"There's something strange down here!"

Wu Liang was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly beckoned Dian Wei to use the sapper shovel with him to clean up the ashes and dust under his feet.

A quarter of an hour later.

As the ash and dust about 20 centimeters thick were cleared out, the ground beneath his feet finally revealed a layer of uneven metal.

The material of this metal should be the bronze that was extremely common in the Spring and Autumn Period.

And the uneven lines above, Wu Liang squatted on the ground and carefully identified them, and finally judged that it might be a word, and it was a "Jinwen" font in the Spring and Autumn Period.

During the construction of this ancient city of Qidu, the Zhou Dynasty still had the ability to lead the princes of all walks of life, so the writing of various countries was relatively unified.

It was only during the Warring States period that the countries were divided and ruled separately, and the font began to change in various ways.

Eventually, the Seven Kingdoms script was formed, with different styles.

Later, Qin Shi Huang destroyed the six kingdoms to unify the world, and after a series of administrative measures, the script was finally unified again, laying the foundation for the unification of Chinese characters in later generations.

And because of this.

The "Jinwen" font is much more recognizable than the Seven Kingdoms script of the Warring States period.

However, Wu Liang obtained it in the tomb of the Marquis of Haidu, and a large part of the text was written in the language of Qi State, which was not difficult for Wu Liang, and even more difficult for Yu Ji, who had read a lot of ancient books, so Wu Liang would hand over the sorting work to this old boy.

I have to admit that in terms of ancient characters, Yu Ji is still slightly stronger than him.

Many of the words he needed to "guess" to recognize, Yu Ji knew what they meant at a glance, and he could even pronounce them accurately.

"Wait, I'll take care of the rest."

After discovering these words, Wu Liang immediately stopped Dian Wei, threw the sapper shovel aside, and then used a copper dagger to cut a piece of cloth from his clothes and carefully clean up the dust on it.

For any archaeologist, the value of such written artifacts is far greater than the gold, jade, and other treasures in the tombs.

Because this is the treasure that can really be verified and unveiled in history.

The clean-up work is very tedious, and the dust that has been similar to it for thousands of years has become a hard lump, and in some places it is stuck with the bronze underneath, and it is necessary to use a copper dagger to gently pry away the chisel to remove these debris without damaging the artifact.

However, Wu Liang has patience and does these things meticulously.

In such a season, normal people don't even want to stretch out their hands, but a layer of fine sweat has already appeared on Wu Liang's forehead, and even a few drops have slipped from his sideburns.

"What the hell is that baby?"

Looking at Wu Liang's selfless attitude, Yu Ji unconsciously leaned over to Dian Wei and asked curiously.

"I don't know."

Dian Wei shook his head, Mo said that he really didn't know, even if he knew that without Wu Liang's approval, he wouldn't reveal it to anyone.

"It looks like a bronze artifact with words on it......"

Yu Ji stretched his neck and looked at him again.

"He never looked at those gold and jade artifacts, and all the gold stolen back was given to Cao Mengde to supplement his military salary, but these things with words, even if they are worthless in our eyes, they are cherished in his eyes like seeing a treasure."

Bai Jingjing also said on the side.

She still clearly remembered that when she found those bamboo slips in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, especially the overjoyed look on Wu Liang's face when she found it, but when she found those amazing amounts of gold, Wu Liang basically didn't have any mood fluctuations, just took a few glances and went directly to the next tomb.

Moreover, she also found out in the process of following Wu Liang to rob the tomb.

Wu Liang originally stole Suihou Zhu from the tomb of Liu Qu, the king of Guangchuan, who was guarded by the Bai family, and it seems that he did not regard it as a rare treasure worth collecting, but only as a tool for lighting the tomb robbery, which is equivalent to a higher-grade torch......

So every time I saw Wu Liang's tomb robbery, I used Sui Hou Zhu to illuminate it.

She, a person who follows the pearl, is not worth it for Hou Zhu from the bottom of her heart, this is like someone who finally got the jade seal of the country, but only used the jade seal of the country to smash the walnut, is there anything more violent than this?

However, she didn't make herself worthless as a bead follower.

If she hadn't been a Suizhu person, she would never have been able to go to so many places, see so many people, experience so many things, and experience so many ...... without violating the ancestral teachings Bah, Bai Jingjing, what are you thinking!

