The Hunting Past Chapter 149: Explore Hanshan Again

Feng Saburo patted Qin Mengye on the shoulder and said, "Best brother, why don't we go down the mountain first, and then go up the mountain when we get the equipment ready tomorrow. I still have some things left at the bottom of the mountain and didn't bring them up. It happened that I went down the mountain and packed everything. Bring it up and prepare to venture into the tombs and treasures below. Qin Mengye nodded, we packed our things, and quietly went down the mountain to the inn along the path. The Mungerhan Mountain only becomes very lively around the beginning of May of the lunar calendar every year when the mountain worship ceremony is held. Because of the worship And fear of this sacred mountain, the locals rarely stay in the mountain, let alone the top of the mountain.

After we returned to the inn, I called together Mo Rigen, Zhuo Rilun, Gobler Hasso, Gobler Buku and Tanjin Shenyan, and gave a brief account of today's mountain exploration. , and finally decided to let Mo Rigen, Gobler Buku and four Oroqen hunters stay at the inn to meet up tomorrow, followed by Feng Saburo, Qin Mengye, I, Zhuo Rilun, Goble Hasuo, Chen Daoshi and After the golden eye is ready, he goes up the mountain again. Feng Saburo made a list of required equipment purchases and handed them over to Mo Zhigen and Gobler Buku, and asked them to go to the store the next day to buy them separately, and specially told them to pay attention to hiding themselves. Try not to be noticed by the locals. After all these things have been arranged, we will have a table of sumptuous meals, which is not only a condolence for everyone's hard work, but also for the sake of going up the mountain again tomorrow. Cope with the unknown variables that you will face when going up the mountain tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, Mo Rigen and Gobler Buku acted separately. According to the purchase list listed by Feng Saburo, they went to several stores to purchase the required equipment. After all the things were purchased, it was already ready. At noon, we ordered a table of food, and everyone ate it slowly. After an hour, everyone was full. I privately told Mo Rigen that the trip was unpredictable. At the 90s of the day, the flag-flower liaison letter cannon was fired to inform them to come into the mountains to meet us. After eating, the seven of us carried our rucksacks and dispersed into the mountain. We agreed to meet halfway up the mountain. After an hour, everyone gathered together one after another, and the sky gradually became dark. The smell of Xia led the way in front, and the others followed behind. It took another half an hour to find the place where we left the secret mark. At this time, it was completely dark. We found two closely spaced caves nearby. Seven people entered the caves in two groups. At night, the temperature on the mountain was very low, and the mountain wind was very hard. The flapping of wings and the roar of wild beasts in the mountains, a few of us picked up some dead branches and dry wood nearby, and built a fire in the cave to keep warm. We can only live in the cave tonight. In fact, we went up the mountain in the afternoon. Well, we can try to avoid pedestrians as much as possible, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the locals, so we go up the mountain without knowing it, and when it is dawn tomorrow morning, we can dig the tunnel leading to the underground according to the mark left yesterday. Then go straight to the ground to explore the truth. Each of our groups sent two people to be in charge of the night shift at the entrance of the cave. Qin Mengye and I were in one group, Qin Mengye was in the first half of the night, I was in the second half of the night, and Daoshi Chen was in the other group for the first half of the night. In the middle of the night in the eyes of God, once there is an emergency, he will immediately wake up everyone.After all the arrangements were made, everyone got into the roe deer skin sleeping bags and took a rest, so as to keep their spirits up for tomorrow's heavy responsibilities.

