"Damn, it's not in vain now, a pole stabbed down and hit the soil sealing layer, in addition to charcoal and white plaster, there is also glutinous rice noodles!"

Lao Niu also said excitedly.

"I don't know if there are the tombs of the Warring States princes below, if we can fish out two pieces of bronze with lines, we will not have to worry about food and clothing in the next life."

The sixth seemed to forget the soil in his mouth and said vaguely.

I couldn't understand what they were talking about, such as white paste and glutinous rice noodles.

I pulled the sixth child who was about to flow to his thighs, and I don't know if he was too excited or poisoned by eating soil.

"Sixth brother, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word? ”

The sixth man spit out the soil in his mouth, glanced at the old man with an inquiring eye, and saw that the latter nodded slightly, so he hated iron and scolded:

"Although your kid is also an old sea, he is actually a chick underground, do you see the charcoal and those blue and white soil on the ground?"

I nodded, and the sixth explained: "You see that the underground of this half of the mountain is full of dark rivers, and it is damp like the trouser legs of the whining girls, so in order to prevent water from seeping into the tomb, it is necessary to put layers of rammed earth on top of the underground palace." ”

I didn't seem to understand, but suddenly I thought of food desiccant and replied:

"So this charcoal lime is for waterproofing?"

The sixth man put on an old pedant and shook his head and said:

"Yes, these charcoal and lime are used to prevent waterproofing, but these white plaster mud are different, in addition to waterproofing, it will also be mixed with egg white wormwood to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants."

It dawned on me, but then I continued:

"How does Brother Niu know that the following may be the tombs of the Warring States princes? He didn't go down again. ”

My words made Lao Liu and Brother Niu laugh, and Brother Niu explained while unscrewing the rebar pipe:

"Didn't you see that the green plaster mud under the charcoal layer has turned into white plaster?"

"He knows a fart of green plaster mud white plaster mud, let's put it this way, in fact, green plaster mud is a kind of delicate soil with excellent water absorption, this kind of soil has a great water content and is generally clay, so the color is different from the ordinary loess black soil, it is cyan soil, and people in the industry call this green plaster mud."

The sixth laughed:

"Green plaster mud as another layer of rammed earth on top of the lime layer under the charcoal layer, at first the green plaster mud is still blue, but once a hundred thousand years of tomb under the air is not circulated, water can not seep down, the green plaster mud will be white, the people in the line call it white plaster mud."

At that time, to be honest, the words of the sixth child only gave me a rough idea, as for how the green plaster mud could have turned into white plaster mud after thousands of years?

It wasn't until later that when I accompanied an archaeological team to collect Yin goods, an old professor in the archaeological field answered my doubts.

It turns out that the so-called green plaster mud has good water absorption because its main components are calcium, magnesium, aluminum and other metals, which can not only block the moisture outside the tomb, but even the air can be insulated from the outside. At the same time, because of the constant chemical reaction with water and oxygen, the metal in the green plaster mud has become a whitish metal oxide, that is, the white plaster mud in the mouth of the soil rat.

Brother Niu took the Luoyang shovel back into his backpack and took the words of the sixth child and said:

"As the saying goes, the green plaster mud is poor, the white plaster mud is rich, when you meet glutinous rice for villas, Brother Zhang, now you have to follow the old man to make a fortune!"

When I saw them keep mentioning glutinous rice noodles, I couldn't hold back my curiosity.

"Sixth Brother Niu, what are you talking about glutinous rice noodles?"

Brother Niu had already taken out a sapper shovel at this time, and the sixth brother stepped aside and said:

"Glutinous rice noodles are actually tomb bricks."

I don't think I care:

"Tomb bricks are tomb bricks, why are you so mysterious?"

The sixth child glared at me:

"What the hell do you know, the tomb bricks we encountered this time are different, but they are not the color of bluestone bricks and adobe bricks, and the tomb bricks below are mixed with glutinous rice noodles!"

Glutinous rice noodles are really tomb bricks mixed with glutinous rice noodles!

Seeing that I was holding back my laughter, the sixth man was angry:

"Look at your turtle appearance, don't underestimate this glutinous rice noodles, we love and hate it, we love the countless treasures under it, and hate it too difficult to deal with!"

I'm puzzled, wondering if this sixth child should be bragging B, glutinous rice noodles are outrageous enough to make tomb bricks, can a living person still not be able to deal with glutinous rice noodles?

Seeing that I didn't believe it, the sixth child was anxious.

"Don't believe it, you kid, do you know Wu Zixu? Just our old-timers who dug up the tomb of the king of Chu and whipped the body of the king of Chu. ”

I couldn't hold back this time, and I burst out laughing.

The sixth child of the dog day is too good at bragging, and Wu Zixu has become a dirt mouse in his mouth.

The sixth man was so angry that he kicked me and scolded:

"I think that the predecessor Wu Zixu robbed the tomb of the king of Chu after the frightened Wu Wangfu couldn't sleep all night, for fear that someone would also steal his tomb after his death, and later the husband came up with a wonderful way from the unique food glutinous rice cake of Wu State, which is now the rice cake, that is, the glutinous rice is broken into glutinous rice noodles mixed in the sand and stone to deembryonic into tomb bricks, and finally the glutinous rice noodles mixed with water and heated viscous are filled in the gaps of the tomb bricks, so that even if someone finds his tomb, he can't deal with the tomb bricks and can only leave in ashes."

My eyes widened when I heard this, I didn't expect the origin of glutinous rice noodles to be so big, and I didn't expect that the earth mouse lineage would have a relationship with people like Wu Wangfucha and Wu Zixu in history.

After pondering for a moment, I couldn't help but condense in my heart, the sixth said seriously, could it be that the underground is really the tomb of the princes of the Warring States.

That's a lot of punishment!

"Since glutinous rice noodles are so difficult to deal with, what should we do?"

I frowned slightly.

"What to do? Chilled salad! You just watch from the side, and you will see your sixth brother's methods. ”

The sixth boasted to himself.

At this time, Brother Niu picked up the sapper shovel and flew up and down, and he was already digging a big tunnel.

Seeing that there was no one around to help, I also took out the folding sapper shovel from my hiking bag and walked over to help him dig a hole together.

Brother Niu glanced at me, his eyes were a little moved, but he shook his head.

"I'm no problem alone, you can't grasp the right degree of life, if you don't know it, you have to bury the two of us in it, and the chute is not to dig a well for one person to enter and exit."

In the vernacular of the earth mouse, the chute is to dig a vertical or oblique thief hole.

The sixth gave a thumbs up and said:

"Little Brother Zhang just came, I don't know, in addition to our Brother Niu's unique ability to explore caves with one hand, the whirlwind shovel of the chute is also counted here."

Brother Niu's voice in the pit was a little urn-like:

"It's good to work underground this time, but if you put it on it, someone will have to scatter the dirt."

I've heard of this, because the rammed earth underneath is different from the surrounding soil, so it spreads out so as not to be discovered by people nearby.

After a minute or twenty, I saw that the soil from below kept coming up, but there was no other movement.

Just when I was about to lose my patience, Brother Niu's voice suddenly came from below.

"it, get the hot water!"