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Chapter 257 Bad luck!Burial pit!
The two looked back and saw that it was Wang Jinpeng who had actually dug up a stone with the Luoyang shovel.
According to many years of tomb robbing experience, this should have reached the tomb door. No wonder this guy looked so excited.
Liu Jingfeng and others quickly gathered around, followed closely by Lin Ran. He turned back and glanced at the inscription.
The stele is seven and a half meters high. It is only one meter above the ground at this time. You have to dig down at least six meters to see the entrance. How can it be buried so shallow?
Wang Jinpeng became even more excited because he found a slab of stone. He picked up a shovel and smashed it into the ground.
He wanted to break a hole first and then pry open the stone slab.
But before he exerted any force, he found that the stone slab was broken.
"This?" Wang Jinpeng was a little surprised. He had been to the tomb for many years and had never encountered such a strange thing.
According to their speculation, this should be a large tomb.
But, how could the entrance to the tomb be exited so easily?
What was placed in front of everyone was a stone door.
Except for Lin Ran, everyone felt happy, even though the stone gate was completely destroyed and the original appearance could not be seen.
Wang Jinpeng and Xu Ning removed all the rubble blocking the stone gate.
"Hey, little brother, didn't you just say there was a problem? Now you know how good I am, right?" Huang Hao said proudly.
Master Zhenbao had already begun to study the method of opening the stone door, and Lin Ran also approached the stone door and observed it carefully.
If it is a noble cemetery, the stone gate is very particular.
Although the stone gate in front of me has been damaged to the point of being unrecognizable, it looks very ordinary and does not look like it has been carefully designed.
Is it a fake tomb?
Lin Ran guessed in his heart that the research on the treasure had already been completed.
"Just move it away. There is no mechanism behind this stone door."
Wang Jinpeng and the others received the instruction and began to pry open the stone door.
With a creak, the stone door was pried open.
There was an unpleasant smell coming from the tomb passage, obviously the smell of rotting corpses.
It would be dangerous to enter the tomb now, so everyone waited at the door for a while.
When the smell had mostly dissipated, Liu Jingfeng waved his hand: "Brothers, let's go in."
Wang Jinpeng hung a searchlight on his head, and everyone else got a flashlight and prepared to enter the tomb.
But after entering the tomb, I found that it was not the main hall of the mausoleum as expected. Instead, it looked a bit like a patio.
The first thing that appears in front of people is an inverted T-shaped patio.
There are no murals on the walls and no funerary objects. Only two huge sarcophagi can be seen.
"Quick, pry it open and take a look." Liu Jingfeng said excitedly.
Sarcophagus?
Lin Ran didn't think that this would be the main tomb. The tombs of nobles would not be so crudely built, otherwise there would be no value in robbing the tombs.
After prying open the sarcophagus, a foul smell was instantly felt.
Even the team members who made a living by robbing tombs couldn't bear to cover their mouths and almost vomited.
Wang Jinpeng shined a searchlight in. Where there were treasures, there were just a bunch of skeletons piled together.
Holding back his nausea, Wang Jinpeng turned the skeleton aside.
Under the bones are some simple cultural relics.
They were just ordinary clay pots and some cheap hair accessories.
Everyone is puzzled. There is usually only one corpse in the tomb, so why are there so many corpses here?
There was nothing valuable in this coffin, so Wang Jinpeng and Xu Ning opened the other coffin.
Likewise, another batch of corpses were placed among them!
After searching for a long time, I didn't see anything valuable.
"This is evil! Did I make a mistake?" Huang Hao shook his head in disbelief.
"No." Lin Ran already had an idea in his mind, "Maybe these are just people buried with the general."
He closed his eyes and sighed.
In the Tang Dynasty, the burial system was mentioned again.
The funeral system has been intermittent in China. Since the Xia Dynasty with written records, there has been a bad custom of burial.
It was abolished for a period of time during the Warring States Period. After the Tang Dynasty, the burial system was restored again.
During the Warring States Period, burials were abolished not because of pity for the people, but because of the needs of the war and the serious population shortage, so private killings were not allowed.
But after the Tang Dynasty, living conditions gradually improved, and when princes and nobles died, they would ask their concubines and retainers to be buried with them.
After some generals died, their subordinates would also be executed. The euphemistic claim was that they were assisting the generals in continuing their campaign underground. In fact, they were worried that they would not be able to subdue them, so they were sentenced to death.
It was not until the death of the Tumubao God of War in the Ming Dynasty that this cruel system was abolished.
Wang Jinpeng and others have rummaged through the corpses. After thousands of years, some of the skeletons have weathered and turned into ashes at the slightest touch.
They couldn't help frowning and quickly dusted off the dust on their hands, as if they were worried about being stained by bad luck.
Liu Jingfeng also sighed deeply: "It seems that we have dug a burial pit."
"That's right." Lin Ran nodded, "There are obvious strangulation marks on the necks of these skeletons, as well as some signs of fragmentation. They were obviously executed during their lifetime and then buried in the tomb as a companion."
Burial is not a voluntary matter. After all, no one wants to die, but when the owner dies, their fate is also determined.
Everything still has to start with the emperor, because after the emperor dies, his concubines and accompanying eunuchs will be executed and buried with them.
The people followed suit. When scholar-officials died, they would also execute their servants and concubines.
If you really feel lonely underground, why not kill your wife and son?
The burial system is a dregs of Chinese culture!
Everyone present obviously knew the origin of the burial pit.
Huang Hao took off his hat and sighed in a low voice: "Oh, I didn't expect that I found the burial pit. I thought it was some kind of big tomb."
Wang Jinpeng and Xu Ning were no longer so calm. They said with some fear: "These people must be very resentful, right? Will they come to us?"
They are all very superstitious people and are not afraid of going to graves. However, those are respectable tomb owners, and most of them die well.
And with so many corpses in front of me, they were basically executed, so naturally I felt unwilling to do so.
No wonder this place has extremely heavy Yin energy!
Not only that, in the eyes of insiders, the burial pit is the most dangerous and unlucky sign!
Liu Jingfeng and Zhenbao felt particularly depressed.
They traveled thousands of miles from the capital to Shaanxi, but only for this burial pit?
And he even called Lin Ran here because he thought he could make a lot of money.
Lin Ran didn't share their fear and frustration. He looked at the miserable state of the skeletons. Some of the skeletons were still hugging each other, as if they were very scared during their lifetimes.
Some skeletons still had their hands raised, as if they were extremely resentful.
Liu Jingfeng said: "It's really unlucky to dig up this thing. Zhenbao, you should be responsible for leading a ritual."
In the world of tomb robbers, if they dig a burial pit or a mass grave, it usually means they have bad luck and are considered a bad omen.
The only solution is to help the souls of the dead who died unjustly to be saved, so that they can land in the Paradise of Elysium as soon as possible, which can be regarded as a kind of psychological comfort between the two parties.
Zhenbao nodded and took out the magic weapon from his backpack, his face full of solemnity!