Suddenly something shook out from my trouser leg. I didn't have time to take a closer look, so I subconsciously stepped on it with my foot.
"Dog basket! What the hell!"
Brother Yu was only wearing small underpants. He stood up cursing and scratching his itch. I saw bloody marks on his arms.
We let go of our feet and looked down with a flashlight. We were both stunned.
This thing looks like a little toad.
It looks a bit like a frog, which I have never seen before.
It's yellowish brown and about the size of half an orange. What makes me wonder is, isn't the frog naked? The back of the toad is covered with pimples, and this thing has three protruding bumps on its back, as if it has three legs.
A scab.
Upon closer inspection, these scabs look like smaller human eyes.
What is this? A three-eyed frog? Just like a person squinting his eyes and opening them a little.
"What is this?" Brother Yu asked.
I shook my head and said I didn't know, maybe it was a cave frog I had never seen before. This underground cave was damp and dark, and no one had set foot in it for many years. Who knew what the hell it was.
What I said actually has a basis. Many new species are discovered around the world every year, of which cave creatures account for a considerable proportion. Eyeless fish, dragon-like white worms, giant tadpoles that continue to grow in their larval state, etc., there are many
.
"Quickly, scratch me again, the back is still itchy."
"here?"
"A little to the right, right there."
I helped scratch my back, and Brother Yu exhaled and said it felt good.
I was too energetic just now, and the strange frog was trampled to death and burst into pulp. Brother Yu was a little worried, he was afraid that this thing was poisonous.
I comforted him and said, "It should be fine. Maybe this thing is just like an ordinary toad. If the pimple on the toad's back is accidentally broken, it will itch, and it will be fine after a while."
"Yeah. I hope so."
Brother Yu said again: "Go further down and give me a scratch on your lower back."
A few minutes passed. Suddenly someone came over with a flashlight. We had been out for too long and were worried about something going wrong, so we asked Dou Sprout to come to us.
"What are you two doing? Why did you take off your clothes? Fengzi, you are still squatting there." Walking closer, Dou Sprout asked with eyes wide open.
"Go away, didn't you see that I was tickling Brother Yu?"
"Where's the board? Tell me to speed up."
"Okay, it's not itching anymore," Brother Yu said while putting on his pants, "I'll get it right away."
After more than twenty minutes, the three of us returned to the tomb carrying two dismantled boards.
Tian Sanjiu was already a little impatient with waiting.
He asked: "Look for a light person to explore the road. Which of us is the lightest?"
Everyone looked at Xiaoxuan subconsciously.
Because she weighs just over ninety pounds and is not as heavy as two bags of weight.
Dou Sprouts and I have more than a hundred and thirty. As for Brother Yu and Hongyan, they add up to almost half a ton.
Xiaoxuan took two deep breaths and said, "Then let me do it."
Tian Sanjiu pointed to the floor of the tomb and said some precautions. Xiaoxuan listened very carefully.
Xiaoxuan has two tasks. One is to pick up intact bronzes and throw them out. We don't want broken ones, nor do we want stonewares or pottery pots. Those things are not worth much and are heavy in weight.
The second is to find a way out, which should avoid all obstacles.
After putting on a headlamp and putting a small stone in her pocket, Xiaoxuan carefully laid the wooden planks into the tomb chamber.
After stepping on it tentatively and making sure that there was no problem, Xiaoxuan knelt on the wooden board and crawled forward slowly.
After climbing to the end, she turned around and waved.
"Got it right."
"Go on!" The cyclone shovel was thrown head-first by Brother Yu.
Xiaoxuan reached out and caught the shovel firmly.
She struck with the shovel, like a blind man walking.
It can be heard that after tapping, the echo from the underground is different, and it sounds empty in several places.
Tian Sanjiu ordered: "Little girl, make a mark, then pick up the board and continue walking forward."
Xiaoxuan took out a small stone from her pocket, used a wooden board as a ruler, and drew two white lines. The road between the two white lines meant that it was safe to walk.
"Get ready, catch this piece." Brother Yu threw the second board in.
Xiaoxuan knelt on the wooden board and reached out to pick it up. However, her movements became too large and she lost her center of gravity.
"Careful!" I shouted loudly.
Xiaoxuan caught the board with both hands, held the board in her arms and fell forward, lying directly on the board, gasping for air.
It was a near miss, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
After resting for two minutes, Xiaoxuan slowly stood up and knelt down, laying down another board.
After crawling over, take back the first board and just walk backwards and forwards on the board.
Use a cyclone shovel to hit it. After confirmation, Xiaoxuan will mark it and gradually form an S-shaped route.
Xiaoxuan grabbed a bronze square pot and after looking at its location, threw it towards us.
Dou Sprout held on to his clothes and hurriedly ran to pick it up.
I caught it and the bronze fell right onto my clothes.
Brother Yu took away the bronze square pot, and Dou Sprout hurriedly went to pick up the other ones.
Bronze vessels were thrown out one by one. Once you have handled such things, you will know that they are not heavy, far less heavy than copper and iron. There is a saying that the older the bronze vessels, the lighter they are. This sentence is not completely correct.
But there is some truth to it.
If you don’t believe me, you can go to a big museum and take a look. There are signs posted in front of the bronze display cabinets. Many of them say the height, width and weight. They are the same size and standard. The three-legged round tripod of the Western Zhou Dynasty is lighter than the one of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
The light in the tomb was very dark, so she just glanced at it and put it into a sack. If some things were out of reach, she would hit them with a shovel handle.
It took more than half an hour for Xiaoxuan to reach the coffin. There was an earth wall there and it had reached its end.
"Come here! You can leave!" She stood in the corner and shouted to us.
Looking at the marks on the ground, Dou Sprout gulped and asked me hesitantly in a low voice: "Is this okay? Don't let us go and fall down. It might be a knife on the head."
"What? You don't believe Xiaoxuan?" I asked.
"Hey, it's not that I don't believe it," Dou Sprout said hesitantly.
As we were talking, we saw Tian Sanjiu moving.
Without any hesitation, he followed the marks left on the ground and walked steadily to the opposite side without any pause.
I pushed Douyazai away, "How about it, do you believe it?"
"What about these, should we put them here or take them over?" Dou Sprout pointed at the two sacks.
I said to leave it here first, we can just carry the bag, since we have to leave later, and we will take it away then.
Then everyone passed by one after another.
When they reached the corner, Master Ji suddenly pointed at the almost rotten coffin and said, "Should we open this coffin and take a look? Maybe there are a few things in it."
This coffin is probably made of hardwood, unpainted, and its quality can only be described as average. It is certain that it was not used by the owner of the tomb. Moreover, the wood has collapsed and flattened due to rot, and the lid and bottom of the coffin are touching.
Already.
Tian Sanjiu stretched out his hand and kept knocking on the wall. When he heard this, he turned around and said, "Don't look, it's a waste of time. This tomb is just a cover-up. Likewise, there will be no important burial objects in the coffin."
"This wall is very ordinary. If there is a last diamond wall, it must be hidden behind this."