Is there a baby hidden in the stone statue's belly?
"its not right."
"Why is there something wrong with the sound? This is clearly carved out of a single piece of stone. How did that thing get hidden in? It's really weird."
I looked carefully from front to back, left and right, and when I knelt down and looked up, I finally discovered something fishy.
I saw that there was a hole in a very secret place under the stone statue's raw buttocks. It might have been plugged with wood before, but it took too long and the original wood became weathered and rotten.
The hole is not big, about three fingers wide, about the size of an egg.
I put my fingers in, picked at it twice, and suddenly felt something cold and hard.
I adjusted the angle back and forth several times before taking the thing out.
This is a bronze square box, with the upper and lower lids perfectly fitted together, and a large number of lotus patterns engraved on the surface. Due to the high tin content, the overall color is whitish, and a thin layer of green rust has grown on the surface.
I opened it carefully and saw a square cinnabar wooden plaque.
After thousands of years, the remaining cinnabar on the wooden sign is still as red as chicken blood, and the two rows of knife-engraved words are clearly visible.
I frowned and tried to read silently twice, but found that I couldn't read it smoothly.
"There are Bi characters, Qian characters, various traditional Chinese characters for weighting numbers, etc."
After watching it for a while, an idea suddenly flashed in my mind.
No wonder it’s hard to read! It turns out that this is a letter from the King of Hell engraved on a wooden sign! There is a saying in this book that it is for "ghosts" and cannot be read by living people, so the writing order is all messed up.
I did some research and found that the correct pronunciation of these lines should be like this.
"I spent enough money, ninety-six thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, to buy an entire hectare of Yongye field from farmer Hu Wang, and used it to collect the bones of the three thousand three hundred and three people killed in the border battle. On the 65th day of Xianqing's reign, After four years of building the tomb and building the tomb, I specially left this record to inform the King of Hell, it’s over.”
In the past, "Bizu" meant completion.
A lot of useful information has been revealed right now.
First of all, the age of this tomb is the Xianqing period of the late Tang Dynasty, or 654 AD to be precise, which is almost the same as what I had inferred before.
Not only that one ancient tomb, there are definitely a group of large-scale tombs that have not yet been discovered in the Yinchuan Nuanquan area.
From a geographical point of view, that area was not far from the living area of Xianbei and Turks. There should have been a war between the two sides, and thousands of people died. Afterwards, a certain official obtained some money from a local farmer named Hu Wang. Li bought this land and used it to build tombs and collect the bones of the war dead.
This centralized burial method is like the "Leoze Garden" in the Song Dynasty. The difference is that the people buried in the "Leoze Garden" are all ordinary people, and the people buried in this centralized burial are all soldiers, so it will definitely produce weapons. Armor, bows, tokens, that kind of stuff.
Taking the tomb dug by Ye Luzi's foursome as the basic center point and radiating to the surroundings, how big was the area of this tomb group back then?
Because it was clearly stated in the document that a hectare of land had been purchased, I dipped my hands in spit and wrote and drew on the ground, and it was quickly figured out.
We use hectares in modern times, and one hectare is approximately equal to 100 acres, or 10,000 square meters.
The "hectare" used in ancient times is equal to approximately 50 acres, which is 60 square feet. When converted into meters, it is more than 680 meters.
In other words, the area of the ancient tombs in Nuanquan is about 700 meters, which is not a small area.
The next morning I carried my bag and came to the crime scene in Nuanquan again.
Thinking of the thrilling scene last night, I couldn't help but sigh that Li Fei was so cruel. He killed those people just like he killed a few pigs. Even if I was given a gun at that time, I couldn't do what he did. I still can't Killed someone.
Xia Feng came out and looked at the endless desolate scene around me. I walked to the Robber's Cave.
The location here is remote, with very few people and cars passing by. You can reach the desert just a few dozen miles north.
Seeing that there was no one around, I picked up the Luoyang shovel and started exploring the surrounding pits with the Robber's Cave as the center.
I don’t have to go down to see the tomb that the Yeluzi quartet went to to know that it must be clean. They took everything. Their Luoyang shovel is far inferior to my Luoyang shovel in terms of feel, weight, and sharpness, but it can be used to make ends meet.
