treasure hunter

However, in such a three-meter-wide place, he walked back and forth more than a dozen times, but he really didn't see anything like a door or an entrance.

It is close to the river, and it is covered with reeds. In order to find the entrance, he broke off all the reeds within three meters and threw them aside. Except for the slightly wet soil, there are only reed roots and sporadic weeds.

Pei Miao stood in the middle of the three meters, looked towards the north, squinted slightly, and found something.

It can be roughly seen that there is an area that is not as green as other places. This area with very light greenery is roughly in the shape of a hammer, and the position where Pei Miao is standing is the top of the handle of the hammer. .

Pei Miao knew that this hammer-shaped area was where the ancient tomb was. As for why this phenomenon occurred, it was probably related to the soil on the top of the tomb. The soil on the top of the tomb should be mixed with some harmful Things that plants grow.

Then, Pei Miao unfolded the Quanshen Domain and looked at the land below.

I saw an ancient tomb door more than one meter deep below me. The door was 1.5 meters wide and two meters high. Behind the tomb door was a long corridor.

Pei Miao said to himself, "So the tomb is so shallow. I knew it and saw through it. It took so much effort." After he finished speaking, he stomped his feet vigorously, leaving two holes one centimeter deep on the slightly wet soil. footprints.

Then he walked aside, took out his mobile phone and called Zhang Xiaohong.

After Zhang Xiaohong answered the phone, she asked very bluntly, "What are you doing?"

Pei Miao said, "I found the entrance, bring your digging tools and come here."

Logically speaking, Pei Miao shouldn't be able to instruct other people in the team to do anything, but Zhang Xiaohong wanted to enter the ancient tomb, wanted to find the entrance, how could he care about these now, so he immediately hung up the phone and let The team members took their tools and went to the ancient tomb.

Soon, Zhang Xiaohong led the team to trot all the way, everyone was carrying tools such as shovels and picks. After meeting, Zhang Xiaohong asked, "Where is the entrance?"

Pei Miao pointed to the footprints next to it, and said, "It's right there. I stepped on two footprints as marks, and digging down from the footprints is the entrance."

Zhang Xiaohong's expression changed instantly, she took two steps forward to look at the two footprints, then pointed at the footprints, frowned and asked Pei Miao, "Why do you say the entrance is here?"

Pei Miao smiled and said, "Your question involves confidentiality, so I can't tell you."

"Are you kidding me!" Zhang Xiaohong screamed when she heard the words, "You have no basis for saying that the entrance is here, let us dig it, why don't you dig it yourself, you must know that although you are a consultant, Dean Zhang said , you don’t have command authority, we won’t waste our energy.”

Pei Miao said: "According to the terrain, the entrance won't be very deep, it should be enough to dig down to a depth of more than one meter."

Zhang Xiaohong said angrily: "If you want to dig, you dig yourself, we don't have time to listen to your blind instructions."

Pei Miao nodded, and said, "Okay, I'll dig it myself and borrow a shovel, it should be fine."

Zhang Xiaohong didn't say anything, Li Yong stepped forward and handed the shovel to Pei Miao, smiled apologetically, and said, "Consultant Pei, I'm sorry."

Pei Miao smiled and said, "It's fine."

He took the shovel and started digging.

It is close to the river, and the terrain is low-lying. Whenever it rains, the rainwater will first collect here and then flow into the river. The roots of the reeds have the function of collecting water, so as long as it is not a severe drought, the soil here is slightly wet all year round. Still relatively easy to dig.

Pei Miao also followed his grandfather to do some farm work when he was a child. He was quite good at using shovels. In addition to his strength, each shovel could dig up a dozen or twenty kilograms of soil, which was very efficient.

Zhang Xiaohong and the other archaeological team members stayed here to see Pei Miao's excavation results, but Zhang Xiaohong wanted to see Pei Miao make a fool of herself.

However, she was disappointed. After Pei Miao dug for 10 minutes, the hole was almost one meter deep and sixty centimeters wide.

Pei Miao dug out the dirt with a shovel, raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "I saw the door of the tomb."

These words immediately attracted several members of the archaeological team.

Zhang Xiaohong said unconvinced: "How could it be so easy, you have dug a rock."

Pei Miao dug two more shovels, and then pulled out the broken soil near the tomb door to the side, revealing an extremely flat bluestone, although only four palm-sized areas of the bluestone were seen so far, it is not sure if this is the tomb door, But such a flat bluestone is obviously artificially processed.

All members of the archaeological team were really surprised and excited.

