Tianyan Jianbao

Chapter 294 Tomb Search
Professor Meng was not angry because of Wang Haoming's question. He thought for a while and said, "Tombs in the Tang Dynasty were usually built on the hillside. For example, the joint tomb of Emperor Wu and Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi was built in the mountains."

"The location we are in now is the end of this mountain range. It belongs to the geomantic treasure land with the landscape style. Wenzong's tomb should be here. It's just that after more than 1000 years, it has gone through wars and been stolen several times. It is difficult to infer from the ground buildings. where the catacombs are."

"The reason for excavating here is because a robbery hole was found next to it before, and after testing, the soil is also five-flower soil, but now all the places where the robbery hole appeared have been dug up. And the unearthed objects are worthless. It’s too big, so it doesn’t explain anything, maybe we’re digging in the wrong direction.”

Professor Meng had already considered the question Wang Haoming mentioned. Judging from the objects unearthed now, it looks like a tomb buried with him, but they have explored it within a few hundred meters.

Only here is five-flower soil underground. When the other places are drilled to a depth of seven or eight meters, they will encounter rock layers, and it is impossible to have burials.

"Zhou Tong, Liu Kan, take the Luoyang shovel and go a little farther, and dig some holes out, pay attention to the straight-line distance from the sealing soil layer."

Professor Meng pondered for a while, and arranged tasks for the two disciples. In fact, after digging out the horizontal plane of the robbery cave, he had this idea, and Wang Haoming's words prompted him to make up his mind.

However, this incident was quite painful for Zhou Tong and Liu Kan. Digging a hole with a Luoyang shovel is no less labor-intensive than digging the soil. If it is seven or eight meters deep, both shoulders will become numb and weak.

"I'll go with you."

Wang Haoming also stood up. He was mainly interested in the legendary Luoyang shovel and wanted to see it.

Learning to use the Luoyang shovel to identify the soil quality is the basic skill of every archaeologist. Professor Meng did not stop Wang Haoming and his two disciples from exploring the soil quality together. He just wanted him to get in touch with the Luoyang shovel first and get familiar with the use of the Luoyang shovel.

"Why are these Luoyang shovels different?"

Wang Haoming followed the two and walked to the place where Luoyang shovels were placed. After a look, he found that there were more than ten small shovels on the ground. Some of them had blunt bottoms, while others looked like crescent shovels. Heard something different.

"This is used to detect different tombs. This one is called a heavy shovel, and it is specially used to detect Han tombs. Since the horse-treading swallow was unearthed here, the teacher suspected that there were Han tombs, so he brought them here.

Zhou Tong then pointed to the crescent-shaped shovel that looked a bit like the crescent shovel used by Lu Zhishen in the Water Margin and said, "This is called a flat shovel, which is what we often call a Luoyang shovel. This is what Tang Tombs must use."

While explaining, he and Liu Kan selected two Luoyang shovels, and then handed one to Wang Haoming.

I saw Wang Haoming looking over and over at the Luoyang shovel in his hand.

Liu Kan explained: "Don't look at this thing as a shovel. It looks very simple. In fact, it is very troublesome to make. It needs to go through nearly [-] processes such as billet making, firing, heat treatment, forming, and sharpening. "

"The most important thing is to create a radian when forming. It needs careful beating. If you are not careful, the shovel you make will not be able to carry the soil, and it will be useless. The one in your hand is treasured by the teacher, and the rest are like this. Provided by the border cultural relics department."

After Wang Haoming took it, he found that it was just a shovel head. There was a hollow internally rotating thread on the head of the shovel, which must be used to connect wooden poles.

For the convenience of carrying, these Luoyang shovels are detachable, and even the wooden poles can be selected according to your height.

These wooden poles are specially made, and are generally high-quality ash poles, which are extremely tough and can be easily bent without breaking.

After taking out the steel pipe, Wang Haoming discovered that there is not only one steel pipe inside, but layers of steel pipes, which can be extended at will, a bit like a fishing rod.

