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.
"Oh no, it's a stone again. I thought there was a bronze ware," Dou Yazai saw the stone exposed on 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!"
Everyone was startled, and we looked in the direction Aji pointed.
I saw someone looking at us a few hundred meters away!
We saw each other, and the other party must have seen us. The distance was too far, so we couldn't tell clearly whether he was a man or a woman, nor could we clearly see the clothes the person was wearing. We only saw that the person seemed to be holding a dog.
Douyazai shouted, and the man immediately turned around and ran away with the dog.
"It's over, it's over, we've been discovered," Dou Sprout said in a panic, "Didn't you say this is no man's land? It was clearly a person just now!"
Uncle Hulu immediately said something, and Aji anxiously translated: "Uncle said it is impossible for anyone to live in this place. There is no water or food here, and birds will not fly here."
The boss said with a gloomy face: "Don't even guess, just follow me and take a look."
Since there is no one here, we are not very vigilant, which is okay, but if something goes wrong, we may end up with silver bracelets.
Following the direction in which the man left, we rode camels and chased him for two or three hours, but we didn't see a single figure, let alone a human being, nor a dog figure.
It's strange, the surrounding area is open, there are no mountains, no water, no trees. How come a big living person can disappear without a trace?
Could it be that we are all blinded? Got it all wrong?
It is possible for one person to be dazzled, but for a group of people, this is impossible.
After careful consideration, I decided that I couldn't do it any more and left here. After getting rid of the things, I took a break from the wind. Besides, we didn't have much water.
This second time looking for Blackwater City in the Alxa Desert ended in vain.
The next morning, under the leadership of Uncle Hu Lu, we rushed back all the way. We didn't stop when we passed the Hute Department. We took our things directly back to Yinchuan. To be safe, we changed to a new hotel this time.
Inside the hotel room.
"Fengzi, my right eyelid has been twitching these past two days, which is unlucky," Dou Sprout said with a drooping face.
"Don't be discouraged. Maybe it was a herdsman. He saw us digging the soil, but he may not know what we do." I didn't feel confident even when I said this.
Xiaoxuan put her chin in her hands and said, "I think we should buy some water and food, hide it, and wait for a year and a half before we come out."
I, I said you can't live well.
I can't stand that kind of life.
"There was a creak," and suddenly the door was pushed open, which startled us.
I was relieved to see that the person who came in was the head. I asked what I should do now. Do I still dare to dig for treasure near Blackwater City.
With a calm expression on his face, he nodded and said: "Go, but not recently. We have to be more honest recently and hide for a while to see what the situation is."
"Then can we still get rid of the things this time?"
He thought about it and said: "I originally planned to contact the buyer when I get back, but I thought about it yesterday. For safety reasons, I will wait for this batch of goods for a week to see."
We rarely went out for more than a week. The curtains in the hotel were kept closed during the day, and someone would go out to buy dinner at night. There was a vCd in the hotel room. Dou Sprout and I lay on the sofa and watched the DVD player every day. Sometimes we were afraid of strangers. People knock on the door. After all, mice are naturally afraid of cats.
After waiting for a week, we all breathed a sigh of relief when nothing seemed to happen outside. The pile of goods and several large bags of tools were hidden under the head bed.
I thought everything was fine, so the next step was to sell the goods, divide the money, and leave Yinchuan to change places.
Unexpectedly, next, our team encountered danger for the first time.
We often walk by the river and our shoes don’t get wet. The person who discovered our problem was the young daughter of the hotel’s landlord, who is in her third year of high school.
Seedlings.
