Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 799

"How about that old man?"

I sat beside Laoyan and asked in a low voice.

Lao Yan looked at me, then shook his head, I shut up, and closed my eyes to rest.

"Old Yan, what's the situation this time? Didn't we tell us not to leave Yanjing? It's only been a few days?" Miss Qiu's tone was very aggressive, presumably because she was very dissatisfied with the superior department.

That's right, when the superior department came and told us not to leave, it only took a few days for us to hurry up and go on a mission. The injuries on the boy's body haven't fully healed yet, so it's no wonder that it makes people angry.

Lao Yan's face was solemn: "The archaeological team of Hubei Province discovered Liu Qu's tomb."

Liu went to the tomb?
I opened my eyes instantly, the tomb of the Tomb Raider King?
According to historical records, Liu Qu was the great-grandson of the Han Emperor. He was named the King of Guangchuan during his lifetime and had his own fiefdom.

Although this Liu Qu is a vassal king, he actually likes digging ancient tombs the most. About his life, he is talked about in the tomb robbery industry, and some tomb robbers even call him the ancestor of tomb robbers.

According to legend, there are many ancient tombs in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in Liu Qu's fief, so he gathered some boring noble teenagers to hunt and rob tombs, doing things wildly and without moral bottom line.

He threw the bones of the owner of the tomb into the mountains to feed the wild dogs, and looted all the valuable funerary objects.Of course, he did not rob tombs for money, and sometimes he gained very little, but what he cared about was only the game process of tomb robbing, and he didn't care about the result.

Moreover, Liu Qu has a cruel personality and is suspicious by nature. If the singer next to him is unsatisfactory, he will be tortured and killed by him.

For example, once he suspected that his Mei Jirong loved to meet people, so he tied her to a pillar, cut off her two eyes with a red-hot sharp knife, cut off her thigh, and finally poured molten lead into her. mouth, tortured her to death.In just a few years, Liu Qu tortured and killed hundreds of innocent people, and was finally impeached by the ministers. Emperor Han Jing deposed him from the throne. The disheartened Liu Qu died of illness on the way to exile.

According to Liu Qu’s confession to the investigating officials later, he excavated too many ancient tombs to count, among which the tombs were in various forms, including living burials, white fox burials, and ice jade burials, which were recorded by the latter. Some of these anecdotes are very interesting to listen to now.

I went through his deeds in my mind, and said with a chuckle: "If his tomb is discovered, those people must not be able to figure it out, right?"

Liu Qu himself is a king of tomb robbers. He was afraid that he would be thrown into the wilderness after death, so he carefully designed mechanisms before his death to prevent tomb robbers from disturbing the sleeping soul after his death.

As the king of tomb robbers, he really knows the methods of tomb robbers too well, so the mechanisms he set up can't be solved by ordinary people.

Lao Yan glared at me, saying that the archaeological team can't solve it, and there's no need for you to gloat about it.

I shrugged and changed the subject: "There are probably a lot of treasures in his tomb."

The things he got by robbing the tomb during his lifetime must have been brought into the tomb...

Lao Yan nodded, saying that the specific situation is still unclear, and he will not be sure until he arrives in Hubei.

The car drove into Hubei at the fastest speed along the way, and then went around Hubei and directly entered Shiyan City, which was the destination this time.

The car moved forward slowly on the streets of the city. When it stopped, I looked out and saw that it was a department store.

This kind of family department store has only appeared in recent years. There are a lot of varieties in it, including commonly used toothpaste washbasins, canned liquor, candy and sour tricolor, and so on.

"Why, who of you wants to buy something?" I said with a casual smile.

Lao Yan pressed my head helplessly: "You can see clearly, there are armed police standing beside this department store."

In fact, I just saw it, but I can't believe that our destination this time is a department store, which doesn't fit well with the places we have explored in the past.

"You are here."

A thick voice came, and I looked over my head, only to see a young man in his early 30s wearing black-rimmed glasses greeted the car with a face full of surprise.

