Chapter 39 "The Strange Tomb"
Got holes?
I was interested at the time, so I no longer observed the feng shui landform, put down the work in my hand and walked towards Qiu Dajun, and when I got closer, I saw clearly, sure enough, this is indeed a hole, it is dark and bottomless, and the light of the strong flashlight hits the inside and can't see it at all......
"Brother, what is this hole for!"
Qiu Dajun pointed to the circular hole with a diameter of about 50 centimeters under his feet, and asked me with a puzzled expression: "My mother, will there be ...... in such a big hole?"
"This is supposed to be the passage to the entrance to the tomb. ”
I interrupted Qiu Dajun and said, "It seems that eighty percent of this passage was left by those soldiers at the beginning, in order to facilitate the entry and exit of the ancient tomb. ”
At this time, Liu Nan, who was silent on the side, also said unprecedentedly: "That's right, that's true, after those soldiers slaughtered the village, they went back to the tomb through here, so ......"
Speaking of this, Liu Nan will not say any more, but the meaning of her words is already very clear, if we want to enter the ancient tomb through this passage, then we will definitely directly face those Yin soldiers guarding the tomb, so we will be passive, not to mention that the corridors in this tomb are relatively narrow, and the movement is not very convenient, in case we encounter those Yin soldiers, we will be really dangerous.
Looking at it this way, the plan to enter the tomb from the ready-made passage is basically incorrect, but at the moment we can't stare at it with a big eye, so I thought for a long time so I proposed: "Okay, you go to rest first, I'll look around, can I find a suitable place for the robbery hole." ”
At the moment, I no longer paid attention to the strange eyes of everyone, took the equipment and walked straight to a clearing in the north, yes, this clearing is the place I chose after observing for a long time, for no other reason The terrain here is flat, and it is just four or five hundred meters north of the entrance of the passage, according to common sense, it is inferred that this tomb is sitting north and facing south, generally speaking, the main burial chamber of a tomb, and the distance between the entrance and the construction of the entrance will not exceed this range at most.
Unless this is a once-in-a-century imperial tomb, the emperor's mausoleum is not the same, not to mention the construction is more exaggerated, and most of the decorations inside are magnificent, so the area of the mausoleum construction is even more immeasurable, such as the ancient tombs during the Tang and Song dynasties.
At that time, our country has reached the peak of history in terms of manpower and material resources, after the country is rich, even the way to bury the dead is not the same as before, to the Tang Dynasty began to popular the custom of opening the mountain as a tomb, the whole mountain was hollowed out as a mausoleum, and it was shocking to think about it, the most representative Li Shimin's Zhaoling, and Wu Zetian's Qianling.
Of course, this kind of tomb specification is not something that ordinary people can enjoy, most of them are princes and nobles, or royal relatives have this qualification, and we are now in this ancient tomb, obviously there is no such specification, so according to what I learned in the book of unloading the Lingtianshu to find the dragon point, the main tomb is in this area, and I took out the Luoyang shovel prepared in advance from the backpack after choosing a good place, this thing is an indispensable treasure for finding the tomb, whether there is an ancient tomb underground, take this thing to the ground to know it.
I talked about the use of Luoyang shovel earlier, of course, I have also seen how Wei Fatzi makes it, so I also learned a seven, seven, eighty, eight or eight according to the cat and the tiger, and took out a few ash bars, the length of each is fifty centimeters, and they are all finely processed, and there are loopers at both ends to dock, so that it is convenient to carry and do not occupy space, when not in use, open the bag, and then assemble it when you use it.
In fact, playing Luoyang shovel to the ground is also a handiwork, the body should be straight when using the Luoyang shovel, the legs are spread apart, the hands are placed in front of the chest, the shovel head is located between the two toes, and the vertical probe is forcefully downward, and the shovel head is constantly rotated in the end, and the cylindrical shape of the hole is kept alternately on all sides.
Otherwise, you can't pull it out, and you can't pull it up, and the shovel is stuck in the hole, and the hole should be straight, and it is not crooked if you don't bend straight, so it's not easy to hit a straight hole.
