slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 480

Cang Hai stretched out his head to look at the small square hole, and asked puzzled: "How did you find out that this is a robbery hole?"

The staff didn't speak, and pointed to the Luoyang shovel in his hand, motioning Cang Hai to look for himself.Cang Hai couldn't tell, he stretched his head to look at it for a while, then stood aside and waited to hear what Zhang Gong said.

Mr. Zhang guessed that Cang Hai couldn't understand, so he knelt down and looked at the soil in the shovel of his apprentice Luoyang, and said, "From the quality of the soil, you can see that the top and bottom of this shovel are the same, and then look at the soil that was dug out next to it. What's the difference between the two?"

Cang Hai listened and looked at the soil that had already been knocked on the ground next to him, each of them was round like a small pillar, and then looked at the soil on Luoyang's shovel, and immediately saw a little trick. Now the soil brought out by Luoyang's shovel The color is the same, but the soil pillars next to it are different. The top is soil, the bottom is gray, and the bottom is black.

"This is?"

"This is the sealing soil. The black one is charcoal, and the charcoal was used to prevent moisture. It is already confirmed that there is a tomb underneath, but this robbery cave is a bit strange." Zhang Gong looked at the robbery cave and said.

"What's so strange, maybe there are a lot of people robbing tombs. Besides, there are no people here. If you didn't come here, you probably wouldn't see anyone coming for a year or so. The people who rob tombs here are naturally comfortable. Submissive." Cang Hai expressed his thoughts.

"It doesn't look like it. Even if it's comfortable tomb robbery, it's not so comfortable. It's just like digging a kiln?"

"Teacher, I seem to have hit the tomb brick!".

"What?" Zhang Gong glared at the student: "How deep can we hit the tomb bricks?"

This person said: "I don't believe it either, but I really can't go down. Other places have to go deeper, but here is only more than two meters. When I go down, I can't go down. It is blocked by a hard object. ".

As soon as Mr. Zhang heard the Luoyang shovel from the student's hand, he knocked off the soil on the shovel, and then slowly went down along the small hole the student had just made. When he reached a place more than two meters away, he bumped into a hard object. , can no longer fight.

"You guys, come here and dig this place!" Zhang Gong shouted at the few people who came down the slope.

When the people down the slope heard this, they immediately came up with their shovels on their shoulders, and started digging without saying a word. Mr. Zhang just squatted by and watched these people dig without leaving.

It was all loess and it was easy to dig. A few good guys dug together for half an hour and dug out a square hole, which stretched to the bottom according to the original appearance of the robbery hole, and was covered by a few stones at a distance of more than two meters. blocked.

"What is this?" Cang Hai stretched out his head and looked.

Zhang Gong was also very curious. The first shovels of the young men stopped when they dug something, and then carefully began to clear the floating soil on the stone slab.

"There are words!"

A young man was immediately refreshed.

Hearing his roar, everyone's eyes focused on him, and Cang Hai naturally raised his head to take a look.Sure enough, a word appeared in the place where the young man cleaned up. Cang Hai also knew the word, but it was a bit difficult to recognize it, because the word was written with twists and turns, and it was really not recognized by Cang Hai. .

"Is it the epitaph?" Cang Hai asked.

Zhang Gongdao: "If it is the tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period, there is no epitaph. The epitaph appeared later. If you want to determine the identity of the owner of the previous tomb, you have to look for it from the buried utensils."

"What did you write?" Cang Hai asked again.

Zhang Gong looked at these words carefully, and then began to read: "Wei Boqi knocked, the bottom can't be seen clearly, it's gone, this should be a part of a stone tablet or something, and it was dragged over to cover this robbery hole." .And judging from the shape of this thing, it is likely that you want to cover it on the robber's hole because you don't want others to go in again. This tomb robber is interesting!"

"In my opinion, in all likelihood, the descendants of the people buried here stole it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have sealed the hole with a few stones, and wouldn't have dug such a big hole so leisurely." said the one next to him.

"Find a rope, pull out these stones, and see what's underneath!" Zhang Gong said.

A few archaeologists immediately turned their heads and went down. Soon all the archaeologists gathered here and started to work. Two ropes were tied to the two ends of the stone bar, and then four or five people pulled lightly. Pull the stone bar away.

As soon as the stone bar was moved away, a slightly smaller circular hole was exposed. Looking down the hole, I found that there was a black hole inside, which seemed to be bottomless. The cold air rushed towards the face, making the faces of the surrounding people tense.

Twenty minutes later, a vertically downward round hole of about [-] cm appeared in front of everyone. On the wall of the round hole, there were also small pits leading to the bottom. You can see these small pits at a glance. It is for people to use up and down, which shows how particular this tomb robber is.

"Teacher, may I go down and have a look?" an archaeologist was eager to try.

Zhang Gong said calmly: "Don't worry, wait until the various data in it are detected. Today's work is over here. When the various data are measured, show them to me, and then deal with the hole. If the data allows, let’s go down tomorrow and have a look.”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Gong signaled Cang Hai to follow him and walked down a few steps to the side of those stone bars. There were about four or three stone bars, only one with words on it, which was still incomplete, and the rest were all white stone bars. piece.

Seeing the old man looking over and over at the white stone, Cang Hai couldn't figure out what is so good about a white stone, so he opened his mouth and asked, "What can you see from this white stone?"

