Anyone who has a certain understanding of the Tianbao Dragon Fire Glazed Roof will never foolishly drill a hole from the top, because so far, there are not a few people who have died in this ancient tomb mechanism. When my father opened a shop, there was a group of tomb robbers who were frequent customers of our place. They were all veterans. Anyway, I often saw them. Later, I heard from my father that the group once discovered a golden tomb. The structure of the tomb was this kind of Dragon Fire Glazed Roof. As a result, the group of people didn't know the danger and drilled a hole from the top. In the end, more than a dozen people were burned to death, and the tomb was destroyed!
When I heard Fatty Wu say that this was the Dragon Fire Glazed Roof, I was already wilting. It seems that this time there will be a lot of twists and turns. If I want to die, I have to drill a hole from the side. However, the side of the Tang tomb that was opened from the mountain is the thickest. If I drill a hole from the side, it will be a pain for me! !
"Let's rest tonight. I'll check the location tomorrow morning, and then we'll start digging the tunnel!"
Fatty Wu wiped the Western Region Fire Dragon Oil on the Luoyang shovel very carefully. The ignition point of this stuff is too low. It's a disaster if you don't clean it up and carry it with you. You don't know when it will catch fire. The fire starts very quickly, and it will be too late to cry when it happens.
After thinking about what Fatty said, we all agreed. After all, our physical strength has reached the limit after trekking through the mountains today. If we don't adjust it, the engineer shovel will probably fall down after a few swings!
That night, we found a big rock on the top of the mountain, hid in the leeward side and slept. After all, the mountain wind in the deep mountains and old forests is evil. If you sleep facing the mountain wind, you will definitely have a stroke. It is very difficult to cure a crooked mouth and slanted eyes. If you can't find a good Chinese medicine doctor, you will be like that for the rest of your life. This is definitely not a joke. My neighbor used to live with an old bachelor who had a stroke. When he was young, he came home from other places. When he passed by the cemetery, he was too tired and slept on a wild grave. As a result, he woke up the next day with a crooked mouth and slanted eyes. The stroke was too severe. I don't know how many Chinese medicine doctors he saw but they couldn't cure him. He never got married in his life.
Some of our team members are experts in outdoor survival, so it is impossible to make such a mistake. However, it is really uncomfortable behind the big rock because it is damp all year round and exudes a smell of urine. Centipedes and scorpions crawl on you at any time. It is so annoying. Anyway, I didn't sleep well. I was half asleep and half awake all night. I had nightmares as soon as I closed my eyes. I opened my eyes at six o'clock the next morning. After slapping off a few centipedes crawling on my body, I simply got up and went to the side to eat.
Not long after I got up, Zhou Jing and the others woke up one after another. They all had dark circles under their eyes. It seems that they didn't sleep very well. This resentful dragon land is really not a place for people to stay. It is harassed by the yin energy. If you stay in such a place for a long time, your body will be damaged sooner or later. You can live for 80 years, but you will live for 30 years.
It was still early at this time, and the sun had not yet come out. The forest that blocked the sky was even darker. We ate a little and went down the mountain in the dark.
The fat man was still the backbone. He led us around the mountain and finally stopped at the west. He said that we should dig a hole here because the Qinling Mountains are located in the north. The terrain in the north is high in the west and low in the east. Therefore, the dead here are usually buried with their heads facing west and their feet facing east. In this way, the dead are more comfortable in the tomb. In this way, in order to maintain the overall Feng Shui of the tomb, the main tomb must be in the west. After all, it is better to be high than low in funerals. If we dig a hole from the west, we will definitely be able to enter the main tomb the fastest. The less road we have to walk in the middle, the fewer traps we will encounter.
After choosing the place, Fatty took out an engineer shovel and threw it to me. Then he picked a good place to dig a tomb. In order to save time, the tomb should not be too big, so only two people can go to dig at a time. We were divided into three groups, Fatty and I in one group, Zhang Jinya and Rosa in one group, Qingyi in one group, and Zhou Jing... He was not as tall as the engineer shovel. It was okay to show us the fortune telling, so let him roll up his sleeves and work.
Because Fatty and I are recognized as tomb robbers in everyone's eyes, we are the first group to go. Fortunately, Fatty planned the prototype of the tomb in front, and I just shoveled the soil behind. Therefore, it didn't test my "professionalism". But even so, I was exhausted. The first shovel of soil in this mountain is the most difficult to dig. There are fallen leaves and stones on it, which is very strenuous. It's much better below the soil layer. The soil is soft and not too strenuous.
I have never done this kind of civil engineering work since I was a child. How can I bear it when it comes suddenly? After digging for a while, my palms were covered with blisters. But I am a man after all. I admit that I can't deal with those evil things, but I have to grit my teeth and dig a hole even if it is tiring.
Fatty and I dug for more than an hour before we finally made a hole that can just accommodate one person. We finally stopped when we dug two meters deep and replaced Rosa and Zhang Jinya.
We spent the whole day digging the tunnel. By 5 or 6 in the afternoon, we had dug a tunnel nearly ten meters deep. Zhang Jinya, who was digging the tunnel, suddenly shouted, "We're there, we're there, I saw the blue bricks!"
After a while, Zhang Jinya and Rosa came out of the tunnel. Zhang Jinya said to us, "It's open. I knocked on the blue bricks and it made a clear sound. It's definitely empty inside!"
