"Could it be that this is a cemetery?" Zeng Lu said in confusion as he carefully examined the scattered bones on the ground.

"This must be a cemetery, there is no doubt that this must be a Loulan ancient ruins ——— a public cemetery for the residents of the ancient city, you can see the miscellaneous burial items scattered around, so it must be like this. Wang Gongzi said with certainty that the appearance of his lupine scarf was really charming. Xiao Fei Daigo whispered to me: "I know, this must be the Xiaohe cemetery, I didn't expect that thousands of years ago, we actually met it by chance and saw its true face in advance." This kind of thing is really hard to come by, and it's really exciting that we ordinary people have accidentally discovered something that scientists are striving for. ”

I took a closer look, and the scale of this cemetery is very large, from its formation to its final abandonment, it must have lasted for a long time, and the surface we see should belong to the upper layer of the relics, which is the cultural appearance of the late cemetery. According to the carbon-14 we carried, the absolute age of the first type of tomb in Gumogou is about 2800 years before the Great Song Dynasty. After a long period of continuous construction, it is certain that there are at least 3 layers of tombs stacked on top of each other. The further down the floor, the older it should be.

I thought for a long time, and asked Xiao Fei curiously: "What is Xiaohe Cemetery, why don't I know anything? ”

Xiaofei said with a hippie smile: "I don't know, this time you have long hair and short knowledge, this is the famous Xiaohe cemetery! Xiaohe cemetery is located in the Luobu Desert about 60 kilometers south of the lower valley of the Peacock River in the Lop Nur area, and 102 kilometers east of the Xiaohe is the famous Loulan ruins. The cemetery is 7.75 meters above the surface and covers an area of 2,500 square meters. Xiaohe Cemetery was rated as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in China in 2004. In his 1939 book "Archaeological Research in Xinjiang", the Swedish archaeologist Bergmann roughly deduced that the age of the Xiaohe cemetery was earlier than the period when China ruled the Loulan Kingdom, that is, in the 2nd ~ 3rd century AD. He believes that the culture of the cemetery is equivalent to Sven Heding's discovery of Tomb 36 northwest of Lop Nur, Stein's LT and LS found on the north bank of the Peacock River, and the LF and LQ tombs found near Lop Nur. These burials have typical indigenous features and are chronologically different from each other, and the Xiaohe cemetery is supposed to be older than other indigenous burials in Lop Nur. Through the discovery of the Xiaohe cemetery, it will be more helpful to understand a lot of information about the material and spiritual culture of the ancient Lop Nur inhabitants, which is said to be an ancient tomb with a thousand coffins. Moreover, the Xiaohe cemetery is considered by the world archaeological community to be the most difficult mystery to solve in the history of Central Asia and the archaeological sand-buried civilization. ”

I grew my mouth in surprise, my eyes widened, and I deliberately praised Xiao Fei and said: "I really admire, you are really knowledgeable, erudite and talented, learned from China and the West, learned from five cars, won the legacy of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and carried forward the Tang style and Song bones into the wood, I can know you in my lifetime, it is really my three lives of luck." You have made me deeply understand the deep meaning of the phrase "there are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky", and my admiration for you today is really my admiration for you like a surging river, endless, and like the Yellow River flooding out of control. ”

Xiao Fei blushed embarrassedly and said: "Actually, it is also a professional habit, it is normal to know more, in fact, the predecessor of our tomb robbery group, the Tomb Robbery Revolutionary Committee, also planned to find out before, but I didn't expect to be taken by those foreigners, so I have been obsessed, so the group requires us to have a forward-looking consciousness and the ability to plan from a high position, this is a classic case when we study." ”

The quicksand accidentally touched something, and suddenly there was a loud noise in the sand, like a huge thunder, several mouths of strange shapes, huge, ancient and strange, with a heavy cowhide heavily wrapped in the ship's mouth coffin broke through the thick yellow sand, suddenly appeared in front of us, frightened us souls, all took out the shining sword and waited, but there seemed to be no reaction, and there was no "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Tomb Robbery Notes" Such a blood-red, open mouth of blood dumplings rushed to us, waited for a long time, there was no movement, we breathed a long sigh of relief, Xiaofei curiously asked us if we want to open the coffin, to see what it is, we all agreed in unison, and indeed very curious about the wooden coffin, because we have never seen such a different coffin, it is really breathtaking, it makes people feel incredible, unexpected, this is like a wooden boat upside down on the shore, covering the dead in it, isolating the time and space of life and death. This strange tomb unearthed from the Xiaohe cemetery aroused our strong interest, we looked at it carefully with curiosity, only to see that the two poplar trunks were processed into a bracket shape that was slightly longer than the human body, which was the side plate of the coffin, the brackets were docked together at both ends, and the baffle was wedged into the grooves at both ends of the coffin board to be fixed, there was no coffin bottom, and the coffin lid was more than 10 small baffles with a width of more than 10 pieces cut off according to the arc of the coffin. And those thick cowhides, it is estimated that live cattle were slaughtered and skinned on the spot, so at first these whole coffins were wrapped in fresh cowhides. The hides shrink as they dry, and the arid climate of the desert evaporates all the water from the hides. Finally the cowhide wrapped the coffin tightly and tightly, and the surface became as strong as a shield, and the lid of the coffin, the little baffles that were placed unfastened, became very strong, and thus formed the miraculous appearance we see now.