A few years ago, Zhao Zimeng also had a major tomb robbery case.

It was a princely tomb in the Three Kingdoms period, and the tomb robbers looted the burial goods in the tomb and left the bodies of two companions in the tomb.

Zhao Zimeng clearly remembered that the location of the robbery hole was on the northeast corner of the tomb, and it was inserted diagonally from the entrance and exit to the tomb, at a forty-five degree angle.

The maximum diameter of the entrance is about fifty centimeters, which means that the entrance of the cave is round, and such a small cave is only enough to accommodate one person in and out of the tomb, and it must be a thin person.

The entrance to the cave in front of him was irregular in shape, and there were traces of shovels on the walls of the cave on the east and west sides at the widest point, and there was only one possibility: when the tomb robbers took the contents of the tomb out of the hole, the hole was too small and not large enough.

The tomb robbers dug the hole into a rectangle according to the size and shape of the burial goods.

Professor Nie's analysis coincided with Zhao Zimeng: "Captain Zhao, there must be a large vessel in the tomb, the length of this large vessel should be about ninety centimeters, if you want to get such a large vessel out of the thief hole, the thief hole must be slightly wider than the utensils." ”

Professor Nie also found strong evidence: "Look at the east and west sides of the cave wall. Professor Nie pointed to the cave wall.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei followed the direction pointed by Professor Nie and saw that there were traces of shovels and pickaxes on the east and west walls of the cave.

On the walls of the cave on the north and south sides, the same traces are not visible, and they are still very smooth.

What's the wonder it's not smooth? According to the two professors, the length of the hole is at least about eight meters, and it takes about half a month to dig a hole about eight meters long, according to the location of the mound.

Due to the limited space in the cave, there can only be one person digging the hole, and the speed is relatively slow, which is the main reason why the tomb robbers chose to start at No. 117.

This excavation time is long, and tomb robbers come in and out, so shouldn't the entrance of the cave be smooth.

In the beginning, the hole must have been rounded, in order to save time and energy?

The hardest part of robbing a tomb is determining the location of the burial chamber and then deciding where to excavate it.

Digging a hole is the hardest, most time-consuming and physically demanding job.

Therefore, if you can dig a little less, you can dig a little less, and as for taking the contents of the tomb, it only takes a blink of an eye.

When the tomb robbers entered the tomb and found large vessels, they had to dig a larger hole.

To some extent, in this regard, Professor Nie's experience is much richer than that of Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei.

The professor is an archaeologist and has participated in several rescue excavations of ancient tombs in the past.

Why salvage excavation? Because the robbery hole was found near the ancient tomb, the early tomb robbers used manual excavation, and most of the later tomb robbers used ** to blow up a passage, as long as it was a manually dug robbery hole, the hole must be round.

If there are large vessels in the tomb, the tomb robbers will dig a large hole, as long as they can get things out of the hole.

"What kind of large vessel will it be?" Zhao Zimeng looked at Professor Nie and Professor Le in confusion.

"Ding is more likely." Professor Nie said as he knelt on the ground and poked his upper body into the thief hole.

After a while, Professor Nie straightened up, "It should be Ding." Look, old Le—"

Professor Le also knelt down, leaned over, and looked in the direction that Professor Nie was pointing for a moment.

Professor Le finally saw it.

Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei also saw it.

On the four corners of the rectangular opening, there are four distinct grooves, the depths of the grooves are different, the deepest place is one centimeter deep, and the shallowest place is only half a centimeter deep.

These four grooves are supposed to have been left on the walls of the cave when the robbers removed the large vessels from the cave.

Professor Le finally concluded: "Lao Nie is right, it should be Ding. This is probably a very high-standard mausoleum. It's a shame to be ruined by these grave robbers. Professor Jin frowned.

At this time, Xiao Luhan walked over quickly, followed by four people.

"Captain, this is Master Chen, he is the driver of the excavator, these workers are the workers at the scene, and the four of them discovered the hole.

I've made a note, what else does the captain have to ask? Xiao Luhan was thoughtful, and he was worried that there were problems that he hadn't thought of.

"Four masters, please tell me more about the situation at that time." Xiao Luhan said.

"At that time, there was a layer of soil in this room, and Master Chen dug it with an excavator, and it turned out to be two stone slabs — you see, these are the two stone slabs." A master pointed to two stone slabs on the ground.

A stone slab is about 70 centimeters long, about 50 centimeters wide, and about 5 centimeters thick; The other slab is about 80 centimeters long and 60 centimeters wide, and has the same thickness as the first.

Next to the slate and under everyone's feet is loess, the color of the soil and the loess on the wall of the cave are the same color, and the soil used to cover the slate should be the soil dug out of the cave.

Zhao Zimeng found that the soil in the yard was also loess.

He guessed that the tomb robbers might have covered the entrance of the cave with a stone slab after committing the crime, and covered the stone slab with a layer of loess.

If the developer's plan is not adjusted, the houses here will be completely covered with loess after they are demolished. Then this grave robbery murder case will be buried forever under the ruins and loess.

