The old man sighed and pushed the thick glasses at the bottom of the bottle.

"I can only say this, judging from the pictures, the stone carvings will be inferred from the form of gold, later than the thirty-three days of the grotto group, the initial construction time, after all, this thing was not built overnight.

And the original building of 33 days, can be verified is in the Beiliang period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, 43 meters from the highest point of the ground, seven layers of 21 caves, layers of mountains and mountains, of course, most of the things left today, most of them are repaired by later generations, after all, there are many murals of Buddha statues that are completely damaged.

Proven and reliable completion of the year in the early Ming Dynasty. No, after 1423, it should be counted as the middle of the century, because in the Longyou Provincial Museum, we have a local county history, which has an accurate year record, and it can be concluded that the seventh floor of the grotto was built in the Chinese New Year's Eve of 1423.

As for this, to be honest, it looks too new, the carving technique, and the painting, I don't know what words to use to describe it, I haven't seen anything else, I can't distinguish it, but these coffins, the traces of paint outlined on it and the part that drips down, this one is slightly perfunctory, perfunctory!

To tell the truth, although Longyou Province is not a major archaeological province, there are still large-scale excavation sites for the tombs of various ethnic groups in the local area, and I have followed a lot, even if it is not on the coffins of dignitaries, there will be no paint marks on the double eyelids, not to mention that it flows down like this. ”

Zhou Ning understood, it seems that this expert went to the Ganzhou City Museum to see the coffin that was taken out before, when he was in the cave, he really didn't observe carefully, whether there were traces of paint flowing on the patterns, but I saw a few very exquisite, and it was completely a narrative style lacquer painting.

thought that he could get some clues from them, but this time he denied the judgment of the monuments, which made Zhou Ning a little stunned.

Just when Zhou Ning was silent for a moment, I don't know if it was the wind blowing, or because the tarpaulin that wrapped those coffins was lifted, a gust of wind and sand blew, and a corner of the tarpaulin was lifted, and the coffin was exposed.

When the expert raised his eyes, he saw this scene.

He paused for a moment, then rushed directly towards the coffins, moving eagerly, without stepping on his feet, and pushed away the young man who was about to support him, carefully observed the patterns on them, and held a magnifying glass to check them.

Da Zhao came over with a smile, raised his eyebrows at Zhou Ning, leaned into Zhou Ning's ear and said:

"Seeing that there is no top, it is estimated that the coffins transported back are not the first few, and the narrative of the patterns and patterns on it is incoherent, and even very hurried, this thing is easy to understand, after all, the Boye Gu has been destroyed."

Director Cui nodded on the side, I don't know if it was better to be educated by the city leaders, anyway, now there are no stinky problems I saw at the time, and I am very modest and cautious.

"This expert, it's a real expert, but the coffin we transported back is the last one, because to remove the wooden beam that supports underneath, you need to start from the last one, and I really didn't pay attention to the paint marks on the coffin."

Da Zhao couldn't help but laugh.

"Look at Feng Lao still need to watch for a while, I will call our people first, prepare to climb the mountain, although there is a wooden ladder, it will take time to go up."

Zhou Ning nodded, everyone unloaded the car and began to line up, ready to go up the mountain, Director Cui saw that Feng Lao was not over yet, so he hurriedly went to urge, and then he followed unsatisfied, completely losing the pride before, but kept looking at the photos in the camera.

Seeing Zhou Ning looking over, Feng Lao hurriedly surrendered his hand, completely acting like the older generation, this action startled Zhou Ning.

"Old man, what are you doing here?"

"I'm a bad old man, I just took pictures of all the coffins, there are six of them, there should be one in transit on the way, and the one stored in the Ganzhou Museum, it is estimated that it is the last of the eight coffins, the depiction on it is very sloppy, and the paint and gold painting feel in a hurry.

This kind of thing, whether in the tomb, or in the depiction of the mural, is completely impossible, we have looked at a lot of murals, there are traces of modification errors, and the painting of the murals is layered, after how many years need to be done again, similar to the way we preserve now, repair the old for the old, I don't know if you can understand this? ”

"I understand, what Feng Lao means is that purely from the craftsmanship and hasty techniques, this is not like the ancient techniques, we don't understand these, professional things and professional people to do, I think you see the scene in the cave in person, you should have your own judgment, let's hurry up."

Feng Lao nodded hurriedly, sorted out his backpack and belongings, Zhou Ning had already walked to the front of the team, held a loudspeaker, and said directly:

"The arrangement of the grouping, it has been said before departure, after going up, the cocoons should be taken, and the main cave and the two holes in the hole should be checked, and the first group of southbound exploration, please keep up with our speed, in order to save physical strength, we will go up first, go up every ten minutes, and start to set off now."

Everyone moved, Feng Lao didn't look at the pictures in the camera anymore, nor did he stare at the coffin, at this time he couldn't wait to fly up.

The speed of this climb is very fast, the preparation is sufficient, the path does not need to be chosen, and a wooden ladder is made, and it takes more than 20 minutes to reach the entrance of the cave, where a platform has been built, and you can directly suspend items with pulleys in the position of the col.

Several people entered the cave, most of them carried devices similar to miner's lamps, Zhou Ning and they carried special glasses lamps, and rested for a little for five minutes, Feng Lao ran to see those Buddha murals, and everyone set off towards the cave on the south side of the coffin.

The entrance to the cave is not small, one meter five meters wide and less than two meters high, after entering the passage, after walking through a narrow passage, gradually widening, and it is obvious that the foot is going uphill.

After traveling a few hundred meters, the sound of water can be heard clearly, at this time, Da Zhao in front of him stopped, Zhou Ning hurried over, and the big strong flashlight here seemed to be unable to shine on the edge.

"What did you find?"

Da Zhao pointed to the dark place in front of him, held a strong flashlight and said:

"A hundred meters ahead, it's not a trace of artificial excavation, it looks very wide, there is wood on the ground here, it's not very long, scattered around, these broken slags on the ground, take a closer look at the rotten wood, it looks like a lot, and it's also very old, Feng Lao came and took a look."

Feng Lao's footsteps were brisk, and when he got closer, he looked left and right before looking at the wood, and then took a few steps forward, observed the space, and picked up the wood back and forth to observe it carefully.

"It's about the same as I guessed, this is a gap in the hollow of the mountain, those woods, which should be used to transport coffins, and the soft parts of the ground that are stepped on are all rotten debris, and these woods should be made of local materials, and these are not corrupted, they are all cedar wood, which is the tree that fell from the entrance of the cave.

As for the rotten ones, they smell of pine oil, I think this is pine, this is not as corrosion-resistant as fir wood, and you listen to the sound of water here is not far away, we can look around, this kind of strong light flashlight is limited in vision, it is good to have that kind of scattered lamp, and the brightness should be enough. ”

Before Feng Lao's words fell, Da Zhao had already walked forward for dozens of meters, and then turned on the LED light in his hand and held it up directly, and the entire space was illuminated in an instant.

Curator Cui also came over, very interested in the things in Da Zhao's hand, and asked where he bought it several times, and Da Zhao told him about online shopping.

Zhou Ning and Feng Lao followed the light and walked to a position of more than ten meters in front of them.

The whole space is not particularly high, similar to the main hole in front of the hole, but it is very narrow and long, there is no end in sight left and right, and there is an echo in the speech, and you can see on the opposite side, three or four holes of about the same size as this side.

But if you want to go over, you have to cross a very wide and deep ravine in the middle, and the two of them walked to the edge of the ravine, squatted down and looked carefully, only to find that the sound of water came from here.

(End of chapter)