The spectacular above-ground cemetery was searched by us again and again, and finally we could not find the entrance to the underground palace. After discussing with Luo Dabeard, the master and the two decided to solve the problem in the way that tomb robbers are best at, which is to dig a robbery hole. Locke Henry and I began to dig the hole. Generally speaking: the serious size of the robbery hole must be round or square, the circle should be smooth, and the square should see the corner, which can show the ability of the tomb robber craftsman.

However, now we are mainly excavated by two foreigners, and I, a half-hung tomb robber who is sick, is assisted by the side. Therefore, the thief hole dug out is not up to standard at all, and it is already good to be able to go down.

The main tool for digging the robbery hole is the "Luoyang shovel", which is a semi-cylindrical shovel, similar to the tile cylinder, with a handle at one end, much like a murder weapon in the seventies and eighties, "pipe insert", which was invented by the tomb robbers in Luoyang in the early 20th century. According to legend, it was invented by a villager named "Li Yazi" from Mapo Village. One day, Li Yazi went to a place called Mengjin near his house to catch up with the market, and wandered around for a while, but he didn't see anything he was interested in and wanted to buy. So he squatted down in a shaded place by the side of the road to rest. The place where Li Yazi came to shelter from the heat was the rain shelter of a steamed bun shop, and he saw that the shop selling steamed buns was making a small hole in the ground, and the tools for making the hole immediately attracted his attention. Because, he saw that every time this thing poked on the ground, it could bring out a lot of dirt. Li Yazi, who made a living from tomb robbing, immediately realized that this thing was too suitable for tomb robbery and excavation. So, he immediately drew a paper pattern and asked someone to create it.

However, the manufacturing process of Luoyang shovel is particularly complex, and more than 20 kinds of processes are required for complete manual making, embryo making, smelting, heat treatment, molding, and sharpening. The most important thing is to create the arc when forming, which needs to be carefully beaten, and if you are not careful, the Luoyang shovel will not be brought out. In the end, Li Yazi found a blacksmith named Chen Yinwa to build it, and in this way, the first Luoyang shovel used to rob tombs was born.

Now Luoyang shovel has a great innovation and reform, the wooden handle is changed to a rebar pipe, about half a meter long, can be set layer by layer, disassembled and extended at will, when not in use, it can be placed in the backpack, it is very convenient to carry. Some people in Luoyang shovel connected to the special rope, you can drive into the ground more than ten meters, or even dozens of meters deep, when the shovel is lifted, the shovel head will carry a tube of soil, tomb robbers can be according to the soil structure, color, density analysis of the depth of the hole excavation. If you bring out the cooked earth, brick slag, wood chips, ceramic iron sheets, you can determine the location of the tomb, and then analyze what the shovel has brought out, and deduce the nature of the underground collection and the layout of the tomb.

Experienced tomb robbers can even easily judge the situation underground by hitting the sound of the guò Luoyang shovel and the various touches that come from it. For example, the rammed tomb stone wall, or the hollow masonry, you can know the architectural dynasty of the tomb, and you can also distinguish the tomb chamber, the tomb road, or the underground palace below.

The Luoyang shovel is made of fine iron, with a sharp blade, and can also be used to defend against enemies and protect one's own safety when robbing tombs. Therefore, it has not been drowned out by thousands of years of historical mudflow, and has also become an indispensable and important tool for archaeological research today. It is because of this that we often lie that we are archaeological researchers, after all, in that era, a piece of paper with a red stamp on the forged text could solve the problem of qiē, because, in the early days of reform and opening up, everyone sharpened their heads and was busy making a fortune, and no one would spend time and energy to delve into this thankless task.

In fact, these professional tomb robbers in our capital will sell one or two "Ming Vessels" at most, and will never wantonly destroy the tombs, and only take one or two when taking things, and will never be greedy, nor will they move the bodies of the deceased without authorization, or do things that insult the deceased. In the past, there were some unscrupulous tomb robbers who would strip off the clothes of the corpses, and even let go of the pressure money and anal plugs, and even encountered beautiful incorruptible female corpses and desecrated the remains, which was simply a loss of conscience, making the tomb robbers infamous, and it was inevitable that a rat feces spoiled a pot of porridge.

And the serious craftsmen of the real tomb robber family have many rules. Let's just say that the four major tomb robbers "touch the gold captain", there is a saying that "the dawn does not touch the gold". And the craftsmen of our group of moving mountains, the main way of making a living is to "eliminate evil and restore the right way", that is, "kill demons and demons, and restore the right way", helping the people solve all kinds of weird and bizarre difficult chores, and tomb robbery is a sideline. However, now that the feudal superstition has been eradicated, the ghosts, snakes and gods have been cracked down, and the "strange people's residence" has no choice but to turn to tomb robbery and selling Ming weapons. However, the purpose of my visit to the grave with the fat man was a little more interesting than making money, it was entirely for exploration, and to fulfill the passionate adventure dreams in the hearts of men.

Now we are digging the robbery hole outside the cemetery, there is no Luoyang shovel in our hands, we can only use the flat-headed excavation shovel used in the rescue to dig, and the general robbery hole is straight down, but because of our limited tools, we can only dig the robbery hole obliquely down, so it takes a lot of energy and time to spend more, it is really extraordinary laborious.

