Qi Lu deliberately said to him: "After so much time, how can Master Xu still remember the specific location of the cave entrance?" ”

"Boy, I'm not old and confused." Xu Jie threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, took a few steps forward, and lowered his head to check the surrounding environment.

Qi Lu couldn't help but laugh secretly, knowing that Xu Jie had fallen into his own agitation method and was looking for the location of the cave entrance. At this time, Qi Lu secretly analyzed Xu Jie's words several times, and he had deduced from Xu Jie's description just now that the strange cave was the place where the treasure was buried as Xu Jingqiao said.

It was only a minute, and Xu Jie beckoned Qi Lu to come over. "Xiao Qi, have you seen that stone?"

Following his fingers, Qi Lu saw a basin-sized limestone stone on the ground, so he smiled and asked, "You mean the location of the cave entrance is here?" ”

"That's right."

"Master Xu, you won't just say it casually, will you?"

"Boy, it seems that you still don't believe me." Xu Jie said: "To tell you the truth, after that strange incident, the construction team did not dare to come back to bury the site, and later it was the contractor who asked our village committee to help solve the problem." ”

"You're saying you buried the hole?"

"Yes, it was the village chief who came to do the work, and the old village chief organized the former villagers together to complete the work. The old village chief also deliberately buried this big stone in the outermost, just because he was afraid that we, the insiders, would come to this ghost place by mistake and fall into evil. ”

Qi Lu couldn't help but ask a little strangely: "Since you know that this place is not clean, how can you dare to contract to dig a fish pond, is it true that Master Xu is not afraid of evil by nature?" ”

"Do you think I'm willing, don't say it's a contractor for those who know about it, and usually pass by by a detour." Xu Jie said helplessly: "The burden at home is heavy, and the two children are in school, so I can only find a way to make money to support my family." ”

"Oh, it's not easy for Master Xu." Qi Lu asked: "I take the liberty of asking, you contract this ghost place, how much does the rent cost?" ”

Xu Jie lowered his voice and said, "It's not cheap, who will do it, it's only 8,000 yuan a year." ”

"Huh." Both laughed in unison.

At the end of the day, when he was leaving, Xu Jie said kindly: "This kind of evil land, you still have to watch the stars at night, in case you bump into a ghost, it will not be a fun thing." ”

"Master Xu, rest assured, we are atheists, and we should listen to stories about this kind of supernatural event. Besides, I really want to see what the hell looks like. ”

"Alas, then you should be careful yourself, and call the police as soon as something happens." Xu Jie saw that he was insistent, so he stopped persuading him and left by himself.

Lao Wu looked at Xu Jie's distant back, and whispered to Qi Lu: "Won't this guy lie to us?" ”

"I didn't believe it yet, but I know now that he didn't lie to us." Qi Luxiao pointed to the stone and said, "Do you see any difference between the surrounding and nearby stones?" ”

Lao Wu squinted and really saw the fame. "The weeds in the vicinity are all growing in good condition, but the grass next to the stone is growing green, as if it has been fertilized."

"Hmph, there must be something strange in this place!" Qi Lu took out a notepad from his pocket, wrote a string of items on it with a pen, and then tore off the paper and handed it to Lao Wu.

"You must buy all these things today."

Lao Wu took the list and looked at it, and couldn't help but be stunned. "Two tents, are you really going to set up camp here?"

"Yes, I will put my tent on this rock, so that I can also cover people's eyes and ears."

"Astronomical telescopes, this one is also going to be bought? I said, are you too wasteful? ”

"Since it's acting, of course it has to be realistic." Qi Lu grinned and said, "In case this Xu Jie comes here every once in a while, wouldn't we be exposed without a telescope." ”

Old Wu was silent, and he began to pack up his tools and prepare to call it a day.

Ding Xiaolan took Qi Lu's hand excitedly and said, "If you really dig up the treasure, you won't hand it over to the cultural relics department, right?" ”

"Well, dig it up and talk about it." Qi Lu was absent-mindedly perfunctory, but he was thinking about other things in his mind.

Just do it, early the next morning, they set up a tent on the stone, Qi Lu asked Ding Xiaolan to let the wind outside, and he dug up with Lao Wu's cat.

On the surface, it looks like a stone the size of a basin, but it was dug up until dusk, and it was actually a large stone that was one person high.

At this time, Zi Qi Lu was anxious, after all, it was a sneaky matter, and he didn't dare to contact the crane to tow it away. In the end, Lao Wu came up with a solution, he found a few jacks, and some sturdy logs, using the principle of levers, and the two of them took a lot of effort to move the stone out of the tent.

The next digging work was relatively easy, Qi Lu was more cautious, he dug up the soil every day in a sack, threw it into the abandoned pond, and then returned to the tent to continue digging.

Fortunately, ordinary people don't dare to come to this ghost place, and Xu Jie seems to have disappeared, so things go on unnoticed.

After digging for three days in a row, at noon on the fourth day, as soon as Lao Wu went down with a hoe, he felt that his hand was loose, and the hoe seemed to slip off his hand. He quickly squeezed the wooden handle and jerked it up, and his body stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

Qi Lu was surprised to find that as Lao Wu's hoe was pulled out of the ground, the soil kept falling down, revealing a hole the size of a bucket in the blink of an eye.

