Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Two and a half days later, at noon.

Panpan came to me in a hurry. She said that she had talked to Aji, a professional herb picker, and she said it was okay to climb up, but she wanted 30 yuan for hard work, so she asked if I could do it?

"30 dollars?"

I heard it was too cheap!It was not directly proportional to what other people paid, so I directly gave 300 yuan as a benefit fee.

After two o'clock in the afternoon, I saw someone.

Aji, the herbal picker, is not tall, very young, very thin, and a little taciturn. If I don't take the initiative to talk to him, he will never speak.

"Then... that brother, do you think we should schedule the operation in the daytime or at night?" I asked.

The man said a few words, but I couldn't understand them, so I asked Panpan what he meant.

Panpan acted as an interpreter and said, "Ah... Aki said he can do it during the day and night, but he also wants to ask you what you are doing in those coffin holes."

I had been prepared for a long time, and immediately showed him the archaeological certificate we got in Zhengding. There was a seal and a photo on the certificate, and it looked very formal.

I smiled and said, "Brother, we are from the Hebei Cultural Relics Team. We went up to take a look just to study the historical development of our local area."

The guy looked at me and grinned, showing his white teeth.

In fact, even Panpan didn't know that our real identities were the northern tomb robbers.

In the evening, it was dark.

Our group was shocked to see it!

This young man named Aji climbed too fast. He was like a humanoid ape, swinging back and forth on the steep and straight cliffs. He quickly climbed up the height of over [-] meters. The whole process was smooth and smooth. .

Seeing this scene, Xiaoxuan couldn't help complaining to me and said, "Hey, King Shangshu, did you see it? This is what I call my skill!"

Brother Yu rushed to his head and shouted: "Dude! Fix the rope and let it go! Then you come down!"

Soon, a set of climbing ropes was lowered, the length was just enough, and then the man grabbed the rope and slid down slowly.

Bean Sprout said: "Okay, Pan'er, take this buddy back first, we will call him if we need it."

Panpan had some reluctance on her face, she said she wanted to go up and play with us.

Bean Sprout put his arms around her shoulders and coaxed her with a smile, "Oh, it's no fun at all! It's too dangerous, I'm worried you'll get hurt! Be good, go back and wait for me."

Not to mention, the little chubby girl really likes this kind of thing, and Bean Sprouts coaxed her a little bit, and then obediently went back with a blushing face.

Tighten my shoelaces, put on my gloves, check my headlights, and I'm the first to climb.

I have touched many ancient underground tombs, but this is the first time I have touched the cave-buried tomb hidden in the sky. With the help of ropes, it saves a lot of effort. It took me about 20 minutes to climb up.

After I went up, I shook the flashlight down to tell them that I had come up.

The entrance of the cave is quite windy, and the ground is full of broken stones. There are two ancient coffins in front of my eyes. They have been exposed to the wind and sun for too many years, and they are already rotten.

I put on my headlamp and walked around the coffin carefully. There were no antiques, only broken stones.

Pushing open the lid of the coffin, I looked inside with a flashlight, and saw a broken human skeleton with teeth still there.

The strange thing is that this person's skull was placed between the feet. I guess it may have been hit by some kind of external force, which caused the skull to roll to the side of the thigh.

At that moment, I couldn't help but say: "Brother, why is your family so poor? Why don't you have a decent funeral object?"

This kind of person is called "poor coffin" in the industry. They are really so poor that they don't even have a piece of clothing except for the bones.

When we encounter such poor and white masters, we usually give something to them, which is also a rule.

I fumbled around and found a dollar bill in my back trouser pocket.

So I popped the one-dollar coin and stuffed it into the skull's mouth, which happened to be stuck by the owner's teeth.

I smiled and said, "That's great, brother, at least you have a funeral object."

When I was done, I pushed the coffin lid back on again.

I don't know how many years later, if other colleagues came up to open the coffin and saw the steel jumping in the owner's mouth, what kind of expression would it be.

"Hold on! Brother Yu! You all don't come up here! This may be a fucking pit! I'll go in and take a look!"

Brother Yu shook the flashlight underneath, meaning be careful.

I don’t know how deep this cave is. The ceiling is about 40 to 30 meters high. There are traces of man-made excavation everywhere around the cave wall. I stepped on the gravel and walked forward for more than [-] meters. Suddenly, a huge man-made wall appeared in front of me. stone wall.

I held up the flashlight and looked carefully.

How much labor and time would it take to build such a tall stone wall?

There is a small arch in the middle of the stone wall. After I lowered my head and drilled through this small arch, the space suddenly opened up.

Wherever you look, there are all kinds of ancient coffins... There are at least one or two hundred coffins by visual inspection.

These coffins were all off the ground and were nailed to a "well"-shaped wooden frame.

According to my previous understanding, the coffin supported by six pillars and three "well" frames is male, and the coffin supported by four pillars and two "well" frames is female.

It's already spring now, and there is no wind here, but I feel very cold.

It means that there are too many dead people buried in caves here, and the Yin Qi is too strong and gathered. This phenomenon is like walking in a cemetery alone in summer, and you will also feel cold.

Looking at the shape, workmanship and standard, we can know that the coffins with flat heads and flat heads are roughly made, and should be coffins from the Ming Dynasty. Conversely, those coffins with bulging lids and curved lids are all coffins from the Qing Dynasty.

