Normally, I would have stared at it for a long time, but now I didn't have the heart to look at it any more, so I rummaged through my bag in the light, took out my firewood knife, and held it tightly in my hand, and my sense of security rose sharply.

When Mr. Shen saw me, he seemed to have forgotten the pain on his body, and he was very happy, and laughed at me and said, "You kid is stupid, what are you cutting with a knife in this ancient tomb, are you cutting things that can't be clean?" ”

"I don't care, I feel safe with the guy." I retorted.

He smiled and didn't speak, and continued to shine around with the oil lamp.

I didn't care about him, continued to dig in my bag, and finally found the jade pendant that Ma Daoren gave me, I wore a red rope on it before, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now, I took it out and wore it on my chest.

Teacher Shen laughed when he saw this this time, and the laughter echoed in the empty tomb, like something unclean was screaming, which was quite permeating.

"Oh, stop, don't bring in unclean things, old man."

Teacher Shen seemed to take a while to hold back and said to me, "You kid has become so superstitious? It's not enough to cut down the things that can't be clean, and you wear all the things that ward off evil spirits? ”

"I don't care, it's not that you don't know what you saw there before, I'm scared anyway, but when it's really unclean, don't expect me to save you."

"Hahaha, I don't need you to save me, even if I confess that in such a big tomb here, it is magnificent enough. Now that a person has died, a crypt-type storage place of less than one square meter, where can it compare to this? ”

I didn't bother to argue with him anymore, so I took another oil lamp out of my bag and looked around. I found that the space inside this tomb is indeed very large, the oil light is swallowed by the darkness when it is far away, and it does not shine on the head, and the place where we fell down must be about five or six meters, and it really depends on luck if we don't fall out.

The thief hole above the head is directly opened on the top of the ticket, the top of the coupon is like a hemisphere vault, this place is closest to the ground, Teacher Shen said: "It seems that we fell into an ear chamber." The people who come to rob the tomb are not idle thieves, they can find the location of this tomb, and they can open the robbery hole in such a professional place, they may have more professional knowledge than you. ”

I scoffed disdainfully.

What attracted me was not the cave, but the dense murals on the walls around it, except for the very flat ground, almost everything else was used, even the black leaves and red flowers painted next to the cave.

To my surprise, although it is not isolated from the outside, the murals are still very well preserved, so to speak, in vivid colors, in the light of oil lamps. But strangely, there are no burial goods around us.

Teacher Shen obviously noticed this as well, and after watching intently for a while, he turned off the oil lamp and sat down next to our bag.

I asked him, "Why did you turn off the oil lamp?" ”

"Nonsense, fuel efficient, we don't know how many days we have to be here, we will run out of gas if we keep running, and then it will be uncomfortable."

I was right, so I sat down with him and turned off the oil lamp.

In this way, we didn't know what to say, so I quietly watched the light in the sky gradually disappear, and had the illusion of a frog at the bottom of the well.

After a long time, Mr. Shen asked me, "Are you hungry?" "I came back to my senses and realized that I was hungry. People are like this, sometimes they are not hungry, but when others ask, they are hungry.

I sat up, turned on the oil lamp, and pulled dry food out of my bag, when I noticed a very embarrassing problem that our kettle had not been thrown down.

Mr. Shen asked for two mouthfuls of dry food and seemed to have discovered this problem, I looked at him, and he looked at me.

He finally scolded: "These two rabbit cubs, are they trying to kill us with thirst? ”

I said in my heart that it's useless to scold now, I really forgot to mention this when I asked it just now. I've read in books that a person can only live for 5 days at most without water. 5 days, is it enough for them to come to us? The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became. Teacher Shen also put down the food in his hand and said nothing.

Falling from a robbery hole into an ancient tomb, this situation is already very ironic for the Jinshi personnel. If you die of thirst in the grave, wouldn't it be ironic to go home?

After a while, he said to me, "I think you know the situation now, we don't have water, we may not be able to hold them out." Instead of gambling here, let's go find the tomb gate, maybe we can open the tomb door and dig a way out. Although the probe shovel is not the most handy, as long as there is enough time for us to take turns to move our hands. ”

"It's all up to you, I can't do anything else." Although I answered so, most of the anxiety in my heart just now turned into excitement, to be honest, although this kind of tomb exploration is not a serious gold and stone excavation process, but I am still full of expectations, as I said before, our internship site has been out of the tomb in recent years, there are no tombs, let alone people who can fall down, and even a serious tomb has not been found, so I am very eager to see what the real tomb is like.

So we cleaned up our things, and Mr. Shen also took out the firewood knife, and I was about to laugh at him, but he gave me a blank look and told me to shut up.

