In the narrow and dark east chamber of the coffin, under the bright flashlight, the box of gold cakes shimmered in front of me.
At this moment, in addition to the joy of getting rich, I also have two fears.
"Bear?"
"Why are these gold cakes engraved with the word "bear"? So the tomb owner's surname is Xiong?"
"Xiong family, Chu Xiong family?"
"Oh my god...which king of Chu is that! All of them have their names in the history books! King Chu You! King Chu Xiang! Wait, etc."
No one would believe it if I told you, how could a certain king of the Chu Kingdom be buried in a small place like Qiyang! Who is he?
But if there really was a king named Xiong from Chu State, why wasn't there a seal on this big tomb? Why didn’t I see any burial pits for carriages and horses? Why didn’t I see the Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui appear? This is the standard equipment of the king. Let alone the nine tripods and eight guis, I haven’t even seen one tripod or one gui!
Could it be that the Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui are hidden in other rooms?
Not sure...but one thing is certain! The owner of this large tomb must have been buried in a hurry. The lack of a rammed earth layer may be due to lack of time, and the lack of a sealed earth mound may be because the people at that time wanted to hide some secrets.
I was extremely nervous at the moment.
I looked at the time and saw that it was 3:50 in the middle of the night. There was definitely not enough time. At most, it would be dawn after cleaning the compartment. At that moment, I speeded up and put the material bag on the rotten lacquer box, along with the gold cakes. Dao Duan went out, and then I touched several pieces of fine jade, including jade walls engraved with Chilong patterns, jade rings, jade sword grids, and most importantly, I touched a portable seal the size of an egg, which was too rusty. The handwriting on the seal was hard to see clearly. After taking the things, I didn't dare to stay any longer and immediately crawled back.
When I climbed to the entrance of the cave, I reached up and Brother Yu pulled me up.
Seeing me coming out, Dou Sprout immediately covered his nose and said, "Fengzi! You look like you fell into a latrine! It really stinks!"
Indeed, I am now covered in thousand-year-old mud, all over my body, clothes, and face, and it also exudes a sour smell.
He nodded and said, "It's timed out. It's going to be dawn soon. I have to go back before five o'clock. Pack your things quickly and come down in the evening."
A group of us hurriedly packed up the loot and covered up the robbery hole. After going out, one of us carried a sack and threw it on the three-wheeled motorcycle. The intercom called Xiaoxuan, who was still watching, and we went back together.
When we got home at half past five, we piled all kinds of funerary objects on the ground, with our heads and brows furrowed. Brother Yu was calm, Douyazai and Xiaoxuan were happy. As for me... I can’t tell how I feel now.
Windfall, this is windfall!
I originally wanted to get a copper pot and tripod, but who would have thought that I would accidentally stumble upon so many valuable things! Especially the Bronze Forbidden. This thing is now lying on the ground and covered with a sheet. I don’t dare to open it and look at it! It felt like I was in a dream.
Bean Sprouts, Ma Daha, he doesn’t understand the importance of this thing at all. Let’s put it this way, if the relevant departments now know that there is a Warring States Bronze Forbidden in Qiyang, then our group will be in danger.
He raised his head and took a puff of cigarette, frowned and said: "Everyone should be stricter. From now on, no one should take the initiative to mention this matter to the outside world. Once the order is done, I will have no worries about food and clothing for twenty years. If I can't do it, good......"
We haven't finished the first part, but we know very well that if we don't do it well, we won't have to worry about food and clothing for twenty years.
Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are in heaven, this is the fate of us people.
Afraid?
If it doesn't exist, I'll be afraid of it for five minutes at most.
I carefully washed the white jade seal clean with water, and then I could see clearly the words on it, two words
"Zhang Xun".
The portable seal is equivalent to the identity card of the tomb owner, Zhang Xun? I haven't heard of this person at all. Shouldn't his surname be Xiong?
That’s not all yet. We locked the door in the morning, boiled a large pot of water in the courtyard, and treated these heavily rusted bronzes with a greening method. As a result, we found another two-character inscription on a bronze cup.
This new discovery of inscriptions is groundbreaking! Even my head was shocked.
The two gilt inscriptions on the cup are clearly...
"Old cud!"
The king of Chu lost the cud, and Xiong's name was the cud! The king of Chu in the middle and late Warring States Period! The son of the famous King Chu Kaolie!
