Treasure Hunt Memo

Chapter 6
Hearing that he dug the tomb with a shovel, Ah Fei couldn't help being surprised and delighted, "Brother Li, can you tell what kind of tomb this is?"

"Just looking at the bricks, I really can't tell. We can use a few more shovels to see, come, come here and try another shovel." I took a few steps forward and pointed to a location.

A Fei took the Luoyang shovel, walked to the place where my finger was, and knocked the Luoyang shovel down, one section, two sections... This time it was fully the eighth section, and Afei's movements stopped.

"Anything else?"

"Yes, I'll knock twice." A Fei knocked on the steel pipe a few more times.This time it was pulled up as expected, and a few pieces of broken clay bricks were brought up.

"Looks pretty close, there is indeed a tomb down here." I couldn't help being excited, and I really complied with that sentence.Unexpectedly, after searching for a long time, we couldn't find the hole that Uncle Le said. Instead, A Fei forcibly knocked out an ancient tomb.

The tomb that Uncle Le mentioned has already been raided, but this newly discovered tomb is likely to be an untouched one.

Then, under the huge temptation, we shoveled down a few times one after another, and roughly figured out a general direction of the tomb, so we pressed the position from side to side. Since this section itself is along the road going down the dead man's bag, the Luoyang shovel was used. The number of sections is also decreasing.

After an unknown number of shovels, the steel pipe we used for shoveling has been reduced to two sections.Both A Fei and I were very excited, which meant that the tomb was less than two meters away from us in a straight line, and we seemed to have seen the dawn of victory.

The two of us put down the shovels in hand and began to look around the surrounding environment.However, just looking at it this way, we saw a scene that made us both vomit blood and go crazy.

I saw an earth pit on the hillside not far below. There were scattered fallen leaves and dead branches in the pit, which formed a sharp contrast with the thick layer of fallen leaves around.There are still messy footprints and traces of dragging things in the pit.When we ran to the pit, the black hole that was originally in the blind spot due to the curvature of the hillside suddenly appeared in front of us.

"Damn it! @/&*%~" We both cursed almost in unison.

The new tomb that the two of us scrapped so hard to think we found is still the one that Uncle Le said.If I knew it earlier, I would have taken two more steps, and it would have saved me so much effort.

At this moment, I was holding back my anger and just wanted to scold people, but when I thought about it, A Fei was the main force when I just got off the shovel, wouldn't he be more wronged than me.

I patted Ah Fei on the shoulder and comforted me: "Anyway, we have found this tomb by ourselves. This is our original goal, right?"

Ah Fei looked at me and nodded, but his face was full of tears.

Then we both turned our attention to the pit and hole in front of us.

To be honest, this hole cannot be said to be unlike the scene in my dream, it can only be said to have nothing to do with it.Probably the only similarity between the two is that they both have a hole...

After careful observation, I found some remains of explosives in the pit.It seems that this hole was left after the blasting of explosives. I am afraid that this is the real reason for the loud noise from the mouths of Uncle Le and the village chief.

I checked the time, it was just two o'clock in the afternoon.

"Are you ready?" I took a deep breath and patted Ah Fei beside me.

"Ready!" A Fei also took a deep breath, but one couldn't hold back and collapsed.

"Your uncle, can you be more serious at critical moments. Follow me for a while, don't fumble around after you go in, and listen to my instructions." I was amused by A Fei, and I took out the flashlight on the outside of the backpack with my left hand while talking with my right hand. Hold on tight to the folding sapper shovel.

A Fei also followed suit and stood quietly behind me.

I leaned forward, came to the entrance of the cave, and took a light with the flashlight. It seemed that there was something reflecting the light of the flashlight in the distance.

I greeted Ah Fei, and we got into the hole one after the other.

I have to say that this hole is really shabby, so small that I can only crawl in with my body bent.The front section is almost a passage dug out of the soil.Getting up was dirty and rushing, exuding a pungent earthy smell, the flashlight passed by, and the air was full of floating fine dust.

Suddenly, I stopped.Immediately behind, A Fei's head hit my butt.

"What's the matter, Brother Li, why did it stop suddenly?" Ah Fei crawled backwards a few steps, very puzzled.

"Here we are." I used the flashlight to shine forward, and a few meters away, an arched gray-white stone door appeared in our field of vision, but one of the door leaves had fallen off and lay quietly in front of the door.

I climbed closer and saw that the stone gate was very exquisite as a whole. The gateposts on both sides were carved with patterns resembling the ascension of immortals, and the arched gate beams were carved with patterns of chariots and horses marching in array.On the door leaf is a huge divine bird, holding a ring with complex patterns on its paws, forming a symmetrical pattern with the door lying on the ground.I shone a flashlight through the fallen door, and there seemed to be a lot of space inside.

