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Although Hu Shui is young and junior among the "permanent representatives", because of his rich knowledge and clear mind, he often speaks to the truth, and is highly valued by Lu Daya, and often praises him in front of everyone: "Young and talented, with a bright future." ”

Therefore, many times, Hu Xuan went to Lu Daya's meeting during the day, and went to the brick factory at night to attend the meeting held by He Yuan and others to discuss countermeasures against the citizens' association. That night, after discussing the affairs of the citizens' council, we sat together and gossiped, and Hu Xuan listened to Shi Suo talk about the battle against bandits on the hillside, the ancient tombs in the cave, etc., and sure enough, I was interested, "I'll go to see it tomorrow, the ancient tombs, with the help of the caves, especially the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty, many of them are in the mountains, but it is rare to put them in such a large cave." ”

The next day, Hu Xuan was about to go to the cave, Jiang Yuniang and Lei Shen and others came over, and they also brought several team members with guns on their backs to go with Hu Xuan, Hu Xuan smiled: "You don't need so many people to accompany me, I'm not a child." ”

"It's not just to accompany you," Jiang Yuniang said, "That hole, we have to deal with it, and we can't let it be used by bandits in the future." ”

The group walked up the mountain road, and just a few steps away, a little beggar who was serving as a guest in the welcome teahouse hurriedly walked over, saw Jiang Yuniang, and handed over a letter, "This is just sent by Li Erhei." ”

After Li Erhei fought from the hillside, he returned to Sanhu Village, Jiang Yuniang opened the letter, and wrote: "Lu Daya came to spread the word, and tomorrow he will send important personnel to Sanhu Village to reward us, how to deal with it." ”

Lu Daya wants to reward three households? The news is a bit confusing. Jiang Yuniang thought for a while and said, "Let's go quickly, after finishing the things in the cave, we will go to Sanhu Village." ”

Follow the road to the seven-leaf green slope, everyone climbed to the top of the slope, and came to the top of the boulder, on the mountain wall. The stone gate that was blown up was untouched, just enough to enter, and Thor asked the two team members to bring a pile of stones. He piled it up in the hole, and then let everyone go into the hole, and he took out an iron drill and a hammer himself, and Ding Ding chiseled it for a while. A pit was dug under the stone gate, stones were stuffed into it, and then the stone gate was covered, and a pile of stones was used to block the doorway.

"Well, whoever wants to get in and out of here anymore will have to work hard." Thor said proudly.

"But we can't get out of here."

Because the cave has another exit, so everyone is not worried, and they light a torch to enter the cave, which contains stalactites, stalagmites, stone flowers, and a passage that turns around. All kinds of beautiful and strange scenes, so that Hu Xuan couldn't help but marvel, the footprints left by the battle, vividly, some torch remnants, thrown on the ground, everyone is already "familiar with the way" here, and soon came to the vicinity of the cemetery.

"This tomb belongs to the Western Han Dynasty." Hu Xuan glanced at the painting on the cave wall and said without hesitation: "The characters in the painting are the servants and maids who serve their masters in heaven in the imagination of the rich and noble. Judging from the situation in the painting, the owner of the tomb is a wealthy family, but it is not necessarily a high official position. ”

Enter the rectangular hall, next to the cave wall. The traces of the axe chisel were like them, and Hu Shuan looked around, pointing and saying: "Look, this tomb is not small, but the shape is quite simple, and there are not too many living facilities. There is no complicated officialdom symbol, and a rich man is buried here. ”

"But what about the coffin and the bones?"

Hu Xuan pointed to the pile of silt next to him, "That is, the mountain burial tombs of the Han Dynasty are the worst preserved, after two thousand years of weathering and decay, there is often nothing left, which is also the disadvantage of the cave, which is both damp and ventilated, but it is not as good as the closed catacombs, which are well preserved." In addition to some ancient jade and ceramic products that accompany the funeral, which do not decay for 10,000 years, the corpses and wooden coffins are often all weathered. ”

"It's a pity that there are no funeral goods." Thor shook his head, and when he said this, he himself smiled, "If there is, it would have been taken by those guys in Tongjiazhai a long time ago, and it won't be left for us." ”

Hu Shui looked around along the empty tomb, and suddenly knocked on a stone cave wall, listening carefully, and the people next to him looked at his attentive appearance, and also leaned up and tilted their ears to listen, but they couldn't hear any clues.

"Brother Lei," Hu Xuan said, "There is a secret room here, can it be opened?" ”

Chamber? When everyone heard this, their eyes widened, and Thor knocked on the stone wall with a hammer, and the sound of saving came out was no different from an ordinary stone wall, and said suspiciously: "I'm an old stonemason, and I didn't hear that this place was empty." ”

Hu Xuan smiled: "You just have to find a way to open it." ”

Thor slowly knocked on the stone wall with a hammer, Hu Xuan measured it with his steps, and drew a range for him, "Brother Lei, you knock here." ”

According to Hu Bolt's instructions, Thor knocked it with a hammer, a few stone chips, fell down, he did not use force, but knocked down the stone chips, couldn't help but be taken aback, and then knocked, the stone chips fell one after another, Hu Bolt said: "The wisdom of the ancients is really amazing, they used stone chips, marl and binders that do not know the ingredients, mixed together, and the material made is the same as today's ash, used to close the secret door, after thousands of years without breaking, it is amazing." ”

"I've heard that in ancient times, the bricks and tiles made by mixing glutinous rice soup with fine soil were very strong and would not be bad for hundreds of years." One of the team members said as he helped Thor bang on the wall.

