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Chapter 1 Opening the Coffin

Shangsi County, located in the southwest of Guixi, is the northern foot of the 100,000 mountains with beautiful scenery. It has been the land of Baiyue since ancient times, with many folk cultures and extremely rich tourism resources.

And the hidden historical mysteries of this type of mountainous areas are also worth exploring.

Guanhuangtun, during the construction of the construction team, accidentally excavated a "three-piece soil" coffin made of limestone, coarse sand, glutinous rice, etc. During the construction period, the local cultural relics management office was inspected in advance. After learning about this news, director Zhao Dahai immediately arrived at the site of the incident. It was the weekend, and the cultural relics protection and management department of the superior department and the experts from the urban and cultural bureau were unable to contact him. Zhao Dahai had no choice but to contact Shen Wenxin, who usually performed well.

At the age of 25, he worked in the Literature Management Office for more than a year. His major during college was history, he was down-to-earth and meticulous in his work, and was highly valued by Zhao Dahai.

The Cultural Administration Office is a public service unit with strong professional requirements. Compared with other staff members, Zhao Dahai prefers Shen Wenxin, who has rich historical knowledge.

"Hey, is it Xiao Shen? I am Director Zhao. A huge stone coffin was unearthed from Guanhuangtun. Please accompany me to the site to explore the situation." Zhao Dahai was in his forties and worked in Shangsi County for more than ten years. There are still many ancient tombs here. Unfortunately, it is the area where tombs that are most visited by tomb robbers. Basically, the tombs of old age have been hollowed out, and the cultural relics have been greatly lost. However, many folk cultural relics have been unearthed recently, which has made the Cultural Administration Office of Shangsi County a lot of busy.

However, after more than ten years in Shangsi, Zhao Dahai has never seen the so-called giant coffin. Instinctive Zhao Dahai felt that this was an opportunity. If a national treasure was unearthed in his jurisdiction, the superiors would strengthen the protection of local cultural relics and increase the funds allocated. Maybe key cultural relics protection areas would be set up?

Anyway, no matter what, you must first go to the site to check the specific situation, and then report it to the expert professor for appraisal.

"Okay, Director Zhao, I'll be here soon!" Shen Wenxin's home is not in Shangsi. The reason why he came here was that Shangsi County happened to have a recruitment quota last year, and the treatment was based on civil servants and was a public service unit. His future was relatively bright. Moreover, Shen Wenxin has always been extremely interested in the traditional culture of our country. This job is to protect and clean up cultural relics that reflect ancient civilizations. During this year, Shen Wenxin roughly learned about some historical civilizations called the Baiyue region in ancient times.

Shen Wenxin benefited a lot through folk costumes, farm tools, utensils, etc. When he heard that a giant coffin was unearthed, Shen Wenxin was extremely excited. It is rare for young people to love their jobs. This is also because of Shen Wenxin's hard work, so he was loved by Director Zhao.

Shen Wenxin lives in the dormitory building of the Cultural Administration Office and has no spare time on weekends, so he received a call from Zhao Dahai and went outside to call a tricycle and rushed to Guanhuangtun.

After about half an hour, Zhao Dahai and Shen Wenxin arrived at the Guanhuangtun site one after another. Shen Wenxin saw Zhao Dahai commanding workers to help lift the coffin onto a large truck and conducting in full swing. This also depends on Zhao Dahai's connections. At least in Shangsi County, he was still a little powerful. Coincidentally, the contractor of the construction team and Zhao Dahai were drinkers, so he had no choice but to help.

"Xiao Shen, you are here. Let me introduce this to our college student Shen Wenxin, and this is the big boss Zhang Xiangzhong." Zhao Dahai's speech declined. A big man in his thirties, big and thick, interrupted and said, "Don't listen to this drunkard talking nonsense. I just make a living. How can I compare to you, the cultural people who receive state wages."

The people are instinctively envious of civil servants. Although Shen Wenxin is still one step away from entering this system, it is almost the same. At least, referring to the treatment of civil servants, compared with construction construction who do not open for three years and who have been open for three years, those who are content with stability will choose to hold a golden rice bowl.

"Haha, Brother Zhang is joking. You can earn hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in one project. How can we compare to those of us small employees!" Shen Wenxin has also been working for more than a year and is quite experienced in dealing with people. After being polite, Shen Wenxin turned his face to Zhao Dahai and said, "Sir, can you tell what era these two coffins are from?"

"I don't know. I guess I'll have to open the coffin before I know it. But what is certain is that coffins wrapped in stone coffins are extremely rare. Conservatively, the identity of the tomb director here is not low." Zhao Dahai came earlier than Shen Wenxin and understood the general situation at the construction site.

Shen Wenxin looked at the devastated tomb and couldn't help but wonder. Logically speaking, there should be a large number of burial objects in the tomb of this specification. Why didn't he see it? Could it be that the workers took it alone?