At the head of the steel pipe, there is a clasp, on which a rope as thick as a thumb is tied, coiled neatly around it.

How to use it is not enough to be taught by others. Wang Haoming pulled out the three-section steel pipe, aligned it with the threaded opening and tightened it. The gesture was a little smaller. It was about two meters long, and the weight was not very heavy. It should be easy to use. question.

Wang Haoming put the remaining steel pipe back into the leather case, and carried the leather case obliquely on his shoulder.

Wang Haoming took a Luoyang shovel with a white wax rod connected by Liu Kan. Compared with the one in his own hand, it was about twice as light as the one in his own hand. The above tools are convenient.

In fact, there are many varieties of Luoyang shovels, such as the electric Luoyang shovel that appeared recently, just like a small drilling machine.

"Let's go a little farther, the two to 300 meters around here have been explored."

Zhou Tong and Liu Kan each hold a Luoyang shovel and wear straw hats on their heads. If you don't look at the clothes, they are no different from farmers who have worked all year round.

"Within a few hundred meters around, this is the only place where ripe soil appears?" Wang Haoming was a little puzzled. There might also be a mausoleum under the sealed soil.

When Liu Kan heard Wang Haoming's question, he turned his head and replied, "That's right. When you drill down more than ten meters in other places, there will be a rock layer, and it is also under the sealing soil layer. We probed very carefully. Except for familiar Earth, nothing else."

"Maybe the mausoleum is not that deep. I heard that in ancient times, mausoleums with a depth of seven or eight meters were rarely seen."

As soon as Wang Haoming said this, he felt that something was wrong. Tombs with a depth of seven or eight meters were definitely not suitable for royal tombs. He didn't know anything else, but the underground palace of the Ming Tombs was tens of meters deep.

"We basically drilled a hole every three to five meters. If there is something below, it will definitely be brought up."

After hearing Liu Kan's words, Wang Haoming realized that Ganqing's Luoyang shovel could not only identify the quality of the underground soil, but also bring up the objects in the tomb.

If you encounter ceramic funerary objects such as cups, bowls, plates, and pots, or iron, gold, and wood when digging holes, you can bring them up.

From this, it can be judged whether there are tombs below, and the archaeologists can infer the nature and layout of the underground collection based on these objects.

What's more, like those experienced tomb robbers, they can judge the situation by relying on the different sounds of the Luoyang shovel colliding with the ground and the feeling of the hand.

Some tomb robbers, with a Luoyang shovel, can accurately drill the hole into the main tomb where the coffin is placed. When it comes to the use of Luoyang shovel, I am afraid that most archaeologists are far behind those Family tomb robbers.

"Which way are we going?"

"Let's go to that small hill and have a look. There is only one in the vicinity that hasn't been explored."

"Wait, wait for me, I'm going too!"

A voice came from behind the three of them, but it was the little girl Meng Xin who followed, holding a Luoyang shovel in her hand.

"Aren't you afraid of tanning? Like Africans?" Zhou Tong and the little girl were used to bickering, and couldn't help teasing her.

"Don't be afraid, I have sunscreen."

Meng Xinxin proudly waved her small fist at Zhou Tong, and the few people who watched were relatively speechless. They were here on vacation, even wearing sunscreen.

This mountain is not far from the excavation site, only 500 meters away. The mountain is full of kiwi trees, and it is in the flowering season.The entire hill is covered with small yellow flowers, which look very beautiful from a distance.

When they got closer, they realized that someone had built a railing around the small hill, and tied iron wires on it. It should be to prevent wild animals in the mountain from harming the fruit trees.

"What are you doing? Go away if you have nothing to do. Damn, you can't sleep well even if you sleep."

Following a sound of cursing, a man came out of the fruit forest, but his steps were a little staggering, he walked to the edge of the railing, and held on to the railing that was half a person's height before he stood still.

"How do you talk like that?"

