Chapter 4
Sun Coco looked at the barrage for a while before realizing, surprisingly, she clapped her hands and burst into laughter.
"I can't help it, Murong Yue, you really know how to make things up, you almost made me laugh to death! "Hahaha, hey—what Ming Dynasty, tomb-robbing, these shoes belong to my sister-in-law! She just took them off her feet!" "What? That's impossible!" I furrowed my brow in astonishment, and the barrage exploded.
"Laughable, how did she make another mistake!" "She said she's a professional, but does your face hurt?" "And the embroidery is exquisite, obviously not something modern that can be faked, hahaha, how much did the anchor pay you?" "What's this? Why don't you all say that Sun Coco is deceiving people, she definitely wouldn't dare to admit that this item is illegal!" "Exactly, Murong Yue explained it so well, how could she make a mistake, it must be Sun Coco deceiving people!" "Peh, obviously it's Murong Yue's mistake, but she won't admit it, all the water armies should go away!" The barrage turned into a chaos, and I stared at the shoes on the screen, shaking my head decisively.
"This is absolutely impossible, Sun Coco, this must be a recently unearthed ancient item.
"Ordinary textiles, even if they're in a tomb, would have been heavily oxidized.
To be preserved this well, there's only one method! "That is soaking it in water!" There is a special kind of preserved corpse called a wet corpse, in which the ancients would soak the corpse in a special liquid and seal it before burial.
Because of this preservation method, the corpse's skin remains elastic, and the limbs can still move.
The most famous wet corpse is Xin Zhuifu, from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha.
It's said that when Xin Zhuifu was first unearthed, she still maintained her appearance from when she was alive, making her the best-preserved female wet corpse in history.
"These kinds of corpses have a characteristic: as time passes, the body secretes corpse oil, which dissolves in the liquid.
"Look at your shoes, the silk threads on top have a bright color and a layer of oily luster, that is the corpse oil coating! This coating can protect the shoes intact, but over time, it will inevitably oxidize and deteriorate.
"So these shoes you have definitely just been dug up, no more than three days ago!"