Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Secret of the Zhonghua Gate

Uncle Changming came back from outside and asked us how we were doing, and he asked me to find that Lao Sun and Lao Qian had not piled up soil outside.

Uncle Changming also found a problem, so he bent down and shouted into the hole, shouting, no one answered, we suddenly felt bad, didn't there be something happening down there!

Uncle Changming was about to go down, Liu Yuxiao saw that his father was going down, and immediately pulled Uncle Changming and said, "Dad, I'll go down, I'm young, I'm better than you, what's the situation to deal with." ”

Uncle Changming didn't agree, insisted on going down by himself, was fighting, suddenly a person came out of the hole, leaned out half of his body, I fixed my eyes and looked, it was Lao Sun, I heard Lao Sun staring at Uncle Changming excitedly and said, "Come down, find it!" ”

I saw that Uncle Changming's face lit up all of a sudden, his eyes flashed, he pushed Liu Yu away and smiled, and said to Lao Sun, "Go down and have a look!" Then he followed Lao Sun down to the cave.

The rest of us were all confused, so we had to catch Liu Yu and ask with a smile: "What is it, what did you find?" Unexpectedly, Liu Yu smiled and said, "I don't know, my dad has never told me, I will do whatever he asks me to do." ”

Hearing him say this, the big guy immediately felt very disappointed, and finally eliminated all these rats, and found everything, except for Uncle Changming, no one knew what he was looking for. This Uncle Changming's tone is really tight.

I had no choice but to wait stupidly outside, waiting and waiting I was also a little irritable, took out a cigarette to smoke, Brother Hao and Dahao saw it and took the cigarette from my pocket, one for each person, and the three of them squatted there, swallowing the clouds and spitting fog.

Liu Yuxiao This kid doesn't smoke, and he coughed when he was choked by the three of us smoking, and he was embarrassed to say, I was happy to see him like that.

At this moment, Uncle Changming came out of under the bed, and when he saw the three of us smoking there, he beckoned to me, I thought I was calling me, so I hurriedly ran over, and waited for a long time, but Uncle Liu didn't say a word.

I was wondering when Uncle Changming stretched out two fingers, looked at me in disappointment and said, "Smoke!" ”

I slapped my brain, I forgot that Uncle Changming smoked, just now I asked me for a cigarette, quickly took it out and lit it for Uncle Changming, Uncle Changming sat on the bed while smoking, beckoned everyone to come over, and said that he had something to tell us.

After taking two more puffs, Uncle Changming raised his head and said solemnly, "Everyone doesn't know what we're doing in this place, right?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, and Uncle Changming continued, "Yes, no one told you, you definitely don't know, now I will tell you the truth!" ”

As soon as we heard this, we all immediately quieted down and waited for Uncle Changming to speak.

Uncle Changming held the cigarette and said slowly, "Have you heard of Shen Wansan? ”

I tried to remember, as if I had heard of such a person, but I didn't remember it very clearly, so I had to look at Brother Hao, I knew that Brother Hao was much more proficient in these histories than me.

Brother Hao really didn't disappoint me, he looked at Uncle Changming and said, "Uncle Liu is talking about Shen Wansan in the Ming Dynasty who repaired the city wall for Zhu Yuanzhang!" ”

Uncle Changming nodded, and then said, "Then do you know the fate of this Shen Wansan?" ”

Brother Hao nodded and said, "I heard that because he offended Zhu Yuanzhang, he was raided by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was not exiled.

Uncle Changming showed an approving gaze, looked at Brother Hao and said, "Your name is Wang Hao, is your father's name Wang Kezhang!" ”

Brother Hao nodded, and Uncle Changming boasted: "It's really a tiger father without a dog!" ”

Uncle Changming continued: "It is said that he offended Zhu Yuanzhang, but in fact, he was jealous of Zhu Yuanzhang, and there is another very important reason, that he is very rich, to be precise, he is very rich. ”

"Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to build the capital in Nanjing, and decided to expand Yingtiancheng and build it very magnificently. However, due to the frequent battles and huge expenses, there was no money to repair the city walls. Shen Wansan agreed to be responsible for the construction of the section from Jubaomen to Shuiximen, as well as related projects such as houses, streets, bridges, water gates and mansions. He not only hired first-class construction craftsmen, but also supervised the progress and checked the quality on the construction site all day long. Although some "inspectors" often went to the construction site to create trouble and get oil and water, Shen Wansan still completed the city wall three days ahead of the royal construction. ”

But to do so is to refute the emperor's face. Subsequently, he actually proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang that he planned to reward the three armies with his million taels of gold instead of the emperor. This finally made Ming Taizu Long Yan furious. So he was confiscated from his family property and sent to the border of Yunnan. ”

After Uncle Changming finished speaking, he looked at us again and said, "After talking so much about Shen Wansan, I want to ask you again, do you know why Shen Wansan is so rich?" ”

Brother Hao replied: "I heard that this Shen Wansan is very good at business, and he got the Lu family of the rich side at that time to share the wealth with him, which led to the final wealth of Jiangnan. ”

Uncle Changming smoked a cigarette, blinked his eyes and looked at Brother Hao and said, "Is there any other reason?" ”

Brother Hao looked at Uncle Chang Ming suspiciously and said: "The rest still have a legend, saying that he has a cornucopia, and if he throws the money into it, he will not be able to use it up, so he has become extremely rich, I think this legend is not true, right?" ”

Uncle Changming threw the cigarette butt to the ground, stepped on it, stood up and raised his head to look at Brother Hao, and said seriously: "The things in history, true and false, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, you said that whether it is Shen Wansan's business fortune or the cornucopia, it is all hearsay, and I haven't verified it, right?" ”

Brother Hao blinked and looked at Uncle Changming, he didn't expect this Uncle Changming to ask him like this, but he didn't expect it, he was a little speechless for a while.

