At the end of the tomb, there is a heavy doorway, there is no door on it, and the inner diameter of the doorway is one size smaller than the previous boulder, which means that this doorway has played a role in blocking the boulder.

Passing through the stone gate cave that can be more than six feet thick, there is a big pit in front of it, there is no road, everyone can't get through, and because the torch light source is limited, you can't see the opposite side, the pit seems to be quite big.

At this time, Xiao Laodao and the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" stood at the front, next to the edge of the big pit, the grandfather stood behind them, Xiao Laodao looked into the pit with a torch, and there was no bottom, but he seemed to think of something, turned around and ordered Xiao Shiyi, "Go outside and move a stone over, the bigger the better." ”

Xiao Shiyi turned to leave, and quickly brought a stone the size of a grinding plate from outside, Xiao Laodao motioned for him to throw the stone into the pit, Xiao Shiyi walked to the edge of the pit with the stone in his arms, straightened up, and threw the stone down. Xiao Laodao immediately listened attentively, and after two or three seconds, there was a "poof" sound from below.

Everyone heard it clearly, the sound of falling water, there was water under the deep pit, and the water was quite far from the top of the pit, indicating that the pit was quite deep, Xiao Laodao shook his head and praised: "This tomb is so well designed, exquisite!" ”

The master didn't understand what was going on, and the "thousand-handed monkey", who was also a veteran of tomb robbing, seemed to see it, and turned his head to Xiao Laodao and said: "Gather water and walk in the coffin, the handwriting of this tomb is really not simple." ”

Xiao Laodao nodded, "If you can find such a place, I'm afraid you are a master of feng shui." ”

The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" looked in front of the big pit and asked Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, this pit has no end in sight, I don't know how big it is, and it is so deep, how can we go over?" ”

Xiao Laodao smiled faintly: "What do you say, old brother?" ”

"Thousand-handed Monkey" looked embarrassed, "According to me, there is only one way, gather water, but it is not the rainy season at the moment, and it is more difficult to gather water than to ascend to the sky. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Laodao sniffed his nose, squatted down, touched the stone wall in the pit, got up and said with a smile: "Brother, there is a great loss of breath in this hole, it should not be difficult to gather water, just throw the stone down, it will only take two breaths, I estimate that from here to the surface of the water, it will be less than ten zhang away." With that, Xiao Laodao turned around and instructed Xiao Shiyi again, "You and your two junior brothers go out again and bring in all the ropes outside." Soon, Xiao Shiyi and the three took all the ropes from outside the cave.

"Hold the ropes together." Xiao Laodao glanced at everyone and asked, "Which of you is good at water?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the master said, "Brother Xiao, do you want people to go down?" ”

Xiao Laodao nodded.

"Then I'll do it."

The "Thousand-Hand Monkey" was a little worried, and said to Xiao Laodao: "The pit is unpredictable, in case the tomb owner releases the water snake and water monster...... Besides, it's winter now, how can ordinary people stand it when they go into the water. ”

Xiao Laodao didn't answer the "Thousand-Handed Monkey", and looked at the master, who said to the "Thousand-Handed Monkey": "Although the old-timers can rest assured, Liu has true qi to protect his body and is not afraid of the cold, as for the water snake and water monster, he doesn't dare to approach Liu for half a minute." ”

When Xiao Laodao heard what the master said, he immediately smiled and asked the "Thousand-Handed Monkey", "My brother has been walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, have you ever heard of a person who killed the Dragon King in the Yellow River?" ”

The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" was stunned, "I've heard a little." ”

Xiao Laodao patted the grandfather on the shoulder, "It's our brother!" ”

"Huh?" The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" looked at the Lord in disbelief, "You are the boy who killed the Dragon King?" ”

The master nodded slightly, "That was more than ten years ago. ”

The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" looked at Xiao Lao Dao with a look of surprise, "Brother Xiao, I didn't expect you to be able to meet such a strange person......

Xiao Laodao said with a smile: "This is a real person who does not show his face, my old brother will go down, nine out of ten will be stable, old brother, don't worry." ”

At this time, all the ropes were connected together, Xiao Laodao took a rope, handed it to the master, and explained: "After going down, see what the situation is, how big the pit is, how much water there is, and pay attention to the wall of the pit to see if there is any water flowing out." ”

The master nodded, tied the rope to his waist, took another torch, and everyone pulled the rope and led the master into the bottom of the pit little by little.

After the master went down to the pit, Xiao Laodao instructed everyone to go outside to find firewood and build a fire in the cave.

Half an hour later, the master whistled to the people above, and everyone pulled the rope together to pull the master up from the pit.

Seeing that the master was wet, and even the torches were soaked in water, Xiao Laodao hurriedly greeted the master, took off his clothes, and went to the fire to warm up.

While roasting the fire, the master said to everyone the situation below the pit, the pit is about three zhang wide, and the water surface is about seven or eight zhang deep from the top of the pit, but from the top of the pit to less than a zhang down, the water begins to stick to the cave wall to bubble out, the whole pit is like a waterhole, however, the water inside seems to be flat all the time, no matter how much water flows down from the cave wall, the water in the pool is not much or less.

