Fu Tang

Shi Xueting was taken aback by Li Congjia's reaction: "What?"

Li Congjia quickly waved his hands and said, "Put it down, don't touch it with your hands!"

The four monks put the epitaph on the table inexplicably.

Li Congjia went over to take a look, and saw that the first line above was: Suigu Yangdi's epitaph.

Li Congjia pinched Shi Xueting's arm excitedly and asked, "Where did you get this thing?"

He also participated in the excavation of Emperor Sui Yang's tomb, and he was familiar with the surrounding terrain, but he didn't expect that the terrain before the millennium was so different from that after the millennium, and he didn't realize that it was right under his nose!

But even if he finds it, he can't take the initiative to dig it. There is a saying in the archaeological world that "dry for a thousand years and wet for a thousand years, and half a year for neither dry nor wet".It refers to the preservation environment of cultural relics.

Emperor Sui Yang was also a person more than 300 years ago. Once this tomb is dug out, with the current preservation technology, it will definitely be destroyed.

Thinking of this, Li Congjia's face darkened: "Who told you to rob the tomb?"

Shi Congyun, one of Shi Xueting's juniors, said angrily, "Who does the village master think of us? Buddhist disciples, how could you do such a heartless thing?"

Shi Xueting also explained: "It's not what we want to dig. After Zhao Kuangyin retreated, we went to clean up the battlefield and found the collapsed tomb passage. We dug out this epitaph from inside. My uncle sent me back overnight to want to Ask the village master how to deal with it?"

Li Congjia didn't speak for a long time, this...the way of fighting was invented by him, and the location of the battle was chosen by him, and then he turned around and blew up the tomb of Emperor Sui Yang. Going to strangle him.

He looked down at the epitaph, and found that a corner of the epitaph had been blown off. He couldn't help feeling very distressed, and asked quickly, "Is there anything else? Is the tomb door open? Where's the iron letter?"

The so-called iron letter is actually the epitaph cover. The epitaph cover is about the same length and width as the epitaph, and there is usually paper used to explain the epitaph inside the iron letter.

When the tomb of Emperor Sui Yang was discovered in later generations, it was dilapidated, and only part of the text on the epitaph could still be read clearly, which could be used to determine the identity of the owner of the tomb. There is no way to find out whether there is a text description in it.

Shi Xueting shook his head: "Master said that this tomb may have been stolen, and the condition inside is not very good. I haven't found the iron letter yet when I came back."

Li Congjia said decisively: "Take some people to block the scene, we will go there immediately."

Shi Xueting froze for a moment: "What?"

Li Congjia explained: "Just ask someone to guard that piece first, don't go on the wind, the tomb robbers are all desperadoes, if you attract them, even if you are not afraid, the size is also a trouble, let's take a look at the two tombs first." What happened to the tomb?"

Shi Congyun asked curiously: "Isn't it enough to just bury it?"

Li Congjia shook his head: "It's not that simple. We buried it back, and tomb robbers will definitely find it. After all, the soil that has been turned over is different from the one that has not been turned over. Hey, speaking of this, where the two tombs were at that time Isn't there a tombstone sealing the place?"

Shi Xueting smiled wryly: "If there is, how could it be bombed by mistake?"

Li Congjia was quite emotional in his heart, the treatment of the king of subjugation is really not ordinary, and at the same time he was secretly vigilant, although he didn't plan to build a luxurious tomb, but he didn't want his tomb to be accidentally bombed in the future.

Li Congjia ordered some high-strength men in the village, and called Shi Qingsong to let Shi Xueting lead the way to the tomb of Emperor Sui Yang.

When we got there, even though it was night, Li Congjia somehow recovered some memories.

Li Congjia first went to find Shi Yanlie, at this time Shi Yanlie had already sent someone to guard the tomb passage, he was relieved when he saw Shi Qingsong: "Senior brother."

Shi Qingsong waved his hands and turned to look at Li Congjia.

Li Congjia walked to the tomb passage and bent down to take a closer look. He found that the tomb door had been damaged, and it was impossible to bury it back intact. The most important thing was that Shi Yanlie and the others didn't just blow up the tomb passage. It seems that a robbery hole was blown up!

Standing on the spot, Li Congjia outlined in his mind the approximate area of ​​the tombs of Emperor Sui Yang and Empress Xiao, then turned his head and said, "I'll draw a range later, everyone guard this part, and we will rescue it overnight."

"Rescue?" Shi Yanlie touched his bald head: "Isn't it re-burying?"

Li Congjia shook his head and said: "The soil quality here is not suitable for making a private house. Now that you have found it, please help move it away. Otherwise, this tomb will be ruined in a few years."

Shi Yanlie was somewhat disapproving: "Even if it is destroyed, it is the retribution of a tyrant, why bother?"

Li Congjia wanted to explain, but also felt that discussing with these people how precious cultural relics are and how much influence they will have on future generations is purely brainwashed, so he said with a serious face: "In any case, we are the ones who disturbed the dead, and we must make up for it." , Now that this place has been discovered, even if we re-bury it, maybe new tomb robbers will be recruited. No matter how tyrannical Emperor Yang was, he is dead after all, and we have never been persecuted by him in the past hundreds of years. Why bother to blame?"

"Amitabha." Shi Qingsong clasped his hands together and said, "The village master's words are right, everyone should do what the village master said."

