Chapter 17 fourth quarter

Another bad news came, saying that the shovel could not get in, and the stones were dug up. They were all huge stones with a width of one meter and a length of more than two meters. There were three or four of them, blocking the tomb side by side top. Burglary disappeared for this reason. "The rules of the archaeological team," said the old man, "the first one." The people below sat on the ground and answered in a long voice: "Observe discipline—obey the leadership—strictly keep state secrets—" "Article two." "Positive and responsible, loyal and honest-hard-working, overcoming difficulties-completing tasks-"

Article 3, rely on the localities, build good relationships, and actively publicize the party’s cultural relics policies and decrees; Article 4, help each other, learn with an open mind, and carry out criticism and self-criticism; Article 5, pay attention to safety and ensure health; Article 6, be cautious Use instruments and save consumables. Article 7 is an unwritten but agreed one: private collections are absolutely not allowed. "Okay, we all know," the old man said, "Then let's go to the movies." "Oh—!" The young people scattered in a rush. The music of "Tunnel Warfare" sounded, Liu Gouxun grabbed the first row, guarded the three-legged bench and looked forward to it, Xia Mingruo nimbly squeezed into the crowd and sat on it.

The archaeological team is off today. The sealing soil on the rock has been removed, but the boulder weighing more than ten tons cannot be lifted by manpower alone, and a crane must be used.The local cultural relics department borrowed one from the construction site in Luoyang, but due to poor road conditions, it is estimated that it will arrive later the day after tomorrow. Liu Gouzeng complained: "Brother, you have to praise me, I have suffered a lot for keeping my seat." "There are countless things," Xia Mingruo said with a smile, "I'll take you to Beijing for fun."

Liu Gouzeng said: "Tiananmen!" Xia Mingruo said: "OK!" Chu Haiyang came, waving his big cattail fan, looked around and asked, "Where should I sit?" Xia Mingruo quickly pushed him: "You don't have a seat, you go back to sleep." Chu Haiyang pulled him up, then sat down on his own. Xia Mingruo screamed, using both hands and feet, pushing and pulling at Chu Haiyang, the villagers in the back row shouted: "Block it! Block it! The people in front don't move!" Chu Haiyang stuck out his tongue and forced Xia Mingruo to squat down. Xia Mingruo scolded angrily, "Bastard!"

Chu Haiyang snapped his fingers and told Liu Gousheng: "Fan." Liu Gouzou shook his fan with open arms, and smiled obsequiously, "Brother Haiyang, is it cool?" Chu Haiyang shook his legs and said, "Slap again." At this time, the bearded Captain Zhou stood behind the crowd and put his hands around his mouth and shouted: "Chu Haiyang—! Haiyang—!" The revolutionary chicks on the black and white screen are digging tunnels in full swing, and all the staff on the threshing floor turned their heads in unison: "Shhh—" Chu Haiyang had no choice but to stand up and walk out. Xia Mingruo waved his fan at his back with a sly smile, with a look of villainy.

Chu Haiyang didn't come back after the movie ended. Xia Mingruo took a cold shower and went back to the dormitory to sleep. He slept until midnight, and was so beaten up by Da Wu that he had no choice but to put on some clothes and run to the construction site, followed by Lao Huang and Xiao Shi. Xia Mingruo scolded Lao Huang first: "Although there are many rats in Pingyuan, you have to restrain yourself a bit and just eat enough. Look at how fat your face is!" He scolded Xiao Shi again: "You said that Da Wu was given medicine for dinner, but where is the medicine?"

Xiao Shi said aggrievedly: "I took it, but who knew he needed at least three times the dose." The moonlight in the mountain village is as clear as water, and the cool wind blows through the continuous watermelon fields with the fragrance of the trees.The moon went down, and the sky was full of stars. The two of them and the cat walked slowly along the field ridge, and heard the military dogs barking again in the distance. They passed by the pond and found that it was full of lotus flowers, and the petals glowed with a faint silver light in the night. Xiao Shi picked a lotus and held it in his hand to play with. Xia Mingruo wanted it too, so he lay down on the edge of the pond and leaned out to reach it. Frightened by the sudden leap of the frog, he fell into the pool with a plop.

