Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Difficult Door

The old man hurriedly said, "Don't talk nonsense, how can you be a monster." ā€

Xiao Laodao said: "Girl, you are not a monster, you are our nobleman, otherwise, why don't you get lost." ā€

The girl smiled happily when she heard Xiao Laodao say this, and then said to my grandfather with a proud face: "You heard that there is no dragon slayer, I am your nobleman, you have to be polite to me in the future." ā€

The master was silent.

An hour later, everyone came to the front of the small soil slope, Xiao Laodao looked at the small soil slope, and became excited, "Not bad, this is indeed a tomb, this small hill is the sealing mound of the tomb, and then look at the feng shui here, as well as the situation of the sealing mound, the people buried in it are either rich or expensive." ā€

Xiao Laodao immediately asked the ghost monkey, "Where is the entrance to the cave, take me there." ā€

The ghost monkey also seemed very excited at this time, "squeaked" twice, and jumped into the grass before.

When they came to the grass, they pushed aside the messy grass, and saw the ghost monkey grabbing a ball of weeds inside, but when they lifted it up, a piece of weed, the size of the lid of the pot, was lifted, and under the turf, a black hole the thickness of a man's waist was exposed.

At this time, the master looked at the ghost monkey, then at the black hole, and asked the ghost monkey, "How did you find here?" ā€

The ghost monkey hurriedly gestured: There were blood stains on these grasses yesterday.

Xiao Laodao nodded, "It should be the blood left by the python, in my opinion, this is the python deliberately brought us here in order to repay us." ā€

Saying that, Xiao Laodao stepped on the grass around the entrance of the cave, squatted down and looked into the hole, the hole was dark, it was estimated that he didn't see anything, and then tried it with his hands, and said: "There is no wind inside, which means that there is no other entrance, but this hole is too small, except for the monkeys, none of us can get in." With that, he turned his head and instructed Xiao Chujiu, "The guy will take out everything and open the hole." ā€

Seeing this, the master hurriedly said: "Brother Xiao, I look at this hole, the python can just get in and out, I'm afraid this is really its dojo, let's not dig it." ā€

Xiao Laodao smiled faintly with confidence, "Don't worry, brother, I have my own measure." ā€

Xiao Laodao's intentions are resolute, and the master is not easy to forcibly stop it.

Everyone got out of the way, Xiao Chujiu picked up a shovel and dug it up in the direction of the extension of the hole.

Digging a hole in the soil is a hard job, but in the tomb robbery business, it is another thing that has to be done, so we won't say more here.

Several people took turns to replace, until noon, the hole was finally dug open, the whole digging a three or four meters deep pit, the bottom of the pit through a tomb made of double layers of green bricks, the original tomb road was also sealed by green bricks, however, I don't know what has been opened a long time ago. My grandfather estimated that it should have been opened by the python, and it should be the python's dojo inside.

Xiao Laodao divided the division of labor for everyone at this time, the ghost monkey, the old man, and the girl, three of them stayed on it to let go, and the others took the guys and went down.

However, the girl was not happy to hear it, and she was fighting to go down, Xiao Laodao explained to her that since ancient times, women are not allowed to go to the tomb to dig gold in the tomb of tomb robbery, especially when the coffin is opened, and women are not allowed to be present, this is a rule and a taboo, you are now following us to the tomb, it is already an exception.

The girl was not convinced, and asked Xiao Laodao, why can't women go to the grave, who made this rule?

Xiao Laodao couldn't tell who set the rules, because this was what his master told him, his master, and his master's master told him, all the rules and taboos were passed down from mouth to mouth, if you want to say why, I'm afraid few people can say it clearly, but these rules can be passed down from generation to generation, it must be reasonable.

The girl pestered Xiao Laodao, and insisted that Xiao Laodao say a reason, Xiao Laodao was suddenly dumb and couldn't say that he was suffering from eating Coptis chinensis, and he seemed to have found out at this time that the girl who was an entertainer was indeed very difficult. My grandfather looked at the deflated Xiao Laodao from the side, and secretly laughed in his heart.

