For a while, Qiu Yan and I were silent, the current situation is very embarrassing, Qiu Yan is no longer the eldest lady who holds soldiers and horses and directs the country before, she has neither money nor people now, and although I am a puppet legal person of a joint venture company, I can't move any of the people in this company, and even if we have manpower, it is impossible to build in such an open place.

"What should I do?" Qiu Yan asked in frustration at the dirt under her feet.

"Forget it, let's wait for Uncle David to come back, if he can't get someone, it's a big deal, let's spend more money!" I said as I pulled Qiu Yan up from the pit.

We picked up the scattered dry firewood and found a place not far from the pit to pile it up.

As the sky darkened little by little, Uncle David finally arrived with his things.

As soon as we came back, Uncle David told us how he hurried to the town, and then tossed back and forth in the town to buy these things, listening to Uncle David so excited, I thought he had sold something great, but when I took the things, I found that they were a few very ordinary old quilts, and then a few bowls of lunches, but the three shovels he bought looked brand new.

I guess Huang Dawei must have kept some of the money I gave him for himself before he could buy these things that couldn't be put on the table, but I don't care about a few dollars, at least he bought a lot of money.

We lit a fire, and simply set up a sheltered tent with the oil tarpaulin that Uncle David had brought in his car, and then sat down to eat.

I briefly told Uncle David what I had just found with Qiu Yan, and asked him if he could find a few people to come over to help, Uncle David shook his head and said that although the people are not rich enough, they can be fed and clothed, and the average person who digs a grave will not do it, and the person who can do it is generally not a good person.

Uncle David is very reasonable, and I have nothing to refute, but this grave must be dug up, and if we can't think of this way, we must also find another way.

Several people discussed it, and finally Uncle David decided: "Hey, why do you want to do so much, when it dawns tomorrow, let's dig and try it first, see if we can find the depth, and then it's not too late to find a way." ”

After dinner, Qiu Yan always stared at the night sky overhead, the reason why we stayed here today for the night was mainly for Qiu Yan to watch the stars at night, but at this time the sky was almost completely dark, and there was still a dark sky above our heads, and we couldn't even see the moon.

"Hey, I said Qiu Yan, sister, you just look at it, there are no stars tonight, it's spring now, there are many clouds in the sky, if you want to see the stars, you have to wait until after the spring equinox!"

I saw that Qiu Yan was a little disappointed, so I walked over to comfort her.

"Qiu Yan, it's nothing if you can't see the stars, didn't we find that dirt pit? I think that pit is what we're looking for, and if you hadn't decided to stay, we probably wouldn't have found it! ”

Qiu Yan hung her head and sighed, "Don't coax me, I know it's useless to wait like this, I'm just worried that if I guess wrong, in case that pit is not what we are looking for." ”

"Hehe, you are studying in England, don't they have a saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window? You see, now that God has closed the door of heaven, and the pit is the window he has opened for us on the earth, all right, don't wait, have a good rest today, and have to work hard tomorrow! ”

Qiu Yan smiled at me, "Zimu, I really envy your mentality, can you think of anything here?" ”

I patted my chest and laughed: "Of course, we also have an ancient saying in China, there must be a road before calling a car to the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, which means that you have to think about everything, and you can find the rut when you want to drive." ”

Although I smiled cheerfully on the surface, but in my heart because of Qiu Yan's words, maybe I could really think of anything in front of Qiu Yan, but the darkness and the picture I saw in the darkness have always haunted my heart, and I have never been able to think about it.

As the night wore on, Uncle David and I got some more dry firewood, burned the fire as hard as we could, and then slept next to the campfire.

The next day, after we got up and had something to eat, we went into the pit with shovels and dug up shovel by shovel.

Originally, I saw that this land was full of stones and weeds, and I thought that the soil here would be very tight and difficult to dig, but when I dug up a layer of soil with grass stems attached to the surface, I found that the soil layer below was unexpectedly soft, and every time Uncle David and I shoveled, the shovel was almost completely gone.

In this way, Uncle Dawei and I stood alone and dug with our arms, Qiu Yan dug for us from time to time, and one morning, we dug almost two meters deep, but despite this, we still didn't see the end.

Uncle Dawei was a little struggling, looking at the soles of his feet and panting, "Damn, how deep does this have to be buried, digging like this, when will it be a head!" ”

I smiled and said, "Uncle Dawei, don't be discouraged, there may be a few spades left, don't give up at this time!" ”

Uncle David looked up at the sky and shouted, "Forget it, it's noon, let's eat something and come again." After speaking, Uncle David inserted the shovel down, but I didn't expect it to be this time, the shovel "Qiang" made a crisp sound, and Uncle David and I were stunned.

Uncle David reacted, and immediately pulled out his shovel and dug violently, while I used the shovel to shovel the soil he dug aside.

After a while, a few mouthfuls of earthy yellow bricks were revealed.

"Damn it, I didn't expect it to be so many spades, hehe." Uncle David looked at the bricks under his feet and smiled.

I immediately beckoned Qiu Yan over, and when Qiu Yan saw the bricks, she finally smiled.

