Introducing the Earth to Fright
On the horizon of the sky, a group of seven people gradually appeared, running with horseshoes, and stopped when they reached the junction of the forest and the grassland.
Beiye Longyin judged by feeling that it might be close to the Daxinganling Mountains.
The place is inaccessible, desolate and uninhabited, and the grass on the ground is lush. Looking at the horse from a distance, it can be seen that at the end of the grassland, on the edge of the forest, there is a low wooden house, standing there alone. From a distance, it blends with the dense and tall trees behind it.
The young man surnamed Zhang nodded to everyone, "Here, this is it."
Boss Du squinted his eyes and looked at the cabin, and said with a broken gong, "Why are there still people in the house? Forest team?"
On the chimney of the cabin, misty blue smoke faintly appeared.
Older Du jumped off the horse, grabbed the long cloth bag on the horse's back, and flicked, revealing a rifle inside, slamming the bolt, very skilled, after the bullet was loaded, he raised the gun and aimed at the wooden house.
"Don't shoot!" the young man surnamed Zhang reminded him, "the one we arranged is inside."
"It's yours again? How many people did your team bring in?" Boss Du shook his head and said, hearing that someone came in to share food again, which made his boss unhappy.
"Let's go!" The young man surnamed Zhang clamped his horse belly and drove his mount forward slowly, and everyone followed in turn.
Mo Lao San approached Long Yin and gave him a look imperceptibly—Long Yin ignored him. In fact, he had already noticed on the way that these "three tigers outside the Great Wall" Du family had guys on them! But he didn't take it seriously.
It is quite common for people walking on the underworld outside the Mobei Great Wall to wear weapons for self-defense. On the one hand, there are often ferocious beasts in the wilderness, on the other hand, we must guard against some bandits.
Although the whole country has been liberated, there are still some gangsters and horse bandits who slip through the net in some remote areas. Legend has it that in the depths of the Greater Khingan Mountains, there are still some Japanese bandits who refused to surrender and swear allegiance to the emperor during the Anti-Japanese War. There were once herders who discovered they were in the mountains Haunted like savages.
When the crowd walked to the wooden house, the crooked wooden door opened with a creak, and an old man with a sloppy body and a mess of beard and hair walked out from the inside. He rolled his eyes and looked at the crowd blankly.
"This is the tombkeeper we arranged here." The leader, the young man surnamed Zhang, said, nodded to the old man, and handed him the rein of the horse.
"A bad old man, can you guard something." Du Lao Er mumbled, threw the rein into the old man's hand, and walked sideways into the house.
As soon as I entered, there was a "whew".
Everyone went in one by one, and they were surprised by coincidence.
The whole wooden house is actually a guise. There are no windows on the walls, and the inside is empty. There is a simple earthen furnace made of mud near the door. There are some dilapidated cotton wool piled next to it. It must be the place where the tomb keepers spend the night. , There is no furnishings in the house.
In the middle of the house, there is a large pit that slopes downwards. The deepest part of the pit is more than 4 meters. Two dark red gates stand upright. The gates are closed tightly, which looks very heavy.
Xiao Zhang introduced: "Some time ago, this old man, the forest ranger Lao Liu, while patrolling the mountain, the horse fell into the dirt nest and found this ancient tomb by accident. After reporting to the superior, the archaeological team sent someone to inspect it. I found that the structure of the tomb was very weird. It was impossible to open it with the manpower at the time. I had to send someone to take care of it first, and then dig after enough manpower and tools were prepared."
Beiye Huxiao, one of the "Mobei Shuangxiongs", carefully observed this wooden house. The construction was very sloppy. The stubble of the wooden piles was still new. He could smell the fragrance of the tree trunks, and it seemed to be more than a dozen to build. Day's work.
Turning to ask: "So we are helping the archaeological team?"
Boss Du laughed loudly: "Helping the archaeological team? They count as a shit. What money can I earn by helping them? Big brother, you are still a little bit tender. Obviously Boss Zhang took advantage of the archaeological team's return. The team is doing private work-when the authentic archaeological team came, our brothers would have hollowed out this place. Quack!"
