Chapter XVI deals with speculation

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Professor Shi led us into the largest tent, which had two long tables side by side, and on the table inside there were many porcelain dishes neatly arranged, but most of them were incomplete, and I noticed that there was a small card in front of each porcelain or fragment with a detailed explanation. Closer to the outside, the table was cluttered with drawings piled high on it.

"Comrade Xiao Kui, come and come, sit casually, it's a bit messy." Professor Shi beckoned us to sit down and gestured to Xiao Jiang, who went to pour us hot water quickly.

"Professor Shi, these are—" I casually flipped through the various drawings on the table.

"These are some of the sketches that Xiao Chen drew before, when Xiao Fang wanted to go down to give them a medicine first-aid kit, he handed over the drawings to me for safekeeping, and after they had an accident, I took them out to study and study, hoping to find some clues. It's all my fault, if I hadn't forgotten to prepare a first-aid kit for them, Xiao Fang wouldn't have sent them something, and it wouldn't be..."Professor Shi said and choked up again.

"Don't be upset." I comforted Professor Shi, and took the hot water handed over by Xiao Jiang, I found that Xiao Jiang poured water for us with a military stainless steel tea jar, even Professor Shi was no exception, but she herself used an imported Japanese thermos mug, maybe she loves to be clean, I think so.

"Professor Shi, have you found anything after looking at the drawings for so long?" Yun Ximing, who had been silent, opened his mouth, he was half an expert in ancient tombs, although he had never been to the ground, but Old Man Yun taught this precious grandson all the housekeeping skills, which was much stronger than me who was blocked by my grandmother.

As soon as Professor Shi heard the word "discovery", he immediately came to his senses, "Xiaoyun, I can't talk about discovery, but I am also an old man who does archaeology, and there is still speculation, you can come and see." "Professor Shi led us to a drawing.

This is a simple hand-drawn sketch, but the drawing is very fine, I don't know if it is from Captain Chen or Xiao Fang's hand. The map accurately draws the entrance of the tomb road, which is a very simple amphora burial chamber, a very common tomb structure, those broken bottles and cans are excavated from the tomb at this entrance, and behind the entrance tomb is a simple diagram, which may be speculated by Captain Chen, is a long tomb road, connected to the main burial chamber, and the length is about 200 meters marked with a red marker.

"At that time, Xiao Chen contacted us once by radio after they went down to the bottom, and the signal was not very good, probably told us that this tomb is about 200 meters away." Professor Shi explained to us that I had two hypotheses based on what happened to them.

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"First, they had already triggered the mechanism after going down to the tomb, but they didn't notice it, so they all ended up being hit by the poisonous gas that was very strict." Professor Shi was very excited when he said this, as if he had suddenly become dozens of years younger.

We didn't interrupt him, just listened quietly. "Ancient Chinese mausoleums are, the ground is the mausoleum, mainly used for sacrifices, the underground is the tomb, the material of the tomb is mainly stone, wood, brick, just look at the characteristics of this tomb should be the tomb of ordinary people, the tomb structure is simple, made of green bricks, it should only be possible to say that there is a mechanism of zài poison gas at the joints of the green bricks, in order to cause such large-scale damage."

We nodded and motioned for Professor Shi to continue, and Professor Shi was even more gulp-free when he saw that we confirmed his speculation.

"The second speculation is that the fire dragon glass top. Of course, this is only what I heard from an old friend of mine before, and you young people probably don't know much about it. I heard that this kind of glazed roof, made of glazed tiles, is extremely thin, and there is a fire oil in the middle, and once it is triggered, it will suffer a catastrophe. "What Professor Shi said was very enjoyable, but we could only cooperate with him to listen.

I can probably understand why he is only a provincial scientific researcher at this age, because he is only a pedant at the archaeological level, which is the so-called "bookism".

The fire dragon glazed roof he said is a form of tomb building that appeared before and after the Yuan Dynasty, with a thin glazed tile and fire oil capped, once there are tomb robbers to exert external pressure, the fire oil will burn the tomb robbers and the precious burial goods in the tomb, which is a means of ending up together. However, Captain Chen and the others were able to safely excavate the entrance to the tomb, which means that this technique was not used here.

This kind of structure is very familiar to my grandmother and Grandpa Yun, so listening to Professor Shi's layman-like description, I think it's really ridiculous.

As for the first speculation that Professor Shi said, because I had an extraordinary conversation with Captain Chen, I can basically dismiss it.

I didn't debunk Professor Shi, but just smiled and said, "Professor Shi, your speculation is very important to us, and we will take it into account." Let's go to the vicinity of the burial chamber and take a look first. I said and took the lead out of the tent, Xiao Jiang followed, saying that she was willing to take us to the scene to see, I observed that she kept looking at Yun Ximing when she spoke, her face was always red, and she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.

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The site of the expedition was about 50 meters north of the tent, surrounded by a police cordon surrounded by several armed police officers on duty. We didn't rush down when we walked to the neighborhood, but walked around the neighborhood a few times.

Sure enough, this area is the same as Captain Chen described, a large area of open flat land is overgrown with weeds, except for the entrance to the scene, which is very neat and unexpected, the edge of the area is full of lush weeds, growing more than half a person tall. The village secretary also mentioned before that the planting area in the village is not enough, and it is because of this wasteland that nothing grows, and only this unknown weed grows well.

I casually made an excuse, walked to a vacant place where no one was around, closed my eyes, cleared my thoughts, and when I opened my eyes again, I saw Ziyang squatting a few meters in front of me, studying these weeds.

"Well, did you find anything?" I asked.

"Look at this plant, do you know?" He plucked a leaf and handed it to me. I looked at the leaves in my hand, and at the so-called weeds. This weed is actually a small shrub that grows in patches, with long, narrow, oval, turquoise leaves, shiny and smooth fronts, and short stingy burrs on the back of the leaves. I don't have much research on plants and shook my head.

"I don't know this, but this leaf is a bit like the magnolia planted in the temple where my grandmother used to go to Shangxiang." I handed the leaf back to Ziyang.

"You can't be wrong, this is indeed a plant of the Magnolia family, it is called Hanxiao, also commonly known as Shan Jiezi. It was originally a plant only in the south, I don't know why it is here, it is not the same as ordinary plants, most plants prefer alkaline soil, but it prefers stronger acidic soil. Now this is supposed to be its flowering season, but you can see that none of them are blooming, and it is clear that they have changed their habits over a long period of time in order to adapt to the living environment and the season. ”

"You know a lot." I sighed with emotion, sometimes I think that thistle is a moving encyclopedia.

"If you've been wandering around this world for thousands of years, you know that." He looked at me and said.

What does this mean? Are you saying they didn't appear here by accident, but could have been planted here a long time ago? ”

Ziyang nodded, "The smiling flower language is pure, and in ancient times, it also had a function, that is, to calm the soul!" Generally, it will only be used when dealing with evil ghosts and souls, aiming to bind the soul from dying, who would be so ruthless, planting a smile on the tomb of his ancestors, or just having a great hatred with this family, will use such a vicious method. Ji Ziyang patted the dirt on his hands and continued. I just observed the porcelain jar they got up before, and it feels very strange, it doesn't look like it was broken after it was put into the ground, so you can go back and pay attention to it. ”

I nodded, and turned to walk over to the big tent.