Speaking of these four tomb robbers, let's simply replace them with the eldest one, the second, the third, and the fourth.

Listening to Gray San'er, these four people are all thirty years old, except for the eldest who is about 1 meter 65 cm tall, the other three are all five short, and at a glance, people only think that they are adults with three children with long beards.

Although the appearance of these four people is not amazing, their boss's conversation still completely blinded Gray San'er's eyes. This boss first revealed the fortune of Gray San'er in the first half of his life, and then threatened Gray San'er that he had recently attracted bad luck and would have a bloody disaster. He claimed that they were going to Zu Laoding this time to find something that could avoid the benefits of the three calamities, and as long as they found this thing, they would lend it to Gray San'er, so that he could avoid disasters and make a fortune in the second half of his life.

Gray San'er was bluffed by the boss and believed it, until one day, when the sky was just dark, the four people in this group called out to Gray San'er, took out a map and pointed to a location, and asked him to lead the way.

In today's situation, most of the people in the house are still living the days of sunrise and sunset, and Gray San'er saw that the lights in his mother's house were turned off, so he took the map and led the four people out of the house as agreed.

Gray San'er was also puzzled in his heart, thinking that they wanted to go directly to Zulaoding, but after looking at the map, he knew that these four people were going to the wild forest north of Zulaoding. After all, Gray San'er is a local, and he is familiar with the road and takes the four of them to climb the mountain and take a shortcut, and it will take more than half an hour to reach the depths of the wild forest.

The weather was fine that night, and the stars were shining brightly. When he entered the woods, the boss looked up at the stars in the sky and directed the people to change the direction of their walking, and went all the way until they reached the foot of a low mountain.

When they arrived at the bottom of the mountain, the boss raised his foot and drew a circle on the ground, and walked to the side with Gray San'er to chat. The remaining three people immediately took out their tools and put them together, and began to make holes in the ground that the boss had demarcated.

Speaking of this tool, Gray San'er described it to me in detail, and with the gesture in his hand, I guessed some details a little. The tool assembled by these tomb robbers was a one-and-a-half-meter-long iron handle with an iron cylinder thirty or forty centimeters high inserted into it, and it carried the soil upwards one by one by relying on the downward force. I deduced that the gang should have used a shovel, not a Luoyang shovel with a shrinking semi-cylindrical tip.

Until another hour or so passed, the robbery hole was successfully opened, and Gray San'er and these four people got into the hole together, until this time, Gray San'er didn't know that he was in the company of tomb robbers, and completely trusted these four people, and even he was pushed and took the lead without realizing it.

All the way down diagonally, until you entered a road, the road continued to slope downward. This corridor is damp and windy, and it doesn't take long for Gray San'er to feel that his coat is already wet.

In the dark environment, Gray San'er turned on the flashlight and didn't know how long he had been walking, but he couldn't help but be urged to move forward. This road is very long and deep, and Gray San'er's heart slowly develops resistance, which is a psychological effect that normal people can produce in a narrow dark space.

Gray San'er asked the boss several times, but the boss prevaricated. The boss has always encouraged him, as long as he finds something, he can stop the blood and light disaster that is about to come.

The road was coming to an end, and the road under the feet of Gray San'er suddenly became gentle, and the huge sound of water and whirring wind came from the front, and the droplets of water like light rain flew wantonly in the corridor.

Talking about this, Gray San'er's spirits suddenly rose, and he said to me: "Out of the endless passage, there is a stone bridge in front of me, and these stone slabs will rise above the water. The top of the stone bridge is slippery, and if you are not careful, you will fall down. There's still wind up there, so windy. And a lot of rain...... When I walked up to the stone bridge, I realized that the wind and rain were coming from around the stone bridge, and there was no pattern. I took the flashlight and looked at it only to realize that it was a dragon, several large dragons that kept coming out of the water, and they were more than ten meters away from me. ”

Gray San'er's facial expression became extremely exciting, and I could understand how shocking he was when he was tired of being forced by the darkness to see those realistic dragon gods. Although I can't be sure that he and I are in the same place, at two heights above and below the cliff, and see the same nine stone dragons, but Gray San'er's words at this time are excited and solemn, and I believe that he is not deceiving me with a word.

Gray San'er continued to tell what he had experienced.

When crossing the slate bridge, the boss gave him a rope head, and he walked over with a fearful hand, but fortunately there was no danger. When he reached the opposite side, he pulled the rope, and then the four of them took each other and dragged each other along.

