Chapter 12: The Mysterious Cave
"What's going on again," Zhang Zhimu beat a drum in his heart.
When asked in the past, sister-in-law Xu said that three people on horseback had come, saying that they were looking for Chen Yufeng. Chen Yufeng snorted and said, "Go back and take a look, there are still people looking for me these years." ”
As soon as the ox cart carrying Chen Yufeng entered the courtyard, the three people in the courtyard came over and knelt down, and one of them in his thirties said, "Uncle Shi, we have found you." ”
Chen Yufeng looked at it and said, "Oops! You three don't stay in the dart game, how did you find this? Get up. "It turned out to be Uncle Chen's acquaintance. The three of them got up, and the man sighed and said, "Alas! It's over, uncle. The dart game is over. ”
In troubled times, there is a lot of business in the dart game, but it is difficult to do. This time, the big boss took a big dart, and the silver was given a lot, but he asked that nothing could happen, otherwise he would lose everything. The big boss will guarantee all the belongings and take this dart.
This time it was by water, and it turned out that the dart was going to be taken to Jinyang. When I was about to arrive at the place, something happened, surrounded by several big boats, and let the dart masters all have high martial arts, but they didn't get close, and shot with bows and arrows, the dart boats were too small, and more than a dozen dart masters couldn't turn around, and they were shot into the water. In the end, seeing that the dart masters were still desperately resisting, they fired rockets and set the boat on fire. The big boss knows that it is irretrievable, and he can't go back if he loses his dart. So he told a few young people who were good at jumping boat, and told them to go and take his family out first, and then tell the owner of the goods, no matter who was alive. A few of them fled ashore and looked back, and the fire on the dart boat had started and was slowly sinking. They returned to the game through the back door at night. Let the lady in charge clean up a little soft, quietly dismiss the subordinates, escape from the back door with a son and a daughter overnight, and buy an old house in the countryside and hide it first. All arrangements were made, and they wrote on the white silk the words "The dart is lost, and the big boss and the cargo ship are sinking together" The dart was fixed on the cargo owner's door, and the horse was turned away. The other dart masters felt that they had nowhere to go, so they crossed the Yellow River and went to the king of Chuang. The three of them really didn't want to rebel, and they wanted to live a stable life, so they didn't follow. Although the "Mountain Harrier" has left the dart game, these little characters have heard about the "Mountain Harrier" from their parents. In addition, "Mountain Harrier" has always been in contact with friends in the dart game, and he is doing well, and these juniors respect him very much, and he wants to be called Uncle Shi. Especially for the "Mountain Harrier" selling coolies to feed his mother, they are even more impressed. As soon as the servants discussed, if they can't do it, they will go to Uncle Shi, a hero as big as Uncle Shi can carry a big one, and we can do it with all our strength at a young age. I rode to Lingshui Wharf, inquired, I heard that I was injured, and I went back to Xiurong to treat my injury, so I went back to Xiurong again, and came here under the guidance of "God Hand Zhang".
The name of the person who replied was Liu Yun, who was good at making a spear, thirty-two years old, and was nicknamed "Out of the River Dragon", and the twenty-five-year-old was called Li Wei, who was good at making darts, and was called "God Dart" Li Wei on the rivers and lakes, and the youngest was twenty-two-year-old Li Jing, known as "God Ape" Li Jing. When Zhang Zhimu heard that this was a long-standing talent, he liked it in his heart.
"And what are your plans now?" Chen Yufeng asked embarrassedly, because he knew that he was a family member, and he couldn't arrange for him.
"I want to hear about my uncle." Liu Yun said.
Zhang Zhimu knew that Chen Yufeng was embarrassed, so he took it and said, "Uncle Chen, do you think this will work." These three people are all your nephews and nephews, so they are not outsiders. If the three brothers are willing to stay, they will stay first. If you feel that you can't bear this hardship, you are willing to go again. ”
"You three, would you like to stay?" Chen Yufeng glanced at Zhang Zhimu gratefully.
"We listen to Uncle Shi."
"Thank you for that." Chen Yufeng said.
The three of them bowed and saluted.