When the ugly time came, I took Qin Mengye's place and asked him to take a rest. Nothing happened overnight. When the morning light was a little bright, and it was almost 90, everyone woke up slowly. We put the dry food and meat we carried on top of a few raised flat stones, and piled firewood and roasted hot stones below. After a while, the dry food and The meat was all cooked, and after breakfast, we took out the tools and started to dig deep at the marked place. Feng Saburo asked Mo Rigen to buy five cross iron pickaxes, five birch pointed spades, and five steel flat shovels. , There is a pile of rubble on the surface of the terrain. After cleaning up the rubble, Feng Saburo and Qin Mengye carefully surveyed the surrounding environment, and then the two marked the four cave locations for the next excavation. , a few of us started to dig in rotation, and we shot down four probing holes at a distance of about five meters from each other. First, we used a pick to destroy the solid surface layer. The initial surface layer was difficult to obtain. With cooperation, four vertical pits with a depth of five meters and a diameter of about one meter were slowly dug down. As the tunnel deepened, the color of the soil below began to change. At first, only some gravel was dug out. Then, dry lime soil and loess appeared one after another. Gradually, some green and finely broken grass and trees began to be mixed in the soil color below, and the soil quality gradually became soft. Feng Saburo and Qin Mengye each grabbed a pinch of soil and put it on the tip of their nose to smell it carefully. The two looked at each other and said three words at the same time: Wuhuatu. The two looked at each other and smiled. From their expressions Judging, it seems that we dug this place right.

I didn't understand what they meant by the five-flowered soil, so I hurriedly asked Feng Saburo for advice. Feng Saburo saw that Chen Daoshi, Tanjin Shenyan, Zhuo Rilun and Gobler Hasso were still continuing to ask questions. The progress of digging was not affected at all. Taking advantage of this spare time, Feng Saburo gave me some knowledge about the tomb robbery business. Feng Saburo told me that most of the places where the tombs are located must be built first. The layers of mellow soil and raw soil with different colors in the pit are dug out, and after the coffin is buried, these mixed soils will be backfilled into the tomb pit, which forms mixed soil, commonly known as streaky soil.

Under normal circumstances, streaky soil is an important clue for the discovery of underground tombs. Dead soil refers to unexcavated soil layers, such as sedimentary soil, alluvial soil, clay, sandy soil, which vary in thickness and color. Living soil is cultivated soil, rammed soil, road soil, burnt soil, lime soil, flower soil, silt soil, etc., while loess, sandy soil and clay have different colors due to different soil qualities. Generally, there are several colors such as white, yellow, red, dark red, and black. When a tomb is built underground, a rectangular entrance and exit will be left near the ground, that is, a secret door. Dig down a few meters or even ten meters deep, and then pull out a cave horizontally. After the coffin is buried, Then block the door of the tomb with strips of stone, and refill the variegated soil that was dug up and scattered on the ground, and then re-fill it into the middle of the tomb passage for compaction. After excavation and backfilling of natural soil, the single color and demarcation of the original soil layer will be disrupted. , it has become a variety of soil layers of flower soil, and the buried flower soil can no longer be merged into one soil color no matter how old it is. Although the backfill in the tomb passage has been rammed layer by layer, it is not as compact and hard as the natural soil. The remaining soil that is not filled will be left scattered around the tomb passage to form tumbling soil, which is the same as the flower soil in the tomb passage, but Not much thickness.Generally, the general orientation of the tomb passage can be confirmed as long as the thumping soil can be excavated. Therefore, after preliminary identification by drilling holes, it is possible to roughly calculate the size of the tomb, the size of the tomb and the length of the entire tomb. As for the calculation of the age of the tomb, it mainly depends on the shape of the tomb, the color and pattern of the coffin in the tomb, and the burial objects. determination. Generally speaking, if the bittern, white or safflower soil can be dug out after digging a hole, it means that there is something strange in the underground soil. Mausoleums, and according to the color change of the rammed earth extracted from the underground soil layer, it is also possible to roughly determine which dynasty tombs belonged to. Western Zhou tombs or Eastern Zhou tombs are generally rectangular square pit tombs. If a probe is used to drill holes, it is confirmed that the underground tombs are square pit tombs. Often hit directly to the bottom of the tomb. Instead of drilling holes in the head and soles of the coffins, which are often placed in the coffin, it is easy to damage the funeral objects. It is commonly known as the left shoulder and the right foot. It only needs to get through to the bottom of the tomb passage, which can protect the precious burial objects in the coffin to the greatest extent, ensure that the buried items are in good condition, and can sell for a good price.

