Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Princess Yongtai's Jewelry

In 907 AD, the 200-year-long Tang Dynasty, which had been founded for 200 years, came to an end. Zhu Quanzhong usurped the Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne, and changed the name of the country to "Liang".After about half a century, the Central Plains was torn apart and wars continued. Short-lived overlords such as Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Zhou established states one after another, and then passed away alternately. Later generations called this era the Five Dynasties. According to historical records, during the Five Dynasties era, most of the mausoleums left over from the Tang Dynasty suffered the misfortune of being robbed.At that time, Chang'an and Luoyang, the capitals of the Tang Dynasty, were deserted and abandoned due to repeated wars, and the political center was moved to the far north. Presumably, even if the mausoleums around Chang'an and Luoyang were destroyed, no one would take care of them.On the outskirts of Chang'an, Todo is the tomb of the ancient royal family.The road from Chang'an to the west diverges not far after crossing the Weishui River, leading to Gansu and Sichuan provinces respectively. From the vicinity of this bifurcation, there are mausoleums of the Han and Tang dynasties scattered on the vast plain. .Each mausoleum is made of earth to form a circular mound, the larger one is like a hill, and the smaller one is just a mound.Among them are the mausoleums of emperors, tombs of warriors, and barren tombs whose owners are completely unknown.

According to historical records, even a military general named Wen Yun of the Five Dynasties, when he served as the military governor of the Jingsheng Army, had looted many Tang tombs. It was a more or less gruesome adventure, but an attractive one worth doing.Today's archaeologists use it for excavation operations, and are amazed by its exquisite seven tools for robbery, which may have been manufactured in the Luoyang area of ​​Chang'an during the Five Dynasties. I set the era background of the robbery and excavation of Princess Yongtai's tomb as this period, which should not be wrong.To be precise, the tomb of Princess Yongtai should be located at the foot of Liangshan Mountain near Qianxian County, Shaanxi Province. Roughly speaking, it can be thought of as being located at the northwest end of the above-mentioned Chang'an Western Tomb Plain.The great plain spread out from Chang'an like a plank. From this area, hills began to appear. On one of the largest hills, there is the Qianling Mausoleum where Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian are buried together.The tomb of Princess Yongtai is in the southeast of Qianling, at the foot of the hill where Qianling is located.

If possible, I really want to clearly record the era and year when Princess Yongtai's tomb was stolen, but unfortunately there is no clue about this.Therefore, the author has no choice but to start with this introduction: During the period of war in the Five Dynasties, that is, on a certain night in a certain year about a thousand years ago, Chen, the leader of the tomb robbery group, did not know that the tomb he was eyeing was buried. Who is it.I also inquired about it intentionally or unintentionally from the old people in the nearby villages, but none of them had this knowledge.Among the many mounds scattered on the plain, this tomb is not particularly eye-catching.It is quite large in the mound-style tomb, but it is not particularly large.

Among the tombs, the only one with a clear identity is Qianling.Everyone knows that Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty and Empress Zetianwu are buried here together. At the same time, this mountain mausoleum can be seen from far away on the plain.Walking from the direction of Chang'an, you can first see two independent hills.Each of these two hills has a wonderful little wall-like protrusion on the top of the hill.That is the mausoleum gate of Qianling Mausoleum, and people in the nearby villages have been accustomed to call this "Wu Zetian's milk arm".Indeed, from a distance, the two hills really look like a pair of breasts, and the protrusions on the hills are the nipples.If you go closer, you will find another hill on the other side of Wu Zetian's breast after a while.That is the hill where Qianling is located.From the perspective of the plain, they are three independent hills. When you climb the hill, you will find that Wu Zetian's breast and Qianling Mausoleum belong to the three highlands on the same hill.Like this, only the Qianling Mausoleum is a well-known mausoleum, and only this mausoleum is never visited by all the tomb robbers.First of all, you have no way of knowing where Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian are buried in this huge hill. Even if you can deduce the general location of the underground tomb, it is not something a tomb robber group composed of hundreds or two hundred people can handle. .It looked like it would take thousands of workers and months to level the entire hill.

