Seeing Dou Sprout Zai's big reaction, I breathed a sigh of relief. What happened just now made me a little suspicious.
"Fengzi, the more than two thousand yuan hidden in the pillow is my little treasury. I plan to save it to buy clothes for the New Year. You embezzled it without telling me?"
"Okay, don't be angry. It's only a few thousand yuan. I didn't even take the money I picked up when I fell on the road. I'll pay you double when I get back. I'll pay you five thousand."
Dou Yawai was stunned, and the angry expression on his face disappeared instantly.
"Fengzi, that's all you want. What's the relationship between us? My money is your money. I'm always very generous to my brothers."
Seeing that I wanted to curse, Douyazai hurriedly said: "Can you walk on your feet? How about I go down and look for it myself, and you wait for me here. When I find it, we can go up together."
"Don't go alone, go together. I can barely do it."
"Good brother!"
Dou Sprout smiled and patted me hard.
In fact, I don't want to go. Firstly, my feet are injured and I have difficulty moving. Secondly, the place is very dark and there are poisonous insects.
I asked Dou Sprouts to imitate me and tuck my trouser legs into my shoes. If I see a poisonous insect, I will step on it to avoid being bitten.
Then I walked back with a flashlight, and saw that I was limping, and Dou Sprout came over from time to time to help me walk.
We often bicker and strangle over various trivial matters, but in fact he can't trust me, and I can't trust him either. We don't want anything to happen to each other.
I told me about the hallucination I had just drank from the hot spring water. After hearing this, Dou Sprout looked in disbelief and said: "According to what you said, if you drink the water, you can hallucinate... That's not the same as the old man in the mountain village."
The acting is the same, if you drink the river water you can see Chu Renmei."
I was stunned. His analogy was a bit strange, but it seemed to be the same thing. But what I saw was not Aunt Mei, what I saw was Marjane. Aunt Mei was just a character in the movie, but Marjane really existed.
Pass.
Soon we returned to the underground altar, and Dou Sprout quickly found his amulet. It dropped right where the gold booklet was found. He probably dropped it carelessly when we were prying off the stone slab.
"Thank God! I found it!"
Dou Sprout hurriedly picked it up, wiped it clean, and put it in his arms as if it were a treasure.
I said this thing is not made of gold, why is it so important? He said what do you know, this is not just a simple amulet, it is also a token of love between him and Panpan, which has great commemorative significance.
At this moment, the poisonous insects have basically dispersed. I held up my flashlight to look for them, but I only saw a few scattered ones crawling around the corner.
Out of revenge, I trampled them all to death.
When the bug is stepped on, it will explode, and a thick white-yellow liquid will be squeezed out of its stomach. It looks disgusting, a bit like eating Thousand Island dressing on a salad.
This poisonous insect is a cave-like creature. Later, I searched for information on the Internet and found two poisonous insects that look similar to it. One is a cave beetle in the Alps abroad, and the other is a poisonous hidden-wing beetle. I am not sure if it is both.
One of them, or a brand new species. If one day an expert determines that it is a new species, do I have the right to name it? Because I discovered it.
If I were asked to name it, I would call it "Thousand Island Poisonous Beetle" for two reasons. One is that it looks like Thousand Island Sauce after being trampled, and the other is that it was found in the Thousand Island Lake Grottoes, so it makes sense to call it that way.
"Huh?"
Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly made a subtle discovery.
I pointed to the pit where I dug the golden book and said, "Do you think it's possible that the layer of soil at the bottom is not dead soil? It's a kind of rammed soil that we haven't seen before?"
Douyazai immediately shook his head: "No way, Fengzi, you are overthinking. Rammed earth is not so hard, nor is it this color."
I frowned and said: "The rammed earth we see is all from tombs. In order to isolate the air, white plaster mud or green plaster mud is added to it. But this is different. Didn't you notice that these sand grains are all small pieces? One
There aren’t any big chunks.”
"If it were dead soil, the mixed sand grains would be in large and small pieces, and would not be so evenly distributed. It would feel like it was sifted through a sieve before."
"Is there any water?"
Dou Sprout shook his head: "I drank half of the bottle just now. The water is all at Brother Yu's place."
"Did you pee?"
Dou Sprout nodded immediately.
He immediately unbuttoned his pants and let out the water.
"Damn...why are you so yellow? Are you angry?"
I observed carefully and found that the penetration speed was extremely fast and it dried almost instantly.
Seeing such a fast water absorption speed, Dou Sprouts immediately stared: "Fuck! This may really be rammed earth, Fengzi!"
"What the hell is it possible! This is 100% true! There may be something hidden underneath! Hurry!" I was a little excited.
