Chapter 33 Defense
Chen Xiaodonkey looked at the cave twice and asked, "What's wrong?" β
"Half a hole, a few more shovels will have to hit the sand layer, there is a problem with the drawings of the dog day!" Jia Xibei spread out the drawings, and the two sarcomas on his face twisted with anger.
Chen Xiaodonkey didn't know how to make incisions and steal holes, when he used a small shovel to dig into the tomb of Nurul Tiger Mountain, it was purely indiscriminate, and he didn't need to be too cheap to steal the hole so that he didn't collapse and die inside, and turned his head and asked Pei Luo: "What is a half-cut hole?" β
Pei Luo explained in a few words.
Half a hole, as the name suggests, is a thief hole that is forced to give up for some reason after only half of the hole. Coupled with Jia Xibei's saying that he had encountered a layer of quicksand, Chen Xiaodonkey understood what was going on.
It seems that his brother-in-law was cheated! And the person who sold the picture was really ruthless, probably to prevent himself from being retaliated against afterwards, so he deliberately marked the location of the thief hole that was dug into the quicksand layer before, so that when the hole was cleared again, the alertness would be buried alive by the quicksand as long as it was a little worse.
This is the real killing without blood.
But is that really the case? Seeing Jia Xibei's anger, and the discouraged and palpitating appearance of Erniutou and Dazhu next to them, Chen Xiaodonkey always felt as if he had ignored something.
The location of the tomb is at the foot of the road, and according to the surrounding topography, the tomb is a north-south structure, and the door is low, so the direction of the tomb door marked on the map is no problem to look at.
So what's the problem?
Chen Xiaodonkey pondered for a long time, and inadvertently glanced at Aunt Fang, who was standing on the other side and didn't come at all.
The mountain that can be seen in the cracks!
He suddenly understood, pulled the drawings from Jia Xibei's hand, directly reversed and then looked at the location of the thief hole, and immediately figured it out.
"What for!"
"The tomb gate is in the north!"
Chen Xiaodonkey and Jia Xibei spoke at the same time.
Jia Xibei frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" β
Pei Luo has been in the industry with Jia Xibei for a long time, and he has learned a lot of things, shaking his head and explaining: "Young Master Cousin, this tomb at your feet is a north-south structure, and there must be a big backer behind it. β
"It's normal, look over there." Chen Xiaodonkey pointed to the mountain that tilted its head to the north, "This is a near-form and far-reaching situation, and the near-form is indeed standing high and looking small, but after borrowing its momentum, it is to bully more and less, so the tomb gate is in the north, just by the river." β
"I've never heard that said." Pei Luo will be skeptical.
Jia Xibei took the drawings back, learned from Chen Xiaodonkey to turn the drawings and looked at them, and said, "How sure are you?" Chen Xiaodonkey said speechlessly: "I said uncle, go over there and see if there is any thief hole that has been filled, don't you know?" β
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"Holy shit, there are really ones here, hidden deep enough!"
Ten minutes later, Pei Luo picked up a piece of land with his hands, and a wooden board was directly lifted by him, revealing a black hole, and scolded angrily: "Can this fucking still seal the pit like this, aren't you afraid of releasing something?" β
The two wooden planks that sealed the entrance of the cave were opened first, and Chen Xiaodonkey came over and saw that the entrance of the cave was very square and very regular, and said in surprise: "How is it a square mouth?" β
"The square opening is to move things from inside." Pei Luo explained, and said with an ugly face: "Third master, we won't be tricked by the old boy surnamed Pan, this even the square mouth has been punched out, will it be emptied?" β
"Let's go down and see." Jia Xibei obviously also had this kind of speculation, his face was not very good-looking, and he said to the big pillar next to him who leaned his head over: "Take something and explore the pit." β
Dazhu took out a caged rat from his backpack, tied a rope to its hind legs, and as soon as he let go of the edge of the thief hole, the rat rushed in at great speed.
The rope quickly decreased in the hands of the big pillar, and it stopped after about seven or eight meters less, and several people waited outside for about five minutes, and the big pillar began to retract the rope, and the rats that were pulled out of it by pulling back kept struggling, squeaking, and looking very frightened.