After a while, Brother Hao said stupidly, "What is written in this book can't be fake, right?" ”

Unexpectedly, Uncle Changming slapped his thigh, laughed and said, "Haven't you heard a word?" It's called, is history a little girl who can be dressed up! ”

Seeing that Brother Hao stopped talking, Uncle Changming continued: "What I told you today may subvert your cognition, we got the exact news, this Shen Wansan's cornucopia does exist, it is buried under the Zhonghua Gate!" ”

A few of us opened our mouths in surprise.

It's really fake, there is really a cornucopia in this world! Suddenly, I remembered that Uncle Changming mentioned Zhonghua Gate just now, and my mind flashed suddenly, and I remembered that when my father was arrested, it seemed that he mentioned Zhonghua Gate, just near Zhonghua Gate, Hexagonal Well, Dad's note.

All of a sudden, these messy information began to roll in my mind, intertwined, and I suddenly understood, my father must also know this cornucopia, and he and Uncle Changming wanted to find this cornucopia together, but my father was arrested in this hexagonal well.

So Uncle Changming took on the burden of finding the cornucopia alone, and when I understood it, I looked at Uncle Changming and said, "We're looking for the cornucopia now, right?" ”

Uncle Changming nodded solemnly.

Uncle Changming continued: "This cornucopia is buried under the Zhonghua Gate, we can't dig from above, we know from a private notebook in the Ming Dynasty that there is a way to enter the Zhonghua Gate, that is, from the Hexagonal Well. ”

"There is a back door left by the craftsman who built the underground project of Zhonghua Gate in this hexagonal well, the reason why your father smashed the wall at the beginning is because the current hexagonal well has been covered by the house built later, and I and Jianjun and his father spent a lot of effort to confirm the specific location of the hexagonal well."

"It's very unsafe to enter from above now, and it also caused Jianjun's father to be reported and arrested. We had to find the location of this well from the ground, but fortunately, Lao Sun and Lao Qian helped me, both of whom were capable Tufuzi, and just now, we had dug the wall of the hexagonal well! ”

Uncle Changming looked at us excitedly, and at this time, the big fuss suddenly came, "Are there any drawings for the underground of Zhonghua Gate?" ”

Uncle Changming was originally very excited, but after listening to the big trouble, his expression slowly dimmed, and he said a little lost: "I haven't found the detailed information and drawings below, and what can be determined at present is that the entrance is in the hexagonal well." ”

We were a little uneasy when we heard it, we didn't have any drawings, and we went underground to find this cornucopia, and we didn't know how much danger we would encounter. Thinking about this, we are all a little worried.

Uncle Changming saw our thoughts, and then said: "Originally, Jianjun and his father wanted to study and study again, and get the detailed drawings of the underground before going down, but then we found out that there was another group of people who were also looking for a cornucopia, and we felt that if we dragged it any longer, maybe this thing would be taken by someone else, so we started immediately." ”

Hearing Uncle Changming say that there was another group of people, I remembered the knife master who tied me before, so I asked Uncle Changming if it was him.

After hearing this, Uncle Changming looked at me thoughtfully and said, "Actually, I'm not sure, the only thing I can be sure of is that someone is indeed looking for this thing, and they have already done it." ”

I knew that the matter had come to this point, and there was no other way, so I had to say: "Then everything is arranged by Uncle Changming!" ”

We all looked at Uncle Chang Ming, waiting for Uncle Chang Ming's next instructions.

Uncle Changming stood up, picked up a shovel, looked at us and said, "Immediately we will open the wall of the well, and then go down to see if we can find the entrance, and there can't be too many people below, so let's do it, Jianjun and I will go down with Lao Sun and Lao Qian first, and you will leave two people on it to answer." ”

Uncle Changming looked at Liu Yu with a smile and said, "You go out and find a way to find the whereabouts of the other group, and then try to hold them back!" ”

After listening to Uncle Changming's arrangement, we had no opinion, and Brother Hao and Da Hao stayed in the house to pick us up, and I was more relieved. Liu Yuxiao listened to Uncle Changming's words, told us to be careful, turned around and walked out of the room.

Uncle Changming looked at his son's back, his eyes were full of worry, I knew in my heart that his task seemed to be easy, but in fact it was the most dangerous, and this other group of people didn't know where they came from, and if it fell into their hands, they didn't know if they could come back.

I checked the equipment on my body: daggers, sapper shovels, kettles, compressed biscuits, flashlights, ropes, lighters, gas masks, and I felt that they were all together, so I nodded to Uncle Changming.

I jumped into the cave with Uncle Changming, and as soon as I went down, I saw Brother Hao and the big fussy head lying on the entrance of the cave looking down worriedly, Brother Hao said softly: "Be careful! ”

I smiled at him, made an OK gesture, and slipped inside with a cat's waist.

The hole dug by Lao Sun and Lao Qian first had three or four meters vertically, and then it became a horizontal hole at a right angle, and this hole was more than one meter high, and it could walk with a cat waist in it.

After walking about 50 meters inside, I saw Lao Sun and Lao Qian resting against the cave wall, and directly opposite was a blue brick wall with an arc bulging outward.