Fat Wu, who was lying next to me, got up immediately after hearing this. Without saying a word, he picked up his backpack and put it on his back, smiling, "Let's go, brothers, let's go to the tomb!"
"Don't you want to take a break?"
I glanced at Fatty and hesitated: "The sun will set soon. I think we should wait until the sun comes out tomorrow!"
"Don't go into the tomb if you are afraid of ghosts. If you go into the tomb, you won't be afraid of ghosts."
Fatty Wu laughed: "The tomb is dark, day and night, I would rather sleep in the tomb than in the mountains. The big mosquitoes in the mountains almost bit me to death last night. When I went to pee in the morning, I shook my pants and several centipedes jumped out. It was too scary."
I was speechless when I heard this. At this time, Qingyi and the others were already packing up. I had no choice but to follow them and pack up and walk in front.
When we entered the tomb, it was still the old order. Zhang Jinya walked in front, followed by Qingyi and Rosa. Zhou Jing followed Rosa with Heizi. I was the last one because my fate was too weak. If I walked in front, it would be easy for the other party to raise the corpse.
Because there were a lot of people blocking the way in front of me, I didn't see what the tomb wall that Zhang Jinya mentioned looked like. I only saw the fat man swinging a crowbar and hitting it a few times in front of me. Then the tomb wall collapsed, and then the fat man lit a fire stick and threw it into the tomb.
I could clearly see a little light burning in front of me.
After a long time, the fat man turned his head and smiled at us, saying: "This time we have definitely dug up a big guy's tomb. Damn, it's already amazing to be able to open a mountain to build a tomb. At least he must be a rich man or something. Now open the tomb and take a look. The air inside is so good that the fire sticks will not go out when thrown in. It seems that this tomb even has ventilation equipment. This technology was amazing in those days. It was only in the hands of the craftsmen who built the mausoleum for the emperor. It is estimated that the owner of this tomb must have been a prince in his lifetime. At least he must have been a duke!!"
I couldn't help but widen my eyes when I heard it. Wow, my buddy found a duke's tomb the first time he went down the tomb?
This duke was not small in ancient times. In ancient China, there were basically five titles: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. The duke was the highest of the five titles. Above that was the king, who was basically a royal relative. The kings of other surnames were basically tough guys, with the ability to establish territories and borders, and most of them held military power. In our current terms, they were out-and-out warlords, and there were only a handful of them during the reign of each generation of the emperor.
"No need to spread the air, just go down to the tomb!"
The fat man muttered, and jumped in first. I waited until they all went in before I followed them in. At this time, the fat man and the others had already turned on the flashlight inside. With the light of their flashlights, I roughly saw that this tomb was basically full of weapons, such as Pudao from the Tang Dynasty, which were well preserved and could be sold for a good price. In addition, there was a set of armor, which was a very powerful Ming Guang armor from the Tang Dynasty. People without status could not wear it. There was also a horse skeleton.
It seems that we should be in the auxiliary room of this tomb, which is a tomb room specially used for placing burial objects. Looking at these burial objects, I think the owner of this tomb should have been a general or something.
"Look, there are murals on the wall!"
Zhang Jinya suddenly shouted, which scared me and I turned my head to look at the place where his flashlight was shining. Yes, there were murals everywhere on the wall, which should record the things that happened to the owner of the tomb before his death.
"Brother Xiaotian, come and help me look at these murals."
Fatty Wu said: "Almost all the people in your old Ge family are historians. Can you see the identity of the owner of this tomb?"
In fact, he didn't need me to say it. I had already taken the flashlight from Zhang Jinya and looked at the murals one by one, because I was also very curious about who was in this tomb we were in.
This mural is very well painted. It is estimated that the painter was also a great man at that time. The person in the painting is a man, tall and handsome, wearing military uniforms, holding a broadsword, quite majestic. Most of the scenes in the murals are concentrated on the battlefield. There are also two scenes describing the scene when he was conferred a title. The scene was crowded with people, and all the people on it were luxuriously dressed. It seems that the scene at that time was particularly lively. It is estimated that the official title he was conferred was not small.
I looked at them one by one, and basically never found any clues. I couldn't stop walking until I saw a mural depicting a war scene.
In the painting, the owner of the tomb commanded the army to charge and the Modao soldiers advanced like a wall. The enemy who confronted them was riding a camel, with a turban covering his face and holding a scimitar in his hand.
This shape is clearly the army of the Arab Empire!
As soon as I saw this, I had some understanding of the era when the owner of the tomb was born-if nothing unexpected happened, the owner of the tomb lived in the era of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Li Longji! !
Because in the entire history of China, only the Tang Dynasty had fought a war with the Arab Empire, which was at its peak at the time, in order to consolidate its hegemony in Central Asia. That war was called the Battle of the Hellenic Rus, and ended with the defeat of the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire never daring to expand into China.
Looking at the meaning of the murals, it seems that the tomb owner is also one of the commanders of that war?
However, there were several people who commanded that war, and which one of them was the tomb owner?
I read all the way and finally confirmed the identity of the tomb owner when I saw the last mural!
In the last mural, the tomb owner was pressed on the guillotine and his head was cut off, and the soldiers watching below burst into tears.
Looking at this mural, I took a deep breath and said slowly: "There is only one person in the entire Tang Dynasty who commanded the Battle of the Hellenic Rus against the Arab Empire and was beheaded in the end-Gao Xianzhi!!"
"..."