Cat Gu Notes

Most people would not be so stupid as to say that they should dig straight for the roof of the tomb with double-layer bricks like the tomb of the prince.

Of course it’s just ordinary people. Leopard was walking on the road and suddenly laughed loudly and said, “Come on, what a ghost! Boom!”

Xia Mingruo and his uncle jumped up and dragged the leopard behind the haystack for a good meal. The uncle struck the man's head from left to right: "Ghost Tingchou! Ghost Tingchou! Kill you ghost Tingchou! You are afraid that others will not know who we are. who!"

Xia Mingruo said: "Ah? What is Ghost Tingchou?"

"The slang is to use dynamite to blow up the tomb," Leopard explained, rubbing his back. "Once you blow it up, even ghosts will be afraid."

"Oh—" Xia Mingruo said, "I've learned a lot."

The uncle was very curious: "Could it be that you didn't understand what he said?"

Xia Mingruo waved his hand: "Actually, I didn't hear what he said, but I was keenly aware that uncle had the desire to beat someone."

Leopard still patted his back: "... Then you came to beat me?"

Xia Mingruo nodded seriously.

Xia Mingruo looked at them in turn, and then ran away: "Hai Hai save me!"

Chu Haiyang was looking for him, and hurriedly greeted him: "Why are you running around? Come here!"

Xia Mingruo asked: "What's wrong?"

Chu Haiyang said: "For a big project, tens of thousands of catties of charcoal may be piled up in the tomb passage."

"Huh?" Xia Mingruo said, "No filling?"

"Yes, but the rammed earth only accounts for a small half, and the rest is made up of charcoal and gravel. This shows that the owner of the tomb was buried hastily and hastily. But it's not a bad thing, it's easier to dig." Chu Haiyang dragged him to the construction site .

Villagers stood outside the barbed wire as usual, and inside the barbed wire the excavation team also surrounded concentric circles, and the center of the circle was the tomb entrance.

There is a winch at the entrance of the tomb, and the winch squeaks and turns, and the cable drags a small forklift to transport charcoal.Working in the tomb passage were a few archaeological team members and a dozen army soldiers. The old Captain Zhou was squatting beside him, wearing a ragged vest that looked like a chicken had been in his mouth, and shouted loudly: "Be careful!"

Seeing Chu Haiyang, he said anxiously, "Oh, why are you here now! Get ready, let's go down together!"

Chu Haiyang quickly undressed and rolled up his trousers.

The soldier squad leader was sweating profusely pushing the winch, and when he saw it, he said, "Ah? There is still a shortage of people down here? Then..."

He looked around: "Zhao Jiefang!"

"To!"

"And Wang Zhongguo! Go down!"

"No, no, no," the old man waved his hand, "Actually, we have to dig the aisle between the patios. This kind of aisle is particularly prone to collapse, especially when the stone is lifted and shakes. It is very dangerous. We must first provide support. Can we come. Squad leader, please remind the soldiers that once you find the aisle coupon bricks, return them immediately."

The squad leader obviously didn't understand the aisle and the bricks, so he shouted as the old man said in a daze: "Dug out the bricks—! People come out—!"

The people at the bottom started digging, and after a while they replied, "Bricks!——There are bricks!—"

Chu Haiyang held up the wooden support that had just been tied up and said, "Okay, I'm going down."

Xia Mingruo followed him.

Chu Haiyang asked him to go ahead: "Go, it's your turn. If the landslide occurs, you will be buried first."

Xia Mingruo casually said that you really have the adversity spirit of a revolutionary comrade, and that the landslide would happen if I didn't go down, so he and Captain Zhou walked into the tomb with the scaffolding on their shoulders.

The entrance to the tomb is about 1.8 meters and ten meters wide. If it was not destroyed later, the length should be more than ten meters.Because murals were found on both walls, a ten-centimeter protective soil layer was left on each side. After digging a section further, the accumulated soil near the murals could be peeled off with a thin bamboo dagger.

The tomb passage was dark and stuffy, and the PLA soldiers who went down first were waiting for them in front of the vault.

Captain Zhou unloaded his equipment: "This is the first time to pass through the cave, there will be more in the future, come on, work!"

Several people shrank their hands and feet to assemble the bracket in the narrow space, and the sound of wrenches and hammers was heard endlessly.

Limited to human, financial and material resources, the archaeological team excavated the tomb passage using the method of digging a hole, just like digging out a blocked tunnel according to the original traces. risk of landslides.

Fortunately, people have their own specialties. For example, the uncle is good at making holes, the leopard is good at explosives, and Xia Mingruo is miraculously good at making brackets. The fulcrum he finds is always the most accurate and the most powerful.Chu Haiyang was willing to bow down, saying that this was the excellent skill that Comrade Xia Mingruo had cultivated in countless opportunistic and opportunistic times in the past 20 years.

Dig, brace, dig, brace.

The aisle, patio, patio, aisle, and the tomb passage less than 20 meters have been dug for a whole week. This speed is not too much to call encroachment.

During this period, Xiao Shi never went to the construction site once.

("Teacher!" Shi Weidong hugged the old man's leg and hissed, "You called me here! It's not just for cooking, washing sheets, and rubbing your stinky socks?!")