Pei Luo pinched the fur behind the mouse's ears, lifted it up and looked at it for a long time, and then threw it into the cage, "The air down there is no problem." As he spoke, he glanced at the thin Erniu's head.
The second bull head understood, tied a rope around his waist and handed it to the big pillar, jumped into the thief hole and slid down.
It's not enough to use rats to find the way, but also to use people? Chen Xiaodonkey and Fang Gu stood aside, frowning. It's not that he Chen Xiaodonkey is kind-hearted, but mainly because he thinks that doing this seems to make people feel a little chilling, after all, he works under him.
Da Zhu's face was not a little unhappy, he knew how to observe words and feelings, and said to Chen Xiaodonkey with a smile: "Young Master Cousin, this is our own volition, when the second bull head has not followed the third master, I am exploring the way." β
Seeing that his uncle Jia Xibei didn't mean to stop Dazhu from speaking, Chen Xiaodonkey immediately understood, "Is there money to go down?" β
"That's not it, the third master is righteous, even if something really happens, our family will be arranged."
Chen Xiaodonkey knows that in these years, there is a shortage of soldiers, and it is not easy to earn money to support his family, and it is not impossible for people to work hard at various wharves on the Huangpu River to make a few cents more every day.
But this is a tomb after all, can it be the same?
"Third master, keep your head down!"
Soon the sound of two bullheads was heard below.
Jia Xibei asked, "Did you see anything?" β
"See a stone gate! You guys come down and fall carefully, this dog's thief hole is not well laid, there is a hard hurdle more than one meter high! β
Jia Xibei's expression stretched, and after reminding the following, he asked Dazhu to throw the two bags down first, and followed him to the head, and behind Pei Luo's palace, five people went down the thief hole.
Shanghai itself is damp, and this is a stuffy old thief cave still by the river, which is even more slippery, so as soon as Chen Xiaodonkey is next to the earth wall, he directly slides down, and then 'bangs' on the solid cold ground.
It hurts!
As soon as he picked it up and slapped the dirt off his body, he was shocked by a huge stone door three or four meters high with speckled moss on it.
The two bullheads and the big pillar were all lit, and the light gathered on the stone door, and Jia Xibei and Fang Gu stood in front of the door and looked at it carefully.
Pei Luo was the last to come in, he glanced at the stone gate, and said strangely: "Third master, this door is closed, so there is a hammer for hitting this hole?" Or is it the wave of old-timers from decades ago, who are full of food? β
Jia Xibei didn't speak, took out a flashlight from his bag and threw it to Chen Xiaodonkey, and then turned on the flashlight to shine on the other side.
Both sides are sealed by stone walls, and against the stone walls, there are three low circular stone platforms on the ground on the left and right sides.
"Dog's day, why do you put things at the door of the tomb?"
Pei Luo was not an ordinary surprise, the three round platforms were obviously all platforms containing large objects, but the things placed on them were transported away by the Tufuzi who had made this hole before, and there was not even a single hair on them.
"This tomb owner is not small." Chen Xiaodonkey shook his head and said.
Pei Luo knew that it was difficult to hear some dry goods from Jia Xibei's mouth, so he asked, "Young Master Cousin, how do you say this?" β
Chen Xiaodonkey said: "The Manchu tombs, there is a tradition of ritual in front of the door, divided into 139 and so on, the royal family uses nine, the princes and nobles use three, three to seven official tombs, set up a pair of ritual tables, this is the faΓ§ade, all with large pieces of gold, silver and jade furnishings. β
Jia Xibei probably didn't expect Chen Xiaodonkey to understand this, so he glanced at him in surprise and said, "Who taught you?" β
Chen Xiaodonkey did not answer. He has loved to collect all kinds of miscellaneous books to read since he was a child, and then he took his mother to run around for several years and never put it down, these common-sense questions are really difficult for him, but this obviously does not need to tell himself about this uncle.
"Damn, then it's no wonder you have to open a square mouth!" Pei Luo sighed with some toothache.
Chen Xiaodonkey didn't answer anymore and began to look around.
It's just that if this is a tomb of a person related to the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, why would it be arranged with the tomb rules of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, wasn't the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising just to overthrow the Manchu Dynasty?
It's ironic.
The flashlight swept around, and Chen Xiaodonkey was about to take another look at the top, but suddenly the back of his neck was cold, as if he had been licked by something.