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Three feet, five feet, eight feet, they dug until they were eight feet deep, but still found no sign of the salt layer. Qin Mu's heart was getting more and more nervous. The enthusiasm of the three hundred soldiers was also fading little by little, and there were more and more suspicious eyes.
Just at this time, an old rich man came with more than a dozen servants to argue with Qin Mu, saying that the land belonged to his family and demanded that Qin Mu give him an explanation.
Damn it, this is clearly a wasteland, but you insist on saying it belongs to yours. If the county magistrate doesn't show his power, you would think you are a sick cat.
"Show me the title deed." Qin Mu took the old man to a tree.
“Your Excellency, please take a look.” Lao Tucai actually took out a land deed and presented it to him, “Your Excellency, please… this, this, this…”
In broad daylight, the land deed that had just been handed to Qin Mu suddenly disappeared, and Qin Mu's outstretched hand did not move. This strange scene left Lao Tucai stunned.
"What are you hesitating for? Hurry up and hand over the land deed." Qin Mu had been looking up at the sky, as if he didn't notice the fact that the land deed was missing. He thought that Lao Tucai hadn't taken it out.
"This... ... ... Your Excellency, I have just handed the land deed to you, this..."
"You are such a rude and unruly person!" Qin Mu was furious, as if he had been fooled. "How dare you fool me? Where is the land deed? If you don't show it to me, I will punish you severely. Show it to me."
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency... ... ... ... People..." The old man was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thump, his teeth chattering as he spoke, "Your Excellency, Fang Fang Fang... ... I really handed the land deed to you just now, but it suddenly disappeared as soon as it reached your hands."
"Ridiculous! A seventh-rank official of this county... In broad daylight, in front of everyone, this county didn't even move. If you present the deed, how can you suddenly disappear?" Qin Mu became more and more angry as he spoke, and he wanted to kick the rich man a few times. He turned to Ning Yuan and asked, "You, did you see him hand the deed to me?"
"I didn't see it." Ning Yuan looked at Qin Mu's right hand in surprise and answered three words hesitantly.
Qin Mu didn't bother to care about the fact that Ning Yuan's eyes were almost cross-eyed. He waved his sleeves, pointed at the old local tycoon who was kneeling on the ground and shouted: "You bold and unruly commoner, how dare you fool this county? Come on! Drag him away immediately... ... ... ... chop him off."
When Lao Tucai heard the last two words, his Adam's apple twitched twice, his eyes rolled back, and he was so frightened that he fainted.
"Sir, this..." Ning Yuan pointed at the old rich man who had fainted on the ground, wanting to ask Qin Mu if he really dragged the man down and chopped him off, but his throat was a little dry and he couldn't even speak clearly. He just watched and Qin Mu's hands seemed to have never moved. Anyway, he couldn't be sure that the land deed had disappeared out of thin air;
Ever since he met Qin Mu, he felt that Qin Mu was always shrouded in a thick sense of mystery, so the disappearance of the deed out of thin air made him imagine a lot and felt it was extremely strange. It was difficult for him to regard it as a trick.
"Forget it, we are following the will of God. We killed him without knowing why. We will just fine him some silver and let him go."
"Hehe, I will follow your orders."
When talking about fines, Ning Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up. He was not like this before. Qin Mu suspected that this guy was influenced by himself. It seems that this is not going to work. It is better to talk less about money in the future.
We are glorious "beasts in human clothing" and should regard money as dirt, and kill everyone with our integrity.
Just when they had dealt with Lao Tucai, there was a sudden commotion among the soldiers digging over there. Someone was shouting non-stop. Qin Mu thought they had hit a layer of rock salt and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
God did not let me down, and he did not care about the fine. He straightened his clothes, acted confident and expected this, and walked towards the shaking earth pit with square steps.
"This bluestone slab was chiseled by humans."
"What could it be?"
Halfway through the journey, Qin Mu realized something was wrong. Judging from the fragmentary words from the soldiers, what they dug up did not seem to be rock salt, but some strange object.
The reserved County Magistrate Qin no longer cared to be reserved and quickly reached the edge of the pit. As expected, what the soldiers dug up was not a salt layer, but some bluestone strips arranged neatly. From the two-foot square area revealed by pushing away the soil layer, it could be seen that the bluestone strips had traces of artificial chiseling and were definitely not stones that existed naturally underground.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, look at what this is?"
“Ahem!”
Now it was Qin Mu's turn to feel a dry throat. An image of an emperor's tomb emerged in his mind. The tomb was filled with mountains of gold, silver and treasures, and even the chariots and horses used for burial were made of gold.
Oh, and there are also the golden jade burial garment, the chime bells, the Qin Emperor's sword, the imperial seal... ... ... ... .
No matter how the golden jade burial suit came to be together with the chime bells and the Qin Emperor's sword, all the imaginable treasures appeared in the mind of County Magistrate Qin at the same time.
