Before preparing to go to the grave, the third aunt brought a cage covered with a black cloth.

Lifting the black cloth, it was a birdcage with a thrush in the cage.

In fact, Zhao Yangda noticed this birdcage from the beginning, and from time to time he could still hear the call of the thrush from inside.

The third aunt opened the birdcage at the entrance of the thief cave and whistled, and the thrush inside screamed pleasantly, spread its wings directly, and flew into the tomb.

This is a thrush to test the presence of poison gas in the tomb.

Many grave robbers will do a similar test with animals before going down to the grave, but in a different way.

As the saying goes, animals are good friends of humans, and this statement is not wrong at all.

Tomb robberies are sometimes inseparable from the help of various animals in nature, such as geese and roosters to detect the ghosts of tombs, pangolins to help make holes, and so on.

And the use of thrushes is simply to test the air quality of the tomb.

Because birds are very sensitive to the quality of the air, especially thrushes.

And the thrush is most suitable for domestication, and the general thrush enters the 'second' stage, and it becomes very well-behaved and can fly freely. The so-called 'second-haired' stage refers to the stage when the thrush is fed and matures after the birding period, which takes about more than a year, which is also a common sense of tomb robbing.

As long as the released thrush is in a different spirit after flying back, or it does not fly back, it means that there is something wrong with the air in the burial chamber.

After about two minutes in the middle, the third aunt whistled again, and the thrush bird listened to the whistle, flapped its wings and flew back quickly, landing in the palm of the third aunt.

The third aunt fed the thrush a few grains of rice, and the spirit of seeing the thrush swallowing the rice was very good.

"No problem, let's get started!"

Long Huxiang also carefully looked at the mental state of the thrush that flew back, and immediately gave an order after making sure that there was no problem.

Under this order of the dragon and tiger, his subordinates immediately fixed the rope quickly, then threw the rope down, lit a special oil lamp tube, and began to go down the rope.

Zhao Yang watched them operate every step of the way, they were absolutely professional, and these equipment alone were very unusual.

The ropes used are made of cotton and linen mixed with composite materials, which makes the ropes more durable and durable, and can also effectively prevent friction and breakage.

The oil lamp in the hand is also mixed with corpse oil and vegetable oil, the 'corpse oil' here is not a human corpse, but the oil refined from the corpse of an animal, the fire of this oil is blue, not only brighter, but also burns for a particularly long time, and then put it into a special oil lamp, not only convenient and convenient, the distance of irradiation is also very far, enough to withstand a small flashlight.

Moreover, the more than 20 people brought by the dragon and tiger are all the backbone of the Sixiang Hall, all of them are skilled, and the experience of going to the tomb is also extremely rich, which can be seen from the way of going to the tomb alone.

Zhao Yang also followed at the end and went down the rope.

The depth of this hole is about seven or eight meters.

In fact, if this depth reaches the tomb, it is not very deep, because the general tombs are between five and ten meters, and the relatively large ancient tombs, or the ancient tombs of the princes and kings are thirty meters deep.

Of course, the depth of the tomb is not an absolute reference to the size of the tomb, because there has never been a level in history that corresponds to the importance of how deep the tomb is dug.

After reaching the bottom, Zhao Yang's feet landed, and he first felt a piercing coldness to the calf, which should be because the entrance of the robbery cave was open for a long time, and the tomb was full of water to the calf, and in a dark place seven or eight meters deep underground, it looked cold and piercing.

Once the tomb is flooded, moisture will invade, and the interior of the tomb will be seriously damaged for a long time.

In addition, there is a rammed earth passage that extends inward in front of him, which is only about one meter wide, and the height is just right against Zhao Yang's head.

This is not a tomb passage, this is a passage dug by previous tomb robbers to lead to the tomb.

There are only two reasons, one is that the technology is defective, and the accurate location of the tomb door or tomb is wrong, and the hole is missed, so it can only continue to hit this passage to the tomb.

The second is deliberate, in order to find a hidden place to open a robbery hole, and then dig a passage from below to the tomb.

This possibility is extremely high and quite normal.

There are many tomb robbers who can even dig more than ten kilometers of passages underground in order to hide people's eyes, and it takes a year or two or even longer, which is like not opening for three years and eating for three years.