I and two foreigners and three people kept digging without stopping, and at this time we were sweating profusely, sweating so hard that we couldn't straighten up our waists, and the results of digging were still minimal, and the results were still very slow. The sky is gradually getting darker, and the temperature around us is beginning to drop strictly, and the bodies of the three of us, just like the sunset in the west, are about to be exhausted, and the sloping downward robbery hole is almost dug more than ten meters deep.

The deeper hole became narrower and narrower, and finally only one person could squat and pass guò, and when it was time to go out, it could only go out backwards, and it could not turn back very smoothly. Therefore, now I am the only one digging in the cave, and when I get out later, I can replace the work with another person. I was alone in the thief cave and was engrossed in digging, and while I was concentrating on digging, the bioelectricity of the human body suddenly sensed that someone was behind me. I am naturally sensitive to the nervous system, so when I sleep, I am often affected by the outside world, and I can't sleep well because of nightmares. At this time, I felt someone behind me, and a chill ran down my spine, and a chill passed over my scalp, making it impossible for me to look back lightly to confirm. And my thoughts, in an instant, changed several times, and my heart said: Is it that someone is in a hurry to come down and help me carry the dirt first? However, it is immediately negative to say: this is not possible. The matter of excavation has been discussed beforehand. Because of the proximity to the mausoleum, there are many ghosts and monsters here, and in order to avoid a crisis in a narrow place, there is no way to escape, and no one will replace it until the excavation personnel go out. If someone wanted to come down early, they would shout a few times in advance to tell me to go out, and they wouldn't enter the cave until they saw me coming out safely. With Master and Luo Dabeard supervising above, there shouldn't be anyone acting rashly. Thinking of this, I immediately thought to myself: If the person behind me is not a teammate at this time, who will it be?

The chill was growing dramatically, like a cold wind mixed with hail that was about to pass through my body. I said to myself: I can't sit still like this, I have to check the situation behind me. So, I was mentally prepared and immediately turned around. However, there was nothing behind me, and there were no people or things, so I breathed a sigh of relief, and said to myself: I was too fussy and nervous. So, turn around and continue the excavation work. As a result, as soon as he shoveled the shovel to the dirt wall in front of him, he heard a "bang", and the shovel shoveled onto the hard stone wall, shaking his arm for a burst of numbness and crispy unbearable feeling, but his heart was happy. The excited heart said, "Great, I finally found the tomb." So, I hurriedly scraped off the soil from the stone wall with a shovel.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the vast Tang tombs south of the Yangtze River were mostly pit tombs, the form was simple, the scale was very small, the burial goods were mostly ceramic vessels, and the terracotta figurines were rare. In the northern region, there are mostly large-scale brick chamber tombs, and most of the emperor's burial goods are "Tang Sancai". Tang Sancai is specially made for the funeral of the dead vessel, began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, is a low-temperature color glazed pottery, with yellow, brown, green as the basic glaze color, staggered white, blue, purple, black, ochre (reddish-brown) and other glaze colors, forming a gorgeous and colorful effect, "Sancai" is the meaning of colorful, not specifically refers to three colors. It absorbs the characteristics of Chinese painting, sculpture and other arts and crafts, and adopts a variety of forms such as stacking and pasting, carving and other forms to decorate patterns, and the lines are rough and powerful.

There are many kinds of Tang Sancai, different forms, there are people, animals, bowls, wine vessels, furniture, stationery, and other utensils, mostly animals. Most of the animals are camels and horses, or lying or standing, or running with their feet raised, or neighing with their necks, lifelike, mottled and colorful. The characters are dressed in brightly colored costumes, the shapes are vivid and realistic, and the sculptures are exquisite and colorful. Tang Sancai does not only exist in the emperor's mausoleum, because it was popular in the Tang Dynasty, the wind of thick burials is flourishing, the government has a clear provision, allowing the official in the court to be the official of the first product to the fourth grade, can be buried with a certain amount. However, Tang Sancai's fetal quality is brittle, the waterproof performance is poor, only as a funeral item, and it is not practical, so there are very few complete treasures left in the world, which are extremely precious.

And because it is fired at a low temperature, the process of making zuò is not complicated, the raw materials can be seen everywhere, and the tire glaze formula has long been disclosed, so the imitation of fakes can also be seen everywhere, and the similarities have reached 99%.

I am now fully praying for the opening of the tomb, so that I can open my eyes and enhance my understanding of the knowledge of the Tang Mausoleum, and see the legendary Tang Sancai that I have been longing for; Second, we finally lived up to expectations and found a way to go to the underground palace, which is completely good news for rescuing Yue'er. I cleaned up the stone wall and prepared to retreat to the ground and report the good news to Master. However, just as I was packing up my tools and preparing to retreat, I clearly felt someone behind me. This time I felt very strongly, and I thought to myself: it must be that my teammates can't wait on it and want to come down and replace me first. So, I twisted to my side and said to the person behind me, "Who came down?" I've found the burial chamber. ”

As a result, the person behind me did not answer, and I thought that my voice was too low for him to hear. So, he asked again, "Who is it?" Why don't you wait for me to go up and come down, it's so inconvenient to go out like this. ”

But even though I raised my voice, the person behind me didn't answer. At this time, my heart suddenly plucked up, and my heart said: Is it not my own person behind me, or is the thing behind me not a person at all?

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill down my spine, tried to stabilize my feelings, twisted my body widely, and looked behind me.

As a result, I saw a white shadow not far behind me, drifting from far and near. I suddenly remembered the nightmare I had before, and a chill suddenly burst out of every pore on my body.

Frightened, he said: The thing behind him can't be a ghost, right?