"Dig! Dig quickly! Everyone come here and dig hard for me. That's right, be careful. There may be countless treasures underneath. Be careful and don't damage them. Hurry up, why are you still standing there? Dig quickly."
"Mr. Magistrate, should we dig hard or gently?"
"Do I need to teach you how to use force when you need to use force, and how to be gentle when you need to be gentle? Hurry up and dig..." At the end of the conversation, the voice of "Ya-mie-dia" inexplicably rang in Qin Dazhixian's mind. What does it mean to use force when you need to use force, and how to be gentle when you need to be gentle? Why does it feel connected to "Ya-mie-dia"
He patted his forehead and explained with a "painful" look on his face: "Dig hard in the loose soil areas, first remove all the soil around, then carefully lift up the bluestone strips, quickly."
Qin Mu has temporarily put aside the matter of digging rock salt. Digging rock salt is also for money. What if this is an ancient tomb and there are really a lot of treasures in it? Wouldn't it be a good fortune
The soldiers were digging hard, and the broken soil was flying everywhere. Qin Mu stepped back a little and looked around, only to see the mountain mist to the north like the back of a chair, and a clear stream on the left. Hmm, isn't this the legendary Feng Shui treasure land with water, wind and air
From the perspective of County Magistrate Qin, who had lived two lifetimes, this was definitely a Feng Shui treasure land. Even if there was no imperial tomb in such a Feng Shui treasure land, there should at least be a royal tomb.
By the way, where the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the King of Nanyue, is has always been a mystery. This place borders Guangdong. Could it be Zhao Tuo’s imperial tomb
County Magistrate Qin was lost in thought, and it seemed to him that the weeds around him had turned into gold.
The imagination of the hundreds of soldiers was not much worse than his. While discussing, they worked hard to dig the soil. Half an hour later, all the soil around the stone slab was rolled up.
Qin Mu used to like watching the program "Discovery". This program often broadcast archaeological films about excavating ancient tombs. Qin Mu was confident that he had accumulated a lot of archaeological experience from it.
Based on his rich experience, this should be a yin... ... ... uh, it's the entrance to the tomb, a slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue,
"Quick, use all your strength to pry up the bluestone bar. Be careful, be careful, and pay attention. Be safe. There may be a hidden weapon underneath."
After hearing what Qin Mu said, the lively scene suddenly quieted down. The excited expressions of hundreds of soldiers were suddenly mixed with a bit of nervousness. When prying the bluestone bars, they became cautious, fearing that poison arrows or something would be shot from below.
Qin Mu also watched nervously, but when the bluestone slabs were moved away one by one, he could not help but be disappointed.
The judgment he made based on his "rich" experience was a complete joke. This was not the entrance to a tomb at all, but a tomb chamber, probably only seven or eight square meters in size. Such a simple tomb chamber could not be an imperial tomb or a royal tomb.
In addition to a small amount of burial porcelain, there were only four pieces of jade in the tomb chamber, which did not look to be of very high quality. The coffin of the tomb owner was placed slightly to the north of the center of the tomb chamber, with an outer coffin, which finally gave Qin Mu some comfort.
According to the ancient Chinese funeral system, common people's coffins were only allowed to be four inches thick and had no outer coffin.
The presence of a coffin means that the tomb owner was at least an aristocrat at the scholar-official level.
"Sir, it's going to rain again. What should we do?" Ning Yuan asked.
Qin Mu looked up at the sky. It rains a lot in this mountainous area in the summer. Thick dark clouds had gathered over the other side of the mountain and were about to block out the sunlight.
"Quickly find some incense sticks." Qin Mu ordered.
Digging up human graves is always unethical, except, of course, in the name of archaeology.
Qin Mu felt that he really couldn't shamelessly classify today's actions as archaeology, so he decided to burn some incense for the tomb owner to seek peace of mind.
After Xiang came, Qin Mu bowed and muttered: "A three-jin chicken is not a good chicken. A five-jin chicken is a good chicken..."
Uh, what a sin. In later generations, those "masters" would recite like this when performing rituals for others in order to get more offerings from their masters. It became a laughing stock for a while. Qin Mu was most familiar with these two "words of salvation" and recited them unconsciously.
"Amitabha, I am guilty, guilty." County Magistrate Qin quickly corrected his attitude and recited the mantra again, "Three... uh, three reincarnations. May the master be reincarnated well. I am sorry for the offense."
"Open the coffin!"
At his command, the coffin was quickly opened by the soldiers.
At this time, dark clouds covered the sky, and the remaining ray of sunlight just happened to shine into the open coffin.
At that moment, a golden light shot out from the coffin. The light and shadow flowed, dazzling and cold, and everyone present could not help but be shocked.
"A treasure, it must be a treasure."
"What treasure is this?"
“Look… … … ”
"ah!"
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