Seeing Beiye Huxiao's displeased face, Boss Du touched his beard and continued, "We don't know what your brothers usually do, but we, the three tigers of the Du family, have never made a loss-making business-you say yes? Zhang boss?"
The young man surnamed Zhang smiled slightly and continued noncommittal:
"After the archaeological team dug up the gate, they couldn't push it open with all kinds of methods. The old mage in the team said that he had excavated so many ancient tombs in his life, and he had never seen such a style before. No clue."
"Why do you have to open the door with so many things? Just make a thief hole next to it!" Boss Du walked to the bottom of the pit and knocked on the door with his hand. It turned out to be a solid stone door.
Mo Laosan, who was touching and looking at the "meter ruler" next to him, shook his head and said, "It's useless."
Turning his head to look at Boss Du with a fierce look, he hurriedly said with a smile: "Boss Du, I didn't mean that! I know that your northern faction is good at hacking holes, but this ancient tomb is extraordinary. I guess, this one. The entire tomb is sealed with huge stones, and it is definitely impossible to enter by digging a hole."
Xiao Zhang nodded and said: "Mo Sanxia guessed right. At that time, the archaeological team had been robbing holes all around, but they encountered huge rocks one after another and couldn't make any further progress."
"Then blast the fuck- you said earlier, our brothers get some more explosives!" Du Lao Er complained, this guy is also a violent temper.
Mo Lao San shook his head, "It's useless, this sealing stone is at least half a foot thick, not to mention the surrounding diamond wall, and putting explosives is just to blow up a nest..."
"There are so many words for you!" Boss Du turned his neck around and turned the spot where Mo Lao San was hitting.
Xiao Zhang said: "Mr. Mo is right. There is too much movement when dealing with explosives. If you collect so many explosives at once, the relevant departments will be aware of it-and it is too late now.
It has been more than half a month since the tomb was discovered. Because the place is too remote and the excavation is troublesome, the archaeological team did not pay much attention to it, so we gave us time, but I guess they should act now. —We don’t have much time. "
Boss Du crouched on the side of the pit and nodded, "Yes, there are many dreams in the night, so it's a good thing to hurry up and finish it. But how do you start with this? This stone gate may weigh several thousand catties, and it's probably all of us who are holding back shit. Can't push."
After that, he slanted his eyes and looked at Mo Lao-san and said, "As soon as you come in, you will be babbling, but you know so much. You are talking about how to go in and out of the fight. You can't tell the truth. Brothers will kill you. !"
Mo Lao San was so frightened by him, helpless hands to look at Xiao Zhang, and issued a silent cry for help-everyone formed a team to robber the tomb, how it became my responsibility in the end.
Xiao Zhang ignored him at all, as if he had approved Boss Du's proposal.
Mo Lao San had to bite the bullet and said: "Then I have to guess boldly, but if the guess is wrong, don't blame me..."
"Quickly said the chicken chop, look at you groaning there."
Mo Laosan cleared his throat: "Ahem, in our tomb robbery business, all tombs of all dynasties and generations have their own characteristics. As the saying goes,'Qin buried mountains, Han buried slopes'..."
"Nima is more serious, don't drop your book bag with Lao Tzu." Mr. Du casually grabbed a handful of soil and sprinkled his face.
"Ahem" standing at the bottom of the pit, Mo Laosan was thrown upright, wiped the dirt on his face, and continued to speed up his speech: "The tombs of all dynasties and dynasties have their own characteristics, but this tomb, from According to the current situation, it is not tied to the tomb system of all dynasties. From the perspective of Fengshui, the topography and position of this selection are not reasonable, and it is difficult to determine the dynasty."
As Mo Laosan said, he glanced at the dragon's head secretly, "I learned about the situation with Mr. Zhang before. They have punched pirate holes in several places around, and all encountered the diamond wall, and the location of the diamond wall from the pirate hole. Generally speaking, the scale of the underground palace is very large. Such a large underground palace can afford sealing stones of this size. It is not what ordinary graves, tombs, and burial mounds can afford. Only the imperial mausoleum and the sleeping quarters have such status. ."
Boss Du stood up when he heard this: "You said we dug up the emperor's grave?"
