The grandfather was taken into a bamboo house by someone who knew the official language. After the people who knew the official language left, Xiao Laodao instructed the grandfather to take this opportunity to sleep for a while, and there might be something to do after dawn.

After a fight, the grandfather and a few people were sleepy, but they all squinted their eyes when they were looking for a suitable place in the bamboo house.

In a blink of an eye, the sky was bright, and people who knew the official language came, saying that the elders of their clan were invited.

A few people left the bamboo hut with someone who knew official language. Outside, many of the corpses were gone, the blood on the ground had been shoveled, and a layer of loess had been covered, but many people were still busy, cleaning up the destroyed houses and fences, and it was still a mess.

The grandfather walked not far into the depths of the village with the people who understood the official language, and were taken into a wooden house by someone who understood the official language, which seemed to be the only wooden house in their village. The wooden house has a suite, a living room, beams and pillars, which are similar to the tiled houses where the Han people live, and are much more magnificent than the bamboo huts and thatched huts in the village.

In the living room of the wooden house, there were three old people sitting upright, and after the grandfather and a few people entered the house, the three old men hurriedly asked the grandfather to sit down. After a few polite words, Xiao Laodao went straight to the point, and asked the three old men with a smile, "Three elders, you left a few of us, not just to hold a banquet to thank you, right?" ”

The person who knew the official language hurriedly translated, and after the translation, one of the oldest old men, looking eighty or ninety years old, had white hair, the old man nodded, and muttered a few words, and the person who knew the official language immediately said: "Our great elder said that I would like to ask a few people to stay and protect the cottage." ”

When the master heard this, he glanced at each other, looking very surprised, Xiao Laodao said with a straight face: "A few of us are just foot merchants, and we have to do business to support our families, and the requirements of the great elder are difficult to obey." ”

After the person who knew the official language translated, the old man next to the great elder muttered a few words, and the person who knew the official language said: "Our second elder said, whatever you want, just mention it, as long as we can get it, and it is not for you to stay in the village for a long time, just stay for a few days, and when we elect the patriarch, you can leave." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Laodao asked, "Was your patriarch killed last night?" ”

The official speaker replied: "Our patriarch has died, and he was just buried yesterday, and the other tribes must have heard the news of our patriarch's death before they came to attack us." ”

Xiao Laodao nodded, "Understood." Xiao Laodao then asked, "If we stay, what can you give us?" ”

The person who knew the official language hurriedly asked the three old men a few words, and the three old men looked at each other, and after a while, the great elder muttered a few words, and the person who knew the official language said: "We don't have too much gold and silver, and there are some furs in the village, if you still want herbs, our people can go to the mountains to collect them for you, and you can pick as much as you want." ”

Xiao Laodao smiled, looked at the three elders a few times, and said: "Protect your cottage, but it's a matter of life, if you don't want to keep it, someone will attack you, and I'm afraid it won't work if you only give us furs and herbs." ”

"And what do you want?" The official man asked.

Xiao Laodao pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever heard a legend?" ”

"What legend?" People who understand official language are busy asking.

Xiao Laodao said: "According to legend, there is a tomb in your mountain, and it is buried by a feudal official. ”

When the official speaker heard this, he looked dazed, and then muttered to the three elders. After speaking, the Great Elder nodded, muttered a few words, and the person who knew the official language immediately said to Xiao Laodao: "Our Great Elder has heard that many years ago, the patriarch took us to settle down at the foot of this mountain, and those who attacked our tribe last night came to discuss with the patriarch and let us leave this mountain, they said that their ancestors were buried in the mountain, but we did not see the tombs of their ancestors in the mountain. The patriarch thought that they had come to make a fuss, so he drove them out of the stockade, and later, when they came to attack us, they were repelled by our patriarch and his people each time. ”

After someone who understands official language, Xiao Laodao nodded slightly, "It seems that the rumors are true, there is indeed a tomb in this mountain, but your people have not found it." Xiao Laodao then asked, "Have your clansmen found any strange caves on the mountain?" ”

When the official speaker heard this, his face changed slightly, and he said, "Do you want to fight our idea of burying the cave?" ”

Xiao Laodao hurriedly waved his hand, "You have been misunderstood, Poor Dao is not interested in the burial caves of your clansmen, I want to know if there are other caves on the mountain besides the burial caves of your clansmen?" ”

The three elders listened to it, glanced at each other, and among the three old men, the old man who had not spoken said a few words, and the person who knew the official language immediately translated: "Decades ago, the patriarch came here with the clansmen, and found a cave when building the village, at that time, our three elders and patriarchs, as well as the celestial master of the clan, went in to see, there was a stone gate in the cave, and a ghost head was carved on the stone door, the celestial master said, it was a ghost cave, an ominous hole, later, The Heavenly Master asked the clansmen to seal the cave and built a shrine outside the cave to suppress the ghost cave. ”

