There are several candles standing on the floor of the tomb.
The candle flames illuminated the wall, clearly reflecting the shadows of several people.
"one!"
"Two! Get up!"
The three big men worked together to press the crowbar and managed to lift up the bluestone strips paved on the ground.
This kind of bluestone strips are arranged in an orderly and tight manner. Visually, each piece weighs more than three hundred kilograms. We have already pried up four pieces, and this is the fifth piece.
Just listen to Douyazai panting: "I'm so exhausted, but I still don't see the mezzanine, Fengzi!"
Under the bluestone strips is yellow-brown fine sand. Judging from experience, this kind of fine sand is often filled with dead soil. The presence of dead soil proves that there is no mezzanine tomb hidden under our feet.
Am I really feeling wrong?
One way to verify this is to pry up all the bluestone strips paving the floor, but if you do that, just like Bean Sprouts complained, it can tire people to death.
After thinking about it, I gritted my teeth and said, "Finally, let's try to pry them together. If it doesn't work, just pull them down."
The result was quickly obtained. No, there was dead soil under the bluestone strips. Regarding this situation, we didn’t even have any hope, so we packed up and prepared to leave.
But just before I went out, I looked back and saw a beam of moonlight shining down from the crack in the vault.
This beam of moonlight was impartial and shone right on the vermillion-lacquered red coffin.
"What are you looking at? Let's go Yunfeng." Brother Yu called me.
I stared blankly at the wonderful scene of "the red coffin illuminated by the moon" in front of me, and my heart kept beating.
"Don't leave yet!"
"We all overlooked one thing!"
"Under the coffin! Get your head! Under the coffin!"
When he heard this, his face changed.
We immediately returned to the tomb, worked together to move the red coffin aside, and then pried open the two bluestone strips under the red coffin. As a result, we saw that the bottom was not fine sand, but white plaster mud!
It’s a large layer of white plaster mud, all solidified!
When Dou Sprout saw this, he said excitedly: "Damn it! I didn't expect there was a damn dark layer!"
I was also short of breath and said, what are you waiting for? Hurry and dig down!
Ancient people took great pains to prevent tomb robberies.
The top layer of white plaster mud dried and became solid. After digging down thirty centimeters, the white plaster mud layer began to soften, just like the cream on the ice cream we eat, and large pieces stuck to our shovel.
Can't even shake it off.
The white paste mud is afraid of vinegar and urine. We peed twice without vinegar. After digging for ten minutes, it became less sticky to the shovel.
It was only dug about two meters deep, and a blue brick roof was exposed. I smashed the roof and threw down the rope. After half an hour of ventilation, we followed the rope down.
"hiss......"
"call....."
"It's so cold...Why is it so cold?" I couldn't help but shudder.
When the flashlight shone forward, we saw a thick and short stone door, less than two meters high. The stone door was tightly closed, and a layer of dust fell on the surface. On the door beam, squatting in a row were nine tomb-suppressing beasts, tomb-suppressing orcs.
It has the face of an animal and the body of an animal, with wings and eyes that look like humans and animals. It looks down very ferociously, as if it wants to scare away those of us who are disturbing the soul of the tomb owner.
On the left and right sides of the short stone gate, there are two basalt stone sculptures with rare themes.
Two large black turtles with snake tails are carved, and a bluestone tablet is carried on the turtle shell. These things include tomb beasts, which look weird and mysterious.
I stuttered a bit when I spoke, so I asked: "Bang...bangtou, is this...the Xuanwu Tuo Monument?"
He squinted his head and said, "Yes, this thing represented imperial power in the past."
I couldn't help but walk over and touch it.
It's so rare, it's the first time I've seen this thing in real life.
This is not a tortoise, it is a Xuanwu. Turtle burden stele has been unearthed in many places in China, but it is not a Xuanwu burden stele! The way to tell the difference is to see if the turtle has a long snake tail.
When I shine a flashlight on it, I can see that both sides of the bluestone stele are densely covered with Xixia script.
I asked Xiaoxuan to take a few photos with her mobile phone. If you want to know what the inscription contains, there is only one way, which is to go out and get a Xia-Chinese dictionary published in 1997, and compare the dictionary word by word.
It won't take a year or two for me to correct myself.
Once these two Xuanwu camel monuments are unveiled, they will surely cause a sensation.
I still abide by the old northern rule, which is to never touch these life-threatening things, but starting from the late 1980s, many people in the industry no longer abide by such rules.
After watching it for a few minutes, I asked worriedly: "This kind of door is difficult to open. It may be similar to the Vajra Door. Is there any way?"
He nodded his head and said: "Yes, this kind of stone door is often more difficult to open the shorter it is. As for the method... there are some."
"Yunfeng, have you seen it?"
He pointed his head and fingers at the row of tomb beasts squatting above the stone door.
I said I saw it.
