While eating, Wang Ziyu saw the adjutant carrying a copper plate to the study room on the second floor. The armor plates must have been cleaned, so Wang Ziyu quickly finished his meal and sat on a chair to wait for Zhang Qishan and Qi Tiezui.
After dinner, the three of them returned to the study room. As soon as they entered, Wang Ziyu saw a copper plate beside the lamp on Zhang Qishan's desk. There was a black animal plate on the copper plate. There were some strange patterns on it, which seemed to be fragments of dragon bones.
In ancient times, scales and armor were different. One side was thin and the other side was thick. The middle was thick and the other side was thin. The middle was the thickest, and the other side was slightly thicker. It carried a strange fishy smell. The armor was black and white, and there were patterns on it that looked like oracle bones. The oracle bones were already very blurry, and it was impossible to distinguish the meaning on them.
After looking at the armor piece, Jun Moxie felt a trace of doubt. Although this piece of armor piece had already dried, it seemed to be new and not fossilized.
Wang Ziyu suppressed the doubts in his heart and said to Zhang Qishan and Qi Tiezui,"Which one of you recognizes the oracle bone characters on this?!”
Qi Tiezui picked up the piece of armor and carefully looked at it for a long time before saying,"The round case on this piece of armor looks like oracle bone characters, but it also looks like natural patterns. I don't know either! But I know who might know!”
"Who knows the words on the oracle bones?" asked Zhang Qishan.!”
"The one with the best experience in oracle bone studies is Luo Xuetang. He's in Manchuria now and has followed the Japanese." Luo Xuetang's student, Wang Guowei, was also an expert in the study of oracle bones. However, in the 16th year of the Republic of China, he jumped into a lake at the Summer Palace and sank. The other one is Mr. Dong Zuobin, who happens to be in Sand City now. I have a batch of oracle bones that I sold to this gentleman. But he doesn't like soldiers, so I can go visit him on behalf of Lord Zeng.”
Zhang Qishan listened to Qi Tiezui's words and said,"You don't know the oracle bone characters, but everyone is quite familiar with the oracle bone characters?!”
"Lord Zeng, please don't laugh at me!" Qi Tiezui said with an embarrassed smile. Oracle Bone Divination is a family business, so the number of oracle bones I collect is no less than your Buddha statue. After a long time, I'm naturally more familiar with this aspect! But Lord Zeng, we can't be trapped in this pile of coffins now. Do you think there are strange corpses of Japanese pirates in this train of coffins? What did the pirates want to do? Was it a conspiracy or just to steal the treasure?!”
Zhang Qishan frowned when he heard Qi Tiezui's words. This was also something he couldn't understand. What was the purpose of the pirates sitting like this?! Could it be that he wanted to sell antiques to pay for military expenses?!
Wang Ziyu saw that the two of them were silent and had no clue, so he said,"What clues can we find with this piece of armor fragment?! Why don't we open the coffin and see if there's anything else inside? Maybe we can find some clues from it?!”
Zhang Qishan saw that there were no clues to clarify the whole matter. Moreover, what Wang Ziyu said made sense. So, he brought Jun Moxie and Qi Tiezui out of the study and walked to the curtains.
Zhang Qishan ordered the adjutant,"Adjutant, get someone to remove everything beside the coffin and get someone to open it!"”
"Yes, sir!" The adjutant replied, then turned to the Zhang family members standing outside the tent and said,"The few of you, remove everything and open the iron sheet outside the coffin!”
Several members of the Zhang family responded and then began to tear down the curtains and pipa scissors.
After dismantling it, he took out the gas cutting equipment and began to cut the iron sheet outside the coffin.
The flames of the gas cutting flashed from time to time. In a short while, the iron sheet outside the coffin was completely cut off.
The coffin was covered in red and black patterns, like the skin of a venomous tongue. There were many patterns of human figurines on it.
Qi Tiezui looked at the coffin and said to Wang Ziyu and Zhang Qishan,"Look at the patterns on the coffin. This coffin should be from the Nanbei Dynasty. Look at the two human figurines, one with a beast face and the other with a human face. They are very lifelike.”
At this moment, a few members of the Zhang family who were holding crowbars immediately went up. They inserted the crowbars into the gaps of the coffin and lifted it up with force. The huge coffin lid made the sound of wood cracking. Then, the coffin lid was flipped to the side and fell to the ground with a bang. All the dust in the coffin rushed into the air.
Wang Ziyu and the other two fanned the coffin with their hands, then walked forward to look inside. He found that the inside of the coffin was full of spider webs, covering the corpses and funerary objects in the coffin like a blanket.
Wang Ziyu took a crowbar from a member of the Zhang family and pried open the spider webs. Under the spider webs, there were black dried stains that looked like asphalt. They should be the corpses that had been dehydrated and rotting, as well as the quilts and silk. A dried corpse was wrapped in these stains. It could be seen that it was lying on its stomach. The angle of its head was very unnatural. It must have been forcefully twisted by Zhang Qishan. Its chin had been shattered. The expression of the corpse was very ferocious because it did not have a chin. The corpse was tall and there was a thin layer of black fur on its body.
Wang Ziyu looked at the corpse and said,""The corpse has already turned into a corpse, but I don't know who took care of it. Look at the position of the heart of this corpse. It has already collapsed due to a huge impact.”
When Zhang Qishan heard Wang Ziyu's words, he nodded and said to the members of the Zhang family,"Let's cut his throat first and see what's inside!”
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