Uncle Su gave Zhao Hu a thumbs up: "Yes, you are right, I don't want to harm you. You are still young and have a lot of days ahead. It's time to be alive. Go back and make some money to go back to your hometown and work hard. The days ahead will be very good, and if you follow us around, you can only say that your life is too long, and you might die in there one day."
"Alas." The pigtail sighed: "Uncle, I still don't understand you. Since you know the danger, why don't you touch some safe tombs?"
"When you grow up, or have some experience, you may understand my choice."
As he spoke, Uncle Su stood up and looked at the dirt road in the distance.
"There are less flashlights over there, so there are probably very few people there."
I said that there would be no one there in half an hour, and I could go over and deliver the equipment by then.
"Well, wait a little longer. I'm a little sleepy now. I'll go to the car and take a nap."
Then, Uncle Su got in the car and we continued chatting. About half an hour later, the dirt road over there was dark. After making sure that no one was there to catch the monkey, we drove towards that direction because we were afraid of being caught by someone. I found that we didn’t even turn on the car lights.
When the car arrived at the dirt road next to the tomb passage, except for the two drivers, Lao Mo and Jianzui, the rest of us got out of the car. However, we did not move things immediately, but looked around first to avoid anyone being nearby. After all, if someone were sitting nearby without turning on a flashlight, we wouldn't be able to see it.
Zhao Hu also whispered a few times to the nearby people, asking if anyone was there. After confirming that there was no response, we walked towards the entrance of the tomb.
The entrance to the tomb is only seven or eight meters away from the road, which is not far away. After confirming the location of the entrance, we returned to the car and started unloading the tools.
Because we didn't dare to turn on the light or the flashlight, it was all pitch black and it took a lot of time to unload. After the tools were unloaded, we transported them to the entrance of the tomb passage and asked Yaoji and Uncle Su to take care of them inside. Everything was put into the tomb.
When everything was ready, we asked Lao Mo and Jianzui to drive to the water tower and hide next to it, and then let Little Pigtail hide in the grass nest on the roadside for a while. Zhao Hu, Uncle Su and Yaoji and I went in. In the tomb.
After entering, we followed the rules and first lit a dog oil lamp to make sure that the flame was not extinguished. Then we felt relieved. Then we took out a plastic sheet to block the entrance to the tomb. This was to prevent the flashlight from being emitted by anyone when using a flashlight inside. See.
After the flashlight illuminated it, I could clearly see the situation of the first floor of the tomb.
This is a very typical Ming Dynasty brick chamber tomb. A lot of stone carving culture was used in the construction and layout, especially the front chamber. The entire arches, beams and tomb walls are all made of large stones. The door of the tomb is There are also exquisite auxiliary title rings engraved on both sides.
The space of the front chamber is not large, only about two meters long and wide, and only three meters high. The main tomb chamber is larger, but it is only four or five meters square at most, and only four meters high. It is different from what we encountered before. Compared with those tombs, the scale of this one is actually very small. Obviously the owner of the tomb was not a particularly powerful person back then.
There was originally a wooden door between the front room and the main tomb chamber, but it had long since rotted away. The floor tiles in the main tomb chamber had also been pried open and smashed, making it look like a mess.
As for the coffins, coffins, etc., there is no one to see, not even the bones. There is only an empty main tomb chamber. Even the niches on both sides have been dug out and smashed. It is obvious that this place has been deliberately destroyed. , looking at the traces, some have been destroyed for many years, and some are newly destroyed.
On one of the walls, I also saw a few simplified Chinese characters, which were engraved with the words so-and-so visiting here, or so-and-so being a fool, etc. It was probably carved by the naughty children in Shangguan Village when they came here to play.
"This tomb looks very ordinary." Zhao Hu said after looking around with a flashlight.
I said definitely because it was so ordinary and the tomb was empty, so no one cared about it, and the tomb of the imperial concubine underneath was luckily never discovered.
"Then if it's so ordinary, why are the floor tiles, niches, etc. all smashed to pieces?"
