Chapter 17: Rammed Earth
When I saw the soil, something kept flashing through my mind: my grandfather's diary, the Four Books of Yin and Yang, and what I knew about the soil. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
And the color of these soil seems to be different from each layer, the top is yellow, and the bottom is a little red, and according to Abu, the humidity of the soil below is completely different from that above.
I know that these are the colorful fluttering soil in the tomb, which is a method found by Changsha Tufuzi to identify whether there is a tomb, as long as the soil is layered, the color will be different, and then smell the soil, you will know if there is a tomb.
But the probability of this method is very large, if you want to accurately judge whether there is a tomb or not, you have to look at the soil quality, the tomb robbers in Luoyang found a kind of colorful soil, also called fluttering soil, the soil layer is thin, the soil is loose, very uneven, find this kind of soil, nine times out of ten you can find the tomb.
The sealing of the ancient man-made tombs is particularly good, because they have a special process when filling the soil, the tomb soil is tamped, which is the so-called artificial rammed earth layer, the rammed earth is very particular, the soil in the pit must be dug out and mashed first, and into mud, and then the coffin is placed and then filled back in layers, rammed, just like lasagna.
Generally, the soil layer on the tomb will be more humid, and the water absorption of the rammed earth layer is stronger than that of the soil layer that no one has turned over, and the longer the time passes, the wetter it becomes, so after the rain and the sunny day, where the soil is obviously wetter than the side, the person who inverts the bucket will recognize the eyes and mark it, and will support the pot here.
In particular, there are some special functions of smelling the soil, which is also the reason why the soil can distinguish the ancient tombs, generally in addition to digging the soil, looking at the soil, followed by being able to smell the soil, some people who are proficient in the inverted bucket can clearly distinguish the smell of the tomb soil of the Han, Tang, Song and Qing dynasties, which is also distinguished according to the age of the incomprehensible, like the master belongs to this kind of person.
In addition to the smell, we can also judge the color of the filling, the mantra is like this: the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is red clay, and the Western Han Dynasty backfills with loess; The Eastern Han Dynasty did not use yellow sand and mud, and the Tang and Song Dynasty tombs were mostly black soil.
But although I know this, I don't know how to distinguish it, at most I can judge the color of the soil, distinguish a dynasty and so on, but I don't know where to take the soil, and I can only pick up ready-made ones.
As for the geography five decisions, I still have to study hard, and the ability of this inverted bucket is not learned once or twice, like this fixed-point ability, not only must be proficient in feng shui secret arts, but also have sharp eyes and noses.
I saw that the master jumped into the circular pit dug by Abu, grabbed a handful of loose soil and smelled it, and said decisively: "This is it." ”
"Abu, keep digging, change the shovel, this depth looks almost there." The second uncle said to Abu.
We dug for about ten minutes with a change of air, and soon we had dug a big hole.
Just as my dad was shoveling down to the side, suddenly the sapper shovel was shaken back, as if he had dug something hard.
My father slowed down the speed of digging again, gently brushed away a layer of soil on the surface, and we looked at it, and there was a very smooth stone slab on this side, and the area was not small.
When my father slowly lifted all the dirt out, I saw a string of carved words on each side of the slate, and I looked at it carefully, and the two strings of words were exactly the same number, like a couplet.
And on the left is: "Water Moon Cave Heavenly Treasure Land." On the right side is: "Outstanding people and the Spirit Sacred Realm." I subconsciously read both lines.
"Is this a doorman?" I asked, puzzled.
"What's the door?" Abu leaned over and asked.
I saw that Abu wanted to see it, so I gave him the position directly, so as not to be pushed into the pit by him, it was really set on fire to prevent theft and anti-Abu, his big ass was topped, and it was strange that he would not be pushed down by him when he stood on this mountain.
"This is the name of the owner of the tomb for his own mausoleum." At this time, the second uncle said on the side.
"This slab looks like someone has moved it! The soil on this is obviously much looser than in other places, so I'll make it a little wider and we'll see if we can move this slab!" "My dad said to us while digging the dirt in the hole we had dug.
Abu, on the other hand, we took the soil that my father had shoveled out of the cave, and we couldn't go into the tomb until we had done it, so we took turns to dig it out, because the soil was loose, so we had to shovel it out, and we didn't know how wide the slab was, so we had to make the hole as big as possible, so that we could remove the slab underneath.
This shovel went down, and in a blink of an eye, the thief hole was able to accommodate the three of us, and the entrance of the thief hole happened to be blocked by this stone, so we had to continue digging a little left and right, and after a while, I saw the edge of the stone slab.
"Come, let's see if we can lift this slab away, shall we?" My dad called me and Abu.
I nodded, and stood on the far left side of the slate, and Abu was more powerful, so he stood in the middle of the slate, and my father stood on the right side, because the slab was lying in the hole on its side, so as long as I buckled the dirt under the slate, my hands could easily be put into the gap.
"I'll count one, two, and three and lift it together, so that the force can be more even, so as not to press anyone's hand." My dad looked at us and said.
Abu and I glanced at him and nodded heavily to indicate that we were ready.
"Okay, come on." My father said again: "One ......" This breath dragged on for a long time, and Abu and I tried our best to lift the slate, but the slab did not move, but the loose earth kept rolling down on it.
"One...... Two.... Three, "My father counted it hard again, at this time I was really a little overforced, sweating on my forehead, Abu was also shouting on the side to lift the slate, but it was useless, it seemed that the strength had been used up.
"Forget it, I don't have the strength, let's think of other ways." I said helplessly, but I suddenly thought of a way again, "Do you want to find a crowbar to use, didn't Archimedes say, give me a lever, I can pry the whole earth." Immediately, I asked the second uncle, "Second uncle, is there any tool that can be used as leverage?" ”
The second uncle glanced at the whirlwind shovel, pointed and said, "Isn't that it?" ”
"Okay, Abu, take it and try it." I turned to Abu again and said.
We put the whirlwind shovel under the gap of the stone slab, but we couldn't pry it after a few pries, and I smiled bitterly: "It seems that the lever principle of Archimedes should also pay attention to environmental problems, and this fulcrum is not easy to find." ”
At this time, the master suddenly walked to the entrance of the cave and said to me: "Ji Ming, you come up!" ”
I think the master can't stand it, and I'm going to do it myself, and when I went up to the entrance of the cave, the master jumped down and put the halberd aside.
"Ji Yuan, Abu, you two hold both sides, and hand it over to me in the middle." The young master said coldly to my father and Abu.
But my father and Abu put their hands in the gap under the slate, and the master overturned the whole slate, and my father and Abu didn't use much force at all.
When the slate was removed, a few centipedes came out of the slab, and they swished into the loose soil and disappeared, and under the slate was pitch black.