The millennium is the golden three years for tomb robbers, and Xi'an and Baoji have always been the hardest hit areas.
A large number of cultural relics were leaked out, and many ordinary farmers suddenly became rich overnight.
It was my first time to visit Xi'an at that time, and my only impression of the city was mutton steamed buns. I had no idea that a large-scale archeology had been done at the sulfuric acid plant three years ago.
Jiang Yuan took me and Dou Yazai to the East Factory District. The West Factory District was newly built two years ago. Before the West Factory District was built, that is, three years ago, the Xi'an archaeological team discovered a large number of tombs from the Tang Dynasty there.
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There are two types of tombs in total, the earth cave tomb and the brick chamber tomb. The archaeological team numbered these tombs as m, from m- to m9, a total of 10. A lot of things were unearthed in the tombs, like a full-body pottery statue of the King of Heaven, which is weird.
Scary tomb-suppressing beasts, pottery portraits of the Twelve Lives, large pottery camels, black gauze hats, square belts, gold belts, chariot and horse gear, round handcuffs, thallium tails, copper coins (Kaiyuan Tongbao), etc.
During the Xichang District archaeology three years ago, the experts made a cognitive mistake. In fact, these ten tombs were all burial pits.
The real main tomb was not found at that time and was completely missed. Just like the Sanxingdui that was discovered decades ago, a new pit was recently discovered in Sanxingdui.
Why did the professional archaeological team miss it?
I guess it's a combination of two reasons.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters.
Natural disasters are earthquakes, and man-made disasters are theft prevention (the ancients deliberately concealed them).
The ten accompanying tombs in Xichang District have similar specifications and standards. They are all sloped ladder-type tomb passages with oval patios. The corridors are knife-backed. Each tomb is several meters to tens of meters apart, forming a complete tomb group.
These tombs look somewhere far away to the east.
That direction is the main tomb.
How did I discover it specifically, and what cool stuff is in the main tomb?
Listen to me, I guarantee you haven't seen it on the news
"Let's go, don't you want to go?"
I pretended not to see anything and walked through quickly.
We passed this group of people.
"What's wrong, Fengzi, is there a problem?" Douyazai saw that my expression was wrong.
Seeing the three people walking away with their bags, I turned around and said, "Just wait for me here. I'll be back as soon as I go."
Bean Sprouts wondered what was going on. Could it be that we had been discovered?
"I'll go take a look and explain it to you in detail when I get back. Lend me your monkey hat."
Jiang Yuan gave me a hat, and I ran after him.
The identities of these three people were unknown, but because they were wearing winter work clothes issued by the sulfuric acid plant, they did not attract anyone's attention along the way. They left the sulfuric acid plant chatting with each other just like fellow workers after get off work.
I took a look when I passed by the duty room. I saw Old Man Ma sitting cross-legged on the bed with the bedsheets pulled up. He was eating a chopstick of pork head and taking a sip of wine, and was smacking his lips.
I put on Jiang Yuan's monkey hat and followed them all the way. When I saw three people walking into a small restaurant, I also went in.
The owner of the room was dozing off while watching TV. When he saw the guest, he quickly got up and asked, "I'm off work, what do you want to eat today?"
The middle-aged man at the head rubbed his hands and said: "Damn it, the weather is freezing to death, Lao Li! Give us some hard food!"
"Okay! How about braised pork ribs?"
"Fuck, spareribs are not a hard dish. Give us some fish and mutton! For the big pot, put an extra pound of mutton, and ten sesame seed cakes and a bottle of phoenix. It's damn cold today."
"Okay, let's have a big pot of fish and mutton. You guys are cooking it over the fire. I'll cook it for you. It'll take half an hour."
"What did you eat?" The boss took the accounting book and saw me at this time.
I said give me a bowl of mutton noodles.
The boss said he understood, and then he plunged into the kitchen and started working hard.
"Brother Niu, can we still make it happen years ago?"
