Volume 1 Kurosawa Domain Chapter 12 A Hole in a Cave

Entering the Tibetan scripture cave, several flashlights lit up one after another.

In the shaking of the flashlight, as soon as it shone on the statue of Hong Wei, Bai Yunfei was startled, and the flashlight in his hand almost didn't fall to the ground.

I saw that Na Hongbi was still sitting there, with a majestic posture and a solemn expression.

But when the flashlight shines on his body, you will feel that he is staring directly at you, and that look makes people feel different.

It seems to be two eyes from the daytime visit, as if to say: "Ignorant posterity, bold!" How dare you come to steal?! ”

I don't know if the eye expression of this statue has really changed, or if everyone is a thief, psychological suggestion, in short, I was scared.

Someone actually whispered.

Because the cave was pitch black, the eye could only see where there was light, and it was not clear who shouted out, as if it was the guy known as Lao Qi.

I heard the very unhappy voice of Old Ghost Su:

"Ghost call a bird?! What's there to be afraid of dripping? It's just a pile of rotten mud statues, and it's too bad to throw them into the pit to pad their feet. Then tell Lao Tzu to shovel a piece of and block your mouth! ”

Although this old ghost Su scolded fiercely, his subsequent actions surprised everyone:

I saw that after he finished scolding, he knelt in front of the statue and kowtowed to the statue three times!

During this period, there were also words, some of which could not be heard clearly, and some of which could be heard clearly, such as "there is an eighty-year-old nurse and a three-year-old step-son", "you can't open the pot", "disturb your old man's cultivation", "in the future, there will be gold and silver mountains for you".

After muttering, Old Ghost Su got up from the ground, pointed at the statue with a flashlight, and said to everyone: "Don't look stupid, take this rotten statue of Rausch away." ”

Everyone was made to laugh and cry by this old gentleman who was chattering, and the contrast between his attitudes before and after was too great, and I don't know if the sages would blame him.

But at this time, it was more than 23 o'clock in the night, and without further ado, I didn't have the heart to think about it so much.

Several people muttered a strong flashlight in their mouths, and together they carried the wooden plank under the statue, held the statue steady, lifted the statue off the pedestal, and placed it on the ground on the side of the pedestal.

When the statue is removed, a hollow pedestal is revealed, which appears to be made of mud-sealed bricks and stones, mottled and quaint, in the same color as the surrounding walls.

Su Lao Ghost lay on it and looked at it with a flashlight, groped with his hands, and knocked his fingers with the back of his fist from time to time, and finally simply picked up the Luoyang shovel hanging on the outside of his backpack and beat it around.

After tossing like this for a while, he got up and shone a flashlight on the wind outside the cave, and found that the eighth had nailed the cotton curtain he brought with a few nails to the entrance of the cave, and the thick cotton curtain naturally fell and was tightly blocked at the entrance of the cave.

Before everyone understood the intention of this old man to block the hole with a cotton curtain, they saw that Su Lao Ghost pointed to the young man who was called "thirteen" by Sun Er, and without words, the thirteen picked up a sledgehammer and smashed it to the bottom of the pit.

This young man, known as Thirteen, is in his twenties, handsome and peugeot, tall and big, not only looks like a talent, but also has a good physique, which makes people envious.

Thirteen's hammer shook off his arms and pulled out his strength, so he only heard the silence of the night, in this very loud cavern, a loud "bang" was heard.

The bottom of the pit immediately left a shallow mark the size of a hammerhead, and immediately the dust accumulated over the years was instantly lifted up and went straight to the nose.

It was originally a sneaky thing, and his heart was very empty, in such an environment, in this dark cave, there was suddenly such a loud noise, although it was not unprepared, but it was still frightened Bai Yunfei.

Bai Yunfei hurriedly shone a flashlight on a few people around him, and everyone was looking at the Thirteen Smashing Pit with a focused expression, except for the eyes that were rolling around the bones, the whole body was covered with dust, and in such a dark shadow, it looked very weird.

At this time, Bai Yunfei was afraid that the loud noise would attract the night duty personnel in the scenic spot, so the flashlight subconsciously shone at the entrance of the cave, and the cotton door curtain was hung there, and no one would come for the time being, so he realized that the cotton door curtain should be used to block the hole for sound insulation.

It is estimated that although it is impossible to isolate all the loud noises in the curtain of the door, it can naturally reduce a lot.

