"Third master, you have a lot of adults, this is really my brother, otherwise, there is still a jade Buddha at home after the incident, from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The day before yesterday, I was still stained with the smell of earth on the north slope, and after a while, you came to pick it up. ”

The third master was really an old fox, and in a blink of an eye, he reached out and patted the fat man and laughed: "Haha, I'll just joke with you, you take it seriously." Okay brothers, put it away, it's all your own people, hurry up and work hard, I'll wait for Brother Shi to light the cannon. ”

The fat man's job in this team is sappers, their jargon is called "legs", this third master is the palm of the hand, and his ability is to visit the tomb.

The bitter north wind swept through the orchard, and I ducked into my trench coat with my neck bent, it was very cold, and no one spoke on the spot. There was an inconspicuous half-cut brick on the ground, and the third master kicked it with his toes, and several young men took out the smooth steel bar with the drill bit from the car, drilled vertically under the loess, and drove it into the ground 5 meters deep in less than five minutes.

The steel bar in the hands of these people, called the probe, is the same as the world-famous Luoyang shovel, it is a new thing developed by the Ding family in Shaanxi in recent years, the times are changing, and the guys in their hands are also changing, and this is much faster than the Luoyang shovel.

Shi Fatzi still remembers that in the winter of the year before last, he invested a huge amount of 888 yuan in Liu Sanye's door, and the first tomb robbery tool he came into contact with was this inconspicuous probe like a steel bar.

Xi'an, Shaanxi, the ancient capital of the Seven Dynasties, tomb robbery is a line that has existed since ancient times, the locals call it "tipping bucket", it has been prevalent since the end of the Warring States Period, the wind of thick burial makes the living people put their hands into the tomb, so there are thirty-six lines, tomb robbery is the king's saying. The history of Xi'an has experienced the same wave of tomb robberies as the changes of Chinese dynasties, as long as the dynasty is changed, the tombs of the previous dynasty will be overturned immediately. In recent years, some Hong Kong and Taiwan cultural relics dealers who have heard the news have united people like Liu Sanye with Jianghu forces to encircle the ground and dig openly in the name of "doing projects".

I estimated that the jade Buddha that the fat man said was indeed valuable, and that Liu Sanye specially called me to ask me if my hands had been stained with soil before? I said no, I'm new.

He did have the demeanor of a master, pointing to a stall on the ground and saying to me, "The first lesson in our line of work is to "prick a needle and use a shovel". This needle is a probe, and the shovel is a Luoyang shovel. The purpose of "pricking needles and shovels" is to find out the location and shape of the tomb, and to find out the age of the tomb, the identity of the tomb owner, and whether it has been stolen. ”

When I saw him take the initiative to speak, I had the courage to ask, "Then how can I know the information below?" ”

Liu Sanye was in a good mood, and the horse boy next to him lit a cigarette for him, he took a puff and said: "The ancient tomb can speak by itself, okay, today the third master will teach you a good lesson, you all understand, don't embarrass me when you go out in the future." ”

"Good!" Those horse boys didn't know whether to pat their asses or really want to study hard, in short, they were all very excited, and the fat man also knocked on my arm and whispered: "Remember, this old guy has always been difficult to open, and every word he says will be money for us in the future." ”

Liu Sanye has a Huanghuali Taishi chair, which is said to be used by the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian in the late Ming Dynasty, and he likes it very much, and after his death, it fell to the people and came to his hands, so he leaned on the chair and said to us: "Those who do our business are cultural people, and ordinary people can't do it." First of all, you have to read books, read more historical classics and local historical records, and when you are empty, you can go to the mountains and countryside to talk to the old people about folklore, these things contain clues, the key depends on whether your brain is alive or not, whether you can find it. For example, there have been big officials in the history of your hometown, how many grades this official is, where to be buried after death, and go to the kiln all day and night, that is scum, and it can't become the climate after all. ”

Yang Dali nodded again and again and then shouted to us: "Yes, yes, what the third master taught is that you have heard it, you are not allowed to visit the kiln in the future, you have to study!" ”

Someone below heckled, "Are you literate?" How do I remember that Dali can't even write his own name, and every time he pays his salary, he draws a circle. ”

"Haha......" suddenly burst into laughter, most of the people who do this line of work are nervous, and such occasions rarely appear. That's because there really won't be anyone to disturb tonight, just such a person who looks at the orchard within a radius of thirty miles has long been taken away, and another one, this place is the nest that his Ding family wants to dig out, and no matter how white or black it is, it will give way.

