"Don't you go too far? I'm also a cadre......"

Of course, Director Rao didn't want to listen to Jiang Laohan's command, but as soon as he wanted to have a seizure, he was persuaded by Xiao Chu.

Xiao Chu really has a level of speaking, and he is very good at kidnapping: "Director Rao, the Chinese New Year, you are here, take into account the overall situation, Director Rao, you are still a cadre, in short, wronged yourself." ”

"This ......" Director Rao couldn't think of a reason to refuse.

If you say "no", you are unconscious,

Facing the village chief's mobile phone camera, Director Rao finished recording the video with difficulty.

Jiang Laohan finally relented.

He promised to take everyone to find the place where the coffin was found.

However, Zhang Yang still has a question at this time:

Jiang Laohan's grandson even sold the iron shuttle label for the burial, will he also go to the place where the hanging coffin was found, and find other antiques there?

Anyway, if you change to show yourself, you will definitely go.

But for this question, Jiang Laohan didn't know anything.

He also kept changing the subject, urging everyone to go.

Chu Ziqiang also noticed that something was wrong with the old man, and leaned over and asked Zhang Yang, "Shall we go now?" Could it have been emptied a long time ago? ”

"Go, you have to go." Zhang Yang responded in a low voice, "The servant's funeral goods, to put it bluntly, that's it." ”

"When I was in the county cultural relics bureau, I saw the photos of the blue and white porcelain bowl that accompanied the burial before, and it seems that it should be something from the folk kiln at that time, and it is not valuable."

"That's it for the servant's funeral goods, nothing valuable, at least no national treasure. Our main task now is to figure out the matter of the hanging coffin. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Xiao Chu nodded, and took the lead.

Jiang Laohan followed closely behind at the urging of the village chief and helped guide the way.

The group first returned to the crab stream, which was surrounded by cliffs, and then walked back half a mile to cross the bridge to the other side of the riverbank.

Then, he plunged headlong into the deep mountains and old forests.

After following Jiang Laohan for more than half an hour, everyone climbed from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, and then went down from the mountainside all the way to the valley, and even the sheep intestine trail came to an end, and finally arrived at the destination.

"That's it."

The place Jiang Laohan pointed to was a place in the valley where ferns were very luxuriant, and it was faintly visible that the ground was sinking, but there was no trace of a cave.

"Eh, Director Rao, don't worry." The village chief stopped Director Rao, who was about to come forward to check, and pointed at Jiang Laohan with a backhand, "Come, you lead the way." ”

"In case there's a sinkhole or something, don't let the director fall down."

(Tiankeng was originally the name of the Bashu folk, and was later officially proposed to become the name of a certain karst landform)

"There's a sinkhole here, huh?" Director Rao's footsteps froze, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

The sinkhole here in Bashu is very scary, there may only be a pit wide for a person on the ground, but there may be a large karst cave 100 meters deep and leading directly to the underground river below.

If you fall, even if you are lucky enough not to die, you will be a cripple.

"Don't panic, there's a small platform down here." Old man Jiang said as he pulled the grass apart.

Sure enough, there was a dark hole.

"How deep is this?" Xiao Chu inquired curiously.

It was the first time he had seen anything like this, and he had only learned about it in textbooks before.

"I don't know, I haven't seen the bottom." Jiang Laohan shook his head.

"Isn't that easy?" Director Rao stepped forward, picked up a stone from the ground next to him, and threw it directly into the hole.

Knock, knock, knock......

There were more than a dozen sounds of stones hitting the wall, and the sound became quieter and quieter, but until the end there was no muffled sound of the stone hitting the ground.

"How deep?" Xiao Chu asked Director Rao.

Director Rao scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Very deep, deep...... Eh, old man, you can't mean that the hanging coffin is underneath, right? ”

"It's down there."

"Huh? So deep, how did you go down and bring the coffin board up? Director Rao's face showed a look of distrust.

He also picked up those Nanmu coffin boards and tried them, although one piece was not heavy, but many pieces added up, and they were moved out of the sinkhole, with Jiang Laohan's old arms and legs, it was unrealistic to look at it.

And it's also very strange, anyway, it's to be burned as firewood when it is moved back, where can't you cut firewood, do you have to run to this sinkhole to carry the coffin?

However, Jiang Laohan quickly answered Director Rao's doubts.

"You watch from above, I go down with a flashlight, you see where I shine, the place where the coffin is put is easy to find."

"Okay, then you pay attention to safety." Zhang Yang reminded, "If there is any problem, just shout for help." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Jiang Laohan waved his hand confidently.

