Chapter Seventy-Three: Leaving a Trace
Where did it come from? Of course I bought it!
Isn't that nonsense? Cao Hou was stunned, obviously not understanding what Chen Xiaodonkey meant.
The two of them stared at each other and communicated for a while, and Chen Xiaodonkey figured out what was going on, only to feel that his brain was blank and his ears were constantly buzzing.
Cao Hou left the Taoist temple that day, followed Zhang Hu's instructions and immediately began to prepare things, and when Chen Xiaodonkey went to the Zhenfa Temple, he entered a farm tool shop at the end of Shenxian Street that was out of place with the surroundings.
Of course, the farm tool shop is not selling farm tools, and the boss cut two sentences of jargon, and he successfully got a bunch of tools for soil, but just when he was about to leave, he was mysteriously dragged by the boss, saying that there was a rare thing in the shop for him to see, that is, he took out this strangely shaped shovel head, saying that it was something that suddenly came out of Luoyang, Henan this year, the name is Luoyang shovel, and there is a bunch of steel pipes that can be connected, each section is about 30 centimeters, theoretically speaking, how long is the steel pipe, The shovel head can go as deep into the ground as you go, and bring out the soil in it along the way.
Although he has never been to the tomb, Cao Hou has a talent for touching the bypass since he was a child, and as soon as the boss said that he realized the convenience of the Luoyang shovel, it is no exaggeration to say that this thing is simply a sharp weapon for inverted buckets! So without thinking about it, I spent a lot of money to get several different shovel heads and ten steel pipes, which were enough to hit three meters underground.
Seeing that Chen Xiaodonkey's state was obviously wrong, Cao Hou glanced at Zhang Wat and wondered if there was something wrong with what he did? But he didn't come up with a reason, so he cautiously asked Chen Xiaodonkey, who was sluggish next to him, "Little donkey, what's wrong with you?" Give me a clear word! ”
Chen Xiaodonkey was pulled back from the fugue, pursed his lips, and said, "Did you bring a probe?" ”
Cao Hou said: "What probe?" ”
Chen Xiaodonkey gestured, saying that it was a sharp conical probe.
Cao Hou first said that there was this thing, and then his eyes suddenly widened, and he patted his head and said, "Damn, I'll just say why do you have such an expression, did I get cheated when I bought this thing?" ”
Chen Xiaodonkey didn't understand the change in topic, and he said, "Why do you say that?" ”
Cao Hou said: "The boss of the dog day said that it was something that only appeared this year, and it used good steel, so the asking price is very high, but what ---- probe you said!" Obviously, I know very well, what is this new thing? Ouch my grass! Let's go back, I'm going to have to cut that grandson!" ”
Hearing this dazzling time in ---- this year, Chen Xiaodonkey's eyes flickered slightly, and he was made to cry and laugh by Cao Hou's reaction, what is this? Shaking his head, he said: "Since you are doing open-door business, the boss should not talk nonsense." ”
said this, but in his heart he was thinking about something else, which was a mantra: "Heavy hammer probe, hand in hand for three points, Qin Han under the heavy shovel, Tang Hou made the crescent moon." ”
Cao Hou was a little chaotic, and shouted: "It's our brothers who are cheated of money, I said little donkey, where are you standing?" ”
Zhang Hu, who was listening quietly on the side, heard this, as if he understood something, he looked at Chen Xiaodonkey in the night, his eyes lit up, and he said that Chen Xiaodonkey wanted to believe it but didn't dare to believe it, and he might not know how to speak.
"The Luoyang shovel is related to Zhibai."
"Gah!?" As soon as he heard this, Cao Hou suddenly let out a strange cry like a male duck who had been choked by the neck, and immediately came back to his senses and scolded: "It's useless for you to follow in the fun? ”
Unexpectedly, Chen Xiaodonkey said quietly: "Yes." ”
"What?"
"This shovel is an idea that my father once put forward when I was a child, he first conceived the probe, then designed the round shovel for pulling soil, and then the heavy shovel that can theoretically deal with the Qin and Han pits. At that time, I was still young, and I thought that he had told me about the many tombs since the Tang Dynasty, and I just listened to him talk about the Water Margin at that time, and I felt that Lu Zhishen's crescent shovel seemed to be suitable, so I had a crescent shovel-----"
"But although the picture was drawn, but before I could make it to test the effect, he went far away---- I didn't take it seriously later, I thought it was something he wanted to make me happy when I was a child, I really didn't expect it to be made."
