Chapter 7 Yongdao
Old Liu Tou turned his face and said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm listening to the movement of the rooster." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this dead chicken! I ran in and didn't move. ”
Zhang Yuan continued: "Was this chicken eaten by a ghost? Grandma's, there are really ghosts in the tomb! His words don't seem like a joke, it only shows that he is very weak-hearted.
Old Liu Tou said: "No, the ghost is afraid of roosters." I put the rooster in the air in the Han tomb, and if I can hear the rooster cooing in the Han tomb, it means that it is okay, and we can go in. Supposedly, the rooster can't see clearly in the dark, it won't run far, why can't I see it or hear it, it's weird? ”
Wang Changxing said: "Master Liu, I read tomb robbery novels and tomb robbery movies, and those tomb robbers use the method of lighting candles in order to test the air in the ancient tombs, this method is the simplest, and if the candle is extinguished, it means that the air is not good, and it can be lowered if it is not extinguished." ”
Lao Liu Tou said: "This method is good, but it must not be applicable to a big tomb like the one in front of us." There are many burial goods in large tombs, and there are many organic matter, such as chickens, ducks, fish, grain, fruits, wine, etc., plus the decay of the body of the tomb owner will produce methane, these combustible gases will explode once they encounter an open flame, not only blowing up the entire ancient tomb, but also hurting people is also a common thing, so be careful with fire. ”
I said, "That's true, when the archaeological team excavated the Mawangdui Han Tomb, a blue flame came out of the soil on the tomb, that is, the methane in the tomb was ignited. But, Master Liu, how is it most convenient to detect the air in the tomb? ”
Old Liu Tou said: "Mouse, use mouse, preferably a big mouse." You know, rats live underground, they can go anywhere in the walls, sewers, etc., rats are smart, they have a keen sense of smell, and they can know where the poisonous gas is underground, and they can even know that an earthquake is coming, which is their survival instinct. Although people have tried every means to eradicate rats since ancient times, it is said that there are still more rats on the earth than humans. Some foreign experts have already used rats to detect mines, oil tanks, and pipelines, but this technology is still thousands of years later than our ancestors, and in the Song Dynasty, our ancestors used rats to visit tombs. The method is also simple, tie a thin rope to the waist of the mouse, and put the mouse into the ancient tomb, as long as the air in the ancient tomb is poisonous, the thing will squeak and run out. ”
Lao Cai asked: "Old Liu, how can you, an old man in the countryside, know so many things?" Things in the world also know that you will be online? ”
Lao Liu Tou said: "No, but I will go to the reading room of the brigade headquarters every morning to read books and newspapers, and live to learn from the past...... Well, I think I hear the rooster crow, let's go to the grave. However, as long as you can smell the stench in the tomb, don't smoke! ”
As the saying goes: Shibei should be impressed for three days. We haven't gotten along with Lao Liu Tou for three days, and now we really have to look at them with admiration. If Lao Liu Tou didn't go to the tomb with us, we wouldn't have bought items such as blowers and rubber shoes, and we wouldn't have thought that the corpse gas in the tomb would explode, let alone spend money to buy a big fat rooster and send it to the tomb for nothing.
But there are always two sides to things, although Lao Liu Tou has a level, thoughtful work, and old Cheng is serious, but I think he still makes a big fuss and is too cautious. Again, if Lao Liu Tou hadn't been with us, we might have gone to the ancient tomb to take a turn at this time, fear is fear, compared to the temptation of the night pearl, we will overcome it.
Now that Lao Liu Tou is so cautious, is there anything else strange in this Han tomb? After all, Lao Liu's grandfather Liu Er once dug up this Han tomb and stole the artifact inside. Otherwise, the fortune teller who came here back then scared Lao Liu Tou with the "living dead ghost"? I don't think it's likely.
Why do I have so many things? Because although it is the first time for me to rob a tomb, it is not the first time I have entered the Han tomb.