He went down the sinkhole very carefully, with his back against the edge of the pit and slowly slipped down.

Just when everyone thought that he would carry a flashlight and rub it down little by little, suddenly, he disappeared to the ground.

"it!" Xiao Chu screamed in surprise.

However, the sound coming from a very close place in the cave quickly dispelled everyone's doubts, in fact, Jiang Laohan fell about 5 meters.

Zhang Yang could follow the light of his flashlight and see the ground of a small boss in the cave.

"Right here, that's where I found the coffin."

Jiang Laohan pointed to the ground in front of him, it was quite spacious, and it really looked like he could stop a coffin.

"What now?" Xiao Chu's question led everyone to look at Zhang Yang.

There were only two people from Yanjing, and Xiao Chu asked this question at this time, making it clear that he was letting Zhang Yang take the idea.

Zhang Yang thought about it, shouted into the sinkhole and asked:

"Uncle, when you found the coffin, what was the state?"

"Status?" Jiang Laohan didn't understand what Zhang Yang meant.

"Is it that the coffin was very straight on the stone at that time, or was it crooked?"

Zhang Yang noticed that the boss was uneven, and if the coffin was to be placed, there must be some small stones under the coffin, otherwise it would not be stable.

The coffin used for the deceased to rest is not placed steadily, and it is taboo to put it anywhere.

But now on the boss where Jiang Laohan is, there is not a single stone.

It can't be that this man even picked up a stone, right? That's too idle.

"It looks like it's crooked here." Uncle compared the location.

Zhang Yang looked at his gestures, combined with the topography, and deduced that the coffin at that time should be "upside down", which was inserted obliquely on the boss.

One side leans against the inner wall of the cave, forming a stable triangle.

It's kind of weird!

Zhang Yang didn't have time to think about it, and continued to ask:

"Uncle, the coffin is there, so how did you move it up?"

Now this situation is like taking a suspect to the scene of the crime.

If the other party still dares to make up nonsense, everyone can basically distinguish it according to the situation at the scene.

"Lock it with a rope and pull it out."

"Alone?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Of course not, and my grandson and his classmates."

"Okay." Zhang Yang nodded, and whispered to the people around him, "Director Rao and the village head, you should remember it, and pay attention to the people involved in the case when the cultural relics are recovered in the future." ”

Then he said to the master in the cave, "Then come up first, and we will think about it in the long run." ”

……

The people present are all men, and it is quite simple to pull out an old man of more than 100 pounds.

However, after Jiang Laohan came out, everyone was embarrassed.

They all looked at Zhang Yang again, waiting for him to come up with an idea.

"Brother Yang, do you want to go down and have a look." Xiao Chu proposed.

"There's no hurry." Zhang Yang shook his head, he was not an experienced villager like Old Man Jiang, he went down to the sinkhole without any protective measures, and he became numb when he fell.

"Go to the city to find a professional caving team or fire brigade, I think it's not just as simple as going down to see the address of the hanging coffin, it's better to go down to the depths of the sinkhole."

Although folklore says that sinkholes are bottomless pits, most of them are not more than 100 meters deep.

Zhang Yang has seen a lot of videos of exploring caves on the Internet, and this kind of expedition can generally be found in the city.

As for the reason for looking for a professional team to go down to the depths of the cave, it is that the location of this sinkhole is a bit special.

The feng shui in this valley is very poor and poor.

It's so bad that Zhang Yang feels that if someone is buried here, maybe it will really be a ghost.

Although it is also a natural cave, it is completely different from the cave where hanging coffins were found on both sides of Crab Creek.

The cave there is on a cliff, and this side is underground.

Sitting on the mountain and looking at the water, there is no such thing as looking at the underground river, right?

The only explanation that Zhang Yang could think of was that the coffin that appeared in it was not in the form of a hanging coffin, but was thrown directly into it like a stone.

It's just that the person who threw the coffin in probably didn't expect that there was such a platform underneath.

When Director Rao contacted the fire brigade, Zhang Yang verified his guess with the village chief.

"Village Chief, I remember that before you came, you said that in fact, the hanging coffin has been falling naturally for so many years, right?"

"Yes." The village chief nodded and introduced, "Many hanging coffins are fixed with wooden piles, and they are hundreds of years old now, and when the wood weathers over time, it will fall down." ”

"For example, there is a legend that there were originally 7 coffins in Baihuyan, but then they fell down one after another, and now there are only three left."

