I put a large black umbrella over my head and Gao Moli's head, and the sudden rain hit the lid with a loud sound.

With deep and shallow water in the yard, we went straight to where our motorbikes were parked. I lifted the corner of the tarpaulin with my hand, and the soft earth was the size of a suitcase, forming an irregular rectangle.

The surface of this rectangular shape is tamped, and the color of the earth is similar to that of the surrounding area, which is not easy to notice at all. Now, it happened to be raining, and the rain fell to the ground, instantly seeping under the soil layer, and the square pit that was originally flush with the surrounding area was slightly dented.

I lifted my foot and stepped lightly on the square pit, and my shoe sank, leaving a deep footprint.

I said with some excitement: "It seems that this place has really been dug up!" ”

Gao Moli did not answer, and took a shovel to dig into the soft soil. I stood beside Gao Moli and covered most of the umbrella over him.

The rain in the warm and cold spring season showed a coolness, half of my body was wet, and my body was cold, but my heart was surging, staring intently at Gao Moli's action.

Every time he shoveled, he would dig out a lot of dirt, and after seven or eight strokes, a pile of slippery dirt was piled up next to him, and the square pit was dug half a foot deep.

When the shovel is lowered again, the tip of the shovel touches the foreign object, making a muffled sound. Gao Moli glanced up at me and said with a surprised face, "Huh? Got it. ”

"There's something there!" I excitedly asked, "Can you know what's buried underneath?" Don't dig it up. ”

"It's like a wooden box, it's not big."

The surrounding rainwater flowed down the edge into the pit, and soon formed a pool of muddy water.

Beijing has been raining heavily in recent days, and the buried object in the ground turned out to be a wooden box, and the wooden box itself does not release water, and the things hidden inside are afraid that they have been soaked in rainwater.

Gao Moli obviously thought of this as well, he turned the shovel head, tentatively did, and dug down from the edge of the wooden box.

An archaeological shovel excavates the soil from the pit along with the wooden box. The muddy water flowed down the edge of the shovel, and Gao Moli turned around, put the shovel on the ground, and picked up the wet box from the mud pile.

I'm well versed in archaeological considerations, but if the wooden box is covered with muddy water and surrounded by droplets, if it is opened here, it will inevitably cause secondary damage to the contents of the box, and the damage caused by muddy water is often devastating.

We walked to the house, and when we reached the corner of the eaves, Gao Moli suddenly stretched out the umbrella with the wooden box in his hand, and the rainwater on the roof of the house collected into a stream, like a faucet that opened the valve, and flowed down from the corner of the eaves. I wanted to stop it, but on second thought, the wooden box was already soaking wet, and it wasn't too bad.

In the blink of an eye, the dirt on the wooden box was washed away. It reveals its true appearance: the wooden box is a foot square, and the surrounding area is dark red, which is the color of the wood itself, and its material should be hard jujube wood. The body of the box is extremely simple, without any decorative patterns or patterns, only on the lid of the box, with a dagger crookedly engraved a few words - do not turn on.

These words did not have Professor Kang's calm air at all, and they should have been engraved in a hurry.

Don't turn on the secret? These are obviously saying that there are confidential and important items hidden in the box, so don't open them. But the more I said that, the more curious I became, and I couldn't wait to open it up and find out.

Gao Moli and I went into the room and sat down at the coffee table, he took the dark red wooden box in his hand, and looked at the copper lock hanging on one side.

I asked urgingly, "It's still locked, can it be opened?" ”

"Yes." As Gao Moli spoke, he pulled back with the copper lock in his hand, and the copper lock and buckle suddenly broke away from the box.

Gao Moli threw it on the sofa, glanced at me, and reached out to open the lid of the box.

The inside of the box was damp, but fortunately, there was a clear plastic file bag inside, which sealed everything inside.

I couldn't wait to grab the file bag from Gao Moli's hand and pour them down on the sofa. The contents of the bag are presented to us one by one: several handwritten documents, a photograph, a testimonial.

I glanced at the handwriting on the materials, and they were written by Professor Kang.

I was surprised, "Could it be that Professor Kang has made any important discoveries that cannot be revealed?" He was afraid that this discovery would be known to outsiders, so when he left, he hurriedly buried the information in the ground. If he can come back, he will dig it up and continue his research, and if he can't, let it be buried forever in the ground, rotting along with the soil. ”

Anyway, I will simply arrange the information in order, and there are a few big characters written in the header of the home page: Archaeological Records of the Tomb of King Liang of Mangdang Mountain.

Could it be that the wooden box contains only the archaeological notes of the tomb of King Liang? I also participated in that archaeological excavation, and everything went smoothly, and I really can't think of anything worth hiding from Professor Kang.

Gao Moli picked up the black-and-white photo, looked at it for a while, and said to me: "This is the excavation scene of the tomb of King Liang in Mangdang Mountain. It turned out that the tomb was not as simple as the public announcement. ”

Hearing Gao Moli say this, it was difficult for me to calm down and look at those boring research theories, and turn my head to look at the black and white photos in his hand.

The photograph was yellowed and faded in some places, with a clear thumbprint on the lower end, indicating that it was often taken out for viewing. There is a line of notes above the photo: The scene of the No. 1 pit of the main tomb of King Liang.

Pit No. 1 is where King Liang's tomb is located, and I remember that there was a huge sarcophagus where King Liang's body was contained. But a closer look at the photograph is a bit strange: the important sarcophagus only shows a corner in the background, and the photograph shows a white bone leaning against the wall of the tomb. The white bone had a sharp arrow stuck in its chest, and the sharp arrow stapled it to the tomb wall, and on its hand bone was a white jade pendant, which should have been held in his life.

I wondered: How could there be someone else's bones in the coffin of the tomb owner? This is obviously incompatible with the funeral system, and it should not have been arranged at the time of burial. And, on closer inspection, the arrow feathers pierced the chest, and the skeleton was obviously killed by a sharp arrow.

I frowned and asked Gao Moli, "Could it be ...... Is this the corpse of a tomb robber? The tomb of King Liang was already visited by tomb robbers before it was excavated? ”

Gao Moli nodded and replied, "Definitely." ”

The bones were white and shiny, not like they had been dead for thousands of years, and I estimated that they would be hundreds of years old.

"Even if there are tomb robbers breaking into the tombs, it is not surprising, such things happen from time to time in many large tombs. But why did Professor Kang go to such great lengths to conceal it? ”

Gao Moli pointed to the jade pendant in the corpse's hand and said, "Look at this butterfly jade pendant, it seems to be the same as the black bull's!" ”