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Chapter 10 Brick Tomb

I heard Professor Chen say that this time I discovered a large multi-chamber brick tomb. I naturally thought that the ancient tomb was a house built under the ground with blue bricks. But now, when I walked to the edge of the trench, I saw seven huge stone doors lined up underneath.

The stone doors are all made of bricks and stones. The archaeological team members dug out an aisle more than three meters wide by the door. The upper and lower steps were built with wooden boards and stones on both sides.

The group came to the side of the steps, and Professor Chen said to the people behind him: "After we go down, we will turn on the satellite locator. You must draw a spiritual palace route map based on the route we are traveling so that we can follow up excavation work..."

Listening to Professor Chen’s explanation to those people, I couldn’t help but poke the fat man with my elbow, “Hey, look at him, the satellite positioning system is used. When will you update your equipment?”

"Ball." The fat man looked at the group of people disdainfully, "That kind of thing is useless when it comes to a truly powerful place. What we need is experience and wisdom. At most, those instruments are psychological comfort. It is rainy in the south, and there must be a lot of water underneath. Humph, the road is not easy to walk at that time. I see how he fiddled with the instruments. You are a descendant of the tomb robber family, don't learn bad things from them."

The fat man was obviously not interested in those high-tech things. After the two of them muttered for a while, the few people who pulled the rope just now walked to the side again. Only then did I notice that they were pulling a large rain cloth, which had been covered with soil before, but now, looking at their movements, it seemed that they were about to cover the cloth after we went down.

"Hey, this thing is covered, what if the bottom is not ventilated?" I couldn't help but ask loudly.

Yang Lang, who was standing by, explained to me that there were many carvings on the seven stone doors below. If they were exposed outside, they would be afraid of being damaged if it rained. Therefore, before the formal excavation began, they must be covered with things. As for the ventilation issue, Yang Lang told me not to worry. They had already done a test below before, and there were certain ventilation names in the tomb. Moreover, there were many patios in this kind of multi-chamber brick tomb, and it might be possible that any patio would be connected to the outside world.

Professor Chen looked at his watch and said to the fat man: "Mr. Cao, we can start."

The fat man nodded and then was the first to walk down the steps. The archaeological team members behind him immediately shouted, some cheered, and some wished us a good journey. In such an atmosphere, I was also very excited.

Damn, tomb robbers are all secretly working. This time, I not only go in with the people on the official side, but also beat drums to cheer. Thinking about it made me feel complacent.

After walking a distance of more than twenty meters, we arrived in front of the seven doors. Unlike last time in Gulin, I felt dampness and hotness and rushed towards me. Before I could enter, several people started to sweat.

As the fat man said, there seemed to be water accumulation here, and there were many small puddles at the door alone. If it was one or two noon, it would definitely be similar to a sauna.

However, the group was quickly attracted by the brick carvings on the door. When I walked closer, I found that all the murals here were carved on bricks, and they were made of dark lines. I couldn't help but wonder and asked Professor Chen: "These carvings are very complicated. Professor, why are the bricks on them not cracking at all?"

Professor Chen said: "This kind of brick carving is different from stone carvings. It is carved first when these bricks or mud embryos are or mud embryos, and then the mud embryos are baked in the brick kiln. After the mud embryos become bricks, they will be put into the original pattern piece by piece. The process is very complicated."

After hearing this, I couldn't help but say, "Why do you want to make such trouble? Can't you just find a stone to put it on?"

"What do you know?" Zhuge Xuan's voice suddenly came from behind. When she looked back, she was holding a camera in her hand, and there were still the two Jinyiwei behind her.

I felt uncomfortable when I saw this woman. The little learning spirit that I had finally achieved was gone. But now I can't show my depression. After all, this little girl caught me and the fat man's ponytail.

So I smiled bitterly, pretended to be very interested and said to Zhuge Xuan: "I hope to hear the great arguments."

Hey, who knew that this girl had this set, and immediately laughed at me, "Tell you, in fact, whether it is a brick carving or a brick tomb, although the process is a little more complicated, compared to other types of large tombs, this is already very frugal..."