However, Zhao Yang estimated that this passage should not be very long, because this place itself is a colorful sealed soil, and the tomb must be near here.

Zhao Yang didn't squeak, just silently followed behind the team's buttocks, always remembering that he was just a soy sauce player, in case something happened, there were so many masters in front of him, as long as he could go up alive.

Wow...... Wow...... Wow......

The water dripping under everyone's feet, and the sound of rushing water broke the dead silence in the air, which is why many tomb robbers have the occupational sequelae of old cold legs, because water in tombs is very common, and if you are unlucky to encounter some graves with more serious water, you may have to soak in this cold and biting water for several days in a row.

After walking about five or six meters inside, he suddenly stopped in front, because Zhao Yang was following behind, so he couldn't see what was going on in front of him.

I can only hear the dragon and tiger say that I saw the tomb door, and judging from the construction style of the tomb gate, it is a Tang Dynasty tomb!

"It's a Tang Dynasty tomb!"

Zhao Yang feels that he is dead to the tomb of the Tang Dynasty?

After a short pause, the procession continued to move forward, one after another from the tomb gate into the real tomb passage.

When Zhao Yang was the last to walk to the tomb gate, he also took a closer look at the tomb door.

The tomb door is made of marble, only half of it is open, and the other half is still buried in the sealed soil.

can open half of the tomb door from the sealed soil, and the first to go down to the tomb is afraid that he is also a peer master.

In addition, this half of the tomb door is carved with exquisite patterns, both from these patterns and some decorations on the stone door beams, it is indeed very consistent with the typical style characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.

And from the width of this half of the tomb door to infer the overall size of this tomb, and then fit the general Tang Dynasty funeral system, it can be estimated that this should be a Tang Dynasty from the third grade to the second grade of the official tomb, the whole is a brick chamber structure, a main tomb chamber and no more than three ear chambers, the overall area should be within two hundred square meters!

This is a calculation from a professional grave robber.

Of course, this is only a conventional inference, and there is no 100% accuracy, because it cannot be ruled out that there will be peculiarities.

But if you deviate from this conventional inference, it means that there must be a 'demon'

When Zhao Yang stepped in from this half of the tomb door, he was in the tomb, and the first thing he saw was a square tomb of more than 100 square meters!

More than 20 oil lamps illuminate the entire burial chamber.

This burial chamber is all made of blue bricks, about three meters high, with eight columns standing at the four corners, and the seal is engraved with exquisite patterns, showing all kinds of exquisite craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty.

What surprised Zhao Yang was that the blue bricks on all sides of this tomb were smooth, and there were no ear chambers, nor coffins, only a black tombstone standing in the middle! And this tombstone also has a huge square base, with a lifelike Pixiu placed on each side!

"What's going on?"

Zhao Yang couldn't help frowning: "Put the tombstone in the tombstone?" Or is this itself a tomb where tombstones are placed? ”

No! It's a double-storey tomb!

Zhao Yang quickly understood the layout of this kind of tomb.

In order to prevent the theft of tombs, the ancients would not only design mechanisms in the tombs, but also use 'concealment' methods, that is, not erecting monuments or even sealing tomb bags.

But the ancients were very concerned about erecting monuments, so they came up with such a way to design a double-layer tomb.

Place the tombstone on the first floor and the main burial chamber on the second floor below! In this way, the above two problems are solved in perfect harmony.

"This is not the main burial chamber, this is a stele chamber, a typical Tang Dynasty style double-storey tomb! The real burial chamber should still be down there! ”

Long Huxiang looked at the stone tablet in front of him sharply, and said in a calm tone, without any surprise.

But it can be seen from this point that Long Huxiang is really an experienced old fritter, after all, he grew up in the Guanzhong area, and he is afraid that he has been in the tomb for half his life, and he has seen what kind of tomb he is.

If you encounter a lot, it doesn't seem so strange.

As for this stone stele, Zhao Yang, who was standing at the back, also looked at it fixedly.

Because several of the oil lamps happened to shine directly on the tombstone, the inscription on the tombstone was very clearly visible, and the record on it was also very clear.

This inscription is written on the identity of the owner of the tomb, it is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple of the Wuzhou Dynasty, Li Mofeng!

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