11. Juding
Yang Xiaoqi's words were really stopped by me. I've had some contact with bricks and mud before, but I've never done such a high-tech job as digging holes.
This is not on the same system as the work I am currently working with. Digging a hole is easy to say, but if you really dig deeper, if you don't have the most skill, then the final result is that you will be buried alive, or you will be suffocated in the hole you dug out.
I shook my head and said no, let Yang Xiaoqi figure it out by himself.
"Why did you follow the beard for a while, and you didn't come into contact with the work of a soil mouse?" I asked him disbelievingly.
Yang Xiaoqi shook his head and said, "I won't let my beard move, saying that I am afraid that I will dig it up." ”。
"So what do we do?" I asked.
Yang Xiaoqi said what he could do. Let's give it a try.
The rest of the work was much more difficult for us, and the two of us searched the entire clearing, and there were absolutely no caves other than blood-red dirt.
This is good, the thief hole must be dug.
Yang Xiaoqi used his half-hung tomb robbery skills, and clumsily listed the prototype of a dungeon on the ground with a tree branch.
It is emphasized here that professional tomb robbers will eradicate their own empirical judgment, and can list the shape of the dungeon on the ground.
Chinese culture has a long history, and the length of time between dynasties varies, not to mention the differences between each dynasty, and even the design of tombs in the early and late dynasties is sometimes different. All of this must be judged by one's own experience, and cannot be learned.
The danger of robbing the hole is definitely not simpler than going down to the tomb, because if you are not careful, you will touch the trap laid by the owner of the tomb, in that case, I am afraid that in the end, it will be a chicken and an egg, and if you don't do it, you will have to take your life. Therefore, if a thief hole is hit, the most important one will lead to the tomb, in case any fool who does not open his eyes will hit the thief hole on the Seven Treasure glazed tiles, or the quicksand layer and so on the tomb guarding mechanism, then the tomb will be destroyed.
Moreover, because the structure of the tombs is different in each dynasty, it is even more difficult.
When I look at the prototype of the underground palace drawn by Yang Xiaoqi, no matter how I look at it, I think it is in the shape of a rural pigsty. I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat.
"Are you sure?" I asked with a hard swallow.
Yang Xiaoqi shook his head and said: "Even if the beard comes, it may not be certain, this tomb in ancient times is no more historical than the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties." The period of the Yellow Emperor is the origin of Chinese culture, and even some foreign scholars do not admit that there was such an era, so no one can say what the tomb would be like at that time. ”。
His meaning is very simple, in this case, it is impossible to consider the possibility of the method, everything can only be left to fate.
I nodded, agreeing with him.
The two of us took the sapper shovels and began to grope our way to the ground below. Fortunately, the geology here is quite soft, and there is no need to make soil, which saves us a lot of trouble.
When we started digging, the two of us were very aggressive, but later we became cautious, because we had already gone down to a depth of four or five meters, and we would not necessarily go out if the digging collapsed.
In that case, we will become the most glorious people who will die in the inverted fighting world, crushed to death by the thief hole we have beaten.
The inside of the thief cave gradually became darker, Yang Xiaoqi took out the wind lamp in his backpack, dug a small grid on one side, and put the lamp in.
Half an hour later, the military communist shovel finally heard the sound of 'dangchang'. Dig hard stuff underneath the reality.
I was overjoyed, and slowly removed the dirt on one side, leaking out the bluestone inside. Note that it is bluestone, not bluebrick.
"There is a play" I put my mind at ease, knowing that the underground palace painted by Yang Xiaoqi is quite useful.
Yang Xiaoqi knocked on the stone wall with a shovel, looked at me and asked, "Do you think there will be a mechanism on this stone wall?" ”。
I crouched down and looked at him for a while, and instead of answering his words, I asked, "Where are you referring to this tomb?" ”。
Yang Xiaoqi was stunned for a moment and said that it should be the main tomb.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. What's wrong? Yang Xiaoqi asked confidently.
I remembered the documentaries I had watched before, and I said worriedly: "Generally, the main burial chamber is set up, and if you say that this is the main burial chamber, we should be careful when we go in." ”。
Yang Xiaoqi didn't even look at me and said, "It's useless to fart." Do you say that this wall is being demolished, or is the stone bricks slowly being pulled out? ”。
"Can you pull out the stone bricks?" I asked in surprise.
"No, you can't. That's the work of the beard and the flying mirror. I've only seen it, but I don't have that ability. Yang Xiaoqi said simply.
I scolded him for talking a fart, a wall is just so ink, how to walk the road behind? Demolished.
Yang Xiaoqi nodded and told me to stay away. Then start smashing the wall with an armament shovel.
The steel mouth of the army's shovel was unusually sharp, but it was not suitable for smashing the wall, and Yang Xiaoqi spent a long time fiddling to make a hole the size of a football in the stone wall. He pried the stone bricks down the cracks, and in a few moments, a half-man-high hole appeared.
The moment the hole opened, there was a musty smell inside, which was caused by the lack of ventilation for many years.
We didn't dare to rush in, but opened another hole in the robbery cave to lead to it, and used the air circulation from the two holes to bring out the moldy air in the tomb, although this would destroy some of the contents of the tomb, but it was the safest way. We didn't wear gas masks on this trip, and it was difficult to deal with the complicated air quality.
The two men rested for a while under the root of the tree, ate something, and drank some water. Forty minutes later, at 3:53 p.m., the two of us packed up our gear and began to prepare for the grave.
When we came to the hole in the stone wall again, and made sure that there was no problem with the air quality inside, we picked up the wolf's eye flashlight and walked inside.
After entering the inside, I realized that Yang Xiaoqi's judgment was still wrong. This is not the main burial chamber at all, because there are no coffins. In the middle of the place, there is a huge tripod standing there.
Because the body is black, I can't tell what the material is for a while. At the same time, I had another thought in my heart, did the people of that period have mastered the technology of firing bronze?
I asked Yang Xiaoqi to hear his opinion.
He patted me on the shoulder and said disdainfully: "Brother, haven't you heard of the legends of 'Chiyou Soldiers' and 'Yellow Emperor Casting Ding'?" ”。
"But that's just a legend, huh?" I say.
Yang Xiaoqi glanced at me and said, "If this tomb is really the Yellow Emperor's, then the legend will become a fact." ”。
I nodded. Know that what he says makes sense.
The two of us were arguing around the giant ding, and Yang Xiaoqi also carefully scratched the tripod with a dagger, it was indeed a bronze artifact.
I asked him to stop destroying cultural relics, looked around, there was a passage on the left and right, and asked Yang Xiaoqi, "Which one do we take?" ”。
He glanced at the compass, pointed to the one on the left, and walked in first.
"Be careful." I followed him out as I spoke.