In this way, we dismantled the probe shovel again and packed it in two bags. With our backpacks on our backs, oil lamps in one hand and firewood knives in the other, we left the ear chamber where we were and walked towards the corridor.

The general tomb structure is similar, from the outside to the inside, it is generally composed of a tomb road, a tomb door, a sealing stone, a corridor, a main tomb door, a main tomb chamber, and a number of ear chambers of different shapes. The tomb passage is the slope that enters the tomb from the ground, the tomb door is at the end of the tomb road, and the door sealing stone is against the tomb door, which is the first line of defense for this private place; The corridor is the corridor between the sealing stone and the main tomb chamber tomb door, and the ear chamber is generally opened on the left and right sides of the corridor, sometimes the end of the corridor is the main burial chamber, and some of the main burial chamber tomb door is the second line of defense. Therefore, when we leave the auricular chamber, we should come to the corridor.

In the tomb, we can't tell the direction, we don't know the north, south, south, north, south, west. Teacher Shen and I summed up, if we failed to save ourselves, maybe we would have to come back and wait for rescue, so we simply threw down a piece of iron rod of the shovel at the door of the ear chamber, this thing can reflect light, so that we can easily find it when we come back.

My heart is both excited and frightened, not to mention excitement, fear is better understood, such an unknown dark environment, or a place to bury the dead, how can I not be afraid?

Mr. Shen and I only lit an oil lamp, and he took me away in front of me to save some gas.

I know that he and I think about the same, the corridor is generally straight, out of the ear chamber we are on the left and right side of the main burial chamber, on the other side is the burial passage, but we don't know which corresponds to which one. All we have to do is walk along the corridor to find the tomb door sealed by the sealing stone, or the tomb door of the main burial chamber. And our goal is to go to the sealing stone, anyway, it is far less difficult to open it from the inside than from the outside, and then open the tomb door, and then make a hole in the tomb to the ground and see the light of day again.

Such a plan is still very feasible for the two of us. We weren't in a hurry, admiring the beautiful murals on the walls as we walked along the way, or maybe the murals were so beautiful that we slowed down.

Teacher Shen said to me while watching: "Look, these murals are not simple, although they are all painted on the white ash ground, but I can see from the costumes of the characters, the content of the murals should contain the stories of various religious beliefs, there are stories of Buddhism, there are Catholicism and Christianity, and even Zoroastrianism." But it is still the Mongolian shamanism that has the most deities. ”

He said that I looked at it, indeed, this is far from the paintings in the mural tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty that I have seen before.

Teacher Shen continued, "I have a bold guess that we should be in a Mongol tomb. Mongolians believe in shamanism, and Mongolian shamanism, as the name suggests, is shamanism with Mongolian characteristics, which was very popular in the Yuan Dynasty. And so many religious factors can only be included in the murals of the Great Mongolian period. If that's the case, hey, you kid really said it at the beginning, it's almost really a Yuan Dynasty person. ”

The Great Mongolian Tomb? I said in my heart, the Mongolians practiced secret burials, and experts and scholars did not find the imperial tomb of the Yuan Dynasty for so many years. I'm very happy, of course.

But Mr. Shen suddenly stopped while walking, thought for a while and said to me: "I don't think something is right, it is impossible to have such a big tomb, after the exploration of the underground palace of the QSH mausoleum, the wall of the underground palace is only 168 meters long, we have been walking for so long, it should be more than 200 meters, right?" ”

He didn't say that I really didn't remember, I just looked at the mural all the way, I thought about it carefully, how did we walk more than 200 meters?

We stopped, looked around, and found nothing unusual, so I said to Mr. Shen: "Maybe the Mongolian nobles back then had a lot of money, and they dug hard to make such a long road." ”

Teacher Shen nodded and said, "Although it sounds like nonsense, it can only be explained like this at present." Anyway, I used a Han feng shui gentleman, and I was looking for a first-class art craftsman, so it makes sense to have the money to make the tomb bigger. Perhaps the ancient tombs of the Mongols are this tradition. ”

He thought about it, smiled, and continued: "Speaking of the QSH Mausoleum, my biggest dream in this life is to participate in the excavation of the QSH Mausoleum, so we can't explain it here." ”

I know that he may just be encouraging me, because I am not stupid, how can the upper authorities take the initiative to excavate the QSH Mausoleum? I said in my heart that I am afraid that if you retire home to a hundred years, the authorities will not approve it for the sake of cultural relics protection. According to legend, it took 720,000 people to build the QSH Mausoleum, so if you want to excavate it, you have to mobilize all the gold and stone workers in the country? That may not be enough, the amount of work involved in excavation and heritage conservation is too great, and the technology is not yet mature, so it is clearly unrealistic.