Chapter 107: The Hole in the Earth Stove
Not to mention, this big iron pot is really not an ordinary heavy hand, if a person wants to carry it, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort.
The two of us lifted the iron pot to the ground and put it down gently, and cleaned up all the firewood in the stove, and looked inside, and found that the inside of the stove was actually clean, not even a trace of soil ash, and at the bottom of the earthen stove, a round wooden board was placed.
Wen Qingshan bent down to take the wooden board out of the stove, and a black hole almost as large as the diameter of the stove mouth appeared in front of the two of us.
"Holy! Boss Wen was really hit by you, there really is a hole in this! "I couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Wen Qingshan didn't say anything, he hurriedly took out a strong flashlight from his backpack, turned it on and shone it into the hole, but because the black hole was not vertical, it couldn't reach the end, and he didn't know how deep it was.
He pondered for a moment, then turned to me and said, "Shi Yu, you go and call your uncle and them up, and say that we have made a discovery." ”
"Hey! I'll go! I ran out of the house quickly.
Huang Yixian and the others were still looking for the entrance to the treasure hiding place at this time, and when they saw me running down in a hurry, Huang Yixian asked, "What's the situation above?" Why did you two go for so long? ”
I gasped and said, "It's ...... It's been discovered! ”
"What did you find?" Huang Yixian was puzzled.
"Found the entrance to the treasure field!"
"What!? You mean, the entrance is up there? "Huang Yixian was taken aback, because according to our previous judgment, the entrance should be located at the foot of the mountain bag, but we didn't expect Wen Qingshan and I to find the entrance on the mountain bag.
I nodded, "Yes!" Not only on it, but also in the earthen stove in the kitchen of that house! ”
"Really! Then go up and have a look! Huang Yixian couldn't wait to rush up, and the others followed.
I led everyone directly into the kitchen, Wen Qingshan was burying his head in cleaning the earthen stove, everyone gathered around, Huang Yixian looked at the black hole in the earthen stove, and said with some surprise: "How did you two find this hole?" ”
Wen Qingshan said: "This hole should have been dug by Hao Sanye himself, and there are a bunch of broken hoes and electric Luoyang shovels in the utility room next to it, I think it should be a tool left over from digging this soil hole." ”
"A hole in the dirt he dug himself?" Huang Yixian was slightly stunned, turned his head and asked me, "Then why do you say that it is the entrance to the treasure land?" ”
I didn't know how to answer for a while, so I had to look at Wen Qingshan, he smiled and said, "Although the hole was dug by the third master of Hao himself, but think about it, he wants to dig such a hole in the earthen stove?" ”
"Why?" Huang Yixian asked rhetorically.
"I think he may have accidentally discovered that the entrance to the treasure field is near this mountain, so he used an electric Luoyang shovel to investigate, and after determining the location, he tried to dig down, and finally found the treasure place!"
"Electric Luoyang shovel?" Huang Yixian was a little surprised, "Now even the Luoyang shovel has an electric one?" ”
Wen Qingshan pointed his hand to the utility room next to him: "It's in that room!" If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have found the place where the treasure was hidden. ”
"What!? You said that the third master of Hao has found the treasure!? ”
Wen Qingshan nodded.
Huang Yixian hurriedly asked: "How do you know that he must have found him?" ”
Wen Qingshan handed Huang Yixian the piece of waste paper with a topographical map that we had just found in the bedroom, and said, "Look at this?" ”
Huang Yixian held the paper and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't understand it, but the seabeard on the side saw some clues, and he said, "This shouldn't be a map, right?" ”
"That's right!" Wen Qingshan recounted the analysis of the two of us just now, and after everyone listened, they were shocked one by one, and Huang Yixian said worriedly: "If these guys have really found the place where the treasure is hidden, there is only a stone gate left, can they still stop them?" It's a big deal to blow the door open with explosives. ”
Wen Qingshan waved his hand and said, "It is very dangerous to carry out blasting in the depths of the ground, and if you don't do it well, not only can you not blow up the stone gate, but you may also blow up the entire cave. So they shouldn't rush to do it. I guess they've found the treasure but haven't been able to get inside, because the key is in our hands. ”
"Keys? What key? Huang Yixian looked dazed.
Wen Qingshan took out the triangular prismatic stone, shook it in front of Huang Yixian, and said, "Master Huang, do you remember this thing?" ”
Huang Yixian glanced at it: "Isn't this the stone found in King Chuang's coffin?" Wait a minute! Don't you tell me this thing is the key to the treasure gate? ”
"Judging by all the clues, it is very likely! However, this is only my personal analysis after all, whether the treasure is under here, and whether this thing is the key to open the stone door, we still have to go down to see it! Wen Qingshan said, let Niu Fat take out a large bundle of mountaineering rope from his backpack, he tied one end of the rope to the window frame next to the earthen stove to fix it, and threw the other end into the soil hole.