Without Zhang Xiaohong issuing orders, Li Yong and Xiang Yuanfan picked up the shovel spontaneously and said, "Consultant Pei, come up and rest for a while, we'll come."

"Okay." Pei Miao smiled, jumped up from the one-meter-deep pit, and made both Zhao Jing and Li Yong exclaim.

Xiang Yuanfan couldn't help giving Pei Miao a thumbs up: "Consultant Pei, it's a pity that you don't participate in the Olympic high jump because of your bounce."

"That's right." Zhao Jing repeatedly nodded in agreement.

Zhang Xiaohong urged: "Are you talking about high jump or archeology?"

Xiang Yuanfan stuck out his tongue, quickly jumped down the pit with Li Yong, and continued digging.

The earth pit was a bit small. The two first enlarged the earth pit, and then dug down along the bluestone tomb door. Zhang Xiaohong kept reminding: "Don't touch the tomb door, be careful of scratches."

There are always some people on the Internet who say that archeology is to rob tombs with documents, and there is really an essential difference.

Tomb robbers are unscrupulous people who steal valuable cultural relics from tombs.Those cultural relics placed in the ground will be stolen by tomb robbers sooner or later, and then sold overseas. Once these items go overseas, it will be difficult to come back.

And archeology is the excavation and protection of cultural relics in ancient tombs, as well as the study of ancient culture, and those cultural relics will eventually be displayed in our national museums for everyone to visit, so that everyone can feel and learn from our ancient times. some humanities.

Archaeologists study ancient humanities, while tomb thieves study ancient tomb feng shui, and some tomb thieves are people whose ancestors participated in the construction of ancient tombs. Therefore, tomb thieves have their own uniqueness in finding ancient tombs. skills or ways.

Zhang Xiaohong reminded the team members not to scratch the tomb door with a shovel, in order to protect the cultural relics. Yes, the tomb door is also a cultural relic. There are many ancient tombs with inscriptions or totems engraved on the tomb door. Once scratched, it is a cultural relic. s damage.

However, this tomb may be relatively simple. There are no totems or characters on the tomb door, just an ordinary smooth bluestone door.

Is it really ordinary? In fact, it is not. Such a large bluestone slab, two meters long, was cut and polished so smoothly. In that age without machinery, it was an extraordinary thing in itself.

It can also be seen from here that the owner of this tomb has a certain identity.

Xiang Yuanfan was a little thin, and after half an hour of digging, he lost his strength. Pei Miao replaced him and continued digging.

Although Li Yong was in good health, he had no strength left after digging for another 10 minutes. He came up to rest, and Zhao Jing went down to dig, but she obviously didn't know how to use a shovel, and her strength was weak, and she almost hurt Pei Miao's leg with the shovel. .

Zhang Xiaohong quickly asked her to come up, and jumped down to dig with Pei Miao.

Even though Zhang Xiaohong is a girl, she really has a lot of strength, and the shovel can stop quickly, and she and Pei Miao kept digging together. Soon, the pit was dug one person deep, and you can already see The area of ​​Shimen is almost half. After confirming that this is Shimen, Zhang Xiaohong dug harder.

Li Yong and Xiang Yuanfan called the two of them to go up and replace them, but they both said they didn't need to replace them, and continued to dig hard.

Finally, after nearly two hours of hard work, the stone gate was completely dug out. However, there was still a lot of soil near the stone gate. They used bamboo chips to shovel the soil away, and the work was finally completed.

The next step is to open the door. They tried to push the door, but they couldn't push it. Pei Miao could see through the Quanshen Domain that there was a door pin behind the door, also known as the door stone. In fact, it was a long stone slab like a seesaw on the ground. One section is narrow and the other is wide. When the door is closed, the narrow end is tilted up to withstand the stone door, so that the stone door cannot be opened.

The principle is very simple, but it works very well in ancient tombs.

The thimble pin in this tomb passage is a very old-fashioned thimble stone, that is to say, it is an obsolete product, but it is used in this tomb.

Why was this door pin eliminated? It was eliminated because it had been cracked by tomb robbers many times. The cracking method is relatively simple. Insert a very flat special tool from the gap of the tomb door, press down the door pin, and you can The door was pushed open, so the later topping stone became more and more complicated.

However, the thimble in this tomb is not so easy to crack, because the stone door is so polished that there are almost no gaps, and if the tomb door has no gaps, the thimble is very invincible.

Several of them pushed the door together without moving. Zhang Xiaohong told them to stop, and then said, "There should be a door-stone behind this door, but I don't know what type of door-stone it is."

