I dig ancient tombs for the country

Early the next morning, Hongmao and I went to the house of the village secretary, who was the fifth uncle of my family.

When he understood our reason for coming, his excited lips trembled, and it took him a long time to say: "You son of a bitch, you are a good kid in our village!"

Next, I submitted the report on reclamation of barren hills and the detailed orchard planting situation to the party secretary. The party secretary said that he had to submit an application to the government first, and asked me to prepare everything for starting the work. Once the application was approved, the work would start immediately.

Hongmao and I were ready to leave happily, when Jin Bao, the youngest son of the branch secretary, interjected: "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, you two, go and see the roads in our village, and when the fruits in your orchards are ripe, you can see them." Pull it out and sell it?"

One sentence hits the point, yes, the road in our village has not been repaired, because a mountain blocks the way, if you want to go to the county, you have to climb over that mountain.For many years, this road has been a heart problem for everyone. If the road is not well repaired, it will be useless to build an orchard. If the fruit cannot be pulled out, it will rot on the tree.

When I was young, my friends and I wanted to go to the county town to take a bath. We always got up in the middle of the night and ran across the mountains and mountains to the county town. Although it was only a distance of more than 20 miles, it was too dark every time we came back, and we had to climb the mountain twice. easy!

Thinking of this, I waved my hand: "Then build the road first."

The branch secretary looked at me and said, "You son of a bitch, you have to think about it. There is no fund for road construction in the village, nor in the town. If you want to build roads, you have to pay for it yourself."

"No problem, please take the time to report to the higher authorities about the road construction. The two of us are going to raise cash right now, so that we can start work as soon as possible."

The old party secretary's face turned into chrysanthemum threads, and he smiled and pointed at the village committee's horn: "I'm going to shout out and mobilize the villagers in the whole village to prepare for the specific matters of road construction."

The branch secretary is a vigorous and resolute person, and he will do what he says.The loudspeaker in the village department rang immediately, and the party secretary’s voice sounded very excited: “Folks, I have some good news for you, it’s the cowards in our village, no, Jin Tao, and Huang Ming from Huang Jiansheng’s family. When they came back, the two of them wanted to lead everyone to become rich and reclaim barren hills to plant fruit trees. For this kind of fruit trees, we had to build roads first. Road building has always been a major issue in our village. Because there is no funding, the roads in our village have not been repaired. Now, Jin Tao and Huang Ming have to build the road with their own pockets. I hope everyone will support and work together to complete this great task. Every household must provide a labor force. Many people are powerful. If you have any good suggestions, You can report to the village committee."

All the young and old in the village were excited when they heard that the road was going to be built.This road in the village has always been a worry for everyone. If you want to start a business, you can’t go out. If you want to sell food or something to make a little money, you have to go around the county and come back. It’s too troublesome. Tofu has become the price of meat.

When we were strolling in the village, we heard those folks gathering in groups of three or four, talking about building roads and building orchards. Every one of them had joyful smiles on their faces, even the children They also ran happily to each other, shouting: "We need to build roads, build roads!"

Not to mention me and Hongmao, my heart is sweeter than eating honey, and I am more happy.It is our lifetime honor to do something good for the folks.

Soon, the application for road construction was approved.The whole village was full of excitement, and every household worked hard. Several aunts and sisters-in-law took the initiative to take on the task of cooking. We, a group of old men with a total of more than 200 people, started the road construction project in a mighty way.

Everyone dispatched cars, contributed their efforts, and the atmosphere on the construction site was unprecedentedly lively.The mountain blocked the passage to the county seat. We planned to rely half on manpower and half on explosives.

Although the mountain is not steep, there are many rocks. The soil here is the uncommon red clay, which is thick and sticky, and the content of iron oxide in the red clay is high. After the road is repaired, a red clay can be built Pottery factory.

The prospect is good, but doing it is another thing.We spent a lot of manpower and material resources on this mountain, and finally blasted a big hole, the width of which is just enough for two cars to pass through.In the cheers of everyone, several large bluestone slabs appeared in the blasted hole, and these bluestone slabs were also engraved with exquisite patterns.

Amidst everyone's astonishment, Hongmao and I carefully inspected the bluestone slabs.Finally, it was concluded that there was probably a large tomb buried in this mountain.I immediately called curator Ye in the provincial capital.

Curator Ye was officially transferred to the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau a few years ago as the director.He was very excited when he heard that an ancient tomb had been dug out because of road construction in our village, and he brought people over overnight.

The County Bureau of Cultural Relics also rushed over after hearing the news and assisted the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics to start excavating ancient tombs.After everyone pried open the stone slab, a 38-meter-long tomb passage appeared.On the walls on both sides of the tomb passage, large and exquisite murals were found.The murals depict a large procession of guards of honor consisting of 53 people. At the front are green dragons and white tigers about 4 meters long, and 35 mythical beasts are painted behind them.

When those archaeological experts saw these exquisite murals, they all burst into laughter. They hugged each other excitedly, congratulated loudly, and agreed that an emperor was buried here.

Director Ye happily said to Hongmao and me: "You two are doing a good job. If you didn't blow up the mountain and build the road, this tomb might continue to sleep peacefully in the soil. You have contributed a lot."

Passing through the tomb passage, everyone saw a magnificent tomb chamber, and on both sides of the gate of the tomb chamber stood two huge epitaphs.

Through the text on the epitaph, we know that the tomb of Gao Wei, the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, has been dug up. Although Gao Wei is stupid and innocent, he is a real emperor after all, and it is also of great value for the study of ancient history.

However, there is a half-meter-thick diamond wall at the gate of the tomb. In addition, eight huge 8-ton granites were placed on the tomb wall.Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment, how did this get in?

Director Ye looked at Hongmao and me, but in desperation, we had no choice but to walk out.After careful study, they came to a conclusion that the door of the tomb was completely sealed by these stones, probably to prevent tomb robbers, they also specially installed quicksand and pebbles on the ceiling of the tomb.

If someone opens the door of the tomb, a lot of quicksand and pebbles will fall, blocking the door of the tomb, making it impossible for the tomb robbers to survive.

When everyone learned of this situation, they were frowning and didn't know what to do.

I pointed to the tomb path in front of the tomb door: "Don't worry, everyone, these boulders and quicksand are not harmful."

"Oh!" Everyone looked at me meaningfully.

Facing everyone's expectant eyes, I talked eloquently: "Everyone knows the principle of levers and mine tunnels, right? Let's use levers to push down the boulders and diamond walls blocking the door, and then use the tunnels to avoid these quicksands and cobblestones." .”

Everyone's eyes were filled with hope immediately, and they looked at me differently.