The two couldn't help but glance at each other, and Lao Wu tried to dig the soil at the edge of the hole with a hoe, but who knew that the soil fell down in large chunks, and finally as Xu Jie said, a hole with a large mouth was exposed.

Qi Lu hesitated and turned on the flashlight and shone it into the hole, but found that it was dark inside, and he couldn't see the bottom at a glance.

Lao Wu knew that the hole was very deep, so he took out the rope that had been prepared, tied a stone at the end first, and then slowly lowered the rope down to test the depth of the hole.

Unexpectedly, the whole rope was put down, and before he felt the bottom, Lao Wu couldn't help scolding: "Damn, it's twenty meters and it's not at the end, these bastards hide things so deeply!" ”

He took another bundle of ropes, tied them into one, and lowered them again, about thirty meters, until the stone finally hit the ground.

Qi Lu laughed and said, "This is too exaggerated, the emperor's tomb may not be so deep." ”

Lao Wu stuck his head out of the tent and called Ding Xiaolan to come in, and asked her to go to the vegetable market to buy two live chickens.

Ding Xiaolan saw that the hole had been dug out, not to mention how excited she was, she bought back two old hens as quickly as possible.

Qi Lu asked in surprise: "When is it, what are you doing when you buy chickens?" ”

Lao Wu replied: "The ghost knows if there is a poison gas mechanism or something in the cave, I will let the chickens explore the way first." ”

As soon as Qi Lu heard that what he said made sense, he joked with him. "I can't see that you are very skilled in tomb robbing, have you done these things before?"

"Phew, if I hadn't followed you, I would have done something?" Lao Wu replied to him angrily, "If I can rob the tomb, I will be the first to dig up your ancestral grave." ”

"If you want to dig you, you can only dig the beautiful woman's house, how can I have an ancestral grave for you to dig." As he spoke, Qi Lu reached out and caught the small stone that Ding Xiaolan threw at him.

Lao Wu didn't bother to play tricks with him, he tied the two chickens tightly with a rope and put them back into the hole, and then smoked with Qi Lu.

After a long time, there was no movement in the cave, and Qi Lu hesitated and said, "Will the chicken be poisoned?" ”

Lao Wu saw that the time was almost up, so he pulled up the rope and lifted the two chickens up, who knew that they were all jumping around, and Lao Wu accidentally pecked one of them.

"Looks like it's okay in the cave, and we can rest assured." Qi Lu breathed a sigh of relief.

"There must be no poison gas, but it's hard to say."

Qi Lu saw that there were no trees outside, so he had to tie the rope to the big stone dug out with Lao Wu, and prepared to go down the hole with Lao Wu along the rope to find out.

Ding Xiaolan saw that they were busy sweating profusely, and couldn't help pouting and said, "Aren't you immortals, just fly down." ”

"I want to too, but we are all flesh now, and we can't use divine power."

Ding Xiaolan asked, "Why can't you use divine power?" ”

"Because we ......"

Before Lao Wu finished speaking, Qi Lu grabbed the conversation and said, "Okay, don't be verbose, beauty, go outside to sentry, otherwise we will be caught when someone finds out." ”

After Ding Xiaolan went out to watch the wind, Qi Lu and Lao Wu carried their tool bags, and Qi Lu took the lead in climbing into the bottom of the cave along the rope.

The bottom of the cave is so deep but very dry, the cave wall is bare, Qi Lu turned on the flashlight and looked carefully in all directions, but did not find any mechanism. But he found that there was a hole in front of him, which was also bottomless, so he hurried down to Lao Wu.

After Lao Wu came down, Qi Lu came to the new entrance of the cave and used a flashlight to take care of the situation inside, and found that this was not a naturally formed cave, but a long tomb paved with bluestone slabs, and the walls on both sides were carved with ancient characters.

"Strange, why don't you even have a tomb door?"

Lao Wu smiled and said, "Can you still use the door when you bury it so deeply?" If it weren't for the coincidence, we wouldn't have found this ghost place. ”

Qi Lu stopped talking, he was trying to make out the words on the wall, hoping to find some clues.

"It's not a long time, these words are the words of the Song Dynasty." Lao Wu said behind his back.

"It seems that this is a tomb of the Song Dynasty." As he spoke, Qi Lu had already recognized these words, the contents were all Buddhist scriptures, and he couldn't help but say strangely: "Could it be that there is a monk buried in this tomb?" ”

"Just go in and see."

The two carefully walked through the tomb passage Ling Wei finally came to the tomb, and he found that there were eight copper lanterns placed around the room, of course, the lights had long been extinguished. Qi Lu took a flashlight and shone it towards the tomb, only to see a Nanmu coffin on the south side of the tomb. The burial chamber was empty and there was nothing but the coffin.

At this time, the two of them heard a sharp scream from outside the tomb, very similar to the desperate cry of a person before he died.

Qi Lu suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and he couldn't explain where this feeling came from, he just instinctively noticed that there seemed to be a strange sound at the exit of the tomb road.

Oops, there are no outsiders here, only Ding Xiaolan is watching the wind from above! Qi Lu was in a hurry, turned around and quickly walked through the tomb to the bottom of the cave.

He pulled his throat and shouted Ding Xiaolan's name above, but he didn't get any response for a long time. Qi Lu anxiously said to Lao Wu who came after: "You are guarding below, I'll go up and take a look, and I'll inform you if there's something." With that, he climbed up like a monkey along the rope.