Chapter Eighty-Seven: White Plaster
"Take a break, adjust your state and go down" Li Zimu sat on the wooden chair and rubbed the pudding's little head and said, at this time they had arrived at the last pavilion of Luoma Mountain, and looked at the time on their wrists, ten minutes away at one o'clock in the morning.
"I was almost scared to death just now...... "Chi Ling covered his chest and whispered, just now when he was climbing the second mountain, the pudding in front of him suddenly screamed, fortunately there was a hidden soldier cave next to it, and the three of them hid over.
"Young people nowadays, they really like to play tricks more and more" Li Zimu said with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, the three of them heard the conversation of the couple just now, and the content was completely indescribable, hindering the healthy growth of minors......
"It's like you're seventy or eighty," Chi Ling said with a blank look, blushing a little at the thought of the conversation between the two people just now, and quickly turned his attention to the lake below.
"It's so beautiful!" said the Spirit, looking at the Llama Lake in the distance, the lights of the lake reflected on the surface of the lake, making it difficult to tell which side of the sky was.
"Let's go, finish it early and go back to rest early" Li Zimu nodded and said, starting at one o'clock, it shouldn't be long, if there is no accident in the middle, three hours is completely enough.
Let Pudding watch from the top of the hill, and the words of someone are loud and loud, and they can hear them very clearly in this quiet night. Because you can see them from there, although it may not be possible to see it in the dark, but it is always right to be careful.
Li Zimu took the lead in sliding down the pillar, and people's eyesight will adjust accordingly with the environment, so although it was dark around, the place at close range could still be seen more clearly, and the three people did not use lighting equipment, and slowly touched the place they saw during the day.
"This dirt bag should be the burial mound" Ten minutes later, several people arrived at the place they saw during the day, the terrain here is relatively flat, and at this time they are facing a large slope, and below the slope is a large mound.
Mound tombs began to appear as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and they became popular in the Warring States Period, and even today, more than 2,000 years later, when the dead are buried in the countryside, a mound will also be piled up.
The height of the mound is determined according to the identity of the tomb owner, the tomb of the princes of the dignitaries and nobles before his death, the mound is relatively high, if he was a peasant and a common man during his lifetime, the mound is relatively low, and the mound in front of them is really the tomb mound of the dragon and tomb, it is also understandable.
However, this method of judgment is only limited to the tomb under the king, because the tomb of the emperor is not called a tomb, but a mausoleum, and it is impossible to see how big the emperor's tomb is from above, the small one has dozens of square meters, and the big one is big, such as the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, the Tomb of the Ming Tombs, the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, etc., which are all large and staggering scales.
"Try it first, what if you miscalculate" Zhang Jingyang licked his dry lips and said, he was very familiar with this job, so he put down the backpack on his back immediately, took out a small shovel inside, and put on the handle and was ready to start working.
This is one of the most widely used tools by tomb robbers, the Luoyang shovel, the shovel clamp is only two inches wide, the width is a U-shaped semicircular structure, and the shovel is equipped with a removable long handle.
Luoyang shovel is more practical, every shovel to the ground, you can go deep into the ground three or four inches, and then go up, you can get the soil stuck in the round mouth and bring it up.
"No need to try, just dig directly, this is where the main tomb is located, you see" Li Zimu said with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, he climbed the mound to observe when Zhang Jingyang was about to excavate, he didn't believe that Aoki Liu's group of guys hadn't come to try, since they had found the tomb of Long Ji, they would definitely come to investigate.
"Pebbles?" Zhang Jingyang took the things handed over by Li Zimu and played with them and said, the stone in his hand was smooth and flat, and it was definitely not a stone on this mountain.
Li Zimu nodded, the outside of the tomb is covered with stones and sand and filled with smooth pebbles, which is a significant feature of the anti-theft of the Warring States Tomb, and under this mound is definitely the dragon and tomb they are looking for.
The tombs of each period have the characteristics of each period, although most of them do not use pebbles as anti-theft fillers after the Qin Dynasty, but with Xiang Yu's temperament of hating Yingzheng, he will never bury his brother according to the Qin system, so it is very likely that he will be buried according to the old system of Chu during the Warring States Period.
"Fortunately, this group of young young people gave up and continued to dig down, otherwise we would be in trouble," Li Zimu said softly, if the people of Aoki continued to dig from here, maybe the arch masonry on the main tomb would be knocked by them, and the entire tomb would collapse at that time......
The thief hole can't be hit vertically, which is something that anyone who knows a little bit about the principle knows. After knowing the location of the main burial chamber, the robbery hole should be driven horizontally from the level of the burial chamber, so as not to destroy the arch bricks used for support in the burial chamber, and thus avoid the result of collapse and burial.
Most of the tombs of the Warring States period are arranged in a zigzag or subzigzag, no matter which shape the tomb road is facing the outside, so if Li Zimu wants to enter the inside as soon as possible, it will save a lot of trouble to dig directly into the tomb, because the tombs of the princes are different from ordinary tombs, and there are more anti-theft measures, and it is not practical to dig directly to the coffin lid with a shovel.
Li Zimu planned a little, and according to the size of this tomb, it is speculated that the burial chamber below should be about forty or fifty square meters, from which it can be inferred which location the tomb road is roughly. After a few minutes, Li Zimu led the two people down for another ten meters before stopping.
"Let's start," Li Zimu looked at Zhang Jingyang and said, took the shovel handed over by the latter, and the two of them quickly dug up one after the other.
The soil on the mountain is relatively loose, and after digging out the weeds from the bushes and epidermis, only the soil remains, this position is on a slope, so it is easier to dig, and the two of them will dig the excavated soil to the side, and when the time comes, they will bury it back, as for the spirit, Li Zimu asked her to go around to put Gu seeds.
"Kick!" Half an hour later, the Luoyang shovel in Li Zimu's hand finally touched a hard rock, making a crisp sound. Li Zimu was overjoyed, put on gloves and began to plank with his hands, Zhang Jingyang on the side naturally had a bottom in his heart when he saw this, and he also put on gloves to dig the soil outside, and after a few minutes, a few neatly stacked stones were revealed, fixed with gray and cyan things in the middle.
Li Zimu picked some down and put it in the palm of his hand and sniffed, in addition to the smell of the earth, there are some slightly pungent smells mixed in it, this thing is called white plaster mud, because the humid environment is blue, so it is also called green plaster mud, the nature is similar to cement, but the viscosity is greater than cement.