If the fragments of bronze and dead wood are excavated in the tomb, it can basically be determined that it is a tomb of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In the tombs of the nobles of the Shang Dynasty, most of the tombs were made of wooden coffins, which were built into a square shape with thick wood. Generally, there were two tomb passages in the north and south. Outside the coffins were buried bronze vessels representing status. In the Zhou Dynasty, most of the tombs were made of earthen and wooden coffins, and the tomb chambers were mostly made of well-dry wood. Stone strips or slabs are piled up in the tomb for reinforcement, and some charcoal deposits are placed in order to remove moisture and prevent moisture in the tomb. Moreover, a large amount of quicksand will be filled behind the tomb wall to prevent theft.Different dynasties and generations have strict regulations on the coffins in the tombs, that is, the emperor's coffin is seven, the princes five, the doctor three, and the scholar two. The funeral rituals stipulate that the emperor and the monarch are nine tripods, seven tripods for officials, five tripods for doctors, and three tripods or one tripod for scholars.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in the tombs of princes and nobles, there were mostly pits for carriages and horses and pits for boats, and often couples were buried together, and the male and female were buried in two adjacent tomb pits and coffins. Burial in different caves. The size of the burial also depends on the status and dignity of the tomb owner. Veteran tomb robbers can even tell the grade of a tomb based on the difference in the smell of dead wood and bronze. If green paste mud, bronze ware, and carbon deposits are found in the tomb, most of the tombs are tombs from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Creating a well-sealed and airtight environment for the coffin can better preserve the coffin. If cinnabar and mercury are found in the tomb soil, eight or nine times out of ten you will encounter a tomb of the Qin and Han dynasties. Mercury and cinnabar are poured into it for antisepsis. During the Qin and Han dynasties, horizontal holes were generally used as tombs, and tombs were built with blue bricks and stones. In the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, all kinds of horizontal tombs, especially the brick tombs and stone tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, were very popular. There is no coffin. Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the number of burial objects in the Han tombs decreased significantly, and the number of lacquer wares began to increase gradually. Many large pottery wares were often found in the tombs.Wooden coffin tombs with vertical caves, earth cave tombs, and brick-chambered tombs with horizontal caves are the main forms of tombs in the Han Dynasty. Influenced by historical inheritance, the structure of vertical cave tombs in Han Dynasty is roughly the same as that of pre-Qin wooden coffin tombs, usually from the ground down vertically. , first dug out a rectangular earthen coffin as the main tomb for placing the coffin. The structure of the coffin room is generally rectangular, the coffin board is combined, and the groove and mortise are mainly used. The coffin can be divided into spaces of different sizes, and the coffin and some items that the tomb owner usually likes can be placed in the coffin. Most of the coffins are in the shape of a rectangular box, and some will use tenon and mortise or coffin nails at the joint of the coffin or coffin board near the head. Most of the fillings outside the coffin are made of moisture-proof white plaster mud and charcoal deposits, and a few high-grade tombs will have drainage facilities in advance.

When digging the tomb at first, for convenience, tomb robbers usually dig out the shape of a sloping bucket at the entrance of the tomb pit. Tomb robbers are very taboo to be called a tomb robber by others. Can have an implicit name, from which the word upside-down comes from. The structure of a typical brick-chamber tomb is basically to excavate a vertical deep pit from the ground, and then open a horizontal hole at the bottom of the vertical pit. Some brick-chamber tombs have sloping tomb passages, and some brick-chambers are built at the bottom of vertical pits, and no horizontal pits are opened. The cave of the earth cave tomb is actually similar to the horizontal cave of the brick room tomb, that is, a vertical tomb tunnel is excavated from the ground down, and after the bottom is dug, a cave is dug laterally to the side, which was originally used as a niche for the placement of funerary objects. Gradually expanded, it became the ear room for placing the coffin. In addition to the emperors, the large-scale earthen and wooden coffin tombs mostly used the shape of the tomb of the Huangchang inscription. In the Han Dynasty, it was rare at the end of the Han Dynasty. The burial system of Huangchang inscriptions was closely related to the rise and fall of the country at that time.