Chapter 11: The Living in the Tomb

I took a shovel and shoveled it down the shiny place, and I scooped it down along with the bones and dregs. I held my breath and carefully poured the charred-like bone scum on the ground, when Zhao Yuer took the kettle and rushed up. As the dirt dissipated, a white jade pot was revealed. The jade pot was white and shining bright green, the jade pot was as big as a key, very inconspicuous, but there was a gourd carved on it. It's a bit similar to the gourd I brought, but it's very different, mine is a gourd-shaped jade, but it's a gourd with a pot just drawn on it.

"Great, we sent it, this is a cultural relic from before, let's send it to Professor Wang quickly and tell her the good news!" Zhao Yu'er straightened up happily and almost hit the roof of the tomb.

"Okay, let's get out quickly, it's so wet and damp here that I can't breathe, you guys bring your tools and don't lose them." After I finished speaking, everyone walked out one by one, and it was Wu Shirong who ran at the front, he was at the end when he went in, and always in front when he went out.

"Professor Wang, we found a coffin in the No. 7 ancient tomb, it seems that it has been stolen, and we found this jade pot on the remains of the ancient corpse, and a gourd was painted on it!" Zhao Yuer said, holding it with both hands and handing it to Professor Wang.

"You are Zhao Yuer, I saw your photo, your Professor Liu said that you are a freshman in your department, the first place in the whole department, right?" Professor Wang, with his long shawl hair and a pair of black half-rimmed glasses, looked at us with a smile.

"Professor Wang, you are joking, I just wrote the answer on the paper correctly, I am not a scholar, if I were a scholar, I would have gone to Tsinghua University and Peking University a long time ago!" Zhao Yu'er said modestly with a flushed face.

"Say that you are you, Tsinghua University and Peking University may not be as good as you, let's put away your jade pot, and wait until we take it back to Haicheng and hand it over to the experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau in the city for identification!" As he spoke, Professor Wang took out a plastic sealed bag and packed it up.

"Today, you have done a lot of work on the first day, cleaning up the silt in the morning, and finding such a valuable thing in the afternoon, I read a few words at the bottom of this jade pot, it is a baby, thank you, it's almost dark today, come with me and I will find you a place to rest." With Professor Wang leading the way, we walked to the dormitory area.

Not far from the Lingshan cemetery, which is more than 500 meters uphill, is a makeshift tin house with several tents next to it. The tin houses are all double-storey, similar to the temporary houses on the construction site, with blue tin sheets and white iron plates. The ten of us followed Professor Wang and arrived there in a few minutes.

"You are resting here for the past few days, and the dormitories for girls and boys are separate, and you must not live together. Also, pay attention to personal hygiene and don't run around. You can't enter the scene without my guidance, just write your topic for today, bye-bye! After speaking, Professor Wang waved at us, and strangely didn't know when she changed into a short skirt, the tight short skirt wrapped her plump buttocks, and her thighs were also white. Professor Wang is less than 30 years old, but he looks very young like a ten-year-old girl.

It was almost six o'clock in the evening and we went to eat in a tin hut canteen, where there was a large cauldron with a big shovel on the side of the pot. The chef inside used a big shovel to flip around in the pot. Next to it are rows and rows of cabbage, potatoes ....... It seems that the archaeology major is not a good errand.

"Zhao Yu'er, how do you feel about eating this dish?" I took a few bites and felt like I couldn't take it anymore. Hurriedly asked her how she felt.

"How? You're eating yourself, you don't know? Zhao Yuer looked at me in wonder.

"Don't you taste the smell of a shovel? Eating this dish must be calcium and iron, hehe! I laughed a little and nibbled on the big steamed bun on my plate.

"I'll go, what do you mean? Shovel asked? You want to disgust me, don't you? Zhao Yu'er was angry and glared at me.

"Okay, if you don't believe me, come and see," I said, pulling Zhao Yu'er's arm and leading her to the kitchen, while the big chef was standing next to the cauldron and waving desperately, churning.

"Oh my God, isn't this the same big shovel we used to clean up in the morning?" Zhao Yuer covered her mouth after speaking, and ran straight out of the ...... house. The daughter of a rich family is different, she is now very hard-working, but the huge size of this tableware is still beyond her slightly smaller thinking capacity.

Early the next morning, we continued to clean Tomb 7 in groups of three. Packed with all kinds of tools, put on professional overalls and shoes, we came to the door of Tomb No. 7. Since yesterday our lights were laid, now the speed of travel is very fast. Bending over and moving forward skillfully, it took about ten minutes to reach the door of Tomb No. 7.

"Yesterday you found a jade pot, today see if I can find anything," said Wu Shirong, who took out a shovel and continued to rummage inside the coffin, he carefully put the remains inside into a plastic bag and prepared to go back for identification. Zhao Yuer and I hurriedly helped take it and put it in the collection box behind us, marking the serial number.

