"How's it going? Have you set the edge?"
I kept doing it until it got dark and asked me about my head.
"Border line" is a jargon term, which means using a Luoyang shovel to detect the boundary shape of an ancient tomb, and use this to determine whether it is a rectangular tomb or a square tomb.
I wiped my sweat and said, "It should be about the same. It is about 34 meters long and 17 meters wide. This is really quite big. The imperial tombs of Xixia are only so big." (Compared to the Central Plains, Xixia tombs are generally smaller.)
I followed the edge I had discovered and walked a dozen steps northwest, then turned a corner and walked toward the middle.
He stopped his head in the middle and said, "According to my experience, the main tomb is probably located under my feet."
"Yunfeng Wenbin, just open a one-meter hole from here."
After finishing speaking, he shook his head slightly: "I hope God will bless me. It's better not to have a fully grouted tomb, but a semi-grouted tomb."
Once we get the order, we'll do it right away.
I take back what I said before.
Working here is not unscrupulous. The hidden danger is July Climbing. July Climbing is just like the person who raises dogs in the desert. They are party members. Now we are equivalent to digging up people's ancestral graves.
Around 8:30, we dug a one-meter-diameter tunnel that led directly to the ground.
I stood at the bottom of the cave and took a flashlight.
Suddenly I was frightened!
It's all gray-white cement... Everywhere, it's all cement.
There is no treasure top on the top of the coupon, no bluestone tomb bricks.
Everywhere you look is filled with uneven concrete.
Seeing this scene, the trace of luck in our hearts was shattered.
With a disappointed look on his face, he shook his head and said, "Hey... I won't shed tears until I see the coffin. Whatever you're afraid of, you will come. If you are sure that this is a full-water tomb, come up."
Bean Sprouts pushed the shovel down hard.
Just listen to "clang!" and sparks appeared.
Dou Sprout was unconvinced and shouted: "Boss! We have to find a way! I can smell the meat! How can I just smell it but not eat it!"
"Well... you guys come up first and have a drink of water before we talk."
Xiaoxuan lit a fire, Dou Sprouts and I climbed up from the thief's cave, and everyone sat around to discuss what to do.
He told us his thoughts first, which made my heart tremble.
Which dignitary from Xixia is buried here? The tomb owner is by no means an ordinary person.
"A half-watered tomb" is how I describe it.
The ingredients of ancient cement were generally yellow sand mud, lime, and glutinous rice slurry.
Place a coffin in the main tomb, and then surround the coffin with five hard boards to seal it. It can be imagined that a closed wooden frame is built for the coffin, and then a hole is opened at the top, and a large amount of cement is poured in. The entire coffin was sealed with cement and weighed several tons.
The tombs in Baoying County and Taizhou are like this.
When the archaeological team tried to open it, it was useless. The coffin didn't look like a coffin, it was just a big cement lump!
Ordinary small cranes can't lift it up, so you have to use a big crane to lift it out of the tomb.
"Fully poured tomb" not only refers to sealing the coffin with cement, but also refers to using hundreds of tons of cement to fill and seal the entire tomb, which is 30 meters in diameter.
The coffin, funerary objects, and all kinds of things were all sealed in cement.
There is no tomb door, no tomb roof, no patio, just a huge rectangular cement block 30 meters long.
How to open this?
Think about it, how do you do this?
How to get in?
The way to deal with the stone- and sand-accumulated tombs is to dig horizontal wells, but that is not easy to do now. We have determined that no matter which direction the horizontal well is dug, it will eventually hit the cement.
Invulnerable to weapons, water and fire.
More like a tortoise shell than a tortoise shell, that's why I say this is my younger brother's behavior.
At this time, Brother Yu thought for a while, frowned and said, "Boss, what if we use explosives? Blow it up!"
He immediately shook his head and said, "The funerary items in the coffin in the tomb are all mixed with cement. If you use explosives, even if it explodes by chance, all the funerary items will be destroyed, and they will lose their value."
Then, Maotou said: "No matter who is buried here, I guess the owner of the tomb must have made a lot of determination."
Everyone fell into silence for a short time, and only the sound of burning dry wood was heard.
"Yes!"
Dou Sprout suddenly slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "I thought of a good idea! I can definitely break open this cement tomb!"
"Oh? Tell me."
"Fengzi, do you think this will work?"
"We widened the hole to two meters, drew a door shape on the cement block, and then drilled it down with a hammer drill!"
"The impact drill is not as powerful as explosives and will not damage the funerary objects. Once we encounter cultural relics, we can stop immediately! Besides! It is just cement and has no steel bars! It only takes a matter of minutes for the impact drill to open this thing!"
Dou Sprout was very proud after finishing speaking.
I blew smoke into his face and said with a smile: "That's good, Mr. Dou, where is your impact drill?"
"Also, even if you have a hammer drill, where will you get electricity? Human power? Or wind power?"
Dou Sprout hesitated and couldn't speak.
After a few seconds, Dou Sprout patted his thigh again and said I had another idea!
"Brother Yu! Get a chisel and hammer! Carve it out bit by bit! This doesn't require electricity! It won't damage the cultural relics either!"
After hearing this, I immediately said: "This is a bad idea again. If you do that, let's come here to pick up Brother Yu in fifty years. When the time comes, I will just ask my grandson to come for me."
Brother Yu laughed heartily when he heard this.
Xiaoxuan smiled, a rare smile appearing on her serious face.
Lao Fu, who had been listening, suddenly spoke at this moment, and we all looked at him.
He said: "Guys, I know that Lao Guo in the experimental field has an impact drill. I saw it last time. It should be used for building foundations. Also, he also has a small diesel generator there. Look. ..."
"Uncle Fu, really? Are you sure?"
Lao Fu nodded again and said yes.
We originally took Dou Sprout's words as a joke, but now it's different.
As the saying goes, treating a dead horse as a live doctor means you have to try everything. The boss and I began to consider the feasibility of this method.
If you think about it carefully, don't say it, it's really possible.
There are indeed examples of impact drills being used in tombs. The most recent case was when Yang Kun in Xi'an stole the large sarcophagus of Princess Wu. He first used a percussion drill to create cracks, then used a chainsaw to cut along the cracks, and finally cut out a It cost more than a hundred yuan, and was assembled after being sold abroad.
Also, if you don’t believe me, go to foreign museums and see that many large stone sculptures have cracks on their surfaces. This is how they were created.
Dou Sprout is the one who wakes up the dreamer with one word.
In other words, we can regard the entire cement tomb as a giant sarcophagus that is 30 meters long! Just break it down!
If you can't use explosives, this may be the only way!
I immediately said: "Boss, how about I go back to the experimental field? I can get back in two days at most."
Seeing the boss hesitate a little, I said anxiously: "What if Li Xian's coffin is sealed in this big cement block, boss! We must not let it go!"
Men all have a gambling instinct. The less they see something, the more curious they are and the more they want it. I don’t believe that any civilian can be locked up like this.
Xixia is famous not only for the Tearing Buddha and the Wonderful Sound Bird, but also for the legendary woodcut version of the six Tripitakas, Wu beads, and the bronze Guanyin with four heads and four sides! These are top-grade cultural relics. If you can find one of them, the trip will be worth it.
"Why are you hesitating? It's useless. Just do it!" I said anxiously.
"Wen Bin, if not, you two can go back to the experimental field together."
"Need not."
I stood up immediately: "I know the way. Brother Yu, stay here to protect the big guy. Uncle Fu, give me your shotgun."
"I'll leave now."
