Chapter 8 Digging the Grave
"Brother, don't you use your Luoyang shovel? What are you doing if you insert these pipes?"
"If you ask, please help me, why do you ask so much?"
"Okay, listen to you."
At this moment, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and there was no one around the carrot land. Lao Zhang turned his head and looked at it, and reached out to help straighten the copper tube.
I picked up a stone and used it as a hammer.
"Dadada", gently smash the hollow copper tube into the ground.
Don't dare to use too much force, you must keep the copper tube vertical and down to a sufficient depth.
I quickly smashed the first one and left my head on the surface. Then I measured the distance with my legs, one meter, two meters...
Walked to six meters and smashed the second copper tube.
Finally, it was formed into a triangle, and a copper tube was inserted in the middle of the triangle.
After Lao Zhang saw this, the monk Zhang Er was confused and said, "Brother, my brother works on water and electricity on the construction site, and sometimes this is how it is done."
"Don't talk nonsense, look at people."
I found a dry branch and handed it to him, "You knock on the mouth of the copper pipe with a stick. I'll go there. If you knock on this, you will go diagonally with me, do you understand?"
"Then remember, you must have both rhythm and strength when knocking. Do you understand?"
"I understand, then start now?"
I nodded and took my place.
Lao Zhang started knocking on the jar "Bangbangbang". I didn't mind the soil on the ground, so I lay on the ground and leaned my ear close to the copper tube to listen.
My ears moved, and I raised my head and made a gesture, indicating that Laozhang was not strong enough, so he stepped up his strength again.
After listening to this, I changed to another position, and Lao Zhang also followed him in the diagonal.
My brows frowned, and I thought to myself that this is not right, there is something strange underground.
The sounds coming from the two dots are different. It's really strange. The reason is that there is a stone with a diameter of more than six meters below the ground, which blocks the sound.
Seeing that I was very serious, Lao Zhang swallowed carefully and did not dare to make a sound to disturb me.
I was not sure, so I asked Lao Zhang to turn around and knock it again.
As a result, the results obtained twice were exactly the same. There was definitely something that blocked the sound here and there.
I remember talking about "listening to thunder" separately before. Don't think it's nonsense. This is true. At that time, the most accurate person in listening to thunder was Master Yao from Inner Mongolia. He could also combine listening to thunder with stargazing. He spoke with facts and looked at the results.
I knew that later, during the trial, he said that he had stole nearly 500 ancient tombs a year, which was about two a day.
I don’t use ordinary copper tubes, but I use them called “Ming Tong”.
It was made by Batou in the Northern School. Because he and I know each other now, we won’t mention our names. At that time, we bought one and spent more than 4,000 yuan.
The manufacturing process of Ming copper is almost lost. My friend, his ancestors were the copper mates under Wu Bang's left hand in the Ming Dynasty. He was responsible for the batch of nine-turn wind-grinding copper made hundreds of years ago.
There are more gold bulls of the same weight, and they instantly kill gold.
Later, the great-grandson of the bronze official presided over the minting of the big money of the Ming Dynasty, the eleventh liang of the lunar calendar, which was also the first to suggest that the eleventh liang of Jiajing was changed, which successfully promoted the development of inflation in the late Ming Dynasty.
This copper singing technique has been passed down from real objects. Interested friends can go and see it. It is on the top of Mingfeng Mountain in Kunming. It is said that when you ring it, you can hear the bell 29 kilometers away. Later, someone went to do an experiment.
The result is a heavy knock, and you can hear it 16 kilometers away.
"How is it? Did you hear something?" Seeing me get up, Lao Zhang hurriedly asked.
I nodded: "There may be something underground, but to be sure of what, I have to find out."
"Damn! Look at what I said! I knew there was an ancient tomb here!"
“When should I do it.”
I pulled out the copper tube and put it away, looked at the sky, and whispered: "Operation today, twelve o'clock in the night."
Lao Zhang clapped his hands and said that he would be settled.
I am so anxious because I only have two days to leave the pomegranate in two days and go to the foot of Miyao Mountain to meet up with Jaotou.
Time flies, and it is soon midnight.
I brought my gloves, put down my bag, and sizzled my teeth in front of the mirror in the room. I ate leek dumplings for dinner, and leeks stuck between my teeth.
At this time, a few slight knocks came from outside the door.
When I opened the door, it was Lao Zhang and his wife. Lao Zhang probably wanted to share more money, but he really brought his wife with me.
I did not stop this. After Lao Zhang and I dig the soil, we let her let the air around us.
But it can be seen clearly that his wife was a little scared and looked down and didn't dare to talk to me.
Walking at night, leaving the village.
Old Zhang wore labor protection shoes and carried a shovel and whispered: "Brother, we couple really don't know anything, but we can all work hard."
I nodded: "Just listen to mine. I will do technical things, you don't have to worry about it."
After hearing this, a hint of relief appeared on his face.
I have always paid attention to whether there are people on the roadside. Fortunately, the villagers slept early and didn’t meet anyone along the way, so they were quiet.
When I arrived at the vegetable field, I skillfully brought the headlights and asked Lao Zhang's wife to go to the field to let the air, and told her to remind us if she saw it or heard anything.
He also told Lao Zhang two things to pay attention to.
"Do you understand?"
"I understand."
"Let's start."
After saying that, I picked up the Luoyang shovel, aimed at the planned location during the day, and smashed it heavily.
Soon I lifted the soil layer up, and I squatted down to check.
"Is it sand?"
"Strange... Why do you carry sand in the living soil? When was this tomb?"
I frowned and thought, but I couldn't understand, so I started digging down the thieves with Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang spitted into his palms a few times, swung the shovel and worked very hard, without stopping for a second.
I shook my head and thought to myself that it was indeed an outsider. I couldn't dig like this. I had to have my own rhythm, otherwise I would be exhausted soon, which would slow down the overall speed.
Loess and small stones were turned up and piled up to one side, and the digging soil quickly covered the radish seedlings.
As expected, Lao Zhang quickly became sweating profusely and his breathing began to be rapid.
I stopped the shovel and asked him to pay attention to it. I should remember to leave a gap on the hole wall, otherwise it would be difficult to get up later.
Lao Zhang breathes and shows that brothers are white.
The hole was dug deeper, so I asked Lao Zhang to go down and use a bucket of soil. After filling it, he shook the rope, and then I pulled it out.
After all, he worked until three o'clock, Lao Zhang suddenly said excitedly below: "Brother! I saw the brick!"
"Come down and take a look! I really saw the brick!"
I asked him to keep quiet, don't be excited, what's the name?
I roughly looked at it and found that the depth of this burial is in line with the characteristics of the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, but having bricks does not mean anything, because there will also be a large number of brick tombs in the civilian tombs of the Song Dynasty during the same period.
After going down, I found something was wrong again!
Kicking away some broken soil, we could see the large pieces of old blue bricks under our feet. At this moment, we were standing on an arched top.
I've seen many vaults before, but I've never seen them with such a large curve.
The whole thing is like a "letter c", upside down.
Chapter completed!