While they were all paying attention to their feet and their surroundings, Ma Kai suddenly shouted excitedly in the weeds on the side: "Professor, come here!" ”

Professor Chen walked up to him unhurriedly and asked, "What did you find?" ”

"Look, Professor, there's a stone carving here!" With that, Ma Kai continued his discovery with a small shovel in his hand: a stone carving that had been buried in the earth. After the shovel cleaned up the large pieces of soil around him, Ma Kai continued to carefully clean it with his hands and brushes, and gradually, the true face of the stone carving came out: the stone ward off evil spirits.

"On the right is the lifting platform, this place is spacious enough, bigger than that, and now the stone is found to ward off evil spirits," Professor Chen pondered for a while, and shouted to the back, "Come and a few people to help clear all these trees and grass." ”

When they heard Professor Chen's call, they immediately ran over with their guys, and as soon as they saw that they needed to cut down trees, they immediately called someone to go back to get a chain saw, and the others immediately began to clear the weeds according to Professor Chen's instructions. Seeing the people of the construction team working, Director Feng asked Professor Chen on the side: "Professor Chen, this stone is a common stone carving in the mausoleum, can you now be sure that this is a mausoleum?" ”

Professor Chen nodded and replied: "Stone warding off evil spirits is not something that ordinary dignitaries can use, and those who can get this treatment are basically some imperial relatives or major contributors. ”

"Can you tell the age through this stone to ward off evil spirits?"

"This can't be, the stone warding off evil has always existed in almost every dynasty after the Han Dynasty."

"That means that the age of this tomb can be determined to be from the Han Dynasty and later?"

"Let's just say that, there were before the Han Dynasty, but it was rougher and larger, and now this one is smaller, the size is about 10 centimeters, and it is very exquisite, and it can be roughly judged to be the craft of the Han Dynasty or after the Han Dynasty."

"By the way, Professor Chen, I can't see any difference between these green plants, they are all the same trees and all kinds of weeds, why are you different when you shoot them below?"

"Curator Feng, you might as well look at these trees, and then look around to know the difference."

"Oh, I see, there are pine trees, cypress trees, etc., this is a cedar tree, there is a difference in height, cypress trees are less resistant to wind, and pine trees and cedar trees are more suitable for the environment, and their growth is much stronger than other trees, and now other trees have begun to wither and lose their leaves, but these two trees are still flourishing. Oh, and one more thing, the cypress tree artificially encircles the cedar and pine trees in the middle, which should have a specific meaning, right? ”

"Yes, maybe this tree is not meant to cover up anything, maybe it was planted by the people who planted it back then to leave a mark."

In the efforts of some reckless men, with the noise of chain saws, two cedar trees seven or eight meters high on the left and right of the stone carvings found in Ma Kai were cut down and rolled down the hillside and fell down the mountain.

Professor Chen saw that the trees and weeds were cleared in a moment, and then pointed to the old horse to the place where the lifting platform was lifted and the surrounding area of the stone to ward off evil spirits and said: "If you trouble you again, you can help clean up the soil here, the level is about the same as that over there, maybe it is lower, don't use a pickaxe, use an iron shovel." ”

"Okay!" After the old horse heartily agreed, he sweated profusely and continued to plow the soil with a few workers. With the crisp sound of the workers' shovels hitting the stones, the mound in front of them was quickly cleared, and the huge stone platform was displayed in front of everyone. In more than half an hour of cleaning, the left side has reached the stone slab cleaned by Professor Chen, and the right side is a hard rock mountain, so they used all their strength to excavate ahead.

While everyone was waiting, the lunch box was delivered. More than 20 people sat on the floor, talking and discussing.

Zhang Gong said next to Professor Chen: "Old Chen, now it is determined that this platform is artificially excavated, this platform is almost 15 meters long, and the width is almost 5 meters to the stone to ward off evil spirits, such an area is enough to deal with coffins and so on, and there may be something larger than imagined to be transported in through this." ”

"It is not ruled out that this may be possible, and there is too little basis to provide our reasoning to say anything."

"But now there is a contradiction, the record of iron birch has only begun in the Ming Dynasty, and the stone to ward off evil spirits is obviously not the style of the Ming Dynasty, it is obviously an early product, so what is the explanation for this?"

"Don't guess, you'll know when you go in."

