Eternal Sand Sea Chapter 29: Old Well
The conversation between the three of us was abruptly interrupted, and Qi Qi looked towards the door, and it was a girl with a long shawl with white hair on her head looking inside.
"Why did the girl come back?" Tong Lidong glanced at the girl, immediately stood up, walked towards the door, and hugged her warmly in his arms.
"What is this?"
"Lao Tong's daughter is a knowledgeable youth in Inner Mongolia."
"It's really amazing for a girl to run so far to be a educated youth."
"No, this girl is stubborn, like a boy."
I looked at this tall, thick-eyed girl and Chen Laogou and asked and answered, and at this moment I thought of Fang Qing, who also came to the mountainous areas of southern Anhui from the far northeast, and said that women can hold up half the sky, it seems that these young lesbians have a tendency to catch up with women and surpass men.
"Uncle, why do you have time to come to see my dad and don't go to Beijing to drift?" The girl walked in and talked to Lao Ju, and at first glance they were very familiar with each other.
"There's no unsolvable difficulty to trouble your father, you've been in Inner Mongolia for three years, why did you come back all of a sudden?" Chen Laogou also cared about her with a smile.
"You still think I'm willing to come back, although I'm tired from work, I can still ride a horse and dance, if it weren't for seeing my dad, I wouldn't report and ask for leave." The girl easily took an apple on Tong Lidong's table and wiped it with her sleeve and gnawed it, which was a fight with Qiangzi.
"Who is this man? I don't think I've seen it before. She turned her eyes to me, and she asked, looking straight at me.
"My little brother came to Nanjing to play for a while." Chen Laogou answered.
She sighed and greeted Tong Lidong again.
"Lao Tong, then let's withdraw first, and get together again when we have time." Chen Laogou stood up and said goodbye to Tong Lidong, I immediately stood up with each other, the girl has just come back from Inner Mongolia and has to catch up with the old days, so let's not stay here.
Just when he went out of the door, Director Tong seemed to think of something and called Chen Laogou back and said a few words, I asked him all the way what the two of them were sneaking up there, but he just didn't tell me, and said that he would know later.
Since there is nothing to do now, Chen Laogou took me to a relatively hidden market to buy some things to go down the well at night, there are a lot of old seas (Jianghu people) in this market, there are group firewood, pick the kitchen for the supply, pick the man, make the golden point, I stopped three steps and a small stop, five steps and a big stop is not to see.
Before he could get to the stalls, he came over with a black bag, saying that he was almost ready to go home, and that it would not be a joke if someone hit and leaked the bag.
Back in the house, Chen Laogou dropped the bag and poured the contents on the table, watching him shake off for a long time, in fact, there were three things inside: a German-made folding shovel, a tiger-headed iron flashlight and a military knife.
"Just take a few things down the well?" I pointed with my finger, this old man is still mysterious, in fact, it is just such things.
"Are you sweeping the tomb during the Qingming Festival? These things are definitely not enough, I will show you the world. He took a flashlight and beckoned me to go to his room, and I don't know what kind of gantry array he was arranged.
I saw that he removed the chair at the end of the bed, lifted the template under the original chair up with his fingernails, and shone it with a flashlight, and it turned out to be a dark compartment several meters square, the size of which could accommodate an adult to squat in it.
He pulled out two pistols with wooden holsters, a small brass mirror, and something in the shape of a black ingot.
These things seem to be a bit professional, and judging by the rust and dust on these objects, the old dog has done this tomb robbery business before.
"Comrade Jianhua, how about it, I haven't seen these rare things!" He smiled at me with a smug expression: "These are my previous outfits, 20 consecutive self-fired box cannons, bronze mirrors from the Ming Dynasty, and decades of glutinous rice cinnabar rooster blood wrapped in corpse sacs." ”
It must have been the sound of us pouring things that woke him up and went into the room sleepy-eyed.
"Show me something good." Hadron bent down and took one of the pistols in his hand and played: "With so much rust, can it still sound?" ”
"You know a fart, this is a German-style shell gun, it cost two big silver ingots to get it back, don't wipe the gun and go off." Chen Laogou was a little unhappy when he heard Guoqing say this, and he took back the gun.
I said that a gun can kill a living person, and this well is a dead fox corpse, and it can also work?
"That being said, I didn't touch the box cannon like this, and no one had any bottom in my heart." He returned.
At noon and evening that day, Lao Ju took the two of us to Hu Eat and drink twice, and I wondered why he suddenly became so generous, but what he said almost made me vomit what I had eaten, and he said that he didn't know if he had eaten the next meal after eating these two meals, and no matter how unlucky he was, he wouldn't be a starving ghost.