Seeing this, the old man hurriedly stopped the girl, and the old man said, there is bad luck in the tomb, and there are some dead bones in the coffin, what are you doing in a girl's house!

When the girl heard this, she pursed her lips and said no more. Xiao Laodao seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly instructed my grandfather and them to pack up their belongings and go down quickly.

It was still Xiao Shiyi who took the lead, and several people held torches and drilled into the tomb.

In the cemetery, the space is very narrow, only three or four feet wide on the left and right, and only more than one person tall up and down, like Xiao Chujiu, he has to bend over and walk inside.

The tomb road is all made of big blue bricks, maybe the waterproof measures are better, the inside is quite dry, and there is no strange smell.

The tomb road is not too deep, walk about four or five meters away, the front is much more cheerful, there is a step that extends downward, the step is about a zhang wide, due to the limited light source of the torch, I can't see what is under the steps, it feels quite deep.

Xiao Laodao ordered everyone at this time not to walk on the steps, and then let Xiao Shiyi walk behind him, he held a torch, and was the first to walk up the steps, and then ordered everyone to follow his footsteps.

Several people lined up on the steps, followed behind Xiao Laodao, and walked cautiously. Xiao Shiyi, Xiao Chujiu, my grandfather, and the last one is a showman.

When he was about to finish the steps, the young man behind my grandfather trembled and whispered, "Liu Daxia, is there a ghost here?" ā€

As soon as the young man said this, everyone looked back at him, and without waiting for my grandfather to answer, Xiao Laodao smiled and said, "What's the matter, young man, are you scared?" ā€

The young man replied, "I—I'm not afraid, but I just feel a little cold." ā€

Xiao Laodao said: "Don't be afraid, the first time I went to the tomb, it was like this, I was cold and afraid, but as long as you think in your heart, after taking the baby, you can eat and drink spicy food, and you are not afraid of anything." ā€

My grandfather frowned when he heard this, feeling that Xiao Laodao's words could teach a good child badly, and the grandfather followed closely and said: "We people who practice martial arts, with the qi of martial arts, as long as you have a straight heart and body, you will naturally not invade all evils." ā€

After the master said, the young man hurriedly responded, "What Liu Daxia said is very true, one day, I will also become a big hero like Liu Daxia." ā€

The young man's voice fell, and Xiao Laodao said "um": "You young man is really ambitious, and in the future, Poor Dao will also take you to rob the tomb......"

As soon as the master heard Xiao Laodao's words, he almost didn't step on the air and fell down the steps.

Soon, several people walked up the stairs and came to the bottom. I saw that the ground under the steps was all paved with stones, and this should be the core of the tomb.

The two sides are no longer blue bricks, all are made of stones, and then go forward, about two zhang away, are two large stone doors, the stone door is tightly closed, in the position of the bright hall in front of the stone door, there is a large stone incense burner.

Xiao Laodao held the torch and looked at the stone gate, then looked at the incense burner, and said: "Behind the stone gate is the tomb, this used to be the place where the descendants of the tomb owner sacrificed, if I guess correctly, this should be a tomb of the previous dynasty, not to mention hundreds of years." Then he instructed Xiao Shiyi, "Take out some incense, candles, paper and fire, and after the tomb door is opened, we will also pay tribute to the tomb owner." ā€

When Xiao Shiyi was busy taking the incense, candle, and paper fire, Xiao Chujiu took out the large hammer in his baggage, and glanced at Xiao Laodao, who nodded at him, "Smash it." ā€

Xiao Chujiu hurriedly walked to the two stone doors, tightened his trouser belt, pulled the posture, and with a "bang", the hammer slammed into the stone door.

Perhaps there had never been such a big movement in the tomb, but this hammer shook the whole body and fell a layer of dust, choking everyone's throats and eyes, Xiao Shiyi and the young man couldn't help coughing.

