"Old sir, I leave it to you."

Wu Liang turned back to look at Yu Ji, pointed to the slips in the niche and said, "Just take a quick look at "History of Qi". If it is the same as the "History of Qi" we found before, then put it aside first and focus on studying it."

The following "The Biography of Duke Mu" is in the tomb now. If we can find some key information in it, we can avoid missing important objects."

"Leave it to the old man."

Yu Ji nodded immediately and walked forward to check.

The weaving threads of these slips have also been seriously aged, and some bamboo fragments have been scattered. However, Dai Ji has been helping Wu Liang to research and organize the "History of Qi". He is already very experienced in facing such slips, and there is basically nothing to deal with.

Questions, I can sort them out by the way.

"Yang Wanli, you stay here to raid the formation for the old gentleman."

Wu Liang left Yang Wanli here to guard him, and then took the others to continue investigating.

Then some valuable things finally appeared in the tomb.

Mainly gold utensils, such as bowls, spoons, plates, bowls, boats and other daily utensils.

What is worth noting is that there are still some peach, plum, plum, apricot, and jujube pits left in several containers that have long since dried up and turned into empty shells.

This is also common in archaeological discoveries of later generations. In the "Book of Rites", these five fruits are listed as the "Five Fruits" among the sacrificial offerings. They are the fruits with the longest history in the Celestial Dynasty. Therefore, they appear as burial offerings in tombs.

This situation is also very common.

However, these gold utensils are not too many. They only occupy one niche in total. It is estimated that a few dozen kilograms will be good...

In addition, there are also a small number of jade articles.

Wu Liang carefully identified these jade articles, which were mainly jade Huangs, with only a few pieces, and the rest were some jade pendants.

The carving process is also based on the intaglio carving of the Spring and Autumn Period, which is combined with some expression techniques such as openwork and relief, and some patterns are added to the outer edge of the outline for decoration.

As for graphics, dragon, tiger, beast, and bird patterns are the main ones.

These have been discovered in the archaeological world of later generations, and there is nothing that Wu Liang needs to pay special attention to.

…

This lasted for nearly an hour, and Wu Liang finally carefully inspected all the niches in the tomb.

Finally, he finally led everyone to the coffin stored in the center of the tomb chamber.

The coffin was placed in a square pond one foot below the ground. There was no water in the pond, and there were no traces of drying up. It must have been dug out specifically for the coffin.

This set of coffins is also sealed using the "three long and two short" bundling method.

Overall, it looks a lot smaller than the coffins we saw in the "Qi Ai Cemetery" before. Based on this, it can be inferred that the one used by Qiu Mu is not the "four coffins and one coffin" that only princes like "Qi Ai Gong" are qualified to use.

"Coffin" is probably the "two coffins and one coffin" used by lower-level scholar-bureaucrats.

If this is the case, Qiu Mugong and his descendants can be considered to have kept their duties very well.

As the actual controllers and managers of the Qi State in the early stage, their people always regarded themselves as "auxiliary ministers", and there were no records of offside behavior in history. This can be regarded as the first-class loyal ministers in any era.

.

However, this can only be determined after Wu Liang opens the coffin.

Maybe Erqiu Mugong was small, so the coffin he used was smaller?

"Dianwei..."

After keeping a distance and observing carefully, Wu Liang didn't find anything that needed special attention, so he walked into the pool where the coffin was placed, holding the "Suihou Pearl", and called Dian Wei to come over and prepare to open the coffin.

Just at this time.

"?!"

Wu Liang's eyes were suddenly flashed by a bright light.

This bright light came from the dome directly above the coffin. Wu Liang was startled and quickly stopped to look.

At this point, Wu Liang discovered it.

It turned out that there was a round bronze mirror hanging on the dome directly above the coffin.

Because of its age, this bronze mirror has some rough rust on its edges, but the mirror surface is quite well preserved and still looks as smooth as water.

Just now, we happened to hit the right angle, and the light reflected from the "Suihou Pearl" on the mirror surface just hit Wu Liang's eyes.

Why hang a bronze mirror in this place?

Wu Liangliang had some doubts.

He knew that there was indeed a custom in later generations of hanging a bronze mirror on the coffin of the dead. Legend has it that it could guide the way or ward off evil spirits.

But this era may not have such a custom.

At least so far, he has robbed some Han tombs and an ancient Spring and Autumn tomb. Although many bronze mirrors have been found in these tombs, those bronze mirrors were used as ordinary offerings for burials.

