Judging from the content of the mural alone, the content of the entire mural in front of him can be divided into two parts, before and after death.

But if you want to tell from the pattern, the mural is neatly divided into nine parts, each of which is slightly mutilated.

The first five sections depict the life of the tomb owner, while the last four sections depict the construction of the tomb chamber and the burial of the tomb owner.

I started with the first part of the mural in the upper left corner, which depicts the owner of the tomb being enshrined in a magnificent hall, and the person kneeling in the center of the hall should be the owner of the tomb, and in front of him stood a person, who should be the emperor of the Han Dynasty at that time.

After Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu and defeated the Han Dynasty, it can be said that he ascended to heaven by himself, and he also rewarded the children of the Liu family, and there were many princes and kings of the Liu family in various places.

The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty will be slightly different to a large extent, but Liu Bang's habit of canonizing the Liu clan was inherited by the emperors of the Han Dynasty. Since the owner of this ancient tomb is the princes and kings of the Liu family, he has naturally been canonized by the emperor himself.

Presumably, the ancient tomb that Dong Shuang said was the tomb of the king of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which should have been judged by archaeologists according to this mural, as for how to judge that it was the Eastern Han Dynasty and not the Western Han Dynasty, then I don't know.

After looking at the first mural, my eyes fell on the second mural.

Compared to the first mural, the degree of damage to this second mural is really a pity, more than 90% of it has been damaged in the long river of time, and the only thing that can still be seen is a very small part of the lower right corner.

Wine bottles, wine jugs, tables, if unsurprisingly, this mural depicts the owner of the tomb returning to the fief to entertain guests after receiving the reward, and of course it may be that the emperor of the Han Dynasty at that time feasted the owner of the tomb in the main hall.

At the moment, this second mural is badly damaged, and I can't be sure which guess is correct, but nine times out of ten it is somewhere in between.

Sealed and entertained, the next mural depicts the daily life of the tomb owner, if nothing else.

Sure enough, when my eyes fell on the third mural, what I saw was a scene of the tomb owner hunting with his family.

Compared with the previous two, this mural can be said to be quite intact, almost undamaged, and the lines of the characters depicted on it can be clearly seen.

I roughly counted the characters above, and it was estimated that there were more than 100 people, and the lines of everyone except the owner of the tomb were extremely simple, but the murals were still very expressive, and just seeing the murals made people feel like they were there.

The next moment, my eyes fell on the two soldiers in the third mural, or more precisely on the flags held by the two soldiers, which seemed to have small characters the size of the fingernails of their little fingers written on them.

"Xiao Yan, come here." After discovering the contents of the flag, I shouted to Li Huiyan, who was standing not far away.

"What's wrong? Did you find anything? Li Huiyan stepped forward and asked suspiciously.

"Look at the mural in the upper right corner, and the flags held by those two soldiers say something." I said to Li Huiyan.

When Li Huiyan heard this, she immediately took a few steps forward, observed it seriously, nodded quickly, and said with some excitement: "It's writing, but now it's too far away to see clearly." ”

Until now, the identity of the owner of the tomb where we are located is a mystery, if you can see what the small words written on the flag are, you can undoubtedly easily unlock the identity of the owner of the tomb, how can people not be extremely excited.

"Then what should I do, those words are too small, or I'll go back and ask the staff at the institute if there are any ladders or something." I said a little anxiously.

Murals are difficult to preserve, which is a common knowledge known to the archaeological community, especially after some tombs that have been sealed for thousands of years have been opened, the speed at which the murals are damaged by air oxidation is extremely amazing.

It is conceivable that when the tomb robbers entered the tomb, these murals should have been intact, but they were oxidized into this shape because of contact with the air.

The specific time when this ancient tomb was stolen and excavated is not yet known, but it should be within half a month, and the Runan County Archaeological Institute should have also done some special anti-oxidation treatment for the murals, otherwise it is impossible to see the murals when we come here.

But even so, the mural is still slowly deteriorating, and no one knows when it will be completely damaged to the point where it will not be able to see the original appearance.

"You wait here for a while, and I'll ask the staff outside if there are any ladders." I said to Li Huiyan and the others, and then turned around and left.

It was a race against time, and there was no room for hesitation, and I almost ran out of the tomb at a fast pace.

When I came to the outside of the ancient tomb out of breath, I saw that Liang Yi had just driven to the open space outside the ancient tomb, and he saw that I looked panting and anxious, and couldn't help asking: "Xiao Zhang, what's wrong, have you encountered any danger in the ancient tomb?" ”

"No, I just came across something important in the tomb, but I couldn't read the contents, so I came out and found a ladder or something." I said breathlessly.

"Oh, what is it, what tools are needed, I'll call someone to prepare it right away." My words immediately aroused Liang Yi's curiosity.

"You need a ladder, not too high, just about a zhang." I mentally calculated the height of the mural in the upper right corner, and then said.

"A ladder of about one zhang, then we don't have it, the highest is only two meters five." Liang Yi said.

"No matter, let's get it first." I said.

Now as long as there is a ladder, where can it be a matter of whether the height is enough.

A moment later, a staff member of the Institute of Archaeology took out a ladder from the tent where the archaeological tools were stacked, and I thanked him and turned to leave, walking towards the tomb.

Liang Yi, who was aroused by curiosity, also quickly followed, and a staff member of the archaeological research institute also hesitated to follow up on the ancient tomb.

