Chapter 54: Success
The old farmer thought to himself. This stabbed it didn't move, or it hit the tomb wall. Either it was an encounter with a stone. The second conjecture of the old peasant turned out to be true. He stabbed the filling stone of the anti-robbery tomb.
After the old farmer asked Yang to clean the sand in the canvas tube, they climbed to the end of the canvas tube and touched it with their hands, and found that the thing they touched was very hard and seemed to have edges and corners, knowing the stones filled in the tomb here. I couldn't think of any way for a while, so I quit the cave.
After coming to the outside of the cave, he found that Wu Feifei had already done all the canvases, and Yang Kexing had already cut hundreds of bamboo tubes. So he beckoned the two of them to stop work, sat around and smoked to discuss countermeasures.
Yang Kexing thinks that if there is a large stone, it can only be diverted from other places. In other words, give up and cut the soft side of the canvas tube with a knife and go around the filler stone. But the downside of this is that it increases the workload and wastes time. The advantage is that it is safer to get closer to the treasure of the burial chamber without moving the filling stones.
The old farmer thought about it for a long time and thought that this was the only way to do it. Because those filling stones are large and small, the big ones weigh tens of tons, and the small ones weigh a few kilograms. The big one will definitely not be moved, but if the small one does, it is likely to upset the balance of the filler stone and cause a landslide. If it collapses, there is a chance of survival.
After the three of them finished discussing, they went down to the robbery cave with tools.
In a short time, it has come to the end of the canvas tube. The old farmer fumbled for a while. Then he determined a direction and carefully cut a hole in the canvas with a paratrooper knife. Quicksand came over in an instant.
The old farmer hurriedly took out the prepared canvas tube and plugged the hole, and the quicksand stopped gushing out. Then the old farmer stuffed the bamboo tube into the cloth tube, carefully stretched it open, and asked Wu Feifei to help cut the hole in the canvas tube bigger. It's just a nervous operation.
The quicksand is like water, and these canvas tubes are like rubber pipes. If it is not filled with water, the pipe will be deflated. At this time, if it is full of water, the water pipe will form a barrel. And under this tomb, our canvas tube is like this water pipe. Quicksand is equivalent to water. However, our goal is to reach the burial chamber step by step by making a canvas in the shape of a cylinder. And this is like the quicksand of water has a lot of pressure, so we use a bamboo tube sandwiched in a canvas tube to make support. In this way, the canvas tube is swollen as if it is filled with water, allowing us to crawl and ventilate to the outside. And the seams of the canvas tube are supported by the bamboo tube and the pressure of the quicksand outside the canvas, so it is like playing the two brothers good viscose, although it is not airtight, but it can also block the influx of quicksand.
The three of them kept busy, only to see the old farmer shouting: "Okay! "Finally the first canvas bag that turned around was completely done. The three of them then continued to dig deeper.
The old peasant said to me with a smug expression. As if to show off to me, it was the three of them who cracked the anti-theft mechanism of this thousand-year-old quicksand tomb. Looking at this look, if this matter spreads in the rivers and lakes in the future, the old farmer brother will also become a Buddha and an ancestor-level figure.
The three of them touched the tomb little by little, and encountered several times when stones blocked the road, but they were all successfully dodged in this roundabout way. By the time they received the fifteenth canvas tube, they had already descended about twenty meters into the tomb.
At this time, when the old farmer was receiving the canvas tube, he suddenly felt a stiffness in front of his hand, as if he had hit something hard, but the contact point was very small, and it was definitely not a stone. The old farmer carefully touched the canvas with his hand for a while, only to find that it was an elongated shape, and he could not detect the length. The old farmer was in a hurry, so he put his hand directly through the canvas tube and reached into the quicksand and touched the thing.
When I touched it, I felt that it was a hard and cold thing, and I couldn't help but think about it. With a vigorous pull, he firmly grasped the object in his hand and brought it out.
After getting my hands on it, I hurriedly looked at it with a flashlight. At this time, I found out that it was more than 20 centimeters long and seven or eight centimeters wide, like something woven with copper strips. There are many holes and crevices in the middle. But the color is old-green. Feng Laonong took it in his hand and scratched his head, but he didn't know what this thing was. So he asked Yang if it was feasible.
Yang Kexing glanced at it and said, "This is a copper horse chew, which is something that is attached to the reins and put on the horse's mouth, which can control the horse's activities." As soon as the rider pulls the reins, the horse's chew is pulled into the horse's mouth, and in this way the horse's speed is controlled or stopped. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the brakes and gear shifts on walk-behind tractors now. "
"Is this thing bronze? It looks like it's blue and greenish. Feng Laonong asked.
"Old farmer, don't be kidding. Fools also know that this is bronze," Yang said.
The old farmer laughed: "This is all seen by your kid." So what do we do now? Continue or go back? The old farmer tentatively asked Yang if it was feasible.
"Let's go back, the bronzes have already been obtained, there is no need to continue to explore." Yang Kexing said: "Aren't you tired? I'm tired and sleepy."
"Come on, don't tease me, you kid" Feng Lao Nong gasped and said, "I can't see your little flowery intestines?" With such a large amount of capital, will you stop if you can't get the Ming weapon? "
"Haha, they are all people who understand, if you see through it or not, that's a good friend" Yang Kexing smiled.
The old farmer put the bronze horse chew into the pocket of his clothes. After the two talked nonsense. decided to move on, at least to get some Ming Qi to earn back the money to buy equipment, or else the old farmer and Wu Feifei would have to fight for Yang Kexing for free as compensation. Of course, this is also what the old farmer wants, in his own words, he is afraid of poverty.
Next, I don't know how much time I was busy with, and it took a lot of effort to connect the three canvas tubes. At this time, it was about twenty-seven meters down to the tomb.
However, when the old farmer picked up the canvas tube to pick it up again. Lao Fan let out a scream. Hurriedly turned on the flashlight and shone it back. It was found that the canvas tube behind Wu Feifei had collapsed, and quicksand was pouring sand into it along the hole in the cloth tube.
In the blink of an eye, the sand had already flowed into half of the cloth tube. Seeing that he was about to be buried alive in the hole by quicksand, the old farmer roared and squeezed to the edge of the hole.