Cheng Shi also started to laugh when he saw the crisscrossing black lines clearly visible after the soil fell behind the stone monument.
"If our hypothesis just now is correct, then the secret is in this stone tablet, then how did the ancients put it in?
So, I was thinking that this stone tablet could be opened. After walking around the stone tablet a few times, I found that it was too thick.
As a stone tablet, it is over fifty centimeters thick, which is somewhat unreasonable in itself.
And there are some criss-crossing cracks on its back, which makes me even more suspicious that it is spliced together! "
Shao Dengke said with some surprise: "You mean, this stone tablet is made up of spliced pieces. How is that possible? This is stone?!"
After hearing this, Cheng Shi walked directly to the stone tablet. He reached out and touched the stone tablet back and forth before opening his mouth to explain to Shao Dengke.
"Does Boss Shao know what methods carpenters use to make furniture?"
"Huh? Agent Cheng, are you saying this is made using a mortise and tenon structure?"
"Yes, it's a mortise and tenon structure!"
Cheng Shi also became a little excited. After all, he was very interested in strange things. He had also played with many mortise-and-tenon structure locks, but he had never seen a stone type.
While explaining to Shao Dengke, Cheng Shi began to squat down and carefully study the specific structure of the stone tablet.
“Mortise and tenon construction is a commonly used wood chiseling technique that is often used in wooden buildings and furniture.
The mortise and tenon structure can be opened in several directions, and then, when closed, it becomes a high-strength and perfect whole. "
Shao Dengke also walked over at this time and said: "I also heard from the carpenters who worked at my house that this kind of mortise and tenon structure was mentioned, but I didn't expect that it could also be used on stone?!"
Cheng Shi went on to explain: "Although mortise and tenon structures are often used on wood, they are also used on stone buildings!
However, I have never heard that it can be used in such a place. It is really amazing. This mortise and tenon structure alone cannot destroy the stone monument! "
Cheng Shi became even more excited when he saw the complex structure in front of him. This was an advanced technology passed down from our ancestors!
Just the mortise and tenon structure left behind on this stele is enough to make this stele a national treasure, not to mention the things hidden inside...
However, what would be hidden in the stone tablet in the tomb chamber, and how do others know there is something inside?
Could it be that the tomb keeper discovered that the tomb had been robbed, so he came looking for something? If so, why did he come more than ten years later?
Cheng Shi kept thinking in his mind.
It's a pity that he can't find the answers to these questions and can only wait to find out later. The most important thing now is how to open this stone tablet.
Although he has done a lot of research on Luban Suo, this stele is not among the 140 structures, which makes him a little confused.
Shao Dengke asked curiously: "Can Agent Cheng open it?!"
Cheng Shi shook his head and said with some disappointment: "I'm afraid I won't be able to open it without destroying the stone tablet."
When Shao Dengke heard this, he said excitedly: "Then smash him away!"
Cheng Shi looked at Shao Dengke, who was a little excited, and said quickly: "It's better to say goodbye, what's wrong, we have no bait, and we don't know what's inside.
If you forcefully break it open, the thing may be destroyed. This stone tablet is so complicated, and the things inside must not be simple! "
Of course, Shao Dengke didn't want to damage the contents inside, but the secrets of more than ten years were right in front of him but he couldn't open them.
This also made him say anxiously: "What should we do?"
"Wait a minute... Did Boss Shao find something with writing in the tomb? There might be records of this thing in it!"
Shao Dengke seemed to have thought of something, and quickly walked to the cabinet on the east side of the secret room and opened the cabinet.
Cheng Shi walked over and looked inside to see some bamboo slips and the like. Shao Dengke explained.
"Here are the bamboo slips found in the coffin in the tomb. I looked at them and it seemed that the king was praising his achievements.
There are no secrets recorded in it, so I haven’t read it in more than ten years. Maybe I’ve let the secret slip through! "
Looking at the bamboo slips placed randomly in the cabinet, this may be the thing that Shao Dengke cares about least in the secret room.
As everyone knows, this is the most valuable thing in the tomb. If he hadn't wanted to find the secret of the tomb, he would have thrown it away long ago.
Cheng Shi stopped thinking and began to carefully take out the bamboo slips and place them on a stone platform in the middle of the secret room.
Cheng Shi laid all the bamboo slips flat and straight one by one. After all, these bamboo slips had been messed up and there was no order at all.
He then looked at all the bamboo slips one by one from left to right. The bamboo slips had obviously been washed with clean water. The words on the bamboo slips were not carved with a knife, but were written with a brush.
The ink on it has long been blurred, and many of the words cannot be read clearly, and only about half of the words can be read clearly.
Judging from these texts, it should be the era after Qin Shihuang unified the writing system, but the other party still used bamboo slips.
Cheng Shi also guessed that the owner of the tomb was a long time ago and should be a big shot from the early Eastern Han Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty.
Cheng Shi held his breath while watching. He was thinking about how to take these bamboo slips away. They would be important cultural relics in the future.
While thinking and observing, it didn't take long before Cheng Shi's face lit up and he picked out eight bamboo slips on the stone platform and took them aside.
When Shao Dengke saw Cheng Shi doing this, he quickly gathered around him and asked what he had discovered.
Cheng Shi ignored him, but changed the positions of the eight bamboo slips in his hand. After a long time, Cheng Shi stopped what he was doing.
Cheng Shi said to Shao Dengke beside him: "I found 8 bamboo slips with words that have something to do with the structure of the government. The others are all words that the king boasted about.
Fortunately, he wrote down the structure of these institutions, which shows that this is very important, but there are too many words to be seen clearly. "
Shao Dengke lowered his head and took a closer look and found that most of the fonts were relatively clear, but they were intermittent.
Cheng Shi lowered his head and read with interest. When he encountered words that were unclear, he would mentally draft them and try to spell out the complete sentences.
Of course, Cheng Shi did not tell Shao Dengke the completed sentence. After reading it, he looked at other bamboo slips, trying to find other clues.
The fact that the other party can still find Shao Dengke more than 10 years later means that the other party must know something about this secret.
Moreover, the other party is obviously not an ordinary person. He is not willing to take things away in the open. He is probably afraid of disturbing others and exposing the secrets they know.
It seems that the things inside the stone tablet must be of great importance, otherwise, the other party would not go to such great lengths to steal it.
Cheng Shi also began to have some thoughts in his mind about people like Shao Dengke who only care about money and don't pay attention to cultural heritage.
If the thing inside the stone tablet is very important, then you have to find a way to get it. You can't get the thing out easily, otherwise you will be passive.