"Who is this comrade?" We got out of the car, and Lao Yan looked him up and down.

The young man immediately introduced himself: "I am Li Ping from the archaeological team. Master is inside. I know you are here, so I specially asked me to receive you here."

We didn't talk, because I felt the unusual atmosphere here as soon as I got out of the car. The department store was originally opened on a good road, and there were residents nearby, but no one patronized it in the evening.

Although people would poke their heads from a distance from time to time, no one dared to approach.

Lao Yan pursed his lips without exchanging any pleasantries, and followed Li Ping into the department store.

The counters in the department store are still full of goods, but a stench is coming out of our nostrils, which prevents us from concentrating on observation.

A few people got out of the back kitchen, they looked very embarrassed, and their bodies were full of smoky smell.

"Are you an expert from Yanjing?" One of the people who looked about the same age as Lao Yan wanted to shake hands with Lao Yan, but he stretched halfway and retracted, asking with a smile.

Lao Yan nodded and said he wanted to go in and have a look.

The man quickly waved his hand: "It's about time, and everyone is hungry. Let's find a restaurant to eat and chat. This is also a good time to report the specific situation to you."

Lao Yan thought about it and thought it was true. At present, we are still blind to the progress of this tomb, and it is useless to go in to see it. So a group of us walked along the street and entered a restaurant that looked good.

The few people who came out of the back kitchen asked Li Ping to entertain us first, and then went into the hotel next door to take a shower.

When they reappeared ten minutes later, they all changed their clothes and looked much more comfortable than before.

Li Ping had already ordered the dishes, but we didn't travel thousands of miles just to have a bite of the dishes, so we asked straight to the point what was going on before the dishes came.
"Oh, it's a long story..."

The captain of the archaeological team, the old man Shen Jianguo who was about to shake hands with Lao Yan just now, sighed.

About a month ago, there was a strange phenomenon in the department store we just saw. No matter how well the workers did the hygiene, they could always smell the rotten smell every day. This not only affected the business of the department store, Rumors and rumors have also spread-the shopkeeper has killed people and hidden corpses outside.

Even now that the archaeological team has taken over here, rumors are still circulating.

Because the archaeological team has confidentiality measures, they cannot tell the public about the ancient tomb until everything is clear.Therefore, the owner's family can only be temporarily protected, only saying that it is not a homicide.

I found it weird when I heard it, but Shen Jianguo didn't have the habit of whetting people's appetites, so he kept on talking, so I didn't ask any questions.

At that time, the shopkeeper was so frustrated by the smell that he emptied all the merchandise counters in the store, but he still didn't find it.

Then he could only bite the bullet and continue to operate, but the stench became more and more obvious. In the end, they endured the nausea and eliminated it bit by bit. Finally, they found a collapsed hole in the sewer of the back kitchen...

In fact, it can't be blamed that they discovered it late, because the stench in the sewer is a normal phenomenon, and no one suspected it at the beginning.

The owner of the store was worried that someone had killed someone and dumped his body in the sewer, so he quickly called the police.

When the police came, they didn't see the body. They looked in through the collapsed hole of the sewer and knew it was an ancient building.

This alarmed the archaeological team!
Shen Jianguo brought the archaeological team to settle in these two days. After his judgment, this is clearly a rare ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty. According to some funerary objects and inscriptions that flowed out of the cave, he can conclude that this is the legendary King Guangchuan. Liu Quzhi's tomb.

"We are all in the same company, and you should know how excited I was when I saw this tomb." Shen Jianguo's eyes lit up, and then the light disappeared: "But, we don't have the ability to dig!"

He patted the table, and the waiter just came in to serve the food, and was startled by him.

Lao Yan hurriedly laughed and said a few jokes, and the waiter was relieved.

Before the dishes were served, we didn't say anything more. First, we needed to digest the situation, and second, we were afraid of being overheard by the waiters here!
(End of this chapter)