Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

The whole distance is not too far, just a few hundred kilometers. We drove all the way for five or six hours and arrived at the place. At that time, it was not Qiyang City, but a larger county.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

Driving all the way here, I discussed with the head for a long time. Qiyang is a place with a superior geographical location, with lush trees and rolling hills, and the most important point is.

have water.

It is surrounded by water on three sides, with the Baijiang River in the south, the Qihe River in the north, and the Qingjiang River in the east. The mountains account for about half of the total area of ​​the county. Most of it was stolen.

Rest in a small hotel in the county town at night. Tomorrow morning, the boss and I will go to the site first. If it is confirmed that there is no problem and can do it, Brother Yu and Bean Sprouts will go there later.

"Oh, comfortable..."

The hot water scalded the feet, and most of the tiredness of the day disappeared immediately.

"Look at Fengzi! Is it alright?"

"No, there is still a long way to go, just keep wiping."

Bean sprouts frowned, and continued to wipe my Luoyang shovel vigorously.

I promised to give Bean Sprouts 200 yuan to help me maintain the Luoyang shovel. The Luoyang shovel is like a car, and it needs to be regularly and comprehensively maintained whether it is used or not.

My shovel was built for me by Luoyang Kong Laoxie. I dare say it is the best in the world. It is more than ten times stronger than the Luoyang shovel used by the provincial archaeological team, so I have been regularly maintaining my shovel.

Maintenance is mainly scrubbing and then oiling. I have always kept a small bottle of "No. 26 white oil" in my bag. I heard that this No. 26 white oil is cosmetic-grade white oil. Using this oil to maintain Luoyang shovel can make it last forever. Does not rust.

"Come on! It's so fucking bright that it can show people's faces!" Bean Sprouts shouted dissatisfied.

"Yazi, why are you so impatient at work? Show me."

"Come on my little one!"

I took the shovel and kissed it, just like what Bean Sprout said, there was no soil at all, and it was so shiny that it could indeed reflect a human face.

I unscrewed the mineral water and poured it on the shovel, and the water droplets fell to the ground almost instantly.

This phenomenon means that the white oil has formed a smooth protective layer on the metal surface. I nodded in satisfaction, took out 200 yuan from my pocket and handed it to Bean Sprouts.

"Oh! Thank you, Brother Feng! Next time you will find me for this job! You will be satisfied with my job!" Bean Sprouts immediately took the money, his face beaming with joy.

I sat on the sofa and danced the shovel casually, and saw that under the light of the light, it was like the shadow of a sword and sword, and the cold light shone.

The more I play, the more I like it. I named this shovel Xiangsho before. I don’t think it’s very good now. It should be called "Qinglong Shovel", just like Erye’s Qinglong Yanyue Knife. , even if someone offers me 100 million, I will not sell it.

"Head on."

"Yunfeng, why are you so playful like a child?" He sat down with his head next to me and said, "I thought about it, let's try not to attract the attention of the villagers tomorrow, it's better to dress up in disguise."

After talking to me carefully, I put down the shovel and kept nodding my head.

...

The next day, I rode a broken three-wheeled motorcycle to Chaozhushan Village, Lijia Town, with the head and a cart of hay. The grass we pull is called "mat grass", which is used to weave straw mats, Qiyang mats It is a local specialty. In summer, you don’t sweat at all when you lie on it, and it’s very cool. Nearly 20 years ago, there were quite a few people who planted mat grass. Unfortunately, no one seems to be planting it now, and the straw mat field in the town has long since closed down.

"Sister! Is there any grass for sale at home?"

"Grass?"

"Yes! We take care of mats!" I laughed.

"Then you harvested it too early, right? Even if the new grass comes out in October, how many months is it?"

"Hehe, big sister, you misunderstood. We collect the old grass from previous years. Why don't we have some at home? I'll give you six yuan a catty for what you're doing!"

The village woman ate melon seeds and said, "My family's hay has been sold out long ago, but your six yuan is low. In previous years, it was at least eight yuan."

"Elder sister, you also know that the market has dropped a bit this year. By the way, elder sister, where is the Mercury Bridge? Let's go and have a look around."

The eldest sister pointed in the direction, and I thanked her and rushed over.

Stopping and stopping along the way, we harvested dozens of catties of hay in the village, which did not arouse the suspicion of the villagers at all. If there happened to be someone from this village, they might still have a little impression of me and Batou.

There has always been a local legend that in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, after being killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang was reincarnated into a baby with the help of a Taoist priest. The woman who was pregnant with the baby lived here in Chaozhu Mountain Village.

Back then, Liu Bowen calculated it and figured it out. In order to cut the weeds and roots, he sent someone to kill the woman, stripped the unborn baby from her belly, poured mercury on the body and buried it deep in the ground, and built a grave on top of it. The stone bridge was used for repression, so it was named "Mercury Bridge."

After doing this, Liu Bowen once knelt down to worship his master Zhu Yuanzhang, so this place was also called "Chaozhu Village" at first, and there is still a dilapidated ruined temple on the mountain called "Chaozhu Temple".