He turned to everyone and said, "I'll go down and have a look." Wait up there. With that, he put the lamp hat on his head, grabbed the rope with one hand, and carefully burrowed into the earth hole.
The earth cave is not vertical, but extends deep underground at a certain oblique angle, and after a while, he can't see Wen Qingshan's figure anymore due to the angle, but the light from the miner's lamp on his head is still shaking, but it is becoming dim as he gradually goes deeper.
After a few more minutes, Wen Qingshan's voice came from inside the soil cave: "Come down!" We seem to be in the right place! ”
When everyone heard this, they were all a little excited, and immediately put the miner's lamp hat on their heads, Seabeard was the first to drill into the soil hole, and the cheap followed, Huang Yixian was about to go in, but suddenly thought of something, turned his head and glanced at Niu Fatzi, and said: "Soldier, if you get into this hole, I'm afraid that you will be stuck, so you still have to guard outside." ”
The fat cow was begging for it, and immediately nodded.
Huang Yixian and I also went into the soil hole one after the other, and slowly slid down the rope.
There was a fresh smell of earth in the earthen cave, and it seemed that it was really as Wen Qingshan said, this was indeed a cave that had just been excavated. The diameter of the cave is quite narrow, only about fifty or sixty centimeters, and if the fat cow comes down, it may really get stuck. Even I felt like my body was almost clinging to the cave wall. It's really hard to imagine how the third master of Hao dug such a soil hole.
Maybe the space was too narrow, I felt like I was about to suffocate, and I don't know how long it took to climb, the surroundings finally became spacious, and my toes quickly touched the ground, I stood up and looked around, and found that I was in an artificial corridor about three meters wide, the walls on both sides of the corridor are made of bluestone bricks, and the floor is paved with square floor tiles about a foot long and wide. There is no end in sight at either end of the corridor. I don't know which way to go.
Huang Yixian said a little excitedly: "I didn't expect it to be so big down here, it seems that we really didn't find the wrong place!" ”
The cheap looked up at the dirt hole we came down from, and sighed: "I'm afraid this hole is twenty or thirty meters deep, how did the third master dig it?" And it's so accurately connected to this corridor. ”
Wen Qingshan said: "He must have used the method of using the Luoyang shovel to explore the tomb, this treasure hiding place is actually similar to the tomb, but it is deeper underground." If he already knew that the entrance to the treasure place was near this mountain, he could easily determine the exact location of the corridor with the Luoyang shovel. ”
"This Luoyang shovel is inevitably too godly!"
"Of course, this Luoyang shovel is one of the most important inventions in archaeology, and there are many ......" Huang Yixian didn't finish his sentence, and suddenly there was a muffled sound of "bang" from the corridor, although the sound was not too loud, but it still startled everyone.
"What's the sound!?" Seabeard hurriedly took out the flare gun from his backpack, Wen Qingshan also immediately took out the Broken Dragon Slash, holding the handle of the knife in his hand, ready to draw the knife out of the sheath at any time, and I quietly grabbed the fish intestine sword at my waist.
However, after waiting for a while, no more voices came.
Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "Let's go!" Let's go check it out! ”
Under his leadership, the group carefully walked along the corridor in the direction from which the sound came.
I held my breath and listened as the corridor zigzagged and winded forward, just as it was on the drawing, but I could hardly hear anything other than the footsteps of a few of us, and I didn't know what was going on.
I was wondering in my heart, Wen Qingshan, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, he raised his hand, and motioned for all of us to stop.
Huang Yixian asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”
Wen Qingshan looked down at his feet and said, "I stepped on something." ”
Everyone looked at his feet, and saw that he had two feet on two different stone bricks, one in front of the other, and they did not see him step on anything.
Huang Yixian said puzzledly: "You didn't step on anything!" ”
Wen Qingshan pointed to his left foot and said, "This floor tile is movable, I'm afraid it's a mechanism!" ”
"What!?" Huang Yixian hurriedly said to everyone: "Hurry back!" ”
I didn't know what the so-called mechanism would mean, but I knew that it was definitely not a good thing, so I didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and hurriedly took a few steps back.
Wen Qingshan stabilized his body and carefully lifted his left leg, fortunately, nothing happened, it seemed that although he stepped on the movable floor tile just now, he did not touch the mechanism.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.