A legendary happy life

After sending Lin Ruyu away at the beginning of October, Xu Nanyu was free. In mid-October, the autumn auction also came to a successful conclusion. Taking advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Xu Nanyu and Li Tai returned to Xinzhou to pay respects to Mr. Li. I happily ate a reunion dinner, talked about small things, and felt at ease.

After the festival, Professor Hou saw that he had nothing to do and found him an errand, together with several teaching assistants, he went to clean up a king's tomb that had already been developed. There was no professor accompanying him, and Weidong Assistant was in charge of leading the team throughout the process.

Xu Nanyu patted her head. "Professor, how long will it take?"

"That's up to you. Of course you can come back as soon as you finish tidying up as soon as possible." Professor Hou said with a smile.

That is to say, after ten days of tidying up, I will come back in ten days, and after half a month of tidying up, I will come back in half a month?These old professors of his grandma really feel relieved that these boys are going to clean up the tomb of the king?Are you afraid that they will destroy the precious traces of history? !Xu Nanyu rolled her eyes inwardly, and asked, "Professor, where is the tomb of the king?"

Professor Hou said a place.

Xu Nanyu felt that the name of the place was familiar, and after thinking for a while, her heart skipped a beat. Isn't that...? !

After two days of rest, an eight-member archaeological team headed by assistant professor Wei Dong set off for the destination, took a half-day flight and then transferred to a train, got off the speed car and took a van the next day, staggered into the mountains, walked for half a day, and finally arrived.

A flat valley appeared in front of everyone, surrounded by mountains on all sides. The eastern peak was shorter and the sun rose and the sun just fell on the flat land. To the west, a river of three to four meters flowed at the junction of the peaks.

"There are mountains, water, sun, and wind. Our ancestors really knew where to choose." Assistant teacher Liu Wen said with a smile.

Wei Dong looked at him and sighed. "Who made our ancestors rich, powerful, and powerful? Do you think that the tomb of a king discovered today is not located in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers?" For these rich, powerful, and powerful royal children, Hua Da Building a majestic cemetery with money is just a trivial matter, like the emperors of all time, but they started digging the mausoleum the day they ascended the throne. After decades, how magnificent would that be? !Although the tomb of the king is not as good as the tomb of God, but he was born in the royal family after all, the conditions of the tomb are very high, and it will take several years to build it successfully. emperor.

After sighing, Wei Dong pointed to the side. "Go, the tomb of the king is over there."

When they came to the mausoleum area on the slope, a group of people looked at it casually and did not rush to start work. Instead, with the help of hired locals, they chose a place to set up tents and store daily necessities. Wei Dong presided over a simple small During the meeting, Xu Nanyu was assigned work during the meeting and took the relatively simple task of recording.

The owner of the royal tomb is a well-known prince in the Song Dynasty. The burial method adopted is similar to that of other royal families. After hundreds of years of crazy theft by tomb robbers, there are not many treasures left when the archaeological team excavates. Even the owner of the tomb I didn’t even see the coffin, so many old archeology professors almost broke their old teeth with hatred.

There are many burial pits in the king's tomb, and the detailed records of the soil and location of each pit are still short of examining the film and television materials left over from before. There are also two side rooms. After recording in the two side rooms, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and a group of people came to the main tomb after eating in a hurry.

In order to keep the main tomb as it was, the stone layer on the top of the head was not removed, and the sunlight near the door was limited, so Weidong had to order searchlights for lighting.

"Everyone has been busy for a few days. Let's work hard to finish things this afternoon, and try to go back tomorrow morning." Wei Dong, the leader's words, boosted morale very well. Xu Nanyu curled her lips secretly, waiting As soon as the secret was dug out by him, let alone go back tomorrow, there will be no sign after another month, thinking so much in my heart, I was very agreeable on the surface, rolled up my sleeves and worked super hard, and I was so busy until the sun went down that it was far away to eat casually I continued to work on something, and finally there was only the last item left at eleven o'clock.

