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Chapter 25 - The Underground House

When people gain something, they will become energetic. It doesn’t matter if they are hard or tired. When they have put the things they have turned up, everyone still thinks of getting another big item.

The result was not very good. We were not lucky since the fourth day. We didn't see a valuable thing all day, and the soil we rewrote was covered with broken copper and iron gadgets.

On the fifth day, there was a small gain. Aji turned over a tortoiseshell belt board (a belt buckle made of turtle shells by the ancients). It was originally supposed to be on the belt of a man.

The original plan of the head was seven days. If you couldn't find Hei Shui City within seven days, you would retreat. As a result, you encountered this dry well. Based on the principle that no matter how small the mosquito is, it was meat. Before we knew it, we spent most of our time here alone.

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He said he was working on the last day, and he guessed that he should have reached the bottom of the well.

He guessed right, I put down a shovel and felt like I had hit a hard rock at the bottom of the well.

Everyone speeded up, Xiaoxuan and Aji also helped to lift the soil and pour it down, and everything was carried out step by step.

Uncle Hu Lu made two more straw frames, and Douyazai and I worked together in the underwater.

Just as the cleaning work was about to end, I glanced out of the corner of my eyes and suddenly noticed that there was a very different place...

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"Don't move for now." I pointed behind Douyazai.



Douyazai was startled and asked me what was wrong.

I walked up to Douyazai and squatted down, and looked carefully for two minutes.

Douyazi looked down and saw what was under her feet, saying, "Hey, I was shocked. I thought Yunfeng, what are you studying? It turned out to be a broken tile." After that, she planned to kick it away.

"I!" Before Douya could finish his words, he suddenly stepped on his feet!

As I was close, I subconsciously grabbed Douyazai.

"Catch you! I caught you! Don't move around!"

Douyazai's feet were hanging in the air, shouting and struggling hard.

I pulled his arm tightly and dragged him up.

Douyazai was frightened, and he turned his head and took a look in a panic.

It turned out that those tiles were not one, but were buried in the soil in rows.

Everyone suddenly realized and was stunned. It turned out to be a roof.

We are now standing on the roof of an ancient building. The bottom of the well was actually connected to the roof. The tiles that Douyazi stepped on with his feet were now a black hole, and a large amount of gravel and sand flowed down the middle.

I shouted to the person above: "Brother Qin! Come down and take a look!"

Qin Xingping was the first to come down. After seeing it, he gasped and said that this was really a ghost. He didn't expect that there was such a big secret hidden in the well. If we hadn't decided at once, we wouldn't have found this place in our lifetime.

When the tiles in other places were lifted, the hole in the roof became larger and larger.

He lay down his head and looked at it with a flashlight, and said, "The space below is not small. It may be a building ruin in Hei Shui City. It will be ventilated for twenty minutes. Everyone brings the tools and go down to take a look."

Half an hour later, I was the first to volunteer.

I don't understand the architectural structure of the Western Xia period. After I came down, I found that there were stone walls around me, with several thick wooden sticks six or seven meters high, which were on the roof. It took too long, and half of the wood had rotten. The place where Douyaozi had just stepped on me

There are several cuts directly below, which should have been supported by the roof.

Others came down one after another.

"It seems that there is nothing, there is an empty house?" Douyazai came down and looked around with a flashlight.

"No, there seems to be something in the corner of the wall." He raised his flashlight and shone it to the northwest corner. Douyazai said there was something there.

We walked over and saw that it was a ball of black cloth, and the outline under the black cloth looked like a person.

Alxa has drought and rain all year round, and the sand is very absorbent. The fabric is dry and weathered under the sealed space. I reached out and pulled it forward. The fabric is crispy like tofu and it breaks as soon as I touch it.

Seeing the covered thing clearly, Xiaoxuan exclaimed and covered her mouth.

It turned out to be a mummy.

What's even more strange is that this is a big belly mummy.

I have seen many bones, but it is the first time I have seen such a corpse.

The skin on the surface of the corpse was shriveled and collapsed, the facial features were shrunk into a ball, and there were a few sparse hairs on the top of the head. Judging from the length of the hair, this mummy should have been a woman during her lifetime.

After calming down and observing carefully, he pointed his head at the mummy and said, "Please pay attention to the corpse's belly."

I nodded and said, "I also noticed that my head was not collapsed, and my stomach was very bulging. Maybe she was pregnant before her death?"

"How can it be?" Dou Yazai said: "Even if you are pregnant, it will not be so big. The embryo has long been dry and shrunken. I think there is something strange in this mummy's belly."

In fact, what Douyazai said makes sense. If it is a few months old embryo, it will definitely dry after dehydration. It will shrink and will not bulge outward like the belly of the corpse in front of you.

He looked at Qin Xingping at each other and said, "I don't know much about the funeral customs of Western Xia. Most of the people in Western Xia are Dangxiang people, and Dangxiang people are descendants of the ancient Qiang people. There are not many people studying ancient Qiang in China. Yunfeng."

"I know."

Taking a deep breath, I took out my dagger and stepped forward.

Xiaoxuan and Douyazai looked at me nervously, and even those who were not stupid knew what I was going to do next.

I silently said sorry, Madam, and then started to take the knife.

The knife is very sharp, and it feels a bit like cutting bacon when cut. The body is dry and shrinking, and I pull it down little by little.

"Dispair!" Xiaoxuan couldn't help but turn her back and dared not look.

"What's so hard?" I felt the knife in my hand touching a hard object like an iron block.

I endured the disgust and reached in and dug it out. Soon, a hard touch came and I touched a triangular hard object.

When the thing was taken out, everyone present was shocked.

The thing in the mummy's belly is a black iron tower that is twenty or thirty centimeters tall. What I just touched was the spire of the tower, which happened to be triangular.

Douyazai kicked his eyes and said, "Good, why do you hide the pagoda of the King of Tota in your belly?"

We started to study this thing.

The tower, which is more than 30 cm high, is divided into six sections. Each section is made of doors and windows. There are small Western-style characters engraved on both sides of the door that are more complicated than seal script strokes. There are four flying eaves on both sides of the spire and flying eaves.

There were two copper bells the size of fingernails hanging on it. There were four of them hanging, but I don’t know where the two were going.

There are nine-petal lotus around the tower, and a circle of small Buddha statues are carved with three-dimensional relief. Some of these protruding small Buddha statues are backlit, while others are not backlit.

This is a stupa.

I could clearly hear my heartbeat, thumping.

Intuition tells me that this thing is not simple.

There were indeed specialists in ancient times that made iron towers, but there were very few varieties, such as the pure gold Thanksgiving Tower made by Qianlong for his biological mother, and the Wenchang Tower, the soul tower placed under the coffin of a dead man (burned from porcelain clay, similar to a soul bottle).

There is a pagoda in the pagoda. There is a pagoda that is even rarer and more precious. Some people call this kind of pagoda:
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