The thirteen didn't care whether the sound was loud or not, he threw off his arms, smashed them in various positions in turn, stopped for a while every time he smashed it, and then watched Su Lao Ghost's expression change, Su Lao Ghost didn't react, he continued to smash.

There were about six or seven hammers, and a hammer mark had appeared on the bottom of the seat of the square pool-like seat.

Old Ghost Su shook his head, and even Cao Longxuan said, "Solid, don't smash it." ”

Thirteen stopped and waited for their orders.

Then Old Ghost Su pointed to the memorial monument on the wall over there, and everyone gathered around the memorial monument.

Under the light of the flashlight, someone took out the iron chisel, inserted it in the mud sealing place of the gap between the stone tablet and the cave wall, wrapped a thick cotton cloth around the chisel head, and hammered it down thirteen times, and nailed the iron chisel into the gap.

Someone took out a few iron chisels one after another, and nailed them into them at intervals around the inscription, and the sealing mud was basically shattered and fell at the base of the wall.

Su Lao Ghost made a gesture left and right in the flashlight, and gave a gesture again and again, everyone understood, it was to ask everyone to step back and get out of the way, so everyone took a few steps back, and used the flashlight to shine on Su Lao Ghost and Thirteen in front of the stone tablet.

The old ghost of Nasu took an iron chisel and scraped it with an iron chisel along the gaps on the four sides of the stele, scraping off the sealing mud that was still adhered to the stele and the surrounding cave walls.

There was an unclean scrape, and he actually took out a small spoon-like tool from his backpack, which was shiny silver, and scraped it with that tool again, and then brushed it several times with a brush.

Make sure that the old sealing mud is peeled off and there is basically no residue left on it.

Then he took out a plastic bag, this plastic bag is too common, everyone looks at it carefully, it is clearly the kind of plastic bag in daily life, the kind that will be used to buy vegetables in the market.

Then I saw him use a shovel and a brush to collect all the mud that had been spilled on the ground in a plastic bag, and handed it to Lao Qi after collecting.

After collecting the sealing mud that fell on the ground, Old Ghost Su said to everyone:

"Okay, come and carry this monument. Be careful not to touch the soil on the cave wall with the slag, it must be light and slow. If you drop a piece of stubble, Bai Yunfei will exchange the stele of your ancestral grave. Above! ”

When everyone heard his command, they held the iron hammer with all hands and feet, and at the same time, with a force, slowly and steadily lifted the monument of the great argument outward in a horizontal direction.

To be honest, this stele is very difficult to lift, because not only is it very heavy, but also there is a great friction between the iron drill and the cave wall, which hinders the movement of the entire stele outward.

Sometimes I feel that the iron brazing is stuck on the cave wall, and I don't dare to use too much force to prevent the cave wall from breaking and forming a gap.

In short, everyone used the strength to eat, the legs trembled, the waist was sore, the arms were numb and stiff, but they did not dare to slow down the hand to change their strength, they were most afraid of slowing their hands, and the strength of the lifting was small, and the tablet fell to the ground, and there would be big trouble.

It took a lot of effort to make everyone sweat in this sweltering summer night, but finally did not cause any major damage to the cave walls around the stele, and carried out the monument of Hong Wei unharmed.

Under the guidance of Old Ghost Su, everyone lifted it steadily and lightly, and stood the monument slowly and evenly on the side of the cave wall.

At this time, Bai Yunfei had a new understanding of their team: Cao Longxuan was undoubtedly the leader, but when it came to specific "business" matters, it seemed that it was time for this old ghost Su to command.

As the saying goes, "there is a specialization in the art industry", it is nothing more than that.

Old Ghost Su pinched his flashlight and shone left and right at the cave wall exposed after the stone tablet was removed, and sometimes almost his eyes were attached to the wall.

In addition to looking closely, he also touched and picked with his fingers from time to time.

Later, he simply picked off a small handful of hard soil from the wall with his fingernails, put it on his tongue and licked it into his mouth to taste.

It seems that this soil that has been thousands of years old is so delicious, I saw him close his lips, the pinch of soil in his mouth, his eyebrows were furrowed, and his mouth squirmed for a long time, and he didn't know if he tasted the taste of the elixir, or what.

After tasting the incomprehensible wall soil, Old Ghost Su spit out his mouth with a mouthful of phlegm, waved his hand to Thirteen Eleven, and then pointed to the cave wall he had inspected just now.

Then he stepped back two meters away, giving up all the space in front of him to Thirteen.

