Chapter 324
"It's so cold... I'm out of breath!" Dou Sprout reached over and tried to breathe.
"I came in to see it twice in the afternoon! It was obviously fine at that time!"
Ma Deming died so suddenly that we were caught off guard.
Looking at Ma Deming's cold body, I thought about it. The only explanation might be related to the wound on his leg. Maybe he had a fever and infection, and he had been insisting that he was fine. Otherwise, I couldn't figure out why he suddenly die.
"Yazai, go take a look and see if there are any other wounds on his body."
"If you don't go, don't go." Dou Sprout shook his head in conflict and said, "People are already cold. Let's see what's the use of these things. Drag them out and bury them."
After careful consideration, I agreed with what Dou Sprout said.
It was dark in the desert at around 10 o'clock in the evening. Douyazai and I raised our hands and feet, and Xiaoxuan used the flashlight to illuminate the situation. The three of us worked together to lift Ma Deming to a sand dune.
Dou Sprout wiped his sweat and complained: "I finally know what being dead is."
I said stop talking nonsense and start digging a hole quickly.
There was no cyclone shovel around, so we dug the hole with our hands. Fortunately, there was sand under our feet. If it were solid ground, we wouldn't be able to dig it down with our bare hands.
If this scene were seen by outsiders, most likely they would think that someone was taking advantage of the darkness to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.
After digging the hole, he pushed the person in. Because he didn't control the strength well, Ma Deming fell face down in the hole.
Dou Sprout said it didn't matter so much. After saying that, he kicked the sand into the pit with his feet and buried Ma Deming in a very careless way.
After returning home, I saw that Xiaoxuan's face was not good-looking. She stood there hesitantly and did not dare to enter the tent.
I said you're usually not very courageous, and besides, the person didn't die in your tent. What are you afraid of? Could he still be able to crawl out and find you?
Xiaoxuan pinched me and said angrily: "I am a girl, can you think about it? No matter what, I want to sleep with you at night."
Dou Sprout happened to hear these words behind him, and he said coquettishly: "How about you sleep with me? Don't worry, I don't dislike you."
"Bah! Who wants to come with you!"
"Okay," I shook my head helplessly and said that's it. If you are really scared at night, just bring the quilt over and let's sleep separately.
After Xiaoxuan left, Douyazai squinted and leaned over, whispering: "Fengzi, let me remind you, rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests, so don't be impulsive."
"Get out of the way." I kicked him on the butt, but Dou Sprout ducked out of the way.
Late at night, inside the tent.
"Have you slept, Yunfeng?" Xiaoxuan's voice came from the darkness.
"Can't sleep." I said, leaning on my arm.
My mind was racing with random thoughts.
Ma Deming's sudden death cut off the clues, but I am sure of one thing. My head is in the Badain Jaran area at the moment. If Ma Deming was in Ulanbuhe before, he would not be able to get here at all. It is too far.
Before he died, he mentioned a word called "sand tomb." This is what I was worried about. I didn't expect that people would use this thing after their death during the Song and Jin Dynasties.
Tombs with sand accumulation were popular from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty. At that time, the tombs of nobles were often piled with stones for reinforcement, charcoal to prevent moisture, and sand to prevent theft. The Tomb of King Wei of the Warring States Period in Huixian County, Henan Province, and later the Tomb of Guozhuang Chu in Shangcai County were all Tomb of accumulated sand.
After the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, as the earthen coffins with vertical holes and wooden coffins gradually disappeared, so did the sand-filled tombs. I had never thought that such a thing existed in Heishui City.
The tomb of King Wei was robbed seven or eight times. The archaeological team discovered the corpses of eight tomb robbers in the quicksand layer. The Chu Tomb in Guozhuang was even more exaggerated. There were more than 30 corpses of tomb robbers from various dynasties and generations piled in the quicksand layer. They were individually preserved. They have all become thousand-year-old bacon.
The sand-filled tomb is like wearing a layer of hedgehog armor on the tomb, which is very difficult to deal with.
But isn’t there a saying that people die for money and birds die for food? Don’t just do it just because it’s difficult. In my opinion, there is a way to deal with sand-filled tombs.
