Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Flute

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After Uncle Changming and I arrived, we called Lao Sun and Lao Qian to prepare to do it, and this well wall is not a tomb, and there is basically no danger. Watching Lao Sun and Lao Qian start to take the green bricks on the wall of the well, Uncle Changming lit a candle, afraid that there would be any poisonous gas in the well, just in case.

Watching the green bricks on the well wall being taken down one by one, I inevitably felt a little nervous, after all, people are always afraid of the unknown world.

After a while, a small hole appeared in the wall, and Uncle Changming put the candle at the entrance of the cave, and the candle was extinguished at once. Uncle Changming immediately beckoned everyone to put on the gas mask, I hurriedly put the gas mask on, but after a while, I felt very stuffy in my chest, I felt wrong, there was a lot of carbon dioxide gas accumulation in this well.

Thinking of this, I shouted, "Withdraw!" He pulled Uncle Changming back.

When Lao Sun and Lao Qian heard my greeting, they also retreated together, and when they ran to the vertical hole, I felt weak in my limbs when I climbed up. Fortunately, Dahao and Brother Hao have been guarding it, and when they saw that we were in a situation, they immediately knotted a rope and threw it down.

One by one, we pulled up from the hole and rolled out from under the bed, and I immediately took off my gas mask and gasped for air.

Uncle Changming didn't expect to encounter this situation, this carbon dioxide is colorless and odorless, it is useless to wear a gas mask, it is easy to be tricked, many people in the countryside encountered this gas when digging a well or going down to the cellar, and died unconsciously, at that time, people did not have the current cognition, they all thought that there was an evil ghost at work, in fact, it was an excessive amount of carbon dioxide inhaled.

After resting on it for a while, Uncle Changming relieved himself, picked up the candle and lit it again, put it in the hole, and tried to see if the air had improved, and watched the flame of the candle sway, swaying left and right, and then extinguished.

Uncle Changming frowned suddenly, he thought he would be able to go in tonight, but he didn't expect to encounter this sudden situation, he looked at me and said, "Either find a way to get some oxygen cylinders, or you have to wait until dawn to see the situation." ”

I thought about it, we don't have a good way, now where to get oxygen cylinders at this time? When I got it, it was estimated that it would be dawn. Everyone summed it up together, and we were going to rest here tonight, and then we wouldn't go back, so we were in a hurry, resting on the spot, and trying the air again at dawn, and when we were resting, we all slept at the door just in case, and the door was wide open.

I was wrapped in clothes and leaned against the wall, I slept for a while and always couldn't sleep, tossed and turned a few times without sleep, listening to Brother Hao's snoring, I couldn't sleep even more, I simply sat up, took out a cigarette to smoke, and reasoned my thoughts.

As soon as I lit the cigarette, I saw that the old man was not asleep, he turned over and sat up, I looked at him and smiled, handed him a cigarette, and he leaned forward to me and took the cigarette in his hand.

The two of us were smoking, and we were talking together.

I asked him where he was from, and he smiled and said, "Sichuan." ”

I asked him how long he had been doing this business, and he said, "I've been doing it all my life, and the situation in my hometown is not good, so my family lives on this." ”

I saw that he was quite old, so I asked him to pay attention to his body, and he smiled again and said: "A handful of old bones, about to enter the ground, all the year round to the ground, fell into a body of problems, this time Lao Liu called us over, ready to finish this ticket, and go home to retire, can't do it!" He smiled bitterly as he spoke, and it seemed that he could see it very clearly.

I also feel that life is not easy, everyone has their own difficulties, and many times it is not said that you can change it if you want to.

As he spoke, he felt a little tired, so he closed his eyes and recuperated, but he fell asleep with his head tilted.

I don't know how long I slept this night, and I had a sore back when I slept against the wall. In a daze, I heard someone playing the flute.

I thought to myself that who is so leisurely and elegant, getting up before dawn to practice the flute, how much you love to play the flute, and you are not afraid of others complaining that you are disturbing the people.

Thinking about it, I opened my eyes, because I was leaning against the wall to the right of the door, facing the direction of the bed, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the big black cat lying on the edge of the bed, and its eyes were dripping under the bed.

I'm wondering, can't it be another rat?

I stood up, and at that moment, I heard the melodious sound of the flute again, this time I heard it very clearly, and when I heard it, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on my back, and the sound of the flute actually came from under the bed.

I thought to myself, hell, under this bed is the hole we dug in the ground, and at the end of this hole is the wall of the well, how can anyone play the flute in it?

I felt that the situation was wrong, so I woke up Dahao and Brother Hao, Uncle Changming and they all woke up when they heard the movement, and asked me what the situation was, I asked everyone not to speak, listen carefully, and at this moment, the melodious flute sound came from under the bed again.

When everyone heard this, they didn't know what the situation was, and they all stood up nervously.

The big guy slowly approached the bottom of the bed, the old cat was still lying there, staring nervously at the hole under the bed, Brother Hao saw it, so he went over and picked up the cat, the cat seemed to feel something, has been very uneasy, when Brother Hao picked it up, its eyes have been staring at the bed.

