77. The origin of the Codex
"Master Yan, breaking ground is not a trivial matter, are you sure you really want to shovel?"
"Yes, Master Yan, this matter must not be sloppy, do we have to be cautious?"
Hearing that Yan Jun was going to drop the shovel, a group of guys were stunned.
Generally speaking, the Luoyang shovel with soil is basically completely certain, otherwise it will often cause a lot of impact.
In case of destroying the feng shui trend, it will be extremely difficult to find the ancient tomb under the deep mountain, so it is an old rule in the tomb robbery industry not to break the ground easily.
For them, Yan Jun's actions were inevitably too rash and casual.
"In this way, even if you get off the shovel, I, Yan Jun, will bear all the consequences, okay?"
Yan Jun himself didn't know what they were thinking, so he directly took all the responsibilities, and even if something happened, he didn't have to bear it with his guys.
"Yan Ye ......"
Hearing this, several guys immediately laughed.
"Just do what Yan Ye said."
Cao Qing finally came back to his senses, looking at Yan Jun's confident eyes, his heart seemed to settle down a lot, he almost didn't think much about it, and directly turned back to his guy and said, "Lao Hei, you take a few people to the mountainside location." ”
With Cao Qing's final word, even if the guys are unwilling, they can only acquiesce.
"Come on, Master Cao, I'll go now."
Lao Hei nodded, quickly turned around and left, took his men back to the camp to get the Luoyang shovel, and a group of people walked towards the mountainside pointed out by Yan Jun.
"Master Yan, you will show the way."
Lao Hei skillfully put the Luoyang shovel on it, this kind of shovel is extremely slender, one section is set at a time, the soil is deeper, and the soil layer brought up will not fall easily.
Hearing his words, everyone's eyes were all looking at Yan Jun.
Pointing the way, this is the point where Yan Jun is asked to confirm the shovel.
"Three steps forward in the south, seven feet underground."
Yan Jun thought about it for a moment and gave Lao Hei an answer.
Three steps, one foot seven!
"Cheng, I know."
Lao Hei accurately captured the two key words in Yan Jun's words, took three steps south with the Luoyang shovel, and then began to shovel.
A group of guys, including Cao Qing, all looked at Lao Hei with anticipation, hoping to see one, two, three.
Lao Hei is not young, and he has been working as a buddy in the Chen family for many years, and it has long been a sparse and common thing to go to the cave.
measured the distance, and soon he skillfully knocked Luoyang down the shovel.
One zhang seven! Accurate!
"Bring the soil up and have a look." Yan Jun stood aside and said confidently to Lao Hei.
"Come on, Yan Ye is optimistic."
Carefully retrieve the Luoyang shovel from the ground, and wait until the bottom section of the shovel is unearthed, then everyone can't sit still, and they all stand on tiptoe to look inside.
Cao Qing didn't care about anything else, he squatted directly on the ground and took out a little soil from the shovel, twisted it between his fingers, looked at it carefully, put it under his nose and sniffed it vigorously, his brows first wrinkled hard, and then all of them were stretched, and his face was indescribably strange.
"Master Cao, what's the matter?"
"Is this Master Cao, you always have a word."
Seeing Cao Qing's movements, the group of people was in a hurry, and couldn't help but ask out loud.
"There is gravel, bamboo crumbs, carbonized rice grains, a typical rammed earth layer structure."
Cao Qing grinned and said with certainty: "It's not wrong, there is definitely an old pit at this point, and depending on the situation, it is at least a big pit with three rooms and ten zhang facing up." ”
Three rooms and ten zhang, depending on the situation, it is at least a tomb above the general.
At this moment, everyone was shocked, and the eyes that looked at Yan Jun changed even more drastically, he really found out the location of the ancient tomb at once.
"Yan Ye is awesome, I'm old in black clothes!"
Lao Hei slapped his thigh hard, and stretched out his thumb to Yan Jun with a laugh, his face full of admiration.
"Yan Ye is deeply hidden, once he rises?"
"Ge Laozi, Yan Ye, this is a person from the rivers and lakes."
"It's only been a few moments since I found the pothole, didn't Yan Ye really open the eyes of the sky?"
As the old black voice fell, all the guys around him also echoed it.
From the ascent to the descent, it only takes about ten minutes to find the exact location of the tomb.
This hand is so beautiful.
You know, you can't do this thing in full view.
Originally, everyone was still a little dissatisfied with Cao Ye's sudden invitation to come, but now that dissatisfaction has also been washed away by the joy of finding the tomb.
"It's over, who of you here isn't my senior?" Hearing everyone's words, Yan Jun raised his eyebrows and smiled.
To tell the truth, he Yan Jun has only been down for half a year, and he is indeed the youngest here, but if you say that whoever has fallen more graves, except for Cao Qing and Heizi, he is not a vain.
However, he had almost ten tombs, and there were only three tombs above the princely level, including this one.
Therefore, now Yan Jun was more curious about what the origin of this tomb under the ground was, especially when he thought of the rich and compelling purple qi he had seen before.
"It is worthy of Yan Ye, the name of the man, the shadow of the tree!" Patting Yan Jun on the shoulder hard, Cao Qing smiled at him.
"Uncle Cao, don't praise me so much, I'm easy to swell."
Yan Jun waved his hand, and then as if he remembered something, he asked, "By the way, Uncle Cao, what is going on with the old pit this time, can you tell me about it?" ”
Since Cao Qing had that codex, Yan Jun estimated that he should know a lot.
"Master Yan, I won't tell you anything, I actually don't know more than you about the Tao here."
It's a pity that Cao Qing shook his head.
"But I know a little bit about the origin of that codex."
"Where did it come from?"
Yan Jun, who was slightly disappointed when he saw Cao Qing shaking his head, heard this sentence, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.
"At the beginning of the year, there was an old man in the shop in the old city, who was in his seventies, like an old farmer, and he was looking for the shopkeeper as soon as he entered the store.
A hint of memory flashed in Cao Qing's eyes.
"The old man said that when he broke the four olds, he took people to raid the house of an old landlord in their Zhuangzi, you haven't experienced the things of that time, maybe you don't know the hidden secret."
"The landlord who will have a bad composition is a rat crossing the street, and the old man led people to rush into the landlord's house and smashed a lot of porcelain pots."
"But what made him strange was that the family was not protecting gold and silver, but a wooden box, saying that it was an heirloom left by the ancestors, and it could not be lost even if it died."
"But that will be like grass, who can control that, the family almost lost their lives, and still couldn't protect the wooden box."
Speaking of this, Cao Qing glanced up at Yan Jun.
"You should have guessed what's in that box, too."
"It's this cowhide codex, isn't it?"
Cao Qing nodded, and then said, "Yes, after the old man got the wooden box, he didn't destroy it, but secretly kept it!" ”
"But he didn't figure out what the painting on it meant for decades, and when he got older, he really didn't have the energy to care about anything else, so he planned to make a move."
"When I first got the Codex, I could only look at it roughly, or the Ninth Master said that the Codex might be a tomb map, and the family researched and finally set the location in Longquan Mountain, so this is why I have this trip to Longquan Mountain."
I see.
Yan Jun hummed, it was the first time he knew that the cowhide codex still had this story hidden.