The mysterious brick chamber tomb that appeared in the hinterland of the Tengger Desert turned out to be an early Ming Dynasty tomb!
The commander of Beidu is a border military officer, a senior official of the third rank!
How come there are tombs buried here! This place is very close to Blackwater City!
The hole in the bridge door is so small that I, being so skinny, can barely fit in, let alone Brother Yu.
He asked me if I had any questions and if he could go in and have a look.
I had a strange look on my face, and I really couldn't figure out why a Ming Dynasty tomb suddenly appeared here. However, according to my inference, this kind of brick tomb for the family members of local officials would not be too big. A hundred or ten square meters would be considered luxurious.
I tried digging with my hands to enlarge the hole, but it didn't work. It was probably made of Sanhe soil bricks.
"Step aside."
Brother Yu yelled at me to get out of the way. He took a step back, took a deep breath, raised his foot and kicked me!
Brother Yu was so strong that he smashed the bridge door with one kick. A large number of bricks collapsed and the hole more than doubled in size.
Brother Yu and I went through the bridge door and entered the tomb.
"Don't tell me, this is the first time I've seen something like this in my life," Brother Yu waved around with his flashlight.
He was talking about the carved stone carvings on the walls. Those in the industry don't want to see the tombs from the early Ming Dynasty because they don't have anything. Most of them are brick carvings, stone carvings, and pottery figurines. These things are not popular on the black market and no one wants them. After all, they are not popular on the black market.
The reason is still because Zhu Yuanzhang severely punished corrupt officials. No one dared to corrupt, and there would naturally be fewer funeral objects.
If a great tomb robber like Mr. Yao came across the tombs of civilians in the early Ming Dynasty, they would basically not touch them, because judging from past experience, the income and risk are not proportional, and it is not worth it.
The place where we are standing now is called the tomb court. In front is the main tomb chamber, with solid brick walls on both sides and no ear chambers.
The bridge gate is about two or three meters away from the tomb court. I visually inspected it and found that the distance from the tomb court to the main tomb chamber is about 13 steps. The layout of this type of tomb is just in line with the rank of a third-rank official in the Ming Dynasty. If the official position is higher, reaching the first and second ranks, you can use two stone figures, one each of a tiger, an ox, a sheep, a horse, a stone statue, and a pair of pillars.
You must know that this is a first- and second-rank official, which shows how stingy Zhu Yuanzhang is with his officials.
The tomb was empty, and I didn't see anything valuable. I wonder if something had been taken away.
Brother Yu pointed to the main tomb chamber and said to go in and take a look.
The main tomb chamber is where the tomb owner’s coffin and funerary objects are stored. The first thing you see after entering is a stone coffin.
The sarcophagus is suspended in the air and padded with bricks. It is divided into upper and lower layers, covered with a lid, and is about two meters and three meters long.
There were some scattered clay pots and dishes on the ground around. I knelt down and took a look. They were all civilian porcelain fired at the mouth of a local kiln. They were worth two to three hundred yuan at most and were of no use. They must have been rejected by people who came in before.
, stayed on purpose.
This brick chamber tomb is so big. If there is anything valuable, you can only place your hope on the stone coffin in front of you. The stone coffin is definitely higher than the ordinary wooden coffin.
Although I know there is not much hope of finding burial objects.
If the second brother is here, in his words, Brother Yu and I are just picking up tattered shoes.
"Brother Yu, try harder, you won't even move."
"How can you see that I didn't exert any force? The coffin is heavy, it is estimated to be more than 400 kilograms." Brother Yu spit on his hands, rubbed his hands and said, "Come again, I will count to three and use my strength together."
I said yes.
"one."
"two."
"three."
"Push!" Veins popped up on the back of Brother Yu's hand, and I pushed hard.
There were sounds of stones rubbing against each other, and we slowly pushed the sarcophagus away.
After opening the sarcophagus, I shined a light into the coffin and was stunned.
"What is all this?"
"Where are the bones of the tomb owner and the burial objects?"
There are no bones of the dead in the sarcophagus, and there are no burial objects.
There was a pillow and a quilt, with a small amount of hay placed under the quilt. They were neatly packed and spotless, and there were writings on the quilt cover.
"Yinchuan No. 3 Middle School."
"this."
Is there someone fucking living in the coffin?
Not only that, when I took the pillow away, I also found several bags of chocolate hidden under the pillow, as well as two hawthorn candies wrapped in transparent plastic paper.
Brother Yu and I looked at each other and were dumbfounded.
"Shh!"
At this moment, Brother Yu suddenly made a silent gesture.
I listened carefully and there seemed to be footsteps outside.
Brother Yu quickly pulled me and hid under the sarcophagus. As mentioned before, the sarcophagus is suspended and there is space underneath.
I was on the bottom, and Brother Yu was on top of me. When someone came in, we just put our feet under the coffin.
Brother Yu weighed over 180 kilograms, and he pressed me so hard that I couldn't breathe. I endured the discomfort, held my breath and looked outside.
I first saw a pair of feet. I didn’t know whether the person who came in was a man or a woman, but the shoes he was wearing didn’t fit properly. It looked like they belonged to someone else and were a bit too big.
This man stopped in front of the stone coffin, just facing my head.
There was a sound of movement above.
This man actually lay down directly in it!
Then I heard the sound of peeling off the plastic candy wrapper, and then the hawthorn candy wrapper was thrown out of the coffin and fell to the ground.
At this time, Brother Yu gently patted my thigh.
I know what he means. What he means is probably to ask I can't move my hands.
I didn't move. I meant to tell him to wait another two minutes.
This place is in an ancient tomb, and the surroundings are so quiet that you can hear a needle drop.
After waiting like this for nearly ten minutes, I heard the sound of the coffin lid being pulled up from above, and the sound was very harsh as stones were grinding against stones.
My first reaction.
This person? So powerful?
One person can pull the lid of the sarcophagus.
I was amazed.
The moment the coffin lid was closed, Brother Yu couldn't bear it any longer. He yelled and started rolling out.
In panic, I dropped the flashlight in my hand. When I picked it up and rolled out, I saw Brother Yu desperately pressing the coffin lid, with his upper body pressed against it!
"Still stunned!"
"Come and help!" Brother Yu shouted at me through gritted teeth.
I followed his example and pressed half of my body directly on the coffin.
Then bursts of strong force came from the sarcophagus, and the people inside tried to push it out.
The people in the coffin were very powerful and kept beating the coffin. I also heard bursts of screams.
In the end, Brother Yu and I simply sat on the coffin lid.
The people in the coffin were beating and yelling wildly, but they couldn't say a word, they just screamed.
Brother Yu and I looked ugly.
Our whole body, with the shaking of the coffin lid, kept rising and falling, and we felt like we would be unable to hold it down at any moment.
It stayed like this for five or six minutes, and the movement gradually died down. I guessed that the people inside might have lost their strength.
So I opened my mouth and shouted: "Who are you!"
unexpectedly
I just finished speaking.
Suddenly there was a strong force under my buttocks, and I was immediately thrown off the coffin!