Douyazai immediately assembled the shovel and started digging, about one and a half meters deep. He threw away the shovel and used his hand to dig.
"look!"
Dou Sprouts suddenly looked up at me and said excitedly: "It's exposed! Another slate!"
The upper stone slab is larger, the lower one is smaller, and the shapes are different. This one is round, like a manhole cover.
Douyazai moved the stone slab, and a mysterious black hole was immediately exposed under his feet, and the surrounding floating soil continued to fall down.
I looked down and saw blue bricks.
This kind of underground space with no stone door, no dome, no tomb passage, and only an opening directly above is not an ancient tomb. It is an underground palace with the nature of secrets. Famous places like Baoen Temple and Leifeng Pagoda also have similar hiding spaces.
Using the crowbar as an anchor point, I tied the rope tightly and threw it down. After ten minutes of ventilation, Bean Sprouts went down first, and I followed suit.
It's pitch black underneath, with an overall area of about ten square meters. It's surrounded by stone walls and is paved with blue bricks.
In the darkness, I held up my flashlight and scanned the room, and saw a carved stone table right in front of me.
On the stone table were some porcelain plates and bowls, covered with dust, as well as a bronze Buddha statue and a small square solid wood box.
This Buddha statue is very strange. At first glance, it looks like Sakyamuni, but upon closer inspection, it doesn't look like him at all.
The two of us took a closer look.
The entire face of this Buddha statue is painted red with mineral pigments. Although the paint has fallen off a lot, it is still bright. In addition, this Buddha statue has a broad forehead and a high nose. It stretches out three fingers of its left hand and puts its right hand on its chest.
Sitting cross-legged,
Furthermore, this Buddha statue does not have a bun on its head like Sakyamuni's. Instead, it has a middle-parted hairstyle, with long hair hanging down to the chest, and a knot at the bottom.
Although the workmanship is exquisite, it looks nondescript and has a strong exotic character.
I thought about what kind of Buddha this was.
This is not the Central Plains Buddha, this should be a "Mani Light Buddha" from the Song Dynasty. The seals on its three fingers represent the past, present and future.
Almost all Buddha statues like this were destroyed in the past, and the number of surviving ones may only be in the double digits. The most famous one is the large Mani stone carving located in Cao'an Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian. Because there are few, it is valuable. I think the price may be higher than
Some official statues of Yongle and Xuande are even taller.
The next second, my eyes were attracted by the wooden box on the table.
What is this?
After blowing away the thick layer of floating dust on the surface, I picked up the box with both hands.
The weight is very heavy, very heavy on the hand, even heavier than copper and iron.
Turning it over, I saw a large number of Manichaean inscriptions and lotus patterns engraved on the bottom of the wooden box. I couldn't understand what they meant at all.
Douyazai grabbed it and took a look. He reached out and clasped it left and right, up and down, and said anxiously: "Is this box made of thousand-year-old dark wood? Why can't it be opened?"
I frowned and said, "This is a Luban box from the Song Dynasty. It has a complex mortise and tenon structure inside. Different Luban boxes have different opening methods. Let me try it."
According to the memory of this kind of box in my mind, I first tried two methods, but no, I couldn't open it.
Then I tried another method.
I first turned the box over so that the bottom was facing up, then I took off my shoes and patted the four opposite corners of the box hard with my shoes.
Take a dozen shots of the upper left corner and a dozen shots of the lower right corner.
Then grab the box and shake it hard, then put it straight and flat. Press the box with your left hand to prevent it from running away. Press the surface with your right hand and push it diagonally!
It opened instantly.
Because there are two chutes inside the box, up and down, and there is a groove in the corner of the box. There is an iron bead in the groove. If the box is placed upright, the iron bead will get stuck in the middle and cannot move, so it cannot be opened.
If you do the opposite, find the correct position and tap it hard a few times, the iron beads will fall into the groove, and you can open it by pushing diagonally.
This process has extremely high requirements on the size of the chute and the depth of the drop groove. A few millimeters more will not be enough. It must be exactly the same. If you just sell this Luban box, it will cost at least 200,000 yuan.
At this time, we saw something wrapped in yellow cloth. The yellow cloth was wrapped with hemp rope, and the hemp rope was somewhat oxidized.
Untying the hemp rope, we never expected that a transparent bottle suddenly appeared in front of us! The bottle also contained less than half a bottle of dark red unknown solid substance.
Dou Sprout slowly opened his mouth wide and stammered: "Damn it, Fengzi, this... isn't this just a glass bottle for Arctic soda!"
"No! This is not glass!"
I raised it up, looked at it with a flashlight, and said solemnly: "There are bubbles inside the glass. You can't see the bubbles here. This should be a very pure crystal bottle, and why does the thing inside look like...