Stone chips flew, and under everyone's knocking, the outline of a stone door appeared, only less than a person high, and Thor said: "This door is too small." ”

"Things underground, often shrink in proportion." Hu Zhu carefully picked out the filling in the gap of the stone door with an iron drill, and gradually it could be seen that this was a stone slab, which was very rough polished, almost exactly the same as the stone wall next to it.

"Push it away," seeing that it was almost cleaned up, Thor beckoned to a few of the more powerful team members, "Come, let's work together." ”

Several young and strong young men, under the command of Thor, shouted the trumpet and pushed hard, "crunch-" There was a soft sound, and the stone slab slowly moved.

A musty smell came out, the stone door was pushed open, and a black dark hole appeared in front of everyone.

Hu Shuan took the torch and stretched it in, the flame swayed, as if it was about to be extinguished, Hu Shuan said: "This place has been closed for many years, if you rush in, you will inevitably suffocate, you have to change the air before you can enter." ”

Thor took off his shirt and fanned the wind into the dark hole, the musty smell gushed out, choking him and coughing, several team members took turns fanning for a while, and Hu Shu said, "Okay, let's go in." ”

The cat burrowed into it and shone it with a torch, and the hole was also a rectangular dark room, about the size of a room, irregularly chiseled, and the surface of the walls was uneven in some places, and what was surprising was that it was full of all kinds of utensils, and it was almost impossible for people to insert their feet.

Three copper tripods covered with green embroidery, standing quietly in front of them, a row of strangely shaped pots, cups, saucer-shaped copperware, covered by thousands of years of dust, is about to be submerged, but the green copper embroidery, seems to tell the history of the long past, large and small black pottery, there are pottery pots, pottery pots, pottery stoves, pottery bowls, and some dazzling, never seen special-shaped objects, covered with thick dust, arranged on the ground. A black pottery horse, standing in the corner of the wall, the horse struts forward, vivid, next to the pottery horse, several half-foot-high pottery figurines, wearing Han Dynasty costumes, arms in front of the chest, as if people saw the ancients thousands of years ago, telling a period of ordinary things in life, a saddle-shaped utensil, covered with dust can not see any material, and then look inside, under the torch illumination, a glimmer of light, reflected back, the dust is shining brightly, there is no doubt that it is buried in the dust of jade.

Hu Xuan's eyes were as wide as copper bells, and his breathing was short, in this hidden dark room, he had already estimated that there might be burial objects, but there were so many coppers, pottery, and jade in front of him, crowded and crowded on the ground, but it was a big surprise, every thing came from that distant era, and it had been closed here for two thousand years, so rich and exquisite, and he, a person specializing in archaeology, also saw flowers.

The two young men were about to step in recklessly, but Jiang Yuniang stopped them, "Don't enter, everything here, every piece is a national treasure, everyone is not allowed to touch it, and they all listen to Xiaohu's arrangement." ”

"It's so beautiful," Hu Xuan muttered: "You see, this pottery horse, the workmanship is so exquisite, the non-scholar family, it is rare to see, this rich mirror, although covered with dust, but its carving patterns, incomparably complicated, in the Han Dynasty at that time, it is simply a priceless treasure, these three copper tripods, these three copper tripods...... No, no. ”

He cautiously walked into the room, two team members were lighting torches behind him, Hu Shuan stroked the dust on the copper tripod with his hand, shook his head and said: "With the three tripods to accompany the burial, it should be the class of scholars, and the shape of this tomb is quite simple, not in line with the identity of the master, what is going on?" Shaking his head as he spoke, he was completely immersed in the judgment and study of antiquities.

Jiang Yuniang reminded him: "Xiaohu, you can't stay here for a long time, and these cultural relics, since the secret door is opened, they have to be transported out, and they can't be placed here." ”

"Oh, yes," he patted his head, "and when I saw this, I forgot about anything else." He cautiously walked into the room, bypassed the bronze pottery, walked to the places where the glimmer was shining, squatted down, carefully brushed away the thick dust, a jade Ruyi, peeking out of the soil, a jade cup with the handle of a beast's head, and a jade dragon with a bent body, displayed in front of the people.

"Wow, that's pretty." People praised it one after another.

Each piece of jade, there is a dark light, green, dark red, orange and yellow jade, thousands of years and unchanged, through the antique fragrance, Hu Xuan picked up a jade cup, close to the torch to observe carefully, "really beautiful, you see, these wrong cloud patterns, carved exquisitely, its owner, must have been rich and noble during his lifetime, I know, this person must have been a brilliant nobleman, but then declined, or there were other changes, so the shape of the tomb is so simple, but his wealth is still there, So you can bury so many things. (To be continued.) )