Seeing his excited eyes shining, Mo Laosan said timidly: "Not necessarily. Generally, imperial tombs have very large mounds—many imperial mounds are the entire mountain—but we meet The mausoleum that I arrived at was flat on the top, and it didn’t look like it was sealed. Judging from the sealed door below, the underground palace should not be very deep either..."
Boss Du scratched his head and said, "Hey! It's an evil one, which dog emperor has nothing to do with digging this kind of hole?"
Beiye Longyin, who had been silent next to him, said: "Brother Mo is right to speculate. The reason why this tomb is so strange is that it is not buried in it at all—this is the tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty!"
---rain---
Twenty years later, Lijiacun.
Sitting in the classroom, Li Ziyang stared blankly at the continuous drizzle outside, habitually distracted.
The old mathematics man on the podium was writing formulas vigorously, stroke by stroke, and it was time to leave school when he finished writing, Zi Yang thought.
Suddenly, he was hit by a ball of paper on his head. Li Ziyang turned his head and found that A Chong was winking at him, with a smug smile on his face, and pointed his finger at the foot-a semi-deflated ball that had peeled off his skin.
A Chong is Zi Yang's best playmate. Although he is only a teenager, he matures earlier than his peers. Apart from being more lively with Zi Yang, he doesn't talk much to other people. When he was not playing with everyone, he was even a little gloomy. His parents had died since he was a child, and he lived with his uncle who was mentally impaired, and lived on the relief of the village.
Zi Yang's parents liked A Chong, and treated him like a godson, and often kept him at home for dinner and overnight.
The old mathematics man finally finished writing on the blackboard, and then stretched out the Shanghai brand quartz watch on his wrist to look at everyone carefully, and said, "Well, get out of class is over."
A group of children screamed out of the classroom with a scream, scared the kind old man, and tremblingly shouted behind the children: "Slow down, slow down, the sky is cloudy, the road is slippery, watch out for wrestling..."
A Chong hugged Zi Yang's shoulders and said, "The rain has stopped, come back later, let's go to the playground to play ball."
A Chong is very appealing among the children. He raised his arms. A dozen wild boys rushed to the dirt playground behind the school. They were all dumbfounded. The familiar open space has become a swamp, everywhere. If the water is deep, it can reach the knees.
When everyone was at a loss, Al Chong took off his clothes and pants, leaving only a pair of panties on his body. He jumped naked to the puddle and kicked the ball. "Let's play water polo."
A group of children immediately followed suit with joy, some of them jumped into the water with bare buttocks. On the muddy playground, only a dozen bare native children were seen rushing from east to west.
Suddenly, Ah Chong said, "Hey, there seems to be bubbles in the water over there." Following the direction of his fingers, a puddle in the middle of the playground was gurgling and gurgling the bubbles.
A Chong grinned and said, "I'll catch a fish for you!" He leaned down and fumbled in the kneeless water. Suddenly, his face changed and his body sank, "Stepping on a hole, there is something underneath! Yeah, something catch me!".
"Puff Tong" A Chong stumbled into the water, choked two mouthfuls of muddy water, and coughed while struggling and shouted "Quick, come and get me".
Zi Yang didn't look like he was joking. He rushed to hug A Chong's waist and dragged it back, but he felt a huge force pulling A Chong into the water.
Zi Yang hurriedly turned around and greeted the other children "Come here and help." Several timid people were already crying with fright.
Almost all of A Chong's body was lying in the water, and his face flushed red and shouted: "Yes...something is holding my arm, oops, it hurts!"
Zi Yang and a few children held hands, some hugged their waists, and used a tug-of-war posture. They collapsed and dragged back but did not get A Chong out, feeling that a strange force was dragging A Chong into the water.
Suddenly Zi Yang felt the strength in his hand loosened, and Ah Chong was pulled out like a radish with a crash, and everyone fell into the water on all sides.
Zi Yang held A Chong in his arms and dragged him to the empty ground. The two of them lay on the ground and seemed to lose their strength. The children all ran up, standing there tremblingly at a loss.
"It's getting dark, my mother is going to scold me," an older child said with a crying voice, picked up the clothes and pants on the ground and ran away, and the others also ran away.