After crossing the river, they walked along the bank of the river for a short time, and they came across a thick wooden door covered with four wolf skins. The four wolf heads were rotting and hung from the doorbeams to show their fangs.

The four men worked on the wooden door for a while, stripped off the wolf's skin, and pried open the door with a crowbar.

The boss was overjoyed, and said to Gray San'er: Touch this wolf skin, there are still people in and out of this place a hundred years ago.

Entering the gate, a splendid palace-like building stands in it. As long as a flashlight is hit, the gold and silver colors in the sky will scatter to the four walls, and the jewels are extremely dazzling.

The building has three floors, and there is a plaque on the first floor of the stairs, on which three large golden characters are embossed on a blue background - Hall of Eternal Life. I guess this building should be a Taoist temple, and after I repeatedly asked about the style of this building, I can be sure that it has the architectural style of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

There is a furnace more than one person high in front of the hall, and the boss ignites the stove, and the other three people bow their heads together, shouting "Amitayus Buddha Tianzun". I guess the stove at this door is a Taoist long incense burner or a treasure furnace, but because of the ambiguity of Ash San'er's description, my guess ends here. However, I heard Gray San'er say that these people have been chanting "Amitayus Buddha" all the time, and it is estimated that there is still some unclear and unclear relationship with the Daomen.

Gray San'er stood aside stupidly, trying to enter the palace and hesitantly waiting for the orders of the four people. However, after a short time, the four of them got up and planned to enter the temple.

Gray San'er naturally became the first person to push the door, he pushed open the door of the palace, the originally dry air suddenly became humid, and a stream of water vapor filled the palace.

Several people shine around with flashlights, build a circular pool in the middle of the hall, and there is a golden statue of a woman who is not small in age on the high platform in the middle, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and both hands around a jade wat (wat, also known as hand board, jade board or chaoban). But there was no water in the pool, and it was not known where the dampness in the temple came from.

I have heard a saying, in the Sanqing Temple, the Niangniang Hall and the Jade Emperor Hall are only separated by a wall, the Niangniang Hall ground is moist all year round, but the Jade Emperor Hall has a dry ground. When the old generation broke the four olds, because of this reason, many Taoist temples were smashed to see the end, but it is still a mystery after all.

The fourth of the four tomb robbers had a twinkle in his eyes and became interested in Yu Wat. When Gray San'er and the eldest child, the second child, and the third child went upstairs, they shirked the urgency and did not keep up.

The palace has three floors, and the area shrinks geometrically the higher you go.

The second floor of the palace is dedicated to the "Old Ancestor Heavenly Master", "Zhengyi Zhenren", "Three-day Fujiao ** Teacher", Gaoming God - Zhang Tianshi, Zhang Daoling. When the eldest child, the second child, and the third child saw the statue, they knelt down and called "Amitayus Buddha Tianzun". More than a dozen wooden boxes are neatly placed on the second floor, and when they are opened, they are all classics and classics, and any one of them can shake the entire Taoism.

The eldest child, the second child, and the third child were not interested in these classics, and after worshipping Zhang Daoling, they went up to the top floor again. On the top floor, a waist-high alchemy furnace was placed in the center, and in front of the alchemy furnace was an old futon, on which were placed a yellow and reddish mirror and a broken stone; Behind the alchemy furnace there was a square table with a stack of slips half a foot thick.

Hearing this, I suddenly had a realization, and interjected: "Brother Gray San'er, the bronze mirror and stone you are talking about...... Can you describe what it looks like? ”

Ash San'er shook his head and sighed, "When they got to the top floor, after seeing the furnace that they called the alchemy furnace, these three people went crazy. They scrambled for the yellow mirrors and stones on the futon, as well as the planks behind them, and I took advantage of the chaos to carry a handful of planks and hid them on my body, otherwise I wouldn't have told you that I risked my life to get these worthless things back...... Alas. ”

Gray San'er continued, these three people are like being enchanted when they go up to the third floor, what friends and enemies, relatives and friends, as long as they can grab and take it, they will never let go, and they will put it on their bodies with all their lives, and they will take as much as they can.

They were still scrambling for things, and Gray San'er dodged to the side, and at this moment, a scream came up from downstairs. At this time, as if the space was dislocated, countless frog chirping sounded through the sky, and suddenly filled the entire space.

The eldest one, the second one, and the third child also snatched up all the things at this time, and they all packed them into everyone's backpacks except for the alchemy furnace. Hearing the croaking of frogs, several people looked surprised, but not to the point of panicking.

