At this moment, the villagers were partly curious and partly afraid.
If it was true as their brother said, the thing on the ground was corpse oil instead of oil, then there must be corpses under the ground, and not just one or two, otherwise it would be impossible to take the risk.
There is so much coming out, and it is still coming out.
Director Lu asked the villagers to find a few brave people, seemingly promised a lot of wages, and then started digging.
The deeper they dug, the bigger the hole became, and the amount of oil produced was like running water.
After a while, the entire drying field was submerged.
The villagers could not continue their work and had to retreat to the edge.
My brother, Director Lu and the others were all standing on the edge, looking down at the swamp-like grain drying field below.
Director Lu suddenly turned to my brother and asked, "What do you think is going on underground?"
My brother shook his head, but then sighed and said, "I don't know exactly what it is, but what is certain is that there were many, many corpses buried in this ground.
I think you should report it to the superiors to see how they deal with it."
"This is the only way.
I have taken the lead in excavating dozens of ancient tombs.
This is the first time that something like this has happened outside the tomb.
If this is a burial pit, it should be inside the tomb.
I think This time we encountered a difficult situation, which is hard to see through."
Director Lu sighed and said that he had not encountered such a situation.
Then they reported it to the authorities level by level.
Finally, people from the province came and dispatched a team of nearly a hundred engineers to dig down.
They even used excavators to clean the cement floors on the grain drying field.
When the construction started, all the villagers stood and watched.
When the general appearance of the entire site was revealed, no one dared to say a word, because there were so many grains buried under the grain drying field where they had been drying grain for decades. corpse.
It's impossible to tell who is who among these corpses.
Anyway, the skeletons are scattered, all mixed together, and soaked in the corpse oil.
It's like a huge cesspool, which is chaotic and densely packed with human bones. , and there are many skulls floating on the sewage.
Many villagers covered their children's eyes to prevent them from looking, for fear of being frightened and leaving a shadow in their hearts.
If you want to ask how many bodies are buried here, there is really no way to answer it.
Several basketball courts are so wide side by side.
As for how deep the pit is, it is not clear.
The faces of the villagers turned green.
Many of them were reluctant to move before.
Now, even if they were asked to stay, few of them would dare to stay.
Living next to a mass grave requires a lot of heart. .
Facing a mass grave like a reservoir, everyone was stunned.
Even the leaders from the city didn't know what to do next.
The brother walked along the edge of the pit, then grabbed a piece of mud from the pit wall, put it under his nose and smelled it.
After frowning slightly, he threw the mud piece on the ground and crushed it with his feet.
The mud piece was very hard and there was something inside.
Scattered white spots.
"This is" Director Lu and others looked at the mud at their brother's feet.
"The pit is surrounded by pit walls made of lime mixed with soil and glutinous rice.
It is extremely hard, comparable to cement, and the entire mass grave is square.
It seems that when it was built, it was planned and planned, not A hole dug in a hurry," my brother said, looking down at the wall of soil.
"There shouldn't be so many people in the burial pit.
This would cause such a shock.
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Even the emperor must be buried with dignity, and there shouldn't be so many living people."
Director Lu frowned slightly.
"Maybe it's not a burial pit.
The motive for so many people dying is maybe a war, maybe they are death row prisoners or prisoners of war, or rebels.
By the way, Director Lu, can you tell what dynasty this is from?"
My brother turned to look at Lu curator.
"It is difficult to judge from the bones.
If we can fish out some of their belongings from this pool, we can judge."
Director Lu said.
My brother looked at the pond, sighed and said: "Oh, never mind, the top priority now is to evacuate the entire village.
The excavation of the ancient wells and ancient tombs has not even started, and there are mass graves like this.
It's just...
"It's terrible."
Then one day, the bustling Shangwu Village suddenly became empty.
People in southern Fujian were very taboo about these things.
Even the stubborn old men left, and even all the livestock were taken away.
No matter whether they are going to the resettlement site in the town or visiting relatives and friends, no one wants to stay here.
Our house was packed up, and my brother, sister-in-law and I were ready to leave, but Director Lu repeatedly asked my brother to be his guide.
First, every time an ancient tomb is excavated, some local people are needed as guides.
