Treasure Hunt Memo

Chapter 7 Qi Xiaowang

If the first two sections are corridors, then this room should be the front room of the entire tomb.Through the light of the flashlight, I noticed that there is a raised stone platform in the center of the tomb. There are stone pillars standing on the four azimuth corners of the stone platform, and there seems to be an ever-burning lamp on each of them.

Under normal circumstances, the eternal lamp in the tomb cannot be lit.

Originally, the tomb had been closed for a long time. If the lamp was lit again, the burning would accelerate the consumption of oxygen in the tomb, which was definitely not a good thing for the people in it.

But thinking that this tomb has been open for a long time, there shouldn't be such a problem, so I motioned to Ah Fei to light these long-burning lamps together.

As the four permanent lamps were turned on, the entire tomb room suddenly lit up.

A Fei and I looked around and found that the structure of this front room is actually very simple.

The entire tomb is square, except for the wall connected to the passageway, there is a door on each of the other three walls connecting to other tombs.In the center of the tomb is a square stone platform. The ash on the stone platform is very thick, and there are some round and square marks and footprints on the dust.

It seems that there were some funerary goods on the stone platform, and it is estimated that they have been removed by the previous group.

"That group of people belong to bandits, right? Wherever they go, they don't leave a blade of grass." Looking at the clean front room, my heart was already chilled a lot, and looking at Ah Fei's expression, he also had a wry smile on his face .

"Brother Li, where do you think we should go next?" Ah Fei pointed to the three walls respectively, waiting for my order.

I have put a lot of effort into the preparations before going down to the tomb. Now that Ah Fei asks, I will tell him about it by the way.

"According to the basic structure of the tomb, the location opposite to the direction we came from should be the location of the main tomb, where the coffin of the owner of the tomb is placed, and the other two sides are the ear chambers, which are mainly for the funerary objects. Why don't we go there first to see See?" As I spoke, I pointed to the location of the left ear chamber.

It is estimated that Ah Fei also did not want to have a meeting with the owner of the tomb after a thousand years. He heard that he would go to the left ear room first, and hurriedly nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. Then he took the first step and entered the left ear room with a flashlight.

Immediately afterwards, I heard his voice coming from inside, "Damn it, come quickly!"

"What's all the fuss about?" As soon as I entered the left ear room, I was also stunned by the scene in front of me.

The area of ​​the entire left ear room is not large, less than a quarter of the front room, but the area near the wall in the room is full of all kinds of pottery, such as pottery pots, pottery warehouses, pottery tripods... It can be seen People are dazzled, and the most surprising thing is that there is a hill in the center of various pottery piles...

I took a closer look and found that it was actually made of copper coins. It is no exaggeration to say that the weight of this mountain of money can definitely be measured in tons.

At this moment, the doubts in my heart surfaced again.

The mountain of money in front of you can be seen to be full of five baht from the Western Han Dynasty.Coupled with the Han Dynasty-style stone carvings and common pottery of the Han Dynasty that I saw before, it seems that all of them indicate that this tomb is a Western Han tomb.

This mountain of money also reminds me of the tomb of Marquis Haihun, which was excavated a few years ago, where a mountain of five baht coins weighing several tons also appeared.Could it be that the owner of this tomb was also a prince of the Han Dynasty?
"Did we post it..." Ah Fei looked at the things in front of him, his voice trembling a little.

"These pottery are not very valuable, and they still take up space. If you take them out, they are estimated to cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a piece." I pointed to the pottery in the distance, and then pointed to Qian Shandao, "This is the fifth pottery of the Western Han Dynasty. Baht, it is estimated to be three or four hundred yuan a catty, you can make up hundreds of thousands if you do the math, can we recite it."

After being poured with cold water by me, Ah Fei also calmed down, and muttered: "No wonder these are left behind, they are all worthless things."

It seems that the gang of tomb robbers are also very sophisticated, they only pick out valuable ones, and the ones removed in the front room are probably bronze sacrificial vessels.

"Let's go to the right ear room to see. This side is basically pottery and money, and there may be bronzes or gold and silver wares over there." I said so, but I didn't have much hope in my heart, good thing They will not be soft.

Sure enough, when the two of us walked into the right ear room, there were very few things left in the whole room. There were only a few lacquered wooden utensils by the wall, including small lacquered wooden square bottles, ear cups, boxes, and more. There are several plain small tripods and a broken bronze mirror.

It seems that there should have been a lot of bronze wares in this ear room, but they have been almost wiped out. The few lacquered wood wares are priceless things, probably because the previous partner didn't like them, so they kept them .

Seeing Ah Fei's expression of wanting to cry but no tears, I was also very helpless, and comforted me: "Actually, those lacquered wood utensils are quite high-grade, they are not heavy, and they can be sold for some money." Let A Fei throw away the useless things in the bag and pack some lacquered wood utensils.

While he was loading things, I carefully checked the remaining small tripods, and found that there were indeed no inscriptions in them. They were ordinary practical utensils at that time, and even if they were put on the market, they could only be sold for a few thousand yuan.

Suddenly, Ah Fei, who was loading things at the side, shook me with a flashlight and shouted: "There seems to be something inside." He shook the lacquered wooden box in his hand, and there was the sound of gold and stone colliding inside.

I heard that I hurried to A Fei, took the things, and let A Fei shine.

It was a square box with a length, width and height of about ten centimeters. The whole body of the box was vermilion in color, with very thin black curved lines on it, like a dragon or some kind of plant, and the curls dotted the whole box.

As soon as this thing is started, there is a heavy pressing feeling.This is definitely not the weight that ordinary lacquered woodware should have. It seems that there are indeed a lot of things inside, and I am also excited.

