In the middle of the night, a small forest near Tongzhou Planning Road.
There is an extra hole in the ground.
If someone happens to pass by at this time, they may be able to see a faint flashlight light in the cave.
Inside the tomb, Ryoko held up a flashlight and said with a frightened expression: "Cousin, is this the ancient tomb? Look at that coffin... it's so spooky, it seems to be haunted."
I spit out a mouthful of phlegm and cursed: "You are really a fucking talent. Don't talk nonsense in the tomb, especially don't say the word "ghost", you know? Because sometimes what you say will happen."
After listening to my words, Ryoko's legs were obviously shaking a little.
He is a novice after all, so it is understandable.
On the contrary, Erlongzi was not so nervous. He turned around and looked around curiously, then pointed at the tomb wall and said, "Look, there is a hole in the wall. There seems to be something inside!"
I went over to take a look and found that there were several plain bronze boxes placed in the wall niches, with pits and pits corroded by green rust on their surfaces.
"Simple noodles" means no patterns. This type of round box is a lower-grade type of bronze ware from the Warring States Period. A complete box can be sold for about 3,000 yuan on the black market.
I told Erlongzi to put it away in a sack, and then I walked to the coffin.
It was pretty much what I expected. The distance between the robbery cave and the main coffin was within ten centimeters.
The entire coffin was severely deformed, which meant that if you wanted to open it quickly, you could only destroy it violently. Moreover, because only the coffin was visible but not the coffin, it showed that the owner of the tomb was not a nobleman.
I jumped on the coffin with a pointed shovel and slammed it down hard.
The rotten coffin board, which soon became deformed and decayed, was smashed to pieces by me.
Then he used a flashlight to shine inside the coffin.
Upon first inspection, the inside of the coffin was filled with black mud that had dried into "blocks". The skeleton of the tomb owner was incomplete, and only a few scattered bones could be seen.
"Come on, did you see it? Take that thing out."
Liangzi's eyes showed fear and she said: "What is that thing? I don't dare to take it."
I said angrily: "I don't know, that's why I asked you to take it out and take a look! Look at what a coward you are! You are so cowardly! I dared to sleep in a coffin when I was sixteen!"
"Let me do it."
Erlongzi volunteered, reached out and pulled out the bronze vessel from the coffin mud.
"This looks like a pot lid?" Erlongzi said.
I looked at this thing and frowned: "It's not a pot lid, it's a bronze mirror. The owner of the tomb is a woman. This is a four-diamond vanity mirror from the late Warring States Period. It's really big. This is the first time I've seen it."
Erlongzi carefully wrapped it and put it in a bag. We rummaged through other things and soon made a new discovery. It was a three-layer lacquer makeup box. I have seen too many of these boxes. Nine out of ten boxes are rotten.
This one is no exception, but fortunately the workmanship is exquisite. If you rub it gently with your hand, the pattern on the surface of the paint layer can be clearly seen. If you go out and repair it, you can still sell it for money.
I thought to myself, isn’t this right?
Why do I see this bronze vessel? Is there an ear chamber or mezzanine here?
I looked around with my flashlight but couldn't find it.
There is a tomb passage from the outside that leads directly in, and there are no ear chambers on the left or right.
Could it be that... there is a waist pit hidden under the coffin?
I inserted two crowbars into the bottom of the coffin and asked him to push them together.
The results confirmed my suspicion.
After pushing the coffin open, I saw a deep pit two feet square on the ground!
This is the waist pit. From the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Warring States Period, this kind of waist pit was mainly used to bury pigs, ducks, dogs, sheep and other livestock. When people put their hands into it, they often pulled out animal bones. This phenomenon changed in the late Warring States Period.
Well, waist pits are often used to bury some valuable things.
I lay down on the ground with the flashlight in my mouth, reached out and dug in, and found several angular, hard metal parts in the pit. They were so heavy that I couldn't lift them out with one hand.
