In April, Lianhai City is full of spring.

The peach blossoms and apricot blossoms have fallen into the mud, and the willow trees have gradually turned from tender yellow to green.

Mount Qingcheng is full of greenery.

Around the thousand-year-old tomb located in Qingcheng Mountain, several surveyors are conducting site surveys.

There are tourism companies and local government departments that jointly develop the thousand-year-old tomb.

Development was suspended due to the previous plague outbreak, but now that the epidemic has passed, the development steps have begun again.

At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, a group of construction teams is building a road into the thousand-year-old tomb scenic spot.

According to the road construction plan, the vegetation on the ground has been bulldozed, some slopes need to be dug deeply, and an excavator is busy.

The number of construction team is not large, and seven or eight people divide their labor.

The excavator was driven by a young man in his 20s.

The section of the road that is being repaired is a dirt road, and the excavator can dig it with ease.

The huge excavator shovel dug deep into the dirt and easily scooped up piles of dark gray dirt.

Suddenly, with a snap, the excavator's shovel got stuck and seemed to hit something hard under the dirt.

Did you hit a big rock?

Is it a mountain rock?

However, according to previous surveys, there should not be huge rocks here.

The young excavator driver tried a few more times, but he still couldn't dig.

Changing the excavation strategy, the driver gently lowered the shovel and dug out the surface of the soil to reveal a quickly leveled rock.

The rocks in the soil are so flat that they look like a polished stone.

Flat anomaly.

If it is a stone in the open air, it is normal for it to be smoothed by wind and rain for a long time, but now the stone buried in the ground all the year round has such a smooth surface that people can't help but doubt.

The driver turned off the excavator, jumped down, walked to the front of the pit, and carefully observed the stones inside.

The two or so construction teammates around also came up to see the excitement when they saw the abnormality.

The surface of the flat stone at the bottom of the pit is carved with some strange patterns, which are unknown to the people around, like runes that often appear in TV dramas.

One of the workers excitedly shouted, "We're not going to dig up another tomb, are we?" ”

The rest of the people also followed.

"This road leads to the thousand-year-old tomb scenic spot, although it is quite far from the scenic spot, it is not excluded that it is one of the tombs of the thousand-year-old tomb."

"The thousand-year-old tomb was discovered last year, and I heard that there are a lot of good things in it."

"There are good things, and that's also the country."

"I heard that when the thousand-year-old tomb was first discovered, the surrounding villagers went to rob the tomb and brought out a lot of treasures, and they all made a fortune."

The lure of huge sums of money is in stark contrast to the heavy physical labor in front of you.

The eyes of several onlookers revealed a light of excitement.

Someone suggested, "Dig it out and see what it is, maybe it's worth it." ”

This construction team is only a contractor who signed an agreement with the tourism development company to repair the scenic road, not an employee of the tourism development company.

Several people hit it off.

The excavator went into action again, the pit was dug wide, and the flat stone was completely exposed.

Sure enough, it was not a mountain stone, but a large rectangular stone with regular rows.

In shape, it looks more like a sarcophagus.

The surface of the sarcophagus is carved with strange patterns.

"Sarcophagus, I heard that the most valuable treasures in a tomb are buried in a sarcophagus."

"But aren't all sarcophagi in the burial chamber? Why is this sarcophagus buried in the earth? Still buried so shallowly? ”

"Just open it and see."

After several people discussed it, it was decided to open the sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus is composed of a coffin body and a coffin lid, and the junction is connected by an off-white substance, which connects the two seams.

Several people bravely went down to the pit and pushed the lid of the coffin hard, but they couldn't push it.

"I can't push it, it's too tight."

"The lid and the coffin should be stuffed with lime or something, pry this place open and see."

Several people found tools and carefully tapped them along the gap between the lid and the coffin.

It took a lot of effort to finally loosen the lid of the coffin.

Several people joined forces again, and finally with a "boom", the coffin lid was pushed open.

Several people near the coffin were choked by the smell emanating from the sarcophagus.

The smell was like a musty smell that had been sealed for thousands of years, with a choking lime smell.

Several people covered their noses and poked their heads into the sarcophagus.

It's okay not to look at it, but everyone was shocked when they saw it.

I saw a dried corpse lying in the sarcophagus.

The dried corpse's skin and muscles had shrunk and clung to the bones.

Because the body was severely shrunk, the clothes were loose and attached to the body.

The bare skull is well preserved, and tan skin can be seen clinging to atrophied muscles and skulls.

The cadaver has long hair and appears to be a female cadaver.

The corpse was surrounded by a large amount of lime, which appeared to have been embalmed when the deceased was buried.

"Oh my God, it's a dried corpse!"

Several people quickly recovered from the shock.

The excavator driver carefully examines the clothes on the dried corpse.

This is a cheongsam embroidered with flowers, like the clothes often worn by women during the Republic of China.

"Isn't the thousand-year-old tomb in Qingcheng Mountain the ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty? Why is this dried corpse wearing a cheongsam? It's like modern clothes. ”

"It doesn't matter what age he is, since they have all formed dry corpses, they must have been years and months, and there should be a lot of burial goods in a sarcophagus like this, right?"

Several people looked at the dried corpse again and found that she was wearing a cheongsam, no ornaments in her hair, no bracelets and rings on her hands, and no treasures such as jade beside her.

"How can there be no burial goods in such a good sarcophagus, and the owner of the tomb is still wearing such shabby?"

"Could the funerary goods be under these limes next to the corpse?"

"Look for it."

Several people were already bold, and they started to turn over the lime next to the dried corpse, and a large amount of dust flew up in the process of rummaging, choking a few people and coughing again and again.

Rummaged around and found nothing.

The excavator driver was not reconciled, turned over the clothes on the corpse, searched again, and felt a lump of things in the corpse's mouth.

The young driver, the young man, excitedly pulled the lump out of the corpse's mouth and found it to be an irregularly shaped oval-shaped stone.

The stone was black and reddish.

Could it be some kind of precious jade?

The driver couldn't help the excitement in his heart, and he tried hard in his hands, wanting to try the texture of the jade.

But with a slight force in his hand, the black-red stone immediately shattered into several petals in his hand, and almost turned into powder.

The wind blew, the powder drifted away with the wind, and there was a choking smell.

Where is this jade? Obviously, it was lime, and I don't know what liquid it mixed with, and it turned into this black and red.

Everyone was disappointed.

The driver shook his hand, was very depressed, and complained in a low voice, "It's worthless, it's really unlucky." ”

The captain of the construction team, a middle-aged man in his 40s, has been quietly watching the actions of the team members, and when he saw that the driver wanted to give up, he jumped down from the pit himself and said, "I'll look for it." ”

The captain walked to the sarcophagus, reached out directly to dig out the mouth of the corpse, this time the depth of his hand was deeper than the driver's, and after groping for a while, he took out a golden object.