while pushing, he murmured: "I made a mistake and violated discipline." The uncle was quite understanding, and whispered: "Nephew, it's important to save your life."

The upper and lower parts of the sarcophagus are hewn from huge stones, weighing several tons. Fortunately, the lid part is relatively light. With the strength of nine bulls and two tigers, it was finally pushed more than ten centimeters, and there are a few small cracks to see the coffin. Inside.

Chu Haiyang and the uncle stopped pushing suddenly, and unanimously took off their wet clothes and wrapped them around their nose and mouth, while Xia Mingruo covered his handkerchief.The thin man reacted quickly and followed suit, but the leopard stood still with a bewildered expression.

Chu Haiyang looked at him unhappily. In the end, Xia Mingruo was kind enough to remind him: "Gas will be produced during the process of decay and expansion of the corpse, and it has been stuffed inside for thousands of years. Even if it is stolen, it will not completely dissipate..."

The leopard was so frightened that he took off his clothes in a hurry.

"Ready? One, two, three!" The five people exerted their strength at the same time. After a muffled rumble, the coffin lid was finally pushed open, exposing one-third of the coffin chamber to the air. The uncle gestured: Everyone go out, Let it breathe.

Xia Mingruo and Chu Haiyang were about to take a step, but the thin man turned his gun and aimed at them.

They had no choice but to stand still and make eye contact:

Is this going to be silenced?

Ok……

Holding the gun in one hand, the thin man slowly retreated to the sarcophagus, looked inside with a flashlight, and shouted in disbelief: "Empty?"

"What?" Leopard opened his eyes and jumped over, "...he...fuck it!"

He raised his gun and slapped a load of bullets on the stone wall, because they were all cultural relics, which made Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo heartbroken to death.

"Why is it empty?" he yelled at the uncle.

The uncle said strangely: "Huh? I don't know! If you care about the rule of 'thieves don't go empty', just pick up a few stones and go back."

The leopard turned around and yelled at Chu Haiyang again, Chu Haiyang yelled back impatiently: "Slow down, I can hear it, it can't be empty, the bones must be inside."

The leopard roared with all its strength, shaking the stone wall: "Do I want these broken bones? I want gold! I want treasure!"

The uncle shook his head: "Tsk." Xia Mingruo also shook his head: "Tsk..."

The thin man suddenly punched the uncle on the stomach, the uncle grunted, bent over and squatted for a long time, then raised his head and wiped the saliva from his mouth, and smiled at Xia Mingruo: "I said they are dangerous."

Just as the thin man was about to speak, Chu Haiyang kicked him flying. He hit the wall and bounced back to the ground. He curled up and twitched. Leopard went to pull him, only to find that he had passed out.

Archaeologists like Chu Haiyang, out of the need to study ancient residents, know some human anatomy, and of course they know which parts of the human body are weak points.

The bullet flew past Chu Haiyang's scalp, digging a shallow hole in the hard rock wall.Leopard felt a pain in his neck when he wanted to hit him. He stretched out his hand to touch it, but his hand was covered with blood.He raised his head in horror, and found that Chu Haiyang was already in front of him: "There is still half a centimeter away from the carotid artery, don't be nervous."

In the next second, he lost consciousness.

The uncle praised Chu Haiyang: "Smart."

Chu Haiyang said: "Uncle is very powerful and can throw knives. Are your injuries okay?"

The uncle said: "How can it be? Isn't it like scratching an itch if you hit that small arm, but you just bit your tongue. How long can these two be unconscious?"

"More than 10 minutes," Chu Haiyang said, "The thin one may take longer."

"Take it out and throw it away," said the uncle.

Xia Mingruo waved his hands and said: "It's a waste of time, I still want to study the sarcophagus." He took off the two of them to only a pair of underpants, tied their hands and feet behind their backs, tied them back to back, and finally covered their heads with pants, only Leave four nostrils for exhalation.

The uncle said: "How professional."

(Old Huang is also full at the moment and is taking a walk.)

Xia Mingruo looked up to the sky and laughed, and put all the equipment of the two on his body: "Go, say hello to the empress."