Less than 200 kilometers west of our city is Xuzhou City, although the city is only a prefecture-level city, but whether it is the location of transportation, mineral resources or strategic location is very important, the ancients called Xuzhou is "the thoroughfare of the five provinces" and "the place where the soldiers of all dynasties must fight".
This is the above-ground part, and under the ground of Xuzhou, there are not only rich coal seams, but also almost the entire Han Dynasty. At the end of Qin, Liu Bang, a native of Pei County in the west of Xuzhou, raised an army against Qin, and even made the emperor dangdang and established the Han Kingdom. Xuzhou is his lair, so he named his younger brother Liu Jiao as the king of Chu and sat in Xuzhou to guard the backyard for him. After Liu Jiao, there were twelve generations of Chu kings, and they were all buried on the hills around Xuzhou.
There are many mountains around Xuzhou, although they are called mountains, most of them are not more than 200 meters high, and some mountains are even only a few tens of meters. It is such an inconspicuous hill that was chosen by the kings of the Western Han Dynasty, the Lion Rock Han Tomb in the southeast of Xuzhou City, the Lion Mountain on the tomb is more than 60 meters high, that is, the current 20-story building, who would have thought that the mountain has been hollowed out and buried with countless treasures and a historical past.
The Beidong Mountain Han Tomb in the north of Xuzhou City, the hill above this Han Tomb is only 15 meters high, and it is still a magnificent tomb inside. To the west of Xuzhou City is the Guishan Han Tomb, which is the tomb of the sixth generation of the Chu King and his wife in the Western Han Dynasty, and the two tombs almost hollowed out the Guishan. Not only that, there are also Han tombs such as Nandong Mountain, Chuwang Mountain, and Dongdong Mountain around Xuzhou City.
Because of these magnificent Han tombs and countless small Han tombs distributed on various mountains, Xuzhou is known as the "hometown of the two Han cultures", and the Han tombs, Han figurines, and Han portrait stones are known as the three uniques of the Han Dynasty in Xuzhou. In addition, there is a saying that "the culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties looks at Beijing, the culture of the Sui and Tang dynasties looks at Xi'an, and the culture of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty looks at Xuzhou", which shows the depth of its history and culture.
In recent years, a lot of antique markets have been built all over the country, and a lot of antiques and paper exchange activities have been carried out, the antique market in Xuzhou City is no exception, we are not far from Xuzhou City, often go to Xuzhou to participate in the exchange meeting, by the way, I visited the above several Han tombs, and I have some understanding of the tombs of the princes and princes of the Western Han Dynasty.
If in terms of length, the depth of the Lion Mountain Chu King Mausoleum is nearly 100 meters, which is the longest; If in terms of scale, the Guishan Han Tomb is the largest, and there are dozens of burial chambers in the mountain, which is the largest.
What I mean by this is that the Han tomb in front of us is undoubtedly a tomb of the Western Han Dynasty princes, but the King Sui of the Western Han Dynasty here is much inferior to the King of Chu in Xuzhou, and the scale of his tomb will not be so large, I think it must be smaller than the Han tombs that have been found in Xuzhou. Moreover, this Han tomb has been stolen and excavated many times, we dare not think about the treasures of the Western Han Dynasty, we just need to go in and find those bones, the night pearl must be in a certain corpse.
In this way, we don't need to make a lot of trouble, just go into the tomb and see it, you see that Lao Liu Tou is a blower and rubber shoes and put a rooster in, I feel that he is too cautious, if he doesn't know that there is something strange in this Han tomb, why is Lao Liu Tou so nervous?
I don't know how to think about it, I always feel that this treasure hunt is unlucky, but I am embarrassed to say it.
Lao Liu Tou had already entered the tomb gate, and Lao Cai followed him closely. I was still in a daze, Wang Changxing had already entered the tomb door in front of me with a shotgun, Zhang Yuan pushed me, and I came to my senses and followed Wang Changxing in.
