Chapter 38 The Accident That Ended Without a Cause-The Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

Rest for half a day, in the afternoon we continue to go deep into the ruins of the Blackwater City, Uncle Kuluo said that this place he only came once, Alashan is so big, as far as in the front of the walk is where, he has not been.

I looked up at the sky, it was depressingly cloudy, the ground was dry sand and gravel tumbleweeds were much less, this was truly no man’s land.

Putting his head, he said, “Everyone don’t go too far, try to stay within each other’s line of sight, Budgie you and Aji in a team, Yunfeng you and Xiao Xuan in a pair, all pay attention to what’s underneath your feet, if you find any stone brick remnants pay close attention to them.”

We all said we received it, and then one of us grabbed a short-handled shovel and dispersed.

Running in Alaska for so many days, Xiao Xuan face Missy’s breath is too much less, who said that the woman is not as good as the man, Xiao Xuan although it is a mixer, but all the way over the road did not hear her complaining, it is not easy.

“Come on over here, look what’s this? Is this a brick?” She looked like she was onto something.

I looked at it and said, “It’s a green brick, wait a minute, there seems to be writing on the brick.”

Picked up from the ground and studied carefully, the surface of the green brick has a knife-carved Xixia text, some blurred, the brick is not valuable, I shouted Xiao Xuan to get out of the way a little bit, I’m ready to go down a probing hole here to see.

At first the front end of the Loyola shovel brought up all sand, and then another meter and a half down, I saw dirt.

Seeing that the soil brought up was cooked, I knew there might be something in it.

Shang Zhou Warring States tomb is green and white mud, nose a smell a very heavy flavor, Tang and Song tombs are mostly glutinous rice mud, glutinous rice mud grip on the hand is very sticky will be stained, to the Ming and Qing tombs most of the use of quicklime, due to the lime absorbent, this soil is white and dry, they say that tomb robbers look at the soil can be broken in fact, it is these tricks.

So what does it mean to have ripe soil and what does it mean to have raw soil.

Raw soil is dead soil, is the natural world of the original soil, this soil grabbed a hand put in the hand to see the color and the surrounding environment is basically the same, fine structure. Cooked soil is the soil after man-made turnover, cooked soil grabbed a hand in the hand, the naked eye can see a little uneven color, texture loose mixed, put the mouth blowing dust is not big.

In the grave robbing business, Luoyang shovel hit up the soil if the cooked soil, can not be identified underground with ancient tombs, may be the former ancient crop land, but if the cooked soil with green and white mud or glutinous rice mud, then there must be ancient tombs underground, 100%.

Blackwater City is the site of the ancient city of Xixia, he is not a tomb, so the absence of glutinous rice mud is normal, Luoyang shovel brought up the cooked soil, indicating that hundreds of years ago someone turned over.

I looked at Xiao Xuan, pointed at my feet and said, “Right here, dig and see, the depth should be down one meter and a half.”

We then dug in together.

A meter and a half deep robber’s hole, if the second brother and the third brother they fight, the fastest as long as eight minutes, I two dug more than half an hour, I’m okay, Xiao Xuan tired out a lot of sweat.

“There’s nothing here, is there?” She said as she scrutinized it.

“What’s the matter, is it shipping?” Bean Sprout asked as he ran over carrying a short shovel.

I stood in the pit and said, “Nope, it’s just been shot down, checking it out,”

I threw dirt over the pit as I spoke.

“Dang!”

Suddenly, the shovel in my hand hit something hard.

“草了，又是石头，我还以为出青铜器了，”豆芽仔看到了露出地面的石头。

I dug down again and ended up with the shovel clanging and rocks everywhere.

At this time, the head and Uncle Kulok also came over, the head said to expand the robber hole to see.

I nodded my head yes, and rained a few more shovels around, which gradually made the thing visible.

Turns out the shovel wasn’t touching a rock, it was a stone millstone.

This millstone was stuck diagonally into the ground and was estimated to be over two meters in diameter.

I was a little disappointed that no one wanted the grinder, and even if someone did want the thing they couldn’t take it with them, it was too heavy to move.

At this point our attention was focused on the stone millstone when suddenly we heard Aggie yell, “Someone! That’s who’s there!”