Zhang Zhimu said: "Then you're welcome, Liu Yun's eldest brother Zhang is two years old, just call me 'Zhimu', and the other two brothers call me 'big brother'!" Our conditions are limited, everything has just started, no matter what the three of us used to do, now we will all hold hands together and rely on our strength to earn something to eat. But I promise that as long as Uncle Chen and I have a bite to eat, we will never let the brothers eat it thin. "Doing ideological work is a strong point in my previous life. Zhang Zhimu knew too well the weight of these words at this time. The three brothers were very moved.
Chen Yufeng also felt that this Zhang Zhimu was so decent and just right every time he spoke, and he admired it in his heart. In particular, after Huang Yukun told him about killing two people in a row, he felt that this was definitely a master, he usually couldn't see martial arts in him, but he could kill people in an instant, not ordinary martial arts attainments.
In the evening, Zhang Zhimu naturally made a fish soup and steamed a carp. Let these Shanxi people who don't eat fish completely change their habits. Huang Yukun and Sister-in-law Xu are also very good at cooking, and they made a few meat and vegetarian dishes. Naturally, he drank the little wine left by Zhang Zhimu.
After dinner, everyone sat and chatted in the courtyard, it was not cold at all, and the moonlight was very good. Zhang Zhimu said: "Xiaoqing, sing a song for everyone." ”
Huang Yukun smiled and said, "Xiaoqing can sing." ”
"I can sing." In fact, Xiaoqing has wanted to sing for a long time, but she has no chance, and no one has a start.
Xiaoqing sang "Listen to My Mother Tell Me About the Past", and Zhang Zhimu sang with him when there were some things that were not right. Xiaoqing's immature voice is especially suitable for this song. After listening to the song, everyone was silent. The song hit everyone directly. Where have these people ever heard such a song, this song was a classic even in the previous life. It took a while for everyone to come to their senses. Praise is impressed. Xiaoqing said proudly: "My uncle taught me." ”
Zhang Zhimu thought to himself, the construction of spiritual civilization must also be grasped. In an age of extreme lack of spiritual life, it may work wonders. yes, both hands should be hard.
With the addition of the three generals, Zhang Zhimu basically commanded and commanded, led by Li Yunhe, and the three of them took off the large adobe that was preparing the wall of the monastery in the morning. Before noon, he erected the adobe and threw up another pile of dirt before he went back to eat.
In the afternoon, Zhang Zhimu was going to pull some gravel first, so he went to the direction of the kiln first, turned right when he arrived at the kiln, and walked to the foot of the mountain, and the car could not go forward. A few people began to move stones to the car, and suddenly, the roar of the tiger that had disappeared at some point came, and everyone didn't pay attention at first. Later, where Saihu could see everyone in front, he showed his head and kept barking, as if to greet everyone. A few people passed, and Saihu led the way in front, turning back from time to time to wait for everyone. Suddenly, the tiger got behind a few big trees under a cliff and disappeared, and after a while, the tiger's cry came from behind the trees. A few people used sticks to pull away the bushes under the big tree, and squeezed through with great difficulty. I saw Saihu lying on a pile of stones piled up against the cliff and kept screaming, as if to tell everyone that there was a situation here. Although the pile of stones was overgrown with weeds, it was obviously piled up by hand, and they thought it was strange, so several people began to move the stones out. Moving and moving, a hole was revealed in the cliff. After removing the stone, a stone door was revealed. A few people tried to push it, but the stone door did not move, and tried to pull it to the sides, as if it could move. Zhang Zhimu said, forget it now, wait until you go back and come back with tools and torches, there must be some famous here.
After pulling a few carts of stones, several people dug a trench more than a foot deep along the surroundings of Huang Yukun's yard, flattened the stones into the ditch, and pulled a few carts of sand to fill in the cracks of the stones, and smashed them repeatedly with stones. In fact, although Huang Yukun's house is not good, the yard is not small, there are eight zhang in front of the house to the south, fifteen zhang to the north behind the house, and eight zhang wide from east to west. At that time, the land was not so tight.
