Origin Chapter 77: Wu Lu’s tomb

Wu Zhongyuan agrees with Wang Xinran's suggestion, but he can't foresee what kind of problems he may encounter in the future, because he doesn't know what these warriors have done after they appeared in various eras, nor do they know where they will be buried after they die. Where, let alone what twists and turns may be encountered in the process of finding these warriors.

After waiting for a while, when Wu Zhongyuan didn't speak, Wang Xinran said, "Forget it, don't worry about it, I'll handle it."

"Don't have too many people." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Yes." Wang Xinran replied.

During the flight, Wang Xinran had been busy communicating and receiving various clues from the headquarters, including the funeral system of the Yuan Dynasty, the number of Wu Lu's soldiers, the cause of Wu Lu's death, and the possible burial location of Wu Lu. and many more.

Most burials in the Yuan Dynasty were thin burials. This is because the Yuan Dynasty was the Mongolian people in power. They did not have the concept of Han people dying as if they were alive. In their opinion, people died like a lamp, so they rarely built large tombs for the deceased. There are also very few grave goods, and few graves are erected. To put it bluntly, most of the dead are buried without graves, and tombstones are rarely erected in front of the graves. The direct consequence of such funeral characteristics is their graves. Hard to find.

The source of the clues is very broad, and the clues themselves are not specific. Many clues are obtained indirectly. Taking Wu Lu's death as an example, most historians looking for clues believe that he was killed by a cannonball. Therefore, this conclusion is drawn because the Tubo had previously surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. In order to help the Tubo deal with other tribes that had not surrendered, the Yuan Dynasty once supported them with five cast iron cannons.

In other historical events, the Tubo had records of using cannons to defend the city. After the Tubo rebelled, they occupied Jiezhou, and Wu Lu was the one who led the army to attack the city.

This is not enough, it has to be combined with Wu Lu's personal situation. In those days, General Qian Yunzhi of Guangwei once wrote a letter to ask for credit for Wu Lu. The content of this memorial was found by historians. According to Wu Lu's evaluation, according to Qian Yunzhi, Wu Lu must take the lead in every battle, charge ahead, and be invincible.

Historians judged that Wu Lu was moving very fast. Except for artillery with a large attack range, it was difficult for ordinary weapons to hurt him.

This conclusion is not rigorous, but what happened more than 700 years ago, Wu Lu is not a very famous person, there are not many records about him in history, it is impossible to be rigorous Yes, even loose clues are not easy to come by.

In addition, officials of different levels in the Yuan Dynasty enjoyed different funeral regulations. When Wu Lu died in battle, he was a fourth-rank military attache, and military attachés at this level were basically buried wherever they died. Location, historians have deduced the approximate area where Wu Lu may have been buried, and even the size of the tomb and the depth of the burial.

Two hours later, the plane landed, and the two changed into cars and rushed to the suspected location.

The Jiezhou of that year was the current Wudu. The suspected location is located on a hill five miles southeast of Wudu City. The reason for making such a judgment is the result of the joint efforts of historians and archaeologists. First of all, they deduced the marching route that Wu Lu led troops to suppress the rebellion, and then deduced that Wu Lu attacked the east gate of Jiezhou City.

On the hills three miles to the southeast, a large number of skeletons were once unearthed. These skeletons were unearthed neatly. The armor unearthed with the skeletons showed that they were soldiers of the Yuan Army, and they were buried here by their comrades after their deaths. Yes, if it was buried by the enemy, it would not be so neatly stacked.

During the Yuan Dynasty, there was only one large-scale war here, so historians believe that since this is the place where the bodies of Yuan soldiers were buried, it is very likely that Wu Lu was also buried here.

This hill is now a wasteland. When the two arrived, many people were already busy there. These people were not soldiers or policemen, but a group of exploration technicians. In the area of ​​500 meters, there are rods and pull wires everywhere. The rods are metal rods, and the wires are metal wires. After a brief conversation with the person in charge, I realized that this is a large-scale metal detection device that can sense the ground. Various metal elements within ten meters.

What they were looking for was a large piece of iron. The axe used by Wu Lu during his lifetime was a steel-like metal. Experts deduced that the axe he used should be buried with it. This is what they are looking for now.