Wei Dong supported his waist and thumped, his words were full of exhaustion. "Finally, I'm almost busy. The last item is to pry open the floor bricks to see the soil under the stone bricks." The floor bricks are hard and strong. It is a physical effort to pry them open and then dig the soil below. .

Xu Nanyu watched Wei Dong's eyes turn around his face, and immediately jumped away. "Brother Wei Dong, don't look at me, look at my small arms and legs, I won't even think about going down the mountain tomorrow if I finish this job."

Wei Dong rolled his eyes speechlessly. "You are very self-aware."

Xu Nanyu smiled and patted her head.

Another assistant coach waved his sore hand and said, "Let's take a rest for half an hour, that's about it, it's not too short of time."

"Okay, let's rest where we are. Assistant Professor Wang will ask the employees to prepare some supper, so that we can have a good night's sleep after we're done."

"Row."

After resting for 10 minutes, Wei Dong took the lead and led the two teaching assistants to carefully pry open the floor tiles, prying off more than a dozen pieces and leaving two complete ones as specimens, and dug out the soil under the stone bricks according to the holes opened.

Xu Nanyu hurriedly sealed some plastic bags and kept them as specimens. "These are still fine sand. They should be filled in. Brother Wei, how much fine sand should be filled under the tomb of a king's tomb like this?"

"The common one is half a meter. If the owner of the tomb is highly valued by the emperor, it may be about one meter. If the owner of the tomb is not valued or is hated by the emperor, it may be less than half a meter." Don't pay attention to it, cut corners and cut corners, the supervisor has bribes, so naturally he will turn a blind eye and close his eyes; otherwise, the emperor will send a special person to inspect after the tomb is completed, and the result of cutting corners will lose his head, so no one dares dry.

"Then how deep do you think the tomb is?" Xu Nanyu asked curiously seeing Weidong digging hard.

"About one meter. The identity of the owner of this king's tomb has been confirmed. He is the emperor's biological younger brother. He has the same father and the same mother. He is very popular with the former emperor and queen mother. The emperor also likes this prince very much..." the voice said It came to an abrupt end, because there was already loess under the fine sand soil under Weidong's digging, and it was only about ten centimeters deep according to visual inspection.

Xu Nanyu feigned surprise and widened her eyes. "Actually, the emperor doesn't like this younger brother at all?"

Liu Wen watched from the side. "The records in the history books should not be wrong. The emperor loves this prince more than all the other princes. Not to mention personally presiding over the Chaodu sacrifice and other things, it is also rumored that this mausoleum site was also selected by the emperor."

Xu Nanyu scratched her head and whispered. "Would you like to dig further?"

Wei Dong thought for a while and nodded. "Also."

Xu Nanyu also came to help with a shovel. Seeing Wei Dong jokingly looking at him, she rubbed her ears embarrassedly and said, "Anyway, that's all it takes. Don't you finish it early?"

After several shovelfuls of yellow soil were loosened, another handful of fine sand was dug up. Weidong looked at it with the shovel. "Why is it fine sand again? And Liu Wen, look, is this fine sand better than the quality just now?"

Wearing gloves, Liu Wen looked at the light with a magnifying glass and nodded. "It's indeed better than the one just now."

A much-loved prince's tomb can't keep up with ordinary royal children?It doesn't make sense, what's even more strange is that there is still loess buried under the fine sand, and then the fine sand is dug out, and the quality is better than the above?You must know that under the strict system of the imperial system in ancient times, building mausoleums was related to people's life after death. The imperial family who believed in this fantasy would not allow such small mistakes, no matter how you look at it. There is a kind of weirdness.

With this question in mind, Wei Dong asked Xu Nanyu to dig further down. The fine sand layer was dug more than one meter and the bottom was not visible. In addition to the height of the original digging, the hole was almost buried in the two chests. When he got excited, he insisted on digging to the end, so he dug several more shovels. Weidong's wrist felt numb when he hit a hard object with the shovel.

