Chapter 51 Professional Comments
Gao Guobing's eyes lit up and he immediately gave Gao Mingcheng a hint of his intention.
He hoped that Gao Mingcheng could seize this opportunity and perform well in front of Director Chen.
However, Gao Mingcheng seemed not to notice Gao Guobing's look. He smiled and said, "I plan to get married at the end of this year, then split up and buy a house, and live a life of farming and hunting."
The smile on Director Chen's face froze, and Gao Guobing felt even more disappointed.
But Gao Mingcheng knows his own situation. He only has a junior high school diploma and it has been such a long time since he got it. If he is asked to go to high school or college, he is afraid that he will not be able to study.
He likes to live a free life and do things as he pleases. In his previous life, he traveled a lot and suffered a lot, and also gave up a lot of family affection.
Therefore, in this life, he just wanted to live a leisurely life among the green mountains and clear waters.
According to his plan, he would wait until his children started school, for the sake of their studies, before moving to the county town. By then, it would be a good time to do business.
"Director Chen, this kid is just too honest. He has stayed in this village his whole life and still hasn't figured it out!" Gao Guobing made up for Gao Mingcheng.
Director Chen also laughed and said, "It's normal for a child to be ignorant. But as his uncle, you can help him. Otherwise, he will waste his life and regret it."
"Yes, yes." Gao Guobing nodded, agreeing with it.
Director Chen was very good at judging people. He was very optimistic about Gao Mingcheng when he first met him. He and Gao Mingcheng were also related, so he had to help him.
He gave Gao Mingcheng a look that seemed to indicate he was settling an account with him afterwards, and Gao Mingcheng responded with an innocent shrug and spread his hands.
The interaction between the uncle and nephew made Director Chen laugh again.
Director Chen is a veteran who has seen many people and experienced many things, so he is very good at judging people. He saw a kind of energy in Gao Mingcheng, and anyone with this energy will not do too badly.
As the group chatted and laughed, they finally arrived at the location of the ancient tomb.
A night passed, but there was no change in the ancient tomb, which meant that it had not been destroyed by anyone.
Seeing the intact ancient tomb, everyone felt relieved.
Gao Zhuang looked around and found that this was the place Gao Mingcheng had brought him to before. At that time, Gao Mingcheng told him that there was an ancient tomb under this small hill.
He remembered that he was not a believer at that time.
Later, Gao Mingcheng asked him to wait at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain. Although he didn't believe it in his heart, he was used to listening to Gao Mingcheng's words, so he waited at the foot of the mountain obediently.
But who knew that he would still slip past the tomb robbers when they entered the mountain.
Gao Zhuang's eyes were full of amazement, but he was also a smart man and did not say it out loud.
The villagers who followed behind them, when they saw the ancient tomb, all gathered around it, pointing at the tomb and wondering whether the owner of the tomb was the ancestor of their Gaojia Village.
However, the tomb is so old that the cultural relics have not been taken out yet and no relevant written records have been seen, so whether it is true or not is just speculation.
After arriving at the cemetery, Director Lu suddenly became energetic. He no longer felt tired or hot.
With the help of several subordinates, he came to the edge of the cemetery and began to observe the tomb carefully.
"This tomb faces south and has a vertical pit. It has a rectangular burial chamber with rounded corners and is decorated with carved bricks. The murals are exquisite and elegant, showing the life scenes of the tomb owner before his death. In addition, the caisson ceiling of the tomb is located directly above the tomb, which is a typical feature of a Song Dynasty tomb! This is indeed a Song Dynasty tomb!" For Director Lu to become the director of the Cultural Bureau, he must have something in his mind.
After watching the film, his comments were extremely professional.
Director Wang of the Cultural Relics Management Office immediately flattered Director Lu, praising him for his broad knowledge and making Director Lu smile.
He pointed to a lotus carved on the wall of a tomb and said, "The owner of this tomb must be an official or a local gentry. The tomb chamber is very exquisite. Unfortunately, many of the tomb bricks and walls were destroyed by those ignorant tomb robbers. Otherwise, we could have obtained more information."
"Yes, these damn tomb robbers!" Director Wang and others began to curse the tomb robbers.
After showing off his knowledge, Director Lu did not delay any longer and said to Director Wang beside him, "Okay, hurry up and go down to study and clean out all the valuable things. In addition, the coffin will not be opened here, but transported back to the county."
Director Wang agreed at first, then hesitantly said: "This coffin and the coffin are both heavy and large. It's not easy to walk in this mountain. We don't have many people. I'm afraid we can't carry it down the mountain!"
Director Lu frowned and stared at the coffin in thought.
Finally he changed his mind and said, "Then open the coffin here and transport the coffin inside intact."
For tomb robbers, the most valuable items in an ancient tomb are naturally the burial objects, but for archaeological experts, anything in an ancient tomb is valuable, even the skeleton in the coffin.
When the skeletons in the ancient tomb fall into the hands of archaeological experts, they will not be buried on the spot, but will be sent to medical identification and scientific research institutions, where various scientific methods will be used to analyze the gender, age, living conditions and cause of death of the tomb owner.
This information plays an important role in determining the age of ancient tombs and studying the burial objects and cultural relics in the tombs.
This kind of research is often a long process, after which the remains of the tomb owner will be properly handled by the archaeological department. If they are extremely valuable, they will be exhibited in a museum. If they are not of much value, they will be cremated and reburied in a chosen place.
When burying the body, out of respect for the deceased, there will be a moment of silence or a Taoist priest will perform a ritual to pray for the soul to be reborn.
This series of processes was the answer Gao Mingcheng got after asking.
He stood at the edge of the tomb pit, watching the staff of the Cultural Relics Management Office busy in the tomb, feeling infinite emotion in his heart.
In his previous life, he colluded with tomb robbers and stole all the funerary objects in the tomb. In the end, he did not deliberately damage the bones of the tomb owner, but just buried them hastily without expressing respect for the tomb owner or observing a moment of silence.
He looked at the coffin and thought silently in his heart: "I'm sorry to bother you. There will be special people to take care of you in this life, please forgive me!"
After a moment of silence, Gao Mingcheng remembered that there were several other ancient tombs in the mountain, so he asked Gao Guobing softly: "Uncle, have you interrogated those tomb robbers? In addition to this ancient tomb, have they found any other ancient tombs?"
Gao Guobing said: "I have interrogated them and they said that they only found this ancient tomb. I thought that ancient tombs are not cabbages, so how can they be found everywhere?"
Gao Mingcheng understood in his heart. It seemed that either time was too tight and the tomb robbers were caught before they found other ancient tombs, or they found them but did not dare to speak out. They even concealed the tombs they had robbed before.
After all, this tomb robbery was an unsuccessful attempt.
Even if you are caught, the sentence won't be long.
(End of this chapter)
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