Chapter 263: Dusty Past

The archaeological team did not go to Xiyang Village for the time being, but stayed in Lintong County, and the external rhetoric was a preparation tool, but in fact they were consulting materials and thinking about what to do next. It's good not to check the information, I don't know how to do it when I check it, it turns out that Xiyang Village is not the first time to find terracotta warriors, recorded in the local chronicles, the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it was found once, that time is also weird, and there are too many similarities.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1644), the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the continuous war, the refugees gathered at the foot of Lishan Mountain, and many people fled to Xiyang Village. As in 1974, there was also a spring drought and no rain in the vicinity of Lishan, and there were few wells in the village, which could no longer meet the needs of the people with the large number of people gathered. So the refugees organized themselves and went to dig wells in the barren beach south of the village, about three miles from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, in a low-lying place to get water. This is one of the lowest places in Xiyang Village, the well was drilled smoothly, and the water gushed out after five or six meters, but it lasted for a few hours, and the water disappeared again, and there was no water at all.

This situation can be said to be unheard of, and everyone immediately talked about it. It was impossible to survive without water, so after the people had consulted, they sent a bold man down the well to check on the situation and see what caused the water to suddenly disappear. The person tied the rope and put it down, waited for a long time and no news came out, and he didn't respond to the shouting, and it was hazy when he looked down, and he couldn't see anyone at all. The sudden change was immediately about to pull him up, when suddenly, a terrifying scream was heard from the well, and then no sound came out. Everyone hurriedly pulled the man up, only to see that he was foaming at the mouth and unconscious. Everyone hurriedly carried the person back to the village and woke him up with ginger soup, but the man was okay, but he was grunting and comparing paintings with his hands, but he couldn't tell why, and he had become a crazy and stupid person.

Strange things, people are panicked, some people are afraid, and some people still don't think so. A bold man went down the well again with a knife, wanting to see what was going on. When the people went down the well, the torches were extinguished, and a cold wind came from the bottom of the well. The torch was extinguished, but the big man did not retreat, and continued to descend until he entered the bottom of the well. Because his eyes could not adapt to the gray and gloomy bottom of the well for a while, the big man touched the wall with his hand, looked around, and found that the wall of the well had been blistered and collapsed with a thick layer. At this moment, only to hear a noise behind him, the big man shivered, turned around sharply, and saw that a well wall had collapsed, and a black hole appeared. By the hazy moonlight, there was a fierce monster standing at the entrance of the cave, swaying as if walking towards him, the monster only had a face, no body, what is it not a monster?

Dahan was frightened in his heart, but he instinctively raised his knife to slash at the monster, and then called for help to Inoue. The knife was cut into the air, and the human face had already pounced, and when the big man was pulled out of the well, his face was as white as earth, and he said something vaguely, and the only thing that could be heard clearly was the word "monster", and after continuous shouting, he then fainted to the ground. No matter how much he shouted, he didn't wake up, and after examining his body, he found no wounds, and called in a barefoot doctor, who didn't know what caused him to fall unconscious.

Once again, there was a strange problem, no one dared to go down again, and the old man in the village recalled that it was because he dug up the land lord and angered the land lord that he would encounter a catastrophe. So the people took out precious food to worship, and then filled the well with earth, and nothing else strange happened. Murachu Xiucai, who recorded this time, stayed in Xiyang Village until it was later included in the county annals. These records belong to the "Four Olds" and were originally meant to be burned, but many of the staff in the cultural center where the county records are stored have been criticized, and no one has to deal with these things at all, but these materials are left behind before they can be displayed in front of the world again.

Such a strange thing made the archaeologists even more hesitant, worried that if they continued to excavate the terracotta warriors in Xiyang Village, there would be something weird, and if it really appeared, they didn't dare to say it, the current policy is like this, no one wants to get into big trouble. The archaeological team hesitated, and on the fourth day, they finally made a decision, not that they thought of a way, but that they were forced to be helpless, and the central government once again sent an order, ** urgently needed the words and objects of the Legalists in order to serve their political purposes. In this context, where does the archaeological team dare to stand still.

On July 15, the provincial archaeological team rushed to Xiyang Village with experts from the city and county, and camped next to the village to start the excavation work. During the day, they only symbolically inspected the terrain, and that night, after the people in the village had gone to sleep, the archaeological team secretly carried out worship, whether there were real ghosts or not, at least asking for psychological comfort.

Maybe it's thinking too much, maybe it's the worship that has played a role, the excavation work is going very well, and there are no more weird things, but the unearthed terracotta fragments are very good, not to mention a little complete, there is no at all. This is too far from the terracotta warriors that everyone guessed in their hearts, could it be that there are just some terracotta warriors scattered here? The experts of the archaeological team do not agree with this point of view, judging from the sealed soil that has been dug up, it is definitely a large burial mausoleum, and it took so much effort to build a accompanying tomb, how can there be only such a little thing? Everyone has also thought about whether the tomb has been robbed, but so far no hole has been found, not even a trace, and the possibility of the tomb being robbed is extremely low.

