At this time, Zhang Bowen also came up and took a look at the shovel in my hand. He obviously noticed the blood on it. His face changed immediately. He looked at the old man Xu who was sitting on the side and smoking a pipe. Then he lowered his voice and said to me: "Xiaotian, the shovel just went down and there was blood. The tomb below is probably very dangerous. In previous years, your father and I would respectfully bow three times to such a tomb, and then offer three incense sticks to the tomb owner and evacuate immediately! Otherwise, we..."
"Are you scared?"
I turned my head to look at Zhang Bowen and said in a deep voice: "We have to go to this tomb no matter what. Li He used to work for my father. I can't ignore his death. Besides, this time, we are not allowed to go to the tomb. If you want to end it, I'm afraid you'll have to fight on this tomb in the end!"
Zhang Bowen seemed a little embarrassed by my words of cowardice, scratched his head and said fiercely: "Okay! Go down, Xiaotian, you are so righteous, and it would be a bit unreasonable for me, as your brother, to be hesitant. But this time, you have to let me do the shovel. You carried it alone that night, so I have to do it this time!"
In fact, it is still very dangerous for the person who goes down to fight and uses the shovel, because if something happens, the person who uses the shovel will definitely be the first to be punished. For example, the ancient tomb with the Tianbao glazed dragon fire roof structure we encountered in the Qinling Mountains last time, if the glazed roof was accidentally pierced, the first person to suffer would definitely be the person who used the shovel. Zhang Bowen has been with my father for so many years, he must not be ignorant of this principle. He may have felt guilty for saying this. After all, I gave him all the rewards and red envelopes. He was thinking about evacuating when he encountered something just now. He felt a little uncomfortable when I said that, so he agreed to this job. I saw that he insisted on doing it, so I nodded and agreed. The main reason was that I really couldn't dig anymore. My hands were full of blisters when I used the Luoyang shovel. I really couldn't swing the engineer shovel. So I gave the job to him and sat aside to let Li Jiajia bandage the wound on my hand.
At this time, the old man Xu who had been smoking a dry pipe next to me came to me and asked with a smile: "Young man, I have been watching you for a while. Are you tomb robbers?"
When the old man Xu asked, I squinted my eyes slightly. I originally thought that this old man was an old man in the mountains, but I didn't expect that he had some eyesight and could see what we were doing from our methods. For a while, I began to think about how to deal with it.
Of course, I definitely won't let him report us. I'd rather kill this old man in this wilderness than let him report me. Our country has always taken a very conservative attitude towards the protection of ancient tombs. We respect the dead and do not take the initiative to dig and destroy them. Only when there is a landslide or other situation that exposes the ancient tombs to the surface will we send an archaeological team in. In this overall environment, how can we not be strict with tomb robbers? If caught, being jailed for life is the lightest punishment. If you are not careful, you may even have to eat a "peanut". So instead of being reported by this old man Xu and suffering, it is better to kill him first.
This evil thought was unstoppable once it appeared in my heart. I could feel that the look I gave to old man Xu became more and more unkind.
Old man Xu probably sensed that I had evil intentions, so he waved his hand and said quickly: "Young man, don't misunderstand what I mean. I won't go to the government to sue you."
I was relieved, but still asked: "What do you mean?"
"Of course it's more money!"
Old man Xu licked his lips and smiled: "Over the years, there are many tomb robbers here. After they come, they basically have to find us mountain folks to lead the way in order to find tombs. So over time, there is such an unwritten rule here - five hundred yuan for leading the way to hunt game in the mountains, five thousand for leading the way to find tombs!!"
At this point, Old man Xu didn't say anything more, but I understood what he meant - you want money after talking for so long? That's easy to say, as long as you don't want to die, then I won't kill you.
