Chapter 15 second quarter

The old man was blowing the wind at the back of the car, his heart was surging, and he rushed back to write a thousand-word letter to the party.I remembered that I studied at the top universities in China in my early years, studied under the archaeological circle Taishan Beidou, experienced the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War, and the founding of the country, but the most vigorous and most fruitful for more than ten years, I was completely restrained, so that I was very old. , can not help but tears. Chu Haiyang put the towel on the bald head from behind him, but was torn off: "Naughty!"

Chu Haiyang smiled and said: "What achievement? There are nineteen people in the 77th and 78th sessions, which one is not your achievement?" The old man wiped his face vigorously, thought for a while and burst into tears. Chu Haiyang went forward to pack up his pens and papers: "Don't think too much about it. The excavation is not yet a foregone conclusion. After all, no one has any bad intentions, right? After holding it back for so many years, I just want to do a big job and see the cultural relics." "Who doesn't like babies!" The old man sighed, "It's because I like these babies, I would rather never see them in my life."

The old man was leaning on the bed, Xia Mingruo leaned out and opened the window wide, and the cool breeze from the North China Plain blew into the carriage. The old man said: "Students, I remember that Comrade Zhou Yang once euphemistically said that archaeology has no class nature, and only pays attention to the word 'faith' in history and the past. Of course, they have made mistakes themselves, but here In this regard, they are wise. I think our nation will finally understand after returning from the detour, not only is archeology not class-based, any natural or human science should serve mankind instead of class struggle... Oh, I Talk about that Xiao Shi! Why haven’t you come back after you bought a meal!”

Holding the lunch box and the kettle, Shi Weidong stood in front of the boiling water stove and waited devoutly, not for the water, but for the conductor with the round face.Walk over, take a look; walk over, take another look... blushing and shy for a while, when I looked up, I was scared back a few steps by the marshal who suddenly appeared. When Xiao Shi was pressed against the car window, he emphasized: "I didn't do anything!" The marshal searched the body expressionlessly: "You don't even dare to measure." After the search was over and there were no dangerous items, Xiao Shi said, "I... can I go back?"

The marshal said, "Come with me." Xiao Shi buried his head and followed the police to the duty room, and filled in the date of birth and name very meekly. The police said: "Write them all, height, weight, place of origin, and work unit." Xiao Shi said weakly: "I wrote it." "Just write it down. When you do something wrong, it's easy to find." The marshal snatched the pen, squinted at Xiao Shi for a while, filled in the column of "horizontal eyebrows" in the physical characteristics column, and then closed the register and said you go Well, Xiao Shi took a peek and found that the cover of the book really had the six characters "Records of Suspicious Persons".

"Fascists, naked presumption of guilt..." Xiao Shi muttered to himself, full of anger, and then went back to the boiling water stove to peep at the conductor. Mr. Li, on the other hand, gnawed on the cold steamed buns: "Why hasn't Xiao Shi come back yet?" It is said to be Luoyang, but it is actually an extremely remote place in the Luoyang area.A few people got off the train, and after riding a tractor and a donkey cart for a day, they rushed to the mountain where the Sui tomb was found.There is a natural village in the col, called Jingshi Village. It is because of the scripture stone in the village that archaeologists plan to find ancient tombs here.

The old man led the students to join the archaeological team stationed in Jingshi Village. The archaeological team consists of a dozen people, rented in the houses of the villagers.The captain was in his forties, and came up to shake hands with the old man from a distance: "Professor Li, you are here!" The old gentleman said: "Comrade Captain, I..." The captain said: "Hey! I don't know what you mean." He looked embarrassed: "Let's go into the room and talk, go into the room and talk. In fact..." "What?!" The master and apprentice jumped up at the same time, "Stolen?!"

"Calm down, everyone, and listen to me," said the captain. "According to the elders in the village, Fengshui is good in this area. We investigated and found several tombs. There is a Qing Dynasty tomb three miles east of the village. I said it was stolen." This is the one, and it’s still some way away from the tomb of Prince Yuande.” "When did you steal it?" Mr. Li asked. "Two or three days ago, the scale of this tomb was small, 3.5 meters long and 1.8 meters wide." The captain was also a little helpless, "There is an ancient custom in the local area, and there are many people who eat tomb robbers. In some villages, almost every household is robbed." , It’s really impossible to guard against. We decided to start cleaning up this tomb tomorrow, and then excavate the tomb of Prince Yuande.”