However, Chen has climbed the Qianling Mausoleum several times.Although he knew that this was not a target within his ability, but under the psychological effect of "maybe he can find out something", a pair of legs naturally walked towards the hill.From Wu Zetian's breast to Qianling, there may have been a passage in the past, but now the ground is covered by knee-high weeds and vines, only the stone figures and stone beasts standing on both sides show that there was once a passage here .It is said to be the Qianling Mausoleum, but in fact there is not even a tombstone, but the natural hill as a whole has become a mausoleum, which means that in a certain depth of this hill, the stone coffins of an emperor and a queen are hidden.Every time he climbed to the place of Wu Zetian's breasts, Chen had to give up his unreasonable and absurd idea.

However, for Chen, climbing up here is not necessarily a waste of effort.Standing on this hill, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Great Plains.This spring, when Chen climbed the hill, among the dozens of earth mounds scattered on the plain, only the one at the foot of the Qianling Hill made him feel different.At that time, he almost screamed: God, could it be the accompanying tomb of the Qianling Mausoleum under his feet?Will a certain royal family member be buried near the Qianling Mausoleum to protect and serve the Qianling Mausoleum?Once he had this idea, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he couldn't be wrong. It was as huge as the Qianling Mausoleum, so it was impossible not to have an accompanying tomb. , will not be anything else.

Chen's eyes lit up, and he still persisted in looking around the Great Plains.He felt that the Qianling Mausoleum overflowed from under his feet, and suddenly turned into something big and big that spread the skirt saw on the plain.To put it bluntly, he hoped that besides the tomb he was staring at, he could find another accompanying tomb in the opposite direction of symmetry.In this way, the structure of this huge and amazing mausoleum of Qianling Mausoleum will be more complete and concrete.However, man is not as good as heaven, and Chen did not find a tomb similar to that of the accompanying tomb as he wished.

But Chen couldn't give up the idea that the tomb he was eyeing was the companion tomb of Qianling.If it is really the accompanying tomb, the people who will be buried in it must be the royal family or nobles.In Chen's eyes, the tomb suddenly became different, and even shone with a strange light.Although it is covered with weeds, even the color of the weeds is soft, noble and rich in history.Only tomb robbers can understand, the anticipation and excitement felt the moment the coffin lid was lifted, revived in Chen's five bodies at this moment.Those treasures, jewels of jasper, and daggers inlaid with gold in the air of ancient sediment.

Chen walked down the Qianling Mausoleum, walked around the foot of the mountain, and then stepped into the plain, walking towards the tomb he identified.The point not far from the main road will be a hindrance when digging in the future. Fortunately, the surrounding grass is overgrown, and it seems that there has been no human presence for many years. Chen lingered around the tomb tirelessly.He found a square stone buried about 20 meters away from the tomb.In the past, the ground was covered with such stones, and perhaps one of them has survived until now.The shape of the mound made of mud also made him feel good.The top part is just round now and has not changed much. It must have been a little sunken like a bowl turned upside down in the past.Chen kicked the soil equivalent to the foot of the grave with his shoes, then scooped it up with his hands to look at it, circled around the grave again and again, and even climbed up to look at it, and finally, with some weak steps, slowly Walk down the field that is supposed to be directly in front of the tomb.

