Chapter 89 Ancient Tomb at the foot of Tushan Mountain
"Fengzi, throw me the shovel, why are there so many rotten tree roots!"
Throwing the tool to Dou Sprout, I turned around and asked, "Master Zhe, how is the injury on your arm?"
"The bullet did not damage the bones, and the recovery is okay," Master Zhe shook his book.
"Then do you think all those people are dead?"
"It's hard to say," Master Zhe said with a frown: "The one with long hair detonated the explosive, he will definitely not survive. That woman, he was very close to the explosion point at the time, I guess I won't survive either."
"What about the one named Xu? He is extremely evil."
Master Zhe shook his head slowly: "Then I can't be sure. After all, I was running for my life and didn't notice everyone."
"Fengzi, why don't you two stop talking? Hurry up and get on the soil!"
The robber's hole had gone down more than three meters, and Dou Sprout called me to lift the soil quickly.
Yes, we are here in Tushan at this time.
Judging from the appearance of this earth mountain, it is 100% that it is a mound of sealed earth.
All ancient tomb mounds, no matter which dynasty, regardless of size, must be in the shape of an "upside-down" funnel if they are completely preserved.
Therefore, if you see a pure earth mountain in the shape of a standard funnel, be careful because there may be ancient tombs underground.
While I was working, I was always a little absent-minded, thinking about the "mirror" in my mind.
"Get to work quickly, Yunfeng, don't be distracted," Brother Yu said to me.
"No! It's too hot. Let's change!"
Brother Yu was about to show off, so I said I would do it.
Grabbing the rope and going down to steal the hole, Dou Sprout and I changed shifts.
We dug a "vertical shaft type narrow robbery hole". Only one person can get down at a time, and two people cannot stand apart.
Of course there is an explanation for digging like this.
Among the ancient dynasties, the tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Western Xia Dynasty were the deepest.
The nine Xixia imperial tombs in Helan Mountain have an average depth of more than 24 meters. If you have a chance to go there, you will know that the imperial tombs are surrounded by the vertical shaft type narrow caves I mentioned, and there are more than 200 of them. , the theft was too clean.
If you want to dig vertically from the mountain of soil to be safe, you must make sure that the hole you dig is narrow, regular, and solid.
When digging the soil, shovel one shovel next to the other, so that the shovel openings left behind are like fish scales, arranged neatly.
If you dig blindly, it will collapse when it reaches 10 meters at most.
Once it collapses, do you know what the 24-meter-long tunnel is?
As high as seven or eight stories!
Another point is that for the sake of safety, when digging such a deep pit, we will dig a space of about 1.5 meters inward on the cave wall every 7 meters. This is called a "refuge hole."
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. If it collapses and you don't have time to climb up, then this refuge hole can save your life.
What I said is real.
I still remember that in 2001, the Qingtongxia Cultural Management Office conducted the third cultural relics census. At that time, people from the Cultural Management Office discovered a very deep robbery hole in Yongning County, 25 meters deep, and the top was covered with turf.
This robbery hole has not yet penetrated the tomb chamber, but it will soon. I heard that the gap is less than two meters.
Report and approve.
On the fourth day, the Cultural Relics Bureau assigned the task of protecting the Xixia ancient tombs and filling in the stolen holes.
The Cultural Management Office rented an excavator, but before they arrived, they saw a jeep driving away from the scene in a panic.
The people in the car were grave robbers.
The jeep ran away without stopping it, and the people at the Cultural Affairs Bureau were unable to do anything. After notifying the police station, they began to fill in the holes.
Before starting, they shouted loudly and threw a few bricks into the hole. They started filling the hole when no one heard a reply.
Who would have thought that there were two brothers hiding in the refuge cave! They didn’t dare to come out!
After completing the backfill, the police station happened to catch the group of people who were escaping in a jeep.
He said anxiously: "There are still two people in the cave who haven't come out yet!"
Things are getting serious.
In order to find the two tomb robbers, the cultural management office invested a lot of manpower and material resources. At that time, they dug more than 30 meters deep and found no one.
Only more than 14,000 cubic meters of earthwork was used! It cost more than 100,000 yuan!
In hindsight, this was the behavior of a fool.
The two of them were hiding in a 12-meter-deep refuge cave!
But they directed the excavator to dig down from the other end to a depth of more than 30 meters.
The two of us who were traveling with me could have survived, but they were suddenly consumed to death.
Because he waited too long, he ran out of oxygen and died of suffocation.
Some people must say that tomb robbers do not deserve sympathy, they are just garbage people, they are not worth saving, and they will die as soon as they die.
Yes, I won't refute it.
But you either don’t save them at all! After a lot of effort and money, in the end, they were killed because they didn’t understand. Is this right?
Later, Guangming Daily published: "After discussion, it was determined that the several personnel involved were not derelict in their duties, and this incident should be classified as an accident."
I disagree. Even now, I still want to say something for those two colleagues.
This is not an accident, this is dereliction of duty by the three people from the Cultural Affairs Bureau!
They didn't take it seriously, one was named Zheng, one was named Ma, and the other was named Zhao.
The life of a tomb robber is also a human life, and human life is of paramount importance. Why didn’t he take it seriously in the first place?
Now that these people have retired, I guess they have long forgotten that they must be living very comfortably with monthly pensions from public servants.
never mind.
Having said that, when the thieves dug the hole for more than ten meters, the soil that was poured up was getting drier and drier. When he saw his head, he frowned and said, "Speed up, I'm afraid we will soon see the rammed soil layer."
It was getting dark and candles were lit. I looked up at the bottom of the cave and saw that it was very high.
Sure enough, when the depth reached about twenty meters, I saw "lumps" of yellow-brown rammed earth, estimated to be fifteen centimeters thick.
After drilling through this layer of rammed earth, a row of old pottery bricks was exposed at the feet.
The surface of this kind of brick looks very rough and honeycomb-shaped. It is possible that it was made from local materials and fired from mountain clay.
I used a crowbar to break open the row of clay bricks, and after ventilating the place, I threw down the rope. I put on my headlamp and slid down.
Cold, dark, low temperature.
After going down, the first thing the flashlight illuminated was the tomb door. There were stone statues over one meter high on both sides of the tomb door.
When I saw the stone statue, my heart skipped a beat and I knew I had found a big pot.
People came down one after another, and Douyazai asked in surprise: "What is this thing? Is it a man, a woman, or a monster?"
The stone statue is covered with a thick layer of dust. It has a very long face with eyes looking down and its fangs exposed, which is very scary.
Just looking at his face, he looked like a man with a horse face, but when he looked down, he found that on his chest, he had a pair of huge round balls that only women could see.
He held up the flashlight and frowned: "It's not a man or a woman. This is a tomb beast type stone statue."
The head means tomb-suppressing beast. Tomb-suppressing beasts always look strange and strange, mostly in human form, with some having horns on their heads and some with wings. Anyway, they are scary, and their purpose is to frighten wandering souls and undead.
Dou Sprout walked in and wanted to touch it, so he stopped him with his head and said, "Don't move, this thing brings bad luck and is very unlucky."
These two stone statues are strange, and the tomb door is even stranger.
Not all tombs have tomb doors, but the proportion of tombs with doors accounts for about 30%.
It has an evolution process. From morning to night, it is a stone door, a brick door, and a white marble door.
Why do I say weird?
Because this tomb door is neither brick nor stone nor jade.
It's muddy!
This is a "mud door" that I have never seen before.