Origin

Wu Zhongyuan agrees with Wang Xinran's suggestion, but he can't foresee what kind of problems he may encounter later, because he doesn't know what these warriors did after they appeared in various ages, and he doesn't know where they are buried after death , let alone what twists and turns you may encounter in the process of finding these warriors.

After waiting for a while, but Wu Zhongyuan didn't speak, Wang Xinran said, "Forget it, don't worry about it, I'll take care of it."

"Don't have too many people," Wu Zhongyuan said.

"En." Wang Xinran responded.

During the flight, Wang Xinran has been busy communicating and receiving various clues from the headquarters. These clues include the funeral system of the Yuan Dynasty, the number of soldiers led by Wu Lu back then, the cause of Wu Lu's death, and the place where Wu Lu might be buried, etc.

Most of the funerals in the Yuan Dynasty were light burials. This is because the Mongolians were in power in the Yuan Dynasty. They did not have the concept of Han people's death as life. In their view, death is like a lamp. There are very few, and very few tombstones are erected. To put it bluntly, most of them bury the dead without grave heads, and rarely erect tombstones in front of the graves. people find.

The sources of clues are very broad, and the clues themselves are not specific. Many clues are obtained indirectly. Take Wu Lu's death as an example. This conclusion is because Tubo had surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty before, and in order to help Tubo deal with other tribes that had not surrendered, the Yuan Dynasty had supported them with five cast iron cannons.

In other historical events, Tubo once had a record of using cannons to defend the city, and after Tubo rebelled and occupied Jiezhou, Wu Lu was the one who led the army to attack the city.

That's not enough, it has to be combined with Wu Lu's personal situation. General Qian Yunzhi of Guangwei once wrote a letter to ask for credit for Wu Lu. The contents of this memorial were found by historians. According to Qian Yunzhi's evaluation, Wu Lu must take the lead in every battle, charge forward, be invincible to those who stand in the way, and can brave the rain of arrows to rush to the enemy's formation without being injured by the arrows.

Historians judged from this that Wu Lu moved very fast, and it was difficult for ordinary weapons to hurt him except for artillery with a relatively large attack range.

The conclusion drawn in this way is not rigorous, but Wu Lu was not a very famous person over 700 years ago, and there are not many records about him in history, so it is impossible to be rigorous, even It is not easy to get clues that are not rigorous.

In addition, officials of different levels in the Yuan Dynasty enjoyed different funeral regulations. When Wu Lu died in battle, he was a fourth-rank military officer. Military officers of this level were basically buried wherever they died. According to the place where the war took place, historical Scientists have inferred the approximate area where Wu Lu might be buried, and even the size of the tomb and the depth of the burial.

Two hours later, the plane landed, and the two changed into cars and rushed to the suspected location.

The Jiezhou at that time was the current Wudu City, and the suspected location was located on a hill five miles southeast of Wudu City. The reason for making such a judgment was the result of the joint efforts of historians and archaeologists. First, they deduced that Based on the marching route that Wu Lu led the troops to suppress the rebellion, it can be inferred that Wu Lu attacked the east gate of Jiezhou City.

And on the hill three miles to the southeast, a large number of bones were unearthed. These bones were unearthed neatly. The armor unearthed together with the bones showed that they were soldiers of the Yuan army, and they were buried here by their comrades after they died in battle. If It was buried by the enemy, and they would not be stacked so neatly.

During the Yuan Dynasty, only one large-scale battle took place here, so historians believe that since this is the place where the corpses of soldiers of the Yuan army were buried, it is very likely that Wu Lu was also buried here.

This hill is now a wasteland. When the two arrived, there were already many people busy there. These people were not soldiers or policemen, but a group of prospecting technicians. There are poles and wires inserted everywhere in the area. The poles are metal poles and the wires are metal wires. After a brief conversation with the person in charge who greeted us, I realized that this is a large-scale metal detection equipment, which can sense all kinds of objects within ten meters underground. metal elements.

What they were looking for was a large piece of iron. The ax that Wu Lu used during his lifetime was made of steel-like metals. Experts deduced that the ax he used should have been buried with him, and this was what they were looking for now.

Different metals are sensed, and the sound from the metal detector is different. There seems to be a lot of steel-like metals in this area. Even if the equipment used is very advanced, it is difficult to analyze which one is the suspected location in a short time.

