You Fang opened his mouth and said, "Whose house is this?" ”

You Chengyuan: "Village director's house!" Don't just stare at this wall, the mountains and rivers in this village are deep. ”

After walking a few steps forward and passing by a family, there were a few chickens in the yard, You Fang stopped and said in surprise again: "Sister, look at the pot containing chicken food, if I am not mistaken, is it a pottery bean with a missing base, or a painted pottery!" ”

The so-called bean is a kind of food container in ancient times, shaped like a plate with a seat, and this painted pottery seen by the tour party, whether from the ornamentation or from the shape of the vessel, is at least more than 2,000 years ago, the base is defective and the shape of the upper container is basically intact. The price of this thing in the antique market is not very high, and the price in Yanjing Panjiayuan can only be sold for a few hundred yuan, and it is not very cost-effective for cultural relics dealers to travel thousands of miles from here.

You Chengyuan was no longer surprised, shook his head slightly and said: "There are many such things in the village, they are all funeral goods damaged during tomb robbery, and cultural relics dealers do not accept them. …… Alas, in fact, the value of cultural relics and cultural research are quite high, but unfortunately the original appearance can no longer be seen, and even the tombs have been destroyed. ”

This village is called Feiju Village, the upstream of the road has heard that there is a large group of ancient tombs in the deep valley near here, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, the specifications are very high, it should be the ancestral cemetery of a certain lineage nobles in ancient times, the historical materials in the Southern Chu area at that time have not been preserved, and there are few clues for historical research.

Why such a high-standard tomb was built in the deep mountains, and the age has lasted for thousands of years, there is not much information to verify. Where did the materials for the construction of the tombs come from? Wood and stone can be taken nearby, while other materials need to be brought in from outside the mountain.

It can be seen from the road you take today that land transportation must have been extremely difficult 2,000 years ago, but there is a difference between ancient times and modern times. You not only looked at the map, but also observed the topography of this area, in ancient times, you can take the waterway ship, from Changsha, Hengyang direction along the Leishui upstream, get off the boat outside the mountain, and then cross the two mountain passes and walk about ten kilometers of mountain roads, you can reach this place, that should be the most convenient mode of transportation in ancient times.

Now the times are different, if You Chengyuan and You Fang also come from the direction of Hengyang, I am afraid that there will be at least half a month according to the ancient way, and if it is to transport goods and building materials, the time will be longer, which shows that the artificial vastness that stretched for thousands of years at the beginning. It can only be speculated that this may be the fief of a certain aristocratic family, or the ancestral origin of its origin, which can be explained.

All of this should be an important part of the ancient Chu culture, and even involve the specific administrative boundaries of China in the pre-Qin period. In recent years, many cultural relics scattered to the antique market have gradually attracted the attention of the archaeological department, so there are professionals to this area to investigate, but unfortunately the tombs that have been found have been stolen and seriously damaged, and many cultural relics with historical document value have either been stolen or have been damaged in the process of theft and excavation.

It is very simple that the bronzes with inscriptions in the archaeology of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties are also the favorites of tomb robbers, as for other murals, paintings, bamboo slips, and silk books with more historical value, as long as the tomb is opened, it will soon be damaged and difficult to preserve. And it is impossible for tomb robbers to excavate for the purpose of rescue like archaeologists, record and protect at any time, but take away as much valuable things as possible.

The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and the transportation is inconvenient, the discovery of ancient tombs and the excavation of cultural relics are carried out underground, and it did not attract attention until last year, so this archaeological team led by Chi Mu Duo came. There were two major surprises when Chi Mu Duo arrived, one was that the deep mountain tombs here were so large, so old, and so valuable! The second is that the rampant trend of tomb robbery here is stunning.

Due to traffic reasons, Feiju Village is the only way to that deep valley, and the "work" of stealing and digging is completely monopolized by this village, and no outsiders are allowed to interfere. In the past few years, the young and middle-aged people in this village have rarely worked part-time, nor have they honestly farmed or engaged in local products to develop the characteristic economy of the mountainous area, and even the road into the mountain has not been repaired. According to You Chengyuan's observations, almost all of the men, women, and children in this village are underground workers.

