My chest was rising and falling, and I was breathing heavily.
Look up.
An old man wearing Taoist priest's clothes appeared in front of him.
This old man has thin features, white beard and hair, a goatee, and is wearing a green robe. He is holding a ruler in his hand and is looking at me with a smile.
Although his face is old, his hands have thin skin and white flesh, and their fingers are slender, like the hands of a young girl.
He patted it gently with his hand, and Lao Tian was like a deflated rubber ball, and he lay on the ground motionless with a pop.
"You...who are you..."
The old man took back his ruler, stroked his goatee, and said with a smile: "Laity, the old Taoist Yan Xiazi, Yu Feng Bidong Zhenren."
"You...you are Chen Qingjue??"
After I finished speaking, I was stunned, and when I realized what I was saying, I burst out laughing twice.
The old Taoist priest smiled and said, "Why are you laughing?"
I got up from the ground, patted the dirt on my body and said, "I'm laughing that I'm dreaming, I'm laughing that Brother Yu is fine, Brother Yu is not dead."
"Haha, this dream was so fucking awesome. I even met a Taoist priest from the Qing Dynasty."
"You say I'm awesome or not," I said to the old man with a smile.
This old Taoist priest with a celestial spirit was startled and asked: "Buddha, may I ask what you mean by being awesome?"
"How do you want me to explain this?"
"Awesome is awesome. You've been dead for so many years, how do you know that? We still say you're awesome."
"Why...."
The old Taoist priest sighed, shook his head and said, "Bulk, you have six impure roots and do many evil things. Although you are not destined to be a Taoist sect, you are destined to me."
"Taoist Priest, you are right. I have done many evil things. Why, you want to reform me? I woke up immediately. I have had many such dreams."
"No, no."
The old Taoist priest, still smiling, looked at me and said, "The layman has been trained in the Luoyin Contemplation, so you and I can have this moment together."
"You have ancient witchcraft that cannot be cured, and even an experienced person cannot see through it."
"Today's scene will be confirmed in a few days. I save your two lives. I really have something to ask for."
"You tell me, I'll listen."
I knew that what he said in the dream was all nonsense, so I wasn't afraid, so I chatted with him.
The old Taoist priest said in an ethereal voice: "One thing, please help me open the last door."
"Goodbye."
.....
"Hey! Hey!"
"Mineko! Mineko!"
I opened my eyes and saw Dou Sprouts' big face first.
"What the hell! What's wrong with you? You're calling Brother Yu by his name and you're crying and screaming. It's scary."
I sat up and saw that Brother Yu was still fine, and my head, Achun Xiaoxuan, was fine too.
I didn’t dare to say whether this dream was evil or not. I just said that I was too tired and had a nightmare after falling asleep. It was okay.
Xiaoxuan said: "Is everything okay? You don't know, you really scared us just now. It took a few people to hold you down. What did you call awesome or a Taoist priest?"
"Hey, it's okay. Do you think something's wrong with me? Stop talking."
"Head, how shall we continue?" I asked.
"Then keep doing it."
He nodded and said, "We don't have many wooden boards to use. We hope we can dig out the empowerment quickly."
"Is there any initiation?"
The head answered me and said: "Based on my experience, in the early days, hollow bricks were not used, and bluestone strips were most likely used. Initiation can also be used, and bluestone roofing can also be used. Looking at this, I am afraid of encountering accumulated stones."
I was afraid that something would come my way, so my prediction was correct and I dug out rocks.
This paste-like soil layer suddenly disappeared when it was dug six or seven meters underground, and was replaced by a layer of gravel of various sizes.
A vertical hole like this is very dangerous. We drilled down the middle of the board and tied a rope around our waists.
This is not like the Guozhuang Chu Tomb discovered in Li Xiang. That tomb was made of quicksand and accumulated stones. There were more than twenty holes in the rammed earth layer, none of which could be drilled down.
When we dug this, there were many small and large gravels under the rammed soil layer. The big stones weighed one to two hundred kilograms, and the small ones were as big as fists. The stones were filled with soil.
You have to be careful when dealing with this kind of thing. We brought our things in the bags on our backs.
The diamond needle can only be used to cut through the initiation, and is useless for this kind of stone. The thing we use is called a cannon needle. Because it looks like a mortar shell, it is also called a cannonball needle.
(I forgot where I saw a video. The tomb robbers left this thing at the scene. I want to see what kind I can find.)
