Chapter 8 Chapter 8: Eight Doors Hanging Armor

After driving out of the village, we deliberately drove the car onto the country road, and after making a big circle, we returned to "Juzhaizi" without anyone noticing it. Bypassing the pile of rocks, I returned to the vegetable cellar again. Before I could speak, Da Ya couldn't wait to jump down, swung his arms and started digging first. Da Ya has never been so active in other things. When he said that he wanted to dig a grave, this guy stared and worked hard.I don't know if it's because I love archeology or because I'm obsessed with money. Fortunately, I have dug so many places and haven't lost anyone.

Da Ya and I dug down back to back for a while, and it was exactly as I expected. At first, it was still dry and loose loess. After digging less than one meter down, there were many tree branches and some broken bricks and tiles.It's just that the digging is quite deep, and nothing has been found.There is a saying that goes all out, then declines, and exhausts three times.Da Ya and I shook our arms without stopping to dig down with all our attention. Liu Ye stood outside the pit, carefully watching the movement around, checking on Da Ya and I's project progress from time to time.She can only do this kind of work in a hurry, and can't help at all, so she has to hand us some water from time to time and wait for the place.

After more than an hour, the sun was about to set, and the sky gradually darkened. We all knew in our hearts that it would be completely dark in less than an hour.When it got dark, it would definitely be inconvenient to do the work, so he gritted his teeth and sped up the speed in his hands.After this busy work, we dug down to a depth of more than two meters. As the pit got deeper and deeper, transporting the soil outside became a big problem.Laymen like us don't expect to dig a hole tens of meters deep like those masters of fighting, and we can't even see a handful of soil. I believe that we can only use the most primitive method to transport the soil out.

At first, Da Ya and I lifted the soil directly from the bottom of the pit to the ground, but now that we have dug to the current depth, it is already a bit laborious to go up, so I have to continue digging down by myself, and then pick up the soil on the pavement. On the opened canvas, Liu Ye jumped to the bottom of the pit to help me fix the soil-filled canvas on the rope, while Big Tooth stood on the ground, pulling the soil up and dumping it. As a result, it is time-consuming and laborious, and the speed is obviously slowed down.When it was completely dark, nothing was dug up. Liu Ye raised her head and looked at the sky above her head, then at the pit under her feet, and asked doubtfully if I made a mistake?Why did you dig so deep and still find nothing?

I rubbed my sore arm and gave a helpless wry smile, and told Liu Ye, since I have dug so deep, I might as well try digging down again.At least the current soil layer is still backfill, which means that the bottom has not been dug.Having said that, the average vegetable cellar is only more than three meters deep, and now it is almost five meters in total, and it has not yet reached the end, which shows that there is a problem here. Da Ya and I switched positions, Da Ya went down to the bottom of the pit and continued digging, while I climbed up to the ground to catch my breath. The moon has not climbed up from the other side of the mountain, and the sky and the earth are gray.

While I was smoking a cigarette in a daze, I heard Da Ya calling me from the bottom of the pit. I squatted by the pit, stretched my neck to look down, and asked Da Ya what's the matter. Da Ya tapped the soil under his feet with a shovel, raised his head and told me that there seemed to be a kang mat underneath. Kang seats? I hurried down lightly, took the shovel, and gently poked the floating soil on it. I looked at it by the light, and it was indeed an old-fashioned bamboo mat. How could there be a kang mat in such a deep underground?Could it be something covered under it? Thinking of this, Da Ya and I couldn't hide our excitement, and we didn't bother to talk, so we picked up the shovel and hurriedly cleaned up the floating soil on the kang mat.

Although the kang mat is not big, what is surprising is that after opening one layer after another, there are five layers inside and outside, which greatly exceeded our expectations.Until the last layer was opened, a square hole was finally revealed, leading directly to the ground. Burglary? My first reaction was to steal a hole. Da Ya blinked his small eyes a few times, then looked up at me, apparently also suspecting that this was a robbery hole. I nodded with a wry smile.But there is one thing I don't understand. If it is really a robbery cave, there must be a tomb below it. Why did the military advisers build the stockade on the ancient tomb?

Liu Ye thought for a while and asked, "Do you think that the cottage accidentally discovered this robbery hole when digging a vegetable cellar, and it felt unlucky, so it hurriedly withdrew?" Liu Ye's guess is not impossible, but I always feel that things will not be so simple.I heard from Mr. Meng that the military division insisted on choosing the location here, so it might not be as simple as Liu Ye guessed, and there might be other plans. Da Ya suddenly slapped his thigh: "Hey! Lai Liang, do you think that the military commander knew that there was an ancient tomb here, and the construction of the village was just a cover, but in fact he came here for the things under the ground. Could it be that this group of people Are people here to rob graves?"