Chen Mou walked all the way, with a ferocious look on his face every time he decided to steal.His eyes were straight, and the lines of his cheeks were stiff and tight.That's a clue, he thought.Fortunately, there were no signs of being excavated.If it is really the accompanying mausoleum of Qianling, there should be a lot of valuable treasures buried in it.If ten of his labors were used, it would probably take seven nights of work.Although it is a troubled time, once the tomb robbery is revealed, the death penalty is still inevitable.Therefore, the excavation work can only be carried out during a limited number of hours in the middle of the night.However, Chen was not afraid at all.Since I went to the sea to rob people's tombs at the age of sixteen, I don't know how many tombs I have handled at the age of forty, but I have never missed a single one.There are even rumors that no matter what kind of tomb, as long as it is targeted by Chen, the sarcophagus in the ground will automatically float up.Chen has always done what he said, and immediately decided to call up manpower tonight, discuss it, and wait for the next day to start digging.Fortunately, this place is about half a day away from Chang'an, and even in broad daylight during this season, there are few people.Although there are five or six small villages nearby, they are all poor villages that have eaten this meal and never had a meal. The young and strong are taken to serve as soldiers, and all the old and weak women and children are left behind.Chen also came from such a village and lived in Chang'an for many years. However, in the past two or three years, due to the turmoil of the war, he spent most of his time in his hometown.With their organization, it is no problem to call ten or eight people at any time.In every village there are friends who have worked with Chen for many years.All of them are elderly people, they are experienced in the industry, and they are also reliable and down-to-earth.Then there's the fact that unlike young lads, these guys have tight mouths.In fact, tomb robbers are no different from thieves. The strange thing is that they don't have the slightest sense of stealing about the work they are doing.They have a confident idea: what's wrong with digging out the unowned things buried in the ground?However, although he didn't say it clearly, he would never feel any better in his heart if he was digging up the grave of the dead.These tomb robbers all have their unique dark eyes, which can only be understood by each other.When talking with people, they all use a low voice, and at the same time, it is rare to laugh.

It took three nights just to dig the vertical hole.Usually, under the raised tombs are the tomb passages, and the tombs containing the sarcophagi are always in the forked places.In order to hide the tomb robbers, all the tomb passages, passages, and even the tomb chambers are often located in places that have nothing to do with the tombs on the ground. Some tomb passages and passages are twists and turns. There is a door, and there are stairs leading to the bottom. Going down the stairs, you have to walk for a long time before you reach the tomb.In this way, it would take a lot of time just to find the location of the tomb, and it would be even more difficult to move the buried objects from the ground to the ground. Needless to say, this type of tomb is only limited to princes and nobles Or the rich, all designed to prevent grave robbers. Whether the work of robbing can go smoothly, or become unimaginably difficult, depends on the first shovel on the ground.The seventy-year-old, hunchbacked Lao Ge is a veteran in this field.Every night when I look back, only Lao Ge is the busiest person.He had to lie on the ground dozens of times back and forth.Every time, from all angles of the tomb, I clung to it with all five bodies cast on the ground, turning my face sideways, as if I wanted to hear the voice from the center of the earth.He opened his eyes for a while, and closed them for a while, the face that emerged in the lantern light, in the eyes of every accomplice, looked reliable and somewhat mysterious. ——Great love is the way to the tomb. As soon as Lao Ge opened his mouth, the people present immediately became excited.In fact, Lao Ge's judgment is always close to ten. Most of the time, as long as you dig according to his instructions, you will always encounter a tomb passage hidden deep underground or a hole in the corridor. This time, Lao Ge first lay down here and there around the tomb that Chen had identified, and after lying down there, he lay down at the foot of the mound northeast of the mound.He turned his face to this side and turned away from that, and rubbed his left and right ears to the ground alternately. After a while, he said: "Dig here to see. I don't know how deep it is, but it looks like there must be something deep. Skylight. It’s an