When different metals are sensed, the sound of the metal detector is different. There seems to be a lot of steel-like metals in this area. Even if the instruments used are very advanced, it is difficult to analyze which one is in a short period of time. Suspected location.

While the technicians were busy, several prospectors with instruments came in. The instruments they carried were specially designed to find groundwater sources.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't know why these people came. After asking Wang Xinran, he suddenly realized that Wu Lu is an alcoholic, and during wars, he must drink a lot. In addition, although Wu Lu died in the battle of Jiezhou, the battle ended with the victory of the Yuan army. Wu Lu's commanders did not deduct the salaries of his subordinates like other generals. They respected him very much. After conquering Jiezhou, he had reasons and conditions to bury Wu Lu with a lot of wine.

The group of technicians who came later did not come to find water, but to find wine.

Three meters underground, where there are iron and steel metals and liquids, it may be the location of Wu Lu's tomb.

Soon, technicians pinpointed a suspected location in a bush on the mountainside.

Pushing aside the bushes, Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran looked at each other. There was a round hole about five centimeters in diameter on the ground. The soil outside the round hole was still wet, and the round hole went straight to the ground.

"Why are they so fast?" Wu Zhongyuan was astonished. His own experts and scholars searched and deduced clues that could be described as terrifying, but the other party was still ahead.

"Probably not much faster than us," Wang Xinran said. "They are using Luoyang shovels to determine the location of the tomb, and they haven't had time to excavate."

"This is not a Luoyang shovel," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head. "The Luoyang shovel has a cover on the outside. During exploration, it will leave indentations on the ground. There are no circular indentations around this hole."

Instead of making meaningless guesses, it is better to verify and confirm, with official support, what you want, and soon the extended endoscopy probe will be sent, and it will go down through the hole, and it will be extended about three meters down. Grey bricks blocked it.

The picture on the monitor made the two of them overjoyed. The round hole did not penetrate into the tomb, and no matter what was in the tomb, it was completely preserved.

The question facing the two now is whether to dig up the tomb. After deliberation, Wang Xinran chose a compromise method, using equipment to drill through the brick wall to see what was inside.

In the evening, the drilling equipment drilled through the gray bricks. The gray bricks were thinner than the two expected, with only two layers, and the middle was white ash. After drilling through the gray bricks, the situation in the tomb was displayed on the display screen.

The tomb is well preserved, but very shabby. It is only one zhang square, small and short. There is no coffin in the tomb. The bones are wrapped in leather and other things. There is a large axe with a rotten handle on the left and right sides, which is the best proof of the identity of the owner of the tomb.

It is not difficult to excavate the tomb, but Wang Xinran did not do that, because our country's attitude towards ancient tombs is rescue excavation.

The extended camera has a remote control function, which can be operated remotely, and slowly peel off the severely decayed leather outside the corpse, revealing the skeleton inside.

First of all, it can be confirmed that the corpse is Wu Lu, but the cause of his death was not killed by a cannon, but by an arrow. There is clearly an arrow left between the eyebrows of the corpse. down arrow hole.

The 18th Bureau already has several skeletons with similar genetic mutations. The main purpose of the two people's trip was to find the spiritual stone belonging to Wu Lu, but they carefully looked around the skeletons and everywhere in the tomb and found nothing. There are spirit stones.

In the end, the duo decided to dig the grave because the wine jars were sealed and it was impossible to determine what was inside.

After digging the tomb, the two opened the wine jars one by one, and found that most of the wine jars were empty, and those that were not empty only had a little turbid black water. The shadow of the spirit stone.

Finding Wu Lu's tomb had a lot of chance. To put it bluntly, it all depended on luck, but now it seems that the luck of the two is not good enough. After finally finding the tomb, there is no spiritual stone in the tomb.

On the left side of the corpse, there are some fingernail-sized beads scattered. This kind of beads is not white, but blue. Archaeology students are not unfamiliar with this kind of material. This is not Hetian jade, but blue Jinshi is a kind of jade from Afghanistan.

There were twelve lapis lazuli beads scattered around. Wang Xinran picked them up and looked at them one by one. When he saw the third one, he handed the bead to Wu Zhongyuan, "There are words on it."

Wu Zhongyuan stretched out his hand to take it, only to see a small letter engraved on the bead, "Yun..."