Episode 2: Liao Eleven Caves

Three years ago, I was arranged by my father to enter the Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology for an internship, listening to Xiao Chen's story, at this time, our archaeological team happened to be located at the foot of the Altai Mountains in the eastern suburbs of Qibar Township, Haba River County, excavated a Liao Dynasty tomb. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The scale of the mound is generally not grand, and because of the cooperation with the local cultural relics bureau, the entire excavation process of the archaeological team is quite fast. The excavation unearthed a lot of cultural relics from the ancient tomb, and when I finished sorting out the batch of painted pottery pieces on hand, I basically finished sweeping the tail.

Maybe many people will think that archaeology is a very mysterious and exciting job, in fact, if I want to say that this errand is not much worse than migrant workers, sleep later than dogs, get up earlier than chickens, brain cells die by hundreds of millions, not to mention dealing with various materials and documents every day, but also have to go back and forth to the construction site rain or shine, the construction site, refers to the ancient mound ruins in the excavation operation. If there is a report that there are seriously damaged ancient tombs and monuments, it is really in a hurry than carrying a gun to the front line, and there is no delay for a moment. But then again, if it is not a serious natural disaster or man-made, ah, or an ancient tomb and monument destroyed by tomb robbers, then the state does not allow any archaeological team to excavate it, and the complete historical monuments are generally protected by the relevant departments sent by the state, and then collect admission fees or something...... In short, it's not at all what it looks like on the surface.

I thought that the whole archaeological team would be able to move back to the city in three to five days at most, and the report could be done at home, so I could also take a few days off.

The tomb pit of the concubine of the Liao Dynasty is wide and square, built in a decent manner, you can see it in the tomb, the distance between the front and back is about fifteen meters, the width is about five meters, there is only one main tomb chamber, there is no ear room, there is no body in the coffin, in addition to a gold-painted box with half a silk horse, there is not even a piece of corpse mud corpse paste in the inner coffin, it is a standard clothing mound, we can only infer the identity of the tomb owner according to the murals on the four walls of the main tomb and the burial goods with epitaph inscriptions in the tomb.

It is this scale that makes the archaeological team handy and ready to complete the project, but the problem lies in the final study of the murals in the tomb.

No matter how powerful Deputy Director He is, he is not born in the liberal arts team, so there are still professors and scholars in the archaeological team, and the person who is responsible for studying murals and translating ancient texts is an old professor surnamed Qian, we all respect him Lao Qian, Lao Qian is rich and rich and five cars are eight buckets high, and he is an authentic person who does learning, although he is stubborn at work, he is not difficult to get along with. That afternoon, when he was observing the frescoes on the eaves of the main burial chamber, he did not know what he had touched, and the floor in the center of the burial chamber suddenly became empty, and the coffin placed in the center of the burial chamber suddenly fell into the darkness of the ground, making a loud bang.

Professor Qian's heart was pinched at that time - he found that the secret passage was meritorious, and it was too much to negligently damage the cultural relics. He dared to slack off, so he immediately went down the escalator, and looked with a few accompanying students with a searchlight into the dark recess in the center of the tomb.

Even if Professor Qian reported the situation to Deputy He, within a moment, the main members of the archaeological team were all concentrated around the cave in the depression of the main burial chamber, including me, of course. I didn't have much of a job to be a pioneer, so I tried to take off the rubber gloves on the sidelines, and the mask was a little itchy on the stubble, and it was hard to scratch it when I wore it. As soon as I took off my left glove, a long, terrible scream rang out from the crowd, startling a group of nerds around me. I was also shocked by this inexplicable scream, and before I could figure out what was going on, I heard Captain Li's voice in the crowd shouting:

"Pull him up!"

After hearing this roar, I realized that because the space under the cave was very open and slightly high, Captain Li, who was in charge of directing the excavation and preservation work, decided to send the pioneers to explore the way first. Due to the air quality tested, the place involved in the searchlight was also smashed into a mess by the coffin of the previous clothed mound, and there would be no more danger if the grass was beaten and the snake was frightened, Captain Li decided to go directly after thinking about it. Who knows, the pioneer who was slowly hanged by everyone only landed on the ground for a few minutes, swept around with a searchlight, and fainted with a scream before he could raise his head to give a quasi-letter, which frightened everyone above, especially Captain Li, if something happened, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape, so he hurriedly commanded everyone to quickly drag up the team members who were unconscious for some reason. Fortunately, the hands, feet and arms were not missing, but the face was like dirt and gray like a gossamer, and everyone did not wait for Captain Li to speak, and hurriedly carried the person out of the tomb and sent him out for rescue. The scene was chaotic for a while, and no one knew what was happening, so I glanced at it and saw that it was someone I knew, so I hurried out.

