I still remember that it was around 5 o'clock in the evening that day. When Dou Sprout and I dug about four meters underground, we discovered blue bricks.
Sure enough, there is something...
I threw away my cigarette butt and continued digging. Soon, a rusty stone slab was exposed in the soil.
Judging from the appearance, this should be a cellar similar to a latrine, built with blue bricks, covered with a stone slab on top, and then buried with soil.
There is no pattern on the stone slab, it is just an ordinary bluestone slab, weighing about two to three hundred kilograms.
"Can you use some strength? You haven't eaten."
Douyazai gasped and said: "Fengzi, look how much sweat is coming from my head. It's not that I haven't exerted my strength! It's that this thing is too heavy!"
"Stop talking nonsense. If you can't move it, use a crowbar. If you can't move it, just smash it with a hammer!"
I asked Brother Yu to throw down the crowbar, and then I worked hard with Dou Sprout to pry the stone slab.
He kept his head on the hole and watched us without saying a word.
Using the principle of leverage, my entire upper body was pressed against the crowbar. With Dou Sprout shouting, the stone slab that had been buried underground for hundreds of years was slowly pried open to create a gap.
I squatted down and shined a flashlight inward.
There was also soil buried in the cellar. The soil was reddish-brown in color and uneven, just like rust. It was hard to tell what was buried.
Douyazai and I carefully jumped down, dug twice with a shovel, and dug out a broken iron sword hilt.
Dig down with the shovel.
Iron spears, iron forks, iron daggers, iron spearheads, iron bows, iron crossbows, iron arrowheads, iron hammers, iron armor pieces, etc. were dug out one after another. The number was very large, and the variety was astonishing.
Those pieces of iron armor have grown together with the soil, and have become a big lump of rust, which cannot be separated at all.
After digging too much, Douyazai was sweating profusely and gasped: "Did we dig a weapons pit? It's full of broken knives and swords! Why aren't there any valuable ones!"
I was also very tired, so I said, "Don't panic, we haven't dug to the bottom yet. What if there is something at the bottom?"
After saying that, I shook the rope and signaled Brother Yu to pull up the soil.
It's past seven o'clock.
As soon as I put on my headlamp, I heard Dou Sprout shouting: "Fengzi, come and see! There is a big tank!"
A section of the jar's eaves is exposed from the soil, which is a pottery jar.
The first reaction in my mind was a vat of copper coins. It might be Northern Song Dynasty copper coins, or Xixia copper coins. If it was Xixia copper coins, it would be a big deal!
Back then, a rotten Xixia Zhenguan treasure could be sold for 40,000 yuan! If this was a big vat, how much would it cost?
"Be careful," I said to Dou Sprout, "don't use a shovel. The space is small and the shovel can easily damage things. Use a small shovel."
After saying that, I squatted on the ground, straightened my headlight, and cleaned it with a small shovel.
As the cleaning progressed, a complete large pottery jar was exposed, with some broken bricks and tiles inside.
This thing couldn't be moved, so Dou Sprout picked up the broken bricks in the tank and turned them over twice, revealing a dead bone, which seemed to be a thigh bone.
Dou Sprouts and I looked at each other, where are the copper coins?
At the moment when the bones were leaking out, a strong wind suddenly blew from above. The wind blew so loudly that it was so hard that I couldn't open my eyes.
This is not a tomb. Human bones suddenly appeared in the jar. Who is he?
Clean up little by little.
White bones from other parts of the human body were also found in the jar, with the skull being the last to be exposed.
Half of the eye sockets of the skull were buried in the soil, looking at us sideways, it looked a bit weird.
"What are you looking at? How dare you stare at me?"
Dou Sprout cursed, clasped the two holes of the skull's eye sockets with his hands, lifted it out of the tank and said, "Brother, you think I'm afraid of you, get up here!"
After that, he kicked the skull up like a football.
The skull rolled to Brother Yu's feet. Brother Yu lowered his head and said, "Sin, Amitabha, Yazai, you must be virtuous, or you may turn into a ghost and take revenge on you."
Douyazai chuckled, rushed up and said loudly: "Brother Yu! It's best to get me a beautiful female ghost. I don't ask for much, just look like a xxx star!"
