Chapter 60: The Ancient Tombs
Sure enough, Director Tian's face turned red, and he hurriedly grabbed Uncle Qingcang's arm, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm telling the child about the danger, why are you following along, who else do I know besides you?" ”
"It's good to know, okay, I brought the two children, and I will be responsible for the safety of both of them, you just don't have to worry about it." Uncle Qingcang glanced at Director Tian.
With a helpless face, Director Tian had no choice but to shake his head, turn around and lead us to the camp.
I didn't expect that the scale of the excavation work was so large, and even the armed police and police came, and when he saw our surprised looks, Director Tian explained.
It turned out that the last time in the ancient tomb in the village, Director Tian found a bamboo slip, it stands to reason that the bamboo slip will not be used as a recording tool in that era, but fortunately the bamboo slip is used, otherwise with paper or silk and other things, the text may be incomplete.
The characters on it are not common Chinese characters, so Director Tian found a text expert to crack it, and only then did he find the clues of the current ancient tomb.
According to Director Tian, the tomb found in Uncle Qingcang's village was just one of the points in a large tomb complex, and this one was actually the same, but it was two to three times larger than the one.
I think it's strange that the so-called tomb group has to be next to each other to be called a tomb group. It's more than ten kilometers away, can you still call it that?
After listening to my question, Director Tian explained to me with a twinkle in his eyes: "You don't know this, according to our speculation, there are as many as one hundred and eight such ancient tombs, divided into thirty-six Tiangang and seventy-two earth-shattering, the one in the village is one of the seventy-two earth-shattering, and this is one of the thirty-six Tiangang, all these one hundred and eight tombs form a gossip pattern, but it is difficult to determine the location of all tombs if we only know two points, so we have a lot of work in the future." ”
Lin Yue and I were taken aback, 1808 tombs, who has such courage to arrange such a layout, in ancient times, there were no advanced measuring tools, according to the scope of Director Tian, this gossip-shaped tomb group has a range of hundreds of square kilometers, how did the ancients do it.
"When we knew it, we were as surprised as you, so the authorities attached great importance to this excavation, and if all the tombs were found, it could be called a wonder of the world, but we don't know what the ancients did this for." Director Tian said with a smile.
Uncle Qingcang snorted: "Okay, others don't know what will happen when the time comes, your kid will be promoted to become rich, no wonder you have been jumping up and down these days and always coming to me." ”
"How can you say that, you've known me for twenty years, when did I become that kind of person?" Director Tian asked with a blushing face and a thick neck.
Lin Yue and I hurriedly interrupted the quarrel between the two of us, and I deliberately pointed to a few tents in the distance and asked Director Tian, "Uncle Tian, do you all have to live here in the future?" ”
"Well, it's a place for everyone to eat, because there are hundreds of people here every day, so for convenience and time saving, we got a temporary canteen on the construction site, and the other tents are for people on duty at night." Director Tian glared at Uncle Qingcang and explained to me.
I nodded, it seems that this excavation is really large-scale, and I don't know what will be found in the tomb.
Because a cordon has been set up, the villagers who usually see the excitement are stopped outside, Director Tian took a few of us and the armed police standing guard to talk for a while, and then took us to the side of the ancient tomb.
In fact, this is a wasteland in the valley, if it weren't for Director Tian and they found this place according to the literature, ordinary people would never have imagined that there would be an ancient tomb underground.
There is an excavator next to it, a big pit has been dug out of the ground, from the big pit to the west extended into a passage about two or three meters wide, Director Tian explained to us that this big pit was dug by an excavator, but in order to prevent damage to the structure of the ancient tomb, the back of the passage is manually excavated, we can go down from the gentle slope to the bottom of the pit, and then enter the ancient tomb from the passage.
There are still a few people working in the passage with tools, and it seems that the dirt on the periphery has not been completely removed.
After looking at the situation at the scene, Uncle Qingcang asked Director Tian, "How long will it take?" ”、
"It's almost a meter, and if our reasoning is correct, this direction is the tomb gate." Director Tian said.
I saw Uncle Qingcang frowning, and couldn't help but ask him, "What's wrong, uncle?" ”
"I think it's weird, the last time the tomb in our village had a south-facing door, and this one was facing east, don't you think it's strange?" Uncle Qingcang looked at me and asked.
