"Wu Taishi, what's wrong?"

The witch called Wu didn't know what the situation was. Seeing Wu Liang quickly avoiding the door of the stone house, she didn't dare to step forward easily, so she just asked with a strange look on her face.

"There's a strange smell in there."

Wu Liang did not hide anything from her, and said seriously, "I smell like the smell of corpses, but it's not exactly the same. It needs further investigation."

The miko heard the words and wrinkled her nose and sniffed.

The smell in the stone room had now spread out, and soon she also smelled a faint stench.

Then she carefully observed the stone room and analyzed: "The stone bricks used in this stone room should be the same as those used in Tian Heng's residence. There are no windows left on the wall for ventilation. The gaps between the stone bricks are

The gaps are also filled with sand, so that all you need to do is close the door, and this is a secret room with very little contact with the outside world. If some of the smell is preserved in it, it may also be able to preserve some clues left by the predecessors."

"The Romance of Fairy Wood"

"It's best not to smell the unknown gas too much. It's best to wait until the smell dissipates before we go in to check."

Wu Liang nodded slightly.

He had already checked the charcoal packets of the gas mask he carried with him. The charcoal packets he had carried underwater had all been wet, so naturally they could no longer be used.

And even burning wood on the spot to make charcoal bags is not feasible.

The time for his trip was limited, and he didn't carry any sunsui with him, so he had to use drilling wood to make fire. This would consume a lot of time, and he couldn't afford to delay it.

"But I'm curious as to why Taishi Wu is so sensitive to the smell of corpses. Did he often deal with corpses before?"

The witch asked again.

“During the war, the people had no means of survival, and there were corpses of people starving to death everywhere. Is it any wonder?”

Wu Liang said expressionlessly, and then walked to several small stone houses nearby, opening the wooden doors of those stone houses one by one to check.

Under such circumstances, Wu Liang discovered that the same stench emanated from every stone house here.

That is to say, the conditions inside these stone houses should be similar...

That's fine, they just go together to spread the flavor.

But soon Wu Liang discovered another noteworthy detail. The latch and handle of the wooden doors of these stone houses were set on the outside, which meant that people outside could close the wooden door and insert the latch to prevent it from being opened.

People cannot open the door and come in and out freely.

Wu Liang immediately realized something and murmured to himself: "Is it possible that these stone houses are not dormitories, but prisons?"

"What did you say?"

The witch called to help, and upon hearing Wu Liang's words, she subconsciously asked.

"If it were a house that was normally used for living, the door would definitely not be designed like this."

Wu Liang pointed to the door bolt and called to the witch.

"I discovered this problem just now."

The witch Hu said with no surprise, "We in Japan have many doors like this. Houses with such doors are usually inhabited by humans and animals. Perhaps the craftsmen who were brought here were all humans and animals.

It’s to prevent them from escaping.”

Although the current Japanese country is divided into countries, many places are actually tribal and are still in an era when slavery is prevalent.

This is reflected in the contribution details prepared by the Japanese mission for the Han Emperor.

In addition to some dried fish, there were hundreds of human sacrifices.

Today, slavery has been abolished long ago. Only a few prisoners of war and criminals will be demoted to slavery. The vast majority of the remaining people, even if their social status is not high, even if they sometimes have to live like a human sacrifice, some are even miserable.

It is still difficult to escape the fate of being sold, sold, given away, and enslaved as personal property, but at least the official level does not support this kind of thing, so at least most people in the Celestial Dynasty are still human beings even if they starve to death, not human sacrifices.

"That makes sense..."

Wu Liang nodded slightly and opened a few more doors.

Then, for the time being, these small stone houses of the same specifications were allowed to smell, and he took the witch Hu and the old macaque king to check the stone houses in the back, hoping to find a few different ones among the stone houses to investigate.

When we reached the last row like this, Wu Liang actually found it.

There are only three stone houses in this row. From the outside, these three stone houses are obviously slightly larger than the others, and the door bolts and handles are not set outside.

"Squeak!"

With a soft sound, Wu Liang first pushed open the wooden door of the first stone house on the right.

The stench that seemed like corpse odor no longer wafted out of this stone house, but was replaced by the unique smell of dust and sand.

Wu Liang observed carefully for a moment, then walked in.

