CH 51.1

Jiang Zheng was taken aback, “Brother? Which brother?”

Ji Muye looked away, “The one I scolded… the scumbag!”

Jiang Zheng was stunned. No wonder Ji Muye looked a little uncomfortable seeing her today.

She whispered: “Later, maybe we will be hanged on the wall by grave robbers to dry our human flesh. Teacher Ji, do you still have the heart to worry about such trivial matters?”

Ji Muye lowered his head. It was a big thing to him.

He forcibly resolved his embarrassment, “I’m afraid of leaving regrets before I die.”

Jiang Zheng couldn’t help laughing at his pitiful tone and expression, then she reached out and patted him on the shoulder, “Those who don’t know are innocent. My brother has a bad temper, it also stinks. Teacher Ji, please take care for my sake.”

When Ji Muye heard this, his mood brightened instantly. He shook his head again and again, “It’s okay, it’s okay. That’s my brother. I won’t take it to heart.”

Jiang Zheng: “…” His brother? Where did this come from?

Ji Muye raised his hand, “Actually, I have admired our brother for a long time…I look forward to having a chance to have a good drink together.”

Jiang Zheng couldn’t laugh or cry, “Let’s escape this Chiyou City first.”

The other four people were engrossed in staring at the three grave robbers outside the inn, the live viewers were the first to notice that both Jiang Zheng and Ji Muye had disappeared from the camera.

#where are they?

#Did they steal away to get something to eat?

#What kind of skill is it to whisper behind our backs, if you have the skill, then say it in front of the camera.

After the barrage discussed it for a while, Jiang Zheng and Ji Muye came back to the camera one after the other.

Ji Muye calmly took out a compressed biscuit packet from his schoolbag, opened it and handed it to Jiang Zheng to eat.

The grave robbers were hanging around outside, maybe they would face them head-on later. If they had time, they should quickly replenish their strength.

The three men in black outside complained for a long time, complaining that their boss made a fuss for a no reason, when it was just a flock of black birds flying over, and there was no figure there. Besides, if no insider brought them to Chiyou City, outsiders would not even be able to find one of its bricks.

The three of them were afraid that others would be the first to find something good, so they hurried back after discussing it.

The street fell silent for a moment.

Ji Muye and He Xiao came out quietly, then they hid in the dark and waited for a long time without seeing anyone, and then called everyone back to the gate of the post station again.

Generally, the layout of ancient cities was arranged according to the way of the former dynasty where the administrative, commercial, religious and other buildings were arranged in the center while the residences were placed on the left and right of these buildings. However, Chiyou City was obviously a military city in the border area, and its layout could not be analyzed according to the usual rules. It had just been discovered that there was a pagoda in the northeast corner, and the corresponding northwest direction was more likely to be a government office or a military camp.

There should be nothing good left in the government office and military camp. Those grave robbers were very smart, and they would probably go straight to the pagoda.

Jiang Zheng discussed this idea with everyone, and the six decided to do the opposite and go northwest.

For the sake of safety, they sneaked back to the west city gate again, followed the broken city wall, and walked counterclockwise.

In this way, they would not lose their way, and there was a high probability that they would not encounter grave robbers.

The north gate had collapsed more severely, and the city gate hole could hardly be seen. Stepping on the loess and crossing the city wall, the few people finally came to a well-preserved earth platform.

There were many arrows and crossbows scattered on the ground, and the wooden arrow handles had long been annihilated into dust, only the hard iron was left to remind the latecomers that there was a small-scale army stationed here.

Everyone looked carefully on the ground. The program team was quite conscientious, and there were two military shovels in the schoolbag carried by Xiao Cheng, small and sharp, very suitable for digging.

He Xiao and Xiao Cheng rummaged through the mound with military shovels, and soon found many rusty iron tools, including hammers, iron rods, iron pots, and so on.

Jiang Zheng called Liang Xiaoduan and Ke Cancan to look around.

After Liang Xiaoduan trampled on a skull just now, she had become less courageous after being frightened. She grabbed Jiang Zheng’s arm the whole time and carefully observed the ground, for fear of trampling on something strange again.

Ke Cancan just touched something that looked like earthen cloth in a half-collapsed house. Who would have thought that the earthen cloth was “insulted” as soon as she touched it, and instantly turned into a gust of wind and completely disappeared.

#Oh my God. Kneel to the program group. This is a live broadcast. Where on earth did they get this kind of cloth that had been stored for thousands of years?

#kecancan Please don’t mess with cultural relics.

#My biggest dream in this life is to see the country excavate Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum[1] before I die.

#Ah, +1 in front.

#Don’t dream in front. The current archaeological technology is not enough to support the excavation of Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum. For the tragic case, please refer to Ming Dingling Grave[2].

Several people got together to discuss, this should be the military camp. The rows of houses in the back were barracks where soldiers must have lived.

Jiang Zheng asked a question, “Just now we found a lot of bones along the way, why is there not a single bone in the barracks?”

Ji Muye: “When the city was buried in yellow sand, all the soldiers in this city went out to fight?”

He Xiao: “Teacher Ji means that the demise of Chiyou City may be due to being buried by yellow sand overnight?”

