The excavation went very smoothly, but the unearthed items were not as good as expected, except for some broken bricks and tiles, broken clay pots of low value, and some broken stone carvings, there were no special finds.

Zhang Tianyuan felt a little bored, so he chatted with Professor Li Mingguang.

Li Mingguang has to rest after doing a few jobs because he is old, and he is drinking water against the earthen wall at this time, and Zhang Tianyuan also happens to talk to him.

"Professor Li, why don't you go up and take a rest, it's so hot, if you are tired, then this excavation work will not be able to continue. ”

"No, I'll just rest for a while, there's no sun here. "Li Mingguang is very strong, maybe the people of that era are all such a character.

Zhang Tianyuan stayed in this grave, although he couldn't shine on the sun, but he could feel a sweltering heat, which made people breathless, which was even more uncomfortable than the sun, he relied on the earth to make himself a lot more comfortable, but Li Mingguang was obviously not good.

After thinking about it, he still ignored Li Mingguang's objections, carried the old man on his back, and put him under the pergola, and it was a lot more comfortable for the electric fan to blow.

"You boy, forget it, I'll rest. Li Mingguang didn't blame Zhang Tianyuan, he is not the kind of child who doesn't know the hearts of good people.

Zhang Tianyuan looked at the sun, good guy, it's really vicious, if it weren't for the pergola, no one would be able to stand it.

There were a few kettles on the scene, filled with cold boiled water, and it was comfortable to drink, but now they are almost all drunk, and when they just eat, these people have no appetite because it is too hot.

It's not that I don't think the food is delicious. It's too hot to be true.

Zhang Tianyuan was worried about how to let these people at least eat something, when he saw Xu Gang driving his newly bought Audi over.

"Gangzi. You're just in time, help me with something. ”

"Tell me what's going on. ”

"Go to Xinglong Village to help me buy a cart of watermelons and come back. ”

"A car?"

"Yes! It's a car! It's so hot. They can't eat, watermelon is always good, pull it back and put it in the cellar, when you eat it, it's cold and delicious, it's much stronger than a drink or something. ”

"Well, I'll go. "Xu Gang was going to Xifeng to do something today, but when he met Zhang Tianyuan and asked him to buy watermelons, he agreed without saying a word, this is a good brother.

"Money!"

"Money. It's just a cart of watermelons, can't I afford it? Xu just got into the car and left.

"You're a good brother. Li Mingguang said with a smile.

"That's it, from childhood to adulthood, Xinglong Village is not far from our village, he can come back in about half an hour, the watermelons there are freshly picked in the field, guaranteed to be fresh, and very sweet, I still remember when I was in middle school. Many people in our village went there to sell watermelons to the county and city, and they ate a lot. Zhang Tianyuan nodded.

"When the time comes, tell Sù Feixue, she is in charge of the finances this time. ”

"I said I would like to invite you to eat. ”

"You better not do that. Our funds are allocated by the government, so you don't need to spend that unjust money. I know you have money, but you can't spend it like that. Listen to me, we don't need this money anyway. After returning it, it had to be squandered by some things that held the general's belly. Li Mingguang said.

Hearing this, Zhang Tianyuan didn't say anything, he looked at the people who were still working below, sighed and said: "It's really not human to work in the fields in summer and winter, I am more curious, why has Dingling become a cultural relics protection unit, but the country has been unwilling to excavate it?"

"Isn't the Qinling Tomb different from the Qianling Tomb and not excavated?" Li Mingguang said with a smile.

"No, that's different, I heard that there seems to be some danger in the Qin Tomb, and I don't dare to dig lightly, for fear of killing people. Qianling seems to be also full of organs. Zhang Tianyuan listened to these words, his ears were calloused, he heard people talk about it when he was a child, and he still said it when he was in school, so he couldn't believe it if he didn't believe it, I'm afraid it would be brainwashing.

"You believe that?"

"It can't be fake, right?"

"It's not all fake, there are some reasons, but more reasons are that after the excavation, it costs people and money. ”

"What does that mean?"

"You think, after those things are excavated, they are just repaired, protected, Maintenance, you have to pay a lot of money, like the terracotta warriors and horses, at least there is income to make up for the cost of maintenance, but more places are beyond their means, too many things, maintenance is a big problem, the cost can not keep up, then you have to account for local taxes, there is a lot of trouble, so some people would rather rot in the tomb, but also refuse to excavate, unless it is really forced to have no way, or is particularly valuable, will be excavated, you such as Sanxingdui, This is the case with the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, and mausoleums like Dingling have been looted many times in history, and there are not many things in them, and large-scale excavations are laborious and costly, even this time, it is only a small-scale excavation. Li Mingguang explained.

"I heard you say last night that I decided to come here to dig up because of the last words of a death row inmate, what are the last words, can you talk about it?" Zhang Tianyuan's curiosity is not small.

"Actually, there is no secret, the death row prisoner's last words said that he used to be a tomb robber and stole some artifacts here, but unfortunately he was arrested before they were fully sold, and the things were hidden here. ”

"Did you find something?"

"Nope. Li Mingguang shook his head and sighed.

"That's him lying?"