At the moment, I began to get busy according to the appearance of Wei Fatzi playing Luoyang shovel in Qinling Mountain, this is the first time I hit Luoyang shovel, at first I didn't feel anything, but after hitting the ground for four or five meters in a row, the arm of the hammer was a little sore, and the hand holding the ash pole also grinded out several blisters, I have to say that people who don't have a little toughness really can't do this job.
In addition, our team, as long as I can play with the shovel, others will not help, can only stare at the helpless, okay! It seems that I can only grit my teeth and stiffen, so I hit down three or four meters, when the Luoyang shovel probed seven or eight meters into the ground, a hammer down I felt that the Luoyang shovel in my hand suddenly light, that felt like a shovel, hit the cotton is very weird.
I couldn't figure it out for a long time, I didn't figure out anything, I simply threw the hammer aside, and began to pull out the Luoyang shovel, and the time was not long to pull it out, and I took out the soil brought up by the shovel head and looked at it carefully, and it didn't matter what I saw, my heart suddenly chuckled.
This shovel head brings out the soil is nothing, it is the kind of ordinary rammed earth, rammed earth is artificially tamped soil, not tamped is called raw soil, generally speaking, there is rammed earth underground, that is absolutely the rhythm of the ancient tomb!
Staring at the sand on my hand combined with the scene of smashing the air with a hammer when I hit the Luoyang shovel just now, I suddenly remembered a tomb structure in my mind, but I still couldn't believe it, and my ups and downs couldn't calm down for a long time.
"What's wrong, Xiao Xuan?"
Peng Hui walked up to me and asked, "Seeing that you have been busy for a long time, have you found anything?"
Zhang Qian opened her mouth and said, "Yes! Look at your expression of eating, what did you find?"
This girl is really toothy enough to speak, but I didn't bother with her, after all, we are also a gentleman, and when the emotions in my heart quietly calmed down, I exhaled a long breath, and then said to everyone in a deep voice: "It seems that we are in trouble this time!"
After a pause, he continued: "If I'm not mistaken, there is a good chance that this ancient tomb is a quicksand tomb right now. ”
Quicksand Tomb ......
The structure of the ancient tomb of quicksand tomb is very rare, our country has found that the excavation is not more than ten in total, in fact, this kind of tomb was first built from the Western Han Dynasty, mainly built by the ancients for anti-theft, few people can enter, this kind of tomb is rare in a hundred years!
It is not an exaggeration to say that the quicksand tomb is a rare encounter in a hundred years, mainly because this kind of ancient tomb is too big to build, and the ordinary people can't afford to build it at all, and it is not only royal if it is royal, thinking of this, I am not only curious about the identity of the owner of this tomb, but I can enjoy this specification, the identity of the owner of this tomb is by no means ordinary, maybe there is a prince buried in this tomb, it is not necessarily! At least it is also at the level of a duke, of course, if you want to thoroughly understand who the owner of the tomb is, we still have to wait for the tomb to take a look to know.
“... What kind of thing is the quicksand tomb, it seems to be awesome to hear from you!"
At this time, Qiu Dajun asked stupidly, "Is it dangerous?"
"It's not dangerous, but if we want to make a hole in the top of this kind of tomb, it's basically impossible. ”
Me: "This kind of tomb is mainly used, the sand around the tomb is used to prevent theft, the ancient tomb is built and capped with soil and then tamped, and this kind of tomb uses sand, and then uses soil when the sand is piled up to a certain height. ”
This kind of sand is not a common river sand, river sand has solidification and can not play the role of flow, must use sea sand is a grain, but also need to be fried at high temperature, the processed sand is like water, where there is a hole will flow where, so in this robbery hole when encountering the quicksand layer can not be dug can not be dug up.
If you fight vertically, you will also be blocked by quicksand, which is more dangerous and you will be buried alive if you don't get it right, and there are not a few Tufuzi who have died in the quicksand tomb over the years, so if you want to hit the thief hole and go directly into the main tomb, it is simply a fantasy to cross the front room or corridor that has great risks.