When Xiao Laodao heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Is that shrine still there?" ”

The official speaker nodded, "Every festival, our clan will go to the shrine to worship and pray for blessings. ”

Xiao Laodao immediately said to the three elders: "We don't want furs and herbs, can you let us go to the cave behind the shrine and have a look." ”

After the person who knew the official language translated it for the three elders, the faces of the three elders all showed embarrassment, and Xiao Laodao said again: "If we can find the treasure of the rich country inside, we will divide it equally with your people, and you can take the gold and silver and find a better place." ”

The person who knew the official language translated Xiao Laodao's words to the three elders again, and the three elders showed hesitation, Xiao Laodao saw this, and said: "If you don't agree, then we have to leave." ”

When the three elders heard this, they immediately began to discuss with each other, and finally, the person who knew the official language said to Xiao Laodao: "Our three elders said that it is okay to enter the cave, and you must wait until we elect the patriarch and repair the cottage before leaving." ”

Xiao Laodao said: "When you have the treasure, where can you go, do you have to stay in this ravine?" ”

The man who knew the official language said: "There are our people buried on the mountain, and we don't want to leave. ”

After reaching an agreement, the three elders took a few people from the grandfather to their shrine, this shrine is still a bamboo house, from the outside, there is no difference from other bamboo houses, to say that there is a difference, but it looks slightly larger than other bamboo houses, and the whole bamboo house relies on the mountain to build.

Walk into the bamboo house, the inside is very spacious, next to the mountain, there is a statue of a mud fetus, walk to the statue of the mud fetus to see closely, it is actually a standing bear, the bear is covered with armor, and there is a spear in his hand.

This made the grandfather stunned, this standing bear, is it the god they worship?

However, Xiao Laodao didn't care about this, and asked people who understand official language, where is the cave? The person who knew the official language asked the three elders, and then, the elders pointed to the back of the bear statue, and the grandfather and a few people looked behind it, and saw that behind the bear statue was a mountain, but there was a place that was made of mud, just like the burial cave on the mountain.

Xiao Laodao nodded, and asked people who understand official language, can you open the hole now?

The three elders hesitated, and then muttered a few words to the official speaker, and the man turned around and left, and soon, a few young and strong young men came in from outside, and in the hands of these young people, they also held some tools.

Xiao Laodao glanced at the tools in their hands and shook his head, those tools were too simple, wooden rammers, shovels, machetes, etc., compared with the exquisite iron tools used by the Han people outside the mountains, they seemed to be in ancient times.

Xiao Laodao said to those who knew official language: "We don't need your help, let's do it ourselves." Then, Xiao Twelve and Xiao Thirteen gave them a look, and the two of them immediately took out sledgehammers, crowbars, sharp iron drills, and so on from their baggage.

Moving the bear statue to the side, Xiao Twelve and Xiao Thirteen moved their hands, because with their previous experience, they first shoveled off the soil layer, and then exposed the stones inside, however, these stones are not alive, there are adhesive fillers between the stones and the stones, and it seems that when the base is built, they didn't think about opening it.

However, this is nothing, Xiao Twelve picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it against a stone wall. At this time, the three elders and Xiao Laodao muttered again, and someone who knew the official language was translating on the side, and the three elders probably meant that their past heavenly master said that this cave is a ghost cave, and after opening it, if something happens to you when you enter the cave, you will bear the consequences.

Xiao Laodao confidently reassured the three elders, the ghost cave is just nonsense, if there are really ghosts in the cave, we still have the masters who exorcise evil spirits and exorcise ghosts.

Soon, the stone wall was smashed open by Xiao Twelve and Xiao Thirteen in turn, and behind the stone wall, a deep cave appeared.

Seeing this, the three elders left the shrine with the clansmen in the shrine, leaving only a few people.

This time, there was no need to leave anyone outside to let the wind out, and several people lit two torches and all walked into the cave.

The cave is not too big, more than five feet high and more than three feet wide, and there are no traces of excavation on the cave wall, like a natural cave.

After walking in the cave for about a few feet, a stone gate appeared in front of me. This is similar to what the three elders said, when they shine a torch at the stone gate, they see a human face carved on the stone gate, with a cloak and fangs, looking like a demon.

Xiao Laodao smiled after looking at it: "There must be a tomb inside, and the ghost relief on this door is just used to scare those tomb robbers." As he spoke, Xiao Laodao knocked the stone with a whisk, "One foot thick, smash it open." ”