Volume 2 Chapter 194 The Tomb of Cheng Yu

Yutian County is a county town with tourism as the pillar industry, and now it is summer and the tourist season, and the famous hotels and inns have long been full, and these five students who have just graduated have no social experience, and they have never thought about the problem of booking rooms in advance.

Even if the departure date is decided at a short notice, at least you have to book a hotel before you go.

But none of them thought about this problem. Luo Fuan also said that this was a matter "other than academic" and should be in charge of Du Lin, and a big black pot was directly thrown to Du Lin.

Durin had no choice but to admit it, but fortunately they brought tents, and Durin and a few people found an open forest park on the edge of the county seat, set up a few tents on the grass of the park, and cooked some food on a kerosene stove, which was about to pass the first night.

Early the next morning, several people were woken up angrily by the old man who was the park's ranger. It turned out that it was too dark the night before, and no one noticed that the park gate was written "No fires" and "No camping".

Durin had a bunch of nice things to say to the Administrator and brought two packs of good cigarettes to the house, which prevented the old Administrator from trying to call the police.

When he got out of the park, Durin was complained by Luo Fu'an again, and Durin didn't refute it, thinking to himself, if you don't know as much as you little kids (compared to Durin, it seems that everyone is a little kid), if it weren't for me, the five of you would probably have to sleep in the car for the night.

First, they reported to the cultural management department of Yutian County, and showed the relevant procedures for archaeological activities issued by their school, proving that the archaeological activities were approved by the relevant state departments and were reasonable and legal, otherwise there might be trouble.

By the time all the formalities were completed, it was already noon, and a few people found a local restaurant in the county seat and had a full meal, and then went to Liujia Village, which was dozens of kilometers away.

The road from the county seat to Liujia Village is not very easy to walk, the closer to Liujia Village, the more difficult the road becomes, especially after a section of winding mountain road in the middle, the two female generals are almost tossed and motion sick.

In just a few dozen kilometers, the group walked for more than two hours, entered the village, and several people quickly got out of the car and moved their sore legs and feet.

Rao is Du Lin's super physique, and he also feels a little tired, this way he is always driving the car in front of the road, and he is the hardest one.

He Wenwen was so distressed that she fanned him like a virtuous little daughter-in-law, and helped him pour water, which made Luo Fuan grit his teeth with jealousy.

Du Lin asked them to rest for a while, and he found the village committee and expressed his intention to the village secretary, who quickly paid attention to it when he heard that there was an ancient tomb near his village.

As a small village under a large tourist county, but there has been no decent tourist attractions, if there is really an ancient tomb, a little development, and then a little effort to hype, it can definitely bring a lot of tourists to the village, there are tourists on behalf of consumption, there is consumption that is money!

Thinking of this, the village secretary surnamed Liu was extremely attentive to Du Lin, and immediately expressed his full support for the archaeological work.

With the support of the local villagers, the next thing was much more convenient, and the village secretary personally arranged for a member of the village committee named Liu Wanfu to be responsible for assisting Du Lin.

Liu Wanfu found a young man from his own family to help Du Lin and the others carry the supplies, and led them towards the destination.

At the same time, no one noticed that a gloomy gaze was staring at Du Lin and his party viciously......

On the way here, He Wenwen had already told Du Lin that the target of this archaeology was an ancient tomb in the late Qing Dynasty, which was not too old, and the natural value was not very large, otherwise a doctoral student would not have been allowed to excavate with a few master's students who had just graduated.

According to ancient records, the owner of the tomb was a imperial doctor in the palace at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and when he heard this, Du Lin faintly guessed something, because he remembered that the Qing Dynasty imperial doctor named Cheng Yu, whose hometown was in Fuxia Province, and this was Cheng Yu's tomb.

