Entering the cave, the air was warm, and we first passed through a zigzag corridor before approaching the tomb, which was carried down diagonally, not steeply, but with a very clear downward trend.

The air was dry and humid, and after walking forward for less than five or six minutes, Ge Zhuang, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, turned around and pointed to the forked road crossing that appeared in front of him, and said Little pumpkin, the time has come for you to make a choice.

I said, Commander, isn't it you? It's up to you to command. The dead fat man muttered a big-faced plate, saying that when I went to school, what I was most afraid of was the choice, and I didn't shake the dice, so let's come.

I walked up and knocked on the depths of the tomb, one left and one right, two roads, black and pressing, searchlights could not find the ground, the two tombs were like door gods holding the main tomb, no matter which direction I went, it felt as if I had entered the stomach of a crocodile.

"It's not a good choice!" I squatted at the entrance of the cave, holding a cloth towel to probe, there was wind in the left passage, the cloth towel floated up, hot, the air was very dry, I transferred the cloth towel to the right, this passage was lifeless, as if the python opened its mouth and waited, and it made people feel cold in their bones.

Pointing to the road on the left, he said go this way! Ge Zhuang asked me why I went to the left, and I said that men are left and women are right, haven't you heard of it? Ge Zhuang turned back to Chen Yun with a smile and said, "Big sister, it seems that we are going to break up." ”

"Split the fart!" I exhaled on the top of his brain, and said angrily, you believe everything I say, dead fat man, can you be serious?

Ge Zhuang glared at the little eyes, and said Didn't you say that the man was left and the woman was right? I glared at him and looked back at Chen Yun, "We're going to go to the left, do you have any other suggestions, anyway, choose one of the two, either left or right." ”

There are too few people to enter in batches, Chen Yun nodded and said Okay, then go to the left. We entered the cave together, the more we walked, the more dry we felt, and the face was warm, there was a stream of heat spraying on the body, and after walking for a while, we began to sweat, Ge Zhuang pointed to the red stone walls on both sides of the tomb, and said Why is this place so like a crater? Even the stones are reddish-brown.

I told him to shut up, don't talk nonsense, and continued to walk for about five minutes, I felt that I had been going down, looked at Chen Yun who was walking silently beside me, and asked in a low voice, "Cubans are so strange, the tomb is strange enough to be placed in the cracks of the rocks, why dig the pit so deep, I suspect that it is really possible to go to the center of the earth if you go on like this." ”

Chen Yun shook his head, saying that the existing documents have too few records of Cuba, only a few words are not clear, and the Spring and Autumn penmanship is still used, and the description is very obscure, what kind of habits these people are, no one can say, in short, they dig the cracks in the mountain, there must be a saying, as long as they continue to move forward, they will definitely be able to reach the main tomb.

"Look, there's a corridor ahead, and the fire is so bright, doesn't it look like someone is barbecuing?"

When I got here, it was no longer dark in the tomb, Ge Zhuang suddenly shouted to the front, we Chen Yun all raised our heads, at the end of the tomb, there was a passage like a stone bridge, and the faint firelight came, which was dark red.

People have been in the dark for a long time, and when they see too dazzling light at first glance, it is inevitable that they will not adapt, I said dead fatty, don't just think about eating, who will make a barbecue here? Grilled rice dumplings?

I felt a little hungry again, and we stayed in the tomb for at least a day and a night, eating compressed biscuits, not even seeing the smell of oil, and sour water in our intestines.

Chen Yun was more anxious, grabbed me and walked forward quickly, "There is a fire ahead, maybe Professor Yang is there, let's go quickly!" ”

The firelight is approaching, and in front of us is a straight passage, the pavement under our feet, piled up by white jade and Han bricks, the slightest trace of inlay, there is no trace of inlay, each diamond is one meter square, very regular, and it is extremely smooth to be polished, if it were not for the previous encounter, I even suspect that I have walked into the back garden of a large amount of earth.

The tomb is neat, the walls are perpendicular to the ground, there are several skeletons piled up in the corners, and above our heads, every twenty meters there is an "oil lamp", the lampstand is in the shape of a lotus, without the support of pillars, as if hanging in the air, and the flame on the wick burns, reflecting the tomb brightly.

Chen Yun couldn't help but sigh, "This is simply a miracle!" Ge Zhuang smacked his mouth and said a few broken drill bits, what is there to praise? Chen Yun couldn't help but retort to him, "Do you know what the ancients used to polish white jade Han bricks thousands of years ago?" And in what way is the road paved? Such a neat workmanship would have to take a lot of effort to build even a modern man, which was simply an impossible task in ancient times. ”

Ge Zhuang said, anyway, I don't think this broken brick is very valuable, and it is not as good as the chandelier overhead.

We all looked at the top of our heads, the cyan lotus-shaped lamp hole hung in the air, as if floating overhead, everything was so weird, the flame was very bright, very transparent, I couldn't help but ask, "What did the Cubans add to the lamp, why is it almost 2,000 years, and the lights in this tomb have not been extinguished?" ”

"It should be a special fuel, made from the grease of a living person." Chen Yun frowned and explained in a deep voice, "In the past, I followed Professor Yang to a Han Dynasty tomb, and the tomb was also brightly lit, which was very similar to the environment here, and a golden jade robe was unearthed there. ”

"Is the golden jade clothes very valuable?" When Ge Zhuang heard the word Jin Yu, his eyes lit up. Chen Yun said helplessly, "A priceless treasure, it can't be measured by money, the owner of the ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty was buried in a golden jade robe, and the body can remain incorruptible for thousands of years, which is particularly magical." ”

"Isn't that a dry corpse?" Ge Zhuang and I both smacked our tongues. Chen Yun shook his head again, and said no, the corpse didn't know what method was used to preserve it, not only was it not corrupted, but even the moisture was kept very well, just like a few days after he died, but unfortunately we didn't take precautions when we went to the tomb, resulting in too fast air circulation, and the corpse turned into a puddle of yellow water in two minutes, and the golden jade robe was left behind, and it was taken away by the people above, saying that it was to study the material of the jade robe.

Ge Zhuang was indignant, and said What kind of research are you doing, a thousand-year-old jade, it's worth a lot of money to take it apart and sell it, right?

Chen Yun glared at Ge Zhuang and said very seriously, "I solemnly declare once again, we are archaeological, not backwards, no matter what crooked thoughts you have, please put it away for me, don't forget that you are still guilty." ”

Ge Zhuang's brain was bulging, I saw that the situation was not good, and the two were about to quarrel again, so I quickly pulled Ge Zhuang to the side, desperately handed over his eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said that good men don't fight with women, and fat men don't care about you.

In order to change the topic, I pointed to the "hanging lamp" above my head and asked Chen Yun, "Let's talk about the lamp, what methods did the ancients use to ensure that the lamp oil inside burns for thousands of years?" Chen Yun looked at me angrily,

"Sima Nan, you are so stupid, how can anything burn for a thousand years? After the tomb is closed, the oil lamp will accelerate the itching, and when the oxygen in the air is burned, the oil lamp will naturally go out, and when we open the tomb again, the air will form a convection flow again, and the remaining grease in the lamp will contact oxygen, and it will continue to burn, which is the same as the spontaneous combustion of phosphorus fire. ”