"As soon as you say this, the old man has also discovered that the son has always regarded gold as dung, but he is willing to treat these ancient texts as if he were gluttonous, and he always felt that he was doing a big thing that was not understood by ordinary people......"

Yu Ji also pondered for a moment and said.

……

After half an hour, the bronze under his feet was finally cleared out of a rudimentary shape, and the words on it could almost be read clearly.

Wu Liang stood up and took two steps back, carefully scereging the words on it:

"The epitaph of the Duke of Lu surnamed Jiang of Qi ......"

For Wu Liang, who is accustomed to simplified Chinese characters in later generations, although the problem of reading this kind of text is not too big, it is also slightly dyslexic, and he must read it slowly word by word.

After all, these "Jinwen" fonts are still quite different from the official scripts used in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In addition, there is no punctuation in the text at this time, and you still need to think about how to break the sentence when reading.

"The public is not secret, the word is Shude.

In the twelfth year of Duke Ren, Di Jing colluded with the king of Yi of Ji Hou Tan, and the king of Yi was unkind and unwise, so he cooked the prince and stood quiet......"

Yu Ji didn't know when he had already come up, and then Wu Liang's words read the golden text on this bronze plate without any obstacles.

While reading it, he translated this epitaph for Wu Liang and others in the vernacular that is easy to understand today.

According to the records, the Qi Ren Gong mentioned above is Qi Aigong, and Ai Gong is just his nickname.

When the Duke of Qi Ren was in office for 12 years, his half-brother Lu Jing colluded with the monarch of Ji Guo to slander King Zhou Yi, and King Zhou Yi was a violent and mediocre son of heaven, so he ordered someone to cook and kill Qi Rengong, and then established Lu Jing as the Duke of Qi Hu.

Qi Rengong's younger brother Lu Shan and his family transported Qi Rengong's body back together with the Dading who cooked him and buried it here, and drank blood wine in front of the tomb and swore a poisonous oath, vowing to kill Lu Jing to avenge Qi Rengong, take back the public position that was taken away, and use Lu Jing's blood to commemorate Qi Rengong......

That's probably what this epitaph means.

Although the later events are not written above, there is a detailed record in it: Lu Shan finally fulfilled his oath, killed Lu Jing a few years later, and became Qi Xiangong himself, which can be regarded as a ruthless character who does what he says.

However, there is a mention of Qi Aigong's practice of the "art of disgust", but this epitaph does not mention anything about it.

It is not known whether it was a mistake in the record, or if it was deliberately not mentioned in the epitaph.

Wu Liang is more inclined to the latter.

After all, the Celestial Empire has always paid attention to the dead.

Even after the death of the former enemy, few people will speak ill of each other again, not to mention the epitaph written by the family for the deceased, which naturally will not mention some things that have a bad impact.

However, in order to get the most definite answer, you also need to find clues from the tomb of Qi Aigong.

At present, the epitaph of Qi Aigong has been discovered.

Then the mausoleum of Qi Aigong should be near here...... For example, under the feet.

Wu Liang had sensed through his voice that it was hollow underneath, perhaps this was the tomb road leading to the tomb of Duke Qi Ai.

And the "Yunyang" planted here may be the anti-theft mechanism set up by later generations for the Qiai Cemetery.

I have to admit that "Yunyang", as an anti-theft agency, is indeed much more high-end than the tomb that Wu Liang had stolen before, not only can the entrance of the mausoleum be completely closed, but if someone comes here unintentionally, they will also be hooked by "Yunyang" to remove their souls, and finally make fertilizer to extinguish the mouth.

It can even create a folk rumor that this is a fierce place in the world, and ordinary people may not dare to come after hearing such rumors.

Even if Wu Liang, a traverser, came.

Before I saw "Yunyang", I was also afraid of this fierce place.

Even now, he is not sure whether he is "evil", and he is not sure what Yang Wanli and the soldiers who have been "evil" will become in the end, although "Yunyang" has been completely burned by him.

……

After reading the epitaph in this way, Wu Liang immediately threw himself into the clean-up work again.

This time, instead of cleaning the bronze object, he expanded around to find the edge of the bronze object, trying to find its edge, so as to judge its size and the feasibility of entering it.

"It seems that this time we should not come in vain."