But we didn't have that much cash on us. We only had more than 3,000 yuan in total. I gave the 3,000 yuan to Old Man Xu and told him that it was a deposit. I would go out and get money from the village credit union to settle the account. Of course, if we want to get the balance, we have to wait until we are done. During this period, he must stay with me. I did this to guard against this old man. I thought he was a kind man who had served in the army and fought in the war, but he turned out to be very cunning. I have to be careful when dealing with such people. Don't let this old man take my money and report me again, and let the police hold me in Wuwang Village. Anyway, I have to wait until I leave first. By then, he will report me without any identity information, and the police will have no way to find me!
After giving the money, Old Man Xu smiled all of a sudden, and agreed to my request. He sat aside and smoked a pipe, almost laughing.
The ancient tomb of Li Cunshi is buried very deep underground. When we hit something with the Luoyang shovel just now, it was more than ten meters deep. That means we may have to dig more than ten meters in this robbery hole, so we took turns to dig for four or five days. In the end, we simply hung Zhang Bowen with a rope to dig in, and then used a woven bag to lift out the excavated soil, so the progress was very slow. Fortunately, we prepared enough dry food, and the groundwater in Wuwang Village was rich, so it was easy to find clean water in the mountains, so we didn't have to worry about food and drink.
Of course, the main force in digging the robbery hole has always been Zhang Bowen. This guy is exhausted, and he smells of earth and sweat. The smell is so fascinating when it is mixed.
In this way, we played civil engineering work in this place for many days. Finally, on the morning of the sixth day, Zhang Bowen, who had been digging a hole silently, suddenly screamed in the earth pit: "Damn, I dug out a living thing, alive! Pull me out, pull me out!!"
Zhang Bowen yelled, and I was also scared. Could he have dug out a big dumpling?
But this was not the time to worry about this. I rushed forward and grabbed the climbing rope on the tree and started to pull Zhang Bowen out. After a while, I dragged Zhang Bowen out. Fortunately, he was not injured, but his whole body was full of earthy smell. He looked at the dark hole with horror and shouted: "It followed it out, followed it out!!!"
When I heard it, I quickly looked at the opened hole. Isn't it? A dark shadow was crawling out from inside. Because it was dark inside the tunnel, I couldn't see what it was for a while, so I took out a strong flashlight and shone it into the tunnel. It didn't matter if I shone it, but even I was shocked - the thing that came out of the tunnel was a toad!!!
To be precise, the thing looked like a toad, but its body was almost as big as a lamb, and its back was full of eyes. I was frightened and even more disgusted. Everyone has intensive phobia. When I saw the eyes on the back of that thing, I got goose bumps all over my body! !
"Pah!"
At this time, the pipe in the hand of the old man Xu fell to the ground, and he sat down on the ground in fear: "This is the Thousand-Eyed Tai Sui, whoever it looks at will die!"
After saying that, the old man turned around and ran away without saying a word! !
At this time, I didn't care to chase the dead old man, and looked at the thing with a surprised face...
Thousand-eyed Tai Sui?
Is this a Tai Sui? !
In folk legends, Tai Sui has always been a thing with strange and unpredictable power. No one can tell what it is, and the Tai Sui mentioned in different places is different.
In the usual sense, people are talking about Tai Sui, which is actually Ganoderma lucidum, the fourth form of life in nature that is not plant, animal or fungus. Scientists say that Tai Sui is a very large and rare slime mold complex. In ancient times, it was believed to be an elixir of immortality. The immortal elixir that Qin Shihuang was looking for was this thing. In recent years, people often dig it out from the ground.
However, the Tai Sui mentioned in the eight western counties of Shanxi does not refer to Ganoderma lucidum, but a toad that has become a spirit! ! ! It is very unlucky to encounter it, especially if you move the earth on the head of Tai Sui, such as demolishing a house, which will bring disaster. In the past, a Tai Sui was dug out of a mine in Ningwu, and a gas explosion occurred the next day, killing many people.
So, the thing I nailed with the Luoyang shovel was this thousand-eyed Tai Sui?
Before I could think about it, the big toad had already crawled out of the stolen hole, and the eyes on its back opened all at once...