When the reservoir was built, my brother was there and was familiar with the Black Smoke Stone Mountain.
Another reason is that my brother is half a Taoist priest and has some skills and knowledge.
It will be helpful to stay.
Of course, the archaeological team paid my brother a salary and bonus, but my brother agreed to stay not for these reasons, but to find out the truth.
My brother stayed, and naturally my sister-in-law and I stayed too.
I was also very curious, probably due to the influence of my grandfather, and wanted to find out everything.
Many reporters came down from the bottom of the mountain, but they were blocked at the bottom.
The villagers were also asked to keep quiet before leaving.
The situation here must not be disclosed to outsiders, especially the matter of mass graves.
I don’t know what the difference is between archaeological teams and tomb robbers excavating ancient tombs.
Tomb robbers may go there for the treasures in the tomb, but in addition to these cultural relics, can archaeological excavations also unearth other values, such as cultural value or other of.
But the archaeological team's approach to this mass grave was to fish out all the bones in the pit without protecting them, because Director Lu said that these bones have no archaeological value.
I don't know if this value is true.
Not worth the money, let’s talk about other values.
Anyway, all the human bones were fished out, placed in an open area on the side, and then sorted.
If there were any items carried with the bones, they were sorted out.
The bones were piled aside like a hill.
My brother frowned slightly, feeling that this was a bad way to deal with it, but he didn't care what he said, so he could only open an altar to perform a ritual of salvation for these bones, at least to give him peace of mind.
After the bones were fished out, several water pumps were used to pump out all the corpse oil from the pit and pump it to the farmland next to it.
Then a fire was lit to burn the corpse oil.
After the water pump drained away the corpse oil in the pit, the true appearance of the bottom of the pit was finally revealed.
It was a long, square pit, 43.2 meters long, 13.4 meters wide, and 8.7 meters deep.
The bottom of the pit was full of broken bones and scattered filthy things, as well as some unidentified objects.
Get the clean skeleton frame.
But there is a square altar in the middle of the pit.
The altar is divided into three levels, connected by stone steps.
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The bottom level is three meters long and wide, the middle level is two meters each, and the top level is Then there is only one meter.
But there is a sarcophagus about 80 centimeters long placed on the altar of this meter.
From this point of view, this is really a burial pit.
It’s just that I don’t know if this burial pit has anything to do with the ancient tomb, because there is also a coffin in the pit, but this coffin is ridiculously small, and it cannot fit a normal adult.
My brother guessed that there should be a small coffin inside. child.
Director Lu and his group went down at that time and invited my brother to go down with them.
Then out of curiosity, I followed and slipped down behind.
Although the people next to me were a little unhappy, they didn't dare to say anything.
After getting into the pit, I felt chilly all over.
I don’t know if it was because of my inner trouble, or because there were so many bones buried in the pit, and the accumulated yin energy was too heavy.
Looking at the bones under my feet that had not been picked up, I instantly got goosebumps.
Full of body.
When we got to the edge of the altar, there were stone steps going up.
The stone steps were greasy and full of dirt, probably because they had been soaked in corpse fluid and corpse oil for many years.
Although covered with dirt, after squatting down, you can still see the stone carvings on the steps, including dragons, phoenixes and unicorns, all of which are auspicious beasts, but such auspicious beasts are carved in such a mass grave.
It makes people feel completely inconsistent and out of tune.
On the second floor of the altar, there is the third floor in the middle, but there are dozens of centimeters left on each side.
These dozens of centimeters are placed on a rectangular incense burner.
At this moment, there is also some dark and greasy liquid in the incense burner.
It's really unsightly.
In the middle of the altar on the third floor was a rectangular sarcophagus.
The sarcophagus was sealed.
Curator Lu took a magnifying glass and looked along the sarcophagus back and forth.
He couldn't find the so-called switch.
The final result was This sarcophagus is sealed with something like glue.
He explained that there was no glue before.
The ancients would use glutinous rice mixed with isinglass, rosin, and some special plant juices to make glue.
The glue made in this way is more powerful than our current 502.
Once it sticks, it will destroy the sarcophagus body.
Otherwise, it will definitely not be opened
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