Chapter 31: The Stone Elevator
Looking back at those identical wells, I feel that this should be a staff passage, each well has a stone room, and the intruders will enter different stone rooms in different ways, and inside the stone room is Cao Cao's important experience in his life, using the method of carving to achieve different historical reproduction. And here, the craftsmen who built these stone chambers, walked the passageway.
After climbing about a few hundred meters, we vaguely heard the sound of cannons, crackling, and wondering. The closer you climbed from the direction where the sound came, and when you approached the next wellhead, the sound was so loud that it shook the tunnel and buzzed in the tunnel, and there was a noisy shout.
I said casually: "What about the marriage of Cheng Laohan's family?" Why are you still putting the cannons? โ
Zhao Tiesuo said: "It's not a cannon, it's a gunshot." โ
"Gunshots? How is it different from what I imagined? It feels like a string of firecrackers. I asked, confused.
Zhao Tiesuo said: "It is the sound of an automatic rifle, and the echo you hear in the tunnel is like setting off firecrackers. โ
Then there must be a fight in the stone room up there, and there must be those people we met on the second floor of the Bazi Yongdao. The other gang must be the well-drilling team five years later, and these bastards may have dug the village into a honeycomb in five years, and finally found the entrance. Let's fight, it's better not to keep one, it's all tomb robbers who eat black, it's best to lose both, it's not a good thing anyway.
By the time we reached the mouth of the well, I wanted to get up and listen carefully to what was going on above, but there was no room for us to rest. It was in that well that it was densely covered with amber, and in each amber slept a black bug. It turns out that the stone chamber above this place has become a habitat for amber worms, and they have made their home here.
I said why is it so lively above, it turned out that it was a bug nest, and it is estimated that none of them will survive. But what we should be most worried about now is ourselves, and if the amber worm in this well comes out, we will still suffer in the narrow aisle.
This bug should be attracted to blood before it comes out, and we don't have any injuries here, so we shouldn't be attacked by the amber bug for a short time. However, we still increased the speed of movement, and even Lu Shan, regardless of the pain in her knees, gritted her teeth and crawled forward quickly. We didn't rest for a long time on the back road, and we reached the end of the tunnel in a short time.
Crawling out of the low tunnel, it was a small stone room similar to a storage room, everyone's legs were already too tired to stand up, and they all sat on the ground rubbing their knees, and Lu Shan was even more in tears.
In order to relieve Lu Shan's boredom, Yan Qiu asked me: "You just said that Cheng Laohan got married?" What do you mean? Tell us about it. โ
I said, "Do you remember the two dead bodies we saw in the spiral passage?" โ
Everyone nodded.
I continued: "There was a guy in a camouflage vest, and that guy was actually in the village five years ago, I had seen him. A group of several of them, pretending to be a well-drilling team, used their drilling rig to dig east and west in the village. โ
Lu Shan seemed to be attracted by what I said, forgetting the pain, just holding her knee with one hand, and asked me curiously, "Then what." โ
I said, "On the first night I went to the village, it rained heavily, and those guys dug up the house of an old man surnamed Cheng. stoned Cheng Laohan's only daughter who was about to get married to death in the house. Later, Cheng Laohan held a yin marriage for his daughter, and I went to see it. As a result, in the ancestral hall, they were also dug like a honeycomb, and the yin marriage was also hasty. It's really not a thing. โ
Everyone first expressed sympathy for Cheng Laohan in various ways, and then cursed the drilling team.
I said meaningfully to the fat brother: "The leader is a young man, Ghost Eye." โ
The fat brother didn't care about the gossip in these villages, but as soon as he heard this, his eyes immediately widened and looked at me, as if to confirm the truth of what I said.
I nodded at the fat man, and he lowered his head into deep thought.
