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Chapter 358: No, you have to pay more!
"Ha ha ha ha..."
Jiang Hao suddenly laughed, looking a little weird in the mausoleum.
"Why are you laughing?" Lin Ran asked in confusion.
"Laughing at your naivety, you must not be hysterical, right? You really thought there would be a switch on the tomb door, right?"
Jiang Hao said contemptuously, "This is the place where the general rests, and we will not consider the people who come to pay homage."
Later, Jiang Hao also approached the door and touched it: "Yes, this should be the entrance to the main tomb."
His nephew came forward with a knife and stabbed the stone door hard.
The sharp dagger stabbed it, and it curled up instantly.
"This is not an ordinary bluestone." Jiang Hao and his nephew fiddled with it for a long time and said somewhat discouraged, "Okay, Expert Lin, our work is done and we can call it a day."
"Call it over?" Lin Ran asked, "Don't Mr. Jiang want to see what's going on inside?"
"What's there to see? They're just useless cultural relics." Jiang Hao curled his lips disdainfully and said, "Even if we want to go in, this stone door is not so easy to open."
"Let's take another look." Lin Ran advised, he didn't want to leave just now.
Jiang Hao's nephew returned the same way and notified other native masters to come and help.
Lin Ran observed the structure near the stone gate. The stone tombs of the Han Dynasty were basically earthen tomb pits, and there were very few large tombs.
Other native masters came over, and when they saw the main tomb chamber, their eyes also glowed with gold.
"I didn't expect you to find me." The fat man in the team laughed. "It's great that there is no danger. Let us handle it next."
"Wait a minute, Zhang Feng, what do you mean by leaving it to you? Didn't we agree that we would each contribute our own efforts and the rewards would be divided in half?" Another older native man came forward with three people and said.
"Huh, let's see who opens the tomb door first."
These local masters should have just been recruited by the archaeological team, and they have a strong atmosphere of Jianghu.
Lin Ran had no time to care about their competition for interests, and just said helplessly: "It's okay for everyone to compete, but don't damage the structure of the mausoleum."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the fat man taking out a hammer from his backpack.
Without waiting for dissuasion, Lin Ran knocked on the stone door, but it had no effect except leaving some white marks on the stone slab and a sound like bells and chimes echoing in the tomb.
Lin Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then warned seriously: "Since you are members of the archaeological team, you should know the rules of going to the tomb, right?"
"Those broken rules you made will be evil if you can get out of the tomb!" Although the fat man did useless work, he still dismissed Lin Ran's remarks.
Lin Ran thought to himself that there were indeed only a few native masters like Liu Jingfeng who were professional and had the spirit of protecting cultural relics.
Even among the Southern Tufuzi, there are inevitably selfish people.
The old man and his men were holding scrapers and testing the upper edge of the stone door, as if looking for a place to pry open the stone door.
The stone gate in front of me is three meters high, made of bluestone, and weighs at least [-] kilograms.
He couldn't help but look at the two stone doors carefully, and looked at the cracks from the door shaft. To his surprise, the cracks were so tight that it would be difficult to insert a knife into them.
Jiang Hao, who had been very active just now, now had a calm look on his face, with his hands in his pockets and watching them working around with a sarcastic expression on his face.
And his nephew was a little anxious, but he didn't know how to persuade Jiang Hao.
At this time, he noticed that Lin Ran glanced at him and his expression changed slightly.
"Expert Lin, if you don't show them a clear path, I'm afraid they will have to work in vain all their lives, so they will just drop explosives." Jiang Hao said with a mocking tone.
Before going to the grave, Lin Ran thought they were a team.
Now it seems that this group of people is simply a temporary team formed by stragglers.
If there weren't people from the country watching, it wouldn't be a surprise what would happen inside.
They actually mocked each other in person and fought for power.
The others didn't seem to hear what he said and were busy minding their own business.
Jiang Hao looked like he had known they would be like this for a long time. He stopped looking at them and sat down against the wall.
Lin Ran said: "Don't be like this, everyone. We are working for the country now. Now we should unite as one and find a way to open the door to the main tomb."
"Are you kidding?" the fat man said disdainfully, "Expert Lin, you don't know yet, right? The funds are limited, and it's not enough for the brothers to fill the gaps in their teeth."
The old man also echoed: "That's right, if I didn't agree to cooperate with them, I would be sentenced, so I wouldn't bother to come."
Most of them were caught robbing tombs by relevant authorities, who then gave them a chance to reform and were asked to assist in national archaeological projects.
Although there is money to get, compared to the days of tomb robbing in the past, the money that can be obtained is less than one-tenth of what it was before.
Their thinking has not changed yet, so their enthusiasm is naturally low.
"Although the money is a little short, it is serious money at least, so there is no need to worry, right?" Lin Ran knew that if everyone could not work together, it would be difficult to open the tomb door. "Let's work together and find a way to open the tomb door first, and then consider dividing the money." It’s about money. Okay?”
This team is much worse than Liu Jingfeng's team. Fortunately, there are no mechanisms in the mausoleum. If it were the same as the last time in Shaanxi Tangling, the team would be basically destroyed now.
He couldn't help but begin to understand Xu Yuchen's thoughts at the door.
These guys are really hard to control!
Although he looked down on Lin Ran, he was a person sent by the government after all, and was higher than them in terms of official position and status.
Now that Lin Ran has spoken, others still have to give face.
The fat man said: "Okay, buddy, you are the biggest here, you have the final say."
In fact, it was impossible for him to be tough because of this thing, unless he put a few kilograms of explosives on him like the people from the north, or used a drill to drill open the stone door.
The old man also said: "Okay, the experts are right, but it's too dangerous. We need to pay more."
Seeing that Lin Ran calmed down their quarrel with each other with just a few words, Jiang Hao, who was sitting on the ground, didn't care on the surface, but he was a little admired in his heart.
A few of his words may seem like nonsense, but as the official investigator of the museum, what he says is useful!
And he also has some charisma, which he can't say specifically, but Jiang Hao understands that if he says the words just now, he will only be scolded by his peers.
"Brother Jiang, what do you think?" Lin Ran suddenly turned his attention to him.
Jiang Hao smiled and said: "Expert Lin, you have the final say. I'm just an observer of mechanisms and Feng Shui. I don't know anything about opening doors."
He frankly explained the scope of his abilities, which were indeed somewhat similar to the treasures, but he didn't know which sect of tomb robbers he belonged to.
After the team dispute was settled, Lin Ran solemnly began to search for the location of the mechanism!