honest tomb.” The so-called honest tomb refers to the kind of tomb that has no special mechanism designed to deceive tomb robbers.Every night, this group of grave robbers always went to work late at night.The ten took turns digging for three consecutive nights.They dug straight down for about forty feet from the spot indicated by Lao Ge, and they came across a three-foot-square stone slab covering the skylight.Unexpectedly, the tomb was built in a very deep place. However, there is a passage leading from the foot of the mound to the point directly below the mound, which seems to be an honest tomb just as Lao Ge said.The stone slab is quite heavy, it cannot be moved by the strength of two or three people, and the work is done in a narrow vertical hole. Therefore, it took two nights just to remove the stone slab and open the skylight.When the skylight was finally opened, there was still some time before the East could see the white.Someone proposed to enter the tunnel immediately, but Chen stopped it and listed it as tomorrow night's work.To get out of the cave, there is still one thing to do, that is, to cover the entrance of the cave, and then cover it with weeds, so as not to be discovered.In the business of tomb robbery, the only way to prevent failure is to give yourself plenty of time. The night when I was preparing to enter the tunnel was a cloudy day with strong winds.This group of tomb robbers asked Qiang Fan to flip through his work clothes, and gathered to the construction site one after another from nowhere.It is neither cold nor hot season.The light of the lantern flickered in the darkness.Chen looked around at the dozen or so accomplices, reminding everyone not to be greedy, and then approached the only woman present and another tall young man respectively, and said to them, "You two are in charge." The woman is Chen's third concubine, and the young man is Chen's younger brother. "All the others go down." As he said, as if it was a ritual, Chen lifted the lantern with one hand, bent down first and sank his body into the dark hole.Three people entered behind him, and then tools such as hoes, round shovels, hammers, and iron picks were moved in, and then four more men disappeared into the cave one file at a time. After the group of people entered the tomb, the darkness on the ground deepened, and the wind suddenly became louder.Chen Mou regarded his wife and relatives as guards and left them on the ground. Regarding these two candidates, Chen Mou had his own concerns.If other people are left behind, the removed stone slab will be sealed again at any time, no matter how trustworthy your partner is, after all, they are still human, and if they are human, they will feel sick at any time.As long as the man gently raised the stone slab used to cover the skylight, the gang in the cave should never see the light of day again.If they were left alone, then within ten days, none of the tomb robbers would starve to death in the tomb.In this way, all the treasure will fall into the hands of the traitor.Therefore, the looters who entered the tomb were very sensitive about who was left on the ground to watch the wind.Usually, a family member of an accomplice is called in as a watchman, but when you think about it, this tactic may not be a perfect solution.In the world there are wives who hate their husbands, and there are sons who hate their fathers.Chen chose his concubine and younger brother as guards, which can be said to be candidates enough to make everyone speechless.Chen, the young third concubine, could be said to be happy with Chen, has a good temper, and is kind to everyone.The younger brother was brought up by Mr. Chen since he was a child. He is so well behaved that it is hard to believe that he was born in the same mother's womb as the villain Mr. Chen. His evaluation in the village is quite good. However, Chen's choice was not as correct as the group of tomb robbers imagined.When the two were left alone on the ground, the woman snuggled up to her brother-in-law in the dark, and said in a low voice, "Let's do it." I'm still thinking about this horrible thought.The young man has been having an affair with the woman for more than a year, and even though the woman is his brother's concubine, he is not allowed to feel like a sister-in-law.Speaking of which, the woman was originally brought into possession by Mr. Chen taking advantage of her loneliness and abduction. The young man walked into the grass sparingly.The woman followed closely. "I said, let's do it." She whispered again. Perhaps she also felt the horror of her own words, and her thin body began to tremble.Although the woman was trembling, she was eagerly trying to persuade the young man: "Although Lao Chen doesn't know about the two of us, sooner or later, the paper will never be able to cover the flames. Think about it, what will happen to us once the incident is revealed?" What