I don't know whether to rob the tomb or not, but now it seems that the reason why this land has been barren is probably because the soil here is not ordinary soil, but rammed earth!It is impossible to grow any plants on rammed earth.This big bumpkin is not a barren mountain at all, but a "sealed mound", which was originally a big tomb! Mr. Meng said that when the village was located here, it was the military adviser who insisted on it. Even though everyone opposed it, the big cabinet still supported it.From this point of view, the military adviser must have known in advance that this was a large tomb, and it was a village in name, but he must have come here for this large tomb in private.In the past, bandits occupied the top of the mountain and competed for strength. In fact, to put it bluntly, they fought for money.Whoever has more money will have horses and guns.Such things as tomb robbery for payment have existed since ancient times, and every group of people has done this kind of activity secretly, but no one will tell the truth.

I took another look at the entrance of the hole, and I looked at Da Ya and Liu Ye, and asked them to find a place to sit down and rest for a while, no matter what, after all, there has been no ventilation in the bottom for sixty or seventy years, and the quality of the air inside cannot be guaranteed. Just go down so recklessly.Anyway, it's getting dark now, so there's no need to rush for time. After about half an hour, we felt that it should be almost the same, so we stood up, found a piece of rope, and ran the candle down to test the air quality.Although the flame flickered several times during the process of lowering it down, it did not go out in the end. It seemed that there should be no problem underneath.

I asked Da Ya and Liu Ye to wait for the news outside first, and then carefully entered the cave along the tied rope.After sliding down seven or eight meters, he stepped on the ground with both feet and reached the bottom of the cave smoothly.By the light of the headlamp, it was discovered that the bottom was really a tomb, and the robbery hole was actually hit directly to the back wall of the tomb without any mistakes, and it was close to the root of the wall.Looking at this level, one knows that the person who drilled the hole must be an expert, a master of tomb robbers. A gap had been opened in the back wall of the tomb, gusts of wind kept pouring in, and there was also a damp and musty smell, as if the air inside was not very good.Looking inside through the gap in the wall of the tomb, I found that the tomb is not very big. It is estimated to be about seven meters long, five meters wide, and less than three meters high. It is just such a lonely and crude tomb. There are no ear chambers or tomb passages. Compared with the underground palace under the ancient city of Pianlian, it is a bit shabby. Just to be careful, I still took out a candle, lit it, and carefully drilled through the gap in the tomb wall. After stepping on the ground of the tomb with both feet, it felt a little wet and slippery, as if a layer of moss had grown on it, and it was smooth.As soon as I entered this tomb, I suddenly felt that the surrounding temperature dropped a lot, and my body felt a little chilly.The flame of the candle was also beating restlessly, as if it would go out at any moment.I glanced at my shadow on the tomb wall out of the corner of my eye, and suddenly had an illusion that the shadow didn't belong to me, and it was a little erratic, and I couldn't help "thumping" in my heart. With courage, I looked around and found that there was no coffin on the coffin bed in the middle of the tomb, but only a dome-shaped thing, which looked like a large iron pot used in rural areas turned upside down. It looked very strange .Apart from this, the tomb was empty and contained nothing.Carefully turned from the back to the front of the coffin bed, and found a stone tablet erected in front of the "dome", with some words engraved on the tablet, which should be Manchu, crooked, and I don't know what is written on it. The brick dome had been forcibly dug open long ago, and the inside was empty, with nothing in it.The tomb was not that big, and it was almost unobstructed.It seems that this gang of tomb robbers did so thoroughly that they didn't even leave a piece of cloth behind, nothing left. An inexplicable gust of wind blew over, and the flames flickered and were about to be blown out.I was so frightened that I quickly covered the fire with my hands, but at least it didn't go out. When I let go of the fire, I suddenly found that there seemed to be writing on the wall of the tomb.I hurriedly raised the candle higher, and looked closer. The writing was so scribbled that I could barely read it. It was written crookedly: Yehe wolf, who seeks power and seeks power, shames his ancestors, Ulanara... There should be a few words after "Ulanara", but for some reason they were erased.I really don't understand why it was written and then erased. It can't be a typo, right?This is too surprising.