While the technicians were busy, several prospectors with instruments rushed over. The instruments carried by these people were specially designed to find groundwater sources.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't know why these people came, but after asking Wang Xinran, he suddenly realized that Wu Lu was an alcoholic, and he would drink a lot of alcohol every time he went to war.In addition, although Wu Lu died in the battle of Jiezhou, the battle ended with the victory of the Yuan army. Wu Lu's command did not deduct the salary of his subordinates like other generals, and he always took the lead when fighting, so his subordinates should Everyone respected him very much. After conquering Jiezhou, they had reasons and conditions to bury Wu Lu with a lot of wine.

The later group of technicians were not actually looking for water, but wine.

Three meters underground, where there are steel-like metals and liquids, it may be the location of Wu Lu's tomb.

Soon, technicians locked a suspected location, located in a bush on the mountainside.

Pulling aside the bushes, Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran looked at each other. There was a round hole with a diameter of about five centimeters on the ground. The soil outside the round hole was still wet, and the hole went straight to the ground.

"Why are they so fast?" Wu Zhongyuan was astonished. The experts and scholars on his side searched and deduced clues, which can be described as careful thinking and fear, but the other party still rushed ahead.

"Maybe not much faster than us," Wang Xinran said, "They are using the Luoyang shovel to determine the location of the tomb, and they haven't had time to dig yet."

"This is not a Luoyang shovel," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head. "There is a cover on the outside of the Luoyang shovel, which will leave indentations on the ground during exploration. There is no circular indentation around this hole."

Rather than making meaningless guesses, it is better to verify that there is official support, and you can get what you want, and soon the extended endoscopic probe is delivered, and it penetrates down the hole, extending about three meters, and is blocked by gray bricks up.

The picture on the monitor made the two overjoyed. The round hole was not punched into the tomb, and no matter what was in the tomb, it was completely preserved.

The question the two of them were facing right now was whether to dig up this tomb. After deliberation, Wang Xinran chose a compromise method, using equipment to drill through the brick wall to see what was inside.

In the evening, the drilling equipment drilled through the gray bricks. The gray bricks were thinner than the two expected. There were only two layers, with white ash in the middle. After drilling through the gray bricks, the situation in the tomb was displayed on the display screen.

The tomb is well preserved, but very shabby, only one foot square, very small and short, there is no coffin in the tomb, the bones are wrapped in leather, and there are many wine jars around the bones. Each has a large ax with a rotten handle, which is the best proof of the identity of the owner of the tomb.

Excavating this tomb was easy, but Wang Xinran did not do that, because our country's attitude towards ancient tombs is rescue excavation. Although the matter is urgent, damage to ancient tombs should be minimized.

The extended camera has a remote control function, and the remote control operation slowly peels off the severely decayed leather outside the bones, revealing the bones inside.

First of all, it is certain that this bone is exactly Wu Lu, but the cause of his death was not from being blown up by a cannon, but from being shot to death by an arrow. There is clearly an arrow left by the arrow on the brow of the bone. hole.

The [-]th Sub-bureau has already had a few corpses similar to genetic mutations. The main purpose of the two people's trip was to find the spirit stone belonging to Wu Lu, but after carefully looking around the bones and everywhere in the tomb, they did not find any spirit stones. The presence.

In the end, the two decided to dig up the grave, because the wine jars were sealed and it was impossible to determine what was inside.

After digging the tomb, the two opened the wine jars one by one, and found that most of the wine jars were empty, and the empty ones were only left with a little muddy black water. They searched all corners of the tomb, and found no spirit stone shadow.

Finding Wu Lu's tomb was very accidental. To put it bluntly, it was all luck. But now it seems that the luck of the two is still not good enough. After finally finding the tomb, there is no spirit stone in the tomb.

On the left side of the corpse, there are some fingernail-sized beads scattered. These beads are not white, but blue. Those who study archaeology are no strangers to this kind of material. This is not Hetian jade, but lapis lazuli. A type of jade from Afghanistan.

There were twelve lapis lazuli beads scattered around. Wang Xinran picked them up and looked at them one by one. When he saw the third one, he handed the beads to Wu Zhongyuan, "There are words on it."

Wu Zhongyuan reached out to take it, only to see a small character engraved on the bead, "Cloud..."