will happen? Let me tell you, it’s you and me who will be sealed in the grave. I really can’t think of any method he will use to kill us. You are still young, so you don’t want to be with this group of people who steal people’s ancestral graves I can earn a living. My hometown is on the other side of the Yellow River, where it is very stable, and everyone lives a peaceful and peaceful life. Why don't we go there, and the two of us can live happily? Take those old guys It's pitiful to be sealed in with Lao Chen as an accompanying dead ghost, but that person has done a lot of bad things in his life, not to mention the seventy and eighty-year-olds don't have many days to live. If you just leave him alone, he will be dead in a few years. Let's die, we just want them to enter the grave two or three years earlier." The young man listened, but he was thinking about other things in his heart.The elder brother is a born bad embryo, it can be said that he has done all kinds of bad things, and his little brother often suffers from his mistreatment, but if it is not for the help of the elder brother, the young man dare not live today.However, as the woman said, if things go on like this, sooner or later, she will be slaughtered by her brother together with the woman.As long as their brother lived, they could not expect a happy life.The young man felt that he was trembling more than the woman.He got up.The woman walked close to him.The wind was still howling on the plain.When the young man came to the place where the tomb was, he just said "I'll go down and have a look", and bent over. The woman might think that the young man went down to the pit to follow her instructions, so she held her breath silently.In the pit, there are step by step tripods engraved to facilitate the descent into the pit.The young man put his feet up and sank step by step.He descended to the skylight, and as soon as his hand touched the stone cover leaning on the side, he immediately took it away out of reflex.A shudder passed through his whole body like an electric shock. From the skylight hung a rope ladder.In order to reach the underground passage, there is no other way but to climb down the rope ladder.The young man stepped on the rope ladder.Sink your body down again.It wasn't until he descended to the underground cemetery that he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he finally looked human again.The reason why he gave up the errand of the wind and came to the underground construction site was because he couldn't bear the fear of staying on the ground: he couldn't restrain himself from knocking down the stone cover on the skylight at any time.To knock down the stone cover standing there, you only need to stretch out your hand, and it can be done in the blink of an eye. The ground is as cold as an ice cellar, and the sound of knocking stones can be heard, which is really a gloomy and annoying sound.The young man walked towards the direction of the sound in the dark.There was water under the soles of the feet, which made the feet numb from the cold.Not far away, I felt a faint light around me.I saw a few lanterns hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor, making the surroundings look more or less like a workplace.The group of tomb robbers were all gathered in one place, and they all turned around at this moment. "Stop scaring people," said one of them. Chen also cast a fearful look, seeing that the person who came was his brother, he didn't say anything.There was a ottoman, and one of the group was swinging a sledgehammer on it.Only then did the young man notice that the corridor was blocked by a stone gate.It seems that the other end of the stone gate should be the tomb. "It's my turn, I'm freezing to death." The one on the ottoman was replaced.Every time these daring vandals swung a hammer, a low cry came from their mouths.That stone door seemed to be very solidly built, and after knocking for a long time, only a few fragments could fall out, and it still stood unmoved.This group of men took turns stepping onto the couch several times.That scene looks like a blue-faced ghost and a red-faced ghost working in hell. "You kid, go up and try it." Chen said to the young man. The young man immediately boarded the couch, and he was willing to do anything at the moment, because standing there without moving could really freeze people to death.He took the largest hammer in his companion's hand.I don't know who said: "You can swing such a big thing?" But the young man leaned out from the footbed, raised the hammer high, and then smashed it down with all his strength.With the sound of a part of the stone door collapsing, the young man fell off the bed and fell into the puddle under the impact of a reactionary force. When he stood up, the eight accomplices were climbing up to the ottoman in a single file, and then invaded the tomb next door through the broken