He glanced into the sarcophagus and was dumbfounded: "Ugh!"

Chu Haiyang also raised his flashlight to shine in: "Huh?"

The two looked at each other, just because the scene in front of them was weird, the dry bones appeared as expected, but the dry bones were red.

"It's well preserved. Yunnan has acidic soil. If it's buried in the ground, it will turn into powder, thanks to the sarcophagus. Is this... cinnabar?" Xia Mingruo is not sure, "Look, there is also a layer at the bottom."

"Maybe, the level of refining cinnabar in the Han Dynasty was already very high, and there is cinnabar in Mawangdui," Chu Haiyang said, "Try it and see if it is true."

Xia Mingruo said viciously, "I don't want to eat it."

"Mercuric sulfide, it can cure sore throat." Chu Haiyang squatted on the edge of the coffin. Seal the soul. Dye the bones with cinnabar... This is the first time I met."

Xia Mingruo crouched beside him, but Chu Haiyang stopped him when he was about to stretch out his hand: "No, you have a wound on your hand."

"If you want cinnabar to ward off evil spirits, dyeing the bones is more thorough than touching the orifices," Xia Mingruo said. Preliminary Investigation Report."

The uncle poked his head and asked again and again: "Is there anything? Is there anything?"

"Uncle," Chu Haiyang said, "Deep in my heart, you should be a very high-level person."

"That's it, that's it," the uncle nodded, and said closer, "Ah, it's really empty, and someone stepped in first. Well, it's good to keep a piece of jade, broken pottery fragments are not worth much."

"The tomb was robbed in the Han Dynasty. It was precisely because someone robbed the tomb, fell victim to it, and got unlucky that the officials took measures to suppress the tomb." Xia Mingruo said.

The uncle asked: "What's wrong? Cannibalism? Scam?"

Xia Mingruo giggled unduly: "Maybe it will grow white hair."

"Huh?" Chu Haiyang suddenly pushed the coffin lid and said, "Huh? Huh?"

"what happened?"

Chu Haiyang bit the flashlight with his mouth open, stuck his head into the sarcophagus, looked up for a long time with a puzzled expression on his face.

The uncle asked: "What's the matter?"

"Mingruo, make sure," Chu Haiyang said, "Be careful, don't touch the bones."

Xia Mingruo also leaned over to watch, and Chu Haiyang asked from behind, "Is it?"

Xia Mingruo gave a muffled reply, and panted with his head up: "Huh, huh, it smells like a coffin, I think it is."

Chu Haiyang asked: "Uncle, are you sure this is the Empress' Grave?"

The uncle said naturally: "I'm sure, the local legend has been around for hundreds of years. In the 30s, my master found the entrance, and when he came back, he said that he found the empress grave."

The two looked at each other, and Chu Haiyang said, "But this man is a man."

The uncle's eyes widened: "Man! Who said that?"

"Pelvis," Chu Haiyang patted on the waist, and said, "Uncle, there are specialties in surgery. Among the human bones, the gender difference of the pelvis is the most obvious, and the rest—such as the thickness of the bones—is sometimes difficult to distinguish .You can see that Xia Mingruo's ones that haven't bloomed belong to those whose bone characteristics are in the range of variation between the sexes so that they are difficult to identify."

"So look at his pelvis, like the pubic arch, the smaller one is male; the larger one, almost at right angles, is female."

"So I am an anatomically male." Xia Mingruo said.

"Nonsense," the uncle yelled anxiously, "I'll come and see."

As he spoke, he was about to push forward, Chu Haiyang pushed him with a smile and said, "You can't tell, you don't even think about how long we have been drawing a skeleton in the laboratory."

Xia Mingruo said with a glowing face: "Yangyang, this is a big discovery. The wife of a leader of a certain ethnic minority in the southwest is actually a man. Go back and check the information. If it matches the known ethnic group, go to "Archaeology"; if it doesn't, ouch, The two of us have made it, we must be published in the "People's Daily."

The uncle croaked and said with a smile: "Little guy, don't brag, you're still a man, Dong