"One-third of the soil layer of the three ancient tombs is hidden under the rice fields, the rice fields here are all terraced fields, the rice fields have been abandoned for many years, many of the ridges have collapsed very badly, and the collapsed soil is much more than the soil dug out of the robbery holes, so ordinary people will not care about the new soil. Except for some new soil, the tomb robbers left no traces. ”

"How did you know that this tomb was stolen?"

"That's a problem, I know." Director Ma said, "The case reported to us by three women working in the Ming Tomb, they came here to look for lichens during their lunch break, digging wild garlic and wild onions, and accidentally found a thief hole, so we reported to the provincial cultural relics department, and after that, Professor Gu brought people to investigate the scene." ”

"What is a lichen?"

"Lichen is something that grows on the surface of the ground and is similar in color and shape to soaked black fungus, and people here like to eat it."

"Professor Koo, go on."

"When we came, the depth of the cave was only about one meter deep, and the entrance of the cave was originally sealed with soil, because it rained for a few days, the new soil collapsed, and the hole was exposed. We dug up the soil inside the robbery hole, and found that there was a big stone about a meter deep in the robbery hole, and the big stone was pried open, and there was a very deep robbery hole underneath. When we go down and take a look, we can understand what is going on - in the history of the Jingnan region, there has never been an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, let alone the tomb of a prince of the Han Dynasty. ”

"Professor Gu, according to your experience, according to the amount of earthwork in the robbery hole, how long does it take for this group of tomb robbers to enter the tomb from digging the robbery hole?"

"It depends on how many tomb robbers there are, if the murder in the quarry is related to the theft of this ancient tomb, for the burial goods in the tomb, put two lives, the number of tomb robbers should be several, at least more than five people, time? It should be around a month. ”

After bidding farewell to Professor Gu, Ouyang Ping and his entourage went to the Ming Tomb accompanied by Director Ma and Gu Changhe.

Ouyang Ping wanted to find a place to live in the Ming Tomb, judging from the clothes of No. 2, he was unlikely to be a local, if the tomb robbers were not locals, then they were very likely to live near the scene of the crime; If there is collusion between locals and tomb robbers from other places, they may also live near the Ming Tomb, so it is more convenient for comrades to handle the case by placing their place in the Ming Tomb.

On a piece of paper, Director Ma drew villages and market towns within a radius of ten miles near the Ming Tombs, including quarries and Lingguang Temple.

As shown in the map, in addition to the Ming Tombs, Lingguang Temple is the closest place to the Han tombs - around Sanli Road; On the south side of Yangshan, that is, on both sides of the road where the big tomb is located, there is a small market town - Nanshan Town. There are more than 20 families living in the town, there are three hostels, in the past, there were no hostels in Nanshan Town, since the development of tourism, to Lingguang Temple and Ming Tomb - especially to Lingguang Temple after the number of tourists to visit the temple increased year by year, there were three hostels in Nanshan Town.

Director Ma said that in recent years, the incense in Lingguang Temple has become more and more prosperous, so there are more and more people who come to Lingguang Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha and sightseeing. It is said that the Guanyin Bodhisattva of Lingguang Temple is very effective, every year on the birthday of Guanyin, people who come to Lingguang Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings have to line up for one or two miles; This is the first thing, and the second is that since 1993, most of the pujas in the Jiangnan area have been held at Lingguang Temple.