Origin Chapter 78: Digging ancestral graves

The characters on the beads are regular script. Although the official language of the Yuan Dynasty was Mongolian, the characters used by the Han people still followed the regular script of the Song Dynasty.

While Wu Zhongyuan was looking at the bead, Wang Xinran handed over another one, "It's also on it."

Wu Zhongyuan took it and looked at it again, the bead was engraved with "上."

After careful inspection, it was found that there were four inscriptions on the twelve beads, which read "Blue Clouds Straight Up."

These four characters are an idiom, usually used to describe the complacent and high rise in officialdom.

After handing over all the beads to Wu Zhongyuan, Wang Xinran continued to search for possible clues from the small tomb, but in the end she found nothing, because there were not many things in the tomb, except for some wine jars and weapons used by Wu Lu during his lifetime, There were no other funerary objects, and no epitaph was found in the tomb chamber that recorded the life and deeds of the tomb owner.

"After going up, you have to pretend to be very happy." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head to look at her.

Wang Xinran explained, "They should be hiding around here. Through the telescope, you can see our expressions."

"I understand what you mean." Wu Zhongyuan nodded. Wang Xinran wanted to mislead the opponent, making the opponent mistakenly think that they had obtained the spirit stone, and thus gave up the search for this spirit stone.

The two climbed to the ground from the bottom of the pit, and walked quickly to the car in the distance. When they were walking, the two did not smile, but their expressions were solemn and hurried. When walking, they looked left and right. After getting into the car, Wang Xinran Lowering the window glass and throwing away the cigarette butts, the two of them had fake smiles on their faces at this moment.

Wang Xinran raised the window glass and the car started. Wang Xinran ordered the driver to drive normally, not to drive too fast, nor too slow. Driving too fast was like being in a hurry, driving too slowly and it seemed a little deliberate .

After the car started, Wang Xinran contacted the headquarters and asked them to handle the aftermath, and then reported the situation to the headquarters.

During this process, Wu Zhongyuan kept his eyes closed and the twelve beads found in the tomb in his hand.

After busy with trivial matters, Wang Xinran turned to look at Wu Zhongyuan, "What are you thinking about?"

Wu Zhongyuan did not open his eyes, "Lapis lazuli is produced in Afghanistan, and during the Yuan Dynasty, Afghanistan was a vassal of the Yuan Dynasty."

Wang Xinran didn't understand what Wu Zhongyuan wanted to say, but she didn't ask any further, because she knew that Wu Zhongyuan would continue.

Wu Zhongyuan continued, "In ancient times, lapis lazuli was very rare, and like turquoise amber, it could be used as currency. In the Qing Dynasty, this gem was the top-wearing flower ling of the fourth-rank officials, but in the Yuan Dynasty, it had not yet become an official. official accessory.”

"And then what?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan said, "Wu Lu is a rough man, he should not like to wear this kind of jewelry, even if he wears it, he should not engrave it, because being an official is not his interest, so I suspect that this string of beads was given by someone else. his."

"Since the lapis lazuli is very valuable, the person who gave him this string of beads must not be an ordinary person." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded again, "Qian Yunzhi has a kindness to him, and Qian Yunzhi is returning home after retiring. I suspect that this string of beads was given to him as a souvenir by Qian Yunzhi before he left."

"I understand what you mean," Wang Xinran said. "Wu Lu has nothing to do, so he suddenly accepted such an expensive gift from the old leader, and he is very likely to reciprocate."

Wang Xinran nodded slowly.

Wang Xinran stopped asking questions, picked up the phone and asked the headquarters for help, asking the other party to find out where Qian Yunzhi's hometown was.

Wu Lu was a half-way monk. He was already middle-aged when he appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. Unlike him, Qian Yunzhi has always lived in the Yuan Dynasty. He was in his sixties when he retired and returned home. About him There are many historical records of the deeds.

Soon, news from the headquarters came that Qian Yunzhi's hometown was Zizhou, Shandong, which is now Zibo, Shandong.

Qian Yunzhi lived for more than ten years after returning to his hometown. After his death, he was buried in the family grave of the Qian family.

It took more than three hours to fly from Northwest China to Shandong. It was past ten o'clock in the evening when the plane landed. On the plane, Wang Xinran got some clues about Qian Yunzhi. One of the clues made the two very worried. The Qian family has been a prominent family for many years. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a martial arts champion. Their cemetery has been preserved relatively intact. However, during the era of the Four Old Times, the Qian family’s ancestral tomb was severely damaged. This is not because the Qian family had a traitor. Or a bad person, but the Qian family has a bad surname. What kind of money is money? If you don’t have faith, you will recognize money? The tail of capitalism? smashed.

Although they were exhausted physically and mentally, the two did not dare to delay. They rushed from Zibo to Linzi overnight, and then from Linzi to Qianjiazhuang, Youpingxiang.

Qianjiazhuang is a large village with more than 800 households. Seventy percent of the people in the village are surnamed Qian. Most of these people are direct or collateral descendants of Qian Yunzhi.

There is no patriarch in China now. In the villages, the secretary and the village chief are in charge. Many village secretaries and the village chief are the same person. This is the case in this village. The current secretary's surname is Qian. person.

Long before the two arrived at the village, Secretary Qian was already waiting at the entrance of the village. This guy received a call from his superior at 5:00 a.m. that he had a political task that required his full cooperation.