hole above the stone door.Because they carried away a few lanterns, the corridor where the young man was was suddenly darkened.The young man also lifted a lantern, and the last one went into the tomb through the hole he had knocked.It was a small square room, and because of the small space, it was a bit brighter than the corridor. What, this is the front room, and the next door is where the coffin is placed.Oh shit.What a nuisance.The men complained one after another.Sure enough, the place where the coffin was placed seemed to be next door to this room.The tomb is divided into the front room and the back room. "Hey, help me shine a light." Chen roared.He was looking at the face of a square stone in the center of the room, on which the epitaph was engraved. "Aren't you literate? Read it out and listen to what is written on it." Chen said to the young man. Everyone looked at the surface of the stone together, but except for the young man, no one could read. The lad first saw that it said: —Princess Yongtai, named Li Xianhui, the seventh princess of Tang Zhongzong. He read out these few sentences. —Jiushi was registered as the princess in the first year, married Wei Wang Wu Yanji, and died at the age of seventeen. ——Buried in the suburbs of Chang'an for the first time, in the first year of Shenlong, Empress Wu Zetian died, Zhongzong was restored, and was buried next to the Qianling Mausoleum. The young man didn't read all the words on the stone. He could understand some parts, but couldn't understand some parts. "Although I don't know exactly what he's talking about, it's true that he is the accompanying mausoleum of Qianling. Hmm—well." Chen muttered contentedly, walked to the door separated from the neighboring room, touched it, and expressed This is easy to handle, as long as you knock it hard twice, you can easily knock it open, and then say to everyone: "This job will be done tomorrow, we will use tomorrow and one night to move all the treasures here." Everyone has no objection to his idea, at least everyone is eager to go back up a minute sooner to stop the trembling on their bodies.All the people are not fighting each other with their teeth.As soon as Chen said these words, everyone went back to the corridor through the hole just now, and climbed up the rope ladder scrambling to be the first.As soon as the group of tomb robbers climbed to the ground, Chen called out the woman's name.Something moved in the dark, and the woman stood up from the nearby grass.The young man didn't look at the woman, and walked behind the others.The wind might have weakened, and I no longer heard the roaring howling just now.The woman stopped halfway to wait for him. "There's no way to do it, right?" The woman said in a low voice. The young man thought that the woman's attitude was too bold, so he immediately changed the subject and said, "Do you know about Princess Yongtai?" "Ah, you said that you were killed for speaking ill of Empress Wu Zetian—" What she said reminded the young man of the legend about Princess Yongtai that he had heard when he was a child.The so-called Empress Wu Zetian is none other than the female emperor who was buried in Qianling Mausoleum and was known by people in this area as "Wu Zetian's breast". Princess Yongtai was the granddaughter of Empress Wu Zetian. When she was seventeen years old, she offended her grandmother by gossiping about Empress Wu, and was flogged to death together with her husband.This legend is not so much about the poor fate of the young concubine named Princess Yongtai, but rather about the unusual character of Wu Zetian, the unyielding empress.The lad had also heard this story with horror as a boy.When he thought that the tomb they were planning to steal was the place where the unlucky princess was buried, he couldn't help but feel very timid about the crime this time. The young man walked behind the woman, listening to the woman's footsteps as if they were hitting the ground with wooden boards, he felt that there were more unfortunate women in the world than this woman who was walking with the grave robber group on the plain at dawn. Dusk had just come down on the plain the next night.These tomb robbers gathered in front of Princess Yongtai's tomb.Although it was not as windy as last night, it was raining.It began to rain intermittently in the early morning, and it began to rain in a regular manner in the evening.In order to resist the severe cold of the underground construction site, everyone had to wear thick clothes in the inner and outer layers, and put on coir raincoats on the outside.Everyone present was so bloated that it was impossible to recognize who was who just by the dim light of the lanterns. "You are in charge." Chen ordered the woman.This time was different from last night, she was the only one who was in charge of the sentry, and when it came time to move the goods from the underground