Chapter 11: Discovering the Thief Hole (Part II) (Revised Version)
The addition of Xu Moyan has added another layer of mystery to our trip to Yunnan.
As for the girl who was killed, through Xu Moyan's description of her, it is certain that she is Kang Yan's personal assistant Mingzhu.
Regarding Mingzhu's death, Kang Yan didn't show any drastic actions, she didn't even get angry, she just silently shed a few tears, and said I'm okay and hide aside, I wanted to go up and comfort her, but I felt that it would be better to let her calm down alone at this moment.
As for what the message of Mingzhu is, we have no way of knowing, in the hinterland of Mengshan, we have no way to contact the outside world, everything can only wait until we go back to do investigation.
The sky was gray, like dawn, and it didn't seem to be.
Jiang Yuan took out a map from his backpack, on which in addition to the outlines of some mountain-shaped landforms, there were some black circles, one of which had the word "coffin" written on it with a small seal.
Jiang Yuan pointed to the circle with the word "coffin" and asked me: "Boss Xiao, does this word mean that this is the main tomb?" ”
I lay the map flat on the ground, swiped my finger over every part of the map, and said, "The place where there is a coffin is not necessarily the main burial chamber, and besides, the surface of this map is uneven, and in my opinion, there should be a mezzanine in it." ”
Jiang Yuan and Xu Moyan took the map and observed it carefully, then took out the dagger and began to cut along the edge of the map, although they were very careful, but there were still some places that were cut, from the broken place I saw a trace of white things, and after it was completely uncovered, I found that the mezzanine of the map was actually silk.
"Strange, why would anyone sew silk into the mezzanine?"
Faced with Xu Moyan's question, Jiang Yuan did not answer, but said intentionally or unintentionally: "Someone deliberately put it in." ”
I squatted on the ground and rearranged the silk in the interlayer, and when it was finished, I stood up and took two steps back, and at the right distance, I saw a three-dimensional image of a white-clothed landscape.
I said to Jiang Yuan: "Boss Jiang, please check whether the position of the black circle coincides with the position where the silk appears." ”
Jiang Yuan did a verification according to the method I said, and he came to the same conclusion as I thought, the position of the black circle is exactly the same as the position where the silk appears.
According to the map, the place marked with the word "coffin" is surrounded by silk, which means that this place is a valley surrounded by mountains or a plain within the valley.
If what Jiang Yuan said is true, then the general's tomb is under the ground of this Gushan Village, so it can be inferred that dozens of stone houses in this village are likely to be where the tomb guards once lived.
According to Jiang Yuan's analysis, one of these dozens of stone houses must be the entrance to the mausoleum, and even if there is, the rest must be fake.
The sun shines through the clouds, the orange soft light makes the whole valley shrouded in a faint layer of gold, this is a deep mountain, even if it is daytime, it will not cause trouble, so we divided into four teams and began to conduct a carpet search of Gushan Village, each stone house was carefully searched, what walls and floors were tested with special copper hammers to see if there was a vacuum, etc., at noon in the sun, four teams of people gathered in front of a more luxurious stone house.
"Boss, the first team has completed the mission." This is Liang Jun, Jiang Yuan's henchman.
"Boss Jiang, we have checked it over there, and all the houses are solid, and we haven't found any tunnels or secret doors or anything like that." This is the person brought by Li Laosi, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and is known as a cobra on the road.
"Boss Jiang, there is a dry well in a flower garden on the west side, and the brothers saw a pair of embroidered shoes by the well." This is a brother in the original four teams, because of his round face, everyone calls him a big cake.
When I heard the embroidered shoes, I immediately thought of the traditional ghost story of ancient China and asked, "What do they look like, is it the kind of village with red flowers on a green background?" ”
The flatbread shook at me and said, "No, it's black on white." ”
As soon as I heard it, I immediately felt that something was wrong, ancient women had very strict standards for dressing up, especially shoes, only white things are allowed to wear embroidered shoes with white soles, not to mention, where are people still wearing this kind of embroidered shoes now.
Li Laosi has been squinting his eyes and watching from the sidelines, and when he heard that he had found embroidered shoes, he immediately became alert, and he said to Jiang Yuan: "Don't touch those embroidered shoes, and don't get close to that dry well, I know where the entrance is, you come with me." ”
I looked at each other, and said in my heart what is the situation with this old fellow, we have been discussing it for a long time and we haven't seen him fart for a long time, and now I must say that there are embroidered shoes and immediately say that I know where the entrance is.
After Jiang Yuan heard Li Laosi's words, he immediately called everyone to gather, and after some discussion, according to Li Laosi's thinking, the entrance to this tomb is in the stone house next to the dry well, and the first step we have to do is to demolish the house.
Under an order, more than a dozen young men began to tear down the wall with their bare hands, because Li Laosi said that the stone house building here is very weird, these stones do not have any traces of artificial excavation and processing, how did they get here and then become the current stone house, I am afraid that there is no way to verify, we are all doing this business, although we are not experts, but we also know a little bit about it, we all agree with Li Laosi's conclusion.
Jiang Yuan took out a packet of powder from his backpack, and a guy found a huge stone basin, filled it with water, and poured the powder into the water, and after a while, the water changed color, dark green and a bit like bile, which was very disgusting.
"What is this for?" I asked him.
"The ancestral secret recipe of the Jiang family is mainly used to dissolve a solution of sealing materials, and the tomb door of the entrance tomb will be sealed with a special material of white mud, which will slowly undergo chemical changes in the ground, and eventually become an impermeable and extremely hard stone brick, once this stone brick is formed, no tool can move it."
I looked at the green water in front of me in disbelief, and said to myself, don't let me do this liquid blasting work later.
In less than an hour, the whole stone house became a pile of rubble, I picked up a small piece and looked at it, the stone inside and outside the whole body is dark and shiny, not like an ordinary stone, but like some kind of ore.
I wanted to pick a piece with a better texture and take it back to Beijing to study, but Jiang Yuan called me over in a hurry, so I stuffed the stone in my hand into my bag in a hurry, and then ran to Jiang Yuan's side.
In the middle of the stone house, I saw a stone stele made of broken stone, the front of the stele body is engraved with three and a half lines of inscription, as for what is written on it, none of us can understand, we can only let the guy take the inscription down and take it back to Beijing in a careful study, and behind the stele is a stone carving, high mountains and dangerous clouds, the giant beast sticking out of the clouds is overlooking the earth, thousands of people are kneeling and bowing, a young woman on the altar is struggling for help, her grief and helpless eyes carved vividly, breathtaking.
"What is this?"
"Ancient sacrifices."
Jiang Yuan asked the stele to be moved away slowly, and just below this, we saw a hidden robbery hole, the robbery hole is very old, I suddenly understood why Li Laosi would know where the entrance to the tomb was, it turned out to be because of this.