"Secretary Li, we two brothers are here to see you coming!"

The fat man and I came to the cave of Secretary Li’s house. We didn’t knock on the door, we opened the door and walked in. Swallowing Novels www.,,

"It's you! Have you eaten?" Old Man Li had obviously just eaten, and the rice bowl was still on the Kang table!

"No!" Fatty is a real person.

Secretary Li was stunned on the spot, opened his mouth, and finally managed to say: "How about some food?"

"Okay!" The fat man really didn't regard himself as an outsider, so he sat down on the kang.

Looking at the miserable face of the mute old man eating Coptis chinensis, I was happy at the same time. Is this old guy so kind-hearted that he invites us to dinner? You are unlucky if you meet someone like Fatty! Now the old party secretary asked Fatty to talk to him,

I guess my heart is bleeding!

It's a pity that this meal can't be eaten. We have something to ask for now and we have to leave a good impression.

I picked up the reluctant fat man and said to the old branch secretary with a smile: "Eat, eat, I was just teasing you!"

The old party secretary was obviously relieved, and the wrinkles on his face were loosened.

"You kid, you know how to tease your uncle. Tell me, what do you want from me?"

"It's nothing. I just want to ask you something. Are there any ancient tombs near our Liushu Village?" I said straight to the point. I didn't have the energy to go around in circles with this old cunning guy. I was hungry. If he dared to say something,

No, I still have to eat this old guy today.

"Ancient tomb?" Li Zhishu picked up the dry pipe gun, knocked it on the table, lit the fire, and said after a while: "Are you too, this... craftsman?"

As he spoke, he turned the empty bowl on the kang table upside down and placed it on the table, then reached out and turned the bowl over!

The fat man and I were stunned at first sight. Unexpectedly, this old guy kept his secrets very well and knew a lot!

"I said, old party secretary, life is really going on..."

Before I could finish speaking, I was interrupted by the old party secretary with a wave of his hand. He took a puff of cigarette and said, "I also know the situation of you Beijing kids. As for this..."

As he spoke, the old branch secretary turned over the bowl again, "There were people in the village who did this before liberation. They were all digging blindly. It was no joke. That's how my uncle did it!"

When I heard that there was something going on, I cheered up and asked: "So, is it really true? It's okay, we don't have diamonds, and we won't do this porcelain work!"

The old party secretary hesitated for a while again, which made me and the fat man anxious! We waited until he finished smoking a dry cigarette before we continued.

"It's all because of the world! Baby, you said this ancient tomb is really close to our village! It's less than a mile away from here. I heard the old people in the village say that it seems to be an ancient tomb from the Song Dynasty.

"

Less than a mile away, the fat man and I looked at each other. It’s impossible. Although I’m a good craftsman, I’ve seen everything around me. If there’s anything, it’s impossible to hide it from my eyes.

The old branch secretary understood it as soon as he saw our expressions, and continued: "Do you know that there are many ditches in our land? It seems that there is only one mile, but there is a ditch in the middle. If you want to walk across, you have to at least go around it.

3,40 miles of road!”

"You know, you know, it's like the Baixian Village next door. It's only separated from our village by a ditch, a hundred and eighty meters away. When I have nothing to do, I go there all day long and have fun with the female educated youth next door! If I want to hold hands or something,

, you have to run dozens of miles, it’s so boring!” The fat man interrupted with a smile.

"Well, it's just this kind of ditch. There is a ditch at the back of the village. On the opposite side of the ditch, not far from the ditch, there is an ancient tomb. My uncle and the others got into it and never came out."

As the old party secretary spoke, he dipped his hands in tea and drew a map for us on the table.

It's easy to figure out where it is. Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.

"Old party secretary, do you have a guy here? Can you lend me two tools?" It's useless without tools. You can't just rely on two hands to plan!

"Yes, they are all passed down from my uncle's generation, just use them!" After saying this, Secretary Li asked his mother-in-law to fetch the tools. As soon as I saw what was brought, my eyes lit up on the spot!