The first one got under the bed, listened for a while, then turned to us and said, "There's no danger." ”

Uncle Changming also went in, took a candle and lit it and put it at the entrance of the cave, looked at it for a while, the fire was not extinguished, and then turned his head to us and said, "Go down and have a look!" He beckoned Lao Sun and Lao Qian to take the good guy to prepare to go down the hole, and he got into it first.

I followed Lao Qian down to the hole, everyone bent their waists and came to the well wall after a while, Uncle Changming held the candle in his hand and put it in the hole in the well wall, waited for a while, found that there was no movement, and said to Lao Sun and Lao Qian: "Continue to dismantle!" ”

As soon as the two old men heard Uncle Changming's words, they were not ambiguous, and they removed a lot of green bricks, and a hole was exposed in the wall of the well that could be drilled into a person.

At this time, the flute sounded again, and Uncle Changming took out a flashlight and went into the hole to take a look, and we waited next to it, hoping that Uncle Changming could give us an answer after reading it.

But after waiting for a while, Uncle Changming withdrew and said, "There is no water in the well, it is all dry, but we can't see the sound of something, we have to go down." After saying that, he took out the rope hanging from his waist, drove an iron chisel into the soil, tied the rope firmly, fixed the flashlight on his head, and slipped down.

This well is not very deep, because we have made this hole three or four meters vertically, and there is about seven or eight meters down from the wall of this well, and when we got to the bottom, Uncle Changming lit the candle again to test the air, and after looking at it for a while, it was not extinguished, and then began to look around.

I noticed Uncle Changmin staring at a brick on the wall of the well below.

We couldn't see what was going on above, so I said to Lao Sun and Lao Qian, "You wait on it first, and I'll go down and take a look." After speaking, I grabbed the rope, and slipped to the bottom of the well, down to the bottom of the well, only to really feel that the bottom of the well is quite spacious, in ancient times, the well mouth is small, the bottom of the well is wide, now the two of us do not feel crowded at all, I looked around, I found that Uncle Changming was using a flashlight to shine a brick on the top of his head, I looked up, only to see a line of words written on it, "Shen Cangyu must not die!" ”

I looked a little inexplicable, Uncle Changming looked at it for a while, and said with emotion: "Jianjun, look, there are water marks under this line of words, and the person who carved the words must have been floating in the well water, and I don't know if he went out in the end." ”

He put the flashlight back and said, "I guess this person is also one of the people who know this secret passage, and I don't know why he was thrown into the well." ”

As we were talking, the sound of the flute began to sound again, and this time we heard it very clearly, and it came from under our feet.

Uncle Changming and I were naturally taken aback, is there anyone down here?

Or that the secret passage may be at his feet, Uncle Changming listened for a while, felt that there was no danger, raised his head and said to Lao Sun and Lao Qian, "You two also come down." ”

I know that Uncle Changming is preparing to dig up the mud on the soles of his feet, whether it is a ghost or a god, and he has to see the real chapter.

Although Lao Sun and Lao Qian are old, their skills are still not bad, they came down from the hole above, picked up the shovel and opened the bow left and right, and after a while, they dug down more than one meter deep, at this time, suddenly "squeak", Lao Sun stopped, and whispered: "I touched something!" ”

We took a closer look with a flashlight, and saw a miserable white hand bone exposed in the black mud, and I thought to myself, what a bad luck, it's so unlucky to meet a dead person in this place!

Uncle Changming looked at it and asked Lao Sun: "Lao Sun, what do you think?" ”

Lao Sun stared at the bone and said, "I see that this man has been dead for some years, and I have to dig out this bone and look at it." ”

After saying that, he picked up the shovel again, carefully digging down the hand bone, and soon, a complete skeleton appeared in front of us, and what surprised me even more was that the other hand of the skeleton seemed to be holding something.

Lao Sun bent down and picked out a thing from the mud, which was round and covered with black mud, Lao Sun wiped off the mud with his hands, and put it under the flashlight to see, it turned out to be a copper coin, which read: Hongwu Tongbao.

Lao Sun looked up at Uncle Changming and said, "The Ming Dynasty has been dead for hundreds of years!" ”

At this time, I had been staring at what the skeleton was carrying, a black piece, not small, but I really couldn't see what it was.

As soon as I told Uncle Changming, Uncle Changming also saw it, so he glanced at Lao Sun and Lao Qian. old

For the sake of prudence, Sun took out the iron claw from his waist, turned his hand twice, and threw it in, wrapping it around the thing.

As soon as Lao Sun mentioned it, this thing came to our feet.

Uncle Changming poured water from the kettle on it and washed the mud away, revealing the true face of this thing, long and square, a little thin in the middle, a bit like an ancient pillow.

I looked at Uncle Changming suspiciously and said, "This can't be a pillow, right?" ”

Uncle Changming nodded, it's really a pillow, there will be a pillow in this place, it is beyond my expectations.

Uncle Changming asked Lao Sun and Lao Qian to continue to dig, and I looked at this pillow with a little curiosity, and at this moment, the flute sounded again, and in my ears, I was startled, and the sound actually came from this pillow.