"I'm not sure about this," Hu Xuan shook his head, "A few years ago, Tang Qianming and Tan Yanmin's army fought here, and Tan Yanmin did have a division commander surnamed Chen, who was defeated and withdrew from Changsha, this matter is indeed true, as for whether he left Yinyang before leaving, there is no evidence." ”

Xiaoyue said: "Anyway, there is definitely no matter of the hundred-year-old acacia, the girls' middle school has not been established for a few years, these dozens of locust trees should have existed before the school was established, and Master Chen's defeat was only a few years ago, at that time, this locust tree is what it is now, and it is very different from the 'hundred-year-old ancient locust'. ”

"Okay, anyway, the haunting thing is solved, let's go back to sleep," Hu Xuan said to Xiaoyue and the other girls, "Shi Suo and I are going back too." ”

Shi Suo said to A-Ning: "Don't forget tomorrow, go to me, and let's discuss the matter of the Willow Weaving Society." ”

"Okay."

3

In the past, there were farmers in the countryside engaged in this craft, because in recent years, the warlords have been fighting, the transportation routes are often cut off, and the export channels are blocked, so this handicraft industry is in a state of withering.

"As long as it can be shipped, it can be sold." Zhuang Xianming said.

"Let's dredge the transportation channels in advance, and when necessary, engage in armed transportation." He Yuan was full of confidence.

Hu Xuan temporarily put down the work of the jade shop, and together with Shi Suo, assisted He Yuan to run east and west, and everyone heard that A-Ning was an expert in weaving, and everyone was overjoyed.

He Yuan said: "This matter cannot be regarded as a joke, you are an expert in archaeology, you should investigate it in depth, if you can find it, it will help us too much, the most lacking thing at the moment is the fund, you can find Dajiang, Xiaofuzi and their locals for help." ”

"Okay."

According to the people in the city, the young lady of the rich man's house is called "Chengguang Building", which is the meaning of inheriting the glory of the ancestors. It is not the "Chengguang Building" as written on the picture. Moreover, the location of the school playground has never been a hundred-year-old locust tree.

Xiao Fuzi put forward a clue, he said: "Wangjiayuan? Is that the compound of the rich man's house? I don't think so. In our hometown in the countryside, there is a village called Wangjiayuan, maybe the Wangjiayuan written on the map is the name of the village. ”

Hu Xuan's eyes lit up, "That Wang's courtyard, is there a hundred-year-old acacia?" Is there a Chengguang Building? ”

"Then I don't know."

In the afternoon of this day, Xiao Fuzi got off work in advance, took the Hu bolt and the stone lock, and ran out of the city to the direction of his hometown in the countryside, Xiao Fuzi said: "When Tan Yanmin's troops withdrew, Division Commander Chen's men were indeed in a hurry, and I had not come to the city to work at that time, and I was grazing cattle in my hometown. ”

Wangjiayuan Village, next to a small hill, the village is quite large, autumn is the harvest season, some croppers are busy in autumn, donkey carts and ox carts, pulling crops on the dirt road endlessly. A few people entered the village to ask, and an old Xiucai looked like a person said enthusiastically: "Yes, there is a family of the old Wang family in the west of the village, who has been a rich man for several lifetimes, and his family has a small building, called Chengguan Building, clear Cheng, ornamental view, I don't know if you are talking about this." ”

Chengguan Building, this name made several people both excited and puzzled, Shi Suo said: "Almost, maybe the person who drew the picture at that time heard it wrong, so it was written as Chengguang Building." ”

Came to the west of the village, sure enough, found a small building, not too high, very simple, on the large blue brick under the eaves, sure enough, engraved with the words "Chengguan Building", it seems that there are some years, the handwriting has been eroded by wind and rain, has been a little blurred.

To the delight of several people, further west of this courtyard is the small hillside outside the village, and on the hillside, a vigorous ancient acacia is standing in the wind.

A few people trotted all the way to the front of the hillside, this is a gentle slope less than 20 meters high, this old locust tree, growing on the slope, the trunk is two or three arms thick, the bark is black and cracked, but the branches are luxuriant, it seems that the age of the tree is still more than 100 years, it is said that it is a "100-year-old tree", but I am afraid that it is still less.

This mountain bag is a soil and stone structure, and the place under his feet is extremely hard, Shi Suo said suspiciously: "Dig down here, I'm afraid that there are more stones and less soil, and it is not easy to dig a hole to hide things, can Master Chen hide Yinyang here?" That so-called treasure map may just be a joke. ”

"If you can grow a locust tree, it means that you have soil, and you can dig it down." Xiaofuzi is very optimistic.

"Then dig it, I'll borrow a shovel." Stone Lock rolled up his sleeves.

Hu Xuan hurriedly stopped him, "No, under this hillside, is the road into the village, and now it is the autumn harvest, and there are people coming and going on the road, so there is no way to keep it secret." It's better to wait until it gets dark before you do it, you can't let others know about it. ”

"Yes, I'm reckless again."