The boss shouted, and a few people were ready to evacuate. When he walked down to the stairs on the second floor, Gray San'er shone with a flashlight, and then he saw volleyball-sized frogs everywhere, densely piled on the floor of the first floor, looking up to the sky and "croaking" and yelling. As far as the light could see, the idol in the center fell to the ground in pieces, and water kept coming out of the pool, and frogs crawled out of the base of the statue.

At this time, the fourth child had long since disappeared and was drowned in the frog group.

The flashlight startled the creatures, and they rushed towards the stairs. If you look closely, these frogs are just bigger, and each of them has a dense beak of six or seven rows of sharp little teeth, which is very terrifying and terrifying.

After a little discussion, Xu Wei also panicked, and decided to blow up these frogs here. The boss said that he let Gray San'er resist it, and kicked him downstairs.

Gray San'er was caught off guard, his face instantly lost color, and he expected that this would definitely be the end.

Gray San'er rolled down into the group of frogs, but this group of weird guys didn't even look at him, and still went straight to the boss, the second, and the third.

Seeing this, Gray San'er hurriedly ran out, but fortunately he also kept an eye on it, noted the location of the door, and ran out with a deep foot and a shallow foot for a while.

At this moment, the three people upstairs were also ready, and a package of explosives flew down from the upper floor. While the explosive bag was still in the air, several frogs that had been seduced out of their instincts stuck out their tongues and rolled towards the explosive bag, and even many frogs shook off their cheeks, opened their back molars, and jumped towards the explosives bag with their big mouths full of cold teeth. I was listening to the story of Gray San'er when the phone on the table rang.

I motioned for Gray San'er to wait, picked up the phone, and habitually asked, "Which one?" The fat man's voice came from the other side of the phone, and as soon as he said a few times, I scolded, "What's the matter?" Am I chatting with the people brought by Wang Dongguang? You don't know how expensive the phone bill is, do you......"

The fat man didn't wait for me to finish scolding, interrupted me loudly, and said, "Li Xiao, leave him alone." Now close the door and go home, hurry. Right now! Immediately! Right away! ”

I was stunned, it was an accident for the fat man to dare to shout at me......

"Li Xiao, listen to me, Ercui and I are now in Yangquan, Shanxi, and we can rush back tomorrow at the latest......"

I interrupted, "Yangquan? Weren't you still in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province a few days ago? Why did you run to Shanxi again so quickly? ”

"Let's get back to that. I was foraging for food on the street with Ercui just now, and someone bumped into me and stuffed a note into my hand, so that when I tried to find him again, I couldn't see anyone. I thought it was waste paper, but when I saw that it was a piece of yellow paper, it was stacked squarely. I was shocked when I opened it, so I quickly called you. ”

The fat man knows my temper, and I may not be able to listen to him if he doesn't say anything. I said again, "What's on it?" You won't call me by name, will you? ”

"That's not true. This Wang Dongguang briefly told me about the situation of the person you are in contact with now, which mentioned the Taoist temple called the 'Palace of Eternal Life'. Eight words were written on this note - 'Know the Palace of Eternal Life, and those who touch it will die'. ”

My heart trembled, and I looked at Gray San'er with a frown. At this time, Gray San'er looked anxious, and he still wanted to finish telling me the story, so that he could get some life-saving money from me to save his mother. When Gray San'er saw me frowning, he was puzzled, thinking that I disliked him for eavesdropping on me answering the phone, so he said, "Boss, am I in the way?" Why don't I stay away? ”

I shook my hand, motioned for Gray San'er to sit honestly, and said to the fat man, "This has nothing to do with me, right?" I'm running a fart. In the blink of an eye, I remembered the bronze mirror and the fragment of He's Bi that I received from Wang Yi years ago and were snatched away later, and my mind instantly cleared, "Could this be the same thing as the things we received from Wang Yi?" ”

I originally wanted to hang up the phone and talk to Gray San'er for a few more words, but at this moment, a cold light against my neck cut the handset cord of the phone, and landed on the wall next to my ear with a "bang".

Ash San'er screamed "ah", fell from the chair to the ground, and hurriedly shouted: "Boss, knife...... You, are you alright......"

My hand holding the phone was still in the air, and I felt the scene in my heart, and suddenly, my hand involuntarily trembled a few times.