In A Fei's expectant eyes, I slowly opened the lid of the wooden box.What catches the eye is dozens of seals of all kinds, including jade, bronze, and wood... At a rough glance, they are all in the shape of typical Han seals. Bai's seal script seal words dazzled both of us.

"Damn, Brother Li, what are these?" Ah Fei thought it was fun, picked one up casually, looked at the printed text on it, and put it back if he couldn't understand it.

I also picked up a few at random, Chen Ping's private seal, Kong Xing's private seal, Song Guanghong's seal... It seems that these seals do not belong to the owner of the tomb. Seal is a common form of seals in the Han Dynasty.

Seeing this, I already had a rough idea in my mind. After sorting out my thoughts, I said, "These are all seals, but they are not from the owner of the tomb, but from the seals of the buried officials. In ancient times, emperors died as they lived. When a person dies, he just goes to live in another place, so letting his officials be buried with seals is just to hope that those people can continue to follow him and work for him in another place after his death."

Ah Fei listened to my analysis, thought for a while, and asked, "Doesn't that mean that the owner of this tomb is an emperor?"

"I'm afraid only monarchs and princes have such a big battle. The identity of the owner of this tomb should not be lower than that of princes and kings." Thinking about what I saw along the way, the size of this tomb is indeed larger than that of many archaeological excavations. Even higher.

Then the topic came to the value of these seals. After getting my affirmative answer, A Fei excitedly used toilet paper to pad layer after layer in the box. into the bag.

With such a harvest, the hundreds of thousands have finally settled down, and A Fei and I are also going to continue to go to the next tomb to find out.

I thought there would be the main tomb behind the front room, but when we walked into this tomb, we didn't see any coffin.

The structure here is very similar to the front room just now, with a stone platform and four ever-burning lamps, but there are no ear chambers on both sides, and only a passage directly in front connects the next tomb.On both sides of this tomb are two huge lacquered wood shelves, on which are hung a row of stone chimes from large to small.Chime is an ancient percussion instrument, which is somewhat similar to the chime bells of the pre-Qin period in principle.

After looking at the tomb, it seemed that there was nothing else, so I signaled Ah Fei to move on, and it was estimated that we would reach the main tomb.

The passage leading to the main tomb was longer than expected, and we finally arrived at the place after walking more than ten meters.

This is a wide room. On the right side of the tomb, there is a large painted coffin. It has been opened by someone at this time, and the coffin lid and part of the coffin are scattered on the ground.

In front of us on the left is a huge bluestone, carved into the style of Ba Xia Tuo stele, and the stele is full of densely packed characters.

Looking around the entire tomb, the surrounding walls are covered with various colored paintings. Although the colors are very light, they still look very exquisite. It is not difficult to imagine how glorious it was in the past.

A Fei and I carefully came to the front of the coffin, took a photo inside, and was shocked...

The structure of the coffin in front of me is very complicated. If it is not destroyed, its complete form should have two layers and three layers of coffins. The remaining coffins are filled with dry plants and powder like medicinal herbs.

Inside the coffin on the last floor, the owner of the tomb lay flat in it, wearing a gold-threaded jade garment, and beside him were all kinds of funerary objects, including jade, gold and silver wares... a dazzling array of beautiful objects.

This gold-haired jade garment was the exclusive privilege of the emperors and nobles in the Western Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, even princes may not be able to enjoy this thing.Right now, the owner of the tomb in the Western Han Dynasty is wearing a golden jade dress, so his status must be extremely high.

I thought about it, and suddenly found something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't move!"

Ah Fei was just about to reach out to get the things in the coffin, when he heard me shout, he quickly took his hand back.

"According to the virtues of the previous group, how could it be possible to open the coffin without taking anything? There may be something wrong with these things, so don't touch them yet!"

Hearing what I said, Ah Fei also felt that it made sense, but he still felt a bit reluctant to look at the treasures in the coffin.

"Give me some time, I'll look at these texts and murals, maybe I can find some clues." I went straight to the stone tablet and studied the text on it.

This stele is full of seal script, which looks very laborious. For this kind of stele, even if you can understand all the characters, you may not be able to understand all the meanings, and you even have to make sentences yourself. This is even more difficult than reading classical Chinese in high school textbooks. on many.

After looking at it for a long time, I finally understood the meaning of the monument, so I told Ah Fei by the way: "It turns out that the owner of the tomb was a prince in the Western Han Dynasty. I don’t quite understand it either. It probably means that he is good at governance. Later, other princes and kings rebelled and wanted to join him, but he didn’t participate, and he didn’t send troops to quell the rebellion. Later, the rebellion was put down by a general named Zhou Yafu. .”

"Hey, I know Zhou Yafu this time, have you seen "Beauty's Scheming", there is Zhou Yafu in it." As soon as Ah Fei heard the word "Zhou Yafu", he interrupted suddenly.

"You are beautiful, I won't talk about it if you interrupt me again."

When Ah Fei heard it, he hurriedly made a silent movement.

I continued to talk: "After the rebellion was put down, the king of Qi was worried day and night. Although he didn't directly participate in the rebellion, he watched the fun without reporting it, and then he was worried and afraid of it every day. I became even more frightened, and simply took poison and committed suicide.”

"What? Why did you suddenly take poison?" Ah Fei couldn't help but interjected again.

"I don't know, I just read the outline, and I don't quite understand some parts." I rolled my eyes and continued: "But in the end, the emperor heard that he committed suicide by taking poison, and appreciated his loyalty. A lot of treasures were also given to be buried with him. The posthumous title of this king of Qi seems to be Xiao, so from this point of view, he should be called King Xiao of Qi."

Ah Fei seemed to have suddenly realized, and analyzed: "King Qi Xiao committed suicide by taking poison, so you said that the partner didn't take the things in the coffin, could it be because it was poisonous?"

(End of this chapter)