The air is very dry, and the stone piles standing on the side of the road also have traces of dry cracks, and you can vaguely see that there are very fine relief marks around the cracks, and it is estimated that the craftsman chiseled too deep when carving the reliefs, resulting in cracks inside the stone, and the long years of drying, so that the stone piles were completely cracked from the inside to the outside.

The craftsman who broke the stone was certainly not a good craftsman, and the person who built the tunnel was probably not a famous person.

When Li Huaishan shook his flashlight and let the beam sweep on the stone pile, I noticed that the top of the stone pile reflected a trace of oily luster, so I immediately leaned over to check, and Li Huaishan also came to me and hit the beam straight on the top of the stone pile.

I wiped away the dust from the top of the pile, and I saw a fist-sized groove in the top of the pile, filled with grease.

Li Huaishan asked me next to me: "What is this thing for, can't it be an organ again?" ”

I stretched out my fingers, scraped a little grease with my fingernails, put it in front of my nose and smelled it, and the grease smelled a little bit of plant ash and a sweet smell.

In addition, the stone piles standing on the ground also exude a unique fragrance of the Qing Dynasty, and if I deduce correctly, it is also a product of the Guangxu period, just like the stone steps at the entrance of the dark passage.

After that, I leaned to the top of the stone stake and looked closely at the grease in the groove, and saw that there was a deep hole in the middle of the grease.

I cleared the contents of my fingernails and said to Li Huaishan: "This is an ever-bright lamp, it seems that this tunnel should be a grave road right now." ”

Li Huaishan: "Ever-bright light? Why doesn't it light up? ”

This guy really doesn't understand anything, but he can't be blamed, after all, he basically hasn't read the classics of the old family.

I patiently explained to him: "The everlasting lamp is not never extinguished, but it burns for a long time, the grease in this lamp should be a special corpse oil, it will only melt when it encounters high temperatures, but it rarely volatilizes, as long as the yang energy in the tunnel is not exhausted, this lamp should be able to continue to burn for hundreds of years, but the wick has been completely rotten, without the wick, of course the everlasting lamp will not be lit." ”

I explained for a long time, but I didn't expect it to cause Li Huaishan's unhappiness: "Damn, you know everything." ”

Hey, I'm wondering, it's obviously a question you asked, and I'm patient to help you answer it, but you're still reluctant, what's the matter!

I turned my head and looked at Li Huaishan speechlessly.

Li Huaishan immediately moved the beam to the side, deliberately not letting the afterglow illuminate my expression, and muttered: "Don't stare at me, I feel panicked when you stare at me." ”

I couldn't help frowning: "Is it so scary when I stare at it?" ”

Li Huaishan: "It's not just scary, just now when you stared, I had goosebumps all over my body, and I almost knelt down for you at that time." Don't keep staring when you're idle in the future, you're not good like this. ”

I've known you for so long, I seem to have glared at you once, what do you mean I don't keep glaring.

Now is not a good time to gossip, so I didn't ramble anymore, just urged Li Huaishan to continue to move forward.

At first, when we first entered the tunnel, the lateral distance of the tunnel became wider and wider as we went deeper, but after the first permanent light, the space became narrower and narrower, until the walls on both sides were less than three meters apart, and the width of the tunnel did not change.

After walking through the first ever-bright lamp, every dozen steps can meet a lamp post, these lights sometimes appear on the left, sometimes on the right, the arrangement is irregular, Li Huaishan hit the beam on the lamp post several times, I looked along the light spot, I found that there are fine nicks on each lamp post, but all the nicks are very messy, not formed at all.

Sometimes you think that these so-called reliefs are the chisel marks left by craftsmen when cutting stones, but the notches on some lamp posts look very rounded, and they look carefully polished, and it seems that when this tomb was first built, the craftsmen did carve fine patterns on the lamp posts, but then for some reason, they chiseled all the reliefs on the lamp posts with their own hands.

During this period, I had blessed my vision with the Meditation Technique, and there was nothing else in sight except for the lamp stakes on the ground and the dead vegetation on the soil walls on both sides, and the Qi field that diffused in the air did not seem to have any abnormalities except for the slightly heavier Yin Qi.

Boss Huang had said before that three kilometers east of the village was a very high dirt slope, and the fort was on the top of the slope.

After Li Huaishan and I walked about 2,000 meters in the cemetery, the ground began to have a slope that extended diagonally upward, and after traveling along the slope for more than 1,500 meters, we finally came to the end of the cemetery.

In the past, when the second master asked me and Li Huaishan to walk the dark bell, I still felt that the second master was in a state of X, and felt that he let us walk blindfolded with plates, just to see us make jokes, but now it seems that if there was no experience of walking the dark bell, standing at the end of the tomb at this time, I was not sure what was pressing on top of my head.