Chi Muduo is the deputy director of the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, how could he lead a team to the Hunan and Jiangxi borders? Of course, this kind of thing is very common in the field of archaeology and cultural relics protection, he once participated in the excavation of the Chu tomb of the Warring States period in Chenzhou, sorted out the archaeological objects and published professional documents, and is one of the most familiar cultural relics experts in this area.

The archaeological team has an approval from the provincial cultural relics department, as well as a letter of introduction from the local county and township political axes, and the local village committee is ostensibly unable to stop their work. After coming here, Chi Muduo felt that the protection of cultural relics here was not valued at all, and the support of the county and township political axes was just a letter of introduction to the work team. And the villagers are secretly staring at these cultural relics protection experts like thieves, and You Chengyuan can certainly feel it.

Chi Mu Duo did not come to dig tombs, but to investigate the distribution of tombs in this area, as well as their cultural relics and cultural values, to determine their age, scale, scope and specific historical remains information, to rescue and excavate the ancient tombs that have been stolen and destroyed, to sort out and preserve the remaining cultural relics as much as possible, to record their valuable discoveries, and to ask the local political axe department to take protective measures in accordance with the law.

Seeing the painted pottery beans fed to the chickens in the villagers' yard, You Chengyuan looked back and pointed to the courtyard wall of the village director's house and said: "That yard was repaired three years ago, and their family didn't realize the mystery of the wall at that time. ”

You Fang couldn't cry or laugh, but he didn't expect that this wall would become a wall of vision to test the cultural relics dealers. This small village with only more than 100 households is located in the deep mountains and traffic is blocked, there are actually three small shops, two small restaurants, and a farmhouse with a guest house sign, it seems that in recent years, cultural relics dealers from all over the country have flocked to it, and the annual turnover is not small.

You Chengyuan went on to introduce that according to Chi Muduo's on-site investigation, all the traces of theft and excavation in the mountains were all done by the local villagers themselves, and they were all brutally excavated and even directly uncovered with explosives, and the damage was very complete. Ordinary tomb robbers don't do this, and many times they are very skilled in digging and only taking what is inside, and the damage to the structure of the tomb and the remaining artifacts is not so serious.

The local villagers did not let any outsiders interfere, on the one hand, for the sake of secrecy, and on the other hand, they were worried that the good things would be stolen by others, and even the cultural relics dealers who came to the village to buy things were not allowed to enter the valley, and could only pick and choose the things that the villagers took out in the village.

You Fang heard that there was another speculation, this village found the ancient tombs and large-scale excavation time is definitely very short, that is, in recent years, before that, the underground tombs here have been sleeping no one has found, and Luoyang Beibi Mountain area since ancient times "tomb robbery paradise" situation is completely different. Because Chi Mu Duo found almost all the netherworld soil in the outer soil layer of the tomb that had been destroyed.

Netherworld soil is such a thing, not only must there be a layer of green paste mud, but also seal the rich yin qi to isolate it for more than a thousand years before it takes shape. Theoretically, after digging out, the yin qi will still condense, and the black film will not disappear, but it is not absolute, and it will dissipate after three or five years when exposed to the air.

In other words, for more than 2,000 years, the underground burials here have been well preserved, and there are very few traces of tomb robbers, so we can only see such a large scale and distribution area today, but in recent years, it has suddenly suffered a catastrophe.

As he spoke, he walked past the "guest house", and on the other side of the courtyard wall was a muddy SUV, all four tires of which were punctured and deflated. You Chengyuan's expression changed sharply when he saw it, and he shouted: "It's not good, something happened!" No wonder the young adults in this village are not there, quick, follow me to the excavation site! ”

Just now, he was still talking and walking unhurriedly, but now he suddenly pulled out his feet and walked quickly, You Chengyuan carried a Luoyang shovel weighing more than 80 pounds, and walked out of the village on the mountain trail. You Fang followed closely with a big bag: "As soon as I entered the village, I felt strange when I saw the smoke, the sun was about to set, but there were few families cooking on fire!" …… Sister, what will happen? ”

You Chengyuan: "I have long suspected that there are ghosts in the work team, what we cleaned up, everything in the village is clear, a while ago I was picking up the bits and pieces left over from the tomb robbery, and I can still be safe, once I dig out any valuable antiques, it is likely that something will happen!" I reminded your brother-in-law that the villagers here are very tricky, and they are simply lawless.

