Chapter 163: Dig down layer by layer
Although the preparation was lively, Zhu Da and the others were not in a hurry, and after eating the early dinner, they processed more than a dozen wooden guns, and placed them around the cart with wooden planks and straw handles, which looked like an irregular big box.
When it was completely dark, the caravans in the yard were locked and guarded, and the inside and outside of the enclosure became quiet, Zhu Da called out to the hired workers and the handlebar to light torches and go to the enclosure.
After dark, the ruins of Zhengjiaji, which was still a little lively during the day, immediately died silent, the birds and beasts screamed so that this side was like a wilderness, without the Zheng family to maintain order, the government and the powerful forces could not get here for a while, without the public heart and conscience of everyone in the daytime, the Zhengjiaji at night was a lawless hell.
The darkness can cover a lot of things, as long as everything that happens in the dark is not caught, as long as it is not retaliated against, it has never happened, Zhou Qingyun shot two people at night, although the caravan of these two people was not far away, but no one came forward to admit it, and even the corpse was missing, only that it did not happen.
At this time, no one wants to come out, no one wants to die in the dark inexplicably, there is not even a cause and effect, not to mention that this darkness will magnify the courage of many people, the humble beggar in the daytime, will also use the darkness to kill at night, and more importantly, it is difficult for you to defend in the dark, maybe there is a plot from the place where you can't notice.
Those who have a family and a business can't take risks, there is no valuable goal, and the powerful gangs are too lazy to move, only some lonely ghosts are left, but these are still dangerous, under this logic, it does not mean that good people with families and businesses will not kill people at night, and it does not mean that bandits will not go out overnight.
Everyone thinks so, everyone can't risk their lives, so it seems that Zhu Da's team is very different, the four big cars are connected end to end, the middle two big cars are surrounded by wooden planks and straw handles, and the torches are tied to the wheels of the big cars, and on both sides are young people holding knives and guns and carrying wooden spears, and Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun are not riding horses, the mounts of the two people are tied to the yard, the two people are holding Pu knives, and the big cars around them are placed with bows and arrows, and they are in the center to command and guard.
There are a lot of torches in their team, and the inside and outside of the team shine clearly, and all kinds of people in the caravan can see clearly in the cracks of the wall and door, everyone feels that they can't cry and laugh, and they also have old worries.
"When the lights are bright, of course, others can see clearly, but we can also see others clearly." Juda has his own reasoning.
It's good to say that after entering the earth enclosure, the surroundings suddenly became completely quiet, and there were a few bright lights in the soil enclosure, but looking at it from a distance, I didn't know if it was phosphorus fire or something else, vaguely like a ghost.
"Ladies and gentlemen, let's do things here, don't approach any irrelevant people, lest there be any misunderstanding, within the range that the lights can shine, there will be people who will be killed!" Zhu Da shouted.
When he finished speaking aloud, the hired man and the handlebar style shouted as if they were amused: "Shoot or kill!" ”
More than 20 people shouted in unison, and it was heard far away in this quiet night, and then Zhu Da shouted, and the others shouted, how much such a shout can strengthen their courage, and after shouting a few times, their minds have stabilized a lot, look at the partners who have fought together, and then look at the weapons in their hands, think about the power of the spear, and the confidence will be stronger.
Of course, what really makes everyone feel confident is Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun, these two masters don't ride horses, that is, they want to live and die with everyone, with the two bows in their hands, they can get through any difficulties.
"This is the Hades Patrol Mansion!" There was the fastest handlebar style muttering, and everyone laughed, making the atmosphere more relaxed.
After the team of more than 20 people entered the enclosure, there was no movement around, and in this quiet environment in the middle of the night, it was easy to find any movement and sound, but the team had been very peaceful all around, so they followed the road to the Zheng family's house.
The destination of this trip was, of course, the abnormal well, which was not excavated immediately, but first arranged a small circle around the well with four carts, and then arranged six bonfires at a distance of more than forty paces outside the circle with firewood and grass.
When the bonfire is lit, all within eighty paces of the well as the center of the circle, all are clearly illuminated by the firelight, and this distance is the effective range of the bow and arrow, unless the opponent comes with the great bows of the army and the Mongols, and if anyone appears, they can immediately see it clearly by the firelight.
"Who?" When I went to light the fourth bonfire, I still saw a figure flashing in the distance, but I couldn't see where I went, someone was hiding in the dark and tracking, following Zhu Da and others with torches in front, but now there is no way to keep it hidden, and a hundred steps away, I can't see anything clearly, and I can't do anything in time, not to mention that the place where I really do things is covered by a big car.
Zhu Da circled the range by memory, and the hired workers immediately got busy, and began to think that they had to dig a few shovels of soil, but they never thought that the shovel would hit a hard object just after the bottom half of the shovel, and it was not a place, so everyone simply shoveled the shovel, and it didn't take long to shovel the soil in the area of the well.
