Chapter 211 Digging a grave in the middle of the night
He raised his head and reminded loudly, "Everyone, be careful and watch where you step!"
A group of us carried backpacks and headlamps, and I took the lead, holding a long red climbing rope in my hand, and walked deeper into the Lost Soul Forest.
As long as everyone holds on to the rope, no one will be left behind.
Every ten meters I walk, I look back.
Even though it was foggy at night, the red rope was still visible and quite obvious.
If I find that the rope is offset, I immediately adjust the direction to ensure that the rope behind me always looks like a straight line.
If you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world.
Although I only scored more than ten points on the junior high school math test, I know a simple truth: "A straight line is the shortest between two points."
after an hour.
"Fengzi, are you sure this is here? What the hell is this place? It's so damn cold."
I said yes, it's right here, and over there are some digging holes I dug.
Because the temperature difference between day and night is large in the plateau area, it is close to minus 10 degrees at night, and the air coming out is white.
I am from Mohe and feel fine, but Douyazai and Xiaoxuan, who were born in the south, stomped their feet from the cold.
I tied up the rope and said, "Stop stamping your feet, it's useless. It won't be cold when you start working later. There must be an ancient tomb in this place, and no one has been here in I don't know how many years."
"Pooh."
Dou Sprouts spat into his hand and said loudly, "Tell me Fengzi! Where to dig it from?"
I looked at the flashlight and said, "Have you seen those two exploration pits? Just dig down from the middle. If you go down four meters deep, you will definitely be able to see something."
Dou Sprout nodded, ran over and started working without saying a word.
In the middle of the night, there were no ghosts in this deep mountain and old forest, so there was no need to let out wind. Xiaoxuan also took a shovel and joined in. The group dug in full swing, and they no longer felt cold on their bodies.
Not long after digging, Liu heard Dou Sprout shouting, "Damn, there is something! Come and see!"
"what?"
"I don't know, what is this?"
Dou Sprout squatted down and carefully peeled away the loose soil with his hands, revealing a large, dark-looking jar.
"Don't move! Let me take a look!"
I jumped down from the hole and asked Bean Sprouts to move to the side. I carefully looked at the black jar buried in the soil. Look from the exposed part.
It is about forty centimeters in diameter, and the mouth of the jar is sealed with ancient wax oil. It has a small mouth, a swollen belly, and a big belly, like a fat man.
This jar has some Tang Dynasty style, but if you look closely, you can see two obvious spiral patterns on the mouth. The presence of these two spiral patterns indicates that the time is later than the Tang Dynasty, probably during the Song, Liao and Jin periods.
"What kind of jar do you think this is, Fengzi?" Dou Sprout asked me curiously.
I said, "There are only two possibilities, and there is no third possibility. One is an urn, and the other is a money jar. Dig it out and check its weight. If it is heavy, it is a money jar. If it is light, it is an urn.
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"I'll come and see mine!"
Dou Sprouts used his hands and feet to quickly dig the jar out of the soil.
"Fuck! It's so heavy! This must be a money jar!"
Bean Sprouts held it in both hands and handed it to me.
When I weighed it, I was afraid it weighed more than thirty kilograms! It was most likely a money jar.
After getting it up, I used a knife to pry open the opening. I held up the flashlight and looked into the jar.
You guessed it right, it was filled with piles of copper coins, filling the jar to the brim!
"When was Yunfeng?" he asked me.
After looking at it, I shook my head and said, "I can't see the head clearly. It's buried in the ground, and it's covered in hard green rust. I can't read a word clearly. But it's definitely not from Xixia. The perforations of the Xixia Qianbian Road are not so regular. The head, this
If it turns out to be a jar from Song, Yuan and Ming, we can make a small fortune again!"
The so-called Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties refer to money jars spanning the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and the early Ming Dynasty. This kind of money jar is definitely not as expensive as a pure Xixia pit, but it is still a good thing, because it may contain some of the uprisings of that year.
Special coins minted by the military.
Today, I estimate that the market price of this kind of money jar is about ten thousand yuan per catty. If it is more than thirty catties, that is more than three hundred thousand yuan.
This kind of jar needs to be disposed of back home, so we simply wrapped it in a sack and continued digging the ancient tomb.
From the first half of the night to the second half of the night, six earthen pit tombs were dug in a row. The number was very dense. The distance between the tombs was no more than ten meters. The earthen pit tombs did not have tomb doors and chambers. They were just rectangular earthen pits with a circle surrounding them.