Qiyang Tomb, the identity of the tomb owner is full of mysteries! According to the seal he carried with him, the tomb owner was named Zhang Xun, but there was actually a bronze cup in his tomb that the King of Chu carried with him! There is also a copper ban! Gold cake! All kinds of exquisite jade!
I immediately checked some information on my mobile phone, but couldn't find any information about Zhang Xun!
Judging from the data, it seems that this person did not exist in history!
But I know that this man named Zhang Xun must have existed two thousand years ago! And he has a very close relationship with King Chu of Chu! There are dozens of gold cakes in the tomb, including copper banquets and a large number of jade articles! It may be that the King of Chu gave it to this person as an unusual gift.
How dare the common people enjoy the emperor's copper ban?
This situation completely violated social rules at the time! Perhaps because he was afraid of being discovered, he was buried secretly without leaving any traces of earth.
At that time, the area around Yongzhou and Qiyang was indeed the territory of the Chu State! This person named Zhang Xun may have lived in this area back then. Thinking of this, I suddenly thought of another thing.
I hurriedly said: "Head! Last time I took the landlord to watch a play, I heard him mention it! There seems to be a Zhang Gong Village not far from our place! The owner of the tomb is named Zhang Xun. Is there some kind of connection between this and the other? relation?"
He thought about it and said in a deep voice: "It is possible. Anyway, this person's identity is not simple. There are still two compartments that have not been cleared. We must clean them tonight."
Douyazai immediately asked: "Botou, what about the other places in the tomb? Do we want to abandon the things in the wall holes of the tomb passage and the ear chambers? I can't bear to part with them."
I said, "Yazi, what are you thinking about every day? Haven't you seen it yet? There is no ear chamber in this bell tomb at all! All the funerary objects are basically concentrated in the coffin!"
Douyazai said anxiously: "Even if there is no ear chamber! There must be wall holes on both sides of the tomb passage! There must be good things in the wall holes!"
I was stunned, and he said that this was possible. The tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period all had the habit of digging out niches, usually containing oil lamps, small tomb-killing beasts, or human-shaped pottery figurines.
I hadn't slept well for two days, so I rubbed my face vigorously and said, "Hang your head, after we finish clearing the coffin, why don't you go take a look in the tomb passage?"
Xiaoxuan, who had been listening, frowned and said: "The stone gate is very heavy, I'm afraid it won't be easy to open."
Douyazai immediately ran to Xiaoxuan, pointed at himself and said: "Zhao Xuanxuan! What's wrong with me! Who am I!"
Xiaoxuan held a cigarette between her fingers, glanced at Douyazai and said, "You are stupid."
"you!"
"never mind!"
Douyazai smiled and said: "A good man doesn't fight with women, and I don't have the same experience as you."
Douyazai said loudly: "We have a kidnapper's needle! If that doesn't work, dig a well and go through the stone gate! If that doesn't work, just put on a detonator and blow it up!"
We were having a heated discussion when we suddenly heard a banging on the door, and then heard the landlord, Lao Ji, shouting outside: "I've got something for you! Open the door!"
We quickly pushed everything under the bed, then swept the floor and asked me to open the door.
Open the door.
The landlord stood on tiptoes to look in, but I immediately blocked him and said with a smile, "What do you want from us, brother?"
"Haha, it's okay. I just saw that you guys have been mysterious these past two days, so I came to ask, are you really collecting mats?"
My face darkened: "Brother, what do you mean by this? If we don't collect the mats, can we still do anything illegal and disorderly?"
He smiled and said: "I didn't say you did anything illegal, why are you panicking? I mean you collected the mats and didn't dry them! You didn't bundle them either! You just piled them in the yard casually, and it didn't last two days. It won’t be usable if it gets wet.”
I explained: "It's not that we won't do it! It's just that we've collected everything in the past two days! We haven't had time to do it yet! We thought we'd wait until more was collected and finally do it together. That would save time, wouldn't it?"
After chatting at the door for a while, I sent the landlord away. I hurried back into the house and frowned: "Boss, we have to be careful with our goods. This landlord is very observant."
"Did he find anything?"
"It hasn't been discovered yet."
He kept tapping his head and fingers on the table. He thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Just in case, there is an abandoned sweet potato cellar behind the house. Those mats came in handy. Wrap our goods in mats and hide them all." Go to the waste sweet potato cellar and do it now."