"What is it?" Xu Nanyu learned from Wei Dong's mistakes, and gently shoveled away the layer of fine sand, revealing a layer of whitish stone.

Wei Dong threw away the shovel and took the flashlight that Liu Wen handed over to carefully scrape through the fine sand. "This is the stone slab dedicated to the top floor of the ancient tomb." Hastily asked Xu Nanyu to go up, Weidong swept away all the fine sand in the pit, and the ground with a diameter of nearly 1.5 meters did not see the cracks of the stone slab, which means that the place below them A stone slab is more than 1.5 meters in width and length.

"This is?!" Liu Wen's eyes were also full of solemnity. It is impossible for the stone slab used for the top surface to go under the tomb without reason.

Footsteps could be heard in the corridor. It should be that the hired workers came to deliver the supper. Wei Dong didn't need to direct. Xu Nanyu and Liu Wen led the teaching assistants who had been watching just now and quickly re-buried the stone slab with soil.When the hired worker brought in the noodles, Wei Dong purposely scolded Liu Wen angrily, "I want you to be careful, but you're ignoring the wind? Well, a few hours of hard work will be wasted!"

Liu Wen apologized sincerely, and another teaching assistant who knew the two people's intentions comforted them, saying that Liu Wen was not to blame for the loss of the materials, but fortunately the rescue was effective, and it only took an hour to re-exclude them.

The hired worker is a big man with five big and three rough, and he didn't think too much after hearing the words, he went out after clearing up the bowls that everyone had eaten, and praised everyone's courage when he heard that everyone had to be busy for another hour.

As soon as the hired worker left, Wei Dong turned his eyes around the faces of the seven people. "What's your opinion?"

Xu Nanyu knew the bottom line, but in order not to make people suspicious in the future, she pretended to think like everyone else.

Liu Wen adjusted his glasses and said. "Make the most daring guess, there is a tomb below, and it is an unusual tomb."

Hearing this, everyone took a deep breath. They are all archaeological researchers, and they all know that the tomb within the tomb under the royal tomb must be of great significance. Moreover, the size of the stone slab is enough to make people think about it.

Liu Wen glanced at everyone's faces, and said without hesitation: "But we can't open it."

"Not bad." Wei Dong pursed his lips and took the conversation. "If there is a tomb below, no matter who the owner of the tomb is, we can't open it. First, we don't have enough personnel and equipment. If we open it rashly, it will definitely cause damage to the tomb. Second, opening the tomb will definitely cause a lot of noise and attract I am afraid that the local people will issue photos of the situation at that time, and I am afraid it will be out of our control.” Many archaeological discoveries were opened rashly due to insufficient equipment, which resulted in the oxidation of many precious cultural relics, causing irreparable losses, and there were also insufficient personnel. The incidents that caused locals to loot and leave many cultural relics unaccounted for, no matter which of the two incidents, these research teaching assistants could not bear it.

"Then how can we be sure if it's a tomb below? Or should I inform the professors to come over tomorrow?" A teaching assistant hesitated and said, everyone is an adult, just because a stone slab looks like the same one, all the grass and trees are like soldiers. Tell them about the rigorous learning attitude of the archeology department. Not compatible.

Xu Nanyu thought for a while and said, "Maybe there is a way."

"any solution?"

"Dig another hole on the opposite side and see if the situation is the same."

Weidong discussed with the other teaching assistants, and felt that this method was feasible. He sent one person to guard the entrance of the tomb to prevent the hired workers from suddenly entering. A layer of fine sand, then a layer of soil, then a layer of fine sand, and then slate.

This result makes people happy and sad. The happy thing is that there is a tomb below, and the worry is whether they can keep this secret. If they can't keep it, the distant water can't save the thirsty, then they are the sinners of history!