Last week, when we were here to rescue and excavate, some villagers dared to set off artillery on the other side of the valley to blow up the tomb, which made your brother-in-law angry and reported to the police several times, and the township police station also sent police, but they didn't catch anyone at all. The villagers think that your brother-in-law has cut off their financial routes, and secretly hold a grudge against the archaeological team, and it is very likely that they will take the opportunity to make trouble.

Chengcheng, when the meeting arrives at the place, if the fight starts, I will protect your brother-in-law, you don't be too conspicuous, mix in the crowd and secretly move, squeeze in the crowd to kick your feet and neck, don't let people find out how much you can put down, and you won't be able to find out who hurt who at that time, I have already held back the fire in my belly, and I will also breathe a sigh for your brother-in-law. ”

Walking south from the village, the terrain is very special, there are continuous mountain peaks in the distance on both sides, and in the middle is a mountain beam with gentle undulations, the top of the mountain beam is very flat and wide, and the two sides slowly extend downward, inferring from the topography, there must be a stream on the left and right to go down to the bottom of the valley, and the sound of water can occasionally be heard on the road.

Surrounded by a dense mulberry forest, this large range of mulberry trees may have been planted by ancient people, and the new crops have been planted all over the mountains over the years, but now it has long become a wild barren forest, and the mulberry trees are mixed with shrubs and wild thorns and thorns are almost impossible to settle, but there is a road along the top of the mountain beam in the forest, which is obviously trodden out, and it is barely passable by walking tractors or donkey carts.

After walking for more than a mile, the front suddenly opened up, and You Fang couldn't help but take a deep breath on his back, because the aura that nourishes vitality here gathers, and the abnormal purity makes his mind refreshed. Looking at it from afar, You Fang remembered an ancient text "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", which is too much like a paradise!

Out of the mulberry forest, the top of the mountain beam spreads out to form a large flat valley bottom, surrounded by lush mountains full of green bamboo on three sides, there is a radius of nearly two miles, that is to say, in this deep mountain, there are nearly 1,000 acres of land that can be cultivated, and the tour party looked at the soil quality under his feet, which are all ripe and fertile fields suitable for farming.

This is a natural feng shui treasure! In ancient times, it was very suitable for the formation of the ancestral source of the local aristocratic lineage, and it was also very suitable for self-preservation in the troubled times, and the thousands of years of life and life were endless. However, the fields that have been cultivated today are less than half the size of this valley, and they are surrounded by wild trees and forests, and the early spring seedlings in the fields are sparsely planted and planted carelessly.

What is even more surprising is that the fields are here, but the village is more than a mile away from the mountain road, and it is not that there is no place to build a village here, so why should the villagers go far away? After all, You Fang is good at feng shui, and after a glance, he understands that this place looks very good, but there are great hidden dangers in gathering and farming, mainly in water.

It is located in the Luoxiao Mountains in the south of the country, the rainfall is very abundant all year round, especially in the rainy season every year, the mountain torrents on three sides are confluent into this valley, which is very easy to cause flooding, and the fields here must be flooded often, it seems to be a good field suitable for farming, but in fact, the harvest is very difficult to guarantee. And this open and flat valley should be formed by the alluvial soil carried by the mountain floods over the years.

The flood water overflowed the valley and flowed into the mountain stream from the sides of the mulberry grove beams, leaving villages a mile away unharmed.

It can be seen that there are pros and cons to everything, and there is no perfect feng shui bureau in all aspects in the world, but the essence of nourishing vitality and aura here is really suitable for the tour party at this time! But in this pure aura, the divine consciousness he had just recovered vaguely sensed a trace of yin, evil, anger, and impetuous qi disturbances, coming from the other side of the valley directly in front.