When it was dark, the three of them took shovels and shovels, and quietly came to the hillside, Hu Shuan used a shovel to test the soil under the ancient acacia, which was extremely tight, and dug for a while, digging down less than half a foot, he shook his head, "This earth elephant has not been touched for many years." ”

"It's been a few years." Regardless of the stone lock, he dug down hard, although he had great strength, but after digging for a while, his arms were sore, the soil was too hard, and mixed with fine stones, and he only dug down two shovel boards deep for half a day, and then dug down, getting harder and harder.

"It's a bit of a stretch." Shi Suo also wondered, and after digging for a while, the shovel dug into the root of the locust tree, and the old roots were intertwined and entangled, and the shovel could not dig any longer.

"Surely not here," Stone Lock gasped, "these old roots are a hundred years old. ”

Hu Xuan carefully looked around, the mountain package is not big, the terrain is not complicated, the whole is like an irregular big nest, there are dense weeds growing in the stone crevices, next to the ancient locust tree, several stone ridges, all eroded by years of wind and rain, the stone color is black.

He struck the rocks around him with a shovel, and the stone locks stopped digging down, and rested under a stone wall-like ridge, and said, "You let me go." ”

The stone lock let go, and Hu Bolt knocked on the two-foot-high stone wall for a while, and said, "Something is wrong here. ”

Xiaofuzi and Shi Suo didn't hear anything wrong, but Hu Shuo was doing archaeology, and they still had a hundred trusts in Hu Shuo's ability, and when they heard Hu Shuo's tone, they became excited, and Shi Suo also knocked on the mountain stone with a shovel handle, "Well, something is wrong, it is indeed wrong." ”

Hu Bolt knocked along the stone wall for a while, and tried hard to pull the stone wall, but he did not move, he pointed to the lower part of the stone wall, and said to the stone lock: "You hit this stone hard." ”

Shi Suo raised his leg and kicked it, the stone didn't move, but his foot hurt, Xiao Fuzi moved a long stone from the side, and the two of Shi Suo carried it, and crashed into the stone wall pointed by Hu Bolt, "Bang, bang," the stone hit the stone, making a dull sound.

After hitting it more than ten times, I felt that a stone on the stone wall was moving, Hu Xuan used a shovel to clean up the dirt and weeds for a while, and after hitting it a few times, the two stones next to it also appeared.

"Haha, it turns out that there is a mechanism here." Shi Suo said happily.

Hu Bolt used a shovel to pry the moving stone, the stone almost half a circle, the stone lock forcefully moved it away, and a black hole was exposed.

The three of them all came to the entrance of the cave, and a ** smell came out, but it was already dark, and there was nothing to see inside. Hu Xuan commanded Shi Suo and Xiao Fuzi to pry open the two stones next to them and move them to the side, the entrance of the cave was completely exposed, three feet square, and it was completely possible to drill into people.

"I'll go in," Shi Suo said to Hu Shu.

Hu Xuan probed in with a shovel, but did not probe to the end, the direction of the cave, is obliquely extended down, throwing a stone into it, "bang" to hear the sound of bottoming, it seems not to be deep. He let Xiaofuzi cover the wind, lit a candle, stretched into the cave and shone it, only saw a meter square, you can vaguely see that this is a natural cave, the four walls are black and irregular, and there are no traces of axe chisels, it seems that someone used this natural cave to transform, and then sealed the entrance of the cave with stones, after a few years, the soil is silted, wild grass grows, and the stone wall is almost integrated. Hu Xuan nodded secretly, when the person who was hidden in this cave was an expert.

Hu Bolt is tied to the waist of the stone lock with a rope, and the other end is tied to the root of the ancient locust tree, and then he and Xiaofuzi pull the rope together, and the stone lock picks up the entrance of the cave and slowly enters the cave.

Wait for the body of the stone lock to enter the hole, Hu Shuan handed the candle to him, the stone lock held the candle, the body slowly slipped down, fortunately there was no wind in the cave, the light of the candle was very stable, a halo slowly went down, the cave was in the shape of a duck pear, the inside was far wider than the entrance of the cave, the rock on the cave wall, black and smooth, like a long time, was washed by the flowing water.

After a while, the stone lock came to the bottom, the whole stone cave, only one zhang deep, standing below, loose and fast, the stone lock held a candle, because the rock in the cave is not reflective, so it can only illuminate a few feet away, he held the cave wall, slowly searched, Hu Shuo shouted into the hole: "Be careful under your feet, watch and then move." ”

His voice, echoing with a buzz in the cave.

"Rotten sacks," said the stone locker in the hole, "all rotten, and the wooden chests, too." I said it smells so bad, it turns out to be this. ”

The smell of rot just now turned out to be rotten sacks and wooden boxes. Xiao Fuzi said, "What is in the sack?" ”

"Wait a minute," Shi Suo squatted down, holding a candle in one hand and pulling the ground in the other, "Wow, Yinyang, it's Yinyang." ”

"Haha," Fuzi laughed.

"Bombs, there's bombs in the box." Shi Suo continued.

Hu Xuan hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, don't light the bombs with your candles, don't touch those bombs." ”