Chapter 6: In the Cave
Lao Liu Tou wore a coarse cloth shirt and trousers, a black hard hat used by coal miners to go down the mine, a miner's lamp battery box on his back, rubber shoes on his feet, and a double-pole shotgun on his shoulder. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Lao Liu Tou walked in the front, Wang Changxing followed him with another shotgun on his back, and the three of us were behind.
Lao Liu Tou walked very slowly in the thief hole, looked left and right from time to time, and made an evaluation: "This is the thief hole you dug?" It's crooked like a dog's gnawing, and even a rat digs a hole straighter than you. ”
Lao Cai asked: "Lao Liu, don't stand and talk without back pain, how do you dig a thief hole?" If you hadn't scared us with a burning stick last night, we would have dug the hole horizontally and vertically. ”
Zhang Yuan then said, "Isn't it? Lao Cai, it seems that we have dug up to the tomb gate at that time, and Lao Liu Tou only came. Hey, old Liu. How do you dig a thief's hole? ”
Old Liu Tou said: "Hmph! The vertical thief hole should be like a well, the oblique thief hole should be kicked, and the straight thief hole should be like a city. I won't explain the vertical thief hole, the oblique thief hole should dig out the pedals in the hole, just like the steps, so it is easy to go up and down, and the straight thief hole should be dug like the city gate hole, with an arc on it, so that it is not easy to collapse. I see this thief hole you dug, as long as it rains heavily, it will definitely collapse. ”
Let's not talk about whether the thief cave collapses or not, as far as Lao Liu Tou is concerned, I have a new view of him. Originally, I saw that he was dressed in rustic clothes, and I felt that he was an ordinary peasant who could only work with a hoe, and the special thing was that he was bold and dared to shoot people with a gun.
Now it seems that this old man is only afraid that it is not simple, after all, he is the descendant of the bandit leader and tomb robber, and he has followed Liu Er's ears and eyes since he was a child, and he must be clear about the inverted doumen, and it is really a person who cannot be looked at.
For the joining of Lao Liutou, I can't say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, first of all, he said that he robbed the tomb with us, we have only been together for more than a day, how relieved people are to us---- dare to leave us in his house who do not know the details, and are not afraid that we will steal his money and run away.
But what happens if we find the Pearl of the Night? Lao Liu Tou said that his grandfather Liu Er was grateful for this bead and wanted future generations to find the coffin that was put into him, would Lao Liu Tou use us to find the bead and then snatch it?
He's got a shotgun, and the four of us won't be able to deal with him then. However, Lao Liu Tou also gave Wang Changxing a shotgun and scattered bullets, it seems that he didn't guard against us, and the matter of robbing the night pearl may not happen, even so, we have to guard against him.
If Lao Liu's joining is a good thing, it can only be that he and his father have been secretly protecting this Han tomb for decades, otherwise this tomb would have been stolen and excavated by others, and we would not have had the need to continue to look for the night pearl.
Indeed, as the old Liu Tou said, the robbery hole we dug is really a dog's gnaw, if it were not for the stone walls dug by the ancients in the mountain on both sides of the tomb road, I am afraid that our robbery hole would not know where to go, let alone find the tomb door.
In order to save trouble, our thief hole is not high, and everyone can only move forward at this time. The cave was very stuffy and hot, but fortunately there was a blower blowing at the entrance of the cave, and although the blower was not big, we could still feel the wind blowing behind us. The wind blew into the cave and squeezed the stench of the tomb, and the further you went inside, the stronger the smell became.
When we got to the entrance of the tomb, it had been heightened and heightened, and we could stand upright. Even so, the robbery hole in front of the tomb gate was crowded in with five people at once, as well as the tools and shotguns we carried in our bags, and the place suddenly became full.
We are already in the mountain at this time, in the dark thief hole, the tomb door in front of us is more like a monster's mouth, and the monster's mouth still has a foul smell spewing out, this smell is familiar to me, like the smell of sewers, smell it carefully, and there is a smell of septic tank.
The door of this Han tomb is about two meters high and two meters wide, which is more than one meter narrower than the vertical stone wall behind the tomb road, and is directly excavated from the stone wall. If from the overall layout, the ancients built this Han tomb first dug a big ditch on the hillside, the two walls of the ditch and the back wall and the bottom of the ditch are vertical, and the chisel is very smooth, and there are traces of chisels on the wall, this is the tomb road.
The tomb road was built to facilitate transportation, and the ancient craftsmen came to the stone wall behind the tomb road and began to dig a cave in the stone wall, and the chiseled broken stone was pulled out and poured out by the tomb road. If it is a large cliff-cave Han tomb, the amount of soil and stone excavated can reach several thousand cubic meters, if it is tens of thousands of tons by weight, if it is modern, it will be transported by a truck with a load of 50 tons, and it will have to be transported by more than 1,000 vehicles. In the Han Dynasty, there were no trucks, so craftsmen could only use small carts to pull out the rubble little by little, which shows the importance of the tomb road.
After the tomb door is chiseled out of the back wall of the tomb road, the inside is the Yongdao, and the tomb is behind the Yongdao. In order to protect the ancient tombs, the people of the Han Dynasty used the original mountain stones in the tomb to chisel out the plug stones when digging the tomb road, or excavated the plug stones from other places and transported them to block the road. Each of the plug stones in the corridor weighs seven or eight tons, and some large Han tombs will even be stuffed with two layers of four rows and sixteen huge plug stones in the corridor.