The old man couldn't sit still: "I'll go and have a look." But when he stood up, he suddenly became dizzy and almost fell down: after all, this man is at this age, and he has symptoms of heat stroke after a long journey. Chu Haiyang helped him to settle on the bed, but the old man was worried, and urged him, "Go and see, go!" Chu Haiyang had no choice but to agree, and told Xiao Shi to take care of him, and he wanted to take Xia Mingruo with him. Xia Mingruo said: "You go first, I'll come right away." Chu Haiyang asked: "Young master, what's the matter?"

Xia Mingruo first said that he had a bad appetite recently, so he liked to eat something sour, then he kept looking back while wriggling, and said, "O Haiyang, look how well the farmer's watermelon grows, I'm a little thirsty. , Oh, there are still grapes growing over there. Xiao Shi, you and I understand, good brother! Don’t forget, grapes, grapes!" Two or three miles away from the village, there is a small pine forest in the wild. The captain said: "In the forest is the tomb of the late Qing Dynasty. The owner of the tomb is said to be a village eunuch who once won Juren. These trees were planted during the burial."

The captain led them to the robbery cave: "Dig along the side of the tomb, the opening of the cave is very wide. It must be some people who farmed the land during the day and robbed the tomb at night. We only found out this morning, and we haven't had time to go down to see it." Chu Haiyang rolled up his trousers and said, "I'll go and have a look." He was just about to hang the satchel on the branch of the tree, but suddenly his foot stepped on a void, and the large piece of soil collapsed, unexpectedly revealing a hole. Xia Mingruo was taken aback: "When did this happen?" The captain obviously didn't expect this situation, he was startled, and hurried back to the village to call for help. Chu Haiyang stepped out with a look of embarrassment: "Don't believe it, this hole has been blocked for no more than two days. Look at the pressed grass, it's still green." Xia Mingruo said: "You're wicked, you rob people twice in three days, you're still an ex-Qing scholar after all." Chu Haiyang frowned, squeezed the soil and rubbed it on his hands: "This is what experts do. The oval hole has relatively smooth walls, and its size can accommodate a thin person in and out. Especially the hole on the wall Tool marks, their shovels are very different from the farmers' hoes and shovels." Xia Mingruo crouched at the entrance of the dark hole for a while, then tied a rope around his waist, handed the end of the rope to Chu Haiyang, and crawled down by himself biting the flashlight.He supported the cave wall and climbed deeper and deeper. After ten minutes, Chu Haiyang heard him shouting from below: "Tape measure—!" Chu Haiyang quickly threw the end of the measuring tape to him: "Is there a lack of oxygen down here?" "I'm okay!" Xia Mingruo shouted, "It's over—12.5 meters! This grandson dug three floors!" Chu Haiyang also jumped into the hole and crawled down: "Is it so straight to the end? There is nothing below?" "No—hey, don't come down, go up and pull me! I said this is not a deep well, is it? Isn't there often in the countryside." Xia Mingruo took a flashlight to look around, "Ouch!" Chu Haiyang asked, "What's wrong?" "It's turning!" Xia Mingruo shouted, "This hole is turning!" He tried his best to scrape away the accumulated soil at the entrance of the underground hole, and after climbing a few meters, he felt out of breath, so he could only back out. Chu Haiyang pulled him back to the ground, he lay panting for a while, and then wiped the mud on his face: "It's so strange, this hole doesn't lead to Juren's tomb at all." At this time, the archaeological team leader also rushed to the team with his men. Chu Haiyang asked Xia Mingruo: "Which way does the hole turn?" Xia Mingruo pointed in a direction: "Over there." The archaeological team leader's face turned pale. "East..." Chu Haiyang asked, "Which direction is the tomb of Prince Yuande?" The captain was stunned for a long time before he dared to say: "...to the east, in the vegetable field about a hundred meters away." After he finished speaking, he sat down on the ground: "No way...it's right under our noses..." Chu Haiyang sighed and said, "There is no way to prevent it." Xia Mingruo asked: "What's wrong?" "Fan Tian Yin," Chu Haiyang explained, "90% of this hole may be a robbery hole, and the method of using this kind of curved hole to rob the tomb is called 'Fan Tian Yin,' as the saying goes, brother captain." The captain agreed: "Hey." "Is there charcoal around the prince's tomb?" "Yes," the captain said dejectedly, "not only carbon deposits, but also stone deposits." "That's why we need to overthrow the seal of heaven," Chu Haiyang explained to Xia Mingruo, "The ancients often piled charcoal around the coffin, sand, and stones. It's not easy to get in with a shovel." "It's a pity that those who guard against thieves are never as smart as thieves. Tomb robbers often don't break through from the front, but like now, they make holes from a distance from the side. Take things away. I have never seen this kind of situation. It is said that the teacher has encountered it twice, once in Shanxi, and again in Qingong No. There is a robbery hole at the bottom of the