On the second day, considering that the railway station was still quite far away from Dunhuang County, and if Tie Niu and Chen Xiaopang were coming, they had to bring some necessary tools.

In addition, there are "Shahai footmen" in Dunhuang, such as archaeological shovels and other bulky tools, it is unlikely that they will bring iron cattle from Xi'an, and they will definitely have to borrow them from Ma Daocheng when the time comes.

So Baiyang made a phone call to Ma's house and asked Ma Bingxiao to drive the van to help pick up Tie Niu and Chen Xiaopang.

Naturally, Baiyang followed Ma Bingxiao to the train station, fortunately the train was not delayed, and when it was dark, Tie Niu and Chen Xiaopang each carried a backpack, and walked out of the station with a big bag.

Poplar jumped up and greeted him with a smile.

Iron Bull threw the bag he was carrying and hugged Poplar tightly.

After that, Bai Yang nodded and smiled with Chen Xiaopang, and called out "Senior Brother Chen".

Chen Xiaopang just snorted lightly.

Poplar saw that he was carrying a small birdcage in his hand, and there was a pair of small birds in the cage, and the chirping sound was extremely crisp and pleasant.

It's a pity that the light is dim, and I can't see the appearance of the bird clearly, but it feels like two little sparrows.

"What kind of bird is this, and its call is quite nice!" said Poplar.

"This is a jade hummingbird, raised by Lingling since childhood. Chen Xiaopang replied coldly.

Bai Yang let out an "oh", and was thinking about what Ding Lingling was doing with such a pair of small birds, Ma Bingxiao squeezed up and shouted: "Jade hummingbird? I heard that the jade hummingbird is the treasure of the inverted bucket people, extremely sensitive to the air, and can be used specifically to measure the air quality in the tomb, is it the jade hummingbird?"

"Yes!" Chen replied briefly.

Ma Bingxiao sighed and said: "I heard that the jade hummingbird is extremely difficult to raise, even my father and my uncle have only heard about it, and they have never seen it with their own eyes, but I didn't expect to see it today!"

"This is ......," Chen Xiaopang looked at Ma Bingxiao with a questioning face.

Poplar hurriedly introduced the three of them to each other.

Chen Xiaopang is extremely cold to Poplar, but he doesn't recognize his life in front of others, plus Ma Bingxiao is a familiar temper like Tie Niu, and before he gets in the car, the two of them are already talking and laughing.

Poplar and Tie Niu walked behind and asked how Tie Niu's injuries were, Tie Niu patted his chest and said, "Aren't we like that, so it's almost better!"

Bai Yang naturally knew what he meant by "what", but the fact that the two of them had taken the immortal medicine was an extremely secret thing, and Bai Yang believed that except for a limited number of people, including Chen Xiaopang, it would be impossible to know.

So Poplar coughed and quickly changed the subject.

Several people got into Ma Bingxiao's car and went to Dunhuang County to find a place to eat.

Under the bright lights of the restaurant, Bai Yang and Ma Bingxiao could see the appearance of the two jade hummingbirds clearly.

It's so beautiful!

Although small, smaller than a sparrow, it is far more beautiful than a sparrow.

Emerald green feathers shimmer with a metallic sheen in the light.

The bird has a long beak and two beautiful claws, but it is bright red. The red and green contrast is more delicate.

"This bird is so petite, I'm afraid of scalding it in the palm of my hand, I really don't know how Lingling raised it!"

"How did you raise it, you go and ask her!" Chen Xiaopang said directly.

Poplar was speechless.

Tie Niu originally got along well with Chen Xiaopang, but when he saw Chen Xiaopang squeezing the poplar, his face immediately changed.

Fortunately, Ma Bingxiao saw that the movement was wrong, and quickly answered: "So all the people who are fighting are treasures when they are jade hummingbirds, but when they really grow up, they are extremely rare!"

These words saved Poplar from embarrassment. But Tie Niu was still angry in his heart, Bai Yang was afraid that he would turn his face with Chen Xiaopang immediately, so he hurriedly picked up his wine glass and touched his wine glass, and said with a smile: "Drink and drink!"

The four of them drank two bottles of beer, and Ma Bingxiao still drove back to Crescent Spring.

When Ding Lingling saw the jade hummingbird, she was happy and distressed, and hurriedly opened the cage and let the jade hummingbird come out.

The two little birds were extremely human, and they didn't fly away, but flew up and down around Ding Lingling.

Ding Lingling took out the bird food specially prepared for the two hummingbirds, and the two birds immediately landed in the palm of her hand.

Ding Lingling also named the two birds, called Xiaolu Xiaocui, others called these two names, and the two birds ignored them. But as soon as Ding Lingling called, the two little birds would immediately land in Ding Lingling's palm.

At this time, it was getting late, and Tie Niu and Chen Xiaopang had been in the car for a day and a night, and they must have been tired.

So a few people teased the bird a little, then counted the tools he brought over a little, and asked Chen Xiaopang to write a list of what tools were missing and handed it to Ma Bingxiao, and asked Ma Bingxiao to help bring it tomorrow.

And because there was no place to rest on the Crescent Spring, Chen Xiaopang and Tie Niu still took Ma Bingxiao's car to the county seat to live in a hotel.

