From afar, I heard a series of shouts coming from there.

When I got closer, the guys of the Huo family were struggling with the leader of the donkey cart.

The black-blue donkey cried out, and its four hooves were stuck in the dirt, refusing to move a step forward.

Angry, Huo Zhizhi scolded, and beckoned two guys to pull the reins together, "Why don't you leave this donkey."

The fat man took a closer look, immediately laughed, and said to Huo Xiuxiu: "How can your Huo family have such a temperament that is better than a donkey, you don't know how to be flexible."

Looking at Huo Zhizhi's grizzled appearance, Huo Xiuxiu couldn't help but laugh a little, "Is there any reason why this donkey doesn't move forward?"

The fat man picked up the small rope whip on the side, and waved his hand to drive Huo Zhizhi and the others away like flies, "Move away, see how the fat master teaches you how to tame this donkey."

Huo Zhizhi and the others were not convinced at first, and stood aside waiting for the fat man to also look foreign.

Unexpectedly, they saw the fat man holding the reins of the donkey, taking its head to the right a little, and then gently waving the rope whip, and whispering softly, "Little hill, walk."

As soon as the words fell, the donkey actually raised his legs and walked slowly to the side.

Huo Zhizhi and the others were stunned, and they couldn't figure out what the principle was.

Huo Xiuxiu was also a little surprised, and looked at Zhang Qixun, "Why does this donkey listen to the fat man?"

Zhang Qixun smiled and pointed in the direction where the donkey walked over, "Do you see the gray donkey over there with a little powder on the nose?"

Huo Xiuxiu looked over there and nodded, "I saw it, and then what?"

Zhang Qixun explained: "The pink-nosed donkey is female, and the black and gray donkey next to it is male, but the black and green donkey called Xiaoshantou led by the fat man is also male, and it is a pair with the pink-nosed donkey, and the rivals in love are all standing next to his wife, so can the little hill not be in a hurry."

Huo Xiuxiu suddenly realized, "So that's the case."

The fat man led the black green donkey over, raised the small rope and shouted, and pulled the donkey to the other side.

The black green donkey barked happily twice, flicked his tail and patted his wife.

The pink-nosed donkey bumped its head into it, snorted, and continued to bow its head and nibble on the tender grass sprouts that grew in the cracks of the bluestone pavement.

Huo Zhizhi's face turned green, who would have thought of this special mother.

Most of the goods were loaded onto the donkey team, and Huo Xiuxiu returned to the wooden building to invite Mrs. Huo.

A simple soft sedan chair assembled with mahogany was lifted out of the courtyard, and Mrs. Huo sat on it comfortably, like the kind of Lafayette who rode Luan in the Qing palace drama, and gave the order as soon as she raised her hand, "Go!"

The fat man looked at the donkey cart he was driving, and then at Huo Xiangu who was carrying the sedan chair, and glared at him, ", this old woman will really enjoy it."

The road to the lake of Sheephorn Mountain has been walked many times, and Zhang Qixun and the three of them are already very familiar with it, but they did not show it, and only followed the donkey cart.

Nothing to say all the way.

After a day's trek, the team stopped at an ancient tomb at the mountain pass.

There are a lot of people and it is lively, and the atmosphere in the team is good.

Huo Xiuxiu held a deck of playing cards and walked over to find Zhang Qi to find them to fight the landlord.

The little brother leaned against the tree with his knife and watched them quietly.

Zhang Qixun felt bored after playing two handfuls, and beckoned Huo Zhizhi, who had been leaning his neck not far away to look here, to come over for him.

I rubbed two cups of good Longjing tea from Huo Xiangu's side, turned around and sat down next to the little brother, and handed him the teacup.

The two remained silent and did not speak.

This can make Huo Zhizhi, who was casually playing cards and pricking up his ears to listen to information, thought that Zhang Qixun was communicating with sign language, and wanted to use his afterglow to see, but accidentally dropped a card in his hand.

Huo Xiuxiu shouted angrily when she saw it, "You stupid, we are a group of farmers, what are you doing as a little king."

Huo Zhizhi reacted at this time, but unfortunately it was too late.

The fat man smiled triumphantly, shook out the king in his hand, and then pointed to the two hands with the last four cards in his hand, "Don't want it, right, don't want the fat man, I'll blow up."

said neatly and threw out the last four 6s in his hand, "Fry it for you, hahaha!"

Huo Xiuxiu dropped the cards in her hand speechlessly, "Pig teammate, I won't play with you anymore."

Huo Zhizhi scratched his head a little ashamedly, and inadvertently turned his head to see Zhang Qixun staring at him with slightly squinted eyes, and his heart suddenly tightened.

hurriedly snorted and made an excuse to flash people.