Chen Xiaodonkey told the story of a father and son who had a conjecture design about the Luoyang shovel in Rehe, but later this sharp tool has never been unveiled, and in the whole world, only two people know the details of this, since he Chen Xiaodonkey has not told others about this matter, then the only man named Chen Taiping can make this thing out.
"I'm grass! Didn't you say that your father had passed away a long time ago, little donkey? Cao Hou stared at Manchester United incredulously, "What you mean by this is that he is still alive and made this thing in Luoyang?" How is this possible? ”
Chen Xiaodonkey smiled bitterly: "If it was before, I thought it was impossible, but a few days ago, someone told me that he was still alive." ”
The three of them were silent for a while, Zhang Wat was not good at words, Cao Hou patted Chen Xiaodonkey on the shoulder and said, "Could it be that you think too much?" Of course, I don't mean anything else, it's a great joy if your father is still alive! It's a little far from Shanghai to Luoyang, don't worry about this matter, wait for us to go back to Shanghai, first find the boss to ask about the situation, follow the channel where he got the goods all the way to the past, people have left traces, you can always find the news you want. ”
In fact, there is another point that Cao Hou didn't say, there are many people in Luoyang, and this thing may have been seen or picked up by someone else, but it was just imitated.
But Chen Xiaodonkey obviously thought of this, refreshed himself, and asked Cao Hou to show him the whole set of Luoyang shovels he bought. With a flashlight, he found an inconspicuous rope from a pile of things, and the appearance of this thing made him directly confirm his conjecture - his father Chen Taiping may have really appeared in Luoyang this year! At least the person who made this shovel in Luoyang must have had a deep intersection with his father later.
This is an inconspicuous pulling ring, but it is very important for deep soil exploration, if the Luoyang shovel is unintentionally picked up, the rope will be ignored in the past, will not be made together.
"Meow!"
Just when Chen Xiaodonkey was checking this whole set of equipment, the cat brother who was hiding on the horseback and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, suddenly let out a terrible scream that was extremely infiltrating.
Chen Xiaodonkey froze, and suddenly felt an inexplicable danger that frightened him was behind him.
The three of them sat on the side of the dense forest path, and the moonlight in the sky, which was not very bright, sparsely sprinkled a little light through the dense forest, so a faint shadow was also reflected in front of them. Only at this time the shadow became four, and just behind the three, there was a shadow riding on horseback, and his arm was constantly moving, as if combing his hair.
Cold sweat came out of Chen Xiaodonkey's forehead, he couldn't tell what was going on, but the moment he saw this extra shadow, the whole person seemed to be cold from head to toe, this sense of fear was even stronger than in the fairy tomb in Xiaofoling, when he saw that 'Fang Gu' turn back.
"Don't look back yet."
Zhang Wat pursed his lips, looking at the shadow and whispering a reminder, Chen Xiaodonkey and Cao Hou nodded slowly, and Zhang Wat asked again: "Do you still have that peachwood dagger?" ”
"With it." Chen Xiaodonkey's words are concise and to the point.
"Good!" Zhang Wat said slightly nervously: "Don't look back, monkey, Zhibai, I'll count one, two, three, turn around together, and throw the dagger at it!" ”
Chen Xiaodonkey quietly drew his dagger and nodded again. Zhang Wat counted three counts, and when he counted to three, he suddenly turned around and said violently: "Throw!" ”
"Meow!" Almost at the same time, the cat brother, who was lying on the horse's back and faintly confronting the thing, jumped up from the horse's back and pounced on its face at the same time, opened his mouth to show his sharp teeth and gnawed down viciously.
Cats catch mice, cat brothers bite evil spirits!
Sitting on horseback was a female "man" dressed in white, with hair hanging halfway down. When Chen Xiaodonkey and Zhang Wat turned around and threw the dagger at her together, Brother Cat was already covering her face, so she didn't see her appearance clearly.
But the peachwood dagger seemed to be useless, and it hit the thing, but it was directly bounced away.