Inside the tomb gate is the corridor, and the smell in the corridor is stronger, although we are all wearing masks, we still can't stop rushing into our noses. Although we arrived in the corridor, we did not dare to stride forward, everyone slowly moved forward against the stone wall of the corridor, and a few head lights were swaying in the corridor, which was everyone looking at the situation in the corridor.
The corridor is about two meters high and two meters wide, and the size is the same as that of the tomb gate. However, people don't feel anything outside the tomb gate, and when they get to the inside of the corridor, more than 20 centimeters above the head is the stone wall above the corridor, and the person feels very depressed below. The road is carved out little by little in the mountain, and the cracks in the rocks of the mountain can still be seen on the wall of the road, and the cracks are larger in some places, and there are small stones stuffed into the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty.
The stone walls of the corridor have long been blackened by the moisture in the tomb, and there are small pieces of soil rolled up like wall skin. The large tombs of the Han Dynasty were not only large in scale, but also very elaborate in decoration. After the burial chamber is excavated, the tomb wall should be smoothed and smoothed, and a layer of mud should be applied to the outside, and the mud should be coated with lacquer and the outermost part should be coated with cinnabar. The small pieces of soil on the stone wall are arched with lacquer and cinnabar, but as soon as the tomb door is opened and the air enters the tomb, these cinnabar thousands of years ago will oxidize, and the color will change from red to dark red, or even black, just like what we see now.
When we walked down and knocked down the stone door in the corridor, the ground in the corridor was covered with a layer of black silt. This kind of silt is not the same as the silt in the river, and the silt in the ancient tombs is more complex.
Because a lot of burial goods will be put into the large tombs, the ancients in the "death is like life" under the guiding ideology, in order to let the ancestors buried in the ancient tombs in the other world not starvation, put in a lot of chickens, ducks, fish, meat, wine, grain, fruits, etc., some tombs even have killed pigs, cattle and sheep and other sacrifices.
These things, along with the wooden objects and silk fabrics in the ancient tombs, slowly decay into ashes, which is called "plate ash" in archaeology. There is also water seepage in the ancient tomb, and the water and the ash are mixed together to form a special silt in the ancient tomb.
And the Han tomb we entered, there were more than 50 living people buried in it, and now nearly a hundred years have passed, these people have long been turned into bones, but their skin and flesh and clothes will inevitably rot in the ancient tomb, which means that there must be human tissues in the mud under our feet, and even non-perishable hair.
I felt my stomach tumble and I wanted to smoke, but I was afraid of detonating the gas in the tomb. Fortunately, the outside blower is still sending air to the inside, and we are going downwind to the inside, and most of the smell is blown away, so we feel better.
We walked nearly seven or eight meters along the road, and there were grass roots hanging down from the cracks in the stones, and the roots of the trees were shaken by the wind and touched our headlamps from time to time, and hard objects could be stepped on in the mud under our feet, which were estimated to be tiles, wood, etc., which made people's hearts hairy.
These are not what we are concerned about, what we care about is the bones buried in the ancient tomb and the night pearl in the bones of a certain corpse. But we've all come here, let alone more than fifty corpses, and we haven't seen a single claw.
The Han tomb is too dark, the headlamp is not far ahead, we don't know the situation inside, we don't dare to rush over, where are these bones down?
At this time, the old Liu Tou, who was walking in the front, stopped, pointed to us and said, "Don't go, there is a door on the stone wall in front of you, which seems to be a tomb." ”
The three of us stopped, and we also saw that there was also a small door on the stone wall of the road to the west, and I pointed to the opposite side, and Lao Liu Tou and Lao Cai nodded.
There is a stone chamber on the stone wall of the road, and it is a symmetrical two, which should be the ear chamber. I looked into the ear chamber to the west, and because the door was not large, the light could only reach part of it, and the rest of the chamber could not be seen.
I asked, "It's strange, it is said that there are living people locked up in this Han tomb, and they will definitely gather behind the tomb door to find a way, but we have all come here, and we haven't even seen the shadow of a corpse, is it true that Master Liu, the legend and diary of your grandfather are fake?" Or are the bones in the ear chamber? ”
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