Soon, Huo Xiuxiu also said that she wanted to go back to her grandmother.

After the others left, the fat man accepted the card and snorted, "Did the old lady let that stupid boy stare at us?"

"It's normal to be on guard." Zhang Qixun smiled, "After all, we are not our own people who know the roots."

The fat man sighed, "I don't know what happened to the innocent side, the three of us are not here this time, there is a Xie Xiaohua next to that kid, and his thighs are not as thick as the fat man's arm, so it's not very reliable to look at."

Zhang Qixun added a few pieces of firewood to the fire, "Old Lady Huo's arrangement is naturally reasonable, I have prepared a lot of life-saving weapons for Tianzhen at critical times, and I also put a small bottle of treated blood, with his cleverness, it will not be a problem to retreat with his whole body."

"Xie Yuchen's master is the second master of Lao Jiumen, that second master of the red has the ability to go into the sky and the earth, don't look at me and the little brother to fight with him easily, in fact, Xie Yuchen is more of a temptation when he does it, and the essence of that person is not simple."

The fat man smiled and patted Zhang Qixun, "It's still thoughtful, with the old stuffy blood of your old Zhang family, it doesn't matter if he is a zongzi or a corpse cockroach, all give way to innocence."

The little brother listened silently to the chatter between the two, and after a while, he suddenly spoke, "Rest early."

Zhang Qixun nodded, and pressed the fire down with coarse firewood.

The three then returned to their tents to rest.

Early the next morning, the team continued to walk up the hill under the guidance of the guide.

There are a lot of large survey and transmission machinery on the donkey cart, and some sections of the road cannot be crossed, so people have to be arranged to clear the road in front of them, or go to places with more bushes and less trees to detour.

It took a lot of trouble to finally arrive at the lake on the third day after departure.

Jude Kaw's team is still stationed on the shore of the lake, and it seems that the old man has not given up looking for clues in the lake.

After knowing that it was from the Huo family, Jude Kao also sent Ah Di over to say hello.

However, Huo Xiangu didn't want to deal with this group of gringos at all, and Ah Di didn't even see her old man's face, so she asked Huo Xiuxiu to politely invite her out.

Because of the sufficient manpower, Huo Xiangu directly ordered some people to set up a camp, and some technicians began to scan the mountains and forests by the lake in full swing.

It is not easy to carry out exploration, because it is necessary to take into account various factors such as climate, soil, rocks, etc., and the scope of each exploration is only 200 meters at most, and it is necessary to repeatedly confirm and analyze and exclude.

The terrain in the mountains and forests is very complicated, and on the first day, a technician wandered and planted in the bushes to find no one.

Later, a large number of people were mobilized to look for it, only to find that there was a hole dug by some large animal under the bush, and the person fell into it and fainted.

Huo Xiangu looked very calm on the surface and didn't seem to be in a hurry, but in fact, the act of sitting under the awning every day and constantly looking up the mountain still exposed her inner anxiety.

After three days of exploration, the harvest was not large.

Huo Xiangu finally couldn't hold her breath a little anymore, and asked Huo Zhizhi to invite someone when she had dinner in the evening.

Zhang Qixun and the three of them have been idle these days and have nothing to do, and they just went down to the river to fish and came back.

The fat man carried the fish, wet all over, touched his chin, and asked cheaply, "Does your old lady take care of the food?"

Huo Zhizhi was a little displeased with his frivolous attitude, but he didn't express it, just repeated, "The old lady asked a few people to come over."

"Well, let's bring this fish over,

Replenish the old lady's body." The fat man grinned, and beckoned the little brother and Zhang Qixun who came out of the tent after changing clothes, "Let's go, the old lady asked us to go over and improve the food."

Soon arrived at Huo Xiangu's tent.

The fat man handed over the few fish he was carrying in his hand to Huo Zhizhi and asked him to take them down to stew fresh fish soup.

Huo Xiuxiu stayed by the lake for a day, and was sent back to Banai Yao Village by Huo Xiangu to be responsible for the follow-up equipment transportation.

Huo Xiangu's diet and daily life have become Huo Zhizhi's main responsibility, Huo Zhizhi has been with the old lady for a long time, and he is familiar with dealing with these things.

The tent was wide, the curtain at the door was tied up with a rope and left open, and a strong smell of mutton soup wafted out of it.

The fat man sniffed, "This old lady will be able to maintain her health, and she knows that eating mutton in autumn is the warmest supplement."

After entering, I found that Huo Xiangu was already sitting on the main seat facing the door, slowly and methodically fiddling with the coriander leaves in the bowl with a spoon.