The excavation site was brightly lit, Chu Haiyang accompanied the old man and the team leader squatting on the rock to study something, the old man muttered, Chu Haiyang measured with a small steel ruler, then lowered his head to record and draw pictures. The structure of the tomb has been determined. The earth pit tomb with a rectangular shaft is 10.15 meters long and 8.2 meters wide near the surface; on average, there is a layer of rammed earth every 20 centimeters, and the diameter of the rammed pit is 10 centimeters. of the rough wood—all the rest will have to be dug up. The old man said: "It doesn't matter if the rocks seep water."

"No," the captain waved his hand. "In the 1950s, the groundwater level in Luoyang was about ten meters, but now the wells that are twenty meters deep don't produce water." Chu Haiyang said: "It was only a few years ago, and the tomb is under ten meters." "Then let me tell you an inexplicable phenomenon," Captain Zhou said. "Ten meters is an average. The terrain in this area is relatively low. According to the old people in the village, the irrigation wells only need to be drilled for eight or nine meters before the water level drops. Of course, now It needs to be drilled to less than 15 meters. But there is a long and narrow north-south geological belt tens of meters wide and three kilometers long. Not to mention 15 meters, even 55 meters cannot get out of the water, and the tomb of the prince is located in the on this geological belt."

"Huh?" The old man stood up and gestured, "Just this axis?" Captain Zhou nodded: "Hey." The old man clicked his tongue: "It's amazing, it's amazing..." Chu Haiyang asked: "What?" The old man said: "Before liberation, I met a few Fengshui masters who helped people find private houses during field trips. I said he was right, but his words were really mysterious and mysterious; I said he was spreading superstition to confuse people. But the 'cave' he selected is very suitable for burial, no matter in terms of topography, geology, hydrology and soil, or small environment and microclimate."

