Chapter 253
After resting for a long time, we continued to go deep into the ruins of Heishui City in the afternoon. Uncle Hulu said that he had only been to this place once. Alxa is such a big place, and he had never been to the place ahead.
I looked up at the sky. The sky was gloomy and depressing. The ground was covered with dry sand and gravel, with fewer tumbleweeds. This was a real no-man's land.
The leader said: "Don't go too far, everyone, try to stay within each other's sight. Yazai, you and Aji, Yunfeng, you and Xiaoxuan, all pay attention to what is under your feet. If you find any broken stone bricks, Just pay careful attention.”
We all said we had received it, and then one of us took a short-handled shovel and spread it out.
After traveling in Alxa for so many days, Xiaoxuan's face has lost the aura of a young lady. Who said women are inferior to men? Although Xiaoxuan is a bastard, she has never complained during this journey. It is not easy.
"Come here, see what this is? Is it a brick?" She seemed to have discovered something.
I took a look and said, "It's a blue brick. Wait, there seems to be writing on the brick."
I picked it up from the ground and studied it carefully. There was a Xixia character carved on the surface of the blue brick. It was a bit blurry. The brick was not valuable. I asked Xiaoxuan to get out of the way. I was going to explore the cave here.
At first, the front end of Luoyang's shovel brought up all sand, then when I dug down another 1.5 meters, I saw soil.
Seeing as the soil brought up was mature soil, I knew there might be something going on.
The large tombs of the Shang, Zhou and Warring States periods are made of green and white mud, which has a strong smell when you smell it. The tombs of the Tang and Song Dynasties are mostly made of glutinous rice mud, which is very sticky when shaking hands. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most tombs were made of quicklime, because lime absorbs water. Even if the soil is white and dry, it is said that tomb robbers can judge the age by looking at the soil. In fact, these are the tricks.
So what is cooked soil and what is raw soil?
Raw soil is dead soil, which is the original soil in nature. When you put a handful of this soil in your hands, you can see that the color is basically the same as the surrounding environment and the structure is fine. Mature soil is soil that has been turned over by humans. If you hold a handful of the soil in your hand, you can see some uneven color with the naked eye, and the texture is loose and mixed. If you put it to your mouth and blow it, it will not raise much dust.
In the tomb robbing industry, if the soil shoveled up from Luoyang is ripe soil, it cannot be concluded that there is an ancient tomb underground. It may be an ancient crop field. However, if the ripe soil is mixed with green and white mud or glutinous rice mud, then there must be an ancient tomb underground. , one hundred percent.
Heishui City is the site of an ancient Xixia city. It is not a tomb, so it is normal that there is no glutinous rice mud. The ripe soil brought up by Luoyang shovel shows that someone turned it over hundreds of years ago.
I looked at Xiaoxuan, pointed at my feet and said, "It's right here. Dig and dig, the depth is about one and a half meters."
Then we dug a hole together.
If the second brother and the third brother were to dig a 1.5-meter-deep robbery hole, it would only take eight minutes at the fastest. I dug it for more than half an hour. I was lucky, but Xiaoxuan was sweating a lot from exhaustion.
"Isn't this nothing?" she said, looking at it carefully.
"What's wrong? Has it been shipped?" Douya ran over and asked, carrying a short spade.
I stood in the pit and said, "No, didn't this just come down? Let's take a look."
As I talked, I threw dirt on the pit.
"clang!"
Suddenly, the shovel in my hand hit a hard object.
"It's a stone again, I thought it was a bronze vessel," Douyazai saw the stone outcropping the ground.
I dug down again, and the shovel clanged, and there were stones everywhere.
At this time, Baotou and Uncle Hulu also came over, and Baotou said to expand the robbery hole.
I nodded and said yes, then shoveled a few more shovels around, and then I gradually saw this thing clearly.
It turned out that what the shovel hit was not a stone, but a stone millstone.
This millstone was inserted diagonally into the ground and was estimated to be more than two meters in diameter.
I was a little disappointed because no one wanted the millstone. Even if someone wanted it, they couldn't take it with them. It was too heavy to carry.
At this time, our attention was focused on the stone millstone, and suddenly we heard Aji shouting: "There is someone! Who is that there!"
