The seventh master put away the money, drove us to Huanzi's hometown, about an afternoon, the car drove into a small village that looked poor, there was no cement road, the car was on the muddy road, both sides were full of the kind of very low brick and earth tile houses, this kind of tile house, I and Huzi also lived in the army, the face was dark and damp, every rainy season, there was the smell of food mildew in the house, it was cloudy and rainy, and it was necessary to shovel two shovels of soil in front of the door, otherwise the sewage would flow backwards into the house.

Soon the car drove to the end of the path, and the seventh master stopped the car, beckoned us to come down, and said, "There is no road any further, we have to walk, about a few hundred meters." ”

We nodded, followed the seventh master, stepped on the muddy path one foot deep and one foot shallow, and after a while, we saw an elderly lady standing in the distance waving to us.

The seventh master said to us, "That's Huanzi's old lady, don't cry with a sad face." ”

I walked in and saw the old lady with silver hair on her head, heavy lines on her head and around her eyes, and an estimated age of seventy.

"Oh, Seven, why are you here? You're so busy, don't always come to see me, an old woman, just let Huanzi come by herself. As she spoke, the old lady leaned over and looked behind her, and said, "Huh? Why didn't Huanzi come with you? ”

When the old lady asked, the smile we had barely pretended to be a little unnatural, the seventh master smiled and held the old lady's arm and said, "Huanzi went abroad, and was favored by a foreign boss, and he wanted to do a big business, isn't it, the deposit just given, Huan Zi asked me to send it to you." As he spoke, the seventh master patted the black leather box in his hand.

The old lady smiled and said, "It's really troublesome for you, Lao Qi, our family is usually in you, so I don't cause you less trouble." ”

The old lady took us all the way to her home, a three-story small building is very conspicuous in this kind of village, after entering the air conditioning, TV, all kinds of household appliances are the same, and then the seventh master sat down and chatted with the old lady, I only knew that the original house and household appliances were built at the expense of the seventh master, and I couldn't help but admire the benevolence of the seventh master, so good to his brothers, no wonder the seventh master's business can do so big.

"Alright, it's not too early, you can stay and eat." As she spoke, the old lady walked towards the kitchen, where the pot was already hot, and the old lady grabbed the lid with both hands and lifted it upward. It took a few painstaking peels before a crack was slightly uncovered. A puff of smoke rushed out of the stove and almost smoked the old lady's face.

The old lady casually brushed her wrinkled face with her sleeve, shook her head again, and said to herself: "It's old, it's useless!" ”

The seventh master hurriedly went over and said, "Don't bother, we still have something to do, we have to go back." ”

The old lady stood at the door of the kitchen, looked at a few of us, and said, "Hey, every time I leave you for dinner, you have something to do, and I know that you are people who do big things, but there is always time for a meal." ”

The seventh master smiled and said, "Next time, next time I will definitely eat at your place." ”

After returning to the antique store, I bored and opened the book brought back from the room of the Gansu production team, with the words 'work log' written on it.

I flipped through the pages and realized that this was a secret iron ore mining team, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to support national construction, this group of people came to the Gobi in Gansu Province to mine minerals.

The logbook details the process of their mining.

In the spring of 1952, mysterious voices appeared in the mine, and the workers were discussing, and in order to stabilize the mood of the workers, the first working meeting was held.

In the spring of 1953, a huge stone gate was found at the end of the mine, suspected of being an underground building, and it was reported to the superiors, replying: close the mine and select another site for mining.

In the winter of 1954, the mine was well mined, it had been driven thirty meters underground, everything was working well, and another mine was already in operation.

In the summer of 1955, when the ore production was abundant, a large number of scorpions appeared on the construction site, the workers were stung, and four people died after ineffective treatment.

In the summer of 1957, three people were killed by fires when a yellow beetle attacked the workers in the mine, and the place was so evil that it needed to be evacuated as soon as possible.

I closed the logbook and imagined the scene in my mind, and shuddered, five or six hundred people were burned to death at the same time, and there must have been at least tens of thousands of fireflies, and there must have been a sea of fire in the mine at that time, and people were struggling to call for help, but no one could hear them.

I carefully recalled the scene when I came out of the ancient tomb, it was obvious that it came out of the mine cave with fireflies, and the Li monkey also entered through that mine, but this work log clearly said that there was a sealed mine hole, looking at his description above, it is very likely that he dug up the tomb door of the ancient tomb! And nine times out of ten, it's the main tomb.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly went to the seventh master and handed him this work diary to see.

After reading it, the seventh master nodded and said, "It should be a good ancient tomb, but if it's not the main tomb, I don't know, we don't know much about that ancient tomb!" ”

At this time, I suddenly remembered a person, so I asked the seventh master, "How did Li Monkey know that there was a hidden mine on the Gobi Desert in Gansu?" And can you pass through that dangerous mine and accurately knock the thief hole into the Hanging Soul Tomb? ”

The seventh master shook his head and said, "This is not clear, this guy Li Monkey likes to eat alone, and he has always been alone when he goes to the tomb, but I have to admit that his kung fu in robbing the tomb is really good, and there are really a lot of goods shipped in more than ten years." ”

I thought for a while and asked, "Seventh Master, this is not the same thing, this Li Monkey is a good at tomb robbing, and if he goes to rob the tomb alone, then his information will not be his own to ask, right?" Someone must have helped him gather information. ”

The seventh master slapped his thigh and said, "It's him!" Hearing you say this, I really think of a person, Li Monkey has been very close to him in the past few years! Looks like we're going to have to go find him. ”

I saw the expression of the seventh master, I knew that there was a play, that night, the two of us drove straight to Nanyang, drove all night, and rushed to a small town in Nanyang at dawn.

followed the seventh master all the way to an antique shop that looked very small.

"This is it! Let's go meet him. "The seventh master took a step into this antique shop, I hurriedly followed, as soon as I entered the door, I found that this antique shop looks small, in fact, there is something else inside!

The whole area of the store is much larger than I imagined, there are a total of eight counters, arranged in the way of the nine palace gossip, in the middle is a copper pillar, from the ground to the roof, the roof is also the style of gossip, the whole room looks very dark, I feel as if I am in an ancient tomb, this feeling is very bad.