The cemetery of the Western Zhou of Yejia Mountain is located on an oval hill in a north-south direction.

The hill is about 400 meters long from north to south and 100 meters wide from east to west, with an area of about 40,000 square meters, and the location is 8 meters higher than the surrounding farmland.

Chen Han walked to the hill and looked into the distance, and could see that there were three construction sites arranged in a line from north to south on the hill, and excavation work was being carried out in the semi-open air.

A cordon and improvised barbed wire fence cut off the excavation site from other farmers' farmland.

Holding his work card from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, Chen Han stepped forward and said to the security uncle guarding the periphery: "Hello, I am from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, and I want to come to understand the situation." ”

The security uncle, who was in his forties, took Chen Han's work card suspiciously, looked at Chen Han up and down several times at the half-length photo in the work card, and muttered in a low voice:

"So young..."

Don't blame him for being confused.

In the eyes of the general public, those who can enter central-level scientific research institutions such as the Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are all national treasure-level old professors with half-gray hair.

They don't know that there are also a bunch of young and useful interns and scientific research tools in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

However, doubts are doubts, and the security uncle didn't think that Chen Han's work card was fake.

There is no point in counterfeiting this thing, even if you are a tomb robber, you don't have the courage to sneak into an archaeological site to steal cultural relics...

Finding death is not this way of dying.

However, for the sake of prudence, the security uncle did not put Chen Han directly in, but picked up the walkie-talkie on his waist.

"Chen Gong, there is a teacher from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to understand the situation!"

Chen Han stood calmly and waited.

It's a good thing that the security at the construction site is stricter, at least to prevent some miscellaneous people from running in and causing trouble.

"The Evil God"

After waiting for a while, a young man dressed like a construction worker, with dirt marks on the soles of his feet and trouser legs, trotted over.

"Hello, may I ask who you are?"

Chen Han handed over his work card again.

"Ao, comrades from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences."

"Hello, I am Chen Zijing of the Yejiashan project engineering team."

Chen Gong smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Chen Han's hand, and said with half envy: "Teacher Chen is amazing, he entered the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at a young age. ”

"Where, where." Chen Han shook his head with a smile: "I just studied for a doctorate in the institute and rubbed off on the identity of an assistant researcher." ”

"Mr. Chen can call me Chen Han."

"We are all members of the Chen family, maybe we were one family five hundred years ago!"

Generally, large-scale excavation sites have special engineering teams that are responsible for assisting archaeological experts in filling and clearing the soil.

This Chen Gong doesn't look very old, just twenty-four or five years old, but he can mix in a leadership position in the engineering team, and he is also a young elite.

After the two exchanged a few words, Chen Zijing led Chen Han to the construction site.

It is unlikely that the person who can come to visit with a work permit is fake.

On the way, Chen Zijing asked: "I don't know if Mr. Chen came to our Yejiashan excavation site, what advice do you have?" ”

Chen Han naturally prepared the wording a long time ago, and said sincerely: "That's the case, our Wenfeng Pagoda excavation site has completed the rescue and excavation of two stolen tombs. ”

"It can be determined that the Spring and Autumn Tomb Group of Wenfeng Pagoda is a high-level tomb group of the Zeng Kingdom."

"In these two stolen tombs, we found some important inscriptions."

"However, because of the long age and the fact that Zeng Guo does not have too many records in the history books, I want to learn about the excavation of Yejiashan."

"The cemetery here in Yejiashan should also belong to the tombs of the nobles of the Zeng Kingdom, right? I wonder if there are any important inscriptions unearthed that record the history of Zeng? ”

Chen Zijing nodded as if he didn't understand.

He is engaged in construction sites, not archaeology, and it is really not clear whether any heavyweight inscriptions have been found here in Yejiashan.

He could only tell Chen Han what he occasionally heard from the mouths of the on-site archaeological team members during his usual work.

"I only know that since the beginning of the excavation, a lot of bronzes have been unearthed, and I heard those experts say, what are the dings, the gui, the yun or something."

"It seems that I heard the professor of the Institute of Archaeology and Museums mention that this cemetery is buried with Zeng Hou."

"In this case, I'll take you to the experts of the archaeological team, and you can talk to them."

Chen Zijing took Chen Han, and after passing through several fields, he came to an excavation site.

A group of archaeologists are carefully extracting some cultural relics from the "Jia" sub-shaped tombs that have been cleaned and excavated.

Without waiting for Chen Zijing to introduce him, Chen Han saw a familiar face in the busy work crowd.

"Hey! Lao Luo! ”

Luo Zhenghao, who was bending down to clean a clay pot, looked up suspiciously and saw Chen Han standing above the tomb.

"Old Chen? Why are you here? ”

Luo Zhenghao immediately showed an unconcealable smile on his face, grabbed the colleague next to him who was cleaning up other cultural relics and explained a few words, and then crawled up along the tomb.

Chen Han didn't think he had a lot of dirt on him, so he hugged him hard.

"Didn't I miss you, just come and see my old classmates."

"Aren't you?" Luo Zhenghao rolled his eyes angrily: "The entire archaeology department, who doesn't know that you Chen Dacai only cares about archaeology?" ”

"Still coming to see old classmates?"

"Whew!"

"It's been half a month since the construction site started, except for the fact that we met at the groundbreaking banquet at that time, have you contacted me privately?"

"I'm afraid I've always been obsessed with digging soil, right?"

"Now that you think of me, is there any problem you have encountered in Wenfeng Tower, and you want to move the rescuers?"

"No, the elder of your Academy of Social Sciences, even if you want to move the rescuers, you should go to the jujube grove to find someone from the Cultural Museum."

"Why did you come to our local and municipal archaeological teams?"

Chen Han didn't expect that his casual remark would actually trigger Luo Zhenghao's chattering complaints.

He twitched the corners of his mouth and laughed dryly: "Ahem, I really didn't come to see you specifically." ”

"Well, do you have any big discoveries here?"

"Preferably a bronze inscription or something."

Talking about business, Luo Zhenghao also put away his playful expression and scratched his head: "Bronze inscription? ”

"There must be, now we have excavated three tombs, M1, M2 and M27."

"Let me tell you, tombs M1 and M27 have been robbed, and they have been stolen recently!"

"The villager who found the bronzes was not lucky, but those bronzes were buried there by the tomb robbers, and they hadn't had time to transfer them yet!"

"Before the excavation of Tomb M1, the eastern part of the tomb had been seriously damaged, and the artifacts inside were basically stolen."

"But fortunately, it was discovered in time, and with the cooperation of the local police, more than 20 bronzes have been recovered in the past half month, and the tomb robbery gang that stole this cemetery has also been arrested."

"Now the police are following their trading channels and continuing to recover the lost cultural relics!"

"I hope I can recover them as much as possible!"