It has been nearly half a year since I came to the scholar, and the scholar and Lao Xu's injuries have been completely recovered. I also entered his research group under the introduction of Lao Xu and even obtained an enviable "identity" - the personal assistant of archaeologist Professor Xu Yang. The scholar said: "Oh, Mr. Xia, you are so happy this time. With such a name, you don't even need tickets to go to the museum. How much money will you save?" I was too lazy to argue with this kid, and I just kept talking about money, which seemed to be very useless. However, with this identity, I really took a lot of advantage. I went to Lao Xu's office for no reason, learned a lot of historical knowledge and archaeological knowledge, and could also get a considerable salary from Lao Xu every month. Later I learned that the money I took was divided by Lao Xu from his personal income and did not occupy the funds for archaeological research. I felt that Lao Xu was really not

Wrong, I would rather suffer losses than cheat the country. I feel guilty for eating and drinking for free. I usually run around and do some miscellaneous work for Lao Xu, and just think it is a job for him. On this day, Lao Xu received a notice from his superior that a farmer appeared in a small village in the suburbs of Zhengzhou, and asked the scientific research team led by Lao Xu to be in place immediately and verify. Lao Xu led seven or eight people in the group to see that it was indeed an ancient tomb, but it was not large in scale, but the structure of the tomb was damaged to certain extent and had lost its self-protection ability. Rescue excavation was needed for protection. Several people from the archaeological team hired some farmers in the local village to help with earthwork work, and I had also been to the scene several times. At first I found it very interesting, and the people from the archaeological team took the farmers to dig soil. After a few days, they became aesthetically exhausted and felt that they were not energetic.

Lao Xu said that this tomb is not big, and according to the characteristics of the tomb, it should be from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The tombs in the Qin and Han dynasties were mostly covered with buckets, just like a rice dot, similar to the pyramids in the ancient Mayan civilization; while the ancient tombs in the Tang and Song dynasties were mostly built on mountains, and the royal family even opened mountains to make tombs, which was enough to demonstrate the strong national strength at that time; the Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty established by ethnic minorities, and still maintained the characteristics of nomadic peoples. After the death of the power and aristocrats, they usually dug ground on the grassland to form tombs, and after being buried in the soil, they had to plant grass to restore the original state, and it was difficult for future generations to see clues; in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the country was in constant wars and national strength was gradually declining, so building tombs focused more on ground facilities, combining the tombs with sacrificial gardens, and using both objects. The current tomb should be built according to the layout of the tombs in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the specifications were not high, and at best it was a tomb of an intermediate aristocrat.

When I heard that this was just a tomb of an ordinary scholar and I was even less interested. A few days later, I stayed in the scholar's residence and watched TV series and played time. Lao Xu was dedicated to setting up tents near the ancient tomb and built a camp. Every day, he either digged on the spot or wrote scientific research diaries in the tent. About a week later, at noon, I was eating takeaway at home and watching TV series. My phone rang. It turned out that Lao Xu called. He said that recently the archaeological team members and the hired farmers had a cold and kept coughing, and some people even started to burn. He asked me to buy masks and disinfectant and quickly sent them. When I heard Lao Xu's voice, I immediately changed my clothes and went straight to the city. The house rented by the scholar was in the city, and there was a city not far from home, which would take no ten minutes to walk.

I was walking forward in a hurry, suddenly someone on the side of the road said, "This little brother, take a step slowly, let's see what I am?" I glanced at the side with the voice. It turned out to be a fortune teller, and he had to be five years old. A goat beard was a bit gray, and his pair of white coats were dirty. He was even more funny and wore a pair of black sunglasses. He was not as good as the surrounding environment. I met many people in Beijing in Beijing. They were usually old men in their fifties and sixties, who set up a small table, moved a stool, and shaking their heads and cheated. I originally wanted to answer and walked away. But the fortune teller suddenly said, "I'm not a skeleton, come and listen to me,

If what is said is wrong, I won't accept a big word. The little brother is so bad that he is not lucky!" When I heard this, I was immediately unhappy. Isn't this a damn curse me? I was about to be angry, but the old man who was the fortune teller raised his hand and arched, and then said, "Don't be angry, old man, I'm really not talking nonsense. Five elements and eight trigrams, Qimen Dunjia, and Hetu Luoshu. The little brother is indeed very bad. You must be careful in everything. Listen to the old man, 'Walk people go high, don't stay low'. If you need it in the future, you can find me here." I was too lazy to pay attention to him, and looked at the fortune teller with a humble smile. He was angry and glared at him fiercely, turned around and left. After all, I still have important things to do.

I bought disinfectant and masks in the market, and I took a taxi to Lao Xu's camp without stopping. After only a few days of meeting, Lao Xu became much haggard. As soon as I met, Lao Xu immediately asked me anxiously: "Lao Xia, have you brought the stuff?" I gave him a box of masks and disinfectant, Lao Xu immediately pulled out the mask and gave him one to me. Seeing that he looked urgent, I knew that the situation was not good. Put on the mask, Lao Xu pulled me into the tent, and then he began to tell the whole story. It turned out that this

The archaeological excavation of an ancient tomb was progressing smoothly and orderly, and the ear chamber had been cleared. Although the burial objects were not rich, they were relatively well preserved and were quite rewarding. According to experience, Lao Xu inferred that the scientific expedition task would be successfully completed in more than ten days. As a result, there was an accident in the middle. It was noon that day. The archaeological team and the hired villagers had just had a meal. Three and one group of two smoked and rested together. Lao Xu and several students were studying the unearthed cultural relics. There were

