Chapter 0239 – Woe to you
As the saying goes, looking at the mountain is a dead horse. This is true at all, although the distance is not very far, but Zhuang Rui and Ermao walked for nearly an hour, only just reached that all the yellow soil of the mountain beams, if it is not stealing to their legs into the qi words, I am afraid that Zhuang Rui has long been unable to walk.
Looking at Ermao, who was in good spirits and had no difference before, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, he is a grown-up man, actually not as good as this half-grown child with endurance.
Standing on the mountain beam, Zhuang Rui realized that the distance from the ground out of more than ten meters of the mountain beam, does not seem to be a mountain range extended down, but some like rammed earth pile.
Rammed earth is a term used in archaeology, and Zhuang Rui can often see it in related books.
In ancient times, there was no cement, lime or other building materials, and the city walls and foundations were often rammed.
Rammed earth is tamped with rolling wood layer by layer, the structure is tight, generally harder than raw earth, and the color of the earth is not as consistent as raw earth, and contains ancient relics, the most obvious feature is the ability to stratify. Like paper, and in the rammed surface can be seen rammed nest, rammed nest surface often have fine sand particles.
And the rammed earth layer is actually equal to the modern foundation, in ancient times on the layer of rammed earth, often have been built on the palace and other buildings, and in the palace and rammed earth layer of the perimeter, often is the emperor’s mausoleum, the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, and now there are still remains up to more than thirty meters high of the nine-story step-style rammed earth building.
Zhuang Rui once read a report, in the Helan mountain under a strange desert grassland, has the Western Xia emperor mausoleum and the royal relatives of the accompanying tomb, this vast and majestic mausoleum remains, the highest large eye-catching building is a remnant of the height of 23 meters of the pile of rammed earth, shaped like a nest.
Compared to it, this layer of rammed earth under Zhuang Rui’s feet is not that high, but the area is much larger, the historical records have said that in the soldiers wearing heavy armor, in the rammed earth layer of the horse, in order to make it become more thicker and tighter, may be more than a thousand years ago, this place has had that kind of pomp and circumstance.
“Brother Zhuang, look, Ermao’s village, they’re all there!”
Zhuang Rui looked in the direction of Ermao’s finger, and there was a simple pergola built more than a hundred meters away from them. Next to the pergola, there was a pit with a large area, it should not be very deep, Zhuang Rui stood on this pile of rammed earth and could see that more than a dozen people were squatting in the pit and busy, due to the distance was not too close, Zhuang Rui did not get to see what they were doing specifically.
In those people around more than ten meters away, there are four heavily armed and loaded armed police warriors, this will also see Zhuang Rui and Ermao, is alert to this side looking.
“Those people still want to take out the treasure in the ground? There were people in our village who went to dig before, but they were arrested by the government, these people are not afraid, there are still soldiers standing guard for them!”
Ermao was a bit unconvinced, in his opinion, the things in the land, naturally whoever digs them up belongs to them, why should others be able to dig them up and they can’t!
“There are people in your village who rob tombs too?” Zhuang Rui didn’t know about this and asked with a bit of curiosity.
After arriving at Zhuang Rui’s words, Ermao huffed and puffed, “That’s not called grave-robbing, your own family’s crop land. How is it stealing when you dig something out while digging up the soil? The government was unreasonable and sent people to confiscate it.”
“Oh, Ermao, there are regulations, unearthed cultural relics, all belong to the state, are not allowed to be privately hidden, you planted the crop land, although it belongs to you to use, but it does not mean that, what is under the ground, also belongs to you ah!”
Zhuang Rui was casually explaining to Ermao as he walked towards the science team.
“Then they can dig blatantly ah? Who knows if they dug it out and hid it themselves?” Zhuang Rui didn’t see that Ermao was still a little cynic.
Ermao looked around, whispered to Zhuang Rui said: “Brother Zhuang, I tell you, this time in the county town to steal oil was caught, there is a person in the village of ours, and our family is also a bit of a relative, yesterday that person’s daughter-in-law, but also to find the long hair brother to plead for mercy it!”
Zhuang Rui now understand, dare to be Ermao family someone was arrested, at the moment also not give him an explanation, straight to the group of people gathered place to go.
“Stop, what’s the matter?”
The two people just away from that dug out pit, there are twenty to thirty meters away from the place, was called to stop by an armed police officer, this combination of two people and a dog. Let them somewhat imperceptible, Ermao is naturally a person from the village, they have seen, but looking at Zhuang Rui’s dress, definitely not, and that big dog even these few military men look at it, but also in the heart of the heart is afraid.
“Er sister-in-law is working there, Er came to deliver a watermelon, this is our honored guest, and it is not stealing, why don’t you let us go over ah?”
Ermao shouted at the top of his voice, he is not afraid of these soldiers, he also has a gun, there is still a wild boar hunting old gun barrel at home!
