Chapter 253: Scratches
"arrive!"
With Uncle Geng's call, another magnificent cemetery appeared in front of him.
Standing on the mountains on the west side, you can see a five-hole stone arch bridge in the northeast. A five-hole arch bridge can be seen from a distance along the central axis. It is a five-hole arch gate, and behind it is the Shendao Monument Pavilion. Bypassing the Shendao Monument Pavilion, there is a three-way three-hole stone arch bridge. Behind the stone arch bridge is the Longen Gate. There are a row of side rooms on both sides of the Longen Gate. In the past, it was also called Chaofang and Banfang.
"My niece lives in the side room on the east side."
"Uncle Geng, why are you hesitating? Let's go down." Wang Ke shouted and immediately jumped down the mountain.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance squad, as well as the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun and Uncle Geng, followed closely behind. After walking for so long, they finally arrived at the place. Everyone felt full of energy.
Take a shortcut and go directly to the Sankong Stone Bridge and the Shindao Monument Pavilion.
The stele pavilion has a double-eaves and a yellow tiles with a width of eight or nine meters. There is a stone tablet in the building. The body of the stele is full, Meng and Han characters engraved with the posthumous title of the dead emperor.
"Bang bang bang", Uncle Geng ran to the east side room and called out his niece.
After a while, a middle-aged woman with a black and red face followed. She smiled and did not say much. She just looked at the eight or nine soldiers in front of her. Then she took the key and opened the east-most hall door.
"Uncle Geng, is this also called Longen Sect?"
"Yes." The group stepped over the trusses of the door and entered the cemetery.
"Daughter, when do you start digging?" Uncle Geng asked his niece.
"I heard that it's been in these few days, and I'm waiting for the provincial archaeological team."
"We'll have a look in a week?"
"this……"
"It's okay, I'm not an outsider. I'll come and have a look." Uncle Geng said carelessly, and quickly took Wang Ke and his party in.
When I walked into the gate and looked north, except for the wrong direction, the other ones were similar to the cemetery that Uncle Geng saw.
Yingmen is the main building of the mausoleum area - Longen Hall, with east-west side halls on both sides.
The Longen Hall is five rooms wide, three rooms deep, and has a double-eaved hip-mounted roof. This is the main place for sacrificial activities, and tablets of the old emperor and the queen are enshrined.
Following the sides of the Danbi stone in front of Longen Hall, everyone went to Longen Hall. The Danbi stone in front of the hall was carved with exquisite dragon and phoenix playing beads, the bottom pattern was a relief of Shoushan and Fuhai, and there was a scattered water slope at the four corners of the palace.
The wooden structure of Longen Hall here is different from Muling. Although the emperor is not very good at it, his Longen Hall is all nanmu, which is extremely precious.
"This kind of wood is also called copper algae and iron algae. It has extremely hard texture. It is made of this wood. It weighs more than hundreds of kilograms. People call it "copper beam iron pillars." Uncle Geng was obliged to be a guide. Everyone looked into the hall. The most eye-catching thing was four bright pillars. The four golden pillars were decorated with powdered and gold-plated dragons. The column was a golden dragon coiled upwards and painted pattern. There were ventilation holes under the eaves to allow the air in the hall to circulate to prevent the wood from rotting. It is a unique place in the emperor's tomb. Bypassing the Longen Hall, we came to the tomb door, also known as the three doors or glazed flower doors. It is the division between the front and the back bedrooms. It is divided into the front and back bedrooms with the red walls on both sides.
Wang Ke and the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun followed Uncle Geng immediately. The middle door was closed and the doors on both sides were wide open.
There are five stones in the gate of the mausoleum from south to north, Fangcheng and Minglou. The tall Fangcheng Minglou is the highest point of the mausoleum. There is a stone tablet in the Minglou. The front of the stele is still engraved with the emperor's temple name in three characters: Manchu, Meng and Han.
The mound behind the Ming Tower is called Baoding, and below the Baoding is the underground palace where Emperor Guangxu and Empress Longyu are buried.
It facilitates the discharge of rain. The three gates of the Ming Tower and the tomb gate were dug up in front of the three gates. There were 18 spruce trees planted in the three gates, which symbolized that the eighteen Arhats guarded the tombs for the emperor.
"I'll introduce you to you. There is a Fangcheng built on the platform of this Minglou. You can enter the underground palace by going down the gate hole in the middle of the Fangcheng." Uncle Geng seemed to be familiar with this place. Everyone forgot about fatigue for a while, especially the soldiers of the reconnaissance squad. They walked for several hours. Now they just want to see the thief hole earlier, and their minds are not on these similar cemetery buildings at all.
Wang Ke saw that there were many white pine and Arhat Populus planted around the treasure top. These white pine and spruce have become treasures among the ancient trees and famous trees in the tomb.
He quickly circled around Baoding. After turning out, Uncle Geng took the old platoon leader and Hu Zhijun to the back of the glazed screen wall of Mute City.
"Here, this is the robbery hole." Uncle Geng pointed at his feet and saw a cellar that was not too big, a bit like a hidden place in the countryside. There was a pile of arches around it, covered by messy grass.
"Is this a thief hole?" Gu Maolin stretched his head and looked down, and it was dark. He picked up a piece of soil and threw it down, and the sound was eight or nine meters deep.
"Yes, there's still a turn below."
"The locals also call this square city and the underground palace 'Mute City'. Look at this screen wall." Uncle Geng pointed his hand south. Sure enough, everyone is standing a few meters behind the screen wall.
Wang Ke walked over and held the top of the golden glass tiles with his hand, unable to help but sigh.