After everyone finished eating, the old horse and they also cleaned up the entire slope, and saw the whole picture at the moment where Ma Kai found the stone to ward off evil spirits, and there was also a stone to ward off evil spirits in the place of nearly 3 meters on the right side that he found, each on a stone strip about 20 cm long and wide and about 2 meters high, and the two stone strips were full of stones.

Professor Chen continued to instruct the crowd: "The entrance is out!" Let's help move the stone again, don't use tools. ”

In about ten minutes, a stone gate appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Professor Chen waited in front of the stone door to look at it carefully and discussed: "This stone door is a whole, the original installation should be from above or from the inside installation, and then do the threshold and closing lever after installation, etc., now we need to figure out whether this stone door can be opened again, if so, we try to find a way to find in, if not, then we can only use violence, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Gong nodded and said: "The general tomb door is theoretically closed and completely sealed from the inside or above, whether it is hoisted from above or assembled inside, the closure method is designed in advance, but there are also those that can be opened in cycles, if that is the case, there must be a mechanism button outside." ”

"The only thing left for us outside now is a few chisel holes and stones to ward off evil spirits, by the way, let's see if the stone is one with the stone bar."

Zhu Gong, who studied ancient culture, looked at the stone to ward off evil spirits and said: "This should not be the way to enter, such a conspicuous mechanism has never been before, and the ancients will not play reverse thinking outside the ancient tomb, after all, the probability of this activation is too great, but existence is reasonable, maybe it has its use, of course, I don't mean purely symbolic." ”

"Well, it makes sense, that means we ignored something, the distance from the hole to this stone gate is less than two meters, and both sides are made of whole stones, let's try to see if these stones in the middle of the stone gate to the mouth have a hidden trigger."

Without further ado, the soldiers divided into two ways, and all the way began to push the stones on the cave wall one by one, but unfortunately, there was no response, they were all the same as growing on the mountain, and they couldn't move at all. All the way to study the stone outside to ward off evil spirits, both of them can be turned, and the sound of striking the stone base also makes it clear that the inside is hollow.

Zhang Gong pondered for a moment and said: "Ma Kai, let's try the stone to ward off evil spirits together, first rotate clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time, then rotate clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time, and finally reverse it, try it, see what reaction, people withdraw from the hole!" ”

The audience was quiet, Zhang Gong and Ma Kai alone occupied a stone to ward off evil spirits, and under the command of one, two, three, at the same time, they turned the stone to ward off evil spirits clockwise, but there was no response except for effort; At the same time, I tried counterclockwise, still the same as just now, and then tried the combination of clockwise and counterclockwise, but there was still no response.

Seeing that there was no response, Director Feng asked Professor Chen softly on the side: "Professor Chen, is this door completely locked?" After it was lowered from above, the stone gate was blocked by the stones placed on the side in advance, and it could not be raised again? Or do you close the door and use a lever directly from behind? ”

"This statement cannot be ruled out, but we have to try again how to enter on the principle of not destroying it, and don't use brute force easily," Professor Chen responded to Feng Weiguo while standing in front of the stone gate again, and said to Zhang Gong: "Lao Zhang, Ma Kai, you turn and try again, each combination pauses for a long time, and the others don't come over!" ”

Zhang Gong shook his head and said, "Professor Chen, I'd better come, you stand outside." ”

"It's okay, there's no danger, you've tried it just now, and there's no response, it should be safe, let's turn around."

When Ma Kai heard Professor Chen say this, he also said worriedly: "Professor, you can give me this opportunity, it has nothing to do with danger." ”

"Hehe, it's okay, don't worry, I have a number, I have a hunch that we will be able to go in soon, let's turn."

In desperation, Zhang Gong and Ma Kai continued the combination experiment, both clockwise and counterclockwise failed, and Professor Chen pushed all the stones after each combination, but there was still no response. Just as the atmosphere of disappointment was about to spread, when the left clockwise and the right counterclockwise were combined, Professor Chen reacted when he pushed one of the stones: the stone was pushed 5 centimeters. As the stone was pushed forward, there was a sound of shaking and chains shaking from the mountain. The moment the sound came out, Professor Chen immediately retreated to the side outside the cave, and the stone door was gradually lifted up at the same time as the sound of vibration was heard.