In fact, at this moment, I have begun to have some doubts.

The pattern on the tomb door looks somewhat familiar, very similar to the stone portraits I saw in the Han Dynasty Stone Carvings Exhibition of Shandong Museum, and my intuition seems to tell me that this is not like a tomb of the Warring States Period.

It wasn't until Ah Fei pushed me from behind that I came back to my senses, thinking that I didn't come here for archaeology, so why bother so much.

After climbing in from the fallen door frame, the whole space became larger, and we both stood up, thinking about the space from the time we entered the hole to the space behind the door. "The beginning is very narrow, only to be able to understand people, after dozens of steps, suddenly become enlightened."It seems that those who interpret Taohuayuan as a tomb on the Internet are not completely unreasonable.

Ah Fei and I used a flashlight to look at where we are now. It should be in the corridor of this tomb. The whole space looks a bit like a windowless train carriage. There is a narrow passage at the end. Follow another section of the corridor.

Where we are now, the walls on both sides and the dome above our heads are made of huge bluestone bricks. The overall appearance is very rough, which forms a great contrast with the exquisite tomb door just now.

I asked Ah Fei to follow me, and then proceeded cautiously. After walking about ten meters, this section of the corridor was considered to be at the end. After the first few stone steps, there was a short narrow passage. The corridor is much longer than before, and the decoration of this section is obviously a lot more elegant.

Under the light of the flashlight, we found that the walls on both sides were made of many small pieces of portrait bricks, and looking up, the dome had also become a circular arc, painted with some curly brown patterns like cloud patterns, I don't know if it's because of the light, but the color looks very pale.

A Fei and I slowly groped forward, and gradually some figures appeared in our field of vision. They were some terracotta figurines about one meter high. Looking from a distance, I only felt that the shape was a bit strange, like a human shape and a bit weird. Arranged on both sides of the corridor.

The road in this section is not too narrow, and at some point, Ah Fei has already come to my side, walking side by side with me.

I saw that his flashlight had been focusing on those terracotta figurines, as if he was quite interested in these novel things.I continued to scan the surrounding environment and monitor everything around me.

Gradually, we are getting closer and closer to those terracotta figurines...

Suddenly, I felt something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted "stop".A Fei beside me was also startled by my sudden cry, froze in place, and looked at me with a face of fear.

"Look at that!" I shook the ground in front of me with the flashlight.

I saw two rectangular pits on the road ahead where the terracotta figurines "welcome the road". We can't see how deep they are from our side, but there is only a shoulder-length space between the two pits for us to walk. Width.

Ah Fei was really taken aback, and asked me tremblingly, "Damn, Li...Brother Li, what is that?"

"Go and have a look, be careful!" I slowly moved forward, walked to the front, and looked into the pit on the left with light.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but take a deep breath.The rectangular pit on the left seems to be four or five meters deep. It is covered with knives that resemble bronze daggers, and there are several wooden boards and stones scattered on it.This reminded me of the anti-theft mechanism mentioned in the archaeological program - the chain flap. As long as the tomb robber steps on the wooden board, he will immediately fall into the pit.

It's just that the chain flap in front of him has been destroyed.

When I looked to the right again, Ah Fei was already squatting by the pit with a terrified expression.

"A Fei, I haven't seen you afraid of heights in four years of college?" I joked with a smile.

But A Fei pointed to the pit and stammered, "Dead...there are...dead people."

I looked into the pit in the direction that Ah Fei pointed, and saw a person lying on the knife array in the pit on the right, and he was wearing modern clothes.

"It should be from the group of tomb robbers. No wonder the wooden boards on both sides were destroyed." I was still joking about A Fei, but now I feel very uncomfortable.

As a good citizen who grew up in a society ruled by law, I have never seen such battles.But even so, I have to pretend to be calm, if even I get confused, this trip will be completely useless.

I comforted Ah Fei a few words, saying that someone opened the way for us.She patted him on the back and pulled him up, ready to move on.

At this time, I began to pay attention to the pottery figurines on both sides of the corridor. They were all wearing ancient robes, but their heads were not human. There were snakes, rats, monkeys, and pigs...

"It seems to be twelve zodiac signs, six on each side. What kind of welcome is this? It's clearly sending people to bliss. If anyone patronizes them and doesn't pay attention to their feet, they really have to report it."

I believe that it is no coincidence that the chain flaps are set between the terracotta figurines. It seems that this tomb is still full of dangers, and if you are careless, you may be ruined here.

Holding our breath, Ah Fei and I walked carefully through this shoulder-width road, and at the end of the road there were several stone steps and a narrow passage.After passing through in turn, we came to a wide stone room.

(End of this chapter)