"There are many things that can be seen. First of all, by looking at the material of the stone, you can determine where the stone was produced and how far it is from here, and you can also see the level of the craftsman by looking at the excavation marks on it..." Zhang said the worker.

Cang Hai supported his knees with both hands, bent down to watch the old man staring at the stone and stopped explaining, and after he finished speaking, he asked: "What did you see, tell me!"

"I didn't see it!" Zhang Gong said.

"...".

Cang Hai was swallowed by the old man's words all of a sudden, and thought: Didn't you realize that you've been talking at length with me for several minutes?
"However, I know that this stone and this tomb are obviously not from the same period. The difference between the two is at least a few hundred years," Zhang Gong said.

Seeing Cang Hai's confused face, Zhang Gong said with a smile: "Bronze products were all made in the past. Do you think it is difficult to use bronze to make stones? So this stone tablet is at least a hundred years older than this tomb. As for The time of the tomb, at present, should be before the unification of the Qin Dynasty, because the method of stacking the tomb and the measures to prevent moisture are relatively simpler than the tombs of later generations of kings... ".

After explaining it, Cang Hai understood five or six points. Anyway, he figured out one thing. This tomb is an ancient tomb. From the perspective of this robbery cave, it's hard to say how many things are left in it.

Hearing that this is a royal tomb, Cang Hai felt that even if there was only an empty shell left, he had to go down and take a look. It would definitely be different from buying a ticket to see it at this time.

In the following time, Cang Hai continued to make use of his advantage as an unemployed person, looking here and there, idly eating dinner and returning to the tent to rest.

In the early morning of the next day, Cang Hai got up and helped to make breakfast. After eating, everyone swarmed to the side of the robber's cave on the slope.

A young man in his twenties was selected, with a rope tied to his body, and a strong gas lamp in his hand, walking along the wall of the robbery cave, stepping down the small pit next to him step by step.

After walking down several meters, the young man raised his head: "I saw the tomb passage below!"

"How about it?"

"I'm standing here without any sign of subsidence, but the front is not good, it's all collapsed. The direction of the tomb passage is exactly the direction we predicted. Now about four or five meters behind me is the tomb door. Directly at the most vulnerable place of the tomb passage, expert hands."

The young man below lifted up the strong light in his hand, shone it back and forth, and then shouted at the top.

"Are there murals on both sides of the tomb?"

"No, there is nothing bare, only stones, which are polished very neatly, and the seams between the stones can only be buckled into fingernails. This level must be a prince! And there are bronze beasts with torches on both sides of the tomb. First of all, it looks like the style of the Spring and Autumn Period, bronze, not seriously rusted, very beautiful!"

"Go to the tomb door and turn on the walkie-talkie!" Zhang Gong said.

The young man turned his body and slowly moved towards the door of the tomb. When he reached the door of the tomb, he saw exquisite patterns engraved on the door of the tomb. Besides the patterns, there were also characters. He stretched out his hand and gently pushed on the door. Suddenly, he found that the door of the tomb was not moving at all.

I added some strength to my hand, but I reached out and pushed it, but it still didn't move!

"Teacher, this tomb door can't be pushed!" said the young man.

"Can't push it? Then look carefully to see if there are any robbery holes below. It's impossible for the tomb robber to spend so much effort and leave without taking something," Zhang Gong said.

According to Zhang Gong's words, the boy came back and searched the tomb passage several times, but he still didn't find any traces of being dug or pried.

After a while, Zhang Gong seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and said to the surrounding students, "Prepare something for me, I'll go down and have a look!"

The students quickly prepared tools and tied them around the old man's waist.

"How about I follow along?" Cang Hai was quite curious.

"Aren't you afraid of corpse poison?" an archaeologist asked with a smile.

"You still make fun of me with this, you're so old!" Cang Hai said with a nonchalant smile.

For the archaeologists, ancient tombs are not as magical as in the novels. They were built by people and then excavated by people. As for mechanisms, hidden weapons, etc., most tombs don’t have such things at all. , Even if it takes thousands of years, it will be almost destroyed.

"You can't go down!" Another archaeologist said.

Since Cang Hai was not a member of the archaeological team, he could not go down to the tomb.

At this time Zhang Gong said: "Do you really want to go down?"

Seeing Cang Hai nodded, Zhang Gong said: "Get this kid down too, let him get down in front of me, and remember to be the first to pull me up when there is danger!"

Knowing that the old man was joking, Cang Hai still glared at the old man, and honestly asked the archaeologists to put himself on a safety rope.

After finishing everything, Cang Hai took a miner's lamp and walked slowly down the small pits on both sides of the robber's cave wall. There is no turbid air or even toxic smoke like in the novel.

When I got to the bottom, I lifted up the lamp in my hand and looked around. Sure enough, there were stone walls all around. I was standing on a ramp that was sloping up. But the sides and the top are all stones, and they're pretty smooth.

This kind of smoothness does not mean that a machine can reflect people like a mirror when it is polished by a machine like now. The stones in the tomb passage can clearly see the traces of polishing from the top, and some even form a mysterious pattern.

In short, everything here is new to Cang Hai, a rookie, even if there is nothing to see around, Cang Hai is still happy.

"What are you doing standing here, go to the gate of the tomb to have a look."

At this time Zhang Gong had already come down, and after looking at the surrounding situation, he said something to Cang Hai and walked towards the tomb door with the lamp in his hand.

Cang Hai followed the old man and walked over.

(End of this chapter)