"Why hasn't anyone found out?"
"Because no one knows that there is a well here, even if they step on it, at most they feel that the soil here is soft, even if they want to dig three feet into the ground, they don't bother to toss around this is the yard, and the cellar or something is under the house."
Zhu Da chatted with Zhou Qingyun beside him, Zhou Qingyun didn't pay attention to the excavation, he stood on the cart with a bow and arrow, constantly looking around, with his eyes and senses, it was difficult to escape observation if there was any abnormality.
The soil was cleaned up, but a few bluestone slabs were exposed, which made the young men who were still a little confused in high spirits, a few bluestone slabs were not huge, after digging the surrounding sand and soil, two people could lift it with force, and it didn't take long for the four stone slabs to be lifted, revealing the wellhead below.
It's just that everyone is a little stunned after it is exposed, because the wellhead is blocked, scattered stones and weeds are intertwined, and there is sand on it, looking at the wellhead that is damaged and blocked, there is nothing abnormal, if a deep well is really blocked, today these 20 people are afraid that it will take a few days to dig to dredge, but what is the point of that.
The scene was a little cold, Zhu Da frowned and came to the front, took a shovel and inserted it, and the pull back was very strong, it seemed to be filled solidly.
Is there nothing, just a destroyed well, and then this well was filled in by the Tartars and the refugees behind it, and the reason why it is covered with bluestone slabs, and there is floating soil on the stone slabs, is just a coincidence, although it is a bit too coincidental, but it is not impossible.
The hired workers looked at each other, and the handlebar style was strained to make their eyes look at each other, which meant that everyone should not talk nonsense without interest, so as not to touch the old man's moldy head, so many things were done wisely and skillfully, and it was nothing to faint a few times once in a while, so it was good to go back early.
Zhu Da asked for a torch, and scraped the floating soil under the stone slab with a shovel a few times, rubble, stones and weeds were mixed and mixed, it looked like it had indeed been buried at will, Zhu Da turned his head to look at Zhou Qingyun, the other party was standing on the cart guarding the surroundings, could it be that the two of them were wrong? While thinking about it in disappointment, he scraped it a few times.
This scrape saw that something was wrong, the rubble, stones and weeds in the area of the wellhead were still there, but without the cover of the floating soil, it was seen that something was different, and the rubble, stones and weeds were distributed very regularly.
"Come over and clean the floating dirt on it." Zhu Da said in a sullen voice, and the two hired men who came over began to clean, and the hired workers and handlebar typers who were on guard around exchanged glances with each other, and they all felt that they couldn't dig anything this time, but since the master was going to do it, then everyone would just follow suit.
When the floating soil is cleaned, this layer can be seen clearly, it is a straw bale made of reeds, which contains rubble and stones, and it is also mixed with common weeds, if you don't clean up the floating soil, this looks like it is indeed landfilled, and you dig or poke it with an iron tool, it is the same as touching the ground that is landfilled, it is difficult to find. Zhu Da stretched out his hand and picked it, and with some effort, he made a straw bale, about the size of a two-pound wine jar.
Seeing Zhu Da do this, the two people who came to help also did the same, and it didn't take long for this layer of straw bales to be removed, but a layer of bluestone slabs below was revealed, and after discovering this layer of bluestone slabs, Zhu Da waved his fist excitedly, and the busy employees around couldn't hold back their excitement, or Zhou Qingyun reminded him to be barely quiet, and the employees who were not on duty were crowded forward.
"Lift the slate open, be careful not to fall down." Zhu Da pulled out a piece of hay, tried it on the gap in the stone slab, found that there was a wind blowing, knew that there was a big gap underneath, and hurriedly said.
The handlebar typers removed the ropes from the cart and tied them to the waists of the men who went to lift the slates, which were already a foot and a half below the ground, and the slabs could be easily lifted and lifted with a pickaxe.
Originally, it was also prevented from the stone slab being too tightly sealed, it was difficult to take it out after it was opened, and it was even easy to fall, but I never thought that there was a stone beam with a tic-tac-toe grid under the stone slab, and both ends of the stone beam were deeply nailed to the well wall, and there was no looseness when stepping on it, which was strong enough.
The three stone slabs were soon sent outside the well, and when they looked down with torches, there were two large barrels on the stone beams with iron chains, and everyone subconsciously held their breath, wondering if there was a treasure hidden in the large barrel.
The iron chain tied to the stone beam is a live buckle, without Zhu Da's instructions, everyone untied the iron chain with all hands and feet, and passed the two large wooden barrels, after lifting it up, everyone leaned over to see, a wooden barrel with a well wheel and a support, and a wooden barrel with a rope, what is this, this night's hard work is in vain?
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