The car was still a kilometer away from the black waist slope, so I asked the fat man to stop, but the fat man didn't listen, and said: "Anyway, no one will come here at night, the car is closer, and it's convenient to transport things for a while, isn't it?" ”

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After parking the car and going uphill, the road was peaceful, and soon arrived at the Black Waist Tomb. The season is still in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the trees are green cages, the moon has just been on the treetops, the ground is thick like ink, I turned on the flashlight to carefully look at the surrounding trees and grasses, and did not find any dead grass and fallen leaves.

Ergou took out shovels and other tools, and the three of them got together and discussed briefly, and decided that the fat man would take the shotgun to control the wind, and Ergou would dig a hole to steal the hole, and I would answer it outside.

Coming to the top of the cemetery, the second dog wanted to use the Luoyang shovel to explore the cave, I thought about it, and said: "Otherwise, there is not a ready-made thief hole, I didn't know yesterday that Wang Debao's grandfather dug it, but now I know the situation, I think we don't want to explore the hole positioning, just hit it along the angle of the front robbery hole, it is estimated that eight or nine are not far from ten." ”

Ergou said, "Don't you go in from below?" ”

I said: "Generally, the Warring States Tomb is 112 meters deep, if you enter it from below, it is too time-consuming and laborious, and it cannot be completed in a day or two, and if there is stagnant water in the coffin, it will be even more difficult to get it." ”

Ergou didn't say anything more, took off his shirt, lifted the shovel and went into battle shirtless. Soon, the thief hole was cleared out, and there was indeed a floating soil layer with a radius of one meter two and a half meters. Sixty or seventy years have passed since Wang Debao's grandfather dug the hole, and the rare animal of the cockroach has basically become extinct a long time ago, and now it is natural that it will not meet a second one. Dig out the floating soil, continue to dig down for seven or eight meters, the second dog to the flashlight with a signal, I will know, and finally hit a solid layer of rammed earth.

I put a large bucket of rice vinegar into the bucket and slowly put it down. The ancient tombs before the Ming and Qing dynasties, except for the Tang Dynasty emperor who liked to open the mountain as a tomb, generally used the method of rammed earth to cap, not that the ancients did not know how to use stone or cast iron to prevent theft, but the convention was customary, and the process was natural. To say that this rammed earth is actually not inferior to iron and stone, it is made of glutinous rice juice, child urine, lime powder, white plaster mud or green paste mud and other things, but the so-called one thing drops one thing, and then the strong protection will always have something to crack. Rice vinegar is a thing that has a certain degree of corrosiveness, and it may not be possible to deal with the original iron stone, but for the rammed earth with more synthetic pores, it is a natural nemesis, take a considerable amount and pour it on the rammed earth, and wait for the vinegar to penetrate into the soil layer, and dig it up without hindrance, such as cutting tofu.

After digging about a meter down, there was a clear white plaster in the hanging soil. The white plaster mud is denser, and this thing is not used to prevent theft, but is similar to the modern sealant to prevent the tomb from getting out, once this kind of soil is dug up, it means that the tomb is about to be broken. I shouted into the cave: "Ergou, beware of something strange when the hole is broken." ”

In fact, I shouted this sentence purely subconsciously, on the experience of tomb robbing, Ergou is stronger than me I don't know how many times. Generally, during the Warring States period, there was no "Tianbao Dragon Fire Glass Roof" on the top of the cave, and the dragon oil had not yet flowed into the Central Plains from the Western Regions at that time. However, the fire tomb does not have to be made of fire oil, and the Mawangdui of the same era was a fire tomb. At that time, the fire tomb made was called "Fuhuo Tomb", when the soil was sealed, some special materials were added to it to form "Fuhuo Frost", once the tomb was broken, this "Fuhuo Frost" would turn into a trace of cold, erupting from the tomb, burning when it met the fire, and it was very powerful.

In fact, there is nothing mysterious to put it bluntly, this so-called "ambush fire" is actually a kind of biogas condensed into dry ice, which is not easy to volatilize in the confined space underground, and once the tomb is broken, the biogas will naturally leak out immediately. In ancient times, tomb robbers, of course, had to use wind lamps or candles and other open flames for lighting, and when they encountered this gas, the tomb robbers could not burn black charcoal, and they would be burned to the point that life was worse than death.

Soak a towel in mineral water and place it deep in the cave with the hanging basket. Although Ergou wore a mask, he still took a towel to cover his mouth and nose, although modern flashlights have replaced open flames, there will be no threat of "ambush fire", but there is no guarantee that there will be unknown gas suddenly coming out of the tomb, even if it is ordinary filth, once inhaled into the lungs, it can kill people.

In the flashlight, I saw the second dog snorting, raising the shovel and stabbing it down. The plaster layer pierced in response, and the shovel should have touched something underneath, and there was a muffled sound on the ground, and it was deflected.

It's so good to die, just now it was a good day, but suddenly a lightning bolt crossed the sky, and the "booming" thunder shook people's hearts and illuminated the entire heaven and earth.

Ergou's body shook, stretched out his hand to support the tomb wall, and in the sound of "banging", the surrounding soil collapsed, and quickly buried Ergou's two feet. I was taken aback and shouted, "It's a landslide, Ergou come up quickly." I shouted and pulled the rope to it. Fortunately, after a few pulls, I saw the figure of Ergou coming out of the thief hole.

The second dog sat on the ground, took off his shoes, poured out the dirt inside, and gasped there. At this time, it was already past midnight, and after digging for more than two hours in a row, everyone would be tired.

After he drank some water and replenished his strength, I said, "Something is wrong, I seem to hear the sound of something hard underneath?" Isn't it another stone coffin, or a bronze coffin? ”

Ergou said suspiciously: "You heard it right, there is a sound of metal." ”

I said, "It stands to reason that there should be a wooden coffin down there." ”

The coffin of the Warring States period is actually a small wooden burial chamber, generally used to place the funeral goods, large things are placed in the coffin, such as weapons and armor and some chopsticks and bowls and other sacrifices, there is no porcelain during the Warring States period, all use pottery or bronze, as for the coffin, there will be some belongings of the deceased, such as jade pendants or pendants or something, there is also a jade cicada or bead in the mouth of the deceased, some gold and silver in the hand, and even stuffed things in the **, are some valuables.

Ergou said: "My flashlight fell inside, and I didn't see anything clearly for a while. By feel, I think it's bronze, it should be a big ding, but I'm not sure. ”

I said, "No, if it's a heavy weapon like Dading, it can only be used by the royal family, and the black waist is not a clan, how can you use these for burial?" ”

Ergou shrugged and said, "How do I know?" ”

I saw that his clothes were soaked with sweat, and he was really tired, and said, "You just removed the plaster cast with your hand, why don't I go down and replace him for a while?" ”

Ergou said unceremoniously: "You are a white-faced scholar, you are not good at this, or I will come." With that, he rearranged his equipment, took a spare flashlight, and prepared to go to the grave again.

I was stimulated by his words and said, "Okay, you like to dig, don't you?" Dig you to death. As he spoke, he picked up a crane beak and threw it at him.

Ergou took it with a smile, looked up at the sky, and said, "I'm afraid it's going to rain, so I have to hurry." With that, he turned and slipped down the cave wall again.