Tomb robbers are like rats, basically out of the day and at night.

As for why tomb robbers dare to gather on such a large scale and occupy territory under the government's strict control over tomb robbers, for some reason, this matter can only be understood but not spoken.

But basically, for an ancient tomb of average scale, three or five people, or even two or three people, are enough, and if there are too many people, I am afraid that the tomb will not be able to squeeze in.

And more than 20 people in the compound in front of him are preparing for the guy's business, and they must be ready to do a big job.

"These tomb robbers have found the tomb?"

Xu Tianchuan muttered to himself in his heart, and at the same time thought of his own tomb robbery mission.

"Haha...... Ha ha...... Shopkeeper Xu, I haven't seen you for a few years, this is a thin weight! ”

At this moment, a strange and familiar laughter came from the middle hall.

Xu Tianchuan turned his head to follow the voice, and a short man walked out of the middle hall with a smile on his face.

He is Jiao San, the helmsman of the Luoyang Gang tomb robbing gang, also known as the 'helmsman', but in later generations, he is called the 'carrying handle'.

Jiao San is not very tall, only 1.55 meters by sight, and he is still very thin, because tomb robbers generally have a dark complexion, and this Jiao San is no exception, a sharp-beaked monkey's face is black like a piece of charcoal, and the whole person looks like a large rat spirit.

But in the entire tomb robbery circle, no one dared to laugh at or look down on Jiao San's small size.

Because Jiao San is small, he is a thief, just looking at his sharp-beaked monkey cheek face and a pair of bright and glowing eyes, he can see that he is like a mouse, and even gives people the feeling that there is still a bit of evil hidden.

In addition, not only the thief spirit, Jiao San is also very good at robbing tombs, and it just so happens that his own small man also occupies the biggest advantage of tomb robbery, first of all, digging a hole to rob a lot of things saves a lot of trouble than others, and when encountering traps in ancient tombs, he can also try to minimize the target.

It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Jiao San once went down to a Xiliang ancient tomb and encountered the ten thousand arrows in the tomb, Jiao San escaped this catastrophe with his small man, and he still has a scar pierced by an arrow on his face, which is more than ten centimeters long, like a big centipede lying on his face, making him look vicious.

"Third Master Jiao, I haven't seen you for a few years, but you're fat."

Xu Tianchuan looked at Jiao San, who was coming from the middle hall, and moved his gaze down slightly in detail.

A few years ago, Xu Tianchuan and Jiao San also dealt with each other in business, although they didn't have any friendship, but they were still relatively familiar with each other.

"Hey...... The 100th brother under my hand has to open his mouth to eat every day, Xu shopkeeper, I am afraid that you have left Luoyang City in the past few years, and now the government is strictly controlled, from the previous five to the current three seven! ”

Jiao San walked over and gestured in front of Xu Tianchuan to represent Sancheng.

Immediately, the smile on Jiao San's face suddenly changed again, and then said: "In addition, there are some people who always come over to grab food with us without knowing whether they are alive or dead. ”

Xu Tianchuan shrugged and smiled, knowing that Jiao San's words were referring to himself.

"Shopkeeper Xu, you said that you disappeared for a few years and came back, why is it bad, but you want to grab food from our people, you don't understand the rules of our industry, right?"

Jiao San looked at Xu Tianchuan's tone and became cold.

Listening to the meaning of Jiao San's words, he really decided that he would move his territory.

Xu Tianchuan smiled calmly: "Third Master Jiao, listening to the wind is rain, it's not your style, my personal grudge with Shopkeeper Li of Juxianzhai is a matter in the antique circle, you come out to be a gun, what's not suitable, right?" ”

"Haha...... Ha ha...... Shopkeeper Xu, you are still the shopkeeper Xu who was able to speak well many years ago! ”

Jiao San stood on tiptoe and reached out to pat Xu Tianchuan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Xu, since this is the case, then let's not discuss this matter for the time being, in fact, I invite you to come today, there is another matter." ”

"What's the matter?" Xu Tianchuan raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Please allow the shopkeeper to help me take my hands, as long as you help me with this, I can not blame you for moving my territory, and I can also give you some compensation." Jiao San looked directly at Xu Tianchuan and said.