Soon, we were back in the main burial chamber, and I took the ladder and headed straight for the mural.

"Well, nothing has changed in the mural, has it?" I asked Li Huiyan.

"The color of the flag seems to have faded a little more, and I don't know if I can still read the words on it." Li Huiyan said.

"There's text on this mural?" Liang Yi was very surprised when he heard the conversation between me and Li Huiyan, and it seemed that even they had not looked at this mural carefully.

"Well, if you can read the words on the flag, you should be able to know who the owner of the tomb is." Li Huiyan said.

Due to the urgency of time, I climbed directly to the mural in the upper right corner after placing the ladder.

When I got closer to the mural, I realized that the text was really too small, about the size of an ant half a centimeter.

Because the height of the ladder was not enough, I couldn't get too close, so I could only observe it from a distance of about a meter from the mural.

"How's that, can you read it?" Li Huiyan's voice came from below.

"I can't see it clearly for the time being, this mural is so badly oxidized, and the strokes of the words are almost stuck together." I shook my head and said.

"Let's take a few photos first, maybe you can see the text after you zoom in on your computer." Li Huiyan said.

That being said, it's just that the only thing that everyone in the field can use to take pictures is the mobile phone, and the pixel of the mobile phone is not too high, and in such a dim environment, I am afraid that the photo effect will not be too good.

"Wait a minute, we still have a high-resolution digital camera in our toolbox, I'll go get it." Liang Yi said, and then ran out of the ancient tomb directly.

A moment later, Liang Yi ran back again, and he already had an extra digital camera in his hand.

Compared to the pixels of a regular phone, the digital camera with its own flash was much better, and I was able to use it to take a few sharp photos in no time.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, we used official scripts, which we had learned in our professional classes, and after handing the camera back to Liang Yi, I carefully distinguished the words on the banner again.

It was a long time before I rubbed my eyes and walked down the ladder.

"How's that, do you see what's coming?" Li Huiyan immediately asked.

"I haven't recognized all of them yet, but your previous guess should be right, the first word on the banner seems to be a Chen character, maybe the owner of the tomb is really a certain generation of Chen Wang of the Eastern Han Dynasty." I said.

Because of this unexpected discovery, everyone wanted to know what the text on the flag was, and they wanted to stay here.

The group left the tomb and returned to the tent.

Before leaving the tomb, I stumbled upon a glimpse of the ninth part mural in the lower right corner, and I immediately felt a little weird.

This mural depicts a burial scene, and it is puzzling that there is not only one coffin on this mural, but there are already four coffins that I can see, and it is impossible to know how many of them are damaged.

"You already knew that the owner of the tomb was a certain generation of King Chen of the Eastern Han Dynasty?" After leaving the ancient tomb, Liang Yi said very unexpectedly.

"It was Xiao Yan who said it, she said that there was such a royal fief in the history of Runan in the Eastern Han Dynasty." I said.

"It seems that this student is really talented in archaeology, but unfortunately he didn't study archaeology." Liang Yi was not stingy with his praise, but said with some regret.

Before coming to Runan, Liang Yi must have received the identity information conveyed by the school, and naturally knew that Li Huiyan was not a student majoring in archaeology.

"This is nothing, didn't Director Liang already know the approximate identity of the owner of the tomb." Li Huiyan said.

"It's different, we just found out about it, and we have to thank you for it." Liang Yi shook his head and said.

"Why?" I'm a little puzzled.

"Just now, when our staff brought rice and flour to the old man, I heard a nursery rhyme from the old man's mouth." Liang Yi paused, and then said: "Laugh at King Chen, Mu Changsheng; Nine sons' graves, no descendants. ”

The nursery rhyme is very simple, only twelve words in total, but I couldn't figure out the meaning of it after thinking about it for a long time.

The first two sentences of the nursery rhyme are very easy to understand, but the last two sentences of the nursery rhyme make me a little confused, what is the tomb of the nine sons, is it an unknown form of tomb in ancient times?

After all, it was summer, and there were a lot of mosquitoes in the wild, so camping was still very uncomfortable, so Liang Yi and another staff member drove us back to the institute in the evening.

As soon as he returned to the institute, Liang Yi hurriedly sent the photos taken in the afternoon to the archaeological research room, planning to hand them over to some archaeological staff for analysis.

Nothing happened all night, and the next morning, we went to the cemetery again.

Unlike yesterday's sunny day, today's weather was a bit unusual, and it was a dusky sky early in the morning.

The so-called morning glow does not go out and the sunset travels thousands of miles, and it seems that it is going to rain today.

"It may rain today, you must be careful when you enter the ancient tomb for a while, as long as it rains, come out immediately, and don't linger in the slightest." When we were about to enter the ancient tomb, Liang Yi said with a very serious expression.

Going to the grave is an extremely dangerous thing, especially on a rainy day, and it is countless times more dangerous than usual, so you must be cautious.

Entering the tomb, we began to get busy with each other, and no one spoke for nearly two hours.

In addition to the one I saw yesterday, I found two more frescoes in one of the chambers of the burial chamber, but I didn't find anything of value on them because they were so badly damaged.

At this moment, a muffled thunder suddenly exploded in our ears, and even through the thick layer of soil, it still shook people's eardrums.

At the same time, some rain began to seep out of some of the walls of the ancient tomb, and it looked like it was already raining outside.

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