This is a living room with a wooden couch, a wooden eucalyptus table, two futons made of hay, and a low wooden cabinet with double doors.

Compared with the furniture of wealthy families in the Han Dynasty, these furniture can only be regarded as semi-finished products. Although the surface is very smooth with a plane, it has obviously not been polished or decorated with paint, maintaining the original and rough wood.

surface.

In addition, there are no decorative patterns engraved on them, making it impossible for Wu Liang to speculate on the dynasty of these furnitures.

There is a complete set of bedding on the couch.

Although the bedding was covered with dust, there seemed to be no sign of decay for the time being, and it was placed neatly. It was obvious that the person who lived here before was a person who paid more attention to the details of life.

Next to the couch is a pair of wooden clogs.

Clogs were the shoes of the early Celestial Dynasty. Just like the Confucius clogs that Wu Liang had seen in Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, the clogs of later Japanese countries were also learned from the Celestial Dynasty.

Wu Liang came closer and picked up the pair of wooden clogs to examine them carefully.

There are very obvious wear marks on the sides and bottom of the clogs, and these wear marks are also very old. In addition, the layer of dust on the clogs is equivalent to the indoor environment, indicating that this pair of clogs has not been worn for a long time, but

Wu Liang still couldn't guess how long it would take.

After checking these.

Wu Liang turned around and saw the witch Huzheng reaching for a clay pot on the table.

"stop!"

Wu Liang immediately shouted.

"!"

The witch Hu was startled and quickly retracted her hand, then looked at Wu Liang with a look of surprise.

"You only have a partial understanding of many things in our country. To prevent breaking the rules, from now on you are not allowed to touch or take anything without my permission."

Wu Liang's tone softened slightly and he said to her.

"This is just an ordinary clay pot..."

The witch said a little aggrievedly.

"It's not just an ordinary clay pot."

Wu Liang turned around and came to the table. While he lowered his body and looked at the pottery pot carefully, he distractedly asked the witch for science, "If I read correctly, this should only appear after Qin unified the six countries."

A kind of pottery, and it is a relatively rare red pottery..."

"Dang Dang!"

Having said this, Wu Liang tapped the pot twice with his fingernails, listened to the sound and continued, "Besides, this is not something for living people at all."

"Isn't it something for living people?"

The witch Hu was still a little unhappy at first, but after hearing what Wu Liang said, the unhappiness in her heart immediately disappeared. She came over with an even more surprised expression, stared at the pottery pot as seriously as Wu Liang, and asked, "

How do you know this is not something for living people?"

"In addition to being divided into gray pottery, red pottery and black pottery according to color, the pottery of the Qin Dynasty is also divided into hard pottery and soft pottery in terms of texture. Hard pottery is the utensils used by people every day, while soft pottery is made of colored pottery.

Decorated with lacquer painting, it is usually used for burials in mausoleums."

Wu Liang said patiently, "Look at this pottery pot. There are traces of painting here, here, and here. Unfortunately, it has been severely faded and the original pattern cannot be seen. And the sound of knocking just now

It also verified my idea that this is indeed soft pottery. Do you think this kind of pottery used for burials in mausoleums is used by living people?"

"..."

The witch was silent when she heard the words, but it was easy to see from her eyes that Wu Liang's words really calmed her down, making her impressed by the culture of the Celestial Dynasty and Wu Liang's knowledge.

After a moment of silence, the miko Hucai frowned and asked: "Since it is for personal use, why is it placed here? Isn't this place for living people to live in?"

"This place should be for living people to live in. That pair of wooden clogs and that set of bedding should be for living people."

Wu Liang said solemnly, "Furthermore, our country has always emphasized the importance of burial. The yang house should be built on the ground, and the yin house should be built underground. Unless there are special circumstances, no one will violate this rule, so I think this pottery pot does not belong here."

, but it was brought here by people who didn’t understand this or didn’t care about it and used it as a daily clay pot…”

Speaking of this, Wu Liang's tone suddenly slowed down, and he realized something in his heart that he had never thought of before.

The person who once lived in this stone house must be a fellow traveler, right?

After all, people before the Eastern Han Dynasty were usually superstitious about ghosts and gods. Therefore, most people would not come into contact with the dead or anything related to the tomb. Even the burial objects that had not been officially buried would be kept as far away as possible to avoid getting into trouble with some people.

Dirty stuff.
To be continued...