Yan Qiu said, "Do you know? This yin marriage, recorded earlier and more real, is Cao Cao's son. โ
Yin marriage is also related to Cao Cao? I asked Yan Qiu, "Which son of Cao Cao?" Also married? โ
Yan Qiu nodded and said, "That's right, Cao Cao has a son named Cao Chong, who died at the age of thirteen. Cao Cao had a minor official surnamed Zhen, and his daughter also died when she happened to be the same age as Cao Chong. Cao Cao gave his two dead children a yin marriage. โ
I see, it seems that most of the marriages in this village were also handed down from Cao Cao's time, and I am more sure that this village has an inseparable relationship with Cao Cao.
Speaking of this, the fat brother said: "Cao Chong, I know, it's the one who weighs the elephant with the boat, and he has it in the primary school textbook." โ
Yan Qiu nodded and shook her head again.
I didn't know what she was trying to say, so I asked, "What's wrong with you, Yanqiu, are you nodding or shaking your head?" โ
Yan Qiu said: "Cao Chong does have this person, and he is not only extremely intelligent, but also very kind. However, the story of Cao Chong's elephant must be fake, it is all a story compiled by later generations, in order to reflect Cao Chong's wisdom and reflect his youth and achievements, so as to educate children. โ
Sister Hua asked, "How do you know it's fake, it's recorded in the history books?" โ
Yan Qiu replied: "In 210 AD, Sun Quan sent Bu Qi (zhรฌ) to serve as the assassin of Jiaozhou, which is the northern half of Vietnam, plus part of Guangxi and Guangdong. There, Jiaozhi Taishou Shixie (xiรจ) and his brothers took refuge with Sun Quan, and in order to curry favor with Eastern Wu, among the tributes they gave Sun Quan was Asian elephants. This is also a record of elephants entering Middle-earth for the first time. Cao Chong was already dead in 208, how can you call it an elephant that may only appear two years later? โ
It's really a long knowledge, it seems that textbooks can't be trusted, and they are all written with good wishes.
The fat brother smiled and said: "I see, I have been an idol of Cao Chong for a long time, it seems that it was all made up for him by later generations, and it is just a little ghost who went to sign in to the Hades Palace at the age of thirteen." โ
I laughed at the fat brother on the surface, but actually said to Sister Hua: "What's wrong with being thirteen?" At least they're married, how about you? โ
Looking at Sister Hua again, she quietly bowed her head and pretended not to hear, she was not at all when she was surrounded by fire. It is estimated that those bold words will be repaid again, poor fat brother.
Yan Qiu said to the fat brother again: "It's not what you think, Cao Chong is indeed a smart child, and he is very kind-hearted. In the past, the army was very strict, and the official in charge of the armory found that the Kuri saddle was swallowed by rats one day, and he wanted to go to Cao Cao to ask for guilt, but Cao Chong didn't let him go if he knew about it. Two days later, Cao Chong stabbed his clothes with a knife, and went to Cao Cao, who told Cao Cao that his clothes were bitten by mice, and people said that this would be unlucky. Cao Cao coaxed his son and said that it was okay, but it was all nonsense and could not be believed. Then the treasury manager of the armory, when he went to Cao Cao to ask for guilt, Cao Cao did not blame him, Cao Cao said that his son's clothes were bitten by rats, not to mention the saddle in the library. โ
It turns out that this Cao Chong is a little ghost, he really inherited his father's genes, if it weren't for Cao Cao being such a chicken thief, we wouldn't have been trapped here for so long, and now we are trapped in a small stone room, and I don't know how to get out, if those amber worms come, it is estimated that it will be a tragedy.
While thinking about it, I began to observe this small stone room, the architectural structure of the stone room is nothing special, except that on one side of the roof, there is a round hole, and a thick hemp rope hangs from the hole. I subconsciously reached out to pull the rope, maybe it was too long, and when I pulled it like this, the rope broke.
Although the rope was broken, it was still not pulled in vain, and our entire stone chamber actually began to move slowly downward. It's like an elevator, but it's so slow that everyone is amazed. If you meet a sea here, it can all be explained, after all, as long as you have manpower, you can do it, and isn't the Great Wall also built? But if you get on the elevator here, you can't explain it, where is the motivation?
Immediately, a lot of questions came to my mind, where is this stone chamber going down? What is driving it? The rope is broken, what if I want to come up again?