Before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people in the Central Plains advocated "taking death as life", which means that what kind of life a person (usually a male surname) lived when he was alive, then after he died, these things would still continue. Therefore, at that time, the emperors and generals tried their best to find a good place for themselves and build a large-scale spiritual palace. When they died, they would bring a large part of their property to the grave so that they could continue to enjoy it in the underworld.

And this kind of practice of burial was even more outrageous in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, people had two ways to become officials. One was to be filial and honest, and the other was to be scholars. Therefore, whether a person was filial or not was not just a matter of character. The most important manifestation of filial piety was the funeral of his parents. Therefore, in order to be an official, people began to hold big funerals in a crazily manner, losing all their money, and countless people who sold land and land to hold funerals for their parents. Therefore, most of the property in the Eastern Han Dynasty was buried in tombs, which was also an important reason for the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The first person who really changed this wrong approach was Cao Cao. The simple burials of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were also led by Cao Cao, Cao Pi and others. Therefore, the tomb projects at that time were not too large, and bricks that were convenient for transportation and were available everywhere began to gradually emerge and were widely used in tombs. Brick carvings also flourished at that time.

Seeing that I was so sensible, Zhuge Xuan patted my shoulder and said, "If you don't know anything in the future, just ask me." After showing a "school-taught" smile to me, she walked aside and continued to take photos.

At this time, Yang Lang had already hung a fluorescent light in a door in front of us, and then shouted to the top: "We are ready!"

After he finished calling, the people above began to close the rain cloth bit by bit.

As if my eyes suddenly became blind, the surroundings immediately fell into darkness. Three or four seconds later, I felt the light of the fluorescent lamp in front of me. Then, the people around me turned on the flashlight one after another, concentrated in front of the door with the fluorescent lamp, and prepared to enter the ancient tomb.

Before leaving, Professor Chen said to everyone: "The situation inside may be very complicated. When you do anything, you must ask me and Mr. Cao first."

The others had no objection, so Zhuge Xuan only snorted. The fat man ignored her and began to arrange the order for everyone to enter the ancient tomb. This time, the fat man was the leader, and of course he was in the front, followed by Professor Chen and I, followed by Peanuts, Zhuge Xuan, Zhang Yadong, Zhang Yaxi and Yang Lang behind the mat.

But after the fat man made such arrangements, someone in the team suddenly raised his hand and said, "Report, report."

Seeing Peanuts standing on tiptoe like a student, I almost burst into laughter.

The fat man said: "Hua...Chen Zixiang, what's the problem?"

The kung fu of Peanut acting was definitely at the level of a movie hero. At this time, he looked around with a nervous look on his face and said, "I, I'm a little scared. Can you let me go behind?"

"Hmph." Zhang Yadong suddenly sneered, "If you are afraid, don't follow me."

"That's right, coward." Zhang Yaxi echoed.

Fatty and I can understand the purpose of peanuts. Fatty is standing in front, let alone the ability of this person, even if he is fat, he is enough. With Professor Chen’s experience, there is no problem with the front row of the team. If peanuts are behind us, at least Fatty and I are the most at ease.

"Don't laugh." The fat man yelled at the two brothers, and then said seriously: "Okay, then you'll leave the end. Since you are timid, I will specially assign my right-hand assistant, Miss Yuan, to suppress you."

"Miss Yuan?" The fat man was confused by the people next to him. He didn't explain. After saying that, he took the mine lamp and walked inside first.

Everyone followed immediately, Peanut and I stopped first and reached the end of the team.

However, just as everyone was walking in, I suddenly saw Yang Lang stopping. His eyes kept sweeping around us, frowning, as if something was very confused.

"What's wrong with you?" I couldn't help asking.

Before Yang Lang could react, he smiled stiffly at me. "Uh, no, nothing." After that, he lowered his head and walked forward.

I saw that he looked a little panicked, so I couldn't help but look at everyone, but found no problems.

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