"I understand, pry from the side, then move forward slowly, where you can, you don't need a shovel."

"Lao Chen, you bring five people over, starting with the line drawn by my feet." Captain Xiao quickly grasped Zhao Zimeng's intentions - he said as he drew a line on the ground with his toes.

Six workers and Captain Xiao lined up and began to pry the floor tiles from the west.

All seven of them used their hands, and strangely enough, the bricks were very loose and rose up as soon as they were flicked.

"Team Zhao, someone must have touched these bricks." Ma Jianping was very excited.

In about 20 minutes, all the bricks on the open space were cleared, and at this time, the people present were surprised to find that not only the bricks had been moved, but even the soil below had been turned over.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei also noticed that six places in the passive soil seemed to be a little concave, and most of them were concentrated about four meters away from the entrance of the robbery cave, and this place was where the entrance of the tomb was located.

Zhao Zimeng squatted down, slowly brushed away the loose soil with his hands, and found that there were six obvious concave places, which were evenly distributed and very symmetrical. According to visual inspection, these six depressions should be above and in front of the entrance of the tomb.

"Please bring me two shovels, Captain Xiao, do me a favor, let's dig on both sides at the same time." Zhao Zimeng said.

The two workers comprehended and handed the shovel to Zhao Zimeng and Captain Xiao.

The two faced the direction of the bamboo forest, and one person began to dig up. The place where the spade is lowered is about two meters from the base of the backyard wall.

The workers stood on the brick team and watched; Ling Hu Yunfei, Director Zhang, and Xiang Daimo squatted next to them; Ma Jianping, Xiao Luhan and Lin Di stood behind the three.

The crowd in the distance was talking, and the tall pile of bricks blocked their view, although they couldn't see the scene, they could only be in a hurry, but they didn't miss the opportunity to gossip.

When Captain Xiao dug up the third shovel soil, he suddenly said, "Captain Zhao, come and see—"

Zhao Zimeng put down the shovel in his hand and stepped forward, he saw that there was a green brick in the place where Captain Xiao had just laid the shovel - the green brick was lying horizontally in the soil - the color of this brick was the same as the green brick laid on the ground.

"Sure enough." Zhao Zimeng used his hand to remove all the soil on the green brick, and then slowly picked it up.

Everyone was stunned, there was a cylindrical deep hole under the green brick, and the diameter of the hole was about 14 centimeters.

Zhao Zimeng had seen the Luoyang shovel, the width of this shovel happened to be about fourteen centimeters, he and Linghu Yunfei were more familiar with this kind of hole, he knew that such a hole could only be dug by the Luoyang shovel.

And this green brick is used to block the entrance of the cave. Plug the entrance of the cavern with bricks, cover it with some soil, and then lay the floor tiles, so that it is completely indistinguishable from the other floors in the courtyard.

"There should be a hole like this."

A minute later, Zhao Zimeng also dug a similar cavern in the corresponding place, and the location of the two caverns, one in the east and one in the west, the distance between the caves was about 90 centimeters.

Next, Zhao Zimeng and Captain Xiao dug four symmetrical holes with the same distance to the south of the two caverns.

The six caverns are generally the size, shape and depth are a complete masterpiece of a tool.

The crowd of onlookers in the distance didn't know why, but they still stubbornly craned their necks and looked at the place stubbornly, while mouthing some gossip.

Linghu Yunfei asked the workers present to find a bamboo pole more than one zhang long.

Holding the bamboo pole, he interviewed and probed the depths in the six exploration holes.

The two northernmost caverns are about three meters deep, and the four southernmost caves are between 3.1 and 3.2 meters deep.

He analyzed: the bottom of the northernmost two caves should be the top of the tomb, and the bottom of the four caves in the south is in front of the entrance of the tomb.

Under this premise, they chose the entrance to the cave in Professor Cai's room, and the gang began their criminal deeds under the cover of the courtyard wall and the house.

"Yunfei, these two caves in the north, explore again." Zhao Zimeng said.

Ling Hu Yunfei understood what Team Zhao meant.

He poked the two caves on the north side with a bamboo pole, and from the bottom of the caves there was a faint sound of "tuk-tuk-tuk", which should be the sound made by the head of the bamboo pole when it touched a hard object, and the top of the tomb was made of green bricks.

Then he poked the bamboo pole in the four caves to the south, and the sound coming from the bottom of the caverns was dull, as if the depth of the caves still had room for the bamboo poles to move down further.

The bottom of these caves is probably soil, soft to the touch, and the bamboo pole pokes it down hard, and it naturally goes down.

Zhao Zimeng determined that the tomb robbers determined the location of the tomb entrance through six exploration holes.

"Yunfei, I think there should be more than these caves, and there may be on the back of the courtyard wall."

Zhao Zimeng's judgment was soon further confirmed.