The cannonball needle is neither big nor small. The tail can be connected to the pole of the Luoyang shovel. After connecting, point the needle at the stone and smash the end hard, dozens of times, to break even a large stone.
I worked carefully for six or seven hours, working hard and sweating profusely.
We opened a small hole and drilled down through the rock layer.
This is a big risk. Once other stone layers move, the small hole we drilled will be instantly buried, and people will be stoned to death.
I tied a rope around my waist and shook my headlight upwards to signal that I could get off.
"Pooh."
After eating a mouthful of ashes, I descended into the tomb passage.
Others also came down one after another.
Afraid of the cave entrance collapsing, we used two cyclone shovels and a Luoyang shovel to build a shelf around the cave entrance after we came down.
The tomb has not collapsed yet, and the place where I stand now is in the tomb passage. It is very dark around me, and a long tomb passage leads to the darkness ahead.
After looking at it, he said, this is the A-shaped tomb of the Warring States Period, A, B, and C. The A-shaped tomb is the highest level of tomb specifications.
The tomb passage is more than two meters high. We took our headlamps and slowly explored forward.
Douyazai whispered: "Head, this tomb passage is too long."
He stopped his head, pointed to the darkness ahead and said, "At the end there should be a row of steps going outward. The more steps there are, the more noble the tomb owner is."
Sure enough, after walking forward for more than 70 meters along the tomb passage, there appeared a layer of steps extending downward, one layer after another, all compacted with loess. It was visually estimated that there were at least thirty steps.
The head reminds us: "Be careful, watch your step, don't step on the wrong foot."
For a large tomb like this, according to past experience, the tomb passage and steps lead to the side chamber, the main tomb chamber, and the coffin chamber.
We got down from the middle of the corridor and thought we had bypassed the tomb gate. But after coming down the rammed earth steps, what appeared in our eyes was shocking!
I have never seen anything like this before. The steps get narrower as you go down, and are blocked by a mud wall about two meters wide and nearly three meters high.
Moreover, it is completely blocked. There are many half-meter-long bluestone strips on the ground. They should have been laid underground originally. For some unknown reason, most of these bluestone strips have become warped.
This kind of wall was called Broken Dragon Stone after the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, because of the opening of Wanli Tomb in Dingling, this kind of wall was called King Kong Wall, which means indestructible. We all call it King Kong Wall now.
There are also Han tombs that were dug out of mountains to build mausoleums. The most powerful one known so far is the Qianling Mausoleum. After exploration, it was found that there were seventeen dragon-breaking stones, each weighing more than ten tons.
We were shocked because we had never heard of such things in the tombs of the Warring States Period.
Brother Yu used a shovel to test the hardness. It was very hard. It was useless to hit the wall with the edged shovel.
"What should I do with my head?" Brother Yu asked in a deep voice.
"I didn't expect that such a thing would be used to seal the tomb..." He frowned, looked down at his feet, and said, "Dig down, see if you can go around the base of the wall, and then dig up at a certain point.
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"Dig a cross well?"
He looked in front of him, nodded and said, "Yes, this kind of wall is more than half a meter thick. To seal it, you can only try to dig a horizontal well."
I asked again: "Boss, how did the diamond wall of Dingling open in the first place?"
After thinking about it for a moment, he said: "That is a stone brick wall. Dozens of people knocked on it for two days and two nights to remove it brick by brick. We don't have that many people, so we have to use detonators or dig horizontal wells. There is no other way."
"
"detonator....."
Look at the structure here, who dares to put a detonator? It will collapse.
"We can't waste any more time," he looked around and said, "Let's do it."
The bluestone strips on the ground were already protruding and very thick. It took several of us to work together to move one piece and remove the bluestone strips, exposing the ground.
These bluestone strips on the ground are to prevent someone from digging downwards. Maybe because of an earthquake or something, the bluestone strips are now tilted up, which can be regarded as unintentionally helping us.
The base of the Diamond Wall is buried more than one meter below, and we are like pangolins.
I dug downward, then dug forward, and finally dug upward. Finally, I spent several hours digging a "U"-shaped hole.
Climbing along the U-shaped pirate cave, we bypassed the diamond wall and climbed up with an outcropping.
result.....
After the King Kong Wall, there is a second wall!
And it's not an earthen wall. It looks rusty, as if it was cast from molten iron or bronze.
My head and face changed, and I looked ugly.
Because, I remembered a sentence on the monument of Chen Meiqing Temple.