"Director Zhao, have you not seen valuable cultural relics so much?" The burial objects are the most intuitive when a certain tomb was about to be divided into two tombs, but almost all of them are soil and gravel.

Moreover, what Shen Wenxin was worried about was that the slightly larger coffin was stretched out from unknown black liquid, which was extremely worrying.

Zhao Dahai comforted: "We are always a few years slower than tomb robbers in this business. When the construction team discovered it, the tomb had been stolen long ago. If it weren't for the protection of the stone coffin and it was difficult to open, it would probably be robbed of valuable things inside by tomb robbers."

Then Zhao Dahai and Shen Wenxin came to the other side of the mountain at the construction excavation site, and a cave with a Luoyang shovel was extremely conspicuous.

"Damn tomb robber!" For cultural relics protectionists, the tomb robbers stole cultural relics for their own selfish desires, which made the work of Shen Wenxin and others slow. Some inscriptions have written records. These cultural relics are gone. It is still difficult for them to confirm that the dynasty of the tombs. They can only expect that there will be favorable evidence inside the coffin to prove their identity.

After cursing, Shen Wenxin thought about the situation when he saw the coffin hanging before and said, "There is a coffin that seems to be seriously damaged during transportation, and the body inside may be affected."

"I have also considered this, so after we moved to the office, we opened the coffin first, check the situation inside before reporting it." Although Zhao Dahai's professional knowledge is not as good as that of the so-called expert, he is an expert in Shangsi County. It is good to keep a coffin with a good sealing coffin waiting for the experts and professors to open it. In order to ensure the transparency of the entire process, Zhao Dahai decided to open the coffin and take a video of the whole process.

When he returned to the construction site, Zhao Dahai handed a cigarette to Zhang Xiangzhong and said thankfully: "Old Zhang thanks you this time, but I still have to trouble you."

Zhang Xiangzhong took the cigarette and heard the boy have something to say, and said generously: "What trouble is it? Tell me quickly if you need me, you are just a polite boy."

"Haha, I'll borrow a few more people from you. We decided to open a seriously damaged coffin first. You also know that coffins with poor sealing are prone to abnormalities. The weather has become hot recently. I won't feel relieved if I don't see what's inside earlier."

"What do I think it is? Anyway, everyone also wants to see what cultural relics were unearthed by Shangsi. After all, this is the glory of our Shangsi! It's just a matter of helping us."

Zhang Xiangzhong was also quite curious and drove to the Cultural Relics Protection Institute in Shangsi County with more than a dozen people from the construction site.

One car was loaded with two unknown coffins, followed by one, and there were more than a dozen people standing in the back. In the county, traffic control was not too strict. There were so many people at the rear of the truck, so it would definitely not drive far in the city, but there were not so many concerns in the county.

There were two coffins placed side by side in the Cultural Administration Office and the warehouse. It took a lot of time to open the stone coffin outside. Fortunately, Zhao Dahai had the foresight and borrowed more than a dozen migrant workers. Everyone worked together to finally open the last layer of wooden coffin.

Shen Wenxin took the camera and took the whole scene of opening the coffin. He slowly approached. At the moment, a ball of black gas spread out. Shen Wenxin was caught off guard and took a deep breath of black smoke, and the vision of the people around him was also hindered.

"Why do I feel that the heart load has increased after sucking this black gas? Is it an illusion?" After all, Shang Si's first appearance of such a coffin, and no one has any experience in it, so the necessary protective measures have not been taken.

When the black smoke came out, only Shen Wenxin did not retreat in time due to the camera angle problem and absorbed a large amount of unknown substances. Zhao Dahai was shocked by the scene in the coffin and did not find that Shen Wenxin was inappropriate.

The specifications of the three-layer coffin are very rare in western Guizhou and even in the whole country. From this, it is not easy to judge the identity of the tomb owner, at least at the level of a king or above.

Due to the poor sealing of the coffin, the appearance of a large number of dragon whiskers on the inner side of the stone coffin has already shown the problem. The dragon whisker-like patterns are an ominous sign according to folk sayings, but Zhao Dahai knew that this was just a plant.

The tomb owner inside, with a torso of about 1.65 meters and his clothes were covered by a pile of black grass and mud, and it was probably not well preserved.

Zhao Dahai stayed in the gloves and carefully looked in the coffin for a moment, saying disappointedly: "There is no burial objects in the coffin. The owner of the tomb is about 1.65 meters tall, male, with gold-lined textiles inside the black grass mortar."

After he finished speaking to the camera, he immediately found a stretcher with a clean white paper spread on it.

"Get the help." Zhao Dahai said to the migrant worker next to him, but he was very reluctant to see his face showing a difficult face. Who wouldn't want to touch this unidentified skeleton close to?
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