The excavation work had to be stopped again, under the pressure of various factors, the archaeologists were very depressed, at this moment, suddenly an old man spoke, pointed to a location, and let the archaeologists start from there, this old man is here every day, watching the excavation, he didn't speak before, and today is the first time to speak. The archaeologists thought it was the old man in the village, maybe they knew some clues, and tried to dig from there, and soon, several well-preserved terracotta warriors were unearthed. Everyone was excited, invested more manpower and material resources, and dug up more than 20 relatively well-preserved terracotta warriors and tens of thousands of fragments on the same day. When everyone was excited, they ignored the old man, and when they remembered the old man. No one is in sight anymore. In the evening, Yuan Zhong took the lead, wanting to go to the village to find the old man, at least to say thank you. However, something unexpected happened to them, there was no such old man in the village at all, and everyone couldn't help but have fear in their hearts, they originally thought that the strange thing had stopped, it turned out that it had always been there, but they didn't know it.

That night, the archaeological team secretly carried out the worship again, I don't know who is worshipping, in short, I hope everything goes well. In fact, everything went smoothly next, and the No. 1 pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses was completely displayed in front of the world, and there were too many things with great historical research value, such as terracotta warriors, bronze arrowheads, weapons, chariots, and so on. On a war halberd, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the inside of the halberd head was brightly engraved with precious inscriptions such as "three years of Xiangbang Lü Buwei built a temple Gongkou". This discovery, while providing important evidence to determine that the terracotta warriors and horses pit is the burial pit of Qin Shi Huang, also reminds the world once again of the two shining names in Chinese history during the Warring States Period: Qin Shi Huang and Lü Buwei.

Who is Lü Buwei? The famous ministers of the Qin Dynasty had 10,000 slaves in his family, and even overshadowed Qin Shi Huang in power for a time. As the first emperor of the ages, how could Qin Shi Huang tolerate Lü Buwei and persecute him step by step, until he was exiled and died of depression. Everyone in the world knows that the battle between Qin Shi Huang and Lü Buwei is completely incompatible, if it is Qin Shi Huang's funeral goods, how can there be a weapon supervised by Lü Buwei? Presumably, with the character of Qin Shi Huang, he will never tolerate this situation, isn't this terracotta army his burial mausoleum? The terracotta warriors and weapons can be determined to be unique to the Qin Dynasty, if it is not the burial mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, then who has such power and financial resources? Lü Buwei is possible, but when he was exiled in his later years, he had to be buried quietly after his death, and he didn't dare to engrave his name on the tombstone, so how could he be buried near the mausoleum chosen by Qin Shi Huang?

Is the history we are familiar with now not the real history? So what is the real history, is it rumored that Qin Shi Huang is the son of Lü Buwei, could it be for this reason? How many secrets are hidden in this? There were too many doubts and too many discoveries for a while, but the archaeological team couldn't be happy, because Expert Li died, inexplicably died in the tent where he lived alone, just when the No. 1 pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses was completely excavated. The body was sent to the hospital for examination, there were no external wounds, no poisoning, and the cause of death is a mystery.

Thinking of the strange things that Expert Li encountered in the well, people who knew the inside story couldn't help but guess whether it had anything to do with the Terracotta Warriors, after all, the death was too weird, and the time happened to be when the No. 1 pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses was completely excavated. But the doubts and fears in my heart can only be hidden deep in my heart, the death report of Expert Li was issued by the hospital, and the cause of death was unknown, because it was the critical time when the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were unearthed, the death of Expert Li was suppressed, and outsiders did not know at all, and all the archaeological staff were given a gag order. In fact, everyone knows that this is due to the power struggle at the upper level, otherwise Expert Li, who died in the line of duty, is at least a martyr, and no matter how bad it is, he will not be allowed to leave even the slightest record.

The experts who participated in the last small meeting did not hand in the minutes of that meeting, nor did they burn the records, because they did not want Expert Li to die in such an unknown way, so after several people discussed, they sealed the records in file bags and put them in the county cultural tube, and then several people wrote down some supplementary things, and attached a death examination report. The level of secrecy on the archives is extremely high, and only people at the administrative level above the provincial level are eligible to view, but how could they come to the small Lintong County, this record will be preserved, and after this special period, there will always be a chance to wait until the day when future generations will see it, at least someone will remember, the excavation of the Terracotta Warriors, and an unsung hero. What's more, maybe one day, the unsolved mystery can be solved.

Since then, for political and other reasons, no one has mentioned Expert Li again, and even the first trip to Xiyang Village has been erased, and the world knows that July 5 is the first time that the archaeological team arrived in Xiyang Village.