There is a small niche in the middle of the two walls of each courtyard symbolizing the courtyard. Some of the niches are pottery figurines of male and female attendants, and some are rare birds and animals.

Through the gap between the big stones that seal the door, we can see that the door of the tomb is hewn from two whole huge stones, with a standing statue of Bodhisattva engraved on the front.The Bodhisattva's feet are on the blue waves, the Buddha's light is on his head, he is making mudras with his hands, his feet are bare, his face is like a full moon, his body is plump, his expression is gentle and calm, which is faintly the style of the early Tang Dynasty.

Most of the archaeologists are atheists, but they also stopped to worship, and then returned to the ground to discuss the opening of the tomb door, because whether it is opened inwards or outwards, there are great questions.

"Open to the outside." The old man wrote and drew on the ground with grass stalks, "It is very likely that there is mud accumulated in the corridor, so it will definitely not be pushed in."

Everyone reached an agreement immediately, so they called it quits early, and rushed to the construction site the next evening with the tools to open the tomb door.

After removing the door-sealing stone, I found that, oh, it should be opened outwards. There is a hinge, and after more than 1000 years, it can still turn freely. It doesn't take much effort to open the door.

Open the door and you will see the corridor, which is made of small bricks as a whole, with an arched roof, and there is ten centimeters of silt underground.

Xia Mingruo was the first to get in, and then mounted a brace on Chu Haiyang's neck, while the rest waited outside the corridor.

Chu Haiyang said: "Front is forward, back is backward, don't say 'here...over there...a little more here', where do you want me to go?"

Xia Mingruo raised his head: "Hey, you are really difficult to serve, I don't want you anymore, let me replace you with a leopard."

He struggled to twist the wire with the pliers, and shouted to the outside from time to time: "Where's the shelf? Bring the shelf!"

A large group of people coaxed the shelves to be passed in.At this time, I heard the old man growl: "Come out, everyone who is watching the excitement! The air inside is originally thin, what if you want to suffocate the two of them to death?!"

Old Captain Zhou added: "If you don't die from suffocation, you will also suffer from heat stroke!"

The excited archaeologists could only climb out of the tomb one by one, muttering, and Lao Zhou angrily educated them one by one.

The uncle fanned the flames: "Okay, okay, good scolding! There is no discipline at all!" Leopard followed his master with a smirk.

The old man looked at them, and the uncle felt guilty and wanted to hide, but the old man beckoned him to come forward.

"You..." said the old man.

"Li Yiji," the uncle bowed, "I'm Li Yiji."

"Oh, Mr. Li." The old man returned the salute, and both of them were quite old-fashioned.

The uncle waited for him to speak.

"I went down to have a look just now," the old man pointed to the ancient tomb, "There is a stone door at the end of the passage, with a forehead and a pedestal, and there are cheeks on both sides, and it seems that there are locks, which are more complicated than the first one. "

Uncle nodded.

"Go and drive."

The uncle suddenly raised his head and widened his eyes.

"My body was broken during the 'Cultural Revolution'. I didn't dare to enter the stuffy and claustrophobic places. I was afraid of going out of order, which would affect the work of young people." The old man said, "From my observation, Lao Zhou couldn't open the door. It's open. You have enough experience, why don't you take the students in for me and take care of them."

"Uh...I..."

"We won't go when you open the door," the old man added.

The uncle gave him a deep look, picked up two iron crowbars from the ground, and walked towards the tomb.The old man patted Leopard on the shoulder: "What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you help your master."

In the tomb passage, Xia Mingruo bent down and said, "It can't be done, all the sweat is pouring into my eyes..."

He looked at the only light with resentment: "It's so stuffy, I need oxygen..."

"Rest." Chu Haiyang said.

"You guys are resting, I don't have to rest." The uncle poked his head out in the dark, and said sarcastic words: "Oh, it's so cool here."

Xia Mingruo lay on Chu Haiyang's back, shocked, "How did you come down? So you beat the old man to death?"

The uncle gave him a blank look.

Xia Mingruo immediately pinched Chu Haiyang's neck and cried, "Yangyang—you asked him to pay back our old man's life!" Chu Haiyang asked, "Uncle, so the old man asked you to open the second tomb door?"

The uncle nodded, took out a long dagger from his pocket, inserted it into the crack of the door, picked it up and down, frowned and said, "The door latch is still made of mandarin ducks, no wonder it can't be opened."

Chu Haiyang squatted beside him, and Xia Mingruo was determined to be a parasite, so he couldn't get rid of him no matter how much he leaned on his back.The uncle smiled: "Don't waste your energy, Haiyang, this guy did it on purpose, he wants to rest."

"Then what do you think of this door?" Chu Haiyang could only maintain a hard posture and asked.

The uncle smiled and said, "Of course I can drive, it's just... a leopard!" He shouted, "Why are you so slow, silly boy!"

"Here we come, here we come!" Leopard ran panting along the cemetery with a small oil lamp in his hand, "Old... the old professor wants me to bring some more... huh... huh...tools!"

"Don't bring anything! The knife on your body