Chapter 31: The Strange Wooden Door

Hearing me say this, Lantern Xiao's eyes lit up all of a sudden, "Then what are we waiting for!" Let's go down! ”

I nodded vigorously, "Okay!" ”

Lantern Xiao sat on the ground and hugged my legs tightly, and I leaned into the hole. I shone it in with a flashlight and found that this hole is really a thief hole, and looking at the situation of the cave wall, it should have been some years, and it is estimated that it is the masterpiece of our ancestors of the Zhuo family.

This discovery made me and Lantern Festival very excited, and we couldn't wait to go in and find out.

The first section of the cave is almost vertical, but there are grooves in the walls where you can settle down. Lantern Xiao and I stepped on it carefully and slowly climbed down. After this vertical robbery hole, after a turn, the direction of the robbery cave began to slope downward.

Lantern Xiao and I knelt on the ground, and walked along the thief hole with our hands and feet. The whole thief hole is relatively not big, for my stature, the overall feeling is okay, although a little tired, but acceptable. But the Lantern Festival behind was a little painful, and he began to pant after a few steps, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat.

In a corner with a relatively large space, Lantern Xiao took off all the thick clothes on his body, and his face, which was flushed just now, was finally somewhat relieved.

I looked at Lantern Festival and said, "How is it?" Can it still hold up? ”

Lantern Xiao touched the sweat on her head, "It's okay, my diet is a little uncontrolled during this time, and my weight is growing faster!" ”

I patted him on the shoulder, "Let's lose weight after we go back, otherwise even if you don't die in the hands of Zongzi, you will die in the thief hole sooner or later." Even if you take it with you, even if you make a thief hole, you have to make a 6XL. ”

Lantern Xiao waved his hand and took a few breaths, "Okay, stop talking nonsense, keep walking!" ”

We have been walking along this robbery hole for a long time, and the long-distance robbery cave is generally all zigzag-shaped. So I know that the more we turn around in the robbery hole, the deeper we go underground. I don't know why, maybe it's just me and Lantern Xiao, I suddenly panicked in my heart.

After realizing that I had gone so deep underground, I felt a sense of isolation, as if the world on earth had left me.

I shook my head vigorously, shook off this idea, I have already come here but a little retreated, this is not a good sign, it is impossible to retreat at this point, even if you fight the spirit, you have to concentrate on coping!

Before I knew it, I saw a circular exit appear in front of me, which made me happy, and I was almost suffocated to death in this small thief hole. And the Lantern Festival that followed me is estimated to be half dead. He hadn't spoken in a long time, and it was the first time the two of us realized that he hadn't spoken a word in such a long time.

I glanced back, the Lantern Festival green tendons were exposed, and the hideous expression on my face startled me, "Damn!" You're not going to die suddenly here, are you? ”

Lantern Xiao didn't speak for the first time, just waved his hand and motioned for me to leave quickly.

I climbed to the exit of the thief cave and looked out cautiously. It was pitch black outside, and it seemed to be a passage, and although nothing else could be seen, there was a lot of space outside. This made me and Lantern Xiao can't wait to get out, and regardless of the air quality, the two of us just sat on the ground gasping for air.

Lantern Xiao leaned on the tomb wall, "Lao Tzu will die in this tomb for a while, and he doesn't want to go out from here again!" ”

I turned on my flashlight and took a look around, and found that this should be a corridor in the ancient tomb, but this corridor is a little strange, the walls of the corridor are not the usual black or dark blue, but show a white color.

This made me a little curious, so I stood up and walked to the edge of the tomb wall and touched it with my hand. But suddenly I found that these tomb walls were not ordinary bluestone or bricks, but plaster.

This was a bit of a surprise to me. I can't believe that a mausoleum of this size is not built in stone, but in a relatively rudimentary plaster. This is really incomprehensible, the burial ditch of the ancient tomb we found alone is amazingly long, and the burial goods in it are difficult to measure, and there are even people who are buried. On the contrary, the main construction of the ancient tomb seems so shabby. It's like buying a Range Rover with a straw mat on the seats.

I twisted some plaster from the wall with my hand, and found that it was very sticky. I have a certain impression of this kind of soil, and I remember that when I was in the submarine tomb, I also saw similar white plaster. Although the scale of the island tomb at that time was not small, it used this white plaster soil to prevent moisture and play a role in resisting water vapor under the sea. But this is in the mountains, and there is not much moisture, so why use so much white plaster!

However, if this white plaster soil is thick enough, its solidity is indeed not much worse than that of a stone wall, but it does not match the identity of the ancient tomb!

