Let's say that Qiao Erzi and the two sons took the lead and led the team of men and horses to run towards the direction of the southeast hexagram. In less than half a cup of tea, their group of thirty-four people came to the southeast wall of a large mountain.

I saw that the soil on the southeast side of this mountain range was even more barren than the rest of the country, and the ground did not feel soft at all, but was as hard as an iron crust that had been cracked by tenacious and tenacious weeds.

Moreover, the southeast wall gives people an ugly appearance, even if there are weeds growing on it. But even the weeds did not seem to be as lush and verdant as elsewhere, but like straw that had been dried for three days, withered and yellow, and looked like yellow rice sticks, clutching the stiff soil, like the hand of an eighty or ninety year old, squeezing hard, trying to suck and grab even a little bit of water from deep in the soil.

However, even this poor barren grass is not evenly distributed on this mountain wall. In some places, there are sparse and miserable failures, and only a few have sporadically grown. In some places, there are slightly more clusters of them.

The more than 30 soldiers heard Qiao Erliang say that this was a full feng shui treasure, and thought it was a place with beautiful mountains and rivers and fragrant birds and flowers. When I saw it now, it was just a barren mountain and a wild mountain, and I couldn't help but smile in my heart, thinking that Qiao Erzi and his two sons had no eyes. Even Yu Bingzhong, who has always been taciturn, couldn't help but slanted the corners of his mouth, looking at Qiao Erzi with disdain.

Hammer looked around, taking in everyone's expressions. The hammer moved the reins of the horse lightly, walked towards Qiao Erzi and whispered: Qiao Er! Dude, I'm following you with my head pinned to the waistband of my pants! Don't let me go! Look at the color of this mountain, and look at the faces of these people! As he spoke, Iron Hammer glanced at Yu Bingzhong and the soldiers in a hurry, and then asked Qiao Erzi and his son: Do you have a score in your heart!

Qiao Er glanced at the hammer and instructed the hammer: Go and give each of the thirty soldiers a bottle of the "clear liquid" we brought. Please, please!

Speaking of the origin of this "clear liquid", we have to start with the deeds of "digging graves and eating stinks" that Qiao Erzi and Iron Hammer did when they were escaping the famine.

One night, Qiao Erzi and Iron Hammer were looking for the grave, but suddenly stepped on a dirt pit with empty feet. Qiao Erzi rubbed his feet and found that there was a hard state underneath the sealed soil.

It is said to be sealed soil, but in fact, it is three points harder than the stone and pig iron. No matter how much they chopped with their knives and axes, they could only leave a few white marks one or two millimeters deep on the sealed soil. Qiao Erzi and the two sons only thought at this time: It turned out that they fell into the thief hole dug by the people who came here to dig the grave before, and the person who dug this thief hole probably gave up because he couldn't get rid of the sealed soil!

Qiao Erzi and the two sons and Iron Hammer couldn't dig the big tomb they were watching, and it felt like the gold ingots in their arms were snatched away by life, and it hurt to pierce the heart and tear out the liver! But no matter how painful it is, I have to endure the pain of cutting love, and the reality is sometimes so helpless.

A few days later, they dug up a few small graves, got a pair of gilt silver bracelets, and exchanged them for four sesame cakes, and were eating against the tree. Suddenly, out of the group came a ragged and unkempt old man, about sixty years old. Like crazy, he pounced on Qiao Erzi and shouted: Give me the baked cakes! Give it to me!

The hammer went up and was about to strike, but before the hammer could strike, the old man suddenly fell to the ground.

Muttering to himself for a pant of air. Qiao Erzi couldn't bear it, so he gave the baked cake in his hand to the old man. The old man had eaten baked cakes and was grateful to Qiao and his sons. reported to his family that he was a well-known mason in these ten miles and eight towns, and others called him an old mud man. In the past, when the world was peaceful, whether it was building a house, making a kang, digging a tomb, or sealing a grave, he was indispensable. Qiao Erzi and his two sons had a flash of inspiration at this time, remembering the thing that they had encountered when they had eaten stinky soil a few days ago. So, I asked the old mud man, what is the matter with the sealed soil on the grave?

As soon as the old mud man heard it, he knew what Qiao Erzi and the Iron Hammer were going to do, and he was startled at the time, saying that this was God's evil work, and he couldn't tell them no matter what!

At this time, Iron Hammer rushed over and said: You old man! If we hadn't saved you just now, you would have seen Hades a long time ago! Tell you: Even the steamed buns you just ate in your stomach were bought by us with the money we used to dig graves and eat stinky food!

At this time, the old man sighed and told Qiao Erzi: It was a layer of rammed earth, a layer of anti-theft shell as hard as iron on the sealing stone of the tomb road. The reason why it is so hard is because it is mixed with a lot of glutinous rice juice and quicklime, and of course, there are also things such as boy urine and chicken gold to ward off evil spirits. The mixed clay seals made of these things are harder than pig iron when they are dry. Tomb robbers can't open the door if they don't know the doorway, but if those big families want to move the grave after a few years or more than ten years, they will secretly find the mason, let the mason use the "clear liquid" to dissolve the sealed soil, and then move the coffin out of the grave.