I turned my head vigorously and glanced at the wall—a two-inch-long dagger with a red tassel and a small pouch plunging into the wall. Now this wall, although it is a cement wall, but even if you want to drive a nail into it, you want to bring the broken stones, this dagger blade is not in the wall and the wall is tightly fitted, this kind of strength, is not what kind of master. The secret weapon flew in through the window, easily dodging my throat and cutting the phone line, if someone outside tried to kill me......

I didn't dare to think about it anymore, so I quickly stood up and untied the strange bag from the dagger, and when I pinched my hand, I felt that there was paper inside, and when I opened the bag, it was a piece of folded white paper, and then I opened the white paper, and it was like what I could only see in a dream - "You can know the Palace of Eternal Life, and whoever touches it will die."

The warning came so well that it was as if I had not woken up from a dream.

I whispered, "You can know the Hall of Eternal Life, and whoever touches it will die." ”

Gray San'er heard me read out the words on the paper, and walked closer, his voice was rigid and dull, and he muttered: "Know the Palace of Eternal Life, and those who touch it will die." Whoever touches it dies. ”

At the door of the store, someone pushed the door in a panic, pointed to Gray San'er and said, "Gray San'er, the construction site received a call from you, your mother is no good, hurry up and follow me." I know our foreman brought you here, so I found you in the first place, but luckily ......."

I shook my kung fu like this, and Gray San'er was stunned for a moment, and was dragged away with a sluggish expression under the pull of the man.

Then my big brother rang, I grabbed my big brother and pressed the answer button, and the fat man said urgently: "Why don't you speak?" What's going on? ”

I was about to speak, when I heard a sudden shout from outside the door: "Oh, dead man! Help me! ”

I ran two steps out of the store, and at a glance I saw a tanker truck on the street crushing a person's head. At this time, the tanker driver had already gotten out of the car, and he looked at the crowd of onlookers with a look of chagrin to explain.

My head was suddenly a little cloudy, but I couldn't remember who dragged Ash San'er out of my shop.

Big brother, the fat man's shouting never stopped, and I remembered to call him back. I put Big Brother to my ear, and my voice trembled a little unconsciously: "Fatty, don't shout." 'You can know the Palace of Eternal Life, and whoever touches it will die'. We're in for a big deal. ”

Before the matter was over, I suddenly heard someone by the small Yellow River screaming: "Dead people, there are dead people in the river!" ”

I walked towards the side of the Yellow River, and I saw a man lying face down in the Yellow River, being swept away by the sewage towards the east. Isn't this the one who pulled Gray San'er away? Or is it just a coincidence......

I'm safe for the time being, but I'm still scared. In just ten minutes, a series of changes happened in front of my eyes.

I held my eldest brother and said to the fat man, "You must be careful and come back as soon as possible." "When I hung up, I knew that the store was no longer a safe place, and I was thinking about where to go.

I went to the backyard and brought out the big dog, first, I really had to find a place to hide from the limelight, and second, I could defend myself with it. After thinking about it, locking the front and back doors and windows of the store, and placing a lot of mousetraps everywhere, I pulled the door of the store and took the big dog to go home—back to my home in the city, I didn't dare to bring the disaster to my parents for the time being.

There were already police officers on the street who had begun to deal with the "traffic sophistication" of Gray San'er and the man in Xiaohuang who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and I avoided the police who seemed to want to ask me about the situation, and I went home cautiously and with twelve points of vigilance.

Originally, when I came out of the store, I planned to go to the back to check whether the back door of the backyard was locked, but unfortunately the big dog dragged me forward with his neck cross. From the fact that the big dog initially thought I was going to take him for a walk, he gradually realized my fear, and calmly glanced at everyone who passed me from time to time like a bodyguard, and did not make any noise. In fact, until now, the big dog has never entered my door, mainly today's buildings, although they are not consumer goods worth spending money on by ordinary people, but the sound insulation is really poor, I still don't want to make some neighborhood discord.

When I got home, I calmed down a lot and quickly called the fat man. As soon as the phone was connected, I said bluntly, "Fatty, how are you doing over there?" I was almost killed, and the two people who came to me are dead. By the way, Wang Dongguang, you contact him to see if he ......is still alive or not."

"I can't get through the phone anymore, it's off. Ercui, you go buy something to eat, don't go too far, wait for me for a while. The fat man pushed Ercui aside and continued, "I heard it just now, what's the situation? Two dead? ”

I retold the story as it was, including what Gray San'er told me. After elaborating, I said, "Fatty, I have something to tell you. In fact, when I was knocked unconscious a few years ago, the bronze mirror of Baishou and the fragments of He's Bi had been lost. I met Lu Fengqin a few days ago......"