A few armed police looked at each other, nodded, signaling that they can go over, they were sent here to duty, the above explained, as long as it is not the impact of the archaeological excavation site, it is not allowed to clash with the locals, although Zhuang Rui is not a local, but look at the appearance of it is not like to come to rob things.
Walking closer, Zhuang Rui realized. This pit is not shallow, just be dug into a ladder-like, layer by layer down, very flat, so it looks like not deep, in fact, the diameter depth should also have three or four meters.
The area of the pit is about forty square meters or so, more than ten middle-aged women, some holding a palm-sized shovel in the planing soil, some actually holding a brush, in a little bit of soil brushing off, Zhuang Rui look is jaw-dropping. Their tools are like children’s toys, how to dig out this big pit ah!
Ermao like to see Zhuang Rui’s doubts, said on the side: “Brother Zhuang, this pit is the amount of old men digging out, digging a good they will be the amount of them to drive away, as if the amount of them to steal something like, they are open to the digging out of the things to take away, by what ah!”
Ermao in order to that day fifty dollars, resentment is quite deep, has been unforgettable.
Zhuang Rui lazy and Ermao this half a child to explain, said casually: “They are official theft, you that is called private theft, not the same.”
I did not expect Zhuang Rui words did not fall, a crisp voice, from Zhuang Rui side sounded: “How do you talk about this person ah, we are commissioned by the State Bureau of Cultural Heritage, to carry out salvage excavations, how it has become an official thief ah? You say it clearly, or I’m not finished with you.”
Zhuang Rui heard in the ear, is a mouthful of brittle Beijing dialect, the heart can not help but secretly screamed bitter, was originally a joke of a sentence, was actually heard, this is really a disaster out of the mouth ah!
Listen to the voice should be a not very old girl, just a girl wearing a straw hat on her head, just back to the sun, Zhuang Rui momentarily can not afford to look at the appearance, thinking about what he said just now, indeed some inappropriate, would like to go down to the girl to explain.
“You don’t come down ah! This is an archaeological excavation site, not just anyone can enter.” The girl raised her hand, making Zhuang Rui go up or down, standing there somewhat awkwardly.
“This big sister, uhm Big Brother Zhuang didn’t say anything either!” Ermao couldn’t look past it and spoke out to help Zhuang Rui explain.
“Who is big sister? Bah, bah, bah, I’m a youthful and invincible beauty girl.”
A big sister annoyed that girl and climbed up from the bottom of the pit, removing the straw hat on her head in the process.
“Big sister, what does even mean?” Ermao didn’t understand what the next few words meant except for the word yuck.
“Said no more shouting big sister, er what does it mean, even is what it means.”
The girl was furious and stomped her feet, but she couldn’t do anything about Ermao, so she couldn’t help but turn her anger towards Zhuang Rui and said, “Just now you said that we’re official thieves, and you still haven’t been asked to settle the score!”
Until the girl turned to himself, Zhuang Rui looked at the girl’s appearance clearly, and could not help but praise in the bottom of his heart, it is really a youthful and invincible beauty girl ah! Large eyes, long eyelashes, slightly straight nose, because angry toot up the mouth, but also to the whole person added a few points of cute, pretending to be angry look, let Zhuang Rui look actually some pleasing to the eye, however, this is only pure appreciation, because the girl’s age seems to be a little small, should only be eighteen or nineteen years old.
“What are you looking at, Brother Error, Brother Yingning, someone has come to smash the scene!” The girl fiercely glared at Zhuang Rui, shouting out words that almost made Zhuang Rui stumble.
“Smash the scene?” Zhuang Rui didn’t have this idea, he just wanted to come and see it.
“Said don’t call me Mistake, my name is Fan Mistake!”
With the voice that spoke, an older boy walked up from below.
“Hee hee, Fan Error’s full name is Fan had Error, so there’s nothing wrong with calling you Brother Error.”
The girl would have completely forgotten Zhuang Rui to the back of her mind by now, laughing and joking with the boy.
“Qiuqian, you’re bullying again ah! When your grandfather finds out later, he’ll definitely get scolded.”
Just now the girl shouted the names of two people, now the one who spoke, must be the one called Ying Ning, these two names are really distinctive, Zhuang Rui thought in his heart.
Ying surname is there, and also more famous, as if there is a former Minister of Culture, is surnamed Ying, there are two latecomers, in the entertainment industry are mixed up, Zhuang Rui also often see there is news about them.
“I didn’t bully anyone, brother Yingning, this person said we are official thieves ……”
The girl called Qiuqian, this time remembered the reason for shouting at the two, and pointed the finger at Zhuang Rui again.
“This gentleman knows the words Official Thief, so he must know more about archaeology as well, right? Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to talk like this?”
This boy called Yingning, looking at his face he should be just twenty-two or twenty-three years old, like a student, but when he spoke, he was quite sophisticated, and was a bit azole-compelling.