Chapter Twenty-Three: The Ancient Texts

When it came to his own land, Qin Wuye obviously didn't have so many taboos. He waved his hand and motioned for the lewd man to lead the way, and we got on a four-wheeled off-road motorcycle under his guidance and headed into the mountains. The car shuttled through the forest with no road for half an hour, and finally reached its destination, which was already past twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

It looked like a camp, surrounded by bushes and weeds, except for a large area of cleared ground and a dozen green canvas tents with a few high-powered searchlights in the middle of the camp. As soon as our group arrived, a person who looked like a dwarf immediately greeted us. After whispering a few words to Qin Wuye, he led us into one of the tents.

The scene in the tent was something I could never have imagined, neither a sleeping bag nor any household items. There is only one diesel engine, plus a cylindrical machine supported by an iron frame, and I only learned under the introduction of Qin Wuye that this thing is called an electric Luoyang shovel. It's similar to a drill bit for drilling wells, and the only extra function is that it can grasp soil samples.

Qin Wuye introduced us to the dwarf man, saying that his name was Zhang Tiancai, and he had worked in the archaeological field for most of his life. In fact, needless to say, now I already know that this group of people, whether they talk or behave or dress, must be a tomb robber gang and have not run away.

We are talking here, the electric probe has already grabbed the soil sample, Zhang Ye grabbed a handful of soil and illuminated it with a strong flashlight for a long time, and said to Qin Wuye: "Twenty-one meters and three inches below, there is a layer of raw soil, and the location has been found." ”

Qin Wuye's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he instructed Zhang Ye to continue to work, and why did he open the skylight tonight. Zhang Ye didn't talk nonsense, and beckoned his men to start shoveling. They dismantled all the tents, and the security team began to stand on the top of the hill and look around. Zhang Ye's team did not use an electric one this time, but used an ordinary Luoyang shovel, which was connected together with steel pipes one by one, and then began to chisel down with a rubber hammer.

The group radiated outward from the original shovel pit, digging out pit by pit until they dug up two colors of soil. Zhang Ye instructed people to nail the outermost circle of shovel pits with wooden wedges, and then tie white lines on each wooden wedge, and the shape of the entire tomb should be drawn.

I looked at the pattern drawn on the land, and I couldn't help but be secretly surprised. No wonder it is said that three hundred and sixty lines are the champions, Zhang Ye can rely on the Luoyang shovel to find out the following situation clearly. The white lines on the ground are connected together, clearly the outline of the tomb, and even the dome and several side chambers are located. During the whole process, all five of us Mr. Spirits became spectators.

I peeked at Qin Wuye and found that the expression on his face was very complicated, there was excitement and nervousness, his body was still trembling slightly, and his face was blushing as if he had just filled a bottle of Erguotou. I wanted to probe his bottom, so I had nothing to say to him: "Zhang Ye is really good, this hasn't been dug down yet, and even the shape below has been figured out." It seems that Fifth Master Qin, you are white-haired this time, and I am afraid that our gang of people will not need it. ”

Qin Wuye came back to his senses when he heard me say this, he reluctantly suppressed the excitement on his face, and said to me with a smile: "Mr. Xiao Gao doesn't know, the buckets of each generation are different. The tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties are all in the shape of soil cones, the Wei and Jin dynasties are generally arched, and the Ming Dynasty generally opens mountains as mausoleums, which are quite emperorly. The tombs of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties have absorbed the anti-theft experience of the previous dynasties, and the upper part is equipped with the Zongmiao garden, and the underground palace is the most difficult to excavate. However, the tomb of Duduxia Shang Zhou is the most elusive, because it is too old, so there are not many examples that can be referenced. ”

Qin Wuye's eyebrows fluttered when he talked about the mausoleum, and his understanding of the ancient tombs in his mouth was not even less than that of Zhang Ye, and he boasted to me: "The ancient tombs of the Shang Dynasty that have been excavated are basically small tombs, most of them are two meters long and less than one meter wide, and even the tombs of many nobles are mostly like this. If you look at the big tomb in front of you, just the size of the dome of the main tomb above is already 100 meters square. Combined with the tomb road on the other side of the pit, it is obvious that this ancient tomb has more than one floor, and there should be an underground palace underneath. Such a Shang Dynasty tomb is simply unheard of, and no one has any experience in excavation. So no one knows what will appear below, and there is no anti-theft measure in such a tomb. They have all dealt with the general organs, Zhang Ye, I am afraid that there will be some supernatural things, and this is also where I, Qin Mou, need to rely on you. ”

Qin Wuye was excited and didn't forget to put gold on the five of us, Huzi stood beside me and couldn't stop nodding, except for the two of us, Sun Zilin was still silent and golden. The pawn monk was full of smiles, Chang Qingzi patted his coat, and said to Qin Wuye that he was not at ease, everything was wrapped up in him.

While we were talking, Zhang Ye had already led people to excavate, and the various strange-shaped shovels used seemed to be custom-made. They didn't dig directly from the dome, but started to dig four or five steps away from the side room, and the direction of the digging was zigzag, every half a meter was dug and turned, and then the guys in the back transported wood from the outside to build a shelf, Qin Wuye said that this was to prevent landslides.