At dinner, Zhang Zhimu and Uncle Chen and others talked about the matter in the back mountain, and said: "You have to prepare a crowbar, so that you can pry the door open, and prepare more torches, don't go in, your eyes will be black, and you won't see anything." When you go, bring all your weapons with you. ”
Go to Brother Liu's house in the north and ask about the situation in the back mountain. Brother Liu said, I heard that the army and the Mongols fought and lived there for a few years, don't go there, the yin qi is too heavy, my family is burning kilns there, and they are all told not to go anywhere, and if there are disobedient people, they can't come back. Zhang Zhimu knew that in fact, the ghosts were all made by people, and the more nonsense there were, the more secrets they didn't want people to know.
Early the next morning, Huang Yukun went to Liu's house to borrow a crowbar. Rushed to the car and set off.
The stone door of the cave opened surprisingly smoothly, and with a pry bar, it moved to the side. A few people came up and pushed it away. As soon as the stone door opened, everyone was a little dumbfounded. The cave was too big to see, and it was clearly well altered. Li Jing, the "divine ape" with a dexterous body, opened the way in front of the head and followed more than a dozen stone steps into the cave. When you hold a torch, you can see that when you enter the hole, it is a hall, which is very wide. A few torches were lit a little, and I could roughly see that this hall was more than a dozen battles wide and seven or eight zhang deep, and seven or eight zhang high. The ground was paved with stones. On the walls of the surrounding caves, there are many lamps lined up. When he saw that there was still oil in the lamp, he turned on all the lamps one by one. Further in, there are two branch holes inside, the right is high and the left is low. Although the two branch holes are not as wide as the hall, they are deeper than the hall. The hall on the right is obviously used for storing grain, although the ground is not paved with stones, it is also leveled, rows of wooden rows of square feet are neatly arranged, the bottom of the wooden rows are erected with stone strips, and a large vat is placed on a section separated by the cave wall, some of the jars are filled with lime, and some are filled with charcoal strips, which are obviously used for moisture-proofing. Since the hole is very dry, the one-inch thick wooden rafts are very well preserved. Seeing that there was a big wooden box at the entrance of the cave, Zhang Zhimu was curious and took a closer look. Li Yunhe couldn't help but ask: "What is this for?" ”
Zhang Zhimuha smiled and said: "This is a windmill, it is used for ventilation, and there is too much food, and if you want to heat up, you must ventilate." Look at the square wooden box on the wall of the cave, which is used by the wind tunnel to carry the wind all the way to the cave. ”
The lower cave on the right is inhabited at a glance, and the useful things are two copper tripods with a diameter of one and a half feet, which are obviously used by the leaders for cooking when they are marching and fighting in the field.
Then there are some broken iron pots and broken weapons that are too embroidered to be used. But Li Yunhe said that they were all good things, and the weapons in the army were all made of good iron.
Zhang Zhimu decided that this east would not move first, and it would be of great use in the future. Let's just pull a few back from the vat first, and you'll be able to use it right away.
And they tied the vat with a rope, and the four men carried it out. On this day, a total of ten large tanks were transported back, and each ox cart could only pull two cylinders, and a few people helped push it when going uphill. The lime in the vat is too heavy. Eight lime and two charcoal were pulled, and finally two carts of Li Yunhe's treasures, those broken weapons, etc. When he came out, he turned out all the lights in the cave. After closing the door, he piled up the stones.
On the way back, Zhang Zhimu found that the place where the ox cart could not go in was also a pile of stones piled up manually, which just blocked the road.
I went back and said to Chen Yufeng: "There can be tens of thousands of stones of grain and tens of thousands of soldiers, and it will be of great use in the future." Chen Yufeng nodded.
It took several people two days to basically build the courtyard wall, and the door hole was sewn up with blue brick plaster, and the green bricks were pulled back when the wooden door was custom-made. The door frame is built directly in the green bricks, which is very strong, and the wooden door is one inch thick and very strong. The dog hole left for Saihu is also made of green bricks. Saihu is very satisfied, and will drill in and out for a while.
The next step is to build a house, what kind of house to build, let Zhang Zhimu think about it a lot.