"Wu Shirong, you despicable villain!" Zhao Yuer tapped him on the shoulder mockingly. Wu Shirong was frightened and hurriedly squatted down.

"How am I a scumbag? Why do you say that about me? Wu Shirong scratched his head in confusion.

"Why did you run in front of us today, and you were still behind us yesterday, is it that the lights are laid today, you are not afraid of the dark, just come to see if there is any gold, silver and jewelry or anything like that?" Zhao Yu'er said and glanced at me.

"No, yesterday I couldn't see the water droplets in my glasses lenses, but today I can't see it clearly!" Wu Shirong patted his chest, puffed up his chest and roared at us calmly.

"Okay then, you can do it yourself here, how about me and Nie Yu go to Gate 8 next to it?" After Zhao Yu'er finished speaking, she and I withdrew.

"Just go, do you think I'm afraid? I'm not a coward. Although Wu Shirong said this, he still looked down at us secretly, and then looked around and shrunk back and retreated.

Is there some ghost in this ancient tomb? If I encounter a ghost, I can ask them and they will understand everything. Thinking of this, I took out my second uncle's tool pocket. I took out the prepared willow leaves and applied them to my eyelids, and I didn't see anything at the door of Tomb No. 8, I guess they have been reincarnated several times.

Came to the door of Tomb 8, which seemed to be intact and had been opened by the engineering team in front. Zhao Yuer and I walked inside while laying out the electric lights. Zhao Yuer also took out her notebook from time to time and wrote the record of the subject on it. There were many students in the No. 5 and No. 4 next to them, looking at Wu Shirong on the 7th, Zhao Yuer and I smiled knowingly.

"It's good for him to exercise his guts, such a small guts still comes to the archaeology major, and he can't be scared to pee his pants when he sees a corpse!" After I finished speaking, Zhao Yuer pinched my arm.

"Are you so bad? He peed his pants and flowed onto the stone slab, which would destroy the cultural relics, haha" Zhao Yuer said and laughed. I thought to myself, "Oh! This young lady has a lot more imagination than I have.

There is a lot of space in Tomb 8, and there is a stone brick road facing us. On both sides of the road are deep pits to prevent tomb robbers, probably because the wooden mechanism in the pit has rotted and failed. There was so much space in it that I could stand up straight and not reach the top of my head. I took the lamp, and Zhao Yu'er discharged the lamp line in the back, and within a few minutes I arrived at the interior of the tomb. In the middle of the interior was a huge coffin, which seemed to have not been moved, and the thick sarcophagus was covered with an accident at this time.

"Help...... Help me......! A very clear but faint voice seemed to come from the pit next to me, and I took out a charm in my heart and prepared to fight the ghost, when Zhao Yuer suddenly hugged my back.

"Nie Yu, do you hear if it's a ghost, let's go out quickly!" She whispered, pulling me back as she spoke. I hurriedly took out the willow leaves and looked around, but I didn't see any ghosts.

Zhao Yuer and I slowly stepped back, I was wondering why I heard someone calling for help just now, and now it's gone? Zhao Yuer and I didn't dare to stay stunned, so we jumped around and were about to walk out of the tomb, but then an accident happened, and a black hand stretched out from the dark pit and grabbed my foot and neck, .......

"Ahh Ghost! Zhao Yuer saw the black hand stretched out, screamed, and ran out without looking back. I hurriedly slapped that hand with a shovel, and the hand seemed to be afraid of pain, and I retracted it as soon as I slapped it, and I was afraid that the ghost would get up and grab me, and I slapped it a few times randomly, and then there was no sound. I felt that something was wrong, and if it was a ghost, it wouldn't be so easy to settle down, so I turned the iodine-tungsten lamp around. I saw that half of the deep pit was filled with silt, and there was a person lying on the mud with his eyes open and trying to speak.

I fixed my eyes and saw that this person was Zhou Wen!

"Are you Zhou Wen? I know you, you're Lina's boyfriend, right? Why are you here, what the hell are you doing! A barrage of questions suddenly erupted, and I hurriedly asked him.

At this time, Zhou Wen slowly raised his head and lay on the ground, one of his legs seemed to be stuck in the mud and couldn't pull it out, he was more than 1.7 meters tall, wearing a black mountaineering suit.

"Yes, I'm Zhou Wen, Linna is my girlfriend, I hurt her, but I don't want to hurt her, I'm here to find the ice jade to break the curse." With that, he looked at his trapped leg.

At this time, Zhao Yuer brought Wu Shirong over, and they watched me chatting with a person, and slowly walked over.

"You guys are here, he's a human being, not a ghost, he's Zhou Wen, let's pull him up first!" After saying that, I put down the shovel and grabbed Zhou Wen's arm. Wu Shirong also grabbed one of his arms. However, the two of us couldn't pull him out no matter how hard we tried, and Zhou Wen kept screaming in pain, and it seemed that his leg was stuck in the pit in the mud.