The thirteenth picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it against the cave wall behind the stele, only one hammer, which was originally the cave wall behind the stele, fell into a small pit.

Old Ghost Su immediately raised his hand to stop Thirteen's movements, then took the flashlight and approached it, looked at it carefully for a while, shook his head, and nodded again.

Just when everyone didn't understand what he meant, he picked up a handful of iron drills he had just used, drew a few circles on the cave wall, and said to Thirteen, "Smash!" ”

Then Thirteen understood, meaning that he wanted him to smash within these circles, so he took a few hammers down, and was stopped by Su Lao Ghost.

I only heard Su Lao Ghost say excitedly: "It's all empty sounds, there is a play!" ”

Then the longest iron drill was put perpendicular to the wall faΓ§ade, pierced into a pit, and let the thirteen nail the iron drill into it.

Due to the effect of the cotton cloth of the iron chisel, the sound of the nail iron chisel was too small, and the thirteen did not pick a few times, and the iron chisel that gradually walked into the cave wall disappeared in an instant.

Cao Longxuan and Su Lao Ghost both gave a low cheer, and Su Lao Ghost used a flashlight to shine into the hole carved out by the iron drill, but he couldn't see the reason, but at least he could judge that the cave wall must be hollow.

Old Ghost Su asked Lao Qi and Lao Eighth and Thirteen to smash through the lower half of the cave wall behind the stone stele, and in about thirteen or four minutes, a hole appeared on this cave wall that could bend and drill into people.

Several flashlights shone into the hole at the same time, and with the shaking search flashlight, it was found that there was a neat corridor-like passage inside.

The passage is about ten meters long, and then it turns to the right, and the situation behind it is unknown.

As far as you can see, this is a passage that allows adults to easily walk upright in it, and its height is much higher than that of the monument, but the width is almost the same as the size of the monument.

The walls of the passage around it are not made of bricks, stones, tiles and wood, but are made of hard earth like the walls of the caves.

However, through superficial observation, it can be judged that although there is no masonry support, it must have been rammed, which should be a very common kind of "dry base" operation in the northwest region, and there is no need to worry about solidity and support.

Seeing this, Bai Yunfei suddenly thought that the size of this passage wall was almost the same as that of the farewell monument, could it be that if this was really a tomb, it belonged to this monk of the Later Tang Dynasty?

But Cao Longxuan once said that according to the descendants of the camel rider when selling pictures, the ancestors of his family were employed by Emperor Cao Pi's subordinates, and participated in the construction of the tomb here, and this tomb should be the official of the Three Kingdoms period?

Otherwise, although everyone found a tomb, they mistakenly did not find the tomb of the official of Cao Pishi, but found the tomb of Hong Wei, which is too possible.

At this time, Cao Longxuan made a gesture, and Sun Er immediately ordered: "Thirteen, go in, don't go too far." Look at where it goes, what's going on, hurry back and talk about it. ”

Thirteen hurriedly replied, "Okay." Then he dodged into it, and strode towards the front of the passage.

Then they waited outside the cave with their hearts beating faster, and after a while, they saw Thirteen turn back from the passage, and said excitedly:

"After turning the corner, this dark passage is basically straight forward, and then there are dozens of meters, there is a stone wall blocking it, and there is an iron gate on the wall, I can't get through."

Cao Longxuan reversed the flashlight and shone it on Bai Yunfei, and stretched out his thumb to Bai Yunfei:

"Yunfei, it seems that you really chose the right person, no matter whether this passage is on this map or not, at least your super thinking is a great wealth I have discovered! Ha ha. ”

Immediately, Su Lao Ghost took out a plastic bag of flour-like things from his backpack, threw down 4 bottles of mineral water, and explained to Lao Qi.

Then I saw that Lao Qi began to use mineral water and mud, and the "mud" was the sealing mud of the gap between the stele and the cave wall, mixed with the same thing as flour.

Bai Yunfei estimated that they were going to put the stele back and seal it again.

But what is the effect of mixing this flour-like thing?

At this time, Cao Longxuan instructed everyone to carry the statue back to its original position, and then Sun Er went into the hole first, Niu Gang handed over everyone's backpacks and tools, and then everyone went into the hole one by one.

Bai Yunfei deliberately turned around to take a look, Lao Ba had already entered the scripture cave from the wooden door outside to the inner room, and together with Lao Qi, he cleaned up the traces around the statue, and then carried the stone tablet to seal the hole behind everyone again.