Zhou Tong was a little annoyed at being scolded. When he walked to the railing and was about to argue with that man, the man suddenly stood up straight and met Zhou Tong face to face. Zhou Tong couldn't help but backed away a few times in fright. step.

At this time, Wang Haoming also saw this man's appearance clearly, and his heart skipped a beat. The man in front of him stood up straight, and he was half a head taller than Wang Haoming, which should be more than 1.9 meters.

She was wearing a pair of briefs all over her body, and she was covered with strong tendons, and the arms that were leaning on the railing were probably thicker than Meng Xin's waist.

What made the few people shudder the most was this man's appearance. Half of his face was normal, but the other half of his face was pitch black from the skin below the eyes to the neck.

If it wasn't for the sun in broad daylight, not to mention Zhou Tong and others, even Wang Haoming would have turned around and ran away in fright.

If you see this grimace in the middle of the night.Normal people can be frightened to have a heart attack.

"Is this the legendary yin and yang face?"

Several people took a few steps back, and this idea popped up in their minds, but it is rare to hear that this yin and yang face can grow all the way to the neck.

"Grandpa, that's what I said. What's the matter? Not convinced?"

The man slapped the railing with his big palm-like hand, his eyes stared like donkey eggs, fixedly staring at Comrade Xiao Zhou who had just spoken.

The other hand reached out to his lower body in an unsightly manner, and several people could clearly see that a few fine hairs fell from between his fingers to the ground.

Not to mention that girl Meng Xin turned her face away long ago, even Wang Haoming couldn't stand it.This person is also a little bit of his mother's best.

"We are from the national archaeological team. You open this railing, and we're going in to get some soil samples."

Seeing the expressions of Zhou Tong and Liu Kan, Wang Haoming knew that the two students were frightened.

The man ignored Wang Haoming at all, and scolded everyone like everyone with a fierce face: "What are you taking?" Bird soil, this is the orchard contracted by our family, understand?Privately contracted, you want to make trouble.Get the hell out, make grandpa angry, and waste you little bastards. "

Seeing that he couldn't tell this person clearly, Wang Haoming pulled them back a few steps and whispered to Zhou Tong, "Xiao Zhou, go and call the kid who came with me just now."

Zhou Tong agreed, turned around and ran to where he came from.

The man turned around cursing and entered the orchard.Wang Haoming and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. They couldn't explain to this stupid man. If they were really beaten by him, it would be nothing but immediate losses.

It's just not over a minute.The man with the grimace ran out again, holding a liquor bottle in his left hand and a machete in his right hand.

The tip of the knife pointed at Wang Haoming and the others, cursing: "If you don't go away, I will kill you bastards one by one."

Wang Haoming was originally afraid of this person, but at this moment, his anger was on the rise, and he and the others did nothing, and the fruit trees in the orchard were not fruiting now, so why put on such an appearance of guarding against thieves.

"You try to kill me?"

Wang Haoming took a few steps forward, clenched the Luoyang shovel tightly in his hand, and felt a little nervous, but if he was scared away by this bastard, it would be embarrassing.

"Don't be as knowledgeable as this person, let's go back and talk to the people in the village."

Liu Kan, who was standing next to him, gave Wang Haoming a hand. He didn't dare to look at the man's face. He was a bit shabby. Liu Kan didn't know if he could sleep at night.

The man's name is Yu Sansheng, a native of Luoyang, Henan Province, and he ranks third among his peers. The name was given by his grandfather. It was taken from the allusion of Zeng Zi's "Three Provinces and My Body". Originally, he wanted him to reflect on his actions when he grows up. .

But Yu Sansheng was not a fuel-efficient lamp since he was a child.In addition, he is tall and tall, and most people will give him three points when he sees him, so he has developed a domineering character, and his education level is that he can write his own name. As for what it means, you have to ask that dead ghost Grandpa.

Yu Sansheng's face was originally the same as that of ordinary people, but an accident disfigured him.

(End of this chapter)