The inventor of the Luoyang shovel was a local tomb robber in Luoyang. Since the beginning of the last century, the miraculous Luoyang shovel has made ten tombs and nine empty tombs in the Luoyang Bishan area, where the ancient tombs are most concentrated in China, and many cultural relics have flowed out in large quantities. The Yang shovel became notorious.

However, there are two sides to everything, and the invention of the Yang shovel is not without a haode side.

In 1928, the famous archaeologist Wei Juxian witnessed the scene of tomb robbers using a shovel, and then applied it to archaeological drilling, and played an important role in the excavation of ancient city sites such as Yinxu and Yanshi Mall in China. Nowadays, learning to use the Luoyang shovel to identify the soil quality is the basic skill of every archaeologist.

Professor Qin saw that everyone was very interested in the Luoyang shovel, so he picked up a Luoyang shovel and explained it to everyone:

"Our common Luoyang shovel clamp is 2 inches wide, wide into a U-shaped semicircle, although the upper part of the shovel is equipped with a long-handled Luoyang shovel seems to be semicircular, in fact, the shape is not round or flat, the most important thing is to create an arc when forming."

"If it is a haode Luoyang shovel is finished, and then installed with a tough wax pole and connected to a special rope, after installing a tough wooden pole, you can drive into the ground more than ten meters, or even dozens of meters deep, after the shovel is lifted, the inside of the shovel head will bring out a tube of soil."

"In this way, we continue to drill deep into the ground, and we will analyze the soil structure, color, density and various inclusions of the different soil layers extracted, and if it is a five-flower soil that has been touched by later generations, there may be tombs or ancient buildings underground."

Li Beibei tried the Luoyang shovel in her hand with great interest, and when she heard this, she asked curiously, "Professor Qin." What is the five-flower soil? ”

Professor Qin explained with a smile: "When the ancients built a cave tomb, they had to dig a rectangular hole in the ground. Xiangxia excavated several meters deep and dug a cave horizontally. After the funeral. Block the tomb door, fill the natural soil that has been dug up and piled up on the ground, fill in the tomb road, and ram it layer by layer. ”

"After excavation and backfilling, the natural soil is stirred twice, disrupting the original level and color boundary, and becoming a flower soil that combines a variety of soil layers, which is the five-flower soil or large flower soil, this kind of soil, even if it is old. Nor can it be combined. ”

"In addition to the five-flower soil, if there are ceramics, iron, copper, gold, and wood found in the soil, we can infer the nature and layout of the underground collection."

"In addition, some of our experienced staff can judge the situation underground by relying on the different sounds made by the shovel colliding with the ground and the feeling in their hands, such as the tamped wall and the hollow tomb and tomb road must be very different."

After listening to Professor Qin's explanation, everyone nodded clearly, and at this time, Chu Chen observed the probe hole on the ground. asked: "Professor Qin, do you have any specific requirements for these probes, I think there seems to be a pattern here." ”

Professor Qin smiled and said, "Of course, there are still requirements, like us." Generally, a certain number of drilling teams will be organized according to the size of the drilling area, and general exploration will be carried out first within the specified range. ”

"The process of general exploration is generally to explore the point on the ground. The requirement is to punch an eye every other meter, regardless of vertical and horizontal. Form a grid pattern. In addition, in the center of each square, punch holes as well. That is, to make a hole in the center of the four eyes within a square meter range. This central hole is commonly known as the "plum blossom point". ”

"In this way, the closest distance of each hole is within one meter, and the probe holes are densely packed to ensure that there are no leaks. Then send a special person to check the suspicious holes found in the general exploration process, and explore the scope of the problem, diameter, and card shape. ”

After Professor Qin introduced the work process to everyone, he asked the staff to demonstrate the actions to everyone, so Chu Chen and Li Beibei used the Yang shovel with great interest according to the actions demonstrated by the staff.

However, some things look easy, but when it comes to doing them, it is difficult.

Chu Chen said that he had the ability to never forget, and his hands-on ability was also very strong, and after trying it a few times, he did it well, so that Professor Qin saw him and praised him with a smile.

On the other side, Li Beibei's performance is undoubtedly much worse, because her shovel posture is not standard enough, as well as personal usage habits, etc., she often punches the holes crookedly, so the staff next to her has been constantly correcting her, but even so, the holes she punched are still a little crooked.

often punched crooked holes, coupled with the fact that the posture was not standard, made the palm grinding very painful, which made Li Beibei very frustrated, but she saw that Chu Chen next to her was already very proficient in using it, and she was praised by Professor Qin from time to time, which made her feel very unconvinced, so she kept gritting her teeth and persevering.

Two probe holes less than one meter apart, two people at the same time xiangxia probe, a vertical hole, a crooked hole, then, at a depth of seven or eight meters, the crooked hole will meet the straight hole, and the two shovel heads touch together. It's rare, but it's not impossible.

