After resting for a long time, we continued to go deep into the ruins of Heishui City in the afternoon. Uncle Hulu said that he had only been to this place once. Alxa is so big, and he had never been to the place ahead.
I looked up at the sky. The sky was gloomy and depressing. The ground was covered with dry sand, gravel and tumbleweeds. There were a lot less tumbleweeds. This was a real no-man's land.
The leader said: "Don't go too far, everyone, try to stay within each other's sight. Yazai, you and Aji, Yunfeng, you and Xiaoxuan, all pay attention to what is under your feet. If you find any broken stone bricks,
Just pay careful attention."
We all said we had received it, and then one of us took a short-handled shovel and spread it out.
After running around in Alxa for so many days, Xiaoxuan's face has lost the aura of a young lady. Who said women are inferior to men? Although Xiaoxuan is a bastard, she has never complained during this journey. It's not easy.
"Come here, see what this is? Is it a brick?" She seemed to have discovered something.
I took a look and said, "It's a blue brick. Wait, there seems to be writing on the brick."
I picked it up from the ground and studied it carefully. There was a Xixia character carved on the surface of the blue brick. It was a bit blurry. The brick was not valuable. I asked Xiaoxuan to get out of the way. I was going to explore the cave here.
At first, the front end of Luoyang's shovel brought up all sand. Then when I dug down another one and a half meters, I saw soil.
Seeing as the soil brought up was mature soil, I knew there might be something interesting.
The large tombs of the Shang, Zhou and Warring States periods were made of green and white clay, which gave a strong smell to the nose. The tombs of the Tang and Song dynasties were mostly made of glutinous rice mud, which would be very sticky when shaking hands. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, most tombs were made of quicklime because lime absorbs water.
Even if the soil is gray and dry, it is said that tomb robbers can judge by looking at the soil. In fact, these are the tricks.
So what is cooked soil and what is raw soil?
Raw soil is dead soil, the original soil in nature. This kind of soil is basically the same color as the surrounding environment when you hold it in your hand, and its structure is fine. Mature soil is soil that has been turned over by humans. If you hold a handful of mature soil in your hand, you can see it with the naked eye.
You can see some color unevenness, the texture is loose and mixed, and it doesn't raise much dust when you blow it to your mouth.
In the tomb robbing industry, if the soil shoveled up from Luoyang is ripe soil, it cannot be concluded that there is an ancient tomb underground. It may be an ancient crop field. However, if the ripe soil is mixed with green and white mud or glutinous rice mud, then there must be an ancient tomb underground.
, one hundred percent.
Heishui City is the site of an ancient Xixia city. It is not a tomb, so it is normal that there is no glutinous rice mud. The ripe soil brought up by Luoyang shovel shows that someone turned it over hundreds of years ago.
I looked at Xiaoxuan, pointed at my feet and said, "It's right here. Dig and dig, the depth is about one and a half meters."
Then we dug a hole together.
If the second brother and the third brother were to dig a 1.5-meter-deep robbery hole, it would only take eight minutes at the fastest. I dug it for more than half an hour. Fortunately, Xiaoxuan was sweating a lot from exhaustion.
"Isn't this nothing?" she said, looking at it carefully.
"What's wrong? Has it been shipped?" Douya asked as he ran over with a spade.
I stood in the pit and said, "No, didn't this just come down? Let's take a look."
As I talked, I threw soil into the pit.
"clang!"
Suddenly, the shovel in my hand hit a hard object.
"It's a stone again, I thought it was a bronze vessel," Dou Yazai saw the stone outcropping the ground.
I dug deeper, and the shovel clanged, and there were rocks everywhere.
At this time, Baotou and Uncle Hulu also came over, and Baotou asked to expand the robbery hole to have a look.
I nodded and said yes, then dropped a few shovels around, and then I gradually saw this thing clearly.
It turned out that what the shovel hit was not a stone, but a stone millstone.
This millstone is inserted diagonally into the ground and is estimated to be more than two meters in diameter.
I was a little disappointed because no one wanted the millstone. Even if someone wanted it, they couldn't take it with them. It was too heavy to carry.
At this time, our attention was focused on the stone millstone, and suddenly we heard Aji shouting: "There is someone! Who is that there!"
