Seeing that Zhu Pingan came out in disgrace and returned in defeat, Zhao Qiu, Zhao Dajing, and all the military officials were delighted. Seeing Zhu Pingan defeated, their hearts felt as if they had eaten dragon’s liver and phoenix marrow, soothing to the extreme.
“Your Excellency Zhao’s uncle and nephew used this hand to take away the firewood from the bottom of the cauldron and steal the beam to change the sun in a good way.”An official from the Yan Party’s side who knew the inside story looked at Zhu Pingan gloatingly and praised with a low laugh. His uncle was a close friend of Zhao Qiu, and he was close to Zhao Dajing, and had already received hints from Zhao Dajing during the lunchtime meal, knowing the inside story.
“Hush, brother Wang is careful with his words. Lord Zhao is acting in accordance with the rules and regulations of the preservation level, and is upright, so how can there be any talk of stealing a beam for a day.”Another official shushed, reminding the official surnamed Wang to be careful with his words, though he had the same gloating expression on his face.
“Oh, yes extremely, yes extremely. Hahaha ……”
The official surnamed Wang stifled a smile and nodded, and only halfway through his sentence, he couldn’t hold back his laughter. Moving the rank in front of him, Zhu Pingan, and watching him suffer, it was a good feeling.
“He Zhu Pingan still wants to use the level to flip the car, hehehehe, what a fool’s dream, flip the car? Roll over him! If this he Zhu Pingan can still use this batch of level flip, old man’s name written backwards ……But see he doesn’t have this ability either, haha.”
“Hurry up and open the coffin, get it done early and go back early to set up a celebration banquet …….”
Zhao Dajing and others at this time is already victory, the heart has already speculated where to go to a whole table of food and wine, called a few greenhouse head, to celebrate a good time.
Wang Xueyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice on the main trial seat, narrowed his eyes and swept a glance at Zhu Pingan and the others, nodded and said, “Good, since all of you have confirmed that there is no mistake, then let’s open the coffin.”
“Open the coffin.”
Sheriff Zhang answered and led the people to open the coffin.
Wedging out the stone nails and scraping away the glutinous rice glue, the police forcefully lifted up the lacquered black board cover and placed it under the feet. Lacquered black board cover made antiseptic treatment, above a layer of black paint has the effect of isolating the air.
After the lid was lifted, a smell of staleness mixed with lime came out.
Although Zhu Pingan could conclude that the level inside the coffin had already been replaced, Zhu Pingan still took care of Liu Dazhou and Liu Dahammer’s emotions, and after the coffin box was opened, Zhu Pingan bowed his hand towards the box to show respect, after all, Liu Dazhou and the others still thought that the level inside the box was their loved ones.
The dead were the greatest.
If the level inside is an innocent victim of the Ming people, please rest in peace, I, Zhu Pingan, will do my best to seek justice for you and pay homage to your souls in heaven.
If the level inside is a Tartar or someone who deserves it, I advise you to clean up your act, reincarnate as a good person, and do more good deeds to atone for your crimes in this life …….
Zhu Pingan bowed his hands and then went to the coffin box, only to see that the box was filled with stone powder, and a level was buried inside the stone powder.
Stone powder is quicklime.
This is a common method of preserving levels in ancient times.
In ancient times, since the Iron Blood Qin, there has been the practice of using the level to check the merit, and there is also quite a lot of experience in the preservation of the level, the most common methods are lime preservation and grass ash preservation, of course, there are also salt pickling, deep frying, lacquer sealing and other methods.
Zhu Pingan has seen relevant records in modern times, and the other day in the Hanlin Academy library, he also carefully checked the relevant information and did his homework.
Lime preservation of grade is a more mature antiseptic method in ancient times, the method is relatively simple, but the preservation effect is very good. First of all, the level should be wiped clean of blood, and then the brain pulp in the head is pulled out and placed in the hot sun to dry for one to two hours, and when the blood dries up, the level is completely lost in the quicklime, closed and preserved.
In fact, it is the use of quicklime absorbent principle, so that the coffin box to remain dry, alkaline, to avoid bacterial growth, not easy to rot; at the same time, the use of glutinous rice glue to close the coffin box, coupled with the level completely into the stone powder can be to a certain extent to isolate the air, to avoid rotting and deterioration.
Fortunately, it is this way.
Zhu Pingan was slightly relieved when he saw the way the level was preserved. This way was the least destructive to the grade, and it was a little less difficult to verify the identification.
“Lords, please look.”
The two pallbearers transferred from the Criminal Ministry’s squad room took out the grades inside the coffin box one by one, brushed the stone powder on the grades with a hair brush, and arranged them on the wooden board. Fifty-nine levels, arranged in three rows. Bearers often deal with these things to serve these levels, did not blink an eye.
But the other officials did not have this kind of stamina.
Facing so many grades at once, many officials didn’t dare to look this way.
“Ta-Jen Zhu, if you’re scared you shouldn’t hold on, it’s not good to wet your trousers.”Zhao Da Ying was emboldened at this time, holding his arms as he walked up to Zhu Pingan and teased with a cold smile.
Scared?
Zhu Pingan looked at the idiotic glance swept Zhao Dai Ying a glance, not win contempt, is you Zhao Dai Ying scared trousers, I will not, you have seen the “curse”, you have seen the “Midnight Murder”, you have seen the “Ghost Doll Flower”, you have seen the “Silent Hill”, you have seen the “Chainsaw Souls”? After experiencing the baptism of these modern horror classics, Zhu Pingan would not have much of a fluctuation in his heartbeat when he watched these levels again.
“You seem to talk a lot, are you weak-minded?”Zhu Pingan faintly replied back.
“It’s you who is vain.”Zhao Dajing shook his shoulders disdainfully and laughed coldly.
While Zhu Pingan was exchanging words with Zhao Dajing, the coroner had already divided the grades on three wooden boards for the crowd to examine.
“Guilan, puppy ……”Liu Dajie was in tears, the one metre eight man crying like a child, stumbling through the grades looking for his wife and son.
However
let him be disappointed.
The twenty levels on one wooden board were searched all over and there was nothing, then the thirty-nine levels on the other two boards were carefully looked at one by one and there was nothing either.
Then Liu Dabao stood there with a bewildered look on his face, murmuring, “No, how come none of them are ah, Guilan, little dog, where are you ah.
The other Liu Dahammer and the others were also looking at the fifty-nine levels displayed on the wooden boards with a bewildered look on their faces.
These levels were completely different from what they had imagined, none of them were their relatives.
On the contrary
All of these levels seemed to be Tartar-like. It was easy to recognise that these grades were all of Tatar type, the prominent feature was the scalping, the type of foreigners, completely different from the Daming people, one could tell at a glance.
Some of the level is the Tatar “Huhele” type, head around the top of a curved head shaved off, forehead to stay a row of short, the back of the head, hair on both sides of the head braided into a whip; there is the head of the cloak braided with a small braid; there is the left and right shoulder cloak …….
At a glance, they are not of my race.
“These are all Tartars.”
“All the grades offered by Lord Zhao are Tartars.”
There were quite a few officials who were familiar with the Tartars at the scene, and there were also quite a few officials who had seen Tartars from afar on the city walls last year when the Tartar soldiers were besieging the capital, and were able to recognise that this was a Tartar type. So on seeing these ranks, they nodded their heads.
