August 1

Ten miles south of the city to shop the South Pavilion.

This is the side branch of the main road leading to Lingshan County, two miles west from the main road, is a circular valley. It has always been the autumn venue of Qinzhou Mansion. It is high on all sides and low in the middle, and there is a pavilion built on the west side, which is specially designed for the people to sit and watch the execution. Even in normal times, it is inaccessible, and if it is night, it is even more eerie. If it's a rainy day, it's really a "cloudy and rainy day, wet and chirping" situation.

At that time, a carriage drove out of the city, and due to the load, the wheels were deeply sunk into the soft official road soaked by the rain, and the two horses struggled to pull the cart forward. Even the people who accompanied him had to push with their hands. In this way, the carriage walked hard for about an hour, and finally arrived at Shilipu South Pavilion. A large pit had already been dug in the middle of the lawn, one zhang deep, five feet wide, and one zhang long. The gang did not stop, unloading a dozen sacks directly from the car, working in pairs, carrying the sacks to the edge of the pit, throwing the sacks into the pit in one go, and when the fourteen sacks were finished, they took the hoes and shovels from the car, and buried the sacks in one go.

Wait until they are out of breath and bury the sacks. There was a greeting from a leader, and the men stopped what they were doing. They all sat down in the carriage together, turned their horses' heads, and drove towards the city.

As soon as the carriage turned over the hill, dozens of people jumped out of the bushes behind the South Pavilion, among which there were eight sturdy men, who couldn't wait to use the hoes and shovels they brought with them to dig the pit again. There were five older men standing on it and directing, repeatedly emphasizing that when a layer of soil was dug up, they would dip down with their hands and be careful not to hurt the person in the sack.

This group of manpower dug the pit and fought hard, and after a while, a strong man reported that he had found the sack. The old man on the pit told them to throw the iron and iron up, and the floating soil on the sack was cleaned by hand below.

In this way, another half an hour, and the following report said that the floating soil on the sack had been cleared. The old man on the pit ordered to open the sack and pull the person out.

The people under the pit opened the sack, but they cried out in surprise, and there was no one inside, just some tattered clothes and shoes.

The old man in the pit was also very surprised when he heard this, so he asked them to pour out all the contents of the sack and look at it again. So they did so, and they reported it, and there was nothing.

At this time, an old man on the pit shouted: "Could it be that we have been fooled." Before he could finish speaking, he heard a loud noise, and the bottom of the pit suddenly caved inward, and the walls of the pit suddenly collapsed inward. The five men in the pit fell into the pit in an instant, but fortunately they were only buried their legs, and they struggled to pull their legs out of the dirt. Pity the people under the pit just now and were buried by the collapsed earth.

The rest of the people hurriedly grabbed the shovel just now and began to dig down again, preparing to dig out the buried people as soon as possible. But the amount of earth was so great that they did everything they could, and in a quarter of an hour, they dug three feet. Time waits for no one, and if you wait for a moment, the people below will suffocate to death. Regardless of the excessive physical exertion, they began to dig even harder. Time is life, no one knows, no one knows. At this moment, they were exhausted, the pit was only two feet deep, and their bodies were completely submerged in the pit. At this moment, I heard a loud clang, the sound of iron touching porcelain. The old man who had just commanded hurriedly stopped his hand and asked, "What did you dig up?"

A voice in the darkness said, "It looks like a crockpot." ”

"Crockpots, where did they come from?"

However, he heard no reply, and he immediately realized that something was wrong, and he jumped into the pit. The four, as expected, fell down and fell asleep softly, snuggling up to each other, saliva hanging from the corners of their mouths.

The old man was immediately dumbfounded when he saw it, and hurriedly covered his nose with his hands, and quickly retreated backwards. Before he ran ten steps, he obviously felt that he had touched someone, so he quickly stopped, and looked at it, but there was a human wall in front of him, and it was the human wall that he had encountered. Where did the people come from at this moment, standing in a row.

He was about to flee in the opposite direction, but he was surprised to find that he was surrounded by people, all of them strong, and he knew that there was no way to escape, so he immediately drew the sword in his waist and prepared to fight to the death.

The people around him gathered around him, and some people lit torches at this moment, and then he looked around, and all the people who came were dressed in night clothes, and their faces were covered with black cloth.

At this time, he saw the crowd in the direction of Nanting parting, and five big men walked in, one of them had an eyepatch on his left eye and a plaster on his right cheekbone. The others were covered and couldn't tell the difference.

The big man walked ten steps away, looked at the old man, hugged his fists and said, "Qiu Zhenren first arrived in Yiyi, and he didn't dig up the treasure, how could he leave in a hurry?"

The old man, who was called Qiu Zhenren, fixed his mind and knew that the person who came was the leader of this group. Then he returned the salute with a knife: "Dare to ask who is coming?"

The one here smiled and said, "We are idlers from Qinzhou, I heard that Qiu Zhenren is coming here to dig treasures, and we also want to come to get a piece of the pie, I don't know if the old Taoist is willing to give us a little treasure?"

"Treasures, where did you come from, your design led us to the bait, Lao Dao really admired. ”

"Design, who set up what plan, the old way is true, you don't want to divide it, it's just that, what can be said, what is the bait, this is not a fish pond, everyone can fish and play. ”

The old Taoist also smiled and said: "Don't pretend to be confused, the day before yesterday you arrested our Qishan fifteen young people, and deliberately left a live mouth to come back to report the news, I didn't expect to let you seize the opportunity, and the old Taoist regretted not being at the beginning." ”

When the leader heard this, he was even more puzzled, and said: "Old Dao, you make your words clearer, who is the fifteenth young man of Qishan, what is the living mouth, what is the first opportunity, but we heard that you are coming to dig treasure, so we came." ”

The old man laughed again after hearing this, and said: "What are we doing, how can we let others know that what happened to us today is related to that kid from the previous time." ”

The leader here was also even more puzzled, and said, "What are you talking about, I really don't understand, who are the fifteen young men of Qishan, and what have they done?

Speaking of this, the old Taoist really suspected that the person who came was really digging treasures, so he said: "It's all on the road, since this matter has nothing to do with you, please ask the hero to make it convenient, my disciple was fascinated by drugs, and I have to save people." As for any treasures, they are buried under the pit, you just dig them yourself, I just want to take my disciples away. ”

The leader also thought for a while, and said: "It's okay, but we don't know if there are any treasures on Lao Dao's body, in case Lao Dao is left to snatch the treasures, and then pour down those people, I don't know, who knows if those people are your disciples?"