At six o'clock in the morning, the two of them and Secretary Qian drank tea from the village office. Secretary Qian was so sleepy that the two of them were so sleepy. The tea was so strong that it was bitter.

At half past six, a few old men came with the family tree. The family tree did not simply record who was whose grandfather and who was whose grandson, but also recorded many important events in the family. By consulting the family tree, two People became excited again. It turned out that the Red Guards who smashed the ancestral graves of the Qian family were a group of half-eldest children who were in junior high school.

The ancestral tomb of the Qian family is located in the back mountain, occupying half of the top of the mountain. Qian Yunzhi is the source of the Qian family's fortune and the earliest ancestor recorded in the Qian family tree. His tomb is located at the foot of the back mountain. During Qingming and Zhongyuan, the Qian family would go to the back mountain to worship the ancestors of the Qian family represented by him.

The county archaeological team arrived at 8:00 in the morning. Seven or eight came with archaeological tools such as Luoyang shovels.

In front of other people's children and grandchildren, digging people's ancestral graves, no one can accept it. It takes a whole day to do ideological work. Know it with love, and move it to benefit. As for what kind of benefit, The two of them are not quite sure, it seems that the superior promised to do some kind of project for the village to benefit the farmers.

Secretary Qian's expression perfectly explains what it means to be unwilling and reluctant. Several elderly people from the Qian family also have a face like a mourning concubine.

After the sun went down, the excavation equipment was transferred. It was still an excavator, but it was only a small one. At this time, the archaeological team had determined the specific location and size of Qian Yunzhi's tomb. Before long, the dome of the tomb was dug.

On the premise of as little damage to the tomb as possible, the archaeological team excavated a corner of Qian Yunzhi's tomb. Due to the age, groundwater seeped into the tomb, and there was deep water in it.

Before this, the archaeological team knew that there was water in the tomb, and the pumping equipment was ready. When the water pipe was inserted, there was a sudden cracking sound in the tomb, which sounded like a big fish. Waves in the water.

It was already dark at this time, and the archaeological team who inserted the tube was scared and threw the tube away and climbed up, "There is something underwater."

Not only the archaeologists, but even Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran were shocked by the sound from the tomb. How could there be living things in the sealed tomb?

However, Qian Yunzhi's tomb was not large, and even if there were living creatures in it, it would not be too big to be intimidating. Wu Zhongyuan grabbed Wang Xinran, who wanted to go down to insert the tube, and jumped down and inserted the water pipe into the tomb. bottom.

The water pump was started, and the black and dirty water poured out, along with the stagnant water, there was also a strong fishy smell.

It's not right to have a fishy smell. It's either fish or snakes. It smells fishy and makes you vomit.

Qian Yunzhi's tomb is about 50 square meters, not too big for an official of his level, but not too small. The water pump was pumping for half an hour, and the water flow was low, and the crackling sound inside the tomb was incessant.

Listen to the sound, it should be a fish, and there is more than one.

Wu Zhongyuan took the strong-light flashlight from the archaeological team, jumped to the gap above the dome and lit it downward. Before illuminating, he secretly prepared himself mentally, and tried his best to imagine what was in the tomb as terrifying and terrifying.

After seeing the contents of the tomb, Wu Zhongyuan secretly rejoiced that he had made sufficient psychological preparations in advance, because the contents in the tomb were indeed terrifying. In the 50-square-meter tomb, there were many snake-shaped creatures winding and winding. .

After the initial visual shock subsided, Wu Zhongyuan took a closer look at the snake-shaped creatures below, and found that these snake-shaped creatures were not some strange species, but large loach and yellow eel. The loach was black and the number of More, several times larger than the common loach. There are fewer yellow-brown eels, but they are bigger. The largest one is more than one meter long and about the thickness of a wrist.

The pipe for pumping water is ten centimeters thick. Some loaches were sucked into the pipe and crushed by the impeller of the pump. Red blood water flowed out from one end of the outlet pipe.

This situation became even more terrifying under the light of the flashlight. Secretary Qian and the others were immediately stunned, their legs trembled with fright, their faces turned pale, and they almost turned around and ran away.

Seeing this situation, the archaeological team went to give them a popular science education. Based on the location of the tomb, it was inferred that an earthquake may have occurred in this area before. From the crack and the groundwater entered the tomb.

Such an explanation obviously cannot eliminate the panic and fear of everyone, but there is no time to appease them right now. The most important thing is to enter the tomb as soon as possible and search for possible spiritual stones.

This work lasted a whole night. General Qian's tomb was a joint tomb. In addition to his corpse, there were three female corpses in the tomb, which should have been his concubines.

Due to the prolonged flooding, the coffins in the tomb had completely rotted away, and the corpses and grave goods were scattered in the mud around the tomb.

After a night of excavation, the archaeological team found a small amount of funerary objects from the tomb, mainly gold and silver, and some daily necessities, but there was nothing they were looking for.

In the later stage of the excavation, the archaeological team found an epitaph lying in a corner of the tomb. Due to the dim light and foul smell in the tomb, Wang Xinran ordered someone to carry the epitaph out of the tomb, rinse it with clean water, and read it carefully.

The so-called epitaph is actually a stone tablet that records the life of the owner of the tomb. Hundreds of characters are densely engraved on this stone tablet. Wu Zhongyuan also came over and searched for clues with Wang Xinran...