The two people, one named Wang Pengyi and the other named Xu Mingyuan, are both graduate students led by Lao Xu, discussing the identity and status of the tomb owner together. Wang Pengyi said that the tomb owner's burial objects were too thin. According to this situation, it can be inferred that the tomb owner's social status would not be too high during his lifetime. He should be a low-level scholar-official, or even a wealthy businessman or a landlord. Xu Minghua believes that the tomb owner must at least be a middle-level ruling class, because the tomb structure is very complete, with a front room, a back room, an ear room and a main room,

It is definitely not something that ordinary merchants and landlords have the ability to enjoy. The two of them started with normal academic discussions, but for some reason their voices became louder and louder, and they were both angry, and even had physical conflicts. When they pushed each other, they didn't stop or what happened, and both fell from the ground to the repaired tomb passage. Although the ground was only a few meters from the bottom of the tomb passage, the tomb passage had not yet been leveled, and even a few shovels and pickaxes were inserted in a mess. This would hurt people very much if they were to hurry up.

Wang Pengyi and Xu Mingyuan fell into the tomb stairs at the same time, but there was no movement. Lao Xu and the others hurried down to lift the two out. Both of them were in a coma. Some of the team members pinched the people, some called 12o for first aid, and the villagers around were also busy saving people. Lao Xu cursed the two while organizing rescue. Later, 12o came and sent both of them to the hospital for first aid. Lao Xu assigned the scientific examination tasks to his deputy and went to the hospital for treatment.

According to Lao Xu, the two of them were unconscious and the doctor did not check for abnormal conditions. They could only deal with concussion and coma. This made Lao Xu very worried, and an unexpected situation occurred on the archaeological site. Since Wang Pengyi and Xu Mingyuan were admitted to the hospital, the archaeological team was able to continue working step by step under the guidance of their deputy. However, the next morning, the team members and the villagers hired began to get fever, vomit, and feel weak all over. These patients went to the hospital for examination. The blood test results showed that the white blood cells were very high, and it was suspected that they were severe infectious colds. Lao Xu asked me to buy masks and disinfectant.

I said, "Then come and have a treatment right away."

Lao Xu said: "I have had a small amount of drip since I went to the hospital, but the effect is not obvious. Now there are more than a dozen people in the working group, plus the 40 villagers hired, and more than half of them are sick. This makes people panic and archaeological work can only be suspended. Now, I have arranged to take turns to watch the scene in good health. Isatis root, disinfectant, and masks have also been removed."

"You're all in line with the SARS situation. But how could your two students remain unconscious? Logically speaking, the two strong guys wouldn't be in a coma even if they fell."

Lao Xu looked at me, then looked outside, and said in a low voice: "Xia Nan, you just entered this circle and don't know a lot of things. Archaeology is a science, and archaeology is a science. But science can explain many things, but not all."

"Not all? What does it mean?" I was confused.

"Natural. Many things cannot be explained clearly by science, such as nature. In layman's terms, they are the strange gods of chaos, which are the feudal superstitions that the people call. Some things are indeed superstitions, but some things cannot be generalized by superstitions. At the University of Cambridge in the UK, there is a subject called psychics. In China, there is also a subject in the department of architecture, called architectural geoscience, which talks about the relationship between architecture and Feng Shui."

I have heard what Lao Xu said to me, "What do you mean is there something wrong with this ancient tomb?"

Lao Xu said: "I just doubt. When I was studying in the United States, I heard my tutor talk about a scientific research. At that time, a group of researchers, led by British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Kanafon, successfully found the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. This is a milestone in the history of archaeology. But bad luck also began to come to these people. Starting from Lord Kanafon, almost all those who entered the pharaoh's pyramids died suddenly. This is probably impossible to explain by coincidence."

Lao Xu took off his mask, lit a cigarette, and then said, "I have also heard that many ancient tombs have supernatural powers in China. For example, the Qianling Mausoleum where Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were buried together, Huang Chao once led 40,000 peasant troops to dig tombs, but almost half of the mountain was flattened, but he couldn't find the entrance to the tomb. Later, Wen Tao, the governor of Yaozhou during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, also led a large army to rob the tombs. This kid is a professional tomb robber. He has dug more than a dozen large tombs of the Tang Dynasty. When he arrived at Qianling, he suddenly had storms when he digs the tombs three times in a row, but when he retreated, the sky immediately cleared. He was so scared that he

The guys stopped. This is not the end. During the Republic of China, warlords were separatist and they were all aiming to rob tombs. There was a warlord named Sun Lianzhong who used the guise of military exercises to force the sealing stone of Qianling with explosives. As a result, a gust of black smoke was sprayed out from the tomb passage. The sky was immediately breeze, and sand and stones flew on the ground. At that moment, more than a dozen soldiers vomited blood and died. So Qianling can still be preserved intact. Do you think this is evil? In fact, in the archaeological circle, everyone silently accepted these things, but they can't be mentioned on the surface, otherwise they would have to be labeled as the 'big hat' of feudal superstition."

I was stunned when I heard this. It turned out that archaeology was really a life-threatening job. But it was right to think about it. As the saying goes, "Where are you not wet when you stand by the river?" It is inevitable to encounter ghosts when you walk on the night road. So I asked Lao Xu how to crack it.

Lao Xu took a deep breath of cigarette and said, "Damn it, I will set off for Beijing tomorrow. There is a master of archaeology, who is also my teacher. I will ask him for advice and see if there is any solution. However, this will take some time to go back and forth, and I am afraid that something will happen again."

When Lao Xu said this, I suddenly remembered someone and patted my thigh: "Lao Xu, you don't have to go to Beijing anymore. I know what to do!"
Chapter completed!