Chapter 6: The Past of Tomb Robbery
It turned out that after my cousin was discharged from the army, because his family was poor. I can't find a relationship and I don't have the money to give a gift. So there is no work assigned to the above. Let the stay at home and other notices. What about cousins. simply ran to Shaanxi to find his comrades-in-arms.
After finding his comrades-in-arms, he found that his comrades-in-arms thought that the salary of the arranged work was too low, so he did not go to work. Instead, I went to work with a few local Tufuzi (as they were called tomb robbers) to dig up graves. The cousin was still hesitant at first, but when he saw his comrades-in-arms, they ate in the restaurant all day long, and they smoked Ah Shi Ma, a red panda. also moved the thief's heart, so he took the soil and burned incense, and joined the gang. And learned the jargon of tomb robbers, such as robbing is not called tomb robbery, it is called inverted fighting. In the past, the shape of the tomb resembled a pyramid shape, which was the shape of a bucket. So the inverted bucket is to "turn over" this tomb. And the antiques in the tomb are called: Ming Vessels, that is, the items that refer to the burial of the dead.
There are five of them: cousin Feng Laonong, comrade-in-arms Ma Wazi, triangle-eyed Dong Gui, military advisor Zhang Shunzi, and bald monk Ma Gan.
Zhang Shunzi is a military advisor, stepping on the point and shoveling, all based on his experience and eyesight. This person can read the dragon veins and feng shui. What direction, what terrain, whether there will be a grave or not, are all in his control. He also made good use of the Luoyang shovel and hit the shovel down. The excavated soil only needs to be seen and smelled to know whether there are ancient tombs. What age is the tomb? The layout of the burial position is clear in my heart. Ma Wazi and her cousin Feng Laonong were born in the army, have a good physique, and know how to use firearms. He is responsible for digging soil, digging tomb bricks, digging holes and other manual work and wind-free work. Dong Gui, Ma Qian is a ruthless character, and ghosts and gods are not afraid. Therefore, he is responsible for opening the coffin and touching the gold, and holding the utensils on the dead people.
He followed Zhang Shunzi and his group, wandering all day long in the mountains and grass, far away from the village in search of possible graves. Finally, one day, at the foot of a mountain, I found a feng shui treasure.
So from the luggage he carried, he took out a tool similar to a shovel, five centimeters wide, semicircular, thirty or forty centimeters long, and several rebar steel pipes, and then assembled them layer by layer.
It turns out that this thing is the Luoyang shovel, which can be driven into the ground more than ten meters, or even dozens of meters deep, after the shovel is lifted, the inside of the shovel head will bring out a tube of soil. In this way, the soil structure, color, density, and various inclusions of the different layers of soil extracted are analyzed, and if it is cooked soil that has been touched by previous people, there may be tombs or ancient buildings underground. If ceramics, iron, copper, gold, and wood are found in the inclusions, the nature and layout of the underground collection can be inferred. You can also judge the situation underground by the different sounds made by the Luoyang shovel colliding with the ground and the feeling in your hands, such as the rammed walls and hollow tombs and tomb roads.
Zhang Shunzi drew a few dots around the wasteland, and then Feng Lao Nong and Ma Wazi painted them. Wheels roll down the shovel and start digging. The excavated soil was inspected and sniffed by Zhang Shunzi with a shovel.
Finally, after digging at several points for more than two hours, some fine sand was found in a shovel of soil that I had brought up. So it was determined that there were tombs underground. Then, by drawing dots and shoveling, the structure of the tomb was determined. By this time it was getting dark. A few people hid in the wild grass, ate some cooked beef, and after the old soju, they began to dig.
From finding a good location, Ma Wazi and Feng Laonong picked up a small shovel, which was actually the first generation of sapper shovels, which were shorter than ordinary shovels, but the wooden handle was sawed shorter. This makes it easy to put in your bag and easy to conceal and carry.
After digging for most of the night, it has been drilled into the ground about three meters underground. Suddenly I heard a "click". The shovel dug into something hard, and looked at it by the light of a flashlight. Green bricks loom in the dirt.
Zhang Shunzi saw that the tomb bricks had been dug up, so he asked Dong Gui and Ma Gan to use the tree trunk they had cut down on the mountain just now as a stake and put it in the dug robbery hole. And let Ma Wazi and Feng Laonong use iron chisels to dig a few holes in the blue bricks of the tomb wall. Prepare to blast the tomb wall open with explosives.
Ma Gan took out a certain amount of homemade earth explosives in his backpack. Put it in the drill hole, line up the fuse enough to get to the outside of the thief hole, and seal it. A group of men exited the cave and clicked the lead.
After a few muffled sounds, the smell of gunpowder emanated from the robbery hole. Through the flashlight, you can see that the tomb wall has been blown out of a hole, and there is no problem for one person to enter and exit. Then Zhang Shunzi asked everyone to wait in a hidden place for about half an hour. One is to wait for the smell of gunpowder to dissipate, and the other is to allow the air to circulate between the tomb and the outside world. In this ancient tomb, because it has been closed for many years, the air quality is not good. There are also toxins produced when dead bodies decompose. If a man goes in unpreparedness, he will be poisoned by a corpse. Then you will surely die.
With Zhang Shunzi's order, the monk, Dong Gui, and the three of them turned on the flashlight and entered the tomb. And Wazi and Feng Lao Nong hid near the entrance of the cave and let the door out.
After about an hour, I vaguely saw a flashlight flashing at the entrance of the cave. Junko, the three of them came out. The empty backpack is already bulging. The baby and the old farmer hurriedly came out to answer. Several people redistributed their backpacks and gear. Touching the moonlight, return home.
This time, a total of two pieces of jade, bowls, bottles, and jars were made, two pieces of small bronze figures, and one piece of gold utensils. So Zhang Shunzi contacted the buyer and exchanged it for cash. After the things are sold, what they get back is the Ten Stacks of Great Unity. At that time, the largest denomination was the 10 yuan yuan, which is what we now often call the Great Unity banknote.
Straight three stacks, monks, triangular eyes each two stacks. The rest was divided between Feng Laonong and Ma Wazi.
Feng Laonong's hands were trembling when he received the money, he had grown so big, and it was the first time he had seen so much money. and it is given to oneself. So I longed to return to the countryside, build a house, marry a daughter-in-law, smoke cigarettes with a handful of children every day, and drink bottled good wine.
However, the second inversion made him leave Shaanxi from then on, and he never dared to dig the grave again.
After dividing the money, there were five of them. It's been a while. But sitting on the empty mountain, soon there will be no money. I think of those fairy days. When my cousin said it, I couldn't help but pout.
Then, Zhang Shunzi led the team to start looking again. searched and searched, and after a month, they found a large tomb. Just using the Luoyang shovel to position, it took a week. Then, in the remaining half a month or so, I dug several robbery holes, and after finding the tomb wall, I used explosives to blow up the tomb wall and enter the tomb as last time.
However, Shunzi, monk, and Dong Gui went in all night, but they didn't come out yet. After dawn, Wazi and Feng Laonong discussed going in to have a look. If it's a big bucket, there are a lot of bright weapons, and you should also come out and report a bright device. But the night passed, but it still didn't come out, maybe something happened inside.
After discussing, the two groped their way into the cave and walked in the direction of the tomb.