Unless we enter through the bottom of the tomb, the time is a problem, and the food and water we bring with us are not enough to support us, so the conditions do not allow it.
Explaining the powerful relationship inside, everyone present collectively fell into silence, and after a long time, Peng Hui sighed and said, "...... It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, and you can't open the thief hole right now, so you can only walk through the passage. ”
"It seems that this is the only way to go!"
I said, "But to be on the safe side, if it's too dangerous inside, my advice is to go back the way you came." ”
After all, I am the captain of this kind of team, and I have to think about the safety of my teammates, although there is still a thousand-year-old ghost Liu Nan standing beside me, but I can't care about this.
As for the others, they were surprisingly unanimous, and after discussing the next action, we packed up our things and went straight to the dark hole, in fact, I really can't figure out what the craftsmen who built this tomb in the first place thought, the ancient tomb has been built so strongly, why there is still an entrance!
We came to the entrance of the cave in turn, and took a look at the diameter of the hole at most fifty centimeters, and the whole was extended diagonally downward at an angle of forty-five degrees, and the light of the black flashlight in the cave could not shine at all, fortunately, our people were relatively normal, unlike Wei Fatzi, who belonged to the horizontal length, if the hole was a little narrower, it might be stuck in it, this time I also volunteered to be the first person to open the way, tied the pre-prepared climbing rope to my waist, and then went down into the hole.
As soon as I entered the hole, it didn't matter, there was a stream, a faint musty smell mixed with gusts of wind rushed over, choking me so hung directly wow spit out, I endured the pungent musty smell and stabilized my mind and continued to go down to the bottom of the cave, fortunately, the cave walls on both sides are relatively smooth and there are no protrusions, so the process of going down is quite smooth.
It was about 20 meters down, the front suddenly became wider, and then I was able to squat up, and then squatted forward for more than ten meters, and the space in front of me was cheerful, and people could stand up, and by the light of the flashlight, I found that I had unconsciously come to an inexplicable space.
Not far ahead is a road built out of green bricks, the specifications of the road are not small, the width is three or four meters, and the height is more than two meters, the road alone is so exquisite, what is the tomb to be repaired, I dare not imagine what it looks like in the tomb.
At this time, a few beams of light shone over, and after a while, Zhang Qian also came down, followed by Liu Nan, Qiu, and the army, and when they were all together, we didn't delay and walked directly towards the inside of the road, and we were blocked by a stone gate before we walked a few meters, I picked up the flashlight and shone it on the door.
"How thick is this stone door, can it be opened?"
Qiu Dajun pushed the stone gate and said, "...... This thing is not neat!
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I was shocked into a cold sweat at that time, not only did I scold these two stupid people in my heart, but I glared at Qiu Dajun angrily and pulled him aside: "...... Go and go, watch while you don't understand, don't talk nonsense about watching the play in the back. ”
Saying that, I took out a crutch key from my bag, yes, I just plan to use this thing to open this stone door, just now I also observed for a while, these two stone doors are made of white marble with a thickness of about 30 centimeters, obviously this door is used to top the door stone from the inside to resist, this means of closing the tomb door is not clever, it is simply clear to let Tufuzi enter the tomb.
While recalling Wei Fatzi's technique of using the crutch key, I slowly inserted the key along the crack of the tomb door, and then pulled up and down, and after a few strokes, I felt that the other end of the crutch key was against something, and I was suddenly happy in my heart and hurriedly pushed forward, and instantly heard a sudden sound from behind the stone door, and a loud sound of a heavy object collapsing, and then pushed the stone door almost effortlessly opened.
"Oh, how did you open it?"
Qiu Dajun looked at me a little dumbfounded, and asked in disbelief: "...... I've been watching you for two days, if I'm not mistaken! You're tomb robbers, aren't you?"
"That's right!"
