Chapter 844
I put it to my nose and smelled it. The bean sprouts grabbed the soil and showed it to me.
"Fengzi, take a look, have you ever seen this kind of soil?"
"Why is it so sticky? No wonder the shovel head is always stuck on it."
When we were down more than three meters, the shovel head brought up a layer of gray-white soil, which looked like mud and was very sticky.
I grabbed a handful and squeezed it hard, and even when I let go, it stuck to my hand.
"It's strange... this is definitely not white plaster mud. I have never seen what kind of soil layer this is. Xiaoxuan, go and send a signal, call the leader and them to come over, and say that we have found something."
After more than half an hour, Brother Yu and Ah Chun came over.
When I saw the pointed mound, my eyes lit up and I said, "This is the conical head."
"ah?"
"It's true," Dou Sprout said, "That's it? I'll cover it with Pao Xiang, it'll be this big, right?"
"you are wrong."
Baotou said: "After the Qin Dynasty, the bigger the earthen mounds, the better. In the Han Dynasty, the first level of royal tombs even dug mountains to build tombs. But before that, the earthen coffin tombs, the smaller the conical heads left on the ground. good."
"That head, look at this kind of soil, I've never seen it before."
He reached up and grabbed a handful of his head.
"Huh?"
He shook his head and said: "So sticky? This is not white plaster mud, nor is it lime mud."
Lime mud was most popular in brick chamber tombs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. White lime was added to the rammed earth to absorb water and moisture, and to prevent excessive rainwater from penetrating into the tomb. This kind of soil is slightly sticky, but it will never be so sticky.
This layer of soil is like glue. I estimate that if it sticks to a person's face, it won't be able to be peeled off after a long time.
After thinking about it, he said: "Wen Bin, you still have poles in your bag and you are picking one up."
"Yunfeng, dig down one meter and take a look. This is the first time I've seen this kind of soil in my whole life."
As a result, the stick became more and more sticky to the shovel, so I dug another half meter into the ground. It was different from before. It was useless to shovel back and forth, and I almost couldn't pull it out. But Bean Sprouts helped me pull it up together.
He brought his head closer and smelled it first, then dipped a little with his finger and put it on his tongue to taste.
"What's wrong?" I froze.
Let me taste your head.
I tried a little, opened my eyes wide and said in surprise: "Why is it sweet!"
"What the hell? I'll try it too," Dou Sprouts took a few bites, spit it out twice, and said loudly, "It's true! It's a bit like preserved egg and lean meat porridge with sugar!"
"Botou, is this Sanhetu or Wuhetu?" I asked.
"No, Sanhe soil and Wuhe soil are all hard. This soil layer is so soft, it must be mixed with water. I guess the white color is due to the addition of rice juice, and if it is sweet... it may be the addition of maltose."
He shook his head and said, "I've never seen anything like this, but I've heard of something similar. It's also a Warring States tomb. The rammed earth was added with sucrose, sap from a certain tree, egg white, and animal blood."
"It seems like this is it."
It was harder for Dou Sprout to laugh than to cry. He smiled bitterly and said, "That's not over. We are not afraid of hard soil. We have diamond needles and detonators, but if this is the case, how can we dig down?"
At this time, Xiaoxuan raised her hand and said, "Isn't this slime?"
"What is slime?" I asked.
"Hmm..." Xiaoxuan thought for a while and said: "Slime is a toy that was given to me by someone in Hong Kong before. It is just like this, a lump of slime."
Dou Sprout stared and said: "Then according to you, this is not the Hu Cemetery, but the Slime Tomb?"
"I didn't say that, I just said it casually."
There are no stones, let alone the cyclone shovel, even the Luoyang shovel is put into the water. If it is a tomb, this kind of tomb is unheard of and unseen.
"I see...."
He seemed to understand something. He looked around and said: "It rains a lot in Yongzhou, Hunan Province in summer. The underground is full of limestone and caves. The gaps are very large. The rainwater flows down to underground rivers. This will lead to underground rivers during the rainy season." The water levels are rising.”
He took two steps back, pointed at his feet and said, "A few months ago, the place where we are standing should have been soaked in water, but the water level in the underground river dropped and was exposed again."
"This way, the water will spread deep into the ground, which makes the white mud so sticky."
"Head, even if we analyze it, it's useless, just tell me what to do," Dou Sprout said.
I thought about it for a few minutes, then shook my head helplessly.
Let me tell a joke in Xiaoxuan's words.
Who has seen the Slime Tomb? How to dig?
