Chapter 9: Into the Cave
The two got into a taxi and soon came to the door of the Ninth People's Hospital of the Imperial Capital, Wu Yong looked at his watch, it would be more than 8:40 in the evening, but the people in and out were still bustling, the Ninth People's Hospital of the Imperial Capital radiated more than three million people, the entire hospital was built larger than the general county, and the car went straight to the No. 12 inpatient building through the security check.
Wu Yong's outlook on life was refreshed again, the Ninth Hospital is so huge, not to mention the First People's Hospital, which has a radiation population of 12 million.
The car was parked under a twelve-story building, and Wu Yanli led Wu Yong towards the intensive care unit on the third floor, which was next to the nurses' station on the third floor, and the wall was covered with thick soundproofing materials.
The nurse on duty brought the two of them in and settled: "The patient needs to rest and rest very much, and the hospital has a clear rule that family visits cannot exceed 20 minutes. ”
Wu Yanli nodded, she naturally understood these so-called regulations when she came at least twice a week, Wu Yong felt very uncomfortable, she didn't have a good impression of the hospital doctor when she was a child, and what she remembered in her mind was the picture of the slender needle piercing into her buttocks.
Gurgle, only the sound of Wu Yanli's cool high heels stepping on the smooth floor in the ward suddenly came from inside: "Is Xiaoli here?"
Wu Yanli hurried over, opened the curtain and said with a smile: "It's me, it's me." ”
Wu Yong followed, and a middle-aged man with a thin face, collapsed eye sockets, and dark and wrinkled skin came into view, his hair was about to fall out, and only a few were sparsely left between his sideburns. Lying on the bed squinting his eyes, his expression looked very painful, because he squeezed out a little crazy smile when he saw Wu Yanli.
Wu Yanli sat next to her and began to pinch her arms and legs, the middle-aged man seemed to find Wu Yong next to the curtain, and poked Wu Yanli's forehead and arm with his fingers: "Who is the one in the back?
Wu Yanli stopped, pulled Wu Yong to the side and sat down with a smile, and said, "Old man, this is a new job in our store called Wu Yong." After that, he pursed his lips and looked at Wu Yong, with a shyness on his face.
The middle-aged man lying on the hospital bed had half-squinted eyes that were as big as copper bells, and he looked at Wu Yong and said vigilantly, "What are you doing here?"
Wu Yanli was a little unhappy, put away the hand that was pinching her leg and said, "What are you doing, he was invited by me, and he came here specifically for your business, if I didn't plead for mercy, people wouldn't have bothered to come." ”
The man was a little skeptical after hearing this, but his face was already much kinder, and he stretched out his hand to hold Wu Yong and said: "It's rude and rude, I'm not useful, the limit is approaching, and it is fate to be able to get to know my brother, it's gorgeous, quickly introduce me to it." ”
Wu Yanli's cold expression suddenly became hot: "This is a capable person, amazing, I don't know what to say, anyway, like that feng shui master, it is very mysterious." He turned his head to Wu Yong and said, "This is my husband Sun Desheng, but he is terminally ill." ”
Wu Yong couldn't see a trace of distress on Wu Yanli's face at all, but looked a little expectant, Wu Yong really couldn't understand whether the couple in front of him was a couple or an enemy.
Sun Desheng completely ignored his wife, as if he was used to it, his let go of his hands and shook them together, and said tremblingly: "Brother, I'm not afraid of your jokes, you see that I don't look like a human or a ghost, it's completely retribution." ”
Wu Yong felt that there was definitely an ulterior secret in this, and said with a frown: "Brother Sun, don't worry, tell me slowly." ”
Sun Desheng scurried up, sighed and said: "Last summer, a cousin of mine who hadn't been in contact with me for more than ten years came to me, oh, by the way, brother, you don't know, I work at the Imperial Capital Archaeological Institute, a very face-saving job and my appetite, my cousin is also a distant relative, I don't think he will come to me if it's not an important matter, I must have something to do with my work at that time, and sure enough, he brought me a shocking secret." A mysterious cave was discovered in the heart of our hometown called Shajin Mountain, which my cousin's nephew had discovered when he was wandering up the mountain in his spare time. Later, my cousin's nephew found a highly rusty iron sword in the collapsed mound at the entrance of the cave, and he didn't dare to go into the cave alone and go home with the sword. My cousin thought it was no ordinary cave and wanted to go in and have a look, but he was afraid that he had no experience and let it go, and his uncle and nephew agreed to keep it a secret and built the cave with stones, sprinkled with weeds, and marked it. The weeds in that place grew almost one person tall, and no one noticed, and soon my cousin came to the imperial capital with the sword to find me, out of etiquette I found a hotel to entertain me, the kid drank too much and took out the sword to open my eyes, I drank a little high, but I looked at it and instantly sobered up, and hurriedly started to study for a while, I dare to use more than 30 years of archaeological experience to ensure that it is a genuine Ming Dynasty embroidered spring knife, even if it is decayed, it is still priceless, and the cave is 100% a tomb. ”
Speaking of excitement, Sun Desheng coughed a few times in a row, and almost missed that breath.