In less than half an hour, Zhang Ye below shouted, "Look at the wall", Qin Wuye waved his hand, and the security leader led people down first. Changqingzi followed unequivocally, then Qin Wuye, Sun Zilin, and the pawn monk, and I followed Huzi at the end. The gang dug the hole quite wide, except for the height and the need to risk the waist, there was no pressure for the two of them to walk side by side.

When we came down, we found that there was a bluestone wall in front of us, and under the illumination of the miner's lamp, I found that this bluestone was actually a whole piece, which I am afraid no one would have been able to get rid of in ancient times. It's a pity that this is the twenty-first century, the age of science. The security boss asked people to bring in a small generator, and after Zhang Ye connected a percussion drill, he drilled it against the bluestone wall.

As soon as the drill bit was pulled out, the sand began to flow out along the borehole, and the sand that flowed out was very fine, like abrasive sand. Zhang Ye said that there is an anti-theft mezzanine behind this wall, and if we break through the wall rashly, the quicksand layer inside will instantly block the tunnel, and we will all be buried alive here. I feel in my heart the wisdom of the ancients, 3,600 years ago, people would have done the mechanism.

Zhang Ye instructed his men to drill holes in various directions of the bluestone wall, and then use a pressure pump to inject Ma Lisan, a kind of construction glue, into the boreholes, so that the sand in the quicksand layer is glued into a whole.

After the glue was filled, Qin Wuye asked us all to put on gas masks, and then Zhang Ye began to lead people to make holes in the bluestone wall. It is better to say that it is to make a hole than to break the wall, because they use a hand-held electric pickaxe, and the seemingly solid bluestone wall is hewn with stone chips.

"These juniors are really embarrassed by the face of their ancestors, how can they open a tomb like this." I was watching it with relish, and suddenly Zhou Tong's voice came from my heart.

I subconsciously grabbed the wax balls in my pocket and asked him in my heart, "What's wrong?" People do this work smoothly, from the top to the bottom of the door chisel in one go, what's wrong? ”

"Fart" Zhou Tong scolded angrily, and he didn't know whether to scold Zhang Ye or me, and then said: "I can't stand it since the one surnamed Zhang put a shovel on it, and the positioning still depends on digging?" Which one did not teach him? We used to rely on feng shui, Yang chose the cemetery to see feng shui, we also looked at feng shui when we looked for his tomb, and the location of the dragon's eye of the entire feng shui bureau must be the tomb, which is called the dragon point point. A tomb will affect the direction of the underground earth, and the shape of the tomb can be seen by looking at the earth's qi, which is your brother Zhou's specialty. Besides, he had to smash the wall when he entered the tomb, and he looked like a layman, haven't you heard of thieves? We used to have rules in this line, and the treasure was a gift from the owner of the tomb when taking it, and the hole should be sealed when leaving, so as not to disturb the owner of the tomb. He directly smashed the tomb wall, and the feng shui inside was completely destroyed. ”

Zhou Tong's righteous words are quite funny in my ears, and I feel that you tomb robbers are still moral, right? I don't think he can't see it, he obviously has itchy hands.

I didn't pay any attention to Zhou Tong, Zhang Ye and they had already made a big hole in the bluestone wall that could accommodate one person, he took out a fireworks signal stick from his backpack and plucked it hard, and then threw it into the tomb, the signal stick was like a flower, burning purple light and smoking. Until the signal rod burned out, Zhang Ye asked everyone to turn on the strong flashlight, and he told us that the tomb had been closed for too long, and there might be some gas inside, so we needed to ventilate with the outside, so we should not take off the gas mask for a short time.

When we entered the tomb, we found that the walls around this small tomb were made of bluestone slabs, and we opened the north wall. Through the light, the scenery in the stone room can be seen at a glance. This stone chamber seems to be a burial pit for animals, and the floor is full of animal bones, and the reason why it is certain that they are not human bones is because these skeletons are all hoofed on the ground, and they must be horses or something.

There was nothing else in the stone chamber except the skeletons, and there was a stone door on the south wall that I didn't know where it led, and there were some messy things painted on the bluestone slabs. It is impossible to tell whether the patterns are calligraphy or paintings, and the paint used is like the powder of bricks, all mottled orange-red. Qin Wuye said that the bronzes found at the beginning were also full of this kind of writing, and he still hasn't deciphered what is written on them. Huzi took out an old-fashioned Nokia to take a photo, but was stopped by Qin Wuye with a frown.

I asked Zhou Tong in my heart if he knew these words, and if he could determine the identity of the tomb owner through these words, even if he could analyze some clues. Zhou Tong told me that these words should be ancient texts. He told me that the inscription was a type of writing specially invented for ghosts, also known as anti-script or water script. There was no specific text for pronunciation before, probably in the Jin Dynasty there was a specific text of the standard, he had also learned the text because of Wen Tao's tomb robbery, but these words in front of him were plausible, and he didn't know much.