"Palm-eyed? What? Xu Tianchuan asked directly.

Another one who wants to help palm the eye, in fact, this is normal, although Xu Tianchuan has disappeared in Luoyang City for several years, there are still legends on the rivers and lakes.

Shouldn't it be the last taboo of the monthly order in the Four Silk Books?

"Shopkeeper Xu, this thing is not on me at the moment, please move your feet and come with me."

As soon as Jiao San's words fell, Black Spot ran over and whispered beside Jiao San: "Third Master, the brothers are ready." ”

Jiao San nodded, and looked up at the sky again, at this time the sun was setting in the western mountains, and the sky was getting dark.

"Shopkeeper Xu, please?" Jiao San made a gesture of please, with a smile on his face, but there was a hint of cunning in his eyes.

Xu Tianchuan smiled, looking at this situation, he could only sell Jiao San a face.

After Jiao San's men were ready, they brought a few mules and a carriage from the backyard, on which were placed several large bags of cabbage, and all the Luoyang shovels and centipede ladders were all covered at the bottom of the carriage with cabbage.

This is the basic disguise of tomb robbers, otherwise everyone can't always carry a Luoyang shovel on their shoulders and walk on the street, right? They still need to save face.

Just like that, a group of people disguised themselves as vegetable sellers, led mules and horses, went out from the Luoyang City Gate, and went straight to the west.

Xu Tianchuan sat on the mule and staggered, picking his teeth with a straw stick, as if nothing had happened on the surface, but he kept muttering about it in his heart.

Xu Tianchuan is not stupid, looking at this posture, Jiao San 'asked' himself to help with the palm, but in fact, it was not an antique, but a tomb.

But Xu Tianchuan was also a little puzzled by this, he Jiao San was an old fritter in this industry, and he had just come in halfway through the monk 'changing careers', what could he do to help him? Even if he really helped him palm, would he be able to trust it all?

With this doubt, Xu Tianchuan followed the mighty team for more than an hour, and the mule did walk a little slowly, and he also pulled a carriage, and basically walked on the potholed paths, and even had to go down the river to stream water.

Until the sky was completely dark, a hairy moon hung in the sky, the moonlight was hazy, and the dark earth was silent, and only a few insect chirpings could be heard occasionally from the dead grass on the side of the road.

Fortunately, it is far away from the village, and there are no people around, and occasionally you can see a few tombs on the road, all of which are tombless and lonely graves.

A mighty group of men and horses turned into a mountain.

Because there are many mountains and rivers in Luoyang, the more famous ones are Baiyun Mountain, Laojun Mountain and Longmen Mountain, etc., among which the world-famous Longmen Grottoes are in Longmen Mountain in Luoyang.

And the current mountain is called Bears Ears Mountain, which is not so famous, and the mountain is not very big, because the mountain resembles a bear's ear, so the locals call it Bears Ears Mountain.

Because this Bear's Ears Mountain is far away from the village, it has not been overly cut down, the vegetation on the mountain is luxuriant, the spring and summer are full of green, and there are many birds and animals, but now in this late autumn season, it is basically a withered yellow, and the leaves are flying.

Under the shroud of darkness, the people and horses advanced into Bear's Ears Mountain, and these guys under Jiao San each had a miner's lamp, like this kind of miner's lamp is a foreign thing, using tungsten filament lighting, although it also shines out yellow light, but it is much stronger than the wind lamp.

In addition, Jiao San and the others had obviously stepped on the point in advance, and after the team entered Bears Ears Mountain, they went directly to the halfway point of the mountain due north with a very purposeful purpose.

Generally, tomb robbers will first look at the feng shui stepping points during the day, and they also have to stand on a high place to overlook the whole picture, so as to determine whether there is a feng shui treasure of Shangfeng Shangshui according to the overall situation and terrain, and then start to act at night.