Of course, these are unofficial legends spread by the folks, not very credible. As soon as the head and I arrived here, we saw the Mercury Bridge with a small river under the bridge, a few villagers’ houses on the left, and a large forest on the right.

It was noon at this time, and the villagers basically took a nap at home after eating. Taking advantage of no one's attention, we quietly entered the woods and began to carefully look for the mark left by the seller.

Soon, we saw a circle of small stones placed on the ground under a big tree, which was obviously placed artificially.

I looked left and right, looked up again, frowned and said, "It should be here, but turn your head, why can't you see any signs of sealing the soil here?"

"That's why this place survived." He frowned and said, "It's likely that the owner of the tomb deliberately didn't leave soil on the surface for safety. Let me see."

"it is good."

Putting my head aside, I quickly picked up the Luoyang shovel and began digging underground.

soon.

"Hold on, no! It's seven or eight meters long!"

"I'm here! Master Tiger doesn't sell that kind of fake stuff, the earlier the time, the deeper the tomb will be buried."

I naturally know this truth, and now I am afraid that if I buy a fake head, then we will lose a lot of money!

After going down another meter, I took up the shovel and looked at the soil layer brought out, and I was overjoyed.

There is performance!

Among the clods brought out, some "white spots" could be clearly seen, so I smelled them closely.

That's right, this is 100% white plaster mud.

I continued to probe down again, and this time I looked, and brought up large and large pieces of white plaster.

I was taken aback.

White plaster mud was expensive in ancient times. It is considered a luxury to have a three-centimeter thick white plaster mud for protection in an ordinary tomb. Unlike this one, it is a large piece of white plaster mud. I visually inspected the white plaster mud underneath. The thickness will not be less than ten centimeters.

What does this mean?

Two words.

big tomb!

Moreover, it may be that a certain prince was buried here...

I concluded that this is definitely not from the Western Han Dynasty. Some large tombs in the Western Han Dynasty sometimes produced white plaster mud, but remember, there are small stones in the white plaster mud of the Western Han Dynasty, while the white plaster mud from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs did not, and it was very pure.

After squatting on the ground and smoking a cigarette, I rested for a few minutes, and then I dug eight pits around. I want to determine the actual size of the tomb and where its boundary is.

After digging the pit, I saw it, and my heart was pounding.

If all the exploration pits are connected with a line, it is obviously a "A" shape.

This confirmed my conjecture that there is a large tomb at the level of princes and kings underground, but this tomb is very rare without a mound.

I don't know how the person who sells it found this place. In a word, if the underground is an original pit, then our 19 yuan is worth it!If you produce a decent bronze ware, you can get back your money!

There is a saying in the industry, "The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period do not separate families," which means that the Spring and Autumn Tombs and the Warring States Tombs are somewhat similar in regulation.

Remember what I said about this feature.

If the overall shape of the tomb is "sub-shaped or A-shaped," this is the tomb of a prince, king, or great nobleman.

If it is a "Chinese character", it is the tomb of the king!Tomb of the Son of Heaven!

If it is in the shape of "pin", it is the tomb of an ordinary well-off family.

If it is "convex", then it is the tomb of the poor.

That is, Ya, Jia, Zhong, Pin, and Convex. If you remember these five words, you can probably know the status of the tomb owner before his death without digging down.

Once the overall shape of the tomb is determined by drilling holes and finding the boundary line, then you will know which point to drill down from.

It's like "A character tomb", the vertical line at the bottom is the tomb passage, and the top is a "Tian character", which is divided into four small grids, right?

According to the situation, under normal circumstances, the coffins are all in the small grid in the upper left corner of the word "Tian". Okay, just dig down from here, and then you can accurately dig into the main tomb with rich funerary objects.

For example, in the "Chinese-shaped tomb", there are tomb passages at both ends of this kind of tomb, and a stone gate in the middle. If you enter through the tomb passage, you will be blocked by the stone gate. Perfectly avoided the stone gates at both ends of the tomb passage.

The only abnormal thing about this tomb in front of me is that there is no sealed mound. The rest are all within our expectations. At this time, I am already imagining what kind of bronze wares will be produced in my mind. I dare not think about things like the Siyang Fangzun. There can be more inscriptions I am very happy with Fang Ding and Yuan Ding.

Then he turned his head and said: "Yunfeng, I see there is an empty house on the east side of the bridge. Go to the village and find the owner's house. We will rent that one-story house as a base. If the other party becomes suspicious, do you know what to say?"

"I just said that we collect hay here and rent a house as a warehouse to store the collected hay."

"That's right, let's just say that, after you rent it, call Wen Bin immediately and ask them to come over quickly."

"Take the lead, then do it tonight?"

"Well," nodded his head and said, "Soldiers are expensive."

He turned his head and said again: "This time two earthworkers are enough, let Douyazai and Wenbin do it. I can see that there is a lot of white plaster and mud under here. Yunfeng, you mainly dry loose soil."

After hearing this, my face collapsed, and I immediately frowned and said, "Hold on, I don't want to dry up the dirt."

"Why?" asked the head.

I said stiffly: "No reason! I just don't want to dry loose soil!"

After I finished speaking, I thought to myself.

"Joke! I want to be the leader, how can I still do loose soil? If I do it, then I will go back again."