warehouse, as long as it was a man, no one could be idle. Chen entered the pothole first, and Lao Ge followed. Lao Ge put his left foot, which is bound to suffer from rheumatic pain every time it rains, into the hole first, and then spent a lot of effort to sink his body clumsily, completely losing detection The vitality of the underground cavity. The young man was standing behind a group of people, and when he bent down to enter the cave, he heard the woman say to him, "I still can't make a move, can I?" The woman seemed to have given up on instigating the young man. Mixed with resignation and almost self-defeating.She then whispered to the young man: "I'll sneak to your place tomorrow night, and don't care about my guy. If you find out, you'll find out. Let's talk about it when he finds out." The young man entered the cave silently.Due to the rush of rainwater, the tripod collapsed. If you don't pay attention, you may step on the air and fall straight to the ground of the corridor.There were twice as many lanterns as last night hanging on the walls of the corridor.It was too dark to see clearly last night, but at this moment the inside of the corridor clearly emerged in the bright light.This place is really like a nobleman's tomb, not only the underground passage, but also the ground is paved with square bricks, and the walls on both sides are also covered with murals.There are six skylights with four small niches on each side.It turned out that Lao Gece hit one of the six skylights, and a group of tomb robbers used this skylight to dig a vertical hole and sneak in through this vertical hole.One end of the corridor is connected to the tomb, and the other end should lead to the tomb passage, but the side leading to the tomb passage is submerged in darkness, and the situation is completely unknown. The boy approached one of the niches.There are a large number of figurines, faience pottery figurines of men and women, equestrian figurines, three-color horses, in addition to various utensils that seem to be daily necessities, all mixed together.Several of them tumbled from their niches onto the tiled floor.However, tomb robbers are not interested in these children's toys.Presumably, the people around the princess must have thought of the princess who passed away in such an unfortunate way at the age of seventeen, and specially chose such things as funeral objects. Suddenly, the loud sound of the brick wall collapsing shook the ancient air in the corridor.The loud noise brought the young man back to reality, and he hastily entered the adjacent room through the stone cave door he had personally opened last night. It was also different from last night, because a few lanterns appeared much brighter, but the shadow of the grave robber could not be seen.And the doors and windows between this house and the back room have been greatly damaged, and there are broken bricks all around.From here the boy entered the tomb where the sarcophagus was placed.The moment he stepped into the tomb, the young man couldn't help but stood there holding his breath.I saw a large rectangular stone coffin in the room, and the surrounding walls were covered with murals.Under the leadership of Mr. Chen, the young man has sneaked into many ancient tombs, but he has never seen such a beautiful and luxurious tomb.This group of tomb robbers spread out and surrounded the stone coffin, all bent over, concentrating on counting the funerary objects placed on the ground.Most of the funerary objects were originally packed in boxes, but because the boxes were completely decayed, it would not take much trouble to take out the contents. Before starting work, the young man first inspected the stone coffin for a week, watching the murals on all sides by the way.The other tomb robbers headed by Chen were busy with their own work, so even if the young man was idle, no one blamed him.The young man slowly admired the murals, each of which depicted groups of court ladies and maids.He spends more time in front of the murals on the east wall than the others.There is a vermilion pillar in the center of this wall script, with seven pillars on the left and nine pillars on the right. These maids and maids stand there holding various items.Are these women the maids of honor who serve Princess Yongtai?The young man suddenly felt the side face of the woman who was drenched in the rain on the ground from the face of one of the maids. Looking up at the ceiling, there is also something depicted on it.Since the light from the lanterns does not reach the ceiling, it is impossible to determine the pattern on it, but it can generally be seen that the painting is full of stars, as well as the sun, the moon, and birds and rabbits.So it was the sky at night, the young man thought.The large stone coffin also depicts figures, flowers and birds, insects and animals with lines. "You kid, come up and open this lid." Chen's