After carefully observing the tomb door, Zhao Jing said: "Look at the polishing process of this bluestone door, it is already quite superb. It should be a tomb of the Qing Dynasty, and the top door stone used in the Qing Dynasty..."

Pei Miao interrupted suddenly: "It's a seesaw."

Seesaw is their common name for the Capstone in this tomb passage.

Zhang Xiaohong looked at Pei Miao and asked, "Why are you sure it's a seesaw? Do you know how to see through?"

The others also looked at Pei Miao with doubts on their faces, and they also wanted to know the reason.

Pei Miao looked at Zhang Xiaohong and said, "Your questioning attitude is exactly the same as when you questioned why I was sure this is the entrance."

Zhang Xiaohong felt embarrassed when she heard the words, coughed dryly, softened her tone, and said: "You said that the top door stone behind this door is a seesaw. This tomb does not seem to be that old, but judging from the polishing process and style of the door, it is very likely that it is from the Qing Dynasty, and the possibility of using a seesaw is really low."

The other three nodded one after another, and what Zhang Xiaohong said was exactly what they thought.

Pei Miao said: "The seesaw was eliminated because it was limited to cutting and polishing techniques. If the tomb door cannot be polished to a perfect fit, the top door stone of the seesaw is very easy to crack. However, after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the Qing Dynasty, the cutting and polishing techniques have reached However, in the Ming and Qing tombs excavated so far, there are still small gaps in the door of the tomb, which cannot be perfectly fitted, do you know why?"

Zhang Xiaohong said: "That's because the later top door stones need to be assisted by tools from the outside in order to put the top door stone back in place and withstand the tomb door. Although the auxiliary tools are small, they still need gaps."

"That's right." Pei Miao said, "Auxiliary tools need cracks in the door, but you can see that there is not even a single gap in the stone door, which means that no auxiliary tools were used, so the possibility of using a seesaw to top the door stone is very, very high. "

Pei Miao's explanation made everyone suddenly enlightened. They only thought about inferring the type of the top stone according to the age of the tomb, but forgot to observe these details.

The three team members' admiration for Pei Miao increased significantly again.

Zhang Xiaohong also agreed with Pei Miao's point of view. She asked, "Then what should we do now? How can we open this door."

Pei Miao said, "What else can I do, tear down the door."

"What!" Zhang Xiaohong frowned, "The amount of work is too large, and it may cause damage to the tomb door."

Pei Miao said: "This door is just a double-sided stone slab. It's okay to be slightly damaged. The things inside the tomb are the most important. Report it to the engineering team and tear down the door."

Zhang Xiaohong thought about it, and felt that this was the only way to go. She immediately took out her mobile phone, took pictures of the tomb door as a whole and its details, posted it in the group, and then reported the current findings and their inferences.

It has to be said that Zhang Xiaohong is still very kind. The credit for discovering the entrance and deducing the type of the doorway stone all belong to Pei Miao. Even though she is unhappy with Pei Miao, there is still a clear distinction between black and white.

Zhang Tongshou replied: "Wait a minute, let's discuss it."

They waited slowly in the pit.

After waiting for about 10 minutes, Zhang Tongshou replied: "We have discussed and decided to demolish the door. We have contacted the local cultural management department and asked them to contact the engineering team. Special personnel will contact you. Pay attention to verify the identity of everyone. Just in case something gets lost."

Zhang Xiaohong replied: "Got it."

Chat ends here.

Next, they climbed out of the pit along the ladder. Zhang Xiaohong contacted the police captain who was in charge of security at the scene and asked him to focus on protecting and inspecting the pit, and then went back to the hood with Pei Miao and the others.

Back in the tent, it was getting dark, Zhang Xiaohong and Zhao Jing went to cook, cooking in the field, the conditions were a bit missed, but the food cooked by these two girls was pretty good, everyone had a great time eating.

During the meal, everyone naturally chatted about the tomb, and the biggest topic was who the owner of the tomb was.

Li Yong even made a handicap, betting 50 yuan, and there was a prize quiz on the gender, dynasty, and identity of the owner of the tomb.

Everyone participated one after another, even Zhang Xiaohong bet, guessing that the owner of the tomb was a county king in the early Qing Dynasty.

Pei Miao also made a bet. He guessed that the owner of the tomb was the heir or lover of the county king of the Qing Dynasty. The others wanted to say they were the county king of the Qing Dynasty, but Zhang Xiaohong preempted him. He could only say that he was the son of the county king. Or lover, come on first, the scope of this answer is relatively wide, and come on second, it is also closer to his previous answer.