"Who? Who are you talking about? The fat man groaned, "You said those two things are no longer in your hands?" ”

"Yes, yes. It's out of my hands. Lu Fengqin, you heard it right, it's Lu Fengqin. "I have the same idea as the fat man, it's better not to let Ercui know about these things, so I will make a long story short about the rest of the story, and compress the information as much as possible, "Fat man, Lu Fengqin told me that these objects that rushed out of the mountain along the underground river are related to a long-lived old man, this person is estimated to have lived for nearly 220 years, and Lu Fengqin was entrusted to find this cemetery this time." The legend of Zu Laoding originally had a general's tomb, will this old man have anything to do with the general's tomb? The Hall of Eternal Life has the most direct relationship with Ash San'er and the four tomb robbers, how could the longevity bronze mirror and the remnants of He's Bi originally be the things of the longevity old man or the general, how could they appear in the Hall of Eternal Life? Wang Yi did get these two things, but from the end of what Gray San'er told me, how were these two things brought out? How many of the four tomb robbers survived? Who are they? Who is going to kill everyone related to the Hall of Eternal Life? Why did you and I both receive a warning about the 'Hall of Eternal Life', and this warning, you and I are different...... By the way, if Lu Fengqin is still investigating the affairs of the longevity old man, there are at least four to five groups of people who can be connected to the 'Palace of Eternal Life' now—one group of people is Lu Fengqin and them; A group of people survived the four tomb robbers, and even the instigators behind them; A group of people want to kill people who have something to do with the 'Palace of Eternal Life', and it may also be a group of tomb robbers, a group of people are warning you and me, at least not with Lu Fengqin, and you, me, Wang Dongguang, and everyone who knows about Gray San'er and the tomb robbers. ”

After the fat man listened to my words, the worry and confusion in his words were obvious, and he didn't know what his expression would be.

The fat man said: "At least no one knows that the fragments of He's Bi and the bronze mirror of worship were once in our hands. At least the group of people who reminded us of the two have no ill will towards us, and even if I boldly assume ...... I suspect that the people who reminded us were the ones who took the fragments of He's Bi and the bronze mirror of worship, and this is the second time that you will die or let you live in a fraction of a second, and if they hadn't gotten the things, I can't find any reason why they wouldn't just kill you. ”

"Not necessarily," I said, ...... shook my head, "and you called me just as Gray San'er was about to tell me the whole story...... There are two groups of people who remind you and remind me. At that time, when I recited the sentence 'You can know the Palace of Eternal Life, whoever touches it will die', I clearly remembered that Gray San'er was the same as you recited, it was 'Knowing the Palace of Eternal Life, those who touch it will die'. Fatty, you and Ercui must be careful. Come back as soon as possible, I will go and ask Lu Fengqin as a last resort. ”

The fat man also seemed to have a sense of crisis from what I said, and suddenly became ruthless without reason: "Li Xiao, you wait for me to come back." For more than two years, you just don't care about receiving goods and not selling, maybe you don't know how many big people have the bottom material (black material) in our hands, it's time for them to move. It doesn't matter if you dare to touch me, if you dare to touch my daughter-in-law, everyone will die together. ”

"The fact that the antiques trade is priceless does not prove that you are holding anyone hostage. Fatty, you have to calm down. "Actually, I already knew that the fat man had secretly moved this kind of mind countless times, and I kept telling him that he was in business, but how did he know that this incident had made it difficult for him to be persuaded by me anymore.

The fat man laughed, I don't know if he was sneering. He said, "Don't worry. We'll see you tomorrow. ”

When the phone hung up, my heart ached violently, this time the fat man touched my bottom line, or it was the ultimate bargaining chip for my survival. At this moment, I have every reason to immediately let go of the fat man and put myself out of the way.

Silently, I walked to the master bedroom, pulled out my large box from under the bed, took out the lockbox from the bottom, dialed out the password, and took out the detailed account book of income and expenditure for the past two years......

Alas, I sighed, put the thick stack of notebooks back down, and relocked the lockbox.

It's true that I didn't leave everything to the fat man in private, after all, wandering on the edge of a society where the rule of law is not yet perfect, every moment is like a chestnut in the fire, and if you don't notice it, your bones will disappear.

Why is he thinking about cleaning up the mess for the fat man at this moment? I do not know. But in the end, I decided to keep the ledger in my hands to protect myself.