Chapter 1: The Ancient Tomb
Chapter 1: The Tomb
In the mountains, a white Jinbei van is speeding forward, this is a county on the outskirts of Yuanshan City, it is dark at night, and there are hardly other cars on the road.
There was a slight light rain in the sky, and the music in the car was loud.
"Looks like it's going to rain tomorrow." The man sitting in the passenger seat put his hand back from the window and said with a sigh.
"Angkor, let's rest for a day," said the man reclining in the back seat.
There was a clucking rooster in the back of the car, but the three of them had grown accustomed to it.
The three of them are engaged in the purchase and wholesale of agricultural products, which is simply to buy local chickens and eggs from the villages around Yuanshan City, and then wholesale them to stores in the city that specialize in selling them.
But nowadays people are becoming less and less simple, and the villages close to the city often use feed chickens to pretend to be, and they can only go farther and farther away from the city.
"No, no, no," the man driving suddenly turned the steering wheel and parked the car on the side of the road, then pushed the door open and ran out.
"Li Bo, you kid, you just have a lot of and urine," the man known as Angkor shook his head and scolded with a smile. "Look at the point when you, don't run to other people's graves"
"Got it, got it," the voice came faintly from outside.
The cold wind came one after another, and Angkor laboriously reached out to pull the door of the cab up.
It was pitch black outside, and the two were chatting casually about what they had seen in the newspaper, when the car door was suddenly opened.
"You kid is fast today, it's solved so quickly" Angkor was slightly surprised.
Li Bo smiled, started the car and left.
As the car continued to move forward, Angkor's cell phone suddenly rang.
"Hey," he picked up without looking.
"Angkor, why did you drive the car away," Li Bo's voice shouted over the phone. "It's so dark, don't be kidding, I'm coming back and I'm cold"
Angkor's body froze all of a sudden, as if he had fallen into ice water.
He tilted his head slightly in a creep, but saw that the driver had turned into a paper figure at some point, and was smiling at him strangely.
"Angkor," Li Bo shouted into his mobile phone, only to see the speeding car in the distance slam into the guardrail on the side of the road and disappear under the cliff.
"Angkor"
The hottest day of July was as hot as a steamer in the valley because the heat was caught between the mountains on both sides.
Gao Yao, the design representative, and Zhang Minxiang and Deng Cheng, the on-site supervisors, hid in the project department to play games as usual.
Everyone was a student who had just graduated from school, and I was a construction worker and data clerk for the construction company, and they were lucky enough to join the design institute and the supervision company because the project was brought together.
The construction company is naturally a vulnerable group, but I get along well because I often drink and chat and play games with them.
Everyone is bored, but what can be done to do work in such a ravine where there is no village and no shop
I was finishing a game of interstellar when I suddenly heard the walkie-talkie ring.
"Zhang Gong, Zhang Gong, Deng Gong, Deng Gong is not here" is our company's project manager Wang Dayou.
"What's the matter," Deng Cheng picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.
Usually there is nothing on the construction site that won't call them, which makes him a little nervous.
It's hard to get into an accident
"Dig out something, do you want to come up and take a look" Wang Dayou's voice was not very anxious, it shouldn't be something big that affected the project.
"What's it?" Zhang Minxiang asked.
It's too hot, or something special for a fool to go out on a day like this.
"Ancient tomb, dig up an ancient tomb"
This kind of thing is exciting, there are very few ancient tombs on our side, and I haven't heard of this kind of thing in school, and the brothers looked at each other, and they were all a little curious.
"I'm Gao Yao, Manager Wang, wait a minute, protect the scene, don't move" Gao Yao took the walkie-talkie and said. He's kind of experienced
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In case it is really a precious cultural relic, it is estimated that the county will have to send someone to see it, and it is not clear if it is damaged.
We climbed up the mountain under the sun, and to be honest, I regretted it less than ten minutes after I went out, one was hot, and the other was a little indescribable in my heart, as if I had a premonition that something might go wrong this trip.