Yu Ji also rubbed his hands and foamed at the mouth, "The old man really didn't expect that someone would build the palace on top of a mausoleum, you need to know that this yang house and yin house are like yin and yang poles, if it is built in one place, it depends on the feng shui of this place tends to be yin or yang, either the yang house suppresses the yin house and cuts off the incense of the tomb owner, or the yin house stirs up the yang house to live in peace...... When the old man came here a few days ago, he saw that this place was prosperous and the sun was declining, and it is no wonder that the new king was murdered shortly after the palace was built, and this place has since become a fierce place, and no one dares to come to live in it. ”

“……”

Wu Liang suspected that the old boy was an afterthought, but there was no evidence, so he didn't say anything, and still buried himself in his own cleaning work.

Bai Jingjing thought about it after hearing it, but asked a question worth scrutinizing: "Old man, I don't understand one thing, you said that there was a mausoleum here first, and then someone came here to build a palace?" Or was the royal palace built first, and then someone secretly built a mausoleum under the palace? ”

"This ......"

Yu Ji was immediately stunned.

While Wu Liang was doing his own thing, he also began to think about this problem.

It's a bit of both.

It is possible that Lu Jing, the Duke of Qihu, insisted on moving the capital here after he ascended the throne, just to suppress the tomb of Duke Qi Ai, but he ignored or did not understand the problems of feng shui at all, so that he harmed himself.

After all, the construction of a royal capital requires a large-scale groundbreaking, and it is impossible not to find that there is a mausoleum underground;

It is also possible that after Lu Jing, the Duke of Qihu, built the capital of Good Hope, the younger brother and family of the Duke of Qi Ai secretly moved the cemetery here, the purpose of which was naturally to harm people and seize power, and finally avenge the Duke of Qi, and at the same time to better hide the mausoleum......

In this regard, Wu Liang is still more inclined to the second possibility.

Because "Yunyang" is a harmful thing, and it seems that it should not be able to distinguish between friend and foe, it is impossible for Lu Jing, the Duke of Qihu, to put this evil species under his palace, so there is only one kind of willingness, "Yunyang" was transplanted after the new palace of Qi was built.

In this case, if the Qiai Cemetery is really down here, it is very likely that it was moved over later.

What's more, even if Lu Jing, the Duke of Qihu, didn't understand feng shui at all, he probably wouldn't be willing to build the palace he lived in on top of a mausoleum...... In later generations, it was taboo for people to buy a house with a cemetery or cemetery around, not to mention the more superstitious ancients.

So thinking about the process.

Wu Liang had already cleaned up the bronze with the epitaph.

It is a rectangular bronze plate two meters long and one meter wide, and judging by the horizontal plane excavated from the edge, this copper plate is about 10 centimeters thick, and it does not seem to have any mechanism, but is just laid flat on the ground paved with masonry.

Wu Liang inserted the sapper shovel into the bronze plate and the masonry floor, slightly raised a gap, and put his finger in and lifted it up vigorously.

It's heavy.

With his strength alone, he will definitely not be able to lift it up.

Fortunately, Dian Wei is a person with strong eyesight, and without waiting for Wu Liang to greet him, he has already stepped forward to help.

In this way, Wu Liang only felt that his hand was light.

With a creak, the bronze plate had been lifted completely, revealing a narrow stone staircase that sloped downward.

Meanwhile.

A stream of air mixed with the smell of rotting wood poured out of it.

"Sure enough, there was a discovery!"

Wu Liang's spirits perked up, and he said happily, "Dian Wei, move this bronze plate to the side, handle it as gently as possible, and don't damage it." ”

"Yes."

Dian Wei immediately complied.

Wu Liang looked back at Yu Ji again, and then said: "Old man, you still have two torches left there, light one of them and tie it on the hemp rope and throw it down, let's see what is going on inside." ”

"Okay."

Yu Ji also hurriedly did so.

A moment later, the torches were already being thrown down the stone steps.

The vertical height of this stone staircase is only about 2.5 meters high, which is about the same as the height of later buildings, and the ground below is also paved with masonry, but the masonry material used seems to be slightly different from that in the underground secret passage.

It can be seen that this burial chamber hidden at the lower level is indeed not built by the same group of people as the underground secret passage.

Other than that.

The torch was not extinguished immediately after it was dropped, and the flame was only slightly smaller when it was thrown in, and it ignited again soon after it hit the ground.

This is enough to prove that the oxygen level below is quite sufficient, and it should not suffocate people.