I asked him if he was sure, since he had fought before, whether our danger factor was high this time, he just shook his head and said, "If you are not afraid of fighting, you are afraid of corpses." ”
The sky gradually darkened, Chen Laogou didn't know where to get two two-eight bars for us to ride and follow him out of the city, the car rode along the West Fourth Square, and then went on a trail and turned up the mountain, and rode for almost a full hour before stopping at a hillside.
This well is not far from where we got off the car, and after walking along the mountain to the forest for about ten minutes, through the light of the flashlight, we saw an old well about one meter wide and half a meter high made of stones, and the walls were already covered with green moss.
We all shone the flashlight inside, only to find that it was completely dry, full of weeds and dead wood, and according to the speed of the sound of the stone falling to the bottom of the well, we could roughly judge that there was not much space, and it was only six or seven meters deep.
"Master dog, this well is too shallow, I can see the bottom clearly during the day, and I can't hide any treasures, which makes me excited all day." Seeing this, Hadron felt that there would be no valuable guy in it, and said a little disappointed.
"Why, do you two really think it's just a dry well? So what are you doing with so much work? ”
Chen Laogou now saw through the bottom again: "This well looks like it is indeed an abandoned dry well on the surface, but in fact, there is another hidden inside" As he spoke, he shone a flashlight on the mountain: "Your two brothers don't understand feng shui, there must be a tomb on this mountain." ”
I looked towards the place where his flashlight shone, and with the description I saw in "Seeking the Mountain and Determining the Coffin", I found that the mountain was towering at both ends, and the terrain in the middle was gentle, like an ingot, surrounded by an ingot, the so-called "ingots sleeves, rich and noble", it was really an ingots feng shui bureau, I looked at the surrounding trees, the front and back grew tall, but the dry well near the relatively short, indicating that the growth time is different, this tomb must be nearby.
"The well is just a trick, it should be the entrance to the tomb, Master Dog, you are not taking us down the well, but taking us down the tomb." I told what I had guessed.
Chen Laogou stretched out his thumb after hearing this, he didn't expect a young comrade like me to have an understanding of feng shui, he wrapped two thick hemp ropes around each other, and then bent them from the middle on the crooked neck tree on the side, signaling everyone to drag the hemp rope down one by one, and he took the lead.
We held the lamp above, and Chen Laogou climbed down with his feet on the inner wall of the well, don't look at him slowly, but every step was stuck on the raised stone tip.
When he landed in the well, he began to feel inside, and as he swept away the dead grass in one place, an irregular black hole was revealed.
"See, there is no hole, eighty percent of it is a fox drill." He said upwards, with a smug tone.
I threw down the German shovel, and he was not ambiguous, he directly put the shovel head into the hole, and then slammed on the tail end of the upturned with his foot, and with a "pop" a blackened wooden board was lifted by this force.
Chen Laogou hurriedly lay down and took the flashlight and shone it in, grunting in his mouth and not knowing what to say.
"How's it going, what's down there?" Hadron was obviously excited again and shouted inside, I quickly covered his mouth, this is not a glorious thing, in case it is not a joke if it is heard by a couple who are hiding to talk to him.
Old Dog Chen gestured to us to go down, and then he dragged the rope into the hole.
"What should we do, can we get in?" Hadron asked with some hesitation.
In fact, I was also hesitant, but Chen Laogou had already entered, and if something happened, we couldn't get out of it, so since we had come to this point, we could only bite the bullet, so I nodded.
Seeing my expression, Qiangzi immediately dragged the rope into the well, because the width of the well is not large, and he will be the last to go down when he is almost at the entrance of the cave, and you can feel the obvious change in temperature at every step of the way, and the deeper you go, the cooler the air will be.
From above, the entrance to the cave was so dark that I couldn't see anything, but when I half-entered the cave, I realized that there was a burial chamber underneath.
Going down to the tomb, I used a flashlight to take a careful look in the tomb, the tomb road is in a straight shape, in front of it is a straight tomb corridor, the blue brick tomb wall is built quite flat, but there are traces of blackening by fireworks on both sides, which should be the traces left by the torch.
"The owner of this bucket is not small, just looking at the size of the tomb and the flatness of the bricks, the cost is not affordable for ordinary people." Chen Laogou said with the same excitement.
"Master Dog, do you have the feeling of reliving the old dream again when you go to the tomb this time?" I joked with him.
"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this, we have to hurry up and find the cat-faced fox corpse, be careful, be careful." Old Dog Chen returned, and his expression turned serious again.