I dug nine eight-meter-deep holes in the surrounding area in one go. Starting from the seventh hole, something started to appear.
The yellow mud brought up from the underground was surprisingly mixed with some red pottery fragments. There are only two possibilities for seeing such red pottery fragments, either there is a cultural layer underground, or there are ancient tombs from the Tang and Song Dynasties.
In the past, some people went to the countryside to collect these red pottery pieces and were paid fifty yuan per pound. The collectors were actually tomb robbers dressed up in Qiaozhuang. Some villagers would go to the mountains to look for this kind of pottery pieces in order to sell them for money.
After the tomb robbers collect it, they will ask them: "Fellow, where did you pick this up?"
The villagers asked me where I had picked it up. At night, the tomb robbers used Luoyang shovels to dig holes in that place. They made a lot of money by using this method to dig many ancient tombs.
I placed a stone where I found the red pottery pieces, which was like marking them. Then I asked Li Fei to come out for dinner at noon, and Li Ping came to eat with me.
Before the food was served, Li Ping raised her glass and said, "Come! Let's drink for a better life in the future!"
I smiled and said stop drinking. You were drunk after just two beers last night.
Li Ping stuck out her tongue: "You look down on my drinking ability, right? I didn't perform well that day! If I performed well, none of you would be my opponent!"
Li Fei looked at Li Ping with doting eyes.
Back then, Li Fei had KTVs, Internet cafes, and billiard halls in places like Yinchuan, Yulin, Zhongwei, and Ankang. At his peak, even Jin Fenghuang didn't dare to offend him easily. I guess no one dared to bully his sister at that time.
During the meal, Li Ping drank her drink through a straw. She lightly hooked me with her foot under the table, and I kicked him lightly.
"Sister, I have run out of cigarettes. Go and buy a pack of cigarettes for me." Li Fei said.
Putting Li Ping aside, Li Fei and I drank the wine in one gulp.
"Brother Fei, have you settled that matter?"
"Well, don't worry. I have experience in doing this kind of work. Even the gods can't find a trace of this kind of foreigner who cremates the ashes and scatters them in the river. Yesterday, I didn't have time to ask why these people wanted to kill you. ?”
I said: "It's a problem of interpersonal relationships in our industry. It's more troublesome to explain. I took a closer look at yesterday's batch of things and found that they can't be sold for hundreds of thousands. The complete big pottery horse can be sold for a little money. I estimate it's ten If anyone wants it, please come."
Li Fei smiled and said: "The money I picked up for nothing is a lot of money. I only earn thirty to fifty thousand from spending a year on seafood."
I nodded and asked again: "Brother Fei, do you want to stand up? Do you dare to do it?"
"Haha, what do I dare to say? I have more than a dozen lives on my back."
I went over to sit on Li Fei's seat and whispered: "There are at least four ancient tombs from the Tang Dynasty in Nuanquan Wasteland. The area is not small. I can't do it alone. The two of us can work together. As long as something comes out, I can turn things into cash in the shortest time, and we’ll split the money 50-50 afterwards.”
"real?"
"One hundred percent, absolutely true!"
Li Fei lit a cigarette and asked: "How many people do you want? When do you plan to do it?"
"I need at least three people, and these three people must be trustworthy! If we are all here, we can do it tonight! I have already stepped on it in the morning, so just go over and dig!"
"No problem, I'll find a reliable person. Do you need any tools?"
I hurriedly said: "Most of them are ready-made, so we can just use them. But to be on the safe side, it's better to buy two headlamps and get two walkie-talkies with good signals to communicate with each other."
"What are you two talking about?"
Behind us, Li Ping suddenly came over with a sneaky look. She was holding a cigarette in her hand. We didn't even see when she came back from buying cigarettes.
"Nothing." I said.
"Liar, I heard you say you need to find a few people to do the work? Do you think I can do it?"
I shook my head: "You should stop meddling in things between men. It's fine if you just run your little garbage business."
"If you tell me again! If you tell me whether you believe it or not, I will ask my brother to take care of you!"
"Brother! Look at Xiang Yunfeng bullying me!"
Li Fei said nothing.
He leaned back on the chair, raised his head and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke toward the ceiling, not knowing what he was thinking.