Li Congjia breathed a sigh of relief, took a roll of hemp rope, and started to circle the tombs of Emperor Sui Yang and Empress Xiao with the gate of the tomb as the benchmark.

After they were circled, Li Congjia said: "Save the tomb of Emperor Yangdi first, and then go to see how the tomb of Empress Xiao is doing, whether it is open or not, they will always be buried together."

Shi Xueting was a little surprised: "Empress Xiao's tomb is also here?"

Li Congjia nodded, and Shi Xuehe couldn't help but said, "This regulation...isn't it right?"

Li Congjia glanced at him in surprise: "Does Master Xuehe also understand the tomb system?"

Shi Xuehe shook his head: "No, it's just...the two of them are emperors and empresses after all, shouldn't the regulations of the emperor's mausoleum be like this?"

Li Congjia smiled: "Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty was subjugated due to tyranny, so it was impossible for him to be treated the same as ordinary emperors. He was not buried here. After the death of Empress Xiao, Emperor Taizong moved the tomb of Emperor Yangdi to this place to bury them together. Here, if he hadn't been buried with Empress Xiao, Yangdi's tomb would be even more shabby than this."

After hearing this, Shi Xuehe said: "The village master is indeed well-informed and knowledgeable."

Li Congjia shook his head: "These epitaphs are all written. When digging, you should pay attention to it, try to keep the integrity of the funerary objects, try not to move too much, and be careful. If it is mixed with the soil and it is difficult to clean up, you should first dig it. Put it aside, I'll come back."

Shi Xueting frowned and asked: "Why clean it up? If it's all funerary objects, why not just find a private house and put these things in there?"

Li Congjia slapped his forehead. He regarded this as an excavation site. If it is an excavation of ancient tombs, these things are cultural relics.

But now... Li Congjia is so upright and awe-inspiring as he said just now, how can he have the nerve to clean up the funerary objects and store them away?

He felt a little regretful in his heart, but he felt relieved when he thought that even if he kept the things, if they were not well preserved, the damage to the cultural relics might be even greater.

I just hope that in 300 years, the things inside have not rotted away.

Li Congjia was not idle either, and followed to excavate. Of course, his main job was to oversee the work. After all, where did these monks and bandits do such meticulous work before?

They may not pay much attention to it in their hearts. If he doesn't stare at it, if something gets destroyed, he won't even have time to cry.

Li Congjia watched the things being transported out little by little, and he had to say that the soil here in Yangzhou is really highly corrosive. Even after only 300 years, many things in the tomb have been corroded.

It may also be because of the fact that it was stolen, most of these funerary objects were wrapped in mud.

However, Li Congjia stood aside and watched for a long time, and found that there were many more things excavated this time than in later generations.

While watching them digging, Li Congjia asked people to find a way to transport them to the stockade. By the evening of the third day, the joint tomb of Emperor Sui Yang and Empress Xiao had been almost dug.

The coffins of the emperor and the empress were well preserved. Li Congjia ordered people to quickly transport them to the stockade, but they were opposed by the natives of the stockade.

The reason for these people's objection is very simple. After all, these are the things of the dead. Even the emperor and empress cannot put the corpses where the living people live.

After hearing this, Li Congjia wiped his sweat silently. As an atheist and a staff member addicted to archaeological excavation, he never thought of this level!

Li Congjia immediately made a decision and said: "These things don't need to be transported to the stockade, but to the caves in the back mountain. Be careful not to dry them in the sun!"

This time there was no objection, Shi Xueting reburied the messy cemetery dug by the bandits, but because many things were missing, the cemetery directly formed a pit.

Li Congjia didn't ask them to fill up the pit, after all, it's useless to fill it up. If you can't see it, you don't know what the pit is. what ever.

After returning to the stockade, Li Congjia asked people to guard the place where the cultural relics were placed in the back mountain, and at the same time strictly guard the road leading to the stockade.

Then they sent people to grab the medicine - for disinfection, after all, it was buried underground for 300 years without seeing the light of day, who knows if it will bring out some bacteria?

It's a pity that there is no disinfectant now, so I can only use the prescription written by Shi Qingsong with water to wash my hands and bathe, so as to prevent problems before they happen.

After finishing all this, Li Congjia ran to the back mountain.

Many people were walking around the coffin. Although the coffin was damaged to varying degrees, we could vaguely see the exquisite paintings on it.

Li Congjia looked at the curious and amazed eyes of those people, and shook his head and laughed. The coffin looked big, but compared to Yang Guang's status, it can be said to be shabby. Since ancient times, which emperor was buried without yellow intestines?

The joint burial tomb of Yang Guang and Empress Xiao is not big, and the total is about fifty or sixty square meters, but there are many things there. After Li Congjia looked at it one by one, after seeing a square lacquer box, he couldn't help observing it carefully. for a moment.

The lacquer box was very exquisite, with the Zhai bird pattern representing the empress painted on it, the whole box was not big, and Li Congjia directly remembered the sensational Empress Xiao's empress crown back then!

Li Congjia looked at the lacquer box and was a little tangled, wondering whether he should open it or not. If it was really Empress Xiao's tiara inside, he might be able to see the complete empress Xiao's tiara instead of the repaired one.

But if you open it rashly, what should you do if the crown stored inside comes into contact with the air and becomes oxidized and damaged?

When Li Congjia was struggling, he suddenly heard someone outside shouting: "Gold!"