The Ding family is the boss behind the scenes and the controller of the entire market, and a Liu Sanye is at best just a dog working for others, not to mention their pots and coolies. Yang Dali belongs to the branch pot, he is responsible for convening people, the fat man belongs to the blasting, he grew up in the military region, and he is very proficient in ** that kind of thing, how much to blow up the width of the hole can not collapse, and to be smokeless and quiet, this is indeed a technical job.

At this time, the few people in charge of the probe have already pulled out the probe, this probe is spiral-shaped, as sharp as a blade, and there are grooves in the middle, and those grooves are the information in Liu Sanyan's mouth, which is used for the specific location and basic situation of the ancient tomb. Although there are now high-tech tools such as metal detectors, for masters like Liu Sanye, the ancient Luoyang shovel can bring more information than modern instruments.

As the most commonly used tool for tomb exploration, the Luoyang shovel can bring up clods of soil from the ground. If the clods are not layered, and the color and character are the same, it means that there are no tombs, and they are called "dead soil". If the clods are layered and mixed with different soil qualities, it means that the soil has been turned and is a symbol of a tomb, and it is called "living soil". Sometimes there are debris such as broken pottery shards, broken bricks and charred wood chips in the clods, and by analyzing these debris, we can know the basic situation of the tomb owner.

The principle of the probe is completely based on the feel. Liu Sanye pointed at us and said, "The feel of the needle hitting the dirt, masonry or metal is different. Compared with using the Luoyang shovel, it depends on experience, and Li Ya's Luoyang shovel is still a little worse than this. ”

It turns out that this Luoyang shovel will also have a time to miss. If there is tomb robbery, there will naturally be anti-tomb robbery. When some ancient tombs are built, attention will be paid to placing the excavated soil in layers and then backfilling them in order. When encountering such a well-camouflaged tomb, the Luoyang shovel will be useless, and the probe can play a role in the encounter with anti-tomb robbery.

I cautiously asked, "Then are we breaking the law in this business?" ”

"Breaking the law? Boy, let me tell you, those sub-experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau still have to ask me to buy probes. Remember, you have all listened well: if you don't move the imperial tomb, you won't die, these eight words are our bottom line! After the hole is dug, I must backfill the soil, and the dead bodies must not be exposed to the wilderness, and the crops of people must be left with money as compensation, and they cannot work during the day. If anyone breaks this rule, I guarantee that he will not be able to walk ten miles in Xi'an City, and the ancestors will have to abide by it, and no one can turn back for thousands of years. Hold on to these articles, no one will come to trouble you, and don't blame me for not saving someone Liu if you stab the basket. ”

"Okay, this is a Han Dynasty." Liu Sanye took the soil on the probe and put it on his finger and gently grinded: "Look at the specifications are not low, it should be that the vault has been reinforced, the two sides of the Shinto are stone slabs, and the main tomb is made of wood. Hit it from below, Shi boy, put a cannon diagonally, more than six meters and thirty centimeters, it can't be bad, we have to dig it up from below, move smaller, lest it collapse inside. ”

With that, he got up and walked to one of the positions, stepped on it with his foot, and said to the fat man: "That's it, you have to go to the north, the opening in the ground must be wide, and the narrow point above is fine, and you will have to hit it again by hand in a while, so as to leave room for them to turn around." ”

The fat man took an old schoolbag handed over by Yang Dali and said to Liu Sanye: "Understood! "Needless to say, what is in this schoolbag is **, or the smokeless kind, it definitely belongs to the military grade, this is definitely not an ordinary group of tomb robbers.

The fat man buried his head in the ground and also took the probe and hit it down, how deep and how many degrees he hit according to Liu Sanye's requirements, and put the ** section by section into it after he was done. His technique is reflected here, put more, put less, put the position, and the effect after the explosion is completely different.

With just a cigarette, the fat man turned around with the fuse and said, "Almost, I lit it?" ”

Liu Sanye nodded, the fat man struck the match and only took three steps back, even the child played with firecrackers and threw it farther than this, the fat man's confidence in his own technology is really not covered, just listen to the "bang" A muffled sound is similar to the sound of clapping hard, and for a while, a small smoke came up, mixed with a little bit of dirt flew out, and a hole the size of a basin had exploded on the ground......