roar came from above his head.I saw Chen standing upright on the stone coffin, waving the hand-painted circle wearing a big muff.The young man didn't understand why Chen was waving his hand, but he could see that he was in a state of intense excitement.Before the young man climbed into the stone coffin, one of the group went up first, another followed, and the others circled around to help open the coffin from below.The lid of the stone coffin seemed so strong that no one could even try to move it. "What? Are you watching? Don't be kidding!" The young man was yelled at by Chen again, so he reached out to help.After a long time, the heavy stone cover of the stone coffin was finally moved a foot away. Holding a lantern, Chen looked at the inside of the stone coffin, and then said in a very important voice: "There are jewelry!" Then he ordered his accomplice who climbed on the lid of the stone coffin like himself: "You go in. " "I, I can't." The man firmly refused. Chen counted everyone's names one by one, but no one was willing to enter the stone coffin.Each of them flinched, out of proportion to their usual behavior. At the end, Lao Ge said: "I said forget it, it's serious to transport these things outside. After getting them outside, I have to find a way to move them back home. Just doing these things, I'm afraid the sky will kill them." Da Liangluo." Others immediately gave various reasons to go along with Lao Ge: If we don't hurry up, we won't be able to move, or the road will be muddy and the car will not be able to move.To be honest, the number of funerary objects collected from all over the tomb by this group of tomb robbers is considerable.The big ones have vases that are big enough to wrap two arms around, and there are also cabinets that don't know what's inside.In addition, there are tables and pots, and there are more than one or two of them, and it can be said that they are all over the place. Chen seemed unwilling to give up, and repeatedly lifted the lantern to visit the inside of the stone coffin.Looking at his face, the young man felt a little disgust in his heart. For the first time in his life, he felt disgusted with his flesh and blood brother from the bottom of his heart. Chen got down the stone coffin, and everyone immediately started carrying it.They moved the things from left to right from the tomb to the front room, and then from the front room to the corridor.No one is as cold as last night.In the middle, they stopped the work of moving things out of the tomb, and transported the treasures that had been moved to the passage to the ground.This move is very clever in the sense of actually getting the treasure. Some of the tomb robbers went up to the ground with climbing ropes, returned to the tunnel, and then climbed up to the ground again. This went back and forth three or four times, but very few treasures were brought from the ground to the ground. "The progress is too slow." Chen said and ordered everyone to take a short break. Everyone sat down in the puddle in the corridor.Suddenly, a woman's yell came down from the skylight: "I heard horses neighing, not just ten or twenty." Chen stood up, held the rope ladder in his hand, and asked, "Which direction?" "There's something on both sides." "what exactly is it?" "I don't know. It's a war. There are horses neighing in all directions." Everyone stood up and gathered under the skylight. "I think everyone should come out quickly. It's better to slip away. If you want to slip away, it's still too late." After that, the woman's voice was not heard again. "All right," Chen said, "Everyone put out the fire and go outside, then block the entrance of the cave and escape." In this situation, Chen gave orders very neatly. 大伙儿再一次回到前屋和墓室，熄掉墙上灯笼的火，接着不约而同的来到绳梯底下，在这儿熄掉手里的那盏灯火。然后一个一个从再度变成一片黑暗的甬道沿着绳梯鱼贯着爬上地面。 小伙子最后一个冒上地面，他检点了一下人头，发现自己的兄长不在其中。果然，有战马的嘶呜，并且在不很远的地方。那动静就好像有一个庞大的兵团正在平原四处集结中。雨势比刚才又大了很多。 小伙子再度没入洞穴，下降到天窗那里。勾头望了望下面，甬道里却是漆黑一片。他等候着兄长到来，后者既然没有到地面上，那就该待在地下的墓室里。他会在那里干什么呢？ 不多会儿，甬道的黑暗里出现了一抹微亮，亮光越来越强，只见陈某的影子从亮光里浮现出来。陈某手提灯笼，仰望着小伙子这边，问道：“谁在那儿？我马上来。”小伙子没有回答。 灯笼的亮光照亮了三分之一的黑暗，亮光里，陈某好似在检视着手里的什么，但他立刻停下这个动作，伸手攀绳梯。当小伙子知道了陈某刚刚在亮光底下检视的是串项链的时候，与方才在墓室里同样的，他重又对这位兄长感到厌恶，而这种厌恶之情很快的化成了愤怒。那是近乎不共戴天的一股再也不能原谅对方的愤怒。陈某准是侵入石椁里去了，他竟敢以那双脏污的泥靴，踩进那位薄命的年少公主静静长眠的地方，并且掠夺了她的项链！ 小伙子不自觉的向石板盖子伸过去，下一个瞬间，那块石板盖子没有发出多大的动静便倒向天窗，将它遮盖了起来，那就像手艺极精巧的匠人精心制作的器皿盖子那样，分毫不差的封盖了起来。小伙子慢慢的爬上地面，那儿已然不见那韦盗墓者的踪影，看样子他们全都溜之大吉。冷不防女人偎了过来。她也不晓得知不知道小伙子刚才所为，只管用把大铁锹，一铲一铲的将泥土倒入洞穴里。at this time.倾盆大雨中开始传来两军交战之前的呐喊。 永泰公主墓于一九六○年八月，由中共“陕西省文物管理委员会”考古学部门的一批学者发掘了出来。 坟墓虽曾遭窃，却依然存放着一千数百件陪葬物。在曾是盗墓者入侵口的天窗底下，他们发现了疑是盗墓者的一根胫骨，附近散乱着一些陪葬的珠宝。 为数可观的陪葬物固然可贵，挖掘此墓最大的收获还在于壁画。甬道的壁书中，西边的剥落殆尽。东边的却比较完整一些。陵墓后室四壁上的壁画大部分也都剥落，只有东壁上还残留着差堪思及旧观的片麟半爪。 残缺的这些壁书，无论线条、色彩、构图，乃至空间处理，都非常卓越，被视作唐代绘画史上极其珍贵的资料。壁画剥落的程度所以严重，是雨水和湿气从盗墓者的进口入侵的缘故，同时，甬道与墓室也盖满了厚厚一层灰尘，这是参与挖掘的一名学者所作的报告。 永泰公主乃是与夫婿武延基、兄长召王重润等一齐触怒了武后则天，因而被杀的，直到其父中宗即位，三个人才同受追谧，并由长安市郊最初的墓地改葬于梁山山麓，而以王爷公主之墓得以被称陵寝，这是自古以来不见先例的特殊恩典，从这一点足见中宗对公主之死哀憎之甚了。