Immediately after, "bang" another hammer, Xiao Chujiu suddenly exclaimed, the hammer was actually bounced back by the stone gate, Xiao Chujiu couldn't hold it back, and took several steps backwards with the hammer.

Seeing this, the master hurriedly asked, "Brother Chu Jiu, what's the matter?" ā€

Xiao Chujiu glanced at my grandfather, and before he could answer, Xiao Laodao said: "The back of the stone gate is not empty, it should be hit by thousands of catties of things, otherwise the hammer will not be bounced back." As he spoke, Xiao Laodao took out a strange-shaped hammer from his own baggage, the hammer was in the shape of a long strip, the thickness of an adult's wrist, half a foot long, and the hammer was square at one end and round at the other.

Xiao Laodao took the hammer and knocked on the two stone doors with a round head, and while knocking, he also listened with his ears sideways, as if he was listening to whether the stone doors were empty or solid. Seeing this, my grandfather said to himself, can such a thick stone door really use a small hammer to knock out the reality behind it?

Xiao Laodao knocked for a while, and finally put away the small hammer, and said to everyone: "There is a round stone inside, against the two stone doors, even if the stone door is broken, there are thousands of pounds of round stones in the way, we can't enter from the door at all." ā€

As he spoke, Xiao Laodao raised his head and glanced at the top of the door, and my grandfather also looked up, and saw that above the door was a half-moon-shaped stone window, the length was similar to that of the two doors, but the middle position of the highest inner diameter of the window was only less than two feet, and there were stone fences on it, and it was impossible to get in through the window.

Xiao Laodao gave Xiao Chujiu and Xiao Shiyi a look, both of them seemed to understand what Xiao Laodao meant, Xiao Chujiu hurriedly put away the sledgehammer and squatted in front of the stone gate, Xiao Shiyi put down the incense candle paper fire in his hand, took out a medium-sized hammer from the big burden, and took out a thumb-thick chisel, walked over and rode on Xiao Chujiu's shoulder, Xiao Chujiu carried Xiao Shiyi and stood up from the ground.

When my grandfather saw it, could it be that he really wanted to get in through the window? Xiao Shiyi was just able to get to the window at this time, picked up the hammer and chisel, and smashed the partition on the window, probably trying to get into it after knocking the partition down.

My grandfather couldn't help but ask Xiao Lao Dao in a low voice, "Brother Xiao, this window is narrow, can you get in?" ā€

Xiao Laodao glanced at the master and said with a smile: "It depends on who drills inside, of course you and Chu Jiu can't get in." ā€

My grandfather immediately understood.

Besides, Xiao Shiyi smashed it with a hammer and chisel a few times, and several stone fences were all broken, Xiao Laodao asked him: "How is it, can you go in?" ā€

Xiao Shiyi nodded slightly, Xiao Laodao immediately handed him the torch in his hand, Xiao Shiyi put the torch through the window, looked inside, and gestured to Xiao Laodao with one hand, which probably means that there is a lot of space inside, and I can't see anything.

Xiao Laodao nodded and said: "There is such a big mound of sealed soil above, of course it will not be small below, you can drill in now and see if you can open the tomb door." ā€

Xiao Shiyi handed the torch back to Xiao Laodao, and with Xiao Chujiu's assistance, he got into it through the window. Judging from Xiao Shiyi's sophistication in drilling windows, the master felt that he had drilled more than once.

After Xiao Shiyi got in, Xiao Laodao looked at the young man who was performing arts, and smiled at the young man: "Young man, are you afraid?" ā€

The young man shook his head, and Xiao Laodao suddenly said: "That's good, to do what we do, you have to have the courage, eleven alone, I'm afraid it won't work, you can also get in." ā€

When the young man heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he glanced at my grandfather, who nodded at him slightly, which can be regarded as encouragement.

Seeing this, Xiao Laodao hurriedly handed him an unlit torch and explained to him: "What do you need after you go in, you shout, we will hand you through the window......"