Standing here, condescending to the heights, the entire cemetery was in sight. Wang Ke turned around and looked at the robbery hole. The three versions of the tomb robbery that Uncle Geng mentioned appeared before his eyes.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance squad were still whispering around the thief hole, but Wang Ke closed his eyes in front of the back wall of the glazed screen wall. He wanted to illusion, what else was there under the hole? But maybe the soil layer was too thick, and along the pitch-black hole, there was still a curved hole below, a large room, and the ground was in a mess.
Wang Ke was thinking, and the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun walked over and patted him on the shoulder. "Platform Commander, what are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking, the ups and downs of the ages, who asked me about the flowing water? A generation of world finally fell a handful of loess." Wang Ke opened his eyes and quickly said casually, concealing his interrupted expression.
"Yes, but these two sentences are good. I will write it for you. What's going on forever? Who will ask Dongliu?" The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun raised his waist and stood on the glass screen wall and looked at the cemetery.
Wang Ke lowered his head, and then carefully looked from far to near, through the gaps, front, back, left and right, and observed Longen Hall, Shi Wugong, Fangcheng, and Minglou. Finally, his eyes fell on the glass screen wall again.
Just as Wang Ke withdrew his gaze and looked back at the top of the underground palace that looked like a turtle shell, the corner of his eyes accidentally swept across the back of the glass screen wall, which was about one foot from the ground, and there were several scratches that were almost unnoticed to attract his attention again.
This was completely crafted on purpose or unintentionally. Most people could not see anything unusual. The blue brick behind the glass screen wall was the kind of blue brick. Perhaps these scratches might be the horizontal marks made by craftsmen when building walls. They have been blowing and rain for decades, and the marks have been mottled, which is different from those on the stone carvings.
Wang Ke walked over, squatted down, and looked at the strange marks. The direction of those horizontal paths without a single direction is related to this thief hole.
"The commander, what new world has he discovered?"
"Plane leader, look at the mark."
"Hehe, I think you are crazy. In such a big cemetery, although the civil engineering technology is exquisite, it is normal to leave a few scratches. Maybe it was left when it was burned. Besides, this is still after the screen wall, who would run to this top for acceptance?"
Wang Ke thought about it and thought that the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun was right, but not right, because the scratch was not brought on the brick at all, but was obviously carved back. What does it mean when you run here and carve it?
Wang Ke thought of the three scratches under the bridge slab of Muling Stone Bridge, and the three scratches on the five stone offerings of Muling Stones. Looking at the glass screen wall, there are also three. There are coincidences in the world, but can't it be such a coincidence?
But the three paths in front of me either point to the sky or the earth, only one pointing straight, but there is nothing left and right, because the glass screen wall breaks when it reaches both sides.
Wang Ke shook his head and gave up. Even if the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun was right, it was a "unintentional moment".
Wang Ke returned to the thief cave with the old platoon leader Hu Zhijun, and saw Gu Maolin taking off the equipment one by one.
"Gu Maolin, what do you want to do?"
"Plane leader, I want to go down and have a look."
"Damn it, you don't think about it. What's underneath? Is there any mechanism? Besides, is there enough oxygen?" Wang Ke heard it and grabbed Gu Maolin.
"Planer leader, I have observed it. You see, there are foot holes in this thief, which are for people to step on."
Gu Maolin said this, and everyone went down, and with the faint light, there were indeed several staggered holes on the edge of the one or two meters of soil that could be seen under the thief hole.
"That's not OK. Without lighting equipment, you can't see it. If you continue like this, wouldn't you become a tomb robber?" The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun also reached out and refused to let Gu Maolin go down.
Gu Maolin looked at Wang Ke with a request for help and said, "Plane leader, my eyes are good."
Wang Ke knew that this boy would never give up, so he scared him: "I guess, even if there is a poisonous snake under such a deep hole."
Who knew that when Gu Maolin heard this, he immediately laughed and said to Wang Ke meaningfully: "Planer Commander, you forgot, you and I have experience in dealing with snakes."
"Since it has been stolen, what can you do if you go down? There are too many uncertain things inside." The old platoon leader Hu Zhijun still firmly disagreed.
But the reconnaissance squad leader Song Ruimin and veteran Niu Suozhu were urging him. "The two platoon leaders, Gu Maolin is unwilling to die before the Yellow River, and he is unwilling to accept the emperor. Let him go down. There is a queen inside, let him take a look at the queen."
The soldiers laughed together. "Okay, then you can come up a few meters away to see if there is a U-shaped hole. You must not go down." Wang Ke said this casually, but suddenly "Geden" in his heart with lightning and thunder.
"U-shaped hole", how did Uncle Geng know that there is an U-shaped hole underneath? In addition to tomb robbers, how did future generations know about it? Has anyone gone down there?
Wang Ke looked at Uncle Geng suspiciously. Uncle Geng and everyone seemed to want to find out. They stretched their necks and said to Gu Maolin, "Boy, don't fall down, it's deep."
"Platform leader, I promise not to go down, so I will walk down a few steps and see what the U-shaped hole looks like under the hole and come up." After saying that, the boy took off his military uniform, put on only a shirt, and supported the edge of the hole with both hands, and stepped on the hole.
This time, there was no one in a while. Everyone stretched their heads down and looked down carefully. The entrance to the cave was not big, and it was even more difficult to see clearly if the light blocked it.
"Is Gu Maolin the end? Come up quickly." Wang Ke shouted at the entrance of the cave.
"Hey, come up right away." Gu Maolin responded under the cave. After a while, he climbed up. There was still some grass and soil on his head, and there was no need to mention the shirt.
Pull him up and everyone surrounded him. "What did you see?"
While spitting out the things in his mouth, Gu Maolin said seriously: "It's dark and I haven't seen anything, and the smell of dead people is not good."
Chapter completed!