The old man shook his head: "I can't explain it, it's strange..." He spread his hands: "If we can't explain it, we won't explain it. Let's continue with our science." Chu Haiyang smiled. The old man said: "Hangyang, go back to sleep first." Chu Haiyang said: "I will accompany you." "No, Lao Zhou can just stay with me. We won't be able to sleep even if we go back. You go to rest and recharge your batteries. You will be very busy tomorrow night." The old man said, "They are all my pillars, and none of them can be broken. .” Chu Haiyang wanted to refuse, but the old man said let's go, or Xia Mingruo can be replaced, I'm worried that he will kill Da Wu.Chu Haiyang laughed loudly and jumped out of the grave. The night is getting cooler, the branches and leaves on the treetops are rustling, and the Milky Way is like a shining cloud band across the sky. When Chu Haiyang walked halfway, he found a few clothes thrown on the ridge of the field, guarded by Lao Huang. In the lotus pond, there were two people who looked very familiar with their upper body naked, tinkering with each other, and there was a slight sound of water. "Don't believe me, what are you doing?" Chu Haiyang squatted down and asked. "Touch the shoes." Xia Mingruo approached through waist-deep water, raised his head and said, "I lost one." "Where are the shoes?" "Sacrificed." Xia Mingruo squinted at him.Chu Haiyang laughed loudly, rolled up his trousers and went into the water: "Where did it fall?" Xia Mingruo pointed confusedly: "It's here. It's good now, I just brought this pair of shoes, is it possible that I will be barefoot every day from now on?" "Do as the Romans do," Chu Haiyang said, "It's not like Liu Gouzou doesn't like to wear shoes either." Xia Mingruo chuckled and said, "That's not okay, at worst I'll snatch Xiao Shi." Xiao Shi scolded and said: "You really have no conscience! Fortunately, I helped you find it. If I knew it, I would have gone back to sleep." Xia Mingruo smiled and stretched out his hands to fumble in the mud, but the shoe seemed to be like a fish, it flopped off and swam away. They searched for more than half an hour but couldn't find it. The three of them went ashore dejectedly, and sat on the bank to wash away the mud from their feet. Xiao Shi said: "How can this be done?" Xia Mingruo waved his hands and said, "It's okay, wear yours." Xiao Shi wanted to beat him, so he jumped up and ran, Chu Haiyang also picked up his clothes and shoes and chased after him, shouting, "Be careful of nails! There is no tetanus shot here." Good fight!" A dog barked in the distance, and the three of them chased each other to the village, looking up at the starry sky from time to time. The next day, Xiao Shi's shoes were still there, but Da Wu's were gone. Xia Mingruo complained from behind the house: "It's too big, it doesn't follow at all." Old Huang Miaomiao comforted him, and Xia Mingruo said, "Forget it, talking is better than nothing." Da Wu ran out of shoes and wanted to ask for leave to buy them, but was caught by the old man and sent out evil spirits. The reason is that the old man asked for information, but there is very little information about Sui tombs—after all, the Sui Dynasty was only about 30 years old—after calculation, the tomb of Li Jingxun excavated in 1957 is more valuable for reference. Li Jingxun was the granddaughter of Yu Wenyun, Emperor Xuandi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. She was only nine years old when she died, and was buried with honor because of her prominent family background. The old man sent a telegram back to ask someone to send the excavation report, but he got into a bad habit temporarily and wrote the telegram extremely concisely in order to save a few cents. As a result, the Beijing side made a mistake and sent a student named Wang Jingxun over. , or a physics department. This Wang Jingxun rushed to Luoyang in a daze, and Monk Zhang Er was driven back in a daze. He got a public trip for nothing, which made the old man scream with anger. The boulder at the entrance of the prince's tomb is being cleaned intensively. Once the tomb is opened, the situation inside the tomb will be clear.At this time, Leopard was being studious and inquisitive, never forgetting: "What is stratum?" His master rolled a cigarette with shredded newspaper and held it in his mouth, thinking for a long time: "The stratum is the earth, it is layer by layer." Xia Mingruo happened to be passing by, and he beckoned and said, "Come on, let me tell you. The stratum was once upon a time. His surname was Di, and his name was stratum. One day he went to the state of Chu to do business, and he met Zhuang Sheng. Watching the stars...hey! Leopard, don't go!" The leopard stood faithfully by Chu Haiyang's side, and Chu Haiyang said, "We dug a trench to the east of the tomb, you can go and see it." Leopard asked, "What are you looking at?" Chu Haiyang led him into the ditch, squatted down and said, "Look at the section." "Stratigraphy is a concept borrowed from geology. It is very important in archaeology. It is even more important in the excavation of ruins than in the excavation of ancient tombs." Chu Haiyang said, "Look at the accumulation of layers. The soil, the color is not the same? There are also subtle differences in soil quality." Leopard stared at the mud wall cross-eyed: "I can't see..." Chu Haiyang said: "It's not so obvious, be patient." He poured some water from the military kettle and sprinkled it on to make the soil slightly moist: "How about now?" "Ah," Leopard said, "it seems to be a little different." "This is the stratum," Chu Haiyang said. "When people live in a place, they will pile up a layer of mellow soil on the original natural deposits of raw soil. Inside the mellow soil is the soil that people have moved, and there is trampled soil." The resulting road soil contains remnants of buildings and artifacts they left behind, so it is also called the cultural layer. When future generations live on this land, the cultural layer will continue to accumulate.” "What if no one lives there?" "There will also be soil," Chu Haiyang said. "The wind blows, the water rushes, and the animals and plants rot, all of which will accumulate." Pointing to the top soil layer, he said: "This layer is about 20 centimeters thick, and it is called the modern cultivated soil layer. The cabbage planted on it used to be digged by us; the yellow soil layer below is the accumulation of the Ming and Qing dynasties. , so we can find some modern things, we also found a robbery hole; further down the brown layer is the Song and Yuan strata, we found a few pieces of palm-sized blue and white porcelain and black porcelain, which are worthless, don’t worry about it; then there are Sui, Tang, Han , Zhou, Shang, and tribal culture periods, raw soil layers." "The ancient civilization in the Luoyang area is very splendid, and the cultural layers are also rich. The Jiangnan area is a little bit worse, and the tombs often disturb the stratum." Chu Haiyang asked, "Do you understand?" Leopard said: "Ah? What disturbance?" "It's destruction," Chu Haiyang said. "Look at the soil here, there is a layer of yellow, a layer of yellowish brown, and mixed with braised soil particles, gray... One layer is separated. But if you want to To build a tomb here, you must dig out the soil and fill it in again, so the layers of soil are mixed together, and the term is called Wuhua soil. If you hit the Wuhua soil with the shovel, it means that there may be a tomb underground." Chu Haiyang jumped out of the ditch and said with a smile: "It is said that your master can tell whether there is an ancient tomb just by smelling the soil with his nose. Why do you still come to ask me?" Xia Mingruo passed by again: "Because leopards are not welcome, no one wants them." The leopard hid in a corner and smoked. Chu Haiyang pulled Xia Mingruo over and asked, "Why are you wandering around by yourself during working hours?" "They're all watching the fun," Xia Mingruo said, "What's so interesting about pulling stones?" At this time, I heard the onlookers yelling, saying: "Get up, get up! Get up!"