“This possibility cannot be ruled out.” Ji Muye frowned and analyzed, “Of course it is also possible that the city lost its military significance, so the army withdrew, leaving only some civilians. Later, they were looted by bandits and it became a dead city.”

Jiang Zheng said: “The skull that was crushed by Xiaoduan at the post station just now had a deep crack on both its sternum and leg bones. Probably this person was hacked and killed when he was alive.”

The Chiyou city and the piles of bones silenced everyone again.

Ji Muye stood up and took two steps, then turned around suddenly, with a trace of excitement in his eyes, “There were troops stationed here, so there must be a lot of drinking water, and the spring may be here.”

Liang Xiaoduan heard that there might be water to drink, and both her eyes lit up immediately, then she stood up and shouted to find the spring.

Then the team was split in two. Jiang Zheng, Ji Muye and Liang Xiaoduan went to find the spring. While He Xiao, Xiao Cheng, and Ke Cancan continued to search for iron rods and the like as weapons.

After Jiang Zheng walked for a while, she felt that there was an indescribable strangeness in this Chiyou city.

It was clear that there was a lot of wind and sand outside, but there was only a shallow layer of sand on the road in the city. It seemed that there was a huge sieve hanging over Chiyou City, sifting out all the coarse sand, and only the fine sand could come in.

Jiang Zheng saw it and discussed it with Ji Muye and Liang Xiaoduan. None of the three could understand this situation that violated common sense.

The first thing to do was to find the spring. The three of them climbed up the earthen platform and poked their heads out cautiously. Sure enough, smoke rose from time to time in the northeast direction, and occasionally there was a muffled sound. It seemed that the grave robbers were in a hurry and had even used explosives.

After looking in several courtyards, they finally found the legendary sweet well in a courtyard near the root of the city wall.

This was a three hole well. Originally, there should have been a well pavilion built on the well, but now only the pillar foundation remained.

Grave robbers had obviously been here. There were potholes everywhere, and the bad guys must have looked through the area near the well and walked away after finding nothing.

Jiang Zheng hurriedly asked Ji Muye to come over. He had six jugs hanging from him.

#There is a spring in such a dry place? And it is sweet? It’s amazing.

#Ji Muye is so obedient, Jiang Zheng can do whatever she wants.

#If there is spring water, there must be an underground river passing through here. Back in the day, it should have been a good place where the aquatic plants grew as beautiful as pearls.

Liang Xiaoduan pressed the edge of the well and looked down. Suddenly a figure flew across the water, scaring her to sit down, “There is someone!”

Jiang Zheng paused, turned around and looked around. Everything seemed to be empty and quiet.

Liang Xiaoduan was so frightened that she rolled and hugged Jiang Zheng, “It really is. I saw it.”

Jiang Zheng comforted her, and quickly asked Ji Muye to fill the kettle with water and leave here quickly.

The three of them had just walked to the bluestone slab paved with fine sand when suddenly a gust of wind blew up on the road ahead. The strange thing was that the wind seemed to be dancing, spiraling, unbiased, right in front of them.

Jiang Zheng frowned, and kicked towards the vortex sand wind, the wind shattered the sand and fell, but after a while, the sand trembled, and wrapped around them again, forming a vortex wind.

Jiang Zheng: “…”

#Damn it!                                                                                              

#Barrage body protection!

#The yellow sand in this Chiyou city carries an evil spirit.

#This wind is molesting sister Zheng.

With a mournful face, Liang Xiaoduan whispered, “Sister Zheng, let’s go another way.”

As a result, no matter which way the three of them took, this weird spiral wind insisted on blocking them.

Ji Muye: “…does it require us to go that way?”

Liang Xiaoduan hid behind Jiang Zheng, and whispered, “Then let’s go the original way?”

The three of them continued along the same way they had come from just now. The evil wind followed them all the way. Whenever they came to a crossroads, the evil wind would definitely choose a direction for them.

Just like that, they walked a few turns, and the three of them came to a place that looked like an ancient training ground. The venue was quite large, and there were many rusty weapons scattered on the flat ground.

The three of them were thinking suspiciously what the evil wind brought them here for, when suddenly a gust of wind blew, and they were instantly dazzled.

Liang Xiaoduan spat out a mouthful of sand and was about to say something when she vaguely saw a person standing in front of her.

This person had his back to everyone, with a thick back, a bun on the top of his head, and a hairpin inserted horizontally on it. He was clad in armor, with a precious sword hanging from his waist.

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[1]

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (pinyin: Qínshǐhuáng Líng) is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty. It is located in Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi province of China.

Even though the Mausoleum was discovered in 1974, the underground palace has not been excavated because archaeologists believe that China’s current technology is not able to deal with the large scale of the underground palace yet.

[2]

The Ming Dingling (pinyin: Míng Dìng Líng) is a mausoleum in China where the Wanli Emperor, together with his two empresses Wang Xijie and Dowager Xiaojing, was buried. Dingling is one of the thirteen imperial tombs at Ming tombs in Changping district 45 km north of central Beijing.

The excavation of Dingling has been questioned because it was never formally approved and because the excavation report is held to be inadequate. Worse was a lack of technology to preserve the excavated bodies, which were quickly destroyed after the tomb opened during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution. The failure of the excavation of Dingling has been used as an argument against the opening of the Tang dynasty Qianling Mausoleum and the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.