Notes From Buried Times Chapter 42

How could they not be curious? Daniel Xia and the others sat with the box for half the night, engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, and were forced to go to bed by Wang Yuexiang at two or three in the morning. Wang Yuexiang then locked the box and the bronze mirror together into the safe of the tea plantation accountant.

The next morning, Li Changsheng announced that he would go to the county to report the situation. He only took Lao Wang, the director of the county cultural center, with him. The rest of the people stayed where they were and waited for them to return.

Lao Li and Lao Wang had discussed it all night. Lao Wang meant to excavate the Warring States tomb immediately, and before the Neolithic cultural site. Because according to the on-site situation, it was only a matter of time before the tomb was exposed. If it rained for a few days, the entire tomb would collapse. Besides, due to the mistakes in the previous work, he didn't know how many cultural relics were washed into the Qinglu River, and he must not cause any more losses to the country.

Li Changsheng knew that what he said made sense, but the excavation of an ancient tomb was not something that could be decided by one or two people. It had to be demonstrated.

Time was running out, so they took the only bus a day to the county town. When they arrived at the county town, they first went to see the deputy county chief in charge of culture. The deputy county chief took them very seriously and took them to see the county chief. This county chief, who came to power during the "Cultural Revolution", was not interested in ancient cultural sites. He was very happy to hear that there was a tomb. He immediately said: "Dig it up!" Li Changsheng was not happy with such rashness, so he called the Academy of Sciences. The Academy said: "Wait for me! We will immediately contact the province to send an expert group first." Later, they waited for the expert group in the county town. I won't go into details about what happened next, and I will talk about the tea plantation.