The mountains on both sides of the valley are steep and steep, the mountain directly opposite is majestic, but the terrain of the valley is not very steep, and there is a gentle slope that surrounds and stretches upward. You Fang's eyesight was excellent, and he saw from a distance that there were more than a hundred or so people gathered at the edge of the slope, most of them were young men, and there were also more than a dozen women.

Several vegetation on this hillside have been destroyed, and the surface of the ground has exposed several large and small pits, and the light brown soil is exposed, and there are scattered layers of five-flower soil from the ground, which looks like ugly ringworm from a distance. The pit was surrounded by hemp rope and three marching tents were erected on the gentle slope of the hill above, which should have been the site of the archaeological team's work.

More than 100 villagers are surrounded by hemp rope, and 70 or 80 young men are each holding a hoe, and they are violent, and those who don't know the situation think that a movie is being made here, and it is the hoe gang that appears on the scene. More than a dozen women were at the front, dancing and not knowing what they were saying, and the surrounding villagers were excited, while several people who looked like village cadres were blocking the front to dissuade them.

Behind the hemp rope stood a uniformed policeman, looking nervous and helpless, and behind the policeman were four men and one woman and five archaeological team members, all with blue faces.

You Fang said to You Chengyuan from afar: "Sister, there are police to maintain order, and there is no trouble yet." If something really happens, I'm afraid a policeman can't hold it down, let's not go together, you go and meet your brother-in-law first, I'll secretly feel the situation, and if it doesn't work, I'll drive these people back. ”

There were more than 100 menacing mountain people, but You Fang's tone was like talking about more than 100 goats, You Chengyuan frowned and said: "It's okay, there are too many people over there and still holding guys, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect your brother-in-law if it's really a mess." Be careful if you want to do it, don't go out of the way, after all, the strong dragon doesn't suppress the snake. ”

You Fang nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'm better than you in the set of rivers and lakes." The rest of the people here don't know me, but if there are ghosts in your archaeological team, you should keep an eye on them. …… When we entered the village together, we were seen, I will take this bag first, and you can take the accessories. ”

What the sister and brother said was not easy for others to understand. You Chengyuan took out the accessories of the detector and put them in his pocket, and continued to stride towards the valley with the Luoyang shovel on his back. You Fang disappeared into the sparse mountain forest next to the field in a flash, carrying a large bag and making a detour from the side to the scene of the trouble, his body was very fast, and he arrived before You Chengyuan.

……

A middle-aged woman in her forties in front of the crowd opened her voice and shouted excitedly: "Fellow villagers, this group of outsiders dug up our ancestral graves, took away the treasures left by our ancestors to our village, and also dug up the feng shui dragon veins of our village, we must drive them away today!" ”

There were many people next to him shouting: "Get out, leave all the things behind!" The feng shui of Feiju Village cannot be destroyed. …… O branch secretary, to whom are you talking, and why are you still holding us back? ”

The village party secretary loudly persuaded: "What's the coax, give me all the back, they are sent by the political axe!" What's wrong with digging stuff? Anyway, it's all people's when they dig it out, feng shui is not feng shui, and the political axe doesn't care, which of you is preaching feudal superstition? ”

It's okay not to persuade this, but as soon as you open your mouth, it is tantamount to deliberately adding fuel to the fire, and someone shouted loudly: "The political axe can destroy the feng shui of our people?" Is that still not the political axe of the common people? …… Our village also has a political axe, what about the director of the village committee, the director, come out and say something! ”

A twenty-seven or eight-year-old female member of the archaeological team couldn't help but scold: "What nonsense? The history of your Feiju Village is less than 50 years, and the monuments here are at least 2,000 years old. …… Do you dig your own ancestral grave and sell it? Whoever dug up the feng shui of whose house, what kind of cultural relics here have been ruined by you, we are rescuing and protecting! ”

Immediately, someone quit, squeezed forward and shook the hoe and said: "You are a female comrade, how can you slander us and insult our ancestors, which eye did you see us robbing the tomb?" …… Chang Gong'an, did you hear it? She falsely accused us, why didn't you arrest her, and what did you stop us doing? ”

(To be continued)