Blue bricks, with soil directly buried on top.
No coffin was seen, and no bones were seen.
In these pit tombs, we dug out a money jar weighing more than 20 kilograms and six plastic porcelain urns. In addition, there are no valuable burial objects. This should be the former civilian tomb area.
, and all were cremated.
Who has ever seen an ancient urn made of porcelain?
It was hundreds of times more complicated to make than the urns used by people today, and it had to be fired several times.
The porcelain is kneaded, grated, glazed, put into the kiln, positioned, spliced, etc. The six items we excavated contain the ashes of previous people.
Around the jar, there are relief sculptures of small houses, small stairs, small people, puppies, ducks, calves, etc. The small people allude to the deceased himself, which means that after the person dies, he will have all kinds of animals and live a prosperous life.
Therefore, if anyone sees jars and bottles with this type of theme, they are used to contain ashes and will not run away.
Dou Sprout patted the soil, unscrewed the bottle, took a sip of water, and suddenly said, "Zhao Xuanxuan, there seems to be an old man behind you, wearing a shroud with a green face."
Xiaoxuan stared at Douyazai coldly.
The next second, she raised the Luoyang shovel high and slapped the bean sprouts on the head.
Dou Sprout threw the water and ran away, shouting "I was wrong! Sister Xuan, I was wrong!"
"Don't make trouble, don't run around here."
Xiaoxuan listened to me and still held up the Luoyang shovel to chase Bean Sprout. As Bean Sprout was running, he suddenly tripped over something and made a thud! He fell face first to the ground and wailed continuously.
Brother Yu helped him up and told him to be careful and stop running around.
I walked over and took a look with my flashlight, and found that what tripped Bean Sprouts was a cylindrical stone sticking out of the ground, like a head of some kind of stone sculpture, with a square hat on.
I frowned and dug a few shovels down, and soon the facial features of a stone warrior statue were revealed. The face had been buried in the soil for who knows how many years. It was severely oxidized and gave people the impression that it had gone through many vicissitudes of life.
The diameter of this stone warrior statue's bald head is only half a meter! You can imagine how big the body buried in the soil is.
This thing is strange to ordinary people, but it is nothing to us. We have seen many. It may be a stone statue that was placed here to guard the cemetery a long time ago. The mountains and rivers changed, and it was covered by loess after hundreds of years. Buried.
Since it was almost dawn, I packed up my things and went back to continue exploring the forest the next day.
When we returned to the experimental field at dawn, Lao Guo saw us carrying several large jars back. His eyes immediately went straight, and he kept asking us what good treasures we had dug.
After sending Lao Guo away, Xiaoxuan wanted to open the small money jar weighing more than 20 kilograms first.
She squatted on the ground and fiddled with the knife for a long time. The mouth was opened, but the copper coins inside were rusted into a big piece and could not be poured out.
Xiaoxuan held the jar and shook it left and right. She became anxious and asked me, "I can't get Yunfeng out! Please think of a way!"
Seeing her anxious look, I smiled and said, "If you have a way, give it to me."
I took the jar, raised it high, and threw it to the ground. I heard a snap! The whole jar fell apart!
Kangding has a humid climate, so copper and iron rust badly. The money here has rusted into a big mountain of money.
Grass
I probably looked at it and was dumbfounded! On the surface, Qianshan almost all contained the same kind of copper coins.
All are Kaiyuan Tongbao!
Why is a jar full of Kaiyuan Tongbao?
No one knows. You have to ask the person who buried the jar in the first place. That's what grave robbing is like. You will often dig up things you didn't expect.
Xiaoxuan looked a little disappointed and said, "It's over. Kaiyuan Tongbao is worthless. I heard people say that each one is only worth 20 cents. We wasted so much time."
"Not necessarily, Xiaoxuan. Most of them are worthless, but there are some that are very valuable. Maybe there are some in this mountain of money."
"In this case, you go to Lao Guo's kitchen, get a bucket, a bottle of sesame oil, a bag of alkaline noodles, and get the two watermelons he kept in the greenhouse."
"What to do?" Xiaoxuan asked.
I said you don’t understand, go and get it quickly.
The hard green rust on copper coins must be bothering many people. Most people in modern times use various chemical solutions or vinegar to remove the hard rust, but at the same time it will destroy the patina on the surface of the copper coins.
Well, it might even make the copper coins red, which would be useless.
Xiaomi once taught me a method, also called the Mi’s money laundering method. So far, only three people know it. Let me teach it to you.