At this time, Heixiazi and Xu Er were in a valley sandwiched between two cliffs of hundreds of meters. The river in the valley and the dark pool at the end looked like a giant thermometer.

Xu Er felt an indescribable sense of oppression, as if the mountain walls on both sides might close together at any time and crush him into a meat pie. Just looking up at the top of the mountain above the valley made him feel dizzy and confused.

Holding my breath, I felt like I was going to fall on my back in any minute.

He quickly lowered his head and closed his eyes to regain his consciousness. When he opened his eyes again, he saw the blind man squatting by the pool, carefully observing the situation in the dark pool.

When the flashlight shines into the pond water, most of the light is absorbed by the mud and unknown black water plants in the pond, making it basically impossible to see the bottom clearly.

Xu Er suddenly felt thirsty at this time, and wanted to bend down and take a sip of this natural mountain spring water like he did in the village. But the black blind man suddenly raised his arm to stop him, looked around, turned around and said to him: "Little

"My child, don't be in a hurry to drink water. Go and find me a stick, a branch will do, something longer and thicker."

Xu Er had no choice but to walk in the opposite direction of the water pool, trying to find something that met the requirements of the black blind man.

He walked forward, getting wider and wider as he walked. Although the mountain walls on both sides remained towering, the river in the middle became thinner and thinner. The land on both sides gradually became flat and wide, and some graves with grass but no monuments gradually appeared.

in sight.

It seems that this is indeed a big stone ditch. These graves are where the poor people buried their bones in the past. There is no way to care about Feng Shui. Whether the land is dry or wet, it is good to have a place to bury them. But the good thing is

, it is absolutely remote and quiet enough, so you don’t have to worry too much about being disturbed by people or wild beasts.

But Xu Er felt troubled at this time. Although there were occasionally a few small trees as thick as arms above or beside some graves, he did not have the tools at his disposal to cut them down.

While he was worrying, he suddenly saw a relatively large tomb in front of him. There was a half-drawn tombstone standing in front of the tomb, and half of it broke off and fell on the ground next to it. After an unknown number of years, it had been embedded in the ground. The two fragments of the tombstone were

The engraved words have also been wiped away by wind and rain, making them completely unrecognizable.

It seems that before indiscriminately burying people in this big stone ditch, some wealthy country gentry and village rich with a little wealth were buried. However, such a tomb, among these graves without tombstones, also looks too outstanding, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be noticed by others.

Thinking about.

Xu Er walked by this slightly larger tomb, and sure enough he saw an obvious pothole behind the tomb, and the surrounding area was already covered with weeds.

Although he didn't know much about things like pouring buckets, there was a hole next to the grave, and the shape was so flat that it was obviously formed by manual work. He could tell with his toes that someone dug the hole and got in.

Xu Er suddenly felt a little curious and wanted to take a closer look. He walked carefully to the thief's cave and made careful gestures. He found that the robber's cave was at best the same size as his waist, and he didn't know how old the cave entrance was.

Subsequently, it shrank, and the people who went to the tomb back then were too slender and slender.

But when he thought about how he would get stuck in the middle and suffocate to death if he slipped through this narrow hole, his despair immediately made him take two steps to the side.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his second foot landed, he felt that he had stepped on something round, and then he lost balance on both feet and fell backwards with his face up.

Fortunately, there were relatively loose piles of soil and weeds here. When he fell, he instinctively raised his hips, so his butt didn't suffer twice. It was just that when he looked up at the mountain before, he felt like he was about to fall on his back.

The feeling finally came true at this time.

He rubbed the back of his head and stood up. He felt that even though he had fallen to the ground, the back of his head was a little soft. Even weeds should not have such a touch.

He turned his head and found a corner of the cloth exposed under the loose soil. He pulled the corner of the cloth and pulled it out, and a coarse cloth bag was pulled out from under the loose surface soil.

This coarse cloth bag was rotten and tattered in many places, and it contained hemp rope and some clothes from a long time ago. It was these things that cushioned Xu Er's head.

Xu Er thought for a moment and realized that these were probably the belongings of the tomb robber back then. After emptying the tomb, he put on clean clothes and put other things in his pockets. As long as he was careful, others would just think he was a thief. But

After so many years, this bag has been covered with a layer of void soil, so it cannot be seen from the outside.

But then he thought, since all the tomb robber's belongings are outside, it means that this tomb robber...

He glanced at the narrow and deep hole again, and couldn't help but shudder. The suffocating feeling of being suffocated alive came to his mind again.

This time, he carefully avoided the robbery hole. When he turned his eyes to the side, the thing he tripped over also came into reality.

It was a stick-like object, with a half-cylindrical object attached to the front end of the long handle, like a half-split bamboo tube, but it looked like it was made of iron, and there were mottled rust on the surface.

Xu Er picked up this thing and looked at it carefully. He felt that this thing seemed to be a strange-shaped shovel. However, the shovel head was so long and narrow that it could not turn over the ground or shovel mud. It could not cultivate land or build houses. I didn't know what it could be used for.

.

No matter what, a weirdo deserves a weird shovel. This thing is thick and long, just in line with the requirements of the black blind man. Thinking of handing this weird thing to the black blind man, Xu Er felt an inexplicable joy in his heart, as if he could see the black blind man make a fool of himself.

generally.

At this time, a gust of mountain wind blew by, and he heard a rustling next to him. Turning his head, he saw the weeds around the cave swaying, and there seemed to be a shrill whistle coming from the cave. He felt his scalp numb, and hurriedly mopped

Catching the strange shovel, he trotted towards the edge of the pool.

The shovel head rubbed against the ground, making a sharp friction sound from time to time. It was clear that it was sunny and daytime, but Xu Er was still too frightened by the fear in his heart to look back. He could only keep pushing his weak legs forward quickly.

run.

It wasn't until I rounded several boulders half a man's height and saw the blind man squatting by the pool that I felt a sense of security.

Hei Xiazi heard the noisy friction behind him, turned to Xu Er and said: "It's so hard to find a stick..."

But halfway through the words, the blind man stared at the thing in Xu Er's hand, and the smile on his lips suddenly froze. Xu Er felt happy and felt that he was about to see the blind man make a fool of himself, so he held back his laughter and held the strange thing in his hand.

Throw it to the black blind man.

Unexpectedly, the black blind man picked up the strange shovel and knocked the rust on the ground. Instead, he seemed to smile even more happily and said to Xu Er: "Luoyang shovel, where did you find it? It really didn't cost anything."

time……"

When Xu Er saw that the blind man actually knew what this thing was, he immediately trembled a little, and explained how he found the robbery hole and how he picked up the shovel.

The black blind man chuckled and said: "It seems that the unlucky one has fed himself rice dumplings..."

Xu Er did not understand what Heixiazi said, but from his skill, courage, understanding of this Luoyang shovel, and those incomprehensible words, Xu Er felt that Heixiazi was definitely not a writer who collected works.

"Get out of the way!"

The black blind man suddenly shouted, and then used the Luoyang shovel in his hand to fish out something from the deep pool in front of him.
Chapter completed!