When the three of them left, Poplar let the two girls rest, and he himself went to sleep on the wooden tower.

The next day, Poplar issued a notice stating that the scenic spot was going to be renovated, so it would be closed for two days.

Naturally, several managers all followed suit and rested for two days. He was the deputy leader, and the few administrators were very happy as long as they had a break, and no one asked what was going to be repaired.

As for the leader's side, there have already been superiors who have greeted him, and they will not come to ask about it.

The yin and yang compass that the old man Bai left for Bai Yang was also brought over by the iron bull.

Ding Sicheng had already taught the use of the yin-yang compass to Baiyang, so Baiyang also deliberately took the yin-yang compass and went to the northeast corner of the scenic spot to try it out.

As a result, according to the direction of the rotation of the Yin and Yang compass pointers, it was determined that there was indeed a large tomb in the lower part of the Crescent Spring Scenic Area.

But this tomb is likely to have been flooded with stagnant water—

This is the power of the yin-yang compass, which can not only detect the exact location of the tomb, but also show the general situation in the tomb, such as whether there is a large area collapsed, whether it has been flooded by stagnant water, and so on.

And according to Ding Sicheng, each scale on the yin and yang compass represents a different meaning, if you can master the mystery, you can even accurately determine the depth, shape, and even the entrance and exit of the tomb.

It's a pity that Poplar's father hates the inverted bucket, so the old man never explained the ingenuity of the yin and yang compass to Poplar, and Ding Sicheng only knows the most basic application method of the yin and yang compass.

However, it is only a basic application, and it is already a hundred times more magical than an ordinary feng shui compass.

Poplar had already predicted that if there was a large tomb underground, it would probably have been flooded.

At that time, it was not easy to find a set of professional diving equipment, so all they could do now was to find the entrance to the tomb first and explore the extent of the flooding of the tomb.

If the entire tomb is already immersed in water, then it can only be reported to the leadership for another decision.

Early in the morning on the day of closing, Ma Bingxiao rushed over early, and several people worked together to move all the tools for exploring the tomb to the sand mountain in the northeast corner of the Crescent Spring Scenic Area.

Although Bai Yang is the leader of the group, he lacks experience, so he can only ask Chen Xiaopang to guide the work of visiting the tomb.

Fortunately, although Chen Xiaopang is narrow-minded, he is indeed a person who has a clear distinction between public and private, and once he puts himself into work, he will put his personal grievances aside.

For example, he hates Poplar very much, firstly because of Ding Lingling, and secondly, because Poplar has little qualifications and can only be regarded as an apprentice in the archaeological field, but Poplar became the team leader, and as a senior archaeological team member, he had to obey Poplar's leadership.

If another person encounters this situation, he will inevitably deliberately make things difficult at work, and deliberately make Poplar repeatedly make a fool of himself, so as to prove that Poplar, the team leader, is not qualified at all.

But Chen Xiaopang is not like this, he will take Poplar to sneer in his life, making it clear that he only wants to be an opponent of Poplar, and will never be friends with Poplar.

But when he really put himself into work, he didn't have so many crooked thoughts, although he said awkwardly: "You are the leader of the group, why do you want me to guide?"

But as he said this, he raised his head to take a look at the surrounding feng shui terrain, and took the map to carefully compare the terrain of the scene.

Finally, he walked back and forth a few times, left and right, and then pointed to a place and asked the iron ox to shovel.

Bai Yang was afraid that the iron bull's injury would not heal, so he grabbed a shovel and a hammer with Ma Bingxiao.

I don't want to be full of yellow sand below, and I don't need a hammer at all in the first few meters, so I can go down a lot with a press of my hand.

After going down to a depth of five or six meters, he began to pick up the hammer and smash it down.

However, each smash will be inserted into a large section, and it is obvious that although the bottom is not all yellow sand, it is also a very loose layer of sand.

After leaning down for another two or three meters, the poplar who was holding the shovel handle felt a sudden shock in his hand, as if he had touched something very hard.

"I touched something, I don't know if it's the entrance to the tomb, or a rock or something!" Bai Yang said, turning his face to look at Chen Xiaopang.

Chen Xiaopang immediately asked to pull up the archaeological shovel, but it turned out that there was nothing in the archaeological shovel, and it was obvious that there was soft sand underneath, so it could not be stored in the archaeological shovel.

"Generally speaking, the depth of the desert will be at least tens of meters, although this is the edge of the desert, but it is close to the sand mountain, and the second is that this place is at least ten meters higher than the low-lying crescent spring, so it is impossible to reach the rock layer so quickly." ”

"Yes!" Ding Lingling said, "At the bottom of the desert, you have to go through a layer of sand and gravel, and finally reach the rock layer. ...... Of course, there are special cases, some yellow sand will be directly covered with huge rocks, but this is not common, so according to my estimate, what the archaeological shovel just touched is either the entrance to the tomb, or a stele covered by yellow sand!"

"If you want me to say let's dig down directly, anyway, it's all yellow sand underneath, and it's not hard to dig up!" Ma Bingxiao said, already eager to try with a shovel.

"I'm also in favor of digging directly, the archaeological shovel has just been lowered to a depth of less than ten meters, and it won't take long to dig it!" Tie Niu said.

(See Chapter 120, "The Curved Passage")