Speaking of this, Xiao Laodao asked the master, when you were in the water, did you feel a suction force in the water?

The master nodded, there seemed to be a suction, and the water in the pool was extremely deep, he couldn't dive to the end at all, the further he dived, the greater the suction, and he finally had to give up and did not dive to the bottom of the pool.

When Xiao Laodao heard the grandfather say this, he immediately smiled and said to the "Thousand-Handed Monkey": "This is exactly what I expected." ”

"Thousand-handed monkey" didn't say a word, as a veteran of tomb robbery, he seemed to understand what was going on, nodded, signaled Xiao Laodao to continue, Xiao Laodao continued: "This mountain is a mountain that gathers water, the mountain is a waterhole, when the tomb owner is buried, the water in the pool should be full, they will open the mountain, use a boat to the opposite side of the waterhole, and then chisel out the tomb on the opposite side of the mountain, place the tomb owner, wait until the tomb owner is finished, go to the mountain to dig a drainage outlet, put the water outside the mountain, and the water in the waterhole will fall into the deep pit now." ”

When Xiao Laodao said this, the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" said: "As long as we find the drainage outlet outside the mountain and plug the water inlet, the water in the waterhole will gather again, and at that time, we will be able to float to the opposite side." ”

"My brother is right, but it may take some time to gather water, and your gambling contract is only afraid that it will be overdue, and besides, whether you can completely block the drain outlet has to be said separately."

"Thousand-armed Monkey" asked Xiao Laodao: "Is there any other way for my brother?" ”

Xiao Laodao said: "There is no good way, first find the drainage outlet outside the mountain, it is best to plug it, if it can't be blocked, we must slow down the flow of water, let the water in the pool slowly gather, let's take advantage of the time to gather water in the pool, make a floating ladder, and wait for the floating ladder to be done, the water in the pit should also be able to gather two or three zhang." ”

At this time, it was noon, the sun was shining outside, everyone had lunch outside the cave, and they were divided into four groups, and they were found in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the whole mountain.

The grandfather and the nephew of the "thousand-handed monkey" Hou Xin group, the two of them found a waterhole on the lower mountainside of the North Mountain, the waterhole can have a width of two zhang, the water in the waterhole is very fast, bubbling outward, forming a small river more than one zhang wide along the mountain.

At the same time, Xiao Laodao took Xiao Shiyi to find a waterhole in Xishan, which was about the same size as the master and the master they found, and it was also more than two zhang wide, and Xiao Laodao also found that there were traces of artificial excavation in the waterhole.

Xiao Laodao speculated that these two waterholes were originally springs, but later the springs were enlarged, and the water flow also increased, and the water level in the mountain fell.

The whole mountain, everyone found such two waterholes, with a wooden stick to probe the depth, about six or seven feet, not too deep, but, in the face of the bubbling spring, everyone is difficult, the waterhole is located in the middle and lower part of the mountainside, it can be said, can not go up to the sky, down to the ground, how to block it? It is not realistic to fill the pit from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, and it is not realistic to dig stones to fill the pit from the side, the mountain stone is hard, and it may not be able to fill it when it is chiseled to the year of the monkey.

At this time, the "thousand-handed monkey" came up with a way to fill the pit with a wooden stake thick as a human waist, measure the width of the mouth of the pool, and then cut down the wood, connect the stakes together, like a cover, cover the waterhole, and then press it with stones on the "cover", although it cannot completely block the flow of water, but at least it can subtract seventy or eighty percent of the water flowing out of the pool.

"Thousand-handed monkey" a pair of skillful hands, blacksmith work, carpenter work is also outstanding, Xiao Laodao listened, felt that the "thousand-handed monkey" method is feasible, and Xiao Laodao has also made improvements to his method, tie stones under the stake, try to sink the stake into the water, increase the pressure of the stake, reduce buoyancy.

Although they are all stupid methods, there is no better way, everyone says to do it, the grandfather is responsible for cutting down trees near the waterhole, and the father and son of the "thousand-handed monkey" are responsible for installing the "cover" with wood nails. Fortunately, the tools are relatively well prepared, and it is only a matter of time before they are done.

The boulder smashed by the father and son of the "Thousand Hands Monkey" before also played a role, and everyone moved the gravel to the edge of the waterhole to counterweight the "lid".

In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, the "thousand-handed monkey" nailed the cover of the stake, made it tightly, put it into the pool, the gap between the stake and the stake, actually can't see the water coming out, press the stake with a stone, and sink into the water, really like a cover, the water flow immediately decreased by sixty percent, and the remaining forty percent came out along the edge of the stake, and everyone got some stones, hay and branches or something, pressed the edge, basically, controlled the water flow eighty percent.

After suppressing the two pools, everyone was very happy, and in order to prevent too much water from gathering in the mountain pools, they washed away the "lid" and pressed a layer of stakes and stones on top of it to ensure that nothing went wrong.

Back in the tomb, the master went down to the waterhole again to take a look, the water in the waterhole is converging at a speed visible to the naked eye, the water surface is rising little by little, Xiao Laodao estimates that within ten days, the water can float to the opposite side, everyone is very happy to hear it, so many days of hard work, not in vain.