The Han tomb in front of us is no exception, but the plug stone in the corridor of this Han tomb has long been pulled out by the ancient official robbery and tomb robbery organization, and they stole and excavated this Han tomb, perhaps in order to hide people's eyes and ears, and filled the tomb with earth and stones.
Later, I didn't know that after several robbing and excavations here, in the early years of the Republic of China, Liu Er, the grandfather of the old Liu Tou, stuffed more than 50 people from the big landlord's family into this Han tomb, it should be that he asked people to pull two stone doors from other ancient tombs, and after the carving of the stonemason, the tomb door of the Han tomb was blocked, and then the earth and stone were blown into the corridor to block the tomb door.
Wang Changxing and I went to the tomb door to knock down the stone door leaf just now, and both of us have visited the Han Tomb Museum in Xuzhou City in the west, and we have a general understanding of the structure of the Han tomb, and we know that there is a plug stone inside the tomb door, and the tomb door cannot be installed with a stone door, so we both directly pushed the stone door leaf into the tomb door. After the stone door fell, a stench was squeezed out, and the two of us didn't even dare to glance into the corridor before running out for our lives.
Now the problem is that we have read the diary and listened to the old Liu Tou tell about this Han tomb and his grandfather, and know that in addition to the priceless night pearl in the Han tomb, there are more than 50 corpses, these bones are called "living dead ghosts" by fortune tellers, and it is said that once they rush out, they will bring disaster to Gushan Village and the surrounding villages.
"Living dead ghosts" haunted us didn't see it, we don't believe that there are really ghosts in this world, even if there are ghosts, for the night pearl, in order to make a fortune, we will not take care of it, the old saying goes: people die for money, birds die for food, our current state of mind is like this.
I feel very guilty about whether the ghost is a ghost or not, to be honest, in order to win over Lao Liu Tou to dig the grave with us, I said something about Dayu's water control and dredging in Lao Liutou.
I persuaded Lao Liu Tou on the basis of the fortune teller that there are "living dead ghosts", because Lao Liu Tou had already believed in the fortune teller's words and stopped digging the idea of digging this Han tomb and protected this Han tomb. At this time, I was really worried, and I felt a little guilty about Lao Liu.
Lao Liu Tou was standing on the west side of the tomb gate at this time, he was followed by Lao Cai, I stood on the east side of the tomb door with Wang Changxing and Zhang Yuan, I stood at the front, my body was close to the stone wall on the side of the tomb door, the stone wall was very cold, sticky, and gave people a very uncomfortable feeling.
Although it was next to the tomb gate, I still didn't look inside the tomb door, and my heart was so hot that I wanted to pee.
Let's not talk about ghosts, there were dozens of people in this tomb back then, and the instinct to survive inevitably drove them to flee, but they were in the Han tomb in the mountain, and the only exit was the tomb door, and they would definitely dig out from here, even if they couldn't dig the stone door in the tomb door with their hands, they would gather here to pile up and die and turn into bones.
When Wang Changxing and I pushed down the stone door, the sound of the stone door falling was very loud, and we were still in a hurry, and we didn't hear the sound of broken bones under the stone door. Even if there is a piece of corpse under the stone door, it is impossible for more than 50 corpses to be pressed all of them, and there should be some in the corridor, which is why we are afraid to look into the corridor, I am really afraid to see a pile of strangely shaped corpses with grinning teeth.
I couldn't bear it anymore, so I bent down to look at the stone door inside the tomb door, which seemed to be very flat underneath, and it seemed that there was nothing pressed against it. I looked again, and I could really be sure that the bottom of the stone door was flat, could it be that there were no bones gathered behind the stone door?
I had the courage to look into the corridor, it was even darker, and my headlight didn't seem to shine far, except for the stone wall of the corridor, I didn't see anything.
It's okay for everyone to stand like this, if we stand like this, can the Night Pearl still run out by itself? We are all silent, but I know the thoughts of the four of us, we are all waiting for Lao Liu, we hope that he can go first, after all, the people in the Han tomb are all stuffed into it by his grandfather, and there are debtors and owners, you should fight or not, you will make amends, since you are here, you have to solve this old account. We are extremely selfish in this kind of thinking, and I feel sorry for the old people.
It was Zhang Yuan who broke the silence, "Lao Cai, you fucking call yourself the big brother among the four of us, I'll call you a few times now, brother, Brother Cai, hurry in, the night pearl is in the Han Tomb, go in and get it?" ”
Lao Cai stood behind Lao Liu and suddenly covered his stomach and shouted: "Ouch, my stomach hurts, I have to go to the toilet first, which of you brought paper." ”
Wang Changxing scolded with a smile: "Pretend again!" You're the oldest, and you didn't say anything about giving your brothers a lead! Hurry up and get in, don't fucking your lazy donkey with too much shit and pee. ”
Lao Cai said angrily: "You two little turtle grandchildren want your brother to die first, so you can go to my father-in-law's acquisition station to pick up books, right?" You don't pull or pee? Bear look! ”
Old Liu Tou waved his hand and said, "Don't talk, I'm listening, you should listen carefully." ”
Lao Cai asked, "Listen to what?" Do you listen to ghosts quarreling? Or listen to the sound of ghosts walking? Is there really a living dead ghost in the tomb? ”
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