Volume 2: Snow Ridge Please Spirit - Haidong Imperial Mausoleum Chapter 246: Quicksand Bamboo Well
Yue Guanchao and the cat master boldly walked towards the severed arm, and when they got closer, many details of the broken arm gradually came into view.
The severed arm was severed from the elbow, the cut was black and hairy, and the arm was full of protruding veins.
The surface of the corpse's hands had shrunk and shrunk, covered with blue and black corpse spots, the nails were long, the cuffs were corroded and detached, and the pale sand remained, which tore and fell down with a clattering sound when picked up.
"Sand? I remember that all we dug up was glutinous rice puree, how could there be sand! β
The cat master saw the fine sand flowing out of the cuffs, and the fear in his eyes added a trace of doubt, Song Siyuan looked at them with strange eyes, and hurriedly stepped forward to understand the situation:
"Is it possible, the following is the quicksand tomb, I remember that the Northern and Southern Dynasties coincided with troubled times, and there were many military bandits robbing tombs under the melee of the countries to serve as military salaries, and the nobles at that time in order to prevent their tombs from being dug up, specially placed stone strips on the sealed soil of the tomb to build a plane, and then filled with quicksand on the plane, once the soil layer was dug up, the tomb robbers fell into the sediment, and they would inevitably be buried alive."
After listening to Song Siyuan's words, the cat master's eyes lit up, and he nodded at everyone:
"I think what this girl said is very reasonable, the flesh and blood on her arms are dry like jerky, and I think it has been sucked dry, which is completely different from the shallow soil and wet mud dug up, and it is very likely to be a quicksand tomb."
"It's just that it's much more difficult to open the tomb in this way, I guess this arm is also a tomb robber from other places to rob the tomb, but it touched the quicksand mechanism and was trapped in it and died on the spot, the sand absorbs moisture and water, and his body is sucked dry, so he becomes a dry corpse."
"When you dig to the last layer, you probably dug out the quicksand, and in the rolling of the quicksand, the corpse pounced on you as if it was alive, and then you dragged your arms and arms up."
Once the cat master sighed, everyone knew that he had made a difficulty.
Since ancient times, nine out of ten people died in quicksand tombs, and once the living people dig up the quicksand, they will definitely touch the mechanism, and if they don't fall into it, they will immediately suffocate to death.
The housekeeper didn't know how many tombs he had dug with people, didn't he know how powerful the quicksand tomb was, and no one dared to rush down to the tomb for a while, this time there was a rope, so he was lucky enough to pick up a life from the tomb, if there was no rope, these people would probably have become several other outlaws in the quicksand.
"Can't you dig up all the quicksand?"
Yue Guanchao knew that he was a little naΓ―ve to think so, but he hoped that his brick would attract a "wonderful plan" for Meiyu.
The cat master hugged his arms, a bitter and hateful look:
"Yue Xiaoyou, how easy is this, I don't know how much quicksand there is in the soil, this quicksand is the same as flowing water, unless the quicksand is dug up, it is difficult for even immortals to dig out the tomb from the flowing sand."
Song Siyuan took Yue Guanchao's words and asked everyone: "Then, if you can place a hollow pipe in the sand, can you use the hollow structure to continue excavating, as long as you dig to the tomb door, this quicksand tomb will naturally be broken." β
The cat master pondered her attention carefully and nodded: "This is indeed a way, although the quicksand is active, it is still solid sand and gravel in the end, as long as there is something that can support the quicksand, so that they will not collapse the pipeline, this is indeed a way." β
"By the way, when you went down to visit the grave, did you know how deep the quicksand was?"
The words of the cat master are extremely important for cracking the quicksand layer, and the strong men dare not hide it, so they rolled their eyes and thought carefully:
"We were holding a two-meter-long shovel, and when we came out, the shovel was still half a meter out of the quicksand, as if it was already there."
The cat master carefully calculated the position of the rope, and his eyes lit up:
"The Tang tomb is mostly a long tomb road inclined downward, and the tomb door is a slope, and the door is built parallel to the ground, like a cellar cover, you can use it to walk into the tomb along the inclined tomb road, about fifteen meters from the ground, the sand layer takes ten people and nine deaths, at most it is more than one meter high, and then it should be the stone wall of the tomb road."
"Now, all that's left is to find any utensils that can withstand the squeeze of quicksand!"
Standing and listening to the butler for a long time, he seemed to have an idea in his heart, and stepped forward and bowed his hand:
"Ladies and gentlemen, if this is possible, I have an idea."
He took out the bamboo tube from the housekeeper and slammed it on the ancient tree next to him, except for a dull sound, the thousand-year-old bamboo was not damaged and cracked, but it withstood such a strong beating.
He picked up the bamboo tube and propped it up in front of everyone: "What do you think, how is this bamboo tube?" β
"These bamboo tubes can not only be combined into ladders, it has holes and grooves on all sides that can be combined into fine bamboo rows, and if the bamboo rows on all sides are connected to each other, I think they can also be made into hollow bamboo wells that are more than two meters high."
The words of the housekeeper really helped them a lot, everyone's eyes were bright, what else is stronger than a thousand-year-old bamboo, nearly a hundred short bamboo tubes are connected, and they can even disperse the force, but it is not easy to be squeezed and collapsed by quicksand, which is the best solution.
Yue Guanchao looked at the housekeeper: "There is a lot to do, we have to install the bamboo well as soon as possible to prepare for the tomb." β
The flexible effect of the bamboo tube, they have just appreciated, it is much easier to build a bamboo well than to climb a ladder, the strong men play with the bamboo tube, according to the analysis of the housekeeper, quickly build the bamboo well.
The so-called bamboo well is to use a bamboo tube to build a one-meter-wide and two-meter-high bamboo row, and then pierce the empty grooves at both ends of the bamboo row with four spliced long bamboo tubes, and fix them on all sides into a hollow square cylinder.
If you look closely, the gaps between the bamboo tubes are all filled with leather hemp rope, and they use glutinous rice cakes to paste between the gaps, and use quicksand to pour them outside, which can also be done without leaking grit and being firm and airtight.
After the bamboo well is done, they hang a rope to put the bamboo well into the dug thief hole, and after the bamboo tube enters the quicksand, it quickly sinks into the ground in the sand, just half a meter high out of the sand, which shows that the bamboo well has been erected above the entrance of the tomb.
There was a bamboo well as a support, and the quicksand was much easier to dig up, so they put linoleum cloth in the bamboo basket and lifted the sand from the hole.
After a while, the quicksand in the bamboo well was completely dug up, and the door of the underground tomb finally showed traces.
"Towards the housekeeper, we found the tomb door, we found the tomb door."
The strong men crawled out of the well and cheered, Yue Guanchao and Mao Ye took the lead in jumping down the robbery hole with a rope tied and descending to the depths of the bamboo well.
"Master Cat, is this thing a tomb door?"
Yue Guanchao was not familiar with the tomb door, and a square stone door slightly smaller than one meter did appear on the soles of their feet, which looked inconspicuous.
"Don't worry, I need to see first, what the hell is this thing?"
A square meter of space, said that it is not small but not big, the cat master did not have the joy of finding the tomb door on his face, he took out the water bladder and poured it all on the stone slab.
The originally dry slate was drenched with water, and gradually there was a strange gossip diagram that had not been seen when it was dry, and the cat saw that the cracks in the slate were seeping water, so he put away his solemn face and became happy:
"It's done, this is not a fake door, let's quickly open the tomb door."