I can't imagine why Shi Dingtian left this book, and this book was also kept by a young lady, which means that it is not safe to keep this book in the Dao League, and he is also afraid that the people in the Dao League will know the secret.

I'm getting more and more interested, what is it that makes him so mysterious? I flattened the book on the coffee table in the living room, and at this time Yun Shangwu and the monk were on my left and right, and the monk said, "The stone concubine will give you this broken book?" ”

"Be still!" I said, "I'm ready to pick the lock." ”

I held the key firmly in my hand and inserted it into the lock, and I heard a crisp sound and the lock opened.

At the same time, the book was also understood, and I opened the book, and the first page was a very strange drawing, which was a pencil drawing, drawing a certain part of an animal, a bit like a dinosaur's foot, because the nails on the foot were very sharp, like a blade, but nothing else.

I continued to flip through it, but I found that I didn't understand much of the content, especially the text, which didn't read very coherently, which made our research deadlocked.

Yun Shangwu frowned and circled around the book, then in a circle, and she said, "Something is wrong, this seems to be a cropped page." ”

I felt that what she said was unrealistic, but soon, Dancing Cloud took apart all the pages on the upper side of the book, and then fixed the leaves with nails, covering them all over the wall, staggering them one by one, and after a while, I realized that Dancing Cloud had put the leaves together into a huge map!

I was so shocked that I couldn't close my mouth, and at the same time the monk also muttered, "I said Xiao Wu, how did you find out?" ”

"This paper is very old." "But if you look closely, the edges of these papers are neatly cut, and at a glance, you can see that they are the latest ones, and this kind of formation must have a doorway, so I assume that these are cut in equal parts, but I really guessed it." ”

I walked up and I said, "This map is familiar, it looks like I've seen it somewhere." ”

"Where have you seen it, this is clearly the map of Xuzhou City, you take a look at the four counties, two cities and five districts, all neatly drawn on it!" The monk shouted.

I drank a glass of boiled water, and I said, "Then this Shidingtian has opened this map, the purpose is to better hide it...... In other words, he gave this secret to Xianghao, and in this case, this map may not even know about the existence of the old ghost! ”

Inspired by me, the people around me also nodded, especially Yun Shangwu and said, "Look, there is a dot in the center of this map, which seems to be the depictor or something. ”

"It seems to be...... The map of Pei County! The monk said.

I raised my eyebrows, and I said, "Peixian? Do you mean the hometown of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the old Liu family? ”

"This shop should be the Xizhuang Mine in Anguo Town, and we should be eighty kilometers away from here, but this Xizhuang Mine is quite famous, don't tell me, the story that happened there, even our people here know it very well." The monk babbled and said.

I got interested, sat down on the couch and said, "Then you can talk about it." ”

The monk took a sip of wine, and then talked about a dusty past, the age was probably in the seventies of the last century, during this period of time Pei County was not as rich as it is now, at that time there was a place called Xifeng Village, that is, the village where the Xizhuang mine was located.

The village chief is a good old man, named Li Zhiguo, who is about 50 years old and has a good reputation, but after more than 20 years as the village chief, he has done nothing, and he also knew that there is not much food in the village, and the old people will starve.

Why the elderly? The reason for this is very simple, that is, the old people can no longer work in the fields, so they save food rations for children and young adults, after all, this is related to the future of the village.

And the village chief is very self-blaming, he thinks it is his own problem, so he did not let the surrounding people eat and drink well, next door Erlangmiao Village, every family has built new houses, on the other hand, Xifeng Village, people still live in adobe houses, very simple.

One day, Li Zhiguo saw a child in the village with a black stone, he felt strange and took it to see, this Li Zhiguo is also a person who has read a book, and immediately saw that this is a coal mine, he was very happy, so he asked the children where the stone came from, and the children pointed to the gentle slope of a lake.

So Li Zhiguo went to see which gentle slope, but unexpectedly found a lot of similar ores in the upstream position, he knew that there was a coal mine in this place, and at that time, people still used coal, so this coal mine was a very money-making thing.

So Li Zhiguo discussed with the cadres in the village that he wanted to mine and mine, and then take the people to make a lot of money, but his character people also knew that he belonged to a very bad kind of person, and he couldn't make a fart with a stick, so his words had no prestige, and no one listened to him.

And Lao Li is stubborn, since no one is with him, he chose to go it alone, spent three years, and his youngest son dug out a deep hole, this hole is like those coal mine caves in Shanxi in the last century, very narrow, and very dangerous, can only allow a person to bend down to enter, and then bend over to come out, if you don't encounter a landslide or something like that, the people inside will die.

Moreover, the ventilation in such a small coal mine is not very good, and it is very dangerous to go down, but the father and son still overcame a lot of hardships and dug the first barrel of coal.

Because this humble coal mine was close to the river, at that time, the road traffic was very inconvenient, but there was a river that was completely different, the waterway was the most convenient mode of transportation, and the mine was still near the river at that time, so this saved a lot of transportation costs.

Many slippery heads in the village also saw the feasibility of this business, originally people regarded the village chief as a big fool, a good man, but the village chief's behavior this time was to enlighten the villagers.

So there were more and more people in the village who came to help, everyone was just for a piece of the pie, and the village chief's youngest son was not happy, he said that they had found the hole, but now they had opened the hole, and those villagers who were grass-like on the wall came to help.

But the village chief is a very kind-hearted person, and the kind ones are a little stupid, he refuted these words of his youngest son, and even let go of his hands and feet, and let everyone do it together, among the people who came, there were men, women and children.

So the fields were all deserted, as if the whole village was counting on this small coal mine to make a fortune, and the village chief became more and more popular.

Originally, it would be good if things continued like this, after all, local coal is much cheaper than that from other places, so the market is huge, people are making a lot of money, and there is nothing but a group of nouveau riche in the village.

As a result, every family built a new house and built a road leading to the main road, and the story of the village chief was widely told by the people of Anguo Town.

However, things did not always go on like this, it was a summer night, there was a thunderstorm in the sky, the rain was very heavy, and the river rose, because the coal mine was very low, and it could not withstand the flood, for the safety of the people, the village chief dismissed everyone, stopped the work at night, and let everyone go back.

But there are always one or two insatiable people in the crowd, this is the three brothers of the Zhou family, they have a bad idea, since no one is near the mine, then they will brave the rain to dig more coal, when the weather is good, send it to the town to sell, often can be sold at a good price, so the three brothers immediately began to work, for all this, the village chief knows, but he doesn't want to care, after all, this is also his own village, and the Zhou family's economy is poor, which means that the village chief also acquiesces.

But all the calamities are only now beginning......