I nodded, "yes, it's weird, I wonder if the doors of all these tombs are pointing to the same location, which is the most important tomb in the one hundred and eight." ”
Uncle Qingcang nodded, saying that what I said was very reasonable, but then said, "This will be troublesome." ”
I was stunned: "Why? ”
Uncle Qingcang smiled, squatted on the ground and drew a sketch with a stone, and said, "Look, if what Jiang Cha just said is true, where is the location of the tomb in the center?" ”
Lin Yue and I were stunned when we saw it, that location should be in the city, this city has been developing for so many years, and it is building buildings and building subways, so the grave may have been discovered a long time ago, right?
We looked at Director Tian at the same time, and he said with an innocent face: "Look at what I'm doing, I haven't thought about this problem yet, but we haven't found any large-scale ancient tombs in the city since the founding of the People's Republic of China, so I guess that either you guessed wrong, or it hasn't been excavated yet." ”
Uncle Qingcang stood up: "Is there a map, you can find me a copy." ”
"What for?" Director Tian was confused.
"How did you become the director? Of course, it's for the sake of the spot. Uncle Qingcang rolled his eyes and said.
Director Tian just wanted to reply, thought about it for a while and felt that the business was important, glared at Uncle Qingcang and said, "I don't have the same knowledge as you, wait, I'll go over there and get it." ”
A few minutes later, Director Tian ran back, holding a map and a pen in his hand, and even brought a ruler, it seemed that he was quite thoughtful.
Everyone was not in the mood to joke anymore, so they squatted on the ground and watched Uncle Qingcang mark the map, and the tomb door of each tomb drew a straight line outward, and as soon as the two straight lines intersected, our eyes changed.
Because the place where the two lines crossed was the apartment where Su Che was located, Lin Yue opened his mouth wide and said, "Damn, it won't be such a coincidence, right?" ”
I glared at the unscrupulous girl, looked at Uncle Qingcang, he frowned and said, "Not necessarily, it may just be a coincidence, unless more tombs are found, and then the target is the most accurate." ”
But I looked at his eyes, although he said so, but his expression showed that he had believed it, even if it was not underground on the other side of the apartment, it was nearby, after all, the situation in the apartment itself was already very complicated.
But Director Tian didn't know about the apartment, and when he saw the strange looks on our faces, he was still asking, "What's wrong?" What are you nervous about? ”
I shook my head and said, "No, Uncle Tian, we just thought that if the largest ancient tomb was in the city, it would be very difficult to excavate. ”
"No, it's only this one recorded on it, and it's also a strange place for us, I hope there will be more clues here." Director Tian shook his head and said.
Are we talking here, the people digging below suddenly shouted a few times, so they hurriedly ran over to look, it turned out that they had cleared the last layer of soil, revealing a stone door to come out.
Director Tian instructed the workers to continue to clean up the remaining dirt around the stone gate, turned his head and said to Uncle Qingcang: "Prepare to go down, this first shot has to be fired by your old man, otherwise we don't have a bottom in our hearts." ”
Uncle Qingcang nodded, turned back to me and Lin Yue and said, "I'll go down with the mountain, and you two will wait on it." ”
Lin Yue was still thinking about the story that he hadn't finished just now, so he was very curious and wanted to go down together, but Uncle Qingcang sternly refused this request, and the two of us had to give up.
Actually, I thought for a long time that he wouldn't let us go in together, if it wasn't for the fact that I had just taken the map to locate it, there would still be some possibility, but not now, Uncle and I both had a layer of doubt in our hearts, and we also understood that this strange one hundred and eight tombs and the apartment might have an inexplicable connection, so the danger inside would be great, and it would be understandable that he didn't let us follow.
Lin Yue and I sat boredly on the edge of the pit, watching Uncle and Senior Brother Dashan jump into the pit, and then walked along the passage to the stone gate that had been cleared, and the two of them were carefully observing the door.
The shape of the stone gate is simple, two meters wide and three meters high, and we can't see how to open it from above, so we can only watch Uncle Qingcang's movements.
I don't know what he did, but after more than ten minutes, Uncle Qingcang said to Director Tian who was standing on the edge of the pit: "This gate weighs at least ten tons, and there is something blocking it inside, call the excavator to come over and prepare the wire rope." ”
Director Tian seemed to have been prepared, so he nodded and went to make arrangements.
I felt very curious, and couldn't help asking, "Uncle, if you pull the stone door open, aren't you afraid that the inside will collapse?" ”
Uncle Qingcang looked at me: "No, this door is only one percent of this tomb, the ancients didn't know that there would be a machine in our future, thinking that we could stump people by weight, now we just need to open it to enter, it will not affect the structure of the tomb." ”