Now I can assert with certainty that at this time, directly above our heads is the castle in the mouth of Boss Huang.

Maybe as long as you get closer to the ground, you can hear the sound of Widow Wang and Chen Dabang talking.

Li Huaishan picked up the flashlight and shone it above his head.

There was a very wide hole above our heads, and Li Huaishan shot the left and right of the hole, and saw that there was a small area on the left side of the hole reflecting a slippery luster, and it seemed that this hole perpendicular to the ground should be made of stones.

I suppose that in order for Widow Wang and Chen Dabang to go up from this place, someone had to lower the rope from above, and because the rope often rubbed against the edge of the hole, a small area was directly slipped.

In addition, I visually inspected the vertical distance between the hole and the ground should be nearly five meters, which is too high, completely beyond the limit of my height for standing and jumping.

Li Huaishan put down the flashlight, and by the afterglow of the flashlight, I saw that he turned his body to me, probably wanting to speak. I immediately reached out and poked him, lowered my voice and said, "Be quiet, Widow Wang and Chen Dabang may be on top of our heads!" ”

Li Huaishan lowered his voice and said to me: "You jumped higher than me, I will support you below, you go up and have a look." ”

As he spoke, Li Huaishan put the flashlight on the ground and pointed the lamp at himself, after which he took another lunge and folded his hands on his thighs.

I took out my teeth from my pocket, took two steps back, took a deep breath, and then made a sharp charge, stepping on Li Huaishan's palm with one foot, I pushed up hard, and Li Huaishan struggled to lift me up.

With the strength of Li Huaishan, I quickly rushed to the sky, the beam of the flashlight shone on Li Huaishan, the top of my head was pitch black, I could only secretly calculate the distance between myself and the entrance of the cave in my heart, and when the body rose to the highest place, I tightened my waist hard, and waved my teeth hard at the moment of being in the air, and I heard a crisp sound of "click", and the teeth were firmly pierced into the cave wall.

Li Huaishan quickly picked up the flashlight on the ground and shone it on me, I looked down, only to find that I only had the upper half of my body in the hole, and my two legs were still outside the hole.

Li Huaishan gave me a thumbs up, took out the flying flower from his waist bag, and threw it to me.

I reached out to catch the claw, looked up, and the flashlight fell less than a meter away from me, and I just had to do a pull-up with my teeth to touch the roof of the cave.

But at present, I am not sure what is pressing on the top of the cave entrance, if it is an ordinary stone slab, I can still push it open with brute force, but if it is the same as the secret door of the widow's house, the lid used to press the hole is also several tons, then Li Huaishan and I will have to find another way to enter the fort.

There was a lot of noise when my teeth pierced the wall of the cave just now, and I didn't dare to act rashly now, so I could only listen carefully to the movement above my head, and after five or six minutes, I made sure that there was no movement on the top of my head, and then I pulled myself up hard.

Luckily, the thing pressing on the top of the cave entrance was not too heavy, and I could push it open with a little force, but I still didn't dare to make too much movement, so I could only carefully hold it and move it away from the top of the cave at a very slow speed to make sure that there was nothing abnormal outside the cave, and then quickly climbed to the ground.

Connected to the entrance of the cave was a very clean room, and against the west wall was a heavy-looking table of eight immortals, and two chairs made of carved wood, all of which were antiques, and the edges of the table and chairs had been worn out.

"Get out!"

Just as I was looking back and forth in the room, there was a sudden loud shout from the window, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.

I thought I had been discovered, and I panicked. But when he listened carefully, he found that although the footsteps outside were hurried, they did not approach the side of the house, so he mustered up his courage and leaned to the window to find out.

The windows in the house are still the same old wooden windows as they were in the old days, and the cardboard glued to the windows is very worn, revealing a lot of holes.

I said that one eye was pressed into the small hole near the edge of the window, and I peeked out, and I saw Chen Dabang walking back and forth in the fort courtyard like crazy, holding a few wormwood sticks in his hand, and waving his arms vigorously as he went, as if driving away something.

For Chen Dabang, walking back and forth like this seemed to be a very physical task, and he quickly got tired and stood there panting for breath.

After a while, he raised the wormwood in his hand again and shouted to the northwest of the courtyard: "Kind of coming at me!" What is the ability to embarrass a woman! ”

The last time Chen Dabang was in a dialect that he could understand, except for a few words that he could understand when he first met us, he spoke in an indecipherable dialect at other times, but now, his accent when he spoke was very similar to Chen Laohan.

I couldn't help frowning, it seemed that Chen Laohan was probably hiding the relationship between him and Chen Dabang.

(End of chapter)