Chapter 42 Finding clues
So throughout the afternoon, Li Cu was helping the merchants receive customers, discuss prices, and then pack them. Those customers were really strange, and there were all kinds of people. In the end, Li Cu felt that anyone passing by the entrance of this small hotel might come over and say, "Where is the goods?"
It seems that they have been doing this type of business for a long time, and they are familiar with each other, whether they are sellers or buyers.
Everyone knows the rules very well. They pay in cash. They packed three big travel bags. The money must be firmly pressed with bricks and tied up before it can be put in. Li Cu is a little understanding of why Wu Xie and the others paid so easily before. In their industry, money seems to be not a rare thing.
The total amount was 110,000 more than the merchants expected, so they decisively changed to a better hotel that night, and each had his own room.
In the end, there were only three things left. These three things were exactly the same. They were all iron incense burners, and each one was as big as a KFC family barrel.
Li Cu looked at them curiously. These things that no one wanted seemed to see incredible. "How did you judge, no other things can guide you to find this ancient tomb. Only these three things are useful. And these three things look the least valuable."
This time no one joked about Li Cu again, as if his problem finally reached the point.
"Listen to boy, I don't know what your relationship has with them, but since I brought you here, I, an elder, will teach you some useful things!"
The merchant paused, as if he was considering what expression to use to allow the layman Li Cu to understand his words.
Well, first of all, we know that this iron incense burner cannot be a burial object for you, so it will definitely not be buried in the coffin, but outside the coffin.
Secondly, judging from the burial objects we see now, the specifications of this ancient tomb cannot be very high, so there is little possibility of having a tomb chamber. The three incense burners should be buried in the coffin soil pit.
In this area of Changsha, the probability of wooden coffins being corroded and collapsed is very high. These incense burners should have been dug out of the soil when they were stolen, because the stolen gold, silver and jewelry at the same time, only these three incense burners remain, which shows that this thing was not intentional stolen, and tomb robbers should have no interest in iron tools at that time.
It is very likely that it was an iron tool dug by chance when digging a hole. It was used by craftsmen to worship when sealing the tomb.
The merchant invited Li Cu to come and take a closer look at the incense burners, "Did you see? There are many subtle hollow carvings on these incense burners, and these hollow carving skills are very exquisite. The materials used in ironware are not extremely expensive, but the carvings are very impressive, which means that the people who built this tomb have little wealth, but their status is very noble."
There are a large number of jewelry among the funeral objects, which are very large, but none of them are very precious, which means that these things gathered little by little over a long period of time.
The merchant flipped a book of information and said, "The earliest county annals in this place was recorded in the Ming Dynasty. It was neither early nor late. In the late Ming Dynasty, there was a large landlord. It was not considered noble, but it had a good relationship with ethnic minorities and a good status. In line with these, the owner of this ancient tomb is likely to be related to this landlord. Moreover, the carvings on these three incense burners also have some traces of ethnic minorities."
Because the fine hollowing is long-term compacted by the soil, the soil will be embedded in very deep hollowing gaps. Those who wash this kind of thing will know that these dirt cannot be washed away no matter how they are cleaned. It is called old mud.
They used very slender injection needles to penetrate deep into the hollowed-out interior and sucked out the old mud inside, which was probably as much mud powder as a little fingernail.
"The soil in each place has different odors due to the natural formation conditions. We will start searching tomorrow and we will slowly find similar odors."
Li Cu wanted to hear it, but was pushed away: "There is only a little clue, you will lose all of it once you suck it." The merchant said. Li Cu asked: "Isn't this kind of area big? The soil formed by the same natural conditions may be hundreds of acres. Even if they find that area, it will be very troublesome to find it."
The young man smiled and said, "You will never forget the smell of rammed earth once."
Li Cu was half-believing and half-doubted, but the merchant’s explanation today made Li Cu more interested in the tomb robbery industry. He felt that he seemed to have this kind of cell innately.
Perhaps a more exciting story will come soon. Li Cu almost fell asleep with a smile that night and slept with a very sweet sleep.
I woke up early the next morning and just turned over and saw a strange uniform on the head of my bed. He picked it up and looked at it. Before he could see that a man in a sky blue dress pushed open the door and walked in.
"I locked the door last night. How did you come in?" Li Cu was stunned.
"It's just a lock, it's a little bit." The other party smiled, "Stop talking nonsense, change your clothes quickly, we have to leave."
"This dress is really ugly!" Li Cu changed his clothes and pointed to the big words on his chest.
"This is a uniform for mobile service maintenance, so it's safer to use this identity."
Li Cu nodded and asked no more questions. He felt that things were getting more and more interesting.
Having done a full set of scenes, the group actually got a mobile repair car. As soon as they got on the car, someone told him that the incident that happened last night must have been exposed and should not be too conspicuous.
However, the car just started wandering around and did not enter the mountain.
Li Cu has been struggling for a few days, and after a lot of trouble, his spirit has long been gone. It is very comfortable to follow this group of people to take a bath and eat big meat. He knew that these people were waiting for the news to pass, and they rarely went to the ancient tombs in person, and they should be waiting for another group of tomb robbers to come and meet them.
After hanging out for a week, one day when he woke up, he found that everyone was dressed neatly, not slippers and nightgowns, and knew that the person he had to wait for should have arrived.
I followed everyone to the parking lot downstairs and saw a man sitting on his luggage from afar, piled up behind their cars, waiting for them.
This man was wearing casual clothes and sweatpants, a ponytail, and wearing loose sportswear, he could tell that his waist was very thin, his chest was not big, but he could see obvious curves.
It's actually a woman.
Chapter completed!