Wu hurriedly patted Sun Desheng's back hard, eased up a little, and then said: " Flying fish suit embroidered spring knife, you don't understand, this is like an archaeologist like a navigator discovered the new continent, I was extremely excited, dancing in the hotel, in order to keep it secret I and my cousin lived in a high-end five-star hotel, my cousin told me that he didn't dare to find someone else to partner with in this matter, and I was suitable to think about it, because in addition to my rich theoretical and practical experience, more important is my brother, this kind of thing is most afraid of others eating black, not to mention wealth, not to mention that even life has to be thrown. After a few nights, I slept very unsteadily, and after thinking about it, I decided to take leave with my unit and return to my hometown with my cousin. ”
Sun Desheng suddenly stopped talking, squinted his eyes slightly, the wrinkles on his face began to twitch, as if he remembered something to be afraid of, Wu gently patted Sun Desheng's thin arm like a tree branch to continue.
Sun Desheng nodded slowly and continued: "After meeting with my cousin's nephew in my hometown, I set off after resting for two days, and there were almost no idle people in that place except for people herding sheep and cattle, and when I arrived at the gate of the cave, my cousin and nephew quickly cleaned up the stones and weeds at the entrance of the cave, and a half-human-high cave was exposed. ”
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Later, from Sun Desheng's intermittent description, Wu Yong probably heard the original story, during this period, the nurse on duty urged two or three times, but Wu Yanli blocked back, and before she knew it, almost an hour had passed.
Anyway, Sun Desheng and his cousin at the entrance of the cave were discussing what to do after going down, and the restless nephew seemed a little impatient, and he took a flashlight and arched his waist to go in to take a look, and his cousin grabbed his nephew's trouser belt and scolded: "You stuffy stick, what are you anxious about?"
The nephew was a little impatient: "You have been rambling for a long time, can you get down?"
Sun Desheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, little nephew, this time my cousin will take the lead and follow me, little nephew, you will honestly follow your uncle." ”
The nephew was not happy, and just wanted to speak, but was slapped by his cousin and scolded: "Your uncle is an archaeological expert from the imperial capital, you haven't grown up to fight for anything, it's better to be honest or you will guard the entrance of the cave and don't go down." ”
The nephew was a little jealous of his uncle, although he was not satisfied, he didn't dare to talk back, and quietly muttered a few words.
Sun Desheng packed up his equipment, picked up the flashlight and walked in, walked seven or eight meters and encountered a landslide point, he could only walk on his stomach, the three of them crawled for nearly three or four minutes, and the eyes suddenly opened up, the hole was nearly two meters high and three meters wide, and it was much more comfortable to walk without a cat's waist.
Slipped away about 100 meters, suddenly Sun Desheng slipped and fell on all fours, his cousin hurriedly went up to help up, Sun Desheng glanced at his feet, it was all damp moss, took out a knife to scrape off the moss, it turned out that the moss was all burned bricks in the Qing Dynasty, the brick kiln of the Qing Dynasty burned the bricks The density of the bricks burned by the brick kiln in the Qing Dynasty is not very large, it is easy to absorb water and become damp, which is covered with moss. Sun Desheng hissed, very confused, since it is the place where the spring knife is embroidered, why are there Qing Dynasty bricks, is this a tomb of the Qing Dynasty?
The cousin saw Sun Desheng looking at the moss in a daze, and asked in a low voice, "Cousin, why don't you leave?"
"Oh," Sun Desheng stopped thinking, got up and continued to walk, this is the common problem of scholars, when they encounter difficult problems, they have to compete with themselves until they understand it.
After walking for a few dozen meters, the passage gradually sloped downward, because the ground was quite slippery, and the three people simply supported each other and walked forward.
Suddenly Sun Desheng stopped, made a stop gesture, the cousin saw that he had come to the end, there was no road ahead, just wanted to speak Sun Desheng turned his head and pointed to his feet with a flashlight, the cousin and nephew looked along the light, and there was actually a hole that opened downward.
The flashlights of the three people were concentrated together, and the whole hole was about three or four meters deep, and there was a pile of rotten wood dregs underneath, which looked like ladders, and it was more than three hundred years old, and the wood could not be preserved in this humid environment.
Sun Desheng said to his little nephew: "There is no ladder and you can't go down, so you can only use a rope." ”
The nephew was just in a panic, Ping Pong began to fix the rope, and after a while, it was cleaned up, Sun Desheng still took the lead, and slid down the rope, as an archaeologist, he had a strong psychological ability, and looked around with the flashlight to see that there was no problem, so he let the two of them slide down.
The space below is very large, and it is estimated that it is close to the mountain, and the temperature around it is a little low, and I can't help but shiver for a while.
Sun Desheng carefully observed for a while, except for the pair of stone gates in front of him, there was nothing left, and a line of words was engraved in italics next to the stone gate, "It's not the Zhang family, don't enter the Zhang family", Sun Desheng smiled and thought that the ancients were really funny, this kind of talk is like "trespassers die" on TV, who would pay attention to this kind of pediatrics.
With the mentality of not being a bird, he took his cousin and nephew into the stone gate.