The first one is a young man surnamed Wang, who has worked with the archaeological team a few times, and he is no longer a beginner, and this time he didn't know how something happened. After the accompanying medical staff, he told Captain Li that Xiao Wang was overly frightened, and the specific situation would not be known until he woke up.

I know Xiao Wang, I usually have some friendship in the team, a rough man with five big and three rough, mainly responsible for the preservation work, when there is something to do, when there is something to be a pioneer, when there is nothing to do, responsible for carrying and supervising the recording of unearthed cultural relics. This kind of personnel is set up to work the surface, but secretly to prevent some people in the archaeological team from digging up the corners of socialism when they see money. This is understandable, but as far as I know him, why is the whole Wang Daring too frightened?

Everyone looked at each other for this matter, but the progress of the work could not be delayed by such a small episode. After learning of the situation, Deputy Director He pondered for a while and then proposed a new exploration plan -- he personally led the team and then went down to the deep cave. Seeing that the leader was leading by example, how dare the rest of the people be in the rear, and they all enthusiastically expressed that they would go to the ground with the leader; Deputy Director He was not ambiguous, and personally sent a few team members with good courage and experience, and put six or seven searchlights down before going down to the cave, and then used a retractable camera to turn around a few times below before leaving.

This time it was quite smooth, and the seven or eight people who went down did not have any accidents, and Deputy Director He ordered the rest of the people to make marks at the foothold before gesturing to us who were gathered at the entrance of the cave. Everyone saw that there was no problem, and the second wave of technical teams also slowly went down to the bottom of the cave, and I made up in the second group, and also went down to the ground with a rope.

Although I have not been in the archaeological team for a long time, but in the past few years, I have basically worked with the team to go down to the ancient tombs, and my family hopes that I can lay a good foundation in the archaeological team in the shortest possible time, so I have been told to work actively and enthusiastically. I think so, but the family seems to have greeted the leader of the archaeological team, so every time I go to the construction site, he will bring me as a newcomer, I am not interested in power, but fortunately, I am also quite calling, and I am naturally happy to explore this kind of thing.

I have also seen a lot of ancient tombs in the impression that there is a dark chamber in the tomb, and this time it is the first time to encounter this kind of specification, and I think that the mound on the top of the head should be a void mound, and this discovery makes everyone excited.

We seemed to be in the middle of the road, and it looked so dark that we couldn't even see through the searchlights. The ground is about ten meters high from the place where the rope is dropped overhead, and after all the equipment is down, Deputy Director He looks at the darkness behind him and decides to grope for the darkness east of Yongdao first. If this is an underground palace, then it shouldn't be wrong to go east first.

After a little arrangement, leaving a few equipment personnel to set up equipment under the cave entrance, Deputy Director He, Professor Qian Lao, three professional scholars, two security personnel and me, a group of eight people got ready, and gradually marched to the east of Dongyong Road with searchlights. I walked at the back of the team, and I didn't listen to what Deputy Director He and Professor Qian were saying, but I just looked around with a searchlight, thinking that there would be some murals and paintings on the walls around me, but I didn't find anything. I don't know how long I walked, the team stopped, and I heard Captain Li who was walking in front of me scolding my mother in a low voice, so I approached to see if I had found the tomb door or burial chamber.

The corridor was quite spacious, and the four of them stood side by side quite well, and I wanted to squeeze it, only to find that several of them had scattered - and sure enough, they had reached the end of the corridor.

The space at the end of the corridor is fan-shaped, and as soon as you enter, you will feel suddenly enlightened, and the eight people standing in it will not feel crowded at all. I looked casually, and this place must be about 180 square meters based on naked eye observation alone, and I thought it should be a burial chamber; I just wanted to ask Captain Li what he was scolding, but before my mouth moved, my eyes swept to the light in front of me.

The whole corridor is like a water pipe, the fan-shaped area we are in is a bit like a bayonet on a water pipe, eight searchlights are brushed on the blue brick wall in front of us, and several large black holes suddenly appear in front of us. I gasped as soon as I counted them, and there were eleven of these large holes in the walls.