Click!
Suddenly there was thunder and then raindrops fell from the sky.
Dou Sprout stretched out his hand and said, "Hey, why is it raining again? It just rained two days ago."
The rain came without warning, it just fell.
I quickly found a fan cloth to block the vat, and I was going to find two more rocks to hold the fan cloth down.
At this moment, I suddenly saw something "green" coming out of the tank. I didn't know what it was, so I just picked it up.
I can't move this time.
"What are you still looking at there! Fengzi is coming up! It's coming down hard!"
"Got it! Right now!"
The raindrops fell on my neck, which made me feel cold.
I dug hard and pulled out an arched, green-glazed porcelain-like thing, about 30 centimeters long. I didn't know what it was.
Holding it in my arms, I climbed up in a hurry.
I ran back to the stone house and lit a candle, and then I realized what I was holding in my hand.
It is a green three-color porcelain pillow from the Liao and Jin Dynasties.
This kind of porcelain pillow is rough in workmanship, has a very large curvature to support the neck, is hollowed out on the left and right sides, and the overall shape is like an arched bridge. It is not comfortable for living people to use at all. It was a "deity device" used exclusively for the dead in the past.
Have you ever used this kind of pillow?
If you have the chance, you can go to the museum to see the real thing. I feel that a living person would definitely get a stiff neck after using it for one night.
On the hollowed-out area on the left side of this porcelain pillow, three characters were carved with a knife.
"Hi Ali."
Xiaoxuan took a sip of water and said, "I know, the white skeleton is called Ali Xi, and this pillow was used by him. There must be something else in the tank."
Douyazai applauded repeatedly: "Well said, Zhao Xuanxuan, you are getting smarter and smarter. Then can you explain why Ali Xi was buried in the tank and brought the pillow into the tank?"
Douyazai laughed and said: "I don't know? There is nothing I don't know! When I retire in the future, I will have to go to Peking University to become an archeology professor!"
I said you know? Then tell me.
Douyazai said seriously: "Look, monks in ancient times used to sit in a vat, so this must be a sleeping vat. It is convenient to bring a pillow for sleeping in the vat."
"That's good, please shut up now."
"Botou, what do you think?"
He looked at the rainy night in a daze. He didn't say anything directly, but asked me what I saw.
I thought for a while and said: "The head, so many weapons and horse gear were unearthed, proves that its owner may be a Xixia general. Historically, it is said that the Xiwu Kingdom existed for a long time. At that time, because there were no battles to fight, the general died after his death.
All the weapons were gathered and buried underground."
He shook his head after hearing this: "Yunfeng, you got to the point, but you didn't say it right."
He looked at Yuye and said: "At that time, there were two types of officers and soldiers in Xixia, one was the regular army, and the other was the support army. The Tiansheng Law of Xixia recorded that when Xixia fought with the Song Dynasty, all the people were soldiers, and a Dangxiang regular army officer
Two supporting troops, when not fighting, the supporting troops function like slaves, but once fighting occurs, they function as cannon fodder."
"These people are weak and sick, and the outside world calls them support troops. In fact, in the Xixia military camp, these people have no names. They are uniformly called "Alixi". Men are called male Alixi, and women are called female Alixi.
"In my opinion..."
The headmaster speculated: "Back then, there was a general in the Xixia army who buried his weapons and armor in a cellar, and had his attendant Ali Xi buried with him. His purpose was to keep an eye on these weapons underground."
I raised another question.
"Boss, if that's the case, why not use a coffin? There's no reason to use a big vat?"
He shook his head: "It's not that we don't need it, but there's no place to use it. Think about it, can a coffin be placed in that place?"
I clapped my hands fiercely: "I know, that's it! The place is too small and can only hold a vat. This porcelain pillow is a burial gift given to Ali Xi by the general!"
He nodded his head and said: "Yes, Yunfeng, you always reveal the truth with just one click. This is most likely the case."
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and suddenly Xiaoxuan shouted: "Look! What's going on!"
Look outside the house.
I saw many small toads braving the rain, densely packed in large numbers, all jumping towards the cellar.
When he got there, he jumped down without hesitation.