We discussed it for a while, and said that since it was already exposed, there was no hurry, so we should just have a good meal, and then try to pry the bricks open in the afternoon.

Since all three of us were anxious to know what was under the bricks, we just ate some dry food after a good meal, and after a short rest, we went back to the pit.

After going down, I asked Uncle David to dig out all the bricks at the bottom along the soil pit, and when I dug it out, I saw that the stone bricks under our feet had actually collapsed a little, so the soil pit above was formed.

Since the bricks can collapse, it means that the bottom may be empty, and perhaps the brick we are standing on is actually the top of the space underneath.

I quickly asked Uncle David to climb up, and then we dug in again from the perimeter of the pit until the whole collapse was exposed.

Once I had a working space, I asked Uncle David to climb out again, and told him to go out and buy some telescopic ladder or rope or something like that, and I thought to myself that if there was a big space underneath, then we would need tools to climb down.

Uncle David was very excited, nodded again and again and ran away.

After Uncle Dawei left, Qiu Yan stood on it and looked at me with a worried face and said, "Zimu, be careful, in case there is something underneath!" ”

"I know, by the way, you bring us the glow sticks and lighters we brought, and find a way to make some torches by the way."

Qiu Yan nodded after hearing this, and then left to get something.

I put the shovel aside and tried to pry the brick with my dagger, but to my surprise, although it was a bit collapsed, the brick was so strong that I was worried that I would break it.

I couldn't help it, the dagger didn't work, so I had to use a shovel.

Finally, after I shoveled a little of the binder between the bricks, the bricks finally loosened.

Pry out the first brick, the rest is easy to do, I pry out five or six pieces one after another, and then a piece of wood is exposed at the bottom, the surface of the wood is wrapped in a layer of something, like paint, I estimate that it is used for anti-corrosion, and under the wood, there is a layer of soil, I tried it with a dagger, the lower layer of soil is about ten centimeters thick, very compact, and there seems to be a layer of very hard things under the soil, but this layer of things may be broken because of the collapse, I poked with a dagger, and I felt like a piece of it had fallen.

Knowing the general structure, I also have a preliminary "construction" plan, judging from the structure of this layer of wood and brick, it should be the same as I imagined, it is a carefully designed ceiling, this ceiling is a combination of soft and hard, even after more than 2,000 years, it only collapsed this small piece, so my previous worries are superfluous, this collapsed part will definitely not fall suddenly.

I first pried out all the bricks on the upper layer, so that the middle layer of wood structure was all exposed, these woods are all square wooden beams more than ten centimeters thick, vertically intersecting each other, forming a grid with a side length of about 20 centimeters, from the anti-corrosion coating on the surface of the wood and the tight seams of the cross part, this place is precisely designed, I thought to myself if this is the ancestral tomb of the Huang family, then Huang Cai should have been rich!

At this time, Qiu Yan, who was making torches, ran over, and when she saw the structure underneath, she gasped and sighed: "Oh my God, this is simply building a house, and those imperial tombs are nothing more than that!" ”

I poked the wooden lattice with a dagger a few times, poking out the harder part of the lower layer, and then digging out some of the soil under the wood, revealing a dark space underneath.

Seeing this, Qiu Yan threw a few glow sticks to me, and I threw them down after I folded them.

Judging from the faint light underneath, it was four or five meters from the bottom of the space, which was much higher than an ordinary house, and I also saw several pillars of unknown material, which were about four or five meters apart from each other, and I couldn't help but sigh that this is really an imperial mausoleum.

In fact, I can jump from a height of four or five meters, but it is difficult for Qiu Yan, and I don't know what is underneath, so I can't go down alone.

I got up from the pit and said to Qiu Yan that we should wait for Uncle David to come back before we find a way to go down, and besides, it looks like we have to stay here for a few more days, and we need to make a little more preparations.

I'm not worried about other things, anyway, we have money and a car, what we lack to go out and buy is, what I'm worried about is my medicine, now it's been three days since I last drank medicine, if nothing else, I'll be "sick" again tonight, and the medicine I brought is only the last bottle, and it's gone after drinking.

I told Qiu Yan about the situation, and when Qiu Yan heard it, she hurriedly asked me if I knew the prescription, and if there was a prescription, we could buy the medicine and boil it ourselves.

In fact, my grandmother told me about the prescription, but it has always been Huang Yueling who helped me boil the medicine, so I didn't care so much, and Chinese medicine pays attention to proportion, even if I know which drugs to buy, I don't know how to mix it.

I sighed, took out my phone and sent a text message to Huang Yueling, asking if she was with my grandmother now.

Not long after sending the text message, Huang Yueling called.

As soon as the phone was connected, Huang Yueling asked me bluntly why I hadn't gone back yet, and I hesitated for a while, and finally told her the truth.

For Huang Yueling, I have mixed feelings, we haven't known each other for a long time, and she, like my grandmother, hides everything from me, until now she still has a lot of things she hasn't told me honestly, but I just feel that she is trustworthy, if I have to rank her, she will even surpass Qiu Yan in my heart, only Lao Lintou.