"Didn't the cultural relics department carry out reinforcement treatment?" Xiao Chu interjected and asked.

It seems that he is inquiring about the situation, but he is actually accusing Director Rao.

"If it was reinforced, it was reinforced in 02. We didn't have this awareness before, but now we basically send someone to check it every year......" Director Rao quickly explained.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about what you have." Zhang Yang stopped the two and motioned for the village chief to continue.

However, the village chief was interrupted like this, and he didn't know what to say, so he looked at everyone in a daze.

"Village chief, what I want to ask is, what happened to those hanging coffins that fell?"

"Did you get it in the museum, or did you put it back up?" Zhang Yang asked.

"At that time, I wasn't the village chief, I don't remember." The village chief shook his head at first, saying that he didn't know, but he quickly remembered something, "But I remember, there used to be a legend in our village. ”

"Legend has it that there was a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in the coffin that fell down at that time."

"Some greedy people go to grab those precious funeral goods, but no matter who they are, as soon as they take the funeral goods in their hands, those treasures will pierce his eyes and burst into tears, like a blind man."

"But as soon as you throw things away, the pain in your eyes will go away and you will return to normal immediately."

"And then?" Zhang Yang felt that he was close to the truth.

"As a result, no one dared to take those treasures, and finally the old people in the village threw them into the deep mountains and old forests."

"Hahaha, that's hilarious." Xiao Chu laughed directly after hearing this, "Even if you will become blind with those treasures, won't they directly let a blind man take the treasure and share it with everyone in exchange for money?" ”

"yes, that's right." Director Rao rarely agreed with Xiao Chu's statement.

The village chief was a little uncomfortable when he heard it, after all, he regarded himself as a descendant of the servants, and Chu Ziqiang's statement was equivalent to saying that his ancestors were stupid.

He could only change the topic and ask Zhang Yang: "Teacher Zhang, why are you asking me this?" ”

"Whoa." Zhang Yang pointed to the sinkhole in front of him, "I'm thinking, if I want to dispose of something, there will be no trouble." ”

"Throwing it into a sinkhole is the best."

"Brother Yang, what do you mean?" Xiao Chu immediately understood what Zhang Yang meant, and asked with his eyes shining, "You mean, the treasures that fell from the hanging coffin back then were in this sinkhole?" ”

"No, that's a legend."

"In reality, how can there be a situation where you become blind when you pick up funeral goods?"

Zhang Yang originally wanted to say that this statement of becoming a blind man was probably someone who was said by the people in power in the clan at that time to scare him.

But the matter of throwing funeral goods is likely to be the same as Zhang Xianzhong's Shen Yin, and it is not a legend.

It's just not discovered.

But Zhang Yang thought about it, why are you entangled in these things?

Wait for the fire brigade and the expedition team to come and go down to the sinkhole to take a look.

So he changed his words and said, "It's okay, I'm just guessing." ”

"Anyway, looking for the hanging coffin, we must go down to this sinkhole to have a look, and then we will see if there is anything in it."

……

After waiting at the entrance of the cave for about three hours, the people from the expedition team that Director Rao was looking for finally came.

He couldn't move the people from the fire brigade, and the situation was urgent, so he could only pay for a professional third-party expedition agency at his own expense.

Of course, the money from the expedition agency can be reimbursed, and Director Rao also showed sincerity in front of Zhang Yang and Chu Ziqiang, which is equivalent to spending the public's money and taking his own relationship.

Therefore, the expedition team invited by Director Rao is of high standard.

A professional team of 16 people, as well as a female coach, specially taught Zhang Yang how to wear a life jacket and how to enter the hole.

According to the expedition leader, the sinkhole was at least a hundred meters deep.

I measured it, and there is oxygen at the bottom, so you can go down.

However, Zhang Yang still didn't join in the fun, and his target was only the boss where Jiang Laohan stayed.

He wanted to go up there and see if there were any details that he hadn't noticed on the ground.

When the expedition members all went to the depths of the sinkhole, they went down to the cave for the last time.

Protected by a safety rope, I arrived at the boss casually.

The ground was potholed and a little damp, and Zhang Yang turned on the flashlight, checking little by little, and sure enough, there was a new discovery.

In the crack of the stone wall next to the boss, Zhang Yang found a fragment of silk fabric.

The age is in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there is also a copper coin of the Ming Dynasty on the ground of the boss, on which are written the four characters of "Yongle Tongbao".

Can copper coins of the Ming Dynasty be found in this cave?

Zhang Yang felt that he had come to the right place.

(End of chapter)