Chapter 18: Finding Footprints
After I finished worshiping Zhang Deshun, I looked back and saw that the two of them were gone, but I wasn't worried at all, Mahuangling was not big, and there was only one road to the back mountain, Ge Zhuang had already gone up the mountain in advance to look, and this big tomb couldn't run at all.
After about an hour, I heard a whistle in the grass, and quickly opened my eyes, and saw Ge Zhuang wearing a straw hat made of tree branches on his head, leaning towards me like a dirt road for a guerrilla station.
I asked him how it was. Ge Zhuang chewed a dog's tail grass, spit out a mouthful of spit, and said, "See clearly, the entrance of the tomb is not far from us, I saw with my own eyes that the two old deflated calves went down to the tomb, so I hurried back to inform you, little pumpkin, you are too good at enjoying it, let the fat man go to spy on the military situation for you, and squint and sleep here." It's just an opportunist, why didn't I knock you down in 67 years! ”
I said I was born in '76, where should I be in '67? Ge Zhuang said that it should still be in your father's seminal vesicles.
I jumped up to scold him, but Ge Zhuang quickly dodged and said don't make trouble with the little pumpkin, Lao Zhong, this turtle grandson doesn't know when he will be able to take the guy into the mountain to find us, what should we do next.
I pointed to the direction of the back mountain and said let's go, let's follow first, you don't have to worry about the old clock, he is much more practical than you, it shouldn't take long to catch up.
So Ge Zhuang and I sat all the way and sneaked up the trail covered with wild grass in the back mountain.
Climbing up the back mountain, I climbed high and looked into the distance, and asked Ge Zhuang where the first three thieves were hit? Ge Zhuang pointed to a mountain mouth in the back mountain, and said that there is, I saw the two of them get into it with my own eyes just now, and the thief hole should have been built in advance.
It seems that these two people still went into the cave that collapsed a few years ago, Ge Zhuang and I waited outside for more than half an hour, and we didn't see the people inside come out, and after another half an hour or so, Lao Zhong followed the mark we left at the foot of the mountain, threw the bag to Ge Zhuang, and complained that why didn't you wait for me at the bottom of the mountain?
Ge Zhuang said that when you came over, the daylily was very cold, and the two of them had been in for two or three hours, and they didn't know if they had touched anything good. Lao Zhong said that this is not just right, let them bring things out first, and we will wait outside, wouldn't it save a lot of effort?
Ge Zhuang said that you are beautiful, how do you know that they will take this road when they come out?
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, I quickly got up and said okay, since the guy brought it, go to the grave as soon as possible, what the fat man said is reasonable, in case these two old calves leave from somewhere else, we will be blind. Who is this hard trip for?
Since there are already two people in front of them who have entered the tomb, there is no need to do the old rules of going down to the tomb, and the ventilation in this tomb must be able to provide people with sufficient oxygen, otherwise the leper will have to lie down when he enters the tomb three times.
This time, I walked in front with a flashlight to explore the way, and Lao Zhong and Ge Zhuang walked behind me on the left and right. The wall of the tomb is exposed outside, after so many years of sun and wind, and a lot of rain, so it is very smooth and flat, except for some traces of immersion in water, the air is quite dry, and people do not feel dull when they walk inside.
The old clock reminded me to be careful, don't turn the flashlight too bright, it will not be good to be discovered by the people in front of me.
I said I didn't say it, these two old deflated calves don't want to fight at a glance, and the fat man can clean them all up alone!
After walking for two minutes, the sky behind us had completely dimmed, we walked into the depths of the tomb, looking at the black stone wall, there was no content, Ge Zhuang was a little disappointed, and said How is this tomb like this? There is not even a single tomb brick, and it seems that most of the tomb owner is also a poor ghost!
I said fatty, don't complain, do you really think that the world is full of princely tombs? The tomb recorded in the ancient books has long been protected by the state, and those that have not been protected have long been stolen and excavated by their predecessors.
Ge Zhuang muttered two, couldn't help but say no more, the tomb road was dark and narrow, full of eerie weirdness, for the sake of prudence, I still took out two candles, let Ge Zhuang carefully hold them in his hands and walked forward, about ten minutes away, I realized that something was wrong, quickly stopped, and looked at the seemingly endless passage in front of me in a daze.
Ge Zhuang hurriedly urged me, saying why don't you leave?
I said wait, something is wrong! The old bell said in a deep voice, what's wrong? I asked Lao Zhong rhetorically, do you feel like we've walked through this place?
There is no rolling mountain behind the Mahuang Ridge, only a peak that protrudes like a turtle's back, standing abruptly, and there is no point of connection with the high mountain in the distance, it stands to reason that this tomb was built in such a place, it is impossible to form a large scale, but we have been around for so long, and now this road has not found an end.
Sensing that there might be something wrong with the tomb road, I stopped walking, squatted down on the spot, and carefully recalled the place where we walked, the place where the tomb collapsed was on top of the ancient tomb, and after we climbed down the hole, we should be in the middle of the ancient tomb, and I felt that this road seemed to be going further and further.
After listening to my analysis, Lao Zhong said why don't we go back further? Perhaps we were in too much of a hurry to walk and forgot to observe our surroundings, and we most likely missed the main burial chamber.
I looked at the old clock, determined to follow his advice and walk back. Out of prudence, I asked Ge Zhuang to put the candle in his hand on the ground, lit another one, and then turned back in the direction from which he came.
There were thirty candles we had brought, and each candle was spaced almost two hundred meters apart, until the last one was lit, and we had walked around the tomb for at least six kilometers, and an hour had passed, and the main tomb had not been found.
At the moment, there is only one passage, from beginning to end we have not found the fork in the crossing, so I don't know when it will be the end, and after finding that the route is wrong, I have made adjustments in time, and now the old way to go back, but we should have unconsciously walked the fork in the road at a certain node, not to mention that we can't find the main tomb, we can't even find the exit.
I decided not to go first, let Ge Zhuang, who was in a hurry, stop first, he asked me why I didn't leave again, I said are you stupid, we seem to have taken a fork in the road.
Ge Zhuang said that he was not so unlucky, right? The fat man has been observing this tomb road, it is straight from beginning to end, and there is no place to turn around, how can it be lost inexplicably, is it possible that this place is also the same as the tomb of the bow descendant, it is rotating?
I said it is impossible, the ancients of the Warring States period could not have such a powerful tomb-making technology, think about it carefully, there must be some links that we have missed, otherwise this tomb road will not be able to go out no way.
At this time, the old clock gave me an idea, he said, little pumpkin, we haven't seen anyone walking in front since we came down, if they also walk through this passage, they will definitely leave footprints, let's look for footprints first, so it shouldn't be wrong.
It's really a word to wake up the dreamer, there are no tomb bricks under the tomb road, the soil layer is soft, as long as someone is confirmed to have walked in front, then there will definitely be footprints, and it will be followed by the footprints of the leper three?
Ge Zhuang also said, "By the way, the leper has been here before, and the old horse knows the way, he must know more about the curtain than us, as long as he follows these footprints, it's right!" ”
Hearing this, I quickly squatted down and searched for footprints with my eyes, and sure enough, I could see at a glance that scattered footprints were distributed under the tomb road, judging from the direction of the footprints, the path we chose at the beginning should be correct.
There is only one detail that arouses my suspicions, judging from the footprints, these two people should have taken off their shoes and walked barefoot on the road, and there were no tooth marks of shoe prints on the tomb road. Why do you take off your shoes?