Lantern Xiao saw me hesitating in front of the tomb wall, so she got up and walked over. Lantern Xiao also discovered the problem of the tomb wall at a glance, "The color of this wall is a bit strange!" ”

I nodded, and told Lantern Xiao again what I had just thought of.

However, Lantern Xiao didn't care too much about this matter, he said: "We haven't figured out the ins and outs of this ancient tomb yet, at least we haven't even determined what dynasty this ancient tomb is!" There are so many copycat emperors or dead emperors in Chinese history, and when they died, the treasury was already empty, and it would be good to build ancient tombs. No matter how high the status is, isn't it useless if you don't have money! So, let's not pay too much attention to these details. Saying that, Lantern Xiao began to walk forward, "I don't think there should be any danger here, after all, your Zhuo family has been operating here for a hundred years, and even if there is a mechanism, it has been broken." ”

I nodded, and followed the Lantern Festival to continue walking. In the beginning, we did find some traces of human activity near the wall, and the time should be very close. There was half a bag of instant noodles, a piece of candle, and a lighter, and some other bits and pieces of garbage were packed in a plastic bag.

I don't know who left these things, maybe it's Ma Jun, maybe it's the second uncle!

The general feeling of the corridor we passed was monotonous, unchanging off-white, without any other objects or decorations. But just after walking a short distance, we suddenly found a door in the wall of the corridor, which was a very ordinary door.

But it was such a door that should have been extremely common, but it surprised me and Lantern Xiao, because this ordinary door appeared in a place where it shouldn't be.

This is a common courtyard door of the common people outside, although the wood material has become decayed now, but it is very intact, the door nails, door noses, door cymbals are all available, if this is in the village, it will not attract attention at all, but this is in an ancient tomb, the door in the ancient tomb should never be like this!

Although in some ancient tombs, the tomb door is sometimes carved with door nails, door noses and other things, but the materials of these tomb doors are all stones without exception, and door nails and door noses are also decorations and have no practical effect. For example, in 2001, the Jin Dynasty brick tomb found in Luoyang Shijiatun was carved on several large square bricks very finely, and the appearance of two courtyard gates was very finely carved. Not only are all kinds of things on the door readily available, but even the eyebrows on the door are carved like a look.

This form of tomb door carving is mostly seen in the Song and Jin dynasties, in 1983 Luoyang Xin'an County found the Northern Song Dynasty mural tomb, the tomb door of this tomb is more freehand, not only carved on the bricks to go out, and even painted on the door panel of a woman open the door to come out. It's as if it's really inhabited.

But those are decorations that can be made in stone, but in front of us are two real wooden courtyard doors, which is simply unheard of.

I subconsciously pressed my hand on the door and nose, I hesitated for a moment, turned my head to look at Lantern Festival, who took out the sushi knife in his backpack and nodded at me.

With the force of my hands, the two tomb doors squeaked open. The two of us subconsciously took two steps back, but we saw that behind these two doors, there was neither a courtyard nor a burial chamber, but a solid layer of soil. Behind the door is sealed!

This made me look at Lantern Xiao face to face, touched the door frame covered by white plaster, and looked at the eaves above. I find that I can't guess what this tomb owner thinks! What's the point!

Lantern Xiao was also full of confusion, frowning and shaking his head.

We turned and went on with great doubts, and just a short distance away we saw a fork in the road, and on the wall of one of the forks in the road we again found a courtyard door, in much the same form as we had just found. And when we opened the courtyard door and saw the situation inside, it was similar to the situation just now.

Lantern Xiao cursed in a low voice, "Was this tomb owner a traitor before his death?" Putting your own masterpiece on the wall of your grave after you die? ”

I shook my head slightly, "I really can't guess either!" ”

The two of us walked a little further, and we found more strange things, first of all, there were many forks in the road, and often every distance we walked, there would be a fork in the road. And then there were one or two of the wooden doors we had just seen on every fork in the road, which were embedded in the tomb wall. Some of the wooden doors were rotten and fell to the ground at the slightest touch, but the inside of the doors was filled with soil without exception.

But gradually, we also made new discoveries, these doors embedded in the wall, not all of them are the style of ordinary courtyard doors, and some of them are rows of door panels, and it is obvious that these are some shops. There are even some gates with plaques on their doors, the handwriting on which is long gone, but it is clear that they are also some kind of buying and selling shops.

Yuan Xiao and I roughly guessed the intention of the tomb owner, and Yuan Xiao said in surprise: "Damn, he actually built a street in his own tomb!" ”