The earliest of these old coffins may have been in the late Ming Dynasty, and the latest may have been in the Tongzhi period of Guangxu. That is to say, no one has been buried here since the Republic of China.

I also saw that many coffins were covered with stones and a large package of old and yellowed "oil paper". When I looked closely, I found that these oil papers were made into clothes, and people could wear two arms through them.

Why put an oiled paper coat on the coffin board?I don't really understand it, it may be some kind of custom of the local Miao people.

Holding the flashlight and walking a few steps, I found a few old bowls covered with dust on the ground. I picked one up and wiped it with my hand, revealing the pattern of the porcelain bowl itself.

I saw a big "Shou" character painted on the bowl with red glaze.

"I rely on fuck, what a bad luck!"

I threw the porcelain bowl away and wiped my hands in a hurry.

This is the old birthday bowl. After a person dies, a layer of whole grains will be sprinkled on the bottom of this bowl, and then half-cooked rice will be buckled on it, which means that it will be eaten by the dead when they are hungry on the way.

There are rumors that the hands of the living should not touch the longevity bowl, or else they would grab food from the dead and provoke those unclean things.

I just wanted to turn back.

Suddenly, a hand from behind gently patted my shoulder.

"Who!"

I grabbed the headlamp and turned around sharply!

It's Bean Sprouts...

He was holding a flashlight and shining it on his chin.

I was so angry that I immediately yelled: "You are f*cking scary! Didn't I say, I told you to wait below, when did you come up!"

"Hehe, Fengzi, you look so timid! Don't worry about your safety, so let me come up to see you."

"How is it? Have you gained anything?" Bean Sprout asked.

"I have a fart harvest, I just came in, look for it!"

Afterwards, Douyazai and I separated to look for the funeral objects. As Douyazai sang, he pushed open the lid of the coffin. He rubbed his hands and sang, "Baby, Baoer, where are you hiding? Don't let my brother find you!" …”

Some coffins had coffin nails, and this one had to be pried with a crowbar. As I was prying it, I heard Bean Sprouts complaining loudly: "Damn, why are you so poor, you don't even have a copper coin! There was no money at home before." Deposit."

"Hey! Here's a copper coin! Fengzi, come and have a look! I found a copper coin!"

Bean Sprouts showed me a copper coin he found. The back was bare, and the writing on the face could not be seen at all, because the face with the writing on it had grown together with the rotten linen, and it was rusty, so it was difficult to separate.

Bean Sprout asked suspiciously: "Which dynasty's copper coin is this, why is there still linen?"

I explained: "This is called carrying money on the back. There are sackcloths because people wear clothes when they die, and because the copper coins are placed behind the back, and they grow together after a long time."

You can occasionally see this kind of copper coins with cloth in the market now, and [-]% of them come out of coffins, and they are all back money.

I took out the knife and scraped vigorously for a long time, and finally scraped off a layer of linen, and saw a "positive" character on the front of the copper coin.

"Damn, it's worthless, it's just a broken Yongzheng Tongbao backed by money, hurry up and look for it!"

When we searched for the coffins in the inner layer of the cave, the situation gradually improved, and some silver objects began to be found, most of which were silver jewelry worn on the body, including silver bracelets, large silver earrings, silver crowns, silver hairpins, etc. , the number is still quite a lot.

I guess, the outer burials are all poor people, and the inner burials may be some rich people with family background.

Miao people love silver. These various silver ornaments are exactly what I want. Although they have been oxidized and blackened after a long time, I can still see the original exquisiteness of these silver ornaments, especially the one with a silver tip. The crown uses bas-relief technology throughout, and the workmanship is excellent.

Bean Sprouts put all these messy silver pieces in a sack and carried them. Suddenly, Bean Sprouts said, "Fengzi! Look at the top, there seems to be a statue there!"

I raised my head and took a photo with my flashlight, and it was true, Bean Sprouts had really sharp eyes!There is a statue about forty centimeters high that is as black as ink and is placed in the hole in the wall. It seems to be wearing a hat on its head. I don't know if it is made of copper or wood.

"This may be a valuable item, find a way to get it down and have a look." I said immediately.

"Fengzi, it's a bit high, even if I step on your shoulders, I'm afraid I won't be able to reach it."

I thought for a while and said: "There is a way, let's stack two coffins together, and then you go up, and I will step on you up."

Just do it.

I picked two lighter coffins and stacked them together, and then I stepped on the bean sprouts to reach the statue.

"I'm going...why is it so heavy!"

I almost didn't hug it, it's not copper, let alone wood, it's iron!It is a statue of pure iron!The age is probably the Ming Dynasty!

This iron statue, with a square hat on its head, has a very thin face, slender eyes, and the eyes are still closed, and the sides of the cheeks are shrunk and fleshless, giving people a harsh feeling that it is difficult to speak and has a sharp mouth. .

Moreover, the clothes it wears are also a bit special, with a row of butterfly buttons on the chest and exposed shoulders, a bit like the current tube top.

I looked left and right, studied it for a long time, but couldn't figure out what kind of god it was.

Douyazi lit a cigarette, frowned and said, "Oh! Fengzi, I seem to know what kind of god this is!"

"What is it?" I asked.

Bean Sprout flicked the cigarette ash, pointed to the big iron statue and said, "Isn't this the god of the night?"