Chapter 8 Underground River
As we walked down the road, we didn't know how far we had walked, when Wanbao suddenly stopped. After we followed, we looked in the direction of Wanbao's finger. Next to a stone on the road ahead, there was a white skeleton lying there. Rotting clothes remained on the bones' bodies. We stepped forward and looked at the bones. The hair was gone, and the clothes were rotten and black and sticking to the bones.
Wan Bao flicked the shovel a few times, and the white bones scattered in all directions. The skull rolled like a ball at my feet. The smiling eye and nose holes were facing me, and the two rows of teeth were clenched together. My mom was so scared that I immediately broke out in a cold sweat. I involuntarily kicked at the skull, and with a few clangs, the skull was kicked to the bottom of the road.
Wan Bao looked at it for a while and said, "This is a jade picker from the Qing Dynasty. "
I was terrified when I heard Wan Bao say something like that again. As soon as I glanced at the bones, I knew that it was from the Qing Dynasty, and you were a cow yesterday? We hurriedly surrounded it.
Wan Bao pointed to something underground and said, "This thing is from the Qing Dynasty, specially used to explore jade." I looked in the direction of his finger. I saw something fifty centimeters long on the ground, one end was pointed, and the other end looked like an ear pick. Wan Bao said: "This kind of thing was only invented by Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. One pointed end can be smashed into the stone with a hammer, and the other end is like a spoon to scrape out the debris in the stone cave. In the past, the jade miners relied on this thing to check whether the whole stone contained jade," and then looked around, as if looking for something. However, when there was nothing around, Wan Bao shut up. Beckoning us forward.
When Feng Laonong heard that it was an antiquity, he picked it up. Pointed down, as a crutch, he walked. This little old man, sure enough, saw the money and heard that it was an antiquity, so he immediately picked it up. But after so many years, the hole is so damp, and the stick has long been rusty.
After walking a short distance, Wan Bao took out a shovel and scraped off the stone skin to take a look. After walking all the way down and out of a few dozen meters, an underground river appeared in front of me. When I shined it with a flashlight, the water was very clear. However, the water here is a bit deeper, with the naked eye being more than two meters deep. Underneath the river was something sandy and gravelly, and it didn't look like mud. As far as the eye could see, there were no fish, shrimp or other life in the river. It seems that when the water is clear, there are no fish, and this sentence is not groundless. I don't know where the river came from, but it was slowly flowing in front of us. And in front of us was a straight road, and I couldn't see how long it was. And this road is also good, two meters wide and narrow, and the road surface is very flat.
Yang Kexing looked at his watch, and it was already past one o'clock in the morning. We were all a little tired, so we proposed to rest here for a while, and then we would hurry after the rest. Wanbao certainly agrees.
We put our backpacks down and sat up against the edge of the cave. Yang Kexing took out the kerosene lamp in his backpack and lit it and put it among us. Wan Bao sat at the front of the road, Wu Feifei at the end, and Yang Kexing and Feng Lao Nong sat in the middle. Yang Kexing flicked the kerosene lamp, and the light suddenly lit up. I looked at the base of the kerosene lamp as if it looked familiar, and when I opened my own backpack, I realized that it was this thing in a small iron box in the backpack.
After everyone was seated, they each took out their own things to eat. In addition to the compressed food we bought in Zhengzhou, we had beef and dog legs in our backpacks. At this time, of course, you can't take out the beef, otherwise Wanbao will be angry, and no one will be able to eat it. As for the compressed food, it's better not to eat it now, otherwise Feng Laonong's share will definitely be snatched away by him again.
We took out the sauce dog meat wrapped in the bag, and when we ate it, we realized that there was no sauce at all. It's just that the cooked dog meat is mixed with sesame oil and garlic. Fortunately, the dog meat is cooked very well, and it tastes delicious with garlic!
Feng Lao Nong took out the wine from his backpack and handed it to Wan Bao. Wan Bao was not polite, reached out and took it, unscrewed it and blew on the bottle. I drank a small amount of wine, so I handed my wine to Feng Laonong. And Wu Feifei opened his own wine, and the two of us drank a bottle together.
When he had eaten his fill, he lay down with his head toward the cave and his feet toward the river, and fell asleep. The three of me did the same, but with an extra backpack as a pillow. And Old Farmer Feng got up and sat on the outermost edge, squeezing Wanbao into the inside. Wan Bao said loudly with the strength of the wine: "You old boy is afraid that I won't be able to run away!" Caught in the middle and trying to spy on me? "
Feng Laonong hurriedly compensated, saying that he didn't mean that. I just want to sleep outside to protect Wanbao, even if there is something eating people in this cave, I will eat him first. It doesn't matter if he is eaten, if something happens to Lord Wanbao, he will be guilty of a great crime. Wan Bao heard Feng Laonong patting such a sycophant, so he didn't pay attention to him anymore, and just fell asleep by himself.