He raised his head and said in a deep voice: "If I'm not wrong, removing one of the tomb beasts will reveal a small hole. Neither of us can do it. Xiaoxuan is the thinnest, so she can get in."
"Xiao Xuan."
"I'll take the lead, you say."
The head looked serious and warned: "Listen carefully, Xiaoxuan, get in and jump down. Pay attention to whether the door is blocked by a stone bolt or a stone ball."
Xiaoxuan looked confused and asked: "I know the head and the stone ball. What is a stone bolt?"
He frowned and explained: "To put it bluntly, a stone bolt is a horizontal stone stick, about as thick as an adult man's arm. We can't move it outside the door, but you can easily open it from the inside."
Xiaoxuan nodded and understood.
The shortcoming of our team in the past two years is that there are only a few gunners. If we have experienced gunners, we can conduct a small blasting at the connection between the door beam and the tomb beast, which is safe and shortens the time.
Now Bean Sprouts and I climbed up and smashed it hard with hammers.
After smashing for more than an hour, I reminded: "Everyone gives way!"
After saying that, Douyazai and I exerted our strength at the same time and kicked down the tomb-suppressing beast on the door beam, breaking it into pieces.
His guess was correct. There was indeed a small black hole on the inside of the door beam.
I put on a headlamp and tried to climb in. It was very difficult, mainly because of the size of the hole and it got stuck on my shoulders, not to mention Brother Yu's size.
Then, Brother Yu hugged Xiaoxuan's waist and picked her up. Douyazai and I grabbed Xiaoxuan's hand and pulled her up.
"Don't panic, just wait a moment."
I placed the candle on the handle of the Luoyang shovel, then lit the candle and carefully put it into the cave.
I lowered my head and looked through the hole for a few minutes. I saw that the candle flame inside was burning relatively steadily and had not changed color, so I dared to let Xiaoxuan get in.
"Damn bean sprout boy! Don't push my ass!"
Dou Yazai said anxiously: "Fuck! Don't accuse me unjustly! I didn't move! It was Fengzi who pushed you!"
I also said that I pushed it because I was afraid you would get stuck, but Xiaoxuan didn't say anything.
Xiaoxuan was wearing jeans and her butt was very soft. I swore I didn’t mean to take advantage, I just wanted to help her get in quickly.
Seeing Xiaoxuan moving left and right little by little, and finally getting in, I quickly asked: "How is it? What's going on inside?"
"very strange...."
Xiaoxuan's voice was confused and she said, "Turn your head...there is something blocking the door behind it. It's not the stone bolt or the stone door you mentioned. It seems to be a seesaw."
He put his head through the door and yelled: "What? A seesaw?"
Xiaoxuan seemed to be sure: "Yes, Boss! It's just a big seesaw! What should I do?"
He turned his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly said in surprise: "I really didn't expect this! It turned out to be stone glass... Stone glass actually existed in the Xixia period?"
There must be some people who don't understand what Tou Tou is talking about. You can't find this kind of thing online or by searching for information. Only those who have seen it with their own eyes know what it is.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the tops of the doors were generally made of medium- to large-sized tapstones in the shape of long strips, which could be dealt with using the crutch needles invented in the trade. Later, during the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, the tops of the doors were made of stone bolts called heads.
Later in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the top door became two things.
One is a stone ball. There is a big stone ball on the back of the tomb door of Emperor Wanli, and the stone ball falls into the groove. The other is stone glass, which Xiaoxuan describes as like a seesaw.
The stone glass is heavy at one end and light at the other. If the stone door is opened, the light glass end will be directly pressed into the ground by the weight of the stone door itself, and there will be a rectangular groove in the ground.
On the contrary, if the door is closed and the stone glass is no longer pressed against it, the heavier end will automatically lift up the lighter end, just blocking the stone door from the inside.
This is the wisdom of ancient tomb builders. It is a fully automatic anti-theft door device. Due to its simple shape and hard material, it is still functioning normally after more than 700 years.
but....
The Tao is one foot high, and the devil is ten feet high. Since people in the past could design this thing, people now can destroy it.
Calling his head, he asked Xiaoxuan to sit on Shijiezi's light head to see if he could press it down and press it into the underground groove.
Xiaoxuan's voice soon came from the door.
"No, no! I sat on it! There was no reaction at all!"
I yelled that you were too light. If she had Mingmi's sister-in-law's figure, she would be able to sit flat on her butt.
Xiaoxuan said anxiously: "Stop joking, what should I do now!"
"Don't worry, there is a way."
I asked Brother Yu to hand me the broken stone tomb beast piece by piece, and then I told Xiaoxuan to stay away and threw it directly through the hole.
I directed Xiaoxuan to press all the stones on the glass, and then asked her to sit on it too.
Just like this, I was busy working for dozens of minutes, and suddenly I heard a muffled sound! This was the stone glass falling into the groove.
We worked hard together and finally slowly pushed open the stone door that had been buried underground for seven hundred years.