Chapter 2 The Discovery of Ancient Caves
Zhejiang Province, Huzhou City, Shanlian Town.
The torrential rain has stopped, but it is still drizzling.
It's been three days since I came to Shanlian, and my parents and some archaeologists have been carefully digging the earthen wall every day.
When she first arrived, Xiao Ling also followed her parents to see the antique earthen wall that was said to be more than 2,000 years old, and to be honest, she couldn't see that it was special.
Watching a group of scholars and experts with an average age of almost sixty years old carefully working on a small broken wall, Xiao Ling really couldn't stand it, and he had the urge to kick it over, but he didn't have the courage to do so.
A group of old-fashioned persistence has worn away Xiao Ling's patience.
In order not to make headlines about "destroying cultural relics" impulsively, Xiao Ling decided to go around by himself.
Sitting in a taxi alone, with snow-white headphones in his ears, looking at the unfamiliar scenery that was gradually receding, Xiao Ling was stunned.
"The most beautiful scene of my life is meeting you,
Looking at you quietly in the vast sea of people, strange and familiar,
Even though I breathe the breath of the same sky, I can't hug you,
If you change your identity and name, I hope to recognize your eyes,
Where will you be in a thousand years, what kind of scenery will you have around you,
Our story isn't pretty,
But it's so hard to forget......"
Familiar music flows into the ears and into the heart.
Xiao Ling's mind suddenly appeared, ancient houses, rivers, small bridges, forests, guzheng, brushes, and even battlefields and some people in strange costumes. There was also a tall figure in armor......
"Girl, the Menggong Temple has arrived." A Huzhou dialect interrupted Xiao Ling's thoughts.
Xiao Ling glanced at the scene outside the car and paid and got out of the car.
Under the shade of green trees, Xiao Ling saw the Menggong Ancestral Hall of the palace-style building, the hall is the top of the mountain, and the eaves are warped. There are corridors around the hall, all are provided with stone railings, there are 10 corridors in front of the main hall, display all kinds of lake pens.
The front porch pillars and the hall are hung with plaques and couplets written by many famous calligraphers.
In the middle of the hall is the colored sculpture Meng Tian and his wife, and there is a tall statue that I don't know who it is, Meng Tian wears a marshal helmet on his head, an oblique ancestor robe, and the armor on the right wall is exposed.
Xiao Ling looked at Meng Tian, who had a mustache, a strong body and a slightly rounded body, and an old face, and couldn't help but feel a throbbing pain and a sour feeling in his heart.
Xiao Ling didn't return to the hotel until the evening, and when she returned to her parents' suite, her parents had miraculously returned, and she remembered that they came back in the middle of the night a few days ago and went out early in the morning.
They were discussing something in the living room and seemed very excited, and they didn't notice Xiao Ling's return.
"Why did you come back so early today?" Xiao Ling's appearance interrupted the discussion between the two.
"Where have you been today?" Ling Yue asked Xiao Ling.
Xiao Ling sat on the sofa, "I didn't go anywhere, just walked around." ”
"It's not as good as Beijing, you don't know the place well, and you don't understand the language, but you have to be careful." Ling Yue reminded Xiao Ling, "Tomorrow we will open the cave, and the research work will also begin, and then your father and I will not be able to take care of you." ”
"You're finally going to dig through that wall?"
Xiao Ling was interested, and it was only one meter seven or eight high, fifty or sixty meters wide to break the earth wall, but a group of archaeologists tossed for three days and finally saw the light of day again.
"Yes! Your mother and I are looking forward to it, and based on our experience, we can see that the earthen wall is at least 2,000 years old. ”
"Two thousand years? It's really 2,000 years! Wasn't that the Qin Dynasty? Could it be related to Meng Tian of the Qin Dynasty? Xiao Ling asked excitedly.
Xiao Wei and Ling Yue glanced at each other, "When did you become interested in history?" also knew that it was the Qin Dynasty 2,000 years ago, and even Meng Tian knew it. ”
It's no wonder that Xiao Wei and Ling Yue look down on Xiao Ling, Xiao Ling is a science tyrant, but the liberal arts are not very good, especially history.
Xiao Ling has always disliked history, especially ancient Chinese history, and when she was going to study history in junior high school, her history test papers were all hung with red lights.
Xiao Ling ignored his parents' sarcasm and continued to ask, "Is the cave going to open tomorrow?" ”
"Yes."
"I'll go see it tomorrow and join in the fun."
Dropping these words, Xiao Ling got up and went back to his room, leaving his parents with puzzled faces.
The beautiful scenery of Hanshan has already set up a separation belt and a plastic greenhouse at this time, although it is a rainy weather, but can not stop people from coming from all over the world to see the lively.
The black-pressed crowd circled several layers along the barrier, all of them craned their necks, scrambling to see what was ahead.
Xiao Ling went through the back door due to the relationship between his parents, and received special care, so he didn't have to stand in the crowd and look forward to it, but was mixed in with the staff and protected by the cordon.
Finally, the earthen wall was carefully removed by the archaeologists piece by piece, and excitement overflowed everyone's faces, including Xiao Ling, who was making a fool of himself.
The earthen wall was removed and a cave appeared, the cave was pitch black, someone brought a flashlight, seven or eight people immediately walked into the cave, and Xiao Ling also followed them in.
The narrow passage was just over two meters long, and finally came to a more open space with pots and bowls, as well as some rotten wood chips.
Disappointment slowly crept up on the faces of every archaeologist, who worked hard for three days hoping for some amazing discovery, but only got this result, can you not be disappointed!
Xiao Ling didn't feel anything, and looked around at this small cave as if sightseeing.
Seeing a small cobblestone protruding from the rock wall, Xiao Ling, who was sent by the ghost, reached out to touch the stone, feeling that it seemed to be moving, and at this time, it seemed that an invisible hand was pulling Xiao Ling, and her hand slowly twisted the cobblestone.
Suddenly, a stone gate cracked out of the originally intact stone wall, and when the sound of the stone gate activated, everyone's faces immediately rose with hope and rushed into the stone gate.
Xiao Ling, who was the first to discover the mechanism, was stunned by her own discovery, and when she didn't react, she was squeezed aside by the crowd that was squeezed in, and when she reacted, there was only herself in the hole!
She walked into the stone gate, which was a much larger space than the outside.
Unlike the darkness outside, the inside was unusually bright, and the light came from the fact that there was an egg-sized night pearl at the left and right ends of the entrance to the cave.
As soon as you enter the door, you will see a huge coffin made of stone in the middle of the stone cave, blocking everyone's view.
"Is this a burial chamber?" There was speculation.
"It should be." Everyone has basically acquiesced to this answer.
With the initial guess, everyone began to work, and by the time everyone had rounded the coffin, the answer to the tomb began to make everyone suspicious!
The inner room around the coffin was even wider, and four more night pearls were placed between the walls.
Inside, it actually looks more like a bedroom, with a dresser, a large stone bed, and a small table made of low stone.
What makes all the archaeologists even more messy is that there is a round stone table inside, on which there is a rectangular thing covered with black fur, and there are two stone benches around the stone table.
They were a little disappointed, according to their preliminary judgment, this place belonged to many years ago, and no one between them except Xiao Ling didn't feel how abrupt the table appeared here!