I dig ancient tombs for the country

"Go west, go west." Sato immediately ordered the Japanese to fish out all the bamboo slips, and they were taken to a dry highland along with the coffin.

The coffin was a sarcophagus made of white marble. There were 19 characters engraved in two lines on the coffin. These characters were neither in oracle bone script nor seal script.

When we opened the sarcophagus, we were shocked again. There were no dead bodies or human bones in the coffin, but all bronze, porcelain, pottery and lacquerware.There are even many orphans among them, but Sato's eyes are shining with golden light.

Hongmao and I suddenly felt a sense of uneasiness in our hearts, and this feeling of shooting ourselves in the foot became more and more intense.

Finally, when cleaning the contents of the coffin, I found a copper plate with exquisite workmanship. The gold and silver mixed craftsmanship made everyone's eyes shine. This is obviously the oldest and most complete map of the bronze mausoleum.

This staggered gold and silver copper plate is also a schematic diagram of the ground plan of the construction of the ancient tomb. The main material is copper, the structural frame is gold, and its layout design lines are all silver.In the middle of the picture, there are five halls inlaid with gold pieces, the hall of the king, the hall of mourning, the hall of the queen and the halls of two ladies.The detailed positions of the two palace walls are marked with silver lines in the picture.

From the inscription of the word "Xia" on a copper pot, it can be seen that there is a tomb of the Xia Dynasty here. Due to the relatively long time and the movement of the earth's crust, the tomb was submerged in water, making these items float on the ground. into the water.

Sato looked at the copper plate map with gold and silver, and his eyes became brighter the more he looked at it. I just wanted to ask him if you can understand it?Unexpectedly, Sato laughed "haha". He pointed to one of the locations for us to see: "Look, does this location look like where we are now?"

I carefully looked at the red curve marked on the copper plate, and then looked at the surrounding terrain. Not only did I secretly admire Sato, his eyes were so poisonous that he could even understand this ancient palace and tomb map. Come to the next step, Sato is going to dig the grave.

Sure enough, Sato began to search for the tombs of the Xia Dynasty according to the location of the underground palace marked on the map. Since the surrounding area was surrounded by waist-deep water, it took us a lot of trouble to find it.It wasn't until we saw a statue in a low-lying area that we found the entrance to the dungeon.

This statue is the statue of Dayu, the father of Qi, the founder of the Xia Dynasty. Dayu wore a large bamboo hat and held a handful of Lei in his hand.

Just behind the stone statue, there is a dark hole. Unfortunately, the hole has long been filled with water, and none of the Japanese dared to go down the hole.

Sato Sanben narrowed his eyes and stared at Hongmao and me slyly. We both felt a little bad, and this guy was playing tricks on the two of us again.

"Jin Tao, Su Ming, what do you two think?"

I hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Now the cave is full of water, I'm afraid the things inside have been destroyed long ago. Besides, we don't know the terrain inside, and we won't be able to get out if we don't."

Sato nodded: "What you said is true. However, we have encountered this ancient tomb from the Xia Dynasty. If you don't go in and check it out, wouldn't you regret it for the rest of your life? Well, I'll take four people with you. One person went in to investigate, and the rest of the people stood by and were not allowed to leave without my order."

"Hi," the group of Japanese agreed, and stood aside in a well-behaved manner, waiting for us to go down the cave.

Under the watchful eyes of Sato Tiger Sanben, Hongmao and I were forced to go into the cave first, and he led four skilled henchmen to follow closely behind.

The cave is not only dark but the water is also relatively deep. We walked all the way through the water for a few minutes, and a city wall made of mountains and rocks appeared in front of us. Unfortunately, the gate of the city wall has been corroded by water, and the remaining half of the gate It looked a little awkward there.

Entering through the gate, one can see the locations of the halls and the two palace walls.On both sides of the main hall gate, there are two stone-carved mythical beasts, whose beards, claws, and tails are all carved with extremely exquisite patterns.

The four Japanese next to Sato Sanmoto walked into the royal hall immediately.The walls of the hall are already mottled and disfigured, but the stone pillars, thresholds, and lintels are still clearly identifiable.The surrounding ground is full of water, and we saw some bronze wares, ritual vessels, musical instruments, etc. floating on the water from a long distance. Due to the year-round soaking in the water, some of those wares have already rotted, and some of them are stained with green rust.

Looking at the rotten artifacts, several of us shouted: "What a pity." These are all things from the Neolithic Age and the early Bronze Age, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are orphans.

Among them, there are quite a few bronze vessels with inscriptions, but unfortunately we can't understand the characters on them. Some characters look closer to pictographic characters, and we can't tell why.

We also found several utensils made of stones from the water, including a weird stone basin with a large mouth and a small bottom, inside which were placed several strangely shaped striped stones, with exquisite striped patterns engraved on the outside of the basin .

All the way through the water, we went directly to the Hall of Lamentation behind, which is also full of water.The arches and dome in this tomb are built with bricks, and there is an obvious robbery hole in the middle of the roof. The outside sunlight shines in through the hole, making the tomb transparent and bright.

From the robbery hole, it is not difficult to see that this place has been stolen successively, but the tomb robbers left heavy and difficult-to-carry utensils.

The four Japanese who followed Sato looked around while wading through the water. When they saw the sarcophagus on the stone platform in the middle of the tomb, they rushed towards the sarcophagus in unison.

Just one meter away from the stone platform, the four people suddenly screamed "Ah!", and then we saw an extremely astonishing picture, the four people seemed to be surrounded by an inexplicable water flow , They couldn't go forward if they wanted to go forward, they couldn't retreat if they wanted to go back, they seemed to be trapped inside, each of them was terrified, their faces were as pale as paper.

The three of us were taken aback. Sato Sanben stared at the torrent, and casually asked Hongmao and me who were standing aside: "What do you two think? Is there a mechanism here?"

We both shook our heads, wondering why such a weird thing happened.Sato Sanben stared intently at the torrent and suddenly said: "I know what's going on. There is a sinkhole under the water here, which is the drainage device of this tomb. It is used to adjust the water level and the water circulation system. of."

Well, it makes sense, no wonder the water in this tomb has been kept at the waist level, if there is not this tiankeng, it will inevitably be flooded by water long ago.Looking at that place carefully, as Sato said, the water there seems to be constantly rotating, and this invisible tiankeng is swallowing the surrounding water every day, and the water is excreted in the water circulation system. outside the tomb.