Cheng Yu was poisoned to death by his younger brother Shi Yunwen at the instigation of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and it was this Shi Yunwen who sent his coffin back to his hometown. Du Lin regretted it, he knew that he was digging Cheng Yu's grave, so he should have brought Gu Amei with him, after all, Shi Yunwen is now Gu Amei's natal ghost, if there is Shi Yunwen's help, he will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

But it's too late to say anything now, I can only take one step at a time, and if I can't do it, I'll call Gu Amei.

But as the group went deeper and deeper into the mountains and forests, Du Lin found that it was better to forget about the phone call, less than five miles away from Liujia Village, the mobile phone had no signal, and it seemed that this time he could only rely on himself.

Finally, I came to the place recorded in the ancient books, which is a flat land halfway up the mountain. Du Lin looked around, from the feng shui said, here surrounded by mountains, back to the sun, a small stream at the foot of the mountain flows, there is a cover in front, there is a back, although it is not a particularly good feng shui treasure land, but it is still quite good to make a yin house, burying a only five products of the hospital makes some grievances in this place, in Du Lin's opinion, at least have to bury a second grade master. It seems that this Imperial Physician Cheng still put some thought into choosing the cemetery.

According to the rules of the tombs at that time, the tombs of the five officials also had burial chambers and tomb roads, but the scale of the entire tomb was not too large, at most two or three hundred square meters, and those princely tombs that often covered an area of several acres were definitely incomparable.

Luo Fuan took out a compass and fiddled with it in his hand, still reciting words in his mouth, as if he was "dividing the gold and fixing the acupoints", which was quite troublesome.

As a doctoral student studying archaeology, this kind of feng shui is a must to learn, after all, this is how ancient people determined the location of the tomb, and modern people have to follow the old method if they want to find out the tomb.

However, maybe our Dr. Luo is not good at learning, and he hasn't figured out a reason for fiddling for a long time.

Du Lin couldn't stand it, patted Luo Fu'an on the shoulder, took the compass from his hand, adjusted the position of the astrolabe above, looked at his watch, determined the hour, adjusted the direction of the compass in his hand, followed the pointer and walked towards the hillside.

Luo Fuan felt that his "academic status" had been violated, and wanted to snatch the compass back, but was stopped by Miao Weijie.

"Let him look for it, he can't find it anyway, and the longer he looks for it, the bigger the person will lose. ”

Luo Fuan nodded, but after thinking about it, he had been looking for a long time just now, wouldn't that be embarrassing?

As soon as this thought flashed through him, before he could be annoyed, he heard Durin shout, "Come here, I've found it." ”

Luo Fuan couldn't believe it, he was a doctor of archaeology, and he couldn't find the location of the tomb, but he found it by a doctor!

A few people ran a few steps and came to Du Lin's side, Du Lin kicked away a clump of weeds with his foot, revealing a square stone, Ge Wei took a shovel and dug down along the edge of the stone, and soon dug a soil pit, and a bluestone tablet revealed its original appearance.

Several people squatted down and carefully observed the stele, Luo Fuan first jumped down from the soil pit and used a stiff brush to brush off the soil on the stele, and the inscription on it was revealed.

In the middle of the front is the four big characters of "Huangqing Imperial Seal", and the right side is engraved with a slightly smaller word "Wupin Imperial Hospital Judge Cheng Gongyu", Du Lin said in his heart, sure enough, it was him!

On the left is a row of smaller words, "Brother Shi Yunwen Li", on the back is a row of mahjong tiles-sized handwriting, look at the length should be one or two hundred words, but because of the age, the handwriting has been unable to fully identify, can only be recognized intermittently"...... Guangxu 26...... Ride west with the dragon...... Unfortunately, I contracted the disease...... Twenty or thirty words, such as "Xinglin Lang......" and so on.

According to the practice of the Qing Dynasty, the death of officials above the fifth rank was to be sealed by the emperor, so in order to show the emperor's grace, the name of the tomb owner could not be written in the middle of the tombstone, and the "Emperor Qing Dynasty seal" had to be written first, and then the official position and name of the tomb owner.