There has never been a similar situation among the various ear chambers and niches.

And this bronze mirror hanging in such a place is obviously not an ordinary burial. It always feels like it is to play some unknown special role.

Or...

What unknown magical effects does this bronze mirror itself have?

Bronze mirrors have been an important ritual instrument for sacrifices since ancient times, and they are also valuable items that can only be enjoyed by princes and nobles. There are countless allusions to this in the history of the Celestial Dynasty.

For example: the Xuanyuan Mirror that can distinguish the true and false emperor, the Emperor Qin's Bone Mirror that can see through the internal organs, the Six-Nosed Mirror with clairvoyance and the ability to foresee the future, the disease-free mirror that can cure all diseases, the sea mirror, the malaria mirror, the demon mirror...

…Etc., etc.

Most of the magical ancient mirrors mentioned above are well-documented, and some are even recorded in official histories discovered by later generations, which is amazing.

However, later generations did not find the whereabouts of these bronze mirrors, so whether they actually existed is still doubtful.

"Sir, is there something wrong with the bronze mirror?"

Noticing Wu Liang's abnormality, Dian Wei had also followed Wu Liang's gaze and discovered the bronze mirror, and then stood in front of Wu Liang and asked cautiously.

"Being here is the biggest problem."

Wu Liang said attentively.

"How about I take off this bronze mirror before opening the coffin? To avoid any accidents caused by it..."

Dianwei said again.

The distance between the layers of this tomb is about three meters. Given Dian Wei's height, it shouldn't take much effort to step on the coffin and remove it.

"I think...in order to avoid any accidents, it would be better for us not to touch this bronze mirror first."

Wu Liang thought for a while and finally shook his head and said.

If this bronze mirror really has the effect of "warding off evil spirits", it means that there may be some unpredictable dangers in the coffin. This bronze mirror may also have a certain suppressive effect. If it is removed, it will be equivalent to

It's not good to break some kind of seal.

Of course, this is still just Wu Liang's speculation, mainly based on the folk customs of later generations... It is better to believe that it exists than to believe that it does not exist.

"That……"

Dian Wei frowned slightly.

After hearing what Wu Liang and Dian Wei said, the others also became nervous, secretly guessing the function of this bronze mirror and the unknown things that might exist in the coffin.

"It's better to open the coffin first, be sure to be more careful."

Wu Liang pondered again, and then brought Dian Wei to the coffin.

Dian Wei had already had many experiences in opening coffins. After getting Wu Liang's approval, he used an engineer shovel to easily cut off the leather strips used to bind the coffin, and then followed the joints of the outermost layer of animal skin coffin with great skill.

to split it up.

The coffin placed on the first floor of the animal skin coffin is a black lacquered coffin made of basswood.

There are not too many decorative layers and patterns on the coffin, and there is no filler placed in the gap between the coffin and the coffin. For example, the interlayer of the coffin in "Haihunhou Tomb" is filled with gold plates, and "

The interlayer of the coffin in "Qi'ai Cemetery" was filled with pearls.

Compared with the two wealthy tomb owners, Qiu Mu Cemetery is obviously much shabbier.

Seeing that there was nothing on the first floor, Wu Liang confirmed that there was nothing abnormal, and nodded to Dian Wei: "Continue."

After a while.

The lid of this layer of basswood coffin was also lifted aside, revealing a smaller catalpa wood coffin inside.

The exterior of this catalpa coffin is also coated with a layer of black paint. The difference is that some gold powder paint is used to draw some more beautiful knob patterns on the edges and corners of the coffin, which finally looks a bit more advanced.

However, there was still no filling placed in the gap between the basswood coffin and the catalpa wood coffin, and no burial objects were found.

Wu Liang judged the size and material of the catalpa wood coffin.

Qiu Mugong's coffin should be of the scholar-bureaucrat standard of "two coffins and one coffin".

Because previously, the materials of the coffin of "Qi Ai Gong" from the outside to the inside were: animal skin coffin, basswood coffin, basswood coffin, catalpa wood coffin, catalpa wood coffin.

However, Qiu Mugong's coffin reached the third floor and was already the best catalpa wood coffin among Zhou-made coffins. This already explained some problems and was more in line with the Zhou-made scholar-bureaucrat-level burial specifications that Wu Liang knew.
To be continued...