I put it to my nose and smelled it. The bean sprout boy grabbed the soil and showed it to me.
"Fengzi, take a look, have you ever seen this kind of soil layer?"
"Why is it so sticky? No wonder it always sticks to the shovel head."
When it was more than three meters deep, the shovel head brought up a layer of gray-white soil, which looked like mud and was very sticky to the touch.
I grabbed a handful and squeezed it hard, and even when I let go, it didn't fall off. It stuck to my hand.
"It's strange... this is definitely not white plaster mud. What kind of soil is this? I've never seen it before. Xiaoxuan, go and send a signal, call the leader and them to come over, and say that we have found something."
After more than half an hour, Brother Yu and Ah Chun came over.
When I saw the pointed mound, my eyes lit up and I said, "This is the conical head."
"ah?"
"It's true," Dou Sprout said, "That's it? I'll cover it with Pao Xiang, it'll be as big as that."
"you are wrong."
Baotou said: "After the Qin Dynasty, the bigger the earthen mounds, the better. In the Han Dynasty, the first level of royal tombs even dug mountains to build tombs. However, in the earthen coffin tombs before that, the smaller the conical heads left on the ground were.
good."
"That head, look at this kind of soil layer, I've never seen it before."
He stretched out his head and grabbed a handful.
"Huh?"
He shook his head and said: "So sticky? This is not white plaster mud, nor is it lime mud."
Lime mud was most popular in brick chamber tombs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. White lime was added to the rammed earth to absorb water and moisture, and to prevent excessive rainwater from penetrating into the tomb. This kind of soil is slightly sticky, but it will never be so sticky.
This layer of soil is like glue. I estimate that if it sticks to a person's face, it won't be able to be peeled off after a long time.
After thinking about it, he said: "Wen Bin, you still have poles in your bag, and you are picking one up."
"Yunfeng, dig down one meter and take a look. This is the first time I've seen this kind of soil in my whole life."
As a result, the stick became more and more sticky with the shovel, so I dug another half meter into the ground. Unlike before, it was useless to shovel back and forth, and I almost couldn't pull it out, but Bean Sprouts helped me pull it up together.
He brought his head closer and smelled it first, then dipped a little of it with his finger and put it on his tongue to taste it.
"What's wrong?" I looked at it and my head froze.
Let me taste your head.
I tried a little, opened my eyes wide and said in surprise: "Why is it so sweet!"
"What the hell? I'll try it too," Dou Sprouts took a few bites, spit it out twice, and said loudly, "It's true! It's a bit like preserved egg and lean meat porridge with sugar!"
"Botou, is this Sanhetu or Wuhetu?" I asked.
"No, Sanhe soil and Wuhe soil are all hard. This soil layer is so soft, it must be mixed with water. I guess the white color is due to the addition of rice juice, and if it is sweet... it may be the addition of maltose."
He shook his head and said, "I've never seen anything like this, but I've heard of something similar. It's also a Warring States tomb. The rammed earth was added with sucrose, sap from a certain tree, egg white, and animal blood."
"It seems like this is it."
It was harder for Dou Sprout to laugh than to cry. He smiled bitterly and said, "It's not over yet. We are not afraid of hard soil. We have diamond needles and detonators, but if this is the case, how can we dig down?"
At this time, Xiaoxuan raised her hand and said, "Isn't this a slime?"
"What is slime?" I asked.
"Hmm..." Xiaoxuan thought for a while and said: "Slime is a toy given to me by someone in Hong Kong before. It is just like this, a lump of slime."
Dou Sprout stared and said: "Then according to you, this is not the Hu Cemetery, but the Slime Tomb?"
"I didn't say that, I just said it casually."
There are no stones, let alone the cyclone shovel, even the Luoyang shovel is launched into the water. If it is a tomb, then this kind of tomb is unheard of and unseen.
"I see...."
He seemed to have figured out something. He looked around and said: "It rains a lot in Yongzhou, Hunan Province in summer. The underground is full of limestone and caves. There are big gaps. The rainwater flows down and flows into underground rivers. This will lead to underground rivers during the rainy season."
The water level is rising.”
He took two steps back, pointed at his feet and said, "A few months ago, the place where we are standing should have been submerged in water, but the water level in the underground river dropped and was exposed again."
"As a result, the water will spread deep into the ground, making the white mud so sticky."
"Head, even if we analyze it, it's useless, just tell me what to do," Dou Sprout said.
I thought about it for a few minutes and finally shook my head helplessly.