There were only two people left in the empty playground, Zi Yang and A Chong. Zi Yang touched A Chong's hand and said, "I, let's go too." The words didn't feel like they were making a sound.
A Chong lay his head down on the ground, as if exhausted and said, "I, I can't walk anymore, I'm weak."
Zi Yang put A Chong's arms on his shoulders, holding A Chong's waist in one hand, and clothes in the other, and the two dragged them towards the village. As I walked, I felt chills in the back of my head and shivered all over.
When he walked to the door of Zi Yang's house, the sky was already completely dark.
As soon as he entered the house, Dad Ziyang, with a black face, kicked the two mud boys away: "Where are you going crazy after the night is so late? Ah, the new clothes I have just worn for two days are all dirty. That's it?!"
Mother Ziyang was waiting to come up and continued to preach, when she saw the two children huddled on the side without saying a word, she immediately changed her face and slapped her dad Ziyang's arm with a slap, "You don’t know how deep you are, and you’ve broken me. What should I do with the child?” He was holding the oil lamp and took a closer look. It didn’t matter, the oil lamp in Zi Yang’s hand almost fell to the ground, and the two children's faces were pale and their lips were bloodless.
Mother Ziyang was anxious, and she twisted her father Ziyang's ear with one hand and squeezed it down desperately, "You broke my child! You broke my child!"
Dad Ziyang was also frightened, even though his ears were pulled half a foot long and his face was horrified and said, "I didn't use much force..."
"Mom, it wasn't my dad." Zi Yang whispered, "Just now we were playing on the playground, and A Chong was caught by a water ghost..."
Zi Yang didn't know how to describe what happened just now. He vaguely remembered that the old man scared the children not to go to the pond to play, and they would be caught by the water ghost.
Dad Zi Yang slapped Zi Yang's head lightly, "I really know how to pretend, I'm scared, how can there be water ghosts on the dry land like the school playground?"
Zi Yang hurriedly defended: "It was really caught by a water ghost, look at A Chong's hand." When he said that he held A Chong's hand and showed it to his parents, it didn't matter that it didn't matter, even Zi Yang himself was taken aback.
I hadn't noticed just now. A Chong's right hand was already swollen, as if he was caught by some beast. From his wrist to his forearm, his teeth and claws were all black, and there was a vague anger.
Ziyang's mother said distressedly: "Did you fight with someone again?"
Zi Yang almost cried anxiously: "I really didn't fight, I was really caught by a water ghost, if you don't believe me, ask Xiaochun and the others..."
A Chong, who had been groggy just now, also reluctantly propped up his body weakly and said, "Uncle, we really didn't fight..."
Dad Ziyang said with a heavy face: "It doesn't seem to be injured. I have been walking in the rivers and lakes for decades and have never seen such an injury..."
Mother Ziyang said: "Don't squat and break, you old-fashioned turtle, hurry up and scrub the child and hug it to the kang..."
Dad Ziyang silently scrubbed the two children clean, and put them on the kang to surround them with a quilt. The two children were still trembling in the quilt.
The village was surprisingly quiet that night, and the noise of cries and dogs suddenly disappeared.
The vegetable rice on the table did not move, and no one was in the mood to eat. Dad Ziyang squatted on the ground with his hands on his knees and was helpless. A Chong lay on the kang deliberately, gritting his teeth and chanting "cold, cold... hot, hot" in his mouth, his white face was sweaty as big as soybeans. The beads flowed down.
Zi Yang sat on the edge with tears in her eyes, and Zi Yang's mother said to the man softly, "Or, go and ask the barefoot doctor in the village to see it?"
Ziyang's father said in an irritating voice: "The barefoot doctor went to Xiaowangzhuang son-in-law to have a wedding wine today, and I won't be back these two days."
Madam Ziyang sighed and said, "God, what a sin is this, this poor child is so bitter."
Ah Chongran opened his eyes and said, "Uncle, I'm going to find my uncle."
Dad Ziyang held down A Chong who was waiting to get up and said, "Don't move, lie down. I'll call your uncle here", and he took the flashlight from the Kang's head. I was about to go out. In the dark and quiet night outside, two shouts suddenly sounded...