Qiao Erzi hurriedly asked: "What is "Ming Liquid"? Only then did the old mud man tell them: "The so-called "clear liquid" is a transparent liquid. It is a transparent vinegar made from sake. It is vinegar and extremely acidic, and if you taste it, you can sting your teeth. But if you pour it on top of the rammed earth, within half a moment, the originally hard rammed earth will be as soft as tofu! ”。

The hammer distributed the "clear liquid" to the hands of the thirty soldiers according to the instructions of Qiao Erzi, and Qiao Erzi immediately turned his horse's head and walked towards the thirty soldiers of the tiger and leopard riding, and gave orders to the soldiers: All the soldiers listen, the entrance to the tomb is on the mountainside of this stone wall, and any place where the weeds are sparse may be the entrance to the tomb. Now you go in groups of three to the weeds and dump what you have! If something changes in the soil after it has been poured, report it to us immediately! Do you understand?!

The soldiers all held the bottles in their hands and looked at Yu Bingzhong. Yu Bingzhong waved his hand to the soldier and motioned the soldier to do as Qiao Erzi instructed.

Thirty-four people in the whole army went out at the same time, and after searching the mountainside for a while, they heard a soldier shouting not far away: There is a situation here, come quickly!

When Qiao Erzi heard this, he hurriedly ran along the source of the sound, and Iron Hammer, Xiao Feiying, Yu Bingzhong and the underworld guards also hurriedly chased Qiao Erzi and the others to that side.

Qiao Erzi came to take a look, and sure enough, after pouring the "clear liquid" here, the soil collapsed significantly, and the color of the soil had changed from the previous white with a slight earthy yellow to the dark yellow now. Even the soil is no longer as hard and shiny as it was, but has become like a lamb, with countless tiny pores that look very soft. Qiao Erzi leaned down and grabbed a handful of the soil, and the touch was exactly as the old mud head said, that is, it was as soft as tofu.

Qiao Erzi put the soil on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and then turned around to let Xiao Feiying smell it too, and after smelling it, Xiao Feiying said to Qiao Erzi: There is indeed a strong rancid smell in this soil, which is similar to the smell of corpses.

After hearing this, Qiao Erzi instructed the soldiers around him: Take a shovel and shovel, and dig deep here!

The soldiers were given the order and hurriedly dug in turn with three or four people in the soil soaked in the clear liquid. Thinking that these soldiers were also born from the tiger and leopard riders, they were the elite troops in the Cao army's overlordship, well-trained and well-equipped, and after Qiao Er's order was issued for three hours, the mounds on the mountainside had been dug into a big pit three or four zhang deep.

When I wanted to dig again, I suddenly heard a "bell"! Qiao Erzi and his ears immediately twitched sensitively, as if he had been looking forward to this voice for a long time. And now it's finally here!

Qiao Erzi pulled out his legs and ran towards the edge of the pit, and it turned out that the shovel of a soldier under the pit suddenly touched a hard stone, which made the crisp sound just now.

The soldiers under the pit hurriedly shouted upward: "Second Master Qiao! Something has been dug up! ”。 Qiao Erzi ran to the edge of the pit to take a look, only to see that the bottom of the pit was a flat big bluestone slab, I don't know how big it is. Qiao Erzi hurriedly ordered: Keep digging! Dig me up the whole picture of this stone!

After the soldiers received the order, they continued to dig under the pit. Half an hour later, a large bluestone slab about seven feet square and more than a foot thick finally emerged at the bottom of the pit. Qiao Er's two sons knew at a glance that this big bluestone slab was a huge tomb sealing stone unique to the Gonghou Tomb.

Therefore, the soldiers were ordered to break the boulder with various hammers and hammers. After the boulder was broken, everyone removed the stone, and they saw a bottomless hole in the tomb, six feet square, and the purple gas was constantly bubbling out, and the smell was strong.

As soon as Qiao Erzi and his son saw that the heads of the soldiers digging the pit were shaking their bodies and their minds were dizzy, they hurriedly shouted down: "The brothers who are digging the soil below come up!" Fast!

Qiao Erzi hurriedly threw the hemp rope with a diameter of about one inch and a thickness under the pit, so that the soldiers all grabbed the rope and climbed out of the pit.

Qiao Er immediately ordered: "Everyone immediately withdraw a mile away!" From now on, within two hours, there will be no open fire around a radius of one mile! ”。 When everyone is ordered, they immediately quit.

After waiting for more than an hour a mile away, Qiao Erzi and the others saw that the purple gas bubbling in the pit gradually dissipated, Qiao Erzi ran to the side of the pit, and saw that there was no smell in the pit, so he took out the fire fold from his arms, tied a slender and familiar hemp rope at the end of the fire fold, and then threw the fire fold into the hole.

Qiao Erzi stood on the pit, paying close attention to the burning of the fire in the pit. At this time, Hammer and Little Flying Bird also hurriedly ran over, and the three of them looked down at the hole together.

The fire in the cave burned normally, and there was an orange-yellow fire, and there was no smell in the pit anymore. Seeing this scene, Qiao Erzi and Xiao Feiying and Iron Hammer glanced at each other, and the three of them exchanged glances and nodded their heads in tacit understanding.

The little warbler said: Since this fire burns normally, it means that there is no poison in the cave.

When Qiao Erzi heard this, he immediately commanded the hammer: Hammer! You go get the rope ladder. Warriors of the tiger and leopard riders, come here! Get ready to go to the grave!