After that, several people found eleven caves in the bamboo forest on the north side of the courtyard wall, these caves are on the left shoulder and right shoulder at the top of the tomb road, and the tomb road is the same, it is also in a north-south direction, the deeper the cave goes deeper and deeper, and the deepest cave is more than nine meters.

The gang of tomb robbers was very clever, and they probably followed the tomb path all the way to the entrance to the tomb.

It was this demolition that they wanted to take advantage of, as well as the cover of the courtyard wall and house No. 117.

If it weren't for the developer's temporary change of the original plan, I am afraid that this late Ming Dynasty tomb and the murder that occurred in the ancient tomb would be buried forever in the ground and would not be able to see the light of day again.

Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei and Captain Xiao also found four caves in the woods north of the bamboo forest, the depth of the cave is about eleven meters, according to the distance from the entrance of the cave to the tomb, the bottom of these four caves should be the top of the tomb.

Zhao Zimeng flashed a lot of information in his mind at this time: Who had the opportunity to dig a hole in the courtyard of No. 117?

Professor Cai's son, Cai Yaohui, and Rao Zhan, a tenant who lives at No. 117, are both suspicious.

Judging by the softness of the soil underneath the bricks, this case will not take long. The timing may be when Professor Cai is hospitalized for the last time.

Of course, the suspicion of Professor Cai and his wife cannot be ruled out.

The couple moved from Ninghai Road to Huaigu Village, which in itself is worth scrutinizing.

Professor Cai and his wife originally lived in a building on Ninghai Road, one son was out of town, and only one son and one daughter in western Beijing, the daughter did not live with them, and she had a house near the hospital.

The house on Ninghai Road is large, and it is more than enough for the old couple and their son and daughter-in-law to live in it, so why do they have to move to this old village?

It seems a bit far-fetched for the old couple to live in this No. 117 on the grounds that they like to be quiet.

I have met Professor Cai and his wife, and this old couple is also kind.

However, this does not serve as a reason to rule out the suspicion of Professor Cai and his wife. Now, all those associated with the circumstances in which the crime occurred must be brought into view.

Lin Di began to take pictures of the scene at this time. whereas

Several other gay men continued to conduct a second search at the scene, and although yesterday's investigation was serious, there were still some omissions. Besides, this place is in ruins, and no fingerprints were recovered from the objects at the site yesterday.

Naturally, we have to carefully investigate it again today.

After a while, several comrades completed the investigation work, but found nothing, and the group said goodbye to Manager Feng and Captain Xiao, intending to leave the scene.

At this time, Professor Nie and Professor Jin suddenly led the comrades of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau to come.

After listening to the reports of the two professors, the leaders of the Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics attached great importance to the ancient tomb of the late Ming Dynasty in Ion Mountain, and they came to the scene again today after consulting the Municipal Party Committee.

Zhao Zimeng shook hands with the group of people from the Cultural Relics Bureau and left the scene.

After Director Zhang of the Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics shook hands with Manager Feng and Captain Xiao, he took out a document from his purse.

The above content is that the Municipal Bureau wants to protect the ancient tomb of the Late Ming Dynasty in Ion Mountain, in addition to the steel seal of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, there is also the large seal of the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau has been recorded, and the new planning of Huaigu Village has been cancelled and is still implemented according to the original plan.

Zhao Zimeng arranged for Hu Yunfei and them to return to the team first, found Cao Runan by himself, and invited him to the bamboo forest to talk, accompanied by Director Zhang and Qin Dazhao.

The bamboo forest is on the top of the ancient tomb, the growth is dense, unusually quiet, it is the love holy place of many young people, at this time it is the early autumn deciduous period, there is a thick layer of bamboo leaves on the ground.

It's a great place to talk.

From finding Cao Runan in the crowd to walking into the depths of the bamboo forest, Uncle Cao's expression seemed to be very solemn, yesterday afternoon, he was not like this.

Zhao Zimeng noticed the change in Cao Runan's mood.

The four of them stood still, and Qin Dazhao stood not far behind Zhao Zimeng and Director Zhang to serve as a guard task, and this conversation could not be interfered with by others.

Zhao Zimeng took out two pieces of paper from his handbag, which were simulated portraits of the first and second deceased, and handed them to Uncle Cao.

"Uncle Cao, do you know these two people? These are the two men we brought out of the cave and the tomb yesterday. ”

"Captain Zhao, I remember, didn't the faces of those two people be ruined?" Uncle Cao asked in surprise.

"Yes, this is a mock-up of the skull of the deceased, you can recognize it."

"W-can this be the same as a real person?"

"The similarity is more than 90 percent."

"Oh, I'll see." Uncle Cao picked up the two portraits and looked at them carefully for a while.

"Have you seen these two?" Zhao Zimeng asked.

"Nope. I don't recognize these two people. Cao Runan shook his head.

"Are you sure? Uncle Cao, think about it again. ”

"I really don't know." Cao Runan replied with great certainty.