But all three of them were very energetic, and I couldn't say anything.
Because of the hot weather, the usual one-hour journey climbed for nearly an hour and a half, and when we arrived, Wang Dayou was sitting and smoking with a dozen workers, and when he saw us cautiously coming along the dug platform, he trotted over to smoke it.
"What's the situation" Gao Yao is the big brother, and he usually speaks when he arrives at the construction site.
Wang Dayou smiled and pointed ahead. "Senior engineer, we drew the line this morning and arranged for fifteen people to dig by hand in this section. When it was almost noon, someone said that a stone had been dug up, and Lao Wan and I looked at it and it didn't look like a stone, but it was very hard. Later, I hit a blast hole with a pickaxe and tried to blow it up, only to find out that it was a grave. ”
"The coffins are all exposed." Our company is below the road.
Gao Yao then said, "Take a look." ”
When the workers saw us coming, they all stood up to see the excitement, and we saw that most of the grave had been dug up, and the outer wall was exposed like loess, but it looked very hard, and the whole tomb looked like a bowl upside down on the ground.
The side facing us collapsed in a large chunk, which looked very thick, at least thirty or forty centimeters.
I poked my head out from a distance, and there seemed to be more than one coffin inside, and the one that was revealed was very rotten, like a large piece of rotten wood, which was very different from the ancient tomb I imagined.
I couldn't help asking, "Brother Wang, how do you know it's an ancient tomb?"
"How can anyone still build a tomb with such a thing," replied Wang Dayou. "This is called Sanhe soil, there was no concrete in ancient times, and the rich people used loess and lime mixed with glutinous rice water to build tombs, but it was too troublesome, and no one used this method after having cement. Besides, now that they are all cremated, how can anyone be buried"
Gao Yao said to me at this time, "Look at the soil on it. ”
The highest part of the tomb is about less than 20 centimeters from the top layer of soil, but the whole is about 1.5 meters high, all buried in the soil, and the half-dug soil next to it is obviously divided into several layers, and from the soil quality, it should be the soil washed down from the higher place due to rain in different years, which shows that it has been buried for a long time.
Gao Yao was bold, standing directly at the opening that exploded and looking inside with a flashlight, Wang Dayou stood next to him, what.
After a while, Gao Yao came over to discuss with Zhang Minxiang and Deng Cheng, "I don't think it's valuable, and there don't seem to be any funeral objects in it." Lao Wang meant to simply move it secretly to save trouble. ”
Everyone understands what that means.
It looks like an ownerless grave, but if you let the surrounding villagers know, maybe someone will jump out and say that it is their ancestral grave, and then compensation, land requisition, and relocation of the grave will be a lot of trouble.
"There's really nothing in there," but Zhang Minxiang was a little uneasy. This matter has little to do with the design, but the owner's representative is not there, and he and Deng Cheng have great responsibilities as on-site supervisors.
Gao Yao handed him the flashlight a little unhappily. "Why don't you take a look at it again?"
Zhang Minxiang and Deng Cheng were not very bold, the two hid to the side and discussed for a long time, and Wang Dayou also came over, not knowing what to say. In the end, although they agreed to move the tomb, they offered to watch from the sidelines, and if there were any valuable cultural relics, they had to stop work immediately and report to the builders.
The workers waited for a long time, and when they heard that they could continue their work, they immediately moved.
They are all rural people, the most superstitious, but they are also the least afraid of these things. The most important thing for them is to earn money, but we kids who grew up in the city are a little suspicious when we stand by.
Fifteen men dug around the grave, and it took almost an hour to dig it out.
Lao Wan had already prepared a pickaxe, took it and shot a few blast holes on the grave, and then stuffed explosives and detonators into it.
"Put a little less." Gao Yao reminded.
But I think he may have been afraid that it would be too troublesome to manually smash the explosives for a while, but he put more medicine than he usually put when he blew up rocks.
With a loud bang, the bowl-shaped grave completely collapsed, and the workers swarmed up and carried out the coffin inside.