Especially for some newcomers, this can happen even with guidance.

Like the current situation, I saw Chu Chen and Li Beibei shoveling at the same time, but Chu Chen's strength was great, and he reached the bottom first, and Li Beibei's shovel followed, and then the two of them felt their hands shake.

Chu Chen was fine, but he felt something hit his Yang shovel.

And Li Beibei didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing at all, plus in order to catch up with Chu Chen's speed, she shot fast and made a lot of energy, and because she was a novice, she had already ground out blisters on her hands, and she didn't react this time, and the blisters on her palms were immediately worn out by the shovel handle, and she screamed out with a "whoop" in pain.

Everyone thought something was going on, so they hurriedly ran to Li Beibei's side and asked.

After Professor Qin learned of the situation, he asked a female staff member to help Li Beibei bandage it, and then pulled out her Luoyang shovel, and when she saw a depression in the shovel head, she immediately guessed what caused it, and said: "It should be that the probe hole is crooked, and it went to Xiao Chu's side." ”

Qi Baolin now knew Li Beibei's stubborn temper, and said helplessly: "Li Beibei, since you can't do this, don't do it, okay?" ”

Li Beibei retorted when she heard this: "Captain, I didn't succeed, I'm just inexperienced and crooked, if according to the normal situation, I will probe deeper than Chu Chen!" ”

Qi Baolin frowned and said, "You also know that you are not in a normal situation now, and Mr. Chu is not as embarrassed as you, right?" Li Beibei, let me tell you, in our job, the most taboo thing to do is not self-sufficient, if you use this set of things in your work, I will ask my superiors to transfer you back. ”

Li Beibei heard Qi Baolin say this, and opened her mouth to complain, but she thought that she was a soldier under Qi Baolin after all, and it was always herself who suffered if she committed the following crimes, so she could only take back the words that came to her mouth.

Under the grievance, Li Beibei scolded Chu Chen, and vowed to wait until her Jihua was successfully implemented, she must ravage Chu Chen well to relieve the hatred in her heart.

However, thinking of the original Jihua, Li Beibei felt powerless again. During this time, she has been trying hard to show favor to Chu Chen, but Chu Chen just didn't eat her, and just responded to her politely, which made her feel a little like a dog biting a hedgehog and couldn't get out of her mouth.

"Phew! I'm not a dog! But what's going on with Chu Chen! Could it be that I am not charismatic enough? Or is it because of what happened before, he has always held a grudge? Wouldn't this be, is there still such a cautious man? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Li Beibei didn't come up with a reason, and said secretly: "No matter, it's not a matter if it goes on like this, you have to think of a way, you have to deal with the relationship first, but what method should be used?" ”

Chu Chen didn't know that Li Beibei was racking his brains to calculate him, and at this time he was looking at the dirt brought out of the cavern with some excitement.

"Professor Qin, come and take a look, this soil seems to be a little different!"

Professor Qin was stunned when he heard this, and then hurriedly came to Chu Chen's side, and when he saw the soil on the Luoyang shovel, his expression suddenly became happy, and he said excitedly: "This is fluttering soil, haha, Xiao Chu, your luck is so good!" ”

"Fluttering soil?"

Chu Chen asked with some confusion: "Professor Chu, what is fluttering soil?" ”

Professor Qin explained with some emotion: "Although the filling of the tomb road has been tamped, its structure is not as tight and hard as the natural soil. The remaining soil was not filled, and the remaining soil was scattered around the tomb to form fluttering soil, which was the same as the tomb flower soil, but not of much thickness. ”

"Generally, the soil is detected, and after drilling and identification, the scope and depth of the original excavation of the tomb and the burial chamber can be determined."

After listening to Professor Qin's explanation, Chu Chen was also very excited, and asked, "So, there is a tomb around here?" ”

Professor Qin said excitedly: "Yes, the tomb road must be not far away, Xiao Liu, you should quickly explore this nearby place carefully, and strive to find the location of the tomb road as soon as possible." ”

The staff got Professor Qin's orders and hurriedly began to survey and explore. On the other side, Director Wang, after answering the phone, people became extremely excited.

Director Wang made a phone call for fifteen minutes, and when he hung up the phone, he said to Chu Chen and them ecstatically: "Good news, good news!" Captain Qi, there is news about the group of tomb robbers you came to investigate this time! ”

"Ahh

Director Wang's words made everyone stunned for a moment, and when they reacted, Qi Baolin hurriedly asked: "Director Wang, what's going on, please tell us about the specific situation!" ”

When everyone sees this, they should all understand that the news of the tomb robbers that Director Wang said was obtained from Zhao Yiping. (To be continued......)