I said bluntly: "But this is not our main business, we are mainly responsible for dealing with those supernatural events, and these tomb robbing methods are just for the convenience of the mission." ”
Although I was not afraid that Qiu Dajun would go to the official house to report us after he went out, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, I patiently explained to him and noted that we came to solve the problems of their village.
Qiu Dajun is also a sensible person, seeing that I am not annoyed to explain to him, the only bit of precaution in my heart has been completely put down, at this time the stone door is also quiet, for the safety of the next action, I first took out a fire fold and threw it in, the fire fold was thrown I out of more than ten meters, and it fell to the ground for a long time, which shows that there are ventilation facilities left when the ancient tomb was built.
This is a good thing for us, wait for a while to see that there is no movement, we only then stepped into the stone door, this entry does not matter, immediately was shocked by the scene inside, our location should be the outside of the front room of this tomb, here are all horizontal and vertical trenches, which are full of human bones with a forest white, it is obvious that the bones in these trenches are those craftsmen who built ancient tombs.
There are more than a dozen of these trenches one by one, and not far away there are two stone doors tightly closed, if nothing else, behind this stone door is the real front room of the ancient tomb, and the place we are in is the burial pit of the ancient tomb, to be honest, I was frightened by this scene and my back was cold, and my heart was more angry.
Even Penghui and them are all frowning, their faces are extremely ugly, it is not uncommon for ancient tombs to be buried in ancient times, but it is not uncommon, I heard that it is one thing, you can see it with your own eyes, it is another thing.
We didn't stop at the burial pit, but walked directly to the lower burial chamber, the structure of the tomb door in front of us was the same as the previous tomb door, I opened it with two clicks of the nail key, and walked into the front room by the light of the flashlight, and I finally saw the scene clearly.
I saw that this was a wide space with an area of about 200 square meters, and there was nothing in it, only the exquisite murals on the walls, which had been carefully painted by the craftsmen, one by one, from one end of the tomb to the other.
Zhang Qian and the others seemed to have discovered these exquisite murals, and hurriedly asked me: "Xiao Xuan, take a look, is there any information about the owner of the tomb in the painting?"
In fact, I don't need to say that I have studied these paintings, these murals should be quite careful when they are made, the characters are vividly outlined, not only the appearance of the characters and even the facial expressions, but also try their best to show them in the way of painting, these murals mainly describe the life experience of the tomb owner, from the picture, the tomb owner is a handsome man with a majestic figure, the first half of the mural only briefly summarizes some of the unsatisfactory tomb owner.
The owner of the tomb was born in a relatively poor family, and it was extremely difficult to live without food and clothes since he was a child, and when he grew up, he somehow entered the palace, yes, it is the palace!
According to the characteristics of the costumes of the Ming Dynasty, who should wear what kind of clothes, I thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a kind of official uniform, the same as the owner of the tomb, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a eunuch! That's right, it's a eunuch.
What makes me wonder is that the owner of the tomb, the official hat on his head and the pattern on the chest of the official uniform, seem to be different from the ordinary eunuch clothing, in ancient times, people were very particular about the clothes they worn, especially the officialdom, not to mention the people who were involved with the palace.
The position of eunuch is some particularly walking in the palace, often in contact with the royal people, so there are many rules, especially the pattern on the chest of the clothing, the real name of the thing is called complement, there are a lot of exquisiteness in it, according to the Ming Huidian record Hongwu twenty-four years of regulations, the pattern of the complement is divided into, the prince and the earl embroider the unicorn on the chest, and the civil official embroiders the bird and the military general is the beast.
In the period of the strict feudal dynasty at that time, people of all levels had to abide by this rule, but the pattern embroidered on the chest of the tomb owner was actually a dragon! That's right, it's a dragon!
The dragon in ancient times can only be used by the emperor, the emperors of each dynasty and all generations, like to call themselves the true dragon son of heaven, so this dragon is not the emperor can be used, but a closer look and found something unusual, the dragon's claws seem to be different from the dragon pattern we know, take a closer look at the dragon is actually four claws, so it is right, the four claws can not be called a dragon but a python, so the owner of this mural tomb should be wearing a python robe.