"No, we went to the place where the death row inmate said it was, and it was already dug up, so we felt that the death row inmate didn't just tell us about it before he died, he told someone else, and he said it earlier, and the man took the thing. Finding things is not our specialty, so we have to hand it over to the police, and we mainly want to carry out a salvage excavation of the place where he stole the cultural relics according to the last words of the death row prisoner, so as not to be stolen by the gang again. Li Mingguang explained.

"I see. But you seem to be saying that the death row inmate didn't sell all his stuff, which means he actually sold some stuff anyway?"

"That's right. At an auction in the United States, we were surprised to find a jade Buddha that was more than a foot high. The nephrite jade used by the Jade Buddha is a very high-grade royal jade, and only the royal family can afford to use it. The jade Buddha is composed of two parts of the Buddha statue and the lotus Sumeru seat, the Buddha statue is full of shape, the face is serene, the head is slightly lowered, the palm of the left hand is placed upwards in front of the abdomen, the right hand touches the ground, and the seal of the demon is made, and the lotus Sumeru seat is made up of four layers of detachable stacking. After investigation, we found out. Most of that thing came from the Tang tomb, and it is not difficult to know from the list of cultural relics in the last words of the death row prisoner that the thing was dug out of Zhongzong's tomb, but unfortunately, that thing went abroad, and I don't know which bastard sold it. Li Mingguang said angrily.

"Didn't you buy it back?"

"Of course I have to buy it back, Nandu Zhao Shenluo is your big brother, I listened to what Shi Lao Wang said. It was Zhao Shenluo who took back the jade Buddha, and after he bought it back, he transferred it to the Shaanzhou Museum. is also a good person, your eldest brother is not in vain. Li Mingguang said with emotion.

As for how much money was spent, Zhang Tianyuan didn't ask, but it wouldn't be cheap. At the auction, it was still auctioned back abroad, so it wasn't a dead pit.

So for those who sell cultural relics abroad privately. The state generally has very strict penalties.

I don't know why, Zhang Tianyuan thought of Muyi. This Jade Buddha shouldn't have anything to do with that guy.

Li Mingguang rested for a while. I still felt a little dizzy, probably from heat stroke, so I shouted to the people working below: "Come up, now the sun is poisonous, you all rest a little, drink some water, and wait until the sun is not so poisonous before continuing." ”

Although he really wanted to continue working, Li Mingguang himself suffered from heat stroke, and it was not easy to think about other people, he was not the kind of person who didn't care about others, so he naturally wanted to let everyone rest for a while.

Speaking of which, the rural people really don't care about anything, the people of the archaeological team drink the kind of bottled mineral water, and even soda, and they drink cold water, and even go directly to the water pipe in the nearby school to drink cold water.

Zhang Tianyuan has done this kind of thing before, but he rarely does it now, after all, those cold waters are not hygienic.

Now he just waited for Xu Gang to get the watermelon back, so that the people in the same village could also enjoy it.

Fortunately, there was a forest nearby, which was cooler than the pergola, and everyone sat in the forest to rest, and some people fell asleep leaning against the trees and earthen walls when they were tired, and the ants were unconscious when they climbed on them.

Li Mingguang's forehead was covered with a wet towel soaked in cold water, and he was indeed suffering from heat stroke, but it was not too strict, so he did not go to the doctor.

"Professor Li, I'll show you. Zhang Tianyuan put his hand on Li Mingguang's wrist and pretended to be an old Chinese medicine doctor.

"Will you still see a doctor?"

"Hehe, don't say you know, I have a formal medical license. Zhang Tianyuan smiled and began to slowly inject a trace of earth qi into Li Mingguang's body.

When it was over, he took out two mint jelly beans at random and stuffed them into Li Mingguang's mouth and said, "Professor Li, this is a good medicine for heat stroke, and you will be fine immediately after eating it." ”

Li Mingguang didn't know what it was, anyway, he ate it sweetly and coldly, and then he felt much more comfortable after eating it.

In fact, it was just mint jelly beans, and what really worked was the earth qi that Zhang Tianyuan had injected before, but he couldn't detect it, because the time difference between the two was very close.

"Oh, you kid is amazing, I advise you to really don't take the test, just follow me directly, I'm the president of the National University of Geosciences, it's no problem to help you go through the back door." "Li Mingguang really likes this Tianyuan the more he looks at it.

"Professor Li is afraid that I won't be able to pass the exam?"

"There are some things you don't understand, originally in my opinion, archaeology as long as you understand this knowledge is enough, but now archaeology also has to take the English test, what is really wrong, we are taking the domestic ancient test, is it difficult to use English? Some people say that they want to understand foreign classic archaeological works, bullshit, foreigners talk about domestic archaeology, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Zhang Tianyuan really doesn't understand this aspect, so he can only laugh with him, he really can't express any opinions, in fact, he is not afraid of English, his grades are already very good, so he has never been worried about the graduate school entrance examination.

"Professor Li, what about English, I'm not a problem, you can rest assured, I really can't pass the exam, I'll come to your back door again, I'm not so stubborn, don't worry." Zhang Tianyuan can only say this, he can't refuse the kindness of others. (To be continued......)