Zhang Qixun paused for a moment, then went out sideways, and said to Huo Zhizhi, who was in charge of the spoon in the tent next door, "My bowl doesn't need coriander, thank you."

Huo Zhizhi was already going out with a large plate, but when he heard the words, he put it down and filled it again.

Then he looked up and pointed to a large plate of charred roast lamb on the other side, "Trouble help."

Zhang Qixun raised his eyebrows, didn't say anything, put on his gloves and went over to serve them, and walked out of the tent with Huo Zhizhi.

After you have eaten and drunk enough.

Huo Xiangu took a handkerchief and wiped her mouth elegantly, "Have you eaten well?" Once we've eaten, we're about to get down to business."

The fat man pinched a fish bone, crossed his fingers and was picking his teeth, and made an expression of sudden realization when he heard the words, "It turns out that the old lady, you didn't just come to invite us to dinner, wow, tsk, eat people with short mouths and soft hands, you say, if you have any instructions, if the price is reasonable, we can consider it."

An expression that drilled into the eyes of the money, it makes people feel hurt when they see it.

Huo Xiangu ignored him, just looked at the little brother and said, "The process of exploration is more difficult than I thought, and we don't have much time."

The little brother raised his eyelids and looked at her, without saying a word.

Huo Xiangu was not discouraged, and continued, "I remember that Wu Xie once said that you were originally trapped in the outer two layers of the waterway of Zhangjialou by a gray shadow man, and finally found a way out on the mountain."

"But my people have searched around there according to the clues that Wu Xie originally described, and they didn't find a hole that matched the description, but it's not that there are no clues at all." Huo Xiangu said and beckoned outside, and Huo Zhizhi, who was a husband and an assistant, walked in with a roll of drawings.

In the past two days, when Zhang Qixun and the three of them were busy strolling around and catching fish, the Huo family also divided a group of men to come out and dive underwater to explore, and this drawing is a more detailed distribution map of the underwater ancient building.

Huo Xiangu motioned to Zhang Qixun and the three of them to look at the picture, and then continued: "I have also discussed with the technicians before, since the road on the mountain is impassable, we might as well start directly from underwater."

"There are many underwater passages, and there must be one that leads to the main building eventually." As he spoke, he looked at the little brother, "What do you think?"

The little brother stared at the drawings and thought for a while, then nodded, "You can give it a try."

Huo Xiangu was overjoyed, "Okay, then let's start from two directions, and the work of exploring the mountain continues, and at the same time, I have to bother you and this little friend to go into the water a few times."

Zhang Qixun on the side tapped the table with his fingers, "It's not so troublesome."

"Oh?" Huo Xiangu raised her eyebrows, "What do you think?"

Zhang Qixun leaned back, so that the chair was supported on the ground by only one leg, and then took the chair around for most of the time, took out a pencil from Huo Zhizhi's jacket pocket, then turned back and sat down, and used the pencil to draw a door on the perspective of the tower on the drawing.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Huo Zhizhi hurriedly wanted to stop him from scribbling, Huo Xiangu waved his hand, and Huo Zhizhi honestly shut up and stood aside.

Huo Xiangu looked at the picture and was a little puzzled, "What does this mean?"

Zhang Qixun smiled lightly: "I suddenly remembered it, and chased back

The Gray Man walked around the ancient building and found that this place could lead directly to the mountain."

Huo Zhizhi stared at him a little angrily, and couldn't help but say, "Then why didn't you say it earlier?"

Zhang Qixun looked at him strangely, "I only said that this place can directly lead to the mountain, but I didn't say that this place can directly lead to the Zhangjia Ancient Building."

Huo Zhizhi choked and retreated stupidly.

The fat man smacked his lips, "The little young man just can't hold his breath, and in the future, he will have to practice more."

Huo Zhizhi couldn't refute this, although he was talented, he was not even eighteen years old.

It's just that the old lady saw that his parents were too pitiful because of the fight, so she asked him to come over from the side relatives to raise him, and later trained him to become Sister Xiuxiu's right-hand man.

Huo Xiangu knew that she and Zhang Qixun were guarding against each other, and she didn't care, so she only said, "I want to hear about it."

Zhang Qixun roughly talked about the underground stone chamber mechanism on the third floor under the underwater ancient building.

After speaking, he reminded: "But if you go in from there, you will face danger directly, and the gray shadow man hiding in the shadows is a super danger factor, he is familiar with those passages underwater, if he engages in a sneak attack, no matter how many people we have, we can be made dumplings by the Milota he attracted, and the more people there are, the higher the temperature together, the more Milota will be attracted."

Huo Xiangu pondered for a while, and then said, "Anyway, since we have a direction, we must always give it a try, and the three of them are experienced, so we will have to work."