Damn, Luoyang Shovel!

After getting a Luoyang shovel and two ordinary shovels from Secretary Li's house, I dragged the fat man to the cave house where we lived. There were other things we needed in the cave house: masks, gloves, candles and ropes.

As I walked, I couldn’t put it down and touched the Luoyang shovel in my hand. It’s such a good thing!

The fat man on the side looked unhappy and said, "Taozi, why don't you just use a broken shovel? Why are you looking at it so enthusiastically?"

Broken shovel? This kid’s mouth is full of leaks—ignorance!

"Do you know what this is? Humph, that old man didn't tell us the truth!"

"What? Is there no tomb there?" The fat man looked at me nervously. Tombs are food to us now, so he couldn't help but be nervous.

"There are probably tombs, but this Liushu Village was probably a village of tomb robbers before liberation! Did you dig blindly? Did you dig blindly to find this thing? This is a Luoyang shovel!"

"Luoyang shovel?" The fat man became more energetic upon hearing this. He snatched the shovel from my hand and looked at it carefully.

After a while, he handed the shovel over and said disappointedly: "It's nothing if it's so mysterious!"

"It's nothing. This shovel is just for digging. It can bring out the soil from the ground. By distinguishing the soil quality, you can know the age of the tomb underneath and roughly what it looks like! I don't have any real skills. This shovel

The Luoyang shovel is useless. The old party secretary and his uncle can use this thing. Needless to say, he must be a professional shovel shovel!"

The Luoyang shovel was officially used in tomb robbing at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. When Li Yaya, a villager in Mapo Village, Luoyang, was watching people building a shed, he accidentally discovered that the tile-shaped shovel used to dig holes and insert shed poles could be used for tomb robbing, so he drew a picture to invite people to do so.

They followed the same example, and from then on, the Luoyang shovel became an official tool for tomb robbing.

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The next day, in the afternoon, the fat man and I took tools, carried a cage and put the two sparrows we had finally caught, and walked 3 or 40 miles to the place where Party Secretary Li had mentioned.

After taking a few breaths, I picked up the Luoyang shovel and started to dot it next to the ditch. I shoveled it down and brought about 1/3 of the shovelful of soil. Following the method described in the book, I carefully distinguished the quality of the soil that I dug up, and then crushed it.

Put it in front of your nose and smell it.

The fat man on the side became impatient and said anxiously: "Taozi, how are you? Is there a tomb down there?"

"Yes! There is indeed a tomb underneath, and the year is similar to what Old Man Li said." I checked the soil carefully and said with certainty.

"That's it, just look at me." As he said, the fat man picked up the shovel and prepared to dig.

This kid just doesn't have the patience. I grabbed him and cursed: "You guys, please calm down. Are you capable of fighting like this? This is a craft job, so you can just rest and watch what you do!"

After saying that, he ignored the grumbling fat man and started to do some careful work by the ditch. It was already evening as he watched.

"Taozi, are you okay? You should hurry up! Don't wait until the grave is dug. We two brothers will faint from hunger first!"

"Okay, okay, come here and take a look at this!" I finally got it done, and I pulled the fat man over and showed him the range of the tomb that I had marked when I was doing the counting.

"You can do it! You can dig out the tomb with just a few points!"

"That's who we are!"

I didn't say anything, but I was really confused in my heart! It was a single-chamber tomb with an earth cave at the bottom, which meant that there were no bricks or tiles. It was just digging an earth hole and compacting the earth into a chamber. This is not the style of Song Dynasty tombs!

"Drill a hole down here, and you can go straight to the tomb where the coffin is parked." He pointed out to the fat man the place that had just been marked, indicating that he could dig. This kind of tomb buried in a ravine, shouldn't it be possible?

If it's too strong, there won't be any mechanism, just let the fat man dig straight down.

I sat down by the ditch and started smoking. I watched the fat man start to work hard. I admired how well he could swing the shovel.
Chapter completed!