Chapter 2: The Grave

In the office of the project department, Li Xinhua was on the phone.

"Hey, okay, our construction site is now suspended, you can send someone over as soon as possible. Well, okay! ”

After Li Xinhua hung up the phone, Li Jianguo also walked in, "Dad, did you just contact the cultural management department?" ”

"Well, that's right. But this time you kid did a good job. As they said just now, thanks to you, if we continue to excavate, it may cause irreparable damage to the cultural relics. They said they would come over tomorrow to give you a compliment! Li Xinhua said with a smile, "I didn't expect that your hobbies that don't do business can sometimes play a role!" ”

Li Jianguo glanced at his father angrily, "Otherwise, if you have to choose me to major in civil engineering, I may already be an archaeologist now!" ”

"Don't talk there, you can rest for a while, the people from the cultural management department will come over tomorrow, let's see it then!"

"Dad, I have an idea, I don't know if you can promise me?"

"Oh? Tell me about it. ”

"I want to go inside that tomb and have a look!" Li Jianguo looked at his father expectantly and said a word firmly.

"No! This is absolutely not possible! ”

"Dad, you know, I've always liked history, archaeology has always been my hobby, this is a rare opportunity, I can't just give up!"

"We don't know what the situation is under the ancient tomb, what if there is any danger? You'd better wait for someone from the cultural management department to come tomorrow, and then follow over to take a look. ”

"Dad!"

"That's it! If I say no, it's not allowed, so go and rest first! Li Xinhua waved his hand and motioned for Li Jianguo to go out.

Walking out of the office, although Li Jianguo was a little depressed, his father's words obviously could not dispel his idea of going to the grave. Since it won't work clearly, let's wait for everyone to fall asleep and quietly go down to take a look by yourself.

The night slowly quieted down, and there was no noise in the project department, and Li Xinhua also went back to the room early to sleep. Li Jianguo found some essential items such as flashlights, plastic gloves, and ropes. This is also what he found on the Internet, and gloves are necessary to avoid damaging the contents of the tomb. Because anything left in the tomb is a national treasure and has immeasurable value.

Li Jianguo took these things, quietly slipped out of the room, and slowly walked towards the construction site. Li Xinhua also asked people to fence off the place with a seat belt, although it was in the dark, it was still relatively easy to find.

With a flashlight, finding that spot is a breeze. Li Jianguo slowly climbed down the foundation pit, shining a flashlight on the door, and at this time he also carefully saw the mural on the door, the mural can be said to be exquisite, showing a graceful and graceful woman, the only fly in the ointment is that half of the door was partially damaged by the excavator. Through this half of the damaged door, I can clearly smell the smell of the ancient tomb, full of history, it is simply wonderful!

At this time, Li Jianguo's mood was also very excited, and he also wanted to go in early to have a look, and he didn't know if this ancient tomb was a tomb of the Tang Dynasty. Li Jianguo has always admired the Tang Dynasty culture very much, the rule of Zhenguan, the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and the generation of female emperor Wu Zetian who left a history in history, naturally there are also commendable Tang poems. He couldn't wait, took a deep breath, and walked towards the door. Walking to the door, Li Jianguo put on plastic gloves, there were two pull rings on the door, one on the left and one on the left, Li Jianguo gently pushed the door open, and shone in with a flashlight. As seen during the day, it is a staircase that descends diagonally. Li Jianguo slowly walked down the stairs, and the tomb should be the tomb that extends to the depths of the tomb. This is a straight tomb road, the walls of the tomb road are still depicted with exquisite murals, the characters on the murals are eye-catching, and most of the patterns on the costumes are flowers and plants, but they give people a sense of freedom and plumpness, which is very similar to the artistic style of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Jianguo did not stop there, and continued to walk towards the tomb. After walking for about two or three minutes, he finally arrived at the end of the tomb road, and at this time he saw a relatively large burial chamber, which was circular in shape and slowly pointed upwards, and was a cone-shaped burial chamber. There are several patios at the top of the tomb, much like the current courtyard house. The burial chamber is surrounded by several standing terracotta figurines that serve as burial companions to the tomb owner. The floor of the burial chamber is littered with porcelain and other pottery utensils, presumably from the time of his death.

In the center of the burial chamber is the coffin. Li Jianguo also walked forward slowly, wanting to see it clearly. At the top is a rectangular box-shaped wooden coffin, on which various patterns are carved, and it looks very magnificent. Underneath the coffin is a stone coffin bed, which is characteristic of tombs during the Tang Dynasty. The coffin bed used for the burial of ordinary people is earthen or there is no coffin bed directly, the brick coffin bed is used by the rich and noble families or ordinary petty officials, and only some nobles or officials will use the sarcophagus bed. It seems that the owner of this ancient tomb was also an amazing figure during his lifetime.

In front of the coffin bed is a stone stele, which records the life of the tomb owner, but due to the age, the stele is more seriously damaged, and it is not clear to see, and the words on it are in regular script, so it is a little difficult to identify. However, Li Jianguo can also see a rough idea, the owner of the tomb was an official on the fourth grade of the Tang Dynasty during his lifetime, and the official worshiped the Chinese scholar. The official grades of the Tang Dynasty were divided into positive, from, up, and down, with a total of nine grades and thirty grades, so the official position of this tomb owner is the highest among the four grades, and it is precisely because of this that his tomb will have such specifications.

Li Jianguo carefully looked at the wooden coffin again, and this wooden coffin was also made of high-quality wood. However, what interested him was the patterns carved on the wooden coffin, which were carved with all kinds of flowers and plants, which were almost the same as the clothing style of the Tang Dynasty, and were very exquisite.

Li Jianguo continued to walk around the tomb and carefully observed the murals on the walls. The creation of murals in the Tang Dynasty also reached an unprecedented height in Chinese history. After all, the Tang Dynasty was the heyday of ancient feudal society, and the economy and culture were also highly developed, and murals, as a product of culture and art, were naturally unprecedentedly prosperous.

Coming to the perimeter of the tomb, Li Jianguo also clearly saw the murals on the walls. Most of the depictions are of flowers and plants. Later, some of the life events of the tomb owner were vividly engraved on the walls. Including how the tomb owner was sealed, what great things he did, etc., the murals are simply lifelike, vivid, and breathtaking, and Li Jianguo has been deeply attracted.