tomb." "I've only heard of it." The captain said in a deep voice, "The mistake we made this time is really too serious." Chu Haiyang patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be discouraged, it's all speculation, let's go back and report the situation to the teacher first, let's take a long-term plan." The atmosphere of the local meeting was dull.The old man was silent, and no one dared to speak, but the old man seemed to be wandering away, so a group of people could only sit on the ridge of the field and bite the grass roots. Sitting next to Xiao Shi, Xia Mingruo first asked, "Is it sweet?" Xiao Shi shook his head, "Not sweet." Xia Mingruo sighed softly and said, "It's fine if it's not sweet. I just watched you eat a grasshopper. It's quite nutritious. Meat dishes...don't throw up, it's a pity to throw up... waste of things, Shi Weidong, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants won't Forgive you." "Cough," the frustrated archaeologist finally said, "During the drilling, the depth of the tomb was confirmed, and the raw soil layer is about eleven meters below. This tomb robber calculated very accurately..." "Two people," the old man interrupted him, holding up two fingers, "there are two grave robbers." The old man turned to Xia Mingruo and Xiao Shi: "The bigger the tomb, the more dangerous it is, so those who rob a large tomb rarely act alone. Tomb robbery also requires cooperation. Usually, one digs a hole, one lifts the earth, and one steals a lookout." , especially this kind of veteran who will overturn the seal of the sky, he is more cautious than you and me, and he will never go down the hole easily if there is no response from the outside. Got it?" The two nodded foolishly. "Then what should we do?" Chu Haiyang asked. "According to the usual practice, the excavation has become a foregone conclusion," the old gentleman asked, "Captain Zhou, how many people are there in total?" "Fourteen," said the captain, "twelve men and two women, but the peasants of the village may be called." "It's not the slack season. How can there be so many farmers?" The old man said, "Students, we will stay and help for a few days until the archaeologists arrive." The students naturally would not refuse, the old gentleman patted his buttocks and stood up: "When I was in Luoyang, I got the news that the excavation approval will arrive soon. Back then, thousands of people were used to search for the tomb in Changsha. The workload this time is also huge. It will definitely not be small. Now there are no personnel, equipment, or materials, but time cannot be wasted. No matter how small the mausoleum is, there is an entrance, so let’s find the entrance in the next two days.” With an order, a dozen or so people with archaeological shovels set out the next day. The team leader took it easy and went to Luoyang in a donkey cart to wait for the approval. The so-called archaeological shovel is the Luoyang shovel, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of the brothers in the Luoyang tomb robbery industry. The shovel barrel is made of iron and is crescent-shaped, with a wooden pole several meters long attached to it.When in use, hold the wooden pole tightly with both hands, pierce it hard against the ground, press the soil into the shovel barrel and then lift it out, so that the depth and location of the tomb can be judged.If you continue at the same point, the hole will get deeper and deeper, but the diameter of the hole is only a few centimeters.Tomb No. 1 of Qin Gong in Xi'an is 24 meters above the ground, and it was also built with a Luoyang shovel. However, using the Luoyang shovel requires extremely high skills, and ordinary people can't grasp the tricks at all. Like Xia Mingruo, although he has a good posture, his hands are full of blood blisters after a few shoveling, and he threw himself on Lao Huang and cried. Chu Haiyang said: "If you see the gap, don't trust comrades? This is the gap, this is the gap between the machine soldiers and the field army." The organ soldier chuckled, picked up the fat cat and ran away.Chu Haiyang threw the shovel and chased after him: "Damn it! Want to be lazy?" Xia Mingruo shouted while running: "Lao Huang and I will go back and cook for you!" Chu Haiyang grabbed him by the back collar: "Don't leave, it's enough for Xiao Shi to take care of the stove alone." Xia Mingruo turned around, blinked and said, "Chen Yan'er, I knew it, you've had a crush on me since you were a child." Chu Haiyang said: "You have used this trick before." Xia Mingruo was shocked: "When did you use it? I just remembered!" Chu Haiyang said, "If you don't believe me, you can ask Lao Huang." Lao Huang said firmly: "Meow." Chu Haiyang said: "Look." Xia Mingruo looked up to the sky and thought: "Did I use that Maozi's trick before?" Chu Haiyang smiled and said, "Think of some new moves, kid. Isn't that right, Lao Huang?" Lao Huang said, "Meow." Xia Mingruo pinched the cat's neck and said, "Did you forget whose food you were eating?" "I was the one who fed it for two out of three days, you and your dad don't even remember it." Chu Haiyang snatched the cat and released it, and escorted Xia Mingruo back. Xia Mingruo said, "My hand hurts." Chu Haiyang said: "Anyway, it can be regarded as following the Beijing experts, so I have to save face for the old man."