Wang Qiang was still chattering to himself, but Qian Sheng didn't dare to speak out for fear of disturbing that person.
He could only shake his headlight desperately, hoping to attract Wang Qiang's attention.
"I said, Shopkeeper Qian, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with Lao Huang? I can't even see the bottom of my feet."
Wang Qiang said as he lowered his head and groped around, but suddenly found the stunned figure not far from him!
"who?"
Wang Qiang picked up the engineering shovel in his hand, adhering to the strategy of being immovable if the enemy does not move, and confronted the figure.
His headlamp was dragged to the bottom by the group of rats and smashed to pieces. Now he could only use Qian Sheng's spotlight to vaguely see the shadow confronting him.
Lin Yi finally reached the bottom at this time. He pulled hard and retracted the parachute rope. He coiled the rope while chatting with them.
"What's going on? You two became silent all of a sudden?"
Qian Sheng didn't speak, just stretched out his hand and gestured.
When he looked over, he found that Wang Qiang not far away was in a confrontation with the figure hiding in the corner.
He immediately took out his bow and nocked an arrow, put his hand on the string, and moved to that side little by little, still shouting to the other party.
"Across the way, are you from Zhangjiacun?"
In his opinion, the people from Zhangjia Village are the most suspicious of those who can appear here.
After saying that, there was still no reaction from the other side.
"Mr. Lin, do you think it's possible that you've met a colleague? Mushroom, tell me who you are, please give me your name."
When he said these dirty words, the other party still didn't react at all.
"Is it possible that the other person is not a human being at all?"
After Qian Sheng said this, he was frightened.
"Don't scare yourself. Can you be a ghost if you're not a human?"
Lin Yi comforted Qian Sheng while his other hand reached into his backpack to touch the black donkey's hooves.
The tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty are full of strange things.
It is obviously a cemetery of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but in the center there is a statue of the Tang Dynasty, and the deep valley is filled with funerary objects from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
If the person opposite him is really an "old rice dumpling" with a thousand years of history, it wouldn't be that unusual.
The two people quickly approached Wang Qiang, encircling him in a Z-shaped formation, and approached the figure in the arc.
As soon as I had a face-to-face encounter, two headlights shone on me, and I realized it was a false alarm.
This figure is a bronze statue standing in the corner.
Including the crown on his head and the base below, he was as tall as a person. It was really difficult to identify him in the dark.
Moreover, all the other bronze vessels in this deep valley were broken, and only its appearance seemed to be quite complete. Except for the incomplete crown and base on the top of the head, the shape of the entire figure was almost undamaged.
Qian Sheng raised a strong flashlight and looked around the statue again and again, then came closer and sniffed it a few times.
"Master Lin, do you think the shape of this thing looks like the bronze figure unearthed from Sanxingdui in ancient Shu?"
When Lin Yi saw it just now, he had a feeling of déjà vu. He thought about it in his mind, but he didn't expect Sanxingdui.
Qian Sheng's words woke him up.
"Yes, this shape is indeed similar to the bronze figures of Sanxingdui. However, it does not have the strange facial features of Sanxingdui, and is closer to the sculpture characteristics of the Central Plains culture of the Western Zhou Dynasty."
“However, in the ancient Shu tomb culture, there was a habit of breaking various grave objects into pieces and then burying them.
In the burial system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was only the custom to destroy the weapons and bury them with them.
Other bronze vessels unearthed from tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty are all complete vessels. All the burial objects here have been broken into pieces, and there is almost no complete vessel. Do you think this has anything to do with the ancient Shu Kingdom? "
What Qian Sheng said makes sense.
His research on cultural relics and antiques can definitely be regarded as expert level. Not only does he have a family background, but he also has a professional background.
However, Lin Yi concluded at a glance that this place might have some connection with the ancient Shu civilization, but the connection was not significant.
“When the ancient Shu bronzes were unearthed, most of them were damaged and buried in different burial pits, which made the restoration of cultural relics extremely difficult.
The most important thing is that the bronzes of ancient Shu have different shapes, which are completely different from the bronzes of the Central Plains region.
You see here, although most of it is damaged, you can put it back together by picking up the fragments scattered around.
I feel like the things here are more like someone dropped them from a high place and damaged them intentionally. "
As he spoke, Lin Yi turned his bright flashlight towards the surrounding cliffs.
In the tombs of nobles of the Western Zhou Dynasty, "two-story platforms" were often set up to visit the grave goods.
Niches will also be dug out on the second floor platform to display the deceased's daily necessities.
There should have been seven steps around this huge pit, but these steps were all flattened, leaving only circles of soil marks that were incompatible with the original seal.
"I suspect that someone destroyed this burial pit in the center of this geomantic treasure land in order to obtain soil. After removing the seven surrounding steps, they threw all the burial objects into the ground. The soil they took was used to build this altar. Something like that.”
Lin Yi patted the base of the rammed earth platform next to him and said to Qian Sheng and the others.
"Whether it is the Western Zhou Dynasty, ancient Shu or the Tang Dynasty, our first goal now is how to get out of here."
Wang Qiang said while holding a strong flashlight and scratching at random on the ground.
It seems that I am looking for a way out, but mainly I want to see if I can find some portable "local specialties" from here to take out.
But God did not fulfill his wishes.
The fragments of pottery were not worth much in the first place.
The fragments of the bronze vessel were too big to be taken out. Moreover, the bronze vessel was an important weapon of the country, and it was very "tough" and could not be touched easily.
Suddenly, he held up a palm-sized bronze fragment and swayed it under the light of a flashlight.
"Old Lin, Shopkeeper Qian, come here and take a look. There seems to be writing on this piece!"
Lin Yi was still looking for an exit, while Qian Sheng was studying the shapes of these fragments. When he heard what he said, he immediately gathered towards him.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronzes were used to record major historical events.
The Western Zhou Dynasty Li Gui unearthed in Lintong in the Three Qin Dynasty is one of the cultural relics prohibited from being exhibited outside because it is an important weapon of the country.
In addition to being a Western Zhou bronze vessel, it also has a total of 4 lines and 33 inscriptions on it.
It records the historical events of King Wu's defeat of Zhou and the Battle of Muye.
The "Maogong Tripod" unearthed from Zhangjiacun has an inscription of nearly 500 words, and is known as the historical witness of Western Zhou culture.
If we can find fragments with inscriptions from these broken bronze fragments and piece them together, we should be able to reveal the true identity of the owner of the core part of this tomb.
(End of chapter)