And at night, in the deep mountains, and in the dark of the night, even the big stone ten meters away has to be approached to see, in this case, even the feng shui ancestor himself came, wanting to see the feng shui is nonsense.

So Xu Tianchuan didn't think about this, so he could only follow the team and go halfway up the mountain.

After walking for nearly twenty minutes, Xu Tianchuan saw a bonfire burning halfway up the mountain, and under the reflection of the bonfire, he could faintly see two white tents next to him.

Jiao San whistled, and the clear whistle resounded very penetrating throughout the mountainside.

Soon, the same loud whistle came from the place of the campfire, in response.

It is clear that the two sides are in a group.

Jiao San walked over with the centaurs.

At this time, four or five people were warming up around the bonfire, roasting an animal that looked like a goat with a Luoyang shovel, and the smell of meat was permeating.

It's the middle of autumn, and the mountains are full of dead grass, and these people really don't have any sense of safety.

"Third master, you are here, we just caught a wild goat, and it was roasted just now."

One of them saw Jiao San coming with his men and horses, and immediately got up and smiled.

"Damn it, be careful to set fire to the mountain!"

Jiao San scolded, not interested in the half-cooked goat roasted on the bonfire, and walked directly to the side, holding the miner's lamp in his hand and shining it on the ground.

Xu Tianchuan stood next to Jiao San, and at a glance he saw a large square hole with a diameter of two meters on the ground, and the black soil that had been turned out next to it was piled up more than one meter high.

Playing the robbery hole is the basic skill of the tomb robber, the perfect robbery hole not only goes directly to the main burial chamber below, but also ensures that it is strong and not easy to collapse, and there can be no soil brought out on the top, otherwise it will attract attention.

Obviously, just looking at the so much soil turned out next to it, it doesn't look like a professional, but Jiao San is likely to choose to bring all the soil to it because it is located in the deep mountains and old forests, which is not easy to be discovered, which will save a lot of time.

In addition, Xu Tianchuan saw that Jiao San had opened this thief hole so big, and brought so many people, if he guessed correctly, Jiao San was planning to have a 'big unveiling'.

As the name suggests, the top of the tomb is directly uncovered, rather than digging a robbery hole and climbing down.

Generally, the 'big unveiling' mostly appears in the 'official thief', that is, when Cao Cao set up the golden school captain, he blatantly excavated directly.

In later generations, it appeared in archaeology, for the convenience of archaeology, archaeologists directly gave the ancient tomb a 'big roof', and after the archaeology ended, it could also be built into a museum for people to visit.

As for why Jiao San also used the method of 'revealing the top'.

Xu Tianchuan became more curious about the tomb at his feet.

Immediately afterwards, Jiao San shone the miner's lamp in his hand directly under the thief cave.

The cave had not yet reached the burial chamber, only about three meters deep.

Under the illumination of Jiao San's miner's lamp, Xu Tianchuan saw a black stone tablet at the bottom of the robbery cave, and the stone tablet was densely engraved with a few lines of ancient characters.

"Shopkeeper Xu, that's it, help me go down and palm my eyes and see what is written on the stele."

Jiao San turned his head to look at Xu Tianchuan and smiled slightly.

This is the purpose of Jiao San to 'invite' Xu Tianchuan over.

While Jiao San was speaking, Black Spot had already helped to hang the centipede ladder at the entrance of the cave, and then Jiao San was the first to climb down the ladder.

Xu Tianchuan followed, took the miner's lamp from Jiao San's hand, and shone it on the stone tablet.

Most of the ancient tombs have inscriptions, which basically record the life of the tomb owner and some deeds, which is the best evidence to determine the historical dynasty and owner of the ancient tomb.

However, what was recorded on this stone tablet was not these, and Xu Tianchuan's face directly became serious.

"Shopkeeper Xu, what's wrong? What is written on this stele? ”

Jiao San next to him also saw the change in Xu Tianchuan's face, and immediately asked hurriedly.

Xu Tianchuan turned his head to look directly at Jiao San, looked at each other, and said, "Jiao Sanye, this stone tablet says that those who make a mound will die!" ”