It was past midnight that day, around one o'clock.
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
On the earth bag of the reservoir, two black figures squatted on the ground, talking furtively in a low voice.
"Did you understand the process?"
"I'm starting to dig. Just keep an eye on the surroundings and call the intercom if anything happens."
"No problem." Ye Zi nodded.
I continued to whisper: "When I dig to a depth of 1.5 meters, I will throw a stone out. When you hear the sound of the stone, come over and lift the soil."
She nodded again and said yes.
I checked the walkie-talkie in my trouser pocket. It took a lot of effort to buy this thing. She traveled dozens of miles to the town to buy it during the day.
Ye Zicat squatted in the corner with his waist bent.
In the darkness, her eyes scanned back and forth on the way up the mountain. From this commanding position, she could see everything around her clearly.
Get started!
In order to save time, I dug directly from the middle of Nai Li's grave without a cyclone shovel. I used an ordinary shovel brought by Ye Zi's family.
"Gu Gu, Gu Gu."
There was a cuckoo chirping halfway up the mountain.
Because most of the time, when digging a hole, I have to kneel down and dig in, so I cut the shovel pole short so that it can be used more easily.
Let me tell you here that the tombs we built in the Tang and Song Dynasties, as long as they are not imperial tombs, are not buried very deep. Many of them are about five to six meters underground. Unlike the Western Zhou and Warring States Period, which were often more than ten meters or even twenty meters underground.
Of all the jobs I had done before, the Warring States Period Tomb of the Sulfuric Acid Factory was the deepest, almost thirty meters. If Jiang Yuan hadn't taken me there, I would never have been able to find it at that depth.
There are two ways to dig Tang and Song Dynasty tombs, the fast and the slow. The fast method is to use a Luoyang shovel to dig the pit, and then send the expanding explosive down and light it. After the explosion, the soil on the top of the tomb will squeeze the pit toward the center, and a natural formation will be formed.
The robbery hole is about half a meter in diameter. This method tests the amount of expanding explosives, and it is all done by veterans like Master Ji.
The slow one is to use the ordinary method to dig. I didn't get any expanding explosives, so I used the second method.
Fortunately, there were no rocks and the soil was piled to one side. I was quite skilled at earthwork, so I dug a hole about one meter in diameter very quickly.
I jumped down and continued to dig the soil. When I saw that it was almost done, I picked up a stone and threw it into the pit.
Ye Zi ran over immediately when she heard the noise. She tied two buckets with ropes and slowly lowered them down the robbery hole.
hot.
Especially at night in the dog days of July, it was even hotter here in the reservoir. After working for a while, I was sweating profusely and my hair was covered with dirt.
Armed with a headlamp and a bucket full of dirt, I shook the rope and whispered, "Pull up, faster."
The bucket filled with soil rubbed against the wall and slowly rose up.
The weight is not light, and Ye Zi's expression seems a little difficult. If Brother Yu did this, he could pull it up with one hand.
"Hurry up! Unload it after it's fallen!" My head was full of dirt and I urged her to hurry up.
Making a vertical hole is not a slope hole. You have to lift the soil upwards. If the soil is not scattered, I will bury myself in it by digging.
Digging, loading and unloading soil.
The speed can't be said to be fast, but it's definitely not slow. This is the result of my constant urging. Ye Zi said that her hands were sore and her arms hurt and she wanted to rest for two minutes, so I scolded her directly. After scolding her twice, she became honest.
(Actually, what I did at that time was inappropriate. If I were 25 years old or later, I would not let Ye Zi go up there alone, because if she threw two stones down, she could kill me.)
When the thieves dug the hole to a depth of about five meters.
The shovel hit the brick with a "clink" sound, and there were green bricks exposed under the feet.
They are hollow blue bricks from ancient times. These bricks are much larger than the bricks used to build houses in modern times. One brick can hold up to three bricks.
Strange....
The vault of the brick chamber tomb has been excavated, but not even a layer of rammed earth has been seen...
It's a bit abnormal, but when you think about it, in ancient times, ramming earth also cost money. At the end of the tomb construction, the owner found that the budget was not enough, so he saved some decoration. This situation is not impossible, but it also happens.
After clearing away the loess, a row of hollow old bricks was exposed under my feet. I rushed up and shouted: "Throw down the long crowbar."
Before I came, I brought two iron crowbars, one long and one short.