I said that the tomb robbers must have known that there was a tomb under the tomb and smashed it to find a breakthrough.
Uncle Su said at this time: "There are a lot of stones and bricks in this tomb, and the total weight is definitely not light. If there are several layers of empty tombs below, it will indeed collapse easily. We have to be careful."
Yaoji pointed upward and said: "There were three stone statues on the surface before, stone men, stone horses and so on. The tombs of the Ming Dynasty loved doing these things on the surface. But I heard from the villagers that the river dam was built in the past few years. When we were here, we moved the stones to build the river foundation, otherwise it would be more likely to collapse now."
"Where is the tomb on the next floor?" I asked.
Yao Ji pointed to a niche to the east: "Inside, someone drilled a hole behind the niche. After entering the hole and walking a few meters, there is a hole going down, which leads to the second level of the tomb."
I walked to the alcove, bent down and took a flashlight to shine inside.
There is indeed a hole behind the niche, but there are many large rocks in the hole, and it looks like someone has blocked it recently.
"Are we going to visit other tombs tonight?" I asked.
Uncle Su said that we should go and have a look. At the worst, we should first look at the upper floors and see the overall structure. If we don’t touch the imperial concubine’s tomb first, we might go into the imperial concubine’s tomb to see if the evil spirit is strong, so as to prepare for future tomb robberies. OK.
Since we decided to go down, we naturally removed the gravel in the niche first, and then removed the stones in the robber's cave. Then the four of us got into the robber's cave with the rooster at the head and the tiger at the tail.
After walking a few meters along the Robber's Cave, the Robber's Cave suddenly turned downwards. We slid down a few meters, turned two more turns, and then arrived at another tomb.
This other tomb is still from the Ming Dynasty, but it is obviously from the early Ming Dynasty. It is much simpler than the one on the previous floor, and it also has some elements of the Yuan tomb. This tomb is not big, and is smaller than the previous one. There is nothing inside either.
I thought that maybe it was because this tomb was relatively small and therefore stronger that it did not collapse.
As for the tomb on the next level, it is directly below this tomb, and a hole was drilled directly from the middle of the tomb to the next level. I used a flashlight to shine down, and it was quite high. It is estimated to be about five or six meters. It is estimated that the tomb on the next floor is larger.
Because the height is high, you have to use a rope if you want to get down from here. We went back and got a telescopic ladder, opened it and put it on the gap, and then tied a rope to get down from here, because there had to be one person on top to take care of us. In the end, it was just me. Zhao Hu and Uncle Su went down.
Yaoji said that he had already inquired about it, and it would be fine for the three of us to go down.
This third layer of tomb is obviously a Song Dynasty tomb, and it is obviously a large tomb. First of all, the space of the tomb chamber is large, which is larger than the two floors above combined.
Secondly, the structure of the tomb chamber is relatively sophisticated. It is a typical imitation wood tomb with brick carvings and murals. The walls of the tomb are full of imitation antique architectural decorations.
Uncle Su was originally interested in the tomb of the imperial concubine below, but after seeing these exquisite murals, he also became interested and kept taking photos with a flashlight.
"These murals are so beautiful. The identity of the owner of this tomb must not be simple. If this tomb appeared in other places, it might be protected by the local area and a monument to protect cultural relics would be erected. But this is Mang Mountain, this Too ordinary.”
"Uncle, you see that all the tomb walls here have been taken down. There is probably a market for them."
Zhao Hu pointed at one of the tomb walls. It was obvious that a large piece of the tomb wall was missing, forming a depression.
"Well, there is a market for selling this kind of murals abroad, but it's time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it's easy to get caught. I guess you're not interested in this either, right?"
I said I'm not interested. We have to choose something that is expensive and easy to carry, such as murals. Unless a big boss pays a high price for us to do it, we have no intention of doing it.
Uncle Su smiled: "The imperial concubine's tomb on the next floor is what you hope to encounter. I heard from others that there are many treasures in it, but it's hard to say whether it can be taken away."
"Then where is the entrance to the next level?" Zhao Hu asked.