"Could a few masters please recall, where were they when you saw the lanterns and porcelain tiles?"

The four workers reminisced together and finally determined the location of the lantern and the porcelain tiles.

The porcelain tiles are under and next to the bluestone slabs, partly under the bluestone slabs and partly next to the bluestone slabs—located south of the cave entrance.

The horse lantern is about two meters away from the bluestone slab and about one meter away from the door of the East House.

"Two professors, where is the bronze mirror?"

Professor Le walked to the west of the cave: "We found the bronze mirror in this pile of soil. ”

Master Chen said, "The soil here is here—" Master Chen walked to the south side of the cave. "I moved here with an excavator.

Zhao Zimeng wanted to judge what might happen to the tomb robbers after they crawled out of the cave - or in the process of climbing out of the cave - through the location of the porcelain tiles, horse lanterns and bronze mirrors, and if the situation at that time could be restored, of course it would be the best.

"Who is in charge of the construction site?" Zhao Zimeng asked loudly.

Director Zhang looked around, and then said loudly to a man wearing a hard hat in the crowd, "Manager Feng, come over for a moment." Captain Zhao, this is Manager Feng. ”

A kind-looking middle-aged man walked up to Director Zhang and Zhao Zimeng: "Director Zhang, what do you command?" ”

"Manager Feng, can you ask your workers to help me do something?"

"Captain Zhao, you say."

"Can you help us clean the bricks and wood from the house, we hope to find the traces left by the tomb robbers, they won't be in 117 for a short time, they will definitely live in a certain room, and they will probably eat here."

"If our judgment is not wrong, they will definitely leave some traces."

"I understand, no problem, there are a total of ten large and small rooms in this courtyard, except for the first entrance hall and one or two kitchens that cannot be inhabited, seven rooms can live in people, fortunately, the wall foundation is still there."

"Captain Xiao, come over here." Manager Feng greeted the crowd.

A person came out of the crowd, and this person was about fifty years old: "Manager Feng, what do you want us to do?" You say. ”

"Call all your men, and clean the other six rooms of the house, remembering, only the bricks, clods, and lumber. Don't touch the rest, remember, tell the brothers to touch their hands and feet. ”

Zhao Zimeng walked up to Manager Feng and Captain Xiao: "The two kitchens are the focus. ”

Tomb robbers need to eat, and they need a kitchen to eat, so the kitchen should be the focus.

"Understood, the big guys are coming." Captain Xiao raised his hand and said loudly.

After a while, more than 30 workers wearing hard hats surrounded them.

"Director Zhang, let your people help." Zhao Zimeng said.

"Okay".

Director Zhang took seven of his subordinates and began to clean up with the workers.

After Lin Di took a few more photos, Ling Hu Yunfei took the lead and went down to the cave first.

The body was at the bottom of the cave, about 2.5 meters from the entrance of the cave.

Ling Hu Yunfei understood: Before removing the body, an autopsy must be carried out, and the environment around the body must be investigated. The area around the corpse and inside the cave should be the focus of the investigation.

When Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei were about to enter the robbery cave, the already noisy crowd was even more noisy, it turned out that there were many elementary school students, and it was time to get out of school.

On the way to the car, at the entrance of Huaigu Village, there is a primary school - the name of the school is Huaigu Village Primary School.

Hundreds of elementary school students poured into the scene at once, and they had to be like a flock of ducks going down to the pond - chirping non-stop!

Some of the little ones simply got into the crowd and stood outside the cordon, carrying school bags, with their arms open, their heads steaming, and some of the children ran all the way.

Lin Di skillfully installed a flash device on the camera, and the light under the thief cave was relatively dim.

Captain Xiao sent someone to bring a bamboo ladder and slowly put it into the thief hole.

Ling Hu Yunfei took the light from Ma Jianping and was the first to go up the bamboo ladder.

Linghu Yunfei held the lamp in his hand and observed the surrounding environment as he walked down.

The light in the cave was very dim, and when he walked to the sixth step of the bamboo ladder, Ling Hu Yunfei saw a robbery hole extending to the north, the hole was about one meter high and about sixty centimeters wide, exactly the same as the entrance of the cave.

As for how long the thief cave is, Yun Fei can't visually detect it, in short, he can't see the bottom at a glance.

Ling Hu Yunfei walked down the bamboo ladder, took a big step, and crossed the corpse, Ling Hu Yunfei wanted to see if there were any corpses in the depths of the thief cave.

Ling Hu Yunfei carried the lamp and walked cautiously forward three or four steps, when an arched tomb made of blue bricks suddenly appeared in front of him.

The tomb is about two meters high and about one and a half meters wide, which made Hu Yunfei want to go further, but was blocked by a large stone slab lying on the ground.

Linghu Yunfei aimed the pillar of light of the lamp in front of him, but he still couldn't see his head in front of him.

He thought to himself: It is indeed an ancient tomb of high specifications and ranks.

Water was seeping down the walls of the tomb, and Yunfei noticed that there was water on the ground as well.