The middle-aged man who was called Brother Niu was wiping his chopsticks with paper. After hearing this, he threw the paper into the trash can and said: "Zuzi, Brother Niu, you don't trust me to do things? We have been working in the factory for half a year, right?"
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"Yeah, yes, I came in May, so it's been more than half a year."
"That's it. The time is coming soon. The whole damn place has collapsed. Who knows how deep it is. It's impossible to get in. The deputy director has already asked me to do it. The east factory area will be renovated next week.
I would turn on the hook machine at night and dig out the whole damn thing."
"Ahem".
One person coughed deliberately, and the other two looked back at me.
I sat in the corner wearing a monkey hat, scratched my head, and pretended to be a passerby.
The three of them continued talking.
"Brother Niu, you are really awesome. The deputy director of the factory is an old woman. How can you do something so mean to her? You are just a calf opening up wasteland, so you are so tough."
"Fuck you, what am I doing that for? Isn't it just to gain the trust of the factory and get the job of operating the hook machine on the night shift?"
The wine was served, the glasses were rinsed, and each of them poured half a glass.
"Come on, Tuzi, let's toast Brother Niu for his dedication."
Brother Niu nodded, and the three of them raised their glasses to each other.
While we were talking, a steaming big pot of fish and mutton was served on the table. The fish and mutton was actually large grass carp stewed with mutton meatballs.
They ate and drank for an hour, and I kept eavesdropping. During this time, they accidentally exchanged some words.
A layman can watch the excitement, an expert can listen to the rules.
These words are definitely incomprehensible to ordinary people, but I can understand them.
I analyze that these three people do not belong to the northern faction, but should be civilian guerrillas. They have no backers and no leaders. They should be villagers near Tongchuan. The other two are under the command of the man named Niu Ge.
Some words mentioned in their chat.
"It collapsed. It's too deep and can't be reached with eight poles. It's a big hole."
I secretly calculated, "Isn't the tomb under the sulfuric acid plant the ancestor of Jiang Yuan? How deep is it?"
Eight poles can't reach it
Eight poles refers to the length of the Luoyang shovel. One pole is divided into three sections. In some places, it is divided into four sections. One pole is almost 4 meters. Under normal circumstances, when exploring the tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty, you can only reach about four poles at most. If you are long, you can play with it.
Do not move.
If Brother Niu is telling the truth, the depth is already over 32 meters.
You know, people in the tomb robbing industry talk about the deep pits of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The depth of this so-called deep pit is only 20 meters, and the archaeological team's shovel will not be able to cover it so long.
After finishing their meal, the three of them paid and left. I went out to take a look and saw that they had entered the staff dormitory of the sulfuric acid plant on the west side of the road.
On the surface, these three are factory employees, but secretly they are grave robbers.
"Boss, I want to ask you something. Do you know the names of the three people you just ate?"
The boss was clearing the table. Hearing this, he replied to me: "Are they? An old cow, a lump, and a horse egg."
"Are you a factory employee? It's not cheap for you to eat fish and mutton in one pot, right?"
"Yes, it's not cheap, but if people are rich, they eat like this every day. Yesterday it was a goose stewed in an iron pot. Let's compare it to beef."
"Well, it can't be compared. Then you are busy and go."
"Come back when you have time, young man."
I quietly returned to the factory. In the duty room, old man Ma was a little drunk. I saw that he was half leaning on the bed, wandering to Xi'an.
"Fengzi, where have you been? I've been waiting for almost two damn hours."
I said there is a new situation, please leave quickly.
Running to the north of the east area of the sulfuric acid plant, Jiang Yuan pointed to a red brick house and said, "It used to be there. Later, the factory bought a generator and built a house. Grandpa sometimes burned paper at the back of the house to make offerings.
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"Will this thing work?" I took out the walkie-talkie and threw it to her.
"You still have a walkie-talkie, I can use it, hey hey."
I said don't shout. Just stay outside and